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Bristol Airport Passenger Services Information
Toilets, including disabled and baby changing facilities, are in all areas of the terminal building and are well sign posted.
Public telephones are located throughout the terminal building.
There are two bars that have smoking areas: Brunel Bar - before security and Bar des Voyageurs on the mezzanine level above WH Smith. All other areas of the terminal building are strictly non-smoking.
Disabled Facilities at Bristol Airport
There are disabled parking bays in the Short and Long Stay Car Parks. Help buttons are located on the entry barriers. The shuttle buses from the Long Stay Car Park are wheelchair friendly and will drop you at the front of the terminal building. Disabled toilets have help buttons and there are also lifts to all floors, disabled toilets with help buttons and induction loops and braille signs throughout the terminal building.
If you require assistance getting on and off the aircraft then you will need to confirm this when you book your ticket/holiday and again when you check in at the airport.
Money Changing Facilities at Bristol Airport
There are two Travelex Shops (money exchange) located within the Terminal Building along with ATM cash dispensers in both the Departures and Arrivals areas.
Executive Lounge at Bristol Airport
Servisair Executive Cabot Lounge is situated in the departures area. close to shops and restaurants.
It offers a wide range of facilities for the leisure and business traveller including: complimentary drinks and snacks, newspapers, fax, telephone, television and Wi Fi Internet Access available at standard rates.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday and Sunday 04:00-21:00 & Saturday 04:00-18:00
The Servisair Executive Lounge admits children of all ages.
Internet Facilities at Bristol Airport
Internet facilities are available in the executive lounge in the Departures Lounge which you can access once you have passed through security.
Medical Facilities at Bristol Airport
There isn´t a dedicated First Aid Room at the airport. If you require assistance make contact with a member of Bristol Airport staff or the Information Desk.
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Dogs are allowed in the terminal building. If you wish to fly your pet in or out of the UK, then you will need to check that your pet has the correct vaccinations and passport. If your pet qualifies then it will remove the need for them to spend six months in quarantine.
A service operates from the airport in Building number 300 based in the World Freight Terminal. This is the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS) and is run by Pets On Jets.
For the most up to date advice and information contact the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for more advice.
Telephone 0044 (0)870 241 1710
Fax 0044 (0)20 7904 6206
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A £450 million renewable energy project which could create 4,000 jobs in North Lincolnshire has been approved by the Government. Able Marine Energy Park, brought forward by Able UK, will include the construction of a 1,279-metre quay on land near East Halton. The £450million Marine Energy Park will provide state-of-the-art quayside facilities purpose-built for the manufacture, assembly and installation of offshore renewable technologies, at Able Humber Port – the largest site available for port-related developments in Europe. It will also include onshore facilities for the manufacture and transportation of wind turbines to sites in the North Sea. The development could require around one million tonnes of steel each year, which will be a massive boost to local steelworks Tata and presents a fantastic opportunity for the company to kick-start the economic recovery of steel – particularly for steel plate and long products.The news that Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved plans to create a world-class centre for the renewable energy industries on the south bank of the Humber has been described as 'massively important for the region and the whole of the UK economy. The news that Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved plans to create a world-class centre for the renewable energy industries on the south bank of the Humber has been described as 'massively important for the region and the whole of the UK economy.' Able Marine Energy Park (AMEP) is at the centre of the largest Enterprise Zone in the UK which covers both sides of the Humber and today Peter Stephenson predicted that, as well as attracting around 4,000 local jobs directly, it will be the catalyst for delivering the Humber-wide vision to create a cluster of renewable energy companies, both large and small.


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Q: systemctl + what is the meaning of Restart=always I configured the service - calc_mem.service
as the following
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=400
StartLimitBurst=3

the configuration above should do the following from my understanding
the service have 3 retries when service exit with error
and before service start it will wait 5 seconds
also I found that "Restart" can be also:
Restart=always

I can understand that need to restart the service on failure
but what is the meaning of   Restart=always ?
in which case we need to set -  Restart=always

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If set to on-failure, the service will be restarted when the process exits with a non-zero exit code, is terminated by a signal (including on core dump, but excluding the aforementioned four signals), when an operation (such as service reload) times out, and when the configured watchdog timeout is triggered. [...] If set to always, the service will be restarted regardless of whether it exited cleanly or not, got terminated abnormally by a signal, or hit a timeout.

Excerpt from https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html
So if you set on-failure, it won't get restarted on clean exit.

A: @JdeBP suggested there is another way to look at this question.
Restart=always is simpler.  Easier to implement, easier to understand.  Why would we ever want check whether the service terminated with exit code 0 (EXIT_SUCCESS) ?  There might even have been a weird bug / error in the service, that caused it to terminate with exit code 0 when it should not have done so.
Answer 1: There are some units that must not use Restart=always.  In particular, if the service exits after an idle timeout.
Intriguingly, it would not matter so much if a bug/error causes such a service to exit "successfully", when it should not have done so.  Because an idle timeout implies that the service has already been set up to start automatically when a new request is made.
However Restart=on-failure might be used for a service which can exit on idle in some configurations, but not in others.  systemd-networkd uses it for this reason.
Answer 2: System administration practices may include killing or messaging service processes to stop them.  Sometimes people use a plain kill command, but there are also scripts like apachectl.  The advantage of Restart=on-failure is that it is less risky for systemd to recommend using it (as the man page does).
However systemd is left in a strange position, where they also support Restart=always, and that is what they like to set for the majority of long-running services inside the systemd project...  This does not seem very helpful when you are trying to learn about systemd service definitions.

A: The systemd.service man page has a description of the values Restart= takes, and a table of what options cause a restart when. Always pretty much does what it says on the lid:

If set to always, the service will be restarted regardless of whether it exited cleanly or not, got terminated abnormally by a signal, or hit a timeout.

I don't know for sure what situation they had in mind for that feature, but we might hypothesise e.g. a service configured to only run for a fixed period of time or to serve fixed number of requests and to then stop to avoid any possible resource leaks. Having systemd do the restarting makes for a cleaner implementation of the service itself.
In some sense, we might also ask why not include that option in systemd. Since it is capable of restarting services on failure, they might as well include the option of restarting the service always, just in case someone needs it. To provide tools, not policy.
Note also that a "successful exit" here is defined rather broadly:

If set to on-success, it will be restarted only when the service process exits cleanly. In this context, a clean exit means an exit code of 0, or one of the signals SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGTERM or SIGPIPE, [...]

SIGHUP is a common way of asking a process to restart, but it unhandled, it
terminates the process. So having Restart=always (or Restart=on-success) allows to use SIGHUP for restarting, even without the service itself supporting that.
Also, as far as I can read the man page, always doesn't mean it would override the limits set by StartLimitInterval and StartLimitBurst:

Note that service restart is subject to unit start rate limiting configured with StartLimitIntervalSec= and StartLimitBurst=, see systemd.unit(5) for details. A restarted service enters the failed state only after the start limits are reached.

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Adventures in Writing Camp is excited to return to Bethel Lutheran School this summer with all new curriculum! This location will have first grade, elementary, and middle school programs! Our team of credentialed teachers, musicians and college students is ready to help new campers build confidence and fall in love with writing, and help returning campers continue to develop as writers!
4th Grade is FULL for this camp!
Only 3 spaces remaining in 7th grade!
Lani is super excited to be a Writing Ranger! As a visual artist and graduate of Yamaha Music School, she enjoys bringing art and music into the classroom to make learning fun and engaging for students. Attending California Academy of Mathematics and Science and experiencing project-based learning in engineering and robotics equipped her with a strong background in the STEM fields. Her passions in STEM and the arts led to Lani's decision to pursue a career as an elementary teacher! She earned her Bachelor's degree in Education Sciences from UC Irvine, where she did research on STEM education and digital learning. She recently earned her Master's degree in Education and Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Stanford University, where she also sings in the Symphonic Chorus.
Everybody make way for Jubilant Josh! A new member of our team, Josh is a rising undergraduate at the University of Victoria, studying psychology and philosophy. Ever since he was fourteen, he has had four jobs taking care of kids, including teaching them the basics of karate and dance! If you ever get a chance to talk to him, he will surely bring up his enthusiasm of the books he is currently reading, such as "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell. Now at our camp, He is excited to help introduce higher aged kids to the fantastic world of writing!
Hannah Brady currently works for the City of Santa in the Parks and Recreation department. She graduated in 2016 from Loyola Marymount University in 3.5 years with a B.A in screenwriting and a minor in English. Within the Parks and Recreation department she primarily works with the city's youth theater group that she was a participant of as a child. There she is a jack of all trades, building sets, assisting rehearsals, assistant stage managing, and sometimes even producing and directing shows. She has been with the City of Santa Clara for 8 years since she started the job in high school and continued working throughout college and after. When she is not chasing down rouge 10-year-olds she enjoys writing, babysitting, and watching copious amounts of movies and television.
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She moaned softly feeling that her hips twitched a bit sensitive to the touch. Her skin was so soft.
He put his hips flush with hers kissing deeply still.
He pulled back gasping for air as well.
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She nodded a bit now "it...it felt good"
"I know" he said looking down at her.


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Kate Middleton, eat your heart out.
Getting married is a long way away for me, but I'm not going to lie — I have a soft spot for wedding dresses. Whether I'm fawning over Emily Ratajkowski's alternative AF Zara wedding suit or scrolling through utterly classic lace wedding dress, there's something about a snatched wedding outfit that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I was scrolling through H&M's website earlier today and that feeling smacked me right over the head as they've just released a new online-exclusive line of high street wedding dresses. Was I expecting it? No. Am I obsessed? Absolutely.
There's a whole range of dresses that'll make any bride-to-be's heart melt, whether you're gunning for a romantic vintage-inspired gown or a very 90s minimal satin dress. According to the brand, the line is all geared around winter wedding dresses and draws influence from 'royal weddings', 'vintage styles' and 'bohemia-model-marries-rock star weddings'. The latter's pretty niche, but I stan.
This is undoubtedly my favourite dress from the line, as it's a simple yet chic look with an asymmetric ruffle skirt for the dreamiest dash of interest. Can you imagine how this baby is going to flow as you're walking down the aisle? LIVING.
Forget about Kate and Wills, this royal wedding-inspired dress is everything without the hefty Alexander McQueen price tag. With scalloped lace sleeves, a sweetheart neckline and a subtle grosgrain band to pull it all together, it's a piece I'm sure Queen Elizabeth would approve of.
In my mind, this is the dress that Rachel from Friends would get married in and it's giving me major Calvin Klein vibes. Whether you just hate fussy dresses or you want something a little slinkier for your big day, this satin maxi will cling to you like liquid as you float through your reception.
If you've been smashing that pre-wedding workout plan, this dress is the perfect opportunity to show off those toned shoulders and arms you've accomplished. The floor-length gown is the laciest of the lot and the hem is actually longer in the back, so it'll trail along the floor behind you slightly. Sweep on, my bridal goddesses.
Unsurprisingly, the dresses from the H&M bridal collection tend to veer towards the more expensive side for the brand at around £149.99. However, some of their older dresses are going for as low as £35 if you're looking for a major bargain.
Not gonna argue with that. Give me all of them.
The post H&M just dropped a dreamy wedding dress collection and we're obsessed appeared first on Marie Claire.


Two years ago I had JoJo tanks installed to harvest rainwater from my roof: 1mm of rain falling on one square meter of roof will supply 1 litre of water. I have a large roof and all those litres which were washing away down the storm water drain, are now saved into my tanks and I can use them to water the garden or wash the car. In summer, when the tanks start overflowing from all the rain, I empty them into my natural swimming pond. There is a tap installed to the side of the tanks and when opened it turns on the pressure activated pump. So all my regular hose and tap fittings and irrigation can be used.
I had always seen JoJo tanks as rather ugly, garishly coloured things, but I was pleasantly surprised to find a range of colours and shapes to choose from and the sandstone slimline ones look quite elegant in our driveway. The creeper from the house is winding its way around one of them and in a couple of years will probably have covered them completely - a truly green tank!
I have also installed a grey water system. The water from the en suite basin, shower and bath are stored in a JoJo tank. One problem that can occur with grey water - if it sits for longer than twelve hours it can become increasingly stinky. This is because anaerobic bacteria move in and start feeding on all the yummy gunk in the water. I knew I wouldn't be watering my garden every twelve hours, plus, I was planning to use this water for my vegetable garden. So I needed to make sure I wasn't going to make us all sick in the process! You have to be careful when using grey water on edibles, as harmful bacteria and pathogens can be carried onto the leaves.
The first step is a filter that removes fluff, hair and debris. We then installed an ozoneater to clean the water. However, this required a small electric pump to circulate the ozone. This was a bit noisy and I was concerned that I was using electricity to save water. So we removed the ozoneater and its pump and tried beneficial bacteria instead. And this works perfectly. A small submersible pump aerates the water (similar to a fish tank) and once a week we add a teaspoon of powdered beneficial organisms, which clean the water so it is healthy and doesn't smell. As an additional precaution, we installed an irrigation system in the vegetable beds, using soaker hoses. The water soaks into the ground and doesn't splash on the leaves. Beneficial organisms in the soil and the roots of the plants provide a final filter.
The irrigation system also operates off a pressure activated pump. We had to trouble shoot this because when we first installed the soaker hose, we were quite conservative about spacing and lengths used. However, because the pump was pressure operated, it needed more soaker hose and therefore more pressure to get it to its optimum functioning. Something to keep in my mind if you are installing one of these systems in a small garden.
These investments will very quickly pay for themselves as I use less municipal water and am less reliant on it. It is something we should all be putting on our "to do" lists.


When the European Union announced its intention to expand regulations of its existing data privacy laws over 2 years ago, U.S. businesses focused on what would be their burden of compliance and how it would impact their level of liability. At the time, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was an unprecedented enforcement expansion by a major global economy government on businesses outside their borders. Experts and consultants pored through the several hundred pages of regulations and articles and came to a core consensus that any entity that handles the personal data of EU nationals and individuals would be impacted even if they're physically and legally outside the EU. At the beginning, the focus was mostly on how the EU authorities would view GDPR and data privacy compliance.
Flash forward to now and the questions U.S. businesses are now asking themselves are not just what the EU authority expects but their customers. Equifax and Facebook's recent missteps in handling personal data have made average users painfully aware of how vulnerable their personal information is to misuse and exploitation.
Whether GDPR directly and legally applies to your specific business or legal practice may come down to the finer details of the GDRP regulations. How large is the personal data you're handling? What type of personal data and how private is it? And to what purpose is the personal data used?
If you're an INSZoom customer, it's likely you're using your client's personal data towards a mutual agreed purpose related to immigration, global mobility or travel. These types of data transactions don't seem to be of critical concern for the EU authority and their GDPR because of the specifics, narrowness in scope, transparency and consent of use regarding the data transaction. Though the collected personal information is private, sensitive and non-public (e.g. racial or ethnic origins, financial, legal, etc.), it is not used towards the behavior monitoring or massive data analytics which have been the subject of such public scrutiny, criticism and lawsuits.
Given the current state of privacy awareness we enter, it should not come as a surprise that many of our customers are using the May 25th deadline not only as a GDPR compliance date but also as a blanket data privacy readiness for all its users instead of just EU users. It would not be the first time that a new regulation has impact outside its original objective. It's probable that we are entering a new normal and level of expectation baseline in what is required for data security and privacy.
ISO 27001 mandates the listing of all relevant statutory, legislative, contractual, and regulatory requirements.
Risk assessment requirements of the ISO 27001 mandates the implementation of a Data Protection Impact Assessment and undertaking an evaluation of privacy risks.
Asset management requisites of the ISO 27001 include personal data as a valuable information security asset which must define which personal data are involved in your operations, its origins, where to store it, for how long, and who will have access to these including any applicable supplier and storage relationships.
ISO 27001 dictates systems acquisitions, development, and maintenance, which requires data security as an integral component of information systems throughout its lifecycle.
Breach notification strictures under the ISO 27001 entail an efficient and consistent method to deal with data security to notify authorities within 72 hours after the discovery of a personal data breach.
ISO 27001 uses risk assessments to identify the necessary controls regarding risk management, data protection impact assessments, and mitigation to the risks regarding rights and freedoms of data subjects.
No controller or data subject personal data is subject to cross border data flows outside the U.S. especially in the EU. All data is stored at our hosted servers with Amazon Web Services in North America (U.S. for our U.S. clients and Canada for Canadian clients) which has military level security.
No controller or data subject personal data is shared with any unauthorized third party including contractors or outside entities such as credit, consumer or marketing entities.
INSZoom will maintain and commit themselves to our customer's confidentiality and not process such personal data for any other purposes, except on instructions or unless required by applicable law.
INSZoom will make every good faith effort to assist and cooperate with our customer's reasonable requests for GDPR related assistance regarding Information, Audit, Return/Deletion, Processing, Assistance and Records requests.
E-Consent Module allows you to capture and store a clear and authorized consent from the user to use their data towards the agreed immigration or mobility action.
INSZoom as a SaaS solution has always stayed ahead and adapted to industry changes. We are committed to provide the best solutions by listening to our customers, innovating and adapting to the ever-changing immigration industry.


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Yamamoto Masao: Microcosms Macrocosms
BY Stephen Bulger Gallery | 13-Oct-2018
Opening Reception: Saturday October 20, 2-5pm. Guided Tour of the Exhibition with Yamamoto Masao: Saturday, October 20, 3pm. Exhibition Dates: October 20 – November 17, 2018. Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present "Microcosms Macrocosms", the first Canadian exhibition of work by the acclaimed artist Yamamoto Masao.
Venue: Stephen Bulger Gallery
Address: 1356 Dundas Street West
Date: October 20 - November 17, 2018
Time: 11am - 6pm
Ticket: Free!
Web: https://www.bulgergallery.com/events/24-yamamoto-masao-microcosms-macrocosms/
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# 1650, 2016 © Yamamoto Masao / courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery
Yamamoto is renowned for his small hand-worked gelatin silver prints, which he delicately distresses to imbue the object with a degree of patina in order for the photographs to appear from an indeterminant time, encouraging the viewer to engage with photography as a tactile experience. The sensual surfaces of his black and white photographs contain subtle tones that contrast with ephemeral moments he explores in his imagery. Yamamoto's photographs are often compared to Japanese Haiku, short poems that derive their power from simple and direct images drawn from nature.
This exhibition includes work from several series including "A Box of Ku", "Nakazora", "Kawa=Flow", "Shizuka=cleanse" and "Bonsai". Assemblage is also very important to Yamamoto's practice and he has created a unique installation of photographs for this exhibition, as he has done in museum and gallery exhibitions around the world. Although his subject matter is varied, each photograph displays Yamamoto's curiosity, fascination, and reverence for what he discovers and experiences.
Yamamoto was born in 1957 in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, near the centre of Honshu, the main island of Japan. He studied painting before taking up photography exclusively in 1993. He has published a dozen books, most recently Tori (Radius Books, 2016) and Poems of Santoka (Galerie Vevais, 2016). Other publications include: Small Things in Silence (Editorial RM, 2014), KAWA=Flow (Kochuten Books, 2011), YAMAMOTO MASAO (21st Editions, 2011), Fujisan (Nazraeli Press, 2008), é (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Omizuao (Nazraeli Press, 2003), Santoka (Harunatsuakifuyu Sousho, Japan, 2003), The Path of Green Leaves (Nazraeli Press, 2002), and A Box of Ku (Nazraeli Press, 1998). Yamamoto's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Japan, Russia, and Brazil. His work has been reviewed in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Photonews, Black and White Magazine, Unseen, as well as various other publications and blogs.
Yamamoto's photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, NY; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; International Center of Photography, New York, NY; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; the Sir Elton John Collection; the J.P. Morgan Chase Art Collection; and many other private, corporate and public collections.
Yamamoto lives in Yatsugatake Nanroku, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan where he enjoys creating his work while being close to nature.
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25 Longest Bridges In The World
by Adam Freilich November 20, 2018, 7:00 pm
Trying to determine the longest bridge in the world is no easy task. In the past several years there have been numerous "measurement wars" fought over the length of Earth's longest bridges. The primary reason for this is that it's hard to define what exactly constitutes a bridge. Does it have to be over water? Are elevated roadways bridges? What if only part of the bridge is over water? Although these are legitimate questions if you are competing for a Guinness World Record, for our purposes we will not discriminate against any particular type of bridge. So with that said, these are the 25 Longest Bridges In The World.
Saratov Bridge
The Saratov Bridge across the Volga River in Saratov, Russia, was the longest bridge in the Soviet Union upon its inauguration in 1965. Its length is 2,803.7 meters, and it connects Saratov on the right (west) bank of the Volga, with the city of Engels on the left (east) bank. In 2008, a new bridge was being built and in 2009 a second part was completed and opened, making the new total length of 12,760 meters.
Jubilee Parkway
The Jubilee Parkway is a pair of parallel concrete viaduct bridges that carry Interstate 10 across Mobile Bay from the George Wallace Tunnel on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama, eastbound to Spanish Fort/Daphne, Alabama. Sadly the bridge was witness to one of the largest multi-car accidents in 1995, killing one person and injuring ninety.
The Confederation Bridge is a bridge spanning the Abegweit Passage of Northumberland Strait, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada. It has been referred to as the longest bridge in the world to span a body of ice during winter months. Interesting fact – drivers only have to pay a toll to leave the island.
President Bridge
The President Bridge is a truss bridge that crosses over the river Volga in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, connecting the city of Ulyanovsk with the east side of the Ulyanovsk Oblast. It is the second longest bridge in Russia, and one of the longest bridges in Europe with a length of 19.98 kilometres. The bridge holds up to 40,000 vehicles per day.
Bhumibol Bridge
Also known as the Industrial Ring Road Bridge, Bhumibol is part of the 13 km long Industrial Ring Road connecting southern Bangkok with Samut Prakan Province. The bridge crosses the Chao Phraya River twice, with two striking cable-stayed spans of lengths of 702 m and 582 m supported by two diamond-shaped pylons 173 m and 164 m high. In 2009, it was named after King Bhumidol Adulyadej because according to tradition, all bridges that run on the Chao Phraya in Bangkhok are named after members of the Royal Family.
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Black & White Negative of Isola San Pietro, Venice, Italy
Prise le 27/12/2012
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Just to rmember how the old fashioned Negative Films looked like.
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Localisation: Venedig, Italy
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Harbour of Malcesine, Lago di Garda, Italy
Small harbour of Malcesine, a village with about 3700 inhabitants at the Lago di Garda. There are many old buildings and the castle dates back to...
Malcesine, Lago di Garda, Italy
Just a small beach in Malcesine at the Italian Lago di Garda.
Piazza Sordello, Mantova, Italy
Piazza Sordello in Mantova. In 2008 the city center of Mantua became an UNESCO world heritage and had been severely damaged by an earthquake in 2012.
Piazza Castello, Mantova, Italy
Piazza Castello in front of the medieval Castello di San Giorgio. In 2008 the city center of Mantua became an UNESCO world heritage and had been...
Santa Barbara, Mantova, Italy
Front of the Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara and the belltower, seen from the Piazza Santa Barbara. In 2008 the city center of Mantua became a...
Small Bridge, Via Massari, Mantova, Italy
Small Bridge in the Via Massari in Mantova. In 2008 the city center of Mantua became an UNESCO world heritage and had been severely damaged by an...
Piazza dei Priori, Volterra, Italy
Piazza dei Priori in the center of Volterra, Tuscany.
Santi Maria e San Donato, Murano, Venice, Italy
The origin of the basilica Santi Maria e San Donato on the island of Murano dates back to the 7th century.
Winter in Venice, Italy
On a grey day like this one in december, the streets of Venice seem to be dead.
Venice, Arsenale - Ingresso di Terra, Italy
This is in front of the entrance to the Arsenale, where the Venetians had built their ships and weapons. It's said that in the 16th century there...
Venice, Ponte San Lorenzo, Italy
View from one of many Venetian bridges.
Venice, Campo Bandiera e Moro, Italy
This square is called Campo Bandiera e Moro. The palace in the north (here in the light of the sun) is the Palazzo Gritti-Badoer and the church in...
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Square next to the church San Francesco della Vigna from the 16th century. - For the German fans of Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti: this is in...
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Color Negative of Isola San Pietro, Venice, Italy
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Venice at night after a rainy day, version 2.
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Venice at night after a rainy day. On a stage some musicians are playing music from Vivaldi.
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Venice in winter. In front of Santa Maria della Salute, view at the Canale Grande.
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FARMAHEM is the winner of the award for the best from the east in the field of environmental protection for 2018
Farmahem has won the award for the best from the east in the area of environmental protection for the year 2018 as the coordinator of the Nature Conservation Programme in Macedonia, which has significantly affected the improvement of the nature preservation in the Bregalnica basin in the past years.
Journalists from the Eastern region – as part of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM), for the fifth year in a row awards recognitions for the best from the east following the events and achievements of business organizations, institutions and individuals in the past year. The awards for the most successful were awarded on April 5th, 2019, at the manifestation that was organized at the International Slavic University "Gavrilo Romanovich Derzhavin" in Sveti Nikole.
In the name of Farmahem, the award was received by Marjana Shushlevska, Head of the Department for environmental consultancy and Team Leader of the Programme. She expressеd her gratitude for this recognition on behalf of all parties that are involved in the realization of the Programme activities and accented the role of the journalists in raising awareness about the nature conservation. This is especially important during this period when initiatives are being started for proclaiming Osogovo and Maleshevo for protected areas in order familiarize the wider public about the significance of this initiative and the benefits from the protected areas for the overall sustainable development of the Region.
The Nature Conservation Programme in Macedonia is a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, which aims to help the Republic of N. Macedonia in preserving the great biodiversity and natural ecosystems by promoting their sustainable use and management.
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In our last post, we have covered a step by step guide on How To Edit A YouTube Video that would help you to work as a video editing Pro. Since there are lots of video editing software available over the web both FREE and PAID so we decided to hand-pick some of the best ones here in this article.
The listicle is compiled with FREE YouTube video editing software following by the paid ones. You can select software according to your expertise, and the amount you are willing to spend on video editing software. The software is compatible with Windows, Linux, MAC OS X.
The Lightworks video editing tool allows you to export the 4K resolution videos with any compatible file format. Enhanced capabilities to support Blackmagic, AJA and Matrox I/O hardware along with that it also supports Lightworks Console control.
Lightworks has easy to use, and intuitive user interface. It also has an impressive range of file importing formats and supports VFX panel.
The best features of Lightworks video editing tool is it allows us to upload an edited video directly on YouTube or Vimeo.
Lightworks also offers Lightworks Pro where users can buy license according to their requirements.
Hitfilm Express provides a pleasant and stylish user interface. It has some of the features like a separate trimmer, a zoomable preview window which makes video editing process a bit efficient.
Hitfilm Express version support YouTube Publishing tool which can upload up to 30 fps videos. It provides the feature of composite shot that lets you create a timeline for the special effects, motion graphics as well as animation.
The layout panel structure of Hitfilm express is designed exclusively. The panel can easily rearrange and customise elements like as text and images within your clip which lets you place all object wherever you want to put them in the video clip accurately.
The HitFilm also has a paid version called HitFilm Express which you can check out in their store along with other software packages.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a video editing app developed by Adobe. When it comes to editing a project, Adobe Premiere Pro CC allows a great deal of control for users.
Adobe Premiere Pro is quite flexible. It offers easy integration between its other apps like: After Effects, Photoshop, Adobe Story, etc.
While After Effects compositions can be directly imported and Photoshop directly in Adobe. This easy integration enables easy transfer of data among the software without interrupting the flow of video editing.
Adobe Premiere Pro has an excellent responsive design. It also provides integrated keyframes in the motion graphics. Moreover, they are continuously working on the interface to make effective at the same time responsive design. Also, on quality improvement to provide better video editing experience to the user.
Most of the professional YouTubers use this tool to produce a better quality video for their audience.
Sync your settings with Creative Cloud to access your computer from anywhere.
You can export media with closed captions, either embedded or as separate files.
Apple Final Cut Pro X is an Apple Inc non-linear video editing application.
The Apple Cut Pro X Interface offers a trackless Magnetic Timeline. This makes video editing process a smoother experience. Editors can also assign roles in the timeline.
Final Cut Pro X the provides 360-Degree VR along with effects and titles. This helps you remove rig of a camera from the image. Final Cut Pro X supports the HDR display with advanced colour grading tools resulting in greater adjustment of viewing angle.
It can also interact with your MacBook's Touch Bar that changes its appearance accordingly.
It has reliable support for the multi-cam editing. That includes 64 different viewing angles from which you'll be able to use only 16 angles at a time.
The software offers a FREE trial for 30 days.
CyberLink PowerDirector comes up with a new generation 360-degree tool for video editing considering transition effects, motion tracking, stabilisation, and view designer is also provided.
It has one the best feature of the colour tool which includes HDR effect, split toning, colour grading as well as a lookup table (LUT).
It provides the functionality of Video collages. That is featuring picture inside a picture template. The best thing about CyberLink PowerDirector is that it provides automatic adjustment of audio according to the background sound level that makes it unique from other video editing tools.
If you're already familiar with any other layer compositor, HitFilm Pro has a fast and flexible workflow layout.
HitFilm provides more than 500 effects through which you can create muzzle flashes, energy distortions, explosions, as well as particle emitters and much more stuff you can do it with this video editing tool.
HitFilm, video editing tool, can synchronise audio imported from different sources that save lots of time and improves the accuracy of your audio.
It provides visual effects formed in a single tool and non-linear editor that removes switching from various task among audio and graphics. Also compatible with massive visual effects projects.
Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 provides add-on feature called Candid Moment. This lets you pick the quality images from the entire video content so that you won't miss the excellent shot while you're recording a video.
The editing interface looks same as it was in the previous version. Moreover, it provides a standard timeline in the bottom side, and content panels are shared across the upper half.
Adobe Premiere Element provides a unique feature of Bounce Back. This help video's motion moves in forward and backwards direction with resembling bounce effect.
We hope you enjoy this particular listicle on paid and free video editing software for YouTube. If you are a beginner, you can start with free versions and get your hands on basics. Later you can try the paid ones.
If you face any challenges while using the software or have any questions, do let us know in the comment section below.
Also, if you know any other software that should be on the list, feel free to share it.
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Q: How to set cookie expiration date to a month? i just need to set this function to expire in one month, can someone tell me how to do it?
function _saveUserPreference() {
    // Set the cookie expiry to one year after today.
    var expiryDate = new Date();
    expiryDate.setFullYear(expiryDate.getFullYear() + 1);
    document.cookie = cookieName + '=y; expires=' + expiryDate.toGMTString();
}

A: You need add one month to the expiryDate var:
  var expiryDate = new Date();
  expiryDate.setMonth(expiryDate.getMonth() + 1);

A: I didn't have enough points to comment, but to piggyback on @ianaya89's answer.
let expiryDate = new Date();
const month = (expiryDate.getMonth() + 1) % 12;
expiryDate.setMonth(month);

new Date = gets today's date.
Then, the next line is to get next month. We use modulo for the edge case where it is currently December and we want it to return 1, instead of 13.
We then set variable, expiryDate (now one month ahead), to our cookie.

A:     function _saveUserPreference(){
        var montharr = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31],
            expiryDate = new Date(),
            year = expiryDate.getFullYear(),
            month = expiryDate.getMonth(),
            date = expiryDate.getDate();

        var newMonth, newYear;

        expiryDate.setMonth(month+1);

        newMonth = expiryDate.getMonth();

        newYear = expiryDate.getFullYear();
        // when expiryDate is 2014-01-31, setMonth(m+1),then expiryDate is 2014-03-03 or 2014-03-02
        if(newMonth - month > 1 ){

            if( isLeapYear(year) && newMonth === 2 ){
                expiryDate.setDate(29);
                expiryDate.setMonth(1);
            }else{
                expiryDate.setDate(montharr[newMonth-1]);
                expiryDate.setMonth(newMonth-1);
            }
        }

        document.cookie = cookieName + '=y; expires=' + expiryDate.toGMTString();

        // if you mean a month to 30 days

        /*var now = new Date(),
            milliSeconds = now - 0 + 30 * 24 * 3600 * 1000,
            expiryDate = new Date(milliSeconds);

        document.cookie = cookieName + '=y; expires=' + expiryDate.toGMTString();*/

    }

    function isLeapYear(year){

        if( year%4 === 0 && year%100 !== 0 ){
            return true;
        }

        if( year%100 === 0 && year%400 === 0 ){
            return true;
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The Week in Pictures: 29th November to 5th December
Ali Shah 06/12/2015 04/02/2016 Art, Uncategorized, World
The Paris climate summit, Europe's refugee crisis, Pope visits Kenya, floods in India and more…
1. President Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House.
Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters
2. A volunteer holds up a baby as others help migrants and refugees get out of a dinghy after their arrival on Lesbos, Greece.
Poto: Santi Palacios/AP
3. A winter storm clears at sunset over the Interstate 80 near Baxter in California, USA.
Photo: Max Whittaker/Reuters
4. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump brings a lookalike supporter on stage during a rally in Myrtle Beach, USA.
Photo: Randall Hill/Reuters
5. Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with clergy, religious men and women and seminarians at the sports field of St Mary's School in Nairobi, Kenya.
6. A young man displays pictures of victims of gender violence, marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Buenos Aires.
Photo: Martin Zabala/Xinhua Press/Corbis
7. People walk past a bullet hole ridden petrol tanker destroyed during clashes between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants in the Nusaybin district of the city Mardin, Turkey.
Photo: Ilyas Akengin/AFP/Getty Images
8. A climate change supporter attends a rally ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Melbourne, Australia.
Photo: Mal Fairclough/AAP
9. People pay tribute to the 130 victims of the 13 November terror attacks, at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France.
Photo: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
10. People's Liberation Army recruits stand in formation during a training session in cold winter temperatures, which reached -20C, at a military base in Heilongjiang province, northern China.
Photo: China Daily/Reuters
11. Volunteers comfort a refugee child as she disembarks from a dingy in the north of the greek Island, Lesbos.
Photo: Artur Tixiliski/Rex/Shutterstock
12. Men play chess by torchlight after the area lost power when pylons were destroyed. The Crimean authorities have declared a state of emergency and introduced restrictions on electricity use.
Photo: Tass/Barcroft Media
13. The Standing March, an art installation by French artist JR and American film-maker Darren Aronofsky, is projected on to the facade of the Assembléee Nationale in Paris.
Photo: Sipa/Shutterstock
14. A man carries a dog and wades through a flooded street in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in Chennai, India.
15. A volcanic eruption at Mount Etna's Vorgaine crater in Sicily, Italy.
Photo: Marco Restivo/Barcroft Media
15. The McIntyre family hold candles at a vigil in memory of the 14 people who died in the San Bernardino mass shooting.
Photo: Tom Tingle/AP
16. The place de la République is covered with shoes as part of a symbolic rally during the forbidden COP21 demonstration in Paris, France. The demonstration was banned after the Paris terror attacks.
Photo: Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images
17. A Typhoon warplane flies over RAF Akrotiri, a British air base near the coastal city of Limassol, Cyprus. British warplanes carried out airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria hours after parliament voted to authorise attacks.
Photo: Pavlos Vrionides/AP
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This eco-initiative is taking off.
Here's one more reason to finally snag yourself a reusable straw. Your favorite go-to chain for morning coffee, Starbucks, announced Monday that it will phase out single-use plastic straws from all its locations by 2020.
In place of straws, the company created a new lid that features a teardrop-shaped opening for just-as-easy sipping. This lid will be used for all iced drinks except the Frappuccino, which will be served with a straw made from sustainable material, such as paper.
The coffee chain isn't the only one making this major eco change lately either. This fall, 120 restaurants in nine states across the country will be saying no to the single-use plastic straw, joining the hundreds of other food establishments that have done so both nationwide and globally.
Chicago-based restaurant group, and one of the largest to implement such a policy, Lettuce Entertain You, made the green decision last month in an effort to reduce their environmental footprint. Starting in October, in place of plastic straws, the restaurants will be switching to biodegradable options including hay and paper, or no straws at all, and only offer straws upon customer request.
With Americans alone discarding 500 million straws daily, the single-use piece of plastic has become known as a major "gateway plastic" — seemingly harmless but quickly adding up to the 8 million tons of plastic that ends up in the oceans each year.
Fortunately, Lettuce Entertain You isn't the only restaurant group skipping plastic straws at the dinner table. Earlier this year, various culinary all-stars around New York, including Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, decided to nix plastic straws in all of their restaurants while over 1,300 McDonald's chains in the UK are also implementing similar initiatives. Meanwhile, entire cities, like Seattle and Malibu, are vowing to skip not only plastic straws but many other single-use plastics like take-out containers and utensils.
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Het Korenburgerveen is een natuurreservaat ten noordwesten van Winterswijk in de Nederlandse provincie Gelderland. Het is grotendeels in eigendom van Vereniging Natuurmonumenten en vormt geografisch en ecologisch een geheel met het Meddosche Veen, het Vragenderveen en het Corlese Veen. Het bestaat uit hoogveen, moerasbos, heide en voedselarme graslanden met wollegras, veenmos en veenpluis. Het Korenburgerveen is sinds februari 2015 een Natura 2000-gebied (met nummer 61). Het is tevens (naast negentien andere gebieden) onderdeel van het in 2005 door de Nederlandse overheid uitgeroepen Nationaal Landschap Winterswijk, een gebied van totaal bijna 22.000 hectare groot.

Vegetatie en dieren
Het Korenburgerveen heeft het uiterlijk van een moerasgebied en is in feite een veenkom, doordat het lager gelegen is dan de omringende stukken land. Verder bestaat het voornamelijk uit blauwgraslanden (blauwe zegge) en de hiermee samengaande bijzondere vegetatie, zoals zonnedauw, orchideeën, parnassia en lavendelheide, koningsvaren, wilde gagel en rijsbes groeien op de veendijken.

De bijzondere vegetatie, zoals nectarplanten, trekken zeldzame vlinders aan en verder wordt het gebied bevolkt door onder anderen de kleine bonte specht en havik, wezel, kamsalamander en heikikker.

Natuurherstel

De venen in de Achterhoek, waar het Korenburgerveen en de omliggende veengebieden deel van uitmaken, zijn ontstaan na de laatste ijstijd en strekten zich ooit uit over een groot deel van de Achterhoek en het aangrenzende Duitsland. Van het levende hoogveen was na turfafgraving en ontginning tot landbouwgrond in de twintigste eeuw echter niet veel meer over. De kwaliteit van de natuur in het veen werd bovendien behalve door verdroging ernstig bedreigd door vermesting, met name door vervuild oppervlaktewater dat naar het gebied stroomde.

Natuurmonumenten kocht al in 1918 94 ha van het Korenburgerveen en later de omliggende venen. Nu heeft zij, samen met de Stichting Marke Vragender Veen, resp. 420 en 80 ha in eigendom. Deze organisaties zetten zich met financiële steun van onder andere de LIFE-natuurregeling van de Europese Gemeenschap in om door beheersingrepen zoals het verbeteren van de waterhuishouding, het graven van poelen en het instellen van bufferzones de aanwezige zeldzame planten- en diersoorten te behouden en om het proces van de vorming van hoogveen weer te laten functioneren.

Natuurgebied in Gelderland
Moeras in Nederland
Nationaal Landschap Winterswijk
Hoogveengebied
Natura 2000 in Nederland

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Professor John Ning-Yuean Lee, KHS (李寧遠; Hanyu pinyin: Li Ningyuan; 2 September 1945–) is a Taiwanese biologist and former president of Fu Jen Catholic University. At present, he is the chair professor of Beijing Normal University Zhuhai campus.

He obtained the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree at National Taiwan University. Afterward, he served as professor at the National Taiwan Sport University, the 1st dean of College of Human Ecology and university president at Fu Jen, dean of College of Living Technology at Tainan University of Technology.

Honor
 Order of the Holy Sepulchre

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 輔大校史室:李寧遠

1945 births
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Maimane must explain the DA's contradictions in fighting corruption
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane must explain to South Africans why it is that Patricia de Lille has remained in her position as Mayor of Cape Town for so long whilst facing very serious allegations involving taxpayers' money.
Maimane's hypocrisy in calling for stringent action against his political opponents but treating his own party members with kid gloves calls into serious question his apparent stand against corruption.
The DA leader must also explain why Western Cape Premier Helen Zille and Human Settlements MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela have been left untouched by similar scandals. The ANC suspects Helen Zille is still very much in charge of the DA – and Maimane is simply being used as a front to attract black votes.
To be clear, the ANC is in no way defending Patricia de Lille. The seriousness of the allegations of corruption in the City of Cape Town and cover-ups by de Lille are well-documented, yet the Democratic Alliance (DA) has for too long ensured that the Mayor remains firmly at the helm of one of the biggest Metros in the country.
Maimane should have suspended De Lille months ago but was so shaken by his battle with Madame Zille over her disgraceful defence of colonialism that he is now too scared to act against de Lille himself.
The recent pronouncements by the DA's Cape Metro chairman Grant Twigg, that De Lille should be fired, makes clear that the DA caucus is caught between varying instructions from the DA's headquarters.
Once it became clear to the DA that they could not contain the fallout of De Lille's disastrous tenure in the city, even going to the extent of holding behind closed doors a crucial Council meeting about the corruption scandal, they are now trying to kick out De Lille out as Mayor through party structures instead of dealing with her in a Council meeting which should be held in full view of the public.
Maimane's silence is ominous. The African National Congress in the Western Cape calls for her immediate suspension as mayor, as well as City Manager Achmat Ebrahim and the Executive Director for Transport, Melissa Whitehead (the City's transport commissioner). The Mayor should be suspended immediately because she has made no secret of the fact that she is not fazed by the very serious allegations against her by no less than her right-hand man in the City, the Executive Director in the Office of the Mayor, Craig Kesson.
Maimane seems to have adopted the posture of a deer in the headlights. Instead of tolerating a situation in which the City of Cape Town and citizens are kept guessing amid a slew of legal moves which appear to be aimed at confusing the electorate, the Leader of the DA must act boldly. Maimane is very good at pointing fingers at the ANC and shouting from the top of the mountain about corruption, but his actions don't match that talk. It is not enough to have suspended De Lille from taking part in DA activities as the City of Cape Town is a government structure run with taxpayers' and ratepayers' money; it is not a party structure and so De Lille's suspension from the DA is entirely insignificant from the perspective of good governance.
The fact that the Council discussed this scandal behind closed doors on Friday 5 January, out of the public eye for the second time in as many months, makes a mockery of transparency. The multi-party Parliamentary inquiry into allegations of corruption in state entities such as Eskom has been conducted in public, in full view of journalists and television cameras. The ANC is firmly of the view that the City's attempts to deal with this scandal in secret is part of the DA-led Council's attempts to cover up this scandal and further protect De Lille.
Given the serious nature of the allegations levelled by Kesson against De Lille, dating back two months to early November 2017 already, Maimane and the DA leadership must ensure that De Lille is suspended as Mayor. The Mayor, the City Manager and the very senior managers embroiled in this scandal will do whatever they can to cover up the corruption in which they have been implicated. It is not inconceivable that De Lille and her senior officials would by now have attempted to tamper with evidence and intimidate witnesses. In fact, the Council meeting of 5 January noted that a report by law firm Bowman Gilfillan contains "allegations…that the Executive Mayor prevented the City Manager (Achmat Ebrahim) from reporting the allegations (of corruption) against Commissioner (Melissa) Whitehead to Council".
It is good and standard practice in corruption cases as serious as this that those individuals implicated, no matter how senior, are placed on cautionary suspension so as to protect the integrity of investigations, to ensure that evidence is not removed, and also to ensure that witnesses are not intimidated. In fact, the more senior those that are implicated, the more the need for them to be suspended.
Bowman's reportedly found that De Lille and her City Manager conspired to cover up corruption related to R72-million for tenders for busses and, separately, losses of R43-million related to the MyCiti transport system. The report also allegedly names Mayco member for transport Brett Herron and the former Executive Director for Corporate Services, Gerhard Ras, who was reportedly given a golden handshake of R3.5-million to leave the City.
To its credit, the Council of the City of Cape Town has set a deadline of Friday 12 January (seven days from its meeting behind closed doors last Friday 5 January) for Ebrahim and Whitehead to explain why they should not be placed on "cautionary suspension". The Council took this decision "in view of the possibility that individuals may jeopardise the investigation into the misconduct and influence witnesses." However, in spite of instructing that further investigations be conducted into the allegations against De Lille, the Council inexplicably stopped short of taking similar action to suspend her. The lack of determination to act against her is bizarre given the DA's apparent crusade against corruption.
The ANC wants to state clearly that it is now an urgent priority for De Lille and her senior officials to be held to account. De Lille must, as with Ebrahim and Whitehead, be given a reasonable chance to explain why she should not be placed on cautionary suspension. A fair, independent and even-handed investigation should be speedily concluded and criminal charges should be laid without undue delay against those who have made themselves guilty of wrongdoing.
De Lille and Ebrahim are the most senior figures in the City of Cape Town and this scandal helps us to understand why the impending water crisis was ignored for so long. It is now clear that the two top leaders of one of the most widely recognised Metropolitan cities in the world were so preoccupied with sweeping corruption under the carpet that they neglected to heed many warnings over several preceding years about the severity of the drought which has now struck at the heart of the region's economy. Agriculture, tourism and industrial development are all suffering because the City failed to act timeously. All the 'urgent' measures which are now being procured at massively inflated rates to supplement the City's water sources could and should have been implemented long ago. This corruption scandal also calls into question the decisions and actions which De Lille, Ebrahim and some of their senior managers took regarding the restructuring of the City.
Maimane's lack of resolve in dealing with De Lille mirrors his failure to act decisively against the untouchable Premier. In the case of his predecessor as leader of the DA, her disingenuous defence of colonialism dragged on for almost three months before Maimane announced her suspension from party activities. Notwithstanding the fact that he had stated unambiguously that Zille's comments on colonialism in March 2017 were "completely unacceptable and indefensible", it took months before Zille reluctantly appeared at a press conference alongside Maimane mid-June to again apologise even after she had repeatedly defended her actions following her initial apology for the offending Tweet. In the process, Zille showed the middle finger to millions of South Africans who continue to suffer the consequences of centuries of colonialism and apartheid, but she continues to serve as Premier of the Western Cape, a province where the disparities between Black (African, Coloured and Indian) and White continues to be shockingly stark.
It is also interesting that, in stark contrast to the investigation launched into De Lille's conduct, there has been no independent investigation into the serious allegations that individuals in the construction industry who funded a birthday party for Madikizela at the exclusive One and Only hotel in Cape Town. By her won admission, Zille conducted her own investigation and found no wrongdoing. Which law empowers the Premier to investigate her MECs and to which Constitutional structure did she table the report? This, too, makes a mockery of the DA's persistent calls for independent investigations into similar allegations in ANC-run government structures. However, in the only province which the DA controls, such serious allegations are not subjected to independent scrutiny and are swept under the carpet.
The DA leader should not only pay lip service to corruption and pretend that he is offended by racism when, in fact, he fails to deal with the most senior leaders of his party whose actions go against the grain of what Tony Leon's creation claims to stand for. DM
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// Problem 1. Odd or Even

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The year slips on the calendar: Takashi Makino's 2012
Watching Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) is like seeing everything and nothing at the same time. The cinema screen is entirely covered in a projection of blue, the particular tone of which was inspired by Yves Klein's monochrome painting IKB 79 (1959) as well as the blue filter Jarman felt covered his own failing eyesight, symptomatic of his complications with AIDS. Made just a year before his death, the film involves the British artist. A number of his close friends recount his memories and moribund experiences in poetic stanzas. The screen is saturated with his pain, the extent of which is too vast to depict in a framed image. While Blue is introspective and deeply personal, the emptiness of the blue invites the viewers to see whatever comes to mind and in their own way. It is this fleeting quality –oscillating moment to moment between the concrete and abstract– that made John Paul Ricco describe the film as 'becoming-disappearing.'
Apart from the blue tone that imbues much of the film, it is this tension between presence and transience that made me recall Blue while watching Takashi Makino's 2012. Alleged to be everything the filmmaker saw in the year, the film 2012 is an exercise in the impossibility of containing all that you experience into a single artwork – while still giving it a good attempt. Capturing everything from the cosmic sky to the microscopic details of the ground, Makino brought these disparate images literally together by repeating the on-location multiple exposure process of filming and then rewinding in-camera. Branches and water, selected as his primary subjects for their organic quality, defy pre-determined formations in Makino's cinema. Subjected to intense layering, their original shapes disappear within the image only to create fleeting forms and invoke shadows of a memory. As such, the experience of watching 2012 is like trying to recall a dream in the flash of a second after you awake, before it dissipates for good. You think you've grasped hold of it but it quickly becomes apparent you hadn't.
While 2012 may not embody the personal pain of Blue, it is certainly instilled with a similar urgency, but one that is levelled at what Makino considered to be the twilight of film culture as he knew it. In 2012, both Kodak and Fujifilm announced there were to stop producing photographic film. A year before, Tacita Dean presented her installation Film (2011) in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern that was marked in the art world as an outcry for film preservation in the midst of film labs shutting down their production in London – a dismal situation that saw parallels with circumstances in Tokyo that were more intimate to him. As if in response, 2012 sees Makino use Super 8, 16mm and 35mm films onto which he applied scratches and sand particles in order to enhances their materiality. But 2012 doesn't stop short at following Dean and others in mourning the imminent loss of a treasured past. Amid the frenzy of images, the film also visually marks the transitional moment from film to digital that he has experienced first-hand as one of the few Telecine operators in Japan: for the first time in Makino's artistic career, he incorporates digitally shot material into the fabric of his picture. The co-existence of material shot in both analogue and digital formats represents his devotion to a medium to which he is attached as well as a valiant decision to seek new ways of experiencing images for his audience.
Makino's unique method of presentation for 2012 was one other way he re-examined film experience in this changing phase. Throughout the year 2012, Makino presented the film as a performance work –Project [2012]– in various locations and contexts: Festival Play, Madrid (Act 1); Open Experimental, Tokyo (Act 2); Bakuon Film Festival, Tokyo (Act 3); Kontraste Festival, Krems (Act 4); 3D Bakuon Film Festival, Tokyo (Act 5); a lecture in Kyoto (Act 6); and Aichi Art Film Festival (Act 7). In such ways, 2012 was presented as an incomplete fragment of a project onto which Makino built on each occasion. Notably, at least three of the events listed above are focused on sound explorations as much as visual experiments: Makino began accompanying his film projections with live music composed of similarly layered collection of noises. Through these performances, live-ness became an integral constituent for the evolution of the project. I had the pleasure of attending 2012 Act 5, presented in the now-defunct cinema Baus Theatre in Kichijōji, Tokyo, where Makino sat on the stage facing the screen, not the audience, with his electronic noise-generating equipment. The simple gesture spoke volumes on the evolving nature of 2012 as the artist himself responded to the audio-visual experience by layering semi-improvised drone sounds. While he composed his own film music earlier in his filmmaking endeavours, Makino preferred to collaborate with musicians who would offer new and unexpected perspectives on his works. The challenge now was to bring about the sense of renewal himself, which he attempted on each incarnation of 2012 throughout the year. At a time when many Japanese people fell into silence in the wake of the 3/11 disaster, the act of being present at each screening was a way of speaking out for Makino. The moments are transient but his presence is felt throughout.
On the other hand, the optional incorporation of the Pulfrich 3D effect was a way for Makino to offer the experience of 2012 into the control of others. The Pulfrich effect is the name for the psychological perception of depth induced by signal delays between one eye and the other, most commonly introduced by a dark filter over one eye. Watching an abstract film, particularly one with an abundance of lateral motion like Makino's cinema, can make the quality of depth within the image appear enhanced. In his screenings of 2012, Makino handed out the handcrafted spectacles –with one eye filtered and the other unblocked– and asked his audience to put them on during the film if they feel like it and whenever they want. While the effect was slight at first, gradually the screen appears thicker as the image layers increased and the motion accelerated. Looking around at the audience during the screening, I was made aware of the participatory potential of cinema as each person took their spectacles on and off and swapped the filter onto the other eye in response to the projected image. Rather than the negative parallax often exploited by digital 3D in contemporary blockbusters, Makino's images operate on an axis that appears to dissipate as he coalesces zenith and horizon. We're invited to perform with our own sensory perception and get in touch with our own ways of seeing.
Look left
Look right
Blue flashes in my eyes
As the flickering light flashes through branches, Makino proposes for us to explore the fundamental characteristics of the act of seeing –to discovery to what extent we have any control over it. While he explores his own limitations of image-making in the transitional phase of cinema, Makino asks us how we will contribute as viewers to these changes. In this moment, I see myself in the boy to which Derek Jarman refers to the opening lines of Blue:
You say to the boy open your eyes
When he opens his eyes and sees
You make him cry out. Saying
O Blue come forth
O Blue arise
O Blue ascend
O Blue come in
-Julian Ross
Posted on May 23, 2016 May 5, 2017 by Nippon ConnectionPosted in CultureTagged Performance, Takashi Makino.
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