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A family forced out of their home at Christmas because of a flood have asked for answers from the builder.

Chris Phillips and his fiancee Lynn Bailey had to move out after the flood covered the whole ground floor.

Suppliers for builders Bellway are testing a pipe in the ceiling which Chris believes may have been the source of the water.

Chris has called for the tests to be completed quickly so liability for what happened can be established.

Chris, of Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street said: The ceiling collapsed and there was what can only described as a flood of water exiting the house.

There was an inch of water covering the whole ground floor and the furniture, wall coverings, electrical equipment and Christmas presents under the tree were ruined.

We were left homeless before Christmas and are living out of black bin bags on a day-to-day sleeping on floors and settees.

Anyone standing underneath the ceiling, or even a child playing when it collapsed, could have been hurt.

No-one was injured but this could have had a very different ending.

The couples children Evie, seven, and ten-month-old Emme were also evacuated while Bellway carried out repairs.

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Fargo, ND (PRWEB) January 15, 2015

Hope Lutheran Church began its ministry on the north side of Fargo, North Dakota's largest city, back in 1958. Since then, the church has succeeded in carrying its message to a diverse set of people from all walks of life, and now hosts approximately 2,600 congregants per week. Recently, Minneapolis, MNbased Excel AV Group (http://www.excelavgroup.com) assisted the church in completing a multi-faceted A/V installation in the 1,200 capacity sanctuary of its South campus, featuring state of the art amplification from audio manufacturer Powersoft.

The new AV system, which is part of a broader construction upgrade that was completed in mid-October, is a significant upgrade to the facility's previous system, which was aging and no longer able to fulfil the church's innovative programming requirements. When the original system was acquired in the early nineties, content consisted primarily of organ, choir and spoken word. Now, as the church pursues a more contemporary programming path, music can range from traditional to more progressive therefore the system must now accommodate increased SPL and frequency range.

A New Audio System to Meet New Programming Demands The new installation not only needed to ensure that everyone could hear the pastor clearly, but also had to support dramatic performances, video content as well as live modern music performances. "The old system did not have enough SPL output, the audio quality was poor, and the coverage was spotty throughout the sanctuary. They needed a system that could deliver even coverage to all seating locations not just in terms of SPL, but also tonality, which is more difficult. explained Caleb Dick, System Designer, Excel AV Group.

Hope Lutheran's Technical Director contacted Excel AV Group two years ago, which counts House of Worship-related projects as approximately 80 percent of its overall business. The firm was brought on to design and implement the new audio system, as well as update the sanctuary's lighting system while adding a 16-foot wide LED wall replacing an older projection-based system. The new audio system featured a Powersoft K10 DSP powering the subwoofer (a Danley DBH218 bass horn enclosure), (2) Powersoft Duecanali 3904s powering the main loudspeakers (both Danley SH96 three-way horn loudspeakers) and a Powersoft Duecanali 5204 powering the balcony speakers (two Danley SM60F and one SH95HO three way horn loudspeakers.). The system also features a Midas DL251/X32 digital mixing console and Symetrix DSP, which was chosen for its networking capabilities.

The church wanted this project to involve top manufacturers, so the system is based around Powersoft for the amplifiers, Danley for the speakers, Midas for the mixing console and Sennheiser for the wireless system. Powersoft amplifiers were chosen for their outstanding sound quality, low current draw and their ability to deliver the high power requirements of the system. Following a thorough acoustic assessment, it was concluded that the main speakers required 2,800 watts at 8 ohms. "That is a lot of power, and it narrowed the options down among the choice of manufacturers. We ended up selecting the Powersoft Duecanali since we wanted to use the best technology available at the time." Excel was able to have the whole system sequenced and running off of multiple 20-amp circuits. "We didnt have to change to 240 volts and this made it very simple. The current draw was very low overall thanks to the efficiency of the Powersoft amplifiers." Caleb explains.

Enhancing Parishioners Audio Experience Since a good part of the sanctuary's interior is composed of hardwood, the room already had pleasing acoustics. To retain its inherent 'live feel without energizing the ceiling and wall, speakers with excellent pattern control were used to avoid extraneous reflections. Excel cites the precise pattern control of the Danley loudspeakers as an important factor in achieving a favorable acoustic response, and also controlling gain before feedback issues. Speakers were hung from large beams spanning the entire width of the sanctuary, and subsequently angled in various positions to ensure audio coverage for virtually every seat in the facility.

The system design consisted exploded mono with three different zones: a floor zone for the main speakers, a balcony consisting of three speakers (and also where FOH was located), and under the balcony, which required six speakers given its short ceiling height and deep seating area. All of these speakers were time aligned to the main system; one of Excel's primary goals was able to ensure single time arrival for every seat in each zone including the FOH position in the balcony, which they ultimately achieved.

The church needed the system to reach 103 dBA with 15 dB of headroom. Based on the system design, as well as the SPL plots and modelling software analysis, Excel knew the intelligibility of the system was going to be extremely high because they had one time arrival everywhere. Thanks in large part to the Powersoft K10 DSP and damping factor compensation, the bass extension was almost 30 Hz and the SPL for low frequencies was higher than the church will ever use. In a nutshell, every single one of both Excels and the churchs goals was met.

Delivering More Than Good Frequency Response According to everyone at Excel, choosing the right amplifier choice can play a determining factor in delivering a premium audio experience, as in this case: Excel has used Powersoft a number of times over the last five years. When it comes to sound quality, there is something about how Powersoft amps can deliver high levels of power really fast. For example, the subwoofer impact is consistently hard, even if the electrical service into the amp fades a bit. On the other speakers, the response from the mids and the highs are really accurate as well. The Powersoft amps produce an authentic, present sound. It doesnt feel like you are rounding off the transients like some older amps."

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The owners of the venerable handmade paper light companyHiiH Lights recently pulled up stakes in Portland and are setting up a barn in Astoria as a portal to their art.

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In the Central Pavilion in Venices Giardini, Rem Koolhaas and his curatorial team have broken down architecture into 15 basic elements. The Ceiling display pairs the dome in the pavilion, painted in 1909 by Galileo Chini and newly restored, with its contemporary counterpart, the dropped ceiling.

Rem Koolhaas, director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, casts scorn in myriad directions in this three-headed hydra of a show, ambitiously entitled Fundamentals. His approach, we learn from the torrent of print drenching the pavilions, advances various socio-critical goals. National identity, a notion that underlies the very Biennale concept, is deemed obsolete in a globalized world. Previous Biennales, heavy on form, are implicitly condemned. Architecture is exposed as thoroughly constrained by how inextricably embedded it is in other social phenomena. Architects are declared largely impotent to affect the economic, political, and social forces shaping buildings. We may posture as geniuses, Koolhaas writes, but we play our assigned role in the uberscript of modernization.

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The 2014 Biennale, which opened on June 7 and runs through November 23, has three parts. For the national pavilionsclustered primarily in Venices Giardini, a Napoleon-era public garden, and Arsenale, a former shipyard of the Venetian NavyKoolhaas instructed curators to investigate how the countries they represent have dealt with modernization under the umbrella title Absorbing Modernity: 19142014. In a second section, also in the Arsenale, Monditalia curators developed an achronological multimedia extravaganza highlighting Italian architectures cross-fertilization with other forms of cultural expression in a display of architectural, artistic, and intellectual oddities and glories from Ticino to Sicily.

For the third section, exhibited in the Central Pavilion among the national presentations, Koolhaas collaborated with students and faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as well as other institutions and industry experts, presenting what they deem the 15 Elements of Architecture. Each, we learn, will be the subject of its own book. Thus Koolhaas, his research office AMO, and the Harvard team position their 15 new books as superceding Vitruviuss five and Albertis 10. So you dont miss the point, copies of these and other canonical treatises greet you as you enter the show.

The Venice Biennale has typically showcased projects and installations that curators select for formal elegance, technological innovation, or both. At worst, it serves as architectures Fashion Week, an uncanny carnival of decontextualization crammed with preciously made models, artful photographs, and installations by big-name stars of the show. Form ber alles.

Koolhaas is correct in pointing out that this elides and mischaracterizes critical issues in contemporary practice: it belies architectures invariably collaborative nature; it ignores the multiple ways in which design is constrained by economic, political, and social contexts; it glosses over the irrelevance of nationalistic preening in an ever-more-networked, globalized world. Whats important, Koolhaas insists, is not architects but architecture.

True enough. But when you entitle the most lavishly funded and heavily curated architecture exhibition in the world Fundamentals, expectations get raised. Whats fundamental about how countries have absorbed modernity? Why 15 elements of architecture, not 11, or 20? What is Koolhaas trying to say? Should we listen?

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Dancers will move in and out of the installation, performing moves choreographed by Rafael Bonachela. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

Paper can take a lot of punishment, says British-based artist Mira Calix. "You think of paper as being very delicate," she says, "but once the starch is out of it, it becomes like fabric. It becomes tough."

Calix spent her English summer proving that point. With a team of five assistants, she treated 1.5 kilometres of paper, wetting each side of some 400 sheets then crushing them to create a wrinkled, crumpled effect. The six of them worked 30 days. There was just one paper cut.

Calix's sheets have now travelled to Sydney, where they form the bulk of her installation, Inside There Falls, at Carriageworks. The Sydney Festival piece is essentially a giant, soft labyrinth, where paper hangs from the ceiling, and 180 speakers play music and words read by English actress Hayley Atwell.

There are also dancers twisting and twirling throughout, their routines choreographed by Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela. South African-born Calix met him via Twitter on a trip to Sydney while developing the project.

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Inside There Falls is typical of Calix's work, which mixes music and physical immersion; her installation, My Secret Heart, which surrounded people in a purpose-built 360-degree screen, won her the first of two British Composers awards.

She says the new piece is about storytelling "it's such a primitive human need". As people enter Inside There Falls, and take their path through the maze, hearing different strands of music and voice, they are making their own story, she says. And she loves to watch them as they do; she can't resist seeing how people interact.

No one noticed Calix watching on Thursday, the installation's opening day. "But if you do see me and recognise me, holler," she says with a laugh, before adding: "Actually, quietly whisper."

Inside There Falls is at Carriageworks, noon-8pm daily until January 17.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 6

Event: 38th Annual Three Kings Day Parade at El Museo del BarrioThe Christian feast day known as Epiphany is traditionally celebrated every year on January 6, and if youre in El Barrio that means its parade time. The eventnow in its 38th yearwas founded by former museum director Jack Ageros, who passed away last year. Join community members and museum staff on Tuesday for the parade, which promises live camels, colorful puppets, parrandas, music, and dancing. Alanna Martinez El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Avenue, New York, 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m., see museum website for parade route details

Screening and Artist Talk: Sun Xun: The Time Vivarium at Sean Kelly GalleryThe Time Vivarium is a two part exhibition by Chinese artist Sun Xun. During the month of December the artist and his assistants presented recently created murals at the gallery, and set-up shop to create new works on-site. The process of making the news works was filmed, and on Tuesday that footage, as well as images made prior to the show, will be cut together and screened in a brand new animation to coincide with a complete reinstallation of the galleries as an immersive theater. Plus, dont miss the artiststalk. Phase two will be on view through January. A.M. Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 10th Avenue, New York, 6:30-8 p.m.

Opening: Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe: Whats the Alternative at the Ace HotelJonah Freeman and Justin Lowe are back from Basel, and theyre about to unleash Whats the Alternativewhich is billed as an alternate-reality environment installationupon the Ace Hotel. Its inspired somehow by Inherent Vice, the latest loony masterpiece by Paul Thomas Anderson, and so hopefully this alternate reality environment installation closely resembles the films setting of Gordita Beachwhich is all sand and sun and sun tans and stellar grassbecause its going to be like zero degrees in New York, and any alternative reality to that would be more than welcome. Nate Freeman The Ace Hotel New York, 20 W. 29th Street, New York, 7-10 p.m., invitation only

Opening: Rascal House at Half GalleryAll the guys at Ferus Gallery in the 60s used to hang out at Barneys Beanery on Santa Monica Boulevard, a legendary L.A. joint and one of the many places that used to kick a drunk Jim Morrison to the curb. Ed Kienholz liked the spot so much he recreated it for his installation The Beanery, and all this piqued the interest of Blair Thurman, who decided to make a pilgrimage to it last year. Upon arriving, he, too, was inspired, and so he set out asking a few fellow artistsBlair Thurman, John Armleder, Justin Adian, and Stphane Kropfto contribute works to the show thats evocative of an old Tinseltown diner. And it seems to really be a trend to put on L.A.-inspired shows this time of year. N.F. Half Gallery, 43 East 78th Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7

Opening and Screening: The Adventures of Jamel: A New Web Series by Jayson Musson at Salon 94 BoweryIn this one-night only premiere event, artist and Internet philosopher Jayson Musson will debut his new web series titled The Adventures of Jamel. Theres no official press release for the series of the event, but Mr. Mussonsent us this:The Adventures of Jamel is a new sci-fi comedy series from artist and writer Jayson Musson. Fans of Pootie Tang, Hip-Hop, and time travel will be much rewarded in viewing this. Thats pretty much all we needed to know. A.M. Salon 94 Bowery, 243 Bowery, New York, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8

Opening: Science, Fiction: Diana Thater at David ZwirnerDid you know that the dung beetle can only orient itself using the Milky Way? Videoartist Diana Thater will take visitors to David Zwirner on a journey from the perspective of the tiny insect in a new immersive video installation using footage of the night sky captured at Los Angeles Griffith Observatory. The film will be projected onto a screen on the gallerys ceiling, set-up to mimic the environment used to test the dung beetles navigational aptitude. The walls will belit from below, it supposedly it will create the illusion of levitation. A.M. David Zwirner Gallery, 533 West 19th Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.

Opening: Helmut Lang at Sperone WestwaterPerhaps you know the tale: Fashion designer Helmut Lang quits the biz, spends a year in a house in the Hamptons actually doing nothing (The first half of the year was kind of easy. The second half, I had to force myself, he told The Times) and then decided, hey, Im going to be an artist. He showed all over Europe and in a townhouse in New York before getting snapped up by Sperone Westwater. This is his first New York gallery solo show. N.F. Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery, New York, 6-8 p.m.

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