Here is the program for the camp and yes we have to pay $20 for the camp.
I was not happy with the camp registration as it was chaotic. No clear direction was given to the parents who arrived at the school. No one directs me to the registration table until I walked further in and saw many parents queueing. Well, naturally I joined too though I wasn't sure what I was queueing for. The teenager at the table asked for DinoBoy's name, ticked it on her list, gave him a sticker with his name on it and repeats to him "You have to keep this on your tee shirt at all times so that the teacher will know your name, do not lose it." then turned to attend to the next parent in line. I was clueless on the next step so I asked the girl who looked away from the parent, gave me an irritated expression before telling me to "Go to their respective classes." which I have NO IDEA what she meant by "respective classes" but did not have a chance to asked her.
I dragged DinoBoy along with me and moved around the crowd for a while before finally managed to find the correct door to go in to DinoBoy's class. There were a few staffs from the student care but none offered help when we were wondering around, they were either too busy going about their duties or chatting with some parents.
I was directed (finally someone is helpful!) to DinoBoy's class, got him settled in, wanted to kiss him goodbye but he promptly avoided my kiss (so sad!) and I left him.
"We sit in the class do connect the dots, some work, then go to the canteen -for breakfast- then go back to class to some work, then teacher bring us out to play. We play hola hoops, frisbee then go to the canteen, I take the food but I spilled it and don't dare to eat again but teacher give me another plate so I eat then I see you."
While on the way to fetch DinoBoy, Catherine wassapp me saying that he does not want to eat his lunch. She took a photo and sent to me, DinoBoy looking sad and sulking.
When I reached school minutes later, Catherine told me that he spilled his plate of food and refuse to eat. After a teacher spoke to him, she gave him a small plate of rice with veggie and he started to eat. A teacher approached me while I was accompanying DinoBoy back to the class room, she was concerned with his behaviour earlier. Apparently DinoBoy spilled his plate of food and he refuse to take any food. I explained to the teacher that we have taught him since young not to waste any food, he thought he had done something wrong when he spilled his plate of food and felt sad and unhappy. I guess hunger and some consoling from a few teachers makes him feels better thus he ate the lunch eventually.
I wasn't paying attention to the camp de-brief due to the incident above but its about the general information like the meet up point for the students going to the centre after school dismissal etc.
DinoBoy will be starting his school in a few day's time, he of course can't wait for the day to come faster. I'm feeling excited too, a little bit of worry mixed in it too. Let's see how this little street smart boy will adapt to the totally different environment.
For the next few weeks I will be sharing our experience on our preparation for DinoBoy's Primary One. I hope it will serve as a useful guide to parents when its their time to get their child ready for the new journey and have an idea how Parent Volunteer works.
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Germany will not back a proposal establishing camps in Libya to corral migrants heading for Europe, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said yesterday (2 May) at the African Union's headquarters.
His comments indicate a potential abandonment of a deal worked out in February between Italy and Libya's UN-backed government where the European Union would pay for detention camps in the North African country for refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean.
The Italian government said yesterday (2 April) that dozens of rival tribes in southern Libya had agreed to cooperate on securing the country's borders in an effort to curb the influx of migrants trying to reach Europe.
Of the roughly 500,000 asylum seekers who have reached Italy in the last three years, the vast majority passed through Libya, but aid groups have expressed misgivings over the building of camps that could also stop refugees fleeing war or persecution.
Interior ministers mainly from the central Mediterranean region met in Rome yesterday (20 March) to ramp up efforts to curb migration from Libya amid a sharp rise in the number of people trying to cross to Europe.
Addressing a press conference alongside AU Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat, Gabriel said migrants lived in "horrible conditions," at current camps in Libya and building further settlements was not a solution.
"One has to pay heed to the situation on the ground in North Africa," Gabriel said at the AU's headquarters in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
The European Union should step up funding for the United Nation's migration agency to return migrants stranded in Libya to their home countries further south in Africa, the bloc's current president says.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged €27 million in aid to stop migrants heading for Europe during a tour of Africa last year, but Germany remains a destination for refugees fleeing war and for migrants seeking better lives.
After trekking through the Sahara, many migrants arrive at Libya's coast where they climb aboard rickety boats and head for Italy.
More than 1,000 have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean so far this year, according to the UN's refugee agency.
Aid workers say the camps that have already sprung up in Libya are squalid and under the control of militias that have seized parts of the country since it plunged into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi's government was ousted in 2011.
Gabriel's comments were echoed by Faki, a former Chadian foreign minister who took over as AU chair in March.
Accepting these economic migrants will just encourage more – and bring about the collapse of European civilisation.


Methinks there are but a few of my constant readers or indeed, many American filmgoers, who remember and celebrate the work of the great Mexican film comic Mario Moreno (1911-1993), best known under his nombre de cine, Cantinflas.
If he is recalled at all, it is for one of his two major American films, Around the World in 80 Days (1956), the star-studded Best Picture in which he was the second male lead as Phileas Fogg's valet Passepartout, and for which he won that year's Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy. Less known, and rightly so, is his title performance in 1960's all-star Pepe, Columbia's cameo-laden bomb that still hasn't come to home video, if it ever will. Of course, Pepe is one of my personal guilty favorites.
Anyway, the new biopic Cantinflas aims to fill that memory gap in a handsomely mounted bilingual production—with bilingual subtitles—about his rise from humble beginnings to his eventual status as the world's most popular comedian, a pronouncement made by none other than Charlie Chaplin himself.
Mexico's Xenio Films has gone all out to portray the panoply of his life, starting as a failed boxer in Vera Cruz, then as a comic in tent shows, moving on to his stint at the Mexico City branch of the Folies Bergere, and on to stardom at Churubusco Studios, queen of the golden age of Mexican cinema.
As a biopic, Cantinflas falls into the genre's de rigueur cliches, like womanizing, overdrinking, and megalomaniacal behavior on the set, all typical elements of the supposedly warts-and-all overview of a real life. However, in its favor it also delves into the rural roots of his stage personality, his political beliefs and activism, and his formation of a Mexico City actors guild to rival the official, and deeply corrupt, thespian union.
But that's only half of this movie. The other half is set in 1956, as rapscallion producer Mike Todd (Michael Imperioli) is in the process of lining of dozens of unpaid guest stars for his Jules Verne epic. With only days away from a major United Artists press conference that will announce the glittery lineup, Todd is sweating bullets as he tries to convince the giant international star Cantinflas—of whom he has never heard—to take a small role as an Apache chief.
The film flips back and forth between the "past", 1931-45, and the "present," 1956, and although we know Moreno eventually will agree to sign up, it will be only in the much larger part of Passepartout. But nobody in this movie knows that fact until near the end.
A number of cinema stars are impersonated, on both sides of the border, although the Latin stars fare far better. The actresses who play the classically beautiful Dolores Del Rio and the smoldering Maria Felix, for instance, are much more credible than their Hollywood counterparts. The Elizabeth Taylor doppelganger is costumed and made up correctly, down to the precisely placed beauty mark on her right cheek, but she never comes across as anything but a wishful, hollow double. The same is true of the briefly seen Yul Brynner (curiously pronounced "Briner," with a long i), who looks more like Otto Preminger, not to mention the Brando and Sinatra impressionists who seem interchangeable. Worst is the characterization of a portly Chaplin, in reality an eternally good-looking man who was anything but Hitchcock-like stout.
Further, the movie is more interested in delving into the soap opera of Moreno's troubled home life, with a wife who can't give him sons, rather than showing his open heart and generous philanthropy, including the building of decent low-income housing for the poor, the socioeconomic class from which he emerged.
Still, there are plenty of reasons to go see this cinematic adulation of a character strongly associated with his native country's identity. Not the least of which is Oscar Jaenada's uncanny embodiment of Cantinflas, whose physiognomy, vocal inflections, and acrobatic body language are so immediately familiar to his fans, like myself. Jaenada's work is right there at the top, alongside such masterful achievements like Paul Muni as Benito Juarez, Bette Davis as Elizabeth I, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn.
Si, es verdad. And what a great opportunity this could be to re-introduce oneself, or to expose one's family, to a commemoration of Ciudad de Mexico's own beloved Little Tramp.


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Q: Compatability of Hive, Hbase and Hadoop 2.5.1 I have Hadoop 2.5.1 installed on three nodes (1 master, 2 slave nodes) and I want to know the version compatibility of HBase and Hive?
Also, are any alternatives for this Hadoop+Hbase+Hive integration or any guides explaining the installation of Hadoop 2.5.1 with compatible HBase and Hive ?
Currently I am trying with Apache Ambari for the above integration and its still ongoing.
Environment:
Jdk version: 1.7.0_67
RHEL 5
64 bit architecture
Any leads will be much appreciated!

A: With hadoop 2.5.1 supported versions are:

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*HBase-0.98.x (Support for Hadoop 1.1+ is deprecated.)

*HBase-1.0.x (Hadoop 1.x is NOT supported)

*HBase-1.1.x

*HBase-1.2.x

Here is the link : http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#configuration

A: Warning: only hive 1.2.1 can work with Hbase 2.x.

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Půlnoc v Paříži (v originále Midnight in Paris) je americký hraný film, který natočil Woody Allen. Film měl světovou premiéru 11. května 2011, když byl vybrán, aby zahájil 64. Filmový festival v Cannes.

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Dvojice mladých Američanů Gil a Inez připravuje svou svatbu. Stráví několik dní v Paříži, když provázejí rodiče Inez, kteří jedou služebně do Francie. Zatímco Gil podlehne kouzlu francouzského hlavního města a plánuje se sem přestěhovat, jeho pragmatická snoubenka ani budoucí tchán a tchyně to vůbec neoceňují. Nečekané setkání s jiným americkým párem, jehož samolibý a nudný manžel je bývalý milenec Inez, přispěje k postupnému odcizení mladých snoubenců. Gil si prochází město, aby našel inspiraci pro svůj další román. Úderem půlnoci je pozván nasednout do starého peugeotu, které jej proveze Paříží 20. let. V průběhu noci tak potkává známé osobnosti té doby jako Zelda a Francis S. Fitzgeraldovi, Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Juan Belmonte, Gertrude Steinová, Pablo Picasso, T. S. Eliot, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Henri Matisse aj. Postupně se zamiluje do Adriany, která byla múzou Picassa a Modiglianiho. Jsou to však jen sny o dávné Paříži.

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Film byl kompletně natočen v Paříži s výjimkou několika záběrů v obci Giverny a na zámku Vincennes u Paříže. V epizodní roli průvodkyně v Rodinově muzeu se objevila i manželka francouzského prezidenta Carla Bruniová-Sarkozyová. Plakát k filmu částečně upomíná na obraz Vincenta van Gogha Hvězdná noc.

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  Woody aime Paris: la balade d'un cinéaste (o filmu na stránkách města Paříže)
 Kinobox: Woody Allen vyměnil New York za Paříž
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Filmy z roku 2011
Americké filmové komedie
Filmy Woodyho Allena
Filmy odehrávající se v Paříži
Filmy studia Sony Pictures Classics
Filmy s cestováním v čase
Filmy o spisovatelích
Filmy odehrávající se ve Versailles
Magický realismus

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Hymna Aland, autonomní provincie Finska, ve které se mluví švédsky, je píseň Ålänningens sång (, ). Byla přijata v roce 1922, její text napsal John Grandell a hudbu složil Johan Fridolf Hagfors. Tato píseň byla poprvé představena během hudebního festivalu v Mariehamnu roku 1922. Hymna měla původně čtyři sloky, ale poslední dobou je vynechávána třetí sloka.

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The snow is coming down thick and fast. It's January and I am six miles into a ten-mile training run. My legs are stiffening up and suddenly I'm anxious – very anxious.
It's my first Saturday morning circuit of Pontefract race track in 2012. Give up now and I will fail to finish a critical milestone in my London Marathon preparations. Keep running and I may end up snowed in at the car park.
So you can imagine my horror when, 15 months ago at a fundraiser, I was backed by the chief of my favourite charity to run the London Marathon. Er, what Heavy-boned, 45-year-old, 16st me The assembled supporters clap loudly and my face locks into a rigid grin as I laugh off the 'joke'.
My wife Yvette [Cooper] is more serious when I arrive home clutching my Whizz-Kidz marathon T-shirt. No way, is her view, I will never make it beyond mile 20.
I fear she may be right, so for five months I dismiss the idea as a pipe dream. I try going out for a run round my local park – once – but after a mile I'm exhausted. Back to the couch.
But I begin to wonder. When I watched the 2011 Marathon, far older and less fit-looking people than me seemed to be managing OK. More importantly, I think of the two causes I would love to run for – Whizz-Kidz, the disabled children's charity I worked closely with as Children's Secretary, and Action For Stammering Children, a charity close to my heart. As a lifelong stammerer, I know how tough and isolating keeping a stammer under wraps can be.
Whizz-Kidz put me in touch with one of their marathon advisers, Nick Berners-Price, whose advice was clear – it can be done.
After 20 years sitting behind a desk and lying on the sofa, serious running has to be the sure-fire route to injury. So three times a week, I do step-training at home for 40 minutes, using an aerobics step, plus stretching and core work using a flexi-bar, a weighted rod you shake to throw yourself off balance while doing exercises. It is odd to be training for the Marathon while never going for a run, but I'm feeling in good shape. And then, photos of the annual MPs football match make it on to the front pages of the papers.
My bulging figure tells a different story; not much sign of the 'squeezed middle' in those shorts.
Once my breathing slows, running is a beautifully calming experience, especially on a cold, sunny day, and I prefer to run solo so my mind can wander off and think about nothing except the next lap. I establish a pattern. One short run during the week of three or four miles around Clissold Park; one session on the step in the front room; fortnightly sessions with Nick; and a long run every weekend around Regent's Park or Pontefract.
So I finish my first ten-mile run (two hours 29 minutes), despite the snow. My training is on target.
In February, it's decision time. For months Whizz-Kidz have held open a Marathon slot for me but the organisers need confirmation today. Yvette's views are clear – I know she thinks it's crazy. So do my office team. Yvette thinks it's too far, but my office have a different view. They point out that no Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet member has ever attempted to run the Marathon.
I've sworn enough people to secrecy in the past few months to make sure I can't back out easily. And I want to do it, so the email goes off, and moments later I receive my confirmation. No turning back now, but doubts still nag away.
I go to Pro-Fit on Chelsea's King's Road to get a set of computer-modelled insoles, and a problem in my left ankle caused by a lop-sided running action is eased as they even out the surface of the shoe.
I endure the laughter of the family and have a proper sports massage. Lying in shorts on the kitchen table feels rather undignified but it works wonders on my aching hamstrings, stopping a tightening that caused real discomfort after mile 12 of a training run.
On Easter Saturday, there's good news. After six half-marathons and extra runs, my suits are starting to hang off me a little. I haven't lost any weight but my shape is changing as I get fitter.
My longest training run of 20 miles had been postponed for a week because I had a nasty cold. But at 8am, with rain threatening, I set off for four hours and nine laps of Pontefract racetrack. My extremely attractive Lycra running tights have solved the nasty thigh chafing that can hobble the best of runners.
Eating carb-containing gels keeps up my energy, but after 18 miles I feel light-headed and my legs are filled with lead. So far I have not hit the 'wall' – the barrier that stops even elite runners in their tracks – and the marathon runner's nightmare.
But I battle through as I now believe I have the stamina and willpower for the job. After 20 miles, I scramble into the car, drive home and fall straight asleep.
So, today is the big day. The furthest I've done since the 20-mile run is 13 miles. I'm told more training will be counter-productive, using up energy I need to preserve for the race.
Ah yes, I've remembered, it was mine.
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If nothing else, The Connection looks gorgeous—set in Marseille in the late '70s and early '80s, and shot on 35mm, it's a movie that revels in its time and place, with Laurent Tangy's sun-dappled cinematography rolling in dusky yellows, browns, and blues. And when those visuals are paired up with a few select songs from the soundtrack—not to mention some impressive set design, and a cast that's somehow both authentic and photogenic—it hits several high points. Its stylish opening sequence, the camera speeding behind and alongside and in front of a motorcycle as it swoops and wends through traffic, is lively and surprising and remarkable.
The rest of the film, not so much. Plot-wise, it's basically "But what if The French Connection were French?" as a hard-working police magistrate (Jean Dujardin) chases after one of those crime lords who's more likeable than he should be (Gilles Lellouche). Looking past all that French-smuggled heroin, there's a bit of a Heat vibe here, too—director Cédric Jimenez makes sure we notice how similar these enemies are—even if the film has none of old-school Michael Mann's ice-cold propulsion. What's here instead are some strong performances tied to a drawn-out, by-the-numbers crime story. There's little "wrong" with The Connection—and again, there are a few moments where things seem really right—but it offers little that other films about cops and robbers already haven't. Maybe just watch one of those instead. Maybe The French Connection.
The Great Invisible: The feel-bad movie of the year!


Greene Acres Community Garden, Inc. appreciates all donations. We wish to keep our garden a safe green space that gives people a sense of wellness and belonging, friendship, education, and a healthier diet.
If you also wish to become a donor to Greene Acres, a non-profit 501c3 and fully tax-deductible corporation, please let us know.
Yearly we will be planting and delivering produce to promote our Garden Harvest program along with our education program to teach children how to garden.
Thanks to our many donors!
Botanical Interests http://www.botanicalinterests.com 660 Compton St., Broomfield, CO 80020 a very generous donation of vegetable and flower seeds.
City of Broadview Heights for assistance with water supply, mulch and more.
Frank Salvatore from Sal's Landscaping and Construction Co.
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Sal's Heating/Cooling/Plumbing in North Royalton for the newly installed easier to open water valves on all three water stations!!!
In February 2016, Greene Acres received a donation of a scale for use in our Garden Harvest Food for Hunger initiative–donating some of our harvest to a local food bank. The scale donation came from the Ohio State University Extension Service in Cuyahoga County. For those of you who may not know it, OSU is a land bank university and has an extension office in each of the 88 counties in Ohio. Greene Acres belongs to the Suburban Community Garden Program, which means we can get donations like this. In the past we have received cover crop seeds, row covers, sweet potatoes, etc. Thanks to Nicole Wright, who manages the Suburban Community Garden program, for arranging this donation.
Kathy Ziemba obtained four wood pallets to house the containers for the Garden Harvest Food for Hunger Program.


Kane X. Faucher was born in 1977 in Ottawa. He has a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in theory and criticism from the University of Western Ontario. Faucher has published over 1000 pieces of literary and academic writing in journals, magazines, anthologies, and books. His eclectic and wide-ranging approach that merges theoretical and literary exploration has earned him a solid reputation as a "scholartist", with work appearing internationally. Faucher is an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario and lives in London, Ontario.


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City Opens More Beds, Expands Outreach To Unsheltered New Yorkers On The Subways And Streets
Press Release issued by the Office of the Mayor of New York
City calls on MTA to close select end-of-the-line stations during overnight hours for more enhanced cleaning and targeted subway outreach
NEW YORK—As the City continues to fight COVID-19, Mayor de Blasio announced today that 200 new Safe Haven beds will begin to open this week prioritizing vulnerable New Yorkers living on the streets and subways in high-need areas. The City is also focusing on offering help at up to10 end-of-the-line subway stations citywide, with the goal of bringing more unsheltered New Yorkers off the subways amid the COVID-19 crisis. Additionally, the City will call on the MTA to temporarily close these stations during the overnight hours from 12:00 AM to 5:00 AM to allow for more targeted outreach and enhanced sanitization.
"Our COVID-19 response must prioritize the most vulnerable New Yorkers," said Mayor Bill de Blasio. "We are doing everything we can to strengthen our subway and street outreach to ensure that every New Yorker who needs a place to sleep will get one."
More End-of-the-Line Assistance
To help as many unsheltered New Yorkers as possible come off the subways, the City will increase its focus on end-of-line stations, where outreach teams will engage unsheltered New Yorkers who are leaving the subways, connecting anyone who needs it to services and shelter.
The City is calling on the MTA to temporarily close the following stations during the overnight hours from 12:00 AM to 5:00 AM for cleaning to allow for better cleaning and more targeted outreach. To ensure minimal disruptions to service, the City will work with the MTA to provide bus service to riders to access a nearby station while the terminus station is closed.
The following stations will be targeted for enhanced outreach:
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Flatbush Ave Brooklyn College 2,5
Jamaica – 179th St. F
Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer E
WTC – E
96th St./2nd Ave (Q)
Pelham Bay Park 6
Van Cortlandt Park 242nd St. 1
Wakefield – 241st St. 2,5
Woodlawn 4
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Outreach teams and NYPD Homeless Outreach will be on hand to engage all unsheltered individuals who are utilizing or leaving the subways about accepting services, survey them for any symptoms, and connect them to care, to isolation, or to shelter as needed
200 New Safe Havens
200 Safe Haven beds will begin to open this week, building on the Mayor's commitment to supporting vulnerable New Yorkers through the COVID-19 crisis. These Safe Haven and stabilization beds provide safe, secure spaces for unsheltered New Yorkers, and connect them with the resources and support they need to find a lasting path to stability. Beds will be prioritized for the most vulnerable unsheltered New Yorkers living on the streets and subways, with locations strategically placed in areas where outreach teams have experienced activity and determined need.
COVID-19 Street Outreach
During the COVID-19 pandemic, outreach teams have prioritized a health-protection and risk-prevention approach as part of their 24/7 operations, integrating the City's latest guidance from Health experts and DOHMH screening protocol into their ongoing outreach practice: surveying clients about their health/wellbeing and any signs/symptoms they have experienced, and connecting anyone who needs it to hospitals for assessment and care or to isolation for monitoring and recovery. To date, outreach teams have conducted more than 17,000 engagements on the topic of COVID-19. In each of those engagements, they have surveyed unsheltered New Yorkers to identify whether they have experienced any symptoms. Through these engagements, 12 individuals expressed having had COVID-like symptoms and transported to care and assessment. At this time, these referrals have not resulted in any positive cases.

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Over winter break, while normal college students were at home hanging out with their friends and family, the Valdosta State basketball teams were busy in action.
The 11th ranked Blazers were in action six times over winter break as they posted an impressive 5-1 record as their only loss came on the road against Tampa, the day after finals were completed. The Lady Blazers posted a 2-2 record in just four games played over break. The Lady Blazers were schedule to participate in the District of Columbia Classic in Washington D.C; however, a powerful winter storm made travel in the region difficult, so the tournament was cancelled.
Since classes have resumed at VSU for the spring semester, both the Blazers and Lady Blazers have hit the court several times. Jan. 13th, both teams hosted West Florida. The Argonauts were not a match as both, the Blazers and Lady Blazers, scored over 80 points each and both took down their Gulf South Conference opponents.
The Lady Blazers then hosted Saint Leo on Jan. 16th and defeated the Lions' 73-60 as they managed to win their fourth straight game. The Lady Blazers also defeated Clark Atlanta on Monday night, 85-45. Every Lady Blazer dressed saw ample playing time, something that had not happened all season according to VSU head coach Kiley Hill.
"I was proud of our efforts and we got to recover a little bit," Hill said. "We tried to focus on putting kids in that had not played a major amount of minutes and rest some others legs."
After their seventh straight win, the Blazers then hosted the no. 1 ranked Augusta State Jaguars in what was the biggest game in school history. The third largest crowd in school history made it difficult for the no. 1 team to get on top of the Blazers.
"The atmosphere was amazing," said All-American Tyrone Curnell. "I didn't know it was going to be like it was."
Curnell led the Blazers with 23 points while newly added Kevin Harris scored 18 points off the bench for VSU.
Both teams return to action on today and Saturday when they host West Alabama and Alabama-Huntsville at the P.E. Complex. Read about every Blazer and Lady Blazer basketball game at VSUspectator.com.
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A syndromic surveillance tool to detect anomalous clusters of COVID-19 symptoms in the United States
Wearable sensor data and self-reported symptoms for COVID-19 detection
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Amparo Güemes1 na1,
Soumyajit Ray1 na1,
Khaled Aboumerhi1 na1,
Michael R. Desjardins2,
Anton Kvit2,
Anne E. Corrigan2,
Brendan Fries2,
Timothy Shields2,
Robert D. Stevens3 na2,
Frank C. Curriero2 na2 &
Ralph Etienne-Cummings1 na2
An Author Correction to this article was published on 03 September 2021
Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 infections continue to spread across the world, yet effective large-scale disease detection and prediction remain limited. COVID Control: A Johns Hopkins University Study, is a novel syndromic surveillance approach, which collects body temperature and COVID-like illness (CLI) symptoms across the US using a smartphone app and applies spatio-temporal clustering techniques and cross-correlation analysis to create maps of abnormal symptomatology incidence that are made publicly available. The results of the cross-correlation analysis identify optimal temporal lags between symptoms and a range of COVID-19 outcomes, with new taste/smell loss showing the highest correlations. We also identified temporal clusters of change in taste/smell entries and confirmed COVID-19 incidence in Baltimore City and County. Further, we utilized an extended simulated dataset to showcase our analytics in Maryland. The resulting clusters can serve as indicators of emerging COVID-19 outbreaks, and support syndromic surveillance as an early warning system for disease prevention and control.
Despite progress in the fight against COVID-19, the pandemic remains the most immediate threat to human health and society. Substantial efforts have been deployed to investigate this disease, yet our knowledge of its origin, progress, and biological mechanisms remain limited. An effective vaccine and treatment are imperative to reducing disease burden, but until either is achieved, efforts must be focused on prevention of disease transmission, which necessitates robust disease surveillance and response. Current approaches implemented to manage the spread of the infection could be significantly improved by clearly discriminating between high and low-risk population areas and time periods.
Metrics currently used to describe the progress of COVID-19 are based primarily on cases confirmed by laboratory tests, numbers of patients hospitalized and in intensive care, and counts of the number of deaths1,2. The data for each of these metrics, however, is temporally inconsistent and often delayed due to incubation time of the virus (2–14 days), the time from the onset of symptoms until clinical care is obtained, the time from test to confirmed test result, and, in the more severe cases, the time from hospital admission to death2,3. It is estimated existing epidemiological accounts of COVID-19, when measured in counts of confirmed cases or deaths, provides a snapshot of infections acquired 2–4 weeks previously4. To further complicate matters, the information around each of these sources of error has varied dramatically since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. These metrics might be nevertheless highly informative if it is assumed that all infected individuals seek medical attention and are thus incorporated into the case statistics. These metrics, however, do not consider the population that is infected but is completely asymptomatic (40–50% in many studies)5, or those who prefer not to seek medical care despite having symptoms. Furthermore, when hospitalizations do occur, they often happen days after contracting the disease, when symptoms begin to manifest or worsen. Consequently, it is essential to complement these disease monitoring systems with syndromic surveillance systems that allow a more extensive and timely evaluation of the population.
Strategies for monitoring and predicting influenza-like illnesses (ILI) are essential when implementing a surveillance system for COVID-196, because many signs and symptoms of COVID-19 are nonspecific and can be indicative of other illnesses such as influenza, Lyme Disease, and the common cold. However, there are certain symptoms that are more specific to COVID-19 and may be indicative of the prognosis of the disease. Anosmia (loss of smell) is considered a common early symptom of COVID-19, and based on new findings it may be a predictor of a less severe infection being less likely to require hospitalization7. Other signs such as skin rashes or loss of color in the fingers or toes may also be prognostic indicators, as confirmed by the results of a recent study that classifies skin manifestations into five patterns associated with a specific prognosis of COVID-19 infection8. The CDC has one of the most comprehensive monitoring systems for ILI. One of the sources for data collection consists of statistics on patients presenting flu-like symptoms to healthcare providers through a national network called ILInet. In more detail, 2600 outpatient healthcare providers nationwide report to the CDC weekly on the percentage of patients diagnosed with influenza out of the total number of patients seen. Presentation of fever (temperature 100 °F [37.8 °C] or more) and cough and/or sore throat without a known cause other than the flu are the requirements to be diagnosed as ILI. With the data collected in ILINet, the CDC generates a measure of ILI activity at the national, regional and state level.
The epidemiology centers that contribute every year with real-time probabilistic forecasts for pandemic and seasonal influenza activity make up the so-called "network" of Centers of Excellence for Influenza Forecasting of the CDC. One of these institutions is the Delphi Research Group from Carnegie Mellon University. This research group has recently focused their efforts on monitoring and predicting COVID-19, and has developed the COVIDcast system that gathers aggregated data from different sources by collaborating with multiple partners to visually display predictions of COVID-19 activity levels and prevalence in the United States9. The data includes, among others, Google search statistics for COVID-related topics, and short surveys where Facebook and Google users anonymously report whether they know someone or if they themselves present a number of CLI symptoms, including fever, cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing.
Another syndromic study that has emerged in recent months in the United Kingdom and now in the U.S. is the COVID Symptom Study10. This is a mobile application in which registered users fill in daily questions about their medical history and the presentation of numerous symptoms of COVID-19. This research aims to help scientists better understand the symptoms of COVID-1911, and in the future, could be used to track the spread of this virus, and identify high-risk areas in the country. Finally, Kinsa, a company developing and distributing smart thermometers, is now collecting the body temperature of its customers to create maps showing the areas where fever levels are abnormally high, compared to the levels expected for the time of year, which may be early indicators of the spread of COVID-1912. Additionally, they create estimates of the activity trend using methods previously described by Dalziel et al. that would be expected under normal influenza conditions, which allows them to identify activity levels that are higher than this 'normality'13.
While these are examples of systems that have been implemented to track or map COVID-19 cases or symptoms, there is still an unmet need for a tool for the detection of anomalous outbreaks of CLI symptoms that is spatially accurate and continually updated. In an effort to overcome these challenges and support more selective mitigation strategies, we developed a syndromic surveillance system that is comprised of an app to gather CLI data, coupled with space–time analytics to identify hotspots of anomalous CLI symptoms and, in turn, identify potential clusters of COVID-19. Our tool meets the following characteristics: (1) allows accurate mapping of CLI in space and time; (2) reflects in quasi-real-time the health status of the sampled population; (3) is broadly accessible and easy to use, and (4) collected data is intuitively visualizable and widely disseminated (e.g. via a dashboard). Detecting disease clusters in space and time is an exploratory approach in infectious disease surveillance14,15,16 which identifies geographical locations or regions where the observed number of cases or symptoms exceeds the expected number of cases given baseline conditions17. Here, we report syndromic surveillance results obtained using purely temporal and space–time cluster detection approaches. We also detected space–time clusters derived from a simulated dataset of over 800,000 entries in Maryland to showcase our analytics when our app has an increased userbase.
The app was launched on 25 April 2020, and since that date has been installed by over 11,000 unique users with more than 72,000 data entries in 1019 counties across all states in the US (data on January 6, 2021). Age distribution of users was bimodal with a peak in the 18–25 age bin and a second peak at 51–55 years (Fig. 1). 66% of the app users were male, with 32% female and 1% preferred not to say. While the skew in gender distribution is unusual, it is not expected to have any significant impact on the analysis. The majority of users (84.7%) entered data over a maximum of 2 weeks (Fig. 2).
Demographics of app users up to January 5, 2021.
(a) Distribution of number of submissions per user up to January 5, 2021. (b) Breakup of the 1–10 submission range (as a percentage of the total number of users).
The time series for the number of daily data entries of each symptom from app launch to July 25, 2020 is shown in Fig. 3. Note that headache, diarrhea and muscle pain were included in the list of symptoms in the third release of the app on June 26 as ongoing research confirmed these as indicative of COVID-19.
Prevalence of self-reported symptoms up to January 5th, 2021.
Figure 4 provides the results of the retrospective cluster detection analysis in Baltimore County and City from between April 27th, 2020 and December 9th, 2020. As usership increased, the number of reported CLI symptoms also increased. A statistically significant cluster of symptoms was first detected in the northern region of Baltimore City (Cluster 1), with a duration of 5 days (Apr. 27th-May 1st). Cluster 1 includes 15 observed CLI symptom cases, with an expected count of 0.5. Cluster 2 was detected on May 3rd in western Baltimore County and portions of Baltimore City with 22 observed and 6.4 expected symptoms (6-day duration). Cluster 3 was detected in the eastern region of Baltimore County on May 8th, with a duration of 9 days. Cluster 3 includes 24 observed and 6.1 expected symptom cases. A fourth cluster was detected (Cluster 4) on May 9th, with 5 observed and 0.1 expected CLI symptom cases in southeastern Baltimore County. Cluster 5 was detected on May 17th in southwestern Baltimore County with 6 observed and 0.08 expected symptom cases (duration of 2 days). Cluster 6 was identified on May 20th in northeastern Baltimore City with 11 observed and 1.6 expected cases (duration of 12 days). Cluster 7 was detected on May 29th (duration of 14 days) with 11 observed and 0.8 expected cases; while it is located in south-central Baltimore County. Cluster 8 is found in southeastern Baltimore County with 7 observed and 0.2 expected cases (began on July 29th; 7-day duration). Finally, Cluster 9 was first detected on November 4th (14-day duration) just north of eastern Baltimore City with 12 observed and 1.2 expected cases. When evaluating the relationship between app-recorded symptoms and confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland, the strongest predictor was the new loss of taste/smell (correlation coefficient of 0.65; p < 0.01) at a 5-day lag.
Space–time clusters of COVID Control Symptoms in Baltimore County & City, Maryland.
To demonstrate the efficacy of our methodology on a larger dataset, we generated simulated cases for Maryland state from a bivariate Gaussian distribution in space and a lognormal distribution in time. Our intent is to demonstrate that the COVID-19 transmission dynamics and the noise generated in the data gathering process (via the app) can be successfully handled by our methodology. Two clusters, varying both in the spatial and temporal dynamics were randomly chosen. Based on the combined spatiotemporal case distribution, a genetic algorithm was used to fit generated user profiles to the cases counts. These user profiles were then used to generate symptom information using the actually reported prevalence of each symptom, along with random noise to simulate self-reported symptom information. Using our simulated dataset of 836,721 entries (91,674 symptomatic entries—cases; and 745,047 asymptomatic entries—controls), we detected space–time clusters in 16 of 24 Maryland counties between May 24th and June 23rd, 2020. Figures 5 and 6 provide the results of the daily space–time cluster detection analysis on June 6th and June 23rd, respectively (i.e. first day and last day of analysis), On June 6th, 15 of Maryland's 24 counties contained at least one space–time cluster; two in the western-most counties (Garrett and Allegany) and 13 in the central and north-eastern regions of the state. On June 23rd, 14 counties contained at least one significant space–time cluster; while there were no longer clusters in the western counties and Talbot County contained its first since the start of the analysis on June 6th. The clusters on June 23rd also covered less area in Maryland, suggesting an overall decrease in CLI-symptom activity/entries. Table 1 summarizes the daily results by presenting the number of times a Maryland county contained a cluster, and the dates a cluster was first and last identified in each respective county. Twelve of the counties contained at least one cluster of CLI-like symptoms between June 6th and June 23rd (i.e. 22 days), and 8 counties never contained a cluster during the 18-day period of analysis. The analytical results present an example of how our tool can be used to detect anomalous clusters of CLI symptoms, which will likely grow as userbase increases.
Space–time clusters of Simulated COVID Control Symptoms in Maryland on July 6th, 2020.
Space–time clusters of Simulated COVID Control Symptoms in Maryland on June 23rd, 2020.
Table 1 Space–time cluster results using our simulated dataset in Maryland between May 26th and June 23rd, 2020.
We have created a tool for large-scale syndromic surveillance that identifies geographical regions with abnormally high activity of fever and other COVID-19 like illness (CLI) symptoms, and preliminary results indicate that outbreaks of COVID-19 can be identified using this system. With validation, this system could be used to guide decision-making on health planning and resource allocation.
While several efforts have been implemented to monitor and predict COVID-19 cases or symptoms on a large scale9,10,12 one of their biggest challenges is the approach for data collection. Some require a great effort on the part of users to complete long questionnaires. In others, questionnaires are nonspecific not allowing the user to feel engaged in the response to the pandemic. Both cases lead to the abandonment of citizen collaboration, which is essential in this situation. Moreover, these strategies provide results that are limited to county/state levels, but outbreaks typically do not stay contained within previously defined geographic areas. Our analytics allow detection of clusters that are not restricted to pre-specified areas, making the results more comprehensive and realistic. The COVID Control app, unlike other apps with extensive surveys, presents a user-friendly and fast interface allowing users to submit relevant information in less than one minute. Furthermore, our methodology does not require any personal information and automatic access to GPS location is optional, which makes the app broadly accessible. We acknowledge that having access to the participants' age-range, gender, and zip code may in some situations be de-anonymised. Therefore, to protect the privacy of our app users, our publicly accessible dashboard has the data and analyses available at the county level. We also implement adequate technical and organizational security methods to ensure the protection of the raw and processed data from accidental or intentional loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and/or destruction. The data security strategy follows the Microsoft Azure platform's multi-layered defense-in-depth approach which includes a network security layer (IP firewall rules, VPN firewall), access management (SQL and AD authentication, authorization), threat protection (auditing and logging, advanced anomaly detection) and information encryption (encryption-in-transit and encryption-at-rest). In addition, we run periodic vulnerability assessments to identify potential threats to data security. These security measures have been approved by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH) Institutional Review Board (IRB#00012283) and confirmed by the JHSPH IT data security reviewer.
Acquiring data directly from individuals rather than hospitals/laboratories expands basic health monitoring of the general population and greatly reduces the delay in identifying new outbreaks of the disease. This, however, poses one of the major challenges because it relies on the engagement of the users to submit reliable self-reported information. For COVID Control to be effective, large participation is required. Currently, spatial science and machine learning algorithms do a sufficient job in locating clusters but casting a wider net would certainly bolster the validity of the algorithms. Towards this objective, the strategies we are developing are twofold. Firstly, efforts in advertising and creating awareness are needed to increase the number of new participants, especially in rural regions, and to get a better resolution of data across the United States. Secondly, alongside more users, we need to increase a sustained engagement of participants along time, including asymptomatic users' CLI submissions. The latter is critical for a real-time and continuous monitoring of the health situation across the country, and to validate the models further. We found the majority of users (83.6%) self-report over a maximum of 14 days, the same time frame of common symptoms expression (see Fig. 2). We also acknowledge that there is likely a user bias which may not encompass those who are still skeptical to share data, mistrust the scientific community, and those who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Improving public health campaigns and public relations via advertising could reduce user bias.
With a larger userbase and further validation, this tool could be used to support a strategic response to prepare for an increase in hospitalizations and improved allocation of health care personnel and resources. Future work will implement a prospective cluster detection approach, which can detect "active" or emerging clusters of CLI symptoms, to give the most up-to-date public health overview18,19. Since data in this report focused on Baltimore City and County in Maryland where we had the most users/entries, and COVID-19 data isn't available at a resolution smaller than county, we have not validated the clusters' location with confirmed case data. However, as the user base grows, validation work will be carried out. Cross-correlation analyses can also identify significant temporal lags between COVID-19 cases and symptoms collected from our app, which can improve upon our current analytical approach by informing the cluster analysis and validating our findings. In other words, we can potentially predict when and where COVID-19 outbreaks may arise in advance if we find a strong positive association between temporally lagged symptoms and confirmed COVID-19 cases. A strong positive association was already found in Baltimore City and County between new loss of taste/smell and positive cases of COVID-19. We expect that more data will increase the strength of associations between other symptoms, such as fever and other important COVID-19 related outcomes such as hospitalizations, helping to identify appropriate lags for each symptom-outcome pair which will subsequently improve the spatiotemporal cluster detection analysis.
Preemptive identification of potential clusters of COVID-19 can also be used by state and local authorities to develop a discriminative approach to reopening their economies guided by regionally specific syndromic information. The US government has included as a first criterion to be able to start the de-escalation plan to demonstrate a downward trajectory of flu and COVID-19 symptoms for at least 14 days, (taken from the guidelines that define the conditions that each state must meet before proceeding to the phased opening)20. Beyond the initial phase of reopening, this analysis would also potentially enable state and local governments to recalibrate their approach for specific counties/census tracts based on the observed trends. However, this type of approach for syndromic surveillance in isolation cannot address the issue of identifying asymptomatic carriers, but it can be used to optimize global testing strategies. COVID Control app and analytics are being continuously updated to consider the most recent discoveries and latest knowledge and integrate state-of-the-art approaches for identifying new cases as well as making it a useful tool to develop hypotheses of transmission. Finally, by immediately reporting the results of our analysis in a publicly available interactive dashboard, this tool allows citizens to actively participate in the surveillance of the pandemic, which increases their awareness of the disease and their response to it21.
COVID Control: A Johns Hopkins University Study was approved by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB number IRB00012283). The study has been performed in accordance with the institutional guidelines and regulations. All participants have voluntarily agreed to be involved in the study by accepting an IRB approved informed consent form when installing the app.
COVID control app development
We developed an iOS and an Android app to gather symptom data from users. The app is available for free download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Users are invited to voluntarily record their body temperature and, if applicable, the presence in the previous 24 h of seven other symptoms that have been found to be good predictors of COVID-19: fever, cough, breathing difficulties, new loss of taste and/or smell, diarrhea, headache and fatigue11. Among them, breathing difficulties, and new loss of taste and/or smell are more specific indicators of COVID-1911,22,23,24. In addition, 88% of COVID-19 cases detected through surveillance and tests had a fever, making it a primary symptom for detecting the disease25. A recent study also suggests body temperatures to be the most relevant determinant of contagions26. The app users are instructed to use any available thermometer to measure and self-report their body temperature along with the observed symptoms.
The app does not record any individually identifiable health information and study participation is completely voluntary. Any individual above the age of 13 residing in the US is eligible for the study. To participate, users create an anonymous profile on the app by submitting their sex ('Male', 'Female', 'Prefer not to say') and age range (starting from 13 in increments of 5) (Fig. 7). Information of the user location is collected at every submission. This can be via the phone's GPS location (if access to location services is allowed) or by manual entry of the zip code by the user. All the information is assigned to a unique randomly generated ID and stored without any personal identification tags to a Microsoft Azure SQL database hosted on the cloud. When analyzed, the collected data is aggregated and combined with data from other users within the same county to contribute to the analytics.
From left to right: App main screen, app submission screen, and app profile screen.
The data collected through the app is aggregated by county and is presented back to users as an interactive dashboard, which provides a map of the symptom distribution, as well as time series plots of symptom rates. The dashboard allows users to focus on a specific geographic area, but also provides an overview for the entire United States. A link to the dashboard (Fig. 8) embedded in the app allows the users to quickly visualize the dataset they are contributing to directly from their mobile device. A desktop version of the dashboard is also available on the App website both to app users as well as the public. The complete description of the data flow is depicted in Fig. 9.
The dashboard provides an overview of submitted data across United States counties including entry and symptom numbers (screenshot provided for January 5, 2021). Clicking on a county provides summary data for that specific area.
System design diagram representing the flow of data including the data collection from the apps, data storage and analysis in a Microsoft Azure server, and visualization of results in our Dashboard and website.
Cluster detection analysis
We utilize scan statistics, which are commonly used in epidemiology to detect and evaluate spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal clustering of disease characteristics27,28. Scan statistics are available using the free software SaTScan29. SaTScan has been widely used in both disease and syndromic surveillance, including dengue fever and chikungunya17,30,31, sexually transmitted disease32, foodborne illness33, respiratory infections and common illnesses34,35, and COVID-1931,36,37, among countless others. Essentially, scan statistics determine if the number of disease cases/symptoms in a defined area and proximal in time are greater than the expected number of cases/symptoms, such as the underlying population contained in the study area or distribution of point-level events. Our goal is to monitor the evolution of anomalous clusters of COVID-like illness (CLI) symptoms. We present an example at the daily and census-tract levels in Baltimore County and City and the U.S. state of Maryland. These locations were chosen since most users in the initial phase data collection phase are located in counties in close proximity to Johns Hopkins University.
We selected a retrospective approach and statistical model that detects significant historical clusters of CLI symptoms. The statistic utilizes circles (scanning window) that are centered on points (user locations with symptoms) and move (scan) systematically across a study area to identify clusters of symptoms (each window counts the number of points within, while each scanning window is a potential cluster). Each scanning window is expanded in space to include neighboring points until a user-defined maximum radius is reached—here we selected 25 km. Then, the number of observed symptoms within each window is compared to the expected number of symptoms. Before statistical inference is computed, a potential cluster is characterized when a scanning window contains more observed than expected symptoms. Space–time scan statistics28 incorporate a temporal dimension, where the scanning window is defined as a cylinder or three-dimensional ellipse, and the height represents the temporal dimension (e.g. time interval). The location, size, and duration of statistically significant clusters of disease cases are subsequently reported. Here, we use a retrospective, space–time permutation model. Monte Carlo simulation was used to compute statistical inference of the reported clusters of CLI symptoms; while all clusters are significant at the p < 0.05. To protect the privacy of the individuals who reported symptoms, we show the census tracts that belong to a significant cluster, rather than the spatial distribution of the points within each.
We also applied a cross-correlation function to identify the strongest association between each symptom available in the app and a variety of outcomes at the state-level in Maryland, including new positive tests, COVID-19 related deaths, and hospitalizations38. The main purpose is to determine if clusters of symptoms may occur in advance of clusters of COVID-19 outcomes.
Finally, we utilized a prospective Bernoulli (i.e. cases/controls) version of the above mentioned space–time scan statistic on the simulated dataset to demonstrate how our analytics would work when our user base increases. The model was run every day from June 6th to June 23rd, 2020 to understand the space–time evolution of the detected clusters in Maryland. The maximum spatial extent for identified clusters was set to 2% of the population (i.e. simulated entries), while the maximum temporal extent for any identified cluster was set to 14 days. The mechanisms of the prospective model are essentially the same as the abovementioned retrospective model, except historical clusters are disregarded and only "active" and emerging clusters are reported on the most current day of analysis.
Ethics committee approval
COVID Control: A Johns Hopkins University Study was approved by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB number IRB00012283). All participants have voluntarily agreed to be involved in the study by accepting an IRB approved consent form when installing the app.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article (and its Supplementary Information files).
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We thank John Rattray (Sparkwear) for his support developing the app, ITC Infotech's Digital Experience (DX) team for further enhancing the app design, interface and UX, White and Case LLP for their guidance, Reina Murray and Mara Blake of the Department of Data Services of Johns Hopkins' Sheridan Libraries and Museums for providing technical support for our dashboard, John Brown for his support with Microsoft Azure Server, Andrea Luxemberg (Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center) and Christian Tedjasukmana (University of Vermont Medical Center) for their contribution on user experience, and Jeff Trotz (Capitol Technology University). We would like to especially thank all the participants.
These authors contributed equally: Amparo Güemes, Soumyajit Ray, Khaled Aboumerhi and Michael R. Desjardins.
These authors jointly supervised this work: Robert D. Stevens, Frank C. Curriero and Ralph Etienne-Cummings.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, 105 Barton Hall, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
Amparo Güemes, Soumyajit Ray, Khaled Aboumerhi & Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Department of Epidemiology, Spatial Science for Public Health Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
Michael R. Desjardins, Anton Kvit, Anne E. Corrigan, Brendan Fries, Timothy Shields & Frank C. Curriero
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
Robert D. Stevens
Amparo Güemes
Soumyajit Ray
Khaled Aboumerhi
Michael R. Desjardins
Anton Kvit
Anne E. Corrigan
Brendan Fries
Timothy Shields
Frank C. Curriero
Ralph Etienne-Cummings
The app development and data analytics and interpretation have been done by A.G., S.R., K.A., M.R.D., A.K., A.C., B.F., and T.S. M.S., A.G., S.R., K.A. have equally contributed to writing the manuscript. The study has been equally led and continuously supervised by F.C., R.E.C., and R.S. All authors have contributed to the conception and design of the study and to the interpretation of results. All authors meet all four criteria for authorship defined in the ICMJE Recommendations.
Correspondence to Amparo Güemes.
The original online version of this Article was revised: The Supplementary Information file published with this Article contained an error in the spreadsheet, where the data columns were incorrectly rendered.
Güemes, A., Ray, S., Aboumerhi, K. et al. A syndromic surveillance tool to detect anomalous clusters of COVID-19 symptoms in the United States. Sci Rep 11, 4660 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84145-5
Development and assessment of a hospital admissions-based syndromic surveillance system for COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada: ACES Pandemic Tracker
Nicholas Papadomanolakis-Pakis
Allison Maier
Kieran Michael Moore
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In the video, Fitzgerald is seen falling out of her walker, but the arrest affidavit claims that she "intentionally slid out of her chair". She's now in jail. She was not handcuffed because of her age and the possibility of injury, WFTV reported . News 6 investigator Adrianna Iwasinski asked for a jailhouse interview with Fitzgerald on Wednesday and was granted her request.
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Abadi later told a media conference: "These victories are not only for the Iraqi people, though they themselves achieved victories with their sacrifices". Al-Abadi later in a televised speech lauded the victory. The Iraqi government, backed by a USA -led worldwide coalition, launched a campaign against the IS group after the extremists seized about one-third of the country in the summer of 2014.
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Ullah was also accused of providing material support to Islamic State, destruction of property by means of an explosive and using a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence, according to a criminal complaint disclosed on Tuesday.
Rodchenkov being in the United States "is not a positive for us, it's a negative". "What are they doing to him?" Top officials from biathlon and skiing were among governing bodies attending a six-hour, closed-door session with WADA investigators, which could yet lead to more Russian athletes being barred from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
Russian Federation is prepared to resume direct air services with Egypt, President Vadimir Putin announced after meeting his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The Airbus A321, operated by Metrojet, was returning Russian tourists from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg when it crashed over the Sinai Peninsula and killed all 224 on board.
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We don't want climate change and we want to produce and create jobs and do things differently if we decide so. Bill Gates, right, and Sir Richard Branson leave the Élysée Palace Tuesday after a meeting of philanthropists as part of the summit.
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Prime Minister Modi in a rally on Monday had said, "Tomorrow for the first time in the history of the country a sea-plane will land on the Sabarmati River". The security has been increased in various parts of the state in the wake of the polls. This meeting, Modi claimed, happened a day before Aiyar called him "neech" (lowly sort of person).
Escondido Firefighter Killed in Thomas Fire was Father, Husband; Flags Ordered at Half-Staff by Gov. Santa Ana winds will continue on Friday and into Saturday and Sunday, said Rich Thompson with the National Weather Service. " He is survived by his wife, Ashley, who is pregnant, and their two-year-old daughter, Evie; mother, Denise Butler; stepfather, Scott Butler; and father, Craig Iverson ".
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Sir Stuart Peach, chief of the British defence staff, said that Russian ships have been spotted close to Atlantic cables which are essential for worldwide commerce and the internet. Russian Federation has repeatedly dismissed Western concerns about its renewed assertiveness as Cold War hysteria, though Kremlin supporters praise Putin at home for putting restoring Russia's clout after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Television broadcast images of party supporters celebrating and distributing candies outside Congress offices in the capital, New Delhi , and the financial hub of Mumbai. Gandhi's father and grandmother were both prime ministers, and both assassinated. "The new India is loath to (accept) dynastic principle and the family character of the Congress further diminishes its appeal", BJP spokesman GVL Narasimha Rao said.
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Trump ignored the question and left the room. At one point, Sanders refused to allow Acosta to ask another question, sparking an uncomfortable exchange. CNN , as part of an ongoing battle with the administration, defended evening anchor Don Lemon from a Trump attack in a statement on Monday. Former "Apprentice" contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman says her departure from the White House means President Donald Trump will have no African-Americans on his senior staff.
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It didn't pay off as Plumlee was bad and Drummond went off for one of the best all-around lines of his career. "I did know the situation", Van Gundy said. Their losses have come to teams over.500 and they have had the toughest schedule in the National Basketball Association, but for a team which we thought was a good contender in the east, these slumps are much worse than they actually are.
Eizenkot also said there was agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia regarding the threat posed by Iran to the Gulf states. This was followed by a warning to Lebanonfrom Israel's Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, who said that if Hezbollah attacked Israel, the country would return the whole country " back to the Stone Age ".
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But when asked for a specific number, Sanders was unable to answer. Manigault Newman has denied reports that she had to be escorted off of White House grounds, but said Thursday she has "quite a story to tell" about her tenure. Manigault Newman said in a separate interview with ABC's "Nightline" that it was challenging being the only black woman in the senior staff. "If you want to reach out to HR, they might be able to walk you through that in a more detailed way", Sanders said.
De Mistura says the opposition was engaged on other subjects, such as governance, the constitution and elections. Russian Federation is Syria's key ally in the fight against terrorism, Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari, who leads the government delegation to the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, said on Thursday.
The Sena, which shares a frosty relationship with its senior partner BJP, had threatened several times in the past to walk out of the NDA government. "I don't know when elections will be held, but it looks like they'll be held in a year", he added. The two parties have been at loggerheads since the Thackeray-led party failed to get some plum portfolios it aspired for.
Ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday expressed concerns over Pakistan's current situation, saying that the country is sailing through hard phase. Nawaz Sharif is in London to visit his ailing wife Begum Kulsoom Nawaz after the accountability court granted him a short-duration exemption from the hearings of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) references against him.
The office of Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and the Foreign Ministry confirmed the USA vice president's trip - slated to begin Sunday - had been postponed. On Thursday morning, he will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem office. Pence was originally scheduled to visit the Western Wall on Sunday and partake in Hanukka candle lighting ceremonies there.
John Goulet, the pilot who flew the seaplane, described his VIP rider as "a very good passenger ". Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr. Vijay Rupani said that for the first time in the history of this country a sea-plane will land on any a water body.
Some say his departure could possibly happen even sooner. Ryan particularly dislikes the toll the job takes on his family, according to multiple sources. Asked by a reporter earlier on Thursday if he was quitting, Ryan responded: "I'm not, no", with a chuckle. "The speaker assured [President Trump] those were not accurate reports and they look forward to working together for a long time to come", she said.
It's the first of seven $71m payments which will be made each month until the end of the current financial year, totalling almost $500m. There would be 12 payments a year during the following financial years. That includes the $1 billion a year provincial growth fund and the early resumption of contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund amounting to $3.35 billion over the forecast period.
Shares of Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL) traded down $0.23 during trading on Thursday, reaching $65.18. LRAD Corporation (NASDAQ:LRAD) has risen 6.40% since December 14, 2016 and is uptrending. 13,000 were reported by Strs Ohio. Cls Invests Ltd Liability Co has 200 shares for 0% of their portfolio. Analysts await Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL) to report earnings on December, 19.


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