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dre6ming · 2 years

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No cause I’m taking a break from studying and writing down a layout for the next few chapters in “The delicate beginning rush” series and you guys….. I’m getting myself so hyped up about it.

All I can say is that this series will be long and probably the most slow burn one I’ve ever written.

Hope y’all are ready because I’ve been listening to Evermore, Plastic Hearts and Emails I can’t send, so ofc I’m unpacking all that drama into this fanfic😈

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19 and taking hearts left and right

The 19 year old actress, more recently turned singer and songwriter, seems to be going through men faster then we can keep up. And no, just because they have a girl, doesn’t mean she won’t make a move!!

Last week the Met Gala, happened and as every other year, the event was full of A-listers, with thick pockets and a vague notion of the real life. On the guest list was also (Y/n) a 19 year old actress who’s known for her role as Ana and Christian Grey’s daughter, Phoebe. But that first role of hers was not what got her the invitation, it was her most recent role as Amelia Baron, a troubled teenager who’s death is a mystery. The movie ‘Reconstructing Amelia’ resulted in (Y/n)’s career to skyrocket, as it was well received by critics and even scored 5 Oscar nominations, one of which is for best lead actress.

(Y/n) has been slowly going up the ladder of fame, making friends left and right, while keeping a good private life. Her fans describe her as relatable and sweet, always respectful and friendly. But they might be wrong, no one gets an Oscar nomination, unless they really know how to act, right?

In October last year the actress's parents, who are not famous people, divorced. The whole thing was carried privately and the reasons for it happening are still unknown. Some close sources say it's been a long time coming, but they restrained from going into specifics. When the divorce was finalized, (y/n) was photographed outside the courthouse house crying (pictures below). Now it's said that the actress is no longer in contact with her parents and that they've moved out of New York, leaving the 19 year old all on her own.

Now you might be wondering how does this all link to our article? Well some people speculate she’s still picking up the pieces of whatever happened between her parents and to do that she chose dating. Serial dating, to be specific.

As we mentioned earlier she was at the Met, dressed in Prada, so she was sat at the same table as the cast from the upcoming biopic ‘Elvis’. According to her instagram she met and chatted with the entire cast, but there’s only one person that’s 100% sure she talked to. That person being none other then the 29 year old actor Austin Butler, the two of them posed for a hot picture together, you can find it on her instagram. If you didn’t know he has a girlfriend, who was also his plus one at the event that night, but judging by the picture him and (y/n) it would never cross your mind they aren’t together.

The drama didn’t stop there as two days later they were photographed hanging out at a cafe in Brooklyn, no Kaia Gerber (the actor’s girlfriend) in sight. Fans came to their defense fast, saying they are just friends, but the incident repeated on Sunday when they were again caught by the paparazzi.

The plot only thickens, if on Friday they were seemingly far apart from each other, Sunday, fans reported they were close, laughing and joking around, until their walk got cut short by a rude fan. People who were there said the fan, a man in his fourties’, asked (Y/n) for a picture and she denied. The man went on to call her names and bring up the famous lingerie photo shoot she did when she was 18, for the movie ‘Reconstructing Amelia.’ Butler apparently came to the rescue, defending her and then driving off with her, in what fans claimed to be her car.

Why we say she’s taking hearts left and right? Well… cut to Monday this week. She and Joshua Bassett, were spotted together at a restaurant on the upper east side of Manhattan, enjoying lunch. The two of them were not shy to share some PDA with us, as Joshua kissed her on the forehead. At this point she seems the have moved on from Austin : “from rock’n roll music straight into pop” said TMZ.

The 20 year old actor was a full gentleman and bought her a gift, a 300$ silver bracelet with a Purple Heart, this let’s us to believe they have probably been together for a while now.

And while all that was happening between (Y/n) and Joshua, Austin was photographed with his girlfriend, Kaia out in Boston, after he took a last minute detour flight to see her. Fans noted that there seems to be tension between the two and Kaia looks rather sad in the pictures.

Now the teams have formed, some of the fandom supports the relationship of (Y/n) and Joshua, while the others side with Butler. We are of course to be reminded of the 10 year age gap between the latter and her. Some say Austin went so deep into method acting that he’s now searching for his Pricilla and that the 9 year age gap he has with his current girlfriend, doesn’t quite fit.

We want to hear your thoughts on this? Is she dating Joshua or Austin? Is Austin a cheater as some fans claim?

We’ll do some more digging of our own, but let us know your opinions.

Oh and lastly let’s not forget she has a song coming out in a few weeks, dedicated to her long time best friend, Timothee Chalamet. And fans believe this is only the first song out of an entire album, that she might have in the works. Why is that important? Because she’s a swiftie and has worked closely with Taylor as a backing singer for her re-recorded albums, so fans expect heartbreaking, cryptic songs form (y/n). She proved she’s a great songwriter, when writing a full verse for Taylor’s song ‘Nothing new’. Now with every day passing and every new post from (y/n), Jack Antonoff of Finneas O’Connell fans find tones of Easter eggs in true swiftie fashion.

Maybe she’ll explain everything in a future song. Some say she’s working on her Red/Speak now era, dating older man, comparing Austin Butler to John Mayer and Jake Gylenhaal, requesting that she writes her own ‘Dear John’ and ‘All too well’. I guess we will see!

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Celebrate Your Love in Style Unforgettable Austin Courthouse Weddings for Timeless Moments

Lisa Wood is the premier Austin Courthouse weddings photographer. Create timeless moments for you and your beloved. Our unique venues offer the perfect blend of elegance and simplicity, ensuring a memorable and stylish affair. From the historic architecture to the picturesque surroundings, each detail contributes to an unforgettable experience. Explore the beauty of courthouse weddings in Austin and embark on a journey of love, creating cherished memories that will last a lifetime.

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red-stick-rambler · 3 years

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Remembering Billy Joe Shaver.

Billy Joe Shaver was 81 years old when he died at the end of October 2020. It was a year with so much loss, particularly of great musicians- John Prine, Justin Townes Earle, Charley Pride, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, and others. There were many obituaries written for Billy Joe after his passing that detail the rich stories of his life and reflect on his influence on music. (Suggested obit reading: Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, New York Times) I can’t do justice to his legacy but do wish to share some of the reasons why he was important to me.

Shaver’s music, often raucous, sometimes sweet, struck me with the right chords. I grew up listening to country music, mostly Willie and Waylon. By my teenage years I felt country music didn’t fit my persona of a die-hard skateboarder who listened to punk rock. When I moved to Kansas City to attend college I’d pretty much left the country, both musically and geographically. Discovering Billy Joe Shaver in the following years brought me back - to country music and to an appreciation for the rural surroundings of central Kansas where I was raised. He had a rock n’ roll attitude but the lyrics of poet, a honky tonk Hemmingway. In 1968, the way an artist, feeling in full possession of their powers, wants to be seen by their idols and proclaim their talents to the gatekeepers (Kris Kristofferson taking a military helicopter and landing it at Johnny Cash’s home to deliver songs hoping to meet the legend and have him record his material / Bruce Springsteen hopping the gates of Graceland to see Elvis while on his Born to Run tour shortly after he was on the cover of both Time and Newsweek) Billy Joe road a motorcycle onto the front porch of legendary songwriter Harlan Howard to announce himself as the greatest songwriter who ever lived. A few years later in 1973 Waylon Jennings recorded an album with all but one song written by Billy, “Honky-Tonk Heroes”. It was the beginning of a new sound in country music. The album remains one of my favorite records of all time. Finally, Billy Joe was on his way. Others recorded his songs too, a whose who of great artists that includes Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Cash who said Billy Joe was his favorite song writer. Billy could sing and play too. A 2003 article from Texas Monthly captured his spirit in a profile before his death without the reverence an obituary demands.

“BILLY JOE SHAVER ACTS MORE like a Baptist preacher than a man in need of salvation. Performing at Austin’s KUT-FM studios, he waves his arms around as if he were trying to explain something. He pounds his chest and kicks his leg out. He clasps his hands like a minister, throws punches like a fighter. One minute he’s standing still, slightly tilted to the left, hands in his pockets, eyes slammed shut as he sings, deep worry lines between his brows. The next minute he’s so riled up his face burns bright red. He stretches out his long arms as wide as they can go, revealing that the index and middle fingers on his right hand are stubs and the ring finger is missing a joint. He can’t hold a pick, and when he plucks his guitar, he uses his thumb and pinkie. Billy Joe, who is 64, is wearing blue jeans, a blue denim shirt, brown boots, and a brown cowboy hat, which, when he takes it off to wave in the air, sets his longish gray hair loose.” - https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-ballad-of-billy-joe-shaver/

I’d seen him play a number of times and this description is just how I remember him. Billy was a man of the people, and though he always possessed a wild streak, he was humble by the time I first saw him play. His song writing and his stage presence exercised the depth of the human condition; he was joyful and melancholia, tough and tender, devilish and devout, often ending shows on one knee in praise, head bowed down. Following concerts he often mingled with fans. (The photograph with me is from a 2005 show in New York City.) He exchanged phone numbers with a friend of mine from Texas and his girlfriend and occasionally, out of the blue, Billy would call them up.

Billy wrote songs from his personal experience and unlike most artists, lived like the songs he wrote. His grandma raised him, and when she died he went to live with his mom who was working in a honky-tonk called Green Gables. As a young boy, he would sing at the bar. He married two women, five times between them. His son Eddie, who he played and toured with, died of a drug overdose on New Years Eve, 2000. Billy Joe outlived the people he loved then nearly died of a heart attack on stage at Gruene Hall, the oldest honky-tonk in Texas. In 2007 I was looking forward to seeing him play at Chelsea’s in Baton Rouge but a few days prior to the show Billy was arrested for shooting a man outside of a bar in Waco, TX. I never learned the facts of the case though I heard them interpreted by several musicians in the years that followed, most notably by Dale Watson who wrote the song, “Where Do You Want It?” The man lived, Shaver was found not guilty in a Texas courthouse, and I had several more opportunities to hear him play in the years that followed.

You can hear Billy Joe talk about his life in two interviews with Terry Gross he recorded for Fresh Air – though I kind of get the feeling he would have been more comfortable talking at a bar over beers than over the NPR radio waves. There was a documentary made with him, A Portrait of Billy Joe. It’s more than Billy Joe’s songs that have influenced me, it’s his presence. In the winter of 2004 I was camping at Joshua Tree in the California desert. One night Billy came to me in a vivid dream as a hillbilly angel / father figure. It was a visceral experience in which he offered me guidance during a particularly difficult time in my life. When I woke up, I felt his presence and had a better understanding of what I needed to do. At a shop the following day I found a brown leather belt with a brass ring for a buckle similar to the one I’d always seen Billy wear. He wore the same thing every time I saw him play in concert and in every photograph I’d seen him in for 50 years, a denim western pearl snap shirt and faded blue jeans with that brown leather belt with an oversized brass ring. The leather of his belt doubled-backed further across his chest in later years when his health declined and he became thinner.

I bought the belt that day in California and wear it regularly still. Billy’s songs, that I have listened to on vinyl, cassette tape, and digital files, remain in regular rotation on my stereo where he’ll live forever.

“Just like the songs I leave behind me I'm gonna live forever now” – Live Forever, Billy Joe Shaver

Photo of Billy Joe in Chicago, 1980 (top) by Kirk West.

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Travis County Courthouse, Austin, Texas Source: Portal to Texas History

The courthouse was built between 1930 and 1931 in the Public Works Administration (PWA) Moderne style. Click here for a large version that shows a great deal of detail.

Citation: Boone. Travis County Courthouse, photograph, [1931], University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.

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Texas Architecture: Texan Buildings

Texas Architecture News, Building Images, Architects, United States of America Property

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Major Architectural Projects, USA – Texan Built Environment Information

post updated October 25, 2020

Texas Architecture News

Texan Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

Oct 10, 2020 National Medal of Honor Museum, Arlington Architecture: Rafael Viñoly Architects image courtesy of architects National Medal of Honor Museum National Medal Of Honor Museum Foundation Reveals First Architectural Renderings Of The Museum’s New Home By Rafael Viñoly Architects As Part Of A 1-Year Anniversary Celebration.

July 2, 2020 Honest Mary’s, Austin Architecture: Chioco Design picture : Chase Daniel Honest Mary’s Restaurant in Austin A 2,665 sqft complete renovation of an existing restaurant in Austin, Texas. The softly curving plaster ceiling, custom booths, shelving and wood paneling, paired with plenty of natural light and deep blue accents, resulting in a bright, inviting space.

July 2, 2020 Woodward Duplexes in Austin

June 30, 2020 River Ranch, Blanco Design: Jobe Corral Architects photography : Casey Dunn and Casey Woods River Ranch in Blanco The River Ranch is about the connection to the land. The indoor/outdoor relationship of the spaces is strengthened by specific moments that connect the user to three site features.

June 29, 2020 Filtered Frame Dock, Austin Design: Matt Fajkus Architecture photography : Charles Davis Smith; MF Architecture Filtered Frame Dock in Austin, TX This single-slip boat dock of Filtered Frame Dock is a result of liberation through constraints balanced with sensory experience. Devised concurrently with the property’s new residence, the boat dock creates both tangible and implied connections of experience and shelter.

Feb 5, 2020 Bouldin Creek Residence Architecture: Restructure Studio photography : Michael Hsu Bouldin Creek Residence in Austin, TX The Bouldin Creek Residence is a new home for a young family, Restructure Studio pays respect to a unique site, including a heritage live oak tree, Bouldin creek, and steeply sloping lot in an established neighborhood.

Nov 21, 2019 Brownwood House

Nov 20, 2019 AISD Performing Arts Center, Austin Architecture: Miró Rivera Architects photography : Thomas McConnell and Miró Rivera Architects AISD Performing Arts Center AISD Performing Arts Center (PAC) is the first purpose-built, district-wide Fine Arts facility in the 134-year history of the Austin Independent School District.

Oct 25, 2019 The Heights School Building in Arlington

Apr 12, 2019 Carpenter Hotel, Austin Architecture: Specht Architects image courtesy of architects Carpenter Hotel Austin A hidden oasis in one of the last pockets of Old Austin. It is a compound of buildings of different vintages surrounding a pecan tree-shaded courtyard and pool, and features a restaurant, café, event pavilion, and 93 guest rooms. It has a character that is unlike any other hotel in town.

Dec 13, 2018 Residence 1446, Austin Design: Miró Rivera Architects photograph : Paul Finkel, Piston Design Residence 1446 in Austin Situated in a low-lying field adjacent to both a lake and a quiet lagoon, Residence 1446 was the final element of a ten-year master plan that includes a guest house, pedestrian bridge, pool, and boathouse.

Dec 12, 2018 Hill Country House, Wimberley Design: Miró Rivera Architects photograph : Paul Finkel, Piston Design Hill Country House in Wimberley Conceived as a prototype for a sustainable rural community, the Hill Country House serves as a beacon to show what could be: a self-sustaining home in a rural setting, virtually independent of municipal water and energy.

Aug 13, 2018 Casa de Sombra, Rollingwood, Travis County Design: Bade Stageberg Cox, Architects image from Chicago Athenaeum Contemporary Rollingwood Residence Casa de Sombra, named for an exploration of light and shadow, is a re-thinking of the suburban house that examines dichotomies between interior/exterior, public/private, and what it means to experience light and its absence.

Dec 5, 2017 East Austin District, Austin Design: architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group East Austin District Arena The new East Austin District created by Austin Sports & Entertainment and designed by award-winning architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is an entirely new sports and entertainment neighborhood tailored to celebrate world-class sports and cultural experiences under one checkered roofscape.

Dec 12, 2016 News from US architecture studio of Miró Rivera Architects image from architect Miró Rivera Architects in Texas LifeWorks and the AISD Performing Arts Center took home honors at the inaugural Austin Green Awards celebration on November 9. Launched this year by the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, the awards are the first program “to specifically highlight the outstanding accomplishments in the broad area of sustainable design and innovation” in Austin.

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Nov 10, 2016 Threshold House in Austin

Oct 13, 2016 Edgeland Residence in Austin

Oct 13, 2016 Annie Residence in Austin

Aug 28, 2016 Carved Cube House in West Austin

May 2, 2016 Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, Lubbock image from architect Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Texas This arts complex will be built in Lubbock, Texas, birthplace of the legendary 1950s pop star whose brief career influenced generations of musicians and fans.

The Secret Life of Buildings: A Call for Objects A selection of twenty ‘Objects’ will be exhibited for two weeks around a three-day symposium to be staged by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin in October 2016 called “The Secret Life of Buildings.” The Secret Life of Buildings Architecture Competition

May 23, 2013 West Lake Hills Residence, Austin, Texas Design: Specht Harpman photo: Taggart Sorensen West Lake Hills Residence On a densely tree-covered site in the Austin, Texas exurb of West Lake Hills, Specht Harpman was tasked with the renovation and expansion of a modest 1970’s house. Much of the original internal structure was maintained, but the alterations sought to erase all visible traces of the original house.

Apr 5, 2013 Observation Tower at Circuit of the Americas, Austin Design: Miró Rivera Architects picture : Paul Finkel | Piston Design Observation Tower at Circuit of the Americas Texas Austin360 Amphitheater completed: located southwest of downtown Austin, the Circuit of the Americas will be the host to the United States Formula 1 Grand Prix, MotoGP, V8 Supercar, and American Le Mans races starting with the inaugural race on November 16-18, 2012. Built around a 3.4 mile racetrack, the facility has the capacity for 120,000 visitors and will become a significant attraction for the city of Austin.

Jun 11, 2012 Menil Drawing institute Building, Houston Johnston Marklee wins this Texan architecture competition image : David Chipperfield Architects Menil Collection Houston

Jun 15, 2011 Museum of Fine Arts Houston Steven Holl Architects Selected for Expansion photograph © MFAH Museum of Fine Arts Houston This project will involve the construction of a new museum building intended primarily for art after 1900 to complement the Audrey Jones Beck and Caroline Wiess Law Buildings. It will also try to integrate the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden and the expansion of the Glassell School of Art.

Aug 3, 2011 Irving Convention Center Design: RMJM Hillier Architects image from architect Irving Convention Center The Las Colinas Convention Centre in Texas, designed by RMJM Hillier’s New York Studio, is wrapped in copper cladding designed to generate a changing patina as it ages over time – a striking and timeless icon for a Western boomtown in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

McNay Art Museum – Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, San Antonio Design: Jean-Paul Viguier S.A. d’Architecture photo : Jeff Goldberg / ESTO McNay Art Museum

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e-architect choose the key examples of Texan Buildings, USA. The focus is on contemporary Texan buildings.

We have 2 pages of Texan Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.

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Major Texas Building Designs, alphabetical:

Alpine Courthouse Building Design: PageSoutherlandPage photo : Chris Cooper Alpine Courthouse

Arthouse, Dallas Design: Morrison Seifert Murphy photograph from architects Arthouse

Beechwood Residence, Dallas Morrison Seifert Murphy photo from architecs Beechwood Residence

Berkshire Residence, Dallas Morrison Seifert Murphy photograph : Charles Davis Smith © MSM Berkshire Residence

Dallas Center for Performing Arts Joshua Prince-Ramus / Rem Koolhaas photo : Iwan Baan Wyly Theatre – AT&T Performing Arts Center

Destination Universitas, Nevada desert Chetwood Architects picture from architect Texan architecture

Discovery Tower – office building, Houston Gensler picture : Gensler Discovery Tower Houston

El Paso Housing OFIS, architects picture from architects El Paso Housing

Glendora I Residence, Dallas Morrison Seifert Murphy photograph from architects Glendora Residence

GSA Field Office Building, Houston PageSoutherlandPage photo : Timothy Hursley GSA Field Office

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Major Texas Architecture Designs, A-G, no images, alphabetical:

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth – Philip Johnson

Annette Strauss Artist Square, Dallas 2008- Foster + Partners

Austin City Hall + Public Plaza 2007 Antoine Predock Architect

Dallas City Hall, Dallas 1977 I.M. Pei and Partners

Dallas Cowboys Stadium & entertainment venue, Arlington 2007-09 HKS, Inc. Due to be largest NFL stadium in the world

Fountain Place, Dallas 1986 Pei Cobb Freed and Partners

Globe News Center for the Performing Arts, Amarillo 2007- Holzman Moss Architecture

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#FBF - News from Yesteryear: Excerpt from the Journal News, August 8, 1970 – #50YEARS AGO: Thomas LoMedico of Tappan points to his creation of the medal to be presented by the State of Texas to the Apollo 11 astronauts who landed on the moon, and a detailed view of the medal. Photos by Al Witt

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LOCAL SCULPTOR COMES UP WITH TEXAS-STYLE MEDAL

Texas is a state which has a reputation for never doing things half-way.

It was characteristic, therefore, that the commission appointed by Gov. Preston Smith and the Texas legislature to determine how the state could best honor those adopted Texans -- the Apollo 11 astronauts -- should decide not to award them the medal of honor the state usually bestows but a special medal of valor which may never be issued again.

The medal has been designed by Thomas LoMedico of Tappan, a sculptor, whose reputation as a medalist is international.

The commission had hoped the ceremony honoring Neil A. Armstrong, Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Lt. Michael Collins could have been held July 20, the first anniversary of their landing on the moon. But not all of them could be present that day. A new date will be set shortly for the ceremony in Austin, the state capital. LoMedico and his wife have been invited to attend.

The medal has been cast in gold. The reverse shows the entire compass of man's first visit to the moon, the deployment of the American flag by Armstrong and Aldrin, the rippled footprints their boots left on the moon's surface, the lunar landing module and, on the horizon, the earth. The medal bears the inscription "I’ve Come in Peace" and the date, July 20, 1969.

The commission had specified that the design for the medal should embody "the historical and incalculable significance of the flight of Apollo 11 and the bravery and daring of the men who brought the mission to its successful conclusion."

The Texas state seal is incorporated in the design of the obverse of the medal. It shows the single star which gives Texas its nickname, "The Lone Star State." To the left of the star is the branch of a live oak, a tree frequently found in Texas. To the star's right is an olive branch, the symbol of peace. Inscribed on the obverse are the words, "The State of Texas Medal of Honor Apollo 11 Astronauts."

LoMedico said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had helped him with the research for designing the medal and had been "gracious enough" to send him photographs taken on the moon.

Among the objects which Armstrong and Aldrin left on the moon were medals struck in commemoration of Gagarin and Kamarov the Russian cosmonauts.

Future men on the muon, however, will be unable to leave the Texas medal of valor honoring the Apollo 11 astronauts. When the commission was formed, it was instructed that as soon as the model had been struck and accepted, it was to make sure the die was placed in the archives of the state with other historical mementoes, never to be used again.

Martin Dies Jr., Texas secretary of state, who is in charge of the presentation, was unable to say just how the commission came to select LoMedico to design the medal. LoMedico himself merely explained that "one project brings another."

For LoMedico, who is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a sculptor this year, there have been many projects. Among recent ones have been a medal honoring Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable, the Negro who was the first permanent resident of Chicago, and a medal honoring Capt. James Cook, British explorer, and mapmaker.

The first was commissioned by the American Negro Commemorative Society and the second by the Britannia Commemorative Society.

DuSable was an adventurer and trader who, while living with the Indians and trapping fur, traveled along trails which led to the present sites of Chicago and Detroit and parts of Canada.

Finally, in 1779, he decided to build a fur-trading post on the Chicago River near Lake Michigan. The single cabin built by DuSable developed into a growing trading center which became the city of Chicago.

LoMedico included DuSable's cabin and the present-day Chicago skyline in his design for the obverse of the medal.

LoMedico noted the design for any medal takes extensive research. Research for the DuSable medal was done at the Schomburg Library in Harlem.

The Capt. Cook was commissioned to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his exploration of the South Pacific. The reverse shows the explorer's head and a quadrant.

LoMedico explained the quadrant was significant of Cook's skill as a mapmaker.

The sculptor grew up in the Upper Bronx when it was a community much like Tappan, he, said. In the summer, he and the boys from his neighborhood used to go swimming in Pelham Bay Creek. There was a clay bank along the creek. LoMedico said he used to scoop up clay and fashion models of animals, "much like a child makes a snowman."

"I was the pride, of my friends," he recalled.

When he was 16, LoMedico was apprenticed to a sculptor. He served as an apprentice for four years. Evenings he attended the Beaux Arts Institute of Design.

LoMedico opened his own studio in 1935. His first works were life-size sculpture panels for the interior of the courthouse in Wilmington, N.C. Like so much other art then, they were ordered through the WPA's Section for the Fine Arts.

The sculptor recalled that many now-famous artists and actors found work through the Section for the Fine Arts. They used to meet in the same cafeteria when they went for their pay checks. Among the actors whom LoMedico knew then were Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton and Zero Mostel.

LoMedico is particularly known for his architectural sculpture and for his portrait plaques, as well as his medallions and medal's. Among his major works have been six statues of the saints, which he was commissioned to design for the exterior of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

His first medal was one, honoring Herbert Adams, a sculptor and scholar, which he did in 1945, and for which he won a first award.

He has won many major competitions since, both in medal design and for sculpture. The latest was the gold medal of honor for a bust of his wife, Leonora, in a competition held by the, Allied Artists of America.

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Abigail + Austin | Downtown Denver Engagement Session

Looking back at these photos makes me so happy! We had such a great time exploring downtown Denver. We started at Union Station, walked over to the the Diary Block and then finished up at Byron White Courthouse. It was the perfect day. Abigail and Austin are both so sweet and I had such a great time getting to know them better. I loved getting to hear about one of their first dates that happened to be opening day for the Rockies when it snowed like crazy! Kinda reminds me of today. It was meant to be and I can’t wait for their wedding this September! -Janae

Abigail + Austin | Downtown Denver Engagement Session was originally published on Denver Wedding Photographers - Elevate Blog

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The WPA Guide to Florida

By Joanna Grey Talbot

The future of America and much of the world was completely altered by the U.S. stock market crash in October of 1929. Although not the sole cause, it was one of the major catalysts for the Great Depression. From 1929 to 1939 over half of the country’s banks failed and unemployment reached an all-time high.

One of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s solutions to accelerate the country’s recovery was to institute his New Deal policies, which was a series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms and regulations. One such program was the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) under the direction of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The FWP was established on July 27, 1935, and was one of many projects created to support the arts and provide jobs for unemployed librarians, clerks, researchers, editors, historians, writers, and others.

The two major projects of the FWP were the American Guide Series, guides to the then 48 states plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the Alaska Territory, and the Slave Narrative Collection, which contained over 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery.

The cover of the 1984 reprint

The American Guide Series gives today’s readers a unique look into the U.S. of the 1930s. Florida’s guide was published in 1939 just as the country was beginning to come out of the Great Depression and a world war was on the horizon. Each guide contains a state’s history, geography, and culture, and includes photographs, maps, drawings, and detailed driving tours.

The WPA Guide to Florida opens with a foreword by then president of the University of Florida, John J. Tigert. He reminds readers that “four centuries of varying culture under five flags may be noted as one is guided, through the pages of this book, from quaint old St. Augustine to metropolitan Miami, or from the exclusiveness of ante bellum Tallahassee to the exclusiveness of modern Palm Beach.”

The section on general information covers all forms of transportation available, fishing laws, hunting laws, climate, information for the motorist, and general rules of the road. According to the guide “the first rule of Florida road is for the motorist to exercise caution when approaching livestock, particularly cattle, which roam most of the State’s principal highways.” This fits with President Tigert’s description of Florida as the “last American frontier.”

Postcard courtesy of the Matheson History Museum collection

The best part of the General Information section, though, is the “Caution to Tourists: Do not enter bushes at sides of highway in rural districts; snakes and redbugs easily infest such places. Do not eat tung nuts; they are poisonous. Do not eat green pecans; in the immature stages the skins have a white film containing arsenic.” Yikes! They forgot to warn tourists that if there is a body of water always assume there are alligators in residence there.

Postcard courtesy of the State Library & Archives of Florida

The majority of The WPA Guide to Florida consists of driving tours. Each tour lists road conditions, history of the area, industries, flora and fauna, and interesting places to visit. Alachua County is a part of Tour 3 from Fernandina to Cedar Key along State Road 13, which is today’s Highway 301 and 24.

Except for a stretch between Callahan and Baldwin, the route is a “hard-surfaced roadbed.” Between Yulee and Callahan the road “is flanked with drooping willows, wild hibiscus in brilliant scarlet bloom, and elderberry bushes, white with blossom in spring, heavy with purple fruit in the late summer.”

You arrive in Gainesville (population 10,465) after passing through the Austin Cary Memorial Forest, which was planted by the Society of American Foresters in memory of Dr. Austin Cary, and Tung Acres, one of several large groves of tung trees in the region.

“For nine months of the year [Gainesville] is a typical college town,” as it is home to the University of Florida. Downtown centers around the red brick courthouse and the fact that trains still travel down Main Street shows its link to Florida’s “pioneer railroad history.”

Postcard courtesy of the Matheson History Museum collection

The African American settlements, which we now know as the Pleasant Street and Porter’s Quarters neighborhoods, are given a paragraph. These neighborhoods have their own businesses, churches, and schools. The majority of the residents are employed in domestic service or nearby lumber and turpentine camps.

Postcard courtesy of the Matheson History Museum collection

The majority of the Gainesville section focuses on the University of Florida, though. At the time it was a 200-acre campus and the gala event of the year was Homecoming Day. The Florida Union Building was one of many WPA projects in the area. It was began under the Federal Emergency Recovery Administration (FERA) and completed by workers of the WPA. Another WPA project was the running track and grandstand at UF.

Construction of the Florida Union Building, April 4, 1935, Image courtesy of the State Archives and Library of Florida

WPA constructed running track and grandstand at UF, April 4, 1935, Image courtesy of they State Archives and Library of Florida

After passing through Gainesville the paved road becomes “narrow, rough, and hilly.” Travelers pass through Arredondo (population 100); Archer (population 576), which relies mainly on agriculture but also has a grist mill and foundry; Bronson (population 694); and Otter Creek (population 989), which manufactures hardwood slats for fruit crates. Between Bronson and Otter Creek is an “an area that serves as a range for isolated herds of semi-wild cattle and hogs.”

The tour and the road ends at the Cedar Keys (population 1,066). Prior to the mid-1880s Cedar Key was a prosperous port and railroad terminal complete with a U.S. customs house and weather bureau. With the completion of the railroad to Tampa in 1884 signaled the end to Cedar Key’s prosperity. In the 1930s the main sources of income are commercial fishing, oysters and sponges, and a factory manufacturing brushes from palmetto fibers.

Image courtesy of the State Library & Archives of Florida

Although they reflect the attitudes and perceptions of the time, the American Guide Series is an important window into the U.S. of the 1930s. If you ever get the chance, spend some time reading through one and see what you discover!

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Week 22: May 25-31

25: In Minneapolis Minnesota, 46-year-old George Perry Floyd Jr. is killed by police while being arrested on suspicion of trying to pass a counterfeit bill. He is unarmed and black. Derek Chauvin, 20-year veteran of the police force, kneels on Floyd’s neck for 9 and a half minutes. Two other police officers assisted him, while a third stopped the public for intervening - eyewitnesses capture Floyd telling the officers he can’t breath. He calls for his mother, slips unconscious and dies. Chauvin doesn’t remove his knee from Floyd’s neck even after he has killed him. It’s gruesome and ugly and a clear repetition of the same videos we’ve been watching for years. His words “I can’t breathe” are the same uttered by Eric Garner when a New York Police officer choked him to death for selling lose cigarettes. They’re the same words as Elijah McClain who was knelt on during his arrest in Aurora, Colorado and injected with a lethal dose of ketamine. They’re the words of Javier Ambler and Byron Williams and Manuel Ellis and Derrick Scott.

Kadir Nelson’s portrait of George Floyd “Say Their Names” includes images of other victims of police brutality including Breonna Taylor, Walter Scott, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Stephon Clark, and Michael Brown. Their likenesses are embedded alongside civil rights activists and icons - many murdered - like Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and Emmett Till. Images of slavery, references to lynchings and historic injustices like the Tulsa Race Riots demonstrate the deep roots of racism.

26: The protests begin immediately. A powder keg years in the making is set alight. The protest start in Minneapolis but will soon expand out across the country - and beyond America’s borders to Africa, Europe, Central and South America, and Asia. The coming summer-long unrest will force people to confront hard truths about systemic racism, especially in the context of policing and justice. The Minneapolis Police Department initially defends their officers, claiming that Floyd resisted arrested. But with the video spreading virally through social media and protests picking up steam, they’re quickly forced to place the four officers on administrative leave. By the end of the day the men have been fired but it is far too little and entirely too late. People gather, marching on Minneapolis’ 3rd precinct, chanting “Black Lives Matter”, “Hands up, Don’t Shoot”, “I Can’t Breathe” and “8:46″ - the length of time the witness videos showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, suffocating him.

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27: COVID deaths in the US top 100,000. Which would be the top story, except for the fact that protests in Minneapolis continue to build. Organizers urge protesters to stay peaceful - and, for the most part, they remain non-violent. They demand police reforms: an end to qualified immunity, the abolishment of the Minneapolis Police Department, no more choke-holds, a reallocation of funding to health care, education and affordable housing. They seek changes to hiring, emphasizing the need for police departments to hire people who live in the communities they wish to serve. They push for more diverse hiring and better police training. They demand an acknowledgement of the years of harassment and violence experienced by People of Colour - an acknowledgement that Black and Brown Lives fundamentally Matter.

“This moment felt like a culmination of all those moments of injustice that have happened in Minneapolis and Minnesota.” — Patience Zalanga/The New York Times

28: In Zimbabwe and Malawi, hundreds escape COVID-19 quarantine camps - there are real concerns they will spread the virus to others, overwhelming the countries’ fragile healthcare systems. Thousands of protests march through downtown Minneapolis - and echoing movements spring up across the United States in cities like Los Angeles, Memphis, Portland and Seattle. Preparing for violence, the National Guard is sent to Minneapolis. Later that night riots begin. An alleged white supremacist, wanting to agitate trouble and provoke looting, smashes out the windows of an AutoZone, neighbouring the protested police precinct. This spurs on a night of vandalism, arson, and violence. A Target and liquor store burn, as do the AutoZone and Police Precinct. The violence is quick to subside and the peaceful demonstrations carry on throughout the summer - despite police opposition and violence, tension with counter-protesters, and renewed attacks on Black Lives Matter protests.

This was taken after spending about five hours photographing a lot of destruction, a lot of anger, a lot of emotion." - Julio Cortez/AP

29: Trump, meanwhile, does what he does best: makes everything worse with a set of racially loaded, dog-whistle tweets. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”, he writes. Wish Twitter had taken his account down then, honestly. Chauvin, meanwhile, is finally arrested on charges of murder and manslaughter. At the site of the protests, reporters are targeted by the police. CNN’s Omar Jiminez is arrested while reporting, live. Ed Ou, a Canadian journalist with NBC, is maced and beaten with batons. “They literally started throwing concussive grenades in our direction, in the middle of the journalists.” The LA Times’ Carolyn Cole temporarily loses eyesight after being pepper-sprayed at close range while a Reuters’ security advisor is shot in the face with a rubber bullet.

In San Jose, 18-year-old Khennedi Meeks kneels in front of the police line in protest - Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group

30: Cities around the US institute curfews to try and curtail violence at the George Floyd protests - some setting them as early as 4PM. In Columbus Ohio, 22-year-old protester Sarah Grossman is so heavily pepper-sprayed that she suffers respiratory and dies. In California, far-right agitators belonging to the Boogaloo boys commit a drive-by shooting on an Oakland courthouse and set off IEDs targeting local law enforcement. They want to ignite a race war and spread their white supremacist ideology - and it works, at least initially. Conservative media wrongly attribute the attacks to the Black Lives Matter movement - even after the perpetrators are captured, conservative pundits and politicians, including Mike Pence, attribute the attacks to left wing violence.

Die-in protest in Denver, May 30 - Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

31: The protesters remain largely peaceful, marching in cities across the United States. But police violence continues. In Fort Lauderdale a cop violently shoves a woman kneeling in protest, while in Jacksonville another police officer punches a demonstrator in the face. In Los Angeles and Austin, two protesters are left in serious, critical condition after being shot in the head by bean-bag rounds. Police in Denver threaten to beat demonstrators who break curfew and in New York a hospital staff walking home after dark is assaulted by law enforcement and beaten with batons.

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NoMad London Hotel in Covent Garden

18 May 2021

NoMad London Hotel Refurbishment

Design: Roman and Williams

Location: 4 Bow St, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 7AT, UK

New-York based hospitality company, Sydell Group, opens NoMad London, the first international property for The NoMad Hotel brand, in the historic former Magistrate’s Court in the heart of London’s West End.

Located in Covent Garden, opposite The Royal Opera House, NoMad London takes residence in the Grade II-listed building famously known as The Bow Street Magistrates’ Court and Police Station. This is the brand’s most intimate property at 91 rooms including 21 suites, centred around several exquisite dining and drinking spaces in the NoMad tradition.

The property is the Sydell Group’s second venture in London, following the company’s partnership with Ron Burkle and Soho House to open The Ned. Sydell Group’s Founder Andrew Zobler, has earned a reputation for his ability to transform historic buildings into meaningful hospitality experiences that preserve their historic spirit and bring them back to new life. Sydell Group has partnered with Doha-based investment firm BTC to launch the London outpost.

Bringing together the finest creative talents in architecture, design, art curation, food, beverage, and hospitality, each NoMad explores the artistic, cultural and historic interplay between its home city of New York and European culture. In London, NoMad lends its residential warmth and casual elegance to the storied building, layering it with rich interiors and a playful spirit that is decidedly NoMad.

In collaboration with New York-based interior design studio, Roman and Williams, the transformation of the historic 19th century building draws inspiration from the building’s history and its location in Covent Garden, as well as exploring the artistic and cultural connection between London and New York. Grounded in this narrative, and an ethos rooted in creating voltage by uniting complementary forces, the masculine character of the historic architecture is animated with interjections of femininity, glamour, and a cosmopolitan spirit. This is expressed through richly textured fabrics, aesthetic woodwork and ethereal murals.

The opening of the hotel comes on the heels of Roman and Williams’ most recent opening of the British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Robin Standefer, co-founder of Roman and Williams, says: “The spirit of the London NoMad is collected and fundamentally residential. It embraces a New Romanticism that has a powerful contrast with the grit and strength of the courthouse. From rich textured textiles to aesthetic inspired woodwork to ethereal murals, the space evokes a grand residence but always tempered with a bohemian spirit that Stephen and I infuse into every Roman and Williams project.”

Stephen Alesch, co-founder of Roman and Williams, says: “With all our projects we want people to feel comfortable and curious. On a journey of discovery that is familiar even if it’s from a dream they may have had. The Nomad is meant to be beautiful, bohemian and evocative all at once. The building is so powerful and remarkable that you are embraced by its strength, while the rich and textured interiors balance the bones. There is a tension between this muscularity and softness that creates a powerful narrative for the guest. There are many stories to discover and hopefully to create.”

NoMad London is also home to a world-class art programme that celebrates the influence of post-war American art and the European avant-garde. A collaboration with long-time Sydell creative partners, be-poles, the hotel accommodates a curation of over 1,600 collected and commissioned works by a variety of British and international artists that lends a deeply layered narrative to the hotel experience.

For the first time in a NoMad hotel, abstract art is featured in reference to the Abstract Expressionist movement, which represents a significant moment in New York’s influence on modern art.

Antoine Ricardou, founder of studio be-poles, says: “The art for NoMad London was carefully curated to explore the exchange of creative ideas between New York and London. The full collection is not only a unique ode to the neighborhood of Covent Garden and the Royal Opera House across the street, but to the NoMad’s American roots, creating a rich narrative that blends photographs, sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings and more.”

As in all NoMad properties, food and beverage plays an integral role in the experience with a host of dining and drinking experiences throughout and is overseen by Executive Chef Ashley Abodeely. The hospitality and dining room teams will be overseen by Food & Beverage Director and NoMad NYC opening alum, Chris Perone.

At the heart of the hotel, The NoMad Restaurant is housed in a lush, light-filled atrium evocative of an Edwardian greenhouse and is open five days a week (Tuesday to Saturday). Side Hustle is NoMad’s version of a British pub with a decidedly New York sensibility and a playful spirit, serving a menu of sharing plates paired with an agave-based list of spirits created by legendary mixologist Leo Robitschek and the award-winning NoMad Bar team.

The Library is the living room of the hotel where guests can enjoy light fare, coffee and tea, and cocktails amidst a thoughtful collection of books. Coming further down the line, Common Decency, is the first-ever NoMad lounge, and is nestled in a subterranean playground, offering a lively East London style craft cocktail bar complemented by elements of West End establishments.

NoMad London also offers over 9,000 square feet of elegant and adaptable space for weddings, events, meetings and private dining. The building’s original Magistrates’ Courtroom, now the Magistrates’ Ballroom, has been re-imagined as a formal space with two adjacent private dining rooms, a separate bar, and a dedicated entrance from the street using the original courtroom’s entrance.

A unique part of the hotel will also be the Bow Street Police Museum which pays homage to the building’s colourful past both as a police station for over 100 years and as a Magistrates’ Court.

Following government guidelines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NoMad London will adhere to regulations, including the appropriate PPE for restaurant and hotel personnel.

Room rates, starting from £455 Please visit thenomadhotel.com for more information

NoMad Hotels Grounded in the idea of the hotel as a great home layered with stories and animated by the collective spirit of its inhabitants, NoMad is our vision of an artfully lived life.

NoMad’s restaurants and bars celebrate the interplay between grand and intimate, classical and colloquial, festive moments of revelry and quiet meals that nourish the spirit. The offering is a reflection of the season, the place and the gracious, creative talent of the NoMad team that brings it to life.

Hotelier Andrew Zobler founded New York-based hospitality company, Sydell Group. In London, Zobler opened The Ned in partnership with Ron Burkle and Soho House. For NoMad London, he has partnered with Doha based investment firm BTC.

Sydell Group Sydell Group is the creator and manager of unique hotels deeply rooted in their location and architecture. Sydell’s core expertise is an ability to collaborate with original talent within the world of design, food & beverage, and retail, and bring them together in the creation of compelling new hotels that engage the communities around them. Sydell Group’s diverse portfolio of award-winning properties include The NoMad, New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; The LINE LA, DC and Austin; Park MGM Las Vegas; and The Ned, London. www.sydellgroup.com

Roman and Williams Credited with disrupting the hospitality industry by creating an alternative to the ‘boutique’ hotel Roman and Williams is known for their work on such projects as Ace Hotel New York, The Boom Boom Room at the Standard High Line, and the historic Chicago Athletic Association Hotel. Their restaurants have received extensive praise, including Le Coucou, with Stephen Starr and Chef Daniel Rose, which was named New York City’s top restaurant of 2016 by the New York Times. In another project of cultural and civic significance, the firm is collaborating on the re-design of the British Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Roman and Williams has received numerous accolades for their approach, including the prestigious 2014 National Design Award for excellence in Interior Design and a recurring presence in Architectural Digest’s Top 100 Designers. Robin and Stephen were cited by Fast Company in 2016 as two of the most Creative People in Business.

be-poles and Portraits de Villes be-poles is a Paris and New York-based narrative design studio that breathes creative, 360-degree storytelling into hospitality and lifestyle brands. Their work encompasses architecture, interior design, branding, illustration, publishing, furniture design, amenity design and curating art collections for hotels, restaurants and retail spaces. Their clients include Sydell Group and NoMad Hotels, Four Seasons, Perseus Properties, Le Barn Hôtel, Hôtel Le Pigalle, Eleven Madison Park, Les Sources de Cheverny, Cyril Lignac, Moet Hennessy, and more. be-poles reveals the soul of a project, immersing it in graceful wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy that extols beauty in the impertinence of things, and the unexpectedness of happy accidents. For more information follow @bepoles on Instagram or visit www.be-poles.com. Shop be-poles-designed objects and books on www.shop.be-poles.com.

BTC Business Trading Company, also known as BTC was established in 1997 to fill the void which existed in Qatar for a retail environment offering the perfect mix of shopping, dining, and entertainment opportunities. Today BTC is famous both in Qatar and the entire GCC region for its proven expertise in the development and management of premium shopping malls, entertainment, real estate, and high-end retail brands. Ever since its inception, BTC has set exemplary high standards of excellence in all its areas of expertise. With the advent of every new project, the BTC has successfully raised and exceeded the standard it set.

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Exciting Things To Do And See In Lubbock, Texas

The name Lubbock would become synonymous with a great city - Texas. It was a boom time for the city. The industries of railroads, oil and gas, real estate and farming made Lubbock a huge boom city. As the city grew, people flocked to Lubbock looking for jobs and a better life.

When the railroad arrived in Lubbock, it was an instant success. Businesses such as Sweetbrier, Levine's, and JC Penney's were the big trend. And the old Lubbock County courthouse was the center of the rising downtown area. Soon, people were shopping in the downtown area and then going home to live in the new neighborhoods along the river. By the end of WW II, the Lubbock area had become the hub city of Texas and today it is considered one of the finest cities in the State of Texas.

The Lubbock area was one of the first places in Texas to use a modern, efficient system of power generation, transmission, and distribution. It was the brainchild of John D. MacArthur, who was Lubbock's economic development commissioner. He was responsible for purchasing the Texas oil refinery at Lubbock and turning it into what we know now as Windmill City. A massive windmill farm sits on the banks of the Sabine River in south central Texas. The windmill converts wind power into electricity that can be used to power everything from lights and radios to electric cars and even lighting for homes and businesses.

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Along with Lubbock being the largest hub city in Texas, it is also a very educational city. The Lubbock schools rank second to only Austin, Texas. The Lubbock Schools Association has over seven hundred members and boasts over one hundred employees. The Lubbock Museum of Art is another reason that Lubbock, TX is such an intelligent place to live. Over thirteen museums ranging from two to three hundred feet in width offer visitors the opportunity to see some of the country's best artwork in the form of sculptures, paintings, photographic works, and a two hundred year old clock.

For entertainment there is no shortage in Lubbock, Texas either. This is evident by the fact that Lubbock is the state capitol and home to the twenty-threerd largest city in the United States of America. There are over two hundred theaters, dance halls, clubs, and more than one hundred restaurants to dine at during any given week in Lubbock. The city is also a hot spot for unique festivals. From rodeos to Jazz Fest Lubbock, Texas, is a town with a true spirit of liveliness and enthusiasm.

In addition to all the exciting things to do and see in Lubbock, Texas there are also many educational activities for children of all ages. The Lubbock lake Science Spectrum Museum is located in the heart of Lubbock, and houses three hundred and seventy-five feet of rollercoasters, as well as life size replicas of ice age animals. For anyone looking for an activity or experience that will allow them to learn and experience, then the science spectrum museum in Lubbock, Texas is ideal.

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Judges used to stay out of election disputes, but this year lawsuits could well decide the presidency

A ballot employee locations vote-by-mail ballots right into a poll field arrange on the Miami-Dade Election Division headquarters on Oct. 14, 2020 in Doral, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs Information through Getty

All through American historical past judges have typically tried to keep away from getting concerned in political questions, together with litigation about elections. They adopted Supreme Court docket Justice Felix Frankfurter’s well-known recommendation to keep away from “embroilment” in “the political thicket” of “get together contests and get together pursuits.”

This custom started to erode within the 1960s, when courts took up instances involving legislative redistricting and gerrymandering. And for the reason that Supreme Court docket’s 2000 Bush v. Gore choice, which successfully determined that yr’s presidential election, political events have more and more turned to the courts searching for electoral benefit.

Courts ought not enter ‘the political thicket,’ Supreme Court docket Justice Felix Frankfurter cautioned. Nationwide Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Establishment

Previous to 2000, a median of 96 election regulation instances had been introduced yearly in state and federal courts. By 2004, that common jumped to 254, most of them filed on the state stage.

This yr, the Stanford-MIT Wholesome Elections Venture experiences that as of Oct. 15, 365 such instances have been filed in 44 states.

Lots of these instances come up from state efforts to answer the difficulties of campaigning and voting through the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats typically have supported efforts to creating voting simpler, resembling in Michigan, the place they had been profitable in getting the courts to increase the interval throughout which late-arriving mail ballots may very well be legally counted. Republicans typically have opposed these efforts.

When the voting occurs

This yr’s election-related litigation started to emerge within the spring as states tried to deal with the pandemic’s first wave through the political major season.

These instances fell into two main classes. Some had been filed to attempt to change the date when individuals voted in presidential primaries. Others centered on how individuals voted in these primaries and the final election.

Sixteen states modified the dates of their primaries, and most did so with out resorting to litigation.

Nonetheless, some states confronted lawsuits over the timing of presidential primaries, filed by political candidates and public officers, together with in New York and Wisconsin.

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang was concerned in election-related litigation concerning the Democratic presidential major in New York. Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs Information through Getty Photographs

In April, Andrew Yang, then a Democratic presidential candidate, sued the New York State Board of Elections after it successfully canceled the Democratic presidential major. He argued that doing so was unlawful since he already had met the necessities for having his title to seem on the poll. One month after the swimsuit was filed, a decide agreed with Yang and ordered the state to proceed with its presidential major.

Wisconsin proved to be a very fertile floor for litigation over its April major. In a single case, the Wisconsin legislature prevailed in difficult the governor’s govt order suspending in-person voting.

In one other Wisconsin case, the U.S. Supreme Court docket sided with the Republican Nationwide Committee and the state get together when it blocked a plan to increase the interval to return absentee ballots within the major election.

How the voting occurs

In instances regarding the methods individuals might vote, Democrats in Kansas sued to drive Secretary of State Scott Schwab to implement a regulation allowing voters to forged ballots from any polling station inside their residence county. Schwab argued that the complexity of growing crucial administrative laws prevented him from doing achieve this in time for this yr’s election.

A state courtroom decide dismissed the swimsuit however stated that county officers might, in the event that they wished, implement the Kansas Vote Wherever Act on their very own with out ready for the state to behave.

In Ohio, a federal decide additionally dismissed an American Civil Liberties Union swimsuit in search of to increase the deadline for absentee voting for the state’s presidential major and transfer from in-person to common mail balloting. The plaintiffs claimed that the state’s inefficient absentee-voting system would disenfranchise individuals by no fault of their very own except the deadline was modified and that in-person voting through the pandemic would pose a well being threat.

Give attention to mail-in ballots

Lots of this yr’s election-related instances have centered particularly on mail-in ballots. This isn’t stunning given President Donald Trump’s well-publicized however baseless assaults on voting by mail.

A few of this litigation has been delivered to broaden alternatives to forged that sort of poll or to ease the necessities for doing so. Different instances have been filed by teams opposing such modifications and elevating considerations about voter fraud.

Latest rulings in a few of these instances have made voting by mail harder; others have made it simpler.

Within the first class, the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated on Oct. 5 that South Carolina might require individuals voting by mail to have one other particular person signal their poll as a witness. Nevertheless, over the objection of Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, the courtroom declined to invalidate the greater than 20,000 ballots that had been forged previous to its ruling.

Three days later, in a victory for Wisconsin’s Republican Get together, a federal appeals courtroom upheld that state’s requirement that with the intention to be counted, mail-in ballots have to be within the palms of election officers by Eight p.m. on Election Day.

However, additionally on October 8, Justice Elena Kagan turned down a request from Montana Republicans to dam some counties from proactively mailing ballots to voters beginning the following day.

In one other victory for supporters of mail balloting, a federal decide in Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump marketing campaign in search of, amongst different issues, to dam the usage of drop packing containers as receptacles for mail ballots.

Full employment for election attorneys

November three is unlikely to finish litigation to resolve election-related disputes. In reality, each the Biden and Trump campaigns have assembled armies of attorneys who can be able to convey lawsuits within the election’s aftermath.

President Trump already has indicated that he expects the Supreme Court docket to once more resolve a contested presidential election.

For somebody who research the advanced intersections of politics and regulation, the usage of litigation to resolve electoral disputes that we’re seeing this yr is a reminder of what the well-known French aristocrat and creator Alexis de Tocqueville noticed early within the 19th century: particularly, that “Scarcely any political query arises in the USA that’s not resolved, eventually, right into a judicial query.”

Each vote counts – however what does it imply when election outcomes go to courtroom? Roberto Schmidt/AFP through Getty Photographs

Nonetheless, when courts and judges take sides in instances that form the end result of a hotly contested election, they open themselves up, as Frankfurter warned, to expenses that they’re making purely partisan selections relatively than strictly following the regulation. That’s the reason public confidence within the Supreme Court docket took a success within the aftermath of its Bush v. Gore choice.

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No matter selections judges make this yr, the push to the courthouse to form the 2020 election will pose actual challenges for his or her legitimacy, which in the end relies on the general public’s perception that they aren’t merely political actors.

And if the Supreme Court docket once more decides who turns into president, it might additional weaken its already diminished standing with the American public and deepen the divide in an already dangerously polarized nation.

Austin Sarat doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that might profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their tutorial appointment.

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