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Alken-Maes, a subsidiary of Heineken N.V., is the second largest brewery company on the Belgian market. It comprises three separate breweries, a maltery and a cidery. The enterprise has a very wide set of tasks, from brewing and bottling to managing their own wholesale, which has to be continuously supported by their IT department. This creates a challenging situation for which the company has called in the assistance of Simac ICT Belgium.
End-to-end IT Service
Since the end of 2016, Simac ICT Belgium has worked together with Alken-Maes to provide them with an end-to-end IT service that incorporates all the various digital solutions they have to offer, from system integration, to cabling and onsite professional services. As the standards for information security are steadily increasing, the client was looking for a mature partner who could play a role in securing their infrastructure.
"At that time, Alken-Maes was in need of an innovative, expansive and clear-cut supplier contract. Simac offered to take over our entire Cisco and Fortinet infrastructure with a transparent view over a wide number of services, management and support," recounts Matthijs Quak, IT Manager at Alken-Maes. "We chose Simac because they offered us a better alternative than our previous supplier, with more added value, expertise and proactive support. An added plus was that their knowledge of Cisco and Fortinet closely matched the requirements of the Heineken standards."
One-Stop-Shop for Alken-Maes
The first domain in which Simac has offered its support is with its Integration services. Simac has become the trusted advisor of Alken-Maes regarding networking and security by offering their expertise in Cisco and Fortinet infrastructures. As a Cisco Gold Partner, Simac arranges regular meetings with the customer to advise them on virtualisation, storage, hyperconvergence and general strategy on the short, middle and long-term. The most recent assignment in this respect has been the creation of an overview of all Cisco networking devices, including the support for them.
Secondly, Alken-Maes has asked Simac to assist them with finding and insourcing the right IT competences to assist their IT department. Since then, our Professional Services department has onboarded several onsite IT talents to aid the IT service desk of Alken-Maes for all its divisions on a permanent 365x7x24 basis, and is currently in talks to manage the entire service desk staffing.
Finally, the network connectivity in and between the customer's sites are skilfully handled by our Cabling and Infrastructure department. The new fibre connections provide Alken-Maes with an air-tight security for their entire infrastructure.
"The collaboration with Alken-Maes on this multifaceted project is a perfect example of the different IT services we have to offer," explains Christophe Lonnoy, Business Development Manager at Simac. "It also shows how we can combine our know-how to provide customers with a full-range of soft- and hardware solutions." Simac ICT Belgium is a one-stop-shop, with more than 45 years of experience, offering not only Integration services, but also Cabling and Infrastructure, Professional Services and Business Management Solutions. The first three of which are working in synergy at Alken-Maes.
Perfect All-Round Partner
For Mark Hens, ICT Operations Manager at Alken-Maes, Simac is the perfect all-round partner: "We chose to work with Simac, for their professionalism, open communication and support, a clear strategy and a transparent contract overview and pricing." The positive dynamic between the two partners is also apparent in their strategic cooperation.
"Simac offers a high measure of flexibility and creativity in coming up with new strategic ideas and their consultants are very approachable when we need their opinion or are looking for a fresh view on our challenges." The fact that Simac can combine several services is an added benefit for Alken-Maes, as the company prefers building a long-lasting relationship with a single preferred supplier.

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West Wing Elementary School
Peoria, AZ | Maricopa County
February 25, 2015
To parents looking for a well rounded school West Wing elementary is a great choice. The staff is supportive in meeting the needs of the kidos, individualized if necessary, safety in ensured at the front office no one is allowed beyond that point. Resources are available for children who may need more academic services. Each staff member that I have encountered enjoy assisting and educating the students to help them reach his or her full potential!Submitted by a parent
February 13, 2015
We have been thankful for the amazing teachers & support staff at West Wing Elementary.Submitted by a parent
November 23, 2014
My kids have gone to West Wing for their entire schooling. I am so impressed with the education they have received. Their needs have been met both academically and socially. I couldn't be happier with West Wing and everyone who works there.Submitted by a parent
October 30, 2014
I am a parent of two children currently attending West Wing Elementary School and I love the school. The Principle, Teachers and Support Staff are Amazing and the education provided to my children is excellent.Submitted by a parent
October 30, 2014
West Wing Elementary is a wonderful school. I have 2 children attending, one is typical and one has special needs. My typical student has been challenged every year and I see such growth with her academically as well as in her character. The special education staff at West Wing amazes me. I have heard of parents at other schools having such a bad experience with the IEP process and I know how fortunate we are to have staff at West Wing that are truly part of our team. My student with special needs absolutely loves going to school every day and is so successful, her academic and social growth each year fill us with pride. In addition to having such great staff, the principal is very personable and is always available to meet with parents. Plus, she knows every student by name which is so nice to see. I can't say enough about this fantastic school!Submitted by a parent
June 16, 2014
West Wing is a fantastic school with caring teachers and a principal that knows most every student by name. They care about all children academically and personally. Great lengths are gone to to help each student reach their potential. The staff works together well and makes for a positive and ideal atmosphere. I highly recommend this school and the Deer Valley School District.
June 8, 2014
West Wing Elementary is a wonderful school! My kids go there and the staff is caring and amazing with my kids. I can see that the teachers go up and beyond my expectations as a parent. You can tell that they truly care about their students. I feel so blessed and lucky for my kids to attend West Wing.Submitted by a parent
June 4, 2014
The principal has a background in special education and personally knows each of the students that receive specialized services at her school. She is passionate about giving all students the opportunity to grow to their potential.Submitted by a teacher
June 3, 2014
My children have attended West Wing school since it opened. I now have one in high school and one still attending West Wing. I am a very involved parent who has been in many different classrooms through the years. I can honestly say that the teachers care very much and want the children to succeed. The principal is involved and often gives students the extra attention that they need. I see how many families and students she knows personally and how she greets them. It shows that she cares about each and every one of them. Overall, I am extremely happy with the education and experiences that my children have received while attending West Wing.Submitted by a parent
June 2, 2014
I am a mother of 2 students who attend West Wing School. I wanted to take a moment to extend my sincerest gratitude to the AMAZING teachers who have challenged, encouraged, and supported my children for the past 6 years. My children have blossomed so much in their reading, writing and math skills. My children have greatly enjoyed being involved in extra-curricular activities, too. West Wing's Art, Music, PE, and Band programs have brought such joy to my son and daughter and given them the opportunity to be on stage and try new adventures! I have also found the front office and Administrative staff to be friendly and helpful every time I come into school. I love the fact that parent volunteers are welcomed and appreciated at school. If I were moving into the West Wing area, I would absolutely put my children at West Wing School.Submitted by a parent
June 2, 2014
At West Wing school teachers and staff do a great job communicating with parents about any questions or concerns. Staff is very prompt at relying to parents via email. Parents and teachers work together to create the best learning environment for the children. The school and staff do an excellent job hosting open houses to see children's work frequently through out the year. There is always chances for parents to help out and get involved in one way or another. West Wing is an excellent school.
June 1, 2014
My kids have attended West Wing for the last 7 years. They have had a great experience. Their teachers use a lot of different methods to teach them including small reading groups and flex grouping. This has helped them a lot because they have both gotten extra help in reading. My son excels at math and he has learned beyond his grade level standards. If we have ever had an issue with a teacher it was always been worked out before I had to contact the principal. It is nice to see the principal so involved and she really knows my kids and how they are doing. I am impressed by the programs that they use to build character with the kids. This is an amazing school where ALL the staff cares a lot about the kids!Submitted by a parent
June 1, 2014
Our family wasn't impressed with West Wing Elementary. We moved our son to Peoria Traditional. Much friendlier teachers, principal and better curriculum.Submitted by a parent
June 1, 2014
My kids have been at West Wing since Kindergarten, I continue to be impressed with the staff and Dr. Price-Barry more and more with each passing year. The teachers show a true interest in my children and are always available to answer questions, or give input when needed. My kids and I are looking forward to the upcoming school year!!Submitted by a parent
June 1, 2014
I have two children who have attended West Wing for four years. We have been nothing but happy with the teachers and administrators of the school. Our children are fortunate to be part of the gifted cluster classes and both have excelled and been encouraged to learn in new and exciting ways. We have a boy and a girl and both have reported to us that any issues brought to a teacher's attention have been attended to swiftly and fairly. The focus of West Wing School is, without a doubt, the students. The school puts so much emphasis on learning and achieving while maintaining a sense of community. What a blessing as a parent to know that my children are so well taken care of each and every day by each and every staff member and administrator at West Wing Elementary School.Submitted by a parent
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Follow the birth of blues and all of its growing pains. Footage of great stars including Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Jimmy Rushing, Big Bill Broonzy, Mamie Smith, Roy Milton, Leadbelly and Son House.


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The Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment of the 19th Assembly was formally created on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 by a motion of the Legislative Assembly. On December 11, 2019 the Committee selected Mr. Jackie Jacobson as Chair of the Committee and Mr. Ronald Bonnetrouge as the Deputy Chair of the Committee.
Chair: Jackie JacobsonDeputy Chair: Ron Bonnetrouge
Rylund Johnson
Frieda Martselos
Kevin O'Reilly
Caitlin Cleveland
Steve Norn
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The Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment shall consider the following matters with respect to the Departments of Environment and Natural Resources; Industry, Tourism and Investment; Infrastructure; and Lands:


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Snowboarding's first Winter Olympics gold medallist Ross Rebagliati has advice for the two top American riders busted for marijuana in Wanaka.
"Keep your chin up and do the best you can to accept the situation and move forward with your life," Rebagliati tells Mountain Scene.
He should know. Canadian Rebagliati was stripped of his gold at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics when marijuana was found in his blood system.
The decision was eventually overturned – he claimed the traces were from second-hand smoke, and authorities decided pot wasn't performance-enhancing anyway – yet most of his sponsors still dropped him.
The pair caught in Wanaka on August 1 probably don't realise the severity of the consequences, Rebagliati says.
However, it's not just leading snowboarders being dopes.
"[NBA basketball star] Lebron James just admitted to smoking marijuana in high school. Tons of celebrities have admitted to smoking pot, including US presidents," he says.
Rebagliati says it's unfair to hold up athletes as role models 24/7.
"It is a different world now with camera cellphones, zoom-in cameras etc.
"Athletes don't have any privacy.
"Look at [super swimmer Michael] Phelps. He was at a private party, no kids were there. The press made it out like he was taking a bong hit at Disneyland in front of a tonne of kids."


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The Perspective of Robbie Cornelissen
The Perspective of Robbie Cornelissen shows how Cornelissen is able to create the suggestion of spaces and dimensions in his drawings and films that are only possible in dreams.
A dazzling amount of grey pencil lines form the base of Robbie Cornelissen's drawings. They create a reality that aim to be both strange, bizarre and yet so obvious.
Cornelissen was born in Utrecht in 1954. After studying Biology and Ecology, he became a biology teacher at a high school in 1987. When he fell ill for a year by the end of the eighties and was hardly able to work, he started to draw lines on paper, often only 15 minutes a day. Later on he would describe the sketches as 'invisibly drawing'. Fragile images surged from the paper, phantasms that would surprise those who saw them. He got into new perspectives; a whole new inner-world that had to be explored. The ability to draw brought him an unsuspected gift; the feeling to be able to return to past times, being a little boy again who would explore a self-created fantasyland, carefree. His drawings send out enormous pleasure. His monumental drawings reflect imaginary architectural spaces, cryptic figures and non-recognizable scenes. The process of creating these drawings is an almost meditative action, creating 'zen-art', but at the same time it can be annoying and irritating, according to Cornelissen.
In 1996 he felt the need to organize his thoughts and images and created a series of drawings called 'The Reserve'. Variations on the imagery of this reserve were further explored in a series of smaller drawings: 'twelve thoughts on a reserve for an unknown species". Previous work usually had a mostly white background. Figures, half man, half animal, were placed in an undefined space. Now, the background became the center of the drawings. The Reserve doesn't represent a certain vision; it is more a system of thoughts in which more than 180 drawings of different sizes reflect the reserve in all kinds of variations: the circus, the jungle, a deserted factory hall, a cage, or an exhibition hall. The drawings recall spaces that one would encounter in one's dreams only. You recognize objects, human beings and animals but you can't place them. As intangible as these created worlds may be, they have the tendency to feel familiar at the same time. In a way, it seems as if they were just always there, but have now been visible to us through the work of Cornelissen.
His drawings are often voluminous, which creates the illusion that the audience can walk right into the created worlds and stroll around. The longer you look, the more miniscule details you will see. The drawing 'When the circus comes to town' shows a circus tent surrounded by an enormous see-through wall. The combination creates the image of a fortress surrounded by an endless steep abyss. If you zoom in, an enormous variation of surprising details become visible. Almost every square centimeter seems to host an immense vibration of activity.
Cornelissen's imagery is not easily explained. Symbols occur, but the world he draws is not imaginary to him. Alex de Vries wrote about Cornelissen's work: 'all that is recognizable in his drawings is always a way to support one in matters that one can not understand in every day life. A drawing of Robbie Cornelissen will always make you have the feeling that you have no ground under your feet and that you are falling in an abyss until you realize that in his world, gravity produces some sort of weightlessness. There is noting to fall back on and you can float freely through his work.' His animated films, like 'The Big Memory', give you the same feeling. Cornelissen's artwork and films are being exhibited all over the world.
In 'The Perspective of Robbie Cornelissen' we get an idea of how his films and drawings were created and get an insight in the artist's motivation.


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Contact Director Powell
As a tax professional, private advisor, practicing lawyer and public servant, he brings extensive private sector and government services experience to his position as the state's chief revenue officer.
Powell has spent his career helping businesses navigate complex tax policies and promoting economic growth. Prior to his appointment, he was a Tax Partner with the international audit, tax and advisory firm of KPMG LLP. Powell joined KPMG in 2000 in the State and Local Tax Practice and became a Partner of the firm in 2007.
Powell has over 30 years of experience in state and local taxes and incentives, economic development and domestic corporate law in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining KPMG, he practiced business and corporate law in South Carolina. Subsequently, he joined the South Carolina Department of Commerce, holding several leadership positions over his ten-year tenure. During his time at Commerce, Powell played a key role in broadening the state's job base and strengthening its economy. He served as Director of South Carolina's European Office located in Frankfurt, Germany, before returning from Europe to serve as the Department's Chief of Staff.
Powell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Erskine College and a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is married with two children and currently resides in Richland County.
Meredith Cleland began his career with the SCDOR in 1980 and has since worked in various capacities. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of Government Services. Cleland is a graduate of Clemson University.
The Government Services Division includes Property Tax, Local Government Services, Tax Compliance, Taxpayer Advocate, and Legislative and Constituent Services.
Joe Dusenbury began his career with the SCDOR in 1996 in the Office of General Counsel. He currently advises the agency in general matters of law, risk, security and policy and is in charge of the Policy Section and the Procurement Division. Since joining the SCDOR, Dusenbury has been a Deputy Director of the General Counsel and Regional Manager for the Columbia and Aiken Districts in the Field Operations Division.
Prior to his work with the SCDOR, Dusenbury was a partner in the Charleston law firm of Smith, Collins and Dusenbury where he had a general trial and appellate practice with an emphasis on construction defect litigation, mechanic liens, payment and performance bonds and collection.
Dusenbury graduated from the University of South Carolina, with a bachelor's degree in business administration (management/computer science). He received his Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctorate Degrees from the University of South Carolina. Dusenbury was a member of the Craven Moot Court Team in law school, graduated with honors from the MBA program, and was an Eagle Scout. Dusenbury was born in Florence but was raised in Columbia, and has two children.
Jason Luther joined the SCDOR in 2017 as General Counsel for Litigation, where he provides senior leadership and direction for all litigation impacting the SCDOR and develops and implements department policy on tax, regulatory, and administrative law issues.
Luther came to the Department from the private sector, with experience in both business and law. Luther is a proud alumnus of Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, GA), where he received a Bachelor of Arts in history and was president of the student body. After helping found and manage a roofing and construction company in south Florida, Luther returned home to Columbia to attend the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, he was elected as editor in chief of the South Carolina Law Review.
Luther began his legal career with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP. After a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Dennis W. Shedd of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Luther joined the Columbia law firm of Murphy & Grantland, P.A. where his practice focused on a variety of civil litigation and appellate matters.
He is a graduate of Leadership Columbia and an active member of numerous civic and professional organizations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina and is a deacon at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia. He is married with two children.
Sherrie McTeer became the Deputy Director of Taxpayer & Business Services for the SCDOR in May 2014 and is responsible for Business Taxes, Income Taxes, Operations Support, and Collections. She earned her bachelor's in business administration from the University of South Carolina. McTeer was a double major in management science and insurance and economic security. McTeer received a post-baccalaureate degree in early childhood education from the University of South Carolina. McTeer has 30 years of experience in state government including work with the Department of Natural Resources and the SC Tax Commission.
McTeer received the Director's Award for Excellence in 2012. She has always been very active in agency and division projects and is an advocate of process improvement and team work. She strives to improve processes, reduce rework, reduce errors, while providing employees opportunities for training, development and growth within the agency. McTeer loves to celebrate successes with her employees and to help them be the best that they can be.
Mike Sayles became the Deputy Director of Security and Technology Services in May 2018, with responsibility for securely managing the SCDOR's computer system technology and overall leadership of the information security program.
Sayles joined the SCDOR in 2012 and recently served as the Chief Information Security Officer. Over the past 15 years he has worked on projects at the Budget & Control Board, the Department of Social Services, the Secretary of State, and the Judicial Department. Prior to state government, Sayles worked for 20 years in product development and manufacturing at General Electric, ROLM/IBM, and NCR. He has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University and a master's degree in computer science from Penn State. He is married with two children and lives in Lexington.
Andy Smith was appointed Deputy Director of Field Operations in December 2016. He serves as a Strategic Senior Advisor supporting: Audit Services; Criminal Enforcement and Protection; and Alcohol Beverage Licensing. Field Operations is tasked with promoting compliance, regulating licensing and educating taxpayers, and Smith's vision is to ensure the lenses of fairness and objectivity are used to carry out those directives.
With more than 25 years in public service, including extensive experience in accounting and law enforcement, Smith is uniquely qualified to lead Field Operations. Before becoming a Deputy Director, Smith was the Chief of Criminal Investigation and Protective Services. He joined the SCDOR in 2006 after working in the tax practice at Plante Moran, PLLC. He began his law enforcement career at SLED in 1989 before moving to the City of Columbia Police Department where he served for over 10 years.
Originally a native of Texas, Smith served in the United States Navy for six years, which brought him to South Carolina. He received a BBA in accountancy from Western Michigan University. He is married with two children.
Donna Swinbank joined the SCDOR in July 2018 and serves as Deputy Director of Internal Audit. Swinbank has served as an internal auditor at multiple state agencies, including previous service with the SCDOR.
She comes to the Agency most recently from the SC Department of Education, serving as an auditor since 2013. She worked for the SC Department of Mental Health as a senior auditor for 13 years and for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice for four years. Swinbank also has 10 years of audit experience from the private sector with various financial institutions. She is a Certified Internal Auditor, a Certified Bank Auditor, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.
Swinbank is a graduate of Converse College (Spartanburg, SC) and earned a Bachelor's of Arts in Business Administration and French. She is married with two children and currently lives in Lexington, SC.
Ashley Thomas serves as the Deputy Director of Communications and Strategic Solutions for the SCDOR. She oversees the Agency's internal and external communications and plays a lead role in setting strategic direction.
Prior to joining the SCDOR, Thomas was a principal with AST Communications, LLC, providing communication strategy and program development services to a variety of public, private, and nonprofit clients, both at the state and national level. She also previously served as Communications and Development Director for the Southern Institute on Children and Families as well as Director of the Governor's Literacy Initiatives. Thomas graduated with honors from Wofford College. She resides in Columbia, SC, with her husband and their two children.
Laura Watts, C.P.A, became the SCDOR's Chief Financial Officer in April 2011 and serves on the Executive Management Team for the agency. She is responsible for all financial and budgeting activities, tax revenue accounting and reporting of all tax collections to the State, and she oversees the administrative support functions of the agency including Human Resources, Employee and Taxpayer Training, Building Services, Emergency Planning, Building Security, and Warehouse Services.
Watts joined the SCDOR in 2004 as the Internal Audit Director and later served as Senior Administrator for the tax processing division. Prior work experience includes eight years with the former SC Budget and Control Board, public accounting, Town Clerk for the Town of Grover, NC, and Small Business Development Center Consultant. She has 29 years of governmental and private accounting and auditing experience.
During her career, Watts volunteered as a national Speaker and Trainer for the Institute of Internal Auditors and served in various leadership roles for local professional associations. She is a member of Toastmasters International, SC Government Finance Officers Association, and SC Association of CPAs. She is actively involved in church and other community activities in the midlands.
Watts is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Winthrop University (1992) and earned an MBA with emphasis in accounting (1993), SC Executive Institute (2000) and CFP® (2007).


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At AZUR CANOE, you will have a direct access to the river. From the private parking area where you will leave your car, you are but a few steps away from climbing into your canoe and enjoying the pleasures of what is unquestionably one of the most beautiful rivers of Europe.
Mini-trip (6 km): from the 'Camping des Tunnels' to Chames. Ideal for a first contact or for a light recreational trip on the waters. The passage under the vault of the Pont d'Arc is a fabulous and delightful experience. This trip can be done in 2 hours or more if you so wish. Departures and returns at any time.
30 km: from the 'Camping des Tunnels' to Sauze. The 6 first kilometres are identical to the mini-trip, after which you will be entering into the beautiful area of the Natural Reserve for a trip which will be one of a lifetime. You will feel as one with nature, and forget everything outside the beauty of what you will be encountering mile after mile.
In 1 day: departure is advised between 8am and 10 am every morning, following the water levels of the river. Arrival is scheduled to be around 5 pm.
In 2 days: the 2 day descent happens with a night time camping half way down, at Gaud or Gournier, where you will find sanitary installations, BBQ points and drinking water. Please note that these camping areas are mandatory and have to be paid for as they contribute to the safeguard of the beauty and virginity of the nature. returns are scheduled the day after, generally between 2 pm and 5 pm.
24 km: from Chames to Sauze. In the same conditions as the 30 km circuit.
You need to bring food and drink (no restauration is allowed in the Gorges de l'Ardèche). Bring a sleeping bag and maybe a small tent for the two day trips. You should bring sports kit (shorts, swimming trunks, a polo shirt) and plastic shoes or trainers so as to be able to walk in the water.
It is a good idea to bring a hat and sun creams as the reflection of the sun on the water and of the rocks is very strong.
From easter until the end of May for a sporting descent with a lot of water and the maximium of rapids.
From June until the end of August for a more leisurly pace and for people who prefer swimming and sunbathing.
In September for the calm this period heralds in.
For your security and that of your family, please do not take under 7 year olds on the canoes, ensure that everybody knows how to swim and always wear the lifejackets, as per the law.
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I'm dreaming of a White Christmas! Well, not exactly, I like our warm weather here in LA. And, believe it or not, Los Angeles does a fabulous job of celebrating the holidays even when it's 90 degrees outside. I compiled a list of Los Angeles holiday events if you happen to be in the area. As a Los Angeles blogger, these are some of my favorite places to go to get a dose of the holiday spirit in the City of Angels.
Celebrate your Los Angeles holiday by listening to a concert at Disney Concert Hall
The spectacular Disney Concert Hall is the premier concert venue in Los Angeles and is the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic currently under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel. The building was designed by Frank Gehry and is not only stunning to look at but has amazing acoustics. It features a 6,134-pipe organ with external pipes that are humorously referred to as French Fries. Most always there is a pre-concert lecture where you can learn more about what music will be played that evening and its history. A favorite holiday event at the Disney Concert Hall is the Holiday Sing-a-Long.
Take a walk in Grand Park at night
Grand Park, located at 210 W Temple Street is across from the Disney Concert Hall and the Los Angeles Music Center. It is colorfully lit up during the holidays with waterfalls and fountains. Their annual tree lighting includes a concert, hot chocolate and holiday cheer.
Los Angeles Holiday Events in Pershing Square
Pershing Square, located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, is a popular LA landmark surrounded by historic hotels and buildings. During winter, an ice skating rink is installed in the center of it. It's directly across from the Millennium Biltmore Hotel that is dressed up in elegant holiday finery for the winter season. Stop for high tea at the hotel's luxurious Rendezvous Lounge or have a hot toddy at the Gallery Bar and Cognac Room.
Pershing Square is also a quick walk to the Grand Central Market where you can find an array of multicultural food vendors and enjoy a yummy and affordable lunch. It's easy to take the subway downtown. The Red Line stops at Pershing Square so there's no need to worry about parking.
More Ice Skating in Los Angeles
We may not have snow but we have plenty of ice rinks dressed up for the holidays. In addition to Pershing Square, you may want to try LA Kings Holiday Ice at LA Live, Westfield Topanga, Ice at Santa Monica, and The Rink, in Downtown Burbank.
Union Station Holiday Lights Display – Olvera Street
The iconic Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles features a luminous Holiday Light display and a month-long series of concerts with various activities such as a holiday festival & artisan market, dance parties, and more. To see what's happening at the station click here.
It's directly across the street from Olvera Street and El Pueblo Historical Monument. The merchants there put on nine-consecutive evenings of Posada processions. Posada means "inn" in Spanish and is a reenactment of Mary and Joseph's search for a place to stay. You'll listen to traditional songs, festive music, and see colorful costumes. Afterward, enjoy traditional Mexican food like sweet bread and champurrado.
Be amazed by the Los Angeles Zoo Lights
The Los Angeles Zoo is located in beautiful Griffith Park and hosts the Los Angeles Zoo Lights from mid-November to early January. The zoo is completely transported into a wild wonderland of light and color. It's a popular attraction so it's best to purchase tickets online with timed entries. I'm not sure how the animals feel about it but most of them are asleep when I was there. Walking the Zoo Lights is a great way to spend your Los Angeles holiday and get your steps in as you meander through the fabulous light display.
Winter Wonderland and Santa House at The Grove
The Grove is a fabulous outdoor shopping and dining center. They host a Winter Wonderland and Santa's Workshop each year. Nearby is the Original Farmer's Market at 3rd and Fairfax. Find every kind of food you can imagine in their stalls and restaurants inside. It will be decked out for the holidays and is always lots of fun to visit.
In Glendale make sure to visit and shop at The Americana at Brand which is always festively decorated with entertainment and holiday events.
Visit and shop Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills goes all out during the holidays. The hotels are dressed to the nines and Rodeo Drive sparkles with a brilliant lighting display. During the holiday season, the city celebrates BOLD Holidays where you can enjoy live entertainment, and special hotel and restaurant offerings. Who knows, you may even meet a movie star.
Universal Studios CityWalk Holiday Fun
Universal Studios and a stroll through City Walk are especially fun from Thanksgiving through early January. Hang out with The Grinch, have a photo taken with the Minions, or make Christmas magic with Christmas in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.™
Old Pasadena Holiday Events
Not only is Pasadena a fabulous place to shop for the holidays but you'll find incredible restaurants as well. Old Pasadena has ongoing holiday events all along the boulevard. And of course, it's the home of The Tournament of Roses Parade. I prefer to watch the parade on TV, but stalwarts camp out overnight to watch it early in the morning on New Year's Day. It's been a tradition since 1890. After the parade, you can visit all the floats on display for
Marina Del Rey Lights and Boat Parade
Marina Del Rey gets festive with boats lit up in the marina, live caroling, an incredible boat parade, and live entertainment at Burton Chace Park. 60 tons of real snow is brought in for sledding. The park hosts a fireworks display on New Year's Eve with a CNN live broadcast.
The Hollywood Christmas Parade
The Los Angeles holiday experience would not be complete without going to the Hollywood Christmas Parade. The parade route on Hollywood and Sunset Blvds feature floats, bands, equestrian units, and plenty of celebrities. You can reserve grandstand seating or just park yourself on the street. Rub elbows with the stars and then enjoy a cocktail at any of the many bars, restaurants, pubs, and hotels in the area.
The Ronald Reagan Library – Christmas Around the World
From November 16 through January 5th, the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley will be displaying 26 gorgeous decorated Christmas trees that represent the 26 countries that Reagan visited while he was in office. It also features a tree that is a reproduction of the Reagan's Christmas tree in the White House. If you have never been to the Library it's a wonderful experience no matter what your party affiliation. You can board AirForce 1 and a Marine Helicopter that looks out over the entire valley. Both Ronald and Nancy Reagan are buried there.
Hanukkah at the Skirball
The Skirball Cultural Center celebrates Hanukkah with musical performances, food, and fun. It's located off the 405 freeway on the Sepulveda Pass and is the site of year-round exhibitions, art installations, and seminars that not only focuses on Jewish heritage but diversity in general.
Other holiday events in and near Los Angeles you don't want to miss
The Tournament of Roses Parade – in old downtown Pasadena – I prefer to watch the parade on TV, but stalwarts camp out overnight to watch it early in the morning on New Year's Day. It's been a tradition since 1890.
Descanso Gardens Enchanted Forest of Light – La Canada Flintridge – You can take a one-mile walk in the evening through gorgeous Descanso Gardens to view their spectacular light display. 1418 Descanso Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden in Arcadia – See dozens of Chinese lanterns aglow in the form of animals, exotic flowers, and Chinese legends along a one-mile winding path. Hand-crafted in the tradition of artisans from the Sichuan province in China. 301 N Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007 – Nov 9 – Jan 12.
Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade – This Orange County holiday event started in 1913 and is the highlight of the season in the Newport Harbor area. 309 Palm St, Newport Beach, CA 92661 – Dec 18 – 22.
The Queen Mary – Long Beach Harbor – Queen Mary Christmas is returning to Long Beach for its second year of holiday cheer. This year's Christmas event features a new indoor and outdoor footprint including a 6,000 sq.ft True North Ice Rink in the North Pole Village with live entertainment and strolling performers. Holiday splendor aboard the ship includes Storytime with Mrs.C and Meet N Greets with Saint Nick himself. November 29 – January 1 Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach; tickets $22-$69.
Fillmore and Western Railway Company Train Ride – The Fillmore Train is a collection of 19th-century railroad cars. It tours the orchards of Santa Paula in nearby Ventura County. During the holidays, you can board the Christmas Tree and Santa Shopper train as well as other themed rides during the year. The train even has seats on top for a better view. It's a fun and relaxing ride and grand-kids will love it.
Holidays at the Disneyland Resort – Disneyland, Anaheim hosts holiday events that are truly magical with lights, fireworks, and entertainment. You can't see it all in one day so you may want to stay at their fabulous Disneyland Resort.
Wishing you a joyous and peaceful Holiday Season! Celebrate the holidays in style!
This post was updated 11/23/2019


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Eight months after ex-Senator Nehal Hashmi stated derogatory words and threats against the court, the Supreme Court has conclusively given it's reply, when it concluded the case against the former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member, by deeming him guilty of contempt of court, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment and barred him from holding public office for the next five years.
Some liberal journalists have condemned the arrest on the basis that the contempt of court was applied despite repeated apologies-an unusual practice since the Court usually forgives after a rescinding of the offending statement. However, in this case, Hashmi's speech was not your common grievance against the court, but it bordered on endangering the spirit of law and order. It is the most principle factor of justice that the court be able to function without threat, fear or pressure, and that decisions in this country should not be governed by blackmail by politicians. As enraged as Hashmi was with the Judicial Investigation Team (JIT)'s treatment, to go ahead and stoop to the level of making threats against the Court's and the JIT's children, this renders in the field of incitement of violence and complete disregard for the law.
It is telling too that PML-N out rightly rejected Hashmi's statements and expelled him from the party in June, soon after the Supreme Court took suo moto action to hear the case. He has been condemned by many members of the party, and PML-N information minister Maryam Aurangezeb has clarified that he does not represent the views of the parties. Although in 2017, the on-goings of the Hashmi case did not stop Nawaz Sharif from speaking out against the court, it remains to be seen whether the criminal sentence of the ex-senator will affect the mass campaign of Nawaz Sharif and his repeated criticism of the court. The disowning of Nehal Hashmi shows that while Nawaz Sharif may not stop, there is certainly a line that PML-N does not cross.
While Hashmi's sentence makes sense, the Supreme Court's judgment, like most judgments by the Superior court nowadays, leaves us with questions. Contempt of court has always been a vague point of law, left to the whims of the Court, which sometimes ignores verbal assaults upon it, and sometimes takes strict action. Will the court also hold people in contempt who openly went against the court but have large public support, such as Khadim Rizivi in the Faizabad Dharna? It seems unlikely.


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The Centre for Youth AOD has partnered with Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and Orygen for the next three years. Together with MRCI and Orygen we endeavour to understand how substance use impacts young people's social, mental and physical development.
Murdoch Children's Research Institute has worked tirelessly over the past 33 years to ensure it is one of the world's top three research institutes. Its aim is to take what is being experienced in hospitals by young people and staff through to research to in turn help develop new, up-to-date and practical treatments to be taken back to hospitals.
Professor Stuart Kinner is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and leads a program of research on the health of marginalised and justice-involved people. His work is distinguished by methodological rigour, ethical research practice, and meaningful research translation. He is Head of the Justice Health Unit at the University of Melbourne, and Group Leader, Justice Health in the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute. He also holds Honorary appointments at Monash University, University of Queensland, Griffith University, University of British Columbia, and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.
Stuart is experienced in longitudinal studies, multi-sectoral data linkage, randomised controlled trials, program evaluation, policy analysis, systematic review, and meta-analysis. He has produced >200 publications and attracted >$24 million in research and consulting funds, mostly from nationally competitive schemes. Stuart Chairs Australia's National Youth Justice Health Advisory Group, and the WHO Health in Prisons Programme Technical Expert Group.
He Co-Chairs the Research Committee in the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health, and co-convenes the Justice Health Special Interest Group in the Public Health Association of Australia. He serves on the Steering Committee for the Worldwide Prison Health Research & Engagement Network (WEPHREN), is a member of the WHO Steering Group on Prisons Health, and leads the Health Theme in the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.
Dr Kathryn Snow is an epidemiologist whose work focuses on vulnerable populations. She has a particular interest in adolescent health and the health of people exposed to criminal justice systems.
Kathryn's undergraduate studies were in microbiology and human physiology, after which she completed an MSc (Epidemiology) and a PhD. Kathryn's PhD focused on tuberculosis (TB) in adolescents in high TB burden countries. She continues to do research on this topic, trying to identify ways to make TB services more adolescent-friendly.
Kathryn has worked in the Justice Health Unit at the University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute since 2013. Her work there spans epidemiology, health economics, and health services research, with a focus on health after release from prison. Kathryn's work in the unit began by looking at hepatitis C and injecting drug use, but she now researches broader health issues and the quality of health services.
Kathryn has advanced skills in study design, complex data analysis, and research ethics. She has served on an ethics advisory group since 2014. She mentors junior researchers and supports colleagues from diverse backgrounds in designing high quality studies, appropriately analysing complex datasets, and conducting ethical research with vulnerable populations. She collaborates with teams working on tuberculosis and viral hepatitis in Australia, South Africa, the US, the UK, and elsewhere.
Orygen's belief that young people deserve to grow into adulthood with optimal mental health resonates strongly with YSAS. Orygen has been working with young people for 35 years, initially offering them highly developed inpatient psychosocial recovery programs. The organisation has grown immensely since then, including the national reform that became headspace.
Dr Gillinder Bedi is a Senior Research Fellow (Addiction and Youth Mental Health) at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, the University of Melbourne, and Head of the Substance Use Research Group and Early intervention clinic (SURGE) at Orygen.
She completed doctoral training in clinical psychology at Monash University, studying cognitive problems and psychiatric symptoms in people who use ecstasy and cannabis.
Gill then moved to the United States, completing two years of postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, where she focused on better understanding the effects of MDMA (the main active drug in 'ecstasy'). From 2009 until 2017, she was a faculty member in the Division on Substance Use Disorders at Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute in NYC. Gill returned to Melbourne in 2017 to lead the development of a youth-focused clinical drug and alcohol research program at Orygen.
Gill's research group SURGE focuses on early intervention for substance use problems in young people between 12 and 25 years old, testing new treatments for substance use issues in young people with and without other mental health issues. The group is testing a range of approaches, including opportunistic psychological early interventions, behavioural treatments, and new medications to reduce substance use and related harms in young people. A major focus is on protecting the developmental trajectory so that young people who use substances can achieve their full potential as they move into adulthood. Gill also has a continuing program of research at Columbia in NYC which is focusing on understanding the mechanisms of substance use problems. Her research uses a range of methods, including clinical trials, human behavioural pharmacology, and neuroimaging.
Dr Katrina Witt is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow based at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She completed her Doctorate degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where she continues to have an ongoing honorary appointment with the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford, UK.
Her interests and expertise represent multiple areas, including improving statistical methods for the evaluation of effective suicide prevention and self-harm intervention programs across settings, including in youth mental health, alcohol and other drug treatment settings, and primary care settings.
Katrina is also a Senior Methods Editor for the Cochrane Collaboration Suicide and Self-Harm and the Youth Mental Health Groups and, in this role, regularly produces Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the current status of effective treatments for suicide prevention, self-harm, and youth mental health which are used to inform clinical practice guidelines both in Australia and internationally. For example, she received commissions from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services to co-lead on the development of authoritative clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of all suicidal persons presenting to Victorian emergency departments.
Katrina has received numerous commendations and awards for her work, including most recently from the Victorian Young Achiever's Foundation (2017), the BUPA Foundation (2018), and in 2019 she received the Andrej Marušiĉ Early Career Researcher Award from the International Association for Suicide Prevention.
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By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
Design is more than just the pursuit of what is pretty — what it is pragmatic. Steve Jobs once lamented: "Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer, that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
So how does good design work in our everyday lives? As the global village welcomes more advanced technologies, the art and science of design result in innovations that put forward the idea of humanizing design in order to solve a problem. This shift from design as just aesthetics to design as a gear toward problem solving is called "design thinking." At the core of design thinking is empathizing with customers.
"Design thinking" is not exclusive to the so-called creatives (designers, engineers, producers, artists, entrepreneurs, etc.) alone, but to anyone committed to service. The power of "design thinking" matters in humanities, as in understanding people and their behaviors and wants, and in economics, as in creating and developing more businesses that are human-centric.
"Design thinking concerns itself in the interest of cultivating an understanding of the people and their attitudes, because it is for them whom we are designing the products or services," said Rhea Matute, executive director of Design Center of the Philippines (DCP), an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
DCP launched its first international conference on design on Sept. 22 at the Green Sun Hotel, Makati, inviting local and foreign designers and innovators to talk about the impact of design thinking.
DCP, the only national agency for design, serves as a hub for creative thinkers to exchange ideas and explore solutions. It holds regional workshops, trainings, exhibits, design consultations, and technical services, especially curated for the young minds and for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which, according to DTI's website, total to 896,893 establishments as of 2015.
Majority of MSMEs are in the wholesale and retail industries, followed by vehicles and motorcycles, business establishments, accommodation and food service activities, manufacturing, information and communication, financial activities, and insurance activities.
DCP also researches and develops indigenous raw materials that MSMEs can tap and use as their materials. But, there are challenges that hinder the growth and development of MSMEs. "The business communities [in the Philippines] are not sure how design is integrated in their business plan. Also, they have this perception that design is expensive or design is risky. Filipinos are risk-averse, and that is the gap we need to address," Ms. Matute said, adding that, on the other hand, Filipinos have "a strong entrepreneurial mindset and it's just the matter of thinking bigger and taking a bigger risk."
She said it is seeing how good design matters in the business and how the business people can make it the core of their blueprints.
While the Philippines has not yet seen the value of good design, it is considered in more progressive countries including in the United States (where Silicon Valley is found), Sweden (the EU's top country for innovation in 2010), and the United Kingdom (which has a Design Council, the UK government's adviser on design).
"Companies that are ignorant in [the value of] design are likely to have low performance," said Johan Persson, one of the guest speakers at the event, citing his presentation of a study of 1,016 random Swedish companies between 2005 and 2015.
Mr. Persson, a Swede with a two-decade career in brand and design management, said that "companies that use design as a strategy and innovation tool" have shown increasing performances between 2005 to 2015, when the study was conducted. Currently based in Hong Kong, his clients are the international companies like Philips, Pepsi, Sony Ericsson, and Octopus Card.
A study by the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation said that Swedish businesses grow by 6.5% when design is used for styling, but there is 9% growth when design is used as an innovation.
The Design Value Index (DMI) report, an investment tool founded by Virginia-based consultancy Motiv Strategies, meanwhile said that US companies that consider the value of design thinking rose above their industry peers by as much as 228% from 2003 to 2013.
The DMI report said that the design-centric companies in the US were, in order, Apple, Coca-Cola, Ford, IBM, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Target, Walt Disney, and Whirlpool, and they were more profitable than the rest.
Investments in design thinking as a business strategy include not only packaging and branding, but service development, user and market analysis, concept development, production, and promotion.
There is no formula behind the concept of design thinking, and companies, whether big or small, are at risk of launching a failed innovation.
Take Apple as an example. While Apple is considered the most design-centric and one of the most successful brands in history, it faced failures while paving its path for growth and success. In 1993, it launched the Apple Newton, which introduced the idea of a personal computer. It was a personal digital assistant, and the first ever to feature handwriting recognition. It was innovative, ahead of its time, and utilized the idea of design thinking — but it failed.
Forbes magazine said the Newton might have flopped because its handwriting recognition was bad, its starting price was $700, and it was not handy at eight inches tall and 4.5 inches wide.
"Do not be afraid to fail," said Mr. Persson. "One of the best times when you learn the most is whenever you fail, because it is when you start building better and stronger."
Apple's Newton was not a total failure in the end, because from it came the iPad.
Mr. Persson said businesses should fail as early as possible and should tolerate failures.
For Dan Formosa Ph.D., another guest speaker, companies should embrace falls as much as they welcome change.
"Everybody wants to innovate, nobody want to change," said Mr. Formosa, a New York-based design research consultant, who is expert in design and research, with a degree in product design, biomechanics, and ergonomics.
"Change is difficult. What I notice is that there are a lot of companies that want to innovate, but when you look at what they need to do to follow the guidelines of design thinking, they need to work together and maybe even change the entire management structure so that the different disciplines within the company integrate — and these tend not to happen," he said.
The idea preferring a little tweak in the system over a total overhaul is universal, and not exclusive to small nations and traditional organizations adapting to changes in technology and embracing younger employees in the work force.
"It's difficult to have that level of change so, while companies say that they want to innovate, they are change resistant. It's human nature, but I also think that there are systems in place that resist change. That is the constraint, you need to change. Taking a human-centered approach and thinking collectively about a problem, that is a cultural change within a corporation. It is difficult and it is not specific in the Philippines alone. The same things are happening in the US, and other parts of Asia. The systems and the way people work tend to resist the idea of openness and innovation," said Mr. Formosa.
But change and age do not have a direct correlation he said.
"The ability to change is not age related. I see a lot of younger people who are very obedient and resistant to breaking rules. It may be their upbringing or they are no different from anyone from the rest of the world. I get more frustrated when younger people are restrained. What is it in your upbringing, training, or school, that makes you so narrow in your focus on what you should be about? It is frustrating when you see younger people resisting to think differently," said Mr. Formosa, who critiques the orthodox school system in the US as one of the reasons why some young people are afraid of change.
"In the US, talking historically, the school is not a set up to encourage creativity. It is a system set up like we are training factory workers, which means the system creates a mind-set that is resistant to change. It is created very early on… you are told what is right, what is wrong, what is the correct answer, basically how to obey," he said.
Although we have a similar educational system as the US's, Ms. Matute thinks millennials in the Philippines want change. She said members of our younger generation are more accepting of changes and thinking outside the box.
"The younger generation is not as sigurista (careful, conservative) as the older ones, so they are willing to try and see where design goes, which is the good side of it. We have the golden opportunity to leap frog in the innovation economy, given the makeup of our population in the Philippines. There is the creative confidence of young people to have the courage to do things and try things. They are more encouraged to take the next step," she said.


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I made some this fall using soy pellets. I buy them on amazon, here is a link!
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I love using P&J fragrance oils. They make lots of different scents. Since I made them for fall I bought a kit that included: pumpkin pie, harvest spice, cinnamon, gingerbread, coffee cake and apple cider
I just ordered more soy wax and hope to make some spring floral candle scents next. I found the cute glass blown pumpkin jars at Dollar tree. Once I bought them, I never saw them again. They are really cute.
The process is so quick and simple. You can use a double boiler or microwave the oil. I used glass jars in hot water. I've seen people use crockpots to help do this.
Once melted, pour into a container, then place your wick. I had no issues w the wick staying in place. If you have a hot glue gun, you can hot glue them in place if you prefer. Before pouring, drip oils into wax to your liking.
This is a very natural way of enjoying candles without so many harsh chemicals!


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Posted by Tim on February 13, 2017 in Academic Presentations, Academics, Community Announcements, Event, Honors Program Announcements, Networking, Stress Relief, Workshops
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Hey nail & beauty enthusiasts,
Zoya's Fall 2018 Collection Element is here! I recently tried "Kendra & "Ruthie" & love them both!
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KENDRA ZP957: a beautiful full-coverage marsala cream.
Shown with only 1 coat Zoya Kendra applies smooth and evenly! #5minuteMani Approved! I literally slapped this on before going to work and it looks great! A perfect deep purple/red. LOVE IT! This photo was taken under a white day light lamp.
RUTHIE ZP955: a full-coverage raspberry rose cream. — WARM SHADE —
I recently tried this shade and it went on smooth, creamy and opaque in just 1 coat! A must have for fall!
**Sorry for the shift in color… this photo was taken under a softer yellow light.
DEVIN ZP952: a steel blue with hints of multicolored shimmer in a dense foil finish.
RUMOR ZP953: a full-coverage mauve taupe with a subtle shimmer – a perfect classic shade for Fall.
JENNA ZP954: a full-coverage dusty rose pink cream with blue undertones.
MARYANN ZP956: a full-coverage pink-toned rose with soft glowing shimmer.
ALYSSA ZP958: a full-coverage red-toned purple cranberry cream.
DONNIE ZP959: a full-coverage purple-toned sangria cream.
MAEVE ZP960: a full-coverage concord grape cream.
RACHAEL ZP961: a full-coverage mulberry berry cream.
LEIGHTON ZP962: a deeply saturated blackened aubergine cream.
GARDNER ZP963: a deep periwinkle with a vibrant magenta shimmer in a dense foil finish.
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Working on the front lines of delivering care? You should apply for the Strategic Innovation for Community health programme taking place in the fall.
Lessons Learned at Strategic Innovation for Community Health (STICH) 2017 from J&J Corporate Citizenship Trust on Vimeo.
About the Opportunity
The Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust is partnering with INSEAD Business School to invite people on the frontlines of primary care to embark on a life-changing journey of Leadership & Innovation. Building on 20 years of shared experience in driving Leadership and Development across Europe Middle East and Africa – Strategic Innovation for Community Health (STICH) will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from the 12th to 17th November 2018.
STICH is a novel programme for senior healthcare managers who work in the areas of primary care, chronic care pathways and community health. It is designed for people with medical, nursing, health education and public health backgrounds whose management responsibilities have increased significantly and who are faced with the challenge of developing new models of care for healthcare service design and delivery.
The objective of the Strategic Innovation for Community Health programme is to provide cutting-edge insights and thinking about: innovation as a discipline; the innovation of healthcare and prevention services; the effective implementation and adaptation of strategy; and new approaches to "systems thinking" for addressing the challenges of healthcare.
To learn more about the partnership between the Trust and INSEAD and the other two successful programs in the portfolio "Innovating Health for Tomorrow (Fontainebleau France)" and the "Middle East Health Leadership Program" (Abu Dhabi, UAE), visit www.jjcct.org.
When & where the programme will take place
Nairobi, Kenya
12 - 17 November
Who can apply for this programme?
Strategic Innovation for Community Health is designed for leaders in primary care, public health or chronic disease care. It welcomes individuals from the public sector, private and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who strive to improve the health and who want to have a real impact on the populations they serve. Successful candidates will have been trained as doctors, nurses, health educators or other health professionals who have subsequently become senior or high-potential managers in healthcare delivery organisations. Participants will typically:
- Be senior or high-potential managers in healthcare services (3 to 8 years of management experience)
- Be considered by their organisations to be capable of occupying positions of increased responsibility, particularly with respect to innovation


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Professor in Residence, Department of Architecture, GSD, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
In This Issue [1/2020]VOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 5 - 7 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.13, published: 2020-06-24
Architectural Portraits: ῾The MIES Project'VOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 9 - 30 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.4, published: 2020-05-14
This article wants to offer a brief overview of my experience as an architectural photographer and of "The Mies Project" in particular, on which I have been working on for the past few years. My approach to photography, based on the latest digital technology but also on the Leica M-System, is briefly outlined. In the past, the question was how to obtain information. Nowadays, the proper structuring of information is what really matters. Architectural Portraits, a small selection of which from "The Mies Project" are here presented, are "intimate gazes," prioritizing the relationship of the detail of a building with its surrounding, the interaction between construction details, lighting and weather conditions. In this sense, Mies' works not only have sparked my interest in architectural photography, but have been also the perfect poetic partner for my research.
Wellbeing in the Built Environment: Designing Discontinuities Between Function and SemanticVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 31 - 52 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.1, published: 2020-05-21
Space is relational. How many relationships can occupy a space? How do they work? These are both interesting questions that we would like to answer. We know that we interact with space and that its configuration affects us: we can be aggregative while experiencing it, rather than competitive. Space has considerable power in influencing our brain. Essentially, our actions are somehow manipulated by what we see and what we touch. How does our space (peripersonal space) interfere with another's? The idea of interaction within space (or social space) and space of selfhood thus becomes an essential subject for architecture and cannot be simply parameterized in a geometric manner. Physical space must, therefore, allow solitary or cooperative movement without alienating the individual. We base our judgments on movement, culture, personal psychical characteristics, memory, and personal experience. Taking these elements as our base, we gave a new perspective for designers to draw from the semantic, which can be rhetorical and disconnected by the function.
We are All Counterinsurgents NowVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 53 - 70 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.12, published: 2020-06-24
The increasing production of robust, information-laden, parametric architectural and urban models has outpaced a critical evaluation of the ethics of contemporary modeling and visualization practices which, rather than reflecting reality, are transforming it. This essay exposes the logics of the expropriation of architectural and urban models in a decade-old RAND Corporation endeavor to envision a comprehensive digital counterinsurgency strategy. To encourage professional and cultural agents, as well as unwitting civilian agents, to populate databases with urban and environmental data, RAND proposed weaponizing open-source, big-data urban models and participatory platforms to create multicultural, user-friendly interfaces. Conceived to appear like an exercise in open-source digital democracy and participatory knowledge-sharing that would spark emotive responses such as pride and fear, RAND focused on the cognitive and affective side of digital participation and information sharing to wage a counterinsurgency in the minds of civilians and insurgents. When the models that architects build can be weaponized to ends other than realizing buildings and cities, when they become instruments for influencing behavior and facilitating warfare, there is an urgent need for an ethics of visualization.
American Mirror: the Occupation of the 'New World' and the Rise of Architecture as We Know ItVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 71 - 88 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.5, published: 2020-05-18
This paper argues that the rise of architecture as a unique discipline and the conquest of the American continent are not just chronological coincidences but interdependent variables of the same process of modernization. Traditional scholarship in architecture has not entertained those parallel developments at all. The field of architectural history and theory still treats the spatial occupation of the Americas as a consequence of the Renaissance and European modernization, despite a few decades of scholarly literature in related disciplines questioning such assumptions. (Fanon 1961; Said 1978; Dussel 1980; Bhabha 1987; Escobar 1994). Such scholarship demonstrates that the encounter of 1492 and the territorial occupation that followed played a central role in the development of Western culture in general, allowing the extrapolation of the same logic to the architectural discipline in particular.
On the CIAM 7 Grid: From an Ideological to a Critical ToolVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 89 - 117 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.6, published: 2020-05-21
Much historiographical research has been produced on the post-war CIAMs, demonstrating the importance of the CIAM Grid, proposed as a "thinking tool" for representing the town planning projects at the CIAM 7 in Bergamo (1949). This essay proposes a new critical and epistemological examination of the CIAM Grid based on new archival documents and on a rereading of the exact words used by Le Corbusier, who proposed to consider the Grid as an "interlocutor." Seventy years later, we propose to go beyond the failure of CIAM 7 and to elaborate a "new Grid," with the name of "Second Life Grid," as a critical tool for discussing exclusively projects related to the new paradigm of recycling and reusing buildings and urban spaces. Beginning with the question of the critical legacy of the CIAM Grid, our intention was to think of a Grid conceived no longer as an instrument of dogmatic and normative thought, but as an instrument of dialogical criticism which has been tested through an open call for projects and an international conference held in Bergamo in October, 2019.
Musings on Boredom, Midcentury Architecture, and Public SpacesVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 119 - 138 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.11, published: 2020-06-11
The rejection of "boredom" fueled the midcentury reaction against modernism, but little is known about the complicated presence of this mood in the architectural discourse. Far from being a mere rhetorical tool, the quip "Less is a bore" is part of Robert Venturi's larger interest in boredom and was influenced by his reading of a book referenced repeatedly in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966): August Heckscher's The Public Happiness (1962). A liberal writer and political activist, Heckscher situated boredom at the core of modern humanity's alienation. While the concern with boredom was explicitly addressed in the humanities, I suggest that it was taking shape in midcentury architectural polemics under the influence of writings from other disciplines, as well as the emerging artistic practices that were deliberately embracing the "aesthetics of boredom." Specifically, I will examine Venturi's reading of Heckscher through two of his (unbuilt) civic projects that directly engage the issue of boredom: Three Buildings for a Town in Ohio (1965) and the entry for the Copley Square Competition (1966).
A Lab for a New Civitas. An Innovative School in the Po ValleyVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 139 - 162 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.10, published: 2020-06-17
Sorbolo is a beautiful town located halfway between the ancient ducal city of Parma and the Po River, within a countryside that developed from marshes, rows of poplars, embankments, vineyards. In 2016, after an initial planning process, the municipality of Sorbolo submitted to the MIUR (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università, e della Ricerca) a plan for the development of a school campus. The facility was meant to be open to the local territory and community, parents, and citizens wishing to have a stake in the decision-making processes that apply to the education and training of young people.
The first step was the construction of a new building complex destined to a 24 hour school system, accomodating approximately 450 students, ten to fourteen years old, supported by a cross-disciplinary approach: "a school for everyone, motivational, open, innovative." The firm UFFICIO PROGETTI Architetti Associati Bertani & Vezzali, with the Sorbolo project, was the second winner of the MIUR international contest for the creation of 52 innovative schools over the entire Italian territory.
Waving the Magic Wand: An Argument for Reorganizing the Aridlands around WatershedsVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 163 - 184 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.7, published: 2020-05-21
Irrigation remains the primary means of sustaining urbanization and stabilizing agricultural productivity in arid America. In the contest for the West, water is both wealth and power. Today's struggle to overturn water scarcity is traceable through a long history of legislation overseeing land regulation, property speculation, societal development, and cultural attitudes, real and perceived, inscribed within the America's aridlands. In reality, there is no magic wand - no miraculous technology - that alone will fulfill the needs of all who have been promised abundance in the aridlands. This paper proposes that revisiting John Wesley Powell's 1893 proposal for aridland development in the context of today's ecological conditions catalyzes an alternative response to today's predictions of changing climates, and can provide the basis of an approach to the aridlands which builds from the enmeshed relationship between social and environmental systems.
Landscape Lifecycles as a Speculative Design Research Practice for Transforming Waste ConditionsVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 185 - 220 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.9, published: 2020-06-23
Research-based design has been foundational for landscape architecture. Analytical layering in geographically-based mappings has become a universally applied, formulaic approach. For waste landscapes, this has generated similar redevelopment strategies for drastically differing waste landscape conditions. This site typology, however, requires more nuanced approaches. As a design-research framework, "landscape lifecycles" aims to tackle waste landscapes with integrative strategies and techniques that reactivate waste as a legible and dynamic contributor to local and regional contexts; a method for integrating multiple diverse programs rooted in economic, environmental, and social performance to form hybrid assemblages in the transformation of perceived material and spatial waste. This article highlights design-research and generative representational methods developed through projects and coursework that embrace speculation as a means of engaging with waste conditions at multiple scales — from the material to the region. These methods range from speculative geographic, process, and abstract mapping to scenario testing to time-based, projective design that document, explore, and test an argumentative hypothesis and the multi-scalar design implications of research on the imaginative potentials of waste transformation.
Disaster Planning Across Scales: Lessons from Post-Earthquake Rubble Management in Oaxaca, MexicoVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 221 - 250 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.8, published: 2020-06-10
This paper examines rubble management as an important but often neglected component of disaster response and a powerful example of the frequent disconnect between national plans and local action. It focuses on five marginalized municipalities in Oaxaca, Mexico: Ciudad Ixtepec, Asuncion Ixtaltepec, El Espinal, Juchitan de Zaragoza, and Santa Maria Xadani. These constitute the region most affected by the Mexican earthquakes of September 2017, with roughly 58% of inhabitants suffering either partial or total loss of their houses. The paper builds on the results of fifty-one interviews, a cross-sectional survey with 384 residents, and a mapping analysis to reveal the challenges of post-disaster planning across scales. The results show that local perspectives were given little consideration in nationally-led rubble management plans, and that these documents were likely shaped by concerns over what constituted institutional legitimacy, rather than attention to local context. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings through the lens of institutional isomorphism and offers recommendations for more effective post-disaster rubble management, particularly centered on increasing the involvement and capacity of residents, municipal governments, and other key institutions.
Aldo Rossi: Representing LifeVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 253 - 259 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.3, published: 2020-05-11
Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
By Diane Y. F. Ghirardo
London: Yale University Press
254 mm x 203 mm
135 color + 5 b/w illustrations
280 pages
US$65 / £50.00 GBP (hardback)
Giancarlo De Carlo. A SymposiumVOLUME 5/2020 - Issue 1 , Pages: 261 - 278 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.2, published: 2020-05-11
Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, FuturesVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 519 - 523 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.14, published: 2020-02-11
Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures
By Franca Trubiano, Ramona Adlakha, and Ramune Bartuskaite (eds.)
Novato CA, USA: Applied Research and Design / Oro Editions, 2019, 2018
241 mm x 165 mm
144 pages
US$ 29.95 (paperback)
Remembering Robert Venturi, a Modern ManneristVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 1 , Pages: 253 - 259 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.01.1, published: 2018-10-05
Women Who Design "Master" Bedrooms: A Study of Kerala Women in Architectural PracticeVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 429 - 447 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.9, published: 2020-02-05
While the practice of architecture has traditionally been a male-dominated field in India, gender discourse in architecture has been slowly shifting the gender balance towards an increased participation of women in architectural practice and academics, as both leaders and team members. This paper explores the nuances of feminist spatial practices locating itself in the state of Kerala, India, that has historically unique gender politics. The paper draws on an ethnographically informed study of twelve women architects, using "Master Bedrooms" as a discursive tool to capture their engagement in professional practice. The study revealed that the critical feminist spatial practice is not watertight nor a conscious way of practice. It does not even require conformity to any one idea of feminism. These women practitioners deploy multiple modes of engaging with and challenging the dominant norms of professional practice. These range from conscious acts of individual subversion to organizational structuring, from overt challenges to quiet resistance. This paper offers to problematise contemporary discourse on critical feminist spatial practices in the context of India and thereby, contribute to critical spatial pedagogies.
On the Work of Lisbeth Sachs: From the Aesthetic to the Environmental Impact of ArchitectureVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 481 - 501 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.8, published: 2020-01-23
Characterized by continuity, inventiveness, and a fervent exploration of the relationship between architecture and the environment at large, the work of Lisbeth Sachs was included in the 1979 issue of the Aktuelles Bauen magazine on women and architecture. This contribution proposes an in-depth review of Sachs' underexplored work, suggesting a better understanding of her role as a practicing woman architect at a time when this task was not a matter of course. It places an emphasis on the dialogue Sachs established with her contemporaries, on the dense network of experiences that shaped her design approach, and on the ways it intersected with the late twentieth-century discourse on the relationship between architecture, ecology, and nature. It is not coincidental that the work of Frei Otto would have a long-lasting influence on Sachs' design experimentation, informing her theoretical and applied design projects. Her design exploration, too, was influenced by the technological advances, the societal changes and the shifts in the cultural agency of architecture, proposing each time a solution that addressed, rather than excluded, its surrounding context, cultural, physical, or environmental.
The email@example.com as an Ongoing Feminist Research Project in Architecture: Contextualizing Initial ReflectionsVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 391 - 402 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.7, published: 2020-01-16
In Portugal, the participation of female architects in the development of the profession – in the broad sense of the word: project, research, education, criticism, and policy – is far from having been identified, problematized, and disseminated. The research project email@example.com (Women Architects in Portugal: Building Visibility, 1942-1986) strives to give visibility to female architects – revealing "who?", "when?", and "how?" – and contribute to expanding the history of Portuguese architecture, as well as developing feminist studies and ideas within the discipline. The strategies chosen to carry out this ongoing research intersect with feminist theories and epistemologies, outside and inside architecture. The issues raised require a critical understanding of the processes that sustain the silencing of female architects' voices, imposing limitations on how we understand the profession in its many facets. The feminist historical reflection that we propose is based on the idea that combining the production of knowledge and professional practices is crucial to change gender biases and women's oppression in both fields.
Women Leaders, the Sustainable Society Cannot Afford to Miss: A Qualitative Study on the Paths to Women Leadership in Sustainable Architecture EducationVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 345 - 369 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.6, published: 2020-02-05
Candice Stevens has pointed out that the lack of progress on gender equality may be at the heart of the failure to advance on sustainable development. Several researchers such as Sandra Manley and Ann de Graft‐Johnson, and Rosa Sheng and Annelise Pitts have studied why women leave architecture, but no study focused on the women's leadership in architecture education yet. This qualitative study aimed to discover insight into the leadership development journey of women focusing on sustainable architecture education. The sample was selected among 1,705 faculties of forty-one collegiate architecture programs. After email invitations, five successful women executives in sustainable architecture areas participated in the interviews. After coding analysis, three conclusions illuminated. Firstly, strong mothers influence daughters to become leaders. Secondly, the inner motivation of "working super hard" is the foundational factor that all the women leader participants claimed to sustain their leadership advancement. Thirdly, participants unveiled that there was an on-going-pattern while finishing the tasks and establishing reputations, especially in early career development. The awareness of the pattern helped to reduce the panic of the new tasks.
Making Room and Occupying Space. Women Conquering and Designing Urban SpacesVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 371 - 390 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.5, published: 2019-12-06
Women have always been strongly involved in creating environment and living spaces, even without initially being designers as the university became accessible to them very late. However, they were always strong involved in creating a healthy environment, and contributing to welfare state, where health and social equipment was a gender response to a modern life. Anyway, the history of architecture remains dominated by Masters and the female presence is almost invisible, even though women's studies have made a large contribution to investigate lives, stories, and professional works. The paper highlights the contribution of women as builders of social and physical spaces from late nineteenth and focuses on Italian movements of second and third generation feminists. Nowadays feminists are pointing out invisibility of women as a structural violence, are claiming commons and creating new uses for urban space.
Jiyūgaoka as Women's Realm: A Case Study on Tokyo GenderficationVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 403 - 427 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.4, published: 2019-12-18
Framed within the question of how gender influences the production of urban space, this study reveals how Jiyūgaoka, a high-end suburban area in Tokyo, has developed by targeting a particular gender role: women as caretakers and consumers. Car-safe and bike-friendly, Jiyūgaoka pedestrian areas have more greenery, pavement, and urban furniture in comparison with the average Tokyo street. Jiyūgaoka spatial practices encourage the meeting of people in the public realm, creating relationships between behaviors and their supporting physical environment. By aiming at women, other non-normative bodies were rendered into the city, enhancing public life and creating an accessible milieu. Jiyūgaoka genderfication process, by which the overlaying of commercial and gender mechanisms has impacted urban phenomena, is shown through a chronological investigation of gender-charged contents and its mapping in the urban fabric. This study demonstrates how urban transformation in Jiyūgaoka has encompassed changes in the lives of women in Japanese society. Representative examples from each period illustrate the physical translation of this development, from a home cooking school to a promenade with hundreds of benches.
Women's Work: Attributing Future Histories of the Digital in ArchitectureVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 307 - 326 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.3, published: 2019-12-06
Conventions of authorship and attribution historically excluded or erased women's contributions to the built environment. As frequent co-authors and collaborators, women's stories often do not fit into conventional historical narratives about how architecture is created. In response, this essay proposes a technology called "attribution frameworks": a digital method for creating a transparent record of architectural labor. The authors argue that the integration of digital tools into architectural design offers a new space for more equally attributing, documenting, and counting labor and contributions to the discipline. This space allows for a more rich and inclusive narrative of contributions to architectural production for the future.
Where Are the Lesbian Architects? Visibility and Its ChallengesVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 327 - 343 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.2, published: 2020-01-16
Until recently, discussions of the relation of sexual orientation with the built environment have mostly focused on gay men at the expense of lesbian women and trans people. This study thus presents a review of discourses in architecture and design as well as interviews with lesbian designers to understand how and why queer women have been almost invisible. The privileged position of men allows expression of their sexual orientation with less risk than women who are already facing discrimination. Furthermore, structural inequities have forced women architects to focus on issues of equality and inclusion for all women, with the side effect of often silencing how other forces such as sexual orientation or race combine to create more complex power relations. Invisibility is a problem, however, as it limits the ability to respond adequately to diverse social needs and to sustain more inclusive design disciplines. Bringing to the foreground the intersection of identities with experience of space can encourage younger generations of architects by offering role models and diversifying the range of life experiences informing the design of spaces.
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and Its DiscontentsVOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 513 - 518 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.16, published: 2020-03-02
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy:
Architecture, Modernism
and Its Discontents
By Hilde Heynen
London: Bloomsbury
Studies in Modern Architecture, 2019
234 mm x 156 mm
288 pages
US$ 100.00 (hardback),
US$ 31.46 (paperback)
A New "Book of the City of Ladies"VOLUME 4/2019 - Issue 2 [GENDER MATTERS], Pages: 503 - 511 doi: 10.15274/tpj.2019.04.02.15, published: 2020-02-12
Theoretikerinnen des Städtebaus.
Texte und Projekte für die Stadt,
By Katia Frey and Eliana Perotti (eds.)
Berlin: Reimer, 2015
240 mm x 170 mm
42 b/w illustrations
352 pages
€ 49 (paperback)
Frauen blicken auf die Stadt.
Architektinnen, Planerinnen, Reformerinnen. Theoretikerinnen des Städtebaus II,
By Katia Frey and Eliana Perotti (eds.)
Berlin: Reimer, 2019
240 mm x 170 mm
45 b/w illustrations
360 pages
€ 49 (paperback)