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Gov. Edwards Eases Some COVID-19 Restrictions, Keeps Statewide Mask Mandate
KEDM Public Radio | By Staff Report
Some restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 in Louisiana, including strict occupancy restrictions for bars and restaurants, will be eased this week following sustained improvements in COVID-19 hospitalizations and vaccinations, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday. Social distancing of six feet will still be required in businesses and Louisiana's statewide mask mandate remains in place.
"At this point in the pandemic, our three best tools for slowing the spread of COVID-19 and keeping our hospitals operational are vaccinations, masks and distance," Gov. Edwards said. "Right now, we have fewer people hospitalized with COVID-19 than we did this time last year, and we have a greatly improved supply of three highly effective and safe COVID-19 vaccines, which are available to everyone 16 and older in Louisiana. While COVID-19 and its variants remain a major public health risk, using the tools of vaccination, masking and distancing, we can keep ourselves and our loved ones safe. At least 20 states and one region of Louisiana are experiencing an increase in cases and hospitalizations, likely because of the U.K. variant. We aren't yet out of the woods.
"Vaccination is the best way we have to put this pandemic in our rearview mirror. While we work to vaccinate even more of our neighbors, now more than ever it is critical that people wear facemasks when they are in public and keep six feet of social distance between them and anyone who isn't in their immediate household," Gov. Edwards said. "Today we are taking an important step forward, but all of us play a role in making sure our cases don't spike again. Get your vaccine now that it's your turn and help your friends and family members get their shots as well. Working together, we can bring back Louisiana."
The Governor's updated public health emergency order keeps requirements for six feet of social distancing in all businesses, as well as other mitigation measures deemed necessary by the Louisiana Department of Health and the State Fire Marshal and posted on OpenSafely.La.gov. The order runs for 28 days and expires on April 28, 2021.
The Governor's updated order removes the limitations on when bars and restaurants may serve alcohol, defaulting to local ordinances. People younger than 21 are still not allowed inside bars and bars are only allowed to provide patrons with socially distanced seated service, under the new order.
Salons and beauty shops, gyms and fitness centers, malls and casinos also will not have capacity limits, though social distancing and the mask mandate remain in place along with any other additional measures that may be required by the State Fire Marshal.
Businesses and venues that host larger gatherings, like receptions halls, will remain capped at 50 percent of their capacity, with a maximum gathering size of not more than 500 people indoors and strict social distancing. Outdoor events will be capped at 50 percent capacity and social distancing is also required. Some events may require prior approval by the State Fire Marshal. Businesses should visit OpenSafely.La.gov for more information.
Indoor and outdoor sporting events will be limited to 50 percent of their capacity, with social distancing. Masks are required under all circumstances.
Click here to read the order.
Click here to view the data about cases, hospitalizations and deaths across Louisiana.
Click here for information about COVID-19 vaccines and where to get them in Louisiana.
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This diamond in the rough has screaming potential. Renovate to your own custom taste! With a substantial 1/3 of an acre, add a pool and sauna/spa. The possibilities are endless. Must see in person to appreciate the opportunities it presents.


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Global studies examine economic, political, social, cultural, and scientific practices in a transnational and cross-cultural perspective. The Global Studies minor is designed to provide students with an integrated exposure to globally related scholarship across the disciplines, and encourages a student in any major discipline to think in terms of the globalization that marks the contemporary world. The program of study is designed to provide an exciting interdisciplinary global perspective on the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The minor is flexible and complements majors from across the University, affording students the opportunity to reach beyond their majors, or to take courses related to their majors outside of the context of the United States.
In order to be admitted to the minor, students must have completed at least 60 credits with a 2.0 GPA or above. To earn the minor, students must complete a minimum of 18-19 credits:1 core course in each student learning outcome category (12-13 credits), and 2 course electives (6 credits) in any of the thematic categories listed in the program of studies, but targeting two different learning outcomes. At least 9 credits of approved coursework must be taken at the 300-400 level, and no courses taken Pass/Fail will count towards the 18-19 credit requirement. Six credits of approved transfer work may be counted towards the minor; the remaining 12-13 credits must be taken in residence at WSU or through WSU-approved education abroad or educational exchange courses. No more than two courses with the same subject (or content, as in cross-listed courses) can be applied to the minor. Some courses may be substituted with the approval of the Global Studies Minor advisor. Additional courses may be included within the minor as developed in the university curriculum.
Student Learning Outcomes: The minor gives students a competitive edge in the global job market. Students earning the minor will be prepared to 1) understand connections that can be made from historical, cultural, economic, and political contexts that shape society and reflect global systems; 2) demonstrate knowledge of and be sensitive to others' differing identities and values across cultures; 3) apply intercultural communication skills to interact effectively with individuals and in groups; and 4) interact respectfully and responsibly across boundaries in diverse environments.
Program of Studies:
Core Courses: Choose one from ANTH 203, CES 244, ECONS 101, 198, POL S 103, or SOC 415. Choose one from ANTH 316, FINE ART 202, or POL S 428. Choose one from: COM 105, COMSOC 321, or FOR LANG 120. PLUS, complete one semester of foreign language study at WSU beyond the WSU admissions requirement. Foreign language courses taken at WSU to fulfill the admissions requirement are not eligible to be applied to the minor.
Electives: Six credits required. Choose two courses targeting two different learning outcomes (SLOs):
SLO 1 Connections among contexts: ANTH 260, CES 380, CROP SCI 360, ENGLISH 373, FINE ART 301, HISTORY 494 or 495 or approved upper-level World History course, HONORS 370, 380, 390, I BUS 380 or 470, POL S 429, SOC 334 or 430, SOE 390.
SLO 2 Knowledge about identities and values: ANTH 301 or 404, BIOLOGY 407, ENTOM 150, FOR LANG 110, HUMANITY 350, MUS 163 or 265, POL S 435, SOE 110.
SLO 3 Communication skills: Additional semester of same foreign language as used for the Core requirement or additional foreign language course taught in the foreign language at WSU.
SLO 4 Respectful interaction: ANTH 418, BIOLOGY 110, COMSOC 421, HISTORY 491, SOE 312.

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The Central Bank of Samoa (C.B.S.) has issued a directive to all financial institutions, predominantly Commercial Banks and Money Transfer Operators, to block all foreign exchange transactions related to Onecoin/ Onelife cryptocurrency promotion.
This was confirmed in a statement issue by the Bank yesterday.
"It has come to our attention that there are still a large number of people wanting to remit or transfer money out of Samoa to invest in this Onecoin cryptocurrency promotion," the statement reads.
According to the Central Bank, under the Exchange Controls Regulations 1999, no one shall take money out of Samoa without the approval of the C.B.S.
This means that any transaction that involves money leaving Samoa must first be approved by the C.B.S..
"As a result the C.B.S has decided to block all approvals for any transactions relating to the Onecoin cryptocurrency.
"This also ensures the protection of Samoa's foreign currency reserves, which is at risk due to the high number of people wanting to remit money overseas for this get rich quick scheme.
"This will remain in place until the C.B.S has assessed that there is no longer a risk to the public and our economy.


#1: A card for a child using paper piecing!
 All cards were made with scrap paper...even the Garfield paper (which I really was hoarding). The cookie card turned out pretty darn good. I have the best darn Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe and the card would go perfect with them. On to the rest of the challenges!
#2: "Use Something You've Been Hoarding."
#3: Food as your focal image.
#5: ODBD Use 5 elements.
Great cards. Love your Garfield card.
Go Linda!! Your cards are awesome! I like the chocolate chip cookie card too - yummy!


NW side of Harmony Cove (q.v.), Nelson Island. The Argentine refuge "Gurruchaga" was established N of the point, 15 December 1953. The AAE at the time recognized two distinctive rocks in the vicinity, which were called descriptively La Esfinge [=the sphinx] (on the present point) and El Inca (near the minor point to the NE), from its resemblance to an Inca head (Olsacher, 1958, map p.7). But these names were reversely and incorrectly applied in the forms Punta Inca (Argentina. MM chart 137, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p. 437) and Punta Esfinge (Argentina. MM chart 137; Pierrou, 1970, p.344). Piedra del Inca, referring to the point to NE (Olsacher, 1958, p.10). Inca Point, referring to the present feature (APC, 1980, p.4).


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As the Italian marque's flagship handmade line, Savinelli Autographs are carefully crafted from Extra Extra grade plateau briar, and all accents and mouthpieces for this series are of the highest pedigree and craftsmanship. Much like traditional Danish Freehands, all Autographs are hand-crafted from start to finish using the "shape first, drill second" method. As a result, no two Autographs are exactly the same, though they all exhibit beautiful grain and gorgeous linework.
Following a rigorous quality control process, many plateau blocks that might have become a Savinelli pipe are started and later discarded due to pits or other natural defects appearing in the briar; the result being that every finished Autograph pipe is of superlative quality. Matching those meticulous standards, Autographs are graded according to strict shape, grain, and quality parameters. In ascending order, the grades are as follows: "3", "4", "5", "6", "8", with the higher tiered "0", "00", and the ultimate "000" following suit.
Here in this category you'll also find other pipes hand made by Savinelli's top craftsmen including examples from lines such as Artisan, Sigla, and Briar Line.


For mummies and daddies who want to have brunch together with no worries on Sundays and Public Holidays but won't be able to as they have small kids to take care of while taking brunch, now they do not have to worry on this anymore, when dining in The Emperor Grand Dorsett Subang.
The Emperor, an award wining HALAL restaurant in this 5 star urban hotel now has a Kid's Corner during the brunch buffet dim sum. Definitely a good news to mums and dads, as kids will have fun doing activities such as sand art craft, colouring, games, cartoon channels, clown entertainment and many more while parents can enjoy arrays of tantalizing dim sum comfortably.
The brunch is priced at RM60.00++ for adult and RM30.00++ for child belowe 12 years old, available during Sundays and Public Holidays from 10.00am-2.30pm. Kids below 5 years old can dine for free while Senior Citizens above 60 enjoy 50% off the price. For every 10 paying guest, one will dine for free.
We had our brunch there last Sunday, lots of steamed items to choose from: Steamed Prawn Dumpling, Steamed Siew Mai Emperor Style, Steamed Seaweed Roll, Steamed Phoenix Feet With Black Bean, Steamed Chicken Wings, Steamed Fish Ball, etc.
We liked the Steamed Prawn Dumpling, silky skin with plump and bouncy prawns filling. Steamed chicken wings were good too, tender chicken gracefully coated with thick garlicky gravy.
For the Char Siew Pau, we didn't put much expectation on it, as we always like to have fatty pork fillings in it. But to our surprise, replacement of pork with chicken fillings in this char siew pau doesn't make it fall short of taste. It is so delicious, so flavourful, thanks to the well done savoury sauce which is packed with oomph. Perception changed, we don't mind putting this together with the normal char siew pau.
For the baked and deep fried items, one can get deep fried prawn rolls with cheese, deep fried yam puff with barbeque chicken, deep fried ham sui kok, deep fried chive and shrimps dumpling, baked mini egg tart custard, baked century egg with pickled ginger in puff pastry and deep fried sesame ball.
We love how the Deep Fried Yam Puff with Barbeque Chicken being prepared, very nice and crispy outer layer followed by soft and creamy yam paste, nestled with piping hot bbq sauce minced chicken fillings. Yums.
We thought of skipping the fried noodles, as it seems cold and dry, very unappealing. Luckily we didn't, as it tasted quite good actually, stirred fried to just right, stringy enough with medium wok hei.
…Pan-Fried Steamed Vegetable and Meat Pau..
…Deep Fried Fish with Miso Sauce..
We ended the meal with fruits, pudding, gui leng gou, longan sweet soup, etc from the dessert counter. Choices are not extensive but everything is good, especially love the longan sweet soup that helps to tone down the greasiness. Cheese cake and chocolate cake are the only cakes available, with the later highly recommended for its very chocolaty and moist texture.
Jalan SS12/1, 47500 Subang Jaya.
For every 10 paying guests, one dines for free.


If your text is all lowercase, all uppercase, or badly and inconsistently capitalized (many web forums, texts, twitter, etc.) then this will negatively effect the performance of most of our annotators. Most of our annotators were trained on data that is standardly edited and capitalized full sentences.
There are two strategies available to address this that may help. One is to try to first correctly capitalize the text with a truecaser, and then to process the text with the standard models. See the TrueCaseAnnotator for how to do this.
The other strategy is to use models more suited to ill-capitalized text.
The GATE folk made an English POS tagger model trained on twitter text. You can get it from the extensions page.
We have made slightly different Stanford CoreNLP models for the tagger, parser, and NER that ignore capitalization. We have only trained such models for English, but the same method could be used for other languages.
To use these models, you need to download a jar file with caseless models. Prior to version 3.6, caseless models were packaged separately as their own jar file (approximately treating "caseless English" like a separate language). Starting with version 3.6, caseless models for English are included in the new comprehensive english jar file. You can find these jar files on the Release history page.
However, if we ask to use the caseless models, then we're doing pretty well: All the name words are now recognized as proper nouns, and the two person names are recognized. However, the team name is still missed. Correct named entity recognition is just harder for caseless English than for well-edited English!
The caseless NER model edu/stanford/nlp/models/ner/english.all.3class.caseless.distsim.crf.ser.gz released with version 3.6.0 was defective and has very poor performance. Sorry! Stuff happens. If you want good caseless NER, you should either run with caseless models from a 3.5.x series release (all of which are compatible with version 3.6.0) or download the new fixed model from version 3.7.0 or a later version. Since the version 3.5.x releases have a separate caseless jar, it is easy to also specify an additional jar as a dependency; you just have to make sure that it appears on your classpath before other jars which contain models with the same name.


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Where to vote in Tuesday's primary election
Mar 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM Mar 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday for the Massachusetts presidential primary. Massachusetts is one of 14 states to vote on what is known as Super Tuesday.
In addition to the race for president, voters will be choosing members of their party's state and town committees.
Voters in the Plymouth & Barnstable District, which includes Bourne, Sandwich and Falmouth, also will choose a nominee for the March 31 special election to replace former state Sen. Viriato "Vinny" deMacedo.
Polls will be open in Barnstable at the following locations:
Precinct 1: Zion Union Church, 805 Attucks Lane, Hyannis
Precinct 2: St. George Greek Orthodox Church, 1130 Falmouth Road, Centerville
Precinct 3: Barnstable Adult Community Center, 825 Falmouth Road, Hyannis
Precinct 4: Our Lady of Victory Church Hall, 230 S. Main St., Centerville
Precinct 5: Osterville Fire Station, 999 Main St., Osterville
Precinct 6: Christ Chapel, 2C Oak St., Centerville
Precinct 7: Freedom Hall, 976 Main St., Cotuit
Precincts 8, 9 and 13: Hyannis Youth & Community Center, 141 Bassett Lane, Hyannis
Precincts 10 and 12: Seventh Day Adventist Community Building, 2736 Falmouth Road, Marstons Mills
Precinct 11: West Barnstable Community Building, 2377 Meetinghouse Way, West Barnstable
Click here to find or confirm where you vote. This does not confirm you are a registered voter but gives you election information for your address.
To confirm your registration if unsure, contact the Town Clerk's Office at 508-862-4044.
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ASPIRIN CLAIM OF 44% REDUCTION IN RISK OF FIRST HEART ATTACK UNLIKELY
The Pink Sheet pinkeditor@informa.com
ASPIRIN CLAIM OF 44% REDUCTION IN RISK OF FIRST HEART ATTACK UNLIKELY to be included in FDA professional labeling, based on the discussion of the Cardio-Renal Advisory Committee at their Oct. 6 meeting. Although the committee agreed to recommend the prophylactic use of aspirin to reduce the risk of primary myocardial infarction ("The Pink Sheet" Oct. 9, p. 2), members questioned whether the benefit would be as high for the general public as for the study population. The estimate that aspirin could reduce the risk of primary myocardial infarction (MI) by as much as 44% was a product of the Physicians' Health Study. The highly publicized trial of the effectiveness of low-dose aspirin in preventing first heart attacks whose results was first published in the July 20 New England Journal of Medicine ("The Pink Sheet," July 24, T&G 3). Julie Burin, co-principal investigator for the study, presented what she called "highly statistically significant" results of the study's 325 mg aspirin regimen on a patient population of 22,000 male U.S. physicians, aged 40-80. "There were 139 total MIs in the aspirin group, and 239 in the placebo group, yielding a 44% reduction in risk of myocardial infarction." The advisory panel was particularly concerned with the potential side effects of long-term asprin use, including increased risk of gastrointestinal disorders and cerebral hemorrhage. PHS data showed a rise in hemorrhagic strokes among the aspirin takers that Burin characterized as "borderline statistically significant," with 23 in the aspirin group and 12 in placebo. The committee also noted that the trial eliminated patients with gastric ulcers, rheumatism, gout; furthermore, it included a screening period during which patients exhibiting sensitivity to aspirin were dropped. "Patient selection for the trial basically would be expected to minimize the adverse effects of aspirin. . . How can you expect to generalize any adverse effect of aspirin from this study?" PHS researchers were asked. Although final wording for the professional labeling will not be determined until later this fall, the committee were unanimously in favor of limiting the indication to patients with the highest liklihood of heart attack: males over forty who have multiple risk factors for coronary heart disease but have not yet suffered an attack. In debating the remaining benefit to this patient population, the committee discussed the apparently above-average health of the doctors studied. For example, only 10% of the physicians in the trial smoked, compared to the 30% nationwide rate for U.S. males in their age group, according to PHS figures. Enrollees also had lower cholesterol and blood-pressure averages than the general public. "This is one of the lowest risk groups ever studied," stated committee Chairman Craig Pratt, MD, Baylor College of Medicine.
Part D Discount Liability Coming Into Focus: CMS Releases Drug Cost Data
Newly released Medicare Part D data sheds light on the sales hit that branded pharmaceutical manufacturers will face when the coverage gap discount program gets under way in 2011
FDA Skin Infections Guidance Spurs Debate On Endpoint Relevance
FDA appears headed for a showdown with clinicians and the pharmaceutical industry over the proposed new clinical trial endpoints for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, the guidance's approach for justifying a non-inferiority margin and proposed changes in the types of patients that should be enrolled in trials
Shire Hopes To Sow Future Deals With $50M Venture Fund
Specialty drug maker Shire has quietly begun scouting deals with a brand-new $50 million venture fund, the latest of several in-house investment arms to launch with their parent company's pipelines, not profits, as the measure of their worth
Subject: ASPIRIN CLAIM OF 44% REDUCTION IN RISK OF FIRST HEART ATTACK UNLIKELY


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