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Rosalie (R. Lee) Post has a BFA in Painting and a MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. Over the years she has been involved in investigations and experiments in visual media. Her style has both a reflective and playful quality which stimulates imagination.
Her photography is in the collection of the The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and has been widely exhibited in New England. She has exhibited her photographs at: The ICA Boston, DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MIT Hayden Gallery, University of MA Boston Gallery, RISD, Griffin Museum of Photography, Fay Chandler Gallery, Blanche Ames National Juried Exhibit, Karen Aqua Gallery, Cambridge Art Association National Exhibit, VT. Photoplace Gallery, Millbrook Gallery, NH, and at the Provincetown Conservation Trust's Eco Arts Festival.
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Update: 3/13/2012: The sale has been extended, but there's no word on the end date, so grab this now at only $29.99!
The video game deal of the day over at Amazon today is Gears Of War 3 for Xbox 360 for only $29.99 (that's 50% off the list price of $59.99).
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Reminder: The Xbox LIVE 12 Month Gold Membership is still on sale for only $35.96 (that's 40% off the usually price of $59.99).
Amazon is currently offering a $20 credit to be used towards a future video game purchase after you pre-order the standard edition of the video game Gears Of War 3 for Xbox 360.
Also, with the pre-order, you'll receive the exclusive character skin Savage Kantus. A code for access to the Savage Kantus character skin will be emailed to you within two business days after the product ships.
The game will be released on September 20, 2011 for Xbox 360. There will also be a Limited Edition and an Epic Edition — the pre-order for these do not offer the video game credit, but they do come with the exclusive character skin Savage Kantus, as does the Xbox 360 Gears of War 3 Limited Edition Console Bundle.
There's a pre-order price guarantee for all editions, so if you pre-order now and the price decreases between your order time and the end of the day of the release date, you'll receive the lowest price.
Microsoft announced an interesting promotion today. Each of the previous Gears of War games has had a rookie, from the Carmine family, that meets their doom over the course of the game. Whether or not this happens in the third game in the series is up to you. Starting July 29th, you can purchase one of two avatar t-shirts, one stating to save Carmine, the other for him to meet his demise. Whichever shirt sells the most is what will happen in the game.
Now before you start yelling "Money Grab!" like I almost did, all proceeds will will go to the Child's Play charity, which if you are not familiar with is a great organization.
Lucky enough to be at Comic-Con in San Diego this week? You can grab one of these shirts in real life, at the NECA booth (#3145) for $20. I kind of hope he lives, but that seems unlikely.
The first actual gameplay footage from Epic Games' much-anticipated sequel Gears of War 3 was shown off at E3, and my-oh-my is it looking pretty insane.
The amount of goodies and news coming out of the convention is completely absurd, and though we'll be bringing you a portion of the really exciting stuff, make sure you head over to G4 for any and everything that unfolds pretty much as it happens! They actually have so much going on right now that my computer doesn't seem to be able to handle their site, which makes getting these gems to share with you pretty tough. Because of this, we've adapted to the situation!
First of all, you all need to immediately go out and purchase the new fitness revolution, the Shake Weight, and use it 24 hours a day until Gears 3 comes out. That's the only way that your arms will be up to par. After you've confirmed your order, head to the other side to see the crazy first look at gameplay!


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Menopause: Is Underused Vaginal Estrogen Safe? (CME/CE)
By Lizzy on December 27, 2018
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Long-term follow-up of systemic-hormone-therapy-naive, postmenopausal women found that vaginal estrogen use was not associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Findings lend support to the supposition that low-dose, vaginal estrogen is safe for genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM).
CME Author: Zeena Nackerdien
Study Authors: Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, Francine Grodstein, et al.
Target Audience and Goal Statement: Gynecologists, endocrinologists, urologists, and primary care physicians
The goal was to explore findings from the Nurses' Health Study, which focused on associations between vaginal estrogen use and multiple health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, in postmenopausal women who were not current users of systemic hormone therapy at the start of the study or during follow-up.
Questions Addressed:
Given the limited data regarding the benefit/risk profile of vaginal estrogen use in postmenopausal women, extracting relevant data (1982-2012) from the longest running study on health and wellness (Nurses' Health Study), it fills an unmet treatment gap. Study investigators addressed the following questions:
What are the prospective associations between vaginal estrogen use and chronic disease outcomes among postmenopausal women in the Nurses' Health Study?
Can benefits and risks be ascertained from long-term treatment among women not using systemic hormone therapy?
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Hormonal fluctuations, especially reduced estrogen levels, lead to numerous changes during menopause. Estrogen deficiency results in conditions where the vaginal microbiota are disrupted, the vaginal epithelium becomes thinner, its barrier function is lost, vaginal folding, tissue elasticity, and secretion from Bartholin's glands decrease, which can cause often-debilitating symptoms (e.g., lack of lubrication, urinary symptoms of urgency, and recurrent urinary tract infections). Unlike hot flashes, these symptoms do not resolve without treatment. Broadly speaking, genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) has been defined as "a collection of symptoms and signs associated with a decrease in estrogen and other sex steroids involving changes to the labia majora/minora, clitoris, vestibule/introitus, vagina, urethra, and bladder." Prevalence estimates for components of GSM range from 25% to 70%.
In the absence of contrary evidence, the FDA stipulated in 2003 that all estrogen products, including vaginal estrogen products for the treatment of GSM, be regarded as having similar risks to those reported for oral conjugated equine estrogens (0.625 mg combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate 2.5 mg, per day). These risks include elevated possibilities of heart attacks/strokes, venous thrombosis, breast cancer, and dementia. Many patients have opted to "suffer" in silence rather than expose themselves to the purported risks expressed on the black box label, purely for the sake of making sex more comfortable.
Despite the black box warning, low-dose vaginal estrogen is recommended for treatment of GSM by several organizations, including the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Endocrine Society. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists' 2017 update to their menopause clinical practice guidelines recommends the use of transdermal estrogen compared with oral forms, stating that these preparations "may be considered less likely to produce thrombotic risk and perhaps the risk of stroke and coronary artery disease." Furthermore, many studies have shown vaginal estrogen to be superior to non-hormone therapies and these findings also demonstrate that it provides better symptom relief than oral estrogen therapy.
There are no randomized clinical trial reports describing the effect of low-dose vaginal estrogen therapy on major health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Reported outcomes from population-based cohort studies have been contradictory (e.g., one study reported no association between vaginal estrogen use and risk of breast and endometrial cancer, and another study reported a higher risk of endometrial cancer).
The current prospective study by JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues, compared about 53,000 non-users with nearly 900 postmenopausal women currently using vaginal estrogen. Users of systemic hormone therapy were excluded from the present study. Women self-reported vaginal estrogen use on biennial questionnaires. During the follow-up period, in which the participants completed a questionnaire every 2 years during 1982 and 2012, the average length of vaginal estrogen use was around 36 months.
When comparing nonusers to vaginal estrogen users in terms of the risk for major health outcomes, the latter group had a lower risk of total myocardial infarction (MI; HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.36-0.87) and a non-significant lower risk of total stroke (HR 0.71, 95% CI 0.47-1.09). No significant differences were seen between the two study arms in age-adjusted risks of other major health outcomes (e.g., pulmonary embolism/deep vein thrombosis, total invasive cancer, invasive breast cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, and colorectal cancer).
Using the fully adjusted model, the trend for no statistically significant difference persisted between users and nonusers of vaginal estrogen for all major cardiovascular outcomes, cancer outcomes, or hip fracture. In sensitivity analyses, when researchers examined associations by hysterectomy status, stratified results were typically similar to those of the total cohort.
Neither information on the type of vaginal estrogen — whether it be a tablet, cream, ring, or suppository — nor the dosage of estrogen were collected, a limitation to the findings, the researchers said.
Other limitations included the observational design of the study and, in addition, at the early years of follow-up, some women potentially used higher doses of vaginal estrogen rather than the low-doses that are commonly prescribed now, the team noted.
Source Reference: Menopause, Dec 17, 2018, DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001284
Study Highlights: Explanation of Findings
This novel study that followed systemic-hormone-therapy-naïve, postmenopausal women treated with low-dose vaginal estrogen for 18 years, found that low-dose vaginal estrogen was not linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, or hip fractures. The evaluated risks included risks for myocardial infarction, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, as well as breast, endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancers.
Warnings against the use of oral estrogen stem from evidence generated by randomized clinical trials of systemic hormone therapy. Because the pharmacokinetics of vaginal estrogen does not involve the gastrointestinal conversion of estradiol (E2) to estrone, this mode of delivery bypasses the first-pass liver metabolism associated with taking the hormone as a pill. The latter process is linked to hepatic synthesis of more thrombotic and other factors. While the use of oral equine estrogens (0.625 mg/d) was associated with an elevated risk of stroke and deep vein thrombosis in the intervention phase of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Hormone Therapy (HT) trials, the authors found no evidence of these outcomes with the use of vaginal estrogen.
Finally, the authors noted that the comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between vaginal estrogen and numerous health outcomes is reassuring with respect to the safety of low-dose vaginal estrogen to treat GSM.
"Over-the-counter vaginal lubricants and moisturizers are often used as first-line treatments for women with symptoms of [GSM]," said JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, executive director of the NAMS, in a statement. "Persistent symptoms often need therapies such as local vaginal estrogen, intravaginal dehydroepiandrosterone, or oral ospemifene."
"This study adds to a growing body of data showing the long-term efficacy and safety of low-dose vaginal estrogen, which works primarily locally with minimal systemic absorption," she added.
Kristen Monaco wrote the original story for MedPage Today.
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Los Angeles: Gang Officer's investigating possible gang activity were met with gunfire, resulting in an officer involved shooting.
On February 22, 2009, at around 8:00 p.m., Los Angeles Police Officer Michael Stewart, with eleven and a half years of service, and his partner, were patrolling in the area of St. Andrews Place and West Martin Luther King Boulevard. The Officers saw several suspected gang members standing at the corner. When the suspects saw the Officers, they ran in different directions.
Officers followed one subject who ran into the parking lot of a motel located in the 1700 block of West Martin Luther King Boulevard. Officer Stewart got out of the patrol car and walked into the parking lot where he encountered the subject who had drawn a pistol and began firing at him. Stewart returned fire, striking the subject in the ankle. The subject was taken into custody without further incident. A loaded pistol used by the subject was recovered and taken into evidence.
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Trans Am Cancels Laguna Seca Season Finale
Dane Cameron Joins Meyer Shank Racing
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Road Atlanta stages doubleheader season shootout
Monterey, California (16 November 2020)- As a result of the new travel restrictions and quarantine requirements surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic put in place by California and surrounding states, the Trans Am doubleheader finale scheduled for December 4-6 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca has been canceled for the 2020 season. The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli is slated to return to Laguna Seca with the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association in May 2021.
The new National finale will now take place this weekend at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in a doubleheader shootout. The Trans Am West Coast Championship will end based on the final results from the last round at Circuit of The Americas. Official class champions will be announced at a later date.
"We were really looking forward to ending our season at Laguna this year, it's always a driver and fan favorite," said Trans Am Race Company President John Clagett. "We've worked diligently to address all health and safety requirements, but California's new travel restrictions and quarantine requirements made it no longer feasible to hold the event, but that's just how this year has gone. We look forward to finishing the 2020 season in Atlanta and returning to Laguna Seca in the Spring."
WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca has demonstrated extremely effective health and safety protocols to allow track rentals and races continue. But unfortunately due to the state of California's mandates, new voluntary quarantine measures and guidance on how even families can celebrate Thanksgiving, there is too much uncertainty of what future mandates may be in place at the beginning of December that would limit or prevent the race to happen.
"Our whole team is disappointed by the cancelation of the Trans-Am SpeedFest," commented John Narigi, president and general manager of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. "After two successful and safe races in October, we were hopeful to be able to continue with Trans Am for our season finale. But with the continuing outbreak, many participants coming from out of state, and the unknown state restrictions, we understand and sympathize with Trans Am's and SVRA's decision. We greatly look forward to welcoming their return to Monterey April 29 through May 2, 2021."
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Q: Copying file in selected directory by directory Chooser I want to copy a file in a directory which will be selected by directory chooser. For doing so I have tried..
    DirectoryChooser di = new DirectoryChooser();
    File src = new File("C:/Users/ir.emon/Desktop/dump1.png");
    File dest = di.showDialog(null);
    try {
        Files.copy(src.toPath(), dest.toPath());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

But this always gives "java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException" though the file I wanted to copy doesn't exist in the desired directory chose by directory chooser. I also tried adding the StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING option. But in that case the target (destination) folder is being corrupted. Can anyone please help me regarding this? Thanks in advance.

A: From the API docs:

target - the path to the target file (may be associated with a different provider to the source path)

You didn't supplied a file as target but the containing directory. So the behaviour of your code is fully plausible.
Change your code as follows:
Files.copy(src.toPath(), new File(dest, "deservedFilename.ext").toPath());

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Iraq Lawmakers Agree to New Cabinet Posts
In Iraq, legislators have largely agreed to a new government by approving Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari picks for cabinet members. Several posts however remain vacant — including the head of the oil and defense ministries. According to the BBC, Iraqi National Congress founder Ahmed Chalabi will become deputy prime minister. He will also serve as the acting oil minister until a permanent selection is made. Chalabi was closely linked to the Bush administration up until last year.
Female Iraqi MP Assassinated
Today's legislative session in Baghdad began with a moment of silence for Lamiya Abed Khaduri. On Wednesday she became the first member of Iraq's National Assembly to be assassinated. Gunmen shot her dead as she was standing at the doorstep to her home. Meanwhile the U.S. military has admitted the ability of the Iraqi resistance to wage attacks has not diminished at all over the past year. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said, "In terms of incidents, it's right about where it was a year ago." The U.S. reported the number of attacks decreased shortly after the January elections, but recent weeks have seen a surge in violence.
Record Number of Terrorist Attacks in 2004
Newly revealed government statistics show that a record number of international terrorist attacks occurred last year. And more people died because of terrorism than in any recent year besides 2001. The Bush administration released the figures on Wednesday just weeks after the State Department said it would stop issuing country-by-country figures in its annual review of global terrorism. At a press conference, administration officials urged reporters not to compare this year's terrorism numbers with previous ones. They claimed that the threefold increase in the number of attacks was simply a result of changes in methodology. Democratic critics charged that the Bush administration was attempting to hide evidence that raised questions on the success of the so-called war on terror. Both Iraq and Afghanistan saw a surge in violent attacks last year.
U.S. Says Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Iran "Embrace Terrorism"
Meanwhile the Bush administration on Wednesday described a number of countries — including Cuba — as nations that embraced terrorism. Philip Zelikow, the interim director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center said, "Unfortunately, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, and in particular, Iran continued to embrace terrorism as an instrument of national policy. Most worrisome is that these countries also have the capabilities to manufacture weapons of mass destruction and other destabilizing technologies that could fall into the hands of terrorists."
Congress Advances Bill Limiting Abortion for Minors
In Washington, the Republican-led Congress has passed more legislation Wednesday that attempts to limit the ability for women to have abortions. By a 270 to 157 vote, the House made it a federal crime for adults to help women under the age of 18 to cross state lines in order to have an abortion without the consent of the woman's parents. Violators could face a $100,000 fine and a year in jail. 54 Democrats joined with Republicans in supporting the measure. The Senate is expected to take up the bill this spring or early this summer. According to NARAL, 33 states have some form of parental notification law that restricts access to abortion.
GOP to Rescind House Ethics Rules Changes
Also on Capitol Hill, the Republican House leadership announced it would rescind changes to ethics rules that appeared to have been made to protect House Majority Leader Tom Delay. The ethics commission is now expected to meet for the first time in four months in order to investigate a series of new allegations that Delay has broken house ethics rules. Earlier this week it was exposed that DeLay allowed a registered foreign agent and a lobbyist to pay for overseas trips. House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Wednesday that he expects the commission to clear Delay's name. USA Today reported earlier this week that the Republican members of the ethics commission may all face a potential conflict of interest in investigating DeLay — all five members have received campaign donations in recent years from Delay's political action committee. Since 1997 DeLay has been admonished by the ethics committee five times — that's more than any other member of the House.
Mexico's Attorney-General Resigns
In Mexico — the presidential candidacy of populist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received an unexpected boost Wednesday when Mexico's Attorney General resigned. Just last week the Attorney General filed charges against Lopez Obrador that could have blocked him from running even though he was winning in all of the polls. On Sunday up to a million protesters gathered in Mexico City to demand Lopez Obrador be allowed to run in next year's presidential election.
Israeli Settlers Protest Gaza Withdrawal
This news from the Middle East — Israeli settlers are continuing their protests against Ariel Sharon's plan to vacate all Jewish settlements in Gaza. On Wednesday tens of thousands of Israelis protested in Neve Dekalim — the largest settlement in Gaza. Protest organizer had hoped the total number of demonstrators would top 100,000 but only about 40,000 people showed up.
Israel Seeking to Buy U.S. Bunker Buster Bombs
Meanwhile Israel is seeking permission from Congress to buy 100 guided bunker busting bombs from Lockheed Martin. The bunker busters are designed to penetrate underground command centers or weapons facilities. Analysts say Israel could use the bombs in an attack on Iran. Congress has 30 days to decide whether to allow the sale to go ahead. According to news reports Israel is seeking non-nuclear bunker busters. However the nuclear version of the bunker buster is also in the news this week. A Congressionally-mandated study released Wednesday found that an earth penetrating nuclear bunker buster could cause more than a million deaths from radioactive debris. The Bush administration has asked Congress to spend over $8 million on researching the bomb.
Bush Calls for Construction of Nuclear Power Plants
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Haiti Police Shoot Dead Five Protesters
In Haiti, police shot dead at least five protesters Wednesday during a demonstration calling for the return of ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Reuters reported that police officers — many wearing black masks over their faces — fired at demonstrators during the march in Port-au-Prince. The Haitian police claimed the dead were not protesters but bandits who had attacked the police. But protesters and eyewitnesses disputed the police account and said police fired at them without provocation.
Togo Opposition Leader Declares Himself President
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NATO to Provide Support in Darfur
In Sudan, the AP is reporting that NATO allies agreed to hold talks with the African Union on providing logistical help to the union's peacekeeping force in Darfur. Marc Lacey of the New York Times is reporting as well that Hartford Courant's freelance photographer in Darfur, Brad Clift, has been arrested in Darfur. Clift reported by cell phone that he was arrested for photographing the camp for displaced people in Nyala.
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Chicago Police Called on to Release Spy Documents
In Chicago, the city's police department is being called on to open up its files dealing with the infiltration of a Quaker group three years ago. City police infiltrated meetings of the American Friends Service Committee ahead of a November 2002 protest. On Wednesday the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in federal court seeking the police files.
House Dems Call for Investigation into Police Conduct During RNC
And Congressman John Conyers and five other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee has called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to investigate the New York Police Department's conduct during the Republican National Convention. During the convention police arrested 1800 people. So far of the cases that have run their course, 90 percent of those arrested have had their charges dropped or they have been acquitted. In addition law enforcement officials have been founded tampering with video evidence in at least one case.


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Combining Characters
Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings
Christopher Trudeau 05:40
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In this lesson, you'll learn about digraphs, ligatures, and accent symbols. The Unicode standard allows for the combination of characters into a single glyph. This is used for applying accents to characters and changing the skin tone of an emoji. Some kinds of common digraphs, or letter combinations, have their own code point. Others require the combination of two code points, with one dedicated to the accent symbol.
00:00 In the previous lesson, I took you deep into the guts of how UTF-8 encodes at the binary level. In this lesson, I'm going to be talking about digraphs and other ways of combining characters in Unicode. So, what's a digraph?
00:12 A digraph is a pair of letters that make a single sound. This is similar to a ligature, which is the name for the actual combination of the glyphs to make the character.
00:20 Old English had a bunch of these inherited from Latin—you may have seen them before. The word archeology originally contained the grapheme "ash", which is the combination of the a and the e. Some ligatures like these are single code points in Unicode. Others are combinations.
00:37 The 'æ' "ash" combination is a single character. It has a code point of E6. Hindi and many of the languages on the Indian subcontinent use Devangari as their script.
00:50 The symbol for "ni" is one of these kinds of ligatures. It is a combination of two code points: code point 928 and 93F. You can see this in practice inside the REPL.
01:01 Starting with the code point for 'æ', this is a single code point with a single letter. This is the symbol for the Devangari sound "na", which is part of the combined symbol for the sound "ni". The 928 code point can be used on its own.
01:19 The 93f code point is not able to be used on its own. If you examine just this code point, you'll notice that there's a little dotted circle.
01:28 That dotted circle is the placeholder for the character that it's being combined to. This ability to make combinations is also used to adjust emojis. The original emojis were all Simpsons-esque yellow.
01:42 Using code points, you can combine these to change the skin tone. 1F3FB is the lightest color possible.
02:00 By working your way up, you can continue to make the skin tone darker until you reach 1F3FF. This allows our Vulcan salute to be multicultural.
02:12 A quick note on terminology. Although for this course I've strictly defined what a character is, using that word amongst non-programmers is going to cause some confusion.
02:22 If you speak to somebody like a graphic designer or a typographer, they may use the word character loosely to mean the symbol that shows up on the screen. When you're combining characters in ligatures and using digraphs, this may not actually represent a single code point. As a word of caution, be careful when you're talking to somebody about how this works.
02:42 Character, glyph, grapheme are all words that might be used to mean the symbol. Occasionally you'll need to be very clear about whether or not you're talking about the symbol or a code point. This ability to combine characters can also cause you problems.
02:59 You may recall this from an earlier lesson. It's the phrase "da svidaniya" in Russian.
03:05 It's 11 characters long. When I was first putting the lesson together, I copy and pasted this from the web, and while working with it, I noticed something odd.
03:20 The length didn't actually match the number of characters. So, what's going on here? That string looks the same. Well, let's look at it with the hex_code_points() method.
03:36 There's the first string.
03:41 And now the second. Everything looks good up until the eighth character. You'll notice the difference here between code point 430 and code point e1. Let's examine these more closely.
03:55 e1 is the symbol 'á' with an accent. 430 and the following is a combination to get the same result. This is why the two strings have different lengths—there's actually two different ways of showing this character.
04:09 This is called a homograph, or homoglyph—a symbol from two different character sets that looks the same or close to being the same.
04:18 To give maximum flexibility in combining accents with characters, there's an entire block in Unicode dedicated to just the accent symbols. The code point 301 seen here is the accent combined with the 'a' from the Cyrillic alphabet in the code earlier.
04:35 This is the longer combination from the string with the length 12.
04:41 Homographs allow you to play some rather nasty tricks. Nothing going on special here. Now, what do you expect in value? Even someone who's just learning how to program would now expect value to contain 4.
04:56 You may recall Python 3 allows you to specify an identifier using Unicode. The 'a' in the first value is from the ASCII table… and the 'а' from the second value is from the Cyrillic alphabet.
05:09 This homograph actually causes the first value and the second value to be two different identifiers. This is not a bug you're going to be able to find. There's an entire phishing attack based on this concept, where you manipulate URLs using these kinds of characters to convince someone they're going to a safe site when they're not. That's enough dirty tricks for one day. In the next lesson, I'm going to talk about the functions built into Python you can use to help you examine and manipulate strings and code points.
William on July 2, 2020
I'm surprised that there aren't any comments yet! You deserve better, Mr. Trudeau.
This was an •excellent• progression of lesson videos, Christopher.
Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings (Overview) 07:56
Working With ASCII and the Python String Module 05:49
Working in Binary: Bits, Bytes, Oct, and Hex 06:26
Using Unicode 04:15
Encoding UTF-8 06:19
Combining Characters 05:40
Using Built-In Functions 05:38
Using Other Encodings 04:45
Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings (Summary) 04:53


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The best Tom Holland movies before Spider-Man, ranked
Rising to global stardom at such a young age, Tom Holland Already managed to reach ForbesList of 30 under 30 in Europe. He grew up with a passion for dancing, at the young age of nine, Holland's parents enrolled him in a dance class, which later helped him become the main star in Billy Elliot the Musical At the Victoria Palace Theatre, London. It wasn't until 2012 when he made his film debut and decided to become a full-time actor.
Although Holland is the youngest actor to star in an MCU movie, he starred in a few movies before playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War. Let's take a look at the humble list of his best movies ever Spider Man.
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Today's movie
5 The Secret World of Lariete (2010)
This might shock you, but the voice of Holland can be heard in the British version of the animated Studio Ghibli The secret world of Lariete. loose on the basis borrowers Written by Mary Norton, the plot tells the story of tiny people who secretly live on the floors and creaks of human homes. This secret is broken when one of the girls befriends 12-year-old Shaw (Netherlands). The StudioCanal dub came a year before DisneyDub, but they were already using the strategy of getting a mix of rising stars, like Holland and Saoirse Ronan, big names, and longtime actors like the cast.
4 In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
MCU It wasn't the first time Holland had shared the big screen with an Avenger. Historical adventure movie in the heart of the sea It saw him star in the title role alongside big names like Chris Hemsworth and Cillian Murphy. The film is based on the 2000 book of the same name, which tells the story of the shipwreck of the Essex in 1820. Holland plays 14-year-old Nickerson, who signs on the ship as a cabin boy. For the Netherlands, photography was a challenge: for every does not depend onHe clearly remembered how director Ron Howard "was determined to make everything as original as possible". In the same interview, Holland also states: "[Ron] An artificial whale head was built and I had to cover myself with Vaseline and climb over. They threw a bucket down first and I hit my head on it."
3 How do I live now (2013)
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How do I live now It marks the Netherlands' second time starring alongside Saoirse Ronan, who plays the main character Daisy. Released in 2013, the film is a fictional love story centered on Daisy and her British cousins as they attempt to reunite the family during a nuclear disaster. Holland plays a cousin, Isaac, who ends up dying in a massacre when the army separates boys and girls. The film generally has some questionable themes about his cousin's romantic love, but the young Dutchman did a great job portraying his feelings. If you ignore the romantic aspects of the movie, due to the fact that it is an independent British production, it is well shot and has beautiful set designs.
RELATED: Best Tom Holland Movies That Weren't Spider-Man, Ranked
2 Luke (2013)
Shoebox Films, IM Global
look It is a critically acclaimed psychological drama released in 2013, starring Tom Hardy in the title role and only him appearing on screen for the duration of the film. But his character is having speakerphone conversations with several side characters, one of whom is Tom Holland. Holland plays one of his sons, Eddie, who calls to show him an important football match they were supposed to watch together. Hardy gives an amazing acting performance that will surely make you cry. Since we're already on the topic of Hardy and Holland, wouldn't it be surprising if they came together as Venom and Spider-Man?
1 Impossible (2012)
Last but not least, we have the tragedy of disaster the impossible, in which Holland appeared in his film for the first time. We can collectively thank this film for its good work, considering how Holland became a springboard to becoming one of the most popular young actors of our generation. The film is based on a family's real-life experience in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. For his role in his 12-year-old son, Holland received the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Young British Actor of the Year, which prompted him to pursue acting full time.
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On the same page: Harlequin, harlots, and all, all, all
Word Origins And How We Know Them
Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears on the OUPblog each Wednesday. Subscribe to Anatoly Liberman's weekly etymology articles via email or RSS.
By Anatoly Liberman
The post for August 26, 2020 was called "Harlequin's Environment." Two more essays followed, and ever since I have been meaning to return to the buffoon's dictionary page, especially because in that post I misspelt the Dutch word for "harp" (my apologies and thanks to our correspondent who spotted my wrong form). Those who have read the entire series will remember that, though harlequin is still believed to be a word of "disputable" origin (the epithet in quotes means that the dictionary maker has chosen to remain noncommittal: "I am aware of all the conjectures but would rather not get off the fence"), it, most probably, was coined in medieval England and referred to Herla, the leader ("king") of the Wild Hunt, a procession of dead warriors. From England it spread to the Romance world and after many adventures returned to English with its most recent sense. The root har– meant "army, troops," as it still does in German (Heer "army"). We can only guess why the Germanic noun for "army" enjoyed such popularity in the Romance lands, but it certainly did.
Albergo: From Germanic to Italian. (Image by Hermann Junghans)
Take, for example, German Herberge "inn; hotel," that is (literally), "army shelter, shelter for an army." It made its way into Medieval Latin as heribergium; hence French auberge and similar words in Italian and elsewhere. Harbor is almost an etymological doublet of the words listed above, another shelter (this time, for ships). The difference between her– and har– should not confuse us. In Early Modern English, but, apparently, after the colonization of America, the group er– became ar-; hence clerk (as pronounced in American English, with the vowel of jerk) and Clark; Berkeley (in the United States) and the name of the philosopher Berkeley, pronounced as Bark-ly; University and varsity; sometimes the same word splits into two, as happened to person and parson.
There were enough native words for "barracks" in the Romance language, yet the German noun conquered most of Western Europe. (The ancient Romans called their barracks castra "camps.") Someone who provided lodgings, a purveyor of lodgings (for an army), was called a her-berg-ere. Today, a harbinger (this is the modern continuation of herbergere) announces or foreshadows the arrival of someone else or of a future event, a forerunner, and the ancient association with the army is forgotten. Shakespeare was fond of this word (and I think his harbingers usually promised the advent of good things rather than disasters).
This is a German Harnisch, not a Modern English harness. (Image by Hans Braxmeier)
An instructive case is the English harangue, "a long, passionate oration." Like Harlequin, harangue reached England from France, but in French and in other Romance languages (arrenga, arringa), it is from Germanic, where it referred to a crowd of armed warriors standing in a ring (and, apparently, listening to an oration by the leader). Next comes harness, first recorded in English around 1300 with the sense "baggage, equipment; trappings of a horse." But around the same time, it could also mean "body armor; tackle, gear," as it still does in German (Harnisch). The route is familiar: from Old French to Middle English. Harness, like harangue, is an ancient compound, ultimately from Old Norse, in which herr meant "army" and nest meant "food, provisions" (both words are alive in Modern Icelandic). The compounds, whose ancient structure has been forgotten, are sometimes called demotivated (for example, ransack, from Old Norse ran- "house" and saka, related to sækja "to attack"; only unusual length and antiquated spelling may give away such formations: the classic examples are Wednesday "Wodan's day" and cupboard, the latter rhyming with Hubbard).
In that earlier blog post, I briefly mentioned the verbs harry and harrow (as in Harrowing of Hell). Harry is English, harrow reached English from Scandinavian. Harass, from French, seems to have a different (but also Germanic?) root. In any case, harass, recorded in English only in the eighteenth century and in American English still retaining its stress on the second syllable, found itself in good company.
Also, at least two her– words have the same root as harbor, harangue, and the rest. Their familiar itinerary may be, but not always is, from Germanic to Old French and back to Middle English. Such is herald, originally hari-wald, in which har– means "army" and wald– meant "rule", as it still does in English wield. A herald is an envoy, someone who delivers proclamations, thus, a person, not so different from a harbinger. But heriot is "pure English." It emerged with the sense "feudal service consisting of military equipment restored to the lord on the death of a tenant." I'll skip the history of –ot; the meaning of her– should be clear by this time.
John Haywood, the historian. (Image by Willem de Passe)
Such then is the linguistic environment of Harlequin. My main question is about harlot. Does it belong here? The next post will be devoted to this word. Today, I'll only reproduce a passage from The Life of King William the First, sirnamed (sic) Conqueror, written by John Hayward (1613) and reprinted in the third volume of The Harleian Miscellany (London, 1809). The passage below will be found on p. 119 and in Notes and Queries 2/X, 1860, p. 44:
"Robert, Duke of Normandy, the sixth in descent from Rollo [that is, Hrólfr, a famous Viking, the founder of the duchess of Normandy] riding through Falais, a town in Normandy [the seat of the Dukes of Normandy], espied certain young persons dancing near the way. And as he staid (sic) to view awhile the manner of their disport, he fixed his eye especially upon a certain damsel named Arlotte, of mean birth, a skinner's daughter, who there danced among the rest. The frame and comely carriage of her body, the natural beauty and graces of her countenance, the simplicity of her rural both behavior and attire, pleased him so well, that the same night he procured her to be brought to his lodgings; where he begat of her a son, who afterwards was named William. I will not defile my writing with memory of some lascivious behavior which she is reported to have used, at such time as the Duke approached to embrace her. And doubtful it is, whether upon hate toward her son, the English afterwards adding an aspiration [that is, h] to her name (according to the natural manner of their pronouncing), termed every unchaste woman Harlot." (A note on p. 120: "…after the Conqueror obtained the crown of England, he often signed with this subscription—William Bastard; thinking it no abasement either to his title or reputation.")
Left: William the Conqueror. Right: Bend sinister. (L: William the Conqueror on Horseback, R: Coat of arms of Sir Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester)
Doubtful indeed! Today, I'll only say that the word harlot has nothing to do with King William and that the name of his mother has come down to us in many forms: Herleva (usually mentioned in history books), Arletta, Arlotte, and Harlette. Her social status can no longer be determined (it was hardly so low). The story of the girls dancing "near the way," unlike the reference to "lascivious behavior," inspires little confidence. Though in his youth William suffered from his illegitimate birth, at that time being a "bastard" was less important than being born to a noble father. Such "bastards" found it unnecessary to conceal their status, as the existence of the bend sinister on their shields show.
Feature image: Grande Ludovisi sarcophagus, unknown artist
Anatoly Liberman is the author of Word Origins And How We Know Them as well as An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. His column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears on the OUPblog each Wednesday. Send your etymology question to him care of blog@oup.com; he'll do his best to avoid responding with "origin unknown." Subscribe to Anatoly Liberman's weekly etymology articles via email or RSS.
Fred de Vries 7th November 2020
If 'harbor' is a 'shelter for ships', then German 'Hafen' and 'Dutch 'haven' must have the same origin. So, would Dutch 'haf', meaning 'cove behind a headland', 'fjord', etc. simply mean 'shelter'?
But that can't be, because you write that 'her' or 'har' via 'heer' means 'army'.


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Innovative Solutions to Curb the Gun Violence Epidemic
Si (Floris) Wu
Around 50 people gathered in a large meeting room at Massachusetts General Hospital on the afternoon of Friday, April 13. Among them were four groups of innovators looking to win a $10,000 grand prize from CAMtech, the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies based at the hospital. After two months of preparation, all four teams shared the same goals: curb the gun violence epidemic and improve the lives of survivors.
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"Not all gun violence is the same, and you can't lump it into one bucket," said Dr. Kristian Olson, director of CAMtech.
Olson is a pediatrician, internist, educator at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and professor at Harvard Medical School. He suggested that solutions to mass shootings, gun assaults, unintentional shootings and suicides may overlap, but can be very different. Although the teams all aimed to reduce gun violence, they tackled the issue in different ways.
"I think the overall aim here is the reduction of suicides and unintentional shooting, because I think that's where the safety piece is going to have the biggest effect," said Dr. Peter Greenspan of MGH. Greenspan and Zoe Wolszon, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, represented the $10,000-grand-prize-winning team, Good Guy with a Gun. Their product is an app that focused on preventing unintentional shootings and suicides.
App looks to prevent unintentional shootings
According to Wolszon, users can access instructional videos and in-person support through the app. The videos offer training on topics such as how to improve your aim and how to install accessories. Individuals can also use the app to find more advanced, in-person training. Those cover such topics as the psychology of stress and suicide risk. The ultimate goal is to make app users become the "good guy with a gun" who are able to integrate new safety practices into their daily habits.
According to Dr. Kristian Olson, a common measure of gun violence is how almost 100 Americans get killed by guns on an average day. Christy Charlot, from team Adore Life, chose do address that with a proposal that centered on community hopes and health.
Adore Life is a platform for people to "anonymously report crimes, have access to mentor opportunities, and begin to create a sustainable framework for the hopes and health of community," said Charlot. Through an app and a website, Charlot proposed a curriculum to reduce bullying, gun violence and school shootings.
James Wright, from the Sobriety Controlled Guns team, provided a unique perspective as an electrical engineer and a firearm expert and instructor. He is concerned about the large number of firearm-related suicides and the high-level involvement of alcohol use within those cases. His device consists of a breathalyzer and a gun lock. Write presented two iterations of his idea. The first is a cable lock that can attach to a firearm. And the second a magnetic lock to attach to a safe. The device is intended to connect wirelessly to the internet, and loved ones or caretakers will be alerted if the device is activated under influence.
Team Detect and Connect targeted their product at school shootings, proposing an app to help keep students safe. During a shooting, students could use the app by answering a series of quick questions. Their answers would be sent to local authorities to help them pinpoint students' and the shooter's locations. One member of Detect and Connect said the next iteration of the app will use "sound detection" to set off an automatic alert after a gun shot.
Although only one team was awarded the prize, all of the teams plan to expand their projects in the future.
"Even if you are not that one team that wins, we want to help you move forward through a number of mechanisms like the CAMtech innovation platform," said Dr. Kristian Olson.
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On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide,, 2014.
Dread Scott's edict is make "revolutionary art—to propel history forward." Since the early 1990s, after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completing the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program, Scott has joined the ranks of historical/political artists, following in the footsteps of John Heartfield, George Grosz, and Leon Golub, along with his activist contemporaries Ai Weiwei, Nari Ward, and Berry Bickle. By using his work to raise awareness of social injustices, Scott makes clear his intention of challenging the status quo. He employs irony and humor to make powerful statements pertaining to pressing issues, including freedom of speech on a global level, state-levied violence against citizens, class inequality, and racially motivated oppression. In Scott's lexicon, the phrase "by any means necessary" means deploying performance, installation, collage, and painting to convey his ideas and ideology. Without being didactic, he convincingly articulates the concerns of marginalized communi-ties across America—the incarcerated, urban youth, and the 99%.
Historic Corrections, which was included in "Screenings: Public & Private" (2004) at a small museum in southern New Jersey, offers a good introduction to his thought- ful shock tactics. Scott's contribution to this exhibition exploring representations of the black body beyond stereotypes featured images of incarcerated black and Latino men juxtaposed against a photomural backdrop of the 1919 lynching of William Brown. A replica of a wooden electric chair stood in the center of the installation, surrounded by mechanized police batons mounted on wooden stands. Historic Corrections knocked a sleepy suburban community out of its somnolent state and initiated a dialogue about everyday inequities just outside the museum's doors. The batons, each striking a cast fiberglass head every 10 seconds with a hard, resounding blow, were linked to live, unedited reports from a police radio. Viewers could walk through the environment and experience it from different perspectives: sometimes seeing the "urban youth" as jailed criminals, and other times, sharing their space. Everyone who confronted the work felt its impact. Many viewers of color sympathized with the sentiment of the piece, while some white viewers cringed and questioned the relevance of mounting such at work at a museum.
Courting controversy is not new for Scott. His performance work, Money to Burn (2010), part of his "It's the Economy Stupid!" series, predated Occupy Wall Street by a year. In this case, Scott was a soothsayer, a John the Baptist crying in the wilderness about economic affairs in the United States and paving the way for organized protests. His 1988 work What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag? generated hundreds of responses from visitors to the gallery of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a direct rebuttal from then-President Bush. In creating this controversial installation, Scott's intent was to defy compulsory patriotism. His efforts continued with an action in which he (together with Joey Johnson—defendant in the 1988 Supreme Court flag burning case—Dave Blalock, and Sean Eichman) burned flags on the steps of the Capitol Building to protest the Flag Protection Act of 1989. As Scott describes it, this act "would have outlawed criticism of the flag, which is one step from outlawing criticism of the government. The legislation contained specific wording that was added in response to, and which would outlaw…What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?" In 1990, he and his collaborators appeared before the Supreme Court in United States v. Eichman as a consequence of their protest.
Scott was not raised as a revolutionary, though his mother was fairly radical, her political views inspired by the ferment of the 1960s and shaped by the philosophy of the Panthers. His father, on the other hand, was politically conservative, and he believed that the way to uplift black people resided solely in hard work, though as a small businessman, his experiences with racism hindered the family's economic success.
Scott's activism began to emerge during his college years, when he was trying to make sense of the world. He was greatly influenced by the punk scene and the writings of Bob Avakian, and he eventually became a supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party. America at that time was in the throes of an escalated Cold War. Scott cites Ronald Reagan as instrumental in the instigation of proxy wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, South Africa, and Mozambique, not to mention the nuclear arms race. The politicization of Dread Scott commenced under this climate of instability and uncertainty, and armed with a philosophical base and time to research, he surfaced as an artist committed to sociopolitical engagement. His professional name—part reminder of the Dred Scott case and part conceptual play on fear—is an essential part of that artistic identity.
Rather than taking objects and recoding them, Scott uses objects already charged with polarizing significance—the American flag, the electric chair, the Constitution, the Bible, the black male body—and recontextualizes them in ways that coerce reconsideration. In the performance I Am Not a Man (2009), Scott walked the streets of Harlem in symbolic protest. The crucially altered sign that he carried recalls the signs used in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike, a major civil rights protest that sought equal treatment and safer working conditions for black sanitation workers. Scott's appropriation of that famous sign and his addition of the word "not" pay homage to civil rights-era struggles while underscoring the limitations of those efforts. Intentionally stumbling and losing his pants, he punctuated the hour-long walk with humiliating moments designed to elicit reactions from passersby while calling attention to the persistence of racism in American society.
Postcode Criminals (2011–12) foreshadowed the rise in public consciousness concerning extreme policing tactics such as Stop and Frisk, a strategy that targets black and Latino urban youth in the U.S., and Stop and Search in England. Collaborating with Joann Krushner, a London-based artist, Scott encouraged more than 100 youths to tell their stories through photography, film, collage, and poetry, describing a world in which they are constantly under surveillance and subjected to interrogation by the police. The educational aspect of this project, which introduced participants to diverse technologies, culminated in a multimedia exhibition at the Rush Gallery in 2011. At the same show, Scott premiered Stop, a compelling video installation of life-size, projected images of six New York and Liverpool youths, who recite the number of times they were subjected to Stop and Frisk/ Stop and Search policing tactics. The young men ranged in age from 19 to 29.
Scott critiques American society from diverse angles and conveys its contradictions, especially in relation to the declaration of inalienable rights—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Gazing through the lens of marginalized communities, he exposes the underbelly of a capitalist system that exists within and subverts a democratic matrix. Arrested innumerable times for his protests and public performance works, Scott brings to public consciousness hidden realities within the American landscape—attitudes and practices that in recent years have ignited into clear focus.
Let 100 Flowers Blossom, Let 100 Schools of Thought Contend, 2007.
Scott exhibits widely throughout the U.S.; his most recent works include Dread Scott: Decision, a performance piece built on understanding democracy's roots in slavery that was first staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. In 2014, No Longer Empty sponsored Wanted, his community-based project addressing the criminalization of youth in America. A series of fake wanted posters, each featuring a "police sketch" of a young adult, a description, and a statement of the alleged offence, appeared throughout the streets of Harlem. The sketches, executed by former police forensic sketch artist Kevin Blythe Sampson, are simultaneously specific and meaningless, just like the "offenses": for instance, "On Saturday May 17, 2014, at approximately 12:30 AM, a male black, 16–24 years of age was wearing a black waist length jacket and dark pants. The male was observed engaging in conversation with other males." Earlier this year, Historic Corrections was re-installed in "Counterpublic" at The Luminary in St. Louis. The 1998 installation will be restaged as the performance Historic Corrections: Slave Rebellion Reenactment in New Orleans in 2017, reenacting the largest slave rebellion in American history, the German Coast Uprising, near New Orleans in 1811.
A.M. Weaver is a writer based in Philadelphia.
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Webinar: Supporting Community-Led Child Protection
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04 Apr 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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The Community-based Child Protection Task Force held a webinar on Thursday, 4 Apr 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 (UTC+01:00) London, to discuss a "Community-Led Child Protection" toolkit developed by Professor Mike Wessells of Child Resilience Alliance and Patrick Onyango Mangen of TPO Uganda, on behalf of the Inter-Agency Learning Initiative on Strengthening Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and with support from the Community Child Protection Exchange. They discussed challenges in humanitarian contexts and tools to address them.
Michael Wessells, PhD, is Professor at Columbia University in the Program on Forced Migration and Health. A long time psychosocial and child protection practitioner, he has conducted extensive research on the holistic impacts of war and political violence on children. Currently, he is lead researcher on inter-agency, multi-country research on community-led child protection, including strengthening linkages with government led aspects of national child protection systems. This work has included learning from girls and boys directly about their lived experiences of violence and their coping and resilience amidst adversity. He regularly advises UN agencies, governments, and donors on issues of child protection and psychosocial support, including in communities and schools.
Patrick Onyango Mangen, Msc. A development practitioner with over 20 years of demonstrable experience working with communities and families affected by violence, armed conflict and other man made disaster. Throughout most of his career Mr. Onyango has been passionate about strengthening and promoting the role of both formal and informal community based mechanisms so that they are able to identify, prevent and respond to protection risks and vulnerabilities that expose children, women and families in general to violence, exploitation and abuse. Mr. Onyango is presently the Country Director of TPO Uganda a national NGO that is quite involved in delivering child protection, mental health and psychosocial support programs to nationals and refugees resident in Uganda and the region.
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