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és una dibuixant i escriptora estatunidenca, coneguda pel seu webcòmic Strong Female Protagonist, la seva sèrie de novel·les gràfiques (The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch i The Midwinter Witch ) i pel seu treball a la sèrie Tales of the Night Watchman. Va ser nomenada una de les 30 under 30 (30 menors de 30) de la revista Forbes el 2021.

Biografia
Ostertag va créixer a l'estat de Nova York. Va assistir al Bard College i va estudiar il·lustració i dibuixos animats a la School of Visual Arts (SVA) de la ciutat de Nova York, on es va graduar el 2014. Es va traslladar a Los Angeles el 2016.

Carrera

Còmics
Com a Il·lustracions de còmics, Ostertag ha dibuixat el còmic web de superherois Strong Female Protagonist escrit per Brennan Lee Mulligan des del 2012 i ha creat l'art per al còmic de fantasia Shattered Warrior escrit per Sharon Shinn (2017). El seu primer treball publicat va ser el 2013 i el 2014 quan va dibuixar dos números de Tales of the Night Watchman per a So What? Press, "The Night Collector" (2013) i "It Came from the Gowanus Canal " (2014). Aquest últim continua sent un dels més venuts de la sèrie. El 2016, alguns dels seus còmics van aparèixer en una antologia amb altres artistes de còmics titulada Chainmail Bikini.

El 2017, Graphix va publicar The Witch Boy, la primera novel·la gràfica escrita i dibuixada per Ostertag. És la història de la majoria d'edat d'un nen jove, Aster, que té la intenció de convertir-se en bruixa en una comunitat on s'espera que els nens es converteixin en canviaformes. Fox Animation va adquirir els drets de la pel·lícula el maig de 2017, i una seqüela, The Hidden Witch, es va publicar el 2018. El tercer llibre de la sèrie, The Midwinter Witch, es va publicar el novembre de 2019. The Witch Boy va ser descrit posteriorment per Daniel Toy de Underscored de CNN com una "història emocional i màgica [que] captarà l'atenció dels lectors joves" que ensenya als lectors la "importància de l'acceptació i l'amor"  mentre que els crítics van dir que el La història d'Aster, que comença al primer llibre, és "paràbola de conformitat de gènere". A més, l'amiga tomboy d'Aster, Charlotte "Charlie", que té dos pares, és descrita com a no conforme a les normes de gènere, fins i tot per l'editor del llibre, Scholastic. Altres obres d'Ostertag inclouen el còmic eròtic Alleycat  i el còmic How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death, pel qual va rebre Premi Ignatz de 2018.

Paste va descriure el disseny del personatge d'Ostertag com "hàbil i variat, amb una línia gruixuda i fosca que s'assembla a la de Faith Erin Hicks ", i va assenyalar que "fa servir principalment els ulls de les seves figures i el seu llenguatge corporal per transmetre emocions". Un perfil de SVA va descriure el seu treball com "que presenta constantment diferents repartiments de personatges -multiracials, de diferents expressions de gènere, orientacions sexuals i habilitats-, les aventures dels quals entrellacen justícia social i superherois, pressió dels companys i poders màgics", i va assenyalar que el seu "interès principal rau en el contingut queer en el treball per a joves". A més, Erica Friedman de Yuricon, una fan d'Ostertag, va elogiar el seu treball, How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death, anomenant-lo un conte que ressonarà amb aquells "que han passat pels seus propis boscos foscos i s'han transformat en el seu veritable jo".

El 2021, es va publicar una novel·la gràfica d'Ostertag, The Girl From The Sea. La va descriure com una "novel·la gràfica romàntica d'estiu per a adolescents" ambientada a Nova Escòcia, centrada en la història d'una noia canadenca coreana de 15 anys anomenada Morgan que s'enamora d'una selkie (una espècie de dona d'aigua de la mitologia nòrdica) anomenada Keltie. Va assenyalar que es basava una mica en la seva experiència passant els estius a l'illa de Wilneff a Nova Escòcia quan era petita i va qualificar el llibre de la seva "primera incursió seriosa" en el gènere romàntic. The Girl from the Sea ha estat nominada al premi GLAAD Media Award a la millor novel·la gràfica/antologia original.

Animació
En animació, Ostertag treballa des del 2014 com a dissenyador de Star vs. the Forces of Evil i com a escriptora de The Owl House i ThunderCats Roar.  L'octubre del 2020, va demanar a Amazon que la deixés fer una animació "centrada al voltant dels nens Hobbit a La Comarca". El gener de 2021, es va anunciar que Netflix adaptava la seva novel·la gràfica, The Witch Boy, a un musical animat dirigit per Minkyu Lee.

L'11 de desembre de 2020 es va registrar un projecte d'Ostertag per a Disney Television Animation amb el nom de Neon Galaxy.

Altres escrits
De juliol a setembre de 2020, Ostertag va publicar una ficció de El Senyor dels Anells titulada "In All the Ways There Were" en la qual Frodo Saquet i Samseny "Sam" Gamgí mantenien una relació amorosa, història que es va fer relativament popular. Va definir la fan ficció com una extensió de la seva "obsessió del Senyor dels Anells", fins i tot creant un compte de Twitter alternatiu sobre el tema, amb el nom @hobbitgay, i va declarar que també està escrivint una fan ficció romàntica "reexplicant tota la sèrie de Sam. El punt de vista de Gamgí". A més, va afirmar que veia El Senyor dels Anells com un romanç i va argumentar que poques vegades veu l'exploració del "romanç com a transformadora", retratada, a la ficció, amb autenticitat. A més, el 2019, Ostertag va crear un fan còmic que representava una escena posterior als crèdits de The Return of the King.

L'agost de 2021, Ostertag va començar a escriure una revista Substack sobre novel·les gràfiques titulat "In The Telling". L'octubre de 2021, va anunciar que llançaria una novel·la gràfica titulada "Darkest Knight" a la seva Substack amb periodicitat setmanal per a subscriptors de pagament, que se centraria en una relació entre una adolescent cis i una noia trans, i que més tard es publicarà a subscriptors generals.

En mitjans de comunicació
El 2014, va aparèixer al documental She Makes Comics.

Vida personal
Ostertag és lesbiana i es va casar amb el dibuixant ND Stevenson el setembre de 2019.  Stevenson va començar a treballar a She-Ra i les princeses del poder al mateix temps que va començar a sortir amb Ostertag,  que va influir en el programa "des del principi",  va donar un gir important a la trama de la temporada final.

Ostertag també és membre dels Socialistes Demòcrates d'Amèrica i ha il·lustrat un cartell de campanya per a la regidora de l'Ajuntament de Los Angeles Nithya Raman.

Bibliografia

Novel·les gràfiques

Sèrie de novel·la gràfica
 Trilogia Witch Boy
 The Witch Boy (escriptorail·lustracions, Graphix, 2017)
 The Hidden Witch (escriptorail·lustracions, Graphix, 2018)
 The Midwinter Witch (escriptora/il·lustracions, Graphix, 2019)
 Sèrie de novel·les gràfiques sense títol Dungeons & Dragons [Properament]
 Llibre 1 (escriptor, art de Xanthe Bouma, HarperCollins Children's Books, 2022) [Properament]

Altres novel·les gràfiques
 Tales of the Night Watchman (So What? Press, 2011-present)
 "The Night Collector" (il·lustracions, 2013) i "Sanctuary" (personatges creats conjuntament 2018)
 "It Came from the Gowanus Canal" (il·lustracions, 2014) i "It Came from the Gowanus Canal...Again!" (personatges creats conjuntament, 2017)
 Shattered Warrior (il·lustracions, escrit per Sharon Shinn, Macmillan, 2017)
 The Girl from the Sea (escriptora/il·lustracions, Graphix, 2021)
 Darkest Night (escriptora/il·lustracions, Substack, 2021)

Jocs de rol
 Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (escriptor, Wizards of the Coast, 2021)

Webcomics
 Alleycat (escriptora/il·lustracions, 2017)
 Com va morir el millor caçador del poble (escriptora/il·lustracions, 2018)
 Strong Female Protagonist (Il·lustracions, escrit per Brennan Lee Mulligan, 2012–2018)

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Molly Ostertag at IMDb

Alumnes del Bard College
Alumnes de l'Escola d'Arts Visuals
Artistes estatunidencs
Autors de còmic estatunidencs


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British performance artist Robert Newman delves deep into the world wars and real politik, with this brilliant and creative journey through Newman's unique theatre of the mind – chronicling the exploits of the Anglo-American Empire over the last hundred years – with oil as the central protagonist. In it, he questions the supposed 'liberal' media propensity to side-skirt important issues, in a 'Festen-style conspiracy of silence administered by groupthink and ruled the corporations who own media and politicians. Definitely a thought-provoking one man performance.


With the penguins coming shortly to cinemas, we've been sent two great featurettes about our psychotic feathered friends.
The first just shows us how globetrotting they are. Saving the world time after time from wherever they are needed. Not only that, we also learn more about how our four brave heroes first met.
The second is a little more curious. It seems that there has been a leak somewhere and an incredible mission found its way onto the web.
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Concord Human Services is the local welfare office for the City of Concord.
New Hampshire Department of Employment Security - Employment services, unemployment benefits.
NH Works - assistance with finding a job.
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a cash program, Emergency Assistance, Food Stamps, (SNAP), Medicaid, Child Care, Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled (APTD) is a cash program, Old Age Assistance (OAA), is a cash program and other services, all programs are based on eligibility.
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Alliance Management - Property managers for CATCH housing.
Catch Housing - Affordable housing and home buyer financial success programs.
Concord Housing Authority - Section 8 and Public Housing programs.
Families in Transition - Housing programs with focus on assisting homeless families and individuals.
New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority - Statewide housing programs.
Ph: 2-1-1 or 866-444-4211 from out of state.
New Hampshire Service Link - Aging and disability resource center.
Ascentria Care Alliance - Assists refugees with arrival, integration into the community, job training, placement, and other services.
Community Action Program (CAP) - Belknap Merrimack Community Action Program - Provides food for eligible Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Supplemental Commodity Foods Program (SCFP) and The Meals on Wheels Program provides food for eligible seniors.
Social Security Administration - Social Security, Medicare, Supplemental Security, and Social Security Disability.
Concord Area Transit - Fixed route bus transportation and demand response transportation for seniors and people with disabilities.
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I keep finding writing quotes that inspire me. If they inspire you too, please share them. I put them on our Pinterest board as well.
Developing competency in writing takes time and effort. Unless students, teachers, and homeschooling parents are convinced that writing skills matter, they are unlikely to give this academic area the attention it needs. Here are ten reasons everyone who cares about education should care about writing.
Have you ever struggled to use correct grammar without sounding awkward or unnatural? Why does speaking or writing correctly so often sound wrong?


'Tougher Than the Rest' is a memorable western romance set in Arizona in the 1800's. After four kids suffer the tragic loss of their parents, we're taken twelve years into the future where they are grown up and trying to find love and what they want to do for the rest of their lives.
Niall came off as really cold most of the time, as he was still recovering from the loss of his wife, Camille, and has the responsibility of keeping his family afloat. Although attracted to Kate, he sees her as an obstacle to putting his life on the financially stable track he intended by marrying a wealthy widow. There is a lot of attraction and tension between these two, as Kate wants Niall close, but he's hard-headed and refuses to change his mind.
Shirleen Davies really pulls you into Kate's and Niall's world with these strong main characters and secondary characters. I felt like I was in their world throughout the whole story as well, which is a testimony to great writing. I can't wait for the next book!


Highly portable, with a folding structure that is simple and easy to see. The seat can turn 360 degrees, which makes good habitability when using it. It has a high degree of perfection, remaining lightweight despite its functionality.


ISLAMABAD, May 23: About two-fifths of the 118 boys' high schools monitored in 76 districts across the country in March had no libraries while a similar number was without playgrounds. Additionally, one-fifth of the schools did not have apparatus for science experiments, says a Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) report.
Low attendance of Members, late starts, Points of Order interrupting regular proceedings and a brief discussion on law and order marked the Sindh Assembly's 35th session. Following the Supreme Court verdict in the contempt case, the House adopted a Resolution reposing confidence in the Prime Minister.


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A Few Words About A few words about...™ Pete's Dragon -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)
Pete's Dragon (1977) has always been al "also ran" on home video. It's never looked decent. My earliest memories of it are of the laserdisc release, which seemed to run virtually non-stop when my son was of that age.
Even the most recent DVD was well...
not pretty.
Finally, Disney's 35th Anniversary Edition (Sean Marshall, who played young Pete, is now 47!) makes amends for all past transgressions.
This Blu-ray is beautiful!
Highly resolved, great color, shadow detail, even decent grain.
For those unaware, Pete's Dragon, which seems to have been looked upon as second tier Disney, is a delightful musical comedy, probably best for kids 5 - 10, but not only not painful, but a delight for adults.
Image - 4.5
Audio - 5 (DTS-HD MA)
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Colin Jacobson
I'd call it "painful for adults" - loved the movie when I was a kid, think it's borderline unwatchable now.
But I agree it's a nice Blu-ray - easily the best I've ever seen it look...
rsmithjr
The sound has been centered considerably, in fact the stereo is almost completely gone.
I saw this in original release at Radio City and the stereo was very nice. The stereo is fine on the LD, but almost completely gone on the Blu-ray.
When this occurs, sometimes there is enough left on the L/R channels to rebalance but, in this case, nope.
Picture is fine but I rate the audio 1 star for acceptable mono.
Radioman970
Could be anywhere
James Perry
I'm the same age as Pete. Had no idea.
I bought the DVD for myself years back and thought it aged ok. I remember Reddy having some good singing moments but a tad awkward during the rest. But otherwise it's nostalgic and likeable. Easy to see why I loved it as a kid and remembered it fondly. As an adult, I won't pay Disney prices to upgrade the DVD. Perhaps when they dump it on a multi-movie BD set like they did recently with some live action things on DVD I'll pick it up.
I wasn't thrilled with the sound (compared to the Gold Collection DVD and the 1990s laserdisc, I think something is going on with the center channel), but I do think they did a good job with the picture. The French track seems to have stronger high ends (and I suspect it's a dub made in the 21st century). The dirt and dust that plagued every scene with Elliott appears to be gone. I pulled out the Gold Collection DVD and compared the soundtrack, and the DVD. But Disney should have included the extras, since I doubt they'll do a double-dip on this or anything outside their biggest titles.
BTW, my roommate and I recently saw Helen Reddy in concert in San Francisco. Good show, and her voice has held up extremely well.
Lord Dalek
Joel Henderson
Maybe they used the wrong type of Dolby decoder on the original two-track or something?
classicmovieguy
Interestingly, for second-tier Disney material, I believe it was THE FIRST Disney feature to be released on VHS and Betamax. And I don't believe it's ever really been out of print since. As for the film itself, it has a decent-enough score, Helen Reddy is beyond lovely and the photography is excellent - the Blu-ray is the best I've ever seen the title look, although yes the sound has issues.
moviepas
Years ago (probably late 80s, early 90s) Reddy appeared on Lettermen. Dave intro'd her and she popped up in the audience and started singing I Am Woman as Paul and the band played. She basically brought the house down. I think a lot of people, male and female, find that song hugely nostalgic and the meaning of the lyrics isn't the main thing in their enjoyment of it. I know I do.
Was I the only one who noticed the connections between this film and some of the disaster movies of the era? There's a big storm at the end, and it reunited Shelley Winters and Red Buttons after they had been in The Poseidon Adventure together (this film's songwriters, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, also wrote "The Morning After"), while Helen came from this after Airport 1975. I imagine it was a pretty big deal for Disney to get this many stars in one film at that point in their history.
Another thing I realized in hindsight is just how dark the story is underneath the visual gags (the story it was based on was even darker still, and IIRC it was not conceived as a sodium vapor hybrid musical from the get-go). And "The Happiest Home in These Hills" and "Every Little Piece" must be two of the most gleefully sadistic songs in Disney history, even moreso than "Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid.
I also think Mickey Rooney might have played Pete if the film had been made in the 1930s.
Darren Gross
I saw this when I was just a mere sapling, at Radio City Music Hall, and then dozens of times over the years when it was on HBO and the like. Those versions were a somewhat longer version, and as Pauline Kael would say, I feel my "memory has been mugged" whenever I watch the shorter version that Disney put out on home video and DVD.
I presume this Blu-ray is the same, shorter wide-release version that was on DVD.
That said, I loved this movie vastly when I was a kid, but it's a bit of an embarassing misfire now. It's extremely in-your-face & strident, all the performances are so big and hammy, that I'm surprised there was any scenery left to act in front of. Jim Dale and Red Buttons makes Don Knotts in the Apple Dumpling Gang look as subtle as Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc.
I grew up with the songs though (my poor parents) and while the two sides of my brain will fight about whether they are actually any good, I still love them. Can't help that.
Rick Thompson
This is a film that, for me, only catches fire once: in the "Candle on the Water" sequence. Simply and beautifully filmed, it's worth the price of the Blu all by itself.
Originally Posted by Darren Gross /t/325692/a-few-words-about-petes-dragon-in-blu-ray#post_4010393
Interesting. The film has always felt to like it was supposed to be longer (musicals seem to bear the brunt of studio-imposed edits more than any other genre), and rumors of a longer cut have persisted for years.
Ethan Riley
I've heard of a longer cut also...nobody seems to know what was cut, however...
To the best of my knowledge, the "I Saw A Dragon" and "Passamaquoddy," "Brazzle Dazzle Day," and "Every Little Piece" and numbers were longer as I recall.
If it premiered before the director felt it was ready, I'm certainly fine with a tighter, more definitive version being released, but I'd love to see the full numbers again, even as bonus features.
I believe the soundtrack LP was of different takes, so probably isn't a good guide...
"I Saw a Dragon", I think, definitely SEEMS like it was meant to be longer. "Every Little Piece", I'm sure, probably had a few more verses.
Some of the sources that claimed the film was longer than 128 minutes (perhaps the plan was to make it a roadshow-type musical, which no one else was doing in 1977) said cuts were made after the LA Premiere, but thus far, the Disney Archives never found documented evidence of a longer version that got released to the public. Considering Disney's similar treatment of other films during this era (I have also heard of cut 70s reissues of Walt-era films, including a censored Treasure Island and a shortened-to-two-hours Follow Me Boys), the extra musical material on the soundtrack album, and the jarring editing in the scene where Lampie finds Pete in the lighthouse, I always found the claims credible.
Only "I Saw a Dragon" and "Passamashloddy" have extra lyrics on the soundtrack. The latter just has another chorus of Dr. Terminus mispronouncing the town's name, but the former has more substantial extra lyrics.
Interestingly, the CD reissue of the LP has a reprise of "Candle on the Water," which replaces the AM radio-style single version on the song that was released as a single (if this reprise had been in the film, then I guess it would have been after "Bill of Sale," but before the scene where Nora admits Paul is dead). And you are correct that the LP takes are different. I never heard about the other two songs being longer, but the "Brazzle Dazzle Effects" featurette uses about 30 seconds of extra dance music from "There's Room for Everyone."
Somehow I doubt Don Chaffey got final cut privileges, nor do I think any director at Disney would have gotten them, at least not then (and probably not now, either).
donidarko
Well I remember seeing "Pete's Dragon" on HBO when it premiered in January 1981. And I recorded it to VCR tape and I remember it being 137 minutes long. Unfortunately I don't have the tape anymore for comparison. Even the HBO guide I still have and the Long Island CABLEVISION guide states a running time of 2:17. So I don't know what exactly has been cut.
Originally Posted by donidarko /t/325692/a-few-words-about-petes-dragon-in-blu-ray#post_4011284
Years ago, I picked up the old white clamshell VHS version of the film (the very first Disney video actually released by Disney), and the box listed a 105 minute running time, while the tape was the same 128 minute cut that's been on every release since then.
Without a continuity script of an earlier cut, we will never know the truth. I'm starting to feel like Lampie when he tried to convince everyone he saw a dragon. (another random observation: Lampie in Pinocchio is kind of a Mickey Rooney-type character, which is an interesting coincidence)
Radioman970 said:
Thanks for thumbing this up after all these years! lol
I found the footage on youtube. Brings tears and laughter, Dave was one of the greatest funny a-holes of all time, Chevy needed to watch Dave more closely he got it wrong.
"if that happens again we're gonna havta put somebody on the door!"
be sure to read the comments section. people though it was Dave disrespecting her. ridiculous.
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In 130 AD the Romans decided build a new city upon the ruins of Jerusalem and rename it as Aelia Capitolinus. Also they planned to build a temple dedicated to Jupiter on the Temple Mount. The Legio X Fretensis was involved in the construction of the new city and also in road networks across Judea. The remaining Jews were angered with all this and in 132 AD a revolt erupted again, led by Simon Bar Kokhba (also known as the Third Romano-Jewis War). The revolt was well planned, and the Romans were taken by surprise as the Jews stormed the city. The 10th legion had to evacuate its fortress at Jerusalem. The Jews restored their own cult in the Temple. To commemorate all this, many Jewish coins were issued.
The war raged on, with the Romans having to bring more legions to help the X Fretensis to suppress the organised Jewish rebels using guerrilla tactitcs, including the VI Ferrata, XXII Deiotariana, V Macedonica and XI Claudia Pia Fidelis. In 136 AD the war was brought to an end with the siege of the last rebel stronghold, the Fortress of Betar with the Romans killing large numbers of Jews.
After the war, Judea was renamed as Syria-Palestina and many atrocities were committed against the Jews, making them a minority in their own country. While Legio X Fretensis continued to garrison the Jerusalem area, VI Ferrata remained also in the province occupying Galilee.
Further Readings
Dabrowa, Legio X Fretensis. A Prosopographical Study of its Officers (I-III C AD) (1993)
E. Dabrowa, "Legio X Fretensis", in: Yann Le Bohec, Les légions de Rome sous le Haut-Empire (2000 Lyon) 317-325
Flavius Josephus (Author), Betty Radice (Editor) E. Mary Smallwood (Editor), G.A. Williamson (Translator) The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics).
H. Geva, "The Camp of the Tenth Legion in Jerusalem: an Archaeological Reconsideration," in: Israel Exploration Journal 34 (1984) 239-254.
Josephus Flavius (Author) by G.J. Goldberg … A Chronology of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome ((http://www.josephus.org/warChronologyIntro.htm).
M. Gichon, "The siege of Masada", in: Yann Le Bohec, Les légions de Rome sous le Haut-Empire (2000 Lyon) 541-554
Peter Schäfer (editor), Bar Kokhba reconsidered, Tübingen: Mohr: 2003.
Terry Nix … Studies of the Historic Legio X Fretensis (http://www.legionten.org/Studies/LXFstudies/LXFstudies.html).
The Jewish Revolts Against Rome (Peter Shirokov and Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg) … (https://blog.israelbiblicalstudies.com/jewish-studies/jewish-revolts-rome-peter-shirokov-dr-eli-lizorkin-eyzenberg/).
Titus Livius (Author), George Baker (Translator) The History of Rome … (http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/livy-the-history-of-rome-by-titus-livius-in-6-vols).
Eck, 'The Bar Kokhba Revolt: the Roman point of view' in the Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999) 76ff.
Y. Meshorer, "Two Finds from the Roman Tenth Legion", in: Israel Museum Journal 3 (1984), 41-45.


Paris is the one city in Europe I return to most happily since the time I was a poor student there in 1994-95, if for no other reason that I had accumulated a long list of things I could not afford but I promised myself for the future. And in recent times I was lucky to be able to stay in the empty flat of S, which in the middle of the VI district and in front of the Palais du Luxembourg is the optimal base for catching up with the most plaisant side of the city (the picture, from the living room´s window, is from last December, not from this week, as the Christmas tree betrays).
But this is not the time to write about vin, chocolat, haute cuisine, marchés, théatre, arts, livres, cafés, musique, and not even of lively things such as le vélib, les mouvements de grève, les "affaires", voire la fusion des Verts avec Europe-Ecologie. I do have to write about the expulsions of the Roma.
At the EU level, the Commission has started a hard game by announancing an infraction procedure and with the strong-worded criticism by Commissioner Reding (a European Commissioner trying to display moral outrage by raising her voice and hitting the table is a very weird sight). The backlash from the big capitals has been immediate: the French commissioner will vote no to the procedure, Berlusconi has reiterated his proposal that nobody, except his friend Barroso, should be allowed to speak officially for the Commission. Among the things that unite Sarkozy, Merkel and Berlusconi, is the annoyance with any public interference from the Commission, which for them only exxists as scapegoat for the policies they want to implement, but do not want to be seen as responsible for (for Cameron it is different: it is not that he likes the Commission to speak, but more simply that he does not care for what it says anyway). With the pressure from the European capitals mounting on the Commission, but little space for a shameful withdrawal after such a public statement, it is not clear where the Commission will find the political power to push anything against France further.
But this is not just an intra-EU issue. The main problematic aspect with the expulsion of Bulgarian and Romanian Roma is not, in my view, that it is of EU citizens. Unfortunately, the concept of EU citizenship, unlike what is being often argued, does not include a right of residence anywhere in the country. It is a concept of economic citizenship, not of social citizenship. We can move and stay in another member state for 3 months, but after then we must demonstrate to be "active", whether at work or through study or at least as consumers of accumulated money (the Nordic pensioners in Spain). In addition, the Romanians and Bulgarians have also their right to work abroad strictly limited until 2014. (I recommend the critique of the economically instrumental EU conception of free movement developed by Giovanni Orlandini and Stefano Giubboni in "La libera circolazione dei lavoratori nell´Unione Europea", Il Mulino 2007). So EU Roma do not have an unlimited right to stay. Interestingly, the Romanian government (let's not forget the anti-Roma feelings within Romania) has not protested, limiting itself to ask the French to "try to stop" the epulsions. The Italian and Czech governments are with Sarkozy, having themselves repatriated EU Roma.
The problem with France is that neither has the French government the right to expel whoever they like after 3 months of stay. Each case, according to the 2004 Directive on free movement, has to be valued individually, each EU citizen must be informed in writing, and have a month time to appeal. And above all repatriation, as an extreme remedy, must be proportional to the damage caused by the individual EU citizen, not by his/her ethnic group. That's what France has not done in its decree of the 5th of August, and the fact that the majority Roma have been paid to go home "voluntarily"changes nothing: it was still an ethnic targeting with insufficient attention to the individual cases.
But if this is the main problem, then EU citizenship becomes rather secondary, because such safeguards as considering individual cases and allowing the time for appeal should apply to any foreigner, from the EU or from without. Many more EU countries than just France and Italy repatriate non-EU Roma, and the legality, let alone humanity, of such procedure is disputable. Fortunately, Germany, where I have just arrived from Paris, is abandoning the repatriations of Roma refugees to Kosovo it had started earlier in the year, as if Kosovo were now a safe state for everybody. And in France the "Touche pas à mon pote" mouvement is vocal (in direct continuity with that against Pasqua when I was a student 16 years ago).
So the issue is eminently political, ethical, cultural - not just legal. The point is whether or not Europe wants to know something about the Roma (a starting point is the participant picture of Central and Eastern European Romas in Isabel Fonseca´s "Bury Me Standing", 1996). Or whether it wants to subscribe to an inhumane false sociology that, in perfect Front National style, draws from some spurious data the conclusion that all members of certain migrants are dangerous. The alleged link migration-crime is actually dismantled in the UK by B. Bell et al ("Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves", IZA Discussion Paper 4996, 2010), and in France by D. Fougère et al. ("Youth Unemployment and Crime in France", Journal of the European Economic Association, sept 2009).


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Q: Running bash script with for cycle as a Python subprocess in background I have a bash script with a for cycle in it called test.sh:
#!/bin/sh
echo -n > "/path/output.txt"
for i  in {1..10}
do
echo "Test" >> "/path/output.txt"
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I would like to run it in background while the instruction of the Python script are performed.
I am using Python subprocess:
import subprocess
subprocess.Popen('test.sh')

I can't get any output or the output is written in "output.txt" only once.

A: Generally, don't use brace expansions with loops. The shell has to expand the entire expression before you can iterate over it. Either use a C-style for loop (in shells like bash that support it):
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or use a while loop (in any POSIX-compatible shell):
i=1
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On 13 November 2012, CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati staged the CHSH "Big Deal" event for the sixth time at its reception rooms in Vienna.
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On 13 November 2012, CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati staged the CHSH "Big Deal" event for the sixth time at its reception rooms in Vienna. As part of the "Big Deal" workshop, sixteen top law students and graduates simulated an M&A transaction and received valuable practical tips and advice. This year, the focus was primarily on the "Takeover of Listed Companies – Public M&A". CHSH invited participants to attend its traditional "Big Deal" clubbing event in the evening and to an exciting panel discussion. Together with Dr. Martin Sailer (CFO of Frauenthal Holding AG), Dr. Bettina Probst (head of the legal department of Voith Paper GmbH) and Dr. Lucia Kautzky (legal department of Immofinanz AG), CHSH Partner Dr. Clemens Hasenauer discussed career prospects, the secrets of success and their own careers.
"We want to create a forum – which brings together theory and practice – for people who show great potential. By looking at the kind of deals we're involved in on a daily basis, the Big Deal gives top students and graduates the opportunity to gain an insight into the professional world of the transaction lawyer which their university education does not provide. The quality of the participants has demonstrated once again that we can look forward to a new generation of exceptionally well-qualified M&A lawyers in the future", said Dr. Clemens Hasenauer, Partner and Head of the Corporate Transactions Department at CHSH which specialises in M&A and takeovers.
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Two Buckhead Complexes Targeted For Redevelopment
Buckhead condo and apartment complexes are being targeted for redevelopment.
Wellington Buckhead, a 56-unit condominium complex and The Victoria, a 40-unit apartment complex, both on Roswell Road in Buckhead, are seeing increased interest in their properties for redevelopment. The nearly four acre condominium complex was built in 1963 while the slightly smaller apartment complex was built the year earlier, in 1962.
The Victoria Apartments just north of The Wellington
Atlanta-based Edward Andrews Homes is reportedly the developer involved in the planned redevelopment.
Saba Loghman, Land Acquisition Manager for Edward Andrews, confirmed his firm was involved in negotiations for both properties but declined further comment.
Discussions are reportedly still ongoing, but the developer and the properties' owners are reportedly far from an agreement.
The depth of The Wellington complex
The Wellington community is home to many older residents, which could make the required majority approval difficult to achieve.
The complex is comprised of several two story brick buildings with clusters of units inside each entrance. The single level units offer two bedroom/two bathroom plans ranging from 900 – 1,200 square feet. Recent sales in the complex have ranged from $85,500 to $125,000.
Sources indicate that the developer plans to construct upwards of 100+ "luxury townhomes," likely to be priced from the $700s, on the combined properties. Loghman indicated that the development would not happen if they are not able to get both properties to agree to sell..
Edward Andrews' current properties are all in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, including communities in Sandy Springs, East Cobb, Alpharetta and Forsyth, among other areas. The firm's first intown project, Broadview Place, is currently under construction at Lindbergh Drive and Adina Drive.
50 Lakeland surrounded by mature trees
Across the street from Wellington Buckhead, Monte Hewitt Homes is planning another project. The 50 Lakeland condos at 50 Lakeland Drive were sold earlier this year and will be redeveloped into 44 three story townhomes. The existing 48 condos were built in 1957, and were all two-stories in six buildings.
Sales records indicate that developer Monte Hewitt Homes purchased the units, each of which measured about 1,000 square feet, for about $110,000 per unit this past January. Upon visiting the property last week, I was saddened to see that nearly all the mature trees towards the front of the property were marked with red X's likely meaning they are destined to be cut down for the redevelopment.
The shaded courtyard at 50 Lakeland
What are your thoughts on this proposed development? Do you think this would be good for the neighborhood? Are you sad about Atlanta losing so many trees?
Please share your thoughts below.
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The trend in Buckhead the last few years has not been good unless you're part of the 1%. Luxury apartment buildings and condo buildings going up everywhere. All the new apt. buildings along Piedmont and Lindbergh going for 1200-1500 and up? When did Buckhead turn into DC? My rent alone is skyrocketing and my salary isn't keeping pace. This is what happens when you turn your city over to wealthy developers who only want to build housing for the 1%. I guess I'm supposed to move to Doraville or Chamblee or Gainesville or someplace where my commute becomes impossible. I'm just disgusted by this. It's clear the developers are trying to turn Buckhead into some generic paradise for the 1% while keeping the riff raff out. Must be Republicans.
Ham said...
The one thing that strikes me is the loss of more affordable housing. Yes, the units are dated and probably need to be redeveloped. However, could something in the middle make sense maybe around the $250,000 - $300,000 range? For example there are many older adults who want to live in an urban environment, but may be priced out. Also, what about the growing number of young people moving to the city while a small overpriced apartment may make sense initially eventually they want more room and it may push them to the suburbs. Most economists agree that a barbell economy with most people clustered at the lower and higher ends isn't a good long term model.
Just wait until the next recession, when all these new 700k townhouses will repriced downwards to reality.
"It's clear the developers are trying to turn Buckhead into some generic paradise for the 1% while keeping the riff raff out. Must be Republicans."
What about Obama's mandate?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/11/obama-set-force-affordable-housing-affluent-commun/
Anoymous @ 10:25 AM states that people residing in Doraville or Chamblee or Gainesville are "riff raff".
I've been in Atlanta almost 40 years. Every building boom cycle ruins it a little more. More trees come down. More traffic clogs the roads. More concrete covers everything. More cheap and badly constructed townhomes, apartments, strip malls, offices and signs get thrown up and jammed in. Most age poorly, becoming the blight of the next decade. The trees, grass, open spaces, and human-friendly feel never come back.
The most high priced and desirable communities nationwide, with the possible exception of Manhattan, value their natural beauty and don't pave over it with the intensity the Atlanta metro does.
I get that cities can't regulate the sales price of what gets built. But they can regulate the density, the locations, the trees that come down. The city of Atlanta and most of the surrounding metro cities should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to allow developers to have this much control.
How 'bout you complainers pool your resources, $400K; or 100 apartments to rent for $900/mo.
"Must be Republicans?" What a foolish statement!
How many of the people commenting about trees live in a tree house? How many trees have any of you planted?
Keep in mind that although they may be in communication, this is not a done deal! As an owner in one of the properties stated, not all are interested in selling. Even if many homeowners are willing to sell, that does not mean all are. There are a number of us who purchased here because we love the location and the property. Just because some developer wants the property doesn't necessarily mean they get the property. AND, where would we go? Many homeowners work within a few miles of this location. Loss of quality of life is a big consideration.
We are definitely losing the garden feel of Buckhead. It is looking more and more like NYC.
I'm confused by this statement:
"This is what happens when you turn your city over to wealthy developers who only want to build housing for the 1%."
Either the above statement is total bunk, or Atlanta has way more than its fair share of 1%ers.
Wow seriously 1% comments. Buckhead has always been on the trendy high priced side. Other areas like the West Side and others boomed faster recently and Buckhead was stagnant for years once the nightlife left. Ignorant comments about the 1% just prove that you are just a bunch of complainers with no motivation that require handouts because your parents weren't strong enough to put you in your place. Instead of hating "the man" how about you work hard. Funny how people want to complain about the one percent, yet have iphones and drink $10 latte's at Starbucks. By the way, I'm not a 1% guy. I work and have ambition. I strive to be wealthy. It's not a bad thing. Keep sucking the Obama/Sanders/Clinton/Democratic-Socialist teet. There are people that are meant to be successful and contributors to society. Then there is you. The kind of people that are meant to serve. Now fetch me my fries and do it quickly...I'm busy paying for your welfare and insurance. Chop chop. The bad thing with Atlanta's growth in general, is the lack of infrastructure. Old sewers, crappy roads and no easing of congestion. Build away, but get the infrastructure right first.
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Why is business cash flow important?
The Cash Protection Agency Ltd > Small Business Cashflow > Why is business cash flow important?
We talk a lot about business cash flow in general terms, and generally speaking it's easy to think of it as the amount of money passing through your company at any given time.
That includes revenues raised from customers and clients, investors, loans and so on, set against outgoings on everything from renting premises to buying stock, paying staff and so on.
Good business cash flow means having enough coming in to pay for everything going out, and of course ideally you want to have a surplus left over as evidence that your company is growing in value.
What is business cash flow?
There is a technical definition of business cash flow, and it's very simple.
Business cash flow is the difference between the amounts of money available to a business at the start and end of a particular reporting period.
So for example, you might track your business cash flow over the course of a month; subtract your available cash at the start of the month from the amount at the end of the month, and if the result is positive, then you have positive cash flow.
In a sense, it's the equivalent of staying out of your overdraft; with positive cash flow, you should always have enough (or more than enough) to pay for whatever expenses you have going out.
It may seem obvious why cash flow is so important to a business, but it goes beyond just being able to budget for your outgoings.
Positive cash flow is a sign of growth, which means you should be able to expand your business, buy more stock to benefit from bulk discounts, or appoint more staff.
Investors and lenders may also look for evidence of positive cash flow over the long term, as a sign that you are worth investing in, and that you will be able to meet your loan repayments.
Positive business cash flow is also linked with effective credit control – the sooner you get paid on invoices, the better it is for your cash flow – so doing better should allow you to reduce your bad customer debts and write-offs, as well as reducing your admin time on credit control and invoicing.
There are a few decisions to make before you begin to analyse your business cash flow, for example the length of each time period you want to break the report down into.
It's sensible to match this to your invoicing schedule – so if you invoice on 30-day terms, it can be sensible to work with a monthly cash flow report.
The other dimension of the report is to itemise income and outgoings by type, for example calculating revenues from sales separately from loan income and other investments.
Full analysis of your business cash flow is about understanding the balance between all of these – how money in from loans compares with money out on repayments and interest, for instance – and working to make the final figure as positive as possible.
In essence, improving business cash flow is about increasing the positive difference between the money coming into your company and the payments going out, but it can be more complicated than that too.
For instance, as mentioned above, effective credit control can mean the same overall amount of money is paid in faster, and this too boosts the available capital at any one time, rather than funds being locked up in outstanding invoices.
Meanwhile, it's good practice to aim for consistent monthly figures – so that if you reach the same year-end figure with consistent monthly cash flow, you are less likely to have had any individual month where your account balance dropped dangerously low.
Business cash flow vs. profit?
It's easy to think that if your business cash flow is positive at the end of the month, it means you have made a profit, but that is not necessarily the case.
Profit generally relates to revenues raised from your business activities, set against internal costs like paying for stock.
But that doesn't mean positive profit guarantees positive cash flow, or vice versa; remember cash flow can include loans and investment coming in too.
External finance can give you positive cash flow even if your company is not profitable – for example, when a new start-up is still building its customer base – and likewise if your company has large interest payments every month, these can lead to negative cash flow even if your core business is profitable.
How is business cash flow calculated?
At its most basic, business cash flow is the difference between everything coming into your company, and everything going out, from sales, loans and investments, to stock and operating costs, salaries and interest/repayments.
Remember it is usually calculated periodically, so you can compare month by month; this allows you to identify any inconsistencies in your cash flow, and also any seasonal effects you need to take into account.
Also remember, the basic calculation is total cash inflow minus total cash outflow: if this result is a negative figure, then you have more money going out of your company than coming in, putting you in the red and potentially threatening your long-term survival in business.
How to do a business cash flow forecast?
Calculating and analysing your business cash flow gives you the benefit of hindsight when it comes to making decisions for the future.
A business cash flow forecast takes this information and uses it to predict what your balance will be at the end of future months too.
You include any planned expenditure, along with the sales you realistically expect to make – and it's fine to use an upper and lower range to allow for busy or quiet periods of business.
This should give you a set of 'tramlines' showing your maximum and minimum expected cash flow for the coming months, so you can decide how much you can risk putting into investments that offer less certain returns.
What is a business cash flow cycle?
A business cash flow cycle is often called a cash conversion cycle, or CCC, and is a measure of how long it takes for expenditure to translate into income.
For instance, if you buy stock, how many days will it take for you to sell that stock and receive payment? On a larger scale, how long must you wait before you see a return on the investment you make into expanding your company or hiring new staff?
The CCC is a numerical measure of this – usually expressed as a number of days – and gives you the insight you need to spend money with confidence about when you will recoup that investment.
How do you write a business cash flow statement?
A business cash flow statement will naturally be more complex for a larger company with many different revenue streams and outgoings, but its structure is generally quite similar.
You will typically set out your reporting periods across the top of the statement – including a starting position, and broken down into individual periods, usually of one calendar month or even of weeks if you want a more detailed idea of your cash flow.
Moving down the rows, you then set out your various sources of money coming into the company, from sales and receivables to loans and external investments, usually followed by a row totalling all of these sources of income for the period.
Below this is your section of outgoings, such as payables, loans and interest, and any other purchase costs, again with a sum total for the section.
Finally you calculate your cash flow – the difference between your total inflow and your cash out – and how much money is left in your business moving into the next period.
These bottom line figures are the most crucial, as they show you if your overall balance is heading in the right direction, but the itemised lines are important too as they allow you to identify where you have too much money going out, or where you could have more coming in.


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Patricia Patkau shares design direction in Patkau Architects with her partner John Patkau. She has a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and is currently a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Since its founding, Patkau Architects has received numerous national and international design awards for a wide variety of building types, including ten Governor General's Medals, four Progressive Architecture Awards, twelve Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence, and an RAIC Innovation in Architecture Award of Excellence.
The firm has also won a number of national and international design competitions for: a major addition and renovation to the Central Winnipeg Public Library, the Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Facility for the University of Texas, Houston, College Housing for the University of Pennsylvania, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario and the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, a new central library for the province of Québec. The work of Patkau Architects has been published and exhibited widely. Over 200 articles in books and professional journals and three books dedicated exclusively to the firm's work have been published. The work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including 20 solo exhibitions, in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 1996, Patkau Architects was selected to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale.
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Q: Correction of the recorded data in the CSV file after aggregation To aggregate the data, I use the code:
import pandas
df = pandas.read_csv("./input_file.csv", delimiter=";", low_memory=False)
df.head()
count_severity = df.groupby("B")["A"].unique()
has_multiple_elements = count_severity.apply(lambda x: len(x)>1)
result = count_severity[has_multiple_elements]
result.to_csv("./output_file.csv", sep=";", line_terminator=None)

In the output file I get the data in the following form:

Could you tell me please, how can square brackets [] (highlighted in red) and quotation marks "" (highlighted in red) be removed, and spaces (highlighted in yellow) replaced, for example, with a comma? I assume that the quotes appear as a result of the line break \n, i.e. in the second line between the digits 14 and 25 is \n. I tried using the parameter line_terminator=None but he did not come to success.

A: If you can use another format except csv, as lists are containers, pickle would be convenient in this case:
result.to_pickle("./output_file.csv")
df2 = pd.read_pickle("./output_file.csv")

A: So far, nothing comes to mind, except for this solution:
output_file = open("./output_file.csv", "r")
output_file = ''.join([i for i in output_file]).replace("[]", "")
output_file_new = open("./output_file_new.csv", "w")
output_file_new.writelines(output_file)
output_file_new.close()

Well, so a few replaces ...
I am waiting for the evaluation of experts on this solution, please give your comment. Thanks


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	public static URL getURL(String dir)
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		URL result = ResourceLocator.class.getClassLoader().getResource(dir);
		if (null == result)
		{
			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
					"dir is illegal or file not exists");
		}

		return result;
	}
}

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John R. Bannon, 74, died on Thursday, March 14, 2019 after suffering a long illness, in the comfort of his home surrounded by his family.
Born in Pennsylvania, John grew up in Newark and eventually settled to South Plainfield in 1974. John supervised EFCO for 35 years.
John enjoyed spending time at home and family gatherings. He also enjoyed bowling, playing cards, hunting and fishing and playing softball and was involved with the Blessed Sacrament Drum and Bugle Corp.
Predeceased by three sisters; Barbara, Karen and Beverly, John is survived by his wife, Mary Carole Bannon; son, Shawn and his wife Vanessa of Leonardo; daughter, Tara Doyle and her husband Jason of Cranford; sister, Lynne Bannon of Cream Ridge; brother, Kevin Bannon of Brick and his three grandchildren, Sophia, Cora and Declan.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 beginning at 4pm in the McCriskin – Gustafson Home For Funerals 2425 Plainfield Ave. South Plainfield, NJ 07080 with funeral services to follow beginning at 7:30pm.


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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe
The Cold War and Decolonization,1960–1984
African Studies Series
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Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa
"We Don't Give a Damn about Rhodesia"
Negotiating Independence
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Gukurahundi and Zimbabwe's Place in the 1980s Cold War
9 - Gukurahundi and Zimbabwe's Place in the 1980s Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2021
Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia
Kent State University, Ohio
This final chapter covers the events of 1983's Gukurahundi operation, where Mugabe and his ruling party decided to launch the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade against dissidents in Matabeleland North and South provinces and the Midlands province. Reports of their activities started to be known by the British military and then Anglo-American diplomats by mid-February. The reception of reports, particularly of large numbers of civilian deaths by the Fifth Brigade, is discussed in terms of Anglo-American diplomats. Different diplomatic responses between the Americans and the British to the Gukurahundi are examined, although both agreed to avoid making an international issue out of the reports of large numbers of civilian deaths in a concerted effort. Diplomatic debates over how much Prime Minister Mugabe was responsible are also discussed, as is Mugabe's attempts to rationalize his use of the Fifth Brigade against civilians. The final discussion revolves around the use of "tribalism" or ethnic conflict by Anglo-American diplomats to help justify their lack of protest to civilian killings by a government that was also receiving development aid funding and military training and aid during this period.
GukurahundiJoshua NkomoRobert MugabeCranley OnslowChester CrockerRobert KeeleyRobin ByattMartin EwansEdward LanphertribalismFifth Brigade
, pp. 266 - 314
Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia, Kent State University, Ohio
Book: Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe
Online publication: 14 September 2021


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Serbia against Hungarian government's anti-refugee wall
Posted on June 19, 2015 by petrel41
Europe Or Die (Full Documentary)
Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers.
VICE News presents Europe or Die, a new four-part series that documents the efforts of those risking their lives to reach Europe, and the forces tasked to keep them out.
Episode 1 – Storming Spain's Razor-Wire Fence: VICE News correspondent Milène Larsson travels to the border between Morocco and Spain, where West Africans in their thousands storm the razor-wire-clad fences. Many are beaten back by border police or illegally returned.
Episode 2 – Death Boats to Greece: VICE News correspondent Milène Larsson travels to the border between Greece and Turkey, where Syrian and Afghan refugees are paying large sums of money to take "death boats" to Greece, and visits the border between Greece and Turkey to find out what happens to the many migrants who perish while attempting to cross Greece's dangerous Evros river.
Episode 3 – Trapped In Bulgaria: VICE News correspondent Milène Larsson visits Bulgaria to see Europe's newest border fence and speaks to Syrians who, because of the EU's Dublin Regulation, are trapped in one of Europe's poorest countries.
Episode 4 – Italy's Mediterranean Mass Grave: VICE News correspondent Milène Larsson arrives in Italy as the only extensive search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean is replaced with a border surveillance mission, effectively leaving thousands of desperate migrants adrift in the sea.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Serbia's Vucic hits out at Hungarian migrant fence
SERBIAN President Aleksandar Vucic said he was "shocked and surprised" yesterday by Hungary's plan to build a border fence against immigrants.
"Walls and fences" were not the solution, Mr Vucic said, to the crisis that has seen tens of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa cross the western Balkans, trying to reach the European Union as they flee wars and poverty in their home countries.
"We don't know what this is all about," Mr Vukic said. "We are not guilty and all of a sudden a wall is to be built."
He added: "We don't want to live in an Auschwitz."
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto claimed on Wednesday that the 13-foot-high fence along the 109-mile southern border with Serbia would not contravene any of Hungary's international legal obligations.
But the European Union said it did not promote the use of fences and encouraged its member states to use alternative measures.
"We have only recently taken down walls in Europe. We should not be putting them up," said EU spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud.
Ms Bertaud is right in this. However, she (or her predecessors in the European Union bureaucracy) should say that as well to the right wing government in Spain, with their razor wire fences wounding immigrants trying to climb them. And this should have been said to the previous government in Greece with their anti-refugee wall along the Turkish border too.
Hungary's right-wing government has been on an anti-immigrant campaign, claiming that Muslims threaten Europe's Christians.
Human rights abuses are the key driving factor behind migrant crisis in the Mediterranean: Human Rights Watch: here.
How wars in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe have created an unprecedented refugee crisis: here.
EU lawmakers demand rights monitoring for Hungary
Hungary closes border with Serbia and starts building fence to bar migrants
Günter Grass, German Nobel prize-winning author, dies
Mass protests on Thursday in Italy, Greece, Cyprus at the offices of the European Union
EU 'shirks responsibility' with new migrant plans
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Go Public is showcasing health and wellness during the month of October. Our public schools have a key role in helping to create healthier, happier students and employees. From community gardens to technology - school wellness incorporates learning, engagement, and life-long habits.
Harlandale ISD On September 27th, children, families, teachers and administrators celebrated the grand opening of a new learning garden at Collier Elementary. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in San Antonio provided an engaging and fun curriculum. The garden is an incredible opportunity for students to enjoy an immersive, science-driven, classroom experience.
Promoting health and activity, students will learn how to grow and harvest their own vegetables, make better food choices and prepare nutritious recipes they can share with their families.
Riding a bicycle is one of those great joys of living life. It gives a child the feeling of some level of independence and mobility and at the same time provides a great source of healthy exercise and exploration. Campuses this time of year are hosting their own bike rodeos and the kids are having a blast riding.
The community comes together to create excitement for beginner riders who are developing safe riding skills. Getting students out of the classroom and using a hands-on activity promotes a deeper understanding of what it takes to successfully ride a bike.
The big JISD District Rodeo is coming up in October at Rutledge Stadium and it's always amazing to see the skills these kids have learned. Take a look at these campus events and see how they roll!
SAISD The San Antonio Spurs Hype Squad took over P.E. at Cameron Elementary. The Hype Squad members led students in a spirited sweat session with a Zumba warm-up, a hype chant, a dance contest, a t-shirt toss and more.
Northside ISD (2) It's another Farm Fresh Friday in our elementary cafeterias! Child Nutrition staff at Brauchle and May elementary schools are ready to introduce students to broccoli! .
Meanwhile at O'Connor High School, the annual Ag in Action program was an adventure in learning. Approximately 1,400 4th graders visited O'Connor to learn about agriculture through presentations by 300 O'Connor students. They'll hear presentations on nutrition, soil, horticulture, ag mechanics and get up close with sheep, goats, poultry, swine, and steer.


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How to Watch Fantasy Island
Published 2023-01-23 By Heather C. Jackson
Episode 5 of season 2 of Fantasy Island, titled "The Urn", airs Monday, February 6 at 8:00 PM eastern time on FOX. Fantasy Island is a fantasy drama in which the mysterious Elena Roarke (Roselyn Sánchez) welcomes guests to the island to have fantasies come true–and leave more enlightened than they expected. Read on for more about how to watch the show.
When Does Fantasy Island Air: Fantasy Island airs on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
TV Network: Fantasy Island airs on Fox.
Best Way to Stream Live: Fantasy Island can be watched with Hulu + Live TV (Sign Up) or YouTube TV (Free Trial).
Fantasy Island On-Demand: You can watch Fantasy Island on the Hulu Streaming Library (Free Trial), available 1 day after the live broadcast
Watching Fantasy Island without Cable
Watch Fantasy Island on Hulu
Watch Fantasy Island on YouTube TV
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Watch Fantasy Island on DIRECTV STREAM
Suppose you don't have cable TV or can't watch Fox using a TV antenna. Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV offer local Fox stations in nearly all U.S. markets. In addition, they both offer a free trial so that you can watch the holiday episode of Fantasy Island for free. All the ways you can stream Fantasy Island are listed below. All free trials auto-renew when they expire, but you will not be billed if you cancel before the trial ends.
Hulu Live TV offers live Fox in nearly all US markets along with cable TV and broadcast networks. Therefore, you can watch Fantasy Island every week as it airs on Fox. To see if live Fox is available in your area, you can use this tool: Hulu Live TV Channels by Zip code.
Hulu + Live TV is supported on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, iOS, Android, and more. You can read more about Hulu in our review of Hulu. There isn't a month-to-month contract, so you can sign up to test the service without fear of a long-term commitment. You can sign up for Hulu Live TV using this link: Sign up for a free trial to Hulu + Live TV.
If you don't mind waiting a day, Hulu's streaming library makes new episodes of Fantasy Island available to stream 1-day after they air on Fox. Considering a subscription to Hulu's streaming library starts at just $7.99 per month, you can save considerable money if you don't mind waiting a day. Hulu's streaming library also offers a 30-day free trial.
YouTube TV is another great option for watching Fantasy Island. YouTube TV offers live Fox with its streaming service in nearly ALL markets in the US.
YouTube TV supports Android, iOS, Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, and more. The YouTube TV app has also returned to Roku devices after settling a dispute between the two companies. Be sure to check out our review of YouTube TV for more information. Also, you can sign up for their free trial.
How Much: $64.99 per month.
FuboTV offers Fox in numerous US cities allowing you to watch Fantasy Island when it airs. You can check out a free trial to FuboTV here. In addition, Fubo TV supports the following streaming devices:
Apple TV (4th Generation only)
Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
For more information on FuboTV features, please see our Fubo TV review.
How Much: FuboTV costs $64.99 per month.
DIRECTV STREAM offers live Fox streaming in many markets, allowing you to stream Fantasy Island. Through its "Entertainment" package for $69.99 a month, Fox is available along with a ton of cable TV and other broadcast networks. In addition, they offer a free trial to allow you to make sure Fox is provided in your area.
DIRECTV STREAM is supported on Windows and Mac PCs and laptops, Android and iOS devices, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Nexus player, Xbox One, 4th Generation Apple TV, Chromecast, and more. For more information, check out our review of DIRECTV STREAM NOW.
How Much: $69.99 per month through its "Entertainment" package.


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To help celebrate being named among Los Angeles Magazine's "Favorite Things" for it's annual "Best Of" issue we attended their party at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica. Congratulations to all the other entrepreneur ial companies also named.
A KODAK Moment on "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien"
For anyone questioning the power of the KODAK brand, watch this Conan O'Brien video [about 12 minutes in] and the Kodak plug on "The Tonight Show." In a humorous sketch parodying product placements in TV shows. In the clip, O'Brien is shown demonstrating and endorsing the Kodak M380 digital camera, all the while denying -- with tongue firmly in cheek -- that this was a paid announcement.
The sketch concludes with a voice over from the "NBC legal department" explaining the product placement deal.And now for a ScanMyPhotos.com connection. We were there. Thanks to Jeff Hayzlett and the KODAK family, Carl and I join in the fun and attended the NBC show at Universal Studios and the after party. We cheered from our seats watching it live. Afterwards, the fun continued as we all read the Tweets throughout the evening and at dinner, following Jeff and @JeffreyHayzlett from those fans raving about the segment.
[Photo: Host and amazingly nice guy, Conan O'Brien with Jeff Hayzlett ("the modern day George Eastman" KODAK's Chief Marketing Officer afterwards on the roof for the KODAK party].
For anyone questioning the power of the KODAK brand, watch this Conan O'Brien video [about 12 minutes in] and the Kodak plug on "The Tonight Show." In a humorous sketch parodying product placements in TV shows. In the clip, O'Brien is shown demonstrating and endorsing the Kodak M380 digital camera, all the while denying -- with tongue firmly in cheek -- that this was a paid announcement. The sketch concludes with a voice over from the "NBC legal department" explaining the product placement deal.
And now for a ScanMyPhotos.com connection. We were there. Thanks to Jeff Hayzlett and the KODAK family, Carl and I join in the fun and attended the show and after party. We were cheering from our seats watching it live and then reading all the Tweets throughout the evening and at dinner afterwards to @JeffreyHayzlett raving about the segment.
Twitter is transformative. As digital was to film, Twitter is to traditional yellow page display phone books. It is revolutionary, free, and the preferred new instrument for listening to and engaging your prospective customers with helpful and authentic dialogue.
As a powerful social communications application, Twitter is what users make of it. Think of it as attending a local chamber of commerce business mixer or a speed-dating encounter, but faster. You have only 140 characters to make a point and grab attention, so don't waste it describing what you are eating or watching on television, and don't write about your business – nobody cares.
We have two primary accounts to personalize, without broadcasting, our messages; a technique we found is the prudent way to delicately grow interest in our Twitter postings.
Begin by searching themes, locations and topics of interest to your very local community. Rather than search for U.S. Chamber of Commerce followers, think locally – and discover regional organizations and local folks to follow.
To enhance your local retail photo center, reach out to the community and exchange a dialogue about what is important to them. Identify other people who have similar interests and who are looking to find a photo lab to print their pictures, take portraits, or restore faded photo memories.
Use Twitter to microblog – sending brief email-like "post-it" notes to everyone following you and those searching for keywords associated with you; i.e. "Irvine Photo Lab." Involve each follower by regularly asking them questions and forwarding their pertinent messages to others. Share links and recipes of ideas, absent any off-color jokes, political or social commentary, and religion, unless you personally know the recipient. Provide answers with links you shorten to fit, using http://TinyURL.com to support your replies. Get personal. Know your audience and everyone following you – everyone.
Navigate away from following celebrities and others who you do not directly know, or want to know. It is about quality, not quantity, of followers that will drive new business to your company.
We use this new marketing platform to filter our messages into brief updates, rather than just plugging ScanMyPhotos.com. We share advice on how to take photos, what camera settings are best, and how to make Kodak Picture Movie DVDs with our store kiosk and link to our YouTube-hosted "how to" presentations.
Be educational, rather than promotional; and you will grow a healthy list of followers, which leads to customers.
Think of Twitter as a modern-day electronic highlighter, where you accentuate up to 140 characters.
Here is our recipe for how Twitter can enhance and add more than opaque value to your photo business. Promote virtual swag. Ask followers to forward your offer for free stuff to those following them. What free services and products (giant photo collages, photo albums, etc.) can your company randomly raffle off to recent followers of your site?
Connect with your neighbors by using Twellow.com, TwitProfiles.com, TwitR.com, and LocalTweeps.com. Perform a Google search for other helpful Twitter applications, and make sure to share the gems you find with others. This is like a giant pyramid scheme; but because it is the internet, the limit is immeasurable.
Bley and Kodak CMO Jeffrey Hayzlett get the VIP treatment behind the scenes at The Kodak Theater...And end up making Oscar history! Click to watch.
Back in April, 2002, Carl and I purchased one of those American Express Platinum Card "By Invitation Only" dinner events. We flew to New York City to spend the evening with Walter Cronkite.
Afterwards, I wrote some notes (below) as a memory from the very intimate dinner gathering.
As the entire world mourns the loss of this television pioneer, called "The Most Trusted Man in America," that evening will always be an endearing memory.
Notes from NYC dinner with Betsy and Walter Cronkite (WC) on April 9, 2002 with Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman.
In preparing for our evening with the Cronkite's, we had carefully prepared not to say it. We both practiced and practiced, then when the time came, we both did it anyway; our first words to him were ... "we watched you on TV as a little kids." Oops.
We began by first greeting Betsy Cronkite who was most approachable; she mentioned that everyone always first greets and treasures the company of her famous, former CBS News anchor, husband and forgets about her. WC noticed our attention towards her, smiled and we won him over.
Great conversation. We even turned it into a sales pitch. He explained that had a digital camera, enjoyed uploading his images to his personal computer, but made prints at home with his home color printer. Imagine "Uncle Walter" making his own prints?
We informed him that by uploading his images directly to our company, he could receive Kodak-quality photographic prints and returned the next day via FedEx. [Always the entrepreneur pitching, today our business is has metamorphosed into a much larger company].
He loved President Reagan. In the early 1980s, President Reagan was addressing a gathering of teachers. He said that the first civilian to travel aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle will be... a teacher. He had mistakenly remarked that NASA was planning to invite a teacher rather than a journalist to travel into Space. Rather than clarifying the message, NASA politely went with the President's comments and the rest was history. WC was to have been selected to be aboard that fateful journey.
WC said the Middle East was reaching a situation as dangerous as was WWII and opined that we are a few feet from a new world war. Left to Israel and the Palestinians, there would be no effective solution. He said that the Palestinians and Israelis will not yield. There is an arrogance to the U.S. mandate on what should be done. Rather, the U.S. should send troops to sanitize and patrol the borders, with the UN troops involvement. The UN was founded to create stability and world peace. We should put our faith in the UN. The UN should enter the conflict with an international peace-keeping force, with troops from all regions, specifically Arab nations. We're all in this together and the U.S. should have political courage.
After a lengthy discussion on the Middle East, he turned to our waiter and said: "that has taken so much out of me, I'll have a double."
The future will bring populations to distant planets and one day we will have space cities on the Moon. Five hundred years from now, the most important date will be Americans' landing on the moon; much like how today we celebrate the discovery of America. WC said that future civilizations will laugh as they explain that in our day it took four days and a flimsy old rocket ship to bring us to the Moon. WC thinks of himself as the world's greatest time traveler.
I asked what person he would have most liked to have interviewed. WC: Adolph Hitler.
Although he was hard-of-hearing, he was remarkably friendly and full of humor and stories. When we shared with him from where we reside, he remembered Irvine, Calif. from a profile he did over 30 years-ago when the Boy Scouts of America held a national Jamboree in Irvine and the only thing around, he recollected, were rattle snakes. Irvine today is a modern high-tech residential and business metropolis. [ScanMyPhotos.com is located on Jamboree Parkway, named after that scouting event].
Much obliged for your service - the first box of scanned pictures are now playing as a computer screen saver and neither my wife nor I can leave the room anymore.
Thanks to Dave for this blog posting.
Yesterday we got our pictures back from scanmyphotos.com and I have to say: I'm beyond satisfied with the results.
I ordered the "fill it up" box for around $120 (searched around on Google and found some coupons too so maybe it was a little cheaper than their list price) and Sharaun and I jammed that thing with pictures. And, even with all the prints we had from her collection and my raid on the folks' old albums – we were still shy of really topping off the box. I shipped the thing the Thursday before the Independence Day holiday and I'm almost certain that, were it not for that three-day weekend, these guys would've had the prints scanned and back to us in a couple days (they are just south of us, after all).
Getting the photos back, we learned that they scanned 1,525 images for us. Amazingly, out of all the images we sent, only ten were not scanned – and this was because there was a little too much residual stickiness on the backs of them from years stuck in those old albums at my parents' place.
However, when you consider that 10/1,535 is something like 0.06%, that's a really amazing working percentage. Honestly, I can scan those ten loose images myself and everything will be fine. They were also able to scan all the odd-sized images Sharaun took with that stupid stupid fake "panorama" style film that was popular back in the 90s. You know, the ones that make prints that are like 13″ long and stupid? Yeah those.
The images themselves are scanned at 300DPI. I'm happy with this resolution, and having tried to scan some images myself in the past (although by no means being an expert) at higher resolutions, I know there was (at least in my experience) limited gains by scanning a printed image at 600DPI or higher. Anyway, the 300DPI scans from them look great as far as I'm concerned, allowing for the understanding that you're only gonna get so much from the print anyway. You can pay extra for color-correction, having the images rotated to the correct orientation, or having them scanned in named groupings. However, since I'm cheap and I want to flip through them one-by-one anyhow, I'm just doing any touch-ups as I go for free.
Anyway, for my money, you can't beat this service: it's super fast, the prints look great, it's cheap, and you don't have to do it yourself. And, I mean… seriously… how else are you going to get pictures like this WTF gem into your digital collection?
Click here to view images and Dave's "Sounds Familiar" blog.


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Europe|Election Bill Erodes Decorum in House of Lords
Europe | London Journal
Election Bill Erodes Decorum in House of Lords
By SARAH LYALL JAN. 25, 2011
LONDON — It was nearly midnight on Day 12 of the most grueling debate in recent House of Lords memory, and not all the Lords present were, strictly speaking, awake. But the Right Honorable Lord Davies of Oldham was warming to the question of the hour: a proposal to change "may" to "should" on Page 10, Line 7, of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
"If you have a criterion that says that you 'may' do something, that is not a positive criterion," observed Lord Davies, a Labour peer who once worked as a schoolteacher. "It is the absence of a negative criterion. The phrase 'may take into account' means that, if you are minded to do so, if you really want to do so, we do not prevent you from doing so. We do not deny you the opportunity of doing so. However, there is no positive suggestion."
Give him points for enthusiasm, at least. With the coalition government and the Labour opposition both refusing to compromise on a measure that has severely divided them, the debate had already ground on for 98 hours across several weeks. The peers are not the youngest group of people ever to populate a legislature, and on Monday, after several all-nighters, some Lords were reaching the outer limits of coherence, patience and stamina.
"These are old men and women who are pretty irritated at being here when normally they'd be tucked up in bed," said a Labour peer, Baron Hart of Chilton.
Fury is more like it; Lordly decorum has all but flown out of the chamber's Pugin-designed stained glass windows. Things are so bad that when the government tried to buoy its members one night by offering a program of midnight entertainment that included talks by the "Gosford Park" writer Julian Fellowes and the former Olympian Sebastian Coe, members of the Labour Party were strictly uninvited.
"It's never been like this before, with such a palpable sense of anger," said Baroness d'Souza, convener of the cross-bench peers, who have no party affiliation. "I believe that if this isn't resolved quickly, what we're seeing is the beginning of the unraveling of the House of Lords."
The bill would trigger a referendum May 5 on whether to change the way election votes are calculated, and it would redraw Britain's parliamentary boundaries, reducing the number of seats in the House of Commons to 600, from 650. The coalition government wants it, because it would fulfill the Liberal Democrats' pledge to enact voting reform, and because the Conservatives would benefit from the boundary changes.
Labour is resisting because, while it supports voting reform, it vehemently opposes the redistricting proposal. The measure must become law by Feb. 16 in order for the May 5 referendum to proceed, and Labour is determined to delay the bill so that it misses the deadline.
Normally, opposition parties adopt a spirit of compromise and bonhomie in the House of Lords. Not this time. The government seems unwilling to budge, and Labour has resorted to virtually unprecedented delaying tactics.
A grueling series of partisan debates in London in the House of Lords over a vote-counting and redistricting bill has found some legislators reaching the limits of their stamina and patience. Credit BBC Parliament
These include proposing picayune amendments — more than 270 so far — discussing them for hours, and then, because they have no chance of passage, withdrawing them. While the Lords may not filibuster in the grand tradition of the United States Senate, they can debate until the cows come home, as long as the topic is relatively germane to the bill.
With each amendment, multiple Labour Lords rise to add their remarks to those of their companions. They reminisce about their experiences as young members of the House of Commons, discuss the rivers of Scotland, expound on how hard it is to drive around Wales when there is no cellphone coverage, talk about the demographic diversity of London and lament the communication problems faced by impoverished constituents without cars or computers who want to contact their legislators.
The government says that Labour is upending centuries of convention, but Labour says it has no choice.
"If you try to enact a constitutional change in this ramshackle way, without experts, without scrutiny, without study, then this is what you get," Lord Hart said.
The debates have been marked by breathtaking insults and accusations on both sides, with much debate focusing on the issue of whether or not the Labour members are in fact conducting a filibuster or merely robustly scrutinizing the bill.
"He must think that we are a bunch of idiots if he thinks that those of us who have been watching what has been happening are not aware that there has been a filibuster," said Lord Lester of Herne Hill, a Liberal Democrat, speaking of Lord Falconer, a Labour peer. "In the 16 years that I have been here, I have never seen conduct like this."
On Monday night, the deputy leader of the house, Lord McNally, a Liberal Democrat, grew so annoyed by repeated niggling questions from Labour that he began ostentatiously ripping up what looked to be the evening's order paper. Soon afterward, he fell ill and left the chamber.
At one point during last Monday's all-night session, Baron Trefgarne, a Conservative, drew gasps from other Lords when, saying he was fed up with the "abuse of the procedures of this house," set in motion a procedural tool to bring an end to debate on the amendment in question — the first time such a tool has been used in 40 years, and only the sixth or seventh time since 1900.
At one point there was a long discussion about how the government had chosen 600 as the proposed new number of parliamentary seats, with Labour peers accusing the government of plucking the figure from nowhere. Some peers suggested other, random numbers, and one mathematically inclined Labour member mused on how the various figures could be expressed in terms of prime numbers.
"Perhaps I could postulate another figure, given the nature of the debate," said Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke. "Could we maybe go for 666?"
She also said, speaking of the written transcript of parliamentary proceedings: "I will have to show my husband Hansard tomorrow to prove that at 2 o'clock in the morning I was listening to a debate about prime numbers, because he will not believe me. He will be sending for the men in white coats to cart me away."
A version of this article appears in print on January 26, 2011, on Page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: All-Night Debates Leave a House Divided. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


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