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"Today, March 17, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will resume adjudications of H-2B petitions, but will continue to suspend premium processing until further notice. Monday, March 16, 2015 the Department of Labor (DOL) filed an...
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Puerto Rican Justice Department Faces U.S. Lawsuit
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In North Colombia, Adventist University provides Venezuela migrant families with business opportunities
Aug 15, 2019 | Medellin, Colombia | Daniela Arrieta/IAD News Staff
A beneficiary family joins in prayer during the special Sabbath program. [Photo: North Colombia Union]
Jhonny Alberto Peña clearly remembers March 22. It was the day he left his native Venezuela for the city of Medellin in neighboring Colombia.
"It was hard when I left, to leave my family, my small babies, my wife, in search of a better future for them," said Peña.
Peña now lives in Medellin, together with his family who joined him three months ago. His family, like many migrant Venezuelan families, fled the political and economic turmoil in Venezuela in search of a better life.
Peña's family is among the 20 families benefitting from a special project led by leaders and staff of the Colombia Adventist University in Medellin. The special initiative assists low-income families by providing them with the tools to start their own small business, said Zulay Herrera, director of the initiative.
"This time we had the opportunity to help 15 Venezuelan migrant families and five local families in Medellin, with the tools and training to start their own business," said Herrera. Among the equipment given to the families included ovens, industrial food machines, sewing machines, mobile food carts, printers, and more.
Peña and the rest of the families were treated to an afternoon of praise and testimonies on July 27, during a special ceremony. Previous to that they received 11 hours of training from university teachers on the use of the equipment, how to sell products and how to manage their small business.
"I learned about persons from the Adventist Church who told us about the project and thanks to God, we were given a fast food cart with which we have been able to supply our needs," said Peña.
In addition, families received raw materials to start their businesses, games for the children, a food basket from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia, the church's special book of the year "Hope for Today's Families," by Willie and Elaine Oliver, Bibles, bible study lessons, and more.
The project will continue with more orientations by Adventist university leaders who will meet with the small business owners to assist in the process. "The idea is to meet once a month during the next four months so that we can see how they develop, how they are executing their project and guide them according to their weaknesses or shortcomings," explained Herrera.
Many beneficiaries like Peña have begun helping others in need.
The project has been possible thanks to many Adventist and non-Adventist families who have contributed funds, food and raw materials for the project and have provided transportation to deliver the goods to the homes of the beneficiaries.
University leaders will continue to follow-up on the families through its Servant Ministries, an initiative that began eight years ago for the surrounding community, and plan to reach out and benefit 20 more families in November.
To learn more about Colombia Adventist University's Servant Ministries project, visit unioncolombiana.org.co
This article was originally published on the Inter-America Division's website

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I am not sure exactly what is going on, but these reports do seem credible. If you want, post examples for JohnMu of Google to review at the Google Webmaster Help thread.
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Nearly one-fifth of children in Karamoja believe that migrating is the only way to make enough money to survive.
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When Risks are High but Need is Great: Migration and Child Trafficking in Karamoja, Uganda
The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery is currently funding the Community Action to End Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation project to improve prevention and response to child sex trafficking in Karamoja, Uganda. As part of this project, ICF and the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University recently conducted a household survey to measure knowledge, attitudes, and practices around child sex trafficking in the region and to estimate the prevalence of children at risk of and engaged in sex trafficking. The final sample included 986 households (adults) and 830 children aged 12 to 17. For more on research methodology, see our previous post.
**The audio included in this post is a composite narrative; it is based on research findings and does not depict any individual story. It incorporates feedback from the Global Fund's local partners, Terre des Hommes Netherlands and Dwelling Places, and their project participants.
Napak District in Karamoja region. Image: "Household Study of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Napak District of Karamoja," prepared by ICF Macro, Inc.
Karamoja in northeast Uganda is classified as one of the world's poorest areas. Over sixty percent of its 1.2 million people live in poverty, making Karamoja the least socially and economically developed region in Uganda. In a recent household survey in Napak district, Karamoja, nearly two-thirds of children reported they went to sleep hungry one, two, or three nights in the last week. Indeed, food insecurity remains one of the region's greatest challenges- one that is intensifying with shifting climate conditions. A study examining changes in the region from 1981 to 2015 found rising temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall, a trend likely to impose dire consequences in a region where livelihoods –cattle-raising and agriculture- are tied directly to the land.
These same livelihood-sustaining activities have influenced a culture of migration in the region. Groups have long migrated with their livestock to mobile cattle camps, referred to locally as kraals, during the dry season. However, in more recent years, there has been a change in migration patterns. Increasingly, it is children who are leaving Karamoja. Faced with chronic poverty and few options, Karamoja's youth are leaving to find better opportunities for themselves and their families in Uganda's urban centers. Indeed, nearly one-fifth of children recently surveyed in Karamoja believe that migrating is the only way to make enough money to survive.
Though many young people consider migration their best or only option, migration presents its own risks. Arriving in cities with no money and no family, migrant children are preyed upon by traffickers eager to exploit this vulnerability. An estimated 90% of children living on the streets or in other vulnerable conditions in Kampala are from Karamoja. Children are exploited in forced begging, domestic work, and commercial sex brothels. Recently, there have been reports of children from Karamoja being sold at markets for 20,000-50,000 UGX ($5.48- $13.70). Among children surveyed in Karamoja, the majority expressed an understanding of the risks associated with migration- many worried they would not make any money, nor have enough food to eat. Others feared they might contract a disease, be beaten, or trafficked for sex. Many children reported that migration brought the risk of being separated from friends and family forever. Yet, despite an awareness of these risks, children from Karamoja continue to migrate.
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Adults and children participating in the survey nearly universally agreed in the importance of education, but most children in Karamoja do not regularly attend school. Almost 60% of the children surveyed had not completed primary school while a further 38% of child respondents had no formal schooling at all. The overall literacy rate for the region stands at just 25% (compared to a national average of 68%.)
Evidence shows that girls kept out of school are more likely to bear children at an early age, an outcome with tremendous and long-lasting educational, social, and economic impact. Surveyed boys and girls who reported they had never attended school were significantly more likely to agree that migration is the only way to make enough money to survive. For these children, migration is their only option, no matter the risk.
School is not a priority for many families in the region whose livelihoods are tied to livestock and agriculture. Even as nearly all parents agreed that attending school would enable their children to make more money in the future, parents expect their children will graze cattle and engage in other household-sustaining activities. Almost half of parents surveyed believe that children should begin participating in elejileij or income-generating activities between the ages of 12 and 15. More than 40% of adults believe that it is good for a child under age 18 to migrate in pursuit of food and money.
While expecting their children to earn for the household, parents also expressed an understanding of the risks that migration carries, including children not making any money, not having enough food to eat, contracting a disease, or being beaten. More than half of adults believe that children who leave home often end up being sexually exploited for commercial gain. Although many adults expect children to generate income, either locally or in another town, those surveyed nearly universally agreed that parents must protect their children from people taking advantage of and hurting them. Given that many parents recognize the risks of migration but still think it is good for children to migrate, it may be that they believe that earning experience is key to their long-term ability to avoid harm. Or it may be that, for many, there seems little alternative. The risk of remaining at home is as great as leaving. In other words, people living in extreme deprivation may look for hope elsewhere even when they are aware of risks.
A child's risk of exploitation is influenced by other factors. In Karamoja, research shows that the relationship between child and caregiver is significant. Children that are ridiculed by caregivers are far more likely to be involved in child sex trafficking that those who are not. More than one third of the children surveyed in Karamoja reported being ridiculed or put down by their caregivers. Having a close friend exploited in sex trafficking also indicates a high level of vulnerability- nearly one-fifth of children surveyed in Karamoja have at least one friend who has been exploited in child sex trafficking. Researchers found that keeping secrets from a caregiver is another significant predictor that a child might be involved in sex trafficking. Significantly, responses showed that caregivers underestimate how often their children keep secrets from them.
Drawing on results of the household survey and children's and parents' responses, researchers estimate that one out of every five children in Napak are at high risk of sex trafficking.
The research conducted in Napak district produced alarming results. But it also produced evidence to help us build more targeted interventions. Read more about our programming to combat child sex trafficking in Napak district here.
Research and programs referenced in this article are funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the author[s] and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.
Protecting Uganda's children, now and in the future, requires participation and support of the entire community.
"It Takes a Village": Engaging the Community to End Child Trafficking
In September 2021, our partners in Uganda, Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL) and Dwelling Places, hosted the first-ever National Dialogue on Child Trafficking. While diplomats, Government leaders, media representatives, and civil society organizations (CSOs) gathered to take stock of Uganda's collective response to child trafficking, three young girls from Napak District in northeast Uganda joined to raise their voices.
One of these girls, joining virtually and speaking off camera, described the circumstances that led her to leave Karamoja. She had gone to Nairobi to escape hunger at home and earn enough money to pursue the education her parents could not afford. She was also fleeing an impending marriage, forced to enter a union to which she objected. Demonstrating that they were indeed more than their stories of exploitation and survival, these three young girls took the opportunity to press for action.
Terre des Hommes Netherlands with Dwelling Places hosted the first ever National Dialogue on Child Trafficking in Uganda in September 2021. Photo courtesy of Terre des Hommes Netherlands.
The girls asked the leaders in attendance to bring their friends- children still being exploited in Nairobi- back home to Uganda. They then requested steps be taken to support children from Karamoja, Napak District to access education. Many children dropped out of school because their parents could not afford the fees. The girls pondered why Karamoja saw so many of its children trafficked and why so many migrated from the region only to end up in child labor, begging, or sexual exploitation.
The State Minister for Disaster Preparedness, the Guest of Honor, offered a response to the girls. She called on the private sector to do its part to end child trafficking and advised civil society organizations to harmonize and coordinate services to ensure all survivors receive the same standard of care and protection. She committed her Ministry to provide food relief for survivors at the Koblin rehabilitation centre in Napak District; and she pledged her advocacy on behalf of education for children in Karamoja. Addressing the girls, she promised the government would do more to end child trafficking.
The following week, in Karamoja, TdH NL facilitated the participation of eight children in the first Annual Stakeholders' feedback meeting, an opportunity to give feedback on the GFEMS-funded TdH NL project and share their opinions and recommendations. To the Resident District Commissioner, the District Chairperson, the District Education Officer, and other local Government leaders, to the child protection champions, teachers and administrators, and religious and cultural leaders in attendance, the children made several requests. They asked for the continuation of trainings and dialogues on positive parenting to sensitize parents and caregivers on risks of child trafficking. They also requested stricter enforcement of laws against child trafficking, and asked for support and advocacy to change harmful cultural practices and social norms. In addition, they requested more opportunities for their voices to be heard in discussions on how to protect children.
A young girl presents children's asks to project stakeholders. TdH NL facilitated the participation of eight children in the first Annual Stakeholders' feedback meeting in September 2021.
But the children were not done. In one last urgent appeal, they requested that the Government reopen schools immediately. For children in the region, these young advocates explained, schools play a critical role in preventing child trafficking and sexual exploitation. Recognizing the significance of schools in protecting children, the District Education Officer committed to working with local groups to provide access to education until the nation's schools re-open. Amongst an audience of local officials and decision-makers, these children made their voices heard.
TdH NL and Dwelling Places (TdH NL's implementing partner) have been working to prevent child sex trafficking in the Napak district of Karamoja and other hot spots in Eastern Uganda since 2014. It is from this experience that TdH NL and Dwelling Places have learned the value and necessity of listening to children most affected by the issue and supporting them to be agents of change in their communities. Indeed, engaging children and youth to combat sexual exploitation and abuse has been and remains a defining feature of TdH NL's programming, and it may be the most critical. It is part of a comprehensive strategy to protect Karamoja's children, a strategy that calls the entire community to action to end child trafficking.
A Community at Risk
Karamoja is a young population. The average age is just 15 years old. It is also a growing population. On average, a woman in Karamoja will give birth to eight children, much higher than a national average of five children and soaring above Kampala's average of three children. With a poverty rate among the highest in the world and a literacy rate of just 25%, Karamoja's children confront various challenges that put them at increased risk of exploitation.
To reduce these vulnerabilities, TdH NL and Dwelling Places, with funding from the Global Fund, are creating referral, response, and reporting mechanisms to build a "protective shield" for 2,000 children in Karamoja. They are engaging children, parents, teachers, survivors, community leaders, and law enforcement to raise awareness of child trafficking risks, enhance prevention and monitoring, and shift harmful cultural norms. Protecting Karamoja's children, now and in the future, requires participation and support of the entire community. This is what our partners are working to do.
Building Community Awareness
In the communities of Karamoja, this begins with raising awareness. Community dialogues are at the core of TdH NL's awareness-raising activities. These are an opportunity for community members to learn more about what makes children susceptible to trafficking or exploitation and what families and the community can do to better protect their children. Building from the findings in a recent Global Fund commissioned study on child sex trafficking, parents are made aware of behaviors and interactions that can negatively affect their children and even contribute to increasing vulnerabilities to trafficking or exploitation. For example, findings show that children who are ridiculed by caregivers are far more likely to be involved in child sex trafficking than those who are not. Among children surveyed in Karamoja, more than one third reported being ridiculed or put down by their caregivers. (See our previous post for more research findings.) For many participants, TdH NL reported, the training was a real "eye-opener", revealing links between parent-child relationships and trafficking risks. When TdH NL introduced positive parenting messaging, parents were receptive. They pledged to change their behavior and relation to their children, and committed to sharing positive parenting messaging with others in their communities.
Building awareness means educating parents and community members on risk factors for child trafficking and how to reduce those risks. But it also means changing cultural norms that harm children. Girls in particular experience high rates of gender-based violence, fueled by its widespread cultural acceptance in the region. Early marriage or forced marriage is common. Married young, it is more likely a girl will not earn an education, experience poor health, have more children over her lifetime, and earn less in adulthood. In other words, she becomes more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.
Boys too suffer the consequences of entrenched gender norms. Traditional perceptions of male masculinity contribute to a culture of repression, silence, and continued exploitation for young boys who fall victim to child trafficking. Findings from a recent Global Fund commissioned study on child trafficking indicate that boys are just as likely to be trafficking victims as girls, but this is a largely unseen and unreported problem. Reluctant to report, boys are unlikely to receive the support they need to recover. Community dialogues explain the harm that such culturally-accepted practices can inflict and encourage participants to rethink practices and customs that put children at risk. Local religious and cultural leaders- community members who hold incredible sway and garner trust in Karamojong villages- are encouraged to lead change.
Significantly, community dialogues are not a one-way conversation. Participants share their experiences and concerns, feedback that is critical to building programs that work best for Karamojong communities. While explaining the challenges that families and children in Karamoja confront, including food insecurity and hunger, raids, unemployment, high dropout rates and low enrollment in schools, forced marriage, and peer pressure, community members also offer insight on what can be done to make their children less vulnerable. In multiple dialogues, for example, participants expressed that children needed more opportunities for education or vocational training. The indefinite closure of schools in response to the pandemic has made children even more vulnerable, a trend that will certainly outlast the outbreak as 30 percent of Ugandan learners are likely never to return to school.
Turning Awareness into Action
While raising awareness of the risks and signs of child trafficking or exploitation is a critical first step in protecting a community's children, it is not enough. Community members must know how to respond. Information on where and how to report child trafficking is shared during community dialogues, but TdH NL also conducts more targeted outreach. They train teachers and administrators throughout Napak district to monitor for exploitation- for example, to pay attention to attendance and behavior patterns and to take action against it. Most critically, students and youth are engaged to play an active role in prevention, monitoring, and response.
As members of Community Child Rights Clubs (CCRCs), peer support groups facilitated by TdH NL, young Karamojongs learn about their rights and actions that violate them; they are taught about reporting and referring mechanisms; and they are encouraged to share this knowledge with other young people in their communities. Adults, including teachers, serve as club patrons and Child Protection Champions or child advocates supporting the CCRCs. To date, this project has supported the establishment of 35 CCRCs, engaging more than 680 children and youth.
Children, parents, teachers, survivors, village leaders, government officials- the entire community plays a role in preventing child trafficking. With programs informed by on-the-ground research, our partners are engaging the community to protect Karamoja's children, and they are changing systems to ensure freedom and opportunity for all children.
To learn more about the Global Fund and how you can get involved, click here.
Programs referenced in this article are funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the author[s] and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.
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Then and Now: 100 Years of Independent Animated Documentary
Slamdance
Jul 20, 2018 · 8 min read
By Melissa Ferrari
July 20th, 2018 marks the 100 year anniversary of the first animated documentary, Winsor McCay's The Sinking of the Lusitania in 1918. In celebration of 100 years of this genre, we take a look back at McCay's masterpiece and celebrate some of the fantastic independent animated documentaries that have since been featured at the Slamdance Film Festival.
"The Sinking of the Lusitania" directed by animation pioneer Winsor McCay, was released in 1918 and widely regarded to be the first commercially released animated documentary.
While the question of veracity remains a point of contention for nonfiction animators even today, the genre pioneered by Winsor McCay still allows for vast creative potential. Practically, animation is a particularly invaluable tool for independent and DIY makers. While the conventional live-action documentary might turn to archival imaging or the daunting task of creating a tasteful live action re-enactment, animated documentarians can single-handedly depict any time, person, or place in the past, present, or future with just a pencil and paper. The use of animation has a variety of advantages: animations can convey what can't be captured photographically while still providing compelling, emotional imagery. Filmmakers can depict events that aren't physically visible to the eye, historical events that weren't captured on film, vulnerable documentary subjects that need to maintain anonymity, events that take place in the mind (such as emotions or dreams), or even speculative futures. As an independent animated documentary, The Sinking of the Lusitania illuminates the unique process of the independent animated documentarian: the filmmaker often fills the role of director, animator, and researcher.
The Sinking of the Lusitania
While animation had been used previously in nonfiction work, The Sinking of the Lusitania is widely identified as the first commercially released animated documentary. Using elegantly rendered effects animation, subtle realist compositions, and informative text, McCay created a visualization of the tragedy surrounding the Lusitania. The Lusitania was a British passenger liner that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1915. Of the 1,959 passengers aboard the vessel, 1,198 people drowned, including 128 U.S. citizens. Although the United States did not directly respond to the attack with a declaration of war, the incident is considered a contributing factor to the United States' entry into World War I. According to animation historian John Canemaker, McCay's primary motivation to create the film was "patriotic zeal."
As McCay claims in the film, "The Sinking of the Lusitania" was not only "a historical record of the crime that shocked Humanity," but "the first record of the sinking of the Lusitania."
The Sinking of the Lusitania was self-funded by McCay and created with assistance from John Fitzsimmons and Apthorop "Ap" Adams.¹ McCay used ink, crayon, and pen on celluloid, live-action sequences, and photographic images to create an account of the Lusitania sinking that mimicked the aesthetic of contemporary nonfiction media.² There was an over-saturation of war films on the market at the time McCay's film was released, and there were several other contemporary film productions based on the events surrounding the Lusitania.³ To set itself apart from these other films, which were predominantly live-action historical dramas, The Sinking of the Lusitania branded itself as the only "record" or "documentation" of the Lusitania's demise, which had not been captured photographically on still or moving film.⁴ As McCay claims in the film, The Sinking of the Lusitania was not only "a historical record of the crime that shocked Humanity," but "the first record of the sinking of the Lusitania." Although the text in the film is manipulatively emotional and sensationalized, the majority of the actual images created by McCay were not overtly melodramatic and were the closest anyone had seen to a real visualization of the event.⁵
McCay used a variety of cinematic techniques to convey realism and contextualize his film as a document of truth. The majority of the animation is composed and illustrated in a way that mimics what a camera might have captured if observing the Lusitania's descent from a safe distance. By employing patient timing, McCay allows slow action and long pauses that feels like live action. The simplified realism of McCay's rendering style lends itself to a feeling of truthful depictions rather than artistically manipulated emotional visualizations.
McCay is known to start his films with expository live-action scenes that emphasize (and sometimes exaggerate) the laborious animated filmmaking process, and the opening scenes of The Sinking of the Lusitania feature a variety of strategies to show the process of documentary research and animation production. The opening scene places the viewer as a witness to the vital act of the filmmaker, McCay, acquiring knowledge from an expert on the subject of his documentary, Mr. Beach. The following shot shows a large team of animators, but in reality, McCay only used two animation assistants who aren't even shown in the scene. As Canemaker describes, these phony, dramatized re-enactments serve to "emphasize the importance and difficulty of the production."⁶ Similarly, McCay uses the scene with Mr. Beach to provide evidence into the truth claims by placing the viewer as a witness to his research.
…even in the earliest forms of animated documentary, directors were concerned with legitimizing the animation as a documentary medium.
Despite their artifice, these opening scenes show the unique process of the independent documentary animator: McCay serves as a researcher, animator, and director. The paratextual and aesthetic strategies used to contextualize the animation as nonfiction also reveal that even in the earliest forms of animated documentary, directors were concerned with legitimizing the animation as a documentary medium. However, McCay's desire to present his film as an objectively true documentary is unsubstantial. While The Sinking of the Lusitania is a gorgeous film that is very influential and important in animated documentary history, contemporary viewers of the film as well as viewers today recognize that The Sinking of the Lusitania is ultimately a propaganda film fueled by McCay's political beliefs.
Animated documentarians today face the same questions of how to convey authenticity, truth, or factuality to their audience, and given that animation is a medium that is entirely constructed by the animation artist, animated documentary comes with a unique set of concerns.
In recent decades, animated documentary as a medium has become an increasingly popular topic in animation and documentary discourse, with the persistent question of whether animation serves as a legitimate form of documentary. Subjectivity and the relationship between fact and truth are points of contention in all nonfiction filmmaking, particularly with the extensive postmodern discourse on the constructed nature of live-action documentary film. Animated documentarians today face the same questions of how to convey authenticity, truth, or factuality to their audience, and given that animation is a medium that is entirely constructed by the animation artist, animated documentary comes with a unique set of concerns. Ethical issues of representation and accuracy are magnified when the entire image is fabricated by the animator, and the animated documentarian must be accountable to verifying that their aesthetics are respectfully authentic to the subject. However, an increasingly complex understanding of the relationship between veracity and the absence of total objectivity in documentary filmmaking has allowed animated documentary to thrive without the burden of conveying truthiness.
While the question of truth remains relevant, a broader understanding of nonfiction animation filmmaking has allowed for modes of experimentalism, poetic documentaries, and a move towards Werner Herzog's concept of "ecstatic truth."
While the question of truth remains relevant, a broader understanding of nonfiction animation filmmaking has allowed for modes of experimentalism, poetic documentaries, and a move towards Werner Herzog's concept of "ecstatic truth."With the increased focus on production of animated documentary in the past few decades, today is a particularly flourishing point in the history of nonfiction animation. The Slamdance Film Festival, as one example, has increasingly highlighted films that push the medium of animated documentary forward into exciting new territories.
Animated Documentary at Slamdance Film Festival
"The Chaperone" directed by Fraser Munden
As a particularly invaluable tool for the independent creator, animated documentary aligns well with Slamdance's independent spirit. Films screened at the festival have shown a breadth of approaches to independent animated documentary. Handmade forms of re-enactment are a common approach in films such as Fraser Munden's The Chaperone (2013), Gabrielle Kash's Lorem Ipsum (2017) or Matthew Salton's Richard Twice (2016). By using animation to visualize scenes from the documentary audio, the filmmakers can explore sensationalized imagery that emphasizes the emotional nuances of the documentary subjects. The Chaperone and Richard Twice use hand-drawn animated styles that explode with surrealist visions and psychedelic abstractions to amplify the emotional state of the film's storytellers. The raw punk aesthetics in both films fuel a Fear and Loathing style visual storytelling that complements the 60s/70s environment.
"Richard Twice" directed by Mathew Salton
Freed from the conventional documentary concerns of photographic indexicality, animated documentarians can also employ the narrative potential of experimental techniques and privilege visual poetry over didacticism. The majority of animated docs featured at Slamdance have used hand-made animation, which allows an exaggerated level of emotion and draws the subjectivity of the animator's hand to the foreground. Artists such as Sheila Sofian and Brian Smee embrace abstract sensibilities that evoke a sense of memory and nostalgia, for example in Sofian's A Conversation with Haris (2002) or Smee's Big Surf (2017).
In A Conversation with Haris (2002), Sofian uses visceral textures and visual metamorphosis to illustrate an interview with a young Bosnian immigrant, creating a complex portrait of the way a child experiences war. The ethereal nature of Sofian's relentlessly morphing and disintegrating paint-on-glass animations leaves the viewer with a sense of fleeting instability, bringing the viewer closer to an emotional understanding of Haris' experience.
"A Conversation with Haris" directed by Sheila Sofian
Brian Smee's exquisite experimental animated documentary Big Surf (2017) engages with the history of the St. Francis Dam collapse, a tragic flood disaster contemporary to the events in The Sinking of the Lusitania. Smee uses soft, organic abstractions and long pulsing landscape shots to evoke a sense of loss and memory, allowing the viewer to reflect on the disturbingly relevant themes of climate change, water shortages, and human-induced environmental disasters today.
"Big Surf" directed by Brian Smee
Ainslie Henderson's Stems (2015) poetically captures the enchanting process of stop motion puppetry, flattening time using stop motion animation to poetically discuss the wonder of puppet building. The initial live-action introduction in the film shows the tactility of the materials in stop motion puppetry, and as the pacing of the film progresses from live-action to time-lapse, the process of constructing a puppet is revealed. Gradually, the timing techniques transitions from time-lapse to fully animated frame-by-frame stop motion animation, capturing the sublime emotional experience of an animated puppets autonomy.
"Stems" directed by Ainslie Henderson
Melissa Ferrari is an animator and documentarian. Phototaxis, her animated documentary that draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the primary treatment program in West Virginia's addiction epidemic, screened at Slamdance in 2018.
¹ John Canemaker and Maurice Sendak, Winsor McCay: His Life and Art, 151–152.
² Annabelle Honess Roe, Animated Documentary, 15.
³ Michael Inman and The New York Public Library, "The Sinking of the Lusitania: How a Wartime Tragedy Occasioned a Landmark Animated Movie."
⁴ Stephen Hanson, Patricia King Hanson, and Frank N. Magill, Magill's Survey of Cinema: Silent Cinema Vol. 3., 995.
⁵ Inman.
⁶ Canemaker 154.
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Botanical Survey of India was established as a government department in 1890. With the very inception of the department ,it has set up libraries at the then two centers at Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur and at Industrial Section , Indian Museum in Calcutta noted for their rich and specialized collection on various cognate subjects in which the survey was interested. After reorganization of the Botanical Survey by the end of 1954, in addition to a Central Library ,several libraries were simultaneously set up in the Regional Circles, Central Botanical laboratory and Central National Herbarium to cater to the needs of plant scientists and taxonomists in their research work. The Central library has been housed in a two storied building along the bank of river Ganges at Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah with valuable collections of Linnean and pre-Linnean publications.
The Indian Botanic Garden library with its collections of rare and valuable books on floristics and taxonomy was later merged with Central Library. In 1990s , the Central Library was shifted to the CNH building at AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden from the old library building as the same was condemned .At present the Central Library, BSI has a collection of over 55,000 books and bound journals on various aspects of botany in different languages including unique collection of many rare books. Data basing of the library holdings has been completed in 2017 and it is now available through e-granthalaya.
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It's rare that a two-on-two basketball game breaks out in the middle of TODAY, but that's what happened this morning when Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson, the stars of the new movie Semi-Pro, took on Meredith Vieira and New York Knicks guard Nate Robinson.NBA referee Bennett Salvatore tried to keep things clean, and Bob Costas of NBC and HBO Sports returned to his ABA roots to call the action.The
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It's rare that a two-on-two basketball game breaks out in the middle of TODAY, but that's what happened this morning when Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson, the stars of the new movie Semi-Pro, took on Meredith Vieira and New York Knicks guard Nate Robinson.
NBA referee Bennett Salvatore tried to keep things clean, and Bob Costas of NBC and HBO Sports returned to his ABA roots to call the action.
The game was an ugly affair, as the players threw elbows, talked trash and got in each other's faces (with few made baskets). It may have set basketball back decades, but at least the TODAY team won. WATCH VIDEO
After the game, I tracked down Meredith in the locker room to discuss her team's win:
DF: What's your reaction to pulling out this hard-fought victory here today?
Meredith: Well, I didn't think they were that good, to be honest with you. All the practice they've gone through for this Semi-Pro. They are very much on the "semi-" side of pro.
No, it was fun! They're big guys, and you start to realize that everyone in their core is really competitive. It started out just being fun, then it got ugly. When Will Ferrell threw those balls, he meant it.
DF: So you thought there was some poor sportsmanship out there?
Meredith: I thought there was a lot of poor sportsmanship, yes!
DF: Including from you?
Meredith: Well, maybe Nate did a little at the end. I did at the end, too. I feigned an injury and laid down on the court. I was trying to bring back that moment on the ice. Because in that moment on the ice, Will really changed and became very sympathetic. But he just walked right over me this time.
DF: So you have no respect at all for your opponents or the way they went about things?
Meredith: You know what? I'm going to be big. We won, didn't we?
DF: Yes.
Meredith: So yes, I did have a lot of respect for them. How did Hillary Clinton put it at the end of her last debate with Barack Obama?
DF: She said she was "honored" to be competing against him.
Meredith: Yes, I was honored to play with them.
DF: Were you happy with how you played? You hit that free throw at the end of the game--
Meredith: Well, I finally made it, yeah. They kept this piece going until I put something in. You know, something's happened to me. I used to be a rover when I was in high school. I used to be good at sports, and I'm just not anymore. But I almost got it in a few times, if you noticed.
DF: It didn't seem to bother you or impede your play at all that your jersey was on backwards.
Meredith: I had no idea. All I know is that they had to cut it, because it didn't fit properly. That's the humiliating part. Wherever the name was, I really didn't care.
DF: How about the work of Bob Costas, calling the game? Could you hear him?
Meredith: I couldn't hear him, but others have told me that he was a genius. In fact, he said that to me as he was leaving.
DF: Will there be a rematch?
Meredith: If they're up to it, I'm up to it. Absolutely.


Chrisette Michele's first album, "I Am" made its mark in 2007 with hits such as "If I Have My Way" and "Love Is You". In 2009, "Be OK", won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance.
The web site will feature columns and articles from people that Chrisette loves, like her best friend will be the beauty editor. Chrisette's fan base includes many painters. The "Rich Hipster" web site will also feature fan art, painted on different textiles of apparel for sale.
Our interview preceded Chrisette's marvelous performance at the 15th Annual DC Love Fest. I had seen a performance earlier in her career, but that evening I was blown away. Chrisette's powerful voice flowed effortlessly through her catalog. From early classics to "Epiphany", "Blame It On Me" to "A Couple of Forevers", the fans hung on each note. She engaged her captive audience with sincere conversation, and made them feel as I did during our interview, like old friends.
Special thanks to Gypsy Soul & Soulcial Grind PR for granting access for the interview.
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Shaun the Sheep Movie: A very funny and clever film.
The people who work at Aardman Animations clearly still have some hilarious humor to them. I can happily say this because the "Shaun the Sheep Movie" clearly demonstrates that they can keep making great movies. I heavily enjoyed their previous works like "Chicken Run" and "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" and now they have brought there other big star to the screen in a very unique way. What I mean is that this film has the humor and heart of a brilliant animated movie that doesn't have one word spoken throughout the entire movie. It may seem impossible to pull this off, but luckily it works. Still, there's more to this film that makes it work and I'll explain why.
Our main character Shaun is a mischievous sheep who lives at the Mossy Bottom Farm out in the countryside but is bored by his daily farm life routine. One day, he gets an idea to put the farmer to sleep so his flock can do whatever they want. How do this? Well, they make the farmer count his own sheep, of course. The plan backfires, however, after the sheep put the farmer in a caravan which accidentally rolls away from the farm and into the city. Now, it's up to the sheep of the farm and the farm dog Bitzer to get him back and stay away from the evil animal catcher.
The film may sound very silly to you, but trust me when I say that the film is actually pretty hilarious. It shows us that animated movies don't need to have tons of dialogue for humor to make for a very entertaining movie. Yes, the story is basic, but it always was supposed to be. It didn't need to be really complicated, because children would easily not understand what's going on, and that's exactly what this movie does so brilliantly. The stop motion animation like always is fantastic. The painstaking hours the company spent on creating clay models and moving them slightly has paid off because the characters move as if they were drawn on paper or even a computer. The characters, while not having a lot of depth, are hilarious as ever as they do pretty humorous moments in the film. For example, Bitzer is trying to get into a hospital to get the farmer, but can't go in because he's a dog. So, he dresses up like a doctor and accidentally gets tricked for being the doctor operating on a surgery. It may sound cliche to you, but trust me when I say that it leads to a moment so funny that I dare not spoil it here.
"Shaun the Sheep Movie" is a film that the whole family can easily enjoy. Kids can laugh at the silly moments while adults can appreciate the technicality of the film. In my opinion, this film is a clear example of how visual media is stronger than written media. I just wish more films would do that nowadays.


China's health-care industry is expected to post above average profit growth of more than 20% for the next three to five years, estimates show, as the country's massive population ages and gets wealthier.
A COMPANY that makes medicine out of snake gall bladders has seen its shares more than double this year as health-care companies become China's most popular stocks.
In a market buffeted by the fallout from the US trade disputes, mainland investors have sought shelter in firms, like traditional medicine maker Zhangzhou Pientzehuang Pharmaceutical Co, that make almost all their sales at home.
It also doesn't hurt that China's health-care industry is expected to post above average profit growth of more than 20 per cent for the next three to five years, Bloomberg estimates show, as China's massive population ages and gets wealthier.
That's all adding up to scorching gains: drug makers and other health stocks are by far the best-performing corner of the Chinese market in 2018, up nearly 30 per cent.
Valuations - now at levels unseen in a decade - are shaping up as the biggest threat to a rally that's managed to overcome equity losses in almost every other industry.
"The sector may touch a valuation ceiling soon if it rallies further," said Sun Jianbo, president of Beijing-based China Vision Capital Management. "However fast the future growth might be, it takes time for companies to realise that."
Bulls are optimistic medical reforms, such as faster approvals for new drugs, will help established companies accelerate earnings growth even more quickly.
Market leaders like Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co stand to benefit from nationwide efforts to promote the use of generic drugs in treatment, according to Dai Ming, Shanghai-based fund manager with Hengsheng Asset Management Co.
Companies with solid distribution networks will be lifted by another reform to lower the price of drugs dispensed by hospitals and cut intermediaries in drug sales, he said.
"Many health-care firms are entering an innovation cycle - they are able to develop new drugs which, if successful, will contribute big to future earnings," noted Mr Dai. "Valuations have expanded, but they are not yet at outrageous levels."
Keeping faith is proving rewarding. Hong Kong-listed CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd surged to a fresh record on Monday after better-than-expected earnings prompted brokerages from Goldman Sachs Group Inc to Credit Suisse Group AG to lift their price targets. Other drugmakers including 3SBio Inc soared. The CSI 300 health-care gauge climbed 0.8 per cent on Tuesday.
Yet the risks of a reversal are rising. Chinese pharmaceutical stocks are most expensive relative to global peers in a decade. Valuations on the CSI 300 Health Care gauge have hit more than 36 times forward 12-month earnings, compared with an all-time average of 23 times.
CSPC Pharma trades at 40 times projected profits, far higher than Tencent Holdings Ltd or Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Investors betting that red-hot Chinese shares can only go in one direction have been disappointed before. Ping An Group Insurance Co, which nearly doubled in Shanghai last year, has tumbled more than 10 per cent in 2018, while record earnings has failed to lift analysts' favourite Tencent out of its trough.


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December 2014 Articles
Listed in this index are all articles published in the APWA Reporter during December 2014. They are categorized by subject, with subject headings in alphabetical order.
President's Message, Dec, p. 2
Washington Insight, Dec, p. 4
Technical Committee News, Dec, p. 5
Richmond Department of Public Works receives reaccreditation, Dec, p. 6
Present and future workforce: recruitment and succession, Dec, p. 8
Faces of the Future: Deborah Leistner, PWE, Dec, p. 10
Expo '67: Announcing Montreal to the world, Dec, p. 12
Bloomfield Township holds open house, Dec, p. 14
Utah Chapter: 2014 APWA Fall Conference and Stormwater Expo, Dec, p. 16
Recognize Your Leaders, Dec, p. 18
Imagination to Innovation, Dec, p. 20
Executive Soft Skills, Dec, p. 22
International Idea Exchange, Dec, p. 24
Core Responsibilities, Dec, p. 28
Using an asset management system to get funding for infrastructure improvements, Dec, p. 30
Community Involvement/Transparency, Dec, p. 34
Preparing for an emergency means fostering relationships, Dec, p. 38
Professionalism: What is it and how do I improve my professionalism?, Dec, p. 40
Professional Development: An important tool in leadership and management, Dec, p. 42
Ethics laws, ethics codes and ethical dilemmas: How do we do the right thing when our resources are limited?, Dec, p. 44
The Undiscovered Country: Setting a successful path for the future, Dec, p. 46
Sustainability: A foundation, not a fad, Dec, p. 48
Developing a strategic business plan for your agency, Dec, p. 50
Ask Ann, Dec, p. 54


A new app invites you to command your iPhone in the same way that Captain Kirk addressed the Enterprise's computer.
Siri's visual interface displays a transcription of what you say, then hands the data off to an appropriate web service or search engine.
Siri Launches Voice-Powered iPhone 'Assistant' | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.


civilized (cooler) time for contemporary art in South Texas.
The movie "Lonely Are the Brave" has gained critical recognition over the years as one of the best Westerns ever made, despite being less than a box office bonanza. Douglas' Burns wars with a modern world that has passed him by. The itinerant ranch hand rejects most technology, even refusing to carry a driver's license or Social Security card. He gets into a fight with a one-armed man (Bill Raisch, who later played the one-armed man in "The Fugitive" TV series) in order to get thrown in jail so he can bust out his best friend (Paul Bondi), who's serving time for aiding undocumented workers from Mexico. His friend, however, would rather finish his sentence, and Burns breaks out alone and heads for the hills riding Whiskey. But his horse, who steals the show, is no match for the jeep and helicopters used by the lawmen played by George Kennedy and Walter Matthau.
O'Connor (a.k.a. Archie Bunker) has a small but key role as a truck driver hauling a load of toilets. Recently released on DVD, "Lonely Are the Brave" is worth seeing even if you hate Westerns.
look of a giant proscenium stage or big screen, the theatrical netherworld where our dreams unfold.
Snyder refers to the importance of imagination in the history of the West with a couple of not-really-art installations. A DVD of "Lonely Are the Brave" plays on a TV in a small nook featuring a comfy chair and a shelf of books, including the late Texas writer R. G. Vliet's "Scorpio Rising," Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree" and Greil Marcus' "Old, Weird America." Among the knick-knacks are vanitas objects such as Death wearing a Rappin' Hampster cap, a cow skull painted by Max Snyder at age five and a Harlequin figure supporting an extinguished candle. In the middle of the gallery, Snyder built a campfire on a Persian carpet, a potent symbol of the clash between the frontier and civilization.
Chris Sauter shows how dreaming helped him to escape from the double-wide trailer that was his childhood home. He meticulously re-created his childhood bedroom using many of the original objects that he cherished, such as a Swatch poster, a collection of National Geographics, pop music cassette tapes and a map of the world. Then he cut a series of different-sized circles out of the walls, windows and doors, which he used to build a telescope that stands in the middle of the darkened room. Light shines through the holes in the walls like stars, creating a magical space where a child's imagination can roam unshackled from the confines of a dreary, soul-deadening trailer park. Outside in the main gallery, Sauter cut parts out of the Blue Star's drywall to build a fragile replica of the plow that broke the plains, the primary tool that civilization used to tame the West.
As an artist intimately familiar with the San Antonio scene, Snyder brought much more insight and focus to this show than previous Blue Star summer surveys curated by out-of-towners, who usually took a juried approach. Lonely Are the Brave has a theme familiar to anyone who understands the artist's plight in Texas, struggling to survive in an aesthetic frontier far from the urban confines of much of the rest of the art world. A longing for the imagined freedom of the agrarian past still underpins much Texas art. Most Lone Star artists have a love/hate relationship with the state's history, and they are well connected to the rest of the art world by computer and airline ticket. But most will agree that being an artist in Texas is a lonely proposition, requiring the courage of convictions out of step with the culture of football and pickup trucks, even though the state's artistic infrastructure has improved considerably in the past quarter century.
Dan R. Goddard is a freelance arts writer living in San Antonio.


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Q: How can I detect a character that is located within two spaces in python I want my program to detect the letter "o" but that it is within two spaces
I made this little program but it also counts all the "o" and I just want to detect the "o" that is between the word dulce "o" truco
word=("dulce o truco")

for i in word:
  if (i == "o" ):
   print("p v q ")

A: You can use split.
word=("dulce o truco")
for i in word.split(' ')[1:]:  # According to @JohnnyMopp comment
    if (i == 'o'):
        print("p v q")

For more info about split see https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.split

A: word=input().rstrip()

for j in range(1,len(word)-1):
    if word[j]=="o"  and word[j-1]==" " and word [j+1]==" ":
                        print("whatever you want")

Would it work? Let me know. The iteration starts at index 1 and ends the one preceding the last character to prevent index is out of range error.

A: simply you can use this
word = "dulce o truco"
if ' o ' in word:
    print("whatever you want")

A: I'd just use count which works with substrings as well as single characters.There is a corner case I'm not sure how you'd want to handle " o o " is that one o or two? ie can a space be shared by two of the o values you want to count? If that's the case this won't work.
for i in range(word.count(' o ')):
    print("p v q")

This would work:
for i in range(1,len(word)-1):
    if word[i-1:i+2] == ' o ':
        print("p v q")

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Dr. David Parker currently serves the Graham School of Management as an assistant professor and the director of the School's Center for the Study of Fraud and Corruption. Parker received his B.S. and MBA from Jacksonville State University (1987 and 1989), a J.D. from the Birmingham School of Law (1997), a LL.M. with a concentration in National Security Law from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law (2006), and a LL.M. in Human Rights Law from The University of Nottingham, School of Law (2009). He was a practicing attorney for the last 14 years and most recently left Lockheed Martin in Washington DC where he worked as a senior project management and planning operation representative in the Justice and Law Enforcement Services Department serving the United States Department of Justice.
Beyond its outstanding faculty, staff and student body, Dr. Parker is drawn to Saint Xavier University for another reason: its wonderful sense of community. And from working at SXU, he believes his temperament is an excellent fit with that community.
Dr. Parker says, "My character is calm, my approach is amiable, my personality is professional, my strength is sincerity, my hidden trait is humor, my creativity is course development, my pride is my daughter, my indulgence is fishing, and my fun is in family. My personal passion is to be a devoted husband and father with a well-rounded life. My professional ambition is to be a highly effective, respected teacher and active, responsible member of the SXU community."
Articles Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals
'Insider Trading in the US: Recent Clarification by the Supreme Court and Some Ethical Observations' Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Volume 32 Issue 10 (2017). Frederick J. Naffziger & David M. Parker
The Efficacy of Reviewing Bankruptcy Petitions to Identify Internal/Employee Theft as a Causative Factor of Small Business Bankruptcies, The International Academy of Business and Economics Review of Business Research - RBR, Vol. 12, No. 5 (2012). William Kresse & David Parker
The Efficacy of the Small-Business Provisions of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, Intellectbase International Consortium (IIC) Review of Management Innovation & Creativity - RMIC, Vol. 6, Issue 18 (Spring 2013). William Kresse & David Parker
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"An Option Theoretic Approach to Gun Rights" presented at the 2017 Academy of Finance Meeting, March 22 to March 24, 2017, Monzurul Hoque, Bruce Lipman, & David Parker, Saint Xavier University


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Q: How to fix, ENOENT error: no such file or directory when the "fonts" task mentioned below in the gulpfile.js starts Following is the gulpfile.js which i have. Am getting ENOENT error: no such file or directory, when the "fonts" task starts, while running "gulp build-qa" command. Howeve, The build is successful every alternate time but not every time consistently. How to fix this issue ? I have made sure that every task has return, even though it is not working.
var gulp = require('gulp'),
    del = require('del'),
    pump = require('pump'),
    flatten = require('gulp-flatten'),
    usemin = require('gulp-usemin'),
    htmlmin = require('gulp-htmlmin'),
    cssmin = require('gulp-clean-css'),
    uglifyjs = require('gulp-uglify'),
    stripdebug = require('gulp-strip-debug'),
    ngannotate = require('gulp-ng-annotate'),
    rev = require('gulp-rev'),
    concat = require('gulp-concat'),
    sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'),
    connect = require('gulp-connect');

var ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'dev',
    APP_DIR = 'app',
    BUILD_DIR = 'build',
    SRC_DIR = 'source',
    ZIP_DIR = 'packed';

gulp.task('clean', function () {
    return del(
        [BUILD_DIR + '/**', ZIP_DIR + '/**'],
        { dryRun: false })
        .then(
        // paths => { console.log('Files and folders that would be deleted:\n', paths.join('\n'));}
        );
});

gulp.task('build-qa',['clean','fonts','images','partials','usemin-qa'], function(){});

/* Html processing, minifying and copying to build folder */
gulp.task('partials', function () {
    return gulp.src(['**/*.html','!index.html'], {cwd: APP_DIR})
        .pipe(htmlmin({ collapseWhitespace: true }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR));
});

/* Images copying to build folder */
gulp.task('images', function () {
    return gulp.src('**/*.{jpg,png,gif,svg}')
        .pipe(flatten())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR+'/images'));
});

/* Find all font type files in 'fonts' folders and move to fonts build folder with flattened structure */
gulp.task('fonts', function () {
    return gulp.src('**/fonts/*.{ttf,woff,eot,svg}')
        .pipe(flatten())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR+'/fonts'));
});

gulp.task('usemin-qa', function () {
    return gulp.src('app/index.html')
        .pipe(usemin({
            // pipelines are named in the HTML, like js_lib and js_app below; html is the src file
            html: [htmlmin({ collapseWhitespace: true, quotes: true, empty: true, spare: true, loose: true })],
            css_lib: [
                cssmin(),
                'concat',
                rev()
            ],
            css:    [
                cssmin(),
                'concat',
                rev()
            ],
            js_lib: [
                ngannotate({remove: false, add: true}),
                uglifyjs(),
                rev()
            ],
            js_app: [
                sourcemaps.init(),
                'concat',
                ngannotate({remove: true, add: true}),
                uglifyjs(),
                rev()
            ]
        }))
        .pipe(sourcemaps.write('./'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR))
});

A: ENOENT errors in gulp are almost always caused by some kind of race condition.
The first problem is that all your tasks are sourcing files not just from your source folders. For example '**/fonts/*.{ttf,woff,eot,svg}' selects font files from anywhere in your project including your BUILD_DIR. You need to exclude BUILD_DIR in all your tasks:
gulp.task('fonts', function () {
    return gulp.src(['**/fonts/*.{ttf,woff,eot,svg}',
                     '!'+BUILD_DIR+'/**'])
        .pipe(flatten())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR+'/fonts'));
});

The next problem is this line:
gulp.task('build-qa',['clean','fonts','images','partials','usemin-qa'], function(){});

This doesn't do what you think it does. All those tasks aren't executed in order, they're all executed at the same time. That means your clean task is deleting files in BUILD_DIR while your other tasks are busy copying files into that same directory.
You have two options:
(1) Place a dependency hint on all the other tasks. For example your fonts task would have to look like this:
gulp.task('fonts', ['clean'], function () {
    return gulp.src(['**/fonts/*.{ttf,woff,eot,svg}',
                     '!' + BUILD_DIR + '/**'])
        .pipe(flatten())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(BUILD_DIR+'/fonts'));
});

This makes sure that all the other tasks run only after the clean task has finished.
(2) Use run-sequence in your build-qa task:
var runSequence = require('run-sequence');

gulp.task('build-qa', function(cb) {
  runSequence('clean',['fonts','images','partials','usemin-qa'], cb);
});

This runs the clean task first and then all the other tasks in parallel.


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Йохан Гримонпрез () е белгийски визуален артист и филмов режисьор.

Биография и творчество
Йохан Гримонпрез е роден в Руселаре, Белгия през 1962 година. Завършва училище за визуални изкуства и програма за независими проучвания на Whitney музей в Ню Йорк.

Гримонпрез постига международно признание с неговия видео-колаж, "Dial H-i-s-t-o-r-y". Със своята премиера в Център Помпиду и "Документа X" в Касел през 1997 г., той предусеща събитията от 11 септември. Филмът разказва историята на самолет hijackings от 1970 г. и как тези промени хода на новини за докладване. Филмът се състои от рециклирани образи, взети от новинарските емисии, холивудски филми, анимационни филми и реклами. Като дете на първото поколение TV, художникът реалност и фикция се преплитат по нов начин и представя историята като многогодишна перспектива измерение отворена за манипулация.

Текущия проект на Гримонпрез "Търсейки Алфред", 2005, играе с темата на двойното чрез симулации и преобръщания. Отправна точка е режисьора Алфред Хичкок и неговите легендарни камео изяви в собствените му филми. Многобройните "doppelgangers" на Хичкок играят една загадъчна игра на объркване, в която Хичкок отговаря на Хичкок. Тази puzzling игра на объркване също отдава дължимото уважение на космоса на рисунки от Рене Магрит. "Търсейки Алфред" спечели Международни медийни награди (ZKM, Германия) през 2005 г., както и европейската медийна награда през 2006 година.

Продукции на Гримонпрез са пътували фестивали от Лос Анджелис, Рио де Жанейро, Токио и Берлин. Кураторски проекти гостуват на големи изложби и музеи по целия свят, като Whitney музей в Ню Йорк, Музей на модерното изкуство в Сан Франциско, Pinakothek der Moderne в Мюнхен и Tate Modern в Лондон. Работи на Гримонпрез са включени в много колекции, като например Центъра Жорж Помпиду, Париж, на Каназава Арт музей, Япония, на Националната галерия, Берлин и Луизиана музей на модерното изкуство, Дания. Номиниран за награда Хюго Бос през 2005 г., Гримонпрез e член на академичния състав в училище за визуални изкуства (Ню Йорк).

Йохан Гримонпрез живее и работи в Брюксел и Ню Йорк.

Филми
 Dial H-i-s-t-o-r-y (1997)
 Търсейки Алфред (2005)
 Double Take (2009)

Външни препратки

 Йохан Гримонпрез в UbuWeb Film
 Йохан Гримонпрез в Media Art Net

Гримонпрез, Йохан
Хора от Западна Фландрия

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import platemap as pm

class Plate(pm.base.PMObject):
    _table = 'plate'

    @classmethod
    def plates(cls, finalized=False):
        """Returns all plates available in the system

        Parameters
        ----------
        finalized: bool, optional
            Whether to only grab finalized plates. Default False.

        Returns
        -------
        list of Plate objects
            All plates in the system
        """
        sql = "SELECT plate_id FROM barcodes.plate"
        if finalized:
            sql += " WHERE finalized = TRUE"
        sql += " ORDER BY created_on DESC"
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql)
            return [cls(p) for p in pm.sql.TRN.execute_fetchflatten()]

    @classmethod
    def create(cls, barcode, name, person, rows, cols):
        r"""Creates a new plate object

        Parameters
        ----------
        barcode : str
            The barcode assigned to the plate
        name : str
            Identifying name for the plate
        person : Person object
            The person creating the plate
        rows : int
            Number of rows on the plate
        cols : int
            Number of columns in the plate

        Returns
        -------
        Plate object
            New plate object

        Raises
        ------
        DuplicateError
            Plate with given barcode already exists
        DeveloperError
            Barcode already assigned to something else
        """
        plate_sql = """INSERT INTO barcodes.plate
                       (plate_id, plate, rows, cols, person_id)
                       VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s)
                    """
        barcode_sql = """UPDATE barcodes.barcode
                         SET assigned_on = NOW()
                         WHERE barcode = %s
                      """
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            if cls.exists(barcode):
                raise pm.exceptions.DuplicateError(barcode, 'plate')
            if pm.util.check_barcode_assigned(barcode):
                raise pm.exceptions.DeveloperError(
                    'Barcode %s already assigned!' % barcode)

            pm.sql.TRN.add(plate_sql, [barcode, name, rows, cols, person.id])
            pm.sql.TRN.add(barcode_sql, [barcode])
            pm.sql.TRN.execute()
            return cls(barcode)

    @staticmethod
    def delete(cls, barcode):
        r"""Delete a plate from the system

        Parameters
        ----------
        barcode : str
            The plate barcode
        """
        raise NotImplementedError()

    @staticmethod
    def exists(barcode):
        r"""Checks if a plate already exists

        Parameters
        ----------
        barcode : str
            Barcode for plate

        Returns
        -------
        bool
            Whether plate already exists (True) or not (False)
        """
        sql = "SELECT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM barcodes.plate WHERE plate_id = %s)"
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [barcode])
            return pm.sql.TRN.execute_fetchlast()

    def _check_finalized(self):
        """Locks down changes to plate if already finalized

        Raises
        ------
        EditError
            Trying to change values of a finalized plate
        """
        if self.finalized:
            raise pm.exceptions.EditError(self.id)

    def __getitem__(self, pos):
        """
        Returns the sample at a given position on the plate

        Parameters
        ----------
        pos : tuple of int
            The plate well to get sample for

        Returns
        -------
        Sample object or None
            Sample at the positon, or None if no sample.

        Raises
        ------
        IndexError
            Position given is outside of plate

        Notes
        -----
        Passed a tuple, so called as sample = plate[row, col]
        """
        sql = """SELECT sample_id
                 FROM barcodes.plates_samples
                 WHERE plate_id = %s AND plate_row = %s and plate_col = %s
              """
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            row, col = pos[0], pos[1]
            rows, cols = self.shape
            if row < 0 or row >= rows or col < 0 or col >= cols:
                raise IndexError('Position %d, %d not on plate' % (row, col))

            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [self.id, row, col])
            sid = pm.sql.TRN.execute_fetchlast()
            return None if sid is None else pm.sample.Sample(sid)

    def __setitem__(self, pos, value):
        """
        Adds the sample at a given position on the plate

        Parameters
        ----------
        pos : tuple of int
            The plate well to add sample at
        value : Sample object or None
            The sample to add, or None to remove sample from position

        Raises
        ------
        IndexError
            Position given is outside of plate

        Notes
        -----
        Passed a tuple, so called as plate[row, col] = Sample()
        """
        # Need to get around postgres not having upsert in postgres < 9.5
        # So do this slightly hacky workaround
        # http://www.the-art-of-web.com/sql/upsert/
        upsert_sql = """WITH upsert AS (
                            UPDATE barcodes.plates_samples
                            SET sample_id = %s
                            WHERE plate_id = %s AND plate_row = %s
                                AND plate_col = %s
                            RETURNING *)
                        INSERT INTO barcodes.plates_samples
                        (sample_id, plate_id, plate_row, plate_col)
                        SELECT %s, %s, %s, %s WHERE NOT EXISTS (
                            SELECT * FROM upsert)
              """
        delete_sql = """DELETE FROM barcodes.plates_samples
                        WHERE plate_id = %s AND plate_row = %s
                            AND plate_col = %s"""

        with pm.sql.TRN:
            self._check_finalized()
            row, col = pos[0], pos[1]
            rows, cols = self.shape
            if row < 0 or row >= rows or col < 0 or col >= cols:
                raise IndexError('Position %d, %d not on plate' % (row, col))

            if value is not None:
                pm.sql.TRN.add(upsert_sql, [value.id, self.id, row, col,
                                            value.id, self.id, row, col])
            else:
                pm.sql.TRN.add(delete_sql, [self.id, row, col])

    @property
    def name(self):
        """Name of the plate

        Returns
        -------
        str
            Name of the plate
        """
        return self._get_property('plate')

    @property
    def finalized(self):
        """Finalized status of the plate

        Returns
        -------
        bool
            If the plate is finalized (True) or not (False)
        """
        return self._get_property('finalized')

    @property
    def shape(self):
        """Shaple of the plate

        Returns
        -------
        tuple of int
            Plate dimensions in the form (rows, cols)
        """
        sql = "SELECT rows, cols FROM barcodes.plate WHERE plate_id = %s"
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [self.id])
            return tuple(pm.sql.TRN.execute_fetchindex()[0])

    @property
    def samples(self):
        """List of samples in the plate, ordered by row down the plate

        Returns
        -------
        list of Sample objects
            Samples on the plate, ordered by row.
            Sample at [0, 0], followed by [0, 1], [0, 2], etc.
        """
        sql = """SELECT sample_id
                 FROM barcodes.plates_samples
                 WHERE plate_id = %s
                 ORDER BY plate_row, plate_col
              """
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [self.id])
            return [pm.sample.Sample(s) for s in
                    pm.sql.TRN.execute_fetchflatten()]

    @property
    def platemap(self):
        """Samples on the plate, mapped as list of lists

        Returns
        -------
        list of list of Sample objects or None
            Samples on the plate, with None if no sample at the position
        """
        sql = """SELECT plate_row::varchar || plate_col::varchar, sample_id
                 FROM barcodes.plates_samples
                 WHERE plate_id = %s
                 ORDER BY plate_row, plate_col
              """
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            rows, cols = self.shape
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [self.id])
            # Turn the returned rows into a dict keyed to the combined
            # rowcol created by the sql query
            samples = dict(pm.sql.TRN.execute_fetchindex())
            ret = []
            # Loop over each sample and add None of no sample in position
            for r in range(rows):
                ret.append([])
                for c in range(cols):
                    samp = samples.get('%d%d' % (r, c), None)
                    ret[r].append(pm.sample.Sample(samp)
                                  if samp is not None else None)
            return ret

    # -------- functions ----------------
    def to_html(self):
        """Builds an HTML table representation of the plate

        Returns
        -------
        str
            HTML representation of the plate

        Notes
        -----
        The class `plate` is added to the table for css styling.
        """

        samples = self.platemap
        rows, cols = self.shape
        table = ['

	']
        # Add column header
        for col in range(1, cols + 1):
            table.append('%d	' % col)
        table.append('
')
        for row in range(rows):
            table.append('
%s	' % chr(65 + row))
            for col in range(cols):
                samp = samples[row][col]
                table.append('%s	' %
                             samp.name if samp is not None else '	')
            table.append('
')
        table.append('
')
        return ''.join(table)

    def finalize(self):
        """Finalizes plate by flagging it in the DB"""
        sql = "UPDATE barcodes.plate SET finalized = 'T' WHERE plate_id = %s"
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [self.id])

    def revert(self, user):
        """Reverts the plate from finalized to editable

        Parameters
        ----------
        user : User object
            User requesting the revert

        Raises
        ------
        AssignError
            User is not an admin
        """
        # Make sure user is admin
        if not user.check_access('Admin'):
            raise pm.exceptions.AssignError('User %s is not admin!' % user)

        sql = "UPDATE barcodes.plate SET finalized = 'F' WHERE plate_id = %s"
        with pm.sql.TRN:
            pm.sql.TRN.add(sql, [self.id])


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/* global Project*/

module.exports = {
    async generateGroup(req, res) {
        const projectId = +req.params.projectId;
        const administratorIds = Array.isArray(req.body.administratorIds) ? req.body.administratorIds : [req.body.administratorIds];
        res.halt(Project.generateGroup(projectId, administratorIds));
    },
    async export(req, res) {
        const projectIds = Array.isArray(req.body.projectIds) ? req.body.projectIds : [req.body.projectIds];
        const format = req.body.format;

        res.halt(Project.export(projectIds, format), {dataType: 'file'});
    }

};


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Younes Belhanda is set to spend the rest of the season on loan at FC Schalke 04. - © © imago
Morocco international Belhanda joins Schalke in loan deal
FC Schalke 04 have completed the signing of FC Dynamo Kyiv attacking midfielder Younes Belhanda on a six-month loan deal.
Click here for the latest news from Schalke
The 32-time Morocco international passed his medical at the Royal Blues' Orlando training camp on Wednesday.
'Quick and dynamic'
"I've often dreamt about playing in the Bundesliga," Belhanda told the club's official website. "I know Schalke already from when I was at Montpellier - I played against them in the Champions League. It's a big club and Schalke has a great history, a big stadium and fantastic fans."
"We want to increase the competition within the squad," added head coach Andre Breitenreiter. "Younes Belhanda can play in attacking midfield both centrally and out wide. He is quick, dynamic and also has a good goal and assist tally."
From France to Germany, via Ukraine
Belhanda shot to fame as part of the Montpellier Herault SC side that won the French title in 2012, a year in which he was also voted Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year. The 25-year-old registered 29 goals and 20 assists in 144 appearances for the French club, before moving to Kiev in summer 2013. He has since scored 11 goals and chipped in with 15 assists in 88 games for the Ukrainian outfit.
Schalke, who sit seventh in the Bundesliga standings at the midway point of the 2015/16 campaign, are scheduled to play Fort Lauderdale Strikers on Sunday and Atletico Mineiro on Wednesday 13 as part of the eight-team 2016 Florida Cup.
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