Name	Bren Hall
Cost	$26 Million
Client	University of California, Santa Barbara
Location town	Santa Barbara, California
Location country	United States
Coordinates
Completion date	April 2002
Architect	Zimmer Gunsul Frasca

Bren Hall, opened in April 2002, is located on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, located in Santa Barbara, California. It is named in honor of philanthropist Donald Bren and hosts the university's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. It has been called the "greenest" laboratory facility in the United States and offers a picturesque view of the Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands.

Construction

Bren Hall's original location was a parking lot. In keeping with the green movement, all of the waste was recycled and used in the construction or elsewhere on campus. Bren Hall has served as a testament to sustainability and UC Santa Barbara has committed to construct new buildings to the Silver standards set forth by United States Green Building Council.

Platinum rating

The United States Green Building Council gave Bren Hall its very first Platinum rating under LEED 1.0's New Construction category. To receive certification, a building must meet the standards set by the council, which gives Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum ratings.

It was announced on 4 August 2009 that Bren Hall had become the first building in the nation to receive a second Platinum award, this time in the category Existing Buildings –– Operations & Maintenance.

Environmental impact

Developers designed the building to conserve power by using energy-efficient lighting, natural lighting, efficient boilers, connection to the campus's chilled water loop, and a sophisticated building automation system. Many of the furnishings—including the carpet, insulation, counters, and furniture—were made from recycled materials. All water fixtures are highly efficient, including waterless urinals and low-flow, self-closing faucets. Reclaimed water is used in the toilets and for irrigation purposes. Offices on the side of the ocean are cooled by ventilation system of air from operable windows.

References

External links

Official Website of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Greening Bren Hall

Sustainability Projects at UC Santa Barbara

The US Green Building Council's LEED rating system

Category:University of California, Santa Barbara buildings and structures Category:Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum certified buildings

Name	The Hidden Hand
Background	group_or_band
Origin	Potomac, Maryland, USA
Genre	Doom metalStoner metal
Years active	2002 – 2007
Label	Southern Lord RecordsMeteorCity RecordsMcCarthyism RecordsExile On Mainstream Records
Associated acts	The ObsessedSaint VitusSpirit CaravanPlace of SkullsProbot
Url	thehiddenhand.com
Current members	Scott "Wino" WeinrichBruce FalkinburgMatt Moulis
Past members	Dave HennessyEvan Tanner

The Hidden Hand was a stoner/doom band from Maryland formed in 2002.

Biography

The Hidden Hand was a trio formed by Scott "Wino" Weinrich (guitar and vocals) and Bruce Falkinburg (bass and vocals) and included 3 different drummers. Weinrich had previously been a member of such bands as The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan and Place of Skulls. Falkinburg is a professional recording engineer, and his Phase Studios has been the commission site of works by Clutch, Sixty Watt Shaman and Stinking Lizaveta. The band released their debut 7" single De-Sensitized in late 2002, which was quickly followed by their first album Divine Propaganda in 2003. This was followed by a split LP/CD with Washington, D.C. band Wooly Mammoth released to coincide with their appearance at the Emissions from the Monolith festival.

Their music is a slight departure in style for Weinrich in that more psychedelic influences are evident. Lyrically, the band deals with politics, history and spirituality. In contrast to his previous bands, Wino has said that The Hidden Hand is political which is reflected in the lyrics.

The band split up in August 2007.

External links

Official band web site

MeteorCity

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Name	Donald Bren
Birth date	1932 (age 78)
Birth place	Los Angeles, California
Residence	Newport Beach, California He tried out for the 1956 Olympic ski team but did not qualify due to an injury.) and in 1977 joined a group of investors to purchase the 146-year-old Irvine Company. Bren was the largest shareholder of the resulting consortium, owning 34.3% of the company and received the title of Vice-chair of the board.
Name	Bren, Donald
Short description	United States Marine
Date of birth	1932
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California

Category:1932 births Category:Living people Category:University of Washington alumni Category:Businesspeople in real estate Category:People from Newport Beach, California Category:Businesspeople from California Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:American philanthropists Category:American billionaires Category:United States Marines

Playername	Brent Staker
Image name	Replace this image male.svg
Image size	100px
Fullname	Brent Staker
Birthdate	May 23, 1984
Originalteam	NSW/ACT Rams
Draftpick	2002: #37 ()
Height
Weight
Position	Utility
Currentclub
Guernsey	14
Club1
Year1start	2003
Year1end	2009
Appearances1	110
Goals1	84
Behinds1	63
Club2
Year2start	2010
Year2end	present
Appearances2	22
Goals2	10
Behinds2	15

Brent Staker (born 23 May 1984) is an Australian rules footballer in the AFL, who plays for the Brisbane Lions.

Early life

Staker grew up in Broken Hill in remote country New South Wales. He went to Burke Ward Public School where he made a time capsule to be opened on 2020. He made his A Grade debut in 2000 at age 15 for West Broken Hill(The Club at which his father Alan holds the record for most senior games played) playing in their losing grand final side that year

AFL career

Recruited from NSW/ACT Rams (Under 18s), he made his debut in 2003.

In round seven 2004, he earned a AFL Rising Star nomination when he kicked three goals against Melbourne.

Staker was punched by Barry Hall on 12 April 2008 in a game against the Sydney Swans at ANZ Stadium . Hall was suspended for seven weeks . Later in the same match Hall broke his wrist, potentially keeping him out of the game for more than his suspension period. This was not his only hiccup in matches against the Swans however; in the 2005 AFL Grand Final he was slapped with a 50-metre penalty in the dying moments following an incident involving Adam Goodes in a play that cost West Coast the game.

At the end of the 2009 season Staker told the Eagles that he wished to be traded away from Western Australia; the Eagles traded him to the Brisbane Lions with its third round draft pick (#39 overall) for Bradd Dalziell.

External links

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Playername	Barry Hall
Image name	Barry_hall.jpg
Image size	300px
Image capt	Barry Hall
Fullname	Barry Hall
Nickname	Bazza
Birthdate	February 08, 1977
Birthplace	Broadford, Victoria
Originalteam	Murray Bushrangers (TAC Cup)
Draftpick	1995: #19 ()
Height
Weight
Position	Full Forward
Currentclub
Guernsey	#28
Club1
Year1start	1996
Year1end	2001
Appearances1	88
Goals1	144
Behinds1	100
Club2
Year2start	2002
Year2end	2009
Appearances2	162
Goals2	467
Behinds2	263
Club3
Year3start	2010
Year3end	present
Appearances3	24
Goals3	80
Behinds3	42

Barry Hall (born 8 February 1977) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. Hall is considered to be one of the best forwards of the modern era, being named All-Australian, leading his club's goalkicking on nine occasions and captaining the Sydney Swans to their 2005 AFL Grand Final victory.

He began his career at the St Kilda Football Club where he twice led the club's goalkicking in 1999 and 2001. He is best-known for his career with the Sydney Swans. He was one of the Swans best players during his time at the club, topping the club goalkicking from 2002 to 2008 and co-captaining the side between 2005 and 2007, including the club's drought breaking premiership in 2005. He also featured heavily in the AFL's promotion in Sydney, gaining a similarly high profile to Tony Lockett which saw him featured in a 2006 AFL and Swans joint promotion known as "Barry Hall Hall".

The former junior boxing champion's AFL career has been marred by a reputation for onfield aggression which has earned him the label of football "wild man" and he became one of the most feared players on the field. Several controversial and highly publicised incidents (often called "brain snaps" by the media) and tribunal appearances have interrupted his career and contributed to a change of clubs.

Early life

Hall was born in Victoria and grew up in Broadford, Victoria. Hall played his junior football in Broadford however his other interest was martial arts and boxing.

At the age of 12 Hall moved to Melbourne to pursue boxing career. Training out of a makeshift boxing gym (his father's garage), he won a state title as an early teenager and had fought in 15 fights by the age of 15.

However Hall also proved a talent at Australian football. After playing for the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup and attracting the eye of talent scouts, he decided to focus on football.

AFL career

St Kilda (1996–2001)

Hall made his AFL debut for St Kilda in 1996. He helped fill the void of the record-breaking forward Tony Lockett, who had moved to the Swans the previous season.

He played for St Kilda until 2001, kicking 144 goals in 88 games and being the club's leading goalkicker in the 1999 and 2001 seasons. His career best game of 8.2 came with St Kilda in Round 16, 2001 against the Western Bulldogs. He left St Kilda at the end of 2001 in style, kicking a goal after the final siren of a Round 22 match against Hawthorn to win the match. One of the main reasons for leaving was the rise of Nick Riewoldt, Justin Koschitzke and the recruitment of Fraser Gehrig, as well as salary cap constraints. Ironically, he left the year before Brian Waldron was appointed the club's CEO.

Sydney Swans (2002–2009)

He joined the Swans for the 2002 season and has prospered, leading the club's goalscoring in every season since and being named club best and fairest in 2004. He has said that he benefited from the move to Sydney, in particular the relative anonymity he enjoyed when first arriving, playing alongside Tony Lockett in Lockett's comeback from retirement season. Hall's form reached a peak in 2004 when he was named in the All-Australian Team. He backed this up with consecutive appearance in the All-Australian list in 2005 and 2006 and captained the Swans to the 2005 AFL Grand Final premiership. He led the Swans goalkicking in seasons 2005 and 2006, and in that two-year period he kicked two bags of seven against Essendon in their matches in Melbourne (a win in 2005 but a loss in 2006). He has also kicked big bags of goals against notably weaker opponents such as Carlton and Hawthorn.

Hall earned a reputation as a controversial player, with several appearances at the tribunal resulting in four suspensions for a total of 10 matches. He has given away almost twice as many free kicks as he has been given over his career, and in 2003 Swans coach Paul Roos questioned whether Hall was given all the free kicks he deserved. Hall struggled with injuries through the 2007 season and his form was generally considered to be somewhat down from his peak, although he played a number of outstanding games and still led the club's goalkicking with 44. In 2008, Hall began the season in good form but, following a reckless punch thrown against West Coast Eagles player Brent Staker and a further incident where he aimed a punch at a Collingwood player, he missed a number of games and was suspended from the Swans' team on 8 July 2008.

In Round, 19, 2008, against the Fremantle Football Club, he kicked the last goal in the final minute and won the game by four points. He kicked a bag of goals in that game and in Round 20, against the Geelong Cats, he kicked five goals and one behind. In spite of the Swans' 39-point defeat to the reigning premiers he was the leading goalkicker for the game. In 2008 Hall was awarded the Paul Roos Award for the best player in the finals. He finished the year as Sydney's leading goalkicker for the seventh consecutive year, equalling the club record of Len Mortimer.

Hall kicked his 600th career goal against the Western Bulldogs in Round 10 in 2009 when he kicked six in that game. After a string of controversies and pressure from coach Paul Roos, Hall announced a press conference on 7 July 2009 to announce that he was no longer going to play for the Swans.

Western Bulldogs (2010–present)

It was announced on 6 October 2009 that the Western Bulldogs had agreed to trade draft pick 47 for Hall with Sydney. On his Bulldogs' debut, in the second round of the 2010 NAB Cup, he kicked six goals against Hawthorn. He then kicked four goals against Port Adelaide and had a part in the final and winning goal which gave the Bulldogs a place in the NAB Cup grand final against his first club, St Kilda. In the final he kicked seven goals, including five in the last quarter, to lead the Bulldogs to their first grand final success of any kind since 1970. He was awarded the Michael Tuck Medal for best on ground. He made his home and away debut for the Bulldogs in Round 1 against Collingwood at Etihad Stadium, but his side were defeated by 36 points. Hall kicked three goals.

Hall's good form at the Bulldogs has continued, with bags of four and five goals in successive games helping him get back to his best form of his early years at the Sydney Swans. In recent times Hall was felled by Essendon defender and rival Dustin Fletcher in round 10 costing Fletcher a one match suspension, and in round 15 kicked a haul of six goals against Carlton (his highest tally since 2006) in a match he also suffered an ankle injury. Hall finished second on the Coleman Medal table finishing with 73 goals in the Home and Away season, behind Richmond's Jack Riewoldt.

Controversies

Sam McFarlane incident

Hall cut short the career of budding young midfielder Sam McFarlane in an off the ball incident in 1997. Whilst playing in a reserves game for St Kilda against North Melbourne, Hall struck McFarlane, a slightly built wingman, in the jaw, breaking it in three places. McFarlane spent the next three days in hospital getting the jaw wired back together and was sidelined for ten weeks. Although McFarlane returned for the final two games of the year, he never returned to play league football again.

Adam Simpson incident

In 2000, Hall was suspended for one match for headbutting North Melbourne midfielder Adam Simpson.

Joel Corey incident

In 2001, his last year at St Kilda, he was suspended for three matches for striking Geelong onballer Joel Corey. One of the reasons why Hall left St Kilda was, according to then coach Grant Thomas, that he wanted to get out of an environment where onfield incidents were too frequent for him.

Matt Maguire incident

After an incident involving a punch to the stomach of St Kilda's Matt Maguire in a 2005 preliminary final match, Hall was reported for a level two striking and offered a one week suspension for a guilty plea. This suspension would have meant missing the next week's grand final. Hall's representation successfully argued that the incident was 'in play' despite the ball being 50 metres away. As a result the charge was reduced to a level one offence which reduced the penalty to a reprimand and he went on to captain the Swans to their first premiership in 72 years, defeating the West Coast Eagles in the grand final by four points.

Brent Staker incident

In an incident which shocked Sydney and West Coast fans alike, in Round 4, 2008, Hall was reported for striking West Coast Eagles defender Brent Staker. Video footage from the incident indicated that contact was made with a punch to the jaw. Staker took no further part in the game, remaining off the field for the duration of the game. Later in the same game, Hall broke his wrist on the metal railing behind a soft cardboard advertising board. After the game the Match Review Panel ranked the incident as intentional, severe impact and high contact, therefore the offence was directly referred to the AFL Tribunal. He was subsequently suspended for seven games, one of most severe punishments ever by the AFL Tribunal. Video footage of the incident was shown on television as far abroad as Denmark and the United States on the ESPN network.

Shane Wakelin incident

Hall was handed a one match suspension for an attempted strike on Collingwood's Shane Wakelin. Sydney later announced the team would not play Hall indefinitely. Sydney co-captain Brett Kirk later claimed that Hall's habit of hitting opposition players off the ball is a "bad habit". Shane Wakelin later on admitted he had "played for a free kick".

Triple 50m penalties

In the 2009 match against Hawthorn, Hall gave away three consecutive 50m penalties. Jarryd Roughead who marked inside his defensive 50m ended up taking the free kick directly in front of his own goal. Hall was then benched by his coach.

Ben Rutten incident

On the three-quarter time siren of Sydney's Round 13 clash against Adelaide, Hall was reported for striking Adelaide defender Ben Rutten, placing his future with the Swans in doubt. Footage has shown that contact was made by a punch to the face and he was suspended for two matches.

Resignation

On 7 July 2009, Hall made an emotional announcement of his resignation as a Sydney player.

Kangaroos incident

On 22 May 2010 Hall was again the centre of attention when he was pushed over by Kangaroos defender Scott D. Thompson whilst tying his shoelace, triggering an ugly altercation between Hall and several other Kangaroos players. Hall reacted to the taunts by putting Thompson in a headlock and was subsequently reported for both wrestling and rough conduct. He was later found guilty of wrestling and fined, but not guilty of rough conduct.

Statistics

Media and personal life

Hall has been the centrepiece of advertising campaigns, including the "Barry Hall Hall" and "Excitement Machine Machine" 2006 television and internet campaign in Sydney by George Patterson Y&R; for the Australian Football League which was a finalist at the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association and Melbourne Advertising & Design Club awards and also the "Barry Hall vs Broadford" 2007 advertisement by JWT Melbourne for Ford Australia pitting Barry Hall against his junior club (with cameos from Hall's nephew and aunt).

Hall's personal life has hit the media tabloids on several occasions, with his much publicised relationships with Kylie Stray and bikini model Tahli Greenwood.

Hall's other interests include gardening and collecting fast cars, including vintage car and drag racing cars.

See also

After the siren kicks in Australian rules football

References

External links

Barry Hall Hall

Video of the Brent Staker Incident

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