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Mycoplasma, bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria BVAB3, race, and risk of preterm birth in a high-risk cohort.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Mar; 210(3):226.e1-7.AJ
Genital tract infection accounts for approximately 25-40% of all preterm births. We sought to assess the relationship between preterm birth and selected vaginal bacterial taxa associated with preterm birth either directly or through their association with bacterial vaginosis (BV).
Vaginal fluid for Gram stain was collected between 17 and 22 weeks' gestation as part of a randomized trial of ultrasound-indicated cerclage for preterm birth prevention in women at high risk for recurrent spontaneous preterm birth. Bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid was extracted from the Gram stain slides and analyzed using quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
Among the 499 participants, Mycoplasma was positively correlated with increased risk of preterm (risk ratio [RR], 1.83; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.52-2.22) as was Mobiluncus (RR, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.07-1.73) and Atopobium (RR, 1.44; 95% CI, 1.1-1.87). However, there were strong interactions between the race/ethnic group and the presence of these and other individual taxa on risk of preterm birth. By contrast, bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria (BVAB)-3 was consistently associated with a reduction in the risk of preterm birth for all racial/ethnic groups (0.55; 95% CI, 0.39-0.78).
BV is characterized by a reduction of Lactobacillus, and lactic acid-producing bacteria and the presence of Mobiluncus; we found these factors and the presence of Mycoplasma to be associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. By contrast, the presence of a recently identified organism sufficient to cause BV, BVAB3, decreased the risk of preterm birth. These findings give insight into why treating BV has mixed impact on risk of preterm birth.
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Foxman B
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI. Electronic address: bfoxman@umich.edu.
Wen A
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI.
Srinivasan U
Goldberg D
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
Marrs CF
Owen J
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Wing DA
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA.
Misra D
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
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Foxman, Betsy, et al. "Mycoplasma, Bacterial Vaginosis-associated Bacteria BVAB3, Race, and Risk of Preterm Birth in a High-risk Cohort." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 210, no. 3, 2014, pp. 226.e1-7.
Foxman B, Wen A, Srinivasan U, et al. Mycoplasma, bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria BVAB3, race, and risk of preterm birth in a high-risk cohort. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014;210(3):226.e1-7.
Foxman, B., Wen, A., Srinivasan, U., Goldberg, D., Marrs, C. F., Owen, J., Wing, D. A., & Misra, D. (2014). Mycoplasma, bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria BVAB3, race, and risk of preterm birth in a high-risk cohort. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 210(3), e1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2013.10.003
Foxman B, et al. Mycoplasma, Bacterial Vaginosis-associated Bacteria BVAB3, Race, and Risk of Preterm Birth in a High-risk Cohort. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014;210(3):226.e1-7. PubMed PMID: 24096128.
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Home AM Technology News MakerBot launches Method X for "real ABS" 3D printing
MakerBot launches Method X for "real ABS" 3D printing
Method X is designed to bring "manufacturing close to the engineer".
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The Method X (right) is the latest addition to the Method printer family.
MakerBot has today announced the second machine in its Method 3D printer range, the Method X, promising accessible manufacturing with "real ABS".
The desktop 3D printing leader's latest model introduces a 100°C build chamber and SR-30 soluble support compatibility from parent company Stratasys, to enable accurate ABS parts without common warping or cracking issues experienced with modified ABS filaments.
Speaking to TCT, MakerBot CEO Nadav Goshen described the Method X as a "manufacturing workstation which brings manufacturing close to the engineer". The ability to print in ABS with similar properties to ABS materials used in injection moulding applications is said to open up applications for end-use parts, manufacturing tools and functional prototypes with a dimensional accuracy of ± 0.2mm.
Commenting on the need for "true ABS" in the desktop market, Goshen said: "Engineers know the value of ABS, they know the value of a heated chamber that will enable you to get a dimensionally accurate part, and they know the value of the soluble support."
Speaking about current ABS formulations for desktop systems, Goshen added: "When you look at the fine print, it was once ABS but now it's a heavily formulated material, so it doesn't have the properties of ABS. People have bought into the promise of printing with ABS and I think some of them are purchasing these machines because of that but in the end their experience is very different."
To that end, MakerBot Precision ABS is said to have a heat deflection temperature of up to 15°C higher compared to modified ABS formulations used on competitive desktop 3D printing systems with heated build plates. The material is also believed to be up to 26% more rigid and 12% stronger which, when combined with SR-30 support material, can enable high-strength complex parts with superior surface finish.
MakerBot ABS said to deliver injection moulded properties.
"The dimensional accuracy that we have is pretty much on par with injection moulded parts and the formulation of the ABS is also very close to what you use in injection moulding," Johan Broer, VP of Product Development at MakerBot explained. "That is a huge benefit for any engineer that is either prototyping or wants to prototype in the same material that they injection mould out of later because they can do functional tests with the same material to the same dimensions, with very similar properties."
Dave Veisz, VP of Engineering at MakerBot added: "As an engineer, your enemy for everything is variability and unpredictability.
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The Method X beta programme is currently underway. One particular application area that has been identified is the manufacture of robot end effectors - the device attached to the end of a robotic arm - for manufacturers looking to automate various tasks on their production lines.
MakerBot first introduced the Method and "performance 3D printing" category last year in a bid to fill the gap between desktop and industrial 3D printing. The company says it has already sold "hundreds" of the original Method system, which has been named a finalist in this year's TCT Awards, and will continue to support the platform with new materials and capabilities. The new Method X features all of the same benefits and sleek compact design as its predecessor including dry-sealed material bays, dual extruders, onboard sensors, and compatibility with Autodesk Fusion 360, Solidworks and Inventor plug-ins for a fast CAD to part workflow.
MakerBot says the Method X will start shipping by the end of this month at the same 6,499 USD launch price point of the first Method system, while the original will now be reduced to 4,999 USD.
Visitors to TCT Show will be able to see the Method printer range on the MakerBot booth on 24-26th September at NEC, Birmingham. MakerBot CEO, Nadav Goshen will also be discussing the evolution from desktop to performance 3D printing on the TCT Introducing Stage on 24th September at 11.20am. Register for your free ticket here.
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Clownfish are by far one of the most popular fish in the aquarium trade and people often find that when they purchase a clownfish and bring it home, that it dies a few days later.
There are a number of reasons as to why your clownfish may be dying and a few things you can do to prevent this from happening in the future.
One of the first things to do is to select your clownfish from the store, and it is generally advised to keep them in pairs as they will form a bond and keep each other happy. Select your clownfish and ask the store to keep them in a seperate tank for a few days so that you can see they are still healthy with no obvious breathing or skin problems. This will also ensure that the two clownfish are compatible and are not fighting each other. This also gives the added advantage of giving the fish time to settle down. They may have just arrived at the aquarium store and will no doubt be feeling the stress from transportation.
Next check your water conditions prior to bringing the clownfish home. And if you are currently dealing with a dying clownfish in your aquarium, test the water and do a large water change. Something is obviously not right if your clownfish is dying and water quality is often to blame.
If you bought two clownfish at the same time and one of them is doing fine whilst the other is dying, then maybe the stress of transportation was too much for one of the clownfish. It does happen a lot of the time. When a clownfish is transported just like other fish it starts to get stressed. When this happens it's immune system is weakened which makes it vulnerable to infection and sometimes death. There is often little you can do to help a dying clownfish because it is too sick. Sometimes they can be saved by putting them in a quarantine tank and just giving it time to recover. Best practice is to always have a separate quarantine tank set up and ready for when your fish get ill. This way you can remove the unwell fish and stop the infection from spreading to other fish. It also gives the unwell fish time to recover without being harassed by other fish.....Leave this fish alone and turn the tank lights off, and try to stop checking up on it every five minutes. Your presence may be part of the stress.
A new set up aquarium is often to blame for the death of a clownfish and you must make sure that the aquarium has time to establish itself prior to adding clownfish. It normally takes an aquarium atleast two months to establish itself before new fish can be added. The use of live rock can speed this process up as well as putting some water from a mature tank into the new set up.
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Here is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877 This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award winning author Robin McKinley and remains faithful to the original With simple text to read aloud to young children, it s little wonderHere is the compelling tale of a spirited young Thoroughbred that captured the hearts of readers throughout Victorian England when it was first published in 1877 This masterfully illustrated classic is skillfully adapted by Newbery Award winning author Robin McKinley and remains faithful to the original With simple text to read aloud to young children, it s little wonder that The Boston Globe says it is certain to quicken the hearts of young horse lovers A timeless tale of courage, hope, and strength guaranteed to delight a new generation of readers.
Very cute story and who wouldn't enjoy a story told from point of view of a horse. It brings animal abuse to the light of day which is a good thing.
I read this book in my very early teens and loved it, it was a classic then and a classic now, beautifully written it just fires up a young persons imagination and evokes emotions. If you have not read this book then you must.
You may read online here.This a very touching novel by Anna Sewell who described the abuse of bearing rein in the horses. Nowadays this question of mistreatment of animals is becoming a harsh reality even in the XXI century.A movie was made based on this book Black Beauty (1994).
I read this as a child, many years ago. All I remember is that I loved the story, and wanted my mom to read it to me at least once a month.
4,5 StarsA lovely read, although very hard in parts. Even though there's plenty of happy moments there's also abuse and I teared up in the end.
Uma história comovente e perturbadora. Relata-nos a história de amizade entre uma mulher e o seu cavalo. Eu amo cavalos. E um dia também queria aprender a montar num. Mas não saberia suportar a dor de perder o meu cavalo se tivesee um.
I was so in love with horses from a young age and I remember crying my little eyes out when I read this book. It broke my heart when poor Black Beauty was abused and broken. I was elated when Beauty was reunited with a former caregiver. This classic story is great and a must for anyone who cares for animals.


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Mercedes EQ's Nyck de Vries and Stoffel Vandoorne lead the Formula E field into the weekend, separated by nine points at the summit of the standings following the opening three double-headers. Between them, the pair have won half of the races disputed so far this season, but they have also notched up four retirements and neither scored in the most recent contest in Valencia. They will be determined to regain their momentum in Monaco, where de Vries twice triumphed in FIA Formula 2 and Vandoorne emerged victorious in GP2
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Mitch Evans in the second Jaguar entry is just behind in fifth, and like Bird, the New Zealander is eager to quickly bounce back from a subdued Spanish double-header for the British outfit.
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The other active driver to have mastered Monaco in Formula E is Nissan e.dams' Sébastien Buemi, who converted pole position into the top step of the podium in both 2014/15 and 2016/17. The Swiss driver is searching for a repeat performance this time around, following a disappointing start to the season that sees him just 22nd in the title table. His team-mate Oliver Rowland qualified fastest for the race in 2018/19 prior to a grid penalty being applied, so hopes are high for a bumper points haul on Saturday to fire the pair up the order.
Fellow Briton Jake Dennis launched himself spectacularly into the top ten in the standings courtesy of a brilliant maiden triumph in only his sixth Formula E start a week ago in Valencia. The BMW i Andretti Motorsport man has never previously competed in Monaco, but buoyed by his breakthrough success, he is excited to push for more silverware.
Edoardo Mortara and rookie ROKiT Venturi Racing team-mate Norman Nato have both displayed flashes of real pace over the six rounds so far, with the latter in particular unfortunate not to have more to show for his efforts. The Frenchman won in Monaco in Formula Renault 3.5 and raced to the runner-up spoils in GP2, so will surely fancy his chances of securing his first big Formula E result this weekend on his team home event.
Pascal Wehrlein has also shone in the Principality in the past – posting fastest lap in the Formula E race there in 2018/19 – while TAG Heuer Porsche stablemate André Lotterer finally got his challenge off the mark with a superb second place in Spain, following a troubled opening five outings.
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Under Right Terms, Kavanaugh Accuser May Testify After All
Christine Blasey Ford's "strong preference" remains a full investigation before she testifies
By Alan Fram and Lisa Mascaro
Published Sep 20, 2018 at 7:28 AM | Updated at 12:09 AM EDT on Sep 21, 2018
Trump 'Feels Terribly' For Kavanaugh
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he "feels terribly" for Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his family. The Senate is trying to schedule a hearing to hear from Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party about 35 years ago. (Published Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018)
Christine Blasey Ford may testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after all, her attorney said Thursday, breathing new life into the prospect of a dramatic Senate showdown next week over Ford's accusation that he assaulted her when both were in high school.
The preference would be for Ford to testify next Thursday, and she doesn't want Kavanaugh in the same room, her attorney told Judiciary Committee staff in a 30-minute call that also touched on security concerns and others issues, according to a Senate aide who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Ford is willing to tell her story to the committee, whose senators will vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation — but only if agreement can be reached on "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety," the attorney said in an email earlier Thursday.
In the call, she said Ford needs time to secure her family, prepare her testimony and travel to Washington. No decisions were reached, the aide said.
Sen. Hirono Tells Men to 'Shut Up and Step Up'
Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii addressed "the men in this country" during a Tuesday press conference.
The discussion revived the possibility that the panel would hold a campaign-season hearing at which both Ford and President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee could give their versions of what did or didn't happen at a party in the 1980s. Kavanaugh, now a judge on the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has repeatedly denied Ford's allegation.
The accusation has jarred the 53-year-old conservative jurist's prospects for winning confirmation, which until Ford's emergence last week had seemed all but certain. It has also bloomed into a broader clash over whether women alleging abuse are taken seriously by men and how both political parties address such claims with the advent of the #MeToo movement — a theme that could echo in this November's elections for control of Congress.
Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has scheduled a hearing for Monday morning, and he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have indicated it would be Ford's only chance to make her case. Republicans are anxious to move ahead to a vote by the committee, where they hold an 11-10 majority, and then by the full Senate, which they control, 51-49.
Taylor Foy, spokesman for Republicans on the panel, said after the call that Grassley "will consult with his colleagues on the committee. He remains committed to providing a fair forum for both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh."
Attorney Debra Katz said anew that Ford, 51, a psychology professor in California, has received death threats and for safety reasons has relocated her family.
"She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety," Katz wrote in the email, which was obtained by The Associated Press after first being reported by The New York Times.
In the call later Thursday, Katz asked the committee to subpoena Mark Judge, whom Ford has named as the other teen in the room at the time. Judge has told the committee he does not recall the incident and does not want to speak publicly.
Should Ford testify, especially in public, it would pit the words of two distinguished professionals against each other as television close-ups capture every emotion. Assessing them would be not just the committee's 21 senators —only four of whom are women, all Democrats — but also millions of viewing voters.
Underscoring the sensitivity of all-male GOP senators grilling a woman who's alleged abuse, Republicans are considering reaching out to female attorneys who might question Ford, according to a person familiar with the situation but who wasn't authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
But in a separate email obtained by NBC News, Katz objected to the idea of outside counsel doing the questioning.
"Senators should be the questioners as they have been for all other witnesses who have appeared before the Committee in connection with this nomination and with respect to all others of which I am aware," she wrote.
If Ford opts not to participate, Republicans could well dispense with the hearing to avoid giving Democrats a forum for peppering Kavanaugh with embarrassing questions. They would argue that they'd offered Ford several options for describing her accusation, but that she'd snubbed them.
Kavanaugh, who's been eager to testify, said he was ready to appear Monday.
"I will be there," he wrote Grassley in a letter. "I continue to want a hearing as soon as possible, so that I can clear my name."
Trump told Fox News on Thursday, "I think it's a very sad situation." He said Kavanaugh's accuser should "have her say and let's see how it all works out. But I don't think you can delay it any longer. They've delayed it a week already."
Ford has contended that at a house party in Washington's Maryland suburbs, a drunken Kavanaugh tried undressing her and stifling her cries on a bed before she fled.
Grassley has said that in the interest of making Ford comfortable, he'd be willing to let Ford testify in public or private. He even offered to send committee aides to her California home to take testimony.
As the week has proceeded, Republicans have seemed to regain momentum toward approving Kavanaugh though his prospects have remained uncertain.
Even moderate Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said it would be "unfair" to Kavanaugh if Ford decides to not appear, and others were urging leaders to proceed quickly to a vote. Still, the bare 51-49 Republican majority means they can lose just one vote and still approve him if all Democrats vote no. Vice President Mike Pence would break a tie.
Democrats have tried using the issue to demonstrate that Republicans treat women unfairly, their eyes on upcoming elections in which suburban, anti-Trump female voters could be pivotal in many races. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a possible 2020 presidential candidate, said Republicans were "bullying" Ford by giving her a Monday deadline to testify.
Ford went public with her accusation over the weekend in a Washington Post interview and said Monday through her lawyer that she was ready to testify. But Tuesday, she began insisting on an FBI investigation of her allegations and said other witnesses should also participate in a hearing. Those conditions had cast strong doubts on her willingness to appear, and it became unclear whether Republicans would even hold the hearing.
The email said Ford's "strong preference" remains that the committee allow a thorough investigation of her claim before she appears. But that wording fell short of a nonnegotiable demand.
Kavanaugh was spotted at the White House on Thursday, and allies said he is eager to address the accusation. Trump refrained from tweeting about his nominee.
Republicans have resisted all Democratic efforts to slow and perhaps block Kavanaugh's confirmation. A substantial delay could push confirmation past the November elections, when Democrats have a shot at winning Senate control, plus allow more time for unforeseen problems to crop up.
Also Thursday, NBC News reported that the dean of Yale Law School on responded to reports that a prominent professor at the school had advised students seeking judicial clerkships with Kavanaugh on their physical looks, saying the reported allegations of faculty misconduct are "of enormous concern."
On Thursday, a group of Democratic senators, all former prosecutors or state attorneys general, sent a letter to the White House arguing for the FBI probe and for medical evidence and Ford's polygraph test to be assessed.
"Declining to have the FBI take action under these circumstances also abandons the precedent that President George H.W. Bush set when he asked the FBI to investigate after Anita Hill raised allegations against Judge Clarence Thomas in 1991," read the letter, signed by Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Doug Jones, Tom Udall and Catherine Cortez Masto.
Meanwhile, demonstrators gathered with raised fists outside Grassley's office Thursday morning to protest how Republicans have handled the allegation against Kavanaugh. Many shared their own stories of sexual assault, with some telling their stories in a call-and-response style with the group.
One woman described an incident at a party when she was 22: a man pushed her into his bedroom and "sexually assaulted me for hours." She said she went back to work, where the man was employed too, and he "pretended it never happened."
"This is the first time I have ever spoke of it," she said.
Another woman said, "I'm 62-years-old. I never had a chance to tell my story." She then thanked Ford "for standing up and giving me an opportunity" to talk about her own past.
"That's why we are here ... to say that it's OK what happened to you," she said. "You don't have to hide and have a secret anymore and hold it for 40 years."
Some chanted "We believe Anita Hill! We believe Christine Ford!" and were seen wearing "I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford" pins. Hill is the law professor who, during the Senate's 1991 consideration of Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination, accused him of sexual harassment.
Other women demanded senators vote no on Kavanaugh's confirmation. One said a confirmation for Kavanaugh would be "totally inappropriate" and "unbelievable," saying, "It just breaks my heart."
Demonstrators occupied the offices of Sens. Bob Corker, Joe Donnelly, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins as well. Many senators were not in the building, as the Senate is not in session Thursday or Friday.
More than 50 people were removed from the Senate building for unlawful demonstration activities and charged.


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C-SPAN Video: Viguerie Hosts Conservative Leaders for Post-Election Analysis
Adam Brandon
David M. McIntosh
Ginni Thomas
L Brent Bozell III
Penny Nance
CHQ Staff
Yesterday, CHQ Chairman Richard A. Viguerie hosted conservative leaders for a Post-Election Analysis and discussion of the future of conservatism. Full video through this link.
Conservative leaders from various groups, including CHQ Chairman Richard A. Viguerie; Media Research Center Chairman L.Brent Bozell III; Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America; Adam Brandon, president and chief executive officer of FreedomWorks; David McIntosh, president of The Club for Growth; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Virginia Republican National Convention Delegate Ginni Thomas offered their post-2016 election analysis and voiced their support for President-elect Donald Trump.
In addition, speakers discussed the future of the conservative movement and priorities for the next administration and Congress.
Viguerie Hosts Conservative Leaders
Submitted by vsteele on Fri, 11/11/2016 - 08:09.
The Conservative movement and the American voters elected Donald J. Trump as the next President of the United States because they want a new direction for the country. The Conservative movement is the only solution to the problems in Washington D.C. that can get things done to stop the liberal left and the Republican establishment from implementing bad policies
that impedes on our rights and freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
The fight is not over we conservatives have to continue the fight against those corrupt and power drunk liberals with their special interest groups and bureaucrats that want to ruin America with their big government policies of excessive spending and government regulations that kills jobs that has a negative effect on the economy, down grading our military and appeasing our enemies abroad and abandoning our only staunch ally in the Middle East Israel. President elect Donald J. Trump will roll back all of Obama's ineffective policies including his amnesty program and illegal immigration, his disastrous trade deals, appoint Justices and Judges in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, his disastrous Iranian Nuclear deal that is a waste of tax payers dollars that is putting our security in harms way to appease a country like Iran that supports radical Islamic terrorism. Donald J. Trump will be the President for all and will make America great again a more prosperous nation and safe America.
Top priority for Constitutional Conservative Agenda
Submitted by tdupuy6 on Thu, 11/10/2016 - 18:54.
The USA no longer functions as a constitutional federal republic. Each branch of the federal government routinely ignores the limits placed on it by the States in The Constitution and thus routinely infringes on State powers in contravention of the Tenth Amendment.
The American people, through their State governments, established the Constitution. As the creators of The Constitution, the States must be the enforcers of The Constitution.
The States are obligated to interpose between their citizens and an overreaching federal government and nullify all unconstitutional federal laws and actions. The States must reassert their authority over the federal government as provided for in The Constitution. The Constitution cannot enforce itself and it does not delegate such authority to the federal government.
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by Tinashe
Super love
I'm sophisticated, super classy, Uncle Luke, freak, nasty
I'm tryna make you my baby daddy
Got me bouncing on it, I'm acrobatic
I want you, I want you, I want you to be my baby
Settle down, we'll settle down then give you a baby
Put it down, boy, put it down and make me act all crazy
I might let you change me, boy I can arrange it, yeah
They will never love you babe
Like I love you babe
Say you'll never take my love away, you know, you know, you know
They will never touch you babe
Like I touched you babe
Baby, say you promise you will never change
You know, you know, you know
(You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know)
(You know, you know, you know)
(You know, you know, you know, you know, you know)
Super love Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER STEWART, TERIUS NASH, TINASHE KACHINGWE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., WORDS & MUSIC A DIV OF BIG DEAL MUSIC LLC
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Party DollBuddy Knox & the Rhythm Orchids
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The Grateful Dead considered "whipping that chain" and "lugging propane," but settled on "high on cocaine" for "Casey Jones."
Invisible TouchGenesis
"Invisible Touch" was the first time a band member (Phil Collins) had a #1 Hot 100 hit with a group after scoring a #1 solo hit.
The Battle Hymn of the RepublicTraditional
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath got its title from a line in "The Battle Hymn of the Republic": "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored."
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"Great songwriters don't necessarily have hit songs," says Chris. He's written a bunch, but his fans are more interested in the intricate jams.
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The top chant artist in the Western world, Krishna Das talks about how these Hindu mantras compare to Christian worship songs.
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Tulsa First Responders Prepare for Coronavirus
TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa first responders are reassuring the public that they're ready to help them amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But, they ask for the public's help, too.
Tulsa Fire and Police Departments and the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office ask citizens to warn them if they've been sick or traveling recently when they come to help you. They also ask that if you need to file a police report, do so over the phone or online if you can. The Tulsa County Jail is currently closed to tours. Tulsa fire stations are limiting access to the public. All departments and offices are working together to keep themselves and the public safe.
"This is going to be a team event," said Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado. "As you can see, the cooperation between the city and county in tact. But I would say that all Tulsans need to be a part of this solution while we work our way through this virus."
The fire department is also adding more protective gear to its fire trucks. Each engine will get a kit that includes items such as Clorox wipes, N95 masks, cleaning spray and medical gowns.
They say don't hesitate to call 911 in an emergency; however, if you think you're experiencing coronavirus symptoms, call your doctor first.


Slurry based 3D Printing (3DP) is a technology which is a logic extension of powder based 3DP. Instead of spreading a dry powder into thin layers, a ceramic slurry or slip is used in order to increase the powder packing density in the powder bed. Already in the milestone patent "Three-dimensional printing techniques" by Sachs et al., filed in 1989, the dispersion of powders "in a liquid vehicle" is suggested "to provide the desired uniform depositions of such powders at the required rates and densities" . In a later patent by Sachs et al., filed in 1998, the use of liquid dispersions of powdered materials for the built up of a powder bed in a layer by layer fashion is explicitly described .
A major concern at that time was, however, the deposition of uniform layers with a flat and smooth surface. Since then, technologies capable of repeatedly depositing thin layers of ceramic slurries to build up dense powder beds for 3DP have been developed [3-5]. This technology is denoted as Layerwise Slurry Deposition (LSD). A survey of recently published work reveals a great potential of the LSD technology for the manufacture of dense powder compacts, comparable to those produced by classical powder processing, that is with low organic content.
In the LSD technology a liquid suspension of ceramic particles is spread as a thin layer comparable to tape casting, while within this layer a cast is formed comparable to slip casting, see also Figure 1.
Figure 1. Schematic illustration of the additive manufacturing process based on 3D printing with Layerwise Slurry Deposition (LSD).
In the slip casting process, the slip is brought into contact with a porous body, the casting mold. When a liquid is wetting a porous body, capillary forces draw the liquid phase of the suspension into the porous mold. The particles start to form a powder compact, the cast, at the molds surface. The cast formation kinetics obeys a square-root-of-time law by depositing individual particles from the suspension to the surface of the mold. In case of the LSD process the mold is formed by the previously deposited and dried layers [6,7]. Slip casting results in the formation of powder compacts with densities potentially exceeding 60% TD. Furthermore, due to the free settling of the powder particles from the suspension, no obvious interface is formed between individual layers. The formation of a cast starts as soon as the slurry is in contact with previously deposited and dry layers. Hence, the speed of the doctor blade relative to the dry layers must be high enough to prevent collision of the cast with the doctor blade. On the other hand, when the speed of the doctor blade is too high, layer deposition is not uniform, because shear stresses within the suspension will result in an inhomogeneous deposition. For commercial silicate ceramic slurries, a speed of the doctor blade of 50 mm/s is typically chosen. For technical ceramics, the cast grows significantly faster and the speed of the doctor blade must be increased to 100 mm/s or higher. In conventional powder-based 3DP, the part built is easily released from the powder bed, but this is not the case for the slurry based process. After deposition of all layers required for building up the desired geometry, the printed body is embedded in the powder bed which now is a block of densely packed particles. For the release of the part, the powder compact must be dissolved by a solvent. In case water based slurries are used for the layer deposition, water can act as a solvent for the powder bed. Figure 2 shows an example for the release of two alumina tooth wheels.
The use of a ceramic suspension for layer deposition in additive manufacturing is an upcoming technology, and only few results are available. The advantage of slurry based layer deposition is its potential to produce powder compacts with high powder packing densities, typically exceeding 55% TD and with low content of organic additives, typically below 5wt.%. For the manufacture of powder compacts with properties comparable to those produced by classical powder processing, 3DP in combination with layerwise slurry deposition (LSD) has the highest potential. By the use of small amounts of organic or inorganic binders provided by a printing head, the particles in the densely packed powder bed are locally glued together, and compacts generated by this technology don't require any additional treatment prior to sintering. Thus, we can forecast that 3DP in combination with LSD will be more and more used for the printing of ceramic powder compacts.
1 E.M. Sachs, J.S. Haggerty, M.J. Cima, and P.A. Williams, Inventors; Massaschussets Institute of Technology, Assignee. Three-dimensional printing techniques. US Patent 5,204,055; April 20; US Patent 5,204,055, 1993.
2 E.M. Sachs, M.J. Cima, M.A. Caradonna, J. Grau, J.G. Serdy, P.C. Saxton, S.A. Uhland, and J. Moon, Inventors; Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,Assignee. Jetting layers of powder and the formation of fine powder beds thereby. US Patent 6,596,224; July 22; 2003.
3 H.C. Yen, "Experimental studying on development of slurry-layer casting system for additive manufacturing of ceramics," Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol., 1–11 (2014).
4 H.-H. Tang and H.-C. Yen, "Slurry-based additive manufacturing of ceramic parts by selective laser burn-out," J. Eur. Ceram. Soc., 35  981–987 (2015).
5 T. Mühler, C.M. Gomes, J. Heinrich, and J. Günster, "Slurry-Based Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics," Int. J. Appl. Ceram. Technol., 12  18–25 (2015).
6 X. Tian, T. Muhler, C. Gomes, J. Gunster, and J.G. Heinrich, "Feasibility study on rapid prototyping of porcelain products," J. Ceram. Sci. Technol., 2  217–225 (2011).
7 A. Zocca, P. Lima, J. Günster, "LSD-based 3D printing of Alumina Ceramics," J. Ceram. Sci. Tech. 8  141-148 (2017).


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Neuville-Saint-Vaast – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Hauts-de-France, w departamencie Pas-de-Calais.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 1295 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 103 osób/km² (wśród 1549 gmin regionu Nord-Pas-de-Calais Neuville-Saint-Vaast plasuje się na 485. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 200.).

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Are Older Generations More Instinctively Afraid Of Russia?
Media focus on Russia, Cohen tape, ignore Trump economy?
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We all do dumb things from time to time and take shortcuts that we know can lead to us getting injured. Though resourceful, these guys have thrown jobsite safety out of the window. Had they been using Contractor Foreman, their supervisor could document the near-misses and violations and ensure that their employees received the proper training.
Learn from their mistakes and keep your crew safe on the jobsite.


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'LIC Will Raise Capital As Long As It Is Marketed Properly'
For the Indian bourses, 2021 was a spectacular year. Highlighting the important role that a big IPO market played in that journey, Nilesh Shah, Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management, tells Outlook Business that today, India is in a 'very solid' position
Abhishek Vasudev - December 31, 2021
Empowering Poor And Marginalized Communities
Through AROH, Neelam Gupta has been working for over two decades on replicable and impactful programmes, particularly for women, aligned to UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Meaty Musings
No one anticipated a fresh animal protein startup to become a unicorn. But Licious did. Sticking by the principle of providing quality meat to its customers and a seamless experience to go with it, the startup has managed to disrupt one of India's most unorganised sectors. With plans to set up experiential stores offline and a ready-to-eat range based on plant protein, Licious seems unstoppable. Vivek Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, Licious spills more beans about the start-up's journey and future plans to Pallavi Chakravorty
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In this edition of Outlook Business, we look at gender equity through multiple prisms: workplaces, boardrooms, economic policy and leadership
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Investments in India's cleantech space have been on the rise, helped by a favourable policy push and flow of international funds. However, with electric mobility taking the lion's share of the pie, is the space shrinking for the other subsegments?
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How Police Branded Fashion Masks, Contributed To Growth Of Torero Corporation
Torero corporation is one of the fastest-growing firms. Yashovardhan Gupta is confident of making it the most sought-after brand in India, with a human touch. It's only goal is to serve society and save jobs
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Is P/E relevant or a relic?
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Wendy Williams' PSA on Drug Addiction Sheds Light on Recovery
Experts explain why some people battle with addiction their whole lives.
By Korin Miller
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Wendy Williams, 54, recently released a public service announcement for drug addiction treatment, weeks after revealing that she's living in a sober house.
Williams has opened up about her addiction to cocaine in the past, explaining that she was a "functioning addict."
Here, experts break down what living with drug addiction is like, and why the recovery process is so difficult.
Wendy Williams just released a public service announcement for addiction treatment, weeks after revealing that she's living in a sober house.
In the PSA, Williams, 54, tells viewers about the helpline for The Hunter Foundation, a nonprofit her family started that provides resources for drug education, prevention, and rehabilitation services. "The calls are being answered by specially-trained, certified recovery coaches," she said of the hotline. "They're very smart. They conduct screenings to your needs. The substance abuse will be taken care of. We will provide you referrals for long or short-term treatment at facilities all around the world—detox, rehab, sober living and out-patient centers."
Williams also references her own struggle with addiction in the PSA. "If you're an addict or a substance abuser don't be ashamed," she said. "Help is here for you, or a family member, or a loved one. Call, don't be ashamed. There is hope. I'm living proof."
But when did Williams' battle with drug addiction begin? Here, experts explain how addiction takes over your life, and why the recovery process is so difficult.
When did Wendy Williams open up about her drug addiction?
Williams discussed her past addiction to cocaine in a July 2018 interview with ET, noting that she first started using the drug when she worked in radio. "I was a functioning addict though," she said. "I would report to work on time and I walked in and all of my coworkers, and including my bosses, would know but instead of firing me, you see, I would grab my headphones and arrogantly walk into the studio and dare them fire me because I was making ratings." She left radio in 2009 to focus on The Wendy Williams Show.
Signs of Drug Addiction Relapse
The talk show host also revealed to her viewers in mid-March that she's been living in a sober house. "You know I've had a struggle with cocaine in my past. I never went to a place to get the treatment. I don't know how, except God was sitting on my shoulder, and I just stopped," she tearfully revealed on her show. "So, this is my autobiographical story, and I'm living it. I'm telling you this. After I go to Pilates, I go to several meetings all around town in the tri-state area... I am driven by my 24-hour sober coach back to the home that I live in, here in the tri-state with a bunch of smelly boys who have become my family." (Williams didn't confirm whether cocaine was the reason she was getting treatment now.)
Williams said the doors at the home are locked and the lights are turned out at 10 p.m. "So I go to my room, and I stare at the ceiling and I fall asleep to wake up and come back here to see you. So that is my truth," she said. "I know, either you are calling me crazy or the bravest woman you know. I don't care."
Williams reportedly relapsed last week after checking herself out of the sober living house, was found drunk, and was hospitalized to sober up, according to the Daily Mail. Her show has been on a pre-scheduled, weeklong break.
What are the side effects of being addicted to cocaine?
Cocaine is an addictive stimulant made from the leaves of the coca plant, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The drug increases levels of the chemical messenger dopamine (which is naturally found in your body) in brain circuits related to the control of your movement and reward system, the NIDA explains. This flood of dopamine reinforces a person's drug habit and desensitizes them to the drug, requiring larger and more frequent amounts to get the same high.
In the short term, cocaine can make a person feel extremely happy and energetic, mentally alert, hypersensitive to sight, sound, and touch, irritable, and paranoid, the NIDA says. Over the long term, cocaine abuse can cause loss of smell, trouble swallowing, malnourishment, movement diseases like Parkinson's disease, cough, a higher risk of infections like pneumonia, and a higher risk of developing diseases like HIV, hepatitis C, and other bloodborne diseases.
What is recovery from a cocaine addiction like?
For starters, it's not easy. "The best thing is to go to a treatment center," says Jamie Alan, PhD, an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University.
People with a cocaine addiction don't have to be medically detoxed (where a doctor monitors them during the process) but they can have ongoing withdrawal symptoms, says Pat Aussem, director of clinical content development at Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.
"Most of the time, people battle with addiction their entire lives."
"Unlike when someone is breaking an opioid addiction, there's no specific agent or drug to help you through the recovery from cocaine," Alan says. People coming off the drug will generally feel depressed and tired, and have changes in appetite and mood, she says.
Still, there are treatments available. "The treatments are typically evidence-based therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing thinking patterns and behavior," Aussem says. "Often, in addition to cocaine, the interaction between alcohol, cocaine, and socialization needs to be specifically addressed."
Once someone has gone through the immediate recovery phase, they'll still usually benefit from an ongoing program or therapy, Alan says. "Any addiction is incredibly hard to break and stay out of," she says. "We know that changes in the brain persist months and months after you come off that drug."
Not only that, some people have a genetic predisposition to addiction or abused the drug due to certain psychosocial issues (like a demanding job or life stress), and those can make the addiction harder to break, Alan says. "Most of the time, people battle with addiction their entire lives," she says.
Korin Miller Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men's Health, Women's Health, Self, Glamour, and more.
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Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump
By admin | November 29, 2020 - 2:10 pm | November 29, 2020 Uncategorized
From left: Benito Mussolini; Viktor Orban; Mobutu Sese Seko; Augusto PinochetCredit…From left: Associated Press; Jacek Szydlowski/EPA, via Shutterstock; Hulton Archive, via Getty Images; Cris Bouroncle, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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By Francis Fukuyama
Published Nov. 10, 2020 Updated Nov. 17, 2020 (NYTimes.com)
STRONGMEN
Mussolini to the Present
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Ever since the 2016 election, observers like Timothy Snyder, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt speculated that Donald Trump could undermine American democracy and move the country in an overtly authoritarian direction. That possibility grew more plausible over the years of the Trump administration, as he sought to undermine a growing list of American institutions that stood in his way, including the intelligence community, the F.B.I. and Justice Department, the courts, the mainstream media (which he branded "enemies of the American people") and of course the integrity of elections themselves. Trump made his authoritarian instincts clear by refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the 2020 election.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat contributes to this literature in a book that compares Trump to a wide variety of earlier strongmen, including Mussolini, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Francisco Franco, Muammar Qaddafi, Silvio Berlusconi and Mobutu Sese Seko, as well as contemporaries like Viktor Orban, Rodrigo Duterte, Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi and others. The author, a historian who has written previously on Italian Fascism, is at her best when describing the history of Mussolini's rise, and the way that insouciant Italians and foreign powers facilitated it.
[ This book was one of our most anticipated titles of November. See the full list. ]
Unfortunately, Ben-Ghiat provides no conceptual framework for distinguishing between different types of strongmen, and gives us very little insight into Donald Trump beyond what is already widely known. What we get instead is an endless series of historical anecdotes about a heterogeneous collection of bad leaders ranging from democratically elected nationalists like Modi to genocidal fanatics like Hitler. What sense does it make to put Silvio Berlusconi in the same category as Muammar Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein? Berlusconi may have been sleazy, manipulative and corrupt, but he didn't murder political opponents or support terrorism abroad, and he stepped down after losing an election. Ben-Ghiat notes that many strongmen came to power in the 1960s and '70s through military coups, but that today they are much more likely to be elected. Wouldn't it be nice to know why coups have largely vanished?
Ben-Ghiat's case selection seems quite arbitrary: For example, strongmen of the left like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez or Ecuador's Rafael Correa are not included, nor are women like Indira Gandhi. If we are focusing on populists in democratic countries, why include autocrats who never faced an election? An analytical framework would allow us to understand how strongmen differ from one another, rather than lumping them into a single amorphous category.
This is too bad, because Trump really does deserve more careful comparison with other leaders. There are indeed certain parallels between him and contemporary populists like Hungary's Orban, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski, insofar as they all rely on a similar rural social base for their support. On the other hand, there are unexplained differences: Orban, Duterte and El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, for example, used the Covid pandemic to vastly expand executive authority, while Trump did the opposite, abdicating responsibility and shifting authority to the governors. Most strongmen are ruthlessly efficient and Machiavellian; Trump demonstrated incredible incompetence in failing to build his border wall, repeal Obamacare or expand his voter base. And, of course, he failed to win re-election to a second term. Revelations in The New York Times of Trump's tax returns suggest he ran for president not out of a mad desire for power, but simply to avoid bankruptcy in his failed hotel business. And yet, despite myriad revelations, he exerted a magnetic pull on his core followers. Why? Perhaps it might be more useful to understand the ways that Trump is sui generis, and how he could set a pattern for strongmen of the future, rather than reprising familiar precedents from the past.


Our project, currently in its third year, seeks to increase both the teaching effectiveness and leadership capacity of ninth grade physics teachers. Our professional development program, which consists of three summers of content-rich academies (10 weeks) and three academic years of online leadership courses, provides opportunities for teachers to strengthen their content knowledge, develop their use of modeling pedagogy, and expand their knowledge and skills for serving as leaders and catalysts for changes within their schools and districts. Through implementation of two different models, one that utilizes coaching (face to face classroom support) and one that utilizes mentoring (online support), we hope to understand how teachers can best be supported in enhancing their teaching effectiveness and impacting student learning.


OK sure Fable 2 like all such games suffers from the repetitiousness but I'll tell you what, that game is a lot of fun.
Probably too much as I've stared to attach Fable style names to food. Last nights supper was Marrow and Mates and the night before that I had Unicorn Cheese om the hamburger. Yum.
anyway I digress. Fable 2 is enough fun to suggest this law to me.
"As most gamers now have access to X-Box and similar technologies, any successful table top RPG needs to be more fun than a convenient video game or it will fail."
Now mind you back in 1981 and thereabouts this was not an issue. Many players had no console game or computer and even such jewels as Pool of Radiance could not compete with the Table Top Experience . However the modern video game is a lot more compelling and convenient and as such we need to be better and emphasize how much more fun it can be."
If we don't our players will stay home and play WoW or something.
I've mixed anime and video game elements into my campaigns with more than a little success.
Heck even some RPG's like Pathfinder actually have achievement feats you can unlock by doing certain things in game (such as these http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/achievement-feats) and of course some prestige classes have in game quest requirements too.
Since the computer RPG borrowed so much from the Table Top game it seems only fitting that we take some of it back.
Hmm....the achievement business might be a little too close to video games for me. I like to keep my forms of entertainment separate.
"DUDE stop killing gnolls! I'm only two away from unlocking Gnoll Killer!"
"But they were flanking you. I was just-"
First, the players would not know what the achievements are. I see the achievements as something a bit different.
For example, a player that survives a fireball that reduces him to one hit-point could gain something like 'Toasty'. The reward could be a small amount of XP and a badge of honor.
Interestingly enough, the idea of achievement based XP first showed up in the Arduin Grimiore, quite a few years before CRPGS and MMOs.
Interesting to know about the Arduin stuff. We never used it back in the day and by the Mid 80's I wasn't playing AD&D anyway.
Also the 3.5 Unearthed Arcana had another kind of ahievement feat called a spelltouched feats which required the character to have been exposed to certain spells.
I've never seen anyone interested in them though.


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Sask. reports 44 new COVID-19 cases; active cases rise to 427
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:41AM CST Last Updated Tuesday, October 20, 2020 10:10PM CST
REGINA -- Saskatchewan reported 44 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the province's total active cases to 427.
In a release, the province said two new cases are from the far northwest, one is from the far northeast, three are from the northwest, five are from the north central, seven are from the northeast, 20 are from Saskatoon, two are from the central east, three are in Regina and one is in the south central.
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The new Saskatoon cases are primarily linked to outbreaks at local nightclubs, the province said.
Three cases pending residence have been removed from the counts, including one in the far northeast zone and one in the north central zone.
One Saskatchewan resident tested positive out of province and was assigned to the northwest zone.
Another 14 people recovered from the virus on Tuesday, for a total 1,987 recoveries.
A total of 18 people are in hospital, including 16 people in inpatient care. Seven are in hospital in Saskatoon, two are in Regina, six are in the north central zone and one is in the central east zone. Two people are currently in intensive care; one in Saskatoon and one in Regina.
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54 active cases are from the far north area (20 far northwest, 0 far north central, 34 far northeast)
129 active cases are from the north area (17 northwest, 91 north central, 21 northeast)
101 active cases are from the Saskatoon area
66 active cases are from the Regina area
59 active cases are from the central area (16 central west, 43 central east)
18 active cases are from the south area (two southwest, four south central, 12 southeast)
Sask. COVID-19 Demographics
On Monday, 2,513 COVID-19 tests were performed in Saskatchewan.
ROSTHERN HOSPITAL RESUMES SERVICES AFTER COVID-19 CASE
The Rosthern Hospital reopened Monday morning after a positive case of COVID-19 was reported in the building, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
The SHA said on Sunday that the hospital was closed at 2 p.m., and that contact tracing was underway within the hospital.
During this time, emergency services and all outpatient services were not available at the hospital, it said.
Given the impact on staffing, it said, a number of patients had been cleared and transferred to other facilities.
It said interviews are underway with the person who had COVID-19 to determine who they may have contacted while infectious.
Specimens to be tested for COVID-19 are seen at LifeLabs after being logged upon receipt at the company's lab, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Positive COVID-19 test at Caroline Robins School in Saskatoon
Rosthern Hospital resumes services after COVID-19 case reported


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USDA announces grants for feral swine control
By Laura Bies
The USDA is providing grants to help control and eradicate feral swine, thanks to funding from the 2018 Farm Bill. ©USDA APHIS
In an effort to address feral swine (Sus scrofa) control and eradication, the Agriculture Department's Natural Resources Conservation Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are partnering on a new Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program, created by the 2018 Farm Bill.
The program, which will focus on threats that feral swine pose to agriculture, ecosystems and the health of both humans and animals, will direct its efforts in many of the states with the largest feral swine populations and documented levels of damage caused by the species: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. The USDA estimates the nationwide population of feral pigs is more than 5 million animals, causing $1.5 billion in damage to agriculture annually, in addition to the damages caused to native wildlife populations and their habitats.
The NRCS is now accepting applications from non-federal partners to provide landowner assistance for on-farm trapping and related services as part of identified pilot projects in targeted areas. Up to $33.75 million of the $75 million allocated for the pilot program will go towards these efforts, with the funding limit for a single grant set at $1.5 million. Partners selected for a grant must provide at least 25 percent of the partnership agreement budget as a match to NRCS funding.
Pilot projects, which will last one to three years, will invole: 1) feral swine removal by APHIS; 2) restoration efforts supported by NRCS; and 3) assistance to producers for feral swine control provided through partnership agreements with non-federal partners.
The pilot program builds upon the success of APHIS' National Feral Swine Damage Management Program, which works to manage and eliminate feral swine populations in partnership with local governments, the private sector, industry and academia. That program was created in 2014 through an appropriation of $20 million by Congress.
More information about the new pilot program is available on the program's website. NRCS will accept partnership applications until Aug. 19.
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Ajimobi signs bill to prohibit violence against women
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Former Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Monday in Ibadan signed into laws, the state's Administration of Criminal Justice Bill, 2016, and Violence Against Women Bill, 2016.
The governor signed the two bills after the state executive council meeting.
Ajimobi told newsmen after the assent that the laws would enhance justice administration.
"Our own government is a law-abiding one," he said.
The bills were presented for assent by the Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Musah Abdulwasi, and the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Seun Abimbola,
The Administration of Criminal Justice Law provides for speedy and efficient administration of criminal justice and other matters related to it.
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The Violence Against Women Law prohibits violence against women in public and private lives as well as harmful traditional practices against women and other related matters.
The two bills were passed by the Assembly in October, 2016, and November, 2016, respectively.(NAN)
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O Grupo de Mogi das Cruzes é uma importante coleção de manuscritos musicais provavelmente copiados na década de 1730, contendo música sacra luso-brasileira, descoberta pelo historiador do IPHAN Jaelson Bitran Trindade na capa e contracapa do Livro de Foral da Vila de Mogi das Cruzes. Uma das obras (Ex tractatu Sancti Augustini) teve identificação de autoria de Manuel Cardoso. Destaca-se do conjunto o possível vilancico do Natal em português Matais de incêndios, editado por Paulo Castagna (com decifração da notação e reconstituição do acompanhamento instrumental), de autoria ainda não identificada (atribuído, em algumas notícias, sem nenhuma fundamentação documental e sem referência a pesquisa musicológica, ao compositor português Marques Lésbio).

Ligações externas
 Partitura de Matais de incêndios no International Music Score Library Project

Mogi das Cruzes
Música do Brasil
Música cristã
Compositores do estado de São Paulo
Pessoas do Brasil Colonial
Compositores eruditos do Brasil
Compositores do século XVIII
Arte no Brasil do século XVIII


Harry Styles Interrupts His Concert To Help A Fan Come Out To Her Mom!
18-year-old fan Grace Beatrice held up a sign during a Harry Styles concert saying that she was going to come out to her parents because of Harry. Not only did he notice the sign, the former 1D star helped Grace tell her mom!


A good essay should be written to catch the attention of the reader at the very first sentence and maintain that reader's interest until the last written sentence is read. The first paragraph should be engaging enough to give an impression to the reader that what is he is about to read is an interesting piece and one worth reading up to the finish. Usually, this is done through the use of a hook which keeps the reader's mind pinned to the written work being considered. Many writers want to use good hooks to impress their readers and work hard to find out how to generate them when writing essays.
Finding a good hook for your essay is not really difficult if you have a prepared plan on how to obtain them. Although the hook is written at the first paragraph of the essay, it is not written ahead of the content or the body of thought that you want to convey in your essay. It is actually fashioned after you have finished writing the essay and you already have a pretty good idea of the entire gist of the essay you have written. This way, creating a good hook comes easy because the writer has a clear knowledge of what he has written and can easily direct his target readers to the general essence of his written work.
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"I can neither confirm nor deny that," attorney John Abom said Friday.
The Attorney General's Office's involvement in the case comes after the county hired Carlisle-based Abom and Kutulakis on Monday to represent them as investigations move forward into allegations that Parks Miller forged the signature of Judge Pamela A. Ruest on a court document. As a result of a search warrant served on Parks Miller's office last Saturday, Bellefonte police seized a computer, iPad and cellphone.
"It is pretty evident that the commissioners and the solicitor and the police are all involved in a concerted effort to hurt the district attorney," Castor said.
He suggested the county officials' attempts to pursue the case were retaliatory and possibly politically motivated. Dershem and Exarchos are Republicans while Parks Miller is a Democrat.


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The E.F.Howlden Charitable Trust
Owners of Great Northern Railway Directors' Saloon No.1283
Chairman: Graham Ward, Treasurer: Richard Salmon Hon.F.B.K.S., Secretary: Anthony Hayllar
Trustees: Mike Brown, Deborah Carver, Frank Cheevers F.I.R.O., Helen Collen-Jones,
Gordon Dudman, Alan Pragnell, Roger Price, Trevor Summerfield
The Web Page for the Directors' Saloon includes a feed from the Saloon's Facebook Page.
Having been in the ownership of four individuals from 1969, it was decided that the best way to secure the future of this historic saloon was to form a charitable trust to take on the ownership and responsibility for it. For many years the "Howlden Group" have looked after, crewed and maintained the saloon. The Trust Deed was granted on 4th April 2003, and the Howlden Trust came into being on 26th April 2003 on holding its first meeting. All four of the original owners, along with five other members of the group, and a representative of the Bluebell Railway plc, became the Trustees, with the GNR Directors' Saloon itself, together with the group's collection of GNR/ECJS/LNER/BR(E) artefacts and the group's stores van No.653, being gifted into the ownership of the Trust at that first meeting. The stores van was subsequently sold on to a group on the Mid Hants Railway interested in restoring it, and in July 2012 the Trust brought a replacement van, BR CCT No.94181 which it had refurbished off-site, to the Bluebell.
The original Trustees (left to right): Graham Ward, Ron Collen-Jones, Frank Cheevers FIRO, Fred Pragnall, Ian Osborne, Sarah Vigar, Helen Collen-Jones, Richard Salmon, Tim Baker and Roger Price, having just held the inaugural meeting, assuming responsibility for the carriage, 26th April 2003.
Further details of the saloon, and how to hire it, are on the web page for the carriage itself.
The designer of the saloon, E.F. (Frankie) Howlden, joined the GNR as a pupil in 1853 under Archibald Sturrock (Loco Supt) and John Coffin (presumably Carriage Engineer) and retired at the end of 1904. During his time he saw the coaching stock world change from one of four wheelers to trains composed of steam heated, electrically lit, bogie stock where sleeping cars and dining cars were quite familiar. His successor as Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway was none other than Mr H.N. Gresley.
This O-gauge model of the saloon was presented to Graham Ward in 2012 to mark the 40th anniversary both of the saloon's arrival on the Bluebell and of his chairmanship of the Group and subsequently of the Trust.
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