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Curtis Russell
Socrates begins at the end, with the famed philosopher already dead, and Plato, his most famous student, trying to understand why. Giving away the ending is always risky, but in playwright Tim Blake Nelson's hands, the story becomes a type of metaphysical puzzle. The question isn't who did it—Plato tells us up front it was the city of Athens—but how a supposedly great civilization could so easily eradicate a great mind, especially one who went to great lengths to disavow his greatness.
Tagged: Public Theater, Doug Hughes, Michael Stuhlbarg, Curtis Russell
Marys Seacole
Jackie Sibblies Drury is not content to let audiences just watch her plays; she wants to make them conscious of how and why they are watching. In Fairview, her 2018 breakout, this meant disrupting a black family sitcom with tone-deaf white voices. For Drury, the mundane is anything but; it's in banal, everyday interactions that society's fault lines become most clearly visible, if we know how to see them.
Tagged: Jackie Sibblies Drury, LCT3, Claire Tow Theater, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Curtis Russell
Comedy, Reviews
Hurricane Diane
Hurricane Diane packs a lot into its 90-minute running time. It's the type of idea-driven play that in lesser hands might become more academic journal article than piece of theater, but writer Madeleine George and director Leigh Silverman have crafted the evening with a deceptively light touch. Not since Dr. Strangelove has humanity's inevitable annihilation been such a good time.
Tagged: New York Theatre Workshop, Leigh Silverman, Madeleine George, Curtis Russell
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, in revival at the Abrons Arts Center, is about the Catholic activists who burned 378 draft records with napalm in Catonsville, Md., in 1968, because "pouring napalm on pieces of paper is preferable to pouring napalm on human beings." Its author, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, was a member of the Nine and a lifetime antiwar activist. In his play, Berrigan edits and interweaves excerpts of the trial to build arguments against the Vietnam War and U.S. militarism.
David Huynh and Mia Katigbak in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. Top: Huynh and Eunic Wong.
Over the course of the trial, the group's members attempted to draw connections between issues, only to be told, "We are not trying that case." Berrigan cannily demonstrates how all social and political issues are linked, no matter how much the powers that be might wish it otherwise. There is little self-awareness in this hyperbolic play (which, for example, draws parallels between the U.S., with its involvement in Vietnam, and Nazi Germany) but plenty of fervent belief in its own virtue.
Yet the play engages in its own bit of division by almost entirely removing the point of view of the war's victims in order to celebrate antiwar activists. With a cast of only Asian-American actors, this production, directed by Transport Group artistic director (and Catonsville native) Jack Cummings III and co-produced by the National Asian American Theatre Company, provides a small corrective to the play's narrow viewpoint.
Actors David Huynh, Mia Katigbak, and Eunice Wong are generous performers. Their well-rehearsed connectivity overcomes Cummings's hyperactive staging, which seats the audience on spartan wooden pews around the perimeter of the Abrons stage (the theater's actual seats are unused) and often pulls the actors to opposite corners of the set to bring them nearer to the viewers.
The performers shift characters and locales quickly to accommodate the verbatim format, as witnesses take turns testifying. Unfortunately, these shifts happen so often that each role is given only the most superficial characterization; there's no time for the internal tensions and oppositions that make a character interesting. Katigbak is best able to find colors in the characters she plays, while Huynh has been directed to deliver every line at a relentlessly humorous, overbearing pitch.
In this he reflects the production as a whole. From R. Lee Kennedy's blood-red lights, which bathe the space as the actors enter the theater to the accompaniment of Barry McGuire's 1960s protest classic "Eve of Destruction," to sound designer Fan Zhang's Brian Eno–lite score and omnipresent low rumbles, shaking the pews, the evening is monochromatically morose. The subject matter is undoubtedly solemn, but by denying the pleasure of activism, the full-body thrill when the match strikes the napalm, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine has made the Vietnam War the one thing it was not and theater the one thing it should never be: boring.
Huynh and Wong. Photographs by Carol Rosegg.
The evening's best theatrical moment comes near the end of the play, when the stage curtain on one side and the loading door on the other side drop quickly, cutting the audience off from the outside and blinding them with white-hot lights. Setting aside the hypocrisy of a production with so little self-awareness daring to interrogate and implicate its paying audience, the moment at least packs a visceral thrill. Yet the thrill dissolves when the curtain rises at the end to reveal the empty auditorium filled with haze and more blinding white lights, into which the actors disappear as though passing through the pearly gates. The angry protest music of the actors' entrance becomes the New Age-y strains of DJ Drez's sitar-heavy "India Dub" of "For What It's Worth" (you know: "Stop, hey, what's that sound, everybody look what's going down"), and a benign evening honoring activists blossoms into full-blown, tone-deaf hero worship.
Berrigan's fawning platitude is little better than the propaganda that implores Americans to honor "the troops." The truth is, we don't need any play, ever, and it's past time that productions like The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, which mistake gravitas for gravity and crocodile tears for emotional heft, stop taking that fact for granted.
The Transport Group and the National Asian American Theatre Company's production of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine plays through Feb. 23 at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St.). Evening performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; matinees are at 3 p.m. Sundays. For tickets and information, call OvationTix at (866) 811-4111 or visit transportgroup.org.
Tagged: Transport Group, National Asian American Theatre Company, Curtis Russell, Jack Cummings III, Verbatim
Musical, Reviews, Comedy
Clueless, the Musical
Unlike, say, a film such as Oliver Stone's Wall Street, Clueless has the rare good fortune of clearly representing its historical moment without coming off as a creaky relic. Writer/director Amy Heckerling set her 1995 film in a sort of alternate reality, where the fabulously rich teens of Beverly Hills (already its own parallel universe) reference Kenny G and Christian Slater while dropping hyper-intelligent aperçus disguised as Valley Girl slang. Light on its feet and funny as hell, Clueless was in the '90s but not of the '90s.
Tagged: The New Group, Signature Theatre, Pershing Square Signature Center, Amy Heckerling, Kristin Hanggi, Kelly Devine, Curtis Russell, musical
With two plays Off-Broadway this year, playwright Ngozi Anyanwu and director Awoye Timpo are quickly becoming a creative power couple. The Homecoming Queen at Atlantic Theater Company saw a novelist return home to Nigeria after years away, while Good Grief, which has just opened several blocks east at the Vineyard Theatre, explores the lives of Nigerian immigrants to the U.S. through their children.
Papa (Oberon K.A. Adjepong) and NeNe (Patrice Johnson Chevannes) rekindle their romance in Hgozi Anyanwu's Good Grief. Top: N (Anyanwu) and MJ (Ian Quinlan) as their younger selves.
Making everyone else feel lazy, Anyanwu also leads the cast of Good Grief as Nkechi, a young woman whose sprightly energy masks a deep seam of pain. Growing up in ultra-white Bucks County, Pa., Nkechi and her brother Bro (Nnamdi Asomugha) have always felt out of place, but the death of MJ (Ian Quinlan), Nkechi's soulmate, has struck them both in ways they can neither fully understand nor articulate. Parents Papa and NeNe (Homecoming Queen vets Oberon K.A. Adjepong and Patrice Johnson Chevannes) are doing the best they can to understand Nkechi's pain, but the generational and cultural divide may be too wide.
Anyanwu's play mostly avoids the clichés that tend to reduce stories of death to stages-of-grieving checklists. Good Grief acknowledges the fickleness of memory by jumping around in time and doubling back on certain scenes, to show first how Nkechi (who goes by "N" since people have a hard time saying her name) wishes certain events happened, versus how they actually happened, inevitably in much more mundane, messy fashion.
N drops out of pre-med following MJ's death, but she isn't sure if it was just a convenient excuse to leave something she was only doing to please her parents. This is familiar ground for second-generation immigrant stories, but the tropes are made fresh by Timpo's magical-realist direction, which favors natural, relaxed speech but concedes that even reality often feels unreal, especially when experienced through the prism of extreme emotional duress. Timpo and sound designer Daniel Kluger together create the play's most moving scene by having N's sobs emanate from the stage speakers instead of N herself, who cowers in a corner. This experience of sadness, as though viewed from outside oneself, is immediately familiar and heartbreaking.
Set designer Jason Ardizzone-West further divorces N's memoryscape from tangible reality by rendering rural Bucks County without a single tree or hint of nature. The set is all steel girders and sliding panels of augmented pegboard. Like Ardizzone-West's Emmy-winning design for this year's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, the set serves primarily to sculpt and bend Oona Curley's lights. Yet small stabs of realism, such a stereo playing Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "Tha Crossroads," anchor meaningful moments with a kind of solidity, as with all forms of nostalgia.
N and JD (Hunter Parrish) release long-buried emotions. Photographs by Carol Rosegg.
Pop-culture nostalgia is actually the emotional currency for the younger characters in the play. In a single scene, N and Bro reference The Wire, Clarissa Explains It All, The Hulk, Coach Carter, Lean on Me, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, "Conjunction Junction," and DRS's 1993 tribute to fallen friends, "Gangsta Lean." These throwbacks are more than conversation fodder for the characters, though; they are landmarks that continue to define their self-image. Anyanwu seems to be suggesting, though without any reinforcement from the production itself, that it is this very adherence to pop culture totems that keeps N and Bro from properly dealing with their pain, and not their perceived difference from their white town. (And the play does go to great pains to imply that this difference is illusory, down to the inclusion of a nice white boy, JD, played by Hunter Parrish.)
The only "good" grief on display in Good Grief is Papa and NeNe's. Though their Nigerian identity isolates them from their Americanized children, it also has allowed them to thrive while their children flounder. As N sobs upstairs, Papa and NeNe dance and rekindle their affection. It's not cruel indifference, just hard-won perspective. "Go back to school," Papa advises N. "Do first, feel second."
Good Grief ends on a note of cosmic rejuvenation which the play, for all its creativity, never quite earns. In the end, grief is grief and there are really only two endings likely: triumph or capitulation. N is the play's lodestar, but by framing her existence almost entirely through the men in her life, the outcome feels increasingly arbitrary. N deserves to be more than her sadness. Grief can be good or bad, but it isn't necessarily interesting.
Ngozi Anyanwu's Good Grief plays through Nov. 18 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th St.). Evening performances are at 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, and at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Matinees are at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For tickets, call (212) 353-0303 or visit vineyardtheatre.org.
Tagged: Ngozi Anyanwu, Awoye Timpo, Vineyard Theatre, Curtis Russell
Musical, Reviews
Two very different Nobel laureates haunt Conor McPherson's The Girl from the North Country: Bob Dylan and Samuel Beckett. If Dylan's music, which provides the emotional framework of this unorthodox jukebox musical, seems an odd fit for the Beckettian limbo in which McPherson has ensconced his characters, that's just a testament to the worlds contained in Dylan's songs.
Tagged: Public Theater, Conor McPherson, Bob Dylan, Curtis Russell
Reviews, Comedy
Emma and Max
Todd Solondz is one of the few white, male enfants terribles of '90s American independent cinema to maintain the incisive edge that made his reputation. While contemporaries such as Richard Linklater, Gus Van Sant and Steven Soderbergh have built careers out of the ideological compromises that come with a Hollywood budget, Solondz has paid the price for his obstinacy, making only eight films in nearly 30 years and moving to the margins of culture. For most people, Solondz is the man who made a pedophile sympathetic in 1998's Happiness, but his true signature is the ability to cut through identity politics to expose the fear, anxiety, and depression at the center of the American dream.
Tagged: The Flea Theater, Todd Solondz, Curtis Russell
Reviews, Drama
Like many teenagers in the late 1980s and early 90s, Heidi Schreck was obsessed with Patrick Swayze. Unlike many teenagers, Schreck earned money for college by winning speech contests in American Legion halls across the United States. What the Constitution Means to Me, Schreck's reimagining of those speeches, is less about America's founding document than the country's history of violence against women. The play's humdrum title is misdirection. What the Constitution Means to Me is feminist agitprop autobiography masquerading as civics lesson, not blurring the line between the personal and the political but denying that such a line ever existed.
Mike Iveson as a member of the American Legion in What the Constitution Means to Me. Top: Heidi Schreck makes the political personal.
The play plants its femme-centric flag with preshow songs like Ariana Grande's "God Is a Woman" and Dua Lipa's "New Rules," with the lyric "I keep pushin' forwards but he keeps pullin' me backwards." These he's dominate the stage, with row after row of photos of pale, stale, and male veterans lining the walls of Rachel Hauck's Legion Hall set, reconstructed more from Schreck's memory than precise research. The play is not anti-veteran, but neither does it equivocate about the primary source of violence against women. In fact, Schreck implicates the whole audience in this violence, or at least invites them to consider their complicity, by pretending to be her American Legion onlookers. "You are all men," she says, though Schreck's ultimately hopeful play implies that the condition is not terminal, and might even be treatable; Mike Iveson, who joins Schreck onstage as the competition arbiter, eventually removes his costume to reveal his "true" self, which Schreck hopes can represent "positive male energy."
What the Constitution Means to Me is built on such fluctuations of identity, with Schreck slipping in and out of character as her younger and current selves. Her conversational introduction engenders an easy and immediate intimacy with the audience. Raised to be "psychotically polite," Schreck is a generous, responsive entertainer, tailoring her performance to the crowd's humor and at one point waiting for an overwhelmed patron to leave before continuing a story of abuse. Hers is no vanilla presence, however; after a few more walkouts, she conceded that "those of you who are still here seem to be nice." Schreck spends most of the evening playing her current self, so What the Constitution Means to Me might be more appropriately termed a stand-up routine than a play.
This obscuring of identity, so well-suited to the theater, at once broadens and limits the play's scope. The stories of Schreck's great-grandmother, a mail-order bride from Germany who died of "melancholia" in a mental institution at age 36, and her mother, who was repeatedly sexually abused, are affecting and horrifying. Yet it is never apparent if Schreck is speaking as herself or as the version of herself created for this play, and when she conjures tears at her ancestors' trauma, it's hard to not feel like the audience is being taken for a ride, or at least instructed how to feel.
Rosdely Ciprain debates the Constitution's virtues. Photographs by Joan Marcus.
The play's coup is the inclusion of a high-school-age debater from New York City; Rosdely Ciprain and Thursday Williams alternate in the role. Though the debater doesn't enter until late in the show, her arrival brings the hope that allows Schreck to cope with the "staggering facts of violence against women." Schreck and her young companion engage in playful scripted debate, again uneasily walking the "real"/performed divide, but the vision of young, diverse womanhood leading the charge is undeniably moving.
To call What the Constitution Means to Me timely is to state the obvious, yet it's sheer theatrical serendipity that this play, long in development, should come out right when the confirmation of a new Supreme Court Justice is affirming our country's ugliest tendencies. There is no period in the history of this country, though, in which its anti-patriarchal message would not be timely; that's the whole point. Schreck demonstrates again and again that women's bodies, just like those of African-Americans and all immigrants deemed "bad," have been left out of the Constitution from the beginning. At the end of the play, Schreck and the young debater model community-building by asking each other questions submitted by audience members. Yet despite the evening's timeliness, its optimism feels increasingly ingenuous. The play's final line, "Are we done?" spoken by the young debater as a comedic throwaway, is chilling in ways the play neither intended nor can do much about.
Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me plays through Oct. 28 at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E. 4th St.). Evening performances are at 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturday; matinees are at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, with a special 7 p.m. closing performance on Oct. 28. For tickets and information, visit nytw.org.
Tagged: NYTW, Heidi Schreck, Constitution, Curtis Russell
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire has lived many lives since Caryl Churchill wrote it 42 years ago. The piece's ambition is grand, but its scope is intimate, allowing for immense freedom of interpretation. Director Rachel Chavkin's revival at New York Theatre Workshop focuses on its chamber roots as an ensemble piece for six actors.
Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Rachel Chavkin, Vinie Burrows, Evelyn Spahr, Curtis Russell, New York Theatre Workshop
Comedy, Musical, Reviews
Jerry Springer: The Opera
It's almost quaint to remember the pearl-clutching inspired by The Jerry Springer Show in its late-1990s heyday. The daytime tabloid presented America as a bottomless basket of deplorables, with any number of people willing to air their dirty laundry in public for a chance to be on TV. Though our current political circus offers more than enough trashy tragicomedy, the still-running Jerry Springer Show once claimed the corner on tacky, made-in-America escapism.
Tagged: Signature Theatre, Terrence Mann, Will Swenson, Curtis Russell, John Rando
Reviews, Solo Performance, Drama
In the Body of the World
The Manhattan Theatre Club stage at City Center is giving off major Disney World Jungle Cruise vibes these days. Birds call over the syncopated groove of Nigerian percussionist Solomon Ilori's 1963 deep cut "Tolani (African Love Song)" as patrons enter the theater. There's a Tara Buddha statue downstage right, some Persian rugs, a scarlet chaise lounge and some cushions on the floor, and the proto-Afrobeat music morphs into the Middle Eastern goblet drums and chirpy marimba that have been cornerstones of "world music" for decades. It's almost disappointing when no chipper, punning Adventureland employee pulls up to take you downriver.
Tagged: Eve Ensler, Diane Paulus, City Center, Manhattan Theater Club, Curtis Russell
Comedy, Reviews, Drama
Signs of the decline and fall of the American Empire are everywhere visible, but perhaps nowhere more than in the Rust Belt, which has decay and depression hammered right into its nickname. Detroit may be its most potent symbol, but this ribbon, stretching from New York to Wisconsin, is peppered with towns both large and small that have never quite recovered from the trauma of deindustrialization.
Tagged: Greg Pierce, Second Stage Theater, Kate Whoriskey, Anna Chlumsky, Adam Pally, Becky, Becky Ann Baker, Stephen Park, Curtis Russell
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box
For the past half-century, Adrienne Kennedy has carved out a unique niche for herself in the American avant-garde. Her one-act plays, such as Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), A Rat's Mass (1966) and Ohio State Murders (1992), are dense with allusions to pop culture, especially the movies, and fascinated with European royalty. Though riffing on Shakespeare and Greek tragedy, they are often semi-autobiographical, animated by Kennedy's experiences as a black woman in America but shaded by her time abroad in Ghana and London. Elliptical and surreal, they cut right to divisions and hypocrisies at the heart of American society. He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Kennedy's first new play in a decade, may be her most narratively straightforward work yet, but even at a svelte 45 minutes it is no easily digestible scrap.
Tagged: Adrienne Kennedy, Evan Yionoulis, Theatre for a New Audience, Curtis Russell, Juliana Canfield, Tom Pecinka
Harry Clarke
Billy Crudup has built a career playing charming rogues in films like Almost Famous, Eat Pray Love, and last year's 20th Century Women. It makes perfect sense when his character is revealed as (11-year-old spoiler alert!) the real villain of Mission: Impossible III because Crudup is credible as both hero and villain; there's always a hint of psychosis underpinning his boy-next-door looks. He's indulged this duality in his stage roles as well (The Elephant Man, The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia), but none has exploited the dark under his light as successfully as Harry Clarke, David Cale's new one-man show at Vineyard Theatre.
Tagged: Billy Crudup, Vineyard Theatre, Leigh Silverman, Curtis Russell
Musical, Reviews, Drama
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk are the Rihanna of musical theater. Just as the Barbadian pop goddess releases hit song after hit song while selling relatively few albums, Kerrigan and Lowdermilk are less known for their plays than for their individual tunes, which have gained them a rabid online following. Their contemporaries Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land) have conquered Broadway and Hollywood, but Kerrigan and Lowdermilk have connected with the millennial fan base like no other musical theater writers; they're the official composers of the Internet. Now, several of their conversationally catchy pop songs have found their way into the long-gestating original musical The Mad Ones, playing at 59E59 Theaters.
Tagged: 59E59, Kerrigan and Lowdermilk, Stephen Brackett, Curtis Russell
The boy who wouldn't grow up has become the character who won't die. J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan has been endlessly staged, filmed, remixed, twisted, and contorted since its 1904 premiere at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, and the insatiable Pan pangs show no sign of ceasing. Bedlam's current adaptation at another Duke, on 42nd Street, is the second Peter Pan–inspired show to run on the Deuce this season.
Tagged: Bedlam, Peter Pan, Eric Tucker, The Duke on 42nd Street, Curtis Russell, Brad Heberlee
The Home Place
The "home place" in the title of Irish playwright Brian Friel's 2005 drama is Kent, England, where the family of widowed landowner Christopher Gore (John Windsor-Cunningham) originated. Gore, residing in Ballybeg, Ireland, speaks of Kent as a paradise lost, though he's never really lived there. He and his son David (Ed Malone) administer their Irish estates with an uneasy liberality toward their tenants, made all the more uneasy by the recent murder of another local English landlord.
Tagged: Irish Repertory Theatre, Charlotte Moore, Rachel Pickup, Curtis Russell
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat has called it "an 18th-century solution to a 21st-century problem." New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio has vowed to shutter it in the next decade. Most people don't think about it unless they're flying out of LaGuardia, but many don't have that luxury: Rikers Island, the bête noire of the East River, is one of the largest and worst prisons in America and a hotbed of violence and neglect. Stephen Adly Guirgis' 2000 play Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, in revival at Signature Center, aims to counteract that neglect and remind its audience of the discarded, forgotten lives behind its iron gates.
Tagged: Signature Theatre, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mark Brokaw, Curtis Russell, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train
Duke Vincentio of Vienna doesn't have time to sit and chat. He's got a dukedom to observe in disguise. "Our haste from hence is of so quick condition," he says at the start of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, "that it prefers itself and leaves unquestioned matters of needful value." Elevator Repair Service's gaga production of the play at the Public Theater is in as big a hurry as the Duke, but achieves the opposite effect: it tears through the niceties of Shakespeare's plot only to screech to nearly a full stop in the scenes of highest tension, ensuring that none of the most meaningful fragments of "needful value" passes unheard, if not unfelt.
Tagged: Public Theater, Measure for Measure, Elevator Repair Service, Curtis Russell, Scott Shepherd, Rinne Groff, Pete Simpson, John Collins


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Will exercise all options to win decisive battle against Pakistan: India
FILE PIC: DD News
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India will exercise all options, diplomatic or otherwise, to win a decisive battle against Pakistan which is responsible for the Pulwama terror attack.
Describing Pakistan as a rogue state, he said it is not acting against perpetrators of the attack, though the guilty have themselves admitted to the attack.
Referring to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech, Mr Jaitley said, when a man sitting in Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack, what evidence does he need.
Addressing a Global Business Summit in New Delhi, Mr Jaitley said India is extremely angry today.
Three terrorists killed in encounter in Pulwama
Security forces kill two terrorists in J&K's Pulwama district
J&K: Security forces arrest four Jaish-e- Muhammad terrorists in Pulwama
Abdul Hameed Lelhari one of three terrorists killed in Pulwama encounter: DGP J&K
Non-local labourer killed by suspected militants in J&K's Pulwama district
An unidentified militant killed in Kashmir's Pulwama district
Centre committed to ensure maritime security: Defence Minister
Four terrorists gunned down in Pulwama district of J&K
Polling in Pulwama, Shopian districts on May 6
4 Terrorists killed in encounter in Pulwama district of J&K

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What a little jetsetter! Penelope Cruz totes gorgeous son Leo as she and Javier Bardem arrive in London
By Sarah Bull
Updated: 12:10 EST, 13 January 2012
He may not yet be one year old, but Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem's son Leo is already a little jetsetter.
The 11-month-old has done his fair share of travelling given then his parents split their time between Los Angeles and Spain, as well as moving around the globe for various film roles.
And today Leo was seen arriving in London with his famous parents, as they pulled up to a London hotel with a group of friends.
What a little jetsetter! Penelope Cruz toted her gorgeous baby boy Leo as the family arrived in London
While Penelope, 37, looked slightly harassed as she toted her gorgeous baby boy, she still managed to look stylish in jeans and leather jacket.
Gorgeous: The little boy turns one on January 22nd
Javier, meanwhile, donned a padded jacket and flat cap as the pair arrived in the London capital.
Little Leo, who will be celebrating his first birthday on January 22nd, is the first child for both Penelope and Javier.
And, in a recent interview, Penelope spoke about how becoming a mother has changed her life.
She explained: 'From the first second, you feel so much love. It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it.'
She also told Vogue: 'It transforms you completely, in a second.
'Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment, when you see that face, you are transformed forever.'
Penelope and Javier are believed to be in London because the actor is filming scenes for the upcoming James Bond movie Skyfall.
The Spanish star will be playing the as-yet-unnamed villain in the 23rd Bond film, which will see the return of Daniel Craig as British spy 007.
Happy families: Penelope and her husband Javier Bardem were seen arriving at a London hotel
Stylish as ever: While Penelope looked slightly harassed, she still looked trendy in jeans and a leather jacket
Penelope Cruz totes gorgeous son Leo as she and Javier Bardem arrive in London
'Racist' postman filmed on doorbell using horrific slurs


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Q: Cannot get SURF example in EMGU.CV to work? I am trying to detect a pattern shown in two images. Hence I have been trying to use the SURF algorithim found in emgu.CV, but the "SURFFeature" example that is given gives me the following error:
    An unhandled exception of type 'Emgu.CV.Util.CvException' occurred in Emgu.CV.dll

Additional information: OpenCV: norm == NORM_L1 || norm == NORM_L2 || norm == NORM_HAMMING

Any ideas how to fix this?
When I try the "Hello World" example and the face detection example, both seem to work fine.
Thanks for any advice!
Fouad.
PS: Emgu.CV can be downloaded from here: http://www.emgu.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

A: Apparently the build was messed up.
http://www.emgu.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=74

Aha, found it.  The error here is in Emgu.Cv.Gpu/GpuBruteForceMatcher.cs lines 22 and 27.
Line 22 currently reads:
   L2Dist,
It should read:   L2Dist = 4,
Line 27 currently reads:   HammingDist
It should read:   HammingDist = 6

Rebuild the Emgu.CV.Gpu dll with those changes and it works.

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Bacterial pathogens such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) have to cope with fluctuating oxygen levels during infection within host gastrointestinal tracts. The global transcription factor FNR (fumarate nitrate reduction) plays a vital role in the adaptation of enteric bacteria to the low oxygen environment. Nevertheless, a comprehensive profile of the FNR regulon on the proteome level is still lacking in S. Typhimurium. Herein, we quantitatively profiled S. Typhimurium proteome of an fnr-deletion mutant during anaerobiosis in comparison to its parental strain. Notably, we found that FNR represses the expression of virulence genes of Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1) and negatively regulates propanediol utilization by directly binding to the promoter region of the pdu operon. Importantly, we provided evidence that S. Typhimurium lacking fnr exhibited increased antibiotics susceptibility and membrane permeability as well. Furthermore, genetic deletion of fnr leads to decreased bacterial survival in a Caenorhabditis elegans infection model, highlighting an important role of this regulator in mediating host-pathogen interactions.
Zhen Wang, Jingjing Sun and Mengdan Tian contributed equally to this work.
The online version of this article ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-019-02145-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
We thank the members of the Liu and Yan laboratories for the critical reading of this manuscript. This work was financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21475005 and 21622501), Clinical Medicine Plus X-Young Scholars Project of Peking University, and the Thousand Young Talents Program to XL, and the Hong Kong University Research Council General Research Fund (17127918) and Shenzhen City Knowledge Innovation Plan (JCYJ20160530174441706) to AY.


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Q: Why my classifier is not working well for new data (data which has not taken as dataset)? My dataset has copd documents as positive data(86) and malaria(20) + diarreha(20) + elephantiasis(20) as negative data.So total documents in my dataset is 146 where 86 as positive and 60 as negative.I have taken ratio of training: testing is 3:1.ngram-range is (1,1).And also I removed all numeric features from the features list.I am taking tfidf of features as input.I am using naive bayes algorithm for training and testing.Accuracy= 89%, Precision= 84%, Recall = 100%. Now I am taking new documents for testing outside of my dataset. Where 20 documents are positive(copd) and 20 documents are negative ( which are not in our dataset i.e. disease which is not in our dataset)
Now it is predicting almost all documents as positive Or we can say the accuracy get decrease with large value. My question is what is wrong I am doing here? Why my classifier is not working well for new documents?
Any type of help will be appreciated.

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The White Sox are attempting to attack their needs at second base.
The South Siders have expressed interest in acquiring Kansas City Royals infielder Nicky Lopez via trade, according to a report from The Athletic.
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As of this writing, the White Sox' plan is to roll with Romy Gonzalez, Lenyn Sosa and utility man Leury Garcia in the position. But, back in early January, Rick Hahn mentioned the potential of addressing the position outside the organization.
"If, in the end, we're choosing from Romy and Lenyn, with Leury as a potential backup – that's something we certainly feel gives us an opportunity to win, but at the same time isn't going to necessarily preclude us from looking at ways to get better," Hahn said in early January.
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Joe Biden Admits More Gun Control Wouldn't Have Stopped Synagogue Attacker
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Unfortunately looking at the turboR schematics, it seems /CSREG (Chip Select of IO Address / Data Register) is hardwired to 5V (H), so the internal extension register can't be accessed…
The details on the instruction pipelining are also interesting.
Note I put the translation I posted on the previous page on the MSX Assembly Page, where I will maintain it from now on. It also includes the translated pipelining figure.
By lintweaker
Nice find! Good to see more of the R800 specs getting unlocked.
By ARTRAG
Interesting... How does 24bit addressing should work ?
r800 pinout:
The address bus is 16 lines A0-A15, I see also data lines D0-D7
What is MA13-MA23 ?
And DA0-DA10?
By sd_snatcher
Japanese MSX user Kinnoji managed to unearth a copy of the R800 User's Manual and posted a few photos
That's fantastic, Grauw! Let's hope he scans and share the entire document as you requested, even if he said that it's not usual for Japanese people to do this kind of thing.
I do not know if they are interested in sharing it, in this post on twitter he does not seem very interested.
erpirao wrote:
Note that although it's included in Kinnoji's tweet, this R800 schematic picture comes from the Panasonic FS-A1GT service manual, not the R800 user's manual.
One of the pictures in Kinnoji's second tweet gives the English description of these pin names (incomplete but these are amongst them). The turboR service manuals have the Japanese names.
In English: Mapper Address Bus. Japanese: DRAM Address Bus.
Page size seems to be 8K. How the R800's internal mapper works exactly I don't know (the description wasn't among the pages Kinnoji shared), but I think if you read the Z280 and 80286 manuals it should give some general idea.
The mapper registers are not accessible on the turboR. However they are used as inputs when the Z80 in the T9769C is active and the R800 operates in slave mode, to give full external access to the entire DRAM. This is probably why the service manual refers to it differently, and has no mention of mapper.
@graw:
You're right, it's on page 20 of the TurboR GT manual.


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UN report details Israeli war crimes in Gaza
By Jean Shaoul
The report into Israel's war on Gaza last summer by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) found that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during Israel's war on Gaza last summer.
But while some newspaper headlines may give the impression of equal blame, the UNHRC's commission of inquiry nevertheless highlighted the disproportionate nature of the killings—2,251 Palestinians of whom 1,462 were civilians were killed and 11,231 injured, compared to just 67 Israeli soldiers along with 6 civilians killed and 1,600 injured.
In its citation of evidence illustrating the lack of symmetry in Israel's and Hamas's policies and practices, the report provides a devastating indictment of Israel's 2014 war against the Palestinians, a war whose genocidal conduct was deliberate, not accidental, and determined at the highest level of government.
The investigative commission based its report on more than 280 interviews and more than 500 written testimonies and evidence gathered in an 11-month inquiry. Israel refused to allow the investigative team into the West Bank or Gaza.
The commission's work was further hampered by pressure from both Tel Aviv and Washington for the removal of the study's chairperson, the Canadian academic William Schabas, whom they accused of bias against Israel as he had carried out consultancy work for the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Another member of the panel, US jurist Mary McGowan Davis, considered more pro-Israeli, replaced him.
The commission will formally present its report to the UNHRC on June 29 in Geneva.
Notwithstanding the switch of its chairperson, the report demonstrated the brutal nature of the war carried out by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). It found that Israel's response to rocket fire from Gaza was disproportionate and could amount to a war crime, warranting a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The timing of the report is significant, as it coincides with the Palestinian Authority's first submission to the ICC, which is conducting its own preliminary inquiry into allegations against Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes an examination of Israel's conduct during the 2014 Gaza war. An ICC team will travel to Israel later this month to investigate.
The UN commission determined that the death and destruction carried out by Israel in Gaza were not isolated events but followed in an ever more brutal fashion the war crimes and atrocities of previous wars on Gaza and Lebanon. It was "concerned that impunity prevails across the board for violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law allegedly committed by Israeli forces." It called on Israel to break with its "recent lamentable track record in holding wrongdoers responsible."
Despite the mounting civilian death toll, "The fact that Israel did not revise its practice of airstrikes, even after their dire effects on civilians became apparent, raises the question of whether this was part of a broader policy which was at least tacitly approved at the highest level of government."
Israel made "extensive use of weapons with a wide kill and injury radius. Though not illegal, their use in densely populated areas is highly likely to kill combatants and civilians indiscriminately."
The report dismissed the IDF's warnings to Gaza's residents before launching airstrikes, as Israel considered that everyone remaining in the area after such warnings were combatants.
During ground operations in Gaza, the IDF killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. There were a particularly high number of casualties around Shujaiyeh and during the "Black Friday" operation in Rafah, after an Israeli soldier was thought to have been kidnapped. Justice McGowan Davis commented that "when the safety of an Israeli soldier is at stake, all the rules seem to be disregarded."
Crucially, the commission indicated that the upper echelons of the Israeli political establishment, including the prime minister, minister of defence, former IDF chief of staff and head of Israel's southern command, were responsible for the policies that led to some of these war crimes.
Needless to say, there was not a word of remorse from Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Instead, he accused McGowan Davis of "inciting and agitating against Israel."
"Israel doesn't commit war crimes, but defends itself from a terrorist organisation which calls for its destruction," he declared.
State Department spokesman John Kirby refused to comment on the UNHRC's report, saying the United States had concerns about the investigation's methods and the potential for bias.
Netanyahu threatened the Palestinians with new wars, saying, "We will not sit idly by. We'll continue to act with strength and decisiveness against all those who try to harm us and our citizens and we'll do so in accordance with international law."
He was furious that the commission had sought to point the finger of blame not just at the IDF, but at his government.
For years, Netanyahu has delayed the implementation of recommendations from a committee headed by Israel's former Supreme Court judge Jacob Turkel, which conducted an inquiry into Israel's policies on investigating allegations of war crimes. Turkel's committee directed the government to confirm that Israeli law has fully adopted international legal standards regarding war crimes and that ban torture. He also recommended attributing direct criminal responsibility for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity not just to military commanders but also government officials for crimes committed by their subordinates.
Netanyahu's failure to implement these recommendations has led to bitter altercations between the military and political establishment, with the military accusing the government of being "hung out to dry."
Israel had sought to pre-empt the UNHRC by commissioning its own report exonerating the military of all crimes and misconduct. It also got the Friends of Israel Initiative to sponsor a group of top US and European military brass and political leaders to state that Israel's conduct during the 2014 Gaza war was fully compliant with international law.
The UNHRC's report, following countless similar reports about Israel's war crimes, testifies to the political dead-end of the entire Zionist project, whereby a capitalist state based upon religious discrimination and the expulsion and subjugation of the Palestinian people already living there could provide a safe and just haven for the Jewish people after the horrors of the Holocaust. Netanyahu represents an isolated and demoralised ruling class that has lost its head and has no answer to the crisis it confronts other than increased authoritarianism, brutality, militarism and war.
Notwithstanding the nationalist propaganda that Israel represents all those of the Jewish faith, it is a society divided by class, led by a handful of billionaires and venal politicians, and beset with massive social antagonisms.
The repeated turn to mass killings of a genocidal character serves to deepen the revulsion and hostility toward Zionism throughout the Middle East, around the world and among Jewish workers in Israel itself, and discredits Israel's backers, the US and European imperialist powers. It poses the urgent necessity of uniting Jewish, Palestinian and Arab workers across national and sectarian barriers in the fight against imperialism, Zionism and the Arab bourgeoisie, and for a socialist federation of the Middle East as part of the struggle to put an end to capitalism on a world scale.
Netanyahu—unable to form a government—threatens new Israeli elections
Faculty at Chicago's DePaul University condemn professor's anti-democratic, militarist comments on Middle East
Netanyahu agrees a ceasefire with Hamas—for now
Israel pounds Gaza, stoking fears of invasion
Palestinian leader of campaign to boycott Israel denied entry to US
Mass protests against police shooting of Ethiopian Israeli
Israel to set pre-election austerity budget
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Fresh Israeli elections after Netanyahu fails to form a government
War in Gaza
Israeli military kills four Palestinians in Gaza protest
Israel mounts savage air bombardment on Gaza
Israeli terror raid provokes new clashes in Gaza
More deaths and maiming of Palestinians amid latest "ceasefire"
Israel carries out new strikes on Gaza
War Drive in the Middle East
After alleged UK tanker incident in Persian Gulf, EU powers threaten Iran
Royal Marines seize Iranian tanker under orders from US
War threats mount as Iran exceeds limit on enriched uranium stockpile
EU meeting on Iran ends with no agreement to prevent US war
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Stepping Up: How Cities Are Working to Keep America's Poorest Families Housed
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Having a place to call home is a signature component of the American dream. But for far too many people, finding safe, decent, affordable housing is extremely stressful. The United States simply does not have enough affordable housing. And nationally, the situation is only getting worse.
This story is not about just counting homes. The affordable housing shortage has real consequences for families because millions of them pay more than they can afford to have a place to live, often at the expense of food, health care, and other necessities.
For extremely low-income families—those households earning no more than 30 percent of their area's median family income—this pain is severe.
According to data from the Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), only 28 of every 100 extremely low-income renter households in the United States were able to find decent, affordable homes in 2013. This stark decline from 2000, when 37 of every 100 could find housing, reflects both a loss of units and an increase in extremely low-income families.1
Without federal housing assistance, the situation would be even worse: the share of families who could afford adequate housing in 2013 would have fallen to 5 percent.
The first federal programs to tackle housing affordability were created in the late 1930s. Over the next decades, those programs allocated resources to big cities with big needs.
Since the 1990s, however, federal resources devoted to housing extremely low-income renters have slowed. And growing cities—mainly in the south and west—have suffered.
The national picture could get bleaker. In recent years Congress has cut, and shown additional interest in trimming, federal spending for housing assistance programs.
The data's message is clear. No matter where you look , federal programs are not enough. As a result, state and local governments must do everything they can to preserve existing affordable housing units while finding ways to produce more.
Counties around the country face their own challenges when addressing affordable housing needs. These variations exist, in large part, because counties have different federal, state, and local assets to work with. Both the tools and counties' ability to wield them reflect particular histories, political climates, and levels of local engagement.
Suffolk and Travis Counties—homes to Boston and Austin—are very different. The most obvious difference is that Massachusetts is very supportive of affordable housing, while Texas is not. Another is that Boston benefits from its legacy of federal rental assistance, while Austin has experienced more recent growth and is unable to keep pace with rapidly increasing need. But both are using multilayered strategies—some proven, some promising—to tackle their local affordability challenges. And both are determined to face an increasingly daunting task.
1. The research used the household as the unit of analysis. "Household" and "family" are used interchangeably in this feature.
(Photo above) The Brooklyn borough of New York is shown in this Tuesday, April 20, 2010, aerial photo. Mayor Bill de Blasio has an ambitious plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10 years for lower-income New Yorkers, a staggering number that would house more people than such cities as Atlanta or Minneapolis. Photo by Mark Lennihan/AP.
The Strength of a Legacy
On the border of the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury and Dorchester, neatly tucked between the orange, red, and silver commuter train lines, sits a classic red-brick building accented with white windowpanes. Inside the Wilshire Apartments' 29 units live 20 extremely low-income families who receive a federal housing subsidy known as Section 8 project-based rental assistance.
In Boston, this program helps families who generally earn less than 30 percent of the area's median income—$29,550 for a four-person household in 2015—pay for rent and utilities. These families are typically much poorer than that: on average, Boston households receiving HUD programs had $16,261 in income in 2013.
If not for the efforts of Boston's affordable housing community working in concert with dedicated local, state, and federal partners, the families living in the Wilshire Apartments would not be Section 8 beneficiaries. Instead, the building likely would have been snapped up on the open market years ago and converted into market-priced apartments that these families could never afford.
Building new properties in Boston that can meet affordable housing needs is difficult; construction is generally expensive, and vacant property is hard to find. Plus, this older, congested northeastern city has very tight zoning restrictions.
Aerial view of the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury in 1925. Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Thus, finding multilayered and creative strategies to keep existing housing affordable, reimagine it and the land it sits on, and expand it to serve more extremely low-income families have been central and persistent goals for the key housing players in the city and state.
To be sure, the county's success to date is hard-earned and by no means accidental. Despite these efforts, nearly half of Suffolk's extremely low-income families lack affordable housing.
Right Place, Right Time
Thanks to the state's deep commitment to affordable housing, Suffolk is the top-performing large American county when it comes to providing housing for extremely low-income families. Another four Massachusetts counties place in the top 10 large counties with the smallest affordable housing gaps.
Suffolk was able to provide affordable and adequate housing for nearly 51 percent of its 74,262 extremely low-income families in 2013. This share is almost double the national average, and it's nearly 3 percentage points better than the county was able to perform in 2000.
This is definitely a good news/bad news kind of issue. It's all relative. These five Massachusetts counties, including Suffolk County, are doing better than the rest of the country, but the fact is the best is still pretty poor.
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Executive director, Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC)
The seeds of Massachusetts's relatively strong performance were sown in the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s. During these four decades, the state became an early beneficiary of HUD's programs, developed effective state-run platforms, and created CEDAC to help produce and preserve affordable housing.
Under HUD's fledgling programs, the federal government offered financial incentives for developers to build affordable housing; in return, the developers committed to keeping that stock reasonably priced for several decades. Section 8 project-based assistance and federal low-income housing tax credits were critical resources added later to the state's affordable housing toolkit.
Massachusetts also invested its own resources. It created state public housing and state housing voucher programs, both entirely distinguished from their federal counterparts. The state also crafted its own low-income housing tax credit program during the late '90s. Massachusetts even put together state financing for affordable housing—similar to HUD's Section 236 program—called Section 13A.
Boston Housing Authority map of Archdale Road Housing Development, circa 1950s. Photo courtesy of City of Boston Archives (CC BY-NC 2.0).
"The state has historically, and continues to, put money into affordable housing, into vouchers, and into state public housing, which isn't the norm across the country," said Rebecca Koepnick, director of neighborhoods and housing at the Boston Foundation.
Given these opportunities, many counties in Massachusetts, including Suffolk, went all in. During those early decades, Boston built as many as 40,000 units for low-income and extremely low-income households.
Waves of Risk
Though HUD's programs and Massachusetts's willingness to use them boosted the number of affordable housing units in Boston early on, before long a significant portion of this supply came under threat.
The deals struck by housing developers and HUD allowed developers to pay off their mortgages after 20 years and rent the units on the open market, with no further requirements to lease to low-income tenants.
By the late 1980s, many Boston neighborhoods—including those with HUD-subsidized units—had recovered from the economic stress of previous decades. Many developers were tempted to opt out of the HUD programs and rent to higher-paying middle-class tenants looking to move back into the city.
This temptation to opt out was assuaged with national measures that created new incentives for developers to stay committed to their deals with HUD. But Boston took it even further. This first crisis prompted the development of what has become a very strong network of organizations—such as CEDAC—working to preserve affordable housing in the capital city.
"The preservation interest was triggered, particularly, by the circumstances of high rents and programs running out of contract terms, such that the housing was at a risk," said Amy Anthony, who was the secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development from 1983 to 1990. "We hit that sooner than most places, because we had such active early development on the private developer side in early federal programs."
Anthony is the founder of the Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH), a nonprofit developer working in nine states and the District of Columbia to preserve and improve affordable housing.
South Boston triple-deckers are seen in the foreground with the downtown Boston skyline looming in back, Wednesday, January 15, 2003. Photo by Elise Amendola/AP.
Nonprofits, together with smaller developers known as community development corporations, mission-driven for-profit developers, and some financial intermediaries, form a strong fabric of organizations working in Boston to buy at-risk properties, expand their capacity, and ultimately keep them affordable.
This is an amenity few other cities have, and it has been helping Boston since the first wave of risk crested.
A second wave of risk followed in the late 1990s, when a lot of housing units with HUD Section 8 project-based rental assistance came up against their agreement expiration dates. City and state officials, CEDAC, and the developers collaborated, strategized, organized tenants, and negotiated with private owners. As a result, much of the project-based housing stock was preserved using available public resources.
A third wave of risk is playing out now. Agreements are again approaching the limits of their 40-year mortgage terms, and Boston is again having to find ways to meet this challenge.
With declining federal funds for public housing, the Boston Housing Authority is looking for support outside its normal ecosystem. Using a HUD program known as the Rental Assistance Demonstration, the authority is looking to lure more private-sector dollars into public housing.
"I am, quite frankly, very disappointed that the feds have taken a hike on funding [public housing]," said William McGonagle, administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. "Having said that, I would say that I am cautiously optimistic that through this vehicle we can … find ways to invest in public housing and maintain affordability over the long term."
McGonagle also hopes to build in long-term affordable housing guarantees whenever public lands are leased to private builders looking to develop residential buildings.
Another asset that allows Boston to navigate this ever-perilous risk of losing affordable housing is an early warning system set up and managed by CEDAC.
The system is essentially a fine-tuned database that provides detailed information about all the publicly financed, privately owned affordable housing in Massachusetts. Using this information CEDAC, the state, Boston, tenant organizations, and developers can strategize about the best time to buy expiring affordable housing and preserve it.
Girma Bealy, a member of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, talks on his cell phone during a break between plenary sessions at the Housing Boston 2012 conference in Boston Friday, April 27, 2007. South Boston and the financial district, in the distance, are shrouded in fog and rain. Photo by Stephan Savoia/AP.
Boston has another thing going for it: the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, CEDAC, and the MacArthur Foundation in 2009 created a fund that provides bridge loans to affordable-housing buyers looking to preserve properties, so they can act quickly when the alarms go off and these properties come to market.
An additional edge: the state legislature in November 2009 passed a law known as Chapter 40T that—among other things—gives the state the "right of first refusal" when owners of affordable housing properties are selling them without a commitment to maintaining affordability. In other words, the state gets first dibs if it wants to preserve the affordable housing.
Chapter 40T's presence was integral to preserving the Wilshire Apartments for extremely low-income families. The apartments are about to be renovated and upgraded, but their future as stable homes for those in need is secure going forward.
Policy tools and the savvy players in Massachusetts and Boston that figured out how to combine and use them have led to Suffolk's relative success. This legacy of benefits was available to counties like Suffolk because they were population centers when public investment came online and was significantly greater than it is today. For cities and counties that have grown large since that time, it is a whole different ball of wax.
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There is a certain grittiness about Manchester that makes it seem like an unlikely place for writers to flourish. Writing about Paris, Baudelaire said, "You gave me mud and I have turned it to gold". As any Mancunian could tell you, there is no shortage of mud – or puddles – in Manchester. Indeed, it is its very grittiness that inspires writers.
It is no coincidence that there is a strong preoccupation amongst Manchester-based authors with industry and its social impact. While Baudelaire's Paris was being rebuilt by Haussmann, Manchester was still in its infancy, the textile boom absorbing surrounding villages into one big, noisy hub of industry. "Manchester," wrote Jeanette Winterson, "spun riches beyond anybody's wildest dreams, and wove despair and degradation into the human fabric".
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South tells the story of a young woman, Margaret Hale, who leaves her rural southern home for Milton, a northern industrial city based on Manchester. Besides being an unflinching account of the city's poverty and cruelty, it is a love story. Margaret overcomes her prejudices and falls in love with the North – and with mill owner John Thornton. Gaskell, though critical of the dehumanising aspects of the industrial revolution, writes about the industrial North with affection and a degree of understanding, unlike Charles Dickens, who presents it in a more negative light in Hard Times.
Manchester's literary heritage is not confined to industry. Although the working class remains a recurrent theme, more recent authors have branched out to explore all aspects of the human experience. Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange is a chilling vision of a futuristic society wrought with violence and governed by a repressive totalitarian state. With the success of the film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick, it became a cult classic.
Jeanette Winterson's experience of growing up in the North led her to write a rather different novel: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is about growing up with a highly religious, domineering, adopted mother – and a silent father – in Accrington, a small town outside of Manchester. In it, Winterson plays with the form of the Old Testament, using memory and one-sided storytelling to describe complicated relationships.
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Q: pytest passes in pycharm but fails from command line I have a number of test classes wtih one specific one containing 12 tests.  Two of these tests pass within pycharm but not in powershell.  One of them is this:
    def test_create_block_when_called_returns_correct_no_jbs(self):
        designer = BlockDesigner(CsvStore(self.config), FakeRouter(), self.config)
        block = designer.create_block("BK1")

        result = len(block.junction_boxes)

        assert result == 10

It passes perfectly from within pycharm.  When run outside, it fails on the assert criteria:
>       assert result == 10
E       assert 9 == 10

This would suggest it gets a different setup from the command line than when run inside pycharm.  This test class has a setup_method that instantiates the required config files and am specifically careful to get the current paths since these tests also run in DevOps:
    def setup_method(self):
        self.path = str(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.absolute())
        self.config = Configuration(self.path + "/test_config.yml").get_config()

I have a similar problem with one other test in this test class but all other 10 using the same setup, passes on the command line.
First time I have ever encountered this.  Is there something I am missing in the setup_method perhaps?

A: OK, so it was indeed a config setup issue.  These errors are annoying and was completely mine.  There was an additional config file path that I had to pre-fix with str(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.absolute()).  An oversight.