Give me an option to choose which focused mail box is shown in the recent activities card.
It would be nice to see group SMS messages show up in the Recent Activities card.
option to turn off "Trending on Bing"
Wire is currently the go-to OOS chat app for encrypted messaging. Can't really trust WhatsApp or WeChat. A little suspicious of Telegram. But Wire is fully open source so everyone knows what's going on.
Would be great to natively support it in the Microsoft Launcher experience!
Long press on an app and the option to pin apps in the context menu. This allows you to access apps you use frequently threat disappear off the recent section due to other app usage.
Please add full service integration with Mozilla and Firefox sync account.
Swipe notification/activities from recent activities to dismiss them.
Provide the ability to swipe individual recent activities to dismiss/delete them from recent activities window/Page.
Hi on my phone the Recent Apps navbar button is pretty far away from my finger.
It would be nice to have the ability to assign a gesture to open android recent apps view.
remove the read notification from recent.
I like the recent feed very much but it should remove the read notification from recent..
Manually changed icon... Not showing in frequently used apps... In the dashboard of the main screen.
highlight the seen recent post from recent screen.
Recent screen either should highlight the unread notification or highlight the seen notification.there should be some segregation what we have seen and what is unseen.hope you get it.


We're just a few weeks away from the sugar rush. Are you jumping on the candy train?
Halloween will be here in less than three weeks. The mouths of children everywhere are salivating just thinking of all of the candy they'll be hauling in. Some parents feel that it's too much sugar. I see it as a great opportunity to satisfy a sweet tooth without putting in a lot of effort. I mean, just have the kids bring home that sugary loot!
OK, we can chalk this up as another reason why I don't have kids... yet.
I guess I'll just have to keep sweet talking (no pun intended) my nieces and nephews to share their stash with me. However, there are parents who will take candy from their kids. Maybe they feel like they deserve a reward since they walked all over that neighborhood too.
What do you think? Is it OK to sneak a few pieces here and there? Do you divide the candy into equal portions including one for yourself?


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//  TTSwitch+Subclass.h
//  TTSwitch
//
//  Created by Scott Penrose on 4/19/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Two Toasters. All rights reserved.
//

#import "TTSwitch.h"

// the extensions in this header are to be used only by subclasses of TTSwitch
// code that uses TTSwitchs must never call these

@interface TTSwitch (ForSubclassEyesOnly)

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *trackImageView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *maskedTrackView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *thumbImageView;

/**
 Animates the thumb to the correct position for the switchs value.
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- (void)updateThumbPositionAnimated:(BOOL)animated;

/**
 Called during updateThumbPositionAnimated: when the thumb is animating on or off
 */
- (void)moveThumbCenterToX:(CGFloat)newThumbCenterX;

/**
 Called after the thumb has animated on or off in updateThumbPositionAnimated:
 */
- (void)didMoveThumbCenterToX:(CGFloat)newThumbCenterX;

/**
 Called when a user is panning the switch.
 */
- (void)handleThumbPanGesture:(UIPanGestureRecognizer *)gesture;

@end

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Cathy Clarke, a patient with hypertension whose white coat syndrome is exacerbated by attending her GP practice describes the impact of Flo in managing her hypertension in Buckinghamshire.
A patient suffering with white coat syndrome from Aylesbury and Chiltern CCG has described the impact of Flo in managing their hypertension to BBC South East Today.
The interview, also including Cathy's Practice Nurse and Adrian Timon, Telehealth Project Officer in Buckinghamshire describes the impact that using Flo has had on Cathy's condition.


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Maastricht Entertained by Meyer Melodie
Maastricht, The Netherlands (January 29, 2007)--The small city of Maastricht, at the southern tip of The Netherlands, is wedged tightly between the borders of Germany and Belgium. Here, it sits astride a crossroads of European culture, a place where traditional artistry mixes with modern mass media.
Maastricht, The Netherlands (January 29, 2007)–The small city of Maastricht, at the southern tip of The Netherlands, is wedged tightly between the borders of Germany and Belgium. Here, it sits astride a crossroads of European culture, a place where traditional artistry mixes with modern mass media.
Sound engineer Renco van der Giasen (left); and Erik Meij, head of the Vrijthof Theatre's audio department, check out the Meyer Sound M'elodie line array.The focal point for the city's thriving performing arts community is the Vrijthof Theatre. Behind the Vrijthof's historic 1809 façade lies a new auditorium, completed in 1990. The 954-seat venue offers a varied calendar of performances, from drama and dance to pop and classical concerts. To provide this full range of events with the best possible sound reinforcement, the Vrijthof recently installed a system of self-powered Meyer Sound M'elodie ultra-compact, high-power, curvilinear-array loudspeakers, the first M'elodie installation in The Netherlands.
The size and shape of the venue pointed to a line-array solution, so the theater's technical staff scheduled extensive comparison tests of various manufacturers' systems. At the conclusion of the process, the theater's chief sound engineer, Eric Meij, tipped the decision toward M'elodie.
The completed system comprises left and right arrays, each having 12 M'elodie cabinets flown under a single 600-HP compact, high-power subwoofer. The flown subwoofers deliver bass impact to the balcony seats, while two more 600-HP cabinets are ground-stacked to cover the lower level. According to Jasper Ravesteijn of Meyer Sound's Netherlands distributor, Audio Electronics Mattijsen, the split upper-lower subwoofer design works very well. "The balcony subs are up very high, and don't interact with the floor-level 600-HPs," he explains. "The ability to integrate the 600-HPs into the M'elodie arrays was key to making this kind of design possible."
The results were quickly praised by Meij: "This room is difficult for the subwoofer range, but, fortunately, we know the specific frequency that causes problems. We put a notch at the point, and suddenly realized what a powerful tool the 600-HP can be. The power-to-size ratio is truly unbelievable."
A particularly striking feature of the Vrijthof Theatre's new system is the horizontally flown center cluster of eight M1D ultra-compact, curvilinear-array loudspeakers. According to Ravesteijn, the unusual configuration was a result of extensive, and imaginative, application of Meyer Sound's MAPP Online Pro acoustical prediction program during the design process. "The reverberant walls and the large, steep balcony got us looking into some unconventional strategies," he remarks. "What started out merely as an interesting idea proved to be very effective when we put the data into MAPP. The M1D's 100 degrees of horizontal dispersion was exactly what we needed for the vertical. Doing that gave us the freedom to determine a specific horizontal pattern that fit the room precisely. Some minor modifications to the QuickFly grid made it possible to securely fly the M1D array horizontally with a professional appearance."
Completing the system is a pair of UPA-1P compact, wide-coverage loudspeakers to cover the front corners, and a Galileo loudspeaker management system for drive processing. The Galileo system's Compass control software is installed on a WiFi-enabled laptop computer to allow precise system processing adjustments from any seat in the house.
www.meyersound.com
Podcast: Talking with John Meyer of Meyer Sound
Innovations: Meyer Sound Spacemap Go
Konig & Meyer Marks 65 Years
Innovations: Meyer Sound Bluehorn System
60 Seconds with John McMahon of Meyer Sound
Meyer Sound Details 2017 Plans
Meyer Sound Partners with Roskilde Festival
Meyer Supports Savannah Festival

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More to be announced in the coming months.


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The mining industry has been licking it's wounds for the past couple of years. But in 2019, the market will force change, including more M&As.
Ammar Al-Joundi, President at Agnico Eagle gave a presentation at Mines and Money London 2018, discussing the case for M&As in 2019.
Access the slide deck for this presentation here, or read Mining Beacon's interview with Ammar here.
For more information about Mines and Money London, click here.
Will anything replace lithium-ion batteries in the near future?


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Description/subject: "According to recent reports received by KHRG from residents of the Irrawaddy Delta, the SPDC has not only been restricting aid supplies and access by international humanitarian workers, but has also been doing so on the basis of ethnicity. Increasing reports on the military's restrictions and misappropriation of aid supplies necessitate immediate international investigation, as all affected residents of the delta regardless of their ethnicity remain in urgent need humanitarian assistance. The regime's obstructions of humanitarian aid increasingly appear to fall under the criteria of crimes against humanity. In such a case, the responsibility to protect this population falls on the international community..."


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Q: {"'\u0004', hexadecimal value 0x04, is an invalid character I am trying to convert a file to XML format that contains some special characters but it's not getting converted because of that special characters in the data.
I have already this regex code still it's not working for me please help.
The code what I have tried:
string filedata = @"D:\readwrite\test11.txt";
string input = ReadForFile(filedata);
string re1 = @"[^\u0000-\u007F]+";
string re5 = @"\p{Cs}";
data = Regex.Replace(input, re1, "");
data = Regex.Replace(input, re5, "");

XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
try
{
   xmlDocument = (XmlDocument)JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(data);
   var Xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xmlDocument.OuterXml);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
   Console.WriteLine(ex);
}

A: 0x04 is a transmission control character and cannot appear in a text string. XmlDocument is right to reject it if it really does appear in your data. This does suggest that the regex you have doesn't do what you think it does, if I'm right that regex will find the first instance of one or more of those invalid characters at the beginning of a line and replace it, but not all of them. The real question for me is why this non-text 'character' appears in data intended as XML in the first place.
I have other questions. I've never seen JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode before - I had to look up what it does. Why are you using a JSON function against the root of a document which presumably therefore contains no JSON? Why are you then taking that document, converting it back to a string, and then creating an XDocument from it? Why not just create an XDocument to start with?

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The Quiet Science has always used music as a vehicle for their stories. Stories of loss and hopelessness,of redemption and renewal. But where do those stories end? The stories were always meant to bring the listener to this very place. A place of worship. That's why, for The Quiet Science, their third full-length album was a natural progression from "Dark Words on Dark Wings". Where DWODW was the dark of night, "The Rekindling of the Stars" is the dawn. The main theme of the third album is restoration.
MultiTracks Now Available from The Rekindling of the Stars by The Quiet Science
The Rekindling of the Stars is the latest album from Space Coast electro rock band, The Quiet Science. This project is the band's third full-length and most lyrically worship-driven album to date and was recently featured on Relevant Magazine's The Drop. The Quiet Science's unique sound blends ethereal ambience with driving beats and melodic synth lines, all coming together to lay a foundation for the album's core message of restoration. Frontman Nathan Walter says, "We have always shaped our songs to tell honest stories of life - the good and the bad. Stories that always end in redemption and renewal. Our songs typically end in a place of worship, but at this time in our lives, we wanted to create a project that was purely worship, focused on restoration. A worship album that could be deeply personal for the individual, but one that could also be sung in a community setting."
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We thought we had that part solved in the house with the advent of our "throw-up" bin. It's a trash can with double liners that a vomiting child carries around with them. No longer do I have to worry about them not making it to the Great White Throne to "do the deed".
On our ride home from Tulsa last week, however, I learned that there are things worse than a sick, vomiting young child...in a house: A sick, vomiting young child in the car. But not just in the car, on a 10 hour (with no extra stops) ride home in the car!
I also devised a plan to keep my car, his car seat, and his clothes clean should he vomit...again. Unfortunately, I didn't come up with my plan until after he had already thrown up on all three! Oh well. I lived, and I learned.
I hope you never have to utilize my genius idea, but should you need it-it's yours to use. I did not put a patent on it. I am willingly sharing it with all traveling moms with sick kids.


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Q: \textbackslash shows error "undefined control sequence" I am typing the equation with \textbackslash inside as follows. It displays error "underfined control sequence". Can anyone explain me what the problem is? Thanks.
Here $x\in [0,\infty]^n$ \textblackslash  $\{1\}$. I got error "Undefined control sequence.

Here a \textbackslash b. This line is OK.

A: you have
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"black" should be "back".  A simple typo.


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Q: iOS - bodyWithPolygonFromPath : Body is the same as the path but collisions are not working properly First i'd like to say thanks to every users on this website because i'm always finding solutions here and it's sooo helpful !
I'm trying to make a game like Xonix, Bix or Jezzball with SpriteKit. Anyway, i have a ball bouncing against walls, and i'm trying to make obstacles where it can't go, those obstacles are made from CGPathref (the user makes it with its movements)
I'm using bodyWithPolygonFromPath to create the physicsbody of the skspritenode, it's working, but not always. I've downloaded YMCPhysicsDebugger to see the content of the body, and in every case, it's good, but i've seen that when i have more than 4 points on the CGPath, the ball does not collide against the whole of the body, it only collides against a smaller zone.. I've tried and searched a lot without any results.. I've tried to make the points of CGPath counterclockwise, it doesn't work as well, even in the other side..
I'm copying you the code for the creation of SKSpriteNode, but i doubt it will be useful, i think the problem is with my points, maybe i need more explanations on how the physicsbody works with a polygon
SKSpriteNode *zone = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithColor:[UIColor redColor] size:CGSizeMake(50, 50)];
zone.physicsBody = [SKPhysicsBody bodyWithPolygonFromPath:path.CGPath]; // 1
zone.physicsBody.friction = 0.0f;
zone.physicsBody.restitution = 0.0f;
zone.physicsBody.linearDamping = 0.0f;
zone.physicsBody.allowsRotation = NO;
zone.physicsBody.categoryBitMask = wallsCategory;
zone.physicsBody.dynamic = NO; // 2
[self addChild:zone];

Here are two pictures of my "game", the first one works, the ball bounces right back against it. The second one is not working like it should, only the upper part is detected for collision.
http://hpics.li/86a69e2
http://hpics.li/e16d18e
I've also tried to detect when the ball enters an obstacle in the update function to manually make it bounce against it, but of course, it's not really working. Plus my math studies are not that good lol
for(SKSpriteNode *zone in zonesTab)
{
    UIBezierPath *path = [zoneesTab objectAtIndex:i]; // Array of UIBezierPath for the obstacles
    if(CGPathContainsPoint(path.CGPath, NULL, ball.frame.origin, FALSE))
    {
        ball.physicsBody.velocity=CGVectorMake(ball.physicsBody.velocity.dx*-1, ball.physicsBody.velocity.dy*-1);
        NSLog(@"Touches iT");
    }
    i++;

}

I've also thought about making several SKSpriteNode everytime a CGPath has more than 4 points, but i don't really know how to do that in mathematics..
Anyway, that's a long post, I hope some of you will read it all and understand it all (sorry for my english, i'm french!) and most of all, will be able to help me !!
Thank you very much

A: The shape in the first screenshot is convex but the shape in the second screenshot is concave.
The physics polygon shapes need to be convex for them to work correctly. You can do one of two things:

*

*Create two nodes and two bodies whose individual shapes are convex but together they form the concave shape. These bodies can be dynamic. You may want to set them to static or connect them together with a rigid distance joint, or otherwise ensure they are not going to move apart.

*Use bodyWithEdgeLoopFromPath: or bodyWithEdgeChainFromPath: to be able to create concave collision shapes. These bodies will not be dynamic and won't be able to move by themselves but they are the perfect solution for arbitrary collision shapes with a static playfield.


CROYDON Pat Of Oldswinford. Passed away peacefully at home on 20th January 2019 aged 91 years. A much loved mom, nan and great nan. She will be dearly missed by all. Funeral service is to take place at Stourbridge Crematorium Chapel on Friday 15th February at 1.30pm. Family flowers only please, donations if desired are being gratefully accepted for Mary Stevens Hospice by H Porter & Sons Funeral Directors, Old Church House, 60 South Road, Stourbridge DY8 3UJ.


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NZDJPY forms flurry of bearish patterns at the stiff resistance of 76.553 levels, while bulls bank at uptrend-line.
Back-to-back shooting stars and gravestone doji are occurred to signal weakness of this pair (refer circular area on daily chart).
While both leading and lagging indicators are in line with downswings that indicates intensified selling momentum, more upswings possible only on break-out above 76.553 levels.
The major downtrend slides through the falling wedge, Bearish engulfing nudges below EMAs, bulls attempt to bounce-back on hammer but restrained below 21-EMAs & wedge resistance (refer monthly chart).
On a broader perspective, contrary to the above standpoint, bearish engulfing has occurred at 73.545 levels that intensifies major downtrend below EMAs, while bulls attempt to bounce-back on hammer formation at 75.271 levels but restrained below 21-EMAs.
For now, more slumps on cards as both lagging indicators signal bearish trend continuation & RSI indicated faded strength.
Hence, ahead of RBNZ's monetary policy (that is likely to maintain status quo in its OCR rates), we advocate maintaining shorts in mid-month futures with a view of arresting downside risks. Alternatively, one can also buy boundary strikes options with upper strikes at 76.553 and lower strikes at 75.524 levels on intraday trading grounds.
Currency Strength Index: FxWirePro's hourly NZD spot index is inching towards 108 levels (which is bullish), JPY at 138 (bullish), while articulating (at 05:28 GMT).


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North Circular Road: comprehensive improvement
In the very early 1960s the Ministry of Transport began drawing up proposals to comprehensively improve the A406 North Circular Road in London, then a trunk route. The redevelopment plans were not showy or costly, and rather than hire consultants it had one of its engineers survey the route, take some traffic counts and write a report.
The June 1961 report by CG Havers of the Metropolitan Traffic Division sets out a programme of works, which split the route into sections, most of which would be improved across two stages, with the intention that the road would be dualled and grade-separated by the end of the 1970s. This plan appears to have been absorbed by the GLC and seems to have been the 'live' proposal for the North Circular as part of the Ringways plan.
Diagrams, maps and plans accompanying the report are held at MT 106/152.
Entire 1961 report which, to say it is a proposal to spend colossal sums of money improving one of the busiest trunk routes in the London area, was not published and instead appears here fresh from the typewriter.
Newspaper reports covering the announcement of £50m of investment in the North Circular.
Traffic census data for all junctions on the North Circular circa 1961.
MT 106/152 North Circular Road: plans (1961-1964)
Chris Marshall has a partial copy, including the full 1961 report and other assorted files.


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The biggest question most entrepreneurs should be asking is: "is my venture fundable?" Of course, in the heart of every entrepreneur is an undying optimist. Pessimists can't survive the emotional roller coaster ride of a startup. That kind of optimism leads to confidence that everyone sees your "baby" in the same light you do. Unfortunately, not so. Venture-style investing is a VERY rational business, at least for the professional investor. We don't get caught up in the emotion of a market or business. We look for underlying team characteristics, market conditions, and established criteria to judge early stage companies', who are often prerevenue, chances of success. This is not to say, the ones we turn down can't be successful, or that we will only select winners. Clearly, neither is true.
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The second question you should ask yourself is: "is this a lifestyle business?" A lifestyle business is defined as a business that can't scale except by cloning the Founder. In other words, if you run consulting business, then your IP and your ability to scale are directly related to the number of hours you can work. So, the only way to scale the business is to add more humans that mimic you. That means that incremental revenue is directly tied to incremental costs in a nearly linear fashion (i.e. there are no economies of scale). In other words, the business does not generate long term exit returns that justify the investment of a venture investor.
To that end, early stage investors, expect to see businesses that can realistically command a minimum of $15M – $30M in scalable top line revenue in 5 years and have a clear, viable exit plan to qualify for funding. In other words, angels and VC's only make money when you are acquired (or IPO), which we want to happen within 5 years. We must believe you can reach a sufficient exit value to justify the risk we are taking with the understanding that we will be diluted one to three times by new rounds of capital before exit.
The third concern is the exit multiple of your business, or how your exit value relates to your industry. If exit multiples in your business are 5 – 7x on revenue, such as Software as a Service (SaaS) companies (primarily due to low overhead, proven replicatable sales, and recurring revenue models), then the investor can be more flexible with funding the business and the valuation. However, if you are in a pure service industry where exit multiples rarely break 1.5x on revenue, then we have to be very rigid in our analysis of your venture and post-investment management of the company growth. Which one do you think we choose?
The fourth issue is the point of pain you address in the market. If your product or service is "nice to have," don't seek venture investment, especially in tough economic times. Nice-to-haves are the first thing to go, if they were adopted in the first place. However, if you are addressing a clear and demonstrable point of pain in a novel way that creates barriers-to-entry for fast-followers, then you should consider seeking investment.
The fifth issue is whether your venture is simply evolutionary or revolutionary. Professional investors want to invest in companies that don't compete. By that I mean, they sell products and services based on the value they provide, not on a price point. So, if you have a better mouse trap, don't seek venture-style funding. It will be a waste of your time. Price points will always be driven down over time. We don't dispute that. We want to identify the company that will set a new standard in a given industry and remain the market leader. If you have a revolutionary product or service and you can clearly identify a readily adopting market niche for it, then you should consider seeking investment.
There is nothing wrong with a lifestyle business, but they are not fundable by professional investors. Many are lower risk, but they are lower reward. That is now how our model works. We seek low risk/high reward opportunities, and we are willing to accept higher risk to get the higher rewards. If yours is a lifestyle business, you should spend time seeking friends, family, and partners that know you, trust you, and want to see your business grow while sharing the work load and the success.
Is this a high-growth potential business?
Can I generate enough revenue at a sufficient margin to be attractive to an acquirer?
Does my industry have an exit multiple sufficient to make me attractive to an investor?
Am I addressing a clear point of pain and creating hurdles for my competition?
Is this a new standard for this product/service category or a better mousetrap?
There will always be more great ventures that money to invest in them. How you position your company is critical to being selected in this highly competitive market (we invest in 1% – 2% of all companies that apply to us). If you feel you have what it takes to be a high-growth company, you will have to prove it with a very compelling business plan and financial projections. And, you will have to identify and convey a demonstrable, sustainable competitive advantage in your market. In other words, the companies that get investment have an unfair advantage in their respective markets. Make sure you know your competitive advantage(s) and can articulate it before seeking investors! If it takes more than one sentence to convey, start over.


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A retrospective pilot study to determine whether the reproductive tract microbiota differs between women with a history of infertility and fertile women
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2018 Jun;58(3):341-348. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12754. Epub 2017 Dec 26.
Bryan A Wee 1 , Mark Thomas 2 , Emma Louise Sweeney 1 , Francesca D Frentiu 1 , Melanie Samios 3 , Jacques Ravel 4 , Pawel Gajer 4 , Garry Myers 5 , Peter Timms 6 , John A Allan 7 8 , Wilhelmina M Huston 1 2 8
1 Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
2 School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
3 School of Medicine, Griffith University and UC Health Clinical School, The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
4 Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
5 ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
6 Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
7 UC Health Clinical School, The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
8 Wesley Medical Research, The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12754
Background: We know very little about the microbiota inhabiting the upper female reproductive tract and how it impacts on fertility.
Aims: This pilot study aimed to examine the vaginal, cervical and endometrial microbiota for women with a history of infertility compared to women with a history of fertility.
Materials and methods: Using a retrospective case-control study design, women were recruited for collection of vaginal, cervical and endometrial samples. The microbiota composition was analysed by 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene amplification and endometrial expression of selected human genes by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
Results: Sixty-five specimens from the reproductive tract of 31 women were successfully analysed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing (16 controls and 15 cases). The dominant microbial community members were consistent in the vagina and cervix, and generally consistent with the endometrium although the relative proportions varied. We detected three major microbiota clusters that did not group by tissue location or case-control status. There was a trend that infertile women more often had Ureaplasma in the vagina and Gardnerella in the cervix. Testing for the expression of selected genes in the endometrium did not show evidence of correlation with case-control status, or with microbial community composition, although Tenascin-C expression correlated with a history of miscarriage.
Conclusions: There is a need for further exploration of the endometrial microbiota, and how the microbiota members or profile interplays with fertility or assisted reproductive technologies.
Keywords: endometrium; female; infertility; microbiota; vagina.
© 2017 The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Cervix Uteri / microbiology*
Endometrium / microbiology*
Gestational Age
Infertility, Female*
Lactobacillus / isolation & purification
Pregnancy Trimesters*
Vagina / microbiology*


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It's almost been one month since we lost our sweet baby boy.
I have learned that clueless three-year-olds are a gift from God. Boston has made us laugh and continued on with his happy little life in spite of everything going on around him.
I have decided if there were an award for grieving, Brooklyn would win it. She talks about Beckett at least once every day. She draws pictures of him and writes letters to him. She somehow lives her life in a way that remembers him and honors him, without any heaviness. She is sad, but she is strong. She is one amazing girl.
I have been thankful for my marriage. I ache for Brian's pain. He wants to take mine away. We both have moments of strength and hard moments, but we have them together.
I have felt God's strength and comfort in a way I have never experienced before. I have never needed to experience it to this extent before. I can't explain it, and I don't think I need to be able to explain it. I just know that I would not be handling this the way I am without Him.
God's love for me does not surprise me. God is love. It's what He does because it's who He is. What amazes me is the love being shown to us by other people. I know myself. I am a sinner. I make mistakes. I know Brian. I think he's the greatest husband in the world (obviously), but I know he is very human as well. We are not amazing or exceptional people. But we have made an intentional choice to share our lives with other people, and it is a choice we would make again 100 times.
We brought Beckett home from the hospital on September 15th. That morning Brian's parents flew back to the US. We were bringing our third child home from the hospital with our closest relative 4,000 miles away. We were faced with a choice at that time. We could pretend to be self-sufficient and try to make it through this newly complicated life on our own. "Our little family of five is great and we don't need any help!" Or we could share our lives with those around us. We could ask for and accept help. In the first scenario, I think we would have survived. It would have been hard, but we could have made it through each day. But we didn't choose that option.
When Beckett was born we chose to share our lives, and we chose to share our little boy with those God had placed around us. And we loved it. Beckett quickly captured the hearts of our friends, our church, and pretty much anyone we passed in the village. He had big bright eyes and around two-months-old he started showing off a big smile to go with it.
We shared our little boy through the beauty of technology as well. Our family that couldn't hold Beckett with their arms got to smile and talk to him online. Even my 90-year-old grandmother got to hold the iPad right up to her face and admire her eighth great-grandchild. Our friends could meet Beckett through social media. And our financial and prayer supporters in ministry were able to rejoice with us from a distance.
Life was hard with three kids. But the friends and the community that surrounded us made it enjoyable. I knew this thing we were experiencing was special. Brian and I often asked ourselves what we did to deserve such blessings from God. Why did we get to be the lucky ones that loved life and thrived in our current circumstances?
On January 4th our circumstances changed. We lost our little boy. At that point we had another choice to make. We could huddle our little family of four close and retreat in our hurt. Or we could continue to share this life with others.
Those people we let into our lives, they were hurting too. Our community that rejoiced with us and loved our little boy, this affected them too. The people near and far, the people that held Beckett in their arms, and the ones that held him in their hearts, it touched all of us. Brian, Rebekah, Brooklyn, and Boston didn't experience this hurt alone. So we chose to share the pain just like we shared the joy.
This month I have learned many lessons. Some were not new lessons, but reinforced truths. One thing I know is that this life is meant to be shared. We might have been able to survive Beckett's life on our own, but I question whether we could have survived his death without our friends.
Choosing to share our lives is a choice we will make over and over again. And it's a choice I would boldly tell you to make today. I'm not suggesting you begin to post photos of all your meals and family outings on Facebook (though I won't complain if you do). I'm suggesting you invite someone over for dinner tonight. Offer to babysit for a couple that could use some alone time. Take a new mom and her baby out for coffee. Stop to have a conversation with the neighbor you wave at in passing each day. I'm suggesting you take the first step to make a real connection.
This choice to share our lives—it is a choice that can leave us vulnerable to hurt and can end up quite messy. But it is also a choice that can bring us unbelievable hope and joy. It's a choice that comes with a risk. But it's a risk that I'm willing to take.
I look forward to continuing to share our life with you—the joy and the pain.
Once again, blessed and challenged by your words! Thank you, Rebekah!
Rebekah you continue to amaze and inspire me. You are truly an example of God's love and the strength that he can give us always when we most need it. Love you so very much and continuing to pray for you all.
Such beautiful wisdom. Thank YOU for the encouragement. It's amazing how God uses those that are hurting the most to comfort and encourage others. I suppose that's why it's called Amazing Grace, and you certainly exude it. Love and continued prayers for your sweet family.
Beautifully shared, Rebekah. Thank you again for sharing your heart with others. And thank you God for your heart of love and grace upon this family.
I praise God for His care for you and for your choice to continue to follow Him. May our Lord continue His healing in your family each day.


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L'orgia dei morti è un film del 1973 diretto da José Luis Merino. Copruduzione italo-spagnola. Titolo spagnolo La orgía de los muertos; titolo per il mercato anglofono Orgy of the dead.

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La vicenda è ambientata nei primi dell'Ottocento e narra di Serge, giovane londinese convocato in Macedonia a seguito del decesso di un suo ricco zio, barone residente a Skopje. Giunto nella città, Serge apprende che anche la figlia del defunto barone, sua cugina Mary, è morta: assassinata subito dopo il funerale del padre. Dalla lettura del testamento si apprende che il ricco barone ha lasciato quasi tutte le sue fortune a Serge mentre a Nadja, la sua seconda giovane moglie, vengono legate alcune miserrime rendite. Nadja, infuriata per la scelta del defunto marito, cerca di corteggiare Serge il quale, però, le preferisce Dorys, la giovane figlia del dottor Leòn. Il dott. Leòn è un assiduo frequentatore del castello del defunto barone in quanto, nelle segrete del maniero, si trova il suo studio, all'interno del quale, il dottore, sta promuovendo una serie di segretissimi esperimenti. Un giorno Nadja viene uccisa da una imprecisata entità durante una seduta spiritica. Un ispettore di polizia indaga sugli omicidi. Le forze dell'ordine sono convinte che il responsabile dei misfatti sia Igor, il becchino del cimitero locale, uomo deviato mentalmente e con tendenze necrofile. Solo al termine si scoprirà che il responsabile delle morti è il dott. Leòn.

Il dottore stava conducendo una serie di esperimenti sui cadaveri, al fine di riportarli in vita. Le cavie per i suoi esperimenti gli venivano fornite da Igor, che prelevava i corpi dal locale cimitero. Gli esperimenti del dott. Leòn, però, sfuggono di mano allo stesso scienziato: i morti animatisi e trasformatisi in zombie, finiscono col non ubbidire al medico, seminando il terrore. Nadja e Mary erano state uccise da due morti viventi e, anche Igor, cade vittima di uno zombie. Nel tentativo di salvarsi il dott. Leon, Dorys e Serge si danno ad una grossa fuga e, per allontanare i morti viventi, utilizzano il fuoco. Un grosso incendio divampa nelle segrete del castello e solo Dorys e Serge si salveranno. Il dott. Leòn resterà ucciso dagli stessi esseri mostruosi da lui creati. Dopo l'intervento della polizia e dopo un grosso rastrellamento della zona, si è portati a pensare che gli zombie siano tutti periti nell'incendio. Esausto per gli accadimenti, Serge decide di tornare a Londra ove Dorys, oramai sua ufficiale fidanzata, lo raggiungerà dopo qualche giorno. Serge lascia Skopje in treno mentre, Dorys, si allontana su una carrozza. Prima di raggiungere Londra la ragazza intende occuparsi del funerale del padre, il dottor Leòn. Dorys non si accorge, però, che la carrozza sulla quale si allontana è guidata da un morto vivente.

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