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Janet B. Dudley
Scotland Neck, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(252) 826-5124	PO Drawer 280
Scotland Neck,	NC 27874
Consumer, Divorce and Family
Edwin M. Hardy
Washington, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Washington,	NC 27889
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Domestic Violence
EDWIN HARDY has been practicing law for over 31 years. With more than 30 years experience at bankruptcy, he has over 3000 bankruptcies successfully filed to help people. He is a former member of the N.C. General Assembly as a State Representative in the N.C. House of Representatives where he served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He has served on the N.C. Courts Commission and the Governor's Crime Commission. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Beaufort Regional Health Systems which operated Beaufort County Medical Center. He has also served as President of the Beaufort...
Larry Serbin
(800) 351-3008	313 Evans St
Greenville,	NC 27858
Free ConsultationGreenville, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
Benjamin H. Whitley
Greenville, NC Consumer Law Attorney
(252) 353-5500	1702-A E. Arlington Blvd.
Consumer, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Do you need quality legal advice? Then look to Ben Whitely, of Whitley Law Firm. Don't suffer through your personal injury alone. Contact a Raleigh personal injury lawyer to schedule a meeting today!
Rachel S. Gunther
Hertford, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(252) 426-2006	147 N. Church St.
Hertford,	NC 27944
Consumer, Business, Divorce and Estate Planning
Brian Robert Becker
Greenville, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
(252) 321-7111	498 Red Banks Rd
Consumer, Bankruptcy, Business and Legal Malpractice
Apex, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 5 years of experience
Free ConsultationConsumer, Appeals, Business and Construction
Philip J. Clarke III
Morehead City, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(252) 222-5252	534 North 35th Street, Unit I
Morehead City,	NC 28557
Free ConsultationConsumer, Criminal, DWI and Traffic Tickets
Our legal system is one of the best in the world, if not the best, but you won't likely feel that way if you ever find yourself charged with a crime or in some legal difficulty. It can be terribly frustrating, disappointing and confusing. It helps to have someone in your corner you can trust to navigate for you. The experience I have gained over the last 15 years in practice, trying cases and negotiating non-trial dispositions with state prosecutors, has equipped me to handle most any state criminal law problem you might have, from traffic...
Adrian M. Lapas
Goldsboro, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
(919) 735-8888	112 N. William Street
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy, Foreclosure Defense and Social Security Disability
I have been practicing bankruptcy law and consumer law for over twenty years. In addition to looking at the relief that bankruptcy can offer, I also look for claims to assert against creditors. I will pursue claims against creditors for violations of the Fair Debt Collections Act, the North Carolina debt collection statute, Truth in Lending and RESPA violations. I also pursue mortgage servicing abuses arising under Regulation X. I am a board certified specialist in consumer bankruptcy law. I am also a two-time graduate of Max Gardner's nationally featured "bankruptcy boot camp" and have...
Edward H. Maginnis
Raleigh, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
(919) 526-0450	4801 Glenwood Ave
Free ConsultationConsumer, Business, Employment and Insurance Claims
I am the managing attorney of Maginnis Howard, a Wake County civil litigation firm located in Raleigh, NC. Unlike many firms, Maginnis Law represents both plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits. On the plaintiffs side, my practice is focused on consumer class actions and business litigation. I am the former chair of the Consumer Areas of Practice at the North Carolina Advocates for Justice. We handle, on a contingency basis, consumer cases falling under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the corresponding state law statutes...
John T. Orcutt
(800) 899-1414	6616-203 Sx Forks Road
Albany Law School
We are the largest Consumer Debtor Bankruptcy law firm in North Carolina, with a reputation for providing quality services in a rapid and efficient manner for people burdened with debt or being harassed by creditors. At the same time, we realize that taking care of our clients, answering all their questions, and addressing all their concerns is the most important part of the services we provide. Don't take our word for it. Read our client testimonials at www.billsbills.com. Offices: RALEIGH, DURHAM, FAYETTEVILLE & WILSON, and serving clients in the 28 surrounding counties of North Carolina.
Neubia Harris
Raleigh, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 10 years of experience
(919) 526-0500	203 W. Millbrook Road
Consumer, Business, Education and Juvenile
Neubia founded The Law Office of Neubia L. Harris, PLLC in 2018. Neubia has extensive education law and civil litigation experience. Prior to founding the firm, Neubia worked as an Associate Attorney with boutique law firm where she practiced education law exclusively, and a Staff Attorney at Legal Aid of North Carolina where her practice spanned a variety of civil matters. Neubia launched her law practice to marry her passions of practicing law and being an entrepreneur.
Neubia received her undergraduate degree in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her law degree from...
Erich M. Fabricius
Knightdale, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
(919) 295-6001	106 N. First Ave
Knightdale,	NC 27545
Erich has lived in North Carolina his entire life, and takes great pride in helping his fellow North Carolinians--individuals, families, and small businesspersons. Much of his practice is devoted to assisting people who have trouble with debt. A knowledgeable bankruptcy lawyer, he counsels clients on whether filing bankruptcy is their best option, and carefully guides them through the bankruptcy process. Erich also represents clients in debt-related non-bankruptcy litigation, including collections defense and unfair debt collection. Drawing on his experience as a bankruptcy law clerk, Erich can assist individuals and business that are parties to bankruptcy litigation, including defense of...
Richard McNeil
(919) 719-7214	4030 Wake Forest Rd
Free ConsultationConsumer
My firm is dedicated exclusively to helping North Carolina consumers who have purchased defective vehicles. Let me help you exercise and file your North Carolina Lemon Law rights today! No out of pocket fees or costs! Free consultation!
John Alan Jones
Raleigh, NC Consumer Law Lawyer
(800) 662-1234	4140 Parklake Avenue
John Alan Jones is the founding member and managing partner of Martin & Jones, where he has worked since he began practicing law in 1982. John Alan handles both trial and appellate work in state and federal courts throughout North Carolina and around the U.S. He heads the firm's medical malpractice group, which is comprised of three attorneys and seven staff members. John Alan dedicates a large percentage of his practice to representing individuals catastrophically injured by medical negligence, defective pharmaceuticals, toxic substances or other negligence. He also devotes a significant amount of his work time to consumer...
Rachel Lea Hunter
Cary, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
(678) 687-9693	901 Madison Avenue
Consumer, Collections and Estate Planning
I grew up Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I lived most of my life. I moved to North Carolina to be closer to family and have lived here 13 years. In 2009, I began private practice concentrating in the areas of debt resolution/negotiation, estate planning and probate.
Derek Caldwell
(919) 838-9400	4801 Glenwood Avenue
Consumer, Bankruptcy and Traffic Tickets
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Bob Meynardie
2840 Plaza Place, Suite 200
Free ConsultationConsumer, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Products Liability
Bob began his career representing large companies in complex civil and construction litigation at large North Carolina law firms. Bob opened a solo practice to bring big firm legal services to small and mid-sized companies and individuals. Finding the right blend of old fashioned responsive service and cutting edge technology Bob has continued to represent some of the largest companies in North Carolina but is now able to bring affordable legal services to clients large and small.
Mr. Frederick M. Davis
(919) 863-4130	2501 Blue Ridge Road
Consumer and Criminal
Mr. Davis is a general practitioner with concentrations in the areas of tenant representation, criminal law, traffic violations and small claims matters. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1996.
Jacob Matthew Norris
1033 Bullard Court, Suite 207
Georgia State University College of Law
Glenn E. Emery
Raleigh, NC Consumer Law Attorney
(919) 981-4475	1033 Bullard Court, Suite 201
The George Washington University Law School
Glenn was born and raised in Rhode Island. He has traveled and lived in various places during his ten years of service in the United States Marine Corps. Glenn graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2002 with a B.S. in Accounting. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers for two years before attending law school at George Washington University. Since graduating in 2007 from George Washington University, he sharpened his trial skills while serving as a prosecutor in the Alamance County District Attorney's Office. Glenn currently manages the Wilmington...
Claire Modlin
Raleigh, North Carolina Consumer Law Attorney
(919) 755-6605	2600 Two Hannover Square
Consumer, Business and Personal Injury
Campbell University Law School
Consumer, Antitrust, Business and Criminal
Gregory M. Kash
(919) 861-2006	434 Fayetteville Street
Ste. 1640 - Two Hanover Square
Consumer, Animal, Business and Products Liability
Frank J. Chut
Durham, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 61 years of experience
27 Forest At Duke Dr
Consumer, Bankruptcy and Business
Anitra Goodman
Consumer, Business and Insurance Defense
Joseph Dowdy
(919) 329-3867	Parklake Avenue
Consumer, Appeals, Business and Communications
Leslie Lane
Consumer and Business
University of Georgia School of Law
Anna E. Worley
(919) 792-4000	P.O. Box 351
Consumer and Family
Consumer, Business, Family and Health Care
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law
Jon David Hensarling
Consumer, Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy and Communications
Daniel Robert Tilly
(919) 865-4492	225 Hillsborough St
Consumer, Business, Estate Planning and Personal Injury
Stephon Bowens
(919) 755-3993	1117 Hillsborough St
Consumer, Education, Elder and Health Care
Trenton, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Consumer, Administrative, Estate Planning and Personal Injury
Robert W. Detwiler
Jacksonville, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 42 years of experience
Jacksonville,	NC 28541
John Rogers III
Durham, NC Consumer Law Lawyer
(919) 419-3300	3511 Shannon Rd
Consumer, Bankruptcy and Collections
Dana Andrew Lejune
Asheville, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 37 years of experience
(828) 774-5800	7 Orchard Street
Asheville,	NC 28801
Free ConsultationConsumer, Employment, IP and Legal Malpractice
Dana Andrew LeJune was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1956 into a Cajun, rice sharecropping family. He graduated from French High School there in 1975. In 1976 he began his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and received his B.A. in History three years later. He taught Government and History at French High School through May, 1979, when he began law school.
Mr. LeJune attended South Texas College of Law and graduated with a J.D. in December, 1982, after having published a maritime law article in the August, 1982 South Texas Law Journal. He took the February, 1983...
Damon Duncan
Greensboro, NC Consumer Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
(336) 856-1234	628 Green Valley Rd. #304
Free ConsultationOffers Video ChatConsumer, Bankruptcy and Workers' Comp
Damon Duncan is a member of the family run Duncan Law, PLLC. Our firm is family run and we do all that we can to treat our clients as if they were part of our own family. Duncan Law's Commitment To You: Free Consultation: The first time that you come to our office to talk with an attorney it will be completely free. You deserve to have your case heard without having to pay. Your free consultation will allow you to explain your situation to an attorney so that he can best explain your legal options. Personal Attention: We treat...
Joshua Bradley Farmer
Rutherfordton, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(877) 254-4555	187 North Washington Street
Rutherfordton,	NC 28139
Free ConsultationConsumer, Bankruptcy, Business and Foreclosure Defense
Joshua B. Farmer was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, but has lived in Rutherford County since 1986. Upon his admission to the bar, Josh joined the firm of Tomblin and Perry Attorneys in Spindale, North Carolina. Currently, Josh is a partner in Tomblin, Farmer & Morris, PLLC. Since beginning his practice, Josh has been serving the citizens of Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina for their legal needs. His practice focuses on bankruptcy matters and civil litigation. This includes representing individual and business debtors in bankruptcy in their Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 matters. ...
Rashad Blossom
Charlotte, NC Consumer Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(704) 271-9078	301 S. McDowell Street
Consumer, Bankruptcy and Tax
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Condemnation action was excepted from the automatic stay, and the debtor was not entitled to a temporary restraining order to keep the county from continuing with the condemnation.
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Make Change Now • Boots Riley Isn't Sorry to Bother You
Richard St.Ofle February 11th, 2020
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If you've ever thought about making a list of the most prolific people ever, then Boots Riley isn't a bad place to start. You can place him somewhere between Stephen King—who has authored 61 novels and hundreds of short stories in addition to spending time on music, philanthropy and rage-tweeting at Trump—and Ramses II, who fathered 162 children while pharaoh of Egypt.
In addition to being incredibly talented and politically engaged, Riley's relentless work ethic has him writing, directing, rapping, engaging in local activism and national politics and public speaking, with an upcoming engagement at Sacramento State's University Ballroom on Feb. 13.
Raised in Oakland, Riley started rapping in the early '90s with The Coup, a hip-hop group that stood out for their activism, politics and engagement in an era of opulent, materialism-obsessed Oakland rappers like MC Hammer and Tony! Toni! Toné!. The Coup quickly became the flagship for woke East Bay hip-hop, and in 2002, Vibe magazine named Boots Riley one of the 10 most influential people of the year.
In addition to being the Energizer Bunny of activism, he wrote and directed his first feature film, 2018's Sorry to Bother You, a sci-fi/fantasy flick set in an alternate universe version of Oakland, which earned Riley an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Famously rapping, "Every verse is from the cardiac," Riley is never one to mince words. I sat down with him to talk about his upcoming projects, politics and his speaking engagement at Sac State, and his perspective on the mess we're in. True to form, Riley didn't disappoint.
How'd you get started—who were you as a kid and how'd that lead you here?
I grew up in Oakland and started getting involved with radical organizations when I was 15 being involved with farmworkers … I got more involved in theater and started looking at ways to maybe combine the theater with the ideas that I wanted to put out there. And then Spike Lee came out, and I was like, "Oh, you could do this on a big screen," and I went to film school. And at the same time, because of Digital Underground, Too Short, MC Hammer and Tony! Toni! Toné!, Oakland was a place where every record label was like, "Oh, we have to have a group from Oakland." So we had a tape out, and we got signed. And then I did music for 20 something years and came back to this.
I'm writing. I have a TV show already that I'm going to production later on this year and then I have a couple of features that I'm writing.
Can you talk about the features?
And I assume you can't talk about the TV show either.
Well, it's exciting nonetheless. Are you done with music all together?
No. For the show, we'll be doing one cool song per episode. But touring is something we won't really be doing much of anymore.
What made you kind of jump from music to film, to writing and directing?
It's not so much of a jump. I went to film school and quit school because I got a record deal. I did theater in high school and all that kind of stuff. My grandmother ran the Oakland Ensemble Theater. It was all this one big expression. I mean, obviously, there's some real differences in it. Like if I want to make a song, I can sit here and write something and if I wanted to be done with the song in 20 minutes from now. I can't do that with a film.
I read that you taught a class in the early 2000s in Oakland about social justice and culture and resistance.
It was a lyric writing class for high school students. But before that I had a workshop at La Peña [Cultural Center]. One of my students was a 14-year-old kid named David, who went on to be in Hamilton. We did basically like a newspaper on tape where we would talk about the issues and people, go write the raps and then we recorded them, and then we got on a flatbed truck and did these things that we call guerrilla hip-hop concert.
That sounds amazing. Do recordings to that exist anywhere?
Yes … We call the tape The Rumble … I have a CD of it somewhere … We met somebody that worked at UC Berkeley that had a tape duplication thing and we made a bunch of them … We'd be on the flatbed truck, and we'd give out the tapes.
I understand that you're doing a lecture at the University Ballroom on the 13th. Tell me a little bit about that.
Well, you know, as things will probably be changing in the world, so in the end, I'll reserve the right to change what I talk about. I'm usually talking about change from the standpoint of us realizing where the crux of our power comes from. And utilizing that in order to make a change, and looking at the ways that movements have and haven't flourished based on whether or not they used that crux of our power as the basis for the movement. So the main contradiction under capitalism is the exploitation of labor. And so if we want to change things, it will have to come from the point of us withholding labor. You can organize that in many ways because that can be used to raise wages and make living conditions better. But it can also be used for other issues that are not always seen as a labor issue.
What's an example of that?
For instance, if radicals had been organizing around labor in, let's say Ferguson for 15 years before that, then when that cop needed to be indicted, they could have just shut down a few industries in the St. Louis area and that cop would have been indicted.
Yes. Totally. You're right.
And some of this confusion comes from the fact that, since the beginning of what they call the new left in the 1960s, the left has been running away from class struggle. And so it's confused people as to how power works.
Do you see that as something new?
But I'm saying there was a period of time, and I think that there are myriad reasons, and that's kind of what I'll be talking about, but obviously, there was—and it's hard to talk about one of them without really talking about the rest of them. But in the '50s, you had the House on American Activities Committee and, you know, a big—in the McCarthy era with all the unions for instance, getting rid of all the radicals. And you see from then on those unions had much less teeth to them because they weren't fighting for the same things anymore. They weren't as ready to fight. The ones that were the most effective and the most militant were the ones that were the most effective, and the most militant since then is the only one that said we don't care if you're a communist, we're fighting alongside you, and that was the longshoremen.
So what would you say to a well-meaning but out-of-touch, left-leaning person who's listening to you in the audience or reading this article and looking for advice as to how to engage?
Well, you have to be involved in some sort of organization. Otherwise everything that you say on social media or to your friends, there's nowhere for it to go. And not only do you have to be involved in some sort of organization, you need to be involved in some sort of organization that has an entry point for people that aren't as radical as you to be able to get involved. Meaning an organization that's involved in the movements that can create material change that happens now, but with a radical vision for building a movement. So in short, join an organization that is radical in vision and making material change now.
You seem to kind of straddle art and activism in a really special way. Did you have a roadmap for that growing up?
I didn't have a roadmap for that. But you know, there are definitely people that I looked up to like Paul Robeson who did some of that. A lot of revolutionary leaders were poets, so there's some connection there. But I've always just looked at art as communication. And I think, like, great art is made by people who are passionate about something more than just making art.
In that sense, it kind of imbues your art with meaning.
Yes. It makes you make choices that are based on emotion and thought, as opposed to just something aesthetically pleasing. So for me … I've been involved in organizations and had these ideas, and my art is a way to express that. It changes, and it's made me change and reconsider how I'm doing that, you know, all those sorts of things. But I've had an uneasy, as you say, straddling of that fence … I'm always questioning. You're always living in a place where you feel like you're not doing enough of one thing, or doing too much of another thing. Doesn't matter how much you flip it, but it's always going to be there. And I've quit doing art.
Completely?
Yes. I quit. And actually, that's when I became the telemarketer. And, you know, because we had an organization called the Young Comrades, I could do that job just like one day every couple of weeks and make enough money to keep just doing the organization. And then that organization broke up. And then I figured out I could go back to doing music.
Stop by the Sacramento State University Union Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 for a special lecture event featuring Boots Riley. Expect Riley to speak about topics such as race, economics and other social justice issues. This event is brought to you by UNIQUE Programs at Sacramento State. For more info, go to Sacstateunique.com.
**This piece first appeared in print on pages 12 – 13 of issue #310 (Jan. 29 – Feb. 12, 2020)**
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Anglo-Saxon finds to be examined
ANGLO-SAXON finds that were unearthed in Cheltenham have been moved off site for further investigation.
Two skeletons, pottery and a large wooden hall used for feasting were discovered during building work on the new All Saints' Academy site earlier this month.
The finds, thought to date to the 6th to 8th Century AD, have now been moved to the offices of Cotswold Archaeology at Kemble Airfield for further investigatory work to be carried out.
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Archeologist will give Hoard update
STEPHEN Dean, Staffordshire's County Archaeologist, will be giving an update on the fabulous Staffordshire Hoard at Lichfield Guildhall next month.
Tickets, costing £5, are in aid of the Artfund in order to create the Mercian Trail.
The talk, at the Bore Street venue, takes place on Wednesday, June 9, from 7.30pm.
Anglo-Saxon finds at new Cheltenham academy site
An Anglo-Saxon settlement has been discovered on the site of the new All Saints' Academy in Cheltenham.
Two skeletons, pottery and a large timber hall, all thought to date back to between the 6th to 8th Century, have been uncovered.
Steve Sheldon, of Cotswold Archaeology, said it was previously thought the area did not succumb to Saxon control during that period.
Saxon church is East Yorkshire's 'oldest building'
Experts say they have identified East Yorkshire's oldest standing building.
Part of St Peter and St Paul's Church, near Stamford Bridge, is thought to be 1,100 years old, 300 years older than previously believed.
Archaeologist Peter Ryder recognised it as an early Saxon church when he was invited to inspect the building.
Remains of 1,100-year-old drinking pot help pinpoint Wallingford's history
A BUILDER'S drinking pot which was smashed more than 1,100 years ago could help archaeologists accurately date the birth of Wallingford for the first time.
Leicester University experts say tiny pottery fragments uncovered in the town's Anglo-Saxon ramparts could prove Wallingford was first fortified during the reign of Alfred the Great to protect his kingdom from Viking invasion.
Dozens of local volunteers helped sieve a tonne of earth last month during two weeks of excavations in Castle Meadows, where the archaeologists uncovered the ramparts beneath later medieval construction.
Dig for archaeological victory at new road site
KENT NEWS: Britain's largest archaeological dig is now under way in Thanet and will last until work begins on a new road in June.
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Closeness to shops and beach, Fantastic scrambled eggs in the morning, good choice at all meals, and deserts as always top rate.Female staff always acknowledge you, male staff very dour.
Ecellent location to beach,flat for walking,clean....towels change every day,food excellent selection and nice to see table linen changed after every guest,can't fault ,value for money.
Towels were New and changed every day, also the bed linen.
Rooms cleaned daily. Great private sunbathing area on 1st floor. Staff at reception very helpful.
They put my son and me in a room where we couldn't move a leg. They charged me for double bed but gave me single. The staff didn't let me go in the lift even though I told her that I'm going to miss my airport shuttle. When I asked the manager not to charge me for what they have not provided me, he threatened me to pay unless he will call the police.
The hotel was very clean but very basic. The staff were very friendly. Lovely to in the room. Not much on the English Channel after 10 pm.
Location good within walking distance of all local amenities . Reception and cleaning staff friendly enough.
The staff was very friendly. The location is good, near the beach. But if your hotel room is located at the back of the hotel, the noise of the street is ery loud (forget about a good night of sleep).
Spotlessly clean and plenty of staff in reception.bar and restaurant.
Globales Condes de Alcudia This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
Located in a quiet corner of Mallorca, Globales Condes de Alcudia offers easy access to the beach and a variety of activities.
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This is a seasonal hotel, open from May to October.
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This bright air-conditioned room offers a balcony and a sofa bed. It features a private bathroom and a TV with satellite and cable channels. A safe is available at an extra cost.
Children are considered to be under 12 years old.
This twin/double room has a balcony and air conditioning.
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Some of the staff we're miserable when serving the majority were fine , the food was fine but could have have been a little more diverse with possibly another special night included , on the whole you could always make a meal .
Pool area and outside terrace.
Room was small with no easily accessible electric plugs for recharging. The shower door had been removed, so bathroom flooded after every shower. Only one bathroom light worked, and it was a very small space. Toilet badly positioned. Dining room very cramped, with too many people waiting for tables. Hotel foyer very crowded and noisy in the evenings.
Lifts took forever and entertainment was only karaoke and bingo. Show every other night.
Usually cocktails were served in plastic cups. The pool is too small. The hotel has 9 floors and often only one elevator (for maximum 3 people) was working. For young people it might be some disadvantage that in October most people's age is 80+.
Strong cocktails. Tasty food. Kind personnel and security guy.
The staff should give priority to the customers. When I say staff- I mean from the manager to the cleaning staff.
The food was very boring the same virtually every day more hot vegetables needed chips every night! The desserts were the same every day no ice cream available at dinner which was disappointing considering the heat and the number of children who were staying. A bowl of noodles nearly every day for a week. We were half board glad we didn't pay for all inclusive. The drinks in the hotel bar were nasty I ordered a dry martini with lemonade which we had to pay for as we were half board and I would have expected to be served the real McCoy not the cheap local version served to the all inclusive. The hotel lifts were a nightmare one lift was out of order for the whole week we were ther the other lift went out of order as well for a day causing chaos for disabled and parents with buggies. The lifts were so tiny only three people at a time which meant long wait times. We could not get a lift on the day of departure and had to carry our luggage down. The beds in the rooms were unfortable and caused us both to have back ache by the end of the week. The bathroom was really tiny and the shower tray was cracked. The room was old fashioned and small.
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Life in Images
Kinoreal Special: 22 Years of dok.at
April 13 to 16, 2022
With a selection of six extraordinary Austrian documentaries made between 1983 and 2021, we celebrate the 22nd anniversary of dok.at, the Austrian Documentary Film Alliance, as well as a body of work whose scope and diversity breaks time and again with the conventions of traditional documentary filmmaking.
For the selection, six critics, curators, and journalists were invited to nominate films representing something special for them. Post-screening discussions with the filmmakers will go into detail about these qualities. The directors have also been invited to select a short film in dialogue with their own, turning each screening into a special double feature with surprising combinations. The choices range from documentaries to animations as well as a classic Buster Keaton silent comedy.
While the pairings may not be consciously representative in the expected manner, it is still possible to read into them the qualities of Austrian documentary filmmaking – essentially an auteurist cinema. The core of the selection lies in the diversity of the younger generation, while also reaching back to filmmakers who established a more modern approach to documentaries in the 1980s (Ruth Beckermann, Peter Schreiner). The selection demonstrates the cosmopolitan gaze of a cinema that finds its material as much on its own doorstep as in distant lands (China or Georgia). It also shows how often the major developments shaping our world can be described in the supposedly "small" and private: life in images (and sounds). (Christoph Huber / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In the presence of Ruth Beckermann, Goran Rebić, and Peter Schreiner; video talks with Katharina Copony and Ella Raidel.
In memoriam Oliver Testor (1963–2022)
In collaboration with dok.at and with special support of the Austrian Film Institute
The series was conceived for the association's 20th anniversary but was postponed due to Corona.
Photos 2022 - 22 Jahre dok.at
Link dok.at


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In the oddly named 'Swap Shop' in Worthing I turned down the opportunity to snap up what was probably someone's life long collection of novelty kitchen timers.
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Today we are releasing MS10-007 to address a URL validation issue generally applicable to the ShellExecute API.
How would a malicious user leverage this vulnerability?
This issue involves how ShellExecute handles strings that appear to be legitimate URLs, but are malformed such that they result in execution of arbitrary code. Various technologies use ShellExecute to initiate a browser navigation. It is assumed that the operation is safe if the parameter passed to ShellExecute "looks like a URL." It seems reasonable to expect that if a string is a valid URL, it cannot possibly result in execution of arbitrary code when processed by ShellExecute.
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Mondaine. Sustainable Swiss watchmakers.
«Sustainability for the Mondaine Group is going beyond ecology, it is our endeavor to become better in ecology, socially and economically. Since more than 30 years, Mondaine believes and takes sustainable steps.
WE CARE means that we take over social and ecological responsibility with a company culture which inspires our consumers, trading partners and staff to act in a sustainable manner. We want to create an awareness that the contribution of each and everyone for an ecological and socially careful way of life is important and there is a need to constantly become better and better. With our products and our way of acting we as a SME and its family spirit are an ambassador for this life attitude.»
Andre Bernheim, Co-owner and Member of the Board of the Mondaine Watch Ltd. group
Read more about our commitment in our 2020 Sustainability Report.
Sustainability Report #WeCare
Ahead of the sustainability curve
MONDAINE is the Swiss watch brand that is famous for transforming the iconic Swiss station clock into a design that people can wear on their wrists, hang on their wall or place on their desk. But alongside their high recognition factor, these wrist watches have another key attribute: sustainable production. Far from being a recent attempt to keep up with a contemporary trend, sustainability has been part of Mondaine Watch Ltd corporate philosophy for over 25 years. How did this come about? And what goals is the company still pursuing? Co-owner André Bernheim answers these questions in an interview published by Tages Anzeiger in their sustainability special edition in December 2019.
André Bernheim: there is growing demand from consumers for sustainable products nowadays. How relevant is this issue for your company?
Sustainability is part of our corporate culture and our brand identity. And of course, we've also noticed that this topic finally attracts a lot more attention. That's a welcome development – but it has some negative consequences as well. It's unfortunate that concepts like "ecology" and "sustainability" have become buzzwords that many companies adopt to embellish their image. But some of those firms show little – if any – genuine commitment to the cause. And in the watchmaking industry too, it's my personal view that not enough is being done.
To what extent is MONDAINE different?
We've had an ecology officer since the early 1990s: my brother Ronnie held this post at first, and then I took over. So this issue is established as a matter for our corporate management. To take one example: in 1992, we collected waste metal from a scrap heap in Zurich. We had this material melted down in Switzerland, and then we used it to manufacture metal cases for our watches. We recycled over ten tonnes of used metal during this project, for which we were honoured with the Alp Action Award. Admittedly, that didn't bring about global change – but even back then, we wanted to show that an SME such as ours can play its part in sustainability. And if we can do it, the large companies ought to be able to manage it too. We were considerably ahead of the times with our sustainability concept; retailers and consumers were still turning a deaf ear to it in those days.
In 2017, MONDAINE launched the essence collection – with the focus on sustainable materials. What was involved?
We broke new ground with the MONDAINE SBB Swiss railway clock design with our essence line and in terms of ecology, we deliberately went one step further. 70 percent of the cases for our essence watches consist of natural materials – ricinus (wondertree plant) with the addition of glass powder, to be precise. 50 percent of the strap is made from the wondertree oil too. According to choice, we also offer straps made of recycled PET bottles with a cork lining, and almost 100 percent of the packaging consists of recycled PET bottles. And a really cool touch is that this watch pouch serves later on as a second use as a pouch for a smartphone or sunglasses. We were already producing watchstraps from recycled PET five years ago, and we are using cork – also natural raw material – in other MONDAINE collections as well. We constantly are researching other natural and more ecological materials. This is what we call: Better is Better, step by step becoming a more sustainable brand. I'm therefor also of the opinion that a company should go beyond merely integrating the sustainability concept into its products.
So where else can sustainability be implemented?
As a non-listed SME with our own development department, good connections with component manufacturers and our own watch production facility in Biberist (Solothurn, Switzerland), we very deliberately make use of opportunities to pursue sustainability as an integral element of our corporate goals. One example that demonstrates this: the photovoltaic system on the roof of our Swiss factory, which we put into operation in September 2019. Its 600 m2 of solar panels produce clean power, making us about 70 percent independent of electricity from outside sources. All Swiss Made Mondaine Watch brand watches from are produced with this solar power quota. But as you'd expect, we're also active in many other areas with the aim of becoming even more sustainable. We are calling our company mission: WE CARE.
What exactly are you doing?
We believe that great achievements can also become possible by making large numbers of small-scale adjustments and improvements. As well as taking various steps in house, we've defined specific sustainability goals for the future. One of the core goals is to steadily make our packing materials and watch packaging more sustainable – for instance, by using less material and choosing more environment-friendly materials with less volume. At the same time, we're continuing our search for more sustainable materials that we can use to manufacture our watches. We are also examining our entire supply chain flow, and looking for ways to improve it. We will achieve continuous improvement, and we'll reduce our ecological footprint. For this reason, we have also launched the first watch recycling scheme in Switzerland.
Watch recycling
That's right. Because it's a paradox that in Switzerland, the country of watches, you can return almost everything for recycling – except watches. So, consumers who want to dispose of one or more watches is welcome to send them to our Swiss factory. Mondaine will even take back watches from other manufacturers – but not plastic watches in that case, because it's often not possible to dismantle them. We take the watches apart and pass the components on so they can be recycled as ecologically as possible. Will we change the world by doing this? No. But it is a step towards cradle to cradle, and each step counts to support our environment. If it works well in Switzerland, we will expand this initiative with all our distributors worldwide. Once again, we want to show that something like this is possible – and if we can do it, large companies should certainly be able to manage it. Taken together, all these steps will then generate a real impact.
TA Switzerland, Jan 2020
Switching production to solar power:
In September 2019, its very own photovoltaic system went into operation on the roof of the Mondaine factory in Switzerland, producing around 80% of the plant's total electricity requirements. Over the summer months, the solar panels will even generate enough power to supply the power station with surplus electricity. The new solar installation is an important milestone for Mondaine and enables the company to largely switch its production to solar power.
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WE CARE – our mission
Mondaine is currently reviewing the environmental footprint of its internal and external processes. Recycling and reducing the use of all kinds of resources, from wastepaper, cardboard, batteries and PET to energy and plastic in various packaging materials, as well as preventing production outages in the supply chain due to steel, plastics and electronic parts are all part of the ongoing improvement efforts of the Mondaine Group.


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Q: How to get an image from Cloudinary using its React SDK I'm trying to follow the Cloudinary documentation to get started with the React SDK. I've already uploaded an image and now I want to retrieve and edit it. I'm stuck on the retrieval bit. I've replicated the tutorial as per:
  // Create a Cloudinary instance and set your cloud name.
  const cld = new Cloudinary({
    cloud: {
      cloudName: myCloudName,
    },
  });

  // Use the image with public ID, 'front_face'.
  const myImage = cld.image("samples/cld-sample-5");

I've changed the cloudName as per the cloudName in my dashboard. I've then changed the public ID to a sample image in my Media Library:

Unfortunately I keep getting a 404 error. What am I doing wrong?

A: The Public ID on Cloudinary is the asset's identifier and it'll contain a filename (could be a randomly generated string of characters or the actual filename of the asset) + any containing folder(s). In this case, and based on your screenshot, the cld-sample-5 asset is in the root folder but you're requesting it by passing the public_id set to samples/cld-sample-5 so unless you have an asset in the samples folder called cld-sample-5, the expected response is 404 as no asset exists for that public_id. If you want to target the cld-sample-5 asset then your public_id (that is passed to the image() method) should just be cld-sample-5.
In addition, in Cloudinary, an asset is unique/identified by not only the 'public_id' but only when that is in combination with the 'resource_type' ('image', 'video' or 'raw') and 'type' (e.g. 'upload', 'private', 'authenticated', 'fetch' etc). Therefore the below assets with the same public_id (sample) are actually different entities:
image/upload/cld-sample-5
image/private/cld-sample-5
video/upload/cld-sample-5
video/authenticated/cld-sample-5

The public_id is returned in the response for each successful upload and you can store the 'public_id', 'resource_type' and 'type' parameters in your database and then you can reference any asset on Cloudinary both for delivery and via the API.
Finally, API methods, such as upload() and others, default the value of certain optional parameters if they are not provided. This includes the 'resource_type' (defaulted to "image") and also 'type' (defaulted to "upload"). This is why if you're uploading a "video" rather than an image, you will either need to pass resource_type: "video" or resource_type: "auto" to the upload() method - otherwise it'll default to "image" resource_type and you'll get an error back.

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James Journey to Jerusalem: Alexandrowicz Interview
April 25, 2006 by EmanuelLevy
One of the pleasant surprises of the this year's Cannes Festival's Directors Fortnight was James's Journey to Jerusalem, the world premiere of Israeli filmmaker Raanan Alexandrowicz, a personal film that takes a strong stance about the mores of contemporary Israeli society.
A few years ago, Raanan knew a Nigerian man named James who was living in Israel on a long-expired touristic vista. James was around 40 years old, and a banker by profession. However, due to the dire political and economic conditions that prevailed in Nigeria at the time, he decided to relocate to Tel Aviv, where he was forced to work cleaning houses.
Recalls the director: "James used to share with me the hardships, fears, and sorrows of a migrant worker's life. But he never neglected to tell me memories from his homeland, Nigeria, and the dream of the life he hoped to achieve one day."
The stories that James told Raanan simply startled him. James described in detail how he had imagined Israel before he had come to live and work there: "He imagined the Holy land as a green, plentiful land, flowing with milk and honey (as the Bible describes it)." In this land, he thought, dwelled "the most peaceful and happiest people on earth, the most virtuous human being on the planet: God's Chosen People."
James recalled most vividly the moment he got out of the airplane that transported him to Ben-Gurion airport: "I literally smelled the sweetness of the air, and tears came to my eyes. I began to cry because, at long last, I had arrived at my destination: The Holy Land."
Upon hearing those poetic words, Raanan immediately visualized the opening scene of a movie about James. As he recalls: "I didn't know what specifically the film would be about, but the contradictions and irony I felt upon hearing those sentences, spoken by a man who was living in the most rundown part of Jerusalem, a man who made his living cleaning bathrooms and kitchens, inspired me to begin writing the story for James' Journey to Jerusalem. From the outset, I conceived the movies as "a contemporary fable, a fairy tale with realistic economic and political dimensions."
"The first thing I thought about the film was the fundamental contradiction between the Holy land as an abstract, spiritual entity in the mind of many people all over the world, and the actual Israel, a country with a very prosaic existence, a fast developing country with a modern economy, traffic jams, sprawling shopping malls, severe immigration laws and exploited migrant workers from third-world countries."
The protagonist that Raanan constructed (with his co-screenwriter, Sami Duenias) was meant to be an "Everyman who comes to Israel as a pilgrim from far away, a man who knows the Holy Land only from the way it's described in the Bible." To make the film more interesting dramatically, the writers decided that, upon his arrival, a bureaucratic mistake will scuttle the man's plan to become a tourist in a heavenly land, and instead, will throw him into trap, finding himself in the position of a migrant worker.
Raanan says he used this premise as a starting point of a journey during which James observes Israel society from a detached distance. The director feels that although the contents that comprises the story is typically and purely Israeli, the naive, fictitious assumptions that James make of Israel hold true and are valid not only for Israeli society but for every country in the world that's sharply stratified and uses (and abuses) illegal immigrants for jobs that need to be done but are not particularly desirable or rewarding for its native sons.
The notion of an Israeli society, polarized along dimensions of race, income, and status, and living off cheap labor such as James could have become an easy target for a dramatic satire and even a tragic melodrama. Indeed, there's enough evidence in the story for a more bitter and harsher movie, but Raanan decided that irony is a more powerful device than suffering or victimization, and he ends James's saga on a wonderfully simple and moving note (that for obvious reasons can not be disclosed here).
Shot on Digital Video, the low-budget film was transferred to 35mm and shown on a big screen. At this phase of his career, Raanan shows no distinct cinematic style, but the movie plays nicely, makes its points without being too preachy, and with a running time of 90 minutes, never overextends its welcome.
Says Raanan: "One of the most significant and unique experiences of cinema is that it can make you (the viewer) see the world through the eyes of someone else's. Good cinema can do something stronger than that: It can show you yourself through someone else's. I see James's Journey to Jerusalem as a reflection of my personal feelings about my society, especially the powerful interplay between economic factors and almost any other domain of human behavior."
Raanan hopes that viewers, particularly Israelis, will empathize with James's positions and dilemmas: "I thing there's a bit of James in each and every one of us. We learn all too well, as members of society, how to talk about our noble dreams as an easy way of forgetting them. I think each one of us has his or her 'Jerusalem' toward which we aspired to reach. Whether we ever reach it, or even remember where we were headed, is another story."


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Mail Call: Run, Mike, Run?
By Newsweek Staff	 On 12/22/07 at 5:45 AM EST
Readers were intrigued by our Nov. 12 story on a possible presidential bid by New York's mayor. "Mike Bloomberg understands how to restore America to a respected leadership position in the world," one declared. Another added, "This will add some fresh air to a so-far stale and lackluster campaign."
A Possible Presidential Bid
Your cover story on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made for fascinating reading ("The Revolutionary," Nov. 12). Should he decide to run as an independent in the 2008 presidential election, he will add some badly needed fresh air to a so-far stale and lackluster campaign. Bloomberg's considerable skills as a businessman, his ability to work with people while respecting views that are different from his own and his prowess in thinking outside the box would leave a significant mark on the political landscape even if he doesn't make it to the White House in the end. Of all the third-party candidates I can remember, he stands the best chance of enriching and enlivening the traditional camps of Democrats and Republicans.
Werner Radtke
Paderborn, Germany
I lived in New York City during the Rudy Giuliani-Michael Bloomberg mayoral baton handoff in 2001–2002 and remember feeling agitated by Bloomberg's elitist manner in how he "bought" his way into city hall. Admittedly, I was also caught up in Giuliani's charismatic public persona, especially after 9/11. But as time passed, my perspective shifted. I began seeing substantive results in Bloomberg's centrist leadership style versus Giuliani's autocratic style. Today I hope Bloomberg "buys" the presidency, and as a gay man and a liberal Democrat, I really don't care if he runs as a Democrat, Republican or independent. Bloomberg's clearly the right leader for breaking through bipartisan barriers, mending international relations, ending the Iraq War, keeping the United States from going to war with Iran, stabilizing the economy, balancing social issues and fighting global warming. He's also one of the most philanthropic men of our day.
Dan Bray
You chose to launch an unabashed "trial balloon" for Bloomberg. Given that the current front runners for the two main parties are Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, a Bloomberg candidacy would result in a presidential race between the current and former mayors of New York City and the junior senator from New York state. With 49 other states in the Union, Americans need candidates from other states, with other political viewpoints. America doesn't need (or want) a presidential race among three New York liberals!
Steven Collins
How does splitting the national vote three ways unite the United States? If Bloomberg somehow defeated both major-party candidates, does he expect Democrats and Republicans in Congress to hold hands, sing "Kumbaya" and follow his lead? America has a political democracy in which the president governs through his allies in Congress, not a monarchy with a subservient legislature. I'll support those who joined in the primary battles instead of shirking from the fight.
Don Judson
Woodburn, Oregon
Wouldn't it be nice for America to finally have a candidate who has tried both tired political parties and decided like so many others that they are both way out of step with mainstream America? The polarization over the past decade has resulted in a dysfunctional, bloated Washington behemoth that is neither listening nor responsive to the concerns of most Americans. Bloomberg is a proven leader who understands priorities, negotiating for results and, most important, the restoration of America to a sensible but strong and respected leadership position in the world.
R. L. Mullins
Will Iraq Still Dominate in 2008?
I must take exception to Fareed Zakaria's Nov. 12 article ("This Won't Be the Iraq Election"), which concluded that the Iraq War would not be the No. 1 issue in next year's presidential election. While U.S. casualties appear to be trending down right now, probably due to the surge, everything I have read is emphatic that the surge cannot possibly continue beyond the first or second quarter of 2008. Nor has any form of political reconciliation within Iraq even begun. Throw in the fact that America is considering giving more arms to the Iraqi Army; the political unrest in Pakistan; the United States' relationship with Iran, Israel and Turkey, and oil being close to?$100 a barrel, and I can't help but conclude that Iraq is going to be very much on the minds of every American voter 11 months from now.
Not All Activism Is Helpful
Thank you for your article "Do-Gooders Gone Bad" (Nov. 12). As a college student, I have seen my fair share of rallies and campaigns with slogans like "Save Darfur" or "End Poverty Now" take place on campus. It is imperative that activist groups know how their voices and funds will help the spotlighted crisis. Are they oversimplifying the problem? How will the government in their country and in the other party's country effectively respond? I commend the efforts of those who have dedicated their lives to helping others, but I implore them to consider what long-term impact their actions have on others.
Sarkozy and an American Admirer
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a big blunder by walking out before his interview with journalist Leslie Stahl from CBS's "60 Minutes" was over ("Sarkozy Is Looking More Like the 'French Rudy' Every Day," Nov. 12). Prior to that, Sarkozy had extolled the virtues of America as the greatest democracy in the world. How is it that when it came to questions about his private life, Sarkozy abruptly backed out of an interview? I have to wonder whether he is willing to embrace genuine democracy. Former presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton went through the same process. They never complained. This is how democracy truly works. Should Sarkozy be given a pass? There is no French exception in democracy. The French president should abide by democratic rules as fairly practiced in the United States.
Dan Chellumben
Amboise, France
French With an American Sensibility
In "An American (Style) In Paris" (Nov. 12), a key point was missed that makes French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's idea of getting the French to work harder an extremely silly and wrong notion that will create more unemployment, not less. Only an obtuse person would believe that the monthly unemployment figure in France is 8 percent. This figure comes from a political definition of unemployment, not an actuarial one. I calculate the real unemployment figure in France to be 15 to 20 percent. What is needed in France, and elsewhere, is a workweek of four nine-hour days so that all French workers have some work to do rather than some doing all the work, the latter being the current situation and the only logical outcome of Lagarde's plans. Lagarde has missed the point that the historically unusual full-employment golden age, from 1945 to 1975, has gone forever. Lagarde also implies that if the French work harder, they will receive higher wages. Nonsense. There is no guarantee of that at all. In her beloved United States, American workaholic dingbats are working harder than ever before (for the CEO class), but their real wages are declining, particularly in comparison with upper management.
Marcus L'estrange
Parsing Hillary on Her Positions
So Hillary Clinton is a "congenital lawyer" ("Congenital Lawyer Redux," Nov. 12)? Thank goodness. What America desperately needs is a good lawyer in the White House. Lawyers are trained to analyze situations, anticipate their adversaries' strategy and prepare for worst-case scenarios—none of which the current administration did in planning the quagmire that is Iraq. With Harvard Business School M.B.A. Bush in the Oval Office, the United States is essentially being run by the sales and marketing department—the people who sell products to customers who can't pay. This is a recipe for disaster and bankruptcy, as any accounts-receivable clerk will tell you.
Dolores Cordell,Esq.
Has anyone considered that when we elect a politician to office to represent us in the government, the result violates all legal norms of a contractual relationship? They can hold closed-door meetings and tell us nothing of the result. They can declare that what they say and do is secret. This is impudence. If our political representatives do not provide us with what they promised, we cannot terminate the relationship. We must continue to pay their salary and pay for things such as their office and domestic and foreign travel. We would prosecute nonpoliticians who acted this way. Why do we, as thinking beings, allow politicians to get away with this?
William W. Morgan
A New Atlantic Alliance
Congratulations on Stryker Mcguire's cover story ("Bridging the Gap," Sept. 10). Published around the anniversary of 9/11, the new Atlanticism reflects a healthy portion of realpolitik, which is shared by a good many of the new-generation political leaders in Europe. Europe, "old" or "new," and the United States need each other. A revived transatlantic alliance is a geopolitical, economic and international security must. Each European country must decide the level of its participation in the new transatlantic alliance, as the European Union has been totally incompetent in formulating a common foreign policy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy should renew France's membership in NATO and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should stick to his instinctively pro-American feelings instead of seemingly being obsessed with putting enough clear blue water between himself and his predecessor Tony Blair. Any anti-Americanism among public opinion across Europe can be changed—provided the new post-Bush administration in the United States ditches unilateralism and adopts a multilateral approach to world affairs.
Karl H. Pagac
Villeneuve-Loubet, France
The Battle for Moscow Re-Examined
In response to the article about the book "The Greatest Battle" ("Stalin's Tipping Point," Sept. 10), I wanted to make a clarification. This is not the first significant instance of the "almost failure" of the Battle of Moscow to be published. In Dmitri Volkogonov's book "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire," he pointedly describes Stalin's miscalculations about German maneuvering; Red Army officers in terror over the punitive organ, which had eliminated thousands of them under Stalin's purges, and even how when the Soviet government came to visit Stalin at his haven in Kuntsevo, Stalin assumed they were coming to arrest him for his strategic failures.
Patricia Houck
Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Should the Draft be Reinstated?
America's disbanding of its armed-forces draft in the early 1970s came about as the result of a backlash against the war in Vietnam, serving as a protest against the war ("Why We Need a Draft," Sept. 10). Unfortunately, in the country's zeal to demonstrate our anguish over the war, Americans threw the baby out with the bath water. The "baby" was democratic representation, for, if the draft did nothing else, it better ensured that everyone was subject to serving. The armed forces, in turn, mirrored their country and—in many ways—served it as its best representatives. Granted not everyone relished the prospect of being drafted and shipped off to fight a war, but this was democracy at work. This is but one dimension of why the United States needs a draft.
John W. Schiffeler
Verneuil-En-Bourbonnais, France
Although I sympathize with Cpl. Mark Finelli, as he has served in and survived the hellhole Iraq has become after escaping alive from the hellhole of the South Tower on 9/11, I'm afraid he just doesn't get it. It's not a draft that America needs; it's a responsible, informed and intelligent administration. Like Vietnam, Iraq is a war the United States should never have fought. There were no terrorists in Iraq until the Bush administration's ill-considered actions created them. The place to go after Al Qaeda was Afghanistan, but the administration for whatever reasons—stupidity or cupidity chose to ignore the advice Richard Clarke and other counterterrorism experts had been giving it from the very beginning, and duped the nation into going along with its pre-9/11 plan to invade Iraq. I think Corporal Finelli should stop and ask himself: would it be right to draft young Americans who did not volunteer to be sent to risk their lives in an unjust war, as was the case with Vietnam? The draft should be used only when America is actually threatened by external enemies, not to throw away the lives of youth on the follies of their elders.
Jef Westing
Isle-Sur-La-Sorgue, France
I'm a Vietnam veteran who reached the same rank as Cpl. Mark Finelli after I had received a college deferment for four years and then was drafted a year later. His opinion piece in favor of reinstating the draft is the best I've read about this important debate. In addition to dealing with such problems as our too-small military's being spread too thin, too-short breaks between tours and inappropriate use of the National Guard, a draft of diverse citizens would enrich and challenge the military as well as ensure that our future leaders have firsthand knowledge of the culture, activities, strengths and weaknesses of this critical sector of society, something that is now sorely lacking among those under the age of 50. Like it or not, the United States is in a war with radical Islam that will last a very long time. Except for folks related to members of the military, U.S. citizens aren't personally invested in this war, something that must occur if America is to fight it effectively. Drawing troops from both the low and the high economic strata of society and from politically influential and noninfluential families will lead to just such an investment. To me, the issue of bringing back the draft is a no-brainer—it should be done. Unfortunately, the odds approach certainty that Congress will lack the political guts to do so.
Charles Biernbaum
Cpl. Mark Finelli couldn't be more right, but for the wrong reason. America needs a draft to keep politicians intellectually honest when they consider the use of military force. If the war in Iraq depended on a draft, U.S. troops would have been withdrawn long ago, or, even better, would never have gone there in the first place. The American public sees the failure in the decision to invade Iraq, the failure in postwar planning and the failure to recognize those failures by keeping troops in Iraq. It is a shame that America's leaders don't have the vision and understanding of the American public. There is collective wisdom in the voice of the American public. Politicians would be wise to listen to that voice. They will be forced to listen in November 2008.
Richard Hopgood
Nicholasville, Kentucky
The EU Pays Lip Service to America
The French and Dutch rejections of the EU constitution are not "symptoms of a Europe that does not know where it is going" ("The European Disunion," Sept. 10). It is a statement of where individual people—not member states—wish to go. A European superstate may fit well with politicians and businessmen in their pursuit of a homogenous global society, but it does not fit well with a large swath of the European electorate. To assert that there can be no alliance with America without an EU constitution will probably be regarded by many as a little naive. Others might respond, "So what? I made my choice." Although the British Labour Party may seek an end to "nationalistic sectarianism," it is this very quality that gives us the nonhomogeneous global society that politicians and businessmen detest but that the public wishes to maintain. If governments want the support of the public, a little more transparency and explanation of the true benefits and drawbacks of an EU constitution, alliance with America and other accords and arrangements would go a long way toward helping politicians and business leaders truly appreciate what the public actually wants.
Damon Moran
Via Internet From France
After publication, the story"Rough Justice" (Dec. 10), which describes the special justice system Rwanda set up to deal with the 1994 genocide, was changed online to more accurately reflect the views of sources critical of that system. Herewith the more-accurate sentences:
Critics argue that the system is also decidedly one-sided: it gives ethnic Tutsis the right to denounce their Hutu persecutors but doesn't offer Hutus the equivalent right to accuse the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front, which eventually ousted the murderous Hutu regime in 1994 and then set up the current government. Zarir Merat, head of the Kigali office of Lawyers Without Borders, says, "When you have part of the population not being able to obtain justice, how do you obtain reconciliation?"
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Q: Apache Maven 3.1.0 not running I am running following commands
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Maven 3.1.0\bin>set PATH=%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;
C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Maven 3.1.0\bin>mvn
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Let me know how to fix this issue ?

A: Try running
mvn -v
This should list the state of the environment variables Maven depends on.
If any don't match what you've set open a new command prompt for them to take affect.
Putting maven on your path wouldn't be a bad idea as well so you don't have to go to the maven directory whenever you want to run it.


16-year-old Coltyn Turner was in constant pain, had withdrawn from social interactions, and was often wheelchair-bound.
Hydrolife writer, Watermelon, reveals the three steps she takes before baking the tasty edibles that made her famous.
Steve DeAngelo is on the cutting-edge of the cannabis industry in California and around the globe.
Long-time grower Grubbycup reviews Ed Rosenthal's much-anticipated new book.


After leading the borough in remembering those who died in Saturday's terrorist attack, the Mayor of Hackney Philip Glanville has called on residents to come together to protect all that is special about London - and Hackney.
This morning, I was joined by faith leaders, local people, Council staff, and councillors to observe the minute's silence to remember those affected by the horrific attacks at London Bridge and Borough Market On Saturday night, and last night I represented the borough at the vigil at City Hall.
As the identities of those who were lost are confirmed - at least one of them a Hackney resident - all of our thoughts are with their families and those whose lives have been torn apart by this senseless act.
It will be important over the coming days, weeks and months, to take time to remember those who lost their lives and were injured, but we must also celebrate and protect everything that is special about London - and about Hackney. That spirit of resilience has been at the heart of our response to both the Manchester and London attacks.
Hackney is a brilliant, creative, diverse place and I'm proud to be the Mayor of such a tolerant borough. It's a place where people from all walks of life - different nationalities, religions, backgrounds, sexualities - all live together, and we will not allow these values to be eroded by terrorists.
We must do everything we can to keep it that way. It's what we have always done in the face of terror, and now more than ever, it's important that we come together to challenge the ideologies that fuel hate.
No one should have to live in fear as they go about their daily lives and as a Council we will continue to work with the police and our partners across our community to do everything we can to keep our borough and its residents safe. Meanwhile we all owe it to the memory of the victims of recent events to ensure that our borough and our capital remains the special, welcoming place that it is.


In Byram's homecoming game, Matt Weiler not only proved to his entire high school what a force he is on the field but attracted lots of attention from all of Lower Hudson Valley's football fans. Out of six finalists for LoHud's Player of The Week Award, Weiler totaled 2,918 votes, equivalent to 44.97% of the total votes in the poll – enough to beat strong competitors from White Plains High School such as Josiah Harris, and Lavonno Mitchell Jr. of Albertus Magnus. Weiler, a sophomore, earned his Player of the Week honors for his outstanding performance against a tough game against Harrison. In Byram's first ever under the lights game, Weiler rushed 27 times for 208 yards and had three touchdowns. Weiler clearly did not have a problem playing in the spotlight. Going into the game Byram was the underdog, but Weiler and his team surely proved doubters wrong as they won by a whopping 21 points.
When asked about his performance, Weiler commented, "It's an honor to win, but obviously this is just the start of my high school football career, as I am only a sophomore. I'm proud of my award but it is just going to push me to work that much harder and get better." Weiler's work ethic is what has paved the way for his success this season. As of October 2nd, he is Byram Varsity Football's leading scorer with 11 touchdowns in just five games.
Weiler also added, "Even though this award was personal to me, it is a team award because I wouldn't have been able to do this without my offensive line and the support of the rest of my team. I'm just happy our hard work is finally paying off." Their work as a team has undoubtedly been paying off as Byram Hills football has advanced to 4-1 for the first time since playing in the Class A division.
This honor marks just the beginning of the numerous honors Weiler is expected to receive within the next three years. Among Weiler are other promising sophomores such as Steven Franco, Jack Tillinger, Ryan Abatemarco, Eli Ratzan, and Julian Carnevale. Byram football will definitely be exciting in the next few years, and Bobcat fans certainly have a lot to look forward to! Support the Boys' Varsity Football Team as they look to go 5-1 tonight at Spring Valley!