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Ootje Oxenaar

And now for once a different story about Ootje Oxenaar (1929-2017). My story. For how to write about a designer’s work everyone is already so familiar with? Although there is more than the nine Dutch banknotes we all used to pay our bills with. How to write about a graphic designer around whom so many tales are spun that they could form a spectacular oral history of their own? A mythology, built up and maintained by Oxenaar himself. And how to write about that famous department, DEV, the esthetic conscience of the Dutch postal services, where he worked for almost 25 years and about which so many tales have been told already? I will take an alternative route, I will not write from a historian’s or a reader’s perspective. I want to experiment a little with trying to keep the middle road between an idealist-centered and a materialistic approach of his history and not focusing too much on the anger in the Dutch cultural world about DEV’s demise in 2002. Too much was published explaining that it was Oxenaar’s and his designers’ own fault that the department was nixed. Which just wasn’t true.

For many of the thousands of books in his library, Ootje Oxenaar designed a new cover.

I have known Ootje since I was ten years old. I was a veteran of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s children’s books, which had been read to me before I went to sleep. I knew how royal the princess Tierlantijn looked, dressed in a gown with a train, as drawn in black and white by Wim Bijmoer – this fiery, confident princess who dreamed about different things than others, who wanted to find a chimney sweep instead of a prince, and who succeeded.

Book cover, 1957

I found the same recalcitrant, rebellious potential in Gargantua, the book I could read myself a few years later after my brothers had passed it on. The famous Rabelais story, edited for children between the ages of ten and fourteen. I gobbled up its one-hundred pages; I screamed when reading about the precision of the astronomic numbers and weights, or noticing the absurdity of the wordplay about something as simple as blowing your nose, or stumbling on absurd nonsense words that still seemed to have a meaning.

But similar or maybe even more joy was experienced by looking at Ootje Oxenaar’s full-page black and white illustrations and the attractive, colorful cover he had designed, showing the giant king Gargantua in full regalia: the white-velvet beret on his fat head and the hard-pink vest tight around his fat stomach. Regardless of the silly situations, I felt that I, as a young reader, was taken seriously. I didn’t have to be a child any longer. I was ready to leave Wim Bijmoer and Fiep Westendorp way behind me, for they were treating me like a child.

This Gargantua, the only one ever printed in Holland, was published by Van Goor in their second Gulden Sporen series in 1961. Its price was a most reasonable 2.20 guilders, while our edition, bound in linen, cost 2.95 guilders. Van Goor published titles for a mass public based on the classics of which the copyrights had expired; they published both the Gulden Sporen and the Oud Goud series with young readers in mind. Saving copyright costs, they were able to invest in serious book designs and well-executed illustrations while keeping the book price low.

Gargantua, book cover and illustration, 1961

Commissioning Oxenaar to illustrate Gargantua was a great choice (although it may have been so that Oxenaar himself selected this title to illustrate, as happened often. De Bruijn, responsible for Van Goor’s children’s books, had a similar arrangement with Willem Rozendaal, who also selected his own titles to illustrate). Oxenaar had designed and illustrated books before – and he would continue to do so all through his life. His drawings presented a form of realism that reduced the figures to their essential characteristics. He had been educated at the art academy in The Hague, where realism dominated, and he was coached by Willem Rozendaal, a charismatic all-round artist, whose approach remained of great influence.

Rozendaal’s realism was not based on mimesis – true-to-life reproduction of the world – but rather on a creative interpretation of reality. Thus Oxenaar came to develop a storytelling way of illustrating, in which the graphics (fat lines, black and white contrasts) added an expressive force without becoming ‘atmospheric’, ‘vitalistic’ or ‘expressionistic’. In Gargantua, his enlarged realism added anecdotes and caricatures to Rabelais’ own grotesque realism, in which hyperboles and fatrasies (from the Medieval poetry style in which seemingly nonsensical sentences are put to rhyme following a strict scheme) are combined with realistic descriptions and fantasized elements, often leading to humor and parody.

Forty years later. As I remove this beloved book and another version of Rabelais’ work from my book shelves, I now notice for the first time how rigorously their editor, Wolfson-Eyssell, has cut out parts of the text. Scabrous and scatological references have been removed and other parts have been changed or stylistically flattened; not much was left from the lively, exuberant language with its villainous hackling and uncommon humor. And I am shocked to see how she dealt with the whole glorious ‘The End’ – which it was all about: the founding of a new utopia – by condensing it to one sentence only: “He wanted to found his own abbey based on principles he liked better than the existing ones.”

Just one sentence. Unforgivable. “He”, friar Jan van Plettum, the earthy, cursing, fighting bad guy, the opposite number of the so “heavenly” king, together with his beautiful abbey Thélème was a source of inspiration for so long, not just to me but to others in the world of arts and culture, from Denis Diderot to Louis Paul Boon. And now we miss from this little book the one and only line important in Jan’s new world: “Do whatever you want” – which is what every free human being deserves who wants only the best. The critique of the long existing monastic order with their mile-long directives and scholastic laws had been made to disappear from the text.

Yet Oxenaar must have known the true plot and the motto. He made sure he’d read all books he had to design or illustrate, just as he had learned from Rozendaal. “Do not start a cover design of a Franz Kafka book before you’ve read his most important works.” Oxenaar did lots of research before starting any project. For Gargantua he studied the extensive, richly illustrated, 19th-century edition published by Gustave Doré. This edition was republished by Arbeiderspers in Amsterdam in 1957 to enter the collective memory once again.

Look at Oxenaar’s drawings. You can see how well he had researched the story from the way his friar Jan attacks the evil in the world when, in the last drawing, wearing a jester’s cap and a sardonic grin, he fearlessly and joyfully destroys Picrochole’s hostile army. It leaves us with the suggestion that friar Jan’s ideal world is within reach after all, just as Oxenaar’s is. The undivided world as described by Rabelais, approaching modernity and combining the way of all flesh with spirituality, was very much the young artist/illustrator Oxenaar’s world. It was not his parent’s world, the respectable world of The Hague, but the one he was introduced to at the art academy, then a sanctuary of free-thinkers and rebels.

In this alternative world, Rozendaal was his role model rather than his teacher. ‘The Rozendaal School’ it was called, an epithet that represents more than the results of a stylistic adaptation: it was the expression of a mentality on which a vision of art was based, including an opinion of the role of the artist in society. For Rozendaal, creativity resulting in action was of all ages and defined humanity: the artist leads the way. Rozendaal did not accept any distinction between old and new art, arts and crafts, high and low culture. His vision repudiated the continuing fragmentation of the present-day world. It was on this vision that Oxenaar’s own mentality was built; later, he recognized it in the contemporary approach of materialism by Raymond Williams: “Art is nothing but an extraordinary element in the general human process of creative discovery and communication.” As friar Jan would say: “Art is a passion for the real.”

However superannuated Wolfson-Eyssell’s Gargantua adaption may appear in my eyes, I must be aware of an anachronistic bias. For it were these kinds of illustrated books that in the 1950s and 1960s dominated the literature for children and can be seen as stimulating starting points of their subsequent emancipation (mine included). Other publishers than Van Goor in The Hague played a role. In Amsterdam it was Leopold, for instance. Other than Oxenaar and Rozendaal, many illustrators came from The Hague: Herman Berserik, Jenny Dalenoord, Reinald van Lamsweerde, Babs van Wely and Bertram Weihs. It was Weihs, a student of Rozendaal’s but also schooled by the classic typographer Henri Friedlaender, who would teach many future artists from The Hague in calligraphy and typography, thus helping to create the ‘The Hague handwriting’ style based on humanistic italics that was so recognizable in Oxenaar’s work. It was the beginning of a letter-writing tradition that still influences the graphic design education in The Hague.

Poster for Van Abbemuseum, 1965
Catalogue, Van Abbemuseum, 1965

I learned to better comprehend this tradition after I had started teaching design history and design theory at the academy in The Hague. When first entering its doors and smelling the inks and linseed oils it took only a fraction of a second before I, like Proust’s Madeleine, arrived back in time, on the Saturdays that I, aged ten, was allowed to draw under the ceiling windows in the huge open studio at the same Prinsessegracht. I had a real painter’s easel and I used charcoal; and there was a live model and there were real artists, too. The magic of a whole new world – like what happened in Gargantua. I was entering the world of art again and I could have encountered Oxenaar, too, who taught at the academy in the late 1960s.

Poster for Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1964

But the second time I met Oxenaar must have been in 1984. I had known him intimately for many years, through the nine bank notes and the thirty-three postage stamps he had designed, but we met because I, a student at the art academy in Arnhem, was doing my internship at DEV, the department responsible for the esthetical design of the Dutch postal services (PTT, later KPN). Oxenaar was the man in charge. I felt very small when coming face to face with Oxenaar; maybe I remembered how in days long past my father, who worked in the PTT head office at Zeestraat, walked to Bazarstraat where DEV had their domicile and humbly begged them for the newest PTT calendar, an immediate collector’s item, for his daughter. I knew I had entered ‘my’ world.

I remember DEV as a contemporary combination of design studio and architecture studio, a pleasant, dynamic environment where thought and action mixed well; where people were motivated to (help) create things; where modernist furniture found a place next to classic designs by Willem Penaat or Le Corbusier and in easy contrast with the excellent contemporary prints hanging on the walls and the Sipek glass and Appenzeller’s vase on the window sill, next to a scale model of the mailbox designed by Wolfram Peters and Peter Krouwel. A wonderful place to work. And, luckily, no one cared about styling or office ergonomics yet.

On the occasion of Abe van der Werff leaving DEV, in March 1989. Location: 24 Bazarstraat, The Hague, their domicile until 1991. From left: Paul Hefting, Julius Vermeulen, Mik Thoomes, Hilda Molewijk, Ewout Bezemer, Madeleine de Serière, Ada Lopes Cardozo, Judith Cahen, unknown, Annelies de Leede, Gea Kootstra, Rona Willems and Abe van der Werff (in front). Arno Geels, Liesbeth in ’t Hout and Marlies Levels are absent. Photo: Lex van Pieterson.

We always had lunch together at the big table. Pleasant and effective gatherings these lunches were. The people who worked at DEV were professionals committed to art and design; they came with their enormous expertise and a huge amount of technical knowledge. Together, they created a highly productive environment in which graphic design, ‘Dutch Design’, was taken to great heights. They helped to promote Dutch graphic design and Dutch industrial design all over the world; and they introduced contemporary art to many if not all PTT buildings in the Netherlands. Everyone of importance in art and design passed through DEV and many a young and talented artist’s career was pushed forward by DEV. Their consultants’ contribution to the strong cultural infrastructure in the Netherlands is immeasurable. I personally will never forget how one of these consultants, Judith Cahen, pushed me to apply for a beginning artist’s stipendium from the government, which I successfully did.

Postage stamps for PTT: 1963 to 1968
Poster for PTT, 1970

DEV became a leading cultural institute – client, consultant, promotor and school all in one – and their staff had a ball. DEV has been called “my family” (by Paul Hefting) and few of their devoted professionals ever considered leaving this paradise: Liesbeth in ’t Hout remembers DEV as “out of this world” and Ewout Bezemer talked about DEV is words like, “a moveable feast”. Julius Vermeulen underscored their uniqueness and Ada Lopes Cardozo found there, “the best possible job ever.” It was made possible under “the spiritual leadership” of Ootje Oxenaar (said Abe van der Werff).

From 1976 to 1994, Oxenaar was, indeed, highly responsible for DEV’s work climate and success. He hated authority and bureaucracy. The staff worked in a horizontally organized department where a formal hierarchy was traded in for distinguishing responsibilities. DEV’s ‘boss’ did not want to play boss by keeping everyone from doing their job. Oxenaar gave his staff a free hand to do what they thought they had to do and to do it their own way. Flexibility was what characterized DEV – a flexibility without the competitive elements that would become such a destructive force in the many organizations where short-term vision was allowed to reign. Oxenaar kept his supporting administrative staff small; he did not allow bureaucracy to grow and cause extra work instead of providing relief.

Postage stamps for PTT: 1970 to 1977
Twenty years of art projects, book for PTT Post, 1988 / Annual report, KPN, 1992

Technocrats were not Oxenaar’s cup of tea either. In his style of leading he kept modern management ideologies at an arm’s length even as they gained more and more influence within the PTT organization. In the years between 1982 and 1992, Oxenaar had to fight hard for DEV’s independence. Annual reports over this period indicate how defensive he had to act against the attacks of the ‘pragmatic’ bureaucrats. A master of strategy, knowledgeable without comparison and, nationally, in high regard because of his creative excellence, he kept receiving the support of an admiring crowd from outside as well as from inside the PTT organization. He even managed to subtly use his strong ties with Queen Beatrix to strengthen DEV’s position (although this, a sign of accepting the status quo, may have robbed him of the mythical status Willem Sandberg reached, of being recognized as a great innovator). Yet, he would not be able to resist ‘progress’ eternally. In 1994, he had to leave DEV. The department itself would not survive much longer.

Postage stamps for PTT: 1980 to 1994
Poster for KPN (successor of PTT), 1994

I believe Oxenaar over time designed his own ideal order, an exemplary cooperative that showed us how to understand the role of labor in a human life and to what extent creative labor contributes to society. At least he tried – and by doing so, Oxenaar made DEV (his own Thélème) work to the word as well as in the spirit of Rabelais, but spiced up with his own cultural ingredients, which I’d like to translate as: “Love a life wrapped in fantasy!”

This sagacity, the mentality of an artist, can also be discovered in Oxenaar’s library. In November 2008, I met Oxenaar for a third time, this time in his home in New England, in the USA. While exploring his bookshelves I met the rebellious ghosts of friar Jan and his Théléme in their full, Oxenaar-inspired, detached ambiguity. His collection of children’s books was extensive. Bruintje Beer, the Dutch version of Rupert by Mary Tourtel, could not be missed. It was the first illustrated book Ootje could lay a finger on and it made such a deep impression on him that its main character would be his alter ego forever. Another English icon was Edward Lear with his Book of Nonsense, a unequaled collection of nonsensical limericks. Then I noticed Lewis Carroll, the grand master of humbug, the one who made his Cheshire Cat exclaim: “We’re all mad!” His Alice in Wonderland is the most fantastic book ever written for children and, like Lear’s, not exclusively for children – with its word games, the jokes, the double entendre attacking language codes and social conventions. Oxenaar owned several editions, with contributions from different illustrators, including one bound in magic combination with Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Its Dutch version is called: Alice in Spiegelland, a very fitting title (spiegel= mirror); this book turns the world upside down like no other and tells us the world of children is much more interesting than, if not superior to, the world of us grown-ups. I can see Oxenaar before me nodding his consent.

Dutch banknotes: Frans Hals, 1968; Sunflower, 1982; Lighthouse, 1985

Not far from Alice I found Kafka, of course. Gregor Samas’s identity crisis is just as confusing as Alice’s role reversals. Carroll’s Alice is just as Kafkaesque as Die Verwandlung or Das Prozess. They did not differ much either from books on other shelves in Oxenaar’s library about the historic avant-garde. Dada, with Schwitters, Van Ostaijen and Werkman, also deals with unruly, recalcitrant, often playful acts trying to realize the impossible and to reconcile art and life. The nihilistic, absurd Jarry and Ionesco also fit in, just as well as Marx’ Das Kapital and the culture-critical work of a successor like Raymond Williams. I found Oxenaar’s library to be a hybrid parade of recalcitrant artists and thinkers who were searching, in times of great social and economical change, for an alternative route away from the ‘creative destruction’ of modernity. Rebellion, as taught Rozendaal already, is of all times. Look at Cervantes, look at Rabelais; these brothers were neighbors on Oxenaar’s bookshelves.

Book cover, 2008

Which brings me back to the soul of which this library was the mirror: the soul of an artist, a contemporary artist, who rather enjoys than mourns about his split personality – for it is the price of his independence. This happy but wise clown, this medieval fool, this Renaissance Arlecchino yet contemporary tragic comedian who shrouds in all kinds of masterly disguises to cover his true identity and who invites you to learn his lessons, that was Oxenaar. His family and friends can tell you how he enjoyed to dress up and to change identity, to pretend to be someone else and to fool everyone. For his children, he dressed up in St. Nicolas tabard. For his students he pretended to be the professor and for his friends he played the grandiose fool at Halloween parties. And in front of his colleagues at DEV he appeared in a bureaucrat’s standard apparel. He dressed his whole life in fantasy.

Pages from Oxenaar’s diary, 1982

Again, this mentality was reflected in Oxenaar’s library. It’s not just what is written that mirrors Ootje Oxenaar. For hundreds and hundreds of books in his library he designed new covers. His library became a beautiful display of his literary and artistic preferences and heroes, with the lucid watercolors beating the quiet gouaches, and where the light palette – lighter, ever lighter – mainly red, yellow and blue – combined his own cryptic visual grammar with the romantic, stylized ‘The Hague handwriting’. Yes, “Enjoy life. Do whatever you want!”This was my very personal Ootje Oxenaar story, written especially for [Z]OO Productions and Roots. It is just one of the many possible perspectives, but essential, at least in my opinion. The pointe of the story is: the dream, this alternative, is not a luxury; we need it so much. It’s not just there – we have to fight for it, at all times, in all ages. Because: “Culture may be arriving on soft-cladded feet, but is hung like a horse.”

Ootje Oxenaar, designer and client, exhibition in Museum for Communication, December 2009 to April 2010. Curator: Els Kuijpers. Design: Jan van Toorn

Author of the original text: Els Kuijpers, February 2010
Translation and editing in English: Ton Haak
Final editing: Sybrand Zijlstra
Portrait photo: Aatjan Renders

A short biography
Robert Deodaat Emile (Ootje) Oxenaar (The Hague, 1929) followed the drawing and painting class at The Hague’s academy of art. In 1953, he graduated cum laude. His career started with creating monumental art projects for schools and government buildings in several cities (The Hague, Zeist, Heerlen) and he also contributed to the 1955 event E 55 in Rotterdam. He was awarded for his design of Alkestis (1954) for Boucher publishing in The Hague. Many publishers hired him to design their books. He worked for Van Goor as well as Haags Gemeentemuseum and for Expo ’58in Brussels, to promote Dutch art.

Two important clients pushed him to start his own design studio: the national postal service PTT and the Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch national bank). In 1963, he designed his first series of stamps for PTT. After entering DEV/PTT in 1970, he became deputy head of the department and, in 1976, their chief. He designed thirty-three stamps. In 1964, he designed the 5 guilder banknote. In the following years bank notes of 10, 25, 100 and 1000 guilders were added. Between 1977 and 1987, he designed a second series of banknotes, including the Snip (100), the Sunflower (50) and the Lighthouse (250), designs that became iconic.

Between 1984 and 1970 he taught at the art academy in The Hague. Between 1978 and 1992 he was an associate professor for visual communication at Delft Technical University’s industrial design department. He was a visiting professor at many universities in Holland and abroad.

At the time of writing, he was living in the US and teaching at Rhode Island School of Design.

Ootje Oxenaar received many awards for his design, such as the Werkman Prize in 1987. His work can be found in many museum collections in The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris and New York. He was an AGI member since 1964.


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Design: Bell Phillips architects

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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge affect on employment, with many firms forced to make redundancies - but what sectors are actively recruiting in this time of crisis?

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Specialising in delicious Southeast Asian cuisine, Kamayan Café will tempt your tastebuds with something new. The café also offers a range of other cuisines from Vietnamese rice paper rolls, a fresh sandwich and salad bar to crispy fish and chips.

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Heard Saturdays at 10 a.m., the hour-long Youth Radio show broadcasts the results of a hands-on training program for budding journalists. Founded by Ellen O'Leary, the program has already turned out the next generation of radio talent now working at public and commercial radio stations. The idea is to empower teens by giving them skills to express their opinions via produced stories and commentaries, in which they take on parents, dating, health, politics, the sag, and other topics, with a seldom-heard viewpoint. Since 1992, Youth Radio has bagged many prestigious journalism awards, and its features and programs are aired on commercial and noncommercial stations across the country. But perhaps what gives Youth Radio its East Bay stamp and deeper meaning is the unity it creates amongst communities here by using a diverse cast of male and female voices to help break down division and misunderstanding.

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How and where growing numbers of Americans are taking their own lives

The statistics of self-destruction

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THIRTY-THREE people leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge last year, plunging 75 metres to their deaths. Yet the tally could have been much worse. Another 245 contemplating suicide were talked down by the police patrols who diligently comb America’s most famous suicide site. Plans to construct a suicide-prevention barrier (a large net) have now been agreed on: it will be completed in 2021 and cost $204m.

Though jumping is a relatively rare way to end one’s life, it is on the rise. There were 1,123 such deaths in 2016 compared with 788 in 2010. The same trend holds for suicides by gunshot, overdose and hanging, according to an analysis by The Economist of mortality files from the Centres for Disease Control. In almost every demographic category—men and women, young Asians and elderly whites, city dwellers and rural folk—the problem is getting worse.

In nearly all other OECD countries, suicide has declined since 2000 (Greece and South Korea are exceptions). In America, however, from 2003 the number began to grow by 1,000 a year and did not stop. This climb has been almost perfectly constant. In 2016, the latest year for which detailed data are available, there were 45,000 suicides in America: 23,000 of them by gun, 11,700 by hanging and 5,300 by overdose. Because of suicide’s stigma, these numbers are thought to be an underestimate.

Though there has been an alarming increase among women—the number rose by 39% between 2006 and 2016—men are still much more likely to kill themselves. For every two women who committed suicide in 2016, so did seven men. White men kill themselves at nearly three times the rate of black, Hispanic and Asian men. Only Native American men have higher rates. Similar racial differences exist in the rates among women, making suicide one of very few public-health crises that disproportionately affects whites.

The suicide rate in rural counties is 78% higher than that in big cities. Alaska and Montana, two of the states with the lowest population density, are the worst-afflicted—suicide is five times as likely there as in the District of Columbia, which has America’s lowest rate. And suicides are increasing more rapidly in states that already have high rates, deepening the disparities.

There is a strong correlation between the suicide rate and the Republican share of the vote in the presidential election. Solidly Democratic east-coast states like New York and Massachusetts have some of the lowest rates—a phenomenon that long predates Donald Trump’s election.

America is an extraordinarily violent country. Its firearm-murder rate is far above the rest of the rich world. Yet there are roughly two gun suicides for every gun homicide. Easy access to guns undoubtedly worsens matters. Guns are perhaps the most efficient means of getting the job done: 83% of attempted suicides by gun are successful, compared with 61% of hangings and a mere 1.5% of intentional drug overdoses. Those who try to commit suicide and fail can receive therapy and recover. According to a Harvard study, only one in ten people who survive a suicide attempt go on to kill themselves. In Britain, where guns are much less easily available, hangings make up nearly 60% of suicides.

White men, especially older ones, overwhelmingly favour guns as a means of suicide. Young women have turned from drug overdoses to guns and hanging. Hanging has surged from 21% of all suicides in 2003 to 26% in 2016. Researchers who interview survivors find that those who choose this method often imagine a painless death.

Determining the cause of these dispiriting trends has proved hard. The suicide rate seems to have risen independently of the lurches in America’s economy. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two Princeton economists, have argued that a toxic cocktail of opioid addiction and stagnating economic prospects is worsening the problem of premature death, including by suicide, among middle-aged whites.

All suicides are, by definition, preventable. Yet detecting them in time is hard. Depression and other mental illnesses are clear correlates of suicide, but only a small proportion of the millions of Americans diagnosed with depression will attempt it. Matthew Nock, a Harvard professor, has tried to train an algorithm to comb through patients’ medical records and produce advance warnings of suicide risk, but these methods are still plagued by false positives. Machine-learning may one day help. Until then, the vigilance of friends and family will be the best defence.

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Le Chameleon is one of South Africa's best known Daytime Restaurants situated at the gateway to the Garden Route. Traveling from the Tsitsikamma forest to PE and beyond - this is one of the most popular eatery's in the Eastern Cape. We are conveniently situated : 2 km from the N2 highway, 15 km from coastal gems like St Francis Bay and Jeffreys Bay and the city of Port Elizabeth is only 45 minutes away.

Once you arrive, it becomes clear why the place is always packed.

Guests are entertained with an experience way beyond what you would expect from a small Eastern Cape town. The one department just flows into the next as you venture through this 1000 square meter business.  As you enter the shop either the delicious aroma of food being cooked in cast iron pots, or roasting coffee, greets you.  Amongst old fashioned preserves, homebaked cookies and rusks, you will find lots of exotic spices. At the bakery, find our giant Chelsea Buns that made us famous when this business opened in 1994. Move up the stairs through the exquisite gift section until you discover the 120 seater Restaurant and Tea Garden. There you will be greeted by the friendliest staff in the business.

We trust that we will see you soon!

We have an extensive menu that cover everything from Breakfast to Lunchtime to afternoon Cakes. Our food is cooked with love and we use the best ingredients possible.  We are priviledged to have our own Green House on our premises, and it enables us to harvest fresh Lettuce and Herbs every day.  We even grow old fashioned roses for you to enjoy at your table. The atmosphere is soothing, with beautiful music playing softly.

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The Trolley Problem

The history of science is littered with “thought experiments,” a term dreamed up by Albert Einstein (“gedankenexperiment”) for an imagined scenario able to sharply articulate the crux of some intellectual puzzle, and in so doing excite some deep thinking on the way to a solution or related discovery. Among the most famous are Einstein’s tale of chasing a light beam that led him to a theory of special relativity and Erwin Schrödinger’s story of the poor cat, stuck in a fiendishly designed quantum mechanical box, forever half-alive and half-dead, that highlighted the complex interactions between wave mechanics and measurement.

“The Trolley Problem” is another thought experiment, one that arose in moral philosophy. There are many versions, but here is one: A trolley is rolling down the tracks and reaches a branchpoint. To the left, one person is trapped on the tracks, and to the right, five people. You can throw a switch that diverts the trolley from the track with the five to the track with the one. Do you? The trolley can’t brake. What if we know more about the people on the tracks? Maybe the one is a child and the five are elderly? Maybe the one is a parent and the others are single? How do all these different scenarios change things? What matters? What are you valuing and why?

It’s an interesting thought experiment, but these days it’s more than that. As we increasingly offload our decisions to machines and the software that manages them, developers and engineers increasingly will be confronted with having to encode—and thus directly code—important and, potentially, life and death decision making into machines. Decision making always comes with a value system, a “utility function,” whereby we do one thing or another because one pathway reflects a greater value for the outcome than the other. Sometimes the value might seem obvious or trivial—this blender is recommended to you over that one for the probability that you will purchase it, based on various historical data; these pair of shoes are a more likely purchase (or perhaps not the most likely, but worth a shot because they are kind of expensive—this gets us to probabilistic calculations and expected returns) than another. This song versus that song, etc.

But sometimes there is more at stake: this news or that news? More generally, this piece of information or that piece of information on a given subject? The values embedded in the program may start shaping your values and with that, society’s. Those are some pretty high stakes. The trolley problem shows us that the value systems that pervade programming can literally be a matter of life and death: Soon we will have driverless trolleys, driverless cars, and driverless trucks. Shit happens and choices need to be made: the teenager on the bike in the breakdown lane or the Fortune 500 CEO and his assistant in the stopped car ahead? What does your algorithm do and why?

We will build driverless cars and they will come with a moral compass—literally. The same will be true of our robot companions. They’ll have values and will necessarily be moral machines and ethical automata, whose morals and ethics are engineered by us. “The Trolley Problem” is a gedankenexperiment for our age, shining a bright light on the complexities of engineering our new world of humans and machines.


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The Complex Director position exists to drive profitable multi-office growth across a closely-defined geography (i.e. complex) of financial advisory offices by creating a compelling business plan emphasizing profitable growth. Profitable growth is achieved through effective management of P&L, implementing sound strategy and growth through advisor acquisition, retention, tenure and productivity and driving revenue and asset growth. The position is responsible for effectively segmenting the needs and prioritizing the opportunities of the complex while developing high-performing branch managers and optimizing resources across the complex of offices.

Responsible for oversight of his/her for own branch and branches within their geographic complex. The Complex Director should demonstrate effective leadership behaviors, leadership competencies and personal competencies in their leadership of branch managers and staff. Responsible for ensuring that brand standards, client service and client satisfaction standards are met. Responsible for maintaining a legal and compliant organization while supporting profitable growth of Ameriprise products and services with the highest quality of advice, techniques and standards. Responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement recruiting strategy focused on Experienced Advisor Recruiting and Career Changers. Partner with Region Leader and recruiting staff to execute recruiting strategy. Facilitate Franchise to Employee Channel transitions, coordinating with Franchise leader and home office support. Build centers of influence through FPA, community involvement. Manage recruiting activities of branch managers. Develop and support onboarding for candidates. Understand and clearly articulate Ameriprise value proposition to candidates.

• Ensure branch managers provide effective leadership to advisors within their sites. Create growth opportunities and business development environment for advisors. Understand skills of branch managers and advisors and leverage talents to drive performance. Create manager and advisor development through effective systems/support. Provide coaching to staff, specialists, and advisor coaches. Implement and manage Performance Management and Performance Improvement process for complex. Create culture of financial planning that emphasizes Confident Retirement Approach.

• Drive profitable results/growth through prudent expense management and investments in key business strategies. Lead ongoing business planning and development. Focus on strategies to drive/retain mix of tenured, productive advisors. Drive inorganic complex growth strategies and sourcing through partnerships with branch managers and home office resources. Support teaming strategy. Identify talent and create leader succession plan. Complex growth with line of site to external environment.

• Responsible for supervision of all sales activities of registered personnel assigned to him/her; ensure sales activities are appropriate based on client objectives, goals, risk tolerance, etc. and adequate disclosure was provided. Ensure employees fulfill applicable licensing, registration and compliance requirements; adhere to firm's policies and procedures and conduct business in an ethical manner; maintain records in accordance with FINRA, NYSE and other applicable regulations.

• Conduct Quarterly Periodic Business Reviews with Market Group Leader and Regional Leader. Review monthly results with Region Vice President and conduct weekly to bi-weekly 1:1s with advisors. Review results on a bi-weekly basis with branch managers. Conduct monthly reviews with branch and complex support staff as well as weekly visits to branches within complex.

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5+ years' experience successfully leading a team of financial advisors.

Active FINRA Series 7

Active FINRA Series 24 or 9/10

Active IAR 65/66

• Proven ability to recruit and successfully and on-board Experienced Advisors from other well-regarded financial services firms.

• Proven leadership skills: ability to direct and motivate a large organization in achieving results.

• Strong business planning and management skills, including strategy development and budgeting.

• Ability to analyze data and reports to determine business needs and opportunities.

• Knowledge and ability to develop networks with a wide array of communities to maximize recruiting efforts.

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• Proven success driving organic growth with advisors, proven leadership skills and ability to drive & motivate a large organization to achieve results.

• Business planning and strategic management skills.

• Knowledgeable and able to develop networks with a wide array of communities to maximize recruiting efforts.

• 7-10+ years of professional experience including field leadership, recruitment & selection, sales management.
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“Our secure wireless technology provides the DoD with a FIPS 140-2 Validated and IEEE 802.11 based solution that will transmit data, voice and video,” said Michael Jalbert, president and chief executive officer of EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. “The wireless reach-back system provides a secure means of rapidly transferring data in a maritime environment in support of the customer’s mission to deter, delay and disrupt the movement of terrorist and terrorist-related materials and personnel at sea. By using DoD approved encryption and authentication techniques for wireless networking, we are helping our customer to preserve the lives of U.S. forces.”


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AWS Financials Available. So Now What?

Last week we saw Amazon break out their AWS numbers as a separate segment for the first time, so of course, the entire tech press lost their collective minds and wrote reams about it. It’s bigger than we thought! It’s smaller than we thought! They have margin! OMG.

I’ve previously written about the economics of cloud, both here and elsewhere, and after listening to some of the commentary on the In Tech We Trust podcast (well worth a listen, by the way) I’ve decided to write some of this up to hopefully shed some light on the situation.

Let’s take a deep breath and walk a little more calmly through the numbers. You can do this for yourself thanks to the excellent SEC EDGAR service, and grab the documentation from here:

I’m going to give you my analysis on this, and I encourage you to read a variety of opinions on this. But looks carefully at the chain of reasoning behind what someone says, and also look carefully at their track record. Really good analysts admit it when they get things wrong, while snake-oil selling pundits and futurists don’t. You want to learn the why, not just the what, because then you are better armed to make your own decisions.

The Headline Numbers

In the three months to 31 March 2015, the AWS segment had sales of $1,566 million, and operating profit of $265 million, which gives AWS a margin of about 16.9%. Compare this to the North America business (which is all the stuff, the retail stuff they’re known for) with sales of $13,406 million and operating profit of $517 million, which is margin of 3.9%. This ignores the seasonality of retail, which has a big bump in sales during the Primary Gifting Period in the last two to three months of the calendar year, but to get last quarter’s results I’d need to pull the first 9 months out of the 10-K report for 2014, since Amazon haven’t broken out the quarterly results for their last FY quarter.

Lots was written about this stuff, because it was easiest to find and talk about. 17% margin is impressive for something most people assumed is an “undifferentiated heavy lifting” business. But this is a single data point, and it doesn’t provide anywhere near as much information as people assume it does.

For example, for all of financial year ending 31 December 2014, Amazon had operating profit of $178 million. So AWS, in the last three months, apparently made more money than the entirety of Amazon for all of last year. And Amazon made $700m a mere three months, and in only three months, after making only $178m for all of 2014.

Does that make a lot of sense to you? Did the costs Amazon incurred really change that much in a mere three months?

Read the Notes

I remember reading something in business school about novices and MBA students doing better than a lot of analysts with financial statement analysis because they actually read the notes, while professionals just cut-and-paste numbers into financial models and ignore most of an annual report.

That’s one reason I like to read the notes.

And that’s where I found the first thing that surprised me. In note 8 of the 10-Q, there is this sentence: “There are no internal revenue transactions between our reportable segments.” which I initially took to mean that each segment is operated more-or-less as a separate business, and there’s no cross-charging, which is not what I expected to see. Cross-charging is common within large organisations so that costs associated with a shared service (like email or networks, say) are allocated to other business units that make use of the service.

Ah, but if we read on, on page 27 when we’re looking at the more detailed breakdown of the operating expenses, we see this: “Technology infrastructure costs consist of servers, networking equipment, and data center related depreciation, rent, utilities, and payroll expenses. These costs are allocated to segments based on usage.”

I take this to mean that Amazon does indeed do internal cross-charging. They don’t do arms-length trading between divisions, meaning that isn’t charged to use AWS like any commercial customer. Instead, Amazon will charge costs to the segments internally, based on ‘usage’, whatever that means. Depending on how Amazon decides the costs should be allocated, the segment figures could move around quite a bit, particularly when we’re talking about yearly revenues of $90bn. Moving a few hundred million around isn’t a large percentage of total revenues, and for a segment that’s less than 7% of total revenue, but apparently 38% of operating profit.

Cost Correlation

Here’s another curious thing to note: in note 8 we see this: “The majority of technology infrastructure costs are allocated to the AWS segment based on usage.” which could be interpreted in two ways. Most of the technology infrastructure costs are due to AWS, or that most of the cost allocation is based on usage, but not all. I choose to interpret this as “most of the technology infrastructure costs” are because of AWS, because retail should mostly be in cost of goods sold and distribution overhead. There’ll be a small amount of technology overhead, but not a lot, because retail runs on thin margins. AWS would need to invest a lot in technology infrastructure because that’s the nature of the business.

So let’s assume that most, if not all, of the costs for Technology and Content are due to AWS. This is supported by the note on page 26: “Costs to operate our AWS segment are primarily classified as “Technology and content” as we leverage a shared infrastructure that supports both our internal technology requirements and external sales to AWS customers.”

But here’s a curious thing: Technology and Content is 12.9% of Net Sales (i.e. revenue). But AWS as a segment is only 6.9% of total revenue, and 5.9% of operating costs. What’s all the gear for? Does Amazon really need 50% of all of its Technology and Content costs just to run its core retail business? That’s another 50% of the cost of fulfilment, and 1.2x the entire Amazon marketing budget.

Another curious thing to note is the growth in spending on Technology and Content. According to the 10-K from last financial year, Amazon has increased spending on Technology and content by just over 40% for the past 2 years. Assuming that investment continued (and why wouldn’t it?) this financial year’s spend would be about $13.2bn, an average of $3,306m a quarter. Now, the first quarter number will be lower than the average for the year, but last year it was only $200m under the average. Why is the first quarter spend only $2,754, a full $600m less than what we’d expect the average for FY2015 to be?

If we go and check the trend in growth of Technology and Content, we see that for all of last year, spending increased at between 8 and 10%, but this first quarter of 2015 it grew by only 4.5%, about half. Why?

Either growth for Amazon (either AWS or overall) slowed suddenly, or Amazon had invested a lot already and didn’t need to invest much money in this first quarter. Which of these options does Amazon have more control over, and which provides the better marketing message? Or any one of dozens of other, perfectly legal, options that Amazon has for spinning the story to their own advantage.

There’s More To It

There’s a lot more to this than the simple headlines from the tech press might lead you to think, and I honestly have a lot more questions than answers from the two-ish hours I’ve spent looking at these financial statements.But I don’t believe AWS has 17% margin any more than I believe it’s the cheapest option for infrastructure. Consider that in Brad Stone’s book about Bezos and Amazon The Everything Store Bezos is quoted saying Steve Jobs made a ‘mistake’ with iPhone pricing:

Bezos believed that high margins justified rivals’ investments in research and development and attracted more competition, while low margins attracted customers and were more defensible.

Maybe you should take anything Bezos, or Amazon, says with a grain of salt because why would he tell you the unvarnished truth? He’s a businessman, not a saint.As an aside, I tried to copy&paste that quote from Stone’s book from Kindle reader in Chrome, but it won’t let me.

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Just a few years ago, renewable energy was barely considered as a part of a country’s energy planning.

Publics and governments attempted to increase the renewable share in their energy systems, however the costs were too high. Many were also concerned about the impact of adding ‘too much capacity’ from various renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power on the electricity grid.

But this is no more. The economics are no longer challenging, with the prices for inputs falling so low (in particular solar PV and wind turbines) that renewables are now in close competition with traditional, fossil fuel generated power.

In 2014, approximately 144 countries developed plans to expand renewable energy and close to 100 established specific goals and incentives.

A report from the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) indicated that with the correct combination of investments and new policies, countries will be able to integrate unknown shares of varible [...]

We sort information about electric car prices in comparison to the standard petrol cars from the Australian Electric Vehicle Association: Currently, most automakers are not well equipped to manufacture huge numbers of electric cars, and therefore the low production becomes more expensive. In addition, most vehicle manufacturers depend on prior finance arrangements and regular vehicle service schedules to generate revenue.

With a significantly reduced maintenance routine, the upfront cost will obviously be higher. Today, you will have to part with about $39, 000 for a new Nissan Leaf and $150, 000 for a new Tesla Model S (P85). However, keep in mind that driving around will cost you less than 3 cents per kilometre, and though a similarly sized petrol car will cost you less in terms of initial purchase price, driving around will cost you 12 to 14 cents per kilometre. In essence, driving an average of 14, 000 km [...]

The Australian Electric Vehicle Association gives some pointers on this— based on how you drive and the existing conditions, your range is likely to vary. For instance, sustained high speeds, long mountain climbs, three passengers and luggage as well as strong headwinds are all situations that will reduce the car’s economy and consequently the range (just the same way it happens with petrol vehicles). However, tailwinds and long descents will hugely enhance your range.

The ‘fuel’ economy of an electric car that uses a battery is usually quoted in watt-hours per kilometre (Wh/km). On average, a compact EV a fuel economy of 135 Wh/km. PHEVs on the other hand will first have a moderate electric-only range of 50 to 100 km, before the petrol engine can kick in. Because of the additional weight and complexity, the PHEV’s electric-only range will generally be poorer than that of a pure EV, but will [...]

The issue of charging EVs has become highly contentious. Lack of readily available public charging infrastructure has been cited as a real hurdle hampering broader take-up of electrical vehicles in Australia. But truth be told, charging an electric car is easy and can be carried out pretty much anywhere.

Despite being perfect for Australian weather conditions, when it comes to charging, electric vehicles (hybrid models) are preferred more compared to the battery-only vehicles since charging presents motorists with both challenges and opportunities.

Charging an EV is easy and there are various charging options available for electric cars. Based on the car’s range and size of the car’s battery, the rate of charging can be anything from slow, fast or faster.
For the car models with large batteries, charging can take about 7-8 hours although many models charge quickly (about 30 minutes) using high voltage quick [...]

Given that about 90 per cent of the Aussie population commutes less than 100km each day, it’s just right to conclude that electric cars are indeed viable and convenient in the Land Under. According to BMW’s spokeswoman Lenore Fletcher, electric vehicles’ craze around the globe is growing and Australia is no exception.

“Electric vehicles have attracted a great deal of interest and awareness regarding the sustainability question in multiple countries around the world and 18,000 BMW I vehicles were delivered internationally in 2014,” Fletcher said.

Electric vehicles offer users a wide spectrum of benefits, especially when compared to the typical internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. Some of the benefits of EVs include:

  • – Higher efficiency
  • – Lower operating costs
  • – Lower maintenance costs
  • – Reduced traffic noise
  • – Reduced Greenhouse gas emission
  • – Air quality improvements
  • – Enhanced comfort and convenience
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After three years of trial and experimentation of Australia’s first ever electric car in Western Australia, it was discovered that Australia was fit for electric vehicles. However, there were some technological barriers to the adoption of these cars since no electric cars existed at the time. Instead of asking major manufacturers in Australia to produce electric vehicles, they instead converted Ford Focuses, an existing model, for the study.

Each of the converted cars was fitted with a 27 kW DC motor, a 23 kWh batter pack and a 1000A motor controller. The study used these vehicles as regular fleet cars to determine their usability levels for every day driving. These cars were subjected to a road tested driving range of 131km per charge (dynamometer testing produced a range of 143km) which significantly exceeded Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV which attained a 112km range under similar road test conditions.
Besides confirming that Australia was [...]

Electric vehicles are viable in Australia and are more suited for the country’s environment. There are various types of EVs on the Australian market and the extent to which these cars use electricity as their source of energy is what differs. Hybrid cars, also known as range-extender cars (those which use petrol engine as a generator to power the battery) once dominated the market but with the emergence of innovative battery technologies like those used in mobile phones to charge cars, there has been a significant shift towards pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs) which have no internal combustion engine. The type of electric vehicle you choose will hugely depend on three things; its price, range and your use.

Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)

BEVs are 100% electric vehicles which use electricity as their only energy source. BEVs and PHEVs alike are referred to as Plug-in Electric Vehicles for the [...]

Chris Jones, the Vice President of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA) explained to us exactly how electric cars operate.

With Electric vehicles (EVs), there’s no need for motorists to visit a petrol station again. These cars or motorcycles are specifically designed to use a sizable battery pack and an electric motor to store energy.
EVs are truly greener cars. The pure EVs are only powered by batteries, while the PHEVs or plug-in hybrid EVs use a tiny petrol engine that extends the car’s range. Majority of modestly sized electric vehicles use batteries that range from 16 to 24 kWh while a full sized EV like Tesla Model S is fitted with a 60 or 85 kWh battery. The bigger batteries are more effective and you can drive for a long time when you have them. However, one thing to keep in mind is that they are more expensive.
EVs are exactly like [...]

The buzz in Australia today is all about the increasing number of new electric cars spotted on the country’s roads, led by the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt. But since EVs are rather new products to the Aussie market, we asked various AEVA experts in next-generation automobiles to mull through the hype and provide us with some realistic electric vehicle buying tips. They came up with these ten things to know before buying an electric car.

1. Is it the right fit for me?

If you often drive over 200 km each day, then an electric car is probably not a good option for you now. As earlier indicated, most Australians drive less than 40 km each day, and most households have a second car. You can consider replacing the ‘runabout’ with an Electric Vehicle. As an alternative, you can also hire a standard petrol car when [...]

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in County Westmeath, but were dispersed into Connacht as a result of the Anglo-Norman invasion. The Corca Adhaimh or O’Dalys (O Dalaigh), alias Corca Adam (race of Adam) are a branch of the Southern Ui Neill descended from Maine, son of Nial of the Nine hostages. They were originally seated in the present barony of Magheradernon in central County Westmeath. In later times they became a literary family of highest honor, and sent learned bards of their name to serve kings all over Ireland. The first of the family to become famous for his learning was Cuchonnacht na Scoile ("of the school") who died at Clonard in 1139. He was the ancestor of all the bardic families of the name. Beginning with Cuchonnacht, poetry and learning became a profession in the family, and he presided over a bardic school in Meath not far from, but connected with, the original territory of Corca Adhaimh.

From Corca Adhaimh, then, the family sent forth poetic professors to various parts of Ireland, where they started new literary families. About 1250 a branch of the O’Dalys, descended from Donough More O’Daly, a famous bard, became hereditary poets to the O’Loughlins, and settled at Finavarra, in the Burren of County Clare. To this literary branch belong the DalIys of Galway, whose ancestor settled in Ui Maine (County Galway) in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Raghnall O Dalaigh settled in South Munster (Desmond) about 1150 and became chief ollav (professor) in poetry to the MacCarthy. Other branches served such great names as the O’Reillys of Cavan, the O’Neills of Ulster, and the O’Connors of Connacht.

Another professional branch of the Fir Teathbha were the O’Shiels (O Siadhail), a famous medical family that established various branches in Ulster and Offaly, serving as hereditary physicians and surgeons in Oriel, Inishowen and Delvin-MacCoghlan. Owen O’Sheil, the "Eagle of Doctors," was physician to the armies of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland from 1642 to 1650.

The Four Tribes of Tara were four princely families of the Southern Ui Neill, settled in the area of Tara in what is now County Meath. They represent the lineal descendants of the Sil nAedo Slaine kings of South Brega. From the beginning of the ninth century the Kingdom of Brega had divided into North and South Brega, with the kings of North Brega residing at Knowth some twelve miles northeast of Tara on the River Boyne, and the kings of South Brega remaining in the vicinity of Tara itself. The chief representatives of the original Four Tribes in later times were the families of O’Hart (O hAirt) and O’Regan (O Riagain).

The O’Harts were dispossessed soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion of the late twelfth century. Afterwards they migrated westward to Sligo, where they became chiefs in what is now the barony of Carbury in North Sligo, where they possessed considerable estates down to the seventeenth century. The O’Regans were, prior to the Anglo-Norman invasion, kings of South Brega, and had taken a leading part in the wars against the Danes. They apparently alternated the Kingship of Brega with their northern cousins, for in

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Editors: Fernando Pacheco-Torgal Lech Czarnecki Anna Pisello Luisa F. Cabeza Claes Goran-Granqvist
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1. Introduction

2. High albedo Pavements
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5. Quantitative approximation of shading-induced cooling by climber green wall based on multiple-iterative radiation pathways
6. Experimental study on geometric configuration and evaporative cooling potential of brick elements
7. A geothermal and an evaporative system for building walls
8. Cooling techniques in reducing overheating of clay-straw building in semi-arid climate
9. Multi-layer glass and BIPV facade structures

10. Green roofs as passive system to moderate buildings cooling requirements and UHI effects: assessments by means of experimental data
11. Thermal evaluation of building roofs with conventional and reflective coatings
12. Active and passive systems for cool roofs

13. Bio based PCMs for reducing cooling needs
14. Performance of bricks with PCMs in India
15. Influence of novel PCMs based strategies on building cooling
16. Optically smart thin material for building cooling
17. An overview of the performance of thermochromic glazing
18. Performance of thermochromic windows

Eco-efficient Materials for Reducing Cooling Needs in Buildings and Construction: Design, Properties and Applications provides a comprehensive review on building envelope materials and technologies for reducing cooling needs in buildings. The book offers in-depth analysis of the performance of new innovative materials and technologies used in pavements, facade and roofing materials, PCMs and chromogenic smart materials. Includes practical case study examples of their applications in building and construction. The book is an essential reference resource for researchers, architects and civil engineers, city planners, product developers, manufacturers, and other professionals working in eco-efficient cooling materials and sustainable and zero-energy building design.

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Fernando Pacheco-Torgal

Fernando Pacheco-Torgal

F.Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho. He holds the Counsellor title of the Portuguese Engineers Association. Authored almost 350 publications some that were cited by Highly Cited authors (SCI h-index>60) and in high impact factor journals like Nature Reviews Mat. (IF=52), Nature Energy (IF=47), Progress in Mater. Science (I.F=24), Physics Reports (IF=20) and Nature Climate Change (I.F=19). Citations received in ISI WoS journals-2819 (h-index=29), citations received in Scopus journals- 3580 (h-index=31). Citations prediction for the year 2029 (around 5.500 citations on WoS, 7.500 on Scopus (already has 7000 MR, h=45) and 16.000 citations on scholar google). Member of the editorial board of 9 international journals, 4 referenced on the Web of Science and three referenced on Scopus. Grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 14 countries, UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, UA.Emirates, Poland and also the EU Commission. Invited reviewer for 133 international journals for which he reviewed so far almost 900 papers. Lead Editor of 19 international books (9 being on the Master Book List of Web of Science).

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Principal Investigator, C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal

Lech Czarnecki

Prof. Lech Czarnecki PhD, D.Sc. – is the Scientific Secretary of Building Research Institute, ITB, former the Head of the Building Materials Engineering Department of (1981-2011) and the Vice-Rector for academic affairs ( 2002 – 2005 ) of Warsaw University of Technology. He was the President of International Congress on Polymers in Concrete (2006-2011). Professor was awarded “for eminent activities in new frontiers of building materials engineering” by the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of Japan in 2009 and “for distinguished service and leadership in the field of polymers in concrete” Owen Nutt Award in 2004.Author of more than 250 publications and Department editor of Bulletin of Polish Academy Science Technical Science.

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Building Research Institute, ITB, Warsaw, Poland

Anna Pisello

Chemical engineer from the Institut Químic de Sarrià in 1992, industrial engineer from University Ramon Llull in 1993, master in industrial business management in 1995, and doctor industrial engineer in 1996 from the same university. Post-doctoral researcher at the Eastern Regional Research Center (ARS, USDA) in Philadelphia, USA between 1996 and 1998. Since 1999 at the University of Lleida, where she created the research group GREA Innovació Concurrent, recognized as a SGR group in 2004 (today GREiA 2017SGR1537), TECNIO group in 2007 and with international prestige in the field of thermal energy storage. From 2014 to 2018, she was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environmental, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster. She has published more than 350 indexed articles and participated in more than 250 conferences. She has co-edited 5 research books and is the author of one, in addition to publishing 15 book chapters. She has participated or coordinated more than 30 research and innovation projects (local, national, European or international), most of them with participation of industry. All her research career led her to become a Spanish representative in the Horizon 2020 Energy Committee Challenge 3 and in the ECES Implementing Agreement of the International Energy Agency, and she has participated in the drafting of 2 IPCC reports (SREEN and AR5), participating in the currently, in the third as CLA (AR6). In the teaching field, throughout all these years, at the University of Lleida, she has taught in the degrees of Industrial Technical Engineering, mechanical specialty, Technical Architecture, Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Degree in Electronic Engineering, Master in Applied Sciences for Engineering, Master in Industrial Engineering and Master in Computer Engineering from the Higher Polytechnic School of the University of Lleida since 1999. Previously, her teaching activity was at the Institut Químic de Sarrià and at the UPC, although for a limited time.

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University of Lleida, Spain

Luisa F. Cabeza

Luisa F. Cabeza is Professor at the University of Lleida (Spain) where she leads the GREA research group. She has co-authored over 100 journal papers and several book chapters. Luisa F. Cabeza received her PhD in Industrial Engineering in 1996 from the University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain. She also holds degrees in Chemical Engineering (1992) and in Industrial Engineering (1993), as well as an MBA (1995) from the same University. Her interests include the different TES technologies (sensible, latent and thermochemical), applications (buildings, industry, refrigeration, CSP, etc.), and social aspects. She also acts as subject editor of the journals Renewable Energy, and Solar Energy.

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Professor, University of Lleida, Spain

Claes Goran-Granqvist

Claes Goran-Granqvist is Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Granqvist's research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. He has published around 730 research papers in mostly refereed journals, over 30 books, had invited conference presentations at about 250 international conferences and chaired about 30 international meetings.

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Professor, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, Sweden


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