Grandma Alice's wrinkled face and silvery hair glowed in the candlelight as she presided over another marvelous Easter dinner. It was her eighty-fifth year but she never complained, despite her many aches and pains. The ultimate hostess, her house had been the holiday gathering place for three generations of hungry relatives for as long as this young boy could remember.
Before dinner, the house was filled with laughter and good-natured ribbing as family got reacquainted after being apart far too long. This was a time before cell phones and Facebook…so phone calls were few and far between. Back then, a "long distance" call was a big deal; expensive too.
Background music was provided by Grandma's ancient record player and a stack of albums featuring Benny Goodman and a host of other famous folks. Big bands, polkas and the occasional waltz were the the tunes of Grandma's day.
The massive dark cherry-wood table belonged in a Norman Rockwell painting. Huge turkey, surrounded by steaming bowls of potatoes, corn, green beans, squash, and my Great Aunt's famous black cherry Jello dish. Two tall candles were lit and then it was time for the family matriarch, Aunt Jinna, to pray. She was Grandma Alice's older sister and since both of their husbands had passed, they were all that was left of that generation. My aunt's voice was clear and strong when she prayed and, even as a young boy, I took note that the God she called upon had to be very real indeed. With a solemn "Amen", the time came to eat and talk, and then eat some more.
During dinner, it was great fun to hear the banter bounce around the room. My dad and mom did their best to get the older ladies ruffled, but rarely succeeded. The elders loved to tell stories of their childhood days. They shared of many challenges but were quick to point out that they'd also managed to travel the world, attend fancy balls, to draw near to the Lord, and to raise rock solid families, as well. Little did I know that this would be the last Easter dinner with my beloved grandmother and that her time to leave us was very close at hand. To this day, the pain of her passing is balanced by a most marvelous thing that happened during that final Easter dinner.
Just before dessert, Grandma Alice told about one particular night, decades earlier, when she attended a wedding. She described her beautiful gown, her fancy pearl necklace and sparkling earrings, and explained how she danced to a live band for hours, surrounded by hopeful suitors. She said that it was one of the best nights of her life. Suddenly, Grandma's story stopped and she looked across the table, silently staring, as if someone had entered unannounced. For a moment, I was scared, not understanding what was about to happen. Then, I heard the scratchy sound of grandma's favorite record, a waltz, playing in the adjacent living room. Wordlessly, this wonderful woman rose from the table and curtsied to her unseen partner. She then gracefully reached out to take his hand and stepped into the living room. There, she nodded her head and began to waltz around the room in perfect three quarter time. A smile broke over her face and her eyes flashed with the love of a young girl seeing her future husband, face to face, for the very first time.
The arthritis that normally caused her so much pain bowed to a much greater force. That of memory, of love, and of faith. Grandma whirled and twirled around the room for what seemed like hours before the needle found the end of the record, leaving us all in stunned silence. I have never seen her more peaceful and content. For those precious moments, she was young again and full of life. Oblivious to our presence, Grandma Alice completed her dance with a gracious bow to her partner and then looked up to the ceiling, as if watching him ascend.
In that one final dance, I believe that the Lord graciously gave my beloved Grandma Alice a glimpse of eternity and of all the dances to come. I miss her dearly, but I was honored to witness such a marvelous event in her life.
If you are fortunate enough to still have members of the older generation in your life, make sure you are there for them. Soon, it will be time for their last dance and you don't want to miss it.
There is so much to learn from the older generation, no matter WHEN you are born. Humorous stories, problem solving, emotional recollections — all are worthwhile –and not to be ignored nor forgotten. They are beyond retrieval, once the elderly are gone.
I have lived almost 80 years, and I smile everytime I think of all the young people in my friendships who became extremely interested in their ancestry after the passing of their parents. The hours they spend delving into their heritage – a search that would have been so much easier had they done it while the elderly were still living!
You are so right to advise us to not neglect them.
Dianne- you are so right. My father passed away just before Easter last year. After putting together a slideshow of his life, I realized just how much I didn't know about him. There was a 60 year old photo album from his days in the Air Force in the Korean War that had so many pictures of my dad when he was young with the other young men he served with…I wish I had asked him about those days and who those people were. Photo albums of black and white war pictures mean nothing to you as a kid, but they become really precious when someone passes on and you can no longer find out the stories behind them.
This entry was perfect timing for me. I just returned today from visiting my Grm, who will be 93 next month, during her rehab. Her body is so tired but she fights through it and knows the threshold to get to 'go home' to her assisted living complex. Watching her during occupational therapy made me so proud. I live about 3 hours away so my trips are sporadic. Each visit makes me smile for different reasons. I smile for who she been to me and smile for who she is to me now. She's let feed her, hold her hand and just sit with her; all things I never dreamed of doing. When God calls her home, I will be happy knowing I have spent quality time with her listening to how she met my grandpa, how my mom was as a child, and how she was as a child. She's is such a blessing. Thanks again for the timely blog.
Beautiful story – brought tears to my eyes. Life is meant to be cherished, and there is SO much we can learn from those who have walked before us. Thanks for sharing!
This article made me cry. I wish I had one more minute with my Mom. I loved her but didn't spend as much time learing about her life. If I had it to do all over again…I would make sure I did that. For all those that still have their parents and grandparents, spend time with them. Make sure you let them know you love them!!
So very touching. I could just see Ms. Alice doing that last dance in all her gracefulness. I bet she is dancing up in heaven for her King. Thanks for sharing.
Your story made me cry but also brought to light how precious life is. We should always make time for people in our lives especially those in their golden years.
This story really touched my heart. My Grandmother is and basically raised me. I thank God for her often. I have the honor of taking her shopping once a week, cleaning her house once a month, having all holidays and b,days still at her house, only living 10 minutes away from her. My boys are blessed to know her and we adore her! I just told them tonight enjoy every minute now because she won't always be with us. Thank you for the confirmation and to be reminded not to take for granted that she always just has been there for us! She is a gift with a wealth of knowledge!
After my mother passed away 8 years ago now, I and my sister pulled out many photo albums of her and her early years. The tragedy set in as we saw all these pictures yet had no story to go along with them. What a missed opportunity; to have taken the time to revisit the yesteryears with my mom, to learn more of her and who she was, how she thought and what were her dreams are all lost to us now. My mom had Alzheimers. She still had many stories buried in her long term memory and I regret that I did not spend the time to ask her about them in more detail and develop a picture in my mind of who that woman, my mom, was. Instead the time was used to get her to doctor and dentist appointments, do her grocery shopping, make home repairs, pay her bills, get her taxes done, get her dog to the vet, help her with housework, laundry and on and on. Do not allow the "urgent" to supplant the important. Take the time…there's no "do overs".


About the author: Originally from Southern California, John Bentley grew up in Cairo, Egypt where he caught the travel bug at an early age. During his student days at Harvard, he wrote for the Let's Go! guidebook series (Egypt-Israel edition) & later earned his MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He has worked in the fields of international education, travel writing and journalism ever since, currently serving as senior editor and founding member of International TEFL Academy since 2010.


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Climate of distrust at Guantanamo revealed
A U.S. inquiry into alleged abuse at Guantanamo uncovered a climate of deep distrust between military police and interrogators, who were accused of giving terror suspects personal information about their guards.
Sept. 13, 2005, 10:15 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
A U.S. inquiry into alleged abuse at Guantanamo uncovered a climate of deep distrust between military police and interrogators, who were accused during the probe of giving terror suspects personal information about their guards.
The MPs suspected interrogators gave their names and Social Security identification numbers to prisoners in exchange for intelligence, according to the investigation, which recommended that a senior interrogator be relieved of duty for "failure to know his enemy."
The interrogator "sees himself as a hero for the detainees, and against the MPs, on a crusade in the battle of the MPs against the detainees," one investigator wrote in the report on the inquiry that The Associated Press obtained under a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
The report recommended military authorities look further into the disclosure of MP information to detainees. Guantanamo officials didn't respond to repeated questions about the investigation, including whether the interrogator — a military officer — was relieved of duty or whether the prison camp instituted any reforms in response to the findings.
The investigation began in March 2004, when the same interrogator claimed military police had abused detainees at the high-security camp in eastern Cuba, where the United States holds about 500 men captured in its war on terror.
Suspected al-Qaida member allegedly mistreated
The interrogator claimed that guards mistreated a suspected al-Qaida member by not allowing him to use the bathroom immediately after a five-hour interrogation and that at other times withheld food and turned the temperature down on a cell to 52 degrees as punishment.
An investigating officer, however, found no evidence of abuse by the guards.
The investigator faulted the interrogator instead — recommending he be relieved of his duties for reasons that included a "failure to know his enemy," the "unfounded" allegations against the guards and "the noted possibility that he suffers from Reverse Stockholm Syndrome."
Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages develop a bond with their captors. The most often-cited example is the heiress Patty Hearst, who helped rob banks with the radicals who kidnapped her in 1974.
The MPs said in sworn statements that they suspected interrogators may have been trading the names and Social Security numbers of guards to get intelligence in return.
"I believe that some of the interrogators would do whatever it takes to gather that, including giving out some MP's personal information," said a guard from the 258th Military Police company who said he was concerned because some detainees had a "deep hatred" for him.
The investigator, after talking to guards, said: "All expressed concerns for the secrecy of their personal information and the safety of their families."
Personal information no longer personal
The situation was so bad that an investigator said two guards were "petrified" of disclosing their name, rank and Social Security numbers on Privacy Act statements during the probe.
"They both pushed away from the table with a look of horror on their faces and told the investigating officers that this information was provided to the detainees by the interrogators," the military investigator wrote.
The MPs said personal property of detainees that had been confiscated was sometimes returned to prisoners with the Privacy Act statements of guards who handled the belongings. The detainees told the guards that it was interrogators who gave them the documents.
Nearly 100 detainees have been released since the investigation, but it's unknown if any of those who have been freed had received information about the guards.
At Guantanamo, allegations of inappropriate ties between the largely Muslim detainees and their military and civilian handlers have surfaced before.
Previous suspicions at Guantanamo
Troops had alleged that Ahmad I. al-Halabi, an Arabic translator for the Air Force who was convicted last year of mishandling documents at the base, and Army Capt. James Yee, a Muslim chaplain who was cleared of espionage charges, had also sympathized with detainees.
Suspicion of Muslim personnel by non-Muslims wasn't uncommon, said Donald Rehkopf Jr., the lawyer for al-Halabi, who had more serious espionage charges dropped in a plea deal.
"There was a lot of conflict between the Muslim linguists and the cadre of MPs down there," he told the AP. "It was a total lack of cultural awareness."
It isn't known whether the March 2004 probe involved a Muslim interrogator. Military censors blacked out names and other identifying details in the report. He was described as a regional team chief in charge of interrogators handling detainees from an undisclosed part of the world.
In his sworn statement, the interrogator alleged that it was the guards who allowed detainees to overhear sensitive information. He also said he was told MPs had conducted an "unauthorized cell search" at midnight and "openly talk" about harassing detainees.
"The majority of the ... personnel, especially the reservists, are consummate professionals," the interrogator said. "Those few that dispense information (even inadvertently), who harass detainees, and act in an altogether unprofessional manner, undermine the mission ... and do a disservice to those who work hard to do a good job."
The investigator, though, sided with the MPs and developed a harsh opinion of the interrogator, calling him immature and "driven by ego," according to the report.

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The article is devoted to the fate of Polish collections, including book collections, during the wars that swept through Poland's territory in 1914–1920: events on the eastern front of WWI, civil war after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Polish-Ukrainian conflict of 1918–1919 and Polish-Bolshevik war, the apogee of which came in 1920. Polish collections suffered heavy losses as a result of evacuation of a huge number of historical items to Russia, as a result of warfare, pillaging and deliberate destruction. The collections that were most affected were private collections in the eastern part of pre-partition Poland and in the territories incorporated into the Russian Empire. Safe-guarding of historical heritage was undertaken by Polish societies for the protection of historical heritage, established in the Kingdom of Poland and in Russia. They compiled the first inventories of lost and damaged cultural goods as well as those taken to Russia. Documentary work was under-taken by individual scholars as well; in addition, the first publications dealing with the matter began to appear at the time. The work was continued with a view to future restitution of the goods to Poland, which regained independence in 1918.


Some high winds did some damage in central Minnesota Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a High Wind Warning for parts of our listening area late Monday afternoon into the early evening.
Some scary moments Tuesday night in Sartell, turned out to be a false alarm. Police started to receive 911 calls from residents who thought they had heard gunshots.
Sartell police arrested a 20-year-old shoplifting suspect who was hiding in a barrel. Officers were called to Walmart at about 11:00 p.m. Saturday. However, before they arrived the female suspect had already left the store in a vehicle.
The Minnesota State Patrol says no one was hurt in a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 15 - at the Bridge Of Hope - in Sartell.
The Sartell Police Department is offering up some safety tips through their Facebook page to help prevent theft of your mail this holiday season.
A Little Falls woman was arrested in Sartell, Thursday night after the car she was driving was reported stolen out of Todd County.
It's not every day that you get to play at the park with a police officer, but the Sartell Police Department is hoping kids can see them past their uniform.
A teenager from Sauk Rapids is hospitalized after being electrocuted and falling from a bridge. The Sartell Police Department says they were called to the old Sartell bridge over the Mississippi River on Sartell Street at about 9:20 p.m. last (Wednesday) night.
Police are investigating after a man showed up at St. Cloud Hospital with gunshot wounds. The victim told officers the shooting happened in Sartell in the area of 119 LeSauk Drive.
It's no secret by now that one of my favorite things to do is read the Sartell Police Department blotter. What they consider to be news worthy is a little endearing and highly entertaining.
Fire crews were called out to a house fire in Sartell early this (Monday) morning. The Sartell police department says it was just after midnight on Field Crest Lane.


Paul Henderson, former President of ISAF thinks windsurfing is no longer relevant. For many of us windsurfing is a personal thing and both the Olympics and ISAF are not particularly relevant, however it is a significant world stage which raises the profile of the sport and brings in new blood. Imagine what it would be like if windsurfing was freed from the constraints of being a sailing hybrid, and was allowed to show its true colours! This is my personal response to this view and I'd appreciate feedback (Bruce Spedding).
ISAF Olympic Committee about to shoot itself in the foot over kiteboards and windsurfers?
Will ISAF get trapped by political concessions for 2016 ?
A lot has been written about the ISAFs Olympic Commissions report and the resulting Executive Committee submission in the last weeks. This opinion piece from Sail-World.com echoes comments made to the same publication by Windsurfing NZ which so far have been unacknowledged.
The LIVE Q&A Session with Christine Johnston [GBR] who is a qualified RYA Olympic Classes Coach who raced at the 2000 Olympic Regatta in Sydney, Australia and then went on to finish 14th at the 2006 RS:X World Championships so she knows a thing or two about racing at the top level.
It's all happening at 6.30am Wednesday 6th October NZDT sharp.
Only three of the current ten Olympic yachting classes are reasonably assured of a place in the start line for Brazil in 2016. The RS:X Board will have to undergo a double trial if it is to remain in 2016. The Board/Kite-board would be chosen after Evaluation Trials. A regional imbalance (areas like Oceania and Africa not well represented), poor spectator and TV audiences, and competition for places with new sports such as golf and rugby are all drivers behind the moves to reduce and possibly remove sailing from the Olympics. These factors were highlighted in the WNZ submission to SPARC for funding.
Olympic class 2010 RS:X Men's and Women's RS:X World Championships in Denmark are all soon to get underway.
Four Olympic class World Championship Regattas will be sailed simultaneously at three different venues over the coming week, each featuring some of New Zealand's hottest talent. The 2010 Finn Gold Cup in San Francisco, the 2010 Laser World Championships in Great Britain and the 2010 RS:X Men's and Women's RS:X World Championships in Denmark are all soon to get underway.
Wearing her crop top, board shorts, sunglasses and sports cap, recently retired New Zealand windsurfing legend Barbara Kendall could still pass for a competitor, but in Singapore she is staying on shore as a Youth Olympic Games athlete role model. Kendall participated in five Olympic Games, picking up the full set of medals with a gold, silver and bronze.
The transition from qualifying to the finals series at 2010 Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Weymouth was heralded with shifty and tricky conditions on the Weymouth race track. From here the regatta moves into the penultimate day when, for those within reach, it is all about being in the top ten of the fleet to make the medal race on Saturday in England. After last night's tough conditions nine of the NZL Sailing Team still currently have a spot in the top ten.


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You can expect a lot of things and emotions when you finally decide to go back to school, and excitement is usually one of the first of them.
You're enrolled in a RN-BSN program and on your way to making even more of a difference in your community. It's thrilling, but it might be tempered by remembering all of the patients you still have to care for at work, or your kids asking for help on their homework, or the mountain of reading sitting on the table, waiting. We know all about it. At Ameritech, we're nurses teaching nurses, so many of us remember exactly what you're going through as you juggle classes, work, and a family. We're here to tell you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and you will make it through. It just takes some balance, a little elbow grease, and a few reminders we've outlined below.
Any parent going to back to school and holding down a full-time job like nursing will feel a lot of pressure. Some of that is inevitable, given your new set of responsibilities, but some of it comes from unnecessary expectations. Society has taught us to believe we should be able to do it all, when in reality no one, let alone nursing students raising kids, can do half of the things they want to do.
After a 12-hour shift, you may feel compelled to still clean the house, put your kids to bed with two stories, study, and bake a cake. In reality, you won't have time to do all the things you want to do, let alone need to do, and sometimes you'll struggle to even check one or two items off your list. But that's OK. You don't have to be a super mom or dad to be a good parent and excel in school. Instead of dwelling on the things you didn't get done, think of everything, especially the essentials, you did accomplish in one day. You'll be surprised by all the reading, quizzing, helping, laughing, and hugs on that list.
On that note, make sure you're not beating yourself up for missing the little things, and never compare yourself to others! Balancing your home life, school life, and work life will take mental dexterity and a whole lot of positivity, and you can't afford to let undue stress or guilt creep in. Because stress can wreak havoc on your health, give yourself a break, and practice some self-compassion.
Being a nurse will also knock the wind out of you at times, as every RN-BSN student knows, leaving you exhausted and ready for bed instead of soccer practice, ballet recitals, and dance classes. If you need to lean on your spouse, friend, or your own parent to do the heavy lifting sometimes, do it, and don't feel guilty about it. More often than not, friends and family love helping out, and love spending time with your family, too.
3. Keep a calendar and stick to it!
Get ready to hold on. Adding studying and classes on top of your already busy schedule as a mom or dad and working healthcare professional is going to kick your life into overdrive. One way to stay ahead of all the madness is by creating a calendar and keeping it updated. The busier we get, the more we forget. Having one place to keep your life in order can be a lifesaver for you and your family so the important events don't get missed. If you take advantage of online calendars and apps, don't hesitate to share your schedule with your friends and family, especially if they help out often. They'll appreciate knowing what you're up to and can help keep you on track when you need it.
One person you absolutely don't want to forget about is yourself. While you might not be able to take time away to properly spoil yourself, grabbing a few necessary Zzz's or sneaking away for a quick run will go a long way in rejuvenating your brain for a particularly busy day or week. Putting too much stress on yourself and pushing too hard can cause burnout. It's extra important to schedule some "you time" to avoid self-sabotage. Take care of yourself, so you, in turn, can take care of your patients and the people you love.
To learn more about our online RN-BSN program or our RN program in Draper, Utah, please reach out with any questions. We'd love to hear from you!


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Although it offers no definitive evidence that senior Obama administration officials ordered the reports to be doctored, it describes analysts as feeling as though they were under pressure from Centcom leaders to present a more optimistic view of the threat posed by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. The New York Times: Military Officials Distorted ISIS Intelligence, Congressional Panel, August 11, 2016.
The deputy commander of the unit, an Air Force Colonel, walked by me in the hallway. As he did so, he looked at me and just shook his head. That's it. No one ever said to me directly to quit pushing so hard in my new job which was to get computer security up to standards in our unit. They expected everyone to "get the hint" and to fall in line. Computer security was something we were suppose to look like we were doing and in any event it shouldn't interfere with normal operations. More importantly, we shouldn't be doing anything more than what anyone else was doing.
Not long after this encounter with the deputy commander a guy named John Anthony Walker was arrested for spying at another unit. Eventually we would learn that he was part of one of the most damaging Soviet spy rings in United States history. One would think that such an event would vindicate this hard charging young officer. Instead, senior management would have been more than happy to have simply been doing what everyone else was doing especially as the subsequent Pentagon review concluded that just about all units were substandard. It was more important to fall in line and be like everyone else than it was to try and do a good job that could prevent disasters such as John Walker.
It does not take much, a simple shake of the head by an influential person, for a whole team to know what is expected of them. Nothing may ever be written down or even spoken out loud but the organization will still fall in line, especially if falling in line is less effort and doesn't impede advancement.
What subtle clues are you seeing that may hinder or help your project team's progress?


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Иоганн Фридрих Шварцбург-Рудольштадтский (; ,  — , ) — правящий князь Шварцбург-Рудольштадта в 1744—1767 годах из Шварцбургского дома.

Биография
Иоганн Фридрих — единственный сын князя Фридриха Антона Шварцбург-Рудольштадтского и его первой супруги Софии Вильгельмины Саксен-Кобург-Заальфельдской. Получил домашнее образование. В 9 лет получил офицерский патент саксонской армии. В 1737—1741 годах Иоганн Фридрих путешествовал по Европе с образовательными целями. В Страсбургском университете он слушал лекции по теологии, а в Утрехтском университете — по математике и физике. В Утрехте Иоганн Фридрих побывал на приёме у короля Великобритании Георга II. В 1742 году наследный принц Иоганн Фридрих присутствовал на коронации императора Карла VII во Франкфурте-на-Майне. Путешествуя по Франции, Иоганн Фридрих, владевший французским языком, приобщился к идеям Просвещения. В 1744 году 23-летний принц вступил на престол княжества. В отсутствие наследника мужского пола власть в Шварцбург-Рудольштадте после смерти Иоганна Фридриха перешла к его дяде Людвигу Гюнтеру II.

Семья
19 ноября 1744 года в Эйзенахе Иоганн Фридрих женился на принцессе Бернардине Кристиане Софии Саксен-Веймар-Эйзенахской, дочери Эрнста Августа I Саксен-Веймарского. В этом браке родились:
 Фридерика София Августа (1745—1778), замужем за князем Фридрихом Карлом Шварцбург-Рудольштадтским (1736—1793)
 дочь (1746)
 сын (1747)
 София Эрнестина (1749—1754)
 Вильгельмина (1751—1780), замужем за князем Людвигом I Нассау-Саарбрюккенским (1745—1794)
 Генриетта Шарлотта (1752—1756)

Примечания

Литература
 Bernhard Anemüller: Johann Friedrich Fürst zu Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1721 bis 1767, 1864
 Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Apfelstedt: Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit: dargestellt in den Stammtafeln seiner Haupt- und Nebenlinien und mit biographischen Notizen über die wichtigsten Glieder derselben, Bertram, Sondershausen 1890, ISBN 3-910132-29-4
 Jens Henkel, Lutz Unbehaun: Die Fürsten von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt 1997 (3. Auflage 2001), ISBN 3-910013-27-9.
 Johann Christian August Junghans: Geschichte der schwarzburgischen Regenten. Leipzig 1821.
 Heinrich Schöppl: Die Regenten des Fürstentums Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Rudolstadt 1915

Князья Шварцбург-Рудольштадта

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SimpleMeter is an easy-to-use DPS/HPS meter that shows damage and healing for both allies and enemies.
Donations of plat to Jor @ Deepstrike welcome!
It would be great if you could show the damage taken and a ration dps to damage taken to better show actually performance (i.e.: high dps and high damage taken is a bad dps, while high damage done with almost no damage taken is a very good dps).
Ya i would love a resize option. I would also KILL for interrupt and cleanse meters. Is there anyway you could include interrupts on this meter? there could be an option on the meter to show or hide interrupts on the meter. This will help like no other on fights like Murdantix, as I am an officer in our raids.
If you mean how to export the dps to chat, as far as I know it's not currently possible.
any way to report the dps done?


RTVE has opened submissions to select the songs that will compete at the Spanish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The winners of the online round will have to face the songs selected by the broadcaster and the OT producers. The finalist songs will be performed by the contestants of Operación Triunfo 2018.
As announced earlier, the selection of the compositions that will compete at the 2019 Spanish final will be made up of several phases and two different processes as, not only the online contest will select songs, but also the broadcaster along with the OT producers will invite established songwriters to send their tracks. Both processes will happen at the same time.
Authors from all around the country can send their applications from today until the 15th of Novembers through the form available on the official website of RTVE. There is no clue about whether the broadcaster will accept foreign composers, but it looks like at least a Spanish author should be involved into the song as the form requests the national identification number of the country. The candidate songs follow the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Open call: When the submission period is closed, an expert committee, made up of two fan club representatives, one RTVE.es editor and two music experts, will listen to all the songs and shortlist 10 compositions that will go through to the second phase.
Established songwriters: When the submission period is closed, an expert committee, made up of two members of RTVE, an editor of RTVE.es and two teachers of the OT Academy, will listen to all the songs and shortlist 10 compositions that will go through to the second phase.
A total of 20 compositions will compete in this phase selected through the two processes mentioned above. The candidates of OT 2018 will record the tracks which will be revealed to face an online voting will be open for two weeks right after the final of OT 2018. The top three of songs of the online voting will go directly to the final, while an expert committee will select the other 7 finalists.
The OT candidates will perform the selected songs live at the Spanish national final, which will take place in January. Like last year, the winner will be decided by 100% public voting after a single voting round. In case of a tie, a new voting round will be opened to decide who will wave the Spanish flag in Tel Aviv.
You can find the full set of rules of the contest here.


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Developing certified surveys for the Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishing Survey
Hongguang Ma, Tom Ogawa, Kimberly Lowe, Dave Van Voorhees, Tom Sminkey, Annie Yau, Michael Quach, Joseph O'Malley, Stefanie Dukes, Jean Opsomer, Virginia Lesser, Toby Matthews, Marlowe Sabater, Andrew Torres & Brent Tibbatts
Text published 2019 via United States. National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
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https://doi.org/10.25923/2pta-zs36 Cite
Spatial proximity moderates genotype uncertainty in genetic tagging studies
Ben Augustine, J. Andrew Royle, Daniel W. Linden & Angela K. Fuller
Dataset published 2019 via Dryad
Accelerating declines of an increasing number of animal populations worldwide necessitate methods to reliably and efficiently estimate demographic parameters such as population density and trajectory. Standard methods for estimating demographic parameters from noninvasive genetic samples are inefficient because lower quality samples cannot be used, and they do not allow for errors in individual identification. We introduce the Genotype Spatial Partial Identity Model (SPIM), which integrates a genetic classification model with a spatial population model to...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4qrfj6q6b Cite
Ecosystem Status Report of the California Current for 2019: A Summary of Ecosystem Indicators Compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCEIA)
Christopher James Harvey, Newell Garfield, Gregory D. (Gregory Dean) Williams, Nick Tolimieri, Isaac Schroeder, Kelly S. Andrews, Katie Barnas, Eric Peter Bjorkstedt, Steven J. Bograd, Richard D. Brodeur, Brian J. (Brian Joseph) Burke, Jason Marc Cope, Audrey Coyne, Lynn deWitt, Judy Dowell, Field, Fisher, Jennifer , Peter Frey, Thomas Good, Elliott Lee Hazen, Daniel S. Holland, Matthew Hunter, Kym Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox & Christy Juhasz
Text published 2019 via United States. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC ; 149
https://doi.org/10.25923/p0ed-ke21 Cite
Reinitiated Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Consultationfor the Salmon-Challis National Forest's Challis Creek Road Repair Project, HUC#1706020117 - Challis Creek, Custer County, Idaho
United States. National Marine Fisheries Service
Text published 2019 via United States. National Marine Fisheries Service
ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-00430
https://doi.org/10.25923/b0px-f452 Cite
Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Consultation Mid-Columbia River Steelhead and Spring Chinook Salmon Hatchery Programs Reinitiation 2018
ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCR-2018-10511 (previously WCR-2017-7615)
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ESA Section 7 Biological Opinion and MSA EFH Response for Issuance of Scientific Research and Enhancement Permit 18116 for field planting and research on white abalone
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the 5th to Kinsman Road Extension Project Coffee Lake Creek (HUC 170900070402), Clackamas County, Oregon (Corps No.: NWP-2019-115)
https://doi.org/10.25923/fnba-ex69 Cite
National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Act Section 7 Biological Opinion NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources, Permits and Conservation Division Issuance ofPermit No. 20114 to Richard B. Seman (Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Department of Lands and Natural Resources, Sea Turtle Program)
ESA Section 7 Consultation ; OPR-2016-00068
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for Seismic Retrofit, Replacement, and Preventative Maintenance Activities at Three Bridges within the Town of Fairfax in Marin County, California (STPL-5277 [025]) (STPL-5277[026]) (STPL-5277[027])
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the 10th Avenue Street Improvements, Clark County, Washington (HUC 170900120401)
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for Approving the 4 Apples Association Mining Plan of Operations, Whitehorse Creek-Cow Creek (6th field HUC No.: 171003020701), Douglas County, Oregon (DOI-BLM-ORWA-M070-2018-0007 EA)
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Sediment Removal Activities at Roza, Sunnyside, Nelson, and Town Diversion Dams, Yakima and Kittitas Counties, Washington.
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Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District CENAP-OP-R- 2016-0181-39 DRP Gibbstown Shipping Terminal and Logistic Center
ESA Section 7 Consultation ; GARFO-2017-00176
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National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Act Section 7 Biological Opinion Title: Biological Opinion on the Issuance of Permit No. 20339 to the NMFS Southeast Fisheries Center and Permit No. 19621-01 to Michael Arendt (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division) for Scientific Research on Sea Turtles
https://doi.org/10.25923/7xff-ex59 Cite
Endangered Species Act Section 7 Formal Consultation and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery and Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Hells Canyon Creek Boat Dock Repair, Wallowa County, Oregon, HUC 170601010102
https://doi.org/10.25923/a0v2-e821 Cite
Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion Deepening and Maintenance of the Delaware River Federal Navigation Channel GARFO-2019-01942
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion issuance of Funds to 11 Northeast States and the District of Columbia through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program from 2018-2022 PCTS ID: NER-2018-14763 ECO ID: GARFO-2017-00041
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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response, and Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Recommendations for the Stanislaus River Crossing Pipeline Decommissioning Project
https://doi.org/10.25923/t5vt-dc06 Cite
66th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (66th SAW) Assessment Summary Report
United States, National Marine Fisheries Service & Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Text published 2019 via United States, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Northeast Fisheries Science Center reference document ; 19-01
https://doi.org/10.25923/g6g5-ed18 Cite
US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments - 2017: (Second Edition)
Sean A. (Sean Arthur) Hayes, Elizabeth Josephson, Katherine Maze-Foley, Patricia E. Rosel, Barbie L. Byrd, Samuel Chavez-Rosales, Timothy V. N. Cole, Laura Engleby, 1970- Preston, Joshua M Hatch, Allison Henry, Stacey C. Harstman, J. Litz, Marjorie Lyssikatos, Keith (Keith D.) Mullin, Christopher Orphanides, Richard M. Pace, Debra L. Palka, Melissa S. Soldevilla & Frederick W. Wenzel
Text published 2018 via United States, National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-NE ; 245
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65th Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop (65th SAW) Assessment Report
https://doi.org/10.25923/zapm-ga75 Cite
Endangered Species Act Section 7 Formal Consultation and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Consultation for the Beckler River and Carbon Road Repair Project on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Snohomish County, Washington
https://doi.org/10.25923/wm2p-ph10 Cite
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for City of Ketchikan Removal of Berth II Rock Pinnacle Project
ESA Section 7 Consultation ; AKRO-2019-00553
https://doi.org/10.25923/4w15-sa21 Cite
Weighted Length Frequency Distributions for Pacific Halibut in U.S. West Coast Limited Entry and Catch Share Bottom Trawl and Pot Fisheries, 2004–18
Jason Earl Jannot, Kate E. Richerson, Kayleigh A. Somers & Jon McVeigh
NOAA data report NMFS NWFSC-DR ; 2019-03
https://doi.org/10.25923/5xz2-zy24 Cite
Observed and Estimated Total Bycatch of Salmon in U.S. West Coast Fisheries, 2002–18
Richerson, Kate, Kayleigh A. Somers, Jannot, Jason Earl, Tuttle, Vanessa J., Riley, Neil B. & McVeigh, Jon
NOAA data report NMFS NWFSC DR ; 2019-02
https://doi.org/10.25923/kq8v-hw57 Cite
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game
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She went on to produce A-list events and concerts for the likes of Grammy Award winning artists such as Phillip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire, CeCe Winans, Kirk Franklin, Gladys Knight and more. To add to her live music event production, she co-produced events for television, including Evening with the Stars for UNCF and a variety show series featuring George Wallace and other comedians for local television in Las Vegas. She makes guest appearances as an on-air talent judge for CBS 5's (Phoenix) Lucky Break. She has also worked in production for the famed Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity. Ms. Coakley was a professionally trained dancer and studied at the acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She enjoys tennis and is an avid player with Southern Nevada division of the USTA.
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directed by Michael Curtiz
Broke and with a family to support, charter-boat skipper Harry Morgan (John Garfield) makes a desperate gamble. For cash that will save his boat from creditors, he ferries gangsters to safety after a racing-track heist. But when you gamble, sometimes you lose. Tense and sinewy, The Breaking Point is a more faithful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not than the earlier Bogart-Bacall classic. Garfield, one of the screen's great anti-heroes, makes Morgan his own in a rugged portrayal etched with anguish. Director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), who guided Garfield to instant stardom in Four Daughters, turns the action scenes into movie dynamite, but the film's quiet final image is the one that will haunt you.
Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace Ford), as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde (Patricia Neal), making a series of compromises that stretch his morality—and his marriage—further than he'll admit. Hewing closer to Hemingway's novel than Howard Hawks's Bogart-Bacall vehicle does, The Breaking Point charts a course through daylight noir and working-class tragedy, guided by Curtiz's effortless visual fluency and a stoic, career-capping performance from Garfield.
Theatrical Release: 30 September 1950 (premiere)
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Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for the DVD Review!
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Runtime 1:37:12 1:37:36.559
1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Feature: 28,748,261,376 bytes
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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
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Audio Dolby Digital Mono (English) LPCM Audio English 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit
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Studio: Warner Home Video
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• Theatrical trailer (2:13)
DVD Release Date: June 14, 2011
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Studio: Criterion
• New interview with critic Alan K. Rode (Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film) (21:17)
• New piece featuring actor and acting instructor Julie Garfield on her father, actor John Garfield (16:42)
• New video essay by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou analyzing Curtiz's methods (9:59)
• Excerpts from a 1962 episode of Today showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including items related to To Have and Have Not, the novel on which The Breaking Point is based (4:51)
• Trailer (2:17)
• PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
Blu-ray Release Date: August 8th, 2017
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ADDITION: Criterion - Region 'A' Blu-ray - July 2017: This Criterion transfer is described as a 'new 2K digital restoration'. It's on a dual-layered disc with a max'ed out bitrate. Most prominently, the grain is far more visible giving the film a texture and presenting it in a far more film-like sense. It is a shade brighter, detail rises and depth is noticeable in a few scenes. Contrast is at Criterion's high levels. The image is clean, not a speckles or hint of digitization. It looks magnificent in-motion. Flawless.
The uncompressed linear PCM, mono, sound (24-bit) is excellent supporting the score by the iconic Max Steiner (Mildred Pierce, Key Largo, Casablanca, The Caine Mutiny, Bird of Paradise, Beyond the Forest, Pursued, The Fountainhead etc. etc.) score emboldening the drama, conflicts and atmosphere. There is also Patricia Neal in the bar singing Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone. Of course, the Criterion has optional English (SDH) subtitles and their Blu-ray disc is region 'A'-locked.
Criterion add some great new extras starting with a 22-minute interview with critic Alan K. Rode (author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film) discussing The Breaking Point, its director and giving fabulous background on the production and why circumstances made it so underrated. Wonderful. There is also a new, 17-minute, piece featuring actor and acting instructor Julie Garfield on her father, actor John Garfield discussing his performance in The Breaking Point. Fluid Style is a new 10-minute video essay by Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos (Every Frame a Painting) analyzing Curtiz's methods and understated artistry in The Breaking Point. It is an excellent addition. There are 5-minutes of excerpts from a 1962 episode of Today showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including items related to To Have and Have Not, the novel on which The Breaking Point is based plus a trailer. The package has a linear notes booklet with an essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek.
This is a masterpiece film and deserves such a stellar Blu-ray release from Criterion. In my opinion, this is essential. I LOVE The Breaking Point. Out highest recommendation!
ON THE DVD: It's unfortunate that the best film based on Ernst Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is overshadowed by Bogie and Bacall pairing in 1944 film of the same name (reviewed HERE). That honor goes to The Breaking Point with John Garfield and Patricia Neal, directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950. From 1937 novel, we get the same characters and motivations, only the location and the ending are changed, making this the most faithful adaption. Hollywood would make another stab at it in 1958 as The Gun Runners with Audie Murphy in Bogart/Garfield role of Harry Morgan and directed by Don Siegel. The Breaking Point is also the most noir of the three films, with overall air of despair and hopelessness hanging like a dark cloud over John Garfield's character, a former PT boat captain now trying to make a living off his fishing boat to feed his wife and two daughters. The supporting cast is just as excellent - Phyllis Thaxter as his suffering wife Lucy, Patricia Neal as potential love interest/femme fatale and Juano Hernandez in a thankless role of the shipmate and best friend. As correctly noted on the back cover, "the film's quiet final image is the one that will haunt you."
The legal dispute kept the film out of circulation for a long time, with no recent TV airings or official home video release until 2011, when film debuted on TCM and a few months later got a DVD release as part of Warner Archive Collection on MOD disc. The disc is not labeled as remastered, but based on the quality of the print, this is definitely a new master. The single-layered disc features a very good progressive transfer, with very minimal damage and very good contrast. The mono audio is fine, but per usual standard for MOD discs, there is no subtitles or closed captioning. The disc features a 2-minute theatrical trailer and the film is divided onto 27 chapters. The film is clearly a winner and this is highly recommended release.
- Gregory Meshman
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Helping Healthcare Catch FHIR
Understanding Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and the future of data-driven healthcare.
Kshama Datar
The Human Body Is a Network of Interoperating Systems that Have to Work Together Seamlessly
Genetics is our operating system (OS). Epigenetics, nutrition, hormones, enzymes, vitamins, exercise, lifestyle, et cetera are our OSI layers and protocols. A person's health span (defined as the healthy productive time before the onset of age-associated decline) depends on how smoothly our OS, OSI layers, and protocols work together. Successful healthcare is about preventing diseases and slowing decline to achieve a great health span. Success in this work requires collecting data, analyzing it, and assuring that the healthcare systems we put in place are working together as well as our bodies themselves. As a longtime developer of healthcare IT solutions, this metaphor of body-as-network makes it much easier for me to explain the importance of healthcare data.
ExtraHop can go one step further and provide the monitoring and analytics to make enormous gains in the value we can extract from this data, especially as we transition to FHIR, the new standard for healthcare data exchange.
What Is FHIR?
FHIR (pronounced "fire") stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. FHIR is the latest interoperability standard that has emerged from the non-profit Health Level Seven (HL7) organization to enable secure electronic sharing of healthcare data. FHIR incorporates the best features from previously developed HL7 standards using modern paradigms for data transfer, and current security standards to solve clinical and administrative problems in a practical way. FHIR defines provenance or origin of data and security event resources suitable for tracking the origins, authorship, history, status and source of resources.
FHIR uses four main paradigms for communicating health data: REST APIs, Messages, Documents, and Services. FHIR is differentiated from previous standards in many ways, but the two root differences that make it so revolutionary are:
Security: All production health data exchanged using FHIR is required to be secured using TLS/SSL. This makes it much more secure than previous HL7 standards.
Resources: FHIR uses standardized data formats and elements, collectively called "Resources." A Resource is the smallest possible unit of transaction in FHIR, with a known identity providing meaningful data.
FHIR is suitable for use in a wide variety of contexts, including mobile phone apps, cloud communications, EHR-based data sharing, server communication in large institutional healthcare providers, and more. FHIR is open source, free, scalable and flexible.
Why a New Standard? Because Healthcare Is Changing Rapidly
Let's back up for a moment and talk about why we need a new healthcare data exchange standard at all.
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), effecting huge changes in health insurance, patient's rights, Medicare and Medicaid payments, and many other aspects of healthcare. This caused a rise in the number and complexity of Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementations. In 2015, requirements around improving quality and lowering costs and paying physicians based on "value not volume" forced EHR vendors to address the lack of interoperability between the EHRs.
EHRs now must be able to support various payment models, including value based payments, bundled episode-based payment, case rate, package pricing and episode-of-care payment, so that the providers can be reimbursed. This resulted in an urgent need to change the existing model to remedy EHRs' complete lack of interoperability.
The HL7 organization decided to turn to other industries to look for ideas for improving interoperability. What they found pointed strongly to the use of RESTful APIs. HL7 FHIR combines the best features of HL7 Version 2 (V2), HL7 V3, and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), while leveraging the latest web service technologies and concepts.
Based on their findings, HL7 International decided to use popular, open, and accessible technologies for their next standard. For that reason, FHIR uses a modern web-based suite of Application Programming Interface (API) technology, including an HTTP-based RESTful protocol, HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for user interface integration, a choice of JSON or XML for data representation, OAuth for authorization and Atom for results.
The API is the "hook" that enables EHRs to communicate interactively, and in a standardized way, with apps and eventually even between the different EHRs. This model enables rich data visualization well beyond the capabilities of any existing EHR. Since apps will require access to the patient health system data, they must pass the tests for efficacy, accuracy, utility, safety, privacy, and security. APIs have been made available for a variety of programming methods including C#, Java, Javascript, Objective C, and Delphi.
To the track the development of this new standard, FHIR Connectathons were established very early on to verify specification approaches and continue at HL7 workgroup meetings.
What is Interoperability, and Why Does it Matter in Healthcare?
Interoperability, in the context of healthcare, means the ability of systems that store and use data to exchange that data with other systems without compromising the security or fidelity of the data, and without an undue amount of effort.
For the purposes of our FHIR discussion, interoperability requires making use of the following paradigms for data storage and exchange:
REST: Use of small lightweight exchanges with low coupling between systems
Messages: To allow communication between multiple resources in a single exchange
Documents: Allows persistence when data spans multiple resources
Services: Allows the use of custom service if the standard service does not fit the requirement
Basic Terms and Concepts in FHIR
Resource: The basic building block or a modular component in FHIR is a Resource. Resources define behavior and meaning, have a known identity and location, are the smallest possible unit of transaction, and provide meaningful data that is of interest to healthcare. Resources will be limited to 100 to 150 in total but can be extended if needed for optionality and customization, they are similar to an HL7 V2 segment.
Resources are data formats and elements, essentially a structured model of a JSON or XML object. Each object will have its own Universal Resource Identifier (URI) with a unique identifier like a Medical Record Number (MRN). Every resource consists of an Identifier, Human Readable summary, Extension, Contained Resources, Metadata, Resource content and Tags. Human readability will allow the data to be viewed in a standard web browser, even if none of the structured data is able to be imported into the receiving system. Resources may also be combined into a Resource Bundle, a collection of multiple resources and even full-message exchanges.
There are various categories of resources that can be used in FHIR, including:
Clinical (Medications, Diagnostics, Observations or other General objects)
Identification (Individuals, Groups, Entities, Devices)
Workflow (Patient Management, Scheduling, Workflow #1 and #2)
Administrative (Attribution, Workflow)
Infrastructure (data payloads such as documents, message headers specifying source and destinations, Composition, Query, Profiles, Value Sets, Information tracking, Documents and Lists, Structure, Exchange)
Conformance (Terminology, Content, Operations Control, Misc)
Financial (Support, Billing, Payment, Other)
Additionally, the FHIR specification defines a set of Data Types that are used for the resource elements. There are two categories of data types:
simple or primitive types, which are single elements, and
complex types, which are re-usable clusters of elements.
Clinical Documentation Architecture (Reaffirmation) (CDA(R)) specifies the structure and semantics of "clinical documents" for the purpose of exchange between healthcare providers and patients, e.g: Discharge Summary, Imaging Report, Admission & Physical, Pathology Report etc. Different Reaffirmation versions are applicable based on the type of CDA section.
Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU): this term denotes versions of FHIR that are being tested but should not be considered finalized, as opposed to "Normative Versions" that are standardized after extensive testing.
Why do we need FHIR when we already have HL7?
HL7 V2 is a well-established standard that works within institutions to connect applications. However, it is a legacy standard with unique syntaxes and custom tools that have caused an explosion of HL7 variants resulting in problems of data integration between systems and institutions over time. HL7 V2 also has no requirements for privacy, security or authentication. HL7 V2 is also limiting to modern devices and apps that are trying to make use of the vast trove of stored patient data in a meaningful manner. Lack of security and interoperability have caused HL7 V2 limitations to become a barrier to patient engagement.
HL7 V3, though based on a reference model, was overly complex to implement and did not have the backwards compatibility with HL7 V2. Hence HL7 V3 was dead on arrival and was not going to help anyone in healthcare make money or save money, nor to meet the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) new mandatory bundled payments model, called Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), starting in 2018. This is a significant rule with fundamental changes for Medicare that is related to the merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). MIPS consolidates components of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the Value-based Payment Modifier (VM), and the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. MACRA mandates interoperability that HL7 V2 and V3 were unable to provide. FHIR will step in to fill this requirement.
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an interoperable content standard to help organizations exchange clinical data. CDA takes a document approach, providing the ability to group related content about the patient into a single document format.
In contrast, FHIR presents discrete elements of information, for example - individual lab results, demographic information, medications and more – as data representations called Resources. Discrete resources in FHIR offer much greater potential for interoperability than the CDA document approach.
What will change in healthcare with FHIR?
EHRs have done their job of collecting and storing the healthcare data. With FHIR, as patients move around the healthcare ecosystem, their electronic health records will be available to support automated clinical decision support and other machine-based processing, also the data will be structured and standardized. Given the embedded nature of HL7 V2, the transition with FHIR will not happen overnight. The healthcare market will ultimately decide the success of FHIR and whether FHIR survives or coexists with older standards.
What are the different FHIR workflows in healthcare?
Communications between applications: Initially a broker may be needed for the applications, like the interface engine that acts as a middleware between different applications that may still use HL7 versions.
Patient engagement: FHIR will be used to provide patients with timely data and alerts using REST standard.
Link the different EHRs: FHIR will make it so that all patient data stored in many different data repositories like Health Information Systems (HIS) and Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) can be liberated and made available to different departments within and outside the healthcare facility.
Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) or Vendor Neutral Repository: Eventually the goal is to be able to store patient data documents and images or potentially any file of clinical relevance in a standard format with a standard interface, such that they can be accessed in a vendor-neutral manner by other systems. This will allow applications to solve creative workflow problems.
How Is FHIR Being Developed?
FHIR is still being developed by HL7, the second Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU2) became available in 2015, the first normative edition is planned for 2017 and the second normative edition in 2018. This will be a big step towards population health management. Major EHR vendors like Athenahealth, Cerner and Epic have agreed to support an early effort at implementation, known as the Argonaut Project, that will be important for the open API requirements for Meaningful Use Stage 3.
SMART on FHIR is a project that started in 2010, funded by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), to build an app platform for healthcare allowing innovation, creative use of data within the EHR, enabling third party plug-in apps and support apps to be chosen by clinicians. SMART on FHIR specs provide means for healthcare organizations or developers to access discrete clinical data—such as medications, problems, lab results, immunizations and patient demographics.
What Interoperability Means for Population Health and Healthcare Costs
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2016 data, chronic diseases and conditions are responsible for 7 of 10 deaths each year, and treating people with chronic diseases accounts for 86% of our nation's health care costs.
An enormous amount of healthcare effort and cost goes toward just a few chronic diseases and conditions, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity, arthritis, Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias, multiple sclerosis (MS), Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS), asthma, oral health, cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). in spite of a barrage of prescription medications administered, invasive surgical procedures performed, declaring war on cancer in 1971 and completing the Human Genome Project in 2003, there is no strategy that seems to be working to reduce the number of deaths and cost attributable to these chronic diseases. Unless we understand the root cause of a disease, a treatable disease can become a chronic and progressive lifelong condition. Interoperable healthcare data systems will play a vital role in understanding the root causes of the most costly and deadly diseases.
Can the new healthcare laws, "Value Not Volume" based payments and EHR interoperability in healthcare help in changing the current healthcare conditions?
Yes, I think there is a fair chance. Many of the adverse incentives in healthcare have changed substantially for the better.
Am I Optimistic About Future Positive Changes in Healthcare?
I have been working for the last few years in healthcare applications. Before that I was working in basic research labs, analysing many health related experiences, passionately staying current with many nutrition, health and healthcare topics.
Throughout all this, I could see the limitations of siloed data in healthcare and patient care. Diseases and chronic health conditions are typically treated as if they are just affecting the different parts and organs, not considering the overall impact on the entire human body, and thereby missing the interconnections that complete the picture. Both human health and healthcare data face the same problem, they are both siloed. We need a more holistic approach.
In the near future we will be able to look at the interconnections of the human body and also in healthcare data in their entirety. This will enable us to paint a complete picture for both. Then it will be the time to make use of tons of EHR healthcare data and perform data analytics in a meaningful manner to improve the human health, streamline workflows and reduce the cost of healthcare.
So am I optimistic about the future of healthcare as interoperability increases? Yes!
What makes ExtraHop Great for Monitoring FHIR?
The ExtraHop wire data analytics platform can already perform real-time analytics for the entire healthcare ecosystem by parsing many protocols, such as HL7, DICOM, TELNET, HTTP, XML, SSL, FTP and many more L3, L4 and L7 protocols. That means our platform is already prepared for when FHIR becomes the interoperability standard in 2017 to 2018. ExtraHop already supports many interoperable technologies. Our bundles are in JSON format and ExtraHop already supports Application Inspection (AI) triggers, alerts, javascript, Python and RESTful APIs.
FHIR is implemented on top of HL7 and the HTTPS (HTTP Secure) protocol. FHIR is expected to be secured using TLS/SSL. FHIR data will be structured as JSON or XML and standardized. FHIR is for interoperability where we will have access to all healthcare storage systems like HIS and PACS.
In other words, FHIR is being built on technologies that are already well-supported by the ExtraHop platform.
ExtraHop, with protocol metrics for FHIR, will open the door to so many possibilities with FHIR and the apps-based health IT. ExtraHop can drill down into all metrics collected from HL7, DICOM, TELNET, XML, SSL, HTTP along with FHIR, and can connect the dots needed to use that data to address complex human health questions.
Using ExtraHop in conjunction with FHIR will allow IT departments to break free from EHR data silos and get the full clinical value out of each patient's health data. In doing so, ExtraHop can help in shifting healthcare from a reactive process to a proactive and preventive model. ExtraHop can bridge the current gap between healthcare's siloed data by creating meaningful predictive insights from the entire structured data by providing a single source of truth.
The increase in interoperability and reduced friction in sharing healthcare data will open the floodgates to enormous improvements in healthcare and disease prevention, and ExtraHop can be a key enabler in these improvements. Just a few possibilities include:
Identifying the root cause of diseases in patients and populations using disease condition patterns and analytics with a drill down approach
Identifying the comorbidities associated with the worst health outcomes by alerting on the coexistence of multiple high risk conditions in a patient, even if these conditions are being tracked in separate data silos.
Recommendations for prescription medications and invasive surgical procedures based on the efficacy, absolute risk reduction and health benefits rather than based on the relative risk reduction, to shift towards outcomes-based pricing.
Identifying nosocomial (originating in a hospital) infections including sepsis
Democratization of healthcare data, liberating electronic health records data so that data cannot be cherry picked by a few to make false claims, but data will be widely available for anyone to do research and analysis upon it.
Creating apps or bundles to address various healthcare issues
A good app or a bundle, distributed widely, can transfer ideas, functionality, workflow and could reshape healthcare IT overnight! In my mind, that's the potential power ExtraHop has to accelerate a positive transformation in healthcare.
Want to learn more about how ExtraHop provides healthcare organizations with insights from wire data that can dramatically improve both doctor and patient experiences? Explore the HL7 analytics scenarios in our free, online demo.
Further Reading on FHIR, HL7, and healthcare data analytics:
Step-by-Step Guide to HL7 Analytics
Six Ways ExtraHop Enables Real-Time Healthcare Systems
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Venezuela Weekly: Guaidó Returns, Challenges Loom4 min read
By David Smilde and Dimitris Pantoulas, Feb. 13
Feb 13, 2020 | Venezuela Weekly
National Assembly president and opposition leader Juan Guaidó finally returned to Venezuela on a flight from Portugal, after more than three weeks abroad. The Maduro government chose not to arrest him but rather to mobilize supporters to harass him and the opposition deputies that had gone to the airport to meet him, as well as journalists that were covering the events. Government supporters, including workers for the recently sanctioned state airline Conviasa, booed, taunted, shouted "traitor" and threw water at Guaidó with the apparent complicity of airport security. Journalists fared worse, suffering outright physical aggression. Guaidó's uncle, who also arrived on the flight from Lisbon, was detained and accused of carrying "hazardous material."
These tactics are similar to the "spontaneous" actos de repudio that the Cuban government has used against dissidents for decades. They are at a low enough level to avoid strong international condemnation, but have been remarkably effective at keeping activists isolated and off balance (see Sweig p.149).
The National Press Workers Union (SNTP) denounced the aggression and went to the Public Ministry to demand that it be investigated. The Association of Foreign Press Workers joined the denunciation. (See the NY Times Anatoly Kurmanaev's Twitter thread.)
It is clear that Guaidó's international trip boosted his political capital within Venezuela. However, numerous analysts have suggested that the real challenge is yet to come, with the need to develop a strategy to confront legislative elections this year. What is more, the political capital that Guaidó gained in meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump would seem more valuable for radical strategies of boycotting and calling for intervention, than fighting to preserve the National Assembly.
The U.S. government sanctioned Venezuela's state-owned airline CONVIASA, a move that appears to be part of the increasing international pressure strategy against Maduro that Guaidó has mentioned.
Also, the role of Russia in Venezuela is gaining attention in U.S. policy cycles. The White House is highlighting Russia's involvement in Venezuela's internal affairs, and hinting that international oil companies that continue to operate in Venezuela may suffer consequences, including the Russian energy giant Rosneft.
The Kremlin rejected U.S. threats to impose sanctions against Russian companies.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Venezuela during his three-country trip to Latin America (including Mexico and Cuba). Venezuela was high on Lavrov's agenda; he mentioned the country during his Mexico visit saying both Mexico and Russia are categorically opposing any possible military intervention in Venezuela. During his stay in Venezuela, he held meetings with the Chavista leadership and with the minority parties that are negotiating with the Maduro government.
Members of the Social Dialogue initiative demanded an electoral solution to the crisis and reiterated their call to all parties and political actors to strike a national agreement towards this direction.
For its part, the National Assembly announced that the Venezuelan civil society is participating actively in the proceedings to select new authorities for the National Electoral Council as the Venezuelan constitution requires.
Venezuela's economic liberalization along with migration restrictions and xenophobic incidences abroad, have impacted migration trends according to a Bloomberg article that mention that of those "who've emigrated in the past five years, 17%, or about 1 million, have returned over the same period, the data show." However, it is too early to claim a reversal of flows since emigration continues apace.
Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno asked the National Assembly to approve a proposed reform of the current migration laws that would allow Ecuador to quickly deport foreigners that commit crimes in the country quickly. The U.N. office in Ecuador expressed its concerns about xenophobia and discrimination incidents in the country.
For several days there were protests in Pacaraima the main entry point for Venezuelans crossing in to Brazil. Protestors pointed to the increase in violence in the city, after a Venezuelan allegedly raped a young local woman. The protesters tried to knock down the mobile classrooms that built the Brazilian government for the Venezuelan children.
A recent study says that at least 4,911 people were killed in the last seven years on the border between Colombia and Venezuela. A number of non-state armed groups operate along the border and fight for the control of it. 378 Venezuelan migrants were murdered between 2017 and 2019.
The Trump administration's changes to migration and refugee policies are affecting Venezuelans asylum seekers in the U.S.
Humanitarian Emergency
Infant mortality rates are rising due to deprivation and malnutrition.
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In the past few years, this region has undergone a number of road infrastructure developments. One of them, the Burauen- Albuera road has just been finished after been under construction for the past 8 years. The road traverses through some rebel-held villages. However, the enhanced accessibility is seen to improve the peace, order and the economic situation of the people.
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Your story, our story
A charismatic preacher at an African-American Passover Seder links the Jewish experience to his people's history.
Published: MARCH 24, 2013 14:28
AN AFRICAN American Hebrew Israelite celebrates Passover.
(photo credit: Amir Cohen/Reuters)
I was just about to pass over Passover. My husband Paul and I had been invited to two Sedarim in Los Angeles, but one was a rock and the other was a hard place. At the former, there would be three children who were so obnoxious that their father walked around wearing headphones. At the latter, a gaggle of girlfriends who trashed other women and bashed men.
I opened up the newspaper to look for a deli that offered matza ball soup and gefilte fish when I saw it — a tiny ad announcing African-American Passover. It was near LAX airport, which meant it was less than half an hour's drive, but my gut told me it would be a world away from Hollywood, the movie studios and my computer, where I spent most of my exasperating work life.
"What do you wear to an African- American Seder?" we wondered. Sedate black? An ethnic look? Paul settled on a black blazer with a sea-blue shirt and I wore my cloak of many colors that I had bought in Africa.
We arrived at the low, sprawling restaurant complex where the Passover was to take place. Three impeccably-dressed, well-coiffed, smiling African Americans welcomed people at the door and, to our utter surprise, they spoke Hebrew.
"Habaim Baruchim," one of them said to us.
Paul and I broke into huge grins. The Hebrew wasn't perfect — the order of the words had been reversed — but the intention far outweighed the error.
"Shalom Aleichem," another proclaimed. We returned the greeting and walked jauntily into a large hall with a prominent stage that sported some props and set elements and long tables filled with Passover celebrants.
It wasn't hard to pick us out from the crowd: We were the only white faces. A few people invited us to join them at their table, which we did, and we made polite chitchat. After a few minutes, we saw that a slight, bespectacled man was walking across the vast room toward us. He stretched out his hand, shook ours, and introduced himself as the minister.
"Welcome to our Passover," he said in a gentle, low voice. "May I ask what brings you here?" We mumbled something long-winded and politically correct, but the intuitive pastor cut through our rambling.
"Are you folks Jewish?" he asked.
We nodded.
"I hope we don't offend you," he said.
I wanted to reply that after enduring the daily slings and arrows of working in Hollywood, it would be hard for this gentle man to offend me, but I kept my counsel.
"We're happy to be here," was all I said.
He left our table and walked up onto the stage. The room grew silent, and all eyes were on him. When he began to speak, it was with a different voice from the low, gentle one he had used to address us. His voice boomed like a pipe organ, filling the huge room with its sonorous tones.
"More than 3,000 years ago, in the land of Egypt, the Pharaoh ruled with great wealth and a mighty hand, and the Jews were slaves, toiling under the brutal, boiling African sun. " There were moans of sympathy from the audience.
"And you know the story of Moses, who was lifted from the river in his reed basket and raised in the Pharaoh's palace. And you know that he saw a master abusing a Jewish slave, and he killed that man for his wickedness. Moses knew the Egyptians would be after him for the murder, so he fled to the land of Midian. There he married the daughter of Jethro the priest, and he learned the ways of wisdom from his father-in-law. But Moses was not destined to spend the rest of his life in Midian. Oh, no…"
"Oh, no," the audience echoed.
"Oh, no. For God appeared to him in the blazing fire of the burning bush, and told him, 'Go down, Moses... Go down to Egypt land…"
Guided by the booming voice of the pastor, and accompanied by a four-piece band, the audience burst out into song, brilliant, soaring, harmonizing, "Tell old… Pharaoh… to let my people go!"
The verses were repeated, the song built in intensity, and I almost leapt out of my seat with excitement. Then, as suddenly as it started, the music stopped, the tune ended, and the preacher resumed his story.
"So Moses went to Pharaoh, and asked him to release the Hebrews from slavery, but Pharaoh wouldn't move. Oh, no…" "Oh no…!" "So God brought 10 plagues upon the Egyptians… 10 dreadful plagues that made the people on the banks of the Nile shake and shudder with terror. First there was blood..."
"Blood!" the room echoed.
"Frogs..."
"Frogs!" "Gnats and wild beasts…" "Gnats and wild beasts!" the participants roared.
"But Pharaoh wouldn't relent. Nine plagues that would soften the heart of anyone, anyone but the Pharaoh. His heart was hardened. And then, the worst plague of all, and may God spare us from such a plague, the killing of all the firstborn sons..."
There were groans and moans of agony from the audience.
"But God spared the Hebrew babies, and do you know how he spared them?" "Tell us!" With that, the preacher lifted up a can of red paint, thrust a thick brush into it, and turned toward one of the scenic elements on stage with him: a large, wooden door set into a frame.
"God told the Hebrews to paint their doorposts with lamb's blood…" With vigorous strokes, and accompanied by crashing chords and cymbals, the pastor splashed the red paint across the doorway.
The audience gasped and then held its collective breath.
"And the Angel of Death saw the lamb's blood and knew it was a Hebrew house, and passed right over, sparing the babies inside and killing all the firstborns of the Egyptians. The Egyptian people could not be consoled. The wailing of the mothers could be heard everywhere, across the river, through the cities, it echoed to the deserts and mountains, it filled all of Egypt."
Everyone in the room howled and wailed.
"And when Egypt could bear it no longer, not one minute longer, Pharaoh relented and let the slaves go."
"Thank you, Lord!" The pastor was one of the most breathtaking actors and historical re-creators I had ever witnessed. No one in the audience coughed or sneezed or looked away. He carried us all to Egypt where we could feel the pain of Moses, the pain of slavery, the inconsolable grief of the Egyptian mothers who had lost their babies. He took us with Moses to the parting of the sea, and the moment when the waters closed and swallowed the Egyptians who were in pursuit. To Mount Sinai, where God gave Moses the 10 commandments. To the fury of Moses who came down from the mountain and saw his people worshiping the golden calf. To Moses crashing the commandments to the ground and heading back into the mountains. To the desert, where the Hebrews were so lost and bereft and miserable they pined for Egypt. To the manna that fell from heaven to nourish and sustain them.
By the end of the saga, we were wrung out, exhausted, spent, exhilarated, and ready for the Promised Land, which the preacher delivered.
We sat in stunned silence when the Passover narrative was over. We had experienced the story, rather than just reading about it. We had participated in the original Passover. We had met the Pharaoh, Moses, the Egyptians, our ancient foremothers and fathers.
The pastor left the stage, exchanged hugs and handshakes with the congregation, and headed over to our table, where the Seder meal was being served.
"I hope I didn't offend you," he said in his gentle, subdued voice.
"Offend us? This was the most exciting, vibrant Passover we have ever experienced.
But… but…."
"You want to know why we do it? Is that it?"
"Yes. Please."
The minister pulled up an empty chair and sat next to us, speaking passionately and from the heart.
"Everything was torn away from us when we left Africa as slaves – our names, our history, our language, our tribal identity, our religion. When we look back, we need something to identify with, a story, a past, but we have been robbed of it. What we can relate to most is the story of the Jews, from the time when they were slaves in Egypt, and how they liberated themselves from slavery. We try to learn the Hebrew language, celebrate the Passover, retell the story. We hope what we did tonight to celebrate Passover did not trouble or offend you. It is a deep passion we feel for your story, which is like our story."
It was hard to answer. The words were so moving and the sincerity of the pastor was searing. I opened my mouth to speak, but all I could do was put my fingers to my lips, reach out, and place my fingers on his forehead.
"Thank you," I whispered. "You have made Passover come alive for me. We are brothers and sisters."
Paul clasped the preacher and hugged him.
"Todah rabbah," the preacher said, "and may our One God bless you."
Judith Fein is an award-winning international travel journalist who has contributed to more than 100 publications and author of the acclaimed book LIFE IS A TRIP: The Transformative Magic of Travel.
Her website is www.GlobalAdventure.us.


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Q: TFS 2015 RC: Active Directory Group recognize as user account I'm currently setting up Team Foundation Server 2015 RC using Active Directory Groups. My problem is that the Active Directory groups is recognized as an user account.
This is the answer i recieve when I use the command tfssecurity on the Active Directory group.
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My question is "how can I add an Active Directory group into the TFS server?"
I try to make a local group that have this group as member but he's still recognise as a user...
 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0>tfssecurity /i sys-tfs-staff
 /server:http://vmhtfs2015:8080/tfs
Microsoft (R) TFSSecurity - Team Foundation Server Security Tool
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

The target Team Foundation Server is http://vmhtfs2015:8080/tfs.
Resolving identity "sys-tfs-staff"...

SID: S-1-5-21-355394590-2582885020-3653915598-10557

DN:

Identity type: Windows user
   Logon name: MyDomain\sys-tfs-staff
 Display name: sys-tfs-staff

Done.

Does Anyone know the Answer?

A: I found the answer, if you want to install TFS 2015 with active directory. You need to join the domain before starting the setup. Then the active directory group will be recognise.