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The case interview format required to get a management consulting job at a major firm can be daunting and brutal. I was lucky enough to successfully navigate Boston Consulting Group's interview process after a fair amount of practice. My success involved a lot of practice on my part, but also a lot of help from some incredible people.
As I've been helping others get ready for their own case interviews, I've noticed a few tips that can help nearly all of the candidates I've talked to. I thought I would make it easy for them and anyone else to enjoy the knowledge I received from many better case-interviewers than I.
Here are what I consider to be the top 5 quick tips to improve your case interview performance. They won't save a bad case, but they will greatly improve your communication, thinking process, and flow.
1. Signposting
"Signposting" most typically refers to the act of numbering things, but includes other things that candidates can say to help an interviewer understand how the candidate is organizing his or her thoughts. Signposting helps a ton (1) when explaining the initial framework, and (2) when discussing insights from exhibits. These benefits are amplified when having an interview over the phone.
Signposting the Initial Framework
For the first point (explaining the framework,) the candidate should say upfront how many items or "buckets" that he or she wants to analyze. For example:
"there are two major things I want to look into to find the problem with profitability."
I often suggest that candidates write numbers on each of their initial "buckets" to help remind them to say the number with it. Saying the numbers out loud is especially helpful on the phone when the interviewer can't see the candidate's paper.
Most initial frameworks will be logic trees with multiple levels. There are two major ways to explain through the different levels.
1. Level by level
This is the way I prefer. This involves giving an overview of everything at a certcain equivalent level before going deeper into any of them. It's a bit like giving an agenda or preview for each level of analysis. For example, I might say:
"There are two things I want to investigate to identify why profitability is decreasing. First, I want to look for decreases in revenue, and second I want to look for increased costs. Within the first point, revenue, I want to look into three different aspects: first, the price of our products; second, the quantity of products sold; and third, our product mix."
2. Go Deep, Then Rise
Although I'm not personally a fan of this process, I know that some interviewers prefer it. This means going from the first bucket all the way to the bottom of the logic tree before coming back up. For example, I might say
"There are two things I want to investigate to identify why profitability is decreasing. First, I want to look for decreases in revenue. Within revenue, I want to look for three things. The first thing to look for will be changes in the price of our products. [after completing all the revenue stuff] I now want to look into the second major thing, costs."
Whichever method you prefer to use for your explanation, numbering the items and helping the interviewer keep track of the part of the analysis that you're doing helps you be a clearer communicator, and can force you to be a clearer thinker as well.
Signposting Exhibits
This can be significantly more difficult for most candidates, but candidates who can do this are much more impressive. When the interviewer gives you a chart, graph, or something like it, you will usually take a few seconds to digest the information. After digesting, you identify the significant aspects of the exhibit to the interviewer. Whenever a candidate numbers the insights, gives an overview of what they are, and then explains them in a bit more depth, I'm always more impressed and I also better understand the candidate's thinking.
Many times a candidate will say something like "I notice three things from this chart…" and then notice a fourth thing as they're describing the first three. It's not a bad thing to mention at the end of the third point that you just noticed a fourth significant point, especially if you're clear that it's a fourth insight. Don't forget to number the additional point or you might sound like you're giving two unrelated ideas as a single point.
2. The Synthesis Model
Frequently throughout a case the candidate should tie discovered information into the original question. There are good and better ways to do this.
The Model
The model is fairly simple, it involves saying three things in this order:
1. The answer/solution/implication
2. The supporting evidence for the answer
3. The next steps
For example, I might say
"The company is losing profitability due to cannibalization of its most profitable product.
We know this for three reasons: (1) 70% of the customers of the main product switched to the cheaper offering when it became available, (2) offering a cheaper product only increased our overall product sold by 5%, and (3) the most profitable product's profitability itself decreased when we started producing fewer items due to the lower demand.
I think we should do two things next. (1) investigate what customers really want from our product to identify why the cheaper offering was adequate for more customers than we anticipated and (2) investigate the effects of a greater investment in recruiting new customers." (Notice the signposting.)
When to Use it
The synthesis model should be used at two major times in a case: (1) at the end of every branch of analysis and (2) at the end of the entire case. In candidate led interviews (such as with BCG and Bain), the candidate should be using the original framework throughout the case as a guide. Whenever a candidate gets to the end of a branch of analysis (such as the revenue branch) the candidate should summarize what the analysis revealed about the problem, a brief recap of the supporting evidence, and the next step (which will be to look into the next branch of analysis, such as costs).
At the end of the case, the synthesis should give the answer to the original question, recap the most significant supporting evidence, and give next steps that cover one or both of two things: (1) analysis on things you're still unsure about, and (2) possible future engagements with the client. Many cases will require you to make a decision when there's enough of a balance of pros and cons to decide either way. Using the "next steps" in the final synthesis lets you identify the additional information you would like to have, without giving a weak decision on the main point.
For the second item, whenever you can identify additional work we could do for the client, you start to look a bit more like a coworker than a candidate, and that's good. Being able to talk about how to sell the next piece of business is a nice icing on the cake that can make the difference between an adequate interview and a great one.
3. Look For, Not At
When explaining their framework, it's common for candidates to say things like "I want to look at our product" or "I want to look at fixed costs." It's a start, but looking at something won't tell you the answer. You need to know what you're looking for as your eyes rest on the thing you asked for.
For example, a candidate trying to identify a profitability problem my say
"I want to look at revenues and costs."
It sounds logical, but I'm not yet sure that the candidate will know what to do with the revenue and cost information. It sounds better, and forces you to think more clearly when you say something like
"I will look for decreases in revenues, or increases in costs."
Here, I already know the criterion in the candidate's head, and the candidate knows it too. Although profitability issues are a bit of an obvious example, this principle becomes even more important with non-financial things. Often times a candidate will say
"I would like to look at the product."
To which I might thump a product in front of the candidate and say "here it is, what's the answer?" At that moment, it will be clear that you need to look for certain things. Maybe you're looking for defects in the product, or ways that the customer uses the product differently than what's anticipated, or for increasing expenses in certain components of the product, etc. Looking at the product does nothing.
This also helps the candidate direct the case. It's easier (though not guaranteed) for a candidate to get away with just identifying the "look at's" with some McKinsey first-round cases, but to get the final offer, or to navigate the candidate-led interviews at other firms, the candidate needs to know exactly what to look for. Keeping this mindset has helped many candidates avoid the pause after explaining the framework as the candidate is forced to finally think about what we'll actually start doing. When you know what you're looking for, you know what questions to ask and how to ask them.
Using this slight change in language forces candidates to think about why they want the information and allows them to hone in on the important aspects of the dizzying swirls of data I might unload on the candidate.
4. The Calculations Method
Math will be a part of nearly every case interview. Besides just getting the numbers right, you need to get the process right. Here's the best way I've seen to do the math:
1. Identify why you're going to do some sort of calculation
2. Identify the equation (with words and variables) and write it at the top of the section you're using
3. Do the calculations (out loud if you can)
4. Synthesize the meaning/implication of the number
What you should not do is simply say "give me a minute to run these numbers" after receiving a chart or numerical data, and then run all the calculations before talking to the interviewer again. You can't just be a good calculator, you have to be a good thinker and communicator as well.
When you identify why you're doing a calculation, you verify to yourself that you're not doing unnecessary calculations and you know exactly the result you want. It's best if you can give the implications of the result ahead of time too, such as
"If the the profit is greater than $3MM, then we'll know that the promotion was better than no promotion. If it's less, then we'll know to recommend not doing a promotion."
When you identify the equation, it ensures that you have all the pieces that you need, and that you understand what's going on. It also gives the interviewer a chance to correct you up front. For some reason, interviewers are much more forgiving and willing to blame themselves for being unclear if you give them a slightly wrong equation than if you give them a wrong number. If you're going to have a numerical error, it better not be from a wrong equation.
Saying the calculations as you do them is really difficult, but that's what makes it impressive. If you have the equation written out, then often times you'll be able to talk through each step of the equation and know the result through mental math pretty quickly. The math is usually designed to be relatively simple and fit together well, and if you can think through the next operation in your head while your mouth is explaining the operation you just did, then you avoid the awkward silence and look like you can do math at a lightning pace.
At the end, you must ALWAYS synthesize what the number means. If you can't identify what a number means for the case, then you shouldn't have done the calculation in the first place.
5. The Number is Not the Answer
One common mistake I see is that when a candidate finds that a certain product line is decreasing in revenues, they think they've found the problem with the profit. However, in most cases the number only tells you where to look for the story, but it doesn't tell you the story itself.
For example, if a grocery store has declining profitability in its frozen foods, it's not enough to identify that declining frozen pizza sales are causing the profit loss. The real story is that customers have decided that frozen pizza is destroying the planet and have switched to the less profitable but planet friendly frozen tacos. (The even MORE real story is what customers think the frozen pizza is doing to the environment that the company can change. Does the frozen pizza factory dump toxic waste into rivers? Do pizzas increase global warming? etc.)
When you know the real story, you can hopefully come up with better solutions as well. If you only know that frozen pizza sales are declining, you're liable to make the typical, generic proposals such as advertising, adjusting prices, improving the quality in some vague way, etc. If you know that customers care about the planet, then you can have more specific suggestions about making the pizza planet friendly.
Hopefully you find these helpful. I'll probably come out with another 5 tips later on if people find these tips useful. Let me know if they help, or if you disagree, either by emailing me or writing in the comments.
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- Crack the eggs into a measuring cup or a small teacup and slowly lower the cup into the barely simmering broth. Cover and cook until egg until just set, 3 to 4 minutes.
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Sugar for Stretch Marks – Regain your Beauty with 10 Methods of Sugar
Stretch marks usually develop due to quick weight gain or loss, and more than 90% of women develop stretch marks after the pregnancy. These long and ugly looking stretch marks make you feel embarrassing, particularly when it comes to beauty. So, removal of stretch marks becomes a matter of concern for many. But don't worry because a lot of remedies and treatment methods are available. Among all these methods, using sugar for stretch marks works pretty effectively.
How useful is Sugar in Removing Stretch Marks?
- The small molecules of glycolic acid, one of the primary components of sugar, can penetrate deep into the skin and help the body in producing healthy skin cells.
- Sugar increases the speed of healing process by improving the blood circulation through the skin.
- Sugar assists in exfoliating stretch marks before and after weight gain and loss by removing the layer of dead skin.
- Sugar locks moisture inside the skin and keeps it soft.
Ten Practically Methods of Using Sugar For Stretch Marks
Stretch marks don't harm their bearers, but they make the affected area of skin appear saggy and quite ugly. Moreover, it is usually difficult to get rid of them, so patience is an essential ingredient in all of the below-mentioned remedies for old stretch marks.
Use sugar scrub
For the maximum effectiveness of the sugar scrub, use raw sugar or brown sugar rather than white sugar.
- Mix half cup of sugar with sufficient water
- Continuously stir it, until the solution gets the shape of a consistent smooth paste
- Apply this paste on the stretch marks in a circular motion
- Leave it there for a few minutes and then wash with water or wipe with a clean cloth
- Repeat the process for 2 to 3 times every week
Use a combination of salt and sugar scrub
If you have a tight belly skin, then use salt scrubs for stretch marks. Salt scrubs improve the blood circulation in the skin and provide it with greater flexibility. Moreover, salt removes the skin toxins. Consequently, the production of collagen in skin tissue gets a huge boost.
- Mix Equal ratios of salt and sugar in a pot (about 250 and 200 grams respectively)
- Now, to the mixture, mix 100 ml of palm oil
- Apply the paste in a circular motion while scrubbing gently
- Wash it with cool water after leaving it on for some time
- Use this scrub, at least, three times in a week
Use Sugar and Lemon
Lemon has strong astringent properties and assists the skin in the production of collagen, thus using lemon sugar scrub for stretch marks also provides flexibility to the skin and gives it a fresh look.
- Take a lemon and squeeze it in a small cup
- Add some coconut oil to it
- Also, add some sugar and mix it until it forms a highly viscous liquid
- Apply this mixture gently to the afflicted areas
- Keep it for about 10 minutes
- Use lukewarm water to wash it off
Try Honey and sugar for stretch marks
Honey assists the skin to keep its moisture content locked and tightens it.
- Mix equal ratios of sugar, olive oil, and honey in a bowl
- Apply it on the stretch marks in a circular pattern
- Wipe it off with a clean cloth or wash with cool water after leaving it there for sometime
- Repeat this procedure every two days
Use a combination of milk, lemon and sugar scrub
Milk contains massive quantities of mono-saturated fats, which are well known for their capabilities in moisturizing the skin, improving the production of collagen, nourishing the skin and retaining its elasticity.
- Take a lemon and cut it in halves
- Pour salt on one of the pieces and sugar powder on the other one
- First of all, rub the piece with salt on the marks and hold it there for a minute
- Then, rub and keep the other piece in place, just like you did with the first one
- Take some milk in a pot and dip both pieces in it
- Now apply the both parts on the marks
- After 10 minutes, wash it with lukewarm water
- Dry your skin with a piece of cotton cloth
- To get clear skin, be sure to use this method for every two weeks
Olive oil and sugar for stretch marks
Olive oil is an excellent source of polyphenols, vitamin E, and phytosterols. All of these components help improve blood circulation, lock moisture in skin cells and increasing the elasticity of the skin.
- Mix 2 TBSP of sugar in 1 TBSP of olive oil in a bowl
- Spread and apply this mixture in circular motion on the stretch marks
- Keep up the massage for about 10 minutes
- Clean it and wash with lukewarm water
- Keep repeating the procedure until the marks disappear
Sugar and almond oil combination
Vitamin A and Vitamin E present in almond oil improve the speed of the skin's healing process. It brightens up the skin by cleaning it and clearing out any debris or dirt present on the surface of the skin.
- Take a half cup of sugar in powdered form and add it in enough amount of almond oil to make a thick paste.
- Apply this paste in a circular pattern on the stretched skin area
- Leave it for about 2 to 3 minutes
- Use lukewarm water to wash it off and dry with cotton cloth
Castor oil and sugar for stretch marks
The high content of ricinoleic acid in castor oil penetrates the skin, moisturizes it and tightens the stretch marks.
- Take 1 cup of sugar and mix it well in sufficient amount of castor oil (oil being less in quantity than sugar)
- Spread the solution circularly over the stretch marks
- Massage for about 5 minutes and wash with cool water
- Repeat the process every day for about three weeks
Cane Sugar Scrub
Ingredients: ½ cup of coffee grounds, 3 TBSP honey, 3 TBSP coconut oil, ¼ cup of oatmeal, 1½ cup of cane sugar, 1 TBSP of oil infused with calendula, 2 drops peppermint oil and ½ TBSP vanilla extract
- Pour all of the ingredients in a pot and mix well
- Store in a container that is airtight
- Use sufficient amount of mixture to apply over the marks
- Keep it there for about 15 minutes
- Wash it off with lukewarm water
- Store the remaining mixture in refrigerator
- Repeat the process 2 to 3 times every week
Vitamin E oil, Almond oil, and Sugar
- Take ¼ cup almond oil, 1 cup ground coffee, ¼ cup of almond oil and ½ cup sugar and mix well
- Use some water to rinse the stretch marks before applying the mixture
- Use sufficient amount of mixture to apply on the stretch marks
- Massage gently in a circular pattern and let it sit there for about 20 minutes
- Wash with water
- Store the remaining mixture for future use
- Repeat the procedure 2 to 3 times every week
Must Read all These Safety Precautions of Sugar for Stretch Marks
- Always apply the scrub gently; otherwise, it might irritate or injure the skin.
- A patch test before the application of any of the methods mentioned above is necessary.
- To get the best results in less time, use raw cane sugar or brown sugar.
- Stay away from the above methods, if you have cuts or bruises in the stretch marks' area.
- Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration, as dehydrated skin starts looking dry and brittle.
- During pregnancy, take good care of your skin.
- Try not to lose weight too quickly as it is the primary reason behind stretch marks and saggy skin.
As removal of stretch always takes time, so we advise you to have some patience while trying any method. If you have questions regarding any sugar for stretch marks remedy, please do ask.


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Everyone knows that creativity is fundamental to organizational development. What could you do to ignite the creative 'spark' in the minds of employees?
I would like to share my experiences about fostering the innovative spirit in the workforce. I love the five ways used by my manager to promote out-of-the-box thinking. They are as follows:
Encourage exploration
Our minds become stagnated when we do not try to improvise. We all need to find answers to our problems. But when we think BEYOND A SOLUTION to the problem and EXPLORE NEW WAYS of fixing it, we are likely to come up with more novel ideas of resolution, which are easy and cost effective. Organizations that effectively implement these 'different' solutions improve their performance, ultimately leading to an impressive bottom line.
Encourage the use of metaphors
We all love to think logically-establishing connections between our thoughts gives clarity to our thinking process. But sometimes, it may be necessary to connect a development in an 'unrelated' field to our problem in order to find an effective solution. Metaphors help us associate an unconnected event with our problem and find creative solutions to it.
The evolution of Lean Software Development is a fine example of how solutions to a problem in one sphere of business activity could help resolve issues in another.
Create a stress-free environment
Strain, physical or mental, inhibits creativity. It is necessary to ensure a stress-free work environment for creative ideas to blossom. Fun at the workplace 'without losing sight of the target' helps the employee to think better and think differently. This is the mantra behind the success of organizations that provide conducive conditions of employment.
Help deal with ambiguity
We all love certainty. But the bitter truth is that every organizational aspect has some degree of ambiguity. Managers who encourage their employees to embrace and deal with this inevitable uncertainty are more likely to extract creative ideas than others who try to shy away from ambiguous situations. This is because uncertainty compels us to find new ways of approaching our work, which forces us to think differently. It is common knowledge that different thinking is the mother of all out-of-the-box ideas.
Try to change the 'I-am-not-creative' attitude
If a person denies his own creativity, then he is denying his existence as a human being. Managers need to devote their efforts to instill confidence in an employee who is diffident about his creative skills. This goes a long way in ensuring the generation of creative ideas. A worker who is confident of his thinking skills can think better and better thinking leads to better ideas – www.successfromthenest.com.
Steps by the manager to improve out-of-the-box thinking help the employees to produce novel ideas and by implementing these new ideas, organizations could innovate and stay ahead in this fiercely competitive world. In my next blog, I would like to share insights on "How e-Learning Could Foster Creativity?". How did you develop a creative workforce? Please share your experiences with us.


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Together with photographer Christopher de Gast I developed a workshop for vocal group VOÏSZ from Utrecht. This group of close harmony singers was seeking out artists from other disciplines to open up new perspectives and ideas for their practice, dramaturgy and communication. In this workshop we wanted to address body language through the technology of camera framing. We took the act of framing as one does with a camera, to start looking in a different way at the visual things a choir has to offer for an audience. Singing performances tend to be a bit static because of the acoustics, connection between the singers and conductor, and the priority of the quality of singing over eg. choreography on stage. So we felt like somehow we had to zoom into another level where actually a lot of dynamic expression is taking place.
By playing some games where we asked the group members to look carefully at each other's micro-body-expressions and movements in the body and report back to each other what they saw. Then we made paper props to isolate these expressive gestures in singing practice to form the basis of this photo series. Sometimes all it takes is to give people a different peep hole. VOÏSZ decided to use the images of the workshop for the promotion of their show Astronaut.
One participant: "We thought it would be nice to do a photography workshop for the pictures we would have after, but I think it was even more valuable that the workshop gave me a way to look at ourselves differently, to see the richness in the expression of what we're doing there on stage. It's giving me so much ideas for the dramaturgy!"
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"Touch of Computational Birth" is an artistic research project I am working on with artist-researcher Alexandra Jonsson, PhD candidate at Westminster University. NHS Healthcare reform policies in the UK, such as "Leading Change – Adding Value" (May 2016) show that healthcare is being remodelled according to measurable metrics, which relies on data produced by expecting mothers, new born babies and working midwifes. This project sets out to explore questions as: who harvests the value of these datasets? How are they used outside of direct care, and who is it that benefits?
How can we use art practice and making to analyse and respond to the values and new functions introduced onto the body with current data systems and healthcare reform models in operation. This includes looking at how the role of data collection, monitoring and policy and management structures have changed the routines and practices of midwifery and their relation to expecting mothers. The aim is to study the changes that digital technologies introduce both for the pregnant body, the experience of childbirth and the practice of midwifery. We use art as a tactile and visual way for ourselves, expecting mothers and healthcare practitioners to critically reflect, evaluate and gain a deeper understanding of the processes and relationships produced by digital birth technologies.
In our first collaboration sprint in May 2017 we have interviewed midwives, explored data collection, and database structures, the encoding of birth and corresponding management systems and financial pathways and utilized various mapping techniques, life drawing and DIY printing techniques to provide entries of understanding into these systems. This project is ongoing, more updates will follow soon.
Making code dance/making dance code
During [SZOBA|R|T], a German/Hungarian artist collaboration that took place in an abandoned building in the centre of Budapest, I organised a week of livecoding and dance improvisation jams (see all images here). The idea behind these jams was to bridge the gap in tacit knowledge that is now held by dancers and coders separately. In order to let these knowledges synergize, we should all get on it together and start creating and let new knowledge emerge from the process.
Improvisation: the sweet spot between structure and freedom
How do you start (getting a grip on common conceptual notions between the fields of dance and coding)? What are good design rules for an improvisational framework that both coders and dancers can work with? How many rules do you need? How much freedom is necessary? How do you negotiate this as you go? The project was part of my residency at Kitchen Budapest in 2010, more info here.
A short article of mine was published on VVVNT, dealing with the expressive and philosophical potential of performance practices combining dance improvisation and live coding.VVVNT is an online journal, forum, & project space for sharing ways of thinking with practical connections across time, scale, system, & discipline: http://vvvnt.com/media/dancing-the-digital
Livecoding as improvisational practice
Live coding is a type of performance where programmers show off their visual coding skills in realtime. Completely live, you see animated graphics come to life in projections, while a group of programmers punches in code to entertain their audience with a (audio)visual spectacle. A group of coders from Kitchen Budapest have been experimenting with this recently, especially with implementing the Kinect in the Fluxus environment. Kinect captures movement data in 3D using infrared cameras, which makes it a perfect combination with dance.
The aim of this project therefore, was to find a way to get these improvisers to work together and experiment freely during 3-hour jams, not entirely dissimilar to the jams that are common practice in a dance style known as contact improvisation. Eight local dancers – many of them with a contact improv or contemporary dance background – worked with us during the week, resulting in a demonstration at the opening of week 3 at [SZOBA|R|T].
From livecoding to dancecoding: where practices meet
This setup put no pressure on choreographing a stage performance, but stayed closer to the traditions of contact improvisation and livecoding: focusing on the live interaction between all the actors: live music, the several coders, a number of projections, and the moving bodies of the dancers. Responses of all collaborators were very positive so we investigated the possibilities of organising more jams in the future. I left Budapest but the group continued to collaborate and did a number of dance coding work and performances together.
Movement-Moving Machines investigates the ways in which dance acts as part of a media ecology and social practice as emotive, intuitive, physical experience and expression without becoming mere representation. Here, dance movement is understood as a social (semi-)improvisational activity, rather than choreographed steps. What is foregrounded is the idea that movement is relational: it produces space-time and emerges in connection with other moving bodies, the space around them and other non-human actors. By causing interference in social dance contexts and systems that might look like well-oiled machines, the relationality of moving bodies and touch as a social gesture is articulated. Potentiality as the crux of movement is highlighted: "My body is not in movement when I still think I can predict my steps" (Manning, Politics of Touch, 2007: 26)
Movement-Moving Machines aims to provide experiential entrances into an understanding of dance systems as mediated social system. It is a series of contraptions that help investigate the conditions of social dance, music and movement as set by its own materialities, not just meaning and representation. By intervening in the conventions and material relations of a number of dance settings, these useless machines speculate about the politics of dance and touch, the connections we can or cannot make with other bodies and how these are materialized and sustained. But more importantly, how we may cause ruptures in these systems to open them up to a different critique and a more open-ended future.
This was my final research project for the MA Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice I did at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2009-2010. It was exhibited in summer 2010 at the final show, We Are All Transistors.
Magic toys for grown-ups: a personal and emotional learning process in making
Franz is a wall mounted bumblebee and my first design of making toys for grown-ups who dream of having 'wunderkammers', and my final project for Fabacademy 2015. For my final project I had to include a number of techniques into one integrated project. I decided to indulge in my private obsession with movement machines (they range from dancing bodies, to augmented reality performances, to mechanical choreographies like Franz).
Techniques and Materials:
3D printed ABS (Rhino), Lasercut acrylic (lllustrator, Inkscape), Lasercut wood and acrylic. Electronics from scratch: Attiny84, unipolar stepper motor, microphone, bulbs (Eagle, Arduino, Fabmodules).
Made at: Fablab Amsterdam
Living Memory is a project investigating the structures of memory in Chalkwell Park by looking into the donated benches, trees and war memorials. It invites visitors of Chalkwell Park to cherish a living memory of a loved one, a relative, a good friend or neighbor by winding a thread around this tree: together changing the tree into a living collective commemoration. In this event memories of ones who've passed away and living memories are brought together in a soundscape consisting of whispered recitations of the plaques from the donated benches and trees in the park. In collaboration with Angela (Liu) Wang and Alexandra Jönsson.
Southend-on-Sea (UK), 2010
Interactive installation for Amsterdam Light Festival
During the Amsterdam Light Festival, that took place between the 6th of December 2013 and the 19th of January 2014, residents and visitors of the city Amsterdam were being challenged. During this light festival a group of international students seduced residents and visitors to enlightening the Dark Side of Amsterdam. Visitors were asked to confess about their dark side by wearing anonymous "sin" glasses in a nighttime light painting portrait that would then be projected onto the Mozes & Aäron church at Waterlooplein. This project was commissioned by BeamSystems. 411 People used the installation, and revealed that with a majority of 91 people, Amsterdam is still a sin city of lust. Also see the twitterfeed and Flickr set and the visualisation of the results (below). I coached on the concept development and project management of this project.
Exploring the emotional experience of sin
I developed this project with a team of students from design and technology backgrounds, and we found out very early on that there was a desire for the installation to be an experience, calling for audience participation. This idea eventually came out and was symbolically rich: the context of the church and building a confession booth where you can admit to your sins. While at the same time playing with people's vanity in the form of dark stylized selfies in which they could semi-anonymously make a statement about their liberalism of choice – bragging almost.
Rituals and theatre
My favourite part of this event and installation was the theater and solemn rituals involved in the whole concept, and the students carried and understood that well. They invited a 'priest' to preach about sinfullness in front of the confession booth to draw in people and get people in the mood. The audience would be approached by the students to think about a sin, and pick a pair of sunglasses representing that sin. They had made these with a laser cutter from plywood at iFabrica, and then covered the back with glow-in-the-dark paper that they would charge with a torch. Then the audience would go into the booth (in pairs or alone), to get their confession taken. Inside the booth two assistants shot the lightpainting picture that would be projected and tweede immediately with a moralising quote from the bible.
The Dark Side of Amsterdam won the audience award at Beamlab #32
Students: Sandro Miccoli, Akarsh Sanghi, Adwait Sharma, Shinichiro Ito, Shubhojit Mallick, Mizuki Kojima, Matias Daporta Gonzales. Gabriele Colombo (visual design), Jan Scholte (priest), Loes Bogers (coach and concept development) and Gijs Gootjes (project manager), Supported by BeamSystems: Jason Malone and Jozef Hey. Visuals by: Frouke te Velde www.frouketenvelden.com. Thank you to Irma de Vries for mapping support.
Modular anti-stress bird kit
As part of FabAcademy week 3 I had to design and produce a snap-fit construction kit with the lasercutter. Requirement was that the kit can be put together in many ways (without glue or other things, just by snapping it together). Immediately I opted for a playful and expressive tinkering kit: an anti-stress set of modular elements you can snap together mindlessly when under a bit of stress. The fact that their very angry looking machine birds sure helps to get rid of some frustration :)
My birds were features in this Makezine article!
A few weeks later for the Make Something Big assignment I decided to redo the birds in plywood with the shopbot CNC router and scaled them up to 1 x 1 x 1 meters…
Urban Projection is a video mapping project for MediaLAB at Hogeschool van Amsterdam. I was the line manager and creative producer during this collaboration with 4 video artists with whom we created this video mapping event at Rhijnspoorplein (Wibautstraat/Mauritskade), one of the busiest junctions in Amsterdam. The evening of video art projections on a 7-storey building was one of the first large scale video mapping events in the Dutch capital.
May 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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Team HAKUTO: Everything is going well for TMP!
HAKUTO, a Japanese team challenging to the Google Lunar XPRIZE, is making steady progress toward the Mobility challenge of the Terrestrial Milestone Prize (TMP). In the TMP, flight readiness of the developed system is evaluated by expert judges assigned by the XPRIZE Foundation. HAKUTO develops a dual rover system composed by a four-wheel rover (code name: Moonraker) and a two-wheel rover (code name: Tetris) for traveling over the lunar surface. Their Pre-Flight Model is now under the final assembling phase. Some snapshot pictures are released today. After mid-September, the team will conduct vibration testing, thermal-vacuum testing, and mobility performance testing in sandy terrain for qualification of the system for launch, cruise and lunar surface environment.
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- Sammie Harris - Vocal, Guitar, Piano
- Robert Wilks - Guitar
- Kristofer Harris - Bass, Vocals
- Michael Dove - Drums
Great bands come from all over. Manchester, Liverpool, the Isle of Sheppey? It doesn't roll off the tounge, but if Touriste have anything to say it soon will. Graceful, near anthemic, and yet not content to sit on your coffee table, Touriste mix emotion and melody to create songs that are infectious and effortless in the same breath.


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Users should note that the products listed in the archive have been subject to removal from the marketplace or appropriate corrective action. Food recalls or allergy alerts are not an indication of the food safety status of products produced at a later date.
Allergy Alert - Undeclared wheat and sulphites in certain Western Family brand Marinated Steak
- Recall / advisory date:
- July 26, 2013
- Reason for recall / advisory:
- Allergen - Sulphites, Allergen - Wheat
- Hazard classification:
- Class 1
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- Distribution:
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- Extent of the distribution:
- Retail
- Reference number:
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Ottawa, July 26, 2013 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Vantage Foods (BC) Inc. are warning people with allergies to wheat or sensitivities to sulphites not to consume the Western Family brand product described below. The affected product may contain wheat and sulphites which are not declared on the label.
This product has been distributed in Alberta and British Columbia.
There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of this product.
Consumption of this product may cause a serious or life-threatening reaction in persons with allergies to wheat or sensitivities to sulphites.
The manufacturer, Vantage Foods (BC) Inc., Chilliwack, BC, is voluntarily recalling the affected product from the marketplace. The CFIA is monitoring the effectiveness of the recall.
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La Fortuna Waterfall
Plunging down the side of Cerro Chato, Volcan Arenal's dormant and thickly forested twin, is one of the most impressive, and easily accessible, waterfalls in all Costa Rica. Cascada La Fortuna pours some 65m (200ft) down a sheer, volcanic gray cliff face, perpetually bathed in mists and carpeted in abundant and exotic vegetation.
The trailhead for the falls is located just 5.5km (3mi) from La Fortuna proper, a popular bike ride or horseback trek. The descent from the parking lot to the jungle floor isn't a long or difficult hike; it's about 20 minutes down, and generally a bit longer climbing back back up. Just keep in mind that the staircase is steep, and sometimes slippery. A the mirador, or viewpoint, allows almost anyone to appreciate this natural wonder no matter what their fitness level.


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Children with SEN flourish in smaller class sizes and with 1:1 attention – both of which we are able to offer at Dunhurst. Every AS pupil achieves the highest standards possible through tailoring learning to individual need, interest and aptitude. Teaching and learning strategies are matched closely to the individual's needs and are designed to build confidence and self-esteem.
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Students with special educational needs (SEN) and specific learning difficulties are given help by a member of a team of qualified specialist teachers who hold additional (post graduate) qualifications for teaching students with Specific Learning Difficulties. The Learning Support team may also aid students without specific learning problems but who require support with improving their organisation and study skills.
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Turkey and Ukraine have agreed on cooperation in nuclear energy, aircraft industry and the development of transit corridors, as well as gas and construction projects.
This was reported by the Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities of Ukraine Gennady Zubko on Twitter.
These, and other agreements were reached in May during the 10th session of the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Turkish commission on trade and economic cooperation.
According to him, the parties agreed that Ukraine will advise Turkey on safety of nuclear power plants, train of all categories of plant personnel, and organize internship of Turkish students and graduate students in Ukraine.
In addition, the countries agreed on partnership in aviation and space technology development.
Together with Turkey, Ukraine is ready to develop and manufacture a passenger aircraft TAN-158 on the basis of AN-158; a transport plane for Turkey on the basis of AN-178; and an aircraft on the basis of AN-70.
Ankara also promised that it will be easier to enter the Turkish market for Ukrainian steel products.
Ukrainians and Turks can work in construction and infrastructure projects, in particular, for the support of the Crimean Tatars.
"We discussed the possibility of Ukraine to join the important project of the Southern Gas Corridor in case of the economic feasibility and ensuring of non-discriminatory access to the relevant capacities. Turkish side also invited Ukrainian companies to become members of the Interregional Standardization Union," Zubko said.
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If you have major gaps in employment, there are a few ways to make them less noticeable like a change of resume foramt. It is important to be honest about gaps in your resume and not try to cover them up, but to also make them seem productive and intentional. Adding volunteer work or classes in the time you were unemployed is highly valuable and fairly simple to get starter with.
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This will be an exciting week in Grade 7 Social Studies, it's Stock Market Simulation Week!!! For all 3 lessons this week*, students will be representing a country or a bank and will be trading commodities on the ISM Commodities Stock Exchange. There will different things along the way that will affect the supply and demand and ultimately the price.
*F Block will only have 2 sessions this week and a short trading session next week due to SLCs.
Good Luck and Happy Trading!
Important Dates:
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Wedensday, March 23 – Final Performance Task for Unit 3 due on Google Classroom


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Keynko - A crafty family
A journey though life, family and grown up babies
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June 10, 2012 at 9:44 pm
That's a really romantic picture, lovely x
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Venue: Committee Room 1, Marmion House, Lichfield Street, Tamworth, B79 7BZ. View directions
Contact: Democratic Services 01827 709616
Apologies for Absence
Apologies were received from Councillor M Greatorex.
Minutes of the Previous Meeting PDF 286 KB
The Minutes of the previous Infrastructure, Safety and Growth Scrutiny Committee held on the 22nd August 2017 were approved and signed as a correct record.
(Moved by Councillor S Peaple and seconded by Councillor R Bilcliff)
Declarations of Interest
To receive any declarations of Members' interests (personal and/or personal and prejudicial) in any matters which are to be considered at this meeting.
When Members are declaring a personal interest or personal and prejudicial interest in respect of which they have dispensation, they should specify the nature of such interest. Members should leave the room if they have a personal and prejudicial interest in respect of which they do not have a dispensation.
There were no Declarations of Interest.
Castle Review Update
The Committee welcomed Councillor Joy Goodall as Portfolio Holder, Neil Mason – Head of Community Leisure and Louise Troman - Heritage and Visitor Services Manager to the meeting.
The 2014 Internal Castle Review recommended a full review to take place considering staffing structure; income; Castle operation and marketing, this lead to the Tamworth Castle Service Review 2015 – 2017 report presented by Neil Mason.
The report outlines twelve business models for consideration with model 8 – Limited Public with Education & Weddings being highlighted as the model that would warrant further investigation. This model outlines limited opening to the general public allowing for services for weddings and education to be delivered. The staffing structure of this model would enable the team to focus on areas of responsibility and build on marketing and future business opportunities.
The full report was not available to members until 19th September, therefore, the Chair requested that Committee members take the report away from the meeting to fully read the report and submit questions through him over the following week. A working group will be set up to review the full Report once the answers to any questions have been received.
Initial questions were taken during the meeting covering the following points:-
· Is there a clear view of what is needed to market the Castle successfully?
Yes. There is a need to strengthen the increase of adult visitors and online marketing. Converting repeat visitors to online and not using incentives. There will be a clear steer on a new marketing approach.
· This year there has been a restriction to the number of visitors on Heritage Day, what is the reasoning behind this?
This is to ensure that there is a better customer experience, with not all local people coming on the free day. The increased number of staff required to prevent back to back queuing and to effectively manage shop sales is not cost effective without restricting visitors.
· An initial perusal of the Financial Information has raised points to be re-looked at around the following lines on the spreadsheet:-
35022 – Promotions and Marketing
34553 – Tourism – Product Development
30160 – Purchase stock retail
Collections Officer – should be on all models
Difference against current budget line is misleading
Costings are for 17/18, 3 years history for comparison
· Will the savings be re-used to the benefit of the Castle?
Yes. The ticketing system will be updated, currently in the process of investigating alternatives that would enable stock control; on-line sales; ticketing.
· Tamworth is full of history; we need to attract visitors on this front including the clay history and artefact Collections. Can this be incorporated into the Castle's future?
There is currently a County review on Collections; we need to establish what objects there are in the store in Staffordshire and also within the Castle Lodge including archive documentation. This will be a separate review that will fully explore options that are available.
The Committee have offered to look at setting up a working group ... view the full minutes text for item 22.
Update from Chair
There was a working group meeting on 14th September on the electric vehicle topic. Details of findings were circulated to members.
It was agreed that the following recommendation be put forward to Cabinet.
Thanks were extended to all for the work conducted on this topic.


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So, keeping this in mind, it is my belief that the moment God told Lucy to start dropping people into vats of boiling horse semen, Lucy went to Ikea and started fixing the place up.
What better way to piss off God then to take the people He so desperately wants punished, and make them as happy as possible. I'm willing bet everyone in Hell has a nice little cottage and spends their days dancing to Deadmau5 and watching free HBO. There may be rare occasions when God decides to stop by to see if the Buddhists are having their skin pealed off properly, or the Hindus are getting their eyeballs adequately sliced by razors, in these cases Lucy probably has an alarm that warns everybody 'The Big Guy' is in town and its time to start writhing on the floor and screaming like a maniac, but once God leaves to go back to his fluffy cloud or wherever it is he goes, everyone goes back to sipping Mai Tais from human skulls.
I am also very curious in regards to Lucy's life, not just about weather he can use that tail to open beer cans, but what he is like on the inside. Spending eternity in Hell would give me plenty of time to discover who he is as a person; does he play an instrument, has he ever had a girlfriend and if so what do her parents think of his job? When he has free time, what does he like to do? Does he have a dog or is he more of a cat person? Can he really turn into a big red dragon or is that just propaganda spread by God to make him look bad?
It's not just wanting to know about Lucy that drives my desire to go to Hell, it's also about how extremely dull Heaven will be. Who wants to spend forever, hanging out with fat little cherubs playing the harp and listening to God boast about how powerful he is. I bet Jesus spends his days in front of the mirror combing his perfect hair while telling the same stories over and over regarding his ability to heal the blind and the time he walked on water without getting his feet wet. BORING. Just think of the stories Lucy would have, he's met everyone from rock stars to terrorists, I'd love to get him loaded on peppermint schnapps and listen to him tell about the time he gave a fat, pimply Channing Tatum, wealth and good looks in exchange for his soul, or how he inhabited the body of George W. Bush throughout his entire presidency.
And when you really think about it, how many people are even going to be in Heaven? All the most fun and exciting people I've known in my life are not Heaven material. Take my Uncle Kirby, who probably drinks too much and never starts a sentence without using the "F" word, but the time he ran through church naked and pretended to hump the statue of Mary, was the greatest moment of my life, and I'd like to spend eternity wherever he's going.
I don't know if it's possible to be kicked out of Heaven, however if I was unlucky to be sent there, I'd find a way. I mean, how long can someone be expected to praise the name of the Lord before they go all ISIS on everyone's ass. My God, after the first six million years of groveling even Mother Teresa would be pushing people off clouds and strangling angles.
So, it seems to me that if I could choose which place to go, I would pick Hell, not only for the great company and fun stories, but because I don't like to lie, and an eternity of telling God how great he is, would be exactly that.


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