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The UK construction industry is a major contributor to levels of air, water and ground pollution. It is responsible for nearly 4% of particulate emissions and more water pollution incidents than any other industry.

Those shocking statistics are a stark reminder that government targets for a climate neutral UK by 2050 are ambitious to say the least.

Innovative technology looks set to provide much needed solutions for an industry looking for new, greener materials and products. Several UK construction industry companies have taken it upon themselves to try and create cutting-edge yet environmentally conscious building materials for the future.

With that in mind, what are the sustainable products that architects, specifiers, builders and quantity surveyors should be looking out for? Here we speak to several businesses that create products designed specifically to reduce the carbon footprint of both commercial and residential structures.

By Energy Carbon

This innovative young business from Sussex is committed to providing low-energy heating products.

Tell us about your product. What does it do?

Energy Carbon provides a fast, cost-effective and energy efficient heating technology developed by experts from Germanys University of Stuttgart.

Thin heating fleece just 0.4mm thick can be plastered into the ceiling or sited behind the plaster board to provide the same safe, healthy infra-red heat babies receive in incubators.

We cover around 60% of the ceiling, which means that occupants feel the warmth throughout a room rather than in specific areas as with infra-red panels. We can even cut holes for lighting with no issues.

Whats more, it needs no specialist trade to install just a plasterer or dry liner and an electrician.

What makes your product sustainable/energy efficient?

Most conventional heating works on the principle of convection.

Radiators draw cold air from the floor, pull it across the heat source, which causes it to heat up and rise to the ceiling. When that air cools, it falls, and the cycle begins again.

The problem with that is it takes time. The process needs to repeat until the whole air mass in a room has warmed up.

Infra-red is much quicker and more economical occupiers feel the benefit sooner, and it uses less electricity as a result.

Its also highly durable and long-lasting with a design life in excess of 50 years other alternatives will likely need replacing several times between now and 2050.

What were and are the challenges you faced when developing the product?

Weve been passionate about the potential of infra-red technology for years, but in the early days it was frustrating the implementation was often very poor.

We always used to say, we wish they made this in Germany we knew that, given Germanys history of engineering excellence, and rigorous testing and accreditation regimes, the Germans would do the concept justice.

But then, we found that a German manufacturer had taken up the infra-red gauntlet. We got in touch, and managed to secure the UK distribution rights.

By Green Life Buildings (GLB)

Green Life Buildings are taking small but significant steps on the path to providing top quality construction materials with less impact on our environment. Managing Director, Chris Williams talks to us about GLBs innovative building products.

Tell us about your product?

The GLB advanced building system is an innovative, lightweight, adaptable, and exceptionally durable sandwich panel system used for walls, floors and roof. It uses advanced insulant core technology to deliver an affordable alternative form of construction material.

How is it sustainable/energy efficient?

The rigid panel is more than 90% air. It is made up of two galvanised welded steel wire meshes joined by connectors and enclosing an expanded polystyrene sheet. Because of this, it provides the best carbon footprint per U value. Just 80mm of our low carbon concrete provides a structural wall with a carbon footprint of only 33kg/m2.

Each home built using the system can reduce energy expenditure and carbon emissions by at least 65% compared to traditional builds when built to passive house U values.

Do you have plans to develop the product further?

Its more a case of re-invention, with 35 years of product knowledge, GLB and M2 can adapt to the UK needs. With our digital manufacturing capability, we can adapt to regulation changes easily. One example of this is the creation of our hybrid panel.

This panel removes the combustible element from external walls above 18m yet still provides an insitu build option. This is important for us because it provides options to our contractors using techniques theyre already familiar with.

Will you be launching any other similar products?

Outside of the hybrid panel, we wont be producing any new sustainable products for a while. Our focus is platforming the product and to demonstrate the positive difference it can make to builds. An added benefit to our panels is the thermal mass of the walls can incorporate low voltage heat mats that act as radiators.

We need the 80mm concrete for structural integrity but why let it do just one job when it can also be solar shading and thermal store.

Did you face any challenges when developing the product?

The technology was developed by EMMEDUE in Italy and has been used to construct over 1 million buildings all over the world.

Despite this success, our initial challenge has been convincing those in the decision-making process (such as heads of lending and quantity surveyors of the systems worth) that its not just a new type of brick. Thankfully that perception is changing rapidly. The new hurdle is dealing with the junk science out there especially relating to carbon benefit.

By Victorian Sliders

Victorian Sliders are Europes largest specialist manufacturer of PVC-U vertical sliding sash windows. Based in South Wales, Victorian Sliders are big believers in sustainable solutions. Their ECOSlide window system is a great example of this.

Can you tell us about your product and where it fits in the market?

ECOSlide is a cost-effective and sustainable PVC-U sash window product. We designed ECOSlide to be A-rated as standard, with the option for an A+ rating with units filled with Argon gas. This increases home insulation and reduces fuel usage and costs.

How is it sustainable/energy efficient?

Every component of the ECOSlide window can be recycled up to 10 times with current technology and in future, as that technology improves, this is likely to increase.

Sash windows tend to offer better energy efficiency than casements simply because of how they operate. When both sashes are opened, it dramatically increases the airflow in a room. The cool air that comes in pushes warm air out, meaning theres less need for air conditioning and electric fans.

It also contains recycled thermal inserts, and uses low-emissivity glass.

What other things do you do to be energy efficient as a company?

At Victorian Sliders HQ in South Wales, weve developed our own market-leading PVC-U recycling facility.

That allows us to take old plastic window frames and turn them into PVC-U thermal inserts, that play a critical part in delivering ECOSlides excellent energy-efficiency performance.

For a business of our size, we also have a relatively low carbon footprint we carry out the whole manufacturing process in-house, thanks to our long-standing commitment to supplying the best quality PVC-U sash windows.

Almost every component we use, we manufacture ourselves here in South Wales therefore limiting the transportation of goods between suppliers, which make a major contributor to a companys carbon footprint.

Did you face any challenges when developing this approach?

Reaching this stage hasnt been easy its required years of sustained investment. But its meant weve been able to become one of the most self-sufficient fenestration businesses in the country, producing one of the greenest sash window products on the market.

By Pavegen

Pavegen is the global leader in converting footfall into off-grid power, clean electricity while captivating audiences. They supply to cities all over the world with installations in London, Hong Kong and Washington, to name but a few. It can power off-grid applications such as lighting, and environmental monitoring, while capturing meaningful analytics for building managers and city planners. Here they talk to us about their unique and sustainable smart tiles.

Can you tell us about your product and where it fits in the market?

Pavegen is a smart tile, that can generate off-grid energy through the simple power of a footstep. Pavegen is suitable for pre-build and retrofit and is durable for busy streets. We see Pavegen playing a key role in smart cities all over the world.

What makes it sustainable/energy efficient?

Each step taken on the Pavegen creates around 2-4 watts of off-grid clean electrical energy or around 5 watts of power for the duration of a footstep. This can be used to help power lighting and similar applications.

Because the energy created is participation-led, Pavegen increases awareness for key sustainability issues and promotes green credentials with each activation.

Pavegen has additional functionality that uses an app that builds communities, increases connectivity between users and their city, and provides citizens the opportunity to personally contribute steps to help build smart, more sustainable cities and destinations.

Do you have plans to develop the product further and if so how? / Will you be launching any other similar products?

We are expanding on our functionality tools via the app to create an incentive function that will provide businesses with the platform to create a reward scheme for steps taken in their buildings.

In addition, building owners and developers can use Pavegen to create an experience that will delight, educate, incentivise, build communities, and provide unique insights into their audiences behaviours and values.

What were the challenges you faced when developing the product?

Engineering products for the built environment is one of the hardest engineering challenges in the world second to making technologies survive deep underwater or for space flight. One of the biggest challenges when developing the product was ensuring that the product could withstand vandalism.

The products need to take the weight of huge forces such as trucks driving over the product, withstand the temperature fluctuations from night to daytime, and have the toughness to last for 20 years plus in the built environment.

After building in excess of 700 prototypes for production we have finally got to a point where we are very happy with the products performance. It works in sub-zero environments to deserts in the Middle East.

By Neoperl

Neoperl is a UK designer and manufacturer of water conservation products for the trade and commercial sectors. Some of their products include tap aerators, check valves, flow regulators, diverters, shower hoses and swivel adapters. Simple yet effective, Neoperls sustainable flow regulators really are impressive.

Can you tell us about your product and where it fits in the market?

We are the worlds largest suppliers of water regulator products. Our flow regulators and aerators can be found in most showers, taps and boilers across the UK. Many of these products can also be retrofitted providing great water saving solutions for the home, hotels or workplace.

Flow regulators can make an enormous difference to the performance of the products that they are fitted in as well as save significant amounts of water.

What makes these products sustainable/energy efficient?

Flow regulators limit the flow of water. They control how much water runs through an appliance (tap or boiler) regardless of external water pressure fluctuations.

Movement, heating and treatment of water all require significant amounts of energy. Any reduction of any of these will reduce the carbon impact and feed into a solution to help net carbon zero.

These products help builders to reach carbon footprint targets in new build and ensure a more sustainable build.

Do you have plans to develop the product further and if so how?

We are constantly developing new products to suit client requirements. This is mainly to ensure maximum performance of an appliance e.g. tap, boiler or shower.

We have started to develop products designed to be retrofitted to a tap or shower head.

This is an aerator combined with a flow regulator, a small hidden component positioned in the spout of a tap. It shapes the water to produce a non-splashing stream and can also be designed to add air to make the water pleasantly soft. Combined it regulates the flow, saving both water and energy (as less water is heated).

Will you be launching any other similar products?

One of our latest products incorporates Dual Core (DC) technology as an enhancement of the Pressure compensating Aerator. It is considered an all-pressure aerator as it can provide a fully aerated stream starting from as low as 0.2 bar. This is a significant benefit over other PCA aerators that may have to be matched to the specific pressure range in each installation.

Its great for installers that may not have the technical knowledge of the professional plumber.

What were the challenges you faced when developing the product?

Developing new flow regulators and aerator products is always difficult. To the uninitiated, they are simply a piece of plastic and rubber. What is often misunderstood is the level of precision that goes into designing the specifics of the shape and profile of the flow regulator and how the Dynamic Control Ring (DCR) interacts with this to maintain the designed constant flow rate.

It is also critical that the internal parts of the aerator shape and control the water stream for the end user to have the best possible experience for their intended use.

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Global Dry Construction Marketsize was valued US$ 75.10 Bn in 2019 and the total revenue is expected to grow at 5.5% through 2020 to 2027, reaching US$ XX Bn. The report has covered region wise market trends with competitive landscape.

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Dry Construction is a specialized technique, which is used to reduce the use of water and the effect of real estate on the environment. Dry construction is 8-10 times lighter in weight than the cement work and traditional brick, and allows up to 70 % saving of construction time. The width of the wall constructed with dry construction is only 80 mm in comparison to the 200 mm standard walls made of brick is increase of the carpet area in the building.

This type of construction features several benefits like simplicity in installation, moisture resistance, better thermal and sound insulation, and fire safety over wet construction practices. Dry construction includes lightweight construction of ceilings and floors, interior walls, which are referring plastered or microfiber board that is combined at the installation time. Apart from drywall and ceiling, the frontage is also done with aluminum composite panels (ACP) instead of brickwork and plaster, it is widely used in various applications such as commercial, residential, and infrastructure construction.

The dry construction market has shown significant growth thanks to the recovery of the construction industry after the economic slowdown from 2009. Globally, the dry construction material has gained more popularity due to the improvement in the construction industry with a preference for low-weight construction, and high priority for interior designs. The global dry construction market is driven by rapidly growing population, growing investment in the construction industry, and increasing industrialization. The advertising of eco-friendly technology by regulatory organizations, increasing FDI in construction and shifting focus towards sustainable building techniques are also likely to impel the dry construction materials market from 2020 to 2027.

However, High cost of raw material and waste generated by dry construction are restraining the market growth at the global level. Increasing demand for dry construction techniques at the expense of wet construction methods and replacement of floors are expected to create beneficial opportunities for the key player in the market in coming years. Government and environmental regulations are restricting the new entrants in the market, and unawareness regarding recycled material between industries are affecting the plasterboard market are the major challenge for the dry construction market in the near future.

Based on the material, the plasterboard segment has led the dry construction market in 2019 and is estimated to generate more than US$ XX Mn market revenue by 2027, with a CAGR of 5%. Plasterboard is widely utilized in residential and non-residential frame construction, such as internal wallboard and ceiling lining. It is an unbending gypsum board that is sandwiched between two outer layers of recycled paper. The plasterboard has extensive demand from the construction sector in the last five years, owing to superior quality, low cost, and ease of installation. This type of board provides various properties like moisture resistance, reduction in construction time, fire safety, ease installation sound, and thermal insulation. An increasing economy and growing industrialization are creating the growth opportunities of the plasterboard segment.

Geographically, the dry construction market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. North America held the prominent market share of XX% in 2019 and is expected to reach US$ Mn by the end of 2027, with a CAGR of XX%. Thanks to the presence of major market players in the region. Developed countries like the US, Mexico, and Canada are presenting huge building renovation activities, which are increasing the adoption of dry construction. These nations also giving preference to the do-it-yourself process is allows the user to construct using dry construction material himself if provided accurate information and training. Moreover, the rising investments in research and development activities for the introduction of advanced dry construction material is predicted to accelerate the growth of this region in the near future.

In terms of value, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to command XX% market share during the forecast period. Increasing disposable incomes in emerging countries, growing industrialization, and changing behavior of people towards sustainable building techniques are fueling the dry construction market growth in Asia Pacific. China and India are the leading contributor to the regional market growth. The markets in developing countries such as India and China are showing a significant growth rate of XX% during the forecast period due to its increasing population and need for better housing technologies. Smart City project undertaken by the government of India, with the mission to develop 100 smart cities in India, will require an investment of over US$ 150 Bn, which would drive market growth. China a major plasterboard producing nation, manufacturing over 1.5 Mn metric tons of plasterboard yearly that is extensively used in ceilings and load bearing walls.

A report cover the recent development in market for the global dry construction market e.g., November. 25, 2019, Armstrong World Industries, Inc., has completed its acquisition of MRK Industries, Inc. (MRK), a manufacturer of specialty metal ceiling, wall and exterior solutions.November. 5, 2019, Etex Group, Building materials group Etex plans to build a new plasterboard plant in Portbury close to the port of Bristol, in South West England. The capital expenditure will reach more than US$ 179.19 million.

The objective of the report is to present a comprehensive analysis of the Global Dry Construction Market including all the stakeholders of the industry. The past and current status of the industry with forecasted market size and trends are presented in the report with the analysis of complicated data in simple language. The report covers all the aspects of the industry with a dedicated study of key players that includes market leaders, followers and new entrants. PORTER, SVOR, PESTEL analysis with the potential impact of micro-economic factors of the market have been presented in the report. External as well as internal factors that are supposed to affect the business positively or negatively have been analyzed, which will give a clear futuristic view of the industry to the decision-makers.

The report also helps in understanding Global Dry Construction Market dynamics, structure by analyzing the market segments and project the Global Dry Construction Market size. Clear representation of competitive analysis of key players by Application, price, financial position, Product portfolio, growth strategies, and regional presence in the Global Dry Construction Market make the report investors guide.Scope of the Global Dry Construction Market:

Global Dry Construction Market, by Type:

Supporting Framework BoardingGlobal Dry Construction Market, by Material:

Plasterboard Wood Metal Plastic Glass Carpet OthersGlobal Dry Construction Market, by System:

Partition Ceiling System Wall System Flooring System Door systems OthersGlobal Dry Construction Market, by Application:

Residential Application Non-Residential ApplicationGlobal Dry Construction Market, by Region:

Asia Pacific North America Europe Latin America Middle East AfricaGlobal Dry Construction Market, Major Players:

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Etex Group Fletcher Building Limited Saint Gobain Xella Group CSR Limited Knauf Gips KG Pabco Gypsum Panel Rey USG Boral Limited Beijing New Building Materials Promax Group Inc. Masterplast Plc. Arcelor Mittal Winstone Wallboards Limited Georgia-Pacific LLC China Baowu Steel Group Corp., Ltd.

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In the annals of art history, there is a tendency to see the found object as a raw material best suited for the cynical, winking gestures of Dada or Pop Art. But at the age of 94, Betye Saar has spent more than a half-century creating radical, poetic, socially textured assemblages by turning mere stuff into profound masterpieces: an ironing board, advertising signs, glass bottles, throwaway items often discovered at flea markets and thrift stores, and collected in her Southern California studio. Initially inspired by Joseph Cornells intimate wood-box collages, Saars practice tackles American history and politics, often dealing directly with the loaded signifiers of racism and sexism, and turning those entrenched cultural symbols back on themselves to create powerful monuments of resistance and celebration. Saar might be most famous for transforming the racist stereotype of the Black mammy, Quaker Oatss Aunt Jemima, into a kind of glorious liberator who wont be hushed up or kept in the kitchen. It would be impossible to untangle Saars oeuvre from the Civil Rights Movement or Black feminism. And yet, her works reach beyond the vectors of politics, touching on spirituality and mysticism, astrology and the afterlife. This fall, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is hosting an exhibition called Betye Saar: Call and Response, dedicated to Saars prolific output, not only displaying some of her most beloved assemblages but also her drawings and sketchbooks, the latter of which serve as essential guides to her creative output and visual feasts of their own.

Saar first met the actress CCH Pounder decades ago at a party in L.A. They became not only fast friends but fast travel companions, sharing a love of voyages ranging from Dakar to the South of France to Mexico City. This past August, Pounder paid the artist a visit to reminisce about some of the trips theyve taken and the places theyve yet to go.

BETYE SAAR: I remember when I first met you at a party at your house. I was in the corner of your living room. I was saying how much I liked the art of Frida Kahlo, and that I was going to Mexico City to see her house. And you said, Oh, I want to go. Do you remember that?

CCH POUNDER: Of course I remember going to Mexico City to see the Frida Kahlo house with you.

SAAR: That was our first of many trips together.

POUNDER: Actually, I think our first trip together was to Dakar in 2002. Weve been to Mexico a few times. Once for your birthday, when Raoul [de la Sota, the artist and professor] danced with you.

SAAR: Oh, yes, that was in Cuernavaca.

POUNDER: What I remember from the trip to the Frida Kahlo house was how much you loved the color blue that was there. You were painting with so much blue at the time. It was exciting to see how inspired you were by the colors in Mexico. Mexico City itself was your red city.

SAAR: And a few years later, I did an installation at Roberts Projects in L.A. of an all-red room. It came from that red in Mexico. I said, Im going to do all red and Im going to call it Red Time. I was inspired a lot on that trip. I also remember all those personal letters of Frida Kahlos that hung on her ceiling.

POUNDER: I remember you doing sketches and drawings during that trip, all very brightly colored. And then going off to the markets where you bought those red masks.

SAAR: We made a little art exhibition in the hotel room of all the things we had bought. We had refreshments and everything!

POUNDER: Looking back, [Kahlos Blue House] Casa Azul actually kind of reminds me of your rock garden at your home in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. You were so keen on the blues. Recently, you made a blue sculpture called Woke Up This Morning, the Blues Was in My Bed, [2019] with blue bottles over a blue neon light. Do you often start with a color in mind?

SAAR: Yes, thats the way I often begin work on an assemblage. I start with a color or a little object, and I make a whole exhibition out of what it relates to, right down to the painting of the walls or the image I choose on the invitation.

POUNDER: Youve often focused on specific colors, whether its Blue Window of the Mystic Palms [2018], Black Girls Window [1969], or that stark white KKK sheet next to the ironing board in your piece from 1998 [Ill Bend But I Will Not Break].

SAAR: A color is the way I conceive of my shows, and I still follow that model to this day. Right now Im doing a ladder thats made of earth tones. Its one of a whole number of individual pieces Im working on. Ill just have to see if any of them build into an exhibition.

POUNDER: Another of my favorite places we traveled together was Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the South of France. We saw the James Baldwin House and the Matisse House. There were so many beautiful colors at the Matisse house. And we wore twin pajamas and we were sharing a room. I have a photo from that trip. Youre standing, looking at a gray wall with vines that had died, and you said, Im going to do a piece called

SAAR: Fade. It was an idea about the process of aging, that old age isnt just a certain state, but is a process of fading away. Its like the gray life of old age. I wanted to do a whole exhibition on that idea. Its because we were in Matisses house and he had a studio next door and vines were covering it. I thought, The vines will swallow that building, and I wanted my picture in front of them because it appealed to me, this idea of disappearing into the wall.

POUNDER: My biggest tickle was when you said to Angela [Robinson Witherspoon, an actress and close friend] one day, You know, I think Im going to make it to 100. So you put away the idea of Fade and started back on brighter colors.

SAAR: [Laughs] Sometimes, when I feel good, I still think Ill make it to 100. But next year I turn 95, and I dont think Im even ready for that. Thats what aging is. Its always a surprise when it happens to you. Dont you think?

POUNDER: Yes. Sometimes people will tell me, Oh, Ms. Pounder, Ive grown up watching you. Its like, How is that possible? It cant be. But it is.

SAAR: Im not very far from hitting the triple digits now.

POUNDER: How do you feel about being an artist in her 95th year still making new work?

SAAR: The thing is, I dont think about age when Im making art. I dont work on art if I dont feel good. Its not conducive. The ideas for art are always young. As soon as I have an idea about what to create, thats the little essence of youth still in my personality, in my life. When I run out of ideas, thats when Ill be old.

POUNDER: So what is the essence of youth making this month?

SAAR: Im trying to finish some sketchbooks. I started a small square one about astrological symbolsthe sun and the moon and things like that. Im still affected by that. When I was on vacation in the desert [at her daughter Tracye Saar-Cavanaughs Joshua Tree ranch], I woke up very early and the sun was just coming up. It was on the rim of a hill. But up in the sky was a crescent moon and a star. I said, Those are my symbols in the sky. And those are the symbols that Ive always used.

POUNDER: Youve had a lifelong fascination with astrology. Is it still part of your work today?

SAAR: Ill read the astrological chart in the daily newspaper, but thats just for my own amusement. I think my use of astrology has two purposes. It suggests the unknown, and then it also suggests the known by the stars and the moon, and so forth, telling your history. If you believe in those charts, their positions pertain to what your personality can do or what your life might be. I dont really devote my consciousness to that. Its more the symbols themselves that matter to me, like how the moon suggests peacefulness.

POUNDER: That symbolism informs a lot of your work. There is a piece at the Studio Museum in Harlem called Indigo Mercy [1975]. Ive heard that in the past, visitors have left notes in the drawers.

SAAR: I had another piece that was also participatory like that, where people could leave little messages. I like the idea of the audience participating in the work.

POUNDER: There is a big rock by the water in Israel where Jesus was supposed to have waded, and there are thousands and thousands of little note prayers stuck to it.

SAAR: Yes, its like that, like being a part of something bigger. Sort of like touching the hem of Jesuss gown.

POUNDER: One of your most famous works is The Liberation of Aunt Jemima [1972]. This year, Aunt Jemima has finally been retired by Quaker. What do you think about this cultural move to stop circulating these racist images? Do you think youve had a part in this? I think you have.

SAAR: The reason for using her was to take a negative image and make it a positive one. I set out to take all these negative images that had been a part of Black history, and I changed them into warriors.

POUNDER: Whats really sad is that there really was an Aunt Jemima. Her name was Nancy Green. She was not a caricature, she was a philanthropist and ministry leader in Chicago. She was the first Aunt Jemima model, and then over the years, they started changing and obscuring her image into this caricature. But I remember in the end she was happy that it was her, because she put a lot of kids through school because of those flapjacks.

SAAR: Yeah, she used the money she got for good.

POUNDER: For this exhibition you have at the Morgan Library, youre showing work thats never previously been seen. How do you feel about that?

SAAR: I had lots of work in my cupboard that I havent shown before, from the 70s all the way up to the present. They just havent fit the theme of a show. I really like to stick to a theme, that could be derogatory images or political issues or women or something like that. I feel more comfortable working that way.

POUNDER: You can read one of your assemblages in so many different ways. And to go back to color, you can have the color white in the KKK sheet, and then that same year make a piece out of a white christening dress that you can imagine will be worn for a beautiful little orphan girl [Loss of Innocence, 1998]. Those are two such different connotations of white. How do you conjure up these works?

SAAR: Well, my mother told me I was very psychic as a child. I could tell her if my father missed the bus or if something else happened. Eventually, I lost that ability. Im no longer psychic but Im very intuitive about what colors to use, what materials to buy, what people to be friends with. The intuition is a strong element in my life and that comes from a larger psychic power of knowing things unknown before they happen. I think, when I create, I use that intuitive power.

POUNDER: Do you tend to work on multiple pieces at once?

SAAR: Well, I have the ladder Im working on in my studio. In my garage, I have a Bottle Busha structure I make from blue bottles. The works are in different places in my studio, but its always organized by color or some other element. That seems to be the restriction that I set on myself to do art. I need to do that. I can think, Im going to start here on a little painting, but sooner or later all my restrictions come into it. I want to use this color, not that color; I want this image, not that one. Its a natural part of creating and a natural part of my personality to keep me from going crazy.

POUNDER: It gives you a sense of discipline and yet it allows you to create.

SAAR: Yes, I need those limits. Sometimes I look at a piece of abstract art with color and movement, and think, I wish I could do something like that. But for me, a more formal situation will gradually come out of it. So here we are.

POUNDER: If you hadnt become a visual artist, what else do you think you would have been on this earth?

SAAR: A writer of poetry.

Artwork: Courtesy of Betye Saar and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles

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The official preview season for Magic: The Gathering's Commander Legends will begin next week, but several leaks online have already given us a look at some of the new cards from the first-ever Commander set designed to be drafted. Commander Legends will also feature two preconstructed decks, andrecently, someone spotted the themon Amazon UK, giving us a look at the packaging of the upcoming product.

On a Reddit post, a screenshot of the Amazon UK leak listing of a Commander Legends preconstructed deck reveals the box of a blue/green Commander deck, and features an unknown leviathan-looking legendary creature. Check it out:

Several FrenchCommander Legends cards have also been leaked in the Amazon UK product pages, giving us a look at what we can expect from the Red/White and Blue/Green Commander Legends precons.

Redditors shared the English translation of the cards:

Wyleth, Soul of Steel (1RW)

Legendary Creature- Human Warrior

Trample

Whenever ~ attacks, draw a card for each aura and equipment attached to him.

2/2

A warrior needs two things: a good sword and an iron will.

Providential Guard Rune (2W)

Enchantment- Aura

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if it targets a commander.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has indestructible.

Behind each general leading his men to the front is a nervous mage with a spell already ready.

Glowing Solsteel(?) (1R)

Artifact- Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each opponent you have.

Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target.

Equip (4)

Wyleth emerged from the crater unscathed, the fury of the sun trapped in his hands.

The Simic Legendary Snake is:

You may play an additional land on your turn

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control draw a card

The Boros human legendary is:

Trample

Will you be picking up any of these Commander Legends precons? Expect Wizards of the Coast to fully reveal what they contain in the upcoming weeks.

Commander Legendsproduct and events will be available onMagic Onlineon Thursday, November 19, 2020.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks isn't about the heroes of Starfleet - and Mariner is definitely no hero, as these actions of hers prove.

Starfleet is generally filled with career-obsessed go-getters who want to climb the ranks and make big names for themselves. That's why Beckett Mariner on Star Trek: Lower Decks has proven to be sucha different character. She's honestly great at all things Starfleet, a brilliant and capable crew member on the U.S.S. Cerritos.

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The problem is that Mariner honestly doesn't care about any of it. She likes the adventure of being in space, just not the rigmarole that comes with being in Starfleet. That's led her to doing some pretty crazy and dangerous things over the years.

Onan away missions together, Boimler saw Mariner leaving the team behind in a suspicious fashion. Captain Freeman had secretly assigned him to watch Mariner and report back any time she did something that broke the rules. He followed her, thinking she was up to no good.

Instead, Mariner was bypassing protocol to help the people on the planet quicker. For his trouble, she left him to be a soothing toy for a giant alien spider to suck on for an extended period. Boimler was being an officious jerk but he didn't deserve that.

This one was more of a team effort, though still not a smart move. Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi all ended up tossed into an alien jail for no apparent reason. Then, those aliens dragged them into a courtroom and started making wild accusations.

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As it turned out, the whole thing was a thank you party from an alien named Clar they had recently helped. Once the situation was cleared up, they left the party, running into and subsequently blowing Q off. Such a dismissive attitude towards a powerful being was the result of the other three directly taking their cues from Mariner.

At first glance, Mariner seems like the kind of person who lives life out loud. She lays it all out there, letting all of her successes and failures flail in the breeze for all to see. Sometimes it's because she doesn't care enough to hide anything. Other times, it's just because she's drunk.

But Mariner did keep a massive secret for most of the first season, specifically that Captain Freeman was her mother. When that bombshell finally dropped, it disrupted life on board the Cerritos. This was something she should have been honest about. It would have allowed everyone to move forward sooner.

The best way to describe Boimler is that the stick up his butt has a stick up its butt. He's dedicated to following the rules to almost a detrimental degree. Mariner is the exact opposite, flouting the rules at every opportunity. Again, this has a lot to do with her mother being her current captain.

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Knowing that Boimler wants to be a captain someday and that being bold matters as much following the rules in Starfleet, Mariner volunteered to mentor Boimler. Most of her mentoring seemed to involve trying to convince Boimler to be a jerk, though he did get a promotion by the end of the season.

When Captain Freeman was called away from the Cerritos, an old friend of Mariner's was sent to take temporary command of the ship. She's happy to see Captain Amina Ramsey but suddenly started acting incompetent around her. Mariner might not care about the rules but she's also not bad at her job. In fact, the opposite was generally true.

It turned out that Mariner was worried that Ramsey would promote her out of the lower decks, something she desperately did not want. Mariner has done a lot of bad things but intentionally doing a terrible job could endanger her friends. It was a new level of selfishness.

Mariner's bad attitude has proven to be the main reason her parents bounce her around between different ships. The problem is she's good at the work, so kicking her out of Starfleet is difficult to justify. One of Captain Freeman's plans was to promote her to a more officious position, one that would drive Mariner nuts and force her to quit.

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It almost worked. But Mariner being Mariner, she found a way to get demoted back to the lower decks by openly mocking the way an admiral mispronounced the word "sensor." It was part of her plan but it was also incredibly rude and mean.

For the most part, Ferengi have earned a well-deserved reputation as greedy little trolls who would drop their own mothers in a well for a couple of strips of gold-pressed latinum. As such, most people have common sense not to trust them.

Apparently, that doesn't include Mariner. When a Klingon friend of hers stole Mariner and Boimler's shuttle, the duo was left stranded. A Ferengi offered to help them, which Mariner accepted against Boimler's warnings. The Ferengi then tried to mug them, only to be stopped by Boimler.

Mariner's unrelenting abuse of Boimler disguised as mentoring him is a hallmark of the series. The worst example of this was when Boimler's girlfriend arrived on the Cerritos.

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First, Mariner refused to believe anyone would want to date Boimler. When Barb turned out to be real, Mariner set out on a mission to prove something was forcing Barb to love Boimler. It turned out she was right and an alien parasite was to blame. But it was still cruel to basically state that Boimler was completely unlovable.

With an important interview on the horizon, Boimler created a holodeck program using the crew's private logs to create a practice scenario. That was already a dubious move. Mariner made things worse by taking over the program and making it all about her.

She basically went nuts, turning the program into a movie where she was a villain named Vindicta. Even her friends thought she went too far, though the whole exercise did help her have some profound personal realizations that did not change her in the least. The whole episode on the holodeck also revealed that Freeman was Mariner's mother to Boimler. He was so stunned by the realization that he botched his interview.

The cold open of the first episode told fans everything they needed to know about both Boimler and Mariner. Hecaught her drunkenly trying to sneak a huge crate of contraband on the ship. Despite being incredibly drunk, Mariner tried to show Boimler her skills with a Klingon bat'leth.

Naturally, this resulted in Mariner stabbing Boimler through the leg with the bat'leth. Her lack of care with the deadly weaponand open hostility towards the rules demonstrated who she was, and would continue to be throughout the entire first season of the series.

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For those of us with the willpower to keep watching this cursed season of Below Deck Mediterranean after the finale, the first part of the reunion on Watch What Happens Live featured the return of former chief stew Hannah Ferrier. Ferriers firing, for having undeclared Valium and CBD onboard, was the bombshell in a season of bombshells, bumping Christine Bugsy Drake up to chief stew and marking the end for a cast member whod been with Med from the start. The reunion marked Ferriers first chance to defend herself to her former crew members, some of whom had already wasted no time going on WWHL to shit-talk her.

The biggest argument of the night happened between Ferrier and Yawn over those changed cabin arrangements, when Ferrier wouldnt let White room with her boyfriend, Tom Checketts, after he came aboard as chef in the middle of the season. When host Andy Cohen asked Yawn why she didnt go to Ferrier to talk about cabins before announcing over the radio that White could room with Checketts, Yawn insisted it was the first officers job to make room assignments. Did you not put me in charge of room assignments? Ferrier asked. After Yawn repeated herself, Ferrier said, You put me in charge of room assignments. Yawn replied, Do you have a problem with Bugsy? Ferrier reminded Yawn that she and Drake, who previously argued in season two, both agreed they shouldnt be roommates. I think that it would be respectful for you to call me and have a conversation about it, Ferrier said. That would be something that would be normal if you had any sort of respect. Yawn stopped arguing, then Cohen asked who would act as the first officer on her boat, which doesnt have the role. She said the role would go to White, but that she stepped in to stop her crew from fighting. Then White chimed in to defend Yawn, saying, If anyone wants to take a side of like, In yachting, this is what happens, theres no clear-cut answer.

Throughout the night, Ferrier also faced accusations that she didnt want to be working on the yacht this season. At first, she explained, I like what I do, I go there to earn money, andwant to make sure the guests have the best holiday possible. I just dont want to be doing it when Im 40. Later, she added that former second stew Lara Flumianis dramatic departure contributed. [It] just made me go, You know what, youre probably not wanting to do yachting anymore, Ferrier said.

Yawn at one point accused Ferrier of not coming to her with problems like Flumianis behavior, saying, Malia talked to me. Hannah really didnt ever do that. She would come to me and just give me like three sentences. Ferrier went on to claim that Yawn played favorites with crew members like White, and that she joined season two with preconceptions about Ferrier from season one. Within about a minute of meeting Sandy, she already started talking to me about a scene that had happened in the first season, Ferrier said, referring to a moment when she forgot a meals description. Well, it looked terrible, Yawn said, before adding, I havent thought about that first scene for years, and every time Hannah and I show up on a boat, we reset. Ferrier went on to say she thought her plans to eventually leave yachting bothered Yawn. Yawn tried to dismiss this, but eventually added, When you have people who are there just for a paycheck, eh, theyre there for a paycheck. When Cohen called Yawn out on the comment, she replied, I wouldnt use the word annoy. I cant explain it; its not personal. Its professional. The two went on to spar about Yawns support for former chef Hindrigo Kiko Lorran, whom she fired midway through the season.

The first part of the reunion ended with just a flick at Ferriers firing. White claimed she still wouldve reported Ferrier even if shed agreed to the cabin assignments, and Ferrier admitted it was a mistake to not log the medications. Yawn claimed, People cannot be on Valium and work on a vessel, and that she didnt trust Ferrier. She then asked, So you didnt trust me because I had medication, or what? Yawn replied, I didnt trust you because you lie. Shortly after, Cohen added that Ferriers CBD pen was actually a THC pen, according to the manufacturer, raising questions of Ferriers trustworthiness. And he left us at that until part two of the reunion, leaving us strung along with this season of television for yet another week.

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The Deck of Stories and NPC cards Kickstarter has been announced. The Deck of Stories is a fresh new storytelling system that helps you create a legendary adventure in 15 minutes. NPC Cards feature pre-generated, beautifully illustrated characters that you can insert seamlessly into your game.

Portland, OR, October 23, 2020 --(PR.com)-- The Deck of Stories is a flexible storytelling system of story hooks that helps take you deeper into the moment. The unique ORC storytelling system suggests where it would fit best in a storyline. This can work in any campaign or an exciting one-shot session. The Deck of Stories is an easy to use tool for story-creation.

This Kickstarter marks the release of several iterations of the Deck of Stories, including 5 Themed Boosters. The Gears Booster has 18 steampunk-themed story hooks only found in this expansion. This pack is perfect for anyone playing in the world of "Eberron" or others like it. The Gothic Booster has 18 gothic horror-themed story hooks only found in this expansion. This pack is perfect for anyone playing "The Curse of Strahd" or other adventures like it. The Hell Booster has 18 infernal-themed story hooks only found in this expansion. This pack is perfect for anyone playing "Decent into Avernus" or similar adventures. The High Water Booster has 18 sea-faring-themed story hooks only found in this expansion. This pack is perfect for anyone playing the "Ghosts of Saltmarsh" adventure or adventures like it. The Jungle Booster has 18 jungle-themed story hooks only found in this expansion. This pack is perfect for anyone playing the "Tomb of Annihilation" or if you'd like to play adventures like it.

NPC Cards feature pre-generated, beautifully illustrated characters that can be inserted seamlessly into any game. Each NPC contains a collection of traits that help DM's role-play that character in the game. The traits develop the character yet keep their background vague enough to cast them in any role. Characters could be a Bartender, Noble, Bandit. You name it.

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Inserting a large 5,500-square-foot home into a particularly jagged hillside is no small task. For expert local prefabrication firm Acorn Deck House Company, the seemingly daunting undertaking required excavating and leveling a massive ledged rock. It was all worth it,Ideate Design Studiofounder and principalSashya Thind said. The home has great views.

Thind collaborated withAcorn Deck House Company Head of DesignMichael Hawke to create a holistic project that gives architecture and interior design equal footing.Located in Wellesley, Massachusettsa well-to-do suburb of Bostonthe new home casts an impressive profile but doesnt overwhelm its natural setting.

Indicative of the companys prevalent style, the paired-back scheme ensures that the home seamlessly situates into its natural surroundings. Demonstrating the best of the companys modular and panelized expertise, a two-tone wooden-clad facade helps elucidate the modernist structures many interlocking volumes. Inside, an exposed metal and wooden beam system plays host to a double-height, open-plan living and dining space but also helps segment-off the homes more intimate six bedrooms and five bathrooms.

Check out the full hilly house on our interiors and design website, aninteriormag.com.

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Christmas is coming early to Lifetime, and Worcester will be unwrapped right away on TV as "It's A Wonderful Lifetime" features a season of 30 new holiday movies.

The season begins at 8 p.m. Oct. 23 with the romance "Christmas On Ice," which was shot at several locales in Worcester back in February including the Worcester Common Oval, Worcester City Hall, Worcester Ice Center and Birch Tree Bread Company.

"It's fantastic. I can't believe they're starting the Christmas season before Halloween, but we'll take it," said John Stimpson of H9 Films, which has its studios located at the Printers Building, 44 Portland St.

Stimpson wrote and directed "Christmas On Ice," which stars Abigail Klein as Courtney Bennett, a former Olympic skating hopeful who runs a municipal outdoor public skating oval that is threatened by Mayor Greenwood (Will Lyman) with imminent closing. Noah Tremblay (Ryan Cooper) is a former NHL player and single dad who runs a new indoor skating center. Courtney and Ryan might seem like mutual antagonists, but when they slide into love, the move is on to try to save the public rink and the Christmas Carnival Courtney hosts on the Common each holiday season.

Actually, there's quite a Worcester movie binge going on right now with the Liam Neeson action flick Honest Thief, a good deal of which was filmed in and around the city in the fall of 2018, opening last Friday at the Blackstone Valley 14 Cinema de Lux in Millbury.

"Christmas On Ice" will be repeated multiple times on Lifetime in the days ahead, Stimpson said. Just after 10 p.m. Oct. 23 on Lifetime you can watch Stimpson's 2019 holiday movie, also shot in the Worcester area, "Christmas a la Mode."

"We're on a roll," Stimpson said about making holiday movies with credits that also include "A Christmas Kiss," "The March Sisters at Christmas" and "The Spruces and the Pines." In November, Stimpson will be filming a Christmas movie, "The Cape House," on Cape Cod.

Stimpson, who grew up in Wellesley, lives in Princeton and is married to Carolyn Crowley Stimpson, vice president of Wachusett Mountain. An actor as well as a director and producer, Stimpson has spent time in Los Angeles, but likes the fact he has been able to make movies within a short commute from home.

"Worcester's a fantastic place to shoot. We've made multiple movies here," he said. "It's a terrific locale in that it can be almost anything downtown, suburban, farms (close by)." Part of "Christmas a la Mode," about a struggling young dairy farmer, Emily, who enters an ice cream flavor contest, was shot at Whittier Farms in Sutton.

"The city has welcomed us with open arms," Stimpson said. Worcester Mayor Joseph M. Petty even opened up his mayor's office for a scene for the seemingly mean Mayor Greenwood. The DCU Center sent over a Zamboni to clear the ice.

Stimpson's creative output hasn't been confined to to films set around the holidays. A former president of Harvards Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Stimpson made his movie directorial debut in 1999 with the impressive political drama "The Gentleman from Boston," released internationally as "Beacon Hill," starring Michael Landes, Wendy Benson, Grainger Hines and Drea De Matteo of "Sopranos" fame.

Inspired by a local ghost story, Stimpson wrote and directed The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2004) set in Princeton and starring Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux and Brooke Adams.

Other films include "Sexting in Suburbia," "A Deadly Obsession," "Last Hours in Suburbia," "Betrayed" and "Sins of the Preacher." The drama/thriller "Black Car," later renamed "Vehicle for Revenge," was shot extensively in Worcester in 2015. Stimpson's films have been shown on platforms such as cable/satellite TV, direct online screening, DVD and through international deals. Stimpson has collaborated with area production companies including Moody Independent and Artigo/Ajemian Films and Andrea Ajemian, based in Worcester before moving to Los Angeles (Ajemian returned to Worcester to be unit production manager for "Honest Thief").

"Ghost Light," which premiered last year, was a very amusing take on the curse of Shakespeare's "Scottish play" that was shot in Concord and Groton and headquartered at New England Studios in Devens. The Ghost Light troupe arrives by bus at the imaginary Riverside Resort and Theater set in the Berkshires, and, because of some heedless saying of the name of the play, everything proceeds to go wrong. Stimpson said he hoped that the film would get a larger theatrical release than it realized, but is glad "Ghost Light" got a two-year deal with Showtime. "The pandemic slowed things down in foreign sales. We'll see where it goes."

Plenty can go wrong with the making of any movie, but with the holiday films Stimpson operates from a business model he feels comfortable with.

"We operate independently. We finance these movies then we sell the movie after it's completed to the highest bidder. We know the market pretty well," Stimpson said. Besides Lifetime, it also includes the Hallmark Channel and Ion Television.

Stimpson has collaborated with other writers but knows that the script, even though the story is a romance, has to be pragmatic and aware of the production needs. A given production typically runs on a short shooting schedule and "a modest budget," Stimpson said. "Christmas On Ice" was made for under $1 million.

Regarding how he got the idea for the film, Stimpson said his office overlooks the Worcester Common Oval. "I walk across to grab lunch almost every day. I thought, 'Gosh, this is a perfect locale for a movie. Such a lovely spot.'" So I constructed a movie."

Courtney "loves working with the kids. She has to figure out a way to keep it going." From his office Stimpson can also see the Worcester Ice Center. He thought the words "love interest."

Ryan Cooper also starred in "Christmas a la Mode."

"He's become a good friend and supporter of what we're doing up here," Stimpson said. "And Abigail Klein she's terrific."

The rest of the cast are regional/local actors. Caroline Portu of New Hampshire plays Courtney's friend. "I think she's on the brink of being a star," Stimpson said.

"Christmas On Ice" had its skates on for the shooting schedule, which was 13 days two five-day weeks, and one three-day week.

"It's busy. It's a fast and aggressive schedule," Stimpson said.

Even so, it just avoided what would be the pandemic shutdown.

"We finished at the end of February, and boy it was in the nick of time. We pushed ahead post production with everyone working remotely."

Stimpson was hoping to film "The Cape House" this past April, but with the pending November schedule he said, "we'll be able to shoot a Christmas movie closer to Christmas."

With COVID-19 "the challenges are extraordinary. As an industry there are all kinds of new protocols to keep everyone safe and we're doing it to a 'T.' At Cape Cod we'll be in a bubble 12 days and test everyone multiple times."

A desire for escapism coupled with the familiar comforts of the holidays might help explain why Lifetime is getting such a big jump start on holiday movies. The network is also showing some moving with the times in terms of inclusion and diversity. This year's movies will include the network's first-ever LGBTQ+ centered romance, "The Christmas Setup" (Dec. 12), which stars real-life couple Blake Lewis and Ben Lee. "Sugar & Spice" (Dec. 13) is the network's first holiday movie about a Chinese-American family. The film stars Jacky Lai, Tony Giroux and Tzi Ma

Stimpson has been making plans during the COVID down time for his own future movies. "I've got multiple things lined up some of which I'm not at liberty to discuss," he said. "It's an exciting time. Things are starting to pop. It's exciting to think about doing more than one or two a year. It will allow us to have a much more vibrant company."

With that, there is the ongoing debate about the merits of the Massachusetts film tax credit that gives incentives to filmmakers to shoot in the Bay State. There have been moves to eliminate it.

"So much depends on the tax credit. We're talking with the Legislature to keep that in place," Stimpson said. "It's an important part of why Massachusetts is an attractive place (to make movies)."

In Worcester, "We've had a lot of big projects coming in. It's going to be fun seeing the Liam Neeson. It's been exciting to see the giants of the film industry here in Massachusetts."

Meanwhile, Stimpson plans to keep the cameras rolling in Worcester.

"Yes, there will be many more," he said of shooting films here. "I've always embraced staying here and developing the talent and the crew because I'm here. This is home."

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Even though its late October, Walt Disney World has already begun to haul out the holly with the release of new holiday merchandise, and today, weve found three new Spirit Jerseys inspired by the season!

This forest green spirit jersey evokes thoughts of Christmas trees and my favorite thing to do with them: decorating!

The back features the classic-style Walt Disney World logo with a Mickey Mouse-shaped ornament within the Disneys D.

The front has the same D with the ornament above the phrase Est. 1971. With a big anniversary on the way, its a neat way to look forward to the coming new year.

Even though Florida isnt known for getting a lot of snow (aside from the magic flurries Disney creates), you can shine up your winter with this white spirit jersey.

Cinderella Castle appears in a few spots on the front and back of the Spirit Jersey, most prominently behind Walt Disney World written in gold.

This is made with a soft plush material, hence the higher price.

The front features a Mickey snowman decked out in its holiday finery.

For the young ones, a new red youth Spirit Jersey stars Santas helper, Minnie Mouse!

Speckled with sparkles, Minnie is decked out on the front like Old Saint Nick himself, wearing pointy shoes (and a peppermint in the middle of her bow) to show shes ready for the holidays.

The back features the classic Walt Disney World logo in a glittery green.

We found all three of these at BouTiki in Disneys Polynesian Village Resort, but theyre likely to appear elsewhere around resort property.

Keep reading WDWNT as the holidays begin to arrive at Walt Disney World!

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