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The pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has announced a milestone in the use of Ingelvac MycoFlex vaccine against Mycoplasma hyopneumonia – the vaccination of 500 million pigs worldwide.
The vaccine was launched by Boehringer Ingelheim in the Americas, Asia and Europe in 2008. The vaccination is used for the treatment of weaned piglets to reduce lung lesions following infection with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.
“The number of doses of Ingelvac MycoFlex that we sold since the vaccine’s launch in 2008 shows that at least 500 million pigs have now been protected by its use. Reaching this landmark in preventing diseases makes us proud,” comments George Heidgerken, Senior Vice President of Animal Health at Boehringer Ingelheim.
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A recent innovation in bottle design provides veterinarians and pig producers with a simple and practical way to mix Ingelvac MycoFlex and Ingelvac CircoFlex vaccines for their simultaneous application. Originally inspired by customer demand, the design allows the two pig vaccines to be mixed together directly in the MycoFlex Headspace bottle – thus eliminating the need for an additional mixing vessel.
Europe-wide market research has revealed that more than 86% of veterinarians who vaccinate their pigs against PCV2 (porcine circovirus type 2) and M. hyo. (Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae) are using that option2.
The Flexcombo concept of the mixable stand-alone vaccines is the first and only solution to protect pigs against both PCV2 and M. hyo. with a single shot around weaning.
As well as providing premium protection, this single-shot injection of the vaccine mix reduces stress for the pigs and thus brings an additional benefit in animal welfare.
2: Market research “Produkt+Markt” Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Netherlands, UK, Italy, 2012 (data on file).


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Works to resurface a roundabout will last two days this month.
The Uplands Way and Willbye Avenue roundabout will be closed from Saturday, March 23 to Sunday, March 24 between 7.30am and 5pm.
Access to homes during the works will be maintained from one direction at all times and there will be special signs to show if businesses are open if required.
A Norfolk County Council map suggests using Mount Street and Frenze Road as diversion routes.
The roundabout is close to Diss High School, however the works have been scheduled for the weekend to avoid too much disruption.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The No. 8-ranked University of Michigan team used an explosive late surge, earning bonus points in each of the final four bouts, to cruise to a 33-6 win against Maryland on Friday evening (Feb. 5) at the Terps' Xfinity Center Pavilion. The Wolverines claimed eight individual wins, bouncing back from their first Big Ten loss to improve to 6-1 in conference competition.
Junior/sophomore Aaron Calderon stole the show in his dual-meet debut, pinning Maryland's Josh Snook at the 6:50 mark in the 174-pound contest. Calderon, who wrestled at 157 pounds just two weeks ago at the Alma Open, rallied from a late deficit with two third-period takedowns, including a four-point single in the final 30 seconds, to take a late 8-6 lead. Snook kept scrambling, and while going for a reversal in the waning seconds -- with Calderon still controlling a leg -- he rolled up on his back to first give up a near-fall count then the pin.
The Wolverines' upperweight captains maintained the momentum as junior Domenic Abounader, graduate student Max Huntley and junior Adam Coon all earned bonus points to remain unbeaten in dual competition this season.
Abounader, ranked fourth in the latest InterMat poll, used a big third period to defeat Jaron Smith, 10-2, at 184 pounds. He scored on a first-period single leg and second-period reversal, but after struggling to turn Smith, he went to his leg attacks to secure bonus, finishing on two more takedowns to widen the gap. Needing one more for the major, Abounader tried to cut Smith but the Terp wrestler would not stand, instead sacrificing a stall point to give Abounader the major-decision margin after riding time. He improved to 12-0 in duals.
Huntley, ranked sixth nationally, made quick work of Sean Twigg at 197 pounds, cruising to a 17-0 technical fall in just 4:07. He converted a quick single leg before racking up 14 back points on four separate tilts in the first and second periods. Like Abounader, he is 12-0 in duals this season.
Coon, ranked fourth at heavyweight, ended the bout with a first-period pin against Dawson Peck in the final match -- his fourth pin of the season and fifth straight bonus win. After just missing on a pair of early single-leg attacks, Coon converted on his third attempt, getting Peck in a seatbeat bodylock and throwing him down straight to his back to get the fall at the 2:13 mark. Coon is 13-0 on the season.
Senior/junior Conor Youtsey opened the dual with a 10-5 decision against Michael Beck at 125 pounds, just missing out on bonus points of his own after giving up a late takedown. Youtsey scored on four takedowns, including two in the third period with the major decision in mind, and accumulated 2:04 in riding-time advantage.
Maryland earned back-to-back wins at 133 and 141 pounds -- the latter in overtime -- by similar 3-1 margins, before the Wolverines surged ahead with three straight decisions. Sophomore Alec Pantaleo, ranked sixth nationally, evened the dual score with a 5-1 decision against Wade Hodges at 149 pounds. Pantaleo scored the bulk of his points on a four-point feet-to-back takedown late in the first period.
Junior Brian Murphy, ranked ninth nationally, used riding time to defeat Lou Mascola, 6-5, at 157 pounds. Murphy controlled the majority of the bout after takedowns in the first and second periods, but a Mascola escape and takedown late in the latter frame narrowed the score significantly. The Terp added another escape early in the second, but neither wrestler scored again and Murphy's 1:13 riding time proved the difference.
Sophomore Garrett Sutton kicked off a strong second half of the dual for the Wolverines with a 5-2 decision against Brendan Burnham at 165 pounds, using a first-period double leg and a third-period feet-to-back single to control throughout. Sutton just missed on more, not getting back points on the late takedown and finishing with 59 seconds riding time.
The Wolverines (11-2, 6-1 Big Ten) will wrap up their weekend road trip on Sunday (Feb. 7), heading to Piscataway, New Jersey, to face No. 12 Rutgers at noon at the Rutgers Athletic Center.


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This was an Application pursuant to Rule 4.31(1) to dismiss the Action on the grounds of delay. The Plaintiff had two distinct claims, one in debt and the other alleging the fraudulent conveyance of lands. One of the Defendants was an elderly man who died before any Questioning was done, though the elderly man’s counsel had been asking to move the case along because of the Defendant’s age and condition. Master Robertson observed that the nature of the fraudulent conveyance Claim was one where credibility was central to its resolution.
The Statement of Defence of the deceased Defendant largely paralleled the Statement of Defence of the Applicant, who was the son of the deceased. Master Robertson noted that Rule 6.21 authorizes the Court to order Questioning to preserve evidence where “there is the likelihood that the person might die before being required to give evidence”. The evidence of the deceased Defendant was important, perhaps critical. The Applicant lost the ability to have his father give evidence because of the Plaintiff’s delay and failure to respond to correspondence. Finally, the Plaintiff cancelled Questioning at least twice because its representative was not available, though it was not necessary to have the Plaintiff’s litigation representative present.
Master Robertson held that, in the circumstances of the case, it was necessary to dismiss the fraudulent preference claim. The Applicant was self-represented and, because he was not a lawyer, was not permitted to represent his father’s estate. Invoking Rules 1.4 and 7.1(3), Master Robertson also dismissed the Claim as against the estate, rather than forcing the estate to bring an Application to achieve an Order where the result would be a foregone conclusion.View CanLII Details

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Flood warnings and alerts issued for Sunderland as Storm Ciara makes coastal flooding possible
The Environmental Agency has issued one flood warning and two flood alerts for coastal areas across Sunderland as Storm Ciara caused strong winds that have caused a surge in high tides.
Flooding is expected and immediate is action required, due to high spring tides in combination with Storm Ciara means high tides are predicted in coastal areas.
Areas most at risk are properties including the Amusement Arcades and Grannie Annies.
Flooding to properties, roads and farmlands is expected and residents are being warned to stay away from large waves as they are dangerous.
Residents are being warned that flooding is possible and to be prepared as high spring tides paired with strong winds associated with Storm Ciara mean that large waves and sea spray are predicted to affect coastal areas.
Areas of concern are Cullercoats, Seaburn Lower Promo, Roker Sea Front and Hendom Prom.
Flooding to properties, roads and farmland is possible and areas near beaches, coastal footpaths, and roads are high risk.
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The race to colonize your wrist has begun. With smartwatches and smart wristbands (and smart everything, really, except that Timex of yours) arriving on the market at a daily rate from seemingly every tech brand worth its salt, a newcomer has risen to the forefront of the future of wearable tech—and he has chosen a very old-school place to announce it. That would be will.i.am, and that would be today at a press conference at Baselworld, the watch industry’s leading international trade show.
The musician has joined forces with Gucci Timepieces on a “smartband” that is completely standalone, which is to say untethered from any existing smartphone or mobile device. What makes it so smart? Well, it has the ability to make and receive phone calls; send and receive text messages and emails; hold music, maps, and your calendar; track your fitness; and even possesses a “sophisticated personal assistant” activated by voice command.“Wearable technology and smart devices represent a new frontier for the fashion industry. It is very appropriate that Gucci is leading the way through this collaboration with will.i.am, as innovation has always been such an important part of our DNA," wrote Gucci President and CEO Marco Bizzarri in a statement.
Earlier this month, Apple, long considered to be technology's luxury brand, unveiled their own high-fashion take on their as-yet-unreleased Apple Watch: The Edition is estimated to cost $10,000 or more and features an 18K rose or yellow gold case. (Sportier models will ring in around $349 and be cased in aluminum alloy). The Gucci and i.am+ smartband, on the other hand, is a luxury accessory from a nearly century-old fashion house famed for its luxury goods—if not traditionally known for its tech savvy. But according to will.i.am, that’s all about to change: "i.am+ and Gucci Timepieces are setting the pace with our vision for a wearable technology,” the musician said in a statement.
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Nicole Kidman received the ultimate blessing to portray Gretchen Carlson in her new movie, Bombshell. As she recounted during a Q&A after the first screening of the film in Los Angeles on Sunday night, Kidman was on the set of Big Little Lies with Meryl Streep when she got the call to play the former Fox & Friends anchor, whose sexual harassment lawsuit helped take down Fox News’ notorious former head, the late Roger Ailes. When Kidman asked Streep if she should play Carlson, Meryl had one word for her: “Absolutely.”
Producer and star Charlize Theron, whose transformation into former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was as astonishing as promised in the film’s buzzy teaser trailer, she said she was “shit scared” when she first considered the idea of playing Kelly, who made her own sexual harassment allegations against Ailes. Theron was immediately interested in producing the film when she was first sent the script, but as for embodying Kelly? “[I] didn’t want to say yes to something that I didn’t think I could actually pull off,” Theron said. Based on the reaction to Sunday night’s screening, she no longer has to worry about that.
In attendance with Kidman and Theron for the post-film Q&A was costar Margot Robbie, who plays Kayla, a fictionalized character who is an amalgamation of numerous women at Fox News. Though the ambitious young staffer is the only fictional main character, “she’s so incredibly real to me,” Robbie said. The film’s director, Jay Roach, and writer, Charles Randolph, joined the three stars onstage for the Q&A, speaking to an audience that included press and guild members, including Andie MacDowell and Cara Delevingne with her partner, Ashley Benson, as well as famed discrimination lawyer Gloria Allred. The response from the press in attendance was enthusiastic, with particular attention to Theron’s transformation into Kelly, aided by makeup from Kazuhiro Tsuji, who won an Oscar for Darkest Hour.
Then again, there’s a larger question to ask, as summed up by New York Times Carpetbagger Kyle Buchanan:
Bombshell is a “dramatization” inspired by the true events, written by The Big Short screenwriter Charles Randolph. He wrote the screenplay after Ailes, who had been CEO of Fox News for 20 years, resigned in 2016 from the network following Carlson’s and Kelly’s allegations of harassment. His downfall came months before Donald Trump’s election and a year before the #MeToo movement took flight, but Bombshell inevitably resonates in a way it wouldn’t have even three years ago.
Theron brought the script to Roach, best known for his comedy work like the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents films but also Trumbo and HBO’s Game Change and Recount. While Roach has the cast stacked with comic heavyweights like an excellent-as-always Kate McKinnon, Rob Delaney, Mark Duplass, and other actors who easily bridge the comedy-drama divide like Allison Janney, Stephen Root, and Connie Britton, the film is no comedy. It is relentlessly paced, shot in an observational docustyle, and at times, bone-chilling. A few well-placed extended cameos earned appreciative laughs from the audience, including Alanna Ubach as Jeanine Pirro and Richard Kind in extensive prosthetics as Rudy Giuliani. Tsuji’s prosthetic makeup work is unbelievable; not just on the nearly unrecognizable Theron, but on John Lithgow as Ailes as well.
During the Q&A, Roach mentioned the extensive research they did to build the story, not just from news articles and books, but in interviews with some women from Fox who broke their nondisclosure agreements to speak with the filmmakers on background. From these interviews, Randolph and Roach gleaned one of the creepiest details that ended up in the film: Ailes’s habit of asking aspiring anchors to “stand up and give me a twirl,” depicted on screen in a skin-crawling scene where Kayla has to “twirl” for Ailes during a job interview.


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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16, 2021/ PRNewswire/– Greg T. Olson, D.C., FIACN, is being recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Lifetime Achiever for his expert excellence in the field of Chiropractics and his exceptional management as the Owner of Northside Chiropractic Clinic.
Having accrued 35 years of practice as a highly experienced chiropractic doctor, Dr. Greg T. Olson is currently serving clients at Northside Chiropractic Clinic in Minneapolis Minnesota for the previous 32 years. He is enthusiastic about altering lives for the much better and uses his huge repertoire of competence in all elements of his work. As a chiropractic specialist, Dr. Olson performs adjustments/manipulations to the spine or other parts of the body, making every effort to fix alignment issues ease pain, and support the body's natural capability to heal itself. He takes pride in his listening to hands-on diagnostics and client symptomatology. As the Owner of Northside Chiropractic Clinic, he shows the highest level of professionalism, stability, and compassion, in addition to his willingness to work with other health care professionals to best serve his patients.
As early as high school. Dr. Olson was inspired to become a chiropractic physician after the assistance he got from a chiropractic physician for his football and Judo injuries. His devotion to assisting individuals who are traumatically injured is reminiscent of how his chiropractic doctor helped him recover from paralysis due to his Judo injury. To prepare for his medical profession, he obtained his Doctor of Chiropractic degree at Northwestern Health Science University in 1985.
A Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Olson remains abreast of the current advancements in his field. He acts as the Secretary of the USA Judo Sports Medicine subcommittee, a Fellow of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurologists, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Chiropractic Neurology.
In his extra time, Dr. Olson enjoys martial arts and owns a health club called DOCS Gym for the previous 16 years. He is Blackbelt in 4th Degree Judo, Blackbelt in 2 designs of Jujitsu, Blackbelt in Sombo, and a USA Judo Certified Coach. He likewise delights in outdoor activities and dealing with his vineyard, which he has actually owned for the past six years.
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Curwensville Library Collecting New Hats, Gloves/Mittens for RSVP Project
CURWENSVILLE – The Curwensville Public Library will be collecting new hats, gloves and mittens for local children from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30.
The collection is sponsored by the RSVP, a retired and senior volunteer program in Clearfield County. The RSVP project is to “help make a child’s world warmer” this winter.
The hats, gloves and mittens will be distributed to local human service agencies to be distributed to local children throughout the county. The library would appreciate help in collecting these items for the local children.
Items can be dropped off at the library during regular hours, which are 12:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; and from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday.
The library utilizes RSVP volunteers and is a United Way member agency.


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“Even before France had fallen, Hitler’s generals lobbied the German leader for permission to roll on into Spain and wrest control of Gibraltar from the British.”
SHORTLY AFTER THE defeat of France in 1940, Adolf Hitler directed his generals to begin preparations for Nazi Germany’s next bold plan — the seizure of Gibraltar.
Few in Berlin doubted the ultimate success of the operation, codenamed Felix. After nearly a year of uninterrupted military triumphs, it seemed a safe bet that the swastika would soon be flying over Britain’s enclave in southern Spain. Of course, events unfolded very differently.
Located on the north shore of the eight-mile strait that separates Europe from Africa, the 2.6-square mile Gibraltar peninsula is dominated by a 1,300-foot tall mountain known simply as “the Rock.” Britain has controlled the vital outpost that commands the narrow waterway linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean since the 1701 to 1714 War of Spanish Succession.
Home to a Royal Navy fleet as well a sizeable RAF presence, the Gibraltar station represented a key link in a chain of bases that connected the United Kingdom to its vast Empire in the east. When war broke out in 1939, the tiny territory became a strongpoint from which the Allies could challenge any Nazi moves into the Western Med and even the South Atlantic.
Even before France’s capitulation, Hitler’s generals lobbied the German leader for permission to roll on into Spain and wrest control of Gibraltar from the British. In fact, the Third Reich’s most senior military commander, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, had been pressing the Fuhrer all summer to shelve plans to invade the U.K., known as Operation Sea Lion, and grab Gibraltar as a prelude to a thrust into North Africa. With the crucial straits closed to Allied shipping, the Luftwaffe chief argued, access to the Suez, the Middle East, and even India would be effectively cut off, driving yet another nail into Britain’s coffin. By summer’s end, the Fuhrer was convinced. And while plans would proceed against the British Isles, Operation Felix would go ahead as well.
Order of Battle
The conquest of the Rock was to be led by one of Germany’s leading mountain warfare commanders, general Ludwig Kübler. His force included the elite Großdeutschland Regiment along with elements of the German 1st Mountain Division. Three engineer battalions and a detachment of commandos from the Brandenburg Regiment would also take part in the attack. The entire corps was to be supported by 26 battalions of artillery as well as two dive-bomber wings with fighter escorts. The invasion force would cross the Pyrenees into Spain and drive southwest to Gibraltar. To the north, a smaller formation consisting of one motorized infantry division and two panzer divisions would protect the main body’s right flank. All units would converge on the final objective, after which the small British colony would be bombed and shelled into submission.
The military campaign was to be preceded by a diplomatic offensive aimed at securing Spanish support.
Franco’s Cold Feet
Despite repeated efforts by Berlin to bring fascist Spain into the war on the side of the Axis, Francisco Franco remained aloof. Inwardly, the Spanish dictator recoiled at the prospect of joining the conflict. Still reeling from a civil war that had devastated the local economy, Madrid had no interest in military conquest. Furthermore, the notorious generalissimo worried that by even allowing the Nazis safe passage through Spain to strike at Gibraltar, he would be throwing open the door to Allied bombing or even a full-on retaliatory invasion later in the war. Talks between Nazi officials and Franco’s lieutenants sputtered on all autumn and into 1941. By February, it became evident to Hitler that the Spanish had no intention of ever declaring war on Britain, or even allowing a Nazi invasion force onto the Iberian Peninsula. But by that point, Hitler’s priorities had shifted to the east as the might of Germany’s military gathered for the epic invasion of the Soviet Union. Gibraltar would simply have to wait.
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Despite the delays, the German high command kept the capture of Gibraltar on the table. In fact, a revision of the plan, dubbed Operation Felix-Heinrich, was ordered in the spring of 1941. It called for units to be detached from the Eastern Front and sent to Spain once the Red Army had been annihilated. Berlin was confident that the invasion would kick off sometime in October – with or without Franco’s blessing. Yet as the conquest of the Soviet Union bogged down, the Gibraltar gambit was once again put on hold as no units could be spared. The plan would continue to be revised and tweaked right up to 1944, but as the fortunes of war turned against the Nazis, the opportunity to seize the Rock never again presented itself.
The prospect of a German campaign aimed at snatching Gibraltar hardly came as a surprise to London. From the war’s outset, British military planners fully expected the hammer to fall on the vital outpost.
By the summer of 1940, Vichy French and Italian warplanes were striking the outpost regularly. In preparation for bolder enemy action, the British added new runways to the facility, deployed anti-aircraft batteries and reinforced the colony with four infantry battalions and an artillery regiment. The neck of Gibraltar’s peninsula bristled with bunkers and gun emplacements while a series of dense minefields made the land approaches virtually impenetrable. Most impressively, an army of British and Canadian engineers transformed the mountain itself into a labyrinth of tunnels, bunkers, and storerooms as well as barracks capable of housing 16,000 troops. More than 25 kms (18 miles) of new passageways were excavated in preparation of an enemy invasion – a significant expansion of the 11 kms (7 miles) of shafts that had been gradually carved out of the mountain since the 18th century. Fortunately for the Allies, these defences would never be tested.
The British even had a top secret backup plan should the colony ever fall to the Nazis. Operation Tracer, a scheme concocted in 1941 by Royal Naval intelligence, called for a squad of three observers, two surgeons and a senior officer to be left behind within the maze of tunnels inside the Rock of Gibraltar following an enemy occupation. In the event the post was about to be overrun, engineers would seal the operatives into a chamber hidden in the upper recesses of the mountain complex. Once entombed within the 45 x 16-foot (66 square meter) space, the agents could monitor the base and port below via a series of observation slits cut into the walls.
Positioned next to the dugout was a massive storage tank that could hold up to 45,000 litres of water as well as a supply room where more than a year’s worth of rations could be stockpiled. The living space was equipped with plumbing and even toilets. A bicycle-powered electrical generator could charge batteries that would run lights and a radio transmitter. The stay-behind team was expected to hole up in the cork-padded, sound-proof room, monitor the base and broadcast intelligence reports of troop and ship movements until supplies gave out or the Allies mounted a counter assault. Although details of the plan were kept under wraps even after the war, rumours persisted for decades about secret rooms hidden somewhere within the mountain’s network of tunnels. In 1997, a group of local spelunkers finally stumbled across the long-fabled chamber. Since then, researchers have uncovered details about Operation Tracer and the plan’s volunteers.
(Originally published on Oct. 31, 2013)
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Cite this asBennaoui F, El Idrissi Slitine N, Benbahia A, Soraa N, Maoulainine FMR (2018) Blood culture: Profile of bacterial infections of newborns admitted from maternity. Open J Bac 2(1): 001-003. DOI: 10.17352/ojb.000006
Blood culture provides an undeniable ideal aid in the diagnosis of neonatal infection, its result is reliable. The aim of our work was to evaluate the bacteriological profile of bacteraemias, newborns admitted from the hospital maternity IBN TOFAIL.
A retrospective study on the cases of newborns hospitalized in the neonatal care unit, Mohamed VI University Hospital, Marrakech, originating from the delivery room of the IBN TOFAIL Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, during a period of 6 months From June to November 2016.
125 blood cultures were collected, 43 were positive, representing an overall positivity rate of 34.4%. Positive blood cultures by coagulase-negative staphylococcal were 27. The other bacteremias were 16, represented by multiresistant germs, with the predominance of Klebsiella pneumoniae (5 cases), Acenitobacter Baumanii (4 cases) and Serratia marcescens in 3 cases.
Bacteremia on admission; especially to multidrug-resistant germs, presents a major problem of therapeutic management. We insist on the need to improve the conditions of delivery in our context and to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
Neonatal infections require an optimal diagnostic and therapeutic strategy because of the high mortality rate. Its diagnosis is based on a set of clinical, biological, radiological and microbiological criteria. Blood culture is the examination of choice allowing a diagnosis of certainty, if its result is reliable. False positives and false negatives of a blood culture may mislead the diagnosis.
The aim of this study was to study retrospectively all the diagnosed bacteremias of infants born from the IBN TOFAIL maternity, to determine the distribution of the microorganisms isolated from blood cultures and their sensitivity to antibiotics, and from this data, systematic blood culture in the diagnostic and therapeutic management, with discussion of newborn specialties and a literature review.
This is a retrospective study of hospitalized newborns; which were born at the IBN TOFAIL maternity hospital, MARRAKESH, during the period from June to November 2016. Age was less than 29 days, excluding newborns from other hospital structures and from the home. The total number of patients collected was 126.
Confidentiality’ relates to the protection of the data collected. Where the aim of our research is specifically to access private files, the anonymity and the confidentiality were respected.
A blood culture was routinely performed on admission to the unit for all hospitalized newborns, irrespective of the admission‘s diagnosis and befor the antibiotic therapy.
Blood culture samples were taken in a peripheral vein. The method of dermal antisepsis prior to collection consists of brushing with 0.5% alcoholic chlorhexidine. The lid of the hemoculture flasks is disinfected.
We collected 126 newborns during the study period. The birth weight varied between 900g and 5600g. The monthly distribution of the germs is illustrated in figure 1.
The number of patients with positive blood cultures was 43; an overall positivity rate was 34.4%. The sex of patients with positive blood cultures: 62% female and 38% male, sex ratio was 1.6%.
The microorganisms isolated in the blood cultures are described in table 1. Positive blood cultures with Coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) were 27, representing 21% of the total of the patients and 62% of the positive blood cultures.
Of the positive blood cultures by CoNS, 22 cases were incontestable because no clinical or biological evidence of systemic infection was found. The overall rate of contaminants was 22/126 (17.4%).The overall rate of bacteraemia was 21/126 (16.6%).
In five cases the CoNS was responsible for a true infection, including a case of sepsis. The CoNS were multisensitive in all cases.
The most frequently encountered microorganisms were 16, mainly composed of multiresistant germs, with the predominance of Klebsiella pneumoniae (5 cases), Acenitobacter Baumanii (4 cases) and Serratia marcescens in 3 cases.
All these germs are multiresistant. These germs were resistant to probabilistic antibiotic therapy used in the neonatal intesive care unit (3rd generation cephalosporin combined with Gentamicin).
Klebsiella pneumoniae and Serratia marcescens were resistant to cephalosporins, sensitive to Imipenem, Amikacin and Colistin. Acenitobacter Baumanii was sensitive only to Colistin.
Good evolution in patients with positive blood cultures was 49%, and the mortality rate was 51%.
The diagnosis of neonatal infection is difficult, based on a set of clinical, biological, radiological and microbiological criteria. Clinical signs are atypical and sometimes non-existent. Blood culture provides undeniable help if its result is reliable . In the newborn, blood cultures are among the most frequent diagnostic tests in hospitals. They are crucial for the diagnosis and management of many infections. False positives and false negatives of a blood culture may lead to diagnosis and treatment, and are a source of overcontrol .
Blood culture is used to detect the passage of microorganisms in the blood, to identify them and to characterize their susceptibility profile to antibiotics. Very many pathogens can be isolated from blood cultures. They are of community or nosocomial origin. Detection and identification strategies depend on the clinical context, and biologists need to be involved in the clinical and therapeutic choices that arise.
In a study carried out in 1996 on newborns: The overall positivity of blood cultures was 6.25%, with an overall contamination rate of 1.7% and a true bacteraemia rate of 4.1% . Paisley reported in a neonatal study: a positivity rate of 4%, detection sensitivity of neonatal bacteremia appears low: 75% of patients admitted to pediatric intensive care, having infection criteria, had negative blood cultures .
Our results are almost similar to those found in a study carried out between April 2007 and March 2011 at the level of 7 neonatal intensive care units level II and III which were: 50.5% SCoN, 5.9% Klebsiella p. and 3.5% Enterobacter sp. .
Contamination is not uncommon and reduces the specificity of blood cultures. The scientific literature reports a contamination rate of up to 50% of all blood cultures .
The arguments suggesting a contamination are the evidence in a single blood culture, the demonstration of different SCN or morphotypes with different resistances. The rate of contamination of the blood cultures may be reduced by rigorous asepsis during sampling. The sensitivity of detection of neonatal bacteremia can be accorned by taking a blood volume of 1 to 2 ml, determined according to the clinical context. However, in neonates the blood culture remains difficult. This difficulty contributes to the risk of contamination during sampling and to the risk of lack of sensitivity due to the impossibility of taking blood volumes equivalent to those taken in adults (5 to 10 ml) .
SCoN are the most commonly isolated pathogens in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), it is a commensal microorganism of the skin, and isolation in the culture may reflect contamination. SCoNs generally have low virulence. In our series, there was a high prevalence of SCoN positive blood cultures, which is consistent with the literature .
Some researchers have defined SCoN infection as either two positive positive blood cultures within two successive days or a positive culture associated with a high C-reactive protein. For patients <1 year of age, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define SCoN infection as the presence of clinical signs (eg, hyperthermia, hypothermia, apnea or bradycardia) and isolation of SCoN from two or more several haemocultures. The common objective of these different definitions is to distinguish the infection by the CoNS from the contamination .
Our study revealed the presence of bacteremia with micro-resistant germs, which should have nosocomial infection discussed; especially in the case of a compatible clinical picture.
Blood culture remains a valuable examination to establish the microbiological diagnosis of septic conditions in the emergencies. The diagnosis of neonatal infection is often difficult and the positivity of the blood culture provides an undeniable help. New technologies promise a revolution in the diagnosis of bacteremia in the coming years. Biomolecular methods will enable automated, rapid and reliable identification.
Due to the high costs to be expected with these technologies, a more precise indication and prevention of contamination are essential.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced today a batch of proposals for the special session that he claimed would improve teacher pay and benefits while improving school funding. He spoke of how important teachers are and said he wanted to see average teacher pay go up by $8,000, wanted teachers to receive “longevity bonuses” of $600 or more based on years of service, and wanted similar bonuses for retirees. In addition, retired teachers should get some relief from the harsh benefit cuts and rising costs many face for their health-care plan, Patrick said. He also recycled some ideas from the regular session for selective aid to certain districts facing financial hardship, plus his pet project of funding charter schools’ facilities.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s numbers just didn’t add up to a serious school-finance plan today as he threw out a flurry of proposals for increased teacher compensation without offering any new state money to pay for them.
Professing his devotion to funding for education and teachers, Patrick quoted the Bible: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” But in reality he is insisting that our schools do more with less—that they make bricks without straw.
For all the rhetoric he used, what his proposals come down to is no new money for education. Instead, educators are directed to reprioritize existing funds. School districts would be asked to stretch already thin budgets even more.
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The Texas Legislature should increase per-pupil funding so that school districts can meet students’ needs.
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After Patrick held his press conference this morning, in which he denounced House Speaker Joe Straus for backing actual increases in state funding for schools, Straus chose not to respond in kind but still got his point across. Straus said: “It’s encouraging to see the Lieutenant Governor’s newfound focus on school finance reform. Nothing could be more important in this special session than beginning to fix our school finance system so that we improve education, keep more local dollars in local schools, and provide real property tax relief, just as the House overwhelmingly approved in the regular session.”

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In his autobiography Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story (as told to Lawrie Colliver), Gillespie recalled being dropped before the Fourth Ashes Test of 2005:
It was chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns who delivered the news. We chatted for a while, and Ricky came over and asked, “Has Trevor spoken to you yet?” I indicated that he had. With that, Ricky just said, “Okay,” and walked out. There was no “Bad luck, mate,” or pat on the shoulder, which confirmed For me that I no longer had the support at my captain. All through the tour, l’d had this niggling feeling that I’d fallen from favour, and at that moment was 100 per cent sure Ricky didn’t want me in the side. Why he didn’t have some sort of chat with me, I don’t know. It’s bewildering …1
At one point during my eight years as Ricky Ponting’s ghost, I asked Ricky about this incident, as part of a broader discussion about how players react to long-time team-mates being dropped. He conceded that the manner in which he treated his friend that day didn’t reﬂect well on him, and went on to speak very fondly about Gillespie — as a bloke, fast bowler and nightwatchman. Then he added, alluding to the fact that he was never a member of the Australian selection panel: “It’s not my job to tell them. It wasn’t my job to tell Jason Gillespie. It’s got nothing to do with me. I don’t pick the team …”
Christopher Douglas, the author of a ﬁne biography of Douglas Jardine, once Said of ghost writing, “Like wicketkeeping, [it] is glaringly obvious if you get it wrong and completely undetectable if you get it right.”2 “Here’s a potted history of the art, in about 800 words
Ghost writing goes back to Biblical times. Some of the earliest known cricket texts had mystery co-authors, among them, many suspect, John Nyren’s celebrated The Young Cricketer’s Tutor.3 The ﬁrst major cricket book by an Australian Test cricketer, With Bat and Ball by George Giffen, was written with the ‘considerable assistance’ of the respected Adelaide sports journalist Clarence Moody.4 WG Grace’s best-known collaborator was Arthur Porritt, who later described Grace as a “singularly inarticulate man the task of getting the material from him was almost heartbreaking”.
“I enjoyed the work immensely,” Porritt nevertheless added.5
The term ‘ghost writer’ was coined in America soon after the Great War, by baseball’s ﬁrst high—proﬁle player agent, Christy Walsh, who brought his athletes (such as Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey) and reporters together to produce highly popular syndicated columns for newspapers across the country. Walsh was a visionary, who saw that the media was growing more tabloid and knew what the punters wanted. Ghost-written books were a natural progression. The process was quickly mimicked in England and Australia. In 1924, following the First Test against South Africa at Edgbaston, England seamer Cecil Parkin wrote in his Empire News column that he had been so humiliated by Arthur Gilligan’s captaincy (Parkin had not bowled in the visitors’ ﬁrst innings and was given only 16 overs in the second) that he was, as the headline put it, ‘refusing to play for England again’. The furore that followed was predictable and Parkin’s defence was that he hadn’t written the words under his name. The ﬁrst he’d known of it, he claimed, was when he saw his story in the paper.
Don Bradman produced two books in the 1930’s, both ghosted, at least to some degree. Don Bradmans’ Book6 was produced with the help of the English sports journalist Bill Bennison, while My Cricketing Life7 was a collaboration with another English writer, William Pollock. The former partnership may not have been a happy one, with The Don responding to some of Bennison’s suggestions by saying, as he crossed them out, “This is not me. Anybody who knows me knows that I couldn’t talk like that and I certainly couldn’t write like that.”8
“What Don got out of the newspaper serial and the book rights is none of m business to tell,” Pollock said after My Cricketing Life had been released to some acclaim, with extracts appearing prominently in The News of the World. “But it was a lot more than I did.”9
This ﬁnancial model would be the basis for most future ghost-writing deals.
Elsewhere in this journal, Peter Lloyd has shown how very few of our early Test stars released their memoirs. Giffen, Bradman, Charlie Macartney and Herbert Hordern are exceptions to the rule. However, the post-war success of books such as Between Wickets, Cricket Crisis and Farewell to Cricket demonstrated there was good money to be made in Australian cricket books and soon the Keith Miller- RS Whitington partnership was releasing a book just about every summer. By the 1960’s, it was more likely than not that an extended international career would lead to a publishing deal. Some cricketers wrote their own material, but many did not.10 When I compiled my Christmas wish list in 1976, there was a team of recently released autobiographies, coaching and tour books to choose from, all written by current or just retired stars: AIways Reddy, Not just For Openers, My World of Cricket, Tigers Among the Lions, Passing Tests, Chappelli, Successful Cricket, Looking For Runs, You’ll Keep, Back to the Mark, Rowdy and Tangles.11
As a teenager, I thought these books were terriﬁc. I still enjoy them now, whenever I take them from my bookshelf, perhaps because they remind me of my youth. They are all readable; some are important. The cynics who dismiss them because they are not in the style or Haigh or Tolstoy are missing the point.
That ends the brief history. But criticism of ghost-written cricket books has continued unabated since the days of Looking for Runs. It sometimes seems that the release of one poor book is sufﬁcient reason to dismiss them all, in the way critics of Doug Walters used to use his rare failures against him as if all his magniﬁcent centuries counted for nothing. Of course, there have been some Shockers among the hundreds of books that have been published in the last 40 years, and I will try here to explain why these happen. But ﬁrst let me say that many books written by cricketers (or by cricketers and their ghosts) have been outstanding; and I’ve been fortunate to be involved in a few of them. I can say without a hint of arrogance. because while a ghost can turn a potentially bad book into something acceptable, he can’t make an excellent one — a great cricket autobiography can only be inspired by the cricketer himself.
When I began working with Ian Healy on the book that became Hands and Heals, for example, I quickly realised that he was more than capable of writing his own book. Ian was, of course, a pretty assured Test cricketer, but I sensed he lacked the conﬁdence to pen his own pages. Or perhaps he was just time poor. He certainly had the writing skills — I remember taking a newspaper piece he wrote himself about keeping to Shane Warne, and while I amended it slightly for the book (so its style was in keeping with the rest of the pages), I didn’t improve it. He remains, with Steve Waugh and Mike Whitney, the best author/cricketer I’ve worked with. Steve is relentless, perceptive and smart. Mike, with whom I produced Whiticisms, is a ghost writer’s dream; my job was to turn on a tape recorder, let Mike ﬂow, and then put the commas in the right places in the transcript.
Even in the best of cases, you have to be careful what you write. I have been Steve’s editor for each of his 14 books, a wonderful gig, even with Ashes diaries when the rush to get out for Christmas means deadlines are tight. I was never Steve’s ghost — and still possess reams of photocopied pages of Steve’s handwriting to prove it — but there was one occasion when I needed a couple of paragraphs to ﬁll a page and the deadline was long gone. All I could do was quickly type 100 words, maybe based on press reports of the captain’s comments at a media conference on the day in question, and hope no one noticed.
All was fine, until six months later, when a high—proifle AFL coach revealed that he had tried to inspire his men before a match by quoting from Steve Waugh’s Ashes Diary. The coach even read out for reporters the paragraphs he had used, words that I immediately recognised. At season’s end, I pondered what part my contribution played in the coach’s team finishing near the foot of the AFL ladder.
There are many ways athletes and ghosts can come together. I became Steve’s editor almost by accident. Mike Whitney had been signed to write a diary of the 1993 Ashes tour, but then he was injured and Steve took over. Some athletes have been so impressed by a ghost’s work with other celebrities that they want more of the same. One famous overseas athlete chose his co-author because he sensed, having read this award-winning scribe’s autobiography, that they shared a similar Personality. The result was an acclaimed bestseller, but it is interesting how the ghost sometimes put words in the athlete’s pen to reveal personal ﬂaws that are disquietingly similar to how the ghost described his own weaknesses in his own book. I guess it’s sort of plagiarism, but who is going to sue who?
Not all collaborations work out so well. Some athletes and ghosts remain good, friends; for others, the relationship was strictly professional. Some stars opt their favourite journalist as their ghost not realising that the scribe is actually Cardus. It is a little-known reality that some journalists are actually mediocre, even poor writers. These men are newshounds, adept at ﬁnding scoops or phoning in a speciﬁc number of words a few minutes after stumps. But before you see as a blanket criticism, remember that some superb columnists renowned for their word artistry have never broken a story in their life. But if a reporter can’t write, he shouldn’t ghost.
One comment that always annoys me is that a cricketer shouldn’t publish an autobiography during his career. Provided he has a story to tell, why not? However, some cricketers are cajoled into producing books during their careers by their managers, even though they don’t have the time to do so or anything particularly interesting to say. But no other sponsorship deals are happening, so the book offer becomes acceptable. These are usually the worst of books. In such circumstances, with the cricketer constantly unavailable and a deadline looming, it’s a natural reﬂex of the ghost to think: No one else gives a damn, why should I? Any words will do, so long as they are written the same way the public thinks the celebrity talks.2 Even worse, I once had a manager say to me, after I asked for more access to his client, “Mate, it doesn’t matter what you write. We’ve already got our advance.”
There are mainstream publishers who seem to be on this same page. Unlike other genres, they don’t care too much for the quality of the words in their sports books, on the basis that it is the celebrity’s name that sells his books, not the standard of the essay. You can see it when a deal is being negotiated, how the bigwigs at the publishing house are more concerned with the number of publicity appearances the cricketer will make, rather than the number of hours he’ll spend with his ghost. The only session involving sport at the recent Sydney Writers’ Festival was entitled: ‘Sport: The Great Distractor?’
Another problem with ghosted autobiographies is that, as good and well-meaning as athletes can be, some just can’t put their experiences, their emotions and what drives them into words. Arthur Porritt remembered a conversation he had with Dr Grace about one of the Champion’s most famous innings, of how he wanted to know what that felt like to build a great knock. “I did not feel anything,” WG reputedly replied. “I had too much to do to watch the bowling and see how the fieldsmen were moved about to think anything.”13
Perhaps the American novelist David Foster Wallace best captured this conundrum in his much-quoted 1992 essay about the autobiography of tennis champion Tracy Austin,14 a book Wallace described as “breathtakingly insipid”. Top athletes, Wallace argued, are compelling because of their skill, their beauty and their inspiration. We want to know them, what drives them, what’s inside them, how they feel at their moments of triumph and despair. “We want to know how they did it,” he wrote. ‘Are they even remotely like us?”16
Unfortunately, Wallace concludes, after citing a depressingly large collection of banal paragraphs from Austin’s book, most highly gifted sports stars can’t answer these questions …
It is not an accident that great athletes are often called ’naturals’, because they can, in performance, be totally present: they can proceed on instinct and muscle memory and autonomic will such that agent and action are one… The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player’s mind as he stands at the centre of hostile crowd-noise and lines up to the tree-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.6
Wallace, too cynical for his own good, concludes incorrectly that mass-market sports memoirs are “almost uniformly poor”. Some are; many are not. There is a real bitterness in his tone when he also notes that they “sell incredibly well”; not for the ﬁrst time, an excellent and respected writer lets sales-envy cloud a book review. In fact there are athletes who can provide genuine and important insight into their sport and their achievements, and their memoirs – whether ghost written or not – are to be treasured. Working with such an author, as editor or ghost, is a joy. But at the end of the process, it is still only the athlete who can truly know what it’s like to be a champion, with all the highs and lows and glory and torment that goes with it. We mere mortals can only guess.
I was reminded of all this one ﬁne July day in 2013, when I was called into the ofﬁce of HarperCollins in Sydney. A few weeks earlier, I had submitted the ﬁnal draft of Ricky Ponting’s autobiography, the best part of 200,000 words. It was my sixth book with him, over eight years. Now I was told that Ponting and his management wanted me to ‘step away’ from the project. I’d been ﬁred. A little bewilderingly I didn’t hear a word from Ricky that day, or any day since. The Harper Collins representative was my Trevor Hohns; I was Jason Gillespie. ‘
Maybe, I’ve thought to myself a few times since, this is as close as I’ll ever knowing what being a Test cricketer really feels like. ”
1 Jason Gillespie, with Lawrie Colliver, Dizzy: The Jason Gillespie Story (2007) HarperCollinsPublishers, Sydney, page 271.
2 Wisden Cricketer, December 2005.
3 See, for example, David Rayvern Allen in Barclays’ World of Cricket: The Game from A to Z, edited by EW Swanton and John Woodcock (1980), Collins, London, page 582.
4 See the report of Moody’s death in The Advertiser (Adelaide), 30 November 1937, page 12.
5 Arthur Porritt, The Best I Remember (1922), Cassell, London, pages 31-32. The book Grace and he produced is WG: Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (ﬁrst published in 1899; reissued (1980), The Hambledon Press, London).
6 (1930), Hutchinson, London.
7 (1938), Stanley Paul, London.
8 See Irving Rosenwater’s Sir Donald Bradman (1978), BT Batsford Ltd, London, page 133.
9 Rosenwater, page 261.
10 Not all ghost writers revealed themselves in the 19605, but among the ghosts of that decade were Phil Tresidder (who worked with Alan Davidson and Bill Lawry), Ken Roberts (Bob Simpson), Frank O’Callaghan (Wally Grout and Ken Mackay) and Ian McDonald (Ian Meckiﬂ’).
11 The authors of these books are, in order: Ian Redpath (with Neill Phillipson), Keith Stackpole (with Alan Trengove), four titles by Ian Chappell (the ﬁrst with Jack Pollard), Greg Chappell (featuring chapters from Dennis Lillee, Ashley Mallett, Paul Sheahan and Brian Taber), Doug Walters (with Richie Benaud), Rod Marsh (with Ian Brayshaw), Dennis Lillee (with Ian Brayshaw), Ashley Mallett, and Max Walker (with Neill Phillipson).
12 This was the advice Christy Walsh always gave to the men he chose to work with his star clients. Walsh’s exact quote, which seems to appear in just about every article about ghost writing (see, for example, the story by Tim Adams in The Observer, 19 March 2006), is: “A new ghost writer has to learn a lot about style. He usually makes the mistake of thinking he ought to write the way his celebrity talks. That is an error. He ought to write the way the public thinks his celebrity talks.’
13 Porritt, pages 31-32.
14 Beyond Centre Court: My Story, by Tracy Austin with Christine Brennan (1992), William Morrow & Co, New York.
15 David Foster Wallace, ‘How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart’, as published in Consider the Lobster (2005), Little Brown 81 Co, Boston, pages 142-43.
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POWHATAN, Va. – Deputies are searching for a man who is accused of firing a gun during a domestic dispute in Powhatan County Wednesday afternoon.
Deputies responded to a call for shots fired during a domestic situation at a home in the 2700 block of Anderson Highway around 1:30 p.m.
Upon arrival, deputies did not find a shooting victim, nor the suspect.
The Powhatan County Sheriff’s Office have not released any information about the suspect at this time but say they do not believe there is an immediate threat to the community.
K9 officers and Virginia State Police troopers assisted at the scene.
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A variant of COVID-19 first identified in Brazil is quickly spreading in parts of the Western provinces, where it has swept three work sites in Alberta and forced the closing of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia.
A single person who travelled out of Alberta is believed to be responsible for triggering a “significant outbreak” of the P.1 variant at the three work sites, according to the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Deena Hinshaw said the traveller returning to Alberta is believed to have brought the variant to a “large employer with multiple sites across Western Canada,” where employees then spread it across three sites in the Central and North zones. “We have now identified 26 COVID-19 cases linked to employees at these three sites, and their household contacts,” Dr. Hinshaw said in a series of tweets Monday afternoon. “So far, only three are confirmed P.1 cases, but this will likely increase as more results come in.”
Alberta also confirmed a separate, unrelated P.1 outbreak at a workplace in the Calgary zone so far involving five cases, of which one is confirmed to be the P.1 variant, she said.
Dr. Hinshaw did not identify any of the employers, however PTW Energy Services Ltd., headquartered in Calgary, confirmed the three employee P.1 variant cases at its Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton offices.
The company said in a statement it has hired a third party to carry out a review and is working with Alberta Health Services and Alberta Occupational Health and Safety to monitor, communicate and manage the situation.
Alberta reported 887 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, of which 432 were variants of concern. Nearly 40 per cent of active cases in the province are now variants. There are 312 people in hospital, of which 76 are in intensive care.
Meanwhile, British Columbia reported 890 new cases on Monday, and 999 the 24 hours prior. Since April 1, the province has confirmed 916 new cases that are variants of concern. Of 373 confirmed active variant cases, 215 are the P.1 variant, Health Minister Adrian Dix said.
From a total of 3,559 variant cases, 737 are the P.1 variant, 2,771 are the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in Britain, and 51 are the B.1.351 variant first identified in South Africa. B.C.’s first cluster of 13 P.1 cases was detected on March 9.
Emerging research has shown the P.1 variant to be up to 2.5 times more transmissible than the common SARS-CoV-2 strain. A separate study found that out of 100 people to contract COVID-19, 25 to 60 could become infected again with the variant. Younger people are also experiencing more severe disease from the variants than they are from the original virus.
Dr. Hinshaw did not disclose where the person responsible for the P.1 outbreak had travelled. However, Alberta Health on Saturday advised some reporters that it was “out of Canada,” only to issue a correction the following day saying that was inaccurate.
Mr. Dix said he was not aware of a specific workplace outbreak that spread the P.1 variant from B.C. to Alberta.
“I think it’s fair to say that the virus has spread from other jurisdictions to here, and inevitably spread from here to other jurisdictions,” he told reporters. “That includes, for example, places like Whistler, where people have come from outside of B.C. to there. There was spread there, so maybe they’ve spread when they return home.”
On Monday, Canucks rookie Nils Hoglander was added to the team’s COVID-19 protocol list, bringing the total number of active players unavailable to play because of illness or potential exposure to 17. A number of the coaching staff and taxi squad have also reportedly contracted the disease.
Postmedia reports that the P.1 variant is driving the Canucks outbreak, however neither the club nor the NHL has confirmed this.
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said he remains confident that the team will be able to complete its schedule, telling The Canadian Press in an e-mail that the Canucks’ numbers are “concerning from a health and safety standpoint, not necessarily from a scheduling standpoint.”
Canucks general manager Jim Benning thanked fans for their support.
“Our players, coaches and their families are grateful for the messages and we all hope for a return to full health as soon as possible,” he said in a statement released Sunday.
“Our focus continues to be on the health of everyone involved and we are thankful for the extraordinary health care and guidance we have received from our team’s medical staff, B.C.’s health officials, and from NHL and NHLPA medical experts.”
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About: Academy of Music in Kraków is a education organization based out in Krakow, Poland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Symphony & Chamber music. The organization has 13 authors who have published 12 publications receiving 13 citations. The organization is also known as: Academy of Music in Krakow.
TL;DR: OME can influence music perception in children at the beginning of their school education with both pitch- and rhythm-related aspects of music perception, with statistically significant differences for scale and rhythm scores.
Abstract: Purpose: This study tested the hypothesis that children with otitis media with effusion (OME) attending a primary school are at risk of impairment of their musical skills. OME is characterized as an inflammation with accumulation of secretion in the tympanic cavity, leading to conductive hearing loss. Method: Perception of music in children is assessed using the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Music Abilities (MBEMA). Listeners are required to judge whether two successive melodies are the same or different on tests of scale, contour, interval and rhythm. They are also queried by a memory test. A total of 92 children (49 girls and 43 boys), aged 6.0–8.0 years (mean 7.3, SD 0.7), attending a music school, were examined using the MBEMA. Twenty-three children were allocated to the OME group, while the remaining 69 to the control group. Age and gender distribution did not differ between children with OME and the controls. All participants had normal bone conduction hearing thresholds. The conductive ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out the composer's measures serving a higher purpose mentioned by Łukaszewski himself, i.e. to bring man closer to Truth through reflection and contemplation.
Abstract: “The Church continues to experience […] the death [of Christ] on the Cross and His Resurrection. They are the substance of the Church’s everyday life.” These words of the Polish Pope resound in the musical work of Pawel Łukaszewski. Via Crucis (2000) and its continuation of sorts—Resurrectio (2012) belong to his significant works taking up the subject matters of Passion and Easter. Both compositions may be classified as part of the oratorio genre tradition. Their verbal text, Latin language as well as musical means (often deeply rooted in the European music of the past) distinctly indicate their affiliation to the circle of Christian culture and a reference to its values. Sometimes the author also introduces references to that which is specifically Polish. The paper attempts to point out the composer’s measures serving a higher purpose mentioned by Łukaszewski himself, i.e. to bring man closer to Truth through reflection and contemplation.
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TL;DR: Mykietyn's music in the category of postmodernism and constructivism on the Example of III Symphony for Alto as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of post-modernism.
Abstract: “Cleverly Devised, Postmodern Toy”: Pawel Mykietyn’s Music in the Category of Postmodernism and Constructivism on the Example of III Symphony for Alto
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New Vinyl Record - B-52's - Whammy! (40th Anniversary)
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Whammy! is the third studio album by American new wave band the B-52's, released on April 27, 1983 in the United States, with Warner Bros. Records as the primary label. It was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, in December 1982 and produced by Steven Stanley. The album spawned three singles: "Legal Tender", "Whammy Kiss", and "Song for a Future Generation".
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Everyone wants to know what’s in their future. That’s why so many self-proclaimed “psychics” make a living…some better than others. For the rest, there’s no shortage of “experts” and “pundits” out there telling us all what to expect in the coming days. “The Economist” has put together a list of ten trends and themes that’ll look to shape 2022…which is coming faster than you think.
- Politics –It’ll continue to get ugly and argument-filled. Especially on the world stage as the U.S. vs. China battle in everything from tech, trade, space, and health.
- Endemic –New pills, treatments, and vaccines are coming. That’s great for the vaccinated but will still be controversial for those who aren’t.
- Inflation –Bankers say that supply-chain shortage inflation is “temporary,” but many people don’t believe them…which makes sense as long as prices stay high.
- Work –More people are going to work from home, but it’ll cause problems because of issues like people getting skipped over for promotions, worker monitoring, and tax rule changes.
- Techlash –More regulation of tech will be tried in the States, but who knows how much will succeed? Meanwhile, China is going to focus on “deep tech” rather than “frivolities like games.”
- Crypto –Cryptocurrency will get more “domesticated” as central banks finally get skin in the game.
- Climate –Politicians will continue to drag their feet on the issue, but it might be something that forces the East and the West to finally cooperate on something.
- Travel –It’ll pick up as the world re-opens, but half of business travel is kaput.
- Space –Next year will be the first time that more people pay to go to space than government employees are sent. Movie companies will vie to be the first to shoot in true “Zero G.” NASA will also crash a space probe into an asteroid because…why the hell not.
- Sports/Politics –Sports will continue to bring the world together, but some athletes will also know full well now big that stage is…and use to make a point on some issue that’s important to them. Like it or not…it’s not going anywhere.
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Charles J. Ogletree Jr., legal giant, 70 – The Bay State Banner
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the renowned Harvard law professor who rose from poverty in a family of itinerant California tenant farmers to make a profound global impact as a teacher, courtroom attorney and social activist, died last week at age 70 after a long and public struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Ogletree passed at home in Odenton, Maryland, where he and his wife Pam had moved to be closer to their daughter in his final years.
Whether mentoring future President Barack Obama in Cambridge classrooms, representing Anita Hill during the bruising Clarence Thomas confirmation battle, taking up the reparations fight, running policy convocations on Martha’s Vineyard or bringing Boston gang members into the ivied halls of Harvard to hear tough truths, the late lawyer and scholar found varied ways to bend the arc of the moral universe.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of our husband, father, grandfather, and brother,” said the Ogletree family in a statement. “Even though Alzheimer’s robbed him of the extraordinary gifts that made him exceptional in his career, he remained courageous, strong and resilient throughout his journey.”
Hill, who met Ogletree when both stood out as young Black law professors on lily-white faculties, recalled the attorney who stood by her side throughout the searing nomination process, as “a presence of calm in the storm” as conservative and media voices assailed her testimony of sexual impropriety by the high court nominee.
“He understood people who were marginalized by race or class. His experience in the criminal justice system and his understanding of the intersection of sexual harassment, racial discrimination and class were of comfort to me,” said Hill in a phone interview.
The Brandeis professor said Ogletree possessed a nearly unique ability to make complex legal doctrines come alive in courtrooms and classrooms because of his gifts as a storyteller and the compassion he brought to his work as someone who had lived through poverty and uncertainty.
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“The basis of what drove him was the people involved, the humanity involved, whether it was a legal case, the reparations issue or writing a constitution for South Africa. In every aspect of his career, he was trying to impact what was going on in people’s lives.”
Harvard law professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., who studied law under Ogletree and now runs the Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice that Ogletree founded, said his late friend, fondly called “Tree,” brought both a searching intelligence and a passion for fairness and equity to everything he did.
“He was a great lawyer, as we know from his days as a public defender in the District of Columbia. He was a legendary attorney there and in the many high-profile cases he took on as a professor,” said Sullivan. “But he was not just active on national issues. I got to know Boston, Roxbury and Dorchester through Tree. He reached out to people in all communities.”
In a statement released last Saturday, Obama spoke movingly of Ogletree’s role in mentoring generations of law students, including his wife Michelle. “Charles’ reputation preceded him at Harvard Law School,” said Obama. “On campus, people would always talk about this Professor Ogletree and how supportive and encouraging he was.”
Obama recalled Ogletree running “something called ‘Saturday School’ for Black students who didn’t necessarily have the support systems at home to get them through the difficult first years of law school.”
“It was an example of the kind of person Charles has always been: unfailingly helpful and driven by a genuine concern for others,” he added.
Ogletree’s abiding kindness and drive to help those living in the shadows and scraping to get by came from his own experience and deep spiritual faith in the Gospel teachings, said Pam Ogletree in a phone interview earlier this week.
“He often talked about his maternal grandmother – he called her ‘Big Mama’ – reading to him from the Bible as a little boy,” she said. “His faith was what carried him. His love and his compassion were formed in that faith.” The Ogletrees were longtime members of St. Paul AME Church in Cambridge.
Ogletree was born in 1952 in Merced, California, in the San Joaquin Valley, the oldest of seven siblings. His parents, who divorced when he was young, picked produce on farms and grew their own. He was the first in his family to graduate from high school, where he excelled at football and academics.
His mother, Will Mae Reed Ogletree, taught him to fish, and he took respite in angling expeditions with a bamboo cane pole and makeshift bait to local creeks and lakes with her and his paternal grandfather, “Big Daddy,” according to his wife Pam. The experience left him with a life-long obsession with the sport, leading to legendary outings in the waters around Martha’s Vineyard to cast for stripers and bluefish.
“But long before Charles’ days fishing the Atlantic with Captain Buddy Vanderhoop landing big striped bass on the deck of the Tomahawk with Buddy’s fancy rod-and-reel combos, Charles mastered the art of landing perch and catfish on Merced’s banks with good ol’ bamboo fishing poles,” said Ogletree’s brother Richard.
After a guidance counselor recommended he attend Stanford, a school Ogletree had never heard of, he rode a scholarship to graduation in 1974. He played freshman football, starred in campus theatrical productions, honing his flair for courtroom drama, became active in the Black Student Union and met his future wife, Pamela Barnes.
Ogletree earned a master’s at Stanford in political science before traveling east to attend Harvard Law School. After earning his degree in 1978, he went to Washington as a public defender before his appointment as Harvard law professor in the wake of student protests over a lack of diversity in the faculty.
His close Boston friends included Margaret Burnham, the first Black female judge in Massachusetts. The Ogletrees shared a Martha’s Vineyard home with Burnham and her husband, prominent attorney Max Stern.
“He was a renaissance convener,” said Burnham, “someone who could bring together people from all walks of life. Whether hosting the Obamas at our house or sponsoring conferences at the high school, he created a clamor wherever he went.”
During Boston’s gang wars of the 1990s, Ogletree worked with his long-time friend Miniard Culpepper, a federal attorney and pastor of the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Roxbury, to bring members of the H Block to Pound Hall at Harvard Law School for a conversation about their untenable future.
The exchange had a striking effect on the young men, said Culpepper, who was also an Ogletree fishing buddy. “Tree was always fishing to help others,” he said, “to take them to the next level of life.”
Ogletree represented Tupac Shakur in court as well as survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and he led efforts to push reparations for slavery long before it became a popular topic. He also was a friend of Nelson Mandela and helped write South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution.
His work for Anita Hill vaulted him to national prominence and he used that fame as a platform for shining a spotlight on inequities in the society and the criminal justice system. He authored important books on civil rights, race and justice, such as “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America” and coedited “Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty?” and “The Road to Abolition: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States” with Austin Serat.
He is survived by his wife Pam; his two children, Charles J. Ogletree III and Rashida Ogletree-George; four grandchildren; and four siblings.
Hill said Ogletree’s death should be used as a summoning of energy and focus to the fight for justice at a time affirmative action, civil rights, voting rights and women’s rights are under attack by a super-conservative Supreme Court and hostile political forces.
“Those of us who were fortunate enough to know Charles Ogletree would know that he would want us to use this moment as a call to action,” she said. “The movement towards limiting rather than expanding rights must be stopped, and a restoration of those rights must begin.”
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