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If We Twin Too Long in the Dream Cinema
TeamBrack August 3, 2020 Covid Companions
Two friends, Rachel Leia Devadason and Wong Yong En, dwelling in parallel digital spaces, feeling out a new form of togetherness and intimacy, and living out each day's expanding-contracting time in measured ticks. Their film, "If We Twin Too Long in the Dream Cinema" was first published by The Substation's new web series, Isolation, where artists, creatives, and academics discuss and respond to issues faced by the arts community in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yong En: Candidly speaking, I think the collaboration was the catalyst for us to start texting every day. Something we weren't doing when you were in the UK.
Leia: I agree! Working together on this required us to be constantly connected. And I remember how hard it was to conceptualise and execute the entire project online… thinking back to those draining Zoom calls and Telegram voice messages and pictures of makeshift storyboards going back and forth between us!
Yong En: On the other hand, there is also loneliness to creating online. For example, I recorded my utensils improvisation alone, and then you watched it and responded to that. In real-time, that felt lonely, but it was fascinating to create the togetherness retrospectively.
Leia: Yeah! But I'm glad we managed to preserve elements of live togetherness with the two crucial duets in the film: the slow dance and the vocal accompaniment. Creating the dance was the hardest part because it required intuition and synchrony. Since we couldn't see each other, we relied on a metronome to mediate between us. I felt that achieving synchrony produced the intimacy it was meant to convey.
Yong En: It did— which is why we wanted the vocal duet to react to and reinforce the dance. That's why we improvised the music to the dance rather than the other way around. There were two stimuli to respond to: the footage and the real-time musical decisions that either of us made. What a playground!
Leia: I loved it! And afterwards, editing our voices required me to sense and to some extent invent the start of our duet, hoping the harmonies fell into place. The themes and inescapable reality of distance and separation were always present every step of the way. I found this to be new and fulfilling, actually. Of course, the creative conditions were less than ideal, but finding a way to forge intimacy as creators and participants was the point of the work, wasn't it? So I am happy with it as a representation of such a unique period of time.
Leia Devadason graduated from The School of The Arts, Singapore (SOTA) in 2017 and is approaching her third year of studying Music at King's College, Cambridge, under the Loke Cheng-Kim scholarship.
She sees herself as a jack-of-some-trades musician, and has played piano, harpsichord (Articulations with King's College Music Society), and percussion (The Prismatic Harpsichord with SOTA), as well as sung (The Experimental Man by Chowk Productions) in concerts and creative projects. As a composer, she has written concert music which has been performed both in Singapore and Cambridge, including works for The National Gallery of Singapore's visual art exhibition 'Reframing Modernism' (2016) and Cambridge University's 'The Minerva Festival' (2020). Aside from music, she practises Indian Classical Dance and writes creatively and academically, the latter being at the intersection of musicology, history and sociology. Feeling the need to integrate these endeavours, she is increasingly creating more holistic works, such as The Substation video commission If We Twin Too Long in The Dream Cinema (2020), and 'Articulations' (2019), a concert she directed and staged in King's College Chapel, which aimed to dismantle the distinctions between speech, sound, and music. Follow her at @lesmiserachels
Wong Yong En grew up in children choirs and studied music at the School of the Arts and eventually decided music is not bad. She has since entered the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, from whence she will graduate in 2022 with a Bachelor of Music in Music, Collaboration, and Production. She is interested in Renaissance lute songs, Baroque oratorio and opera, contemporary improvisation, and French art song. Her favourite projects include Sonic Blossom (2018), where she sang Schubert lieder to strangers wandering the National Gallery, and the Bach Cantata Series with Masaaki Suzuki (2019), where I sang ensemble and chorus in J.S Bach's Motet, "Jesu Meine Freude". She studied Classical ballet for 11 years, and holds (shakily) a Merit certification in Intermediate Ballet from the Royal Academy of Dance. Currently, she study at Chowk Studios, a contemporary dance company which teaches Odissi.
She advocates for arts accessibility by serving as a Supporter at the Access Arts Hub. She has also worked with Children's Cancer Foundation, Down Syndrome Association, Friends of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Families, SG Enable, and Singapore Special Voices. Follow her at @w.yongen
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Provostial Communications
A Message from the Provost on the End of Academic Year 2017-2018
I'm writing to share an end of year update on some of the priorities I set when I became provost.
Faculty Matters
The Office of Work Life is closing out its first year with two announcements of important steps that are especially good news for colleagues early in their careers.
I am all too familiar with the stress of trying to manage work, family, and finances while building a successful career. To help, beginning in 2019 we are putting in place new, far more generous childcare subsidies for New York-based full-time tenure-track, continuing contract, and tenured faculty.
Those who have an annual base salary of less than $120,000 will receive an annual childcare subsidy of $3,500 per child for children under the age of four. Those with an annual base salary of $120,000 and more will receive an annual childcare subsidy of $2,000 per child under the age of four. (These subsidies are tax-free for the first child; in accordance with IRS regulations, some portions of the subsidies become taxable with two or more children).
Over the coming months, the Office of Work Life and the Benefits Office will contact eligible faculty with further specifics. (Full-time professional researchers and full-time administrators will continue to be eligible for the existing Childcare Scholarship program.)
Tenure Clock
Working with school deans and the TFSC, we are revising the rules for tenure clock stoppage to better fit the lives of faculty. Faculty who are "primary caregivers" may now request to stop the tenure clock for up to two separate events, such as a newborn child, newly adopted child, new foster care or guardianship placement, or newly-established legal custodial care, for a maximum of four academic semesters.
Two other Work Life items:
Round-the-clock emails and blurred boundaries about work and non-work hours are extremely stress-inducing. Email, in particular, is a major potential invasion into one's personal life. At my request, The Office of Work Life is going to undertake an effort to develop some guidelines for more appropriate and measured use of email in our NYU work lives.
In an effort to bring NYU family practice physicians – on whom many faculty rely – closer to campus and to our faculty housing, we are examining available spaces and prioritizing them for this use.
This year, all schools began taking increased steps to ensure more diversity in their recruitment pools for faculty positions. In addition, the recent climate assessment provides guidance on a number of priorities for next year:
We not only need to do more to encourage underrepresented faculty and students to join our community, we also need to do more to make them feel supported and welcome when they are here.
We need to develop more substantial mentoring programs.
We need to focus on a better experience for our graduate students.
Emeritus/a status
Working with the school deans, the CFSC, and TFSC, the Office of the Provost is amending the Faculty Handbook to permit the granting of emeritus/emerita status to eligible full-time continuing contract faculty as well as tenured faculty.
Research and Academics
Over the past few years, research funding at NYU has increased significantly, both in overall funding amounts as well as in relation to our peer institutions.
Since 2012, the Provost's Office has offered support to faculty submitting highly competitive, multi-investigator-based mega-grant proposals. Between FY2013 and FY2017, the number of mega-grants for which NYU faculty applied increased 764%, from 11 to 95.
The quality of our faculty scholarship is clearly demonstrated by the sustained growth in awards for large complex grants: between 2015 and 2017, large grants to faculty increased from $78,521,277 to $120,800,025.
Faculty who would like to learn more about mega grants, or who might be interested in applying for a mega grant, should contact Farooq Niazi or Trinh Eng.
After a year's work, the Provost's Sustainability Working Group (PDF) offered recommendations for improving our approaches to sustainability from an academic standpoint. The group's work will continue for another year as they assist in implementing many of the ideas they proposed. Faculty who wish to be involved in the work of the Sustainability Working Group should contact Yanoula Athanassakis.
At the request of a group of faculty, the Provost's Office will provide support for a new center for the study of Africa and the African Diaspora, to be led by Michael Gomez, Silver Professor and Professor of History in FAS, and a globally-recognized expert in the field.
Academic Space Updates
CUSP has moved into 370 Jay St, the building's first occupants. Other units – including Tandon departments, MAGNET, and Tisch's ITP and Clive Davis programs – will move in by 2019-20.
708 Broadway/404 Lafayette will be home to the College of Global Public Health. Renovations are expected to be completed by spring 2020.
The new Bonomi Admissions Center opened on West 4th, providing twice as much access for tours and information sessions than we had in the past.
The Physics Department cut the ribbon on their new departmental and laboratory space in 726 Broadway, allowing for renovations in Meyer Hall for the expansion of the Center for Neural Science and the Psychology Department over the next two years.
Tandon's Rogers Hall is undergoing renovations, including a major infrastructure upgrade that will increase the building's capacity for housing more labs.
Greater numbers of students continue to participate in our Global programs. In the past two years, participation among undergraduates in semester-long Study Away program has grown from 40% to 45%.
NYU has recently named
Raghu Sundaram as Dean of the Stern School of Business
Jelena Kovačević as Dean of the Tandon School of Engineering
H. Austin Booth as Dean of Libraries
Julia Kempe as Director of the Center for Data Science
More students are applying to NYU campuses around the world, and more students are choosing to attend NYU, than ever before. Our class of 2022 is the most selective we've admitted in NYU history.
New Policies
To reduce incidents of sexual misconduct on campus, the University has put in place a new Policy on Consensual Intimate Relationships and a requirement that all faculty familiarize themselves with that policy and other sexual misconduct policies through an online exercise in NYU Home.
Wishing you a great summer,
Katherine Fleming
Additional Communications
The Appointment of Stacie Grossman Bloom as Vice Provost for Research
Dean Dennis Di Lorenzo's Stepping Down
The Search Process for a New Vice Chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi
The Budget and Priorities for Academic Year 2018-19
News about Dean Thomas Carew's Future Plans
The Appointment of H. Austin Booth as Dean of Libraries
The Appointment of Jelena Kovačević as the New Dean of Tandon
Spring Memorandum on Students' Religious Observance and Class Attendance
Spring Memorandum on Severe Weather and Class Attendance
The Appointment of Rangarajan Sundaram as Dean of the Stern School
Welcome to the Faculty, Academic Year 2017-2018
Fall Memorandum on Students' Religious Observance and Class Attendance
Fall Memorandum on Severe Weather and Class Attendance

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Tourism for Development – TUI Care Foundation launches international Linking & Learning Web Series
Within the framework of World Tourism Day 2020, the TUI Care Foundation kicks off a series of free online sessions
Over seven weeks, experts and practitioners in the field will come together to debate the most relevant topics around a sustainable reconstruction of the tourism industry
The first panel discussion, "Tourism Foundations in Focus", will take place on Monday, September 28. For registrations please follow this link.
Within the framework of World Tourism Day 2020, the TUI Care Foundation has launched a weekly Web Series, in which experts and practitioners in the field will discuss the latest trends in areas ranging from single-use plastics and social entrepreneurship, to regenerative agriculture and education. The online event is free and open to the general public.
Tourism is well known for being a driver for job creation and economic prosperity. It accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide and has led the job creation statistics repeatedly over the last few years. But after the world came to a standstill earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people globally, whose livelihoods depend on tourism, face enormous challenges. Lockdowns and restrictions to international travel have led to a substantial fall of 65% in international tourist arrivals in the first half of 2020. According to UNWTO 100 to 120 million direct tourism jobs are now at risk. In this context, the work of Tourism Foundations is more relevant than ever. Rebuilding tourism to come back stronger, with better inclusive growth and the sustainable development of tourism destinations, is crucial.
Nico Visser, Member of the Board of Trustees of the TUI Care Foundation, explains: "Although some destinations around the world are preparing to lift restrictions on travel and mobility, the travel and tourism sector still faces many challenges before it can resume its activity globally. With so many lessons to be learnt from the pandemic, we at the TUI Care Foundation aim to put the topic of inclusive development of our holiday destinations at the very centre of discussions on the future of tourism." To do so, the Foundation has gathered relevant local and international players working at the juxtaposition of tourism and development work to discuss the challenges and opportunities for strengthening local resilience through tourism growth in times of Corona.
The international event will kick off on September 28 with a high-level panel of representatives from leading international Tourism Foundations: Darrell Wade, Co-founder and Chairman of Intrepid Travel; Jamie Sweeting, President of Planeterra Foundation, Jeremey Sampson, CEO of the Travel Foundation; and Nico Visser, Member of the Board of Trustees of the TUI Care Foundation.
The one-hour panel will discuss the challenges that have emerged or have become more pressing as a result of the pandemic and the opportunities for the industry to grow sustainably while strengthening local resilience.
To see the full programme and to register, please follow this link.
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Building on the potential of tourism as a force for good, the TUI Care Foundation supports and initiates partnerships and projects, which create new opportunities for the young generation and contribute to thriving communities all over the world. Connecting holidaymakers to good causes, the TUI Care Foundation fosters education and training initiatives to open up new opportunities and perspectives for young people, the protection of the natural environment in holiday destinations and sustainable livelihoods in thriving destinations where local communities can benefit even more from tourism. TUI Care Foundation works global and acts local – it builds on strong partnerships with local and international organisations to create meaningful and long lasting impact. The charitable foundation values transparency and the efficient use of funds. Therefore 100% of the donations go to destination programmes with all administration costs of the foundation covered by TUI. TUI Care Foundation was founded by TUI, the world's leading tourism business, and is based in the Netherlands.
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King of the digital swingers: Can Peter Jackson's Weta studios allow anyone to play a gorilla?
David Phelan dons a motion-capture suit to try to ape CGI superstar Andy Serkis
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In the breezy but temperate streets of Wellington, New Zealand, between one anonymous warehouse and another, sits a piece of Hollywood. Weta Digital, the special-effects house created by Sir Peter Jackson, has its headquarters in a sumptuous but understated mansion with spacious rooms and an elegant terrace. There's also a stunningly equipped screening room with flickering starlit sky above and super-comfy seats.
Weta was set up in 1993 and is responsible for the special effects on movies from Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong as well as the recent Adventures of Tintin and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It's earned them five Oscars, most recently for Best Visual Effects on James Cameron's Avatar.
In one of the rooms, I'm talking to Andy Serkis, supremely relaxed and affable, leaning comfortably into a voluminous leather sofa. Serkis rose to Hollywood prominence for his digitally enhanced performance as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, a role he's reprising now in The Hobbit movies, filming now in New Zealand.
Right now, industry gossip is turning to next year's Oscar nominees and a campaign is under way on Twitter and elsewhere to get Andy Serkis nominated for his performance in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He played Caesar, an ape with artificially enhanced intelligence, a central character in the movie. It's an arresting, detailed, utterly convincing performance. If the nomination happens, it will be a first for a motion-captured role.
Mocap, as it's abbreviated, is that process where an actor is poured into a form-fitting suit with tiny white balls attached and has his every movement digitally captured. Usually this is filmed separately to the main action, in a special studio called the Volume. However, Rise of the Planet of the Apes broke new ground by shooting mocap action outdoors, and with Serkis on location with the other actors, instead of being added in post-production.
Before speaking to Serkis, I tried on a mocap suit myself. My body was scanned as I performed basic movements and then my actions were recorded in the Weta Digital volume. It's a big, brightly-lit room with banks of desks creaking under the weight of computers, a carefully marked floor and scores of special cameras on the walls to register the mocap balls which were Velcroed to my every joint.
The new techniques used on Rise of the Planet of the Apes mean there's much more interaction between the actors than previously, as Serkis explains. He differentiates between motion capture and the latest techniques, called performance capture.
"At first with Gollum it wasn't even performance capture, it was motion capture and then the facial performance was shot on 35mm film. Then the animators rotoscoped – basically painted frame by frame over my expressions, matchframing every facial expression I made.
"The main difference now is this. I still filmed Gollum on location, I was in every single location and with the actors on real sets but the performance capture then had to be created months down the line in the Volume separately. So my performance was filmed on 35mm as Gollum. Then I repeated some of it for the motion capture. But with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, there's no disconnect. You're filming the live action actors and you're filming the performance captured performances in one hit. So it's all absolutely in the moment, everything happens on location, all in one beat and then we never have to go back and reshoot. And the same with Gollum this time."
The effects are so sophisticated and realistic now – there's not a real ape in the entire movie – does he think Hollywood will one day be able to manage without actors?
"That's entirely nonsense. Who is going to provide the emotional content to those scenes, who's going to drive that digital puppet if it's not an actor? Performance capture lends itself to live-action film-making.
"You can always tell the difference if you see a computer-generated character in a live action movie because it never has the right weight, it never feels its connected to the environment, there's never any messiness about it, it's too perfect."
So should a performance capture role be nominated for an Oscar? Serkis is too modest to suggest his own candidacy, but says: "For me as an actor there isn't any difference between playing a performance capture role or a live action role. I don't approach them any differently.
"For anyone who has been through the process of doing performance capture, it's just no more than acting. If I was wearing prosthetic make-up you wouldn't even be asking this. There are different ways of approaching performance capture but it's just digital make-up, basically."
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"I tried to convince myself and the actors that I was an ape. It's a complicated and intense process, involving a curious square-hipped walk, rolling shoulders and heavy leaning on crutch-like extensions to replicate ape dimensions. I did it for less than 15 minutes and was exhausted."
"When [director] Rupert Wyatt cuts the movie he's just editing for all the emotional content, for the pace of the scene, the drama. It doesn't really
matter what the make-up's like, is the emotional content there?"
Dressed in a grey tight-fitting suit, Serkis's face is covered with 51 dots for the mocap camera. "Head-mounted cameras are used to capture the face. So now you can go anywhere without worrying about occluding the cameras. You can get into all sorts of positions that the previous system didn't allow. So you have a lot more freedom to move."
"Caesar is based on a chimp called Oliver from the 1970s who walked upright. His expressions were almost human. And he'd sit down in a chair, pick up a glass and drink, have a cigar. He was believed to be progeny of man and ape, and when they discovered he wasn't, he was thrown into a sanctuary. They found him 30 years later, screwed up and broken."
"You don't actually get to see the visual effects until months down the line when they all start to come in and the visual effects shots begin to replace the actual thing, well after the final edit. And the animators can calibrate the character on the computer: you can dial the curvature of the spine, so you'll notice by the end of the movie Caesar's absolutely upright. He's more human in his movements."
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SEaB Energy's smart city technology to be piloted in Canary Wharf
SEaB Energy, a leading smart city innovator, has been selected to pilot its containerised, waste-to-energy technology at Canary Wharf after winning the second phase of the Cognicity Challenge. This will be the first time in thirty years that shipping containers will have been seen at the former dockyard.
Cognicity is a smart cities accelerator programme designed and delivered by ENTIQ for Canary Wharf Group (CWG). It was established to discover and support the development of future technologies with positive economic, social and environmental impacts.
SEaB Energy has developed a unique, patented, micro power plant that turns food and organic waste into heat, energy and water directly on the site of where the waste is produced. This generates an attractive revenue stream, eliminates the need to transport food waste to distant processing plants and significantly reduces the site's carbon footprint.
This is becoming critical for new developments, as in order for them to comply with Part L of Building Regulations, their Building Emissions Rate (BER) or Dwelling Emissions Rate (DER), must be less than their Target Emissions Rate (TER).
Sandra Sassow, CEO of SEaB Energy, said, "Showcasing our game-changing technology, right in the heart of the capital, will allow us to demonstrate to businesses that their waste can be transformed into revenue and carbon offsets, even where space is at a premium. Not only does this make sound commercial sense but it also helps meet their sustainability objectives and lower target emissions for new developments. A big thank you must go to Cognicity, Canary Wharf Group and ENTIQ for this opportunity that will undoubtedly help catapult our sales expansion in other parts of the world that aspire to smart city status".
SEaB Energy has been awarded a £50,000 prize alongside the opportunity to implement their technology at Canary Wharf. The award will also kick-start the co-operation with Intel, the event sponsor, that will lead the two companies working together closely to incorporate Intel's latest technology into SEaB Energy's products.
Through Cognicity, CWG is facilitating new types of interaction between developers, large technology firms and startups. The programme also aims to successfully demonstrate interoperability through the use of Big Data and the Internet of Things.
Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive of Canary Wharf Group said: "We embarked on the Cognicity Challenge to identify and procure the most exciting innovations relevant to our continued growth. Last night was another important step in securing the next generation of technologies essential to keeping the Canary Wharf estate at the forefront of innovation. SEaB Energy's ground-breaking solution will deliver real value, long into the future, to our operations as well as to the workers and future residents of Canary Wharf."
SEaB Energy has recently launched its new generation Flexibuster™ micro power plant that marks a big leap forward in performance and usability which will offer even greater sustainability benefits to businesses with waste. The new Flexibuster™ is now housed in a compact 20 foot container making it easier for customers to site. SEaB Energy has also boosted the performance of the unit further by lowering the parasitic load and increasing the efficiency of the anaerobic digestion. The system configuration has also been markedly simplified to allow for plug and play installation and reduced footprint.
For media coverage on this story:
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Monday Morning Thoughts
This will be my weekly spot for JetNation this season. I don't want to call it a "Monday Morning Quarterback" editorial because it won't be a total critique of the game, but rather an evaluation of all phases of the Jets game every week.
Game Ball: Geno Smith- 24/38 256 yards 1 TD, 1 INT. 6 carries for 47 yards
The offense had spurts where it looked like a well-oiled machine, and times where fans could question if Tony Sparano was back as Offensive Coordinator. Maybe that's too much of a stretch, but Rex's infatuation with "WildCat" formation has got to stop. Geno Smith completed his first pass of the game to Jeremy Kerley for a big gain, and then the next two plays were WildCat plays from Powell and Kerley, neither of which had success. A rookie quarterback needs to get a feel for the flow of the game and taking him in and out on these plays will only hinder that flow.
Geno Smith threw the interception on his check down when he threw over Chris Ivory's head. That was solely on Geno, overthrowing a check down which cannot happen in the future. The defense made a big play by intercepting a pass, giving the ball back to Geno and he responded by throwing his first career touchdown pass to Kellen Winslow on a very well run route.
After the interception and strip sack, which happened because the rookie needs to learn the NFL quarterback internal clock, Geno played very well, going 12/20 in the second half. With 38 seconds left in the game, down by two points and no timeouts, Geno hit TE Kellen Winslow for 25 yards. Without panicking, Smith spiked the ball to stop the clock. The next play the pocket collapsed, Smith rolled out and decided to run it for a 10 yard gain. He got hit late out of bounds by LB Lavonte David which put the Jets in field goal range for the win. In two plays, the offense (and a little help from the penalty) got into field goal position for Nick Folk. As a whole, Geno ran the ball when he needed to and made some really nice throws, but it was evident that he still has a lot to learn.
The Jets running backs were non-existent against the Buccaneers, running for only 44 yards combined (Bilal Powell and Chris Ivory) on 22 carries. Geno Smith had 47 yards on only 6 carries. If the Jets are going to have any success on offense this year, they cannot have their quarterback leading them in rushing yards. In the West Coast Offense, there isn't much emphasis on the running game, but when you do run, you get big chunks of yards. This didn't happen today. The offensive line play was one of the reasons the run game never got going. The offensive line was poor in pass blocking, as well. D'Brickashaw Ferguson had a rough day trying to contain Gerald McCoy and company. They need to be able to protect this young quarterback because he needs time to get through his reads. As the season goes on, he will need less time to make decisions, but you can bet that teams are going to pin their ears back and come for Geno.
"When will the Jets ever close out a game on the offensive side of the ball by getting that one big first down to ice the game?" How many times over the years, as fans, have we said this? The playcall on 3rd down was questionable. Why roll Smith out to the short side of the field where the defense had outnumbered the Jets receivers? That play had disaster written all over it, thankfully Smith rushed for a few yards and then the Jets had to punt. Mornhinweg should have confidence in his quarterback to make a smart decision and make a throw to put the Jets in position to move the chains and take a knee to win the game.
Game Ball: Demario Davis: 8 tackles
The defense overall played a pretty solid game. The front 7 looked really good and showed that they can get pressure on the quarterback. The Jets had 5 sacks today, three by defensive linemen. The secondary looked shaky all day. Vincent Jackson caught 7 balls for 154 yards, including one for 39 yards to set up, what would've been, the game winning field goal for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's going to be a process and there will be a learning curve for the young secondary, but they're going to have to figure it out before Thursday against Tom Brady and his Patriots offense.
Demario Davis was the hero of the day. He showed his fire and leadership prior to the game getting the team pumped up. After the game, Davis was the star. He made a game-saving tackle on Jackson's long gain that ultimately led to a field goal, but would've been a touchdown if he didn't make the play. Bart Scott didn't have the speed to be able to catch a guy like Jackson, but Davis ran in pursuit and tackled him from behind. Dawan Landry made a brutal mistake by over runnng Jackson and missing the tackle which allowed the Bucs to get into field goal range. He had a total of 8 tackles on the game, which led the Jets overall.
Rookies Dee Milliner and Sheldon Richardson were polar opposites in their first NFL game. Milliner struggled, as expected for a rookie corner, but Richardson was all over the field. He plays with a lot of passion, not to mention hes an all around solid defensive tackle. He recorded his first sack of his career. His first step off the line is something that is going to give opposing offensive line fits all year. He finished the game with 7 tackles. Milliner has a lot to learn. Leverage is very important when playing corner in a Rex Ryan defense and he has to learn to gain leverage rather than allow the receiver to get into a position to make a play.
Game Ball: Nick Folk 3/3 FGs, 48 yard FG to win game
Special teams was solid all day. Nick Folk hit the game-winning field goal after Geno Smith scrambled for 10 yard gain and was hit out of bounds late by All-Pro LB Lavonte David. He put the 48 yard field goal right inside the right upright with 7 seconds left to give the Jets the lead for good.
Robert Malone struggled early punting, but had a good day overall. The Jets would've liked for him to pin the Bucs deep in their own end late in the fourth quarter, but he crushed his punt and kicked it well into the end zone.
Jeremy Kerley and Kyle Wilson returned punts, and as expected, called for a fair catch almost every time. The Jets need to find a new returner because neither of these guys are the answer.
Overall, the Jets won and Geno Smith played well enough to give his team a chance to win. Kellen Winslow had a terrific game, and it was nice to see Santonio Holmes back on the field. The defensive line will be this teams strongest asset this season and it'll be fun to watch this group grow and create havoc for opposing offenses. The pass coverage is a work in progress and it's going to need to progress before the Jets next game.
The Jets have a quick turnaround when they play at the New England Patriots Thursday night at 8:30PM.
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BASF offers Selontra® Rodent Bait to control rodents more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than ever before. The result is far less time spent cleaning and servicing bait stations and more time to devote to other vital actions, like inspecting for conducive conditions, communicating with staff, performing exclusion, and searching for and treating burrows.
When a regional landfill became overrun by Norway rats, Hyde's Termite & Pest Control Inc. saw a great opportunity to put Selontra rodent bait from BASF to the test.


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Plant Early-spring to early-summer in well-drained, weed free soil & full sun. Direct or in modules 0.5cm deep. Thin to 20x20cm. Bolts rapidly, so early sowings and successional sowings work well. Can overwinter if sheltered.
Grow Grows to around 90cm high. Keep weed free.
Harvest 8-10 wks after sowing. Pick & eat deliciously tasty leaves and flowerbuds or leave to go to seed. Seed can be stored and used in cooking or sow again next year!
Biodynamic tips Leaf crop. Sow on a waxing moon. Plant & weed on a descending moon. Harvest on an ascending moon.
Natural remedies A great companion plant. Attracts many beneficial insects.
Early-spring to early-summer in well-drained, weed-free soil and full sun.
Direct or in modules 0.5cm deep.
Bolts rapidly, so early sowings and successional sowings work well.
Can be overwintered if sheltered.
We grow our dill in amongst other leaf crops such as kale, fennel, cabbages and spinach, where it attracts beneficial insects to keep pests off the surrounding leaf crops.
Most varieties grow to around 90cm in height.
Keep surrounding soil weed free.
Leaves, flowers and seeds are all edible. Pick the leaves and flowerbuds as and when you need them or leave the flowerheads to go to seed.
Harvest seeds around mid-summer when green and ripe and leave them to dry in a paper bag or let the flowerheads dry on the stem and collect seeds in late-summer when they're brown.
Store seeds in a paper envelope.
Biodynamic tips: To make use of these tips you'll need a biodynamic or lunar gardening calendar. More information about biodynamic gardening can be found here.
All work is carried out on a leaf day.
Sow when the moon is waxing (as close to the full moon as possible) for best germination.
Plant out when the moon is descending to encourage super-strong root formation.
Hoe and weed when the moon is descending.
Natural remedies: A brilliant companion plant. The flowers attract many beneficial insects such as lacewings, pirate bugs, hoverflies and parasitic wasps, which feast on aphids and keep the caterpillars of the 'cabbage white' at bay. Yay!
Health Benefits: Dill is a great remedy for digestive & menstrual complaints due to its anti-spasmodic properties. It supports the health of the immune system with potent anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties and is a good source of vitamins A and C, calcium, manganese and iron, plus high levels of antioxidants help to fight free radical damage. You can even chew the seeds for sweet-smelling breath!
Recipes: There's so much you can do with dill! The leaves are deliciously sweet and refreshing in salads; the seeds are great in stews, soups, pickles, preserves, even in a pepper grinder and cucumbers taste amazing when pickled with a dill flowerhead! Try a simple dip of natural yoghurt, with diced fresh cucumber, chopped dill and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Yum!
You write so lovingly of all these plants, I just want to go out and plant them immediately!!!! And yes please re breakfast book. I need some inspiration too!!


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@interface CCBPublisherController_Tests : FileSystemTestCase

@property (nonatomic, strong) CCBPublisherController *publisherController;
@property (nonatomic, strong) ProjectSettings *projectSettings;
@property (nonatomic, strong) PackagePublishSettings *packageSettings;
@property (nonatomic, strong) RMPackage *package;

@end

@implementation CCBPublisherController_Tests

- (void)setUp
{
    [super setUp];

    self.projectSettings = [[ProjectSettings alloc] init];
    _projectSettings.projectPath = [self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/publishtest.ccbproj"];
    _projectSettings.publishDirectory = @"../Published-iOS";
    _projectSettings.publishDirectoryAndroid = @"../Published-Android";

    self.publisherController = [[CCBPublisherController alloc] init];
    _publisherController.projectSettings = _projectSettings;
}

- (void)tearDown
{
    self.projectSettings = nil;
    self.package = nil;
    self.packageSettings = nil;
    self.publisherController = nil;

    [super tearDown];
}

- (void)configureSinglePackagePublishSettingCase
{
    [_projectSettings addResourcePath:[self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/foo.sbpack"] error:nil];

    self.package = [[RMPackage alloc] init];
    _package.dirPath = [self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/foo.sbpack"];

    self.packageSettings = [[PackagePublishSettings alloc] initWithPackage:_package];
    _packageSettings.publishToCustomOutputDirectory = NO;
    _packageSettings.publishToMainProject = NO;
    _packageSettings.publishToZip = YES;

    PublishOSSettings *iosSettings = [_packageSettings settingsForOsType:kCCBPublisherOSTypeIOS];
    iosSettings.resolution_tablethd = YES;
    iosSettings.resolution_phone = YES;

    PublishOSSettings *androidSettings = [_packageSettings settingsForOsType:kCCBPublisherOSTypeAndroid];
    androidSettings.resolution_tablet = YES;
    androidSettings.resolution_phonehd = YES;

    [self createFolders:@[@"Published-Packages", @"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/foo.sbpack"]];

    _publisherController.packageSettings = @[_packageSettings];
}

- (void)testPackageExportToDefaultDirectory
{
    [self configureSinglePackagePublishSettingCase];

    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/foo.sbpack/resources-auto/plane.png" width:10 height:2];

    [_publisherController startAsync:NO];

    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:@"Published-Packages/foo-iOS-tablethd"];
    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:@"Published-Packages/foo-iOS-phone"];
    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:@"Published-Packages/foo-Android-tablet"];
    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:@"Published-Packages/foo-Android-phonehd"];

    [self assertFilesExistRelativeToDirectory:[@"baa.spritebuilder" stringByAppendingPathComponent:DEFAULT_OUTPUTDIR_PUBLISHED_PACKAGES] filesPaths:@[
            @"foo-iOS-tablethd.zip",
            @"foo-iOS-phone.zip",
            @"foo-Android-tablet.zip",
            @"foo-Android-phonehd.zip"
    ]];
}

- (void)testMainProjectPublishWithOldResourcePath
{
    [self configureSinglePackagePublishSettingCase];

    _projectSettings.publishEnabledIOS = NO;
    _projectSettings.publishEnabledAndroid = YES;

    _packageSettings.publishToZip = NO;
    _packageSettings.publishToMainProject = YES;

    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/OldResourcePath/resources-auto/sun.png" width:4 height:4];
    [_projectSettings addResourcePath:[self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/OldResourcePath"] error:nil];

    RMDirectory *oldResourcePath = [[RMDirectory alloc] init];
    oldResourcePath.dirPath = [self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/OldResourcePath"];
    _publisherController.oldResourcePaths = @[oldResourcePath];

    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/foo.sbpack/resources-auto/plane.png" width:10 height:2];

    [_publisherController startAsync:NO];

    [self assertFilesExistRelativeToDirectory:@"Published-Android" filesPaths:@[
            @"resources-phone/sun.png",
            @"resources-phonehd/sun.png",
            @"resources-tablet/sun.png",
            @"resources-tablethd/sun.png",
            @"resources-phone/plane.png",
            @"resources-phonehd/plane.png",
            @"resources-tablet/plane.png",
            @"resources-tablethd/plane.png"
    ]];
}

- (void)testPackageExportToCustomDirectory
{
    [self configureSinglePackagePublishSettingCase];

    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/foo.sbpack/resources-auto/plane.png" width:10 height:2];

    _packageSettings.publishToCustomOutputDirectory = YES;
    _packageSettings.customOutputDirectory = @"../custom";

    PublishOSSettings *iosSettings = [_packageSettings settingsForOsType:kCCBPublisherOSTypeIOS];
    iosSettings.resolutions = @[];

    PublishOSSettings *androidSettings = [_packageSettings settingsForOsType:kCCBPublisherOSTypeAndroid];
    androidSettings.resolutions = @[];
    androidSettings.resolution_phone = YES;

    [_publisherController startAsync:NO];

    [self assertFilesExistRelativeToDirectory:@"custom" filesPaths:@[
          @"foo-Android-phone.zip"
    ]];
}

- (void)testPublishMainProjectWithSomePackagesNotIncluded
{
    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Menus.sbpack/resources-auto/button.png" width:4 height:4];
    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Characters.sbpack/resources-auto/hero.png" width:4 height:4];
    [self createPNGAtPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Backgrounds.sbpack/resources-auto/desert.png" width:4 height:4];

    [_projectSettings addResourcePath:[self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Menus.sbpack"] error:nil];
    [_projectSettings addResourcePath:[self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Characters.sbpack"] error:nil];
    [_projectSettings addResourcePath:[self fullPathForFile:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Backgrounds.sbpack"] error:nil];
    _projectSettings.publishEnabledIOS = YES;
    _projectSettings.publishEnabledAndroid = YES;

    PackagePublishSettings *packageSettingsMenus = [self createSettingsWithPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Menus.sbpack"];
    packageSettingsMenus.publishToMainProject = NO;
    packageSettingsMenus.publishToZip = NO;

    PackagePublishSettings *packageSettingsCharacters = [self createSettingsWithPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Characters.sbpack"];
    packageSettingsCharacters.publishToMainProject = YES;
    packageSettingsCharacters.publishToZip = NO;

    PackagePublishSettings *packageSettingsBackgrounds = [self createSettingsWithPath:@"baa.spritebuilder/Packages/Backgrounds.sbpack"];
    packageSettingsBackgrounds.publishToMainProject = YES;
    packageSettingsBackgrounds.publishToZip = NO;

    _publisherController.packageSettings = @[packageSettingsMenus, packageSettingsCharacters, packageSettingsBackgrounds];

    [_publisherController startAsync:NO];

    NSArray *resolutions = @[@"tablet", @"tablethd", @"phone", @"phonehd"];
    NSArray *osSuffixes = @[@"iOS", @"Android"];

    for (NSString *osSuffix in osSuffixes)
    {
        for (NSString *resolution in resolutions)
        {
            NSString *outputFolder = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Published-%@", osSuffix];
            [self assertFilesExistRelativeToDirectory:outputFolder filesPaths:@[
                    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"resources-%@/hero.png", resolution],
                    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"resources-%@/desert.png", resolution]
            ]];

            [self assertFilesDoNotExistRelativeToDirectory:outputFolder filesPaths:@[
                    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"resources-%@/button.png", resolution]
            ]];
        }
    }

    for (NSString *osSuffix in osSuffixes)
    {
        for (NSString *resolution in resolutions)
        {
            [self assertFilesDoNotExistRelativeToDirectory:packageSettingsMenus.effectiveOutputDirectory filesPaths:@[
                    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Menus-%@-%@.zip", osSuffix, resolution]
            ]];
            [self assertFilesDoNotExistRelativeToDirectory:packageSettingsCharacters.effectiveOutputDirectory filesPaths:@[
                    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Characters-%@-%@.zip", osSuffix, resolution]
            ]];
            [self assertFilesDoNotExistRelativeToDirectory:packageSettingsBackgrounds.effectiveOutputDirectory filesPaths:@[
                    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Backgrounds-%@-%@.zip", osSuffix, resolution]
            ]];
        }
    }
}

- (void)testNothingToPublish
{
    _packageSettings.publishToZip = NO;
    _packageSettings.publishToMainProject = NO;
    _packageSettings.publishToCustomOutputDirectory = NO;

    [_publisherController startAsync:NO];

    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:@"Published-iOS"];
    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:@"Published-Android"];
    [self assertFileDoesNotExist:DEFAULT_OUTPUTDIR_PUBLISHED_PACKAGES];
}

#pragma mark - helpers

- (PackagePublishSettings *)createSettingsWithPath:(NSString *)path
{
    RMPackage *package = [[RMPackage alloc] init];
    package.dirPath = [self fullPathForFile:path];

    return [[PackagePublishSettings alloc] initWithPackage:package];
}

@end

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Fire Hydrant in Del Ray Under Repair Causing Water IssuesUPDATE (4:20 PM): It is NOT a Virginia American Water crew on scene but, a City of Alexandria, Virginia crew fixing the hydrant. Changed the title of the post to reflect that.
This afternoon, a City of Alexandria crew is making repairs on a fire hydrant valve on East Howell Avenue at LaGrande Avenue in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia.
As a result, customers in the E. Howell Ave area of Del Ray area may experience no water, low pressure, or discolored water. Repairs are expected to last through the afternoon into early evening before water service is back to normal.
When service is restored, customers may experience cloudy and or discolored water. If your water is discolored, wait until it runs clear before using. This should typically take only a few minutes.


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Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (born February 16, 1932) was the 3rd President of Sierra Leone, serving from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2007.
He worked for the United Nations Development Programme and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992. He was elected president in 1996 Sierra Leone presidential election with 59% of the vote defeating his closest rival John Karefa-Smart of the United National People's Party (UNPP) who had 40%. Kabbah is the first Muslim head of state of Sierra Leone and the first Sierra Leonean president from the Mandingo ethnic group.
Most of his time in office was influenced by a civil war with the Revolutionary United Front, led by Foday Sankoh, which involved him being temporarily ousted by the military Armed Forces Revolutionary Council from May 1997 to March 1998. He was soon returned to power after a military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Another phase of the civil war led to United Nations and British involvement in the country in 2000. The civil war was officially declared over in early 2002, and Kabbah went on to win yet another term in office in the presidential election later that year with 70.1% of the vote, defeating his closest rival Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC), who won only 19% of the vote.
Kabbah had served as an assistant district commissioner in the colonial administration, and later in senior civil service posts in several ministries. In 1968, he studied law in the United Kingdom and then took up a post at the United Nations as deputy chief of the West Africa Division. When he retired from the United Nations in the early 1990s, he was director of the Division of Administration and Management.


Software for seismic analysis and design of heavy industrial pallet racks.
RackWizard uses the regulation FEM 10.2.08.
RackWizard provides a wizard interface to help with the definition of the rack structure in 6 simple steps.
Select the profile sizes to be used for each rack part.
Enter the rack level positions and loads.
Select the type of frame bracing from existing templates, or customize it.
Select the placement of back bracing.
Select the placement of horizontal bracing.
Enter the spectral data parameters.
RackWizard automatically generates the rack structure from the wizard parameters, complete with loads and masses.
When running the analysis and design process, the software automatically generates the required load combinations and performs the member design of each structural member.
The overall most unfavorable results are presented in a concise table and a complete report document can also be generated.
I'm interested for the RackWizard. Please send me a price quote about the software.


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Making Dispute Resolution More Effective – MAP Peer Review Report, United Kingdom (Stage 2) - Inclusive Framework on BEPS: Action 14
Under Action 14, countries have committed to implement a minimum standard to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of the mutual agreement procedure (MAP). The MAP is included in Article 25 of the OECD Model Tax Convention and commits countries to endeavour to resolve disputes related to the interpretation and application of tax treaties. The Action 14 Minimum Standard has been translated into specific terms of reference and a methodology for the peer review and monitoring process. The minimum standard is complemented by a set of best practices.The peer review process is conducted in two stages. Stage 1 assesses countries against the terms of reference of the minimum standard according to an agreed schedule of review. Stage 2 focuses on monitoring the follow-up of any recommendations resulting from jurisdictions' stage 1 peer review report. This report reflects the outcome of the stage 2 peer monitoring of the implementation of the Action 14 Minimum Standard by the United Kingdom, which is accompanied by a document addressing the implementation of best practices which can be accessed on the OECD website.
Energy Policies of IEA Countries: United Kingdom 2019
The International Energy Agency (IEA) regularly conducts in-depth peer reviews of the energy policies of its member countries, a process that supports energy policy development and encourages the exchange of international best practices and experiences. The United Kingdom is a global leader in decarbonisation, both in terms of actual emissions reductions and ambitions set out in five-year carbon budgets. The carbon price floor has supported coal-to-gas switching, which combined with a record investment in offshore wind and solar PV, is transforming the UK power sector. By 2030, wind and solar are expected to reach above 50%, more than in any other country. Solutions for flexible electricity markets and technologies need to be scaled up. Coal and nuclear power capacity is going to retire and new nuclear faces a weak outlook, the contribution of natural gas to meet peak demand is likely to increase. The UK has been able to stabilise production from the North Sea. Given its long term decline, however, oil & gas imports are critical. Maintaining open energy trade with the Continent and the world has to remain a top priority. The UK Clean Growth Strategy puts energy technology and innovation at the centre of its decarbonisation policy. The IEA underlines that the country's offshore expertise is a strong basis for innovative technologies, such as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) and also hydrogen, along with improving energy efficiency. In this report, the IEA provides recommendations to help the country guide the transformation of the UK energy sector and to meet its ambitious targets.
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Skills Strategy 2019: Northern Ireland
This document describes the key findings for Northern Ireland from the OECD Skills Strategy 2019.
Skills Strategy England Country Note
This document describes the key findings for England from the OECD Skills Strategy 2019.
The Squeezed Middle Class - How does the United Kingdom compare?
This country fact-sheet presents key figures from "Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class". This report analyses the trends of middle-income households in areas such as employment, consumption, wealth and debt, as well as perceptions and social attitudes. It also includes recommendations for protecting middle-class living standards and financial security in the face of economic challenges.
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Society at a Glance 2019 - How does the United Kingdom compare?
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Engaging Employers and Developing Skills at the Local Level in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
The success of skills development activities through both on- and off-the job training often depends on the participation of employers. This OECD report on Northern Ireland, United Kingdom identifies a number of innovative programmes that aim to better engage employers in the design and delivery of training. It also looks at the role of local district councils in working closer with employers to better understand and address their skills challenges. A key part of the project was the implementation of a survey to gather information from Northern Irish employers about their skills needs and barriers to apprenticeship participation. The report offers a number of recommendations for improving business-education partnerships in emerging sectors of the Northern Ireland economy.
Good jobs for all in a changing world of work: The new OECD Jobs Strategy – Key findings for the United Kingdom
The digital revolution, globalisation and demographic changes are transforming labour markets at a time when policy makers are also struggling with slow productivity and wage growth and high levels of income inequality. The new OECD Jobs Strategy provides a comprehensive framework and policy recommendations to help countries address these challenges.
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Stemming the Superbug Tide in the United Kingdom
Resistance proportions for eight antibiotic-bacterium pairs in the United Kingdom (UK) have decreased in recent years, from 13.5% in 2005 to 9% in 2015, and could go up again to 11% by 2030, should current trends in antibiotic consumption, population and economic growth continue into the future. Resistance proportions in the UK were lower than the OECD average in 2015 (17%).
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Developing Schools as Learning Organisations in Wales
Wales (United Kingdom) considers the development of schools as learning organisations as vital for supporting schools to put its new, 21st century curriculum into practice. A growing body of research evidence shows that schools that operate as learning organisations can react more quickly to changing external environments and embrace changes and innovations.This report aims to support Wales in this effort, gauging the extent to which schools have put into practice the characteristics of learning organisations and identifying areas for further development. It also examines the system-level conditions that can enable or hinder schools in Wales in developing as learning organisations. It offers a number of concrete recommendations for consideration by the Welsh Government and other stakeholders at various levels of the system.The report will be valuable not only for Wales, but also to the many countries that are looking to establish collaborative learning cultures across their school systems.
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1.	The GPS or Global positioning System can be installed as a route guide for the road. This high tech device has built in maps of the United States and Canada. It contains specific details and information for more than 2,000,000 destinations. It will help the drivers find points of interest, their destination, the nearest gasoline station or even a bank for cash withdrawal.
2.	A portable DVD player can provide a nice and peaceful ride especially if the entire family is in the car. The children may watch their favorite movies for the whole trip. It is not advisable to have a DVD that can divert the driver's attention and cause a high risk of danger on the road. But as a personal choice it may be valuable for the whole family to enjoy a long trip.
3.	A jumpstart system can be important to the car. A driver must always have jump-start cables in the car when on a road trip. There are instances when a driver may encounter battery problems, and will need the help of a mechanic or a fellow driver. However with jump-start cables and the assistance of another traveler, the driver can get back on the road quickly and conveniently without the assistance of a mechanic.
4.	A car entertainment system would be a good choice if set up in the back of the car. It is recommended rather than having a DVD player in the car. Packages of $1800 for the audiovox that will let the kids play video games and watch movies on built-in media system player.


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Grade 12 Limpopo learners to benefit from SADTU`s Career Expo
More than 2000 Grade 12 learners from the Aganang municipality and the surrounding areas in Limpopo will be provided with a rare opportunity of learning about post matric career options during a two-day Career Counseling expo organized by the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU).
The expo is part of fulfilling SADTU's 2030 Vision of creating a learning nation. It is also part of the Union's commitment to the Education Accord and Quality of Learning and Teaching Campaign.
SADTU General Secretary Mugwena Maluleke said he realized the need for such an expo when he visited schools in Limpopo as part the Union's Adopt-A-School campaign.
"Many children do well under trying circumstances in this area but end up not pursuing their studies further because of lack of exposure to career options and the province also has fewer tertiary institutions in the province. Teachers were complaining that the children were not getting the exposure because there are fewer tertiary institutions in the province. We then decided to bring the information to them," Maluleke said.
Students from Wits University and the University of Johannesburg will give first hand information on what learners need to do to apply at these institutions. They will also share testimonies about university life.
The Limpopo Education MEC Dickson Masemola as well as the leadership of SADTU will also address the expo.
Representatives of the South African Students Congress (SASCO), ANC Youth League and Young Communist League will be in attendance.
WHERE: Aganang Hall
WHEN: Thursday, 28 February - 1 March 2013.
The media are invited.
ISSUED BY: SADTU Secretariat


As we all known that vitiligo can occur in any parts of the body any place, lips as well , vitiligo on lips in daily life is relatively common, but in daily life we need to intake food by mouth and so on, so it is inevitable to contact with the lips, so the treatment for lips vitiligo has certain particularity. So, how to treat vitiligo on the lips?
Expert introduction, lip lesions of vitiligo skin color is represents like shallow, although it is occurred in the exposed area of the body surface, but due to the cover of lip color, it leads to lesions of the white spot is not easy to detect, white the white patches represents punctate or patchy bleaching plaque in early period , there is no any difference with normal skin, with smooth superficial surface, there is no dander or atrophy etc. phenomenon. Meanwhile,after the sun exposure, it can be accompanied by itching and burning sensation, no symptoms accompanied by itching, it may prompt the development of the disease, so the patient should be cited as the attention.
Vitiligo is easy to occur in the body surface especially exposed parts, such as the head and face, mouth, neck, hand, foot, etc.. Due to the thin skin coverage of the lips, and rich mucosal tissue , and the treatment is not the same as other parts of the body surface. On the basis of medication treatment, set up a seris of targeted treatment options accroding to the characteristics of the lips vitiligo, and also combined with therapeutic and spiritual therapy adjuvant therapy, comprehensive treatment of vitiligo, so as to achieve the purpose of complete cure.
At the end, when it comes to the diet , lips vitiligo patients can eat some black sesame, black rice, black beans, black fungus, bean products, animal liver, fresh vegetables, to promote the treatment of vitiligo. Treatment of white spots should be trusted in traditional Chinese medicine.


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Relax on the waterfront at BIG4 NRMA Warrnambool Riverside Holiday Park, just minutes from the town centre of Warrnambool.
Located just 5 minutes east from the town centre of Warrnambool and 1.5 hours from the Great Ocean Road, the park is set on the banks of the pristine Hopkins River. Plus, you can even bring your four-legged friend.
Located in South West Victoria, the park's waterside location makes it the ideal destination for a refreshing escape. Relax by the river and cast a line from the jetty or explore the town of Warrnambool, well-known for its abundance of whale activity just off the coast. The park has a range of facilities including a lagoon pool complex with waterslide and grotto waterfall, heated pool and spa, bouncing pillow, mini-golf, tennis and playground. Groups are well catered for with a function room available and accommodation to suit large numbers.
Whether you're staying for the weekend or settling in longer to explore the region, you'll find plenty of accommodation options to choose from at BIG4 NRMA Warrnambool Holiday Park. The park has a range of self-contained cabins available including medium and large family villas. Bringing along your furry friend? Stay in the pet-friendly studio cabin with a fenced veranda. If you're looking to reconnect with nature set up camp on a powered or ensuite site, positioned close to park facilities and suitable for caravans, motorhomes, campervans and tents.
Explore the town of Warrnambool, well-known for its quaint boutiques, fine-dining experiences and abundance of whale activity just off the coast, a haven for nursing whales from June to September. The best vantage point to see these majestic creatures is from Logan's Beach Whale Viewing Platform. Discover Warrnambool's rich history at one of the town's many culture attractions. Don't just learn about the region's history, immerse yourself in it at the Flagstaff Hill Historic Maritime Village. The museum tells the story of the hundreds of ships claimed by Shipwreck Coast and life for the first European settlers. Stroll through the cobblestoned streets and explore more than 40 historic on-site buildings. Located close to the iconic Great Ocean Road, the park is the perfect base to stop off and relax as you explore its famous natural attractions. Discover the rugged splendour of the winding coastal road and towering limestone formations including the 12 Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge and the Grotto.


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Roddy MacKay joins Scottish Greens
Thu 1 Jul, 2021
Seeing the positive impact of Green MSPs in the Scottish parliament, I concluded that now was the time for me to be part of the Greens for Change movement. Roddy MacKay
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Councillor, Roddy MacKay has joined the Scottish Greens and hopes to stand for the party at next year's council elections.
Cllr MacKay has been an independent councillor, representing the Uibhist a Tuath agus Beinn na Faoghla, Benbecula and North Uist Ward, since 2017.
"We're delighted that Roddy has joined us and look forward to working together, especially in fighting the absurd HIAL ATMS proposals." said Cllr Steve Sankey from Orkney who was the first Scottish Green to be elected to an Island Council in 2017. Cllr John Ross Scott also recently joined the Orkney Greens but sits as an Independent.
As well as local politics, Roddy is also widely known as the founder of the local Eilean Dorcha Festival (EDF), a hugely successful music festival which has raised over £2m for the local economy since 2016. While the event has suffered the same fate as all others during the pandemic, plans are already well underway for a spectacular return next summer for its 5th birthday.
Roddy is especially passionate about education and earlier this year successfully campaigned against the local authority's attempt to place an Executive Head into the islands secondary schools, thus ensuring that Castlebay School in Barra, Sgoil Lionacleit in Benbecula, Sir E Scott School in Harris and the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway retained their own head teachers.
He is also a board member of Hebridean Housing Partnership and local housing and energy agency, Tighean Innse Gall, as well as vice-chair of the council's Gàidhlig Committee.
Cllr MacKay operates an open-door policy and has made a name for himself as a champion of openness and accountability.
In a statement issued today (Thursday 1st July), he said: "Since returning home to the Outer Hebrides over ten years ago, I have had a burning desire to conserve our fragile community, to protect and preserve our ever-diminishing machair land, and to celebrate and safeguard our unique culture and heritage.
"I firmly believe that the Scottish Greens are the party leading the drive for a positive future that will be particularly vital to our islands in the post-Covid years.
"Seeing the positive impact of Green MSPs in the Scottish parliament, I concluded that now was the time for me to be part of the Greens for Change movement.
"It is only right, however, that – since the people of Benbecula and North Uist voted me onto the council as an independent councillor – I should continue my work as an independent until the May 2022 elections.
"My aim over the forthcoming year will be to work with like-minded councillors to bring about change in the way Uist and Benbecula are represented."
He added: "The islands have endured a particularly bad couple of years economically through the pandemic and the farcical situation regarding travel continues to be a massive issue.
"The devastating news that HIAL is attempting to downgrade Benbecula airport by implementing proposals to change the level of Air Traffic Service (ATS) provision from an Air Traffic Control (ATC) service to an Aerodrome Flight Information Service (AFIS) and the subsequent job losses will have a seriously detrimental impact on the local economy. The lack of capacity and service of ferries to and from these islands requires urgent resolution.
"The people of Uist and Benbecula need the support of a party that will challenge the Scottish Government to provide the lifeline services we deserve and not have to settle for the third-rate service we are being forced to tolerate at the moment."
New Online Home for Highlands and Islands Greens
Thu 6 Oct, 2022
Visit our new campaign website for more info on the Council Elections
Fri 15 Apr, 2022
Orkney Greens Election Manifesto
Kris Leask stands in Kirkwall West and Orphir
Check out our new website which has more information about candidates, manifestos and how you can get involved in the campaign.
Visit the new site
On the 29th of March, The Orkney Greens launched their election manifesto for the Orkney Islands Council elections on 5 May 2022.
The Orkney Greens have announced their fifth and final candidate, Kristopher Leask, 22, of St Ola, as their candidate in the forthcoming OIC election on 5 May in the Kirkwall West and Orphir Ward.
A young Green candidate, Kristopher attended Glaitness Primary and KGS, before going on to study International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. He has worked at EMEC following his undergraduate studies and is now working with Scottish Green MSP Ariane Burgess while completing a Masters in Renewable Energy Development at Heriot Watt in Stromness.


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The craters' age is estimated as 4,0005,000 years. The craters, containing iron masses, were reported in 1576, but were already well known to the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. The craters and the area around contain numerous fragments of an iron meteorite. The total weight of the pieces so far recovered exceeds 100 tonnes, making the meteorite the heaviest one ever recovered on Earth.
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New York Works Plan to Create New Artist Studios and 10,000 Creative Jobs
The New York Works initiative aims to create a total of 100,000 new jobs, in areas ranging from tech to creative and cultural sectors.
Brian Boucher, June 15, 2017
New York artists seeking studios, nonprofits facing rising rents, and musicians seeking rehearsal spaces may have some reasons to be hopeful about the future. In a new initiative called New York Works, the city government aims to cultivate creative sector jobs and to provide artists with workspaces.
On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the New York Works initiative, which aims to create 100,000 well-paying jobs (think $50,000 a year or a realistic starting point to get there) over the coming decade in areas from tech and life sciences to fashion to virtual reality. The 10-year plan is backed by some $1.1 billion in currently earmarked city spending and an additional $250 million the city will account for in upcoming budget updates.
As part of the plan, the city is shooting for 10,000 jobs in the creative and cultural sector. That includes jobs in fashion, film and television, media and design, and music, in addition to visual art. (The city wasn't immediately able to provide a breakdown of what portion of those 10,000 jobs will go to visual artists.)
"The creative sector is the soul of this city, providing hundreds of thousands of jobs in all five boroughs," said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl. "To help creative New Yorkers thrive, we need a diverse set of jobs and affordable places to present and create art. This plan will strengthen the entire cultural ecosystem."
New York Works comes on the heels of a study released by the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) that, as Sarah Cascone wrote in artnet News in May, "painted a grim picture of New York's affordability for artists." One startling fact: "A full 40 percent of responding arts and culture workers said they were unable to afford art supplies and tools."
Affordable artist housing is also very hard to come by in the city. As Cascone reported in 2014, an eye-popping 53,000 applications poured in for a scant 89 apartments at East Harlem's El Barrio Artspace PS109.
Given that crushing demand, the city's promised new offerings seem rather modest, if welcome. The city's announcement touts 63 artist workspaces created at Brooklyn Army Terminal (leased from Artopolis, a local artist workspace operator). New York has also worked with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to adapt a former Army warehouse, creating the Arts Center at Governors Island, with 20 visual artist studios and a gallery space. Though it didn't immediately provide statistics on numbers of studios, the city also supports Spaceworks, which provides rehearsal spaces and visual arts studios at two locations in Brooklyn.
More ambitiously, the city hopes to bring 500 artist workspaces online within the next seven years.
The announcement depicts the initiative as a means of improving an already strong creative job market; it cites statistics from the Center for an Urban Future (CFU) that indicate that New York leads the country in its creative jobs, with some 216,110 jobs as of 2013, edging out Los Angeles with its 202,072. The 10,000 jobs would represent a five percent gain. But again, the number of visual artists represented in those figures is small. As artnet's Ben Davis wrote in 2015, according to Creative New York, just 1,654 fine artists were sustaining themselves in New York on their art alone in 2015.
Mayor de Blasio describes the program as part of a larger plan to address class divides. "We have to take economic inequality head-on, and that means raising wages and launching more New Yorkers into the middle class. These are the fast-growing, high-paying industries that represent the future of our city, but only if we invest now in the places, the workforce and the infrastructure to compete."
At press time, the New York City Mayor's office had not responded to artnet News's request for comment.
Brian Boucher
The Gray Market: Why Galleries Shouldn't Sell Primarily to Museums (and Other Insights)
By Tim Schneider , Sep 11, 2017
40 Percent of New York Artists Can't Afford Their Art Supplies
Tom Finkelpearl Wants To Diversify Leadership at New York's Culture Hubs
By Brian Boucher , Jan 5, 2015
Marc Spiegler Defends Art Basel From Rival's Charge of 'Colonialism'
Cartier Debuts Cactus-Inspired Jewelry Line With a Sun-Drenched Art Installation


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Good things take time. I love this quote and I kind of hate it. Because I feel like I'm moving SO slow sometimes and that can be frustrating. But it's true- the really good things… they take time. So that's the quote I've chosen this month.
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Posted by rogerhollander in Africa, History, Imperialism, Kenya, Racism, South Africa, War.
Roger's note: This week, a low life scum by the name of John McCain, presiding over a Senate committee, referred to peace activists who had come to make a citizen's arrest on war criminal Henry Kissinger, as — well, low life scum. I have always had a strong distaste for people in positions of power and authority, of whatever nationality, who are liars, racists, warmongers, etc. This goes as well for dead "heroes" who happened to be on the winning side, the side that writes history. My obsessive antipathy towards Winston Churchill began when I read about the fire bombing of Dresden toward the end of World War II, ordered by Churchill to terrorize and punish the the residents of this city that had great cultural heritage but zero strategic importance from a military point of view. This incineration of almost an entire population compares to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it was the inspiration for the celebrated novel, "Slaughterhouse Five," written by an American soldier who survived the Dresden bombing, Kurt Vonnegut. If you didn't already know that Churchill, who is considered by most to have been a noble statesman and warrior, was a disgusting racist pig, you will after reading this.
This week Britain is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill. Millions of people worldwide watched his state funeral on television in 1965, and thousands of people lined the streets of London to pay their last respects as his cortege slowly passed. But I somehow doubt that President Obama will be adding his own warm words of remembrance for the iconic British wartime leader.
After all, his own paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was one of 150.000 rebellious Kikuyu "blackamoors" forced into detention camps during Churchill's postwar premiership, when the British governnment began its brutal campaign to suppress the alleged "Mau Mau" uprising in Kenya, in order to protect the privileges of the white settler population at the expense of the indigenous people. About 11,000 Kenyans were killed and 81,000 detained during the British government's campaign to protect its imperialist heritage.
Suspected Mau Mau insurgents were subject to electric shock, whippings, burning and mutilation in order to crush the local drive for independence. Obama's grandfather was imprisoned without trial for two years and tortured for resisting Churchill's empire. He never truly recovered from the ordeal.
Africa was quite a playground for young Winston. Born into the privileged British elite in in 1847, educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, brought up believing the simple story that the superior white man was conquering the primitive, dark-skinned natives, and bringing them the benefits of civilisation, he set off as soon as he could to take his part in "a lot of jolly little wars against barbarous peoples," whose violence was explained by a "strong aboriginal propensity to kill".
In Sudan, he bragged that he personally shot at least three "savages".
In South Africa, where "it was great fun galloping about," he defended British built concentration camps for white Boers, saying they produced "the minimum of suffering". The death toll was almost 28,000.
When at least 115,000 black Africans were likewise swept into British camps, where 14,000 died, he wrote only of his "irritation that Kaffirs should be allowed to fire on white men".
Churchill found himself in other British dominions besides Africa. As a young officer in the Swat valley, now part of Pakistan, Churchill one day experienced a fleeting revelation. The local population, he wrote in a letter, was fighting back because of "the presence of British troops in lands the local people considered their own," – just as Britain would if she were invaded.
This idle thought was soon dismissed however , and he gladly took part in raids that laid waste to whole valleys, destroying houses and burning crops, believing the "natives" to be helpless children who will "willingly, naturally, gratefully include themselves within the golden circle of an ancient crown".
Churchill statue in London. Photo: Getty Images.
Just after World War I, approximately one quarter of the world's land and population fell within the spheres of British influence. The Empire had increased in size with the addition of territories taken from its vanquished enemies.
As British Colonial Secretary, Churchill's power in the Middle East was immense. He "created Jordan with a stroke of a pen one Sunday afternoon", allegedly drawing the expansive boundary map after a generous lunch. The huge zigzag in Jordan's eastern border with Saudi Arabia has been called "Winston's Hiccup" or "Churchill's Sneeze".
He is the man who invented Iraq, another arbitrary patch of desert, which was awarded to a throneless Hashemite prince; Faisal, whose brother Abdullah was given control of Jordan. Sons of King Hussein, Faisal and Abdullah had been war buddies of Churchill's pal, the famous "T.E. Lawrence of Arabia".
But the lines drawn in the sand by British imperialism, locking together conflicting peoples behind arbitrary borders were far from stable,and large numbers of Jordanians, Iraqis, Kurds and Palestinians were denied anything resembling real democracy.
In 1920 Churchill advocated the use of chemical weapons on the "uncooperative Arabs" involved in the Iraqi revolution against British rule.
In fact, many of the views Churchill held were virtually Nazi. Apart from his support of hierarchical racism, as Home Minister he had advocated euthanasia and sterilisation of the handicapped.
Britain's American allies saw to that in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when they dropped their atomic bombs and killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Churchill had ordered the saturation bombing of Dresden, where, on February 13 1945, more than 500,000 German civilians and refugees, mostly women and children, were slaughtered in one day by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF), who dropped over 700,000 phosphorus bombs on the city.
In Dresden he got his wish. Those who perished in the centre of the city could not be traced, as the temperature in the area reached 1600 degree Centigrade. Dresden's citizens barely had time to reach their shelters and many who sought refuge underground suffocated as oxygen was pulled from the air to feed the flames. Others perished in a blast of white heat strong enough to melt human flesh.
Instead of being charged with being responsible for ordering one of the most horrific war crimes of recent history, in which up to half a million people died screaming in his firestorms, Churchill emerged from the war as a hero. An unwavering supporter of the British monarchy throughout his life, he was made a knight of the Order of the Garter, Britain's highest order of knighthoods, by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
"The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, "God save the Queen"; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister," he once said.
Shortly after the Second World War was won, however, Churchill's Conservative government was voted down by a Britain tired of battle, austerity, and hungry for change.
Churchill's brutality and brutishness have been ignored, but he never reckoned on the invention of the internet, or its power to allow authors to question his view of history and expose the cruelty and racism of the man.
When George W Bush moved out of the White House he left a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval office. He'd used it to inspire him on his 'war against terrorism'. Barack Obama had it removed. I wonder if he found the bust offensive? Was it out of respect for the pain and distress his Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, suffered on Churchill's orders ?
Removing a bust is a fairly simple matter, but toppling a statue is quite another. In Westminster Square in front of Parliament in London there are several statues of deceased politicians and dignitaries, one of which I find particularly distasteful. Hands clasped behind back, the jodphur-clad figure striding purposely forward is that of Jan Christian Smuts. racist forefather of the Apartheid system in South Africa.
His hulking toadish statue stands tall on a granite plinth, clutching a walking stick, his unblinking bulldog gaze on the Houses of Parliament where he reigned twice as a Conservative Prime Minister.
If I were Prime Minister of Great Britain, one of the first things on my list would be the removal of memorials to facist-minded racist imperialists. The statues of Smuts and Churchill in Parliament Square would be the first to come down.


2.Let these cook for 5 to 6 min in low to medium flame.
3.After fried,let them cool for 2 to 3min and grind them together with salt.This will be tasty with hot rice,Dosa,Curd rice and chapthi too.
These measurements serve 6 to 7 people.