Wampsville, N.Y. - Visit eight of twelve Cultural and Historical sites in Madison County over the summer and fall and you will have the chance to win an I-Pad. That's the big prize in a promotion unveiled today at a press conference in Wampsville. Twelve cultural and historic sites across Madison County have banded together to create the Cultural and Historic Attraction Passport Program. The goal is to encourage visitation during the summer and fall of 2012. Each time a visitor stops at one of the locations they will receive a stamp in the passport. When they are finished, they will turn in their entry forms. In December all of the entries will be combined and a winner of the I-Pad will be chosen. Madison County Tourism executive director Jim Walter explained the importance of the program, "We have fantastic museums, music venues and cultural sites in the county. This passport program is an effort to introduce visitors to all of the sites in the county. If someone stops at the Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, they will quickly learn about the Canastota Canal Town Museum just 5 miles down the road. The more exposure we can give to our historic sites and museums the more visitors we will bring to the county." Visitors to cultural and historical sites on average, spend more money than the typical visitor. This program is designed to attract more of those tourists to Madison County, and to get them to stay longer by showcasing the variety and number of sites available to visit. The participating sites include: The Oneida Community Mansion House, Canastota Canaltown Museum, Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, Lorenzo State Historic Site, National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Catherine Cummings Theatre, Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall Earlville Opera House, Madison County Historical Society, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Gerrit Smith National Historic Landmark, and the Cazenovia Public Library. Visitors will be able to pick up the passports at any of the participating museums, tourism information kiosks inside the Colgate Bookstore in Hamilton, the Madison County Visitor Center on Route 20 in Bouckville, Oneida Commons in Oneida, the county office building in Wampsville, outside of Cazenovia Artisans in Cazenovia and at local chamber of commerce offices in Oneida and Cazenovia. The passport is also available online at http://www.madisontourism.com/ under history. The passport was made possible in part by a donation from the Upstate Institute at Colgate University.


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Q: after install docker oraclelinux,then how to connect docker oraclelnux docker run -i -t -p 1521:1521 --name oracle-test oraclelinux:8
docker exec -it -u root -w /root  oracle-test  /bin/bash
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Went to a public school in Athens, GA with a graduating class of about 250 students.
Went to a public school in Fayetteville, GA with a graduating class of about 300 students.
Went to a public school in Dalton, GA with a graduating class of about 500 students.
Went to a private school in Atlanta, GA with a graduating class of about 200 students.


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#pragma once

#include <rj_geometry/point.hpp>
#include <rj_geometry/pose.hpp>
#include <boost/circular_buffer.hpp>
#include <rj_common/utils.hpp>
#include <rj_vision_filter/filter/kalman_filter3_d.hpp>
#include <rj_vision_filter/robot/camera_robot.hpp>

namespace vision_filter {
class WorldRobot;

/**
 * Filtered robot estimation for a single camera
 */
class KalmanRobot {
public:
    /**
     * Checks previous_world_robot to see if it's valid
     *
     * @param camera_id ID of the camera this filter is applied to
     * @param creation_time Time this filter was created
     * @param init_measurement Initial robot measurement
     * @param previous_world_robot World robot from last frame (or invalid world
     * robot)
     */
    KalmanRobot(unsigned int camera_id, RJ::Time creation_time,
                CameraRobot init_measurement,
                const WorldRobot& previous_world_robot);

    /**
     * Predicts one time step forward
     *
     * @param current_time Current time of the prediction step
     */
    void predict(RJ::Time current_time);

    /**
     * Predicts one time step forward then triangulates toward the measurement
     *
     * @param current_time Current time of the prediction/update step
     * @param update_robot Robot measurement that we are using as feedback
     */
    void predict_and_update(RJ::Time current_time, CameraRobot update_robot);

    /**
     * Returns true when the filter hasn't been updated in a while and should be
     * deleted
     */
    bool is_unhealthy() const;

    /**
     * @return The camera id this belongs to
     */
    unsigned int get_camera_id() const;

    /**
     * @return This robot's id
     */
    int get_robot_id() const;

    /**
     * @return How healthy this filter is. AKA How often it's been updated
     */
    int get_health() const;

    /**
     * @return Best estimate of the linear position of the robot
     */
    rj_geometry::Point get_pos() const;

    /**
     * @return Best estimate of the heading. Not bounded
     */
    double get_theta() const;

    /**
     * @return Best estimate of the linear velocity of the robot
     */
    rj_geometry::Point get_vel() const;

    /**
     * @return Best estimate of the angular velocity
     */
    double get_omega() const;

    /**
     * @return Covariance in X and Y linear direction of the position of the
     * robot
     */
    rj_geometry::Point get_pos_cov() const;

    /**
     * @return Covariance of theta of the robot
     */
    double get_theta_cov() const;

    /**
     * @return Covariance in X and Y linear direction of the velocity of the
     * robot
     */
    rj_geometry::Point get_vel_cov() const;

    /**
     * @return Covariance of omega of the robot
     */
    double get_omega_cov() const;

    /**
     * @return List of previous camera robot measurements for kick detection
     */
    const boost::circular_buffer<CameraRobot>& get_prev_measurements() const;

private:
    RJ::Time last_update_time_;
    RJ::Time last_predict_time_;

    boost::circular_buffer<CameraRobot> previous_measurements_;

    KalmanFilter3D filter_;

    double previous_theta_;
    int unwrap_theta_ctr_;
    int health_;

    int robot_id_;

    unsigned int camera_id_;
};
}  // namespace vision_filter

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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino just began his eight-month prison sentence for tax evasion.
The 36-year-old Jersey Shore star reported to the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York, on Tuesday. According to TMZ, it's the same prison where President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen is expected to serve his three-year sentence for campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress, beginning in March.
FCI Otisville, located about two hours from Manhattan in the Hudson Valley, is a medium security federal correctional institution for male offenders with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp and a detention center. It holds 835 inmates total.
According to the official handbook, Otisville prisoners are woken up at 6 a.m. on weekdays, have breakfast at 6:15 and report to work at 7:30. The work involves providing services for the prison, such as laundry or landscaping.
Prisoners eat lunch between 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., and dinner from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Lights are turned off by 11:30 p.m.
Upon arrival, prisoners are given a set of clothing along with a standard bed roll consisting of two sheets, one pillowcase, two towels and two wash cloths.
Inmates can't bring much with them, but they are allowed to keep medical or orthopedic devices, legal documents, prescription eye glasses and religious items, as long as they do not pose a security threat.
They can purchase various products at the commissary with a spending limit of $320 per month. Items for sale include clothing, hair care, and an array of food and drink that includes sodas, candy, cookies, popcorn, pepperoni and pizza kits.
Sorrentino, who married his college sweetheart Lauren Pesce on Nov. 1, 2018, will be permitted to wear his plain wedding band inside the prison, as The Blast first pointed out.
Inmates are encouraged to maintain relationships with family members, friends, and other community members through correspondence but cannot receive polaroid pictures through the mail.
Visitors on an inmate's authorized visiting list may include immediate family and 25 additional adults. A maximum number of four adult visitors and four children can visit the inmate at one time.
Inmates are also allowed 300 calling minutes per month, with a 15-minute maximum per call.
Sorrentino pled guilty to one count of tax evasion in January 2018, and his brother Marc pled guilty to one count of aiding in the preparation of a false and fraudulent tax return. In October 2018, Sorrentino was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of supervised release, and Marc was sentenced to two years, which he will serve at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison for male offenders in New Jersey.


It's pretty loud at least till youtube lowers it. A vid for a good ol pal of mine Drone because he was angry my rara vid didn't have rarity. This originally was gonna be a 1 minute vid but I decided to make it longer for no reason.
Veg crashed so much whenever I wanted to do even the most simplest of visuals so there's not much visually pleasing.
Mostly just something to hear.
How Applejack Won The War - With Lyrics!


Aside from the eating room, you could even put in the painting formica countertops to look like granite on your livingroom. By installing the formica laminate kitchen countertops on your living space, it will offer out the elegant touchof What's more, in the event your granite is surrounded with fitting furniture, then it will maximize the exceptional feeling from your home furniture. In a glimpse, you will be unable to comprehend the conventional furniture as it seems to be the same as wood furniture. Exactly what exactly makes the standard furniture distinct is it has the older style routine and ornament either in the thighs and also the borders. So, be careful once you buy the household furniture.
You can find several kinds of exactly what the painting formica countertops to look like granite can produce of. If you have part of one's property insured or even has a duplex, I suggest one to purchase a kitchen formica countertops that look like granite. Why it has to be timber, maybe not the alloy ? Whether it is made from timber, it will grant you the sensation of bringing one straight back to style as though you become one with character. The effect or the consequence with the feeling is the fact that it gives you the ability to reduce anxiety especially in the event that you work hard on week days. The normal granite chairs up out of four to four six persons. Nevertheless, the range of chairs can be adjusted in line with the number of your nearest. If you are a challenging worker who functions together with your family members and does not have a opportunity to spend your time by having meals together with them in public parks or campgrounds, this could be described as a great idea for you.
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Yerba Buena Social Club kicks off Carnaval season with "MARDI GRAS"! Live band VIBRASÓN, DJ Hong and special guests spinning for your dancing enjoyment, and some amazing dance performances are waiting for you!
LIVE SALSA MUSIC by VIBRASÓN - vibraphone salsa band in the tradition of Joe Cuba, New Swing Sextet, Grupo Latin Vibe, etc.
Our dancers come from all over California - Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and of course the SF Bay Area!
Yerba Buena Social Club is a BYOB (Bring Your Own Beverage) event!
- Inner Mission SF bartenders will be there with to mix your hard liquor into the cocktail of your choice.
- there is a Safeway at 16th St and Bryant within walking distance (2.5 blocks) open 24 hours. With your Yerba Buena wrist bracelet you can leave the venue and come back with your drinks.


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package net.sourceforge.jaad.aac.syntax;

import net.sourceforge.jaad.aac.AACException;
import net.sourceforge.jaad.aac.DecoderConfig;

/**
 * This class is part of JAAD ( jaadec.sourceforge.net ) that is distributed
 * under the Public Domain license. Code changes provided by the JCodec project
 * are distributed under FreeBSD license.
 *
 * @author in-somnia
 */
class SCE_LFE extends Element {

	private final ICStream ics;

	SCE_LFE(int frameLength) {
		super();
		ics = new ICStream(frameLength);
	}

	void decode(IBitStream in, DecoderConfig conf) throws AACException {
		readElementInstanceTag(in);
		ics.decode(in, false, conf);
	}

	public ICStream getICStream() {
		return ics;
	}
}


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The machines all come with warranty which is the the same as SOTA offers.The Units are covered for two or three years depending on which unit.
Cleaning crystals for your distiller will prolong the life of your machine, keeping it clean and in good working condition.
Arm strap for Silver Pulser, the Silver Pulser Machine just clips on!


With less than 36 hours left in the trade deadline, the Chicago White Sox were able to finally move the biggest name left on the trade block. As of 12:05 pm, the White Sox have acquired two pitchers from the Kansas City Royals in exchange for outfielder Melky Cabrera. The two pitchers are the 22-year-old right-handed A.J. Puckett and 23-year-old left-handed Andre Davis. Neither of these pitchers have reached the Double-A level in their professional career just yet, but pitcher tend to take longer to move through the minor leagues.
The White Sox had to be glad to finally move Melky after a lot of speculation over the past few weeks. Melky Cabrera was going to hit free agency at the end of this season and Rick Hahn wanted to get something for the left fielder, especially with his .337/.370/.514 slash line since June 10th. In that same exact span, Alex Gordon produced a .239/.303/.396 slash line while hitting just above the Mendoza line, which is a .200 or worse average, at .201 in 92 games this year. Melky Cabrera will more than likely slide into the every day left field role while forcing Alex Gordon to the bench or be a part of a platoon in right field with Jorge Bonifacio. Most Royals fans might hate to see their long time left fielder sit on the bench and let Brandon Moss ride the bench, but Moss has been pretty hot with an OPS just over .850 since the All Star Break. Melky Cabrera brings a boost to that Kansas City lineup with the way he is hitting, but will be clutch to have down the home stretch of the season against Cleveland as he owns a .472 average against the Indians' ace, Corey Kluber over 36 at bats.
The White Sox were able to add two more arms to their farm system thanks to this deal, even if they don't seem like very high potential pieces. Arms are always important because no one enters a career as a pitcher hoping to only work out of the bullpen, but sometimes that is just where you end up. If you can build a strong bullpen out of players you have brought up through your system, it is better than paying a guy out of free agency with how volatile bullpens can be season to season.
A.J. Puckett was the 13th best prospect in the Royals system and brings with him a 90-94 mph fastball with some sink to it along with a plus changeup and an average curveball. According to most scouts, Puckett is a pitcher with a very high baseball IQ and knows that he has to work the corners to get hitters out since he doesn't have anything that is overpowering at this point of his career. In 108 innings this year at High-A ball, Puckett is striking out about 8 batters per nine innings while allowing close to 4 walks per nine. That is part of the danger when you aren't able to just blow a fastball past a batter or use the breaking ball as a wipe out pitch on a 2 strike count. A positive thing about Puckett is he is getting batters to ground out nearly half of the time during his 2017 season, but his current profile has him pegged as a 4th starter due to his limited strikeout upside.
The White Sox also acquired the left-handed Andre Davis, who was unranked in the Kansas City Royals system and has had a rough season so far in Low-A Ball for the Royals farm as he is carrying a 4.83 ERA. However, while he has an awfully high ERA here in 2017, all of the peripherals point to some regression in a positive way as Davis is striking out nine batters per nine while walking less than 2.5 batters per nine innings. On top of that, Davis' FIP (fielder independent pitching) is 3.98 shows that Davis' has been pitching well, but is running in to some bad luck during this 2017 campaign. The biggest issue that Andre Davis has shown in 2017 is his inability to prevent line drives while also getting killed by right handers. The lefty has been able to hold down opponents who are hitting lefty as he has a .216 batting average against in 97 at bats this year and has only walked 4 lefties while striking out 32 left-handed batters. At this point, Andre Davis looks like he could be a good bullpen arm for the White Sox in a couple of years if he can't figure out how to prevent right-handed batters from reaching base.
This trade was another vote of confidence from the front office of the Kansas City Royals to its players while the Sox continue to acquire pieces for the future and getting worse for a better draft pick in 2018. Melky is going to be a big piece for the Royals since he played in Kansas City in 2011 and will fill the offensive hole that has been left field for Kansas City this year. With 60 games left in the season and the Royals holding a 2.5 game lead over Tampa Bay in the second wild card spot, the Royals are making one last push for a World Series before they lose the long time core of Eric Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain, and Mike Moustakas.


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Egyptens flagga med nuvarande utseende antogs den 4 oktober 1984. Flaggan har tre horisontella band i rött, vitt och svart. Mitt på flaggan finns Saladins örn som också är Egyptens statsvapen. Proportionerna är 2:3.

Historik
När Egypten var en del av osmanska imperiet användes en traditionell osmansk röd flagga med halvmåne och stjärna i vitt. Det moderna egyptiska kungarikets flagga var grön med tre stjärnor och en halvmåne i vitt. De tre stjärnorna symboliserade Egypten, Nubien och Sudan. Samma flagga användes i Anglo-egyptiska Sudan, som var en gemensam koloni mellan Egypten och Storbritannien.

Guvernementens flaggor
Vart och ett av Egyptens 27 guvernement har en egen flagga.

Källor

Se även
 Egypten
 Egyptens statsvapen

Nationsflaggor i Afrika
Egyptens nationalsymboler

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Tournament-experienced team awaits Webster for school's first trip to state in 20 years
While Webster County will be making its first appearance in the Sweet 16 in 20 years, its first-round opponent will be in familiar surroundings.
Tournament-experienced team awaits Webster for school's first trip to state in 20 years While Webster County will be making its first appearance in the Sweet 16 in 20 years, its first-round opponent will be in familiar surroundings. Check out this story on thegleaner.com: https://www.thegleaner.com/story/sports/2018/03/05/tournament-experienced-team-awaits-webster-schools-first-trip-state-20-years/395059002/
Kevin Patton, The Gleaner Published 11:26 a.m. CT March 5, 2018
Webster County's Karlie Keeney (3) splits Hopkinsville's Lakayla Samuel (4) and Hopkinsville's Breon Oldham (5) as the Webster County Lady Trojans play the Hopkinsville Lady Tigers in the Second Region semifinals in Dixon Friday, March 2, 2018.(Photo: MIKE LAWRENCE / COURIER & PRESS)Buy Photo
DIXON – While Webster County will be making its first appearance in the state tournament in 20 years, its first-round opponent will be back in familiar surroundings this week at Northern Kentucky University's BB&T Arena.
Boyd County, which won its second straight 16th Region title on Saturday, will face the Lady Trojans in the first round of the state tournament Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Central time. The Lady Lions (27-4) return three starters from a team that lost to eventual state champion Mercer County in the first round of the last year's state tournament.
Webster County (28-6) doesn't have a player who was born when the school last made the Sweet 16 in 1998. In four previous trips to the state tournament, the Lady Trojans have won only one game. In 1981, Webster County beat Sheldon Clark in the first round before losing to eventual state champion Pulaksi County in the quarterfinals. The Lady Trojans were also eliminated by the eventual state champion, Elizabethtown, in their last trip to the state tournament in 1998.
For a team without state tournament experience, the Lady Trojans have as much postseason experience as possible. The team's three seniors – Kelsey Payne, Jessica Winders and Jamie Winstead – have been a part of four straight Second Region finalist teams.
The regional experience could have helped host Webster County in Saturday's 45-32 win over Christian County in the Second Region final.
More: Webster Co. captures first region title in 20 years
"They've had a lot of tournament experience at this level, that may have helped," Webster County coach Brandon Fisher said.
After three straight runner-up finishes to Henderson County with the last two finals decided by a total of six points, the Lady Colonels experienced a great sense of accomplishment and joy in securing the title.
"It's great. It's indescribable," Winstead said.
"It's amazing that for so many years they haven't accomplished this and we've been able to do this for the community," said Winders, who scored 10 points and had seven rebounds in the win.
Webster County's Sadie Wurth (1) drives to the goal under pressure from Hopkinsville's Breon Oldham (5) as the Webster County Lady Trojans play the Hopkinsville Lady Tigers in the Second Region semifinals in Dixon Friday, March 2, 2018. (Photo: MIKE LAWRENCE / COURIER & PRESS)
It was Webster County's swarming defense that led the way to the victory in the finals as Christian County was held scoreless for more than 11 minutes in the first half.
Allowing opponents less than 40 points a game this season, Webster's defense might have been at its best in the first half as Christian County, which averages nearly 67 points a game, was held scoreless the entire second quarter.
"We were communicating. We had energy. We were rotating. We were taking away their best offense and it was just getting in their head," Winders said.
"We tried to keep it out of the paint and make them shoot from the outside. We tried to be everywhere at one time," said Winstead, who scored six points but had a team-high eight rebounds as the Lady Trojans had a 28-24 edge on the glass against the much bigger Lady Colonels.
They held Christian's 6-3 center Trinitee Jackson in check after she scored 24 points and had 13 rebounds in Friday's semifinal win over Henderson County. She finished with nine points and seven rebounds on Saturday.
"We knew we had to surround Jackson inside and hopefully they didn't make a lot of perimeter shots," Fisher said.
Keeping the Lady Colonels off the board was another key to limiting their offense. "I think the biggest thing was blocking out. Sometimes their best offense is crank one up there and let the big girl go get it and put it back in," he said.
Junior guard Karlie Keeney led Webster County with 12 points on Saturday. She, Winders and Marissa Austin were named to the all-tournament team following the game. Emilee Hope and Alyssa Dickson made the squad from Henderson County, which lost to Christian County in the semifinals.
Boyd County, which beat Ashland Blazer for the fourth time this season in the 16th Region final, is led by Marshall signee Savannah Wheeler. The 5-6 guard averages 25 points a game which includes 101 3-point goals this season.
Webster County's Marissa Austin (2) drives against Hopkinsville's Breon Oldham (5) as the Webster County Lady Trojans play the Hopkinsville Lady Tigers in the Second Region semifinals in Dixon Friday, March 2, 2018. (Photo: MIKE LAWRENCE / COURIER & PRESS)
KHSAA State Tournament
At BB&T Arena, Northern Kentucky University
All Times Central
Wednesday: Johnson Central vs. Owensboro Catholic, 11 a.m.; Elizabethtown vs. Bowling Green 12:30 p.m.; Murray vs. Mercer Co., 5:30 p.m.; George Rogers Clark vs. Harlan Co., 7 p.m.
Thursday: Mercy vs. Knott Co. Central, 11 a.m.; Scott Co. vs. Manual, 12:30 p.m.; Boyd Co. vs. Webster Co., 5:30 p.m.; Ryle vs. Simon Kenton, 7 p.m.
Friday: Johnson Central-Owensboro Catholic winner vs. Murray-Mercer winner, 11 a.m.; Clark-Harlan winner vs. E-town-Bowling Green winner, 12:30 p.m.; Ryle-Simon Kenton winner vs. Mercy-Knott winner, 5:30 p.m.; Boyd-Webster winner vs. Scott-Manual winner, 7 p.m.
Saturday: Upper bracket 5:30 p.m.; lower bracket 7 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.
Tickets: Webster County High School has advanced tickets available for Thursday's first-round game for $11. Tickets at the door will be $14 and $19.
Book, Todd will represent U.S. in Europe
Weather shortens Street Vault

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Underfoot XXIX, New York
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation
August/September 2000, printed January 30, 2001
Virtual Member Lecture: Japanese Prints—Hokusai's Fantastic Landscapes | September 10, 2021
Gelatin silver print; edition of 10
Stamped and inscribed verso, upper left, in black ink: "Ref. 19920"; inscribed verso, center in black ink: "·· E"; inscribed verso, center, in black ink: "UNDERFOOT XXIX / (NEW YORK, AUG–SEPT. 2000) [in a box]"; stamped and inscribed verso, center, in black ink: "PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 2000 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without written permission of photographer"; signed and stamped verso, lower right, in black ink: "Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]"; inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink: "Print made Jan. 30, 2001. / IP"; signed, verso, lower center, in black ink: "Irving Penn [in a circle]"; stamped verso, lower center, in black ink: "TONED IN: SELENIUM"; stamped and inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink: "VASILIOS ZATSE COLLABORATED CLOSELY / IN MAKING THE PRINT / IP."; inscribed and stamped verso, lower right, in black ink: "10. SIGNED SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE, WITH VARIATIONS / IP."
Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation in memory of James Wood
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn," July 10–November 28, 2004; traveled to San Francisco, California, Fraenkel Gallery, January 6–March 5, 2005; and New York, New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, October 6–November 5, 2005.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Irving Penn: Underfoot," January 17–May 12, 2013. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)
Estate of the artist; by descent to the artist's son, Tom Penn [who is also the executive director of The Irving Penn Foundation]; given by the Foundation to the Art Institute, 2011.
Underfoot XXXVI, New York, August/September 2000, printed February 2, 2001
Underfoot XXXV, New York, August/September 2000, printed January 29, 2001
Underfoot XXXIV, New York, August/September 2000, printed September 2000
Underfoot XXXIII, New York, August/September 2000, printed November 20, 2000
Underfoot XXXII, New York, August/September 2000, printed February 1, 2001
Underfoot XXXI, New York, August/September 2000, printed January 16, 2001
Underfoot XXX, New York, August/September 2000, printed November 21, 2000
Underfoot XXVIII, New York, August/September 2000, printed November 6, 2000
Underfoot XXVII, New York, August/September 2000, printed October 2000
Underfoot XXVI, New York, August/September 2000, printed April 4, 2001
Underfoot XXV, New York, August/September 2000, printed March 7, 2001
Underfoot XXIV, New York, August/September 2000, printed November 2000


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\section{Introduction}

Cardiac motion scoring is essential for clinical diagnosis of various cardiac disease~\cite{Lang2015Recommendations}, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, stress-induced cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, stroke, amongst others. However, cardiac wall motion is a complex deformation procedure with regional wall thickening, circumferential shortening and longitudinal ventricular shortening.  It varies a lot in the presence of different types of pathology. In routine clinical practice, motion scoring is often conducted by labor-intensive visual inspection of the dynamic cardiac sequences of MR or Echocardiograms for each segment of left ventricle, following the scoring system of~\cite{Lang2015Recommendations}: (1) normal, (2) hypokinetic, (3) akinetic, and (4) dyskinetic. The results obtained in this way are characterized by large inter-rater variability and low reproducibility~\cite{Paetsch2006determination} due to the complex regional motion patterns and the subtle motion difference between segments.

However, automated motion scoring from cardiac MR images has never been investigated despite its clinical significance. Existing work only focused on binary motion abnormality detection\cite{Afshin2014Regional,Afshin2011assessment,Leung2007localized,Lu2009Pattern,Mantilla2015Classification,Punithakumar2012regional,Punithakumar2013regional,Punithakumar2010regional,Punithakumar2010detection,Qian2008identifying,Qian2011identifying,Suinesiaputra2009automated}, which alleviates a lot the difficulty of differentiating the subtle difference among various motion patterns.
In summary, these methods follow a pipeline of: 1) \emph{myocardium segments localization}, by manually or semi-automatically delineating the contours of myocardium~\cite{Afshin2014Regional,Afshin2011assessment,Leung2007localized,Lu2009Pattern,Suinesiaputra2009automated,Punithakumar2012regional,Punithakumar2013regional,Punithakumar2010regional,Punithakumar2010detection}, 2) handcrafted \emph{motion information extraction}, including spatial-temporal profiles~\cite{Qian2008identifying,Qian2011identifying}, inter-frame correlations~\cite{Afshin2011assessment,Afshin2014Regional,Lu2009Pattern}, or parameter distribution~\cite{Punithakumar2012regional,Punithakumar2013regional,Punithakumar2010regional,Punithakumar2010detection}, and then 3) \emph{motion classification}.

\begin{table}[!t]
	\caption{Existing methods on \emph{binary} abnormality detection only obtained good performance for small dataset with LOO experiment setting.}
	\label{table_methods_review}
	\centering
	\begin{tabular}{l|ccccc}
		\hline
		Methods& $\#$ of Subject&Modality& Training/Test&Accuracy(\%)&Kappa value\\
		\hline
		\cite{Punithakumar2010regional}&30&SAX MR&LOO&90.8&0.738\\
		\cite{Punithakumar2012regional}&30&SAX, 2C, 3C, 4C MR&LOO&91.9&0.738\\
		\cite{Punithakumar2013regional}&58&SAX MR&LOO&87.1&0.73\\
		\cite{Qian2011identifying,Qian2008identifying}&22&SAX Tagged MR&LOO&87.8&-\\
		\cite{Lu2009Pattern}&17& SAX Basal MR&No split&86.3&0.693\\

		\cite{Afshin2014Regional}&58&SAX MR&3-fold CV&86&0.73\\
		\cite{Suinesiaputra2009automated}&89&SAX MR&45/44&65.9&-\\
		\cite{Leung2007localized}&129&2C and 4C Echo&65/64&76.5&-\\
		\hline
	\end{tabular}
	\footnotesize{SAX: short axis view; 2C: two chamber view; 3C: three chamber view; 4C: four chamber view; LOO: leave-one-subject-out; CV: cross validation}
\end{table}

While these methods achieved promising accuracy for abnormality detection, they cannot be applied to the task of motion scoring because 1) only heuristic handcrafted feature is not sufficient to capture the complex regional motion information; and 2) absence of dependency modeling between local features  of all segments cannot capture the subtle motion difference between segments. Besides, they still suffer from the following limitations: 1) delineation of myocardium border is required, either manually or semi-automatically, introducing inconvenience in clinical practice; 2) multiple classifiers are trained for different segments~\cite{Leung2007localized,Lu2009Pattern,Afshin2011assessment,Afshin2014Regional} or slices~\cite{Punithakumar2012regional,Punithakumar2013regional,Punithakumar2010regional,Suinesiaputra2009automated}, complicating their practical application; 3) only achieves good performance on small dataset (as shown in Table.~\ref{table_methods_review}), where the diversity of cardiac motion pattern is limited.

In this paper, we take advantage of the deep convolution network and non-local modeling~\cite{Wang2017nonlocal}, and propose the first reliable solution, Cardiac-MOS for Cardiac MOtion Scoring. While the convolution network extracts discriminative \emph{local} features, non-local modeling allows distant \emph{non-local} responses to contribute to the response at a location, therefore capturing the subtle relative changes of local motion features. In Cardiac-MOS, we 1) design a kernel-interpolation based convolution (conv-KI) layer, which captures motion information by convolution along the temporal dimension, and reuses the kernel by interpolation for sequences of various lengths, and 2) introduce segment- and subject-level non-local modeling to explore the long-range relationships within each segment and across all 16 segments of one subject. With non-local modeling, Cardiac-MOS is capable of extracting the subtle motion difference between segments and thus delivering accurate motion scoring results.

\begin{figure}[!t]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=10cm]{fig/16_seg_polar.pdf}
	\caption{Myocardium segment re-sampling. The 16 segments obtained from short axis slices (a) according to the AHA 17-segment model~\cite{Lang2015Recommendations} of left ventricle (b) are converted into the polar coordinates and re-sampled to rectangular sequences of the same size (c), so that the motion information can be more easily modeled. Appearance similarity between patches within each segment (blue) and patches across all segments (red) underlies our non-local modeling.}
	\label{fig_16seg_polar}
\end{figure}

\section{Cardiac Motion Scoring}

The proposed network Cardiac-MOS takes as input the myocardial segment sequences represented in the polar coordinate system. We first describe  how to convert the spatial cardiac MR sequences into the polar coordinate system, and then describe how Cardiac-MOS works.

\subsection{Myocardium segment re-sampling in polar coordinate system}
To ensure a uniform scoring procedure for all the 16 regions in spite of their position, and to leverage the powerful representation of neural network for motion information extraction, the fan-shaped regions obtained following the AHA 17-segment model of left ventricle~\cite{Lang2015Recommendations} (Fig.~\ref{fig_16seg_polar} (b)) are converted into the polar coordinate system. For segments of apical slice, we re-sample them along the angular dimension, therefore resulting in segments of the same size with those of basal and mid-slices (Fig.~\ref{fig_16seg_polar} (c)). Such conversion and re-sampling make it more convenient to capture the motion information and model the spatial dependencies since most motions fall into the same orientation.
Denote the obtained $i$th ($i=1,...16$) segment sequence for patient $p$ as $X_{p,i}\in \mathcal{R}^{r,a,t}$, where $r, a$ are the sampling numbers along the radial and angular dimension, and $t$ is the frame number in the cardiac cycle. In this work, $r$ equals half of the image size, $a$ is 60 for all the segments.

\begin{figure}[!t]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=9.5cm]{fig/network_nonlocal_v2.pdf}
	\caption{Our Cardiac-MOS models the distant non-local relationship of convolution features with Non-local neural networks in both segment-level ((a) Cardiac-MOS (seg-NL)) and subject-level ((b) Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL)). Kernel interpolation (conv-KI) is deployed to extract motion information from sequences of various lengths.}
	\label{fig_network}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Motion scoring neural network}
With the segment sequence $X_{p,i}$, the task of motion scoring aims to rate its motion function following the above mentioned scoring system $\mathbf{s}_{p,i}\in \{0,1,2,3\}$. The proposed Cardiac-MOS (Fig.~\ref{fig_network}) contains four successive convolution blocks to extract discriminative motion-aware information from each segment sequence. Specifically, to extract the motion information from sequences of various lengths, the first convolution block is equipped with a kernel-interpolation based convolution (conv-KI) layer, which is applied along the temporal dimension. To capture the subtle motion difference between segments, non-local relationship of local convolutional features is modeled with non-local neural network. Finally, a fully connection block with Softmax layer is used for motion scoring.

\begin{figure}[!t]
	\centering
	\begin{minipage}[b]{0.4\textwidth}
		\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig/kernel_interpolation.pdf}
		\caption{The proposed conv-KI layer extracts motion information from segment sequences of different lengths by interpolating $k_0$ to form the new kernel.}
		\label{fig_kernel_interp}
	\end{minipage}
	\hfill
	\begin{minipage}[b]{0.54\textwidth}
		\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig/non_local_v2.pdf}
		\caption{Non-Local block employed in Fig.~\ref{fig_network}, which explores relationships between distant non-local response in feature maps $\mathbf{x}$ of the convolution layer.}
		\label{fig_nonlocal}
	\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\vspace{-3mm}
\subsubsection{Motion extraction with kernel-interpolation based convolution layer}
For input sequence $X_{p,i}$ with frame number $t=N_0$, we first employ a $1\times 1\times t\times n_{o}$ convolution kernel $k_0$ with $n_o$ the filter number, to extract its motion information (Fig.~\ref{fig_kernel_interp} left). Each filter in $k_0$ acts as a template to match the temporal profile in every spatial position.
However, such a fixed-shape kernel cannot be applied to the sequence with a different length $t=N$ (Fig.~\ref{fig_kernel_interp} middle). We propose a kernel-interpolation based convolution (conv-KI) layer to reuse $k_0$ (Fig.~\ref{fig_kernel_interp} right) when the sequence length changes. Denote $X$ and $Y$ the input and output of a convolution layer, then in a conv-KI layer, $Y=X*f(k_0)$, where $k=f(k_0)$ can be any parametric or nonparametric function that makes $k$ match the frame number of the new sequence. With conv-KI layer, the proposed network can be trained with and applied to cardiac sequences of multiple sources. In this work, bilinear interpolation is used for $f$.

\vspace{-3mm}
\subsubsection{Segment- and Subject-level Non-local modeling}
Cardiac motion score is determined by the motion patterns within one segment and its relative difference to other segments. As shown in Fig.~\ref{fig_16seg_polar} (c), patches with similar appearance exist within one segment (patches in blue) and across all segments (patches in red) of the subject. Only the convolution layer cannot model such relationship due to their local receptive field. To model such long-range relationships, non-local (NL) blocks are deployed in Cardiac-MOS, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig_network}(a) and (b) for segment- and subject-level NL properties, respectively.
NL operation for neural network~\cite{Wang2017nonlocal} was inspired by the non-local means method in computer vision. A general NL operation computes the response $\mathbf{y}$ at a position $i$ as weighted sum of the features at all positions:
\begin{equation}\label{eq_nl}
\mathbf{y}_i=\frac{1}{\mathcal{C}(\mathbf{x})}\sum_{\forall j}h(\mathbf{x}_i,\mathbf{x}_j)g(\mathbf{x}_j),
\end{equation}
where the pairwise function $h$ computes the similarity between two positions, $g$ computes a representation of the input feature, and $\mathcal{C}(\mathbf{x})=\sum_{\forall j}h(\mathbf{x}_i,\mathbf{x}_j)$ is a normalization factor. In this work, we use the embedded Gaussian~\cite{Wang2017nonlocal} for $h$:
\begin{equation}
h(\mathbf{x}_i,\mathbf{x}_j)=\exp^{\phi(\mathbf{x}_i)^T\psi(\mathbf{x}_j)},
\end{equation}
which makes $\frac{1}{\mathcal{C}(\mathbf{x})}h(\mathbf{x}_i,\mathbf{x}_j)$ as a softmax function.
The computation of a NL block in neural network is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig_nonlocal}:
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{z}_i=\theta(\mathbf{y}_i)+\mathbf{x}_i,
\end{equation}
where the residual connection $+\mathbf{x}_i$ allows a NL block to be inserted into any pre-trained model, while keeping its initial behavior. $\phi$, $\psi$ and $\theta$ are implemented as convolution with $1\times 1$ kernel.

In this work, NL blocks are innovatively deployed into Cardiac-MOS in two different ways:
1) Cardiac-MOS (seg-NL), as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig_network} (a), where the position index $j$ traverse all possible positions in one segment, therefore segment-level non-local property is explored;
and 2) Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL), as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig_network} (b), where $j$ traverse all possible positions of all segments in one batch, thus subject-level non-local property is explored. While seg-NL helps capture the motion features robustly for each segment, sub-NL helps capture the relative change of motion patterns between segments. During network training, one batch contains 16 segments, i.e., all segments from one subject.

\section{Dataset and Configurations}\label{sec_dataset}
To validate the proposed Cardiac-MOS, cardiac MR sequences of 90 subjects (5775 images) are collected from scanners of multiple vendors, with spatial resolution of 0.6445$\sim$1.9792 mm/pixel, frame number of 20 (65 subjects) or 25 (25 subjects) in one cardiac cycle. Various pathologies are in presence, including dilated cardiomyopathy, ventricular hypertrophy, infarction, ischemia, scar formation, etc. For each subject, three representative short-axis cine sequences are chosen from the basal, mid, and apical left ventricle. Segment-wise ground truth of motion score is obtained from the radiologists' report and expert's visual inspection, resulting in a total of 1440 segments in the dataset. The distribution of motions score is \{794, 348, 207,  91\} for the four motion types $s_{p,i}$.

For each sequence, three landmarks, i.e, the junctions of left and right ventricles, and the center point of cavity, are manually pointed to crop the left ventricle and to align its orientation. Normalization of the myocardium size is conducted by resizing the cropped images to $160\times 160$. Normalization of the intensity is conducted by contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization.

Our network is implemented in Tensorflow, with cross-entropy loss used during training. Three-fold cross validation (split according to subject, not segment) is used to benchmark the performance. Following~\cite{Wang2017nonlocal}, we first train a baseline CNN network, where no NL-block is employed, and then finetune the two non-local networks from this pre-trained model.

\section{Results and Analysis}
The performance of Cardiac-MOS is benchmarked with the task of motion scoring, and motion score index (MSI, calculated as the average of the scores of all segments for each subject~\cite{Lang2015Recommendations}) estimation. Classification accuracy ($acc_{ms}$) and Pearson correlation $\rho_{msi}$ are used for evaluation. To compare with existing work on binary abnormality detection, classification accuracy ($acc_{ad}$) and Kappa value~\cite{viera2005understanding} ($\kappa_{ad}$, which is a more convincing index considering the prevalence of positive and negative samples) are also evaluated.

As shown in Table~\ref{table_cardiac_mos}, the proposed Cardiac-MOS achieves effective performance, with correlation of 0.926 for MSI estimation, and accuracy of 0.774 for motions scoring. For reference, the only reported inter-observer correlation for MSI is 0.85~\cite{bjornstad1996interobserver} for echocardiography. Therefore, the proposed Cardiac-MOS has great potential in clinical practice of cardiac motion analysis.
Besides, the non-local modeling effectively improves the performance of Cardiac-MOS upon the baseline CNN model, proving its capability of capturing subtle motion difference between segments.
Among the four configurations of NL blocks, Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL-1) performs better than the other configurations, revealing the importance of subject-level non-local modeling for cardiac motion scoring,
which explores the mutual dependencies of local features across all 16 segments, therefore is capable of capturing the subtle relative change of motion patterns between segments. This inter-segment dependencies are better modeled with higher level convolution features (with more context information), thus Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL-2) performs slightly inferior to Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL-1).
When compared with existing methods for abnormality detection (Table~\ref{table_methods_review}), the proposed Cardiac-MOS achieves the best Kappa value among all the competitors despite the unfair settings, proving the effectiveness of Cardiac-MOS.

\begin{table}[!t]
	\caption{Performance of Cardiac-MOS with various configuration of NL blocks. (seg-NL-1: one segment-level NL block after Conv4; seg-NL-2: two segment-level NL blocks after Conv3 and Conv4.)}
	\label{table_cardiac_mos}
	\centering
	\begin{tabular}{l|c|c|c|c}
		\hline
		&$acc_{ms}$(\%)&$\rho_{msi}$&$acc_{ad}$(\%)&$\kappa_{ad}$\\
		\hline
		baseline CNN&74.7&0.913&85.8&0.711\\
		Cardiac-MOS (seg-NL-1)&75.6&0.907&86.3&0.720\\
		Cardiac-MOS (seg-NL-2)&76.1&0.914&87.0&0.735\\
		Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL-1)&\textbf{77.4}&\textbf{0.926}&\textbf{87.8}&\textbf{0.749}\\
		Cardiac-MOS (sub-NL-2)&76.4&0.919&87.6&0.746\\
		\hline
	\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusions}
We proposed the first effective solution Cardiac-MOS for automated cardiac motion scoring from MR sequences. Cardiac-MOS is capable of extracting the complex motion information from cardiac sequences of various lengths with a kernel-interpolation based convolution layer, learning discriminative features with hierarchy convolution layers, and capturing subtle differences among motion patterns by modeling long-range spatial dependency with segment- and subject-level non-local networks. Performance of Cardiac-MOS on a MR dataset of 90 subjects demonstrated its great potential in future clinical application.

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Prior to this role, Rae served as Lincoln Middle East's brand manager, and has played an integral part in the recent launch of the all-new Navigator full-size SUV and the brand's dealership development in the UAE.
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Scissors & Glue: The Miami Project ist ein deutscher Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 2011. Der Filmemacher Helmut Schuster erforscht mit der Kamera die Kulturstadt Miami. Zentrale Fragestellung des Films ist die soziale und politische Relevanz von Kunst und Kultur.

Der Film wurde vom WLRN in Zusammenarbeit mit Zuckerfilm Berlin/München koproduziert.

Handlung
Der Film ist inspiriert von Eichendorffs "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts". Der Protagonist startet naiv und mit offenem Blick in Berlin. Er fährt mit seinem Fahrrad über den Checkpoint Charlie und landet unversehens inmitten der karibischen Welt in Miami. Hier besucht er internationale Kunstsammler, interviewt Obdachlose auf der Straße und lässt sich mitreißen von karibischer Musik. Miami ist heute zum einen Touristenmekka, zum anderen Kunst und Kulturstadt mit der höchsten Dichte privater Kunstsammlungen in der Welt und nicht zuletzt Hoffnungsort für Nichtsesshafte aus aller Welt. Miami Beach unterscheidet sich fundamental von Miami. Hier der reiche Badeort mit der höchsten Ferraridichte der Welt, da die Hoffnungsstadt für den ganzen südamerikanischen Kontinent und die Karibik. Der Film versucht auszuleuchten, inwieweit der amerikanische Traum heute noch besteht und inwiefern das Medium Kunst sozial relevant ist oder doch nur das berühmte Zupflastern der Probleme bewirkt.

Musik und Tanz
Die Handlung kommt immer wieder zurück zu den Sonntagskonzerten der argentinischen Band um Chiara Machiato. Sie spielt, ohne Geld zu verlangen, jede Sonntagnacht in der Bayside Arena von Miami. Alle Schichten treffen sich hier Woche für Woche und tanzen sich auf ihre Art die Sorgen von der Seele.

Drehorte
Der Film spielt in den wichtigsten Museen in Miami und Miami Beach. Er startet allerdings mit einer kurzen Stadtrundfahrt in Berlin. Der neue Kunststandort Wynwood wird ebenso vorgestellt wie Little Havana mit der Calle Ocho oder der Ocean Drive in Miami Beach.

Festivals
Scissors and Glue war 2011 im offiziellen Programm des FLIFF (Fort Lauderdale International Filmfestival).

Weblinks

Filmtitel 2011
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He is a daring, versatile, and notably energetic performer, with a very strong background in comedy, improvisation, and stage combat. He received his B.A. in Theater and Music from Muhlenberg College and will be receiving his M.F.A from Brown University Trinity Repertory in 2019.


I've been making a preset which allows for the UI mask to be toggled whenever I want to take a screenshot without the in-game UI, it used to work in older versions of ReShade but doesn't seem to work now for some reason. The UI mask itself does work, it just won't toggle when I press the defined key.
I have even tried multiple different keys but none have worked, however they all worked when toggling other things like DoF.
Good catch! That define is currently ignored for unknown reasons.
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COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 / RESEARCH LETTER
Comparison of antibiotic use in the COVID-19 pandemic with the pre-pandemic period in a university hospital
Ilknur Erdem 1
Enes Ardic 1
Ece Turker 1
Muhammed Enes Kardan 1
Mahluga Javarova Demirkapu 1
Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag, Turkey
Ilknur Erdem
Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Medicine, Turkey
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(5):1392–1394
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/aoms/152752
Pharmacology and Pharmacy
The appropriate use of antibiotics is an important strategy in slowing the development of antimicrobial resistance. This study aimed to evaluate antibiotic consumption and antibiotic use during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pre-pandemic period and pandemic period.
Antibiotic consumption was evaluated with the antibiotic consumption index (ACI).
Antibiotics with the largest increase in ACI value during the pandemic period compared to the previous year increased from 0.4 to 1.8 DDI/100 bed days in moxifloxacin. Teicoplanin, linezolid, and clindamycin were not affected in terms of consumption.
It was observed that the use of many intravenous antibiotics in our hospital increased during the pandemic period.
Inappropriate use of antibiotics is one of the main mechanisms in the development of antibiotic resistance. The COVID-19 pandemic may affect antibiotic consumption and lead to increased resistance to antibiotics. Studies show that the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is common in patients with COVID-19 infection, although confirmed bacterial infection rates are low. It is also reported that adherence to antibiotic management programs has decreased in the fight to save the lives of patients with COVID-19 in this period. The most effective way to combat antimicrobial resistance is to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions [1–3]. This article aimed to evaluate our hospital's antibiotic consumption and antibiotic use in the COVID-19 pre-pandemic period (between March 11th, 2019, and March 10th, 2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic period (between March 11th, 2020, and March 10th, 2021) in a tertiary care hospital in the Trakya region of Turkey.
This single-center retrospective observational study was conducted at Namik Kemal University Hospital, an academic tertiary hospital with 430 beds (including 80 intensive care beds) in Tekirdag, Turkey. In this study, the consumption of antibacterial drugs used intravenously was evaluated 1 year before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the year of the pandemic in patients hospitalized at our hospital. The precision of indication-specific antibiotic selection was not questioned. Antibiotic consumption was evaluated with the antibiotic consumption index (ACI). ACI was obtained by dividing the number of defined daily doses (DDD) by 100 days of bed (BD). The study period was divided into two periods: the COVID-19 pre-pandemic period (between March 11th, 2019, and March 10th, 2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic period (between March 11th, 2020, and March 10th, 2021).
This retrospective study was deemed exempt from written informed consent by the Namik Kemal University Hospital review board because it used only retrospective, de-identified patient data.
The use of many antibiotics administered intravenously in our hospital increased during the COVID-19 pandemic period compared to the previous year in the Trakya region of Turkey. Antibiotics with the largest increase in ACI value during the pandemic period compared to the previous year increased from 0.4 to 1.8 DDI/100 bed days in moxifloxacin, from 0.9 to 1.9 DDI/100 bed days in ciprofloxacin, from 3.5 to 6.9 DDI/100 bed days in meropenem, from 2.2 to 4.2 DDI/100 bed days in vancomycin, and from 3.8 to 6.4 DDI/100 bed days in piperacillin-tazobactam. The largest decrease in ACI antibiotics was from 0.7 to 0.2 DDI/100 bed days in cefepime, from 0.6 to 0.2 DDI/100 bed days in imipenem, from 8.1 to 3.1 DDI/100 bed days in ampicillin-sulbactam, and from 2.4 to 1.3 DDI/100 bed days in clarithromycin (Table I). A comparison could not be made since the 500 mg parenteral form of azithromycin was administered for the first time in 2020. Teicoplanin, linezolid, and clindamycin were not affected in terms of consumption.
Table I
Consumption of some broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents at Namik Kemal University Hospital during two time periods: COVID-19 pre-pandemic period (between March 11th, 2019, and March 10th, 2020) and COVID-19 pandemic period (between March 11th, 2020, and March 10th, 2021)
Antibiotic consumption (DDDs/1000 patient-days) by indicated time period
March 11, 2019–March 10, 2020
March 11, 2020–March 10,2021
Cefazolin 1 g 10.2 13.0 +27.4
Ampicillin sulbactam 1 g 8.1 3.1 –61.7
Ceftriaxone 1 g 13.8 17.0 +23.1
Cefepime 1 g 0.7 0.2 –71.5
Piperacillin tazobactam 4.5 g 3.8 6.4 +68.4
Meropenem 1 g 3.5 6.9 +82.8
Imipenem 500 mg 0.6 0.2 –66.7
Ertapenem 1 g 0.9 1.0 +11.1
Colistin 150 mg 0.8 1.4 +75.0
Tigecycline 50 mg 0.4 0.8 +100.0
Ciprofloxacin 200 mg 0.9 1.9 +111.1
Moxifloxacin 400 mg 0.4 1.8 +350.0
Vancomycin 1 g 2.2 4.2 +90.0
Teicoplanin 400 mg 2.0 2.1 +5.0
Clarithromycin 500 mg 2.4 1.3 –45.9
Azithromycin 500 mg – 0.08 –
Amikacin 500 mg 1.3 2.30 +76.9
Metronidazole 500 mg 14.1 20.10 +42.5
Bacterial coinfections have played an important role in increased morbidity and mortality during viral respiratory tract infections. Most bacterial respiratory tract infections diagnosed early can be effectively treated with appropriate antibiotics [3]. Bacterial coinfections have been reported in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in previous pandemics. In a meta-analysis, 7% of patients with COVID-19 were reported to be infected with bacterial pathogens [4, 5]. The most common bacterial co-infections among COVID-19 patients were Mycoplasma pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Haemophilus influenza. However, there are also controversial data on the coinfection of SARS-CoV-2 with these bacteria. A study by Langford et al. [4] showed that these bacterial pathogens are not common among people with COVID-19. A meta-analysis reported that the rate of Staphylococcus aureus/COVID-19 coinfection was 25.6%.
Studies show that the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics is common in patients with COVID-19 infection, although confirmed bacterial infection rates are low. In many studies, intensive antibiotics are used in hospitalized patients due to COVID-19. In this period, adherence to antibiotic management programs is reported to have decreased in the fight to save the lives of COVID-19 patients. It is stated that most antibiotics in the studies are empirical and that the clinical condition of half of the patients is not serious [1, 2]. The use of many antibiotics in our hospital increased during the pandemic period compared to the previous year.
More than 70% of patients with COVID-19 received some kind of antibiotic with a focus on broad-spectrum agents, such as fluoroquinolones and third-generation cephalosporins. This rate is likely to be higher in patients with severe diseases [4–7]. In different studies, 70% of hospitalized patients were found to receive one or more antibiotics, while almost 100% of hospitalized patients in the ICU received antibiotics [7]. A Bangladeshi study reported that third-generation cephalosporins and meropenem were the most commonly prescribed drugs, while co-amoxiclav and doxycycline were prescribed mainly in Scottish and Singaporean hospitals [8, 9]. At the onset of the pandemic, the combination of third-generation cephalosporins and macrolides was most commonly used in patients with COVID-19. In a study, moxifloxacin, ceftriaxone, and azithromycin were reported to be the antibiotics prescribed to hospitalized patients [10]. In another study, it was found that overall antibiotic consumption in March and April 2020 was not different from the pre-epidemic period, but when considering antibiotics used to treat community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), the average consumption of azithromycin and ceftriaxone was approximately twice that of the pre-epidemic period [11]. In our study, it was found that the antibiotic class with the largest increase in use was quinolones. However, the antibiotics most commonly used were third-generation cephalosporins.
Widespread antibiotic prescribing carries an increased risk of adverse reactions and probably other undesirable effects (such as possible increased bacterial resistance) without benefit. The emergence of antimicrobial-resistant organisms is mainly due to the excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics. Therefore, optimal antimicrobial use in COVID-19 patients is critical. Many studies have reported an increase in multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The cause is multifactorial and is related to the high use of antimicrobial agents, especially in patients with COVID-19 with a relatively low rate of co- or secondary infections [2].
In conclusion, in this study, an increase in the consumption of some antibiotics was observed, especially during the pandemic period. Appropriate use of antibiotics is an important strategy in slowing the development of antimicrobial resistance. Studies providing information about antibiotic use will help guide the process.
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Stardom STARS Produce (3/5/19) Review
Hina replaced AZM in this match due to injury. Credit: Stardom
It was recently Golden Week in Japan and Stardom ran a gimmick where each unit was handed an opportunity to produce a show. Up first were STARS, who put together a card headlined by the Costume Change Battle Royal. I shall be judging all the units based on their booking, so they better deliver quality throughout.
STARS kicked off the show with a new unit theme and new tracksuits. They're earning. They then ran down the card for the night which Mayu had written on a rather tatty piece of paper. All of this was delightful. If I had to choose a unit to hang out with it would be STARS, they seem to have all the fun.
Natsu Sumire defeated Rina
Rina is developing all the attitude. Not only is she now playing mini-Hana, but she's dabbing during her pre-match promos. In the future, when she is ruling over Stardom as the ultimate badass, we will look on these days as the moment where it all went wrong. Or maybe right?
In the ring, this became as much about Jungle and Natsu as it did Rina. Kyona must have bonded with her new rookie pal and was pissed off at the way Sumire was bullying her. She couldn't help stepping up to stop some of the more egregious rule-breaking. It led to Konami joining in as the two of them give Natsu a quick kicking before depositing her back into the ring.
The action was what you'd expect, a lot of Sumire bullying followed by a series of flash pins from Rina before Natsu got the win. It was fun, but nothing worth going out of your way to see.
Hanan defeated Ruaka
Ruaka has recently returned from injury, and Hanan knew it. She focused her attack on Ruaka's arm in an attempt to set up for the Armbar. With the youngsters not often have the time to establish narratives in their matches, it was nice to see them take that opportunity.
Ruaka looked decent too. I could have used her selling that arm a bit more, but she had some fun offence towards the end, and the crowd bought into their closing stretch. Eventually, the Armbar was to catch up with her as Hanan tapped her out – lovely stuff from these two.
Oedo Tai (Kagetsu, Andras Miyagi, Hazuki and Natsuko Tora) defeated Tokyo Cyber Squad (Hana Kimura, Jungle Kyona, Konami and Rebel Kel)
Hana's delight at everything related to Tokyo Cyber Squad is infectious. They have their first t-shirt, and she couldn't believe that something that cute existed and was available to buy. She's 100% going to go full Iron Maiden and start wearing her merch everywhere.
Jungle and Natsuko's Cinderella Tournament interaction hasn't settled the bad blood between them. They stood in the centre of the ring trading elbows in a style that reminded me of EVIL and Ishii. That, in turn, made me realise I would love a Jungle vs Ishii match. All the fun would be had.
Putting the fantasy booking to one side, Tora and Kyona weren't the only two to put on an impressive performance in this one. Konami is flourishing in her new role and had fun with Kagetsu while Hana and Miyagi are engaged in a mini-feud that seems to have legs. They were even smart enough to keep Rebel on the outside for most of the match, only bringing her in as the set-up for her taking the pin.
It's something I say a lot, but this was an enjoyable if unmemorable match. Nowt you need to see, but worth some time all the same.
Toni Storm defeated Tam Nakano
Stardom has become a weird neutral territory in the wrestling wars. They still get people in from NXT UK (Storm even brought her title), work alongside ROH and Bea Priestley has recently announced she's moving out to Japan full-time while being signed with AEW. Everyone else is fighting, and Stardom seems to be able to get on with it. It's nice to see. Although, one suspects Toni won't be taking too many falls on this trip.
That certainly proved the case here in a match that suffered from the Toni formula. I like Storm, but she has a match, and she sticks to it. It's not unenjoyable and it was great to see them treating this face-off like a big deal as we got spots like Tam climbing to the top and diving to the floor. For the bulk of the action, they were portrayed as equals, and that was fun to watch.
However, Storm matches tend to finish flat, and this was no different. Toni powered through a Tam kick, hit her with the WWE version of Strong Zero and followed up with the indie version of Strong Zero for the three. It went from close to dominant in seconds. Still, it was a good match, and I don't want to take away from it too much. Both women worked hard and even in defeat Tam looked good. Thumbs up.
STARS (Arisa Hoshiki, Saki Kashima, Starlight Kid and Saya Iida) defeated Queen's Quest (Momo Watanabe, Bea Priestley, Leo Onozaki and Hina) in an Elimination Match
These elimination matches are always fun, and this one was no different. They start in a flurry of activity, and it's almost hard to keep up with what's going on. We did continue to see the breakdown of Iida and Onozaki's friendship, however. They enjoy hitting each other. That seems to be a theme with former members of JAN. For what was such a joyful stable, they're all proving to be very violent.
Anyway, that opening saw STARS take control with Iida eliminating Hina and Kashima pinning Okazaki. It didn't stay 5-3 for long, as shortly after Momo took over and managed to even things up a bit by catching Kashima in a flash pin.
That led us into Arisa vs Momo as they begin building towards their title match. We got a pretty good indication of what that match will look like as those two kicked fuck out each other. It is going to be brilliant. In this one, they'd ended up fighting to a draw as a battle on the apron saw them both crash to the floor.
Back in the ring, the last rookie standing was eliminated by Bea as Iida ate a modified Northern Lights Suplex. That gave us a final two of Starlight Kid and Priestley who had an alright sequence. Bea always looks a bit awkward in the ring with people smaller than her who she's required to act as a base for. It's not that she was fucking up all over the place. She just never seemed comfortable.
Not that Starlight Kid will care as she got what had to go down as an upset win by knocking Bea to the floor. With Mayu out for a bit, it looks like Stardom is trying to elevate a few of the other STARS' members, and Kid is well positioned to benefit from that.
Mayu Iwatani/Starlight Kid won the Costume Change Battle Royal
The quality of wrestling on show in this match wasn't the point. It was about seeing the Stardom roster get a chance to cosplay as each other and the ramifications of that. Even as the entrances were happening, there was bickering between the various enemies who were being forced to team together or even outright breaking of character as some asks were always going to be too big (Tam still didn't want to be friends with Arisa no matter who they were dressing up as).
I'm not going to go through the various character switches and the jokes that came with them because me writing them out will be a lot less funny than if you watch it. I will say that I laughed out loud on multiple occasions, smiled the whole way through and had a lovely old time. It's all very silly, but a bit of silly is not a bad thing.
Verdict: How do you rate this? Let's go with a thumbs up.
After Mayu/Kid's victory 'STARS' posed together which kind of made it feel like we'd slipped into a mirror universe. They then invited everyone into the ring for a group photo before the real STARS closed out the show.
I feel like I say this about a lot of Stardom shows, but that was really enjoyable. You had the silliness of the main event, some good wrestling in the two matches before that and some strong performances from the rookies earlier in the card. There is not much more you can ask for from a show. STARS get an eight out of ten for their booking abilities. Let's see if anyone can better that.
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Q: Home folder creation for multiple user script I would need to create a script that daily checks if users have a home folder home/testuser and if not, then create one. The issue is that I would like to exclude built-in accounts from this example: Administrator, guest, samba and others.
The problem occurs when users are created using aduc and not with zentyal.
I would use cron for the daily check, but lacking the knowledge how to exclude the built-in users.
Thanks in advance!

A: As has been said, we don't normally answer programming questions here, but this sounded like a fun five minute exercise.
This is offered to you without any indication that it works as you expect because my system always creates the users home, and no, I am not about to start playing around and messing up the passwd file to test this for you. So, run this in a text box first, or comment out the bits that do anything (mkdir and chown) and put in some echo commands.
All normal caveats apply: no support is offered or implied; the cheques in the post; and my favourite - its fix in the next release.
#!/bin/bash
# Check if users home directory exists

while read -r LINE; do
  userID=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $3}' `
  if [ "$userID" -ge "1000" -a "$userID" -lt "65534" ] ; then
    userName=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $1}' `
    userHome=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $6}' `
    userGroup=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $4}' `

    if [ ! -d "$userHome" ]; then
      echo found user $userID $userName is missing home:  $userHome
      mkdir $userHome
      chown $userName:$userGroup $userHome
    fi
  fi
done < /etc/passwd
# Check if users home directory exists

while read -r LINE; do
  userID=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $3}' `
  if [ "$userID" -ge "1000" -a "$userID" -lt "65534" ] ; then
    userName=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $1}' `
    userHome=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $6}' `
    userGroup=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $4}' `

    if [ ! -d "$userHome" ]; then
      echo found user $userID $userName is missing home:  $userHome
      mkdir $userHome
      chown $userName:$userGroup $userHome
    fi
  fi
done < /etc/passwd

Do be careful - you can do a lot of damage to your system running any sort of file as root (which this will need). TEST TEST AND TEST AGAIN.


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Businesses are required to file a bond with the Anne Arundel County (the "Obligee") to activate their license. The bond protects the Obligee by transferring to a surety bond company the cost of ensuring the public is compensated for damages resulting from a licensed business breaking licensing laws.
How much does the Anne Arundel County Grading and Sediment Control bond cost?
Anne Arundel County Grading and Sediment Control bonds typically cost between 1.5% and 8.0% of the bond amount depending on the personal credit, license history and experience of the business owners.
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Businesses are required to purchase and file a bond with the Anne Arundel County to activate their license. The bond protects the Obligee by transferring to a surety bond company the cost of ensuring the public is compensated for damages resulting from the failure of a licensed business complying with the provisions of licensing laws.
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3 Days in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina - Top Ten Travel Blog | Our experiences traveling throughout the US.
Hilton Head is world famous for being home to some of the best golf courses and tennis clubs in the world, in addition to miles and miles of wide, spotless sandy beaches. This coastal resort town is a popular vacation destination due to the the island's 12 miles of pristine beaches, mild year round weather for all sorts of sport and beach activities, and the presence of many luxury oceanfront resorts.
Hilton Head Island offers no shortage of activities for the sports enthusiast, beach goer, or anyone looking for a laid-back, relaxing vacation. No matter what time of the year you plan your vacation to Hilton Head, you will be treated to beautiful beaches, lush landscaping, and plenty of things to do.
A vacation to the island would not be complete without staying at a fantastic resort. There are many great choices on the island, including Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort and Sonesta. Both offer convenient access to the beach, great beachside pools, and luxury amenities.
Below I have organized a sample itinerary for a 3 day stay in Hilton Head. Leisure, entertainment, great dining, and recreation are all part of a fantastic Hilton Head vacation, and thus I have tried to incorporate a bit of each into the schedule. Enjoy the ideas and also feel free to add a few suggestions of your own into the comments below.
3:00pm – Check into your luxury 4 star oceanfront resort. The Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort is a gorgeously landscaped tropical oasis; the perfect place for a relaxing weekend getaway. Relaxation, entertainment, recreation…you have it all right on site at the Omni.
In addition to having access to the Palmetto Dunes golf and tennis courts, the resort has a basketball court, sand volleyball court, bean bags, and a life size chess game.
If you are looking more in terms of relaxing, look no further than the beach! Located just steps away is Palmetto Dunes, a wide, sandy, immaculate beach with hard packed sand that is perfect for bike riding, jogging, or taking a leisurely stroll. If you prefer more of a resort setting, you can choose amongst the resort's 3 pools.
Outdoor firepits, live dinner music, an on site restaurant and coffeeshop, and a spa are some of the other amenities you will find. Rooms are large and include private balconies with views of the courtyard or beach. Groupon often offers special deals for the Omni, especially during the off-season.
5:00pm – Enjoy dinner sitting out on the patio of HH Prime, conveniently located on the resort property. During the dinner hour, you will be able to enjoy fantastic live music. Plus it's all lit up and cozy with fireplaces during the cooler fall months. Great food and an accommodating staff that will cater to food allergies make it an ideal choice for all guests.
7:00pm – Enjoy a drink by one of the outdoor fire pits. In addition to a full bar, you also have a handy on-site Starbucks.
7:00am – Get up early and enjoy a beautiful sunrise on the beach. The views are absolutely spectacular and it would be a shame not to take advantage of the convenient access. A long stroll with a cup of tea or coffee is the perfect way to start a relaxing morning on vacation!
9:00am – Enjoy a 2 hour guided kayak tour from Hilton Head Kayak. This tour company offers scenic narrated tours on the still waters of Broad Creek. Opportunities for wildlife sightings (dolphins and manatee) give you something exciting to look forward to along the way. Peaceful views of the marsh make this one vacation activity you will not forget. Note: advance reservations are required.
11:00am– Enjoy a light lunch at A Low Country Backyard, a friendly Southern restaurant offering classic comfort foods along with modern GF options. A cozy, country style outdoor seating area is perfect when the weather is right.
1:00pm – Head back to the Omni for a little R&R in the hotel's pools and hot tubs. If you would rather relax down by the beach, you can rent an umbrella and chairs from the resort. Kayaking is fun, although you still get in a decent workout, so take some time to relax! Enjoy some poolside service from the Buoy Bar (you are on vacation!).
6:00pm – Enjoy dinner at Live Oak Restaurant, located inside Sea Pines Resort. Although a bit of a drive from the resort, the views are outstanding, service is excellent, and the food delicious. Try out the Vegan Tasting Course, a delicious 3 course meal sure to please both vegetarians and carnivores alike! Note: reservations are recommended.
8:00pm – Return to the Omni for another relaxing night listening to the wonderful live music. Grab a rocking chair by the fire pit and let all your cares drift away as you enjoy the relaxing Southern setting.
7:00am – Hilton Head is famous for their extensive network of bike trails. You can rent a bike from the resort to use on the island's extensive network of trails, 5 of which are located directly on the resort. Another option is to take the bike right down to the beach. The hard sand is perfect for riding, plus you can take in the fabulous views along the way! A morning ride brings numerous benefits such as cooler temperatures and few crowds!
9:00am – Palmetto Cafe, a convenient coffee shop and cafe, offers a selection of pastries, breakfast sandwiches, and fresh brewed Starbucks coffee.
11:00am – Take a day trip to Savannah, located only an hour away from Hilton Head. Savannah is a beautiful historic city with gorgeous old architecture, fantastic parks, and numerous tourist attractions. A ride on Old Town Trolley will give you a great overview of the city's most beautiful and historic landmarks. Discount tickets to the trolley and other Savannah attractions can be found on Trusted Tours. Corleone's is a good choice for a light Italian lunch. I recommend the Mediterranean Pasta.
4:00pm – Make the drive back over to Omni.
5:00pm – Treat yourself to a spa treatment at Ocean Tides Spa. Nothing says vacation more than a relaxing spa in a great relaxing atmosphere. Note: reservations required.
7:00pm – Spend the rest of the night enjoying all the wonderful activities at the Omni including: a life size chess game, Bean Bags, sand volleyball, basketball, and the resort hot tub.
9:00pm – Pack up your luggage so there is no stress in the morning. Get everything ready and you can spend your last few hours in Hilton Head enjoying the beach!
Have you ever visited Hilton Head? What were some of your favorite restaurants and attractions in the area?