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FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Keith Jordan Jr. scored 19 points in the Siena Heights men's basketball 73-70 loss to Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference opponent, on Saturday.
In the first half, Siena Heights held a 12-point lead at the 14:23 mark but the Warriors fought back strong, earning a 36-32 lead at halftime. Indiana Tech managed to keep their lead for the remainder of the game, SHU coming close to a comeback but unable to take the lead.
Leading the Saints (3-3, 1-1 WHAC) was Jordan with 19 points, four rebounds and two blocks. With 17 points for SHU was Trevor Holston, also grabbing four boards. Point guard Nick Randle scored nine points while adding five assists and three steals. For the Warriors (6-0, 2-0 WHAC), Darren Groves earned 22 points and six boards. Max Huber and Joel Wincowski earned 13 and 12 points, respectively.
From the floor, Siena Heights went 27-55 (49.1%) while going 5-17 (29.4%) in three-point land and 11-14 (78.6%) from the charity stripe. The Warriors shot 27-56 (48.2%) from the floor, 6-19 (31.6) behind the arc and 13-19 (68.4%) from the free throw line.
Next up, the Saints will host NAIA No. 1 Cornerstone, on Tuesday. Tipoff for the WHAC contest is set for 1:30 p.m.


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Former factory faces being pulled down to make way for 100 homes
PUBLISHED: 13:14 25 January 2018 | UPDATED: 13:14 25 January 2018
A former factory site faces demolition and being replaced by about 100 homes.
Newland Homes has over the past week written to Claverham homeowners to tell them it plans to tear down the UTC Aerospace Systems plant and build houses and bungalows in its place.
The firm bought the site earlier this month for an undisclosed sum and will showcase more detailed plans in February.
The announcement coincides with villagers voting in favour of adopting a neighbourhood plan, which says the site, off Bishops Road, is suitable for housing.
The letter penned by the Pegsaus Group, which is acting as agents on Newland's behalf, says: "The site known as Claverham Works has been planned for closure for several years and has now been vacated.
"We have recently held a pre-application meeting with North Somerset Council to discuss the proposal for around 100 houses and bungalows."
The village hall sits on the same old factory site, but Newland promises public access to the community building will be retained.
It also outlines its hope to 'retain landscape buffers' and to be 'sensitive' to nearby listed buildings.
More detailed plans will be presented to the public on February 7 when Newland and Pegasus hold a meeting about its scheme at the village hall.
Staff will be on hand to answer any questions from 4-8pm and people can drop-in as and when they wish.
People are being encouraged to give comments about the proposal on the day, or online at www.newlandhomes.co.uk/claverham. The website will go live after February 7's meeting.
Pegasus says a planning application is likely to be submitted to the council in the spring.
Claverham villagers on January 18 voted overwhelmingly in favour of adopting a neighbourhood plan.
The document seeks to provide protection from unwanted countryside development which might harm Claverham's character.
The referendum saw 97 per cent of the 361 voters back the plan.
Nigel Cooper, chairman of Claverham Future which prepared the plan, said: "This means the village should now be safeguarded (from unwanted development) until 2026."
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Hundreds of broken-hearted parents have enrolled their daughters at Lake House because they felt she wasn't getting the right level of support at home. Having tried everything they knew to do, they found themselves feeling exhausted and hopeless as to how they could help their daughter to feel better. Fortunately, with the right treatment team in place, and with support and guidance from LHA's team of dedicated professionals, these families were able to help their daughters find the path to healing and feeling better.
Theraplay is a highly relational and uniquely structured clinical approach specifically designed to support the needs of pre and early-adolescent children and their families. Having the highest evidence-based practice rating by SAMHSA, Theraplay has proven to build and enhance attachment, self-esteem, joyful engagement, and trust in others. This stems from natural patterns of playful, healthy interactions between parent and child. Theraplay is more than just play—it lets the body have experiences while re-training the brain in the process.
Theraplay is a treatment intervention created specifically for children and teens. Unlike other "play therapy" interventions, Theraplay is therapist led—not client-driven. It requires no verbal processing from the child. Theraplay helps preteens and teens heal from their very core by targeting the limbic system of the brain. This part of the brain is what helps drive behavioral and emotional responses.
There's a long list of reasons why a family might need help with their preteen/young teen daughter. They usually boil down to this primary issue: interpersonal challenges within the family system. These challenges may look like:
What happens if these symptoms go untreated?
Early intervention is important when families begin to notice any of these signs or symptoms in their child. Because if these symptoms are left unaddressed, it can result in escalated behavioral issues.
Parents may start to see more acuity in behaviors such as substance use, suicidality, and/or self-harm. These issues often lead to a continued decline of joy and engagement within the family system. The issues will continue to impede on social and academic functioning, and this often results in shame and low self-esteem..
When relationships have deteriorated at home, parents become frustrated and scared. This causes disruption in the family. Disruption in the family then causes the members of the family to not function properly. It becomes a vicious cycle as negative behaviors escalate with age.
For children ages 12-16, the part of the brain that understands logic and reasoning is not fully developed. Yet, many therapeutic modalities used to treat emotional and behavioral issues require a fully developed brain.
Adding anxiety/depression/trauma on top of this stunts brain development. When someone is experiencing depression, their ability to understand logic and reason is not effective—no matter how old they are.
Everyone at their core has a need and desire for connection and security. When there is chaos or disruption, it helps to come back to that core process that is often associated only with early childhood experiences. This can be helpful and relieving in addressing the issues.
Theraplay breaks down into four core dimensions. These are used during the MIM assessment and guide the implementation of Theraplay. The four core dimensions are:
1. Structure
2. Engagement
3. Nurture
4. Challenge
It's best to examine these core elements to develop relational security and regulation. Different games and activities correlate with each one of the four dimensions. These help to organize Theraplay's MIM assessment and determine how future Theraplay sessions will look like.
1. Theraplay's MIM Assessment
Theraplay has its own assessment process called the MIM. It helps therapists identify how a parent/child relationship is doing across the four dimensions. A therapist may ask which of the dimensions are real assets, real strengths, and which they are struggling with.
If there are noticeable behavioral or emotional challenges, that's usually because there's an imbalance across these core components. This assessment helps the therapist understand where things are going right in the family, and where the family can improve.
At Lake House, the family completes the assessment by entering an office with a couch and a table. There are a series of envelopes on the table that contain tasks or games in each. Each of these games or tasks correlate to one of the four dimensions (structure, engagement, nurture, and challenge).
There is no therapist in the room and the parent/child is on their own while we record the interactions. There isn't a time limit because we want to see how the parent/child navigate across these four dimensions. We want to see how they would act in a typical interaction.
The therapist then reviews the recording with another clinician to pinpoint the strong and weak areas. These observations help to structure the future treatment for the child. This treatment will build on their strengths and work on their weaknesses.
2. What does a Theraplay session look like?
A Theraplay session doesn't start in the office. It starts before with an entrance and ends with an exit that helps the child to organize the experience of the session. The therapist then guides the child through the session. There is a series of games or activities that flow from one to the next for the entirety of the session.
The therapist will focus on whatever ideas were identified in the MIM. Maybe it's 80% nurture activities for a family that is really struggling with that core dimension. There might be more engagement or challenge activities because the child or family is withdrawn and needs to be brought out a bit.
Just as with all Theraplay sessions, there isn't any process or dyadic dialogue. There is talking but no verbal processing. It's play-based. It's about establishing trust and experiencing connection through play.
If a client is doing Theraplay in a traditional sense, sessions would be once a week. If an hour is too long, we may do two thirty-minute sessions. Parent sessions (described later) are also once a week.
Not too long ago, we had a 13-year-old enroll at Lake House. She had been internationally adopted and experienced abuse and neglect in her early home placements. When her parents enrolled her at LHA, she hadn't been attending school for over a year. She struggled to build and maintain friendships, had a serious suicide attempt, and when she got overwhelmed or emotionally dysregulated, she fainted.
Her parents had tried everything for their daughter, including talk therapy, DBT, and CBT. Nothing had worked for them. When they enrolled at LHA, we decided to try a Theraplay approach with her. In the Theraplay approach, we didn't try to get her to tell us about her issues or the trauma she'd experienced in life. Instead, we were trying to build a foundational level of safety and security deep inside her brain to help her calm down, regulate herself, and not constantly operate under extreme levels of anxiety.
As we started to play with her, we realized that she was showing up in play as a 3-to-5-year-old, not a 13-year-old. The games she enjoyed were early childhood games. When there is trauma or developmental needs that aren't met, it stunts development and becomes problematic later on. With the Theraplay model, we're able to "go back in time", in a sense, and help the brain heal at the limbic level.
Over time, this student began to feel safe, participate more in our Theraplay sessions, and engage in reciprocal activities. She started attending school again and after only 6 months of Theraplay, she had completely stopped fainting when she felt overwhelmed.
While Theraplay is something that we use here at Lake House, it is still used on a case-by-case basis. Some kids first starting treatment have challenging behaviors and we need to avoid putting a parent and child in a room if we believe it could lead to an unsafe situation. We start with providing organization and regulation.
It might not be a structured Theraplay interaction all the time, but we always interact with our students and families with these principles in mind. Some questions we may ask are:
Our clinical model is a developmentally sensitive attachment model. Theraplay is one of the interventions that we use because it is a clinically proven method to increase positive attachment. It is a unique therapy that is not widely used, and Lake House is privileged to use it as a tool for young girls and their families.
Theraplay was developed as an outpatient model of treatment, so it requires a lot of involvement from a parent or parental figure. Lake House doesn't have the parents there every week since it is a therapeutic boarding school. We've taken this outpatient modality and we figured out how to adapt and integrate it into a residential treatment setting.
We integrate Theraplay in the "way of life" at Lake House. All the aspects are built into our academic classrooms and our academic approach. All the way down to informing how the students at Lake House transition from class to class.
One of the key concepts behind the structure is organization, pattern, and repetition. Repeating things over and over again is comforting and regulating. The girls all move in the same pattern every day. They move in the same direction throughout the school building. That was informed from Theraplay and the four dimensions.
In addition to pattern and repetition, our teachers will incorporate Theraplay games and activities into the classroom setting. Regarding the student life process, our girls in their residential life are frequently engaged in play-based activities that support their continued growth and development. They continue to enhance their relationships, and this "way of life" approach has been something that allows parents to see how to put Theraplay into action.
Lake House also does Theraplay groups and uses Theraplay to foster friendships between the girls, which hasn't been done before. There's a paradox within Theraplay where it's all about connection, relationships, and security in relationships, but most of these girls who come to Lake House struggle with relationships. By facilitating intentional games between the girls, it provides some reciprocity. It allows them to interact and spend more time with one another.
There are times when we introduce other modalities in addition to Theraplay. One example is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Everyone still participates in an MIM and everyone's case gets looked at through the four core dimensions. Using the four dimensions helps provide a guide for communication between parent/child and therapist/child.
The four core dimensions are taught to the girls at Lake House and their families. This allows them to give their parents feedback such as "I feel like I need more structure" or "that felt like too big of a challenge for me". Parents can then use the same language to provide a nice communication tool for the parents and the child to go back and forth.
The Theraplay modality requires parents to be involved. The MIM is the first piece where the parents are participating in the assessment. Parents continue to receive coaching in learning the skills and techniques from the therapist. Since the girls are so young at Lake House, it is important that we are focusing on helping the parents feel confident in parenting their child and reconnecting and developing that relationship with their child.
We involve parents in Theraplay sessions when they're on campus visiting. They lead and participate in games with their child. Lake House has adopted many of the Theraplay games for video chat so even during family therapy calls they are able to engage in Theraplay's foundational ways. At the end of the day, the ultimate goal for Lake House is that parent and child have made progress in their connection with each other.
We show parents clips from the MIM assessment so they can see and watch their interactions back on video. We also show them Theraplay sessions to help them understand and learn how to better engage with their child.
Theraplay is something that can be implemented in the home—and it's highly recommended! At Lake House, our transition plans incorporate the four dimensions and how to effectively use these processes in the home.
5 tips for parents who haven't done Theraplay before:
For families who haven't done Theraplay before, it's best to be organized and consistent and engaged with their child. Having a routine, having a schedule, not necessarily using threats, and focusing on taking care of one another is critical.
It's key for development. Having time where you sit down and be playful with them. It releases wonderful neurotransmitters in the brain and helps foster connection.
Sometimes there is a behavior that brings the response of "go take a time out and think about what you did". However, Theraplay would say the opposite such as, "do a time in". This allows the parent to try to understand what the child was really saying, needing, or wanting in that moment and why they acted out that way. If a parent can figure that out with them, it is very powerful for the child to have someone be present with them during that process, versus disengaging.
If a parent is frustrated, it's best to consider the expectations that they have for their child and consider how much of the frustration may be coming from unmet expectations rather than their child.
Is the parent creating an environment that is consistent, predictable, and fair, that builds on connection? If the answer is yes, then there's one path to take, and if the answer is no, then the parent can adjust accordingly.
Frustrations usually result from unmet expectations. Not every 9, 12, 13, or 15-year old is going to be the same. Just because they're that age, doesn't mean their brain is. Really considering this question is something parents can actively do at home.
If you have noticed any emotional or behavioral challenges with your daughter, she may need additional help that Lake House can provide. Please don't hesitate to contact one of our mental health professionals to see how Theraplay can help you. We want you to build a strong relationship with your daughter and we know how to help.


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By Amy E. Feldman
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Donating your old car to charity can be both generous and tax beneficial – if done correctly.
Among the most perplexing ads are the ones that ask you to donate your car to the Alzheimer's Society. Hoping it's not because they lost the keys to their last car.
In case you had the misty-eyed impression that your beloved family car was being driven by a person from the charity, most cars donated are sold at auction and it's the funds that are used to benefit the charity. So, the first legal lesson is that you don't get to deduct the book value of the car, but instead only the amount the car actually garnered at auction, which the charity will let you know.
Also, remember that you should look for a charity that accepts your donation directly, avoid the for-profit intermediary organizations that keep the majority of the money.
And, when you donate, don't leave assignment of ownership spaces on the donation papers blank as some charities will ask you to do – you need to make sure you're off the title as soon as the car is just a distant memory.


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|Reserve (Solo Exhibition)
March 2017
My previous exhibition explored the archetype of "wilderness" which extends deeply into our collective unconscious. The rhetorical use of 'wilderness' has, in fact, an ironic twist, for wilderness as a natural environment exists more in history and imagination than in fact. With the disappearance of most of the primeval forests we have left only what are called, oxymoronically, wilderness 'parks' or 'reserves'.
Reserves are intended to conserve nature in a representative way and to sustain biodiversity. But the reality is that they are increasingly relics of how ecosystems looked before humans became dominant. But as humans we are products of a pristine nature that we co-evolved with over hundreds and thousands of years of years and have only very recently lost touch with. My Reserve paintings are about the vestigial primal link we still feel towards a wilderness that hardly exists anymore. I am exploring the innate sensory cues from nature that we are instinctively hard-wired to respond to for the survival of our species.
Reserve is also a highly charged socio-political concept that embodies arguments that have percolated through conservation for the past couple of decades. Particularly the idea that 'Conservationists' will have to embrace human development and the "exploitation of nature" for human uses. Reserves also have a politically dark side in colonial countries as the indigenous people were usually displaced or killed by colonisers in order to preserve nature. In a world increasingly dominated by empirical, technological and economic paradigms, the environment is as much a political and a cultural consideration as an innately natural one. Like the biblical Adam and Eve, repositioning themselves in a perilous post-Eden landscape, we are now responsible for the 'fate' of Eden whether as destroyers or conservers/stewards of nature.
In my painting practice I am investigating the visual cues that nature triggers in us. My work starts as a mediation on the images in nature that have caught my eye. By pulling out abstractions and reflections I am able to index the stimulae that the brain uses to build neural pathways. In so doing I access my subconscious views of nature.
At close range, these paintings constructed from the textures of nature – rock, foliage, air, and water, appear nearly abstract – a dancing network of innumerable brushstrokes, some parallel, others looser and more rapidly applied. Stepping back, these varied marks coalesce into the shimmering effects of an illusionary light".
I find myself drawn to the shifting elements; water, air and temperature. These can be theatres of transition and transformation, where one element slips or melts into another. Teetering on the brink of this languidity, small bits of perception drop away from the edges of sight; stains, tints and tones crumbling from my eyes. To reconstruct what the eyes sees in words is a vain construct.
In my black series I explore the darkness and void that brings forth life. Black is the most taboo colour on the artist's palette and traditionally painters are trained to avoid using it. Instead, mixing other colours to a close-to-black shade that compliments or contrasts with the pictures other hues. Black was banished from the Impressionist palette. A flat black that occupies most of the canvas can read as a negation. But black is not only a colour but also a light. Matisse showed how it is possible to use pure black in such a way that it does not disturb the light of the painting or create a void. Putting sections of pure black pigment can actually amplify the feeling of light in a painting.
The paintings explore interweaving, overlapping, entwinement, transition, implication and enjambment. My focus is on the energy and force which wills us to live, create and act.
My work investigates the blurred boundaries between Nature and artifice and what it means to be a perceiving being in the world.
Wilderness (Solo Exhibition)
March 2016
This exhibition explores the archetype of "Wilderness", and the idea of "wildness"; the desire to escape from 'civilizations suffocating blanket of electrosmog (cel phones, video, cyber space) and to breathe, and feel the sun, and see the stars. Journeying into the remoteness of wild spaces, we make contact with our "wild selves", the parts of us that have not been conditioned by familial and cultural forces.
The actual meaning of 'wilderness' has a long and varied history. The shift in its connotation from a dark and dangerous place that fills one with foreboding to a place of adventure, discovery, and even of exhilaration and awe began during the eighteenth century. Over the past hundred years, 'wilderness' has become a place to be valued and protected. More recently green modernists have started to argue that mainstream conservationists are hopelessly fixated on a 19th-century vision of virgin wilderness unsullied by human hands and that it is in fact a profoundly alienating concept as we begin to relegate nature to something out there, something that is foreign, and not part of our lives.
Michael Pollan in his book "Second Nature" explains how this ethic promotes the unhealthy idea that nature and culture are irreconcilably opposed. Terms of "pristine", "untouched", and "virgin" are used to described wilderness. "Tainted", "despoiled", and "raped" are used to describe landscapes affected by man." These terms lead to further alienation from nature. Since humanity will inevitably corrupt nature, we must save nature from ourselves. We must preserve it, because we cannot live with it. We must leave nature alone, only to worship and respect it from afar.
Across time, people of many cultures have gone into the wilderness to mark life transitions and seek guidance. Time alone, exposure to the elements in an unfamiliar place, a radical shift in self and world, a trial and a gift, and a ritual death and rebirth.
The ancient theme of looking for meaning and transcendence in the wilderness is as old as mythology. It goes back to the Book of Exodus and has been chronicled by Joseph Campbell as the Hero's Journey.
On wilderness rites of passage, we are going into wild places, we are entering realms where the artificial structures and demands of the ego and society have not restricted or walled off our innate guidance, aliveness, generosity, or fascination with the world. At the same time, wilderness rites of passage cultivate and refine those qualities necessary for living in the world in a full and engaged way, knowing our own hearts and minds, tolerating ambiguity and discomfort, being autonomous, searching deeply, and staying open to new answers.
A lesson of modern wilderness rites of passage is that living authentically means living here and how, in this place, embodied, and part of the environment.
Polynesia (two-person exhibition with Paul Senyol)
Salon 91
May 2015
"Polynesia was an immensity of emptiness, dotted with misshapen islands that twinkled like stars, archipleagos like star clusters. And wasn't Polynesia a sort of galaxy. It was like touching down on a distant star. Like a picnic that will last until the end of the world. I wanted to be purified by water and by wilderness".
Paul Theroux, 'The Happy Isles of Oceania'.
Although the Romantic era's notion of a South Seas paradise was debunked over a century ago, with Polynesia already ruinously civilized, the allure of a lost Paradise persists in the post-industrial imagination. It remains a fabled place with mythical co-ordinates.
There are the tales of Gauguin in Tahiti, Matisse and the inspiration for his cutouts, the travels of Captain Cook and other adventurers; it's a place for the explorer, the astronomer, the way-maker, and the story-teller.
Matisse wrote of Polynesia:
"A whole universe is ripening here, bursting into stunningly, wonderfully decorative shapes and colours … extraordinary fruit – yellow, light green, the leaves a fine rich, luminous deep green." He describles 'swimming in lagoons with water the colour of diamonds, emeralds and saphires' and writes of "the orange and deep garnet pink of red mullets, and of emerald green fish streaked with white against Prussian blue".
Back from Polynesia is 1930, these images became obsessions as he pinned cut-outs shaped like coral, fish, algae and leaves on his studio wall. Ravishing, filled with light and decoration, exuberance and a kind of violence, Matisse's cut outs are about more than just pleasure:
"Space has the boundaries of my imagination" he said, "Colour dances, and our eyes dance with it, following contours and edges, sliding from shape to shape, wallowing in the whiteness that becomes electric, jumping from positive to negative and back again. There is no stasis, no arrest, but a constant discovery of newness at every turn."
With Matisse's pictorial fantasies and the tropics as my muse, I have used images and memories of tropical coral reefs, the weightlessness and freedom of swimming and diving underwater, and the magic of refracted light to distil my own Paradise.
"Watch out for pictures" said Gauguin, "beware the power of romantic images to banish common sense, but attend to it, too, and relish the sorcery."
As long as there is wilderness there is hope.
'Connect the dots' - Solo exhibition
Casa Labia Cultural Centre
October 2014
Drawing on the legacy of Abstract colour painting, which places particular emphasis on the interplay between colours (Paul Klee, Bridget Riley, Matisse, Bonnard), Cathy Layzell has extracted from this endlessly rich seam an innovative new body of work.
Ambiguous shapes float across evocatively coloured and rhythmically worked colour surfaces. Constellations of dots, dashes, swirls and decorative notations fly though a shallow picture space. A dynamic intersection of forces enacts the sensation of motion, action and change.
The inter-play between gesture and structure, chaos and composition, order and disorder, gives these paintings their dynamic tension. Freed from physical limitations and connection to place, these 'maps' of infinite possibilities certainly indulge the spectator's delight in serious play.
'I always hoped that the colours would take affect on the canvases as logically as nature creates her configurations, as ore and crystals form, as moss and algae grow, as flowers must unfold and bloom under the rays of the sun.' (Emil Nolde)
'Scratching the surface', Luvey 'n Rose, Bo-Kaap
End of Residency Exhibition
April 2014
Residing in the Bo Kaap neighborhood in Cape Town is like going from black and white to Technicolor. The sun filters through the clouds compounding the dazzling effects of the bright colors and their shadows gracing the mosques and flat-roofed 18th century houses. The call to prayer rings out 5 times a day in a haunting intercession of penance.
The aerial view from the windows of the studio on the third floor of Luvey 'n Rose, is an endlessly changing kaleidoscope of time in flux cycling from dawn to midday and through sunset again, pushing back archaic night.
I begin by making small gouache and ink studies investigating the architectural shapes I see by breaking them into flat grid-like planes and angles; the patchwork pattern by which we map the known.
When the sun is gone, electric lights cast different shadows. City scapes loom and the streets empty. Logic disappears and the lines between the houses and my studio blur. Street lights, passing cars and scooters illuminate the blocks of buildings, creating an eerie tapestry of dark spaces. My compositions evolve into improvisations.
From the flat grid-like studies I begin layering and extracting. Hard edges give way to multiple layering of tones and marks that build the spatial recessions and expansions within the canvases. The 'notations' begin to transform from the too-easy reading of abstract as 'landscape' (a kind of concession to the figurative) to a synthetic and architectural territory composed of cross-fertilized references.
As ideas marry one to another, so the iconography evolves. The marks are a continuous autobiography of thought and subconscious feeling.
Scratching the surface 'prettiness' of the Bo-Kaap, I choose to risk a few chaotic pileups reflecting upon the strange and difficult co-existence of grit/grime and beauty, the buzz and hum; squalor and vulnerability of the precinct. Concepts begin to emerge from the semiotic of paint.
There is a feeling that the personal territory of each form must be constantly guarded against the threat of encroachment from its neighbors; a tenuous equilibrium in a system of force relations to each other.
And so the canvases start to allude to notions of sovereignty, will to power, mysticism and all our other defenses against Nature's beauty and horror.
'Expulsion from the Garden'
MIchaelis School of Fine Art Exhibition
From 2011 to 2012 I designed, planted and tenderly nurtured an acre of garden. I devoted my imagination to the play of color in space, creating passages of light and dark, places of rest and of movement, secret spaces, hidden places; mystery. I composed with flecks of colour waving and floating against dark spaces and emerging from passages of light.
A garden is a particular non- place, a gap or interval: an opportunity or 'a rupture in ordinary life'. In the garden, we can lose ourselves, we 'let ourselves go'. The garden forms an intimate refuge that imaginatively mirrors and transforms the world outside. The practice of gardening has prompted an extended metaphor and vocabulary of experience that I have endeavoured to translate into my recent artwork.
The opposition between garden and wilderness reflects humankind's complex relationship to nature, where an impulse to shape, tame and control the natural world lived alongside a desire to yield to its wildness and its danger – a duality that has shaped and influenced the way gardens have been visualised, both in life and art.
Whilst painting, I strive for unconscious creation, allowing the loaded brush to go wildly onto the canvas making its own wiggles and swirls. I try to stay vulnerable to transfigurations suggested by the accident of the paint, surrendering myself to unintended figurations in an attempt to recall the cluster of sensations that appearance arouses.
The act of the artist, or of the gardener, is a dance of control and release, a geomancy of thought, ideas, theory and practice, propelling the past and present into the promise of the future. As with gardening, I try to strike a balance between controlled cultivation and unfettered growth, between the constructs of nature and of culture.
Irma Stern Museum
The title of the exhibition 'Duende', is a word of Andalusian origin literally meaning goblin or imp, and is sometimes described as the indefinable, magical power of creativity that results in a work of art, or simply as soul. " In his brilliant lecture entitled "The Theory and Function of Duende" Federico García Lorca attempts to shed some light on the eerie and inexplicable feeling that lives in the heart of certain works of art. " The duende is not in the throat, the duende comes up from inside, up from the very soles of the feet." Lorca specifies an awareness of death that is necessary for a full engagement with life. 'All that has black sounds has duende. These black sounds are the mystery, the roots fastened in the mire that we all know and ignore, the mire that gives us the very substance of art ... the spirit of the earth'. In the suggestion of redemption, a comparison might be drawn between the duality of the duende and the Greek concept of catharsis.
Duende is a result of the inextricable link between creativity, risk, sensuality and passion, and of the connection between joy and pain. It reflects the extremes of performance, intensity, discipline, dedication and desire. It can arise from the cutting edge of creativity where risks are taken to achieve a vision, from the drive to create the perfect moment, from the need to push mind and body through established limits, from selfishness, generosity, guts and determination. It's about sensuality and sensitivity, intellect and intuition, projection and perceptions, fantasy and fulfilment.
Duende is primitive coupling of light and dark, euphoria and disconsolation. Duality. The Fierce, nocturnal animus that lies dormant in the depths of the flamenco soul and which craves release. It is the oldest and most impulsive non-verbal form of self-expression.
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I love eating soup but sometimes I don't know what to eat with it. I made these little things up and they turned out AMAZING! They were the perfect side dish!
Serves: 4-6
Mini Balsamic Baguettes
10 minPrep Time
2 minCook Time
12 minTotal Time
- 1 sourdough baguette (sliced to about 1 inch thick)
- low fat slices of mozzarella cheese
- 2 tomatoes, sliced
- fresh basil leaves
- olive oil
- balsamic vinegar
- Turn on your oven to Broil.
- Sprinkle one side of the baguette bread with balsamic vinegar and oil. On top place a basil leaf, a tomato, and some mozzarella cheese.
- Place your loaded Baguettes on a cookie sheet and cook until cheese is melted and Basil is wilted. Check every minute. It should only take about 2 minutes.
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Lecture: The William A. Kern Lecture Series kicks off today with a 2 p.m. lecture by Min-Ha Pham titled, "Personal Style Blogs and DIY Race: On Race, Aesthetics, and Capitalism." The talk takes place in the Carlson Auditorium at Rochester Institute of Technology (Lomb Memorial Drive, Henrietta), and is free to attend. For more information, call 475-2057.
Music: Defense? Drive? Whatever it is the D stands for, acoustic country rock artist Big D will be playing tonight at another big D, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (99 Court St., dinosaurbarbque.com) tonight for a free show at 9 p.m. Oh! Maybe the d is delicious?
Lecture: The Irondequoit Library (Helen McGraw Branch, 2180 E. Ridge Rd.) will host "A Tale of 13 Rochesters" tonight, 7-8:30 p.m., with Benn and Sally Forsyth, who will discuss some of the various cities and towns that share our name. The lecture is free, but registration is required: call 336-6060 or email email@example.com.
Music: Roar! Dinosaur Annex, a Boston based chamber music group, will be performing tonight at Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St., esm.rochester.edu), at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are sold one hour before the show at the door only. (Also free to UR ID holders.)
Workshop: You can get yourself out the door in the morning, but can you make your own bean brew? Take a Home Brewing Techniques Class at Joe Bean Coffee Roasters (1344 University Ave.) on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. through February 13. Each class costs $20, and will teach you the artisan pour over and full immersion methods. For more info, call 319-5279 or visit joebeanroasters.com.
Music: Best band name of the week award goes to Boston's Underwater Bear Ballet, performing tonight at the Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave., bugjar.com). Music starts at 9 p.m., cover runs $6-$8, and Barry and Greyhound Bandits open up.


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Hello Bella Gypsy Fans!!! Candi here on a wonderful Valentine's Day! It is cold and snowy here in the beautiful state of Colorado! A perfect day to lounge around watching movies, reading a book and perhaps a little scrapbooking thrown in just to round the day out nicely! I hope that you're surrounded with love no matter where you are today!
I have a few super-cool sneak peeks to show you today! These have to be a few of my favorite Bella Gypsy kits of all time! I know that is a very strong statement, however, the possibilities with each of these babies are endless!
First up is some alpha fun!
Next up is some numerical goodness, oh-so-perfect for an accountant such as myself! I get giddy just looking at the pretty numbers in this peek! heeheee! I know, I need help, huh?
Absolutely marvelous, eh!? You DO NOT want to miss out on these goodies! Whoohooo! Thank you Tabatha and Lena, you two are supah-stahs!
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The pandemic has been stressful for a lot of people. Why that stress may not end when the pandemic does.
Expected Climate Changes May Have Dramatic Impact On Economy
Published: Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 12:23pm
The National Climate Assessment, released last week, has some dire warnings about the potential impacts of climate change.
In addition to concerns about wildfires, severe weather events, drought and health, the report also looks at how climate change could impact economies.
The Show talked to Brian O'Neill about it. O'Neill is a professor of international studies at the University of Denver where he studies climate change impacts.


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Wife wants to take the kids there. I saw on their website that many things are prohibited including weapons. Anyone go there lately? Notice any signage that legally keeps us from concealing?
Well that would be good to know for sure because from what I can tell from the bill being submitted in Texas (that's all I could find. couldn't find the current bill) the zoo only meets 3 of the 7 qualifications for an amusement park. However if HB 3218 is passed looks like at lot more things will be legal. But I'm trying to find what they will replace it with because they are lining out hospitals as well. I haven't known it to be legal for anyone to conceal in any hospital anywhere. Unless it's a tactic to get people to freak out over concealing in a hospital in hopes to get them to miss the details they want passed.
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It has been a long time since I've read the existing Texas state laws, but I think it is legal to conceal carry in any hospital that does not have a legal 30.06 sign posted.
Stop, Drop, and Roll won't work in Hell.
The truth about the former Republic of the United States of America:
Yes, you can carry in the El Paso zoo if it isn't posted 30.06. If it's owned by the city then they aren't allowed to post a 30.06, and you could legally carry anyway if they did. No they are not an amusement park as defined by state law.


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Deutsche Bank and UBS take legal costs hitsComments
Germany's Deutsche Bank and Switzerland's UBS are still suffering from the cost of cleaning up the banking industry.
Third-quarter results from both included unexpected hits for potential legal costs.
Deutsche Bank, which is Germany's largest lender, said it was setting aside an additional 1.2 billion euros for lawsuits and fines including over the possible manipulation of benchmark interest rates – such as Libor.
That depressed its quarterly pretax profit to 18 million euros against an expected 642 million.
Deutsche's litigation reserves – its war chest to deal with potential legal costs – stands at 4.1 billion euros after the charges booked in the third quarter. "We expect the litigation environment to continue to be challenging," the bank said in a statement, signalling that the worst may not be over.
In Zurich, UBS said the Swiss financial regulator has forced it to hold extra capital in case of "litigation, compliance and other operational risk matters" which means it has had to delay meeting a key target for its earnings of a15 percent return on equity (ROE) by 2015. That traget will be pushed back by at least a year
UBS did swing back into profit from the same period last year thanks to a huge restructuring.
Its third-quarter net profit was 577 million Swiss francs (467 million euros).
UBS said it was reviewing how it traded foreign exchange due to a probe into alleged manipulation in the $5.3 trillion-a-day FX market, first disclosed by Switzerland's regulator.
The bank said it had taken and would continue to take "appropriate" action in respect to staff as a result of the ongoing review. It did not elaborate.


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Another Ponzi scheme, Ultimate Cycler relaunches website
Ultimate Cycler another Ponzi scheme which website was down some weeks ago has been re-opened.
The founder, Peter Wolfing confirmed 'the return' on his Facebook page on Saturday.
He said 'We are excited to inform you that we have completed our site transfer and our calibrations.
Over the next 12 hours we are finalizing our settings as we are now power boosted with 2 servers and special settings that will enable us to surpass any company in the industry with our capacity.
Don't be alarmed during this time as our team has been working around the clock happy they are in the final stages (over the next 12 hour) of the power boost Ingrid server settings.
For the next 5 days we will be syncing and doing things but I will give you a daily video update so that you too can participate in the exciting milestone for Ultimate Cycler.
We have broken every record in the industry for new members and growth in a 30 day period, and in most cases more than most companies grow in 10 years.
Now we want to push forward and be a part of the new records that includes the number of people who we help to become financially free.
Together we can work to ensure that 2017 will be your year as we work to make this happen as a team.'
Ultimate Cycler is a Ponzi scheme where people with the aim of making money register with N12,500 and within 3 days get N50,000 in return..
How it works:
When you register, you will need to donate the sum of N12,500 to a fellow member and the person will then confirm your donation. The system (Admin) will put 4 other registered people under you from spill-overs who will also pay N12,500 each into your bank account, making N50,000. You can also bring people to register under you if you cannot wait for the system to do it for you.
Relative crash:
There is increased panic over the seeming crash of Ultimate Cycler. The panic came following a technical downtime of the Ponzi scheme, which resulted in a crash of the site, ultimatecycler.com.
Subsequently, founder of the scheme, Peter Wolfing, while addressing the situation in a statement apologized for the development, saying the crash occurred as a result of a system upgrade.
He said the site would be up as soon as possible.
However, the site which went down on December 1 still displayed an error message 'Be right back. We are currently updating the site to give you a more pleasurable experience and will be back online shortly'. The founder also posted a video on the site urging participants to exercise patience. The site is still down, members can only view their inbox but cannot make any transactions or register new people.
This is the second most popular online money making Ponzi scheme in Nigeria, currently it is ranked in alexa.com as the 15th most visited site in Nigeria. The scheme currently operates in Nigeria and USA. There is no exact estimate of its population, however, it was said to be registering up to 2,000 members weekly in Nigeria until the site went down.


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Speeding Tickets
Speeding tickets are definitely not the worst thing that could happen to you in traffic, but they could definitely bring one a lot of trouble. For every speeding ticket case solved unfavorably for you, there will be some penalty points added to your driving license. If you get twelve such points within a year, your license will be automatically suspended for two months, and a notification will be sent to you through mail informing you on the situation. Therefore, take the chance of beating the speeding tickets you get in order to reduce further deterioration of your situation, since speeding tickets are not just about suspension and fine payment as insurance companies will increase rates too.
The best way to avoid speeding tickets when you travel to a different state is to check the traffic regulation differences that are available on the Internet. One of the main arguments most drivers use when they want to beat speeding tickets on the spot is that they don't know about the speed limitations in a certain area since they are not from that state. This excuse may sometimes work with certain police officers but this is not always the case; very few will actually let go away with a simple verbal warning if you have exceeded the speed limit with more than fifteen mph.
Studies show that drivers will definitely be more careful with traffic rules after getting one or two speeding tickets: if not for the sake of personal safety at least for the fine and the insurance rate increase. The large number of speeding tickets that is given every day, indicates an alarming rate of "speed craze"; out of ignorance or lack of concern, many drivers are real dangers on public roads. Because of an overconfident attitude many people risk their lives and the lives of the other traffic participants, and they should be grateful that speeding tickets are all they get.
For fighting speeding tickets in court, take some legal advice if your case is more complex. Otherwise, there is no point in paying lots of money for a lawyer's services when you could very well "do your homework" and learn what to do in court. There are hundreds of web pages that provide legal advice and law information, and you can take advantage of them all by a simple search on the Internet; you'll find sections with the most frequently asked questions about traffic rule violations and you'll be surprised to see how many other people are going through the same troubles.


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WKU Events
Tuesday, May 29th
Fourth Region Baseball Tournament
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 5:00pm - 9:30pm
Semifinal games at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Fourth Region Softball Tournament
- Location: WKU Softball Complex
- Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Semifinal games at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Free public planetarium show
- Location: HPL - HPL Plant
- Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Free public show at the Hardin Planetarium. Open to all.
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To mark the release of Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault on Blu-ray, we have ONE copy of the 3-disc Blu-ray to give away
To mark the release of Bad Santa 2 in UK cinemas, we're giving you the chance to win one of THREE awesome merchandise prize bundles
SHE SAYS: What to Expect When You're Expecting will no doubt seem predictable to many people. Relationships? Babies? Case closed: a chickflick through and through.
When did you last see a sports film about indie misfits? Let's face it: sports movies for teenagers are either weepy Disney underdog stories or badly-written rebel-goes-good tripe like (shudder)...


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A Fascinating Photography Book: "The Lens," by NK Guy
Ahh… that's the age old question for photographers, isn't it. After all, photography is all about the glass. More than the camera or any other accessory you could buy, more than megapixels, the lens is the fundamental factor that controls both the technical quality and the creative, personal feel and style of your imagery.
This is why interchangeable lens systems have been at the heart of serious photography for decades, and why the question of which lens to buy is the most important purchase decision for any photographer to make.
That said, how much do you really know about lenses?
Photographer and writer NK Guy has just released a fantastic new book called The Lens: A Practical Guide for the Creative Photographer that takes a comprehensive look at lenses and how they work. The goal of this book is simple, it's designed to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about lenses so that you can make educated buying decisions and choose the perfect collection of lenses to suit your style and needs.
When I say "everything you wanted to learn," what I mean is "everything you every wanted to learn and more. Starting with history, NK details the science of light and explains the optical principles about how lenses work. He goes on to talk about refraction, why lenses use multiple elements, and how to understand the unique characteristics between different kinds of lenses, such as wide angles, telephotos, fisheyes, etc…
NK talks lens mounts, apertures, metering, depth of field, focus, autofocusing motors, image stabilization, electronics, zooms, primes, and how to understand all of the features, terms, different build qualities, formats, speeds and handling characteristics that are found on just about any type of lens.
And that's just the first 78 pages. After three chapters of astounding technical detail, NK begins talking about how to actually use lenses. The next few chapters discuss choosing and using the right lens for a project, whether you're shooting portraits, landscapes, kids, closeup, sports, travel and wildlife and using different focal lengths. This is where he delves into the creative aspects of photography and teaches you how to get the most out of each type of lens.
Next is accessories. Hoods, filters, extenders, teleconverters, closeup tools, focusing rails, tripod mounts, you name it. It's all here.
Finally, in Chapter 7, NK starts talking about buying lenses and covers all of the factors that you need to consider before plunking down your hard earned change. He gives pros and cons for each type of lens, offers advice on where to buy. This is an interesting topic, because he goes into depth about the world of camera retail and offers some great advice.
Ok, we're not quite done yet. If you didn't get enough technical stuff in Chapters 1-3, you can work your way through Chapter 8, which covers advanced topics, such as distortion, digital correction, spherical abberation, lens flare, sharpness, bokeh, coatings, vignetting, hyperfocal distance, tilt and shift, aspheric lens elements, low dispersion glass, optical flaws, how lenses are actually made… the list goes on. Like I said, EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about lens. AND MORE.
He ends by discussing further creative options and non-traditional equipment and techniques, such as using Lensbabies, pinhole cameras, homemade lenses, toy cameras, adapting lenses for other camera systems, manual focus, and of course, 5 appendices and a full glossary.
Whew!!! Seriously, The Lens: A Practical Guide for the Creative Photographer is one of the most fascinating photography books that I've ever read. It belongs on every photographer's bookshelf or coffee table, because it's the kind of book that has something for everyone. It offers everything from reference, to practical hints to a host of creative and technical tips and all the technical stuff to make you a complete lens expert.
Whether you use a DSRL, a mirrorless camera system, or a rangefinder, if you genuinely LOVE photography, then I would imagine that you'll love NK's book The Lens. Check it out. There's even a Kindle verison and an enhanced iPad version, although for that you need iBooks 3 and iOS 6.
Note, NK Guy is also the author of the book Mastering Canon EOS Flash Photography, which is pretty much the Joe McNally style flash book for Canon users.


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MINSK, 29 May (BelTA) - Stadler plans to invest additional €35 million in the development of its plant in Belarus, Chairman of the Board of Directors and owner of Stadler Rail Group Peter Spuhler told the media after the meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on 29 May, BelTA has learned.
"A few years ago we opened a plant in Faniol, not far from Minsk. It has operated successfully all this time. Our products are exported to Russia and other countries, including the countries of Western Europe. Given the good contracts that we have signed recently, good utilization of the plant, we are thinking about further expansion and investments," Peter Spuhler noted.
Plans are in place to start the production of converters for trams and rolling stock, which will be also exported to Western European countries as separate products. The existing production of car bodies will be expanded up to 300 units. "In total, these two projects will require approximately €25 million in investment. In the future we want to expand the production of car bodies up to 450 units per year, which will require from €10 million to €12 million," Peter Spuhler said.
Peter Spuhler stressed that the company is very pleased with the level of skills and work capacity of Belarusian specialists. "I can advise all western investors to take advantage of this. We have built the plant in Belarus virtually from scratch, infused it with advanced western technologies. In a relatively short period of time it has grown to be able to compete virtually on equal footing with our other production facilities worldwide," Peter Spuhler noted.
For example, Stadler recently won a tender to supply trams for the city of Cochabamba in Bolivia. The whole batch will be produced by the Stadler plant in Fanipol. "We have had orders from Russia, Western Europe, but we have not yet supplied anything to Latin America," Peter Spuhler noted.
He also talked about possible geography of deliveries and commented on the situation with the order from the Russian Aeroexpress company. "We had a contract to supply 24 trains. Two of them (prototypes) were produced in Switzerland and the rest at the plant in Fanipol. Due to the economic recession that happened in the midst of the contract, the customer experienced difficulties with the payment for the contract and reduced the order to 11 trains. Together with the banks who financed the contract, and the insurance companies we found a suitable solution to that problem. We sold nine trains from that order to Azerbaijan and four trains to Georgia," Peter Spuhler said.
"We have settled this issue in full. We did not lose money on that order. Aeroexpress is happy with the project. The capacity utilization of the trains which are already in use reaches 98%. We continue talks with Aeroexpress. Perhaps, there will be another batch. It is important to meet clients halfway in case of force majeure and crises in order to seek a way out together," Peter Spuhler said.
Speaking about the potential geography of supplies of the products made in Belarus, he named the markets of the CIS countries and the Eurasian Economic Union. These are also the states of Central Europe. Distant countries such as Latin America are also on the radar. "I think that we, as a company, and Belarus in general can be proud of keeping an equal footing in global competition," Peter Spuhler said.


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Do I smell another interesting collaboration from the two in the works? Or are these two serious? Ke$ha, the trashy pop star and nappy boy T-Pain were spotted at Los Angeles' Wango Tango cuddling up with loads of cash.
Who really knows how and why the connection started but T-Pain definitely tweeted about it: "I'm not saying @keshasuxx and i had sex or anything I'm just sayin I love that "fuck everybody else" attitude. She dresses how she wants she performs the way she wants, she does HER. and at the same time she throwing up a big ass middle finger to all those ppl that just dissed her when I said I love her. Also if your one of those ppl that try to make "love out of looks" (meaning: looks mean everything to you) in my opinion, a cool bitch beats out a beautiful girl anyday. Sorry for the super long tweet again."
T-Pain even went on to call Ke$ha his "music girlfriend." Ke$ha definitely did not deny the words or deny anything. Hmm, seems like the start of a "summer love" or a crazy publicity stunt.
In related news, Ke$ha released a remix track with B.O.B.


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Strictly's Aliona - I'm sick of dancing with old puddings
Am putting my reaction to this behind a cut, just in case i have any Aliona fans on ye olde friends list....
First off..... ooh, the entitlement, it burns!!
Second, she didn't dance with Johnny Ball, as she was "injured"; they got Iveta in to dance with him instead. And I say "injured" because I remain completely and utterly convinced that she faked that injury so she didn't have to dance with the token old man contestant.
Third, she could learn a lot from the likes of Ola Jordan (paired with Paul Daniels after winning with Chris Hollins) or Natalie Lowe (who has also been given not brilliant partners of late - Michael Vaughan anyone?)
And lastly, this is my big problem with Aliona - I don't rate her as a choreographer OR as a teacher. She's good when she has a Contender - a Matt Baker or a Harry Judd. (Even if some of her choreography for them was questionable - the salsa with Matt Baker was dreadful!) But give her someone who's a Participant - Johnny, Tony Jacklin, Gregg - and she's just not able to get the best of out them. Especially when you think of the likes of Erin Boag, Lilia Kopylova, Natalie - who are able to get results of out celebs who aren't natural dancers! (Case in point - Lilia won with Darren Gough - look at their week one cha cha and tell me you saw that coming!!
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Skip to 0 minutes and 12 seconds Inventory management is a balancing act, mainly between transport assets and inventory and where your storage is located in a geographical sense. The cost of transport is variable and flexible but the cost of storage is not. Your initial choice of where you locate your inventory is extremely important. Once you have purchased a warehouse in a particular geographical location it's not easy to change it but remember you can use transport to offset the disadvantages that you might have by locating your storage location in a particular geographical site. So you can add to your transport or use different modes of transport or go further to your customers.
Skip to 1 minute and 4 seconds If you wish to store a lot of goods that is going to increase your costs but if you want to keep your inventory down you need to move more goods quicker through the system. It's a trade-off between where your goods are and how you get them to your customer. So, that's what it's all about you're trying to balance the two.
Transport cost and inventory trade-off
Another important trade-off in global distribution network design is the one between transport and inventory.
In the video, Nick Wright provides an overview of the trade-offs between the two.
If we look into this a little deeper, trade-offs can be decided by using total cost analysis, which involves examining the total cost of either scenario and choosing the cheapest.
In some countries, transport is generally cheaper than the cost of operating and holding stock. This is because road infrastructure is of high quality, but property is expensive due to the shortage of available land to develop warehouses and other distribution assets. The transport variable of driver, vehicle and road costs can be contrasted with the cost of holding inventory in warehouses, the price and availability of land and labour.
Bowersox et al. (2019) suggest a way to calculate whether transport or moving geographical location is the best trade-off. This uses the assumption of trunk transportation from the original inventory location to a regional location and then utilising local delivery to transport to the customer. This cost of trunk transport to storage to local delivery is compared with the direct delivery from the original geographical inventory location to the customer.\[Wx = \sum (Px + Tx) - Lx - \frac{\sum(Pv +Tv)}{Nx}\]
\(Wx\) = Local warehousing cost of average shipment
\(Px\) = Processing cost of average volume shipment
\(Tx\) = Direct freight cost of average shipment
\(Lx\) = Local delivery of average shipment
\(Pv\) = Processing cost of volume shipment to area
\(Tv\) = Transportation cost of volume shipment to area
\(Nx\) = Number of average shipments per volume shipment
This can be further simplified to:\[Wx = Tx - Lx - Tv\]
\(Wx\) = Local warehousing cost of average shipment
\(Tx\) = Direct freight cost of average shipment
\(Lx\) = Local delivery of average shipment
\(Tv\) = Transportation cost of volume shipment to area
This method is not completely scientific because there are other factors that might have to be considered, such as service levels that customers expect and other influences that cannot be reliably costed, but it can help in making reasoned and calculated management decisions in network design.
The key issue that can be drawn from this is the recognition that, due to transport's inherent nature of moving, it can be used to flexibly adjust the distribution network to help meet customer expectations and control the total cost of the global network.
Bowersox D., Closs D. and Bixby-Cooper M (2019) Supply Chain Logistics Management. 5th edn. New York: McGraw-Hill


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Last Friday I spent the afternoon exploring St. Martins Courtyard in Covent Garden. The lovely girls at Sister London invited me down to see exactly what this hidden gem has to offer. As you may all know by now, I am a huge fan of Covent Garden. It's such a London landmark without the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street. After spending the best part of a year and a half commuting back and forth to Oxford Circus, I tend to avoid it like the plague. Back track one week, I had no idea this place even existed so to my surprise I was lucky enough to be spoilt with a full day of activities. The perfect way to see in the weekend if you ask me.
So a little bit about St. Martin's Courtyard. Situated a stones throw from Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations, this shopping and dining destination offers an array of food, drink and shops to keep you entertained. My day kicked off at 11am with a large cappuccino at the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs. Light, airy and a great place to get my morning caffeine fix I was greeted by the lovely Hilary from Sister London to talk me through my day. Next stop was Relax, for a 12pm energiser massage. After having the most relaxing back massage and relieving a lot of unwanted tension, it was time for a spot of lunch. With cuisine to suit everyones taste from Jamie's Italian to Bill's restaurant, I settled on lunch at Dishoom with my good friend Sarah. Admittedly, I have been to Dishoom before but not for a long while and I was really in the mood for Indian food. Our eyes were definitely bigger than our bellies but with food so enticing how could we resist?! I would personally recommend the Mahi Tikka, Chicken Ruby and the Black House Dahl (all pictured above) but everything on the menu is mouth watering and designed for sharing. Great for me, as that way you can try a little bit of everything. Certainly my kind of menu. As always, there is always room for dessert. I opted for Dishoom's (melt in the middle) chocolate pudding accompanied with chilli ice cream and OH MY this definitely hit the spot. I would 1000% recommend this place if you haven't been before but as we left at around 2pm, it did start to get really busy just as a word of warning.
Too many calories and one giant food baby later, I had a little walk around the courtyard in Slingsby Place to explore some of the shops but headed towards COS to spend my gift voucher with a pit stop at The Covent Garden Academy of Flowers. With flowers so pretty and in full bloom, they were certainly worthy of an Instagram 'from where I stand' shot. I mean just look at how beautiful those roses are. It's time to round this post off but if your looking for a new place to explore in the heart of Covent Garden, then a visit to St. Martin's Courtyard is an absolute must! An open, outdoor space with a great choice of shops, coffee and lunch, what's not to enjoy? A massive thank you to the ladies at Sister London for inviting me down to check out St. Martin's Courtyard for myself. It was such a lovely treat and the perfect way to spend my free Friday afternoon.
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Ahh looks like such a lovely day out! Your bag is gorge too xxReplyDelete
This Zara bag is amazing Gem - NEED for my hols! xxReplyDelete
This flower stand looks devine! Also love the food at Dishoom and the Covent Garden area. <3ReplyDelete
There will be a post online tomorrow about Covent Garden Market and what to do in the area? My post is a great addition to your suggestions.
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Discuss your position on executive compensation. Is executive compensation excessive or appropriate? Support your answer with examples.
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Executive compensation is the compensation that an executive in an organization receives . Furthermore, executive compensations has increased dramatically in recent years. The executive compensation is normally determined by the Board of Directors of said organization. The executives usually receive a base salary, then on top of that salary they receive a bonus or incentive.
I think that if a company is run legally and appropriately, then executive compensation is appropriate. However, I also believe that if an executive is merely relying on his laurels and not putting the effort in to improve the company, then in such sense, he or she should not receive said compensation. Many times the executives will work their employees to the bone and then reap the benefits, without providing the employees who are completing the work any actual "extra" compensation. Furthermore, if an ...
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8.111341 - BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concerto No. 2 / BRAHMS, J.: Piano Quintet (Gould) (1957)
Glenn Gould (1932–1982):
Born in Toronto in 1932, Gould first studied the piano with his mother. He continued his studies from the age of ten with Albert Guerrero at the Toronto Conservatory of Music concurrently studying at Malvern Collegiate Institute. At fifteen he gave his recital début in Toronto and within a few years was regularly appearing on Canadian radio and television. By 1955 Gould was already one of Canada's outstanding musicians and he then made his American début in Washington D.C. The recital, consisting of Bach, late Beethoven, Webern and Berg, was repeated in New York whereupon Gould was immediately signed to CBS records with the release of his 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (Naxos 8.111247) spreading his name around the world.
From this time Gould performed regularly throughout North America, and between 1957 and 1959 played in the USSR, Israel and Western Europe. However, finding performing traumatic and unpleasant he retired from the concert stage in 1964 at the age of 32. He became increasingly eccentric; always fastidious and particular about his health, he found the option of editing a recording to his satisfaction far preferable to performing.
Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short performing career. As early as 1947 the fourteen-year-old Gould played Beethoven's Fourth Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a few years later in 1951 when eighteen he played the First and Second Concertos with the same orchestra. The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 19, had always been a favourite of Gould's who apparently gave 24 public performances of the work. He chose to play it with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein at his New York orchestral début at Carnegie Hall in January 1957 as well as on his visit to Leningrad in May of the same year. When Gould played all five concertos in London in 1959 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Joseph Krips (Louis Kentner substituted in the Emperor as Gould was ill) one critic wrote of the work that it 'is often dismissed as immature, and so it is, in comparison with the later masterpieces; but a performance as technically perfect, as spontaneously musical as Mr Gould gave, makes us see it afresh as a work in its own right.'
Beethoven wrote his Piano Concerto in B flat, Op. 19, when he was 24, the same age as Gould was when he recorded the work. This was the first concerto recording Gould made for CBS and only his fourth LP. It is probable that after the Carnegie Hall performance with Bernstein that it was the conductor who had wanted to record the work. Apparently, at the end of the recording sessions in May 1957 Gould wanted to re-record some trills, but the producer told him that it was unnecessary and that 'we'll put together a record from out of all this that you'll be proud of…' It would be some years yet before Gould would have complete control over all aspects of the recordings he made.
For some inexplicable reason this recording of the Piano Concerto No. 2 (as well as No. 4) was never issued in the United Kingdom on LP and did not see a British release until 1993. The youthful Concerto No. 2 suits Gould extremely well. He plays with vitality and complete command, the first movement tempo noticeably faster than the live performance with Bernstein and with copious amounts of con brio as marked. There is a wonderful clarity to Gould's sound in the first movement and while Bernstein rather milks the opening of the Adagio for the maximum amount of expression, Gould enters with solemn, beautifully balanced chords. The third movement is given great rhythmic propulsion by Gould although it is rather lacking in joyousness.
Gould's personality did not dispose him toward the playing of chamber music. Always wanting control over every aspect of a performance and recording inevitably led to friction with other performers. He had worked with the Montreal String Quartet when they had given the first performance of his own String Quartet Op. 1 in May 1956. The Quartet had been formed only a year before in 1955 and had a fairly short existence until 1963. The performance of Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, heard here was given at the Montreal Festival and subsequently recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. For all his allegiance to the classical composers and avoidance of romantic music, it is surprising that Gould played so much of Brahms's work. In his early performing career he often played the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, and recorded pieces from Opp. 10, 76, 79 and the last three sets of late piano pieces Opp. 117–119. When in his early twenties, however, Gould broadcast a great deal for CBC and performed the Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 100, with Morry Kernerman in 1953. Later, in 1961 Gould took part in an all-Brahms concert broadcast from the Stratford Festival by CBC with violinist Oscar Shumsky and cellist Leonard Rose. They played the Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101, as well as the Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 78, and the Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 38. Of all these Brahms broadcasts only the Quintet in F minor has surfaced. The performance has been criticised for its austerity on the part of the pianist and his unyielding to the more romantic phrasing and overall interpretation by the string players. It could be said, however, that Gould's focus, precision, clarity and attention to detail prevents the music from becoming overblown or indulgent. Gould's clarity of articulation seems to heighten the drama of the first and last movements while his rhythmic propulsion of the Andante is certainly welcome and not without a modicum of rubato.
In the remaining eighteen years of his life after he quit the stage Gould led an unusual and reclusive lifestyle. He composed, wrote and broadcast extensively and made a large number of recordings. He died in Toronto in 1982.
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Im using AI 801 module the s lamp is green but in the online CBM the module gives RED Tringle and the channels gives the red tringle as attached
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European Union/immigration/fight against terrorism/meeting of the G6 interior ministers
Calais, November 6, 2014
Q. – Why convene a meeting of the G6 interior ministers today?
THE MINISTER – To make progress on two essential issues: the fight against terrorism and the question of migration in the Mediterranean.
Q. – Does that concern only six of the European Union's 28 countries?
THE MINISTER – No, of course not, but those six countries are used to meeting in order to then make concrete proposals to the whole EU.
Q. – What proposals on terrorism?
THE MINISTER – It's imperative that our police forces share their intelligence even better in order to dismantle terrorist networks.
Q. – They're already doing so…
THE MINISTER – We must go further, by creating common tools like the European PNR, enabling us to better follow terrorists' journeys through the Schengen Area so as to better neutralize them.
Q. – Europe isn't really in favour of that…
THE MINISTER – All the member states already support this initiative, and we must now persuade the European Parliament, which is the joint decision-maker. I'd also like enhanced checks at the borders for certain departure points and destinations.
Q. – Is Turkey – which prospective jihadists are travelling through – providing enough intelligence?
THE MINISTER – We have a relationship of trust with Turkey. But that trust can be deepened every day.
Q. – Blocking a site will henceforth be possible in France. But what about elsewhere in Europe?
THE MINISTER – Several European countries are taking the same approach as us to combat terrorist propaganda on the web. We've begun discussing this with the major Internet operators, which have told us they want to go ahead with this regulation themselves. The counter-terrorism bill which I presented to Parliament and which has just been adopted stipulates that, if they don't do it themselves, we'll then proceed to close down sites.
Q. – Even on social networks?
THE MINISTER – The representatives of Facebook have already responded favourably to this request for regulation. They've acknowledged that any alerts which can be passed on to them in advance would enable them to react more quickly. Let me remind you that incitement to terrorism isn't about freedom of expression, it's a crime. The EU partners are playing an active role, and we're making headway together.
Q. – Another challenge for the G6 is migration flows. With the end of the Mare Nostrum rescue capability, is Europe abandoning its migrants at sea?
THE MINISTER – Of course not. Operation Mare Nostrum was deployed by the Italians off the Libyan coast, which unfortunately led the criminal trafficking networks to put ever more migrants on increasingly dangerous vessels. From now on, by positioning its boats as close to the European coast as possible, Operation Triton [the name of the new operation] will enable genuine control of borders while allowing rescues to take place.
Q. – The EU seems to be losing interest in this issue…
THE MINISTER – On the contrary, Europe is reacting, and France plays no small part in that: we took the initiative of proposing this plan, which is now the EU's road map. Since January, 120,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean. That affects the whole of Europe, and its response must combine humanity and responsibility. On this subject as on others, Europe isn't the problem but the solution.
Q. – In order to resolve the issue of migration flows, you suggested that British police could come to Calais. Can you give more details?
THE MINISTER – No, I didn't suggest that. I said it could be useful for British officials to come and explain to the migrants that it's in their interest to request asylum in France rather than trying to go to Britain. This also features in the plan we agreed with the British. It also provides for them to contribute €15 million over three years to help make the port of Calais secure, and for joint work to dismantle illegal immigration rings. The agreement reached is good news for all the people of Calais.
Q. – Is illegal immigration the main problem the EU will have to face in future?
THE MINISTER – It's one of the problems Europe must address, while bearing in mind that the main cause of this migratory pressure lies in the conflicts and civil wars that have broken out in Africa recently. The issue transcends Europe's borders: it's international./.


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Put simple rules around creativity
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Founder Lesson
Even though startups are businesses, I've never thought of myself as a "businessman." Like all college business majors, the Wall Street Journal was interesting to me for a few years after graduation, but I quickly realized that I was drawn to startups due to what happens with them during their earliest moments - when they . . .
Best to market will always beat first to market
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Startups have lots of worries on a daily basis. Big worries that immediately to mind are (a) running out of money, (b) building the correct product and (c) hiring the right people. Another big, macro worry is how to think about competition, particularly how much to worry about getting your product launched before anyone . . .
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Even startups that rely on a network effect can be validated early
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I was meeting with a very successful local founder this week and he was describing his current strategy - after years of honing it - of finding a group of initial "happy customers" for a new product. Like this founder, over the past year it seems like I'm constantly telling founders...
"Distill . . .
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The best founders combine vision & micromanagement
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It's common wisdom that startups are defined by their limited resources. The actual definition of a startup could be "a new business that grows quickly despite limited resources."
While this startup rule-of-thumb is known by most everyone, very few people have been in the trenches enough to truly understand . . .
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At the very beginning focus on a niche, passionate group of potential customers
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Founders who focus on their own passion projects are often told that their ideas are too niche & small. While this is sometimes the case, it's important to remember...
Lots more people are coming online and spending more money online, so all online markets are growing over time.
Many successful . . .
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Founders often don't have a grand plan at the very beginning
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History is often re-written over time. A great example of this is startups that are successful. After reaching a certain level - for a bunch of good reasons - the origin story of startups is altered for PR reasons. The re-written story goes something like "the underdog founder had grand plans from the very beginning and has . . .
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The best founders eliminate risk
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The notion of "risk" in new businesses has always fascinated me. The best founders that I know believe passionately in their idea and space, but they spend most of their time/energy/creativity removing risk to increase the likelihood that they will succeed. And if they can't property remove/mitigate risk then they don't . . .


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Amal and George Clooney welcomed their twins into the world earlier this week. On June 6, Amal Clooney gave birth to twins at a luxurious birthing suite in London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. A spokesperson for the couple said that Amal and the children are "healthy, happy and doing fine."
As far as baby names go, Hollywood is notorious for birthing kids with unique, out-of-this-world celebrity baby names. More often than not, these unusual names wouldn't be any parent's first pick when deciding on what they would want to call their child for the rest of eternity.
For instance, Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf named their son Pilot Inspektor after hearing a song from indie rock band Grandaddy. Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim's son is named Kal-El, after Superman's birth name. Jay-Z and Beyonce christened their first born Blue Ivy. Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel named their daughter Elsie Otter. Of course, the Kardashian clan win in this department by a landslide by giving their kids unconventional names from Reign to North to Saint and finally, Dream Renée.
Clearly, that's not how the Clooneys roll. For a high-profile Hollywood power couple, the names they gave their son and daughter were pretty much ordinary and non-celebrity. In George and Amal fashion, the couple chose classic names for their twins: Ella and Alexander.
Amal and George Clooney picking out traditional names for their children is a reminder for Hollywood that it's okay not to give kids unnecessarily edgy names or adding awkward adjectives just for creative points.
However, the names Ella and Alexander both have a long-standing popularity. According to Harper's Bazaar, Ella ranked 17th in terms of popular baby names for girls in 2016, while Alexander ranked 11th for baby boys.
The names themselves also carry beautiful meanings. Ella can be translated to "light," "beautiful fairy woman" or "fair maiden." Alexander, on the other hand, means "defender of men."
The classic names are not only a reflection of Amal and George Clooney's sophistication, but the meanings befit the children that now bear them as their names.
Meanwhile, George and Amal's parents have been gushing nonstop about the twins. George's parents, Nick Clooney and Nina Warren, who live in Kentucky, saw the infants through Skype just two hours after they were born.
In an interview with Cincinnati WXIX, Nick said, "They are gorgeous. Nina swears they have George's nose." The 83-year-old grandfather added that Alexander has George's nose. Both the kids have dark hair, taking after their lawyer mother who is a natural brunette. George's parents also approve the names the couple chose for the kids.
Amal's mother, Baria Alamuddin, was present during the twins' birth in London, and she revealed that it was a "beautiful delivery" and everything went well.
Moreover, Alamuddin said that George and Amal are naturals at parenting. "Oh my god, Amal and George were so beautiful, they were so happy, so contented," Amal's mother told People. "You just look at them and you feel like they've been a mother and father for their whole lives."
The award-winning journalist was also spotted shopping for presents for his grandkids in London. A witness said that she bought two romper suits made of organic cotton.
News of Amal Clooney's pregnancy first came out in February.
George and Amal Clooney married on September 27 after nearly a year of dating. The couple reportedly met at a charity fundraiser and were introduced to each other through a common friend. George was a popular bachelor for a long time, and his parents admitted that they thought he would never settle down. All that changed when they met Amal.
"By golly, when we met Amal, we got that figured out in a hurry," Nick said. "Just as I, George married up."
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Our eighth event in Seattle will be on October 28th from 7-9 pm and will again be hosted by Ballard's own Bad Jimmy's who will have ~9 beers (and plenty of astronomy) on tap.
THIS MONTH we'll begin with beer and two new talks. The first is by AoT Austin organizer and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin Dr. Rachael Livermore on "The First Galaxies, Revealed by Einstein's Telescopes." Our second talk will be by University of Washington graduate student Eddie Schwieterman on "Life-signs and Biosignatures: How will we find life beyond the Solar System?" Then, we'll play some (spooky) astrotrivia with prizes!
Don't miss our eighth event, and be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook to get updates on future events!
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Is the use of information and communication technology related to performance in working memory tasks? Evidence from seventh-grade students
Lucy Garcia; Miguel Nussbaum; David D. Preiss
Computers & Education Vol. 57, No. 3 (November 2011) pp. 2068–2076
The main purpose of this study was to assess whether seventh-grade students use of information and communication technology (ICT) was related to performance on working memory tasks. In addition, the study tested whether the relationship between ICT...
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Measuring the relation between computer use and reading literacy in the presence of endogeneity
Paula Fariña; Ernesto San Martín; David D. Preiss; Magdalena Claro; Ignacio Jara
Computers & Education Vol. 80, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 176–186
This work studies the relation between computer use for reading activities and academic literacy in 15-year-old students in Chile, Uruguay, Spain, and Portugal. Data used is from the PISA 2009 test. Special attention is given to potential bias...
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Assessment of 21st century ICT skills in Chile: Test design and results from high school level students
Magdalena Claro; David D. Preiss; Ernesto San Martín; Ignacio Jara; J. Enrique Hinostroza; Susana Valenzuela; Flavio Cortes; Miguel Nussbaum
Computers & Education Vol. 59, No. 3 (November 2012) pp. 1042–1053
This paper describes a study that evaluates fifteen-year-old Chilean students Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills. The paper presents an operational definition of ICT skills, an instrument measuring these skills as well as the...
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Teaching in a Digital Environment (TIDE): Defining and measuring teachers' capacity to develop students' digital information and communication skills
Magdalena Claro; Alvaro Salinas; Tania Cabello-Hutt; Ernesto San Martín; David D. Preiss; Susana Valenzuela; Ignacio Jara
Computers & Education Vol. 121, No. 1 (June 2018) pp. 162–174
The study presented in this paper consisted in defining a Teaching in a Digital Environment (TIDE) capacity construct and developing a performance-based test to measure Chilean teachers' ability to teach students how to solve information and...
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