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After gutting the military, El Presidente Obama awards himself Pentagon's Distinguished Public Service Medal
Obama did everything in his power to advance evil in the world
President Obama salutes the troops during an armed forces full honor farewell ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., Jan. 4, 2017. (photo: https://www.defense.gov/Media/Photo-Gallery/igphoto/2001684128)
Matthew Vadum / January 8, 2017 / 34 Comments
El Presidente Obama awarded himself the Department Of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service on Jan. 4.
As medals go, this one has become cheapened over the years, kind of like the utterly meaningless Nobel Peace Prize that Obama received early in his presidency before he'd done anything.
This wholly undeserved DoD medal was presented to Obama by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter following a selection process that reportedly did not involve the president.
But that's irrelevant. In this situation the supposedly independent selection process becomes a legal fiction. The secretary is an "instrumentality" of the president. He serves at the pleasure of the president and his actions are backed up by the president's authority, so effectively the president was awarding himself the medal.
Don't believe me? The critical consideration here is, if Secretary Carter had refused to bestow the award on his boss, the egomaniacal military-hating president who thinks soldiers should be globetrotting social workers, would he have kept his job? Not a chance.
The same thing happened with the two previous presidents but they didn't quite inflict the same damage on the nation's military.
George W. Bush was given the same award by his defense secretary at the end of his term. Bill Clinton, too, got the award at the end of his term from his defense secretary.
One can argue about what Bush and Clinton did to deserve their medals, but Obama did nothing good for the nation's armed services.
As Thomas C. Donnelly writes,
He's done more damage to American military power than his successor can repair. It's not simply that Obama tried to end U.S. involvement in the Middle East by unilaterally withdrawing from Iraq, conducting a phony surge in Afghanistan, and failing to respond to the civil war in Syria. It's not just that Obama did little beyond telling Vladimir Putin to "cut it out" after Russia annexed Crimea and after Putin otherwise exploited whatever opportunity arose to unravel the post–Cold War peace of Europe, or that Obama neglected to back up the promise of a "Pacific pivot" as the Chinese dredged their way (island-making instead of island-hopping) across the South China Sea. Retreats can be reversed, even if the price of victory rises when it has to be won twice (or three or four times, in the case of Iraq).
Obama not only restrained the American habit of involving ourselves in the world's affairs but also, by reducing our military power, constrained a future president's ability to do so. The propensity to "resort to force," in his view, was a disease shared nearly equally by past presidents of both parties.
And Obama's current Secretary of State John Kerry is openly contemptuous of the armed services. After his dubious service in Vietnam, Kerry made up atrocity stories about his own side's soldiers. Kerry's whole political career has been devoted to trashing and sabotaging the military and America in general — which is why he was such a good fit in President Obama's cabinet.
One of the few recipients of the DoD's highest civilian award who actually did something good for the military is movie director Steven Spielberg. He received the medal in 1999 from then-Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen for his 1998 film "Saving Private Ryan."
As the Pentagon said at the time:
The movie sparked national awareness of the World War II generation's sacrifices. Cohen said it helped reconnect the American public with the nation's men and women in uniform. Spielberg's "masterpiece poignantly captured the stirring sacrifices of America's World War II heroes, and paid living tribute to their indomitable fighting spirit," Cohen stated in the award citation. The film is a "historic contribution to the national consciousness, reminding all Americans that the legacy of freedom enjoyed today endures in great measure because of their selfless and courageous actions."
"Saving Private Ryan" also prompted veterans to reveal personal war stories, Cohen said. "For decades, many of the veterans struggled to find the right words, the right way to share with family and friends what they had suffered through during that war. Over the past year, we have heard so many stories of veterans, who after seeing this film, finally venturing forth to tell a son, a daughter, or a grandchild of their experience.
"So this film has not only provided an emotional catharsis for yesterday's veterans, but a reminder to today's soldiers that the 'gift outright' was many deeds of war, that blood and bone and soul was sacrified [sic] so that a mechanized evil in Europe would not triumph and stamp out the fires of freedom," Cohen concluded.
Obama, on the other hand, did everything in his power to advance evil in the world.
Department Of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, Steven Spielberg


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Spain's Geeksphone Exits Smartphones
Natasha Lomas	@riptari / 7 years
Muere la revolución. Spanish smartphone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it's stepping out of the mobile making game almost six years after founding a startup business to build handsets for an enthusiast community of geeks looking for something a little different to mainstream smartphones.
In a note posted to its user forum, spotted earlier by Tech.eu, Geeksphone writes that the mobile ecosystem has moved on and its founding concept of serving a niche geek community is no longer a viable way to differentiate a mobile handset business.
"The reality of the company today is very different from what it was in the beginning, since the concept of innovation based on a passionate geek community, talented and creative, has now much less sense and it is a differentiation, which currently generates little interest in the mobile environment in relation to the 2009 date of our creation," it writes.
It's unclear how many handsets Geeksphone has sold over its five+ years of operation. It released six handsets in all, and refers only to selling "several thousand terminals". It started out building Android based smartphones but also branched into Firefox OS, and a multi-OS handset where users could choose to between Android or FFOS post-purchase.
It's fair to say that FFOS has failed to gain traction in the market, despite significant carrier backing at launch. While competing as an Android OEM has only got tougher and more competitive since 2009, even as handset choice has proliferated for buyers, quality has gone up and price-tags have been squeezed, shrinking the appeal of Geeksphone's proposition.
By far the startup's most high profile success was forming an alliance, at the start of 2014, with secure communications provider Silent Circle to build a security hardened Android handset, called Blackphone — riding a wave of pro-privacy feeling in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
Silent Circle has since bought out its erstwhile hardware partner, and acquired all its engineering staff, along with co-founder Javier Aguera. So Geeksphone's legacy lives on there. The Blackphone makers are targeting the gap in the market left by the collapse of Blackberry's business, shifting from the original prosumer proposition towards a BYOD enterprise mobile security sales pitch.
Meanwhile Geeksphone's other co-founder, Rodrigo Silva-Ramos, is moving on to focus on the geeks!me wearables brand, announced back in February. Its first product — an activity tracker that will also let users monitor their sex lives — is due to launch in the "upcoming months".
What happens to Geeksphone's code? It says it is open sourcing "all the tools that we are legally able to spread" so its users can continue development of its software if they wish, although it notes it also has licensing agreements with third parties which mean that some software cannot be made public.
Existing Geeksphone users will continue to be offered technical support — honoring existing terms of warranty and support of any buyers.
In related mobile startup news this week, Finland's Jolla, which makes both its own handset hardware and its own mobile OS (called Sailfish), has also stepped back from building phones. It's dividing into two businesses, with the lion's share of existing resources going to the new Jolla Ltd which is fully focused on mobile OS development and licensing. A second business will apparently be formed to make smart devices later this summer, although it will be much smaller.

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ISSAQUAH, WA, Jul 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Costco Wholesale Corporation ("Costco" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: COST) today reported net sales of $8.69 billion for the month of June, the five weeks ended July 3, 2011, an increase of 18 percent from $7.33 billion during the similar period last year. This year's five-week period included 34 days in the U.S. (U.S. warehouses closed Memorial Day) versus 33 days last year (U.S. warehouses closed Memorial Day and Independence Day). The calendar shift positively impacted this year's total and comparable sales by approximately two to three percent (three percent in the U.S.). Also, this year's five-week period included sales from the Company's Mexico joint venture; otherwise the net sales increase would have been 15 percent.
For the forty-four weeks ended July 3, 2011, the Company reported net sales of $73.44 billion, an increase of 14 percent from $64.51 billion during the similar period last year; excluding Mexico sales, the increase would have been 11 percent.
Comparable sales for the five-week and forty-four-week periods ended July 3, 2011, including Mexico operations for last year and this year, were as follows:
U.S.            12%      7%
International   18%      16%
Total Company   14%      9%
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Inflation in gasoline prices and strengthening foreign currencies had a positive impact on comparable sales. Excluding these effects, comparable sales for the five-week and forty-four-week periods were as follows:
U.S.             8%      5%
International    9%      10%
Total Company    8%      6%
Costco currently operates 584 warehouses, including 427 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 81 in Canada, 32 in Mexico, 22 in the United Kingdom, eight in Japan, seven in Korea, six in Taiwan and one in Australia. The Company also operates Costco Online, an electronic commerce web site, at www.costco.com and at www.costco.ca in Canada. The Company plans to open up to eight additional warehouses prior to the end of its 2011 fiscal year on August 28, 2011.


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David Murray es un saxofonista estadounidense de jazz.

Biografía
David Murray tocaba en la iglesia junto a sus padres,también músicos, y sus dos hermanos. En su época de estudiante, Murray adquirió familiaridad con el mundo del jazz, y fue su contacto con la música de Sonny Rollins lo que inspiró al joven Murray a pasarse del saxo alto al tenor. Estudia con Bobby Bradford, un trompetista que había formado parte de los grupos de Ornette Coleman, y con 20 años deja el prestigioso Pomona College de Los Ángeles para trasladarse a Nueva York, donde conoce a importantes figuras como Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Don Cherry o Lester Bowie, y donde forma un trío de free jazz con Stanley Crouch -un escritor que a veces tocaba la batería con Murray- y el bajista Mark Dresser. La reputación de Murray como improvisador crece rápidamente, y a partir de 1976 comienza a editar sus propios álbumes en trío, al tiempo que forma el World Saxophone Quartet (originalmente con Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett y Julius Hemphill) y ensambla una big band a su nombre que recibe buenas críticas y de la que extrae una formación en octeto que se revela como una plataforma ideal para sus ambiciones como compositor.

Durante la década de los 70 Murray colabora con músicos como Jerry Garcia, Max Roach, Randy Weston o Elvin Jones, y durante la década siguiente el músico continúa trabajando con distintas formaciones del World Saxophone Quartet, con su octeto, y con otras formaciones menores, grabando un buen número de discos para el sello italiano Black Saint. La actividad de estudio de Murray se vuelve desde entonces, y hasta el momento, frenética, grabando innumerables discos para un enorme número de sellos diferentes durante los 80 y los 90.

David Murray ha recibido numerosos premios a lo largo de su carrera, entre los que destaca un Grammy en 1989 y diversas nominaciones. Además se han registrado dos documentales sobre su vida: "Speaking in Tongues", de 1982 y "Jazzman", nominada en el Baltimore Film Festival de 1989.

Valoración y estilo
Con más de 130 discos en su haber, David Murray es uno de los saxofonistas más importantes en la escena del jazz de vanguardia contemporáneo. Su abundante obra mantiene un elevado y consistente nivel de calidad y enlaza la tradición jazzistica con la modernidad, abriendo las puertas del futuro del jazz con una visión enriquecedora del mismo. Como compositor aparece perfectamente asimilado en su obra el espíritu de Duke Ellington o Charles Mingus, mientras que como saxofonista combina la robustez del sonido de Ben Webster con la energía de Paul Gonsalves. Heredero inicialmente del estilo abstracto y expresionista de músicos del movimiento free como Albert Ayler o Archie Shepp, Murray derivó más tarde hacia un estilo más convencional, tocando standards con cuartetos tradicionales. A pesar de ello, la lectura que ofrece Murray de la tradición jazzística difiere abiertamente de la interpretación de otros saxofonistas bop de su generación, exhibiendo una técnica de improvisación absolutamente única: aunque versado en la teoría tradicional, Murray rara vez se adhiere a la estructura estándar del tema, sino que adapta las técnicas expresivas del free jazz (glissandos, respiración circular, ritmos ambiguos, pasajes en el registro altissimo...) con buenos resultados. Cuando improvisa sobre un tema, Murray, como Eric Dolphy antes que él, no sólo pasa por los intervalos al uso (tónicas, terceras, quintas o séptimas), sino que rellena los espacios con notas fuera de armonía que, de hecho, deberían no resolver la frase adecuadamente, pero que lo hacen por la convicción que Murray pone en su ejecución. La audacia de su concepto, la pasión de su ataque y la espontaneidad de sus frases hacen de los conceptos correcto y equivocado nociones totalmente irrelevantes en la música de Murray.

Discografía

Solo
 Conceptual Saxophone (Cadillac, 1978)
 Sur-real Saxophone (Horo, 1978)
 Organic Saxophone (Palm, 1978)
 Solo Live (Cecma, 1980)

Dúo
 Solomons Sons (Circle Records (Alemania, 1976) con James Newton.
 Sketches of Tokyo (DIW, 1985) con John Hicks.
 In Our Style (DIW, 1986) con Jack DeJohnette.
 TThe Healers (Black Saint/Soul Note|Black Saint, 1987) con Randy Weston.
 Golden Sea (Sound Aspects, 1989) con Kahil El'Zabar.
 Daybreak (Gazell, 1989) con Dave Burrell.
 In Concert (Victo, 1991) con Dave Burrell.
 Real Deal (DIW, 1991) con Milford Graves.
 Ugly Beauty (Evidence, 1993) con Donald Fox.
 Windward Passages (Black Saint, 1993) con Dave Burrell.
 Blue Monk (Enja, 1995) con Aki Takase.
 Valencia (Sound Hills, 1997) con Aki Takase.
 We Is: Live at the Bop Shop (Delmark, 2000) con Kahil El'Zabar.

Trío
 Low Class Conspiracy (Adelphi, 1976)
 Live at Peace Church (Danola, 1976)
 3D Family (Hat Hut, 1978)
 Sweet Lovely (Black Saint, 1980)
 The Hill (Black Saint, 1986)
 Acoustic Octfunk (Sound Hills, 1993)

Cuarteto
 Flowers for Albert: The Complete Concert (India Navigation, 1976)
 Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club (India Navigation, 1978)
 Let the Music Take You (Marge, 1978)
 Last of the Hipmen (Red, 1978)
 Interboogieology (Black Saint, 1978)
 MMorning Song (Black Saint, 1983)
 I Want to Talk About You (Black Saint, 1986).
 Recording N.Y.C. 1986 (DIW, 1986)
 The People's Choice (Cecma, 1987)
 Ballads (DIW, 1988)
 Deep River (DIW, 1988)
 Spirituals (DIW, 1988)
 Ming's Samba (Portrait/CBS, 1988)
 Lovers (DIW, 1988)
 Tenors (DIW, 1988)
 Lucky Four (Tutu, 1988)
 Special Quartet (DIW/Columbia, 1990)
 Shakill's Warrior (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
 Fast Life (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
 Ballads for Bass Clarinet (DIW, 1991)
 A Sanctuary Within (Black Saint, 1991)
 Body and Soul (Black Saint, 1993)
 Jazzosaurus Rex (Red Baron, 1993)
 Saxmen (Red Baron/Sony, 1993)
 For Aunt Louise (DIW, 1993)
 Love and Sorrow (DIW, 1993)
 Shakill's II (DIW, 1993)
 Flowers Around Cleveland (Bleu Regard, 1995)
 Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen (DIW, 1996)
 Seasons (Pow Wow, 1999)
 Like a Kiss that Never Ends (Justin Time, 2001)
 Sacred Ground (Justin Time, 2007)
 Live in Berlin (2008)

Quinteto
 Penthouse Jazz (Circle, 1977) - un tema reeditado como parte de Flowers for Albert (West Wind)
 Holy Siege on Intrigue (Circle, 1977) - reeditado como parte de  Flowers for Albert (West Wind)
 The London Concert (Cadillac, 1978)
 Children (Black Saint, 1984)
 Remembrances (DIW, 1990)
 David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW, 1991)
 Black & Black (Red Baron, 1991)
 Death of a Sideman (DIW, 1991)
 MX (Red Baron/Sony, 1992)
 David Murray Quintet (DIW, 1994)

Octeto
 Ming (Black Saint, 1980)
 Home (Black Saint, 1981)
 Murray's Steps (Black Saint, 1982)
 New Life (Black Saint, 1985)
 Hope Scope (Black Saint, 1987)
 Picasso (DIW, 1992)
 Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (Astor Place, 1996)
 Octet Plays Trane (Justin Time, 1999)

Big Band
 Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1 (Black Saint, 1984)
 Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2 (Black Saint, 1984)
 David Murray Big Band (DIW/Columbia, 1991)
 South of the Border (DIW, 1993)
 Now is Another Time (Justin Time, 2003)

Otros
 TThe Jazzpar Prize (Enja, 1991) con Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra
 The Tip (DIW, 1994)
 Jug-A-Lug (DIW, 1994)
 Fo Deuk Revue (Justin Time, 1996)
 Creole (Justin Time, 1997)
 Speaking in Tongues (Justin Time, 1997)
 Yonn-Dé (Justin Time, 2001)
 Gwotet (Justin Time, 2003)

Con The World Saxophone Quartet

Con The Music Revelation Ensemble
1987: No Wave (Moers)
1988: Music Revelation Ensemble (DIW)
1990: Elec. Jazz (DIW)
1991: After Dark (DIW)

Como sideman
1975: Ted Daniel - In the Beginning (Altura Music)
1976: Michael Gregory Jackson - Clarity (Bija)
1979: Sunny Murray - Live at Moers Festival (Moers Music)
1980: James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad to Be in America? (Artists House)
1980: Amiri Baraka - New Music New Poetry (India Navigation)
1980: Jack DeJohnette- Special Edition (ECM)
1981: James Blood Ulmer - Free Lancing (CBS)
1981: Billy Bang -  Outline No. 12 (OAO)
1983: Conjure - Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed (American Clave)
1984: Jack DeJohnette- Album Album (ECM)
1984: Clarinet Summit - In Concert at the Public Theatre (India Navigation)
1987: Clarinet Summit- Southern Bells (Black Saint)
1987: McCoy Tyner - Blues for Coltrane (Impulse!)
1989: Cold Sweat - Cold Sweat Plays J.B. (JMT)
1989: Ralph Peterson - Presents the Fo'tet (Blue Note)
1990: Bobby Battle Quartet with David Murray - The Offering (Mapleshade)
1990: The Bob Thiele Collective - Sunrise Sunset (Red Baron)
1991: Teresa Brewer - Softly I Sing (Red Baron)
1991: McCoy Tyner - 44th Street Suite (Red Baron)
1994: D.D. Jackson - Peace Song (Justin Time)
1995: African Love Supreme - Ode to the Living Tree (Venus)
1995: Jim Nolet - With You (KFW)
1995: Kansas City Soundtrack (Verve)
1995: Ozay - Antiquated Love (Sagen)
1996: Jon Jang Sextet - Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
1996: D. D. Jackson - Paired Down (Jusin Time)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 David Murray, en la emisión del 11 de julio de 1988 del programa de La 2 (TVE) Jazz entre amigos.

Saxofonistas de jazz de Estados Unidos
Clarinetistas de jazz de Estados Unidos
Artistas de Motéma Music
Nacidos en Oakland (California)
Alumnado de la Universidad Pomona

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Where and when to test your kids for lead in NJ
Dino Flammia
Dino Flammia Published: July 11, 2018
Over the past 12 months, the New Jersey Poison Control Center received more than 100 calls for children who had elevated levels of lead in their blood.
It's possible a good number of these cases could have been avoided with a prick of the child's finger at an earlier age.
When caught early, a child's exposure to lead can be treated to escape the most damaging effects to the brain and nervous system. But the earliest symptoms can be easily confused with other pediatric issues, sometimes allowing dangerous amounts of the metal to accumulate in a kid's system until it's too late and the neurological damage can not be reversed.
"Most children get a blood test at 1 year and 2 years of age," said Diane Calello, medical director of the Poison Center, located at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark. "But that's children whose parents are able to bring them to the doctor and are able to get them blood tests. And some kids fall through the cracks."
New Jersey requires that a child be tested for lead before age 6 if they hadn't been tested at both 12 and 24 months of age. Testing is typically offered by a child's health care provider or at a federally qualified health center. A doctor may provide a prescription for blood lead testing at an offsite laboratory.
According to the state Department of Health, free testing is available at local health departments for children without health insurance.
With help from the Freehold Township Board of Health, Freehold Borough schools performed dozens of lead blood screenings for students in mid-June, the Asbury Park Press reported.
A Fiscal Year 2016 report from the Department noted 74 percent of New Jersey 3-year-olds had at least one blood lead test in their lifetime. Over the past 20 years, the report said, the number of children who've been tested for lead has increased twenty-fold. The number of children with elevated blood lead levels, meanwhile, has been cut in half since 2009.
In New Jersey, medical intervention is required when a child's levels top 5 micrograms per deciliter. In 2016, more than 4,400 children of the 214,741 tested recorded levels above that threshold. Nearly 1,900 were aged 6 to 26 months.
The primary culprit of lead poisoning, according to Calello, is aging homes. Those built before 1978 were not subject to a federal ban on lead-based paint. Other sources include contaminated drinking water and soil.
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Categories: Health & Wellness, New Jersey News


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Home English Premier League Tottenham vs Manchester City match build up
Tottenham vs Manchester City match build up
Manchester City are still without midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, who has a hamstring injury, but Fabian Delph has recovered from a minor complaint. Defenders Danny Rose and Jan Vertonghen remain unavailable.Dele Alli could be involved for Spurs against Manchester City after a four-match absence with a hamstring injury.
Kyle Walker returned from a groin problem as a substitute at Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday, while Danilo could be fit after an ankle injury.
RADIO 5 LIVE COMMENTATOR'S NOTES
@bbcjohnmurray: The first task on arrival will be to see what state the pitch is in after the NFL players of Jacksonville and Philadelphia have strutted their stuff all over it on Sunday. The switching of this match to a Monday evening means that while a busy week lies ahead for both teams, they have each had extra time to recover from Champions League travels.
While Tottenham are making heavy weather of their group, Pep Guardiola declared in Ukraine that City produced the best football they have yet played under his management. That is ominous for Spurs when you consider City won the two matches between them last season by an aggregate of 7-2.
VIEW FROM THE DUGOUT
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino on this rearranged fixture being the first of five matches in 12 days: "That is not the ideal situation to compete – we have a problem, we create the problem and we need to sort the problem. We can't complain, we are a little bit unlucky that the stadium is not finished.
"It was not the plan to be at Wembley, different things can happen like the NFL and you cannot change the date and we need to accept that as reality and not complain.
"No one is going to explain if we don't win the game that we play in difficult circumstances; when you lose, you lose and you need to accept the criticism."
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on playing at Wembley a day after an NFL game on the same pitch: "It is what it is. I'm pretty sure Tottenham have a good greenkeeper.
"It's not necessary to complain, we have to adapt quickly, try to figure it out. It will not be perfect but we have to adapt and play in that way.
"You take care of yourself properly and focus, knowing that the pitch may not be in the best condition and you have to be more ready than ever."
LAWRO'S PREDICTION
Manchester City beat Tottenham easily at Wembley at the end of last season and, with its wide open spaces, I think it is a stadium that suits them.
I cannot see any reason why City won't do something similar this time – especially now Kevin de Bruyne is back from injury.
Prediction: 0-2
Spurs have lost 10 of the most recent 15 league meetings, including both last season.
Manchester City could win consecutive Premier League away fixtures against Spurs for the second time.
This fixture has produced a Premier League-high 59 goals in 14 matches since the beginning of 2011-12.
Tottenham's tally of 21 points is their highest after nine matches of a Premier League season. Their best points total after 10 fixtures is 22, set in 2011-12.
Spurs could win more than seven of their opening 10 fixtures of a top-flight campaign for only the third time. They began 1960-61 with 10 straight victories, and had eight wins at the same stage of the 1963-64 season.
They have lost just twice in the past 21 Premier League games at Wembley (W15, D4, L2). One of those defeats came against Manchester City in April.
Mauricio Pochettino's side could keep four consecutive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since April 2017.
They are unbeaten in nine Premier League fixtures played on Monday since losing to Norwich in April 2012 (W7, D2).
Since Pochettino took charge in 2014-15, only Arsenal have accumulated fewer points in games between the established top-six sides than the 54 earned by Spurs.
Pochettino's first competitive match, first competitive defeat and first competitive win as a manager all came for Espanyol in separate matches against Josep Guardiola's Barcelona in 2009.
Erik Lamela has scored seven goals and set up another three in his last 10 games for Spurs in all competitions.
Reigning champions City could go 10 top-flight matches unbeaten from the beginning of a season for only the fifth time – but fourth in eight attempts.
They are unbeaten in 15 Premier League games – conceding just six goals – since a 3-2 defeat by Manchester United in April (W12, D3).
City could equal the club league record of six consecutive clean sheets, set from May to September 2015.
Pep Guardiola has lost just two of his previous 13 managerial clashes with Mauricio Pochettino (W7, D4, L2) – and could win three in a row versus the Argentine for the first time.
Sergio Agüero's next Premier League goal will be his 150th in the competition.
Aguero scored 10 goals in his first seven league matches against Spurs – but has since failed to score in five appearances in this fixture.
Raheem Sterling is one game from becoming the fifth player to make 200 Premier League appearances before his 24th birthday.
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Q: How can I overcome the "error C2100: illegal indirection" when accessing the contents of a void* in VS2008 I have a C application that I've created in VS2008. I am creating a mock creation function that overrides function references in a struct. However if I try and do this in a straight forward fashion with something like:
void *ptr = &(*env)->GetVersion;
*ptr = <address of new function>

then I get a "error C2100: illegal indirection" error as *ptr, when ptr is a void * seems to be a banned construct. I can get around it by using a int/long pointer as well, mapping that to the same address and modifying the contents of the long pointer:
*structOffsetPointer = &(*env)->GetVersion;
functionPointer = thisGetVersion;
structOffsetPointerAsLong = (long *)structOffsetPointer;
*structOffsetPointerAsLong = (long)functionPointer;

but I am concerned that using long or int pointers will cause problems if I switch between 32 and 64 bit environments.
So is there are easy way to disable this error? Assuming not, is either int or long 64 bits under win64?

A: When dereferencing a "void *", you are left with a "void" which is has no size (or really no type for that matter), so it doesn't know how to assign something to it. It is the same as:
void blah = 0xdeadbabe; // let's assume a 32-bit addressing system

To add to my own response and give a solution, I would give it the proper type of a pointer to a function of the type GetVersion is. If GetVersion that your "env" struct field is pointing to is:
int GetVersion();

then you want:
int (**ptr)() = &(*env)->GetVersion;

A: Then how about:
void **ptr = (void **) &(*env)->GetVersion;
*ptr = <address of new function>

The right way to do this is to work with the type system, avoid all the casting and declare actual pointers to functions like:
typedef int (*fncPtr)(void);
fncPtr *ptr = &(*env)->GetVersion;
*ptr = NewFunction;

The above assumes GetVersion is of type fncPtr and NewFunction is declared as
    int NewFunction(void);

A: Last time I played with void* & C under visual studio, VS didn't play nicely.
Here are some information datapoints:
A pointer is always the size of the system word(8/16/32/64)...(unless you have segmented memory, which I'm assuming you don't have). This is because it needs to point to anywhere in the memory space. For a von Neumann machine, a function pointer is going to be the same size as a data pointer, because data and code occupy the same memory space. This is not guaranteed under a Harvard architecture. I'm not familiar enough with Windows Vista to know if it programatically fakes out a Harvard architecture for security reasons.
I personally would not disable this error, just for the sake of letting the compiler do its job.

A: As mentioned, to store the address of a function in a pointer you should simply not do the indirection.
However, you also talk about being worried about the size of an int type that you might store a pointer into (which generally is not something you want to do unless you have a really good reason to).
If you want to hold a pointer in an int type for some reason, then on Windows a UINT_PTR type (or uintptr_t from stdint.h if you have it) will hold most pointer types (I don't think it's necessarily large enough to hold some pointer-to-member types).

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SNL (Saturday Night Live) is back on October 23, 2021 on NBC with another all-new season 47 episode
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Former SNL star Jason Sudeikis is the host with musical guest, Brandi Carlile.
Sudeikis returns to Studio 8H for his first appearance as "SNL" host. He won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series as the co-creator, executive producer and star of "Ted Lasso" on Apple TV+.
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Dak Prescott leads Cowboys past Cardinals 28-17
Dak Prescott led the Cowboys to a hard-fought win over the Cardinals with two touchdowns by air, one by ground. [Image via NFL/YouTube]
Prescott threw for two touchdowns while Ezekiel Elliott added another on the ground.
by Matthew Couden (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
September 26, 2017 at 2:08 AM September 26, 2017 at 2:08 AM
After a disappointing loss to the Denver Broncos, Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys bounced back with a win. Playing on the road against the Arizona Cardinals for ESPN's "Monday Night Football," the Cowboys got three touchdowns from their sophomore stars. Prescott threw for two while Elliott rushed for another. Here's the latest Cowboys vs. Cardinals recap including the top performers, game stats, latest standings update, and what's next on the schedule.
NFL game recap
In tonight's game, the Arizona Cardinals moved out to a 7-0 lead in the first quarter after a 25-yard touchdown pass from Carson Palmer to Jaron Brown.
The Dallas Cowboys answered with a 10-yard touchdown run/flip into the endzone from Dak Prescott in the second quarter to tie things 7-7 going into halftime.
FINAL: The @dallascowboys win on #MNF! #DallasCowboys#DALvsAZ pic.twitter.com/yRFFwgBfIM
— NFL (@NFL) September 26, 2017
In the second half, the Cowboys outscored Arizona 21-10. Prescott found Dez Bryant for a 15-yard pass in the third quarter, and Arizona answered with a Palmer pass to Larry Fitzgerald. Dallas added another touchdown in the fourth when Prescott found Brice Butler on a 37-yard play. The Cowboys would boost their lead to 28-17 with under five minutes to go after an eight-yard touchdown run by Ezekiel Elliott.
Prescott finished the game with a 13-for-18 performance for 183 yards and two touchdowns as well as his one touchdown run.
Elliott tallied 80 yards on 22 carries for a touchdown as well. Brice Butler led all receivers with 90 yards on two receptions including a 53-yard reception. Dez Bryant had only 12 yards on two catches in the game.
13 catches, 149 yards, 1 TD.@LarryFitzgerald put on an absolute SHOW tonight! #DALvsAZ pic.twitter.com/wuq4F1DEW0
The Cardinals received 325 yards and two touchdowns on 29-for-48 passing from Carson Palmer.
Larry Fitzgerald racked up 149 yards and a touchdown on 13 catches while the Arizona rushing attack was held to under 50 yards.
Arizona had a total of 332 yards of offense compared to 273 for the Cowboys, and a total time of possession that clocked in at 36 minutes. Dallas had the ball for just over 23 minutes but made the most of their opportunities to take the win tonight.
Standings, what's next?
Tonight's win brings the Dallas Cowboys to 2-1 for their season with a 1-1 road record. The team is now tied with the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins for the NFC East lead. Next up for the Cowboys is a home game on Sunday when they host the Los Angeles Rams at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
The Arizona Cardinals fell to 1-2 for their season with a 0-1 home record. Arizona is tied with the Seattle Seahawks for second place in the NFC West with the Los Angeles Rams leading the division. The Cardinals will try to bounce back in Week 4 when they host the San Francisco 49ers. Game time is set for 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday.
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Q: Grails 3.2.4 Application Won't Load After Adding Spring Security Plugin 3.1.1 I generated a new Grails 3.2.4 application. I generated some domain objects, controllers, and services, then got the app to compile and run. I then added the following line to my build.gradle.
    dependencies {
      ...
      compile "org.grails.plugins:spring-security-core:3.1.1"
      ...
   }

I then ran the following command, as specified in the plugin docs.
grails s2-quickstart --uiOnly

I already had User, Role, and UserRole classes defined, which I pointed to in the application.groovy that this command generated, as well as defining:
grails.plugin.springsecurity.active = true

I also added some usages of the <sec:ifNotGranted> tag to some of my views.
As far as I can tell from the docs, I shouldn't have to do anything else. The Spring Security properties should have default values defined in the DefaultSecurityConfig.groovy file provided by the plugin, according to the docs linked above. However, the application will not even run now. The first error I got was:
    groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: static grails.plugin.springsecurity.SpringSecurityUtils.findFilterChainNames() is applicable for argument types: (org.grails.config.NavigableMap$NullSafeNavigator, java.lang.Boolean, java.lang.Boolean, java.lang.Boolean, java.lang.Boolean, java.lang.Boolean, groovy.util.ConfigObject) values: [[:], false, false, false, false, false, [:]]
Possible solutions: findFilterChainNames(java.lang.Object, boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeStaticMissingMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1503)
    at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeStaticMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1489)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.StaticMetaClassSite.call(StaticMetaClassSite.java:53)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
    at grails.plugin.springsecurity.ReflectionUtils.findFilterChainNames(ReflectionUtils.groovy:214)

I looked in the code where findFilterChainNames is called, and the issue is that there are some properties that should have default boolean values of either true or false (according to the docs above), but instead they aren't defined at all, causing the error shown here. I confirmed that if I define those properties myself in application.groovy, this error goes way. However, it is replaced by another error for the next undefined property the Spring Security code runs into, and so on, for each property I attempt to define myself, even though I shouldn't have to, according to the docs.
I stepped through the code where the default values from DefaultSecurityConfig.groovy should be merged into the values defined in the application.groovy. However, when DefaultSecurityConfig is loaded from the classpath and parsed in, the properties I see in the file do not end up in the returned configuration map.
I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong, as I followed the instructions in the documentation. I tried searching for similar issues online, but couldn't find anything. Does anyone have any ideas or has anyone else run into this?

A: Whelp, I figured it out. I was stepping further into the code that should be merging the properties from the provided DefaultSecurityConfig and I noticed that a) as it was stepping through the DefaultSecurityConfig file, the breakpoints weren't lining up with the code and b) some of the returned properties had the old grails.plugins prefix instead of the new grails.plugin prefix. This got me suspicious that somehow an old version of DefaultSecurityConfig (and possibly other groovy classes) were being pulled in instead of the proper versions. I thus emptied out my ~/.grails, ~/.gradle, and ~/.m2 directories of all cached jars and classes. After that, my application seems to properly initialize Spring Security (it then fails due to being unable to find a bean that I have configured Spring Security to use as a logout handler, and I'm not sure why, but that seems to be unrelated to this issue).

A: I am using grails 3.2.8 and after configuring Spring security ldap, form based Authentication worked fine.
However, when I switched to Basic Authentication, I had same error. I was using application.properties file for configuration props for ldap and setting Basic Authentication to true.
grails.plugin.springsecurity.useBasicAuth = true

Added to application.yml and everything worked file.


Blood stream infections (BSIs) cause a complex cascade of inflammatory events, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality in children in Tanzania. This study was designed to delineate circulating bacterial species, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) profiles and risk factors for BSIs and mortality among children in the cascade of referral health care facilities so as to guide comprehensive BSIs management.
A multiple cross sectional analytical study was conducted between July 20, 2016 to October 04, 2017 involving 950 children less than five years of age in the North-western part of Tanzania. Children with clinical features suggestive of BSIs were included. Demographic, clinical and laboratory information on culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was collected from children; and analyzed using STATA version 13.0 software.
The prevalence of BSIs among children was 14.2% (95% CI: 12.1–16.6%), with specific prevalence in the district, regional and tertiary hospitals being 8.3, 6.4 and 20.0%, respectively. The most common bacterial pathogens isolated from 135 culture-positive children were Klebsiella pneumoniae (55, 40.4%), Staphylococcus aureus (23, 17.0%), and Escherichia coli (17, 12.6%). Multi-drug resistance (MDR) was higher in isolates from children at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) tertiary hospital than isolates from district and regional hospitals [OR (95% CI): 6.36 (2.15–18.76); p = 0.001]. Independent risk factors for BSIs were neonatal period [OR (95% CI): 1.93 (1.07–3.48); p = 0.003] and admission at BMC [2.01 (1.08–3.74); p = 0.028)]. Approximately 6.6% (61/932) of children died, and risk factors for mortality were found to be children attending BMC [OR (95% CI): 4.95 (1.95–12.5); p = 0.001)], neonatal period [OR (95% CI): 2.25 (1.02–5.00); p = 0.045)], and children who had blood culture positive results [OR (95% CI): 1.95 (1.07–3.56); p = 0.028)].
The prevalence of BSIs (14.2%) in this multi-centre study is high and predominantly caused by the MDR K. pneumoniae. Priority interventional measures to combat BSIs and mortality, specifically among neonates at BMC are urgently recommended.
Blood stream infections (BSIs) are the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in children [1, 2]. They constitute a complex cascade of inflammatory processes spanning from systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock and ultimately death if not promptly managed [3–5].
Introduction of vaccines and the advancements in technology, with more invasive diagnostic and treatment modalities has resulted in a paradigm shift in both implicated etiological agents as well as the age-groups affected by BSIs [6–8]. As a result, previously dominant bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae type b and Neisseria meningitidis, are currently outnumbered by multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria like Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) producing enterobacteriaceae, which in most cases are of nosocomial origin [6–8]. A recent review of ESBL attributable BSIs in children across the world showed varying magnitude across countries, ranging from 10 to 15% (Africa, South America and South-Eastern Asia), and below 5% in Europe .
In Tanzania, previous studies which were largely centered in the tertiary health care facilities showed that the proportion of BSIs ranged from 5 to 15%, with ESBL producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli being the most predominant pathogens [10–14]. In this regard, findings from these studies cannot be generalized to all levels of health care facilities in Tanzania [10–14]. Of note, mortality in these studies was unacceptably high (in some studies up to 20%), calling for interventional measures in these tertiary hospitals, along with evaluating the trend in other health care facilities like regional/referral and district hospitals.
This study evaluated the magnitude of BSIs, bacterial species, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) profiles among children attending different health care facilities in the North-western part of Tanzania to guide specific antimicrobial therapies. Moreover, risk factors for BSIs and mortality were ascertained so as inform specific target groups for preventive and control measures.
This was a multiple cross sectional analytical study conducted from July 20, 2016 to October 04, 2017 involving four health care facilities in the cascade of referral system in North-western Tanzania. These health care facilities were Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), a tertiary hospital, Sekou Toure Regional Referral Hospital (SRRH), Nyamagana District Hospital (NDH) to represent an urban setting, and Sengerema District Designated Hospital (SDDH) to represent a rural setting. All these health care facilities are teaching hospitals for the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS), except NDH (Table 1 and Fig. 1).
The study enrolled prospectively children presenting to the health care facilities with clinical symptoms and signs suggestive of BSIs [5, 13], and whose parents/guardians voluntarily consented to participate on their behalf. The clinical signs and symptoms for enrollment were based on the WHO Young Infant Study Group and its methodology paper i.e. temperature (of > 38 °C or < 36 °C), age specific tachycardia, age specific tachypnoea, convulsions, altered state of consciousness and abnormal feeding . To ensure consistency, enrolment evaluation was done by paediatrician and/or experienced registrar who were also part of this study. A sample size was estimated by the Kish Leslie formula, using previous prevalence of BSIs among children of 7.4% in Mwanza. This resulted into a minimum of 106 children per site and 424 children in all four sites . Taking into account different hospital bed capacities, a total of 1008 children under 5 years of age were prospectively enrolled during the study period. Fifty eight (5.7%) children were excluded because of incomplete information in the questionnaires and/or medical records. Also, using unique identifying numbers, children who were already enrolled in the lower level health care facilities and referred to another heath care facility which was also a study site were excluded. Therefore, this resulted into a total of 950 children under 5 years (Table 1). This sample size sufficed to estimate the primary study end-points (i.e. the overall prevalence and health facility-level specific prevalence of BSIs, bacterial species and AMR profiles), and the study secondary end-points (risk factors for BSIs and mortality).
Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of children were collected using a structured pre-tested questionnaire. Absolute age of children (in months) was collected and then during analysis, three key groups were delineated i.e. neonates (≤ 1 month), infants (2 to 12 months) and other children (13 to 60 months). Moreover, clinical information like co-morbidities such as HIV infection, malnutrition, sickle cell disease, pneumonia, anemia and congenital anomalies (to mention a few) were obtained from patient medical records. Additionally, calculation of body weight was done to categorize children into normal weight (z-score between 2 and − 2); underweight (z-score between − 2 and − 3) or overweight (z-score between 2 and 3) for the respective age using the WHO Child Growth Standards for boys and girls [http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/cht_wfa_girls_p_0_5.pdf?ua=1 and http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/cht_wfa_boys_p_ 0_5.pdf?ua=1].
The Tanzania Algorithm for HIV testing among children above 18 months of age employs SD Bioline HIV 1/2 test (Standard Diagnostics Inc., California, USA) as the first test, and if reactive, it is confirmed by a second serological test, the Unigold HIV test (Trinity Biotech, Bray, Ireland). For children below 18 months of age HIV diagnosis is done by HIV DNA PCR [16, 17].
About two to five milliliters of blood sample from each child was collected and inoculated into Brain Heart Infusion broth (OXOID, UK) in a ratio of blood to Brain Heart Infusion of 1:10. The samples from SDDH were analysed at SDDH Laboratory, whereas samples from the rest of the study sites were analysed at the CUHAS Multipurpose Laboratory as previously described [18, 19].
AST was done by the conventional Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method using the Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute guidelines . The phenotypic screening of ESBL was done in Muller Hinto agar (OXOID, UK) along with other disks, using a cut-off zone inhibition of ≤25 mm for ceftriaxone and ≤ 22 mm for ceftazidime . Confirmation of ESBL production among E.coli, K. pneumoniae, and Proteus mirabilis was done in Muller Hinton agar by double disc synergy method . MRSA was confirmed by the use of cefoxitin disc (30 μg) and strains showing zone of inhibition of ≤21 mm were labelled as MRSA . A bacterial strain was confirmed to be MDR when it was resistant to at least one agent in three or more classes of antimicrobial agents . E. coli ATCC 25922 and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 were used as reference strains for Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria, respectively in quality control of culture media, biochemical identification tests and AST.
Data were analyzed by the STATA version 13.0 software (College Station, Texas, USA). Proportions of children with culture-confirmed BSIs, bacterial species, and resistance to various antimicrobial agents were determined. Univariate logistic regression analysis was done to all variables, but only variables with a p-value of less than 0.05 were subjected to multivariate logistic regression analysis. Independent risk factors for BSIs and mortality among children were determined by multivariate logistic regression analysis using odds ratios, 95% confidence intervals and p-value cut-off of less than 0.05.
The median age (IQR) of the participants was 9 (1–23) months, with minimum and maximum age being less than 1 month and 60 months, respectively. The most common age group was children above 1 year of age, 41.6% (n = 395); followed by neonates, 36.4% (n = 346). The median weight (IQR) for different age categories were: neonates [2.9 (2.5–3.4) kg], children between 2 to 12 months [7.5 (5.5–8.5) kg] and children above 1 year of age [10.7 (9.0–13.0) kg]. A total of 392 (41.3%) children had underlying co-morbidities and the majority of children presented with fever, 86.2% (n = 819) (Table 2). Of the 950 children enrolled, the proportions of specific co-morbidities were malnutrition (13.2%), prematurity (5.3%), HIV (3.9%), and sickle cell disease (3.1%).
The prevalence of BSIs among children was 14.2% (95%CI: 12.1–16.6%), with specific prevalence in the district, regional and tertiary hospitals being 8.3, 6.4 and 20.0%, respectively. Also, the age-specific prevalence of BSIs for neonates, children between 2 to 12 months and children above 12 months were 25.4% (88/346), 5.7% (12/209) and 8.9% (35/395), respectively. The most common bacteria species were K. pneumoniae (55, 40.4%), S. aureus (23, 17.0%), and E. coli (17, 12.6%). There was an overall preponderance of BSIs with Gram negative bacteria (78.5%) compared to BSIs attributable to Gram positive bacteria (21.5%); p < 0.001 (Fig. 2).
The majority of bacteria were resistant to ampicilllin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole with resistance rates ranging from 66.6 to 100.0%. All Gram negative bacteria were sensitive to meropenem, except one Acinetobacter spp isolate. The resistance of Acinetobacter spp. to piperacillin and piperacillin-tazobactam was 100 and 50.0%, respectively. One Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate was resistant to piperacillin and ceftazidime, but sensitive to gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, piperacillin-tazobactam and meropenem. The third generation cephalosporin resistance (3rd gen Ceph-R) was strikingly high in K. pneumoniae (95.7%), E. coli (58.8%), and other Gram negative Enterobacteriaceae (69.6%). E. coli and K. pneumoniae strains which were 3rd gen Ceph-R were all confirmed to be ESBL producers. The proportion of MRSA among S. aureus strains was 34.7%. The distributions of eight MRSA strains in children with BSIs in health care facilities were: two in NDH & SDDH, two in SRRH and four in BMC, nevertheless this distribution was not statistically significant (p = 0.510). Two MRSA strains (8.7%) were found to be non-susceptible to vancomycin (Table 3).
The overall proportion of 3rd gen Ceph-R among members of the family Enterobacteriaceae was 79.0% (75/95). Irrespective of the bacteria species, 3rd gen Ceph-R was significantly higher in isolates from BMC tertiary hospital [OR (95%CI): 4.95 (1.15–21.32); p = 0.032], than those from district and regional hospitals (Table 4).
Over three quarters of bacteria strains were found to be MDR [77.8% (105/135)], with the majority of these being Gram negative bacteria compared to Gram positive bacteria [81.9% (86/105) versus 18.1% (19/105), p < 0.001]. The distribution of MDR among isolates from children with BSIs in tertiary hospital, regional/referral hospital and two district hospitals were 86.4% (89/103), 50.0% (7/14) and 50.0% (9/18), respectively. MDR was significantly higher in strains from BMC tertiary hospital [OR (95% CI): 6.36 (2.15–18.76); p = 0.001], than those from district and regional hospitals.
Children under 5 years of age with low median weight were significantly more associated with BSIs compared to those with higher median weight [3.4 (2.5–8.0) kg versus 7.5 (3.3–10.0) kg; p < 0.001]. But when weight was adjusted to age, there was no significant difference between under-weight and overweight children, compared to those with normal weight (Table 5). Other factors which were associated with BSIs on univariate analysis were children admitted at BMC tertiary hospital, neonates, previous use of antibiotics, prematurity and malnutrition. On multivariate logistic regression analysis, neonatal period and admission at BMC were found to be the independent risk factors of BSIs [OR (95% CI): 1.93 (1.07–3.48); p = 0.003 and 2.01(1.08–3.74); p = 0.028), respectively] (Table 5).
Out of 950 children, 18 (1.9%) could not be followed to the end because they were referred to other hospitals and their respective information could not be traced. Of the remaining 932 children, 871 (93.4%) were treated successfully and discharged, and unfortunately 61 (6.6%) died. The median length of hospital stay (IQR) was 5 (3–10) days, minimum and maximum of 1 day and 70 days, respectively. The median length of hospital stay (IQR) was longer among children who were culture positive [7 (3–14) days] compared to those who were culture negative [4 (2–9) days] (p < 0.001). Bacteria species-specific mortality was: K. pneumonieae (14.8%, 8/54), E. coli (23.5%, 4/17), S. aureus (4.4%, 1/23), Acinetobacter spp. (9.1%, 1/9), Other GNB (22.7%, 5/22) and other GPB (16.7%, 1/6). Moreover, out of eight children who had MRSA attributable BSIs, one (12.5%) died.
On univariate analysis, more children with 3rd gen Ceph-R died compared to those with non-3rd gen Ceph-R [18.7% versus 16.7%, p = 0.844]. Also, more children with MDR attributable BSIs died compared to non-MDR BSIs [16.4% versus 10.3%, p = 0.428], although the difference was not statistically significant. On multivariate logistic regression analysis, the independent risk factors for mortality were found to be children attending BMC [OR (95% CI): 4.95 (1.95–12.5); p = 0.001)], neonatal period [OR (95% CI): 2.25 (1.02–5.00); p = 0.045)], and children who had blood culture positive results [OR (95% CI): 1.95 (1.07–3.56); p = 0.028)] (Table 6).
This current large multi-centre study has shown a higher prevalence of children with BSIs (14.2%), compared to two previous studies in the general pediatric population in the same region (6.6 and 7.4%), and other countries like Malawi (7.5%), Cambodia (9.1%), in six countries across the world (10.6%), Spain and the USA (< 1.5%) [13, 15, 23–28]. Our results are comparable to another previous study in the same region among malnourished children (13.9%) . Similar to the current study, a review of BSIs in developing countries and other previous studies in Dar es Salaam and Kilimanjaro, Tanzania reported that more than half of children get BSIs due to S. aureus, E. coli and Klebsiella spp. (range: 39 to 70%) [11, 29, 30]. However, in the current study the most common bacteria species was K. pneumoniae. The study in Kilimanjaro showed that nearly a quarter of pathogens implicated were Salmonella enterica . The difference can be accounted for by the high prevalence of HIV infections among children enrolled in the study in Kilimanjaro (12.2%), as opposed to 3.9% in the current study. It is well known that HIV/AIDS is an important risk factor for invasive salmonellosis in both children and adult febrile patients [11, 31]. Three previous studies in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi have also shown similar findings of a predominance of Salmonella enterica and its association with HIV infections among children [28, 32, 33]. In most developed countries there is low prevalence of BSIs which is largely related to the high vaccine coverage, stringent IPC and antimicrobial stewardship measures. In these countries, Gram positive bacteria causing BSIs predominate among healthy children , whereas Salmonella enterica predominate in children with underlying risk conditions like sickle cell disease [26, 27, 34, 35]. On the other hand, low prevalence in a few studies in Tanzania and other LMICs may be due to previous use of antibiotics before admission which in turn lead to culture negative results in the majority of non-neonatal children with community on-set BSIs or improved IPC measures in some hospitals.
The proportion of 3rd gen Ceph-R among members of the family Enterobacteriaceae in the current study is alarmingly higher (79.0%) than the 25 to 50% reported before in the same region, and is predominated by K. pneumoniae [14, 19]. All Gram negative bacteria were sensitive to meropenem, except one Acinetobacter spp. High AMR among Gram negative bacteria is similar to a previous report involving six countries in Africa, Asia and South America: gentamicin (43%), ciprofloxacin (35%), 3rd gen Ceph (61.3%) and meropenem (11.1%) . The predominance of MDR K. pneumoniae compared to E. coli has also been reported in an extensive review from developing countries . The majority of Gram positive bacteria were sensitive to vancomycin, and over two third were sensitive to gentamicin. The proportion of MRSA among S. aureus strains in the current study is higher (34.7%), than the 28.0% in Mwanza and 23.3% in Dar es salaam reported 8 years ago [19, 36]. As a result, there is an urgent need to introduce routine culture and AST in hospitals lacking this service for all children with clinical features suggestive of BSIs to ensure rational antimicrobial therapies. This is especially important as the remaining antimicrobial therapeutic options like meropenem for Gram negative bacteria, and vancomycin for Gram positive bacteria are very expensive, and have adverse effects in children if not monitored carefully [37–39]. The findings of AMR profiles in different health care facilities in North-western Tanzania are pivotal in addressing the WHO global action plan to combat AMR in the context of a recently launched National Action Plan on AMR (2017–2022) in the United Republic of Tanzania [40, 41]. Indeed, these findings can be used as baseline data to inform interventional measures, and for future monitoring of AMR trends in different levels of health care facilities in Tanzania.
The main two added values of the current study is the fact that it was a multi-centre study involving four hospitals in the cascade of referral system in North western Tanzania, and also involved all children under 5 years of age, contrary to other previous studies in this country which were single-centred, and often involving neonates only [12, 19, 29]. In this regard, it allowed stratification of the burden of BSIs in different ranks of health care facilities, and across various age-groups. Children in the neonatal period (odds ratio = 1.93) and those admitted at BMC (odds ratio = 2.10) had increased odds of having BSIs, as opposed to other age-groups and children admitted in other hospitals. Moreover, those admitted in BMC tertiary hospital had 4.96 odds of developing 3rd gen Ceph-R attributable BSIs as opposed to those in the regional and district hospitals (and predominantly by K. pneumoniae). Similarly, a study in England and Wales showed 10-fold increase in BSIs among infants as opposed to older children, and also more common in boys than girls . These findings have critical treatment values and policy implications in terms of where stringent screening criteria for BSIs and more resources should be directed as previously described in a state-of-the-art review on current aspects in treatment of sepsis .
Other risk factors for BSIs found in this study on univariate analysis were prematurity, unadjusted low median weight and previous exposure to antibiotics. Similarly, earlier studies in East Africa have shown that previous exposure to antibiotics and co-morbidities such as malnutrition, HIV, malaria and anemia were associated with BSIs [11, 13, 14, 28, 32]. Co-existence of malaria in the same area, which is also a febrile illness like BSIs may pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges [13, 15, 28, 29, 32], and calls for laboratory guided management to ensure favourable treatment outcomes in children . The current study did not find an association between BSIs and invasive procedures such as intravenous lines and urinary catheterization, but a previous study in the USA ascertained the association between central venous lines and BSIs among children with sickle cell disease . Therefore, these predictors should be important factors in raising awareness amongst attending clinicians to take timely blood samples and judiciously start empirical antimicrobial therapies to prevent negative heath impacts, including mortality.
The present study showed that the overall mortality was 6.6%, with neonates from BMC tertiary hospital being the most vulnerable age-group in over three quarter of these deaths. This mortality is higher than 1.1% reported from Spain among healthy children , but similar to previous studies in eight European countries, six countries in three continents and in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [11, 24, 35]. However, this mortality is low compared to 13.9 to 34.9% previously reported in four studies in Mwanza and Dar es salaam between 2005 and 2013 [12, 14, 19, 29]. The reason behind low mortality in the current study may be partly due to improved IPC in these hospitals. The differences in mortality reiterate the fact that, neonates and children with underlying co-morbidities like malnutrition and prematurity should be priority target groups for interventional measures against BSIs. Additionally, the preponderance of BSIs attributable deaths among children at BMC may be related to the fact that this hospital takes care of critically ill children as well as children with underlying risky conditions who are referred from other health care facilities for tertiary care.
In Tanzania, a combination of ampiclox and gentamicin (first line treatment) and cefotaxime and gentamicin (second line) are antimicrobial therapeutic options . These therapeutic options were compared in a previous randomised controlled trial in Malawi, and it was found that, a combination of penicillin and gentamicin had similar treatment outcomes compared to ceftriaxone (13.7% versus 16.5% mortality) and both combinations were shown to be safe for infants . But given the rapidly increasing AMR in the present study and a recent report from Malawi (15), laboratory guided antimicrobial therapies should be an enduring next step to ensure good management outcomes among children with BSIs.
Preventive measures for children with BSIs require identification of potential sources of pathogens, and especially the MDR pathogens. In a previous study in our research group, we reported higher ESBL gastrointestinal carriage among delivering mothers (15%) and their newborns (25.4%), with acquisition among neonates occurring predominantly in the first twenty four hours of life . This was higher than 2.9% reported among pregnant women in Norway, but of note, four out of 14 women who remained positive for ESBL strains at delivery transmitted these strains to their newborns as shown by the PFGE analysis of the five mother-neonate pairs [44, 45]. Our recent study at BMC found that, 10.5% of 304 neonates had ESBL-attributable sepsis, and these infections were predicted by admission to the intensive care unit and positive ESBL gastrointestinal carriage by mothers and neonates . This was also higher than the 2.8% reported previously in the USA, connoting possible differences in the IPC measures between these two countries [46, 47]. In both studies the blaCTX-M-15 gene predominated, and similar strains involved in colonization were found to cause subsequent invasive infections in neonates. However, the predominant strains involved were K. pneumoniae ST45 in Tanzania and E. coli ST131 in the USA [46, 47]. Therefore, similar delineation of potential sources and dynamics of transmission using genomic approaches is urgently required in other hospitals so as to have a comprehensive interventional strategy in North-western Tanzania.
The prevalence of BSIs (14.2%) in this multi-centre study among children under 5 years of age in North-western Tanzania is comparable to previously reported studies in developing countries, but higher than studies from developed countries. Multidrug resistant K. pneumoniae is the predominant pathogen in approximately half of the patients. The overall mortality was 6.6%, with neonates remaining the most vulnerable age-group in over three quarter of these deaths. Strengthening of provision of routine culture and AST services among children with clinical symptoms suggestive of BSIs at BMC tertiary hospital, and introduction of these tests routinely in district and regional hospitals is recommended. Neonates at BMC tertiary hospital should be a specific target group for preventive measures against BSIs.
R. DeVinney, J. D. D. Pitout and S. E. Mshana contributed equally to this work.
The authors are thankful for all medical doctors and pediatricians especially, Dr. Adolfine Hokororo, Dr. Neema Chami, Dr. Sr. Restituta Muro, Dr. Georgina Balyoruguru, Dr. Christopher Matiko, Dr. Chuki Sunzu, and Dr. Sr. Marie Jose Voeten who were involved in managing children; the nurses, Mary Peter and Rehema Lyakulwa for collecting samples, and Vitus Silago, Japhet Mwihambi, Betrand Msemwa, Saulo Liho and Hezron Bassu for their technical inputs in the laboratory analysis of blood samples. Dr. Mariam M. Mirambo and Martha F. Mushi are thanked for their laboratory expertise and other logistical support during the study period. We are grateful to Mr. Elias C. Nyanza for his assistance in the production of the Map showing North-western Tanzania.
This work was supported by the University of Calgary and CUHAS to JS as part of Ph.D training research fund.
All data generated or analyses during this study are included in this published article.
JS, RD, JDDP and SEM conceived and designed the study; RD, JDDP and SEM supervised execution of the study; FM, RM and MA collected patients' data, samples and managed patients; JS and AAM collected patients' data, samples and did laboratory procedures; JS analyzed data. RD, JDDP and SEM critically reviewed study findings. JS wrote the initial draft of the manuscript which was critically reviewed by all authors. All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
This study was approved by the joint Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences/Bugando Medical Centre Research and Ethics Committee (CREC 123/2016) in Tanzania. Permission to conduct the study in various hospitals was sought and provided by the Mwanza Regional Administrative Secretary, through Regional Medical Officer. The Director/Medical Officers in-charge of BMC, SRRH, NDH and SDDH provided permission for their respective hospitals. Parents/guardians were informed about the purposes of the research study, procedures, risks, benefits, confidentiality and rights for participants. Then, voluntary written informed consent to participate into the study and to publish study findings was obtained from parents/guardians on behalf of their respective children. All patients' information was kept anonymous and confidential using study codes. Results on culture and AST were timely reported to the attending doctors for specific management based on the respective health care facility's treatment guideline.


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Believing Hindus recite Ek Shloki Ramayana every day in their prayers. Like other Hindu mantras, it is usually recited for once, 11 times, 21 times, or 108 times.
Thanks! One of the treasures of childhood that I learnt from my dad. Thank you for keeping it alive on the internet.
VERY IMPORTANT SHLOKA.ON ITS CONTINUOUS RECITAL SUCCESS IS SURE.100% GUARENTEED.
its practice gives % success.
This shloka is "GAGAR MEN SAGAR".Its recitation is fruitful.


A 9-year-old North Carolina boy who was running a lemonade stand was robbed at gunpoint on Aug. 5, officials said.
The boy was selling lemonade in Monroe, about 25 miles from Charlotte, when a teen approached him and pointed a handgun at the child's stomach, demanded money, and then ran away, said the Union County Sheriff's Office in a news release on Aug. 5.
"The boy was allegedly approached by a teenage black male suspect wearing a [camouflage] hat and black shirt. The suspect allegedly stuck a black handgun to the boy's stomach, demanded money and fled the scene on foot," the office stated.
Officials said they believe the suspect left a bicycle and walked from there to the lemonade stand before the robbery took place.
Neighbors told WSOC-TV in Charlotte that the boy went back out and began selling lemonade despite the robbery. They said that he relocated the lemonade stand to another location.
"If he's trying to have some kind of goal, maybe the people of the neighborhood could chip in and help out, reward some hard work," neighbor Lou Armada told the station. "I'm often seeing the young man selling organic lemonade," Robert Pendleton added.
"In today's world, people are very bold," Union County spokesman Tony Underwood said, lamenting the crime, according to WSOC-TV.
Underwood added that only $20 was stolen from the boy.
The suspect hasn't been located.
Those with information that might assist detectives in this matter should contact the Union County Sheriff's Office or Union County Crimestoppers.


Here are some random tips I've been saving that don't fit into a whole blog post but want to share! Enjoy!
Use colored cones like traffic signals: green cone means trot, yellow cone means slow down red cone means walk.
It's good to let students have that "aha" or "I forgot" moment, because the next time they're more likely to remember.
Have a "get to know me" board to help volunteers get to know their riders. Have every family make a poster about their child, how to respond, how to redirect, etc. and hang it on the board.
They may not say what the problem is, so ASK. There may be a problem you don't see!
Ex) The rider is not applying the leg aids as well as before, because their boot starting pinching them halfway through the lesson but they thought they could live with it instead of mentioning it.
Ex) The rider keeps taking their foot out of the stirrup because their knee hurts badly but it always does so they didn't tell you.
Ex) The rider can't hear you because the saddle is squeaky.
Relate the whys back to the riding skill and life skills, so they know how to use their aids to impact their life.
Push one step beyond the rider's desire to stop.
Helps them increase tolerance for challenges and attention span.
When they protest or want to stop, verbalize their discontent ("You want to stop") and ask for "one more". If they will not, help them through it quickly, but keep it fun.
Obviously this depends on the rider and should be used with discretion.
Use task analysis before teaching a skill to determine what you need to teach first for them to be successful.


Redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.
That sounds good, we begin to respond. And then we hear Paul's indignant, "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ." Instinctively, immediately, we know that he is right. The only good news that will make a difference is that the living God personally addresses and mercifully forgives us. He sets things right at the center.
This is what we need, what we want. We determine and we will not abandon the free life of the gospel and live in the fantasy dreams that others paint for us and then sell to us for a fee. We will live forgiven and in faith, not as a parasite on others, but creatively for others. We will not mope or cringe or whine. We will praise and venture and make.
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.
with him, not from the other end.
The closer we are to God, the happier we are.
The further away from him, the poorer.
Sin, which is a flight from God, is no fun.


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Chryse (), or Chrysa (Χρύσα), was a town of the ancient Troad, mentioned by Pliny as being on the coast north of Cape Lectum.

The site of Chryse  is located near modern Göztepe.

References

Populated places in ancient Troad
Former populated places in Turkey


How many calories in a [viva villa ] cocktail?
How fattening is a Viva Villa #2?
The Viva Villa #2 ranks #2,829 (out of about 6,000) for most calories per ounce, and #1,612 for carbs per ounce.
A "Viva Villa #2" contains 1 oz lime juice, 1 tsp lemon juice, 2 oz tequila, and 2 tsp superfine sugar.


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Q: Is $S^1$ an open subspace of a contractible space? Is $S^1$ an open subspace of a contractible space?

A: The space $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ is obtained by adding a point to $S^1$ in such a way that the added point is closed and the topology is the coarsest possible under these conditions (so that a subset is open iff it is an open subset of $S^1$ or the whole space).
The subspace $S^1=\mathbb{C}^\times/\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ of $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ is open, and the ambient space is contractible (by passing to the quotient the retracting homotopy $(z,t)\mapsto tz$).
As erz said in the comments, this is not possible if you want your contractible space to be Hausdorff, because otherwise $S^1$ would be one of its connected components.

A: Let $K=\{\emptyset, \{p\}, \{p, q\}\}$ be the Kuratowski pair. The quotient of the product space $S^1\times K$ by $S^1\times \{q\}$ is contractible and contains $S^1$ as an open subspace.
This is imitating the cone construction of contractible non-locally contractible spaces.


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A: The solution to the error is @Sami Kuhmonen's comment, Enclose string in quotation marks.
Please let me add this information.

This code does not use the JsonItem class.
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To deserialize Json to JsonItem, use type parameters as follows:
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HomeNewsNationalPoliticsSenate passes bill providing $1 billion for rural telecom networks to replace Huawei
Senate passes bill providing $1 billion for rural telecom networks to replace Huawei
Fri, February 28 by ABC News
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(WASHINGTON) — The Senate passed a bill that would prohibit the use of federal funds to purchase equipment from Huawei and provide $1 billion for rural telecom companies to replace equipment from the Chinese tech giant that the U.S. has blacklisted.
Bipartisan lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, including Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., ranking member Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Reps. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., sponsored the bill.
"The existence of Huawei's technology in our networks represents an immense threat to America's national and economic security," the lawmakers said in a joint statement.
"This bipartisan bill will help communities across the country by bolstering efforts to keep our communications supply chain safe from foreign adversaries and other dangerous actors, while helping small and rural providers remove and replace suspect network equipment," the statement added.
The bill already had passed the House in December 2019, and is now on its way to the president's desk.
The Telecommunications Industry Association welcomed the Senate's decision, saying it would help the U.S. lead the way in 5G security.
David Stehlin, the trade group's CEO, called it "a critical step in securing our network and ensuring the integrity of the telecommunications supply chain as we usher in the 5G era."
Stehlin added that the group also welcomes "efforts for the replacement of equipment that raises national security risks with equipment from trusted supplier."
Huawei argued that the legislation would hurt only customers and businesses, especially in rural areas.
"Unfortunately, the legislation that was just passed is considerably underfunded, would take longer than anticipated and could put at risk some of our customers, who serve the most underserved areas," a company spokesperson told ABC News in a statement. "This legislation will simply reduce the ability of broadband providers to provide the most secure network equipment and in turn hurt local consumers and businesses."
Huawei also argues that the bill "ignores the alternative proposals put forth by our rural customers which provided a more holistic approach and will increase the network security profile of all U.S. networks at a fraction of the cost outlined in the legislation."
The statement continued: "While the intention of this bill is to provide a robust and secure network for all Americans, if implemented the legislation passed today will fall woefully short."
The passage of this bill through the Senate is the latest in an escalation of tensions between the U.S. and the Chinese telecom giant.
Earlier this month, federal authorities hit Huawei with racketeering and a litany of other charges, ranging from misappropriating intellectual property from U.S. tech companies to bypassing sanctions and doing business with North Korea and Iran.
Huawei vowed to fight the charges, with a spokesperson saying at the time: "The government will not prevail on its charges, which we will prove to be both unfounded and unfair."
Yelp to display user-generated COVID-19 safety reviews for restaurants
FBI discusses possibility of explosive devices at expected protests linked to inauguration


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Boominator boomless nozzles are machined from Stainless Steel in the USA. They have a superior fluid pattern and distribution with a heavy droplet pattern for minimal drift. All nozzles have Mnpt threads and are factory tested. Boominator nozzles offer left, right and full spray patterns.
All nozzles are CNC machined from high grade stainless steel. No plastic parts or soft metals to wear out, break or replace.
Pro Ag supply offers a wide variety of products from Spray Target. The VeriVolume Nozzle is designed for high-volume applications of crop protection materials and fertilizers. The nozzle is capable of controlling flow rate and maintaining proper spray coverage and droplet size over a wide range of flow rates. The nozzle comprises a flexible spray tip that is automatically and appropriately deformed by a flexible metering assembly in response to change in liquid pressure.
TeeJet has been an innovator in agricultural application technology for more than 70 years. During that time, they've continuously built on our reputation for offering the highest quality products, the latest technology and the widest array of choices to meet your spraying, fertilizing and seeding needs.
Spray nozzles can have a big impact on crop yield, plant health, efficiency of pest control and of course, profitability. Nozzles are precision-engineered for specific applications so it is essential to use the ones best suited for your operations. We suggest using these handy selection guides or downloading their SpraySelect Tip Selection app to help match your requirements to the best available nozzle.