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COVID-19 and Beach Water Quality: Updates from the Research Community
As communities across the country experience the threat and disruption from COVID-19, many are wondering what they can do to keep themselves and their families safe. In addition to practicing social distancing, washing hands and spending more time at home, those of us in coastal communities may also seek the solitude, solace and maybe even a wave or two at our local beach. But does spending time in coastal waterways increase your risk of getting sick?
To help answer this question, Surfrider is working to stay abreast of emerging science and community concerns to keep the beachgoing public as informed and safe as possible. An informative Coronavirus Research Update webinar was hosted on March 12, 2020, by the Water Research Foundation. Key takeaways for the beachgoing community, both near saltwater and freshwater, from the webinar and additional research to date are provided below. Presenters included infectious disease experts Jonathan Yoder from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Mark Sobsey from the Gillings Schools of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill, and Dr. Lisa Casanova from Georgia State University, among others.
Those interested in taking a deeper dive are encouraged to watch the recorded webinar and check out the additional resources listed at the end of this article. Please note that there is still high uncertainty and this research is ongoing, so information is changing frequently. We will do our best to keep this article updated.
1 What do we know about the virus?
2 Does the virus spread through recreational waterways?
3 How could the virus even get into recreational waterways?
4 Do sewage treatment practices remove or disinfect the virus?
5 What are best practices to stay safe?
6 There's a lot we don't know. Please use the following trusted resources to stay up to date.
What do we know about the virus?
COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease that started in China but is now considered a global pandemic. The disease is caused by the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which is closely related to other viruses in the coronavirus family that cause respiratory illness and can transfer between species. With seven known coronaviruses, much of the information we have on this virus is from previous research on other coronaviruses assumed to exhibit similar behavior, but research specific to the COVID-19 virus is underway. For now, we know the virus spreads from close, person-to-person contact, mainly through respiratory droplets in the air (after a sneeze or cough), but also through touching contaminated surfaces and then touching your eye, nose or mouth. It's been documented in all 50 states, and symptoms appear within 2 to 14 days from exposure (though there have also been asymptomatic cases). Roughly 80% of cases are mild with 20% requiring hospitalization. Fortunately the virus is enveloped, meaning it's highly susceptible to chlorination - so chlorine and bleach are effective at disinfecting contaminated surfaces and water sources.
Does the virus spread through recreational waterways?
The virus has been shown to remain viable and infectious, at least temporarily, in natural freshwater environments including lakes and streams. While dilution is suspected to keep the risk low, high concentrations of the viable COVID-19 virus could put freshwater recreation users at risk. There was no information shared on the ability of the COVID-19 virus to remain viable in saltwater, so it's unclear if swimming at saltwater beaches elevates the risk of contracting COVID-19. However, communal spread is a serious issue so spending time at popular beaches, if in close contact to other beachgoers, will increase your risk.
How could the virus even get into recreational waterways?
Like many harmful viruses and pathogens, the main exposure risk to the water recreation community is from sewage pollution. The release of raw or undertreated sewage into our surface waterways can cause diseases to spread through the "fecal-oral transmission route." In other words, when we recreate at the beach during a sewage spill or release of undertreated wastewater, we risk ingesting fecal-borne pathogens that can cause symptoms like stomach upset; ear, eyes, nose and throat infections; as well as more severe infections like E. Coli, MRSA, giardia, hepatitis, and worse.
At this point, the research community does not know if people can contract the COVID-19 virus from exposure to feces in recreational waters but the overall consensus is that it might be possible.* The RNA of the virus was found in stool samples of infected patients, but we do not know if the virus remains infectious after passing through the human digestive system. In order to be infectious, the virus needs both intact RNA and an intact outer envelope- which has not yet been observed by scientists in viruses obtained from stool samples. To note, a preliminary study from Germany indicates that the virus is no longer infectious once it passes through the digestive system (AKA sewage may not be a transmission route) but this study has yet to be peer-reviewed, so additional information is still needed to confirm. For this reason, and the fact that other coronaviruses are susceptible to UV radiation and unable to persist over long periods of time in waterways, researchers stated that the "likelihood of catching COVID-19 from feces seems low," but additional research is needed to confirm.
Due to the current uncertainty, areas affected by sewage spills, leaks or overflows, or have high numbers of septic tanks, cesspools or homeless populations, could have increased risk for potential transmission of the virus in affected waterways. Local health authorities post warnings to protect public health from exposure to many different harmful pathogens in sewage that can make you sick. Surfrider's Clean Water initiative strives to protect clean water and to eliminate these sources of pollution that can put public health at risk. Note that cities are already starting to close beaches to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (due to elevated likelihood for person-to-person contact), so please follow city, state and federal recommendations and restrictions. And as always, Surfrider urges you to check your local beach water quality before heading to the beach, as high bacteria is an indication of raw or undertreated sewage in the water. Even if recreating in sewage-polluted waterways is determined not to be a transmission route for COVID-19, it could still expose you to other pathogens which could tax your overall immune system.
Do sewage treatment practices remove or disinfect the virus?
Typical treatments that include sterilization with chlorine and other disinfectants are highly effective at eradicating the virus. However, if you are in a place that uses only primary treatment at your sewage treatment plant, it could be possible that the viable virus might be discharged with effluent into waterways through offshore outfalls or groundwater injection wells. Please note that there are also concerns about biosolids, which are waste solids from treatment plants used as fertilizer, being able to accumulate viruses and other pathogens. Additional research is needed to confirm if current treatment methods for biosolids are able to destroy the virus.
What are best practices to stay safe?
The CDC keeps an updated list of best practices to stay safe. Researchers stressed the fact that community mitigation is key and everyone has a role to play to protect themselves and others. Some key steps include:
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds frequently and thoroughly
If soap and water are not available, use at least 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer
Do not touch your face (especially eyes, nose or mouth) with unwashed hands
Clean frequently touched surfaces often with home cleaning products and then follow with disinfectants that contain either adequate concentrations of bleach or are minimum 70% alcohol-based. Note that you can easily make your own disinfectant for surface cleaning by mixing 4 tsp bleach per 1 quart of water.
Wash and disinfect your reusable bag after each use
Stay home if you are sick
Stay home as much as possible, even if you don't feel sick
If you choose to go to the beach, check current swim advisories and water quality conditions in your area
Practice social distancing and avoid large gatherings (greater than 10 people, but this recommendation is changing rapidly as state and cities close down restaurants, bars and theaters to mitigate community exposure)
Visit this CDC website for daily practices to keep you and your community safe
There's a lot we don't know. Please use the following trusted resources to stay up to date.
Everything is happening quickly and the truth of the matter is we don't know a lot about this virus. Surfrider recommends caution and encourages communities to stay abreast with the latest information and research as things are changing rapidly and ongoing research provides new results:
CDC Coronavirus Information and Prevention website
CDC tracking of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US
CDC Water Transmission of COVID-19 website
WHO Guidance for Water Sanitation and Waste Management handout
WHO Global Research on Coronavirus Disease database
The Full Recording of the Coronavirus Research Update webinar
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Rep. Chukwuocha & Sen. Lockman
Reps. Kowalko, Osienski; Sen. Sokola
151st GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HOUSE BILL NO. 464
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EQUITY OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY COUNCIL.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
Section 1. Amend Chapter 41, Title 14 of the Delaware Code by making insertions as shown by underline as follows:
§ 4144. Equity Ombudsman Program and Educational Equity Council.
(a) (1) The Equity Ombudsman Program shall be established and contractually maintained by the Department of Education to improve equity, but shall operate independent from the Department of Education. The Equity Ombudsman program shall address issues involving both systemic areas and for individual students, for which such inequities may arise from the student or students being a member of a class protected from discrimination under Delaware and Federal laws and regulations and shall include the following:
a. The Equity Ombudsman Program oversight shall be by the Educational Equity Council.
b. The Department of Education shall be the contracting entity, however, RFP development and grant award decisions shall be determined by Educational Equity Council including a majority of the RFP review panel being voting members of the Educational Equity Council to ensure independence.
c. The award of the ombudsman program shall be to a Delaware based not for profit nongovernmental organization (NGO).
d. The Ombudspersons shall focus on non-legal interventions with school districts and the Department of Education to resolve disputes or complaints concerning disparate discipline, inequitable access to school programs, or otherwise different or unfair treatment of students.
e. The Ombudspersons will be available to act as non-lawyer advocates for students and their families in any proceedings conducted by schools or local, state or federal education agencies.
f. The Ombudsman program, if it determines it to be appropriate and desirable, seek pro bono or otherwise refer cases for legal services.
g. The ombudsman program may refer cases for litigation, when requested by the family, when the following conditions are met:
1. That reasonable efforts have been attempted to resolve the issue with the Local Education Agency, or the State Educational agency and such attempts have been unsuccessful or that the nature of ongoing harm to the student is such that immediate legal intervention is in the best interest of the student.
2. That the Ombudsman program has provided written notice of intent to refer the case for litigation to the Local Education Agency, or the State Educational agency which shall include the identified issue(s) and the Education Agency's action or inactions which have harmed the student.
h. Cases referred for litigation shall, notwithstanding other sections of Delaware code, shall:
1. Be to a law firm that is a not-for-profit corporation licensed in Delaware.
2. That families, nor the Equity Ombudsman Program will not be liable for legal expenses.
3. That the Local Education Agency, or the State Educational agency shall pay the plaintiffs law firm, reasonable and customary expenses, including the cost of expert witnesses when the plaintiff prevails on at least one claim, and when the letter of intent of was received by the Education Agency, and the letter was subsequently affirmed by at least of 2/3 vote of the Educational Equity Council.
4. For a claim related to the provision of a Free and Appropriate Public Education the burden of proof shall be on the Local Education Agency, or the State Educational agency.
i. To support capacity for litigation:
1. $250,000 in one time seed funding shall be provided to CLASI.
2. Initial and ongoing funding shall be provided at not less than $40,000 per year.
3. The Educational Equity Council shall annually make recommendation to the Governor and Legislature for the level of funding that is adequate for the purpose of the Equity Ombudsman Program.
4. Funds appropriated for this purpose shall be used exclusively in support of referrals from the Equity Ombudsman Program, excepting 10% for overhead.
j. The Ombudsman Program shall be funded at not less than $1,000,000 (1,500,000) (2,000,000), (2.500,000) (3,000,000) per year.
(2) The purpose of the Equity Ombudsman Program is to prevent and address disparate discipline, inequitable access to school programs, or otherwise different or unfair treatment of students, including but not limited to:
a. Assist families and other community members with educational needs and concerns – focusing on dispute resolution, equitable access to programs, services and rigorous coursework.
b. Address issues of racism, ableism, and other sources of marginalization and inequality impacting students.
c. Provide technical support in coordination with DE Department of Education, Local Education Agencies (LEA's), parents and students to ensure equitable treatment of students and implementation Federal and state programs and district/school level policies and practices.
d. Monitors service requirements under Title I, Part A and Part C; Title II, Part A, Title III, Part A and Title IV, Part A, McKinney Vento and other programs as a part of State's monitoring process.
e. Support districts and Delaware DOE develop/revise polices and regulations as a part of the State's review process.
f. Provide research-based best practices to ensure equity, including discipline, academic, teacher diversity, effective instruction, curriculum, social emotional learning and extra-time supports.
(b) In addition to the advocacy purposes and responsibilities enumerated in the Joint legislative Resolution establishing the Educational Equity Council, the Council shall:
(1) Have oversight authority for the Equity Ombudsman Program.
(2) Provide approval of the ombudsman RFP and successful bidder.
(3) Make recommendations to the Governor and legislature for adequate funding of the Equity ombudsman program.
(4) Provide the legislature and Governor an annual report on the activates of the Equity Ombudsman Program and the Education Equity Council including the status and progress on improving educational equity in Delaware.
(5) Have access to educational data and reports at the same level, timeframe and priority as the Department of Education.
(6) Shall have policies and procedures in place to ensure compliance with FERPA and shall receive FERPA training from the Department of Education.
(7) Shall be supported by 1 FTE (administrative assistant level) with administrative oversight directly from the Office of the Secretary of Education.
(8) receive initial and ongoing annual funding of not less than $10,000 (20,000).
(9) Approve additional not for profit law firms to support the Ombudsman program referrals.
(c) That the Delaware State Parent Advisory Council (DESPAC), as Delaware's Title 1 council, which was reconstituted by joint legislative resolution be supported and continued by the Department of Education.
(d) That all unused funds under this section be transferred forward to the next year's funding without impacting ongoing appropriation levels and are to be used for the same purpose.
This Act creates the Equity Ombudsman Program and the Educational Equity Council.

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Abstract : The Paris Basin is an intracratonic basin made of Meso-Cenozoic sediments unconformably overlying a Variscan substratum (Figure 1). Deciphering the geology beneath its sedimentary cover is important for at least two reasons: (1) the area is a "data gap" in the middle of an important segment of the Variscan belt in Western Europe, and (2) the role of the structural inheritance on the Meso-Cenozoic sedimentation is not fully understood yet. The basin basement is roughly made of two different geological units, namely (1) the Variscan substratum sensu stricto, made of heterogeneous deformed sedimentary, magmatic and meta-sedimentary rocks, with minor meta-magmatic rocks, and (2) the late Variscan (late orogenic) Permo-Carboniferous basins, made of thick siliciclastic sedimentary deposits. These two geological basement units have their own geological characteristics and geophysical properties, which are fairly different from each other. For that reason, they must be investigated using dedicated methods. Seismic methods were implemented for studying the Permo-Carboniferous basins. Based on the reprocessing and interpretation of several thousands of km of seismic lines, we propose a new location and thickness map of the Permo-Carboniferous basins. On the other side, potential field methods were used for mapping buried polygenic basement rocks. Based on the combination of aeromagnetic and gravity data, supported by petrophysical signatures and field/borehole geological information, we propose a new map of the architecture of the Variscan substratum.


A healthy diet includes snacks to help you get through the day. Be sure you are getting the most out of your snack by including fiber in your snack choices. Fiber filled snacks are not only healthy, but the fiber helps keep you sated so you will eat less.
Next time you reach for a snack, be sure it includes fiber to help keep you satisfied for longer.
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My go to snack is celery with peanut butter. The water content of the celery is refreshing and the fiber content of the peanut butter helps fill you up!


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The storm system slowing down holiday travel isn't extreme by meteorologists' measures, it just "occurred on the worst possible day." Rain and snow showers are creating slippery conditions on major highways and record cold temperatures are on their way for Thanksgiving Day. Gwen Ifill talks to Bernie Rayno of Accuweather.com.
For the latest on the storms and how they are affecting holiday travel, we turn to Bernie Rayno, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.
Bernie, as far as late fall, early winter storms go, how big is this one?
It's a big storm, certainly, but it's certainly storms that we have seen in the past.
And, typically, these kind of storms produce mostly rain along the East Coast, with the snows across interior parts of Pennsylvania and New York state, and that's certainly what we have had with this storm. Unfortunately, this storm occurred on the worst possible day, that being the busiest travel day of the year.
So, where along — the busiest travel day of the year, where there are some pretty big transportation corridors. Where is it hitting hardest? We're talking ice in some place, rain in some place, snow in others?
At this point right now, the biggest impact has been the rain.
Back edge of the rain now is pushing through Philadelphia. We're going to continue to get soaking rains from Boston all the way up toward Portland, Maine. At least the strong winds that we had out ahead of this storm have eased for now. So, I-95, Southern New England up in into Maine, still some slowdowns.
Watch yourself if you're traveling in New York State and Pennsylvania. While we're not looking at any big amounts of snow and ice from here on out, there certainly still can be some slippery spots on the roads and especially the bridges and overpasses.
It sounds like the most treacherous part of this is the slippery roads, as well as the potential for ice on power outages. Have we had any reports of that?
Oh, we certainly have had that over the last 24 hours, especially across New York State and Pennsylvania.
But, thankfully, now, most of the precipitation with the storm is occurring in the warm air. So the snow and ice that we were seeing last night, mostly just some snow showers, still some slippery spots on roads. But things have gotten a little better where it was snowing in the last 24 hours.
How are the winds? I know that there were a lot of worries that some of these Thanksgiving Day parades might not be able to happen.
Well, that's still a close call in New York City for tomorrow, because, behind this storm, while we certainly had lots of wind out ahead of it, behind the storm, the wind will start picking up.
Certainly, this evening, in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., late tonight, tomorrow morning in New York City, we're going to see gusts between 30-35 miles per hour, but, in New York City, gusts around 20 to 30 tomorrow morning. That may cause some problems.
But, from what I understand for the Macy's Day Parade, you need sustained winds between 20 and 25 miles per hour. I don't think they're going to be that strong on Thanksgiving morning, but it's certainly going to be a close call.
And by the time everybody sits down with the turkey tomorrow, most of this will be passed?
It will be long gone. But you know what the big story is going to be is the cold. In fact, we're looking at record cold temperatures on our Wednesday night, Thursday morning, all the way down into parts of Florida and Texas.
In fact, we're looking at temperatures below freezing south of I-10 across the Florida Panhandle. So, it is certainly not going to feel like the end of November. It is going to feel more like January.
Bernie, you're making me cold just thinking about it.
Bernie Rayno of AccuWeather, thank you so much.
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Q: Kohana pagination and JavaScript tabs OK so basically I have created a simple page using Kohana for displaying a user's message inbox/outbox using tabs.
My controller is something like this:
$content                 = View::factory('messages')->bind('user', $user)->bind('received', $received)->bind('sent', $sent)->bind('pager_links', $pager_links);
$user                    = Auth::instance()->get_user();
$message_count           = ORM::factory('message')->where('to_id', '=', $user)->where('read', '=', '0')->count_all();
$pagination              = Pagination::factory(array(
    'total_items' => $message_count,
    'items_per_page' => 10
));
$received                = ORM::factory('messages')->where('messages.to_id', '=', $user)->limit($pagination->items_per_page)->offset($pagination->offset)->find_all();
$sent                    = ORM::factory('messages')->where('messages.user_id', '=', $user)->limit($pagination->items_per_page)->offset($pagination->offset)->find_all();
$pager_links             = $pagination->render();
$this->template->content = $content;

So far I am only displaying the received messages and pagination in the view and it is working fine. However I want to implement a tab container to display both the received and sent items on the same page.
I am scratching my head wondering how to use the pagination aspect for each tab without it affecting both tabs. What would be the best direction for this using the existing approach? Perhaps throwing an additional parameter into the URL when a tab is selected...
Thanks

A: Basically your issue is that you can't use page in the query string for both of the tabs at once, as obviously it will affect both pagination functions. Luckily there is in fact a configuration open that allows you to specify the source of the current page parameter in the query string.
Try this...
$pagination              = Pagination::factory(array(
    'current_page' => array('source' => 'query_string', 'key' => 'tab1_page'),
    'total_items' => $message_count,
    'items_per_page' => 10
));

Then all you need to do is make sure that your pagination view is passing the page number to the correct parameter in the query string e.g. http://mydomain.com/pagewithtabs?tab1_page=2&tab2_page=3 will put tab 1 on page 2 and tab 2 on page 3.
Hope that helps!

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Tightly twist the neck of any bag and then push the neck of the bag down through the slot on the Sealabag, the bag is now sealed!
The ease of use makes the Sealabag ideal for anyone who suffers with arthritis or other problems affecting dexterity.
Use the Sealabag mounted on a wall, or inside a kitchen unit – or slot the Sealabag into its base to use as a mobile bag sealer.
The Sealabag is supplied with a wall mounting bracket complete with screws and double sided sticky pads, so you can choose how to mount the Sealabag.
Sealabag is a discreet and versatile bag sealing device. Capable of sealing all sizes of bags from freezer bags to bin bags, the Sealabag is incredibly easy to use.
Sealabag can be used on a worktop or table - or it can be mounted on the inside of a cupboard or on the side of a kitchen unit.
Sealabag is a great kitchen gadget you will use again and again.


It is probably never too early to think about childhood obesity, but in a younger infant or toddler, you should concentrate more on what she is eating and drinking and not so much on what her weight is.
And remember that many bigger infants and younger toddlers 'thin out' as they begin to walk and run around and become more active.
And if you look at the growth charts, you can see that most infants who are following a growth curve actually double their birth weight closer to five or six months. If they gained weight much more than that, it would be a good idea to review your infant's feeding patterns with your pediatrician to make sure that you weren't overfeeding her. But with a normal diet and a healthy infant, gaining weight a little more quickly than average is probably normal for a younger infant. You would probably do more harm than good by putting a baby on a 'diet' and trying to limit their intake of breastmilk or formula at this age.
Still, if a baby doubled her birth weight at three or four months because you were already feeding them a lot of cereal, giving them more than 32 to 40 ounces of formula, or already giving juice, then that might not be healthy and you might need to discuss more healthy eating habits with your doctor.


The Richmond, B.C.,-based company said the payment applies to its senior secured 2016 notes.
Catalyst (TSX:CTL) announced in June that it was reviewing its capital structure, with a key priority to reduce debt in the current business and economic climate.
"This is a very complex process and while we cannot prejudge outcomes, we are firmly committed to achieving a solution that puts Catalyst on stronger financial footing for the future," stated CEO Kevin Clarke.
The paper producer said its operations and those of its subsidiaries should continue as usual with obligations to customers, suppliers and employees being met.
Catalyst has 30 days to pay the interest before triggering default on its corporate debt.
Failure to pay would allow noteholders to immediately declare the US$390 million principal and accrued interest "due and payable" and to begin efforts to go after the assets that back up the notes.
Default could also be declared under its credit facility with JP Morgan on US$250 million senior 2014 notes if the amount isn't paid after another 30 days. Catalyst owed $16 million in principal under this asset-backed corporate debt as of Nov. 30.
Paul Quinn of RBC Capital Markets said it's well-recognized that the company has too much debt.
"They are assessing options while talking to their creditors. Bankruptcy is one option," he said in an email.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded Catalyst's ratings for corporate family, senior secured notes and senior unsecured notes on Thursday.
It also put the ratings on review for further downgrade and said its speculative grade liquidity rating remained unchanged.
The service said the downgrades reflected the interest payment deferral, weak liquidity and significant debt.
"Catalyst's capital structure is unsustainable and that material losses are likely in a restructuring scenario," it said in a news release.
Moody's expects the company will continue to face challenging industry conditions for some of its paper products. Newsprint and directory paper continue to face secular demand declines.
Last month the company reported it lost $205.7 million in the third quarter on a $151-million impairment charge on the Snowflake recycled newsprint mill in northeastern Arizona.
Sales rose to $340.3 million from $322.3 million.
Mike Richmond, an analyst with Salman Partners, has a sell rating on Catalyst shares.
"We continue to think that the company's balance sheet is over-levered and we expect that a dilutive equity financing will be necessary to address its unbalanced capitalization," he wrote in a report in November.
Continued weak print advertising resulted in another quarter of declining year-over-year demand for both coated and uncoated specialty grades of paper, although there was a "modest price improvement" for specialty grades and previously announced price increases were partially implemented.
Directory and newsprint demand were also down from the same quarter a year ago and the average North American benchmark price for newsprint was down slightly from the second quarter.
The company manufactures diverse specialty printing papers, newsprint and pulp. Its customers include retailers, publishers and commercial printers in North America, Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Europe.
It has four mills located in British Columbia and Arizona with a combined annual production capacity of 1.9 million tonnes.


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Obama Says Qaddafi 'Needs to Go,' Downplays Scope of Missile Strikes
President Obama gestures during a joint news conference with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera March 21 in Santiago, Chile. (AP)
President Obama reiterated Monday that he wants Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi gone, but stressed that the ongoing missile strikes in support of a no-fly zone are not meant to achieve that result.
Rather, the president suggested the United States and its allies would continue to use non-military "tools" such as sanctions to pressure Qaddafi to leave.
"It is U.S. policy that Qaddafi needs to go," Obama said, during a brief press conference alongside Chilean President Sebastian Pinera in Santiago. "We've got a wide range of tools in addition to our military efforts to support that policy."
The president also said he expects the United States to transfer leadership of the operation "in a matter of days," not weeks, to other coalition partners.
Obama has faced pressure from lawmakers on Capitol Hill to clarify the United States' objectives in Libya, given that missiles from the United States and its allies have rained down on military targets in the country since Saturday. Some have questioned how the administration can on one hand call for Qaddafi's ouster but, on the other, claim the military strikes have nothing to do with that goal.
Asked Monday about the possible disconnect, Obama said he saw none.
"I think it's very easy to square our military actions and our stated policies," Obama said.
He said the United States and its allies are only launching strikes and enforcing a no-fly zone to protect the Libyan people from Qaddafi and "stop any potential atrocities."
"We are going to make sure that we stick to that mandate," Obama said.
Outside of that, the president said sanctions and other "tools" can be used to pressure Qaddafi, "and we will continue to pursue those."
Still, U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham said Monday that Qaddafi could ultimately remain in power, though he said that would not be ideal.
The open-ended outcome has led to anxiety among leading lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Several have criticized Obama for not first seeking congressional approval for the military strikes.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, R-Calif., warned that a failure to define the political objectives "risks entrenching the United States in a humanitarian mission whose scope and duration are not known at this point and cannot be controlled by us."
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Photography & Self-Publishing: Part I
Millennial Curations
by Muskan Sukarchakia
Photobooks have always been a large part of India visual culture and classic interior design, layered as coffee table placements, photographers like Steve McCurry, Prabuddha Dasgupta, and Dayanita Singh have gained strong prominence for their expansive and unconventional collection of photobooks.
Experimental photo-binding techniques, the allure of analogue printing and the freedom to express and cultivate a distinct visual narrative has given rise to an emerging wave of young artists whose experimentation with the once one-dimensional photobook has given rise to the popular sub-culture of self publishing in India today.
Artists are rethinking and reintroducing photobooks in diverse scales and themes, making use of the autonomy of self publishing. Serving as a visual diary for the thoughts of many, photobooks are inviting us to take an intimate look at the multiple narratives that are emerging from each genre. This growing community of artists and collectives are exploring the facets of self-publishing and are responding to an urgent excitement to share their work — whether as a result of a serendipitous change or as an informed critical practice — with collectors, artists and lovers of a well-crafted visual aesthetic. As for the readers, photobooks open up a space for interrogating our own opinions and ideas, giving us a front seat to experience the sometimes critical and inspiring stories that are laid bare.
Building new worlds for artistic appreciation and independence, Art Fervour spoke to 3 such independent publishers, artists and collectives in India who are laying the foundation for an exciting and burgeoning art scene that has sparked a fresh interest in photography and art.
This November, we are featuring one artist each week and highlighting their work as we dip into their practice and ask them to share a list of photobooks that we need to have on our shelves!
Kaamna Patel; Editions JoJo
Visual artist and bookmaker, Kaamna Patel began her career as an assistant to fashion photographer Farrokh Chothia and has since been publishing and creating important and evocative work under her alias and publishing house JoJo.
Her interests in semiotics and subtle rhetoric interrogation can be seen in her widely acclaimed "In Today's News", published under JoJo. Exploring the peripheries of photographic representation and its consumption within the history of documentation, JoJo is now a recognised name expanding its activities to the management and curation of a public photobook library in Mumbai. Kaamna curated an edition of Papertrail, a series of pop-up photo book libraries and reading rooms across India along with Chennai Photo Biennale Learning Lab and others. She is currently an ambassador, adjunct faculty and member of the Board of Trustees at the Paris College of Art and is a large part of the growing community of art practitioners whose global voice has a distinct criticality and tenderness.
We Recommend A Few Of Kaamna Patel's Published Photo Books
1) "In Today's News : Alpha Males & Women Power"
By Kaamna Patel; Editions JOJO
What began as an exercise of collecting and saving Instagram stories eventually prompted Patel to view the flurry of mainstream media with a critical lens. The title of the photobook, taken from a headline she found in a newspaper "In Today's News", is a glaring evidence to the machismo of media portrayal and the gendered roles the country continues to command. Made from a type of Japanese binding of using unbleached, uncoated paper called Yotsume Toji, the book is a culmination of newspaper images which when placed together reveal the prevalent patriarchal narrative that runs through popular media.
Laying bare the dominant ideologies in this particular moment in history, the photobook points to irrational gender expectations and patriarchal news reportings; giving us a chance to view mainstream imagery with the dissociation we require to evaluate the ideologies we seem to encourage.
You can view or purchase her book here.
2) Dori By Kaamna Patel; Editions JOJO A love story between two childhood friends, Dori is a personal account and exploration into a close familial relationship of Ba and Dada, Kaamna's own grandparents. Dori threads through their relationship, filled with exchanges, conversations and photos that celebrate their gentle love and relationship across the years. Paired by their parents in Gujarat, Dori traces their story beginning at ages 3 & 5 respectively and is a gentle celebration of the affections we see growing up.
The photobook can largely be called a joint effort – Patel's aunt painted the cover of the book while others helped her translate speech from Gujarati. A family archive and a testament to the relationship they share, Dori explores love through the ages with a tenderness and a playful touch that reminds us of the bonds that tie us together.
You can view and purchase her book here.
Kaamna Patel Recommends Her Selection Of Photo Books For Our Readers
3) Because / Parce Que
By Sophie Calle; Éditions Xavier Barral
Because — the answer to the proverbial question — "Why this?"
Can emotions ever be communicated fluently through language?
French artist, Sophie Calle plays with this question in her photo-project "Because". Pairing photo and poetry, the accompanying effect of her work has a profound effect on the viewer.
Parce que je suis là sur le pont… "because I'm here on the bridge". Calle's work has cemented her as a mistress of both writing and photography. She plays with her practice and invites viewers to join in on the fun. Images fall out, move around and are mysteriously placed near pages of text but it is our own intentional placement and reading of both image and text that colour our understanding of her work.
Calle's raison d'être for her photobook is reminiscent of an event 35 years ago where Denis Roche discusses the origins of his photographs at a conference sans its display, only to reveal the image with the audience for the exact duration of the photo's shutter speed. Dedicating the book to Roche, Calle's personal life finds its way into her work and her book is characterised by its tactile lush cover.
Many artists would like their work to speak for itself, and Calle's nonchalant genius doesn't remain hidden for her audience with this one.
You can view or buy her book here.
4) On Abortion
By Laia Abril; Dewi Lewis
Winner of the Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook of the Year in 2018, "On Abortion" is part of a longstanding visual research project titled A History of Misogyny. Abril tackles the contentious debate of abortions by playing with histories, ephemera, visual intruments and stories creating this exception and provocative work.
Abril is known to explore and visualise opinion bending topics from bulimia and death to the asexual community and virtual sex performers to name a recent few. A research led practice that one sees as a sort of activism, Abril always maintains an empathetic female gaze that humanises the subjects in her work.
The artist's intention is clear. Her work tries to "visualise the comparison between the present and the past, so we understand that we have always to be conscious that things are not as certain as we think". Addressing the resistance to free and safe access to aboration, On Abortion shares stories that reflect on the suffering of illegal abortions — the blatant health risks and the stigma of behind hushed —the cases of illegal abortion are visually represented in stories gathered from around the world.
You can buy her book here.
5) This World of Dew Chandan Gomes and A.H. Bano; PHOTOINK For artist Chandan Gomes, a commissioned project for a commercial hospital turned into an unusual journey to find the artist behind a series of intimate childlike drawings.
Chandon's book is a juxtaposition of ghosts and his own acceptance of mortality. Frequenting the institution multiple times, Gomes caught sight of a book of mountain drawings with no mention of its owner. Revealing each layer of the story on consistent inquiry, Gomes traced the drawings back to a young girl who lived in the institution's hospice during her last few years. The tale behind the inception of "This World of Dew " is an emotional journey; a result of Gomes' attachment and curiosity towards Aini, the girl whose drawings he chanced upon.
In a touching tale of human connection, memory and life's ephemeral moments, "This World Of Dew", a series of photographs of grand mountain ranges accompanied by drawing of Aini, is a totem to Aini's life, a young girl from the family of daily wage labourers whose love for drawing and acceptance of life's unexplained events traversed her existence to find itself in the artists lap.
You can catch a preview of the book here.
Stay tuned as we feature a new artist collective, independent publishing house and curatorial practice next week!
From Comic Art to the Big Screen
By Maitrayee Haldar
Walls that Unite: In Conversation with Aravani Art Project
By Sruti Purkait
Collectors Choice from Collective 22
By Shreya Basu


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Q: MP4 H.264 Playback in Chrome -- Audio sounds strange When loading this video in Chrome the audio plays super delayed and the video sounds very strange!
http://creative.zebra.com/video/zebra-corporate-video.mp4
Is this an encoding issue?  I am not sure what spec is causing the error and can't find anything on this problem specifically.

A: You guys are correct, it was a bug with Chrome.  Fixed in 21.0.1.x.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109978

A: +1 is a Bug. Report it to http://www.crbug.com. Make sure you keep the original file for reference.

A: does the video play normal in other videoplayers like vlc? actually, this "soundeffect" sounds like your audiofile was f.e. recorded in 96kHz and imported into a 48kHz project without converting to the new sample rate.
EDIT: ...i just downloaded the video and checked it in a normal player, where it looks/sounds good. actually i realized, that your video is played too slow. instead of the 1:10min, it s around double time, so i guess the video tag has some problems with the encoding information in the video...
my guess: HD-videos are recorded in 50fps (frames per second), while NTSC/PAL are recorded in (more or less) 25fps. it's seems like there was something wrong in the encoding, so your video contains a wrong information which makes the video element think, it has some video with 25fps, while the original file has 50fps.


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Victor Shaka (né le 1er mai 1975) est un footballeur nigérian. Il est attaquant.

Biographie

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Footballeur international nigérian
Naissance en mai 1975
Joueur du Trabzonspor
Joueur du FC Séoul
Joueur de l'Ulsan Hyundai FC
Joueur du Busan IPark

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'You Get Ideas.' The Flatiron Institute is Bringing Together Computer Scientists, Biologists, and Astrophysicists
September 22, 2017 in Portfolio, Science & Environment
Bring leading computer scientists together with leading astrophysicists, and exciting stuff happens—complex computer simulations of galaxy formation, algorithms churning through terabytes of data collected by telescope arrays. Same thing goes for biologists, as they work with programmers to bring order to the chaos of neurons firing by the millions.
But get everyone working together under the same roof with extensive time and funding, and unexpected work might take shape. New ideas could form as computer scientists and researchers from a variety of fields hold meetings, chat over lunch, or just run into each other in the hallways.
That's the kind of research environment the Simons Foundation is trying to cultivate with its latest endeavor, and its most ambitious yet, the Flatiron Institute. What's more, Jim and Marilyn Simons also decided they wanted that same roof to be their own. More specifically, the foundation made a significant expansion into the building right across the street from its Manhattan offices to accommodate a new research institute fully supported by the foundation.
Read the full article at Inside Philanthropy.
Tags: featured, Inside Philanthropy, science
The Prosthetic Eyeball Is a Work of Art
July 16, 2016 in Arts & Culture, Portfolio
Originally published at TheAtlantic.com. Making a realistic eye takes more than technical skill: an Object Lesson.
The eye is about the size of a quarter, resting gently in Kurt Jahrling's hand as he adds faint washes of yellow and blue to the white surface. The ocularist has already laid tiny, reddish-pink threads of silk over the surface to mimic the curves of blood vessels, tiny rivers winding from either corner toward the iris. A hazel centerpiece surrounds a black dot meant to mimic the pupil; as the finishing touch, he adds the arcus, a grey ring that hugs the outer edge of some aging irises.
The result is an astoundingly close approximation of the missing right eye of a 63-year-old Bostonian named Kevin. Kevin had his eye surgically removed eight months prior. Today, he'll wear this tiny piece of acrylic home: an illusion, a practical placeholder, and a little piece of art.
Read the full article at The Atlantic.
Image: Victor Ruiz Garcia / Reuters
Tags: featured, science, The Atlantic
Eradication Nation
April 08, 2015 in Portfolio, Science & Environment
Originally published in American Forests Magazine, Winter 2015.What Boston's battle with the Asian longhorned beetle can teach us about stopping an invasive pest in its tracks.
Clint McFarland didn't want to believe the pictures he was looking at on his smartphone.
Late on a Friday afternoon in July 2010, he was at a gathering in Worcester, Mass., to recognize federal and state staff who had been working long, hard hours for two years to wrangle the city's runaway Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infestation, the country's largest by far. By the time a homeowner reported it in 2008, the invasive beetles had already been boring their way across the heavily forested city in the center of the state, frighteningly close to the edge of contiguous forests that span New England and reach into Canada.
Tags: American Forests, Boston, Forestry, Invasive Species, Massachusetts
December 03, 2014 in Portfolio, Science & Environment, Uncategorized
Beneath the water lie memories of vibrant villages.| Originally published in The Magazine, September 11, 2014.
Sally Norcross stands outside what was once her childhood home, in the heart of Dana, Massachusetts. She and her family left town 76 years ago, but she has clear memories of throwing crabapples into the yard of her grouchy neighbor Mr. Vaughn. Across Main Street is where she used to sit in school and watch out the window as the men dug up all the graves in the cemetery.
The bodies and headstones were relocated and the town of Dana abandoned. Her family's house is an empty stone cellar overgrown with brush, like the remains of all the other buildings that made up the town. Dana is one of four towns that once lay in the Swift River Valley. All four of them are gone. Dana is unique in that its town common is the only one of the four that's still above water and accessible.
Tags: Boston, Engineering, featured, History, The Magazine
Mad Scientist Club
September 03, 2014 in Arts & Culture, Geek, Portfolio
In an otherwise unremarkable room at MIT, the published history of science fiction overflows. | Originally published in The Magazine, June 19, 2014.
By Tate Williams
Decades before Guy Consolmagno had an asteroid named after him in honor of his contributions to planetary science, he was a directionless history major at Boston College. Then he saw what MIT was keeping in a room of the student center. He knew he had to transfer.
It wasn't MIT's research on meteoroids and asteroids, or its contributions to NASA lunar missions, or even the early stages of what would become the Internet, though all of this was happening on the Cambridge campus around 1970. Rather, it was a bunch of novels. Thousands and thousands of science fiction novels.
Tags: Books, featured, libraries, sci-fi, The Magazine
In the Garden Cemetery: The Revival of America's First Urban Parks
June 16, 2014 in Arts & Culture, Portfolio
First published in American Forests magazine spring/summer 2014. |
In the 1820s, America's cities had a problem: People kept dying, and church burial grounds were filling up. Fortunately, a group of horticulturists in Massachusetts had a solution and, in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge became the first modern cemetery. Other cities began to follow suit, dedicating rolling, scenic tracts of land on the outskirts of town to honor the deceased. This "rural cemetery," or "garden cemetery," movement not only temporarily solved the problem of where to put the dead, but it also gave us the nation's very first parks.
Over the decades, cemeteries fell out of vogue as cultural centers, but their fall from favor was not to be permanent. Today, the practice of using cemeteries for outdoor recreation is bubbling up once more, as urban dwellers seek out nature in the city.
Tags: American Forests, Architecture, Boston, Cities, Design, featured, History
From the Industrial Revolution to Modern Housing: Adaptive Reuse of Factories in Lowell, MA
May 04, 2014 in Arts & Culture, Portfolio
Originally published on Curbed National, April 18, 2014. |
The Boott Mills complex stretches along the Merrimack River like a fortress, a 179-year-old set of connected brick buildings that once housed roaring hydroelectric textile factories in the heart of Lowell, Mass. It's a remarkably intact representation of the mills that launched Lowell and other towns like it to prominence during the Industrial Revolution, and then left them in economic decline in the second half of the 20th century. But Lowell's factories—most recently, the iconic Boott Mills near downtown—are making a comeback.
Tags: Architecture, Boston, Curbed, History
Modifying Nature (Humans Included) To Save It
December 22, 2013 in Portfolio, Science & Environment
Originally published on Futures Exchange. | Imaginative minds are exploring some strange and audacious solutions to our worst environmental problems. They are not, however, for the faint of heart, particularly if you have a strong attachment to the human body as it currently exists.
Biologists have already been toying with the idea of engineering endangered species to make them more resilient, or even resurrecting certain extinct species. But there's a set of artists and scholars taking the concept of green bioengineering much further, imagining new species of synthetic, beneficial creatures and even biologically modified humans that leave a lighter footprint on the planet.
Tags: bioengineering, climate change, Design, Medium, scifi
Science Fiction Can Save Environmentalism
October 31, 2013 in Geek, Portfolio, Science & Environment, Writing
| Essay originally published on Futures Exchange, via Medium, on October 22, 2013.
Bill McKibben was firing up a rally of climate activists in Cambridge, Mass., this past summer in preparation for a protest and mass arrest at one of the state's coal-fired power plants:
"The message we need to keep sending all the time is, there is nothing radical about what we're asking," he said. "All we're asking for is a world that works the way the one we were born into worked. That's not radical. That's actually kind of conservative."
This is a shrewd point, and just one part of a pretty powerful overall talk, but as an environmentalist, I found the sentiment troubling. If the green movement's rallying cry is to keep the world the way it was when we were born, isn't it fairly doomed? Sounds like a stodgy, if not pointless cause. I would argue that, for environmentalism to stay vital in decades to come, it's going to have to stop being so resistant to change, and dive into a far more imaginative conversation of what our future might hold.
Tags: climate change, Design, environment, featured, Medium, sci-fi
Arab Spring, a Literary Festival in Gaza, and the Role of Media in Revolution
October 31, 2013 in Arts & Culture, Portfolio, Writing
Profile of Boston Palestine Film Festival artist Omar Robert Hamilton, originally published on Open Media Boston, October 24, 2013.Image courtesy BPFF, from Hamilton's film "Though I Know the River is Dry."
by Tate Williams (Staff)
Omar Robert Hamilton's entry in the Boston Palestine Film Festival is his third fiction short, but he's made several other films, dozens, in fact.
They're mostly brief documentaries he filmed and publicized as co-founder of the Egyptian film collective Mosireen, which played a major role in documenting the 2011 revolution and aftermath. Mosireen became the most-watched nonprofit YouTube channel in Egypt, and even worldwide during one month.
Tags: Boston, media, Movies, Open Media Boston


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All caught up on Breaking Bad
Over a week ago I finished the 4th season of Breaking Bad. My initial reaction was one of amazement at how great they were able to wrap that season up. I've had some time to step back and think about it, and I am still impressed with what they were able to do over the last 3-4 episodes.
From the beginning I've watched all the seasons in bursts of 2 or 3 episodes at a time. I never had to wait week to week. There were times at the beginning of season 4 where the show seemed to spin it's wheels. I didn't notice the effect much because I could blow through it so quickly. If I had to wait a week between each episode for ep. 3-8 I might have gone crazy. The show was never bad, but there was a lot of stuff that felt like "filler." Walt was MIA though much of the first half of the season. I mean, he was on screen, but he didn't seem to be doing anything. I had no clue how they were going to wrap it up, but they did an excellent job.
While I found Walt's journey through season 4 to be frustrating, I can't help but appreciate what they have done with that character. At the beginning of the show it was so easy to be sympathetic for him. No I oscillate between feeling sorry for him, rooting for him to "win", being amazed at his actions/stupidity, and totally hating the guy. At the end of season 4 I was totally rooting for Walk to beat Gus, but at the same time I was sympathetic to Gus. There are so many shades of gray in this show. I simultaneously can hope a character succeeds, and totally loathe them. The concept of "good guys" and "bad guys" doesn't apply. They are all bad. I guess the cops are technically "good guys" but I find myself hoping they aren't able to put the pieces together most of the time. Surely Hank is going to keep digging in, and at some point things will come to a head with him and Walt.
I really enjoyed how Walt's ego is what caused Hank to redouble his efforts into the investigation. Walt couldn't stand the thought of Hank believing Gale was the mastermind behind everything. He couldn't let that go even though it would have kept Hank from getting in his business. Walt's ego showed up several times this season and when it happened it was the worst version of Walt there is. That dude is spinning out of control and I have no clue what the next season will bring.
Season 5 has been set up almost as a refresh. The characters seemingly have the opportunity to return to "normal" lives. I doubt it will happen, but I'm really not sure what the complicating factor will be. Walt and Skylar could go back to being a family, but I somehow doubt that will happen. That won't be enough for Walt. He is addicted to his new lifestyle and now feels like he is a badass. Something bad is going to happen for sure.
Jesse is a big question mark. I'm not sure what that guy is going to do. Walt totally screwed him all of season 4. If you think about it, Jesse would have been in a much better situation if Gus had succeeded in killing Walt. Jesse would have been making a lot of money, and wouldn't have to deal with Walt's bull crap anymore. Not only did Walt ruin the sweet gig Jesse could have had going, but he used Jesse's girlfriends kid to do it. If Jesse ever finds out about what happened with Jane, and that Walt was there when she died; Jesse will flip out. Early on in the relationship Jesse was the one that felt like dead weight, but that dynamic has totally flipped. Through the second half of season 4 I thought about how much better off Jesse would be without Walt around.
I haven't loved a television show as much as I do Breaking Bad for a long time; if ever. There is something about the show that has me so wrapped up in everything that is going on. I haven't been this taken by an hour long drama since LOST broke my heart a couple years ago when it fell flat on its face in the final season. I guess Breaking Bad could still potentially suffer a similar fate down the stretch, but I somehow know in my soul that it won't. These last 2 mini-seasons of Breaking Bad are going to be awesome. I can't wait to see what happens.
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New figures from the British Medical Association show that we in north Wales are facing an extreme GP crisis unless swift action is taken. They show that North Wales is the worst-hit part of Wales for GP practices closing over the past six years.
The figures obtained from various health boards show that almost a half of all Wales's GP practices closing between 2010-15 were in the North – 16 out of 33.
In the past year alone, a further eight out of 20 Welsh practices that closed were in the North – 40% of the total. These include practices in Prestatyn, Rhuddlan, Conwy and Summerhill near Wrexham.
There's a general problem with GPs retiring and not being replaced, putting greater pressure on the colleagues remaining. Plaid Cymru has been highlighting this problem for a number of years. We've advocated training and recruiting an extra 1,000 doctors to meet the shortfall in all disciplines but the problem is particularly acute in GP practices and worse still in parts of the North. Had we seen the Cardiff Labour Government take decisive action when we first raised this some years ago, we could have avoided some of the problems we're now facing.
There is a way forward, as the health board is increasingly taking direct control of practices with salaried GPs. This suits many doctors who don't particularly want to be running businesses and it seems to be working in Prestatyn, where a practice serving 18,000 patients was taken over by Betsi Cadwaladr health board in April. For the sake of the NHS, which we all want to see succeed and continue to deliver a first-class service, I hope that model works and can offer a solution.
The fallout regarding GHA Coaches continues to rumble on – Flintshires' real ale trail was cancelled and many rural communities have been left stranded for weeks without a bus service. Things are improving but I remain concerned that things got to this stage. It's only when these services disappeared overnight that those in power realised how reliant many people are on public transport – to get to work, to shop, to visit friends and family or get to hospital appointments.
It's vital that we invest in our existing public transport services rather than treating them as a Cinderella service. This has led to problems such as that caused by the demise of GHA Coaches, which it seems was unable to deliver the services it was contracted to run for the agreed price. Cutting costs to the bone can be a false economy.
To get in touch, please phone 01824 703593 or write to Llyr Gruffudd AM at 69a Clwyd St, Ruthin, LL15 1HN. You can also e-mail me at llyr.gruffydd@assembly.wales or contact me on Facebook/LlyrGruffydd or @LlyrGruffydd on Twitter.


Revel in the sights and sounds of Sri Lanka's largest city, a bustling port and melting pot of cultures – try visiting one of the many markets, eating tasty local dishes such as kottu, and riding on a tuktuk as well as playing a round of golf and taking high tea at a colonial-style hotel.
Drink a cup of local tea in the heart of Sri Lanka's hill country. The surrounding countryside is almost entirely given over to the cultivation of tea and you'll be able to try your hand as a tea picker in hotels such as the Heritance Tea Factory.
Awaken your spiritual side when you pilgrimage to this sacred town, tucked away surrounded by jungle in the far south of Sri Lanka. It's an important spiritual destination for Hindus, Buddhists and the Vedda people who are indigenous to the area.
Climb the 533 steps to the top of the rock on which the Mulkirigala Buddhist temple is located and absorb the far-reaching views of the Tangalle area. It was built in the 3rd Century and still dominates its surroundings. Don't miss the chance to laze on the area's pretty beaches.


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The Medusa Reader
Marjorie B. Garber, Nancy J. Vickers, The Medusa reader. Culture work. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. xvi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.. ISBN 0415900980 $24.95.
Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College. kirk.ormand@oberlin.edu
The guests are stood in silence
They stare and drink their wine
On the wall the canvas hangs
Frozen there in time
They marvel at the beauty
The horror and despair
At the wake of the Medusa
No one shed a tear
— The Wake of the Medusa,1 Jem Finer of the Pogues
When I type the name "Medusa" into Google, I am informed that I have found approximately 1, 050,000 hits. (For rough comparison, Oedipus turns up 318,000; Medea, 519,000. Poor Perseus, even with the help of the Perseus Project, only exists in 736,000 cyperspaces. Freud tops them all with a whopping 2,140,000.) These days, Medusa exists in many forms. She is an amusement park roller coaster, and is well-known as the symbol for the late Gianni Versace's line of clothing. But she is also a DS9 security system, "a framework for writing asynchronous socket-based servers," and a guerilla poetry group based in Lawrence, KS. As a cultural icon, a social and literary trope, Medusa's got chops.
That seems to be the point of the curious collection under review here, edited by literary/cultural theorists Marjorie Garber and Nancy Vickers. This book collects, in English translation, 73 generally brief selections of things that critics, theorists, and poets have written about Medusa and/or the Gorgon. Each selection is prefaced by a short, informative paragraph explaining for the non-expert who the author is and what is significant about his/her contribution. The first selection is from Homer (the description of the aegis in Book 5, Agamemnon's shield in Book 11), and the last is from a 1996 interview with Gianni Versace. In between, Medusa's story does duty as Christian allegory, as military strategy, as a representation of the castration complex and of primitive initiation rites, as a call to arms for feminists and for African-American women, as a comment on poetic and artistic production, as a figure for gender blur (the particular interest of editor Garber), and as inspiration for numerous poems and works of fiction.
The book was pleasing to read, but I confess that I cannot discern the book's intended audience. Unlike, say, The Kristeva Reader, it does not present a coherent body of work, but rather a hodgepodge of representations and appropriations of a complex figure. Literary critics in various fields who are dealing with Medusa as a type will consult it, and it is instructive simply to see Medusa's protean metamorphoses. But reading it straight through (as a reviewer must, but most other readers will not), is a bit like reading an anthology of modern poetry. You read a selection, find it amusing or disturbing or morose, perhaps read another selection, perhaps put it aside for the next day. The editors — both formidable critics — have made no attempt to interpret, and the introduction (1-7) makes only the slightest gestures towards theorizing the ways in which Medusa has become a trope, or analyzing why she has such iconic status in the modern world. Given the information that the book took shape because the editors were working (separately) on the figure of Medusa in two works of Shakespeare (xvii), I began to suspect that this book represents, more or less, the background research that went into those two articles (excerpts from which are included.) Who, then, is this book for? Perhaps only the curious, well-educated browser, and if that is the intent, she will be reasonably well-served.
The editors chose to leave the excerpts in strict chronological order, rather than arranging them into thematic groups. (A thematically arranged bibliography closes the book.) They did this, they say, because they do not see the myth evolving. Rather, "… the Medusa myth … includes, from its very beginnings, all the conflicting elements that have fascinated audiences and readers …" (7). This is not strictly true, of course. As Vernant points out in the essay selected for this volume, the introduction of Perseus' mirror (or shield acting as one) seems to take place in the late 5th century (225), a development that Vernant also links to the characterization of Medusa as arrestingly beautiful (227). Most post-Ovidian readers and critics, however, read the myth in its amalgamated form (of which an early representative is pseudo-Apollodorus, selection 6). So Medusa-as-icon is a product of the myth taken, in good structuralist fashion, from the combination of all of its variants.
This chronological arrangement makes for some interesting juxtapositions. Freud's essay was late in his career (1923, not published until 1940). It bumps up, in this volume, against Countee Cullen's 1935 poem from the Harlem Renaissance and is not far from James Merrill's splendid "Medusa" of 1946. It hardly seems possible that these three occupied the same chronological context, and some of the delight of reading the volume comes from reading these passages in sequence. At the same time, it might have been useful to separate out different modes of production, particularly in the modern period. Though Bacon's allegorical use of the Medusa story to explain military strategy (for example) defies classification, it seems clear enough that the selections of poetry inspired by Medusa are of a different order than scholarly essays interpreting artistic representations of her.
Many of the excerpts are very short — a page or two — with the longest spaces reserved for 20th century works of interpretation by key figures such as J-P. Vernant, John Freccero, and Neil Hertz. The book is dominated by the last century. The first fifty pages take us to the end of late antiquity (John Malalas), and on page 84 we reach Freud's influential, and late, 1923 essay on Medusa's head. By page 100 we come to Sylvia Plath, and the remaining 176 pages are post-1962.
The selection from the ancient world is quite good. I was unfamiliar, before now, with the early rationalizing work of Palaephaetus (selection 5), which is wildly entertaining. The late antique passages from Fulgentius and John Malalas are also probably not well-known and are certainly worth reading. The other, better-known passages (Pindar Pythian 12, Euripides' Ion, Ovid, Lucan, Achilles Tatius, etc.) are well-selected, chosen from good published translations, and competently introduced. I am less able to comment on the selection from later periods, though I did note the curious absence of Bocaccio's sketch of Medusa in his selection of famous women. (Thanks to this volume I am now able to see, I think, Boccaccio's dependence on Fulgentius.) I also wondered why the editors did not include the entry for Medusa from Wittig and Zeig's Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary.
The volume presents a remarkable sample from the dazzling range of appropriations of Medusa, particularly in the modern period. One also must admit, however, that Medusa is less present in some of these excerpts than others. For some authors — I think particularly of Freud and Cixous — she is a fundamental underlying metaphor, or an inspiration for a different kind of discourse. In the passage from Marx' Capital, on the other hand, she is barely there, and hardly necessary for the argument. Some of the passages, too, are so short as to be incomprehensible for readers who are not already immersed in their particular theoretical modes. Two pages each are presented from Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous, Stephen Heath, and Teresa de Lauretis… it is difficult to imagine gleaning much from these selections.
The editors have drawn connections where they can, and readers are generally directed towards them in the paragraphs introducing individual excerpts. The volume includes, for example, both Dante's description of Medusa in the Inferno, and Freccero's insightful analysis of that troubling passage; Caravaggio's famous head of Medusa (1590-1600) is figure 1, and included is a longish passage from Louis Marin discussing that painting. Editor Nancy Vickers' essay on Shakespeare's Lucrece cites many of the earlier sources for the myth included here. Versace's fascination with Medusa (and his use of her image as his icon) becomes particularly clear, and striking, with the inclusion of two full-page Versace advertisements (figures 28 and 29). On the other hand, it is difficult to understand why they included Rosetti's "Aspecta Medusa," but not the accompanying image.
A few technical details are aggravating. In some instances the editors have clearly marked book and line numbers for their excerpts (e.g. in the case of Ovid). In others, they have not. Good luck to the reader, then, who wants to pinpoint the one paragraph of Pausanias excerpted here, to say nothing of the two page passage from Derrida's Glas. There is a bibliography of works having to do with Medusa, divided into broad categories. The reader will find Homer under "Mythology and Religion: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance," rather than under "Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Autobiography." The passages of Homer cited in the bibliography as having to do with Medusa do not correspond to the ones included in this volume. I give only this example to suggest that the casual reader will have to do some work to benefit from the bibliography.
The most disappointing aspect of the book is the lack of analysis by the editors in general. In particular, Freud's analysis of Medusa's head as fetishized representation of castration anxiety marks a clear turning point in the life of the Medusa myth. One cannot read the second half of this book without realizing that, for better or worse, many of the later reactions to Medusa are at least in part reacting as much to Freud's reading of her. Indeed, even the fundamental question of whether one identifies with Medusa or is petrified by her is, for the modern world, a question shaped by Freudian frameworks of thought. Given Garber's insightful work on gender, sexuality, and personal identity elsewhere, it is surprising that the book does not try to synthesize the force of the post-Freudian Medusa in modern society. For those interested in pursuing that problem, this book will provide a good place to start.
Classicists will find the first 50 pages interesting and perhaps useful in teaching mythology. A course on the history of ideas, or the history of modes of interpretation may find the ancient, medieval, renaissance, and modern readings of Medusa instructive. I suspect that this book will help along a number of dissertations in comparative literature and English. In itself, however, it is not so much a book as a Medusa-themed curiosity shop: neither profound nor particularly coherent, but for all that an engaging way to spend the afternoon.
1. This song, released on the Pogues' Hell's Ditch album, was apparently inspired by Théodore Géricault's painting, Le Radau de la Méduse (1818-19). A modified version of the painting appeared as the cover art for Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.


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#AdvocacyMatters: Sequel Pomegranate Health Systems Update
September 17, 2021 / #AdvocacyMatters
At Disability Rights Ohio (DRO), our work hinges on advocacy. As part of our mission, DRO regularly monitors and investigates abuse, neglect, and exploitation, then we advocate for individuals impacted. In 2019 and 2020, DRO conducted an extensive investigation at Sequel Pomegranate Health Systems (now called Torii Behavioral Health Systems), a facility that operates both a youth acute psychiatric hospital and youth residential treatment facility (RTF).
The story starts more than two years ago, in June 2019, when DRO received complaints about physical abuse and bullying at Sequel Pomegranate. The harrowing reports prompted DRO to conduct a thorough investigation into the culture, safety, care, rights education, and rights protection occurring for youth at the facility. In February 2020, during DRO's active investigation, Sequel Pomegranate agreed with the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS) to suspend new admissions to its acute psychiatric hospital for 120 days.
Sequel Pomegranate's story doesn't end there: It wasn't long after our investigation and report—through another agreement with OMHAS in December 2020—that Sequel Pomegranate Health Systems agreed to relinquish its license to operate the RTF. In addition, the facility agreed not to apply for a new operating license for the RTF until at least October 2021 while also meeting specific conditions. By January 2021, the acute psychiatric hospital once again started accepting new admissions. However, just last week, we received news that Torii Behavioral Health Systems—the for-profit corporation's new name for Sequel Pomegranate—voluntarily relinquished all of its OMHAS licenses and certifications, including its license to operate a private psychiatric hospital.
This news is huge for Ohio's disability-rights advocates—DRO's investigation, which focused primarily on the RTF, uncovered serious and systemic cases of abuse and neglect, violations of safety and treatment standards, inappropriate use of restraint, peer-to-peer bullying and staff intimidation, and overall infringement of civil rights. Despite frequent opportunities to address these concerns, the infractions remained throughout our entire investigation.
DRO's Associate Advocacy Director, Amy Price, described a sense of relief after getting word that the facility would close its doors in early October:
"All children deserve welcoming, clean, safe, structured, trauma-informed environments that support them on their individualized treatment journeys and help to facilitate their recovery and growth in the most multiculturally inclusive and the least restrictive environments possible. Residential treatment facilities and acute psychiatric hospitals are locked facilities. They are not community-based treatment options. I'm very proud of the work our team and community has done to continue to shed light on injustices."
This facility is just one of many we've worked with in recent years. In fact, DRO's Abuse and Neglect team works year-round to monitor facilities, provide recommendations, and launch investigations when presented with probable cause. At the start of the pandemic, the team continued monitoring facilities remotely until we could ensure a safer return. Now, the team continues both remote and in-person monitoring to best advocate for Ohioans with disabilities, ensuring they have the right to receive care free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
We know there's still much work to do. Today, we want to recognize and thank the advocates who helped illuminate incalculable injustices that needed brought to light. You—the individual, the family member, the advocate—are crucial in all the work we do. Together, our #AdvocacyMatters.


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Q: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'SQLite.SQLiteConnection' threw an exception I'm new to android and xamarin. Recently I have created one android app following xamrarin sample TaskyPortable. Problem is whenever following code executes it throws error.
        public override void OnCreate()
        {
            base.OnCreate();
            var sqliteFilename = "ToDoItemDB.db3";
            string libraryPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
            var path = Path.Combine(libraryPath, sqliteFilename);
            conn = new SQLiteConnection(path);

whenever it calls new SQLiteConnection with given path, it throws

"System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for
  'SQLite.SQLiteConnection' threw an exception."

What am I doing wrong? The code is almost similar to TaskyPortable.
I have searched a lot but did not find anything.
Kindly help.
P.S. : This question is already asked here and I have checked the answer. I have added reference of SQLite.net in droid project also. But still facing this issue.

A: This code is working
  private SQLiteConnection conn;

  protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
  {
   base.OnCreate(bundle);
   Forms.Init(this, bundle);

   var sqliteFilename = "ToDoItemDB.db3";
   string libraryPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
   var path = Path.Combine(libraryPath, sqliteFilename);
   conn = new SQLiteConnection(path);

   //create table
   conn.CreateTable<Todo>();

   LoadApplication(new App());
  }

Check if those packages are in the package.config. Maybe is better to remove the Sqlite packages and install only the sqlite-net-pcl, which is installing the rest of the sqlite packages
  <package id="sqlite-net-pcl" version="1.3.1" targetFramework="monoandroid60" />
  <package id="SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_green" version="1.1.2" targetFramework="monoandroid60" />
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A: I had encountered same error.
In my case, mysql.Data package crashed.
After delete mysql.Data package it solved.


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County Tipperary Junior B Football Championship Semi-Final
Solohead ambush Killenaule to end 22-year gap since last County Tipperary final appearance
Solohead hoping to win first county title since 1959
Jeddy Walsh
jeddy.walsh@nationalist.ie
Rival captains Chris O'Connor (Solohead) and Declan Fanning (Killenaule) with referee Pat O'Mahony (Kiladangan) before today's semi-final at Leahy Park, Cashel.
Tipperary Water County Junior B Football Championship Semi-Final
SOLOHEAD 3-11 KILLENAULE 1-9
It's been 22 years since Solohead last appeared in a county football decider at any adult grade, but at Leahy Park, Cashel, on Saturday afternoon, the West Tipp side made sure of a final spot with a convincing eight points win.
Killenaule, sprinkled with a half dozen players who have played at senior grade in recent seasons, were fancied to advance but Solohead ambushed them well with a slicker, pacier type of game that left the South champions well beaten long before the end.
While a physically stronger Killenaule were content to play through the middle throughout, Solohead at every opportunity counter-attacked at pace out wide and used the legs of their forwards to good effect. Their economy in possession and in scoring chances also stood out; when they had possession they spilled it less and passed it about better.
It also appeared that their long break since their West final triumph in Golden over Clonoulty Rossmore (0-13 to 0-4) helped, as Killenaule on the other hand had only a week to recover from their extra-time victory over Clerihan last Saturday. The freshness in the legs came into play as the game wore on.
Solohead started the quicker and had two points on the board inside two minutes from Michael Fitzgerald and Joss O'Brien. But slowly Killenaule wound themselves up with points from Declan Fanning and Eoin Butler, superbly finishing a flowing movement through the centre.
A Declan Fanning free edged 'The Robins' ahead in the 11th minute - the only time they would lead in this encounter.
The Solohead team and mentors prior to their County Semi-Final win over Killenaule at Leahy Park, Cashel, today.
The game's first goal arrived in the 14th minute. Killenaule's Kevin Prendergast was pick-pocketed by Paul Ryan as he attempted to set up an attack and Ryan then delicately delivered a 30 metre pass into Aaron Ryan for the full-forward to blast home for a 1-2 to 0-3 lead, an advantage they would never relinquish.
Eoin Butler then made a great run through the middle for a Killenaule point, matched immediately when Brendan Collins came from wing-back to point for Solohead.
Declan Fanning narrowed the game to the minimum with a free in the 17th minute before Solohead hit a purple patch of possession and scores to go well clear.
Good work from the influential Paul Ryan created an opportunity for his midfield partner James Dee to point in the 21st minute, and two minutes later Eoin Riordan kicked a beauty of a point from all of 40 metres after good work by counter-attacking corner-back Jerry Dee.
A three points lead was doubled in the 26th minute with a peach of a goal. A burst from a short free by Joss O'Brien linked up with Chris Kirby and his pass to Michael Fitzgerald was finished brilliantly to give the Solohead side a 2-5 to 0-5 lead.
A minute later it was seven-up for the West champions when Joss O'Brien scored a rousing point from 25 metres out.
Right on the stroke of half-time Killenaule got a break they badly needed. Niall O'Dwyer was impeded awkwardly inside the square and from the resultant penalty Declan Fanning drove high into the top right corner of the net. This last kick of the half sent 'The Robins' in just four points adrift and very much back in the hunt at 2-6 to 1-5.
Solohead introduced Declan Riordan at the break and they kicked on early with three points inside the opening three minutes - two frees converted by Joss O'Brien and Declan Riordan, followed by a point from full-forward Aaron Ryan.
Their third goal arrived in the 37th minute when while playing advantage for a free Michael Fitzgerald was taken out in the square and referee Pat O'Mahony pointed to the spot. Up stepped Joss O'Brien and his effort just squeezed under Tom Fitzgerald to give Solohead a 10-points lead that looked unassailable the way the game was going.
Over the next ten minutes Killenaule tried their utmost to rally and indeed had three unanswered points from two Declan Fanning frees and a well finished point by Eoin Shaw. But in truth the Solohead rearguard, to a man were magnificent in their determination and workrate, tackling, blocking and counter-attacking at every opportunity.
Ten minutes from time Michael Fitzgerald tagged on a point for Solohead after a move involving Declan Riordan and James Dee. And the game's final score came in the 52nd minute when Joss O'Brien kicked a free from the tightest of angles, a free won by the pacey Aaron Ryan who was having a fine game up to then.
Thereafter it was a case of just playing out the clock for Solohead as they went in search of their first county final appearance since their 1996 County Junior 'B' final loss to Gortnahoe/Glengoole. However, two minutes from time two red cards were brandished by the referee. Killenaule's Niall O'Dwyer was dismissed for wrestling an opponent to the ground, but in the follow up Solohead's Aaron Ryan was red-carded for a low strike. It could be a very costly blow for the club and the individual with such a rare occasion coming.
For the men of Solohead, Monard, Limerick Junction and surrounds this was a great all-round team performance packed with passion and a determined workrate. The victory will send them into the final against Moyne/Templetuohy with great confidence of ending an eon since Solohead last captured a county crown - the Junior Hurling title of 1959 (won in October 1960). From 1 to 15 they all contributed well with the likes of Chris O'Connor, Brendan Collins, Noel Kennedy, Paul Ryan, Michael Fitzgerald and Joss O'Brien going the extra-mile.
It was a disappointing end for Killenaule but they will be the first to admit that Solohead had more in them on the day. Without making excuses the short turnaround didn't help either but Killenaule are used to fixtures demands as a dual club. On the day Gearoid O'Rourke was a leader from centre-back as was Declan Fanning at centre-forward even if he missed a few scores that he would normally put over. Keith Kennedy, Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Keaveney and Eoin Butler also had their moments.
SOLOHEAD:
Christopher Ryan, Jerry Dee, Noel Kennedy, Chris O'Connor, Brendan Collins (0-1), Philip O'Doherty, Denis O'Shea, James Dee (0-1), Paul Ryan, Michael Fitzgerald (1-2), John Joe O'Brien, Chris Kirby, Eoin Riordan (0-1), Aaron Ryan (1-1), Joss O'Brien (1-4, 1-0 pen, 0-3F).
Subs: Declan Riordan (0-1F) for Kirby (HT); Brian Garvin for O'Shea (50); Aidan Riordan for Fitzgerald (57, inj).
KILLENAULE:
Tom Fitzgerald, Eoin McCormack, Michael Fitzgerald, Luke Ryan, Keith Kennedy, Gearoid O'Rourke, Kevin Prendergast, Tommy Keaveney, Niall O'Dwyer, Gerry Kennedy, Declan Fanning (1-6, 1-0 pen, 0-5F), Eoin Butler (0-2), Jonathan Berry, Kenneth Browne, Eoin Shaw (0-1).
Subs: Denis Fogarty for Browne (20 mins); Billy Barrett for Prengergast (37); Jason Ryan for Berry (54); Graham O'Connor for O'Rourke (55, inj).
Referee: Pat O'Mahony (Kiladangan).


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Para dance sport adds to family
Three new nations try sport after course in Latvia 13 Dec 2018
Three new countries have been introduced to Para dance sport at a course in Latvia
ⒸWorld Para Dance Sport
By World Para Dance Sport
World Para Dance Sport has welcomed three new countries into its family after a coaching course held in December in Jurmala, Latvia.
Representatives from Ireland, Latvia and Sweden learned the basics of Para dance sport, such as its history, the different dancing styles, wheelchair techniques and skills, and judging criteria.
The course was the first of its kind in the Baltic region and in collaboration with the Latvian Spinal Cord Injury Society and the Rehabilitation Centre 'Vaivari.'
"All the participants finished the course with plenty of enthusiasm and determined to do what they can to develop the sport in their countries," said Konstantin Vasilyev of Russia, the course's lead instructor.
Vasilyev, who also serves on World Para Dance Sport's Sport Technical Committee, added:
"We understand that there will be challenges along the way to bringing the sport to their homes and there are uncontrollable factors. But after their participation over the two days, I know they will try their best, and we hope to see the first results of their activities in the upcoming year.
"Ireland, Latvia and Sweden - welcome to our World Para Dance Sport Family!"
Camila Rodrigues, World Para Dance Sport Manager, said the coaching courses have helped the sport reaching new regions.
"This year, we have seen our family grow even bigger after courses held in the USA, Chinese Taipei and now Latvia. We have seen that there is plenty of interest in an artistic Para sport. We are looking forward to following up on the new nations and helping them further their growth," Rodrigues said.
The course took place from 1-2 December. After the sessions, an event was held at the National Library in the capital city Riga to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities organised by 'Vaivari' and the Spinal Cord Injury Society.
2018 in review: Top four Para dance couples
2018 in Review: Top three male Para dancers
2018 in Review: Top three female Para dancers
Olena Chynka named November's Allianz Athlete of the Month
World Para Dance Sport - Partners
Official website of World Para Dance Sport


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Q: microphone not working on an imac 27 I installed Fedora on an imac 18,3 (27 5k 2017).
First, audio didn't work at all. Eventually audio outputs work with this module.
After installing the module, I see a Microphone - Built-in Audio in the Settings/Sound/Input panel. But the mic input still does not work.

arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CS8409/CS42L83 Analog [CS8409/CS42L83 Analog]
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wpctl status
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        39. pipewire-pulse                      [0.3.65, fr@imac-valerie, pid:1846]
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        43. GNOME Volume Control Media Keys     [0.3.65, fr@imac-valerie, pid:2001]
        44. xdg-desktop-portal                  [0.3.65, fr@imac-valerie, pid:2228]
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Does a case from the 1940s of a man with no frontal lobe greatly impact what modern clinicians know about mental health treatment? When "old school" brain imaging found the patient now known as "JP" to be missing a severe amount of his frontal lobe, the neuropsychiatry case became the first of its kind in understanding how the physical components of the brain affect a patient's psychiatric health.
Named in the 2018 article "Six Landmark Case Reports Essential for Neuropsychiatric Literacy," by Sheldon Benjamin, MD, the study of JP became crucial to modern neuropsychiatric understanding of the frontal lobe's function.
On this episode of the Mind Dive podcast presented by The Menninger Clinic, Dr. Benjamin joins hosts Kerry Horrell, PhD, and Robert Boland, MD, to discuss his experience curating a collection of landmark cases in neuropsychiatry, now considered a valued resource in the field.
"The reason this case is so important is that it shows, where we now have the brain pathology to back it up, that prefrontal damage can cause permanent, lasting personality change and certain cognitive changes without affecting others," said Dr. Benjamin. "It transformed the understanding of the prefrontal cortex's role in child development."
Dr. Benjamin has been awarded the UMass Chan Chancellor's Medal for Distinguished Teaching and holds the American Neuropsychiatric Association's Gary J. Tucker Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychiatry.
Dr. Benjamin is a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine, where he also serves as director of Neuropsychiatry and vice chair for Education. He also serves as a psychiatry director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
To submit a topic for discussion, email podcast@menninger.edu.


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The Link est un gratte-ciel en construction situé à Puteaux dans le quartier d'affaires de La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine). Il est composé d'une tour de bureaux assortie de deux ailes de respectivement 242 et  de hauteur, reliées par 35 plateformes appelées , terme issu de l'anglais « link » et signifiant « lien ».

La tour accueillera le nouveau siège social de TotalEnergies. À son achèvement en 2025, The Link sera le plus haut gratte-ciel de France devant la Tour First et ses 231 mètres.

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Le , Groupama annonce le lancement de The Link avec le démarrage du chantier de démolition de l'immeuble existant qui est suivi en 2021 par les travaux de fondation des nouvelles tours.

Son ouverture est prévue courant 2025.

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