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Shale motherlode brings world of change
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Philip Whalen
Range Resources
A fracking operation in Washington, Pa., has brought a demand for workers from across the country, and has suddenly transformed a sleepy Pittsburgh suburb into a boomtown. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times) more >
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Sunday, May 22, 2011
First of two parts
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Earlier this year, Phillip Whalen packed his bags, left his home in Louisiana and set up shop in western Pennsylvania.
The 15-year oil and gas industry veteran said work has dried up around the Gulf of Mexico, in part because of the fallout from the BP PLC oil spill last year. In what has become a kind of reverse national oil rush, Mr. Whalen said, his motivation for heading north to this small community 20 miles south of Pittsburgh was simple.
"I'm doing what I have to do to keep a roof over the head and pay the bills," the grizzled family man said early one morning. He was dressed in a blue jumpsuit and was smoking a last cigarette outside his hotel before heading off to work.
His company, T3 Energy Services, sent him to Washington, the economic epicenter for exploiting what many think is the nation's path away from dangerous dependence on foreign oil.
Big energy companies have set up shop here to tap the Marcellus Shale, a massive chunk of marine sedimentary rock stretching from the Finger Lakes region of New York as far south as Kentucky and Tennessee, holding within its subterranean grip vast deposits of natural gas.
Technology that essentially uses extreme water pressure to crack open the rock and liberate the natural gas within so that it can be pumped to waiting pipelines has given mining and energy companies access to the plentiful supply of shale oil and gas in recent years.
Proponents tout so-called "hydraulic fracturing" or "fracking" as the key to satisfying the nation's booming energy appetite — using reliable, domestic sources — for a century or more. Critics warn that the procedure is dangerous, an untested technology that opens the way for mysterious chemicals to seep into water supplies, while leaving unsuspecting residents of small towns and rural hamlets vulnerable to environmental and economic disruption.
Either way, the industry has and continues to transform small western Pennsylvania outposts such as Washington, Hickory and Canonsburg from sleepy communities to boomtowns and has changed the national conversation about how we heat our homes and power our vehicles.
"All the sudden you've found yourself with an abundant source of energy … and, by the way, it's made in America," Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and homeland security secretary, said in an interview. Mr. Ridge now serves as an adviser to the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a fraternity of natural gas drilling outfits.
The new Houston
Analysts estimate that the shale contains between 168 trillion and 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, buried as deep as 9,000 feet below ground. Pennsylvania, where the nation's first oil well was drilled in Titusville in 1859, has become the new Houston of the shale business and drilling has skyrocketed in recent years.
In 2007, drillers had 27 wells tapping the Marcellus Shale in the state. The number shot up to 161 in 2008 and to 785 in 2009. Last year, a record 1,445 wells were drilled — a 53-fold increase in four years. This year, 399 have been drilled as of March 31, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The multibillion-dollar energy corporations drilling those wells have moved in as neighbors to residents in and around Washington, Bradford County and other parts of western and central Pennsylvania. Companies such as Fort Worth, Texas-based Range Resources, one of the largest players in the industry, are putting big checks in the pockets of landowners who lease their acreage for wells. The leases typically last as long as the well produces gas, often for 50 years. Many of the landowners are farmers, who get hefty royalty checks each month in exchange for allowing access to their land.
Mark Wolfe, who owns 22 acres in Mount Pleasant Township, said he was approached by Range Resources agents in 2008. He soon signed a lease with the company.
"I said, 'For the good of the farmers, let's roll with it,' " he said. "We carried on life as usual. I slept at night" during the process.
When the wells are completed and pumping gas around the clock, it's back to business for the landowners. Cows graze just outside many of the sites. Farmers tend to the land and mow their pastures. The only difference is that they're usually riding top-of-the-line tractors, financed with gas royalties.
For Mr. Wolfe and many others in these parts, Marcellus Shale is not just a household term; it has become a way of life. Rig operators head to local bars and restaurants after their 12-hour shifts. Hotel rooms are booked weeks or months in advance, with transient workers such as Mr. Whalen making them their temporary home away from home.
Many of those employees work two or three weeks straight without a day off. The grueling schedule allows them to fly home and see their wives and children during the off weeks.
Getting noticed
But for all its prominence in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, the Marcellus Shale region remains an unknown commodity in Washington, D.C.
"Nobody is hardly mentioning natural gas down here. Nobody in this town is talking natural gas," said Mr. Ridge, sounding almost bewildered as he lamented the nation's lack of a comprehensive energy policy.
That is slowly changing.
Congress now has a Natural Gas Caucus dedicated to promoting the fuel's viability. It was co-founded last year by Rep. Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania Republican.
A Marcellus Shale Caucus, co-founded by Rep. Mark S. Critz, a Democrat who represents Washington County, and Rep. Tom Reed, New York Republican, is in the works.
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens and other energy moguls have launched public relations campaigns on behalf of natural gas, pushing for vehicle retrofitting and service station upgrades to take advantage of the Marcellus Shale. Some major companies, such as Waste Management Inc., have invested in natural gas fleets. Mr. Ridge said many others will follow suit, especially facing skyrocketing prices at the gas pump.
Many still have reservations, and protests are common outside gas company offices. When drilling is on its way, township meetings are often contentious.
The local resistance is driven by a lack of knowledge, industry backers say. Insiders also acknowledge that they haven't done enough to address some local concerns.
"We suffer from some self-inflicted wounds," said Range Resources spokesman Matt Pitzarella. "We've not been proactive enough as an industry to provide the answers. We used to fly below the radar. That doesn't work anymore. If people have questions and you don't address those questions, you're viewed as having something to hide. And, at that point, anybody can fill that vacuum" with misinformation or politically motivated attacks.
Demystifying the process
One way companies are trying to win over the public is by talking more openly about the processes they use to extract natural gas and to deconstruct the mysteries of fracking.
Using the procedure, companies pump huge volumes of a water, sand and chemical mixture into the ground at tremendous pressure, shattering the rock that traps the gas. They work with subcontractors to set up water lines to and from the sites, a cheaper alternative to running thousands of tanker trucks back and forth to supply the millions of gallons needed for a single well.
Throughout the operation, layers of piping and concrete line the well, which is meant to keep the fracking fluid from contaminating vital water supplies.
The frack job, as insiders call it, is a round-the-clock operation, with 35 to 50 employees at the site day and night. Workers eat on site, with catered meals provided by their employer. They leave only to sleep.
At the heart of the entire operation is the frack van, filled with millions of dollars of technical equipment measuring pressure, depth and a multitude of other factors. Inside, Shawn Hodges and other employees keep an eye on everything.
"It's a very small surface area [we're drilling], but a lot of gas," said Mr. Hodges, a completions-operations manager who has been in the industry for 25 years and has worked on more than 4,000 wells.
In the old days, drilling was purely vertical. While still profitable and effective, the vertical shafts could tap only a tiny potion of the field, requiring large numbers of rigs and huge swaths of land to exploit a find. With each rig, the risk of an accident increased.
Now, companies are able to incorporate horizontal drilling. After drilling the vertical well — typically about 6,500 feet down — operators can branch out horizontally, usually at a distance of about 3,000 feet but sometimes much farther. This allows companies to extract gas from a much larger area from a single well site, decreasing land needs and maximizing efficiency.
Range officials concede that the initial process is "noisy and dirty" but stress that it's only temporary. A year after first putting the drill into the ground, land is nearly back to normal. Mr. Wolfe's land, for example, has been restored, with the exception of the well pad, the leftovers from the drilling process that pump gas from the ground and into pipelines.
From those pipelines, the gas heads to market and is sold to homes and businesses in Ohio, Kentucky and many other states. Marcellus Shale companies say they will have one advantage over other fracking centers because of lower transportation costs to the densely populated Northeast and mid-Atlantic markets.
Manning the pumps
To run a safe, effective operation, companies such as Range need competent employees. Increasingly, the talent is homegrown.
At the Western Area Career and Technology Center in Canonsburg, not far from Washington, director Joseph Iannetti has instituted programs geared toward the natural gas industry.
Like Mr. Whalen, some adult students come from across the country to learn the skills needed for jobs that pay, on average, about $75,000 a year.
"From my research, we'll walk out of here and have a job," said Pat Champ, a quiet, out-of-work carpenter from Wisconsin who left the Badger State to find work in the natural gas industry. He sat inside the small classroom with two other students. The class is expected to grow along with the process.
Mr. Champ's optimism is not misplaced. Mr. Iannetti said companies recruit students before they finish the programs, which include a vocational technology offering for high school students and an adult course for Mr. Champ and others.
"When we first heard about this, we thought it was science fiction," Mr. Iannetti said of the Marcellus Shale and the fracking process. "There's excitement [in western Pennsylvania] again. This is not a flash-in-the-pan industry."
He said his school has a 92 percent placement rate. Many graduates head to well sites, working for Range or one of its many competitors. But, Mr. Iannetti said, companies need more than well drillers.
There is high demand for electricians, welders, truck drivers, excavators and even accountants.
It isn't for the faint of heart. It's hard work, exactly the kind western Pennsylvanians are used to after the mighty rise and sudden fall of iron and steel operations, Mr. Iannetti said.
For the nation, it's an opportunity to revolutionize energy policy. For workers, it means a good paycheck in an exciting field, accompanied by backbreaking work and weeks at a time away from home.
"It's a rough lifestyle, staying away from your family," Mr. Whalen said, growing angry when asked about those who demonize the industry and argue that it cares only about money.
"You just have to protect the environment. That's my job," he said.
• Ben Wolfgang can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.


"News" piece on 70 study committees proposed by the 120th Legislature, 34 of which were funded to the tune of $113,000. Last session, about $130,000 was budgeted for studies.
Curl, Aimee L., ""News" piece on 70 study committees proposed by the 120th Legislature, 34 of whi" (2001). Maine News Index – Maine Times. 5314.


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The Rise and Fall of a Theatre Geek
The Rise and Fall of a Theatre Geek by Seth Rudetsky
2015, paperback
Broadway, New York. The shows, the neon lights . . . the cute chorus boys! It's where Justin has always wanted to be--and now, with a winter internship for a famous actor, he finally has his chance to shine. If only he could ditch his kind, virtuous, upright, and--dare he say it?—uptight boyfriend, Spencer. But once the internship begins, Justin has more to worry about than a cramped single-guy-in-the-city style. Instead of having his moment in the spotlight, he's a not-so-glorified errand boy. Plus, Spencer is hanging out with a celebra-hottie, Justin's best friend Becky isn't speaking to him, and his famous actor boss seems headed for flopdom. Justin's tap-dancing as fast as he can, but all his wit and sass might not be enough to switch his time in New York from nightmare-terrible to dream-come-true terrific.
Seth Rudetsky's second YA novel is endearingly human, laugh-out-loud funny, and for any kid who's ever aspired to Broadway but can only sneak in through the stage door.


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ELLA (JOHNSON) BURNS (b. 1856 – d. 1935)
Ella (Johnson) Johnston Burns was born on March 17, 1856, in Elm Grove, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, the daughter of Lloyd L. and Mary (Percail) Johnson. On August 25, 1874, she married rancher James Bower Johnston in Austin, Minnesota. Their children were Margaret Barney Johnston (December 5, 1876) and James Clinton Johnston (June 28 - September 23, 1878). When the 1880 census was taken, the family was living in Waterloo, Lyon County, Kansas.
Ella came to Prescott, Arizona Territory, from Del Norte, Colorado, in September 1895.  The available sources do not explain if she was living by herself at this time or with her husband. She earned her living by giving piano lessons and painting portraits of prominent citizens of Prescott. Ella was living in National City, San Diego County, California when the 1900 census was taken;  she listed her marital status as widow and occupation as artist.
On June 2, 1906, in the Episcopal Church in Prescott, she married Michael G. Burns, a mine owner and member of the Territorial Legislature. The Prescott Morning Courier dated June 4, 1906, described Ella's talent: "Mrs. Johnston is the well known artist of this city, whose paintings have called forth so much favorable comment."  Michael died March 23, 1912, at  Mercy Hospital in Prescott.  Following the sudden death of Michael, Ella was appointed to several state offices by George W.P. Hunt during his long tenure as governor of Arizona.
Ella was active in several women's groups and instrumental in forming social clubs for women. As statehood approached, she worked with Frances Munds of Prescott and others to include woman's suffrage in the Arizona Constitution. However, delegates to the constitutional convention voted against woman's suffrage because they feared that President Taft would not approve an Arizona constitution that granted women the right to vote.  Following statehood, Ella collected signatures in Yavapai County for an initiative to amend the Arizona Constitution giving women the vote. This amendment passed by a wide margin in the general election in November 1912.
Both the 1920 and the 1930 census enumerated Ella in Phoenix; however a newspaper article published  June 1, 1940, in the Prescott Evening Courier column  titled "Twenty Years Ago," stated, "Mrs. J. E. Hanna of Phoenix is spending the summer in Prescott with her friend Mrs. Ella Burns.  Mrs. Burns spent the winter in Phoenix. and this is a return call.  These ladies claim they have found the ideal style of life.  Prescott in summer and Phoenix in winter."
Ella entered the Arizona Pioneers' Home on March 3, 1931, where she died November 27, 1935, after being bedfast for almost two years. She is buried in Mountain View Cemetery next to her husband Michael.
Donor: Dewey E. Born, 1996
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2018 Predictions & Recommendations: The Ransomware Plague Is Just Beginning
by Josh | Dec 21, 2017 | Latest News, Palo Alto Networks
It's not exactly a no-brainer, but the success of ransomware in 2017 leads us to a logical prediction that more successful ransomware attacks will continue to plague organizations in 2018. These attacks will increase both in volume and sophistication, which will make it even more challenging for security vendors of yesteryear to prevent these attacks and fulfil their basic promise of protecting their customers.
It isn't just legacy vendors that are challenged, however. Ransomware causes headaches for shiny "next-gen" products that rely heavily on detection-and-response capabilities because, once ransomware has evaded prevention techniques, the damage has already been done: files/folders are encrypted, and the business is impacted. (But hey, if you need a pretty process tree, they're your vendor.) Rollback features are the equivalent of rolling the dice, crossing your fingers and hoping for the best, which is not a strategy.
Ransoms Beyond Bitcoin
Mao Tse-tung allegedly said, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." While it's a stretch to say ransomware will produce the same result, in 2018, ransomware motives will shift to increasingly political, instead of commercial, gains. The business model for ransomware has been simple: as an attacker, I'll hold your files or folders hostage (encrypt them), and you pay me money (in the form of cryptocurrency). In 2017, we observed attacks that used ransomware, but the motives were political, rather than commercial, in nature. In March 2017, RanRan was a ransomware variant in the Middle East that, instead of money, demanded the victims speak out against a political leader in the region through the creation of a website. In 2018, we anticipate more uses of ransomware attacks that go beyond commercial. In another recent example, NotPetya focused its encryption, not on files and folders that could be later decrypted after payment but instead encrypted the Master Boot Record, crashing systems.
Ransomware for the Masses
According to our latest Unit 42 threat intelligence report, Ransomware: Unlocking the Lucrative Criminal Business Model, ransomware variants are increasing, with total numbers at least 150, if not hundreds more. Another reason driving this increased volume is how much easier it is to launch attacks. Given that cybercriminals with limited technical skills can execute these attacks, making it even more convenient and reducing the barrier to launch attacks, ransomware as a service has become a viable way to launch ransomware attacks (think having to leave the house and shop vs. order from DoorDash). In 2018, unfortunately, the number of successful ransomware attacks will continue to increase, and couch potato cybercriminals will be successful.
Down, Z, Up, X, A, Y, B, C
Do that on an Super Nintendo back in the day, and voila! Your sophisticated "Street Fighter II" champion codes were enabled. Now, think of something similar happening for ransomware. In 2017, a sophisticated set of tools was leaked by a group called The Shadow Brokers, which claimed the tools had been created by a U.S. government entity for offensive operations. These tools were quickly leveraged by attackers in some of the most talked-about attacks of 2017. We had already seen innovative distribution models used in ransomware attacks, including exploit kits, macros, malicious DLLs and others. In addition, kernel exploits were heavily used in these attacks, making them even more difficult for security vendors to prevent. (Learn how kernel exploits work.)
Keep On Keepin' On
Self-propagation of ransomware attacks will likely continue. The combination of worm-like capabilities as a way to rapidly distribute ransomware has been proven and wildly successful. From a business perspective eliminating any friction needed to propagate the attack makes good business sense, which is why this type of ransomware worm will likely continue in 2018 and beyond.
More Platforms
While 2017 was a quiet year for Mac-specific ransomware, in 2018, we can expect the volume of Mac ransomware to increase. A ransomware attack has already targeted OS X hosts – KeRanger, which Unit 42 identified in 2016 – and given the increase in Mac usage, the attractive targets Mac users make, and with additional tools and the commoditization of ransomware, it's a good bet we'll be hearing more about organizations getting hit with ransomware targeting Macs.
As we mentioned upfront, based on the success in 2017, it doesn't take Nostradamus to see that ransomware will continue in 2018. In fact, we believe adversaries will begin expanding their mission to more sophisticated attacks and targeting more platforms. Ransomware will likely continue as a thin veneer to more dangerous attacks that go through legacy security solutions like a hot knife through butter. The only defense is a coordinated security system that works together where endpoints communicate with firewalls to automatically convert threat intelligence into prevention at both locations, regardless of where a threat is first discovered. This level of integration also enables SecOps to correlate threat events and conduct forensic investigations using data from endpoints, firewalls, and global threat intelligence in ways that may not be possible with disparate security products.
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ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Blues Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced Tuesday the club has re-signed forward Adam Cracknell to a one-year contract extension.
Cracknell, 26, has played in two games for the Blues this season, recording a goal in his season debut on Dec. 26 vs. Dallas. He was named captain of the Peoria Rivermen earlier this season and has appeared in 64 games recording 46 points (20 goals and 26 assists).
Last season, the 6'2, 210-pound forward dressed in 24 games and notched 7 points (3 goals, 4 assists) for the Blues.
Cracknell has played in 26 National Hockey League (NHL) games, all with St. Louis, registering 8 points (4 goals, 4 assists) and eight penalty minutes.
The Prince Albert, Saskatchewan native was originally signed by the Blues as a free agent on July 23, 2009.


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An American Photojournalist is Suing a Qatari Bank for Allegedly Aiding His Kidnappers in Syria
Matthew Schrier, who was captured by Al-Nusra Front in 2012, is accusing Qatar Islamic Bank of directly funding a charity that funneled money to terrorist groups in Syria.
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Saadallah Al-Jabiri Square in Aleppo in the aftermath of three car bomb attacks on October 3, 2012 (Wikimedia Commons)
Matthew Schrier, an American photojournalist who was captured by Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, is suing a Qatari bank for allegedly funding the activity of his kidnappers.
Schrier, a New York-based independent photojournalist who traveled to Syria to cover the country's civil war, was captured by Al-Nusra fighters in December 2012 on his way out of the country after 18 days in Aleppo.
In a federal lawsuit filed in Florida on Monday, January 13, Schrier claimed that Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) provided services to individuals involved in his capture and directly funded a charity that funneled money to terrorist groups in Syria. He is seeking damages of an unspecified amount.
Schrier alleges that Al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham relied on QIB to provide financial services to an international network of donors and charities that helps fund their operations. He also claims that the bank donated a substantial sum to Qatar Charity, a known Al-Qaeda funder and supporter of the rebel group Ahrar al-Sham.
The claim says the bank allowed the Qatari citizen Sa'd Al-Ka'bi to open an account in the name of his minor son and use it to funnel money from donors in Qatar and around the world to Al-Nusra. In 2015, Al-Ka'bi was targeted by the US State Department for facilitating financial services that support Al-Nusra and the Qatari branch of Al-Qaeda.
Qatar Islamic Bank has not yet responded to Hyperallergic's request for comment.
Schrier's court complaint lays out in grim detail the torture and abuse that he endured during his 221 days of captivity.
"The Front subjected Mr. Schrier to horrific conditions and extreme psychological and physical abuse," the federal complaint says. "He was beaten and tortured on at least ten occasions, often by teams of terrorists, threatened multiple times with summary execution, and forced to observe and hear the torture of other prisoners."
"[Schrier] was deprived of water and food, held in rooms that were freezing cold or boiling hot, without light or ventilation, and denied access to bathrooms for days at a time," the complaint continues. "He contracted food poisoning and an internal infection, both untreated, and was infested by bed bugs. He often thought he was going to die in captivity, or wished for death, and described reaching 'a place beyond depression.'"
The complaint adds that Schrier was later handed over to Al-Nusra's ally group, Ahrar al-Sham. "The conditions were no better. Ahrar al-Sham interrogated Mr. Schrier on several occasions. They deprived him of water, crammed him into a too-small, poorly ventilated cell with other prisoners, and beat other prisoners in front of him," the complaint says.
Schrier says that the kidnappers were adamant about proving that he worked for the American government. He describes two occasions in which Al-Nusra tortured him to extract a false confession that he was an undercover CIA agent.
Schrier says the kidnappers also stole his debit and credit cards and used them to buy items for thousands of dollars. At one point, he says, they threatened to force him to drive a truck loaded with explosives into one of their targets.
In March 2013, Schrier converted to Islam to gain favor with his captors, a move that partially improved his imprisonment conditions. In July of that year, he escaped his captors by squeezing out of a basement window. He became known as the first Westerner to escape from al-Qaeda.
In 2018, Schrier published a book about his kidnapping experience titled The Dawn Prayer (Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison): A memoir.
Schrier is seeking damages under the Anti-Terrorism Act, pursuant to legislation from 2016 that allows American citizens injured by an act of international terrorism to press charges in a district court. They can sue to recover threefold the damages they sustain and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees.
"QIB knew or should have known the Nusra Front was assaulting Americans in Syria by torturing them," the complaint says. "QIB acted willfully, wantonly, recklessly, or with deliberate disregard to the Nusra Front's assault on Americans in Syria, including Mr. Schrier."
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Bless you today with sunshine and hope as we enjoy the first few days of spring.
I've seen rain, snow and sleet and sun as I traveled across Washington and Idaho into Montana and back again.
This weekend, I'm in Spokane Valley at the Inland Northwest Christian Writer's Conference.
This morning, I attended the "Live Free, Write Free" session taught by James L. Rubart.
He played a clip from the 1991 film, Defending Your Life written and directed by Albert Brooks. I loved this quote from the movie.
The thing that stops us from living free and writing free.
I have nothing to say in my writing.
It is just no good.
I've been dealing with fear all my life.
Fear of standing up for myself.
But God is not the author of my fear. The enemy of my soul wants me to be afraid.
2 Timothy 1:6-8 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Through my friend James L. Rubart, God reminded me today to trust Him to help me live free of fear so I can write free and be who God has called me to be.
Let's help each other to live free of fear so we can be used by God to bless others.
What fears keep you from living free?
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Review - Stroke Diaries
A Guide for Survivors and their Families
by Olajide Williams
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
Jul 26th 2011 (Volume 15, Issue 30)
Stroke Diaries is a book about stroke. The author, Dr. Olajide Williams, is an Associate Professor of Neurology, at Columbia University; Williams is also the Associate Director of Neurology, at Harlem Hospital Center. As described in the "Introduction", the book is a collection of clinical experiences, each inspired by a real patient. In that sense, the book is Williams' personal stroke diary. The clinical experiences anecdotally forming the textual tapestry are interwoven conspicuously with strands of emotionally riveting narrative, humanistic concern, uplifting spiritual recognition, and philosophical type musing. Although the substantive contents are composed partly of relatively technical material, the writing of Williams is notably quite lay reader friendly. For readers interested in learning about stroke, the experience of reading this book should be highly instructive, in a practical sense, sobering, but also inspirational.
Structurally, the book is comprised of four "parts", configured into seventeen "episodes". Characteristically, in the respective episodes, Williams anecdotally describes his clinical and personal interaction with a particular stroke patient. Selected biographical facts about the patient are anecdotally described as well. At an episode's end, there is characteristically a structural section ("Comment"), in which Williams presents some relatively technical material tied tightly to the episode's substantive corpus.
Following the text is a "Bibliography", in which Williams, on an episode by episode basis, provides citations (alphabetized by author last name) for germane research materials.
Numerous "Figures" and "Tables", embedded in the textual terrain, contribute importantly to the book's instructive value.
Also grafted into the text's body, with animating effect, are a multitude of anecdotally quoted fragments of conversation.
The book's substance is suffused with practical information, pertaining to stroke.
The reader is informed further of some of the extant gaps in medical knowledge relating to stroke.
In the part of the book (Part One) focusing on causes, prevention, and emergency treatment of stroke, there is instructively informative and practical oriented discourse extending to: types of stroke, risk factors, warning symptoms and signs, ways to reduce stroke risk, tissue plasminogen activator, cocaine as a risk factor for stroke, amphetamine related stroke, heroin abuse and stroke, aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, hemorrhagic stoke, and seizures.
In Part Two, Williams' intellectually sharp writing scythe cuts a considerable swath across the field of unusual and underrecognized stroke syndromes. Williams' blade of discussion cuts to: sleep-disordered breathing, obstructive sleep apnea, hemineglect, locked-in syndrome, akinetic mutism, man-in-the-barrel stroke syndrome, silent stroke, dementia, and whispering stroke.
In the book's third part, the substantive focus of Williams is on psychosocial and physical challenges after stroke. Among the subjects falling within the keenly discerning ken of Williams are: sex after stroke, post-stroke depression, post-stroke anxiety disorders, language recovery after stroke, walking after stroke, and caregivers.
Recovery from severe stroke garners the perspicacious attention of Williams in concluding Part Four. Among the topics garnering rapt attention are: stroke in babies, and the clinical phenomenon known as the Lazurus effect.
Cautious readers may caution that the frontiers of medical knowledge, with respect to stoke, continue to evolve; and that Williams, metaphorically, has taken a still photo, of a movie in progress.
There may be additional concern that the relatively small sample population of clinical experiences described by Williams may be unrepresentative of the full cohort of stroke patients.
From an academic perspective, it is noteworthy that: the substantive contents do not have the extensive research referencing characteristic of academic writing; the book's substance is substantially anecdotal in nature; and the contents of the book are relatively generalized and simplified.
The possible misuse of the book, by particular readers, as a surrogate for the professional counsel of qualified professionals, may further concern critical readers.
But the stroke clinical expertise as well as humanism and spirituality revealed, in lay reader friendly fashion, by Williams should be of greatly edifying interest to stroke survivors, as well as their family members and caregivers.
Williams' much evident knowledge of stroke likewise should be of great interest professionally to many professionals, including: neurologists, neurosurgeons, emergency room physicians, internists, primary care physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, speech pathologists, speech therapists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, physical rehabilitation specialists, public health professionals, neuroscientists, neurobiologists, medical ethicists, theologians, and philosophers.
© 2011 Leo Uzych
Leo Uzych (based in Wallingford, PA) earned a law degree, from Temple University; and a master of public health degree, from Columbia University. His area of special professional interest is healthcare. Twitter @LeoUzych


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Galen Rupp wins Chicago Marathon, ends U.S. drought
By Rachel LutzOct 8, 2017, 11:20 AM EDT
Galen Rupp won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, ending a 12-year U.S. men's victory drought. Rupp clocked a personal best 2:09.20 and was greeted at the finish by his wife and kids. Deena Kastor won in 2005, but the last men's winner was Khalid Khannouchi in 2002.
"To have a race like this where it all comes together, and to win in a city that means so much to me… it's just a great day," Rupp said, according to USA Track and Field. Rupp has a personal connection to Chicago: his father grew up in the city.
The Chicago Marathon was Rupp's fourth marathon attempt, though his career trajectory so far has started off with a bang. He won Olympic Trials in 2016 and then picked up a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics. He also spent time in between training for track events. His third attempt was in April in Boston.
Kenya's Abel Kirui and Bernard Kipyego finished second and third, respectively. Kirui, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist, came to Chicago as the defending champion.
Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba took the women's marathon title in a time of 2:18.30, followed by Kenya's Brigid Kosgei 1.53 seconds later. Rupp's training partner, Jordan Hasay, was third in 2:20.57. Chicago was Hasay's second-ever marathon attempt.
Back at the Boston Marathon, Rupp and Hasay were second and third, which marked the best U.S. combined male and female finishes at the world's oldest annual 26.2-mile race since 1985.
But now, with Rupp's victory and Hasay matching her third-place finish, a new benchmark has been set. This year's edition of the Chicago Marathon is also notable because it's the first time the U.S. has put male and female runners inside the top three since 1996.
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Deena Kastor withdraws from Olympic marathon trials
Deena Kastor won't try to make history at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials on Saturday.
Kastor, 42 and the last U.S. woman to earn an Olympic marathon medal (bronze, 2004), will not contest the 26.2-mile race in Los Angeles due to a recent glute muscle strain.
"I was diligent in resting, but my glute just won't settle down," Kastor said in a USA Track and Field press release.
If Kastor, the second-fastest U.S. female marathoner in 2015, had finished in the top three at the trials in Los Angeles (live on NBC and NBC Sports Live Extra on Saturday), she would have become the oldest U.S. Olympic runner of all time.
Kastor wasn't thought to be a contender for the Rio Olympics until Oct. 11, when she clocked 2:27:47 at the Chicago Marathon. It marked her best time since her American record 2:19:36 at the 2006 London Marathon.
With Kastor out, the list of female contenders shrinks. That list still includes the top four women from the 2012 U.S. Olympic marathon trials — Shalane Flanagan, Desi Linden, Kara Goucher and Amy Cragg.
Meb Keflezighi, 40, can become the oldest U.S. Olympic runner if he finishes in the top three in the men's race Saturday.
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U.S. Olympic marathon trials women's preview, contenders
By Nick ZaccardiFeb 8, 2016, 1:25 PM EST
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In a contrast from the men's race, the U.S. Olympic women's marathon trials outlook is not all that different from four years ago.
In 2012, Shalane Flanagan and Desi Linden (then Davila) entered as favorites to make the three-woman Olympic team and delivered a one-two finish in Houston.
Kara Goucher was certainly in the mix for an Olympic place as well, arguably a favorite to join Flanagan and Linden in the top three, and she did just that, taking third.
The younger Amy Cragg (then Hastings) and the older Deena Kastor (American record holder set in 2006) just missed, placing fourth and sixth, respectively.
Going into Saturday's trials (NBC and NBC Sports Live Extra, 1-4 p.m. ET), the four U.S. women who have clocked sub-2:28 since Jan. 1, 2014:
Shalane Flanagan — 2:21:14 (Berlin 2014)
Desi Linden — 2:23:54 (Boston 2014)
Amy Cragg — 2:27:03 (Chicago 2014)
Deena Kastor — 2:27:47 (Chicago 2015)
The biggest question again is who is favored to finish third. Seven top contenders, including four Olympians, are outlined below:
Shalane Flanagan
PR: 2:21:14 (Berlin 2014)
2014 Berlin Marathon — third place
2012 Olympics — 10th place
2012 Olympic marathon trials champion
2010 NYC Marathon — second place
2008 Olympics — bronze medal (10,000m)
2008 Olympics — 10th place (5000m)
2004 Olympics — first round (5000m)
Four years ago, Flanagan entered the trials with one marathon (a 2:28:40) under her belt (plus that decorated track career). She pulled away from Linden in the final two miles in Houston to win the trials by 17 seconds.
Now, Flanagan enters as the second-fastest U.S. woman ever, following a 2:22:02 with a 2:21:14, both in 2014. Linden is the only American within five minutes of those times in the last two years.
Her last marathon, Boston 2015, was not as fast — 2:27:47 — finishing as the second American behind Linden. Plus, she's dealt with "a lot of hiccups" in training, specifically back and Achilles pain, according to Runner's World.
Desi Linden
PR: 2:22:38 (Boston 2011)
2012 Olympics — DNF
2011 Boston Marathon — second place
Linden was second at the 2012 trials but pulled out of her Olympic debut 2.2 miles into the race with right hip pain that had affected her training, what would later be diagnosed as a femoral stress fracture.
It took more than one year to return to her top form after the London injury. Linden made it, finishing as the No. 1 American in her last two marathons — Boston 2015 (over Flanagan and Cragg) and New York City 2014 (over Kastor and Goucher).
2009 Boston Marathon — third place
2008 NYC Marathon — third place
2008 Olympics — 10th place (10,000m)
2007 World Championships — bronze medal (10,000m)
2004 Olympics — ninth place (5000m)
By qualifying times, Goucher enters the trials seeded No. 43 overall. The qualifying window was Aug. 1, 2013, through Jan. 17, 2016. Goucher's only marathon in that stretch was a wall-smacking 2:37:03 at cold-and-windy New York City 2014, her slowest career marathon.
But in her previous two marathons before 2013 and 2014 injuries, she finished in 2:26:07 at the Olympics (16 seconds behind Flanagan) and 2:28:11 at Boston 2013 (63 seconds behind Flanagan).
After the London Games, Goucher changed coaches, training locations and sponsors and underwent knee surgery. Optimism finally returned in November and December, when she won half marathons in 1:11:13 and 1:11:10, her fastest since 2012.
"This is literally a last chance for me," Goucher wrote on a Jan. 12 blog.
Amy Cragg
PR: 2:27:03 (Houston 2011, Chicago 2014)
At the 2012 trials, Cragg (then Hastings) was part of the four-woman lead pack through 19 miles before fading and finishing 71 seconds behind third-place Goucher, just missing the Olympic team. Not bad for her second career marathon.
"I cried every day for a month," Cragg said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Like Dathan Ritzenhein, she dusted herself off to make the Olympic team on the track in the 10,000m six months later.
Cragg failed to finish her 2015 marathon, in Boston, dropping out in the 22nd mile with leg cramps, her then-coach said, according to LetsRun.com. Unlike (her new training partner) Flanagan, Goucher and Linden, she has only one strong marathon finish since the 2012 trials (Chicago 2014),
PR: 2:19:36 (London 2006)
2006 London Marathon champion
2005 Chicago Marathon champion
2004 Olympics — bronze medal
2000 Olympics — first round (10,000m)
The American record holder and last woman to earn an Olympic marathon medal was thought to be done contending in elite marathons. Until Oct. 11, when Kastor clocked 2:27:47 in Chicago.
That made Kastor the second-fastest U.S. woman for the year (behind Linden). It was her first time breaking 2:30 in six years and her fastest time since her American record in 2006.
If Kastor can follow that up with a top three in Los Angeles (one day before her 43rd birthday), she will become the oldest U.S. Olympic runner of all time.
Kastor withdrew from the trials Wednesday, according to her social media.
Misiker Demissie
PR: 2:25:45 (Ottawa 2013)
The former Ethiopian runner has the best PR of the remaining field, though it came three years ago. Her qualifying marathon was a 2:29:03 in Shanghai in 2014. She also clocked an uninspiring 1:13:38 half marathon on Jan. 17.
"She's more of a long shot than what her PRs are," Scott Simmons, a coach in Demissie's training group, said, according to Runner's World.
Two more contenders given Kastor withdrawing:
Serena Burla
PR: 2:28:01
Burla is used to overcoming setbacks, most notably after having a cancerous tumor in a hamstring removed following a runner-up at the 2010 U.S. Half-Marathon Championships.
She came back for the 2012 Olympic trials and was in the lead pack of about eight nearly halfway through before collapsing between miles 18 and 19 due to hypoglycemia.
Undeterred, she chopped nearly seven minutes off her personal best at her next marathon two months later. She went another 26 seconds faster at Amsterdam 2013, a 2:28:01 that ranks fourth in qualifying times behind Flanagan, Linden and Cragg.
She'll likely need to be significantly faster than her two 2015 marathons — a 2:31:46 at Houston in January and a 2:31:06 at the World Championships in Beijing in August — to make her first Olympic team.
Annie Bersagel
The Norway-residing full-time lawyer posted the third-best marathon time in 2015 among women in the trials field, behind Linden and Flanagan. Bersagel, Linden and Flanagan are also the only U.S. women to go sub-2:29 multiple times in the last two years.
She clocked her 2:28:29 personal best at the Düsseldorf Marathon on April 26, despite falling around the 10km mark and injuring her knee. She underwent knee surgery two months later and returned to racing at a half marathon Dec. 13 and won the Star Wars Half Marathon at Disneyland on Jan. 17.
Bersagel tripped in the first mile of the 2012 trials, pulling a hamstring, according to Runner's World, and dropped out between miles 17 and 18.
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The waltzes represent compositions in the interesting area where the classical guitar meets the jazz guitar. Plamen Petrov's Seven Waltzes can be played both by the modern classical guitarist in traditional concerts as well as by the jazz guitarist who seeks new material as a basis for improvisations. The collection includes the following pieces: Blue Waltz, Night Waltz, September Waltz, Marts Waltz, June Waltz, February Waltz.


Mary Magdalene, or just Magdalene, of the New Testament, was one of the notable women of the bible who has become, in our day, the subject of unwholesome talk and destructive rumors for some.
The truth is, when we focus in upon the time period of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, Mary Magdalene is mentioned more than any other person, including Mary, the mother of Jesus! What a shock that must be to Catholics, who think the Mary they were taught of as being the sinless, co-redeemptress and sovereign Queen of the universe had, in reality, a less than prominent mention in Jesus' resurrection appearances!
Mary Magdalene had seven demons driven out of her (Mk. 16:9), but how she first got those seven evil spirits remains a complete bible mystery! Was Mary Magdalene once involved in the occult like so many others, who also got demons? Again we have no clue, but the Jesus and Mary Magdalene encounter led to an exorcism.
was the figure to Jesus' right in Leonardo's Da Vinci's (1452 -1519) famous Last Supper painting of the 15th century, and the basis of Dan Brown's fictional Da Vinci Code novel, which attacks Christianity.
only Mary Magdalene (Lk. 8:2) and the mad man of the region of the Gerasenes (Mark 5:1-13) are cited in the NT as having multiple demons exorcised by the Lord Jesus.
Some artistic pictures show Mary Magdalene as a defiant looking female adorned with jewelry and make up. As with pictures of Jesus, such images of Mary Magdalene are the result of an artist's imagination only and without scriptural backing.
No one knows what any of the people of the bible looked liked, including Mary Magdalene before or after finding Jesus. Certainly, the real Mary Magdalene who followed Jesus, was a woman who was not trying to get men to lust after her body and consequently dressed in an appropriate way. It is preposterous to believe any godly woman, seeking to enter God's kingdom, would dress otherwise.
As with many other religious myths, Pope Gregory the Great (540-604) started the myth that it was Mary Magdalene who anointed Jesus' feet with perfume. Pope Gregory also cited Mary Magdalene in conjunction with his invented list of seven deadly sins and the sin of lust. Again, there is absolutely NO basis for such a view of Mary Magdalene.
Dan Brown, author of the made-up Da Vinci Code, has Mary Magdalene being married to Jesus and the mother of his child! Brown also ludicrously thinks Mary Magdalene was the figure to the right of Jesus in the Last Supper painting by Da Vinci, which would mean nothing even if it was true, which it isn't!
Since there are only twelve people with Jesus in that painting, one must wonder which of the apostles does Brown exclude to fit in Mary Magdalene? Scripture shows only the Twelve apostles shared the last supper with the Lord Jesus (Mt. 26:19,20) without the slightest inference to Mary Magdalene or anyone else! In reality, only men were present.
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Q: How to find a control (textbox) that was created during rowCommand and get its value I have added a GridView to my webform. I then bounded data to the gridview programatically, followed by adding a RowDataBound function so that I can have each cell, in the gridView selectable as such:
 protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            LinkButton _singleClickButton = (LinkButton)e.Row.Cells[0].Controls[0];
            string clickInfo = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(_singleClickButton, "");
            // Add events to each editable cell
            for (int columnIndex = 3; columnIndex < e.Row.Cells.Count; columnIndex++)
            {
                // Add the column index as the event argument parameter
                string jsClick = clickInfo.Insert(clickInfo.Length - 2, columnIndex.ToString());
                // Add this javascript to the onclick Attribute of the cell
                e.Row.Cells[columnIndex].Attributes["onclick"] = jsClick;
                // Add a cursor style to the cells
                e.Row.Cells[columnIndex].Attributes["style"] += "cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;";
            }
        }
    }

...So then what i wanted to do is that whenever a cell is selected, turn that cell red and add a textbox so i can enter a value.. Shown below
<Columns>
<asp:ButtonField CommandName="CellClick" Visible="false" ControlStyle-   CssClass="redCell"></asp:ButtonField>
</Columns>

codebehind:
  public void GridView1_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.CommandName.ToString() == "CellClick")
        {
            //INDEX INFO
            int selectedRowIndex = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument.ToString());
            int selectedColumnIndex = Convert.ToInt32(Request.Form["__EVENTARGUMENT"].ToString());
            //TRIGGERS EVENT FOR SELECTED CELL
                    GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[selectedColumnIndex].Attributes["style"] += "background-color:Red;";
                    TextBox scheduleBox = new TextBox();
                    scheduleBox.CssClass = "redCell";
                    scheduleBox.ID = "ActiveCell";
                    scheduleBox.Width = 35;
                    this.GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[selectedColumnIndex].Controls.Add(scheduleBox);
                    scheduleBox.Focus();
            //LABEL INDEX INFO
            lblCell.Text = (selectedColumnIndex - 2).ToString();
            //LABEL HEADER & ROW TITLES
            lblStartTime.Text = GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[1].Text;

        }
    }  GridView1.DataBind();
    }

what I want to do now is once I press enter, get the value that currently resides in the texbox that was created programmatically and for now just display that value on a messagebox or whateevr (what Im really going to do is update a database but first I just need to find out how to get that value)
<asp:Panel runat="server" DefaultButton="Button1">
<asp:Button ID="Button1" CssClass="ActiveCell" runat="server" Style="display: none"     OnClick="Button1_Click1" /></asp:Panel>

and the function Im using is this:
protected void Button1_Click1(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        var schedule = FindControl("ActiveCell") as TextBox;
        ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, typeof(Page),
             "alert", "alert('VALUE GOES HERE FROM TEXTBOX');", true);
    }

So now my question: How can i get the value from ScheduleBox?

A: If I understand your question correctly, you should be able to use:
<%=schedule.ClientID %>.value

I am admittedly not a javascript expert, so let me know if that helps.
also, is the
var schedule = FindControl("ActiveCell") as TextBox;

returning the textbox correctly?
EDIT: if that doesn't work, try
<%=ActiveCell.ClientID %>.value

A: Have you tried looking into the controls of the cell of the selected row?
To work around the lack of a selectedColumnIndex in the GridView, I had to change your "GridView1_RowCommand" event to replace one line (to set the ID) and add one more:
            scheduleBox.ID = "ActiveCell_" + selectedRowIndex.ToString() + "_" + selectedColumnIndex.ToString();
            scheduleBox.TextChanged += scheduleBox_TextChanged;

It would look something like this:
int selectedColumnIndex = 0;
int selectedRowIndex = 0;
string lastUserInputText = string.Empty;

    public void GridView1_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.CommandName.ToString() == "CellClick")
        {
            //INDEX INFO
            selectedRowIndex = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument.ToString());
            selectedColumnIndex = Convert.ToInt32(Request.Form["__EVENTARGUMENT"].ToString());
            //TRIGGERS EVENT FOR SELECTED CELL
            GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[selectedColumnIndex].Attributes["style"] += "background-color:Red;";
            TextBox scheduleBox = new TextBox();
            scheduleBox.CssClass = "redCell";

            //This formats the ID so its unique, and now the TextBox contains the row and colummn indexes:
            scheduleBox.ID = "ActiveCell_" + selectedRowIndex.ToString() + "_" + selectedColumnIndex.ToString();
            scheduleBox.TextChanged += scheduleBox_TextChanged;

            scheduleBox.Width = 35;

            this.GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[selectedColumnIndex].Controls.Add(scheduleBox);
            scheduleBox.Focus();
            //LABEL INDEX INFO
            lblCell.Text = (selectedColumnIndex - 2).ToString();
            ////LABEL HEADER & ROW TITLES
            lblStartTime.Text = GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[1].Text;

        }
        GridView1.DataBind();
    }

//The following event gets the current index of the Row and the column where the user is changing the text
    void scheduleBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        TextBox txtSelected = (TextBox)sender;
        string[] selectedValues = txtSelected.ID.Split(new char[] { '_' });
        selectedRowIndex = int.Parse(selectedValues[1]);
        selectedColumnIndex = int.Parse(selectedValues[2]);
        //you could also use it to get the text directly while the user is editing it:
        lastUserInputText = txtSelected.Text;
    }

//This gets the text for the selected row and column. But if you only have 1 column with a TextBox it would be easier to just use the column index constant instead of doing it dynamically. However, remember you already have this value in the "lastUserInputText" variable. If you use that the following code may not be necessary:
string GetTextFromSelectedRowTextBox()
{
    string textBoxValue = string.Empty;
    foreach (Control curControl in this.GridView1.Rows[selectedRowIndex].Cells[selectedColumnIndex].Controls)
    {
        if (curControl is TextBox)
        {
            TextBox txtScheduleBox = (TextBox)curControl;
            textBoxValue = txtScheduleBox.Text;
            break;
        }
    }
    return textBoxValue;
}

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UK to introduce quarantine for international arrivals from June 8
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will introduce a COVID-19 quarantine for travellers arriving from abroad from June 8, interior minister Priti Patel said on Friday, a measure that airlines have warned will devastate their industry. All international arrivals, including returning Britons, will have to self-isolate for 14 days and provide details of where they will be staying under the plans, which were criticised by airlines, business groups and politicians alike. "Now we are past the peak of this virus, we must take steps to guard against imported cases triggering a resurgence of this deadly disease," Patel said at a news conference. Those who breached the quarantine in England could be fined 1,000 pounds ($1,218), and spot checks would be carried out by health and border officials. The quarantine will not apply to those arriving from the Irish Republic, nor to freight drivers, medical professionals and seasonal agricultural workers. The measures will be reviewed every 3 weeks. [nL8N2D44UM] Transport minister Grant Shapps has also suggested the government would seek to negotiate "air bridges" for travellers coming from countries with low virus infection rates. Unlike many other countries, Britain has carried out few tests and checks on visitors, with quarantine limited only to arrivals from China at the start of the outbreak. Spain and Italy have introduced rules that mean international arrivals must self-isolate for two weeks, while on Friday Ireland gave further details for its own quarantine proposals.
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Cultural Initiatives in North Africa
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Usures
Safa Attyaoui
Usures is an animation that documents the uncertainties and turmoil that occurred during the period of voluntary confinement that began on March 14. Under the influence of frustration and fear of the unknown, the subject is now faced with himself and confronted with his own thoughts that wear him down and exhaust him slowly and repeatedly. This perpetual inner struggle and emotional degradation is visible in the form of an animated reading of a confinement diary.
Project : Animation video ( drawing )
Working title : USURES
Creation support : Video
Approximate duration : 10 minutes
Technical means of creation in confinement : Graphic tablet, frame-by-frame animation software and laptop
Broadcast medium : Vimeo and/or Artify
USURES project :
This project, which began in 2018, was born out of a desire to explore a new medium for drawing: animation. I then succeeded in making animated sequences from hundreds of drawings. But due to a lack of time, this work was interrupted by a succession of other projects that at the time seemed more urgent to execute. In confinement and in this time of 'pause', I had the opportunity to return to this unfinished project hoping to get back on track and take advantage of the time offered by these circumstances, unfortunately very difficult that we are undergoing, to follow up on this project and plunge back into the magnificent world of animation, perhaps offering myself the luxury of completing a project that is close to my heart. In these difficult times, creation is considered, in the first instance, as a escape to a utopian world. Secondly, it is seen as a means of resisting uncertainty, boredom, anxiety, and a distressed economic situation that the entire population nationally and internationally is sharing . Finally and in a third step, Creating is a power that transforms an imposed situation into a given opportunity to reflect and move forward in order to bring about a better version of ourselves, to the world of tomorrow: the post-confinement world.
Youtube link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPJ_1QOkK5w
In a context that is more current than ever, the helpless and vulnerable human being facing a situation he cannot control is now transformed into an anxious subject on the move. Under the influence of frustration and fear, the subject is confronted with an invisible entity that takes hold of him emotionally and physically and wears him down. The body in its perpetual struggle becomes tired, weakens, degrades until it tends to disappear. Will it find a way to be reborn from its ashes? In a quest to represent through drawing this inner state, I thought of animation as a means of 'documenting' this invisible degradation over time and this inner struggle.
Safa Attyaoui biography :
Born in 1990, Safa Attyaoui lives and works in Tunis.
A multidisciplinary artist, she moves from drawing lines to sewing thread and from collage to video while creating a subtle link between her transitions. Attentive to material encounters, she explores textures and recovers objects that she then reintegrates into her work, creating a particular atmosphere where the history of the materials is linked to her personal history. Safa attyaoui thus draws from her experiences the object of her creations in order to question the relationships that link man to his environment. Her work has been shown in several collective exhibitions, among which "Utopia, 100 years of the Bauhaus" in Dar Lasrem, "... entrelacés" at the Safia Farhat Museum and "Utopies Visuelles 2" in Sousse. She has participated in artistic residencies in Tunis (Centre des Arts Vivants de Radès, Jiser Reflexions Mediterrànies) and in France (the workshop of the Saint-Roch museum) during which she had the opportunity to further explore drawing and embroidery as a narrative tool to reveal emotional sensitivity in personal life experiences. She has since developed an artistic research that revolves around memory, trace and identity construction. In March 2020 her first solo exhibition took place in the Chapel of Saint Monique at the IHEC in Carthage (suspended due to the measures against Covid-19).
Social media links :
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https://www.facebook.com/attyaoui.safa
Work steps :
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Annotation ( work steps )
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E-Mail: contact-tunis@kamellazaarfoundation.org
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