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EgyptAir operates first charter flight for 300 Egyptian citizens stranded in Kuwait
EgyptAir on Wednesday operated its first charter flight to get 300 Egyptians stuck in Kuwait back home to Egypt, amid harsh travel restrictions to counter the coronavirus pandemic that have left thousands stranded around the world.
The flight left Kuwait International Airport at 12 pm for Cairo.
The Egyptian consulate in Kuwait continues to receive requests from Egyptian citizens who entered Kuwait with visitor or tourist visas and are now stranded in the country due to travel bans or flights suspensions implemented to slow down the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19.
Authorities from the Consulate have said that charter flights back to Cairo will be provided in accordance with the number of requests to be registered.
Egypt's Ambassador to Kuwait Tariq al-Qouni said on Tuesday that Egyptian authorities are coordinating with their Kuwaiti counterparts for the return of Egyptians stranded in the country.
He stressed that the Egyptian government is concerned for its citizens abroad and working to solve the crisis.
Qouni expressed his thanks to the Kuwaiti authorities, and for the speedy response they have provided to conduct exceptional trips to facilitate the return of Egyptian citizens.
The Egyptian Consulate in Kuwait earlier called on Egyptian citizens who wish to return to their country and had entered Kuwait using visitor or tourist visas to contact the consulate in preparation for their return to Egypt.
It noted that the government is coordinating with EgyptAir to operate charter flights during the next two days.
Egypt moved to close schools and universities across the country last Saturday for two weeks, while incoming and outgoing flights will also be suspended starting Thursday, March 19 at 12 pm and lasting until March 31, as a precautionary measure to fight coronavirus spread.
EgyptAir, in coordination with the relevant authorities, indicated earlier that it would work to evacuate Egyptian citizens before the suspension of flights and facilitate the return of foreign tourists in Egypt to their home countries.
Egypt announced on Tuesday 30 new coronavirus cases and two additional deaths, with a total of 196 cases and six deaths from the virus now confirmed in the county.
The two new deaths are a 78-year-old Italian national and a 70-year-old Egyptian man from Cairo Governorate who both passed away in isolation hospitals.
Twenty-six cases to date have recovered from the virus, he added.
Over 190,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and around 8,000 deaths have been confirmed worldwide.
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WHAT THE F*CK is GMP & WHY TO I CARE?
-The GMP will be a new download of the entire mod, "Interstate 1982".
-It will mostly feature fixes to maps. However, there will be a few newly created maps as well.
-The current version of is82 is 1.8 and in all of it's glory...is still a little messy.
-Once complete, there will be a new map pack available to download.
-Some maps are getting more of an overhaul to enhance the playability.
-The download will also contain all the movie/animation files needed for one-off maps.
*EX-The animated disco floor in Interstate Eagles Nest. And the Ragdoll Death Animation.
Reegad & I are working on multiple maps & elements at the same time.
One of which is a conversion of the Road to Rome map, Baytown.
*A cat & mouse race from the Allies side to the Axis side.
I will be live streaming on Twitch some of the time. Check it out & follow me!
Fixing the little things always makes a mod more fun to play!
Progress has sped up some. I have set a deadline for March 23rd, 2019 (the 82nd day of the year).
We'll be releasing the GMP into weekend events and in sections. All of the A maps have been released/updated and we are having an event Saturday, 12/1/19 at is82.com.


Ganbare! Super Strikers version 1.0.0 is finally here, which means that the game is now available for everyone. Thanks to everyone who has supported and helped me make Ganbare! Super Strikers a better game since I released it on Early Access here on itchio. I will continue working on the game for a bit longer to keep polishing and balancing it to get it ready to release on consoles.
I also wanted to remind you that you can now redeem your copy of the game on Steam.
There has been an issue with the Linux build, which made it impossible to release with the rest of the versions. I am already working on it and will upload it back as soon as possible. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.


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Made this video a while ago but thought I'd post it here.
listening to Josh Ritter's The Temptation of Adam and I think it's the saddest song I've ever head. I liked it even better when Anna sang it to me. I think it parallels my life a little too well.
I need to stop being so melodramatic... maybe it's a good thing I can't post frequently.
J'ai arrivé en France avec deux bagages, mon ordinateur portable et des idées reçues. Avant d'arriver, j'ai parlé avec des gens qui ont déjà habité en France, j'ai lu les livres des gens anglophone qui ont quitté leur propre pays et s'installé en France, et j'ai trouvé sur l'internet des blogs de la vie quotidienne. J'ai apporté les nourritures sèches, la pate, et le muesli. J'ai entraîné prendre les douches vite, ne pas sourire à les inconnus, et parler seulement en français. En fait, j'ai élaboré pour tous.
I arrived in France with two suitcases, my laptop and preconceptions. Before arriving, I had spoken with people who already lived in France, I read books about Anglophones who had left their own countries to live in France, and I found blogs on the internet about daily life in France. I brought dried food, pasta, and granola. I practiced taking fast showers, not smiling at strangers, and speaking only in French. In fact, I planned for everything.
Obviously, it's impossible to plan for everything. But I think I came pretty darn close. Transitioning to life in France hasn't been that difficult, and in some ways that is kind of a let-down. I wanted a real experience-- I didn't want people to switch to English when they talked to me, to eat peanut butter, to live like I live in Michigan. All of these things have happened, however, and it's frustrating to think that I came this far (monetarily, distance-wise and all-else-wise) not to face a different lifestyle. I wanted a challenge, not just a new address.
2.) not many grand adventures, either.
8:30-12:30 focus focus focus. Brain, stop wandering away from me!
12:30-1:45 Bliss. Also known as lunch outside with mes amis who are just about as crazy as me!
2-3:30 Lecture class-- Please Hannah, don't fall asleep this time.
This weekend, however, I've been imprisoned with four enfants aged 14-5. Friday night we watched the French version of Survivor!, which is just like regular survivor except with speedos. Now I feel like I'm on Survivor: FAMILY EDITION!. Thankfully the kids are bilingual so if there really is an emergency or (as in reality) if I don't know what the word for 'spoon' is, they can switch to English. I'm sure I've gained about 10 pounds and failed to finish all of my homework (it is now Sunday evening and I'm successfully avoiding writing a paper.), but I did make Nutella cookies and I did learn the word for spoon.
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metrowebukmetroWednesday 14 Feb 2007 7:25 pm
US presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani faced new embarrassment today with the emergence of a document written by his own aides in 1993 warning about his possible "weirdness factor".
The confidential 450-page "vulnerability study", prepared during the Republican's second campaign to be elected New York mayor, surfaced the month after a newspaper obtained a secret blueprint for his White House bid.
"Giuliani's personal life raises questions about a 'weirdness factor'," his research director and another aide wrote in the 1993 document published by website The Smoking Gun.
This stemmed from his 14-year marriage to his second cousin, they said.
The politician got the union annulled on the grounds that he never had proper dispensation from the Catholic Church for the nuptials.
"When asked about his personal life, Giuliani gives a wide array of conflicting answers," stated the report, initially obtained by a Village Voice reporter writing an investigative biography.
"All of this brings the soundness of his judgment into question – and the veracity of his answers."
Last month the New York Daily News got its hands on a document on Giuliani's bid for the Republican nomination for the 2008 psidential race that detailed concerns over his liberal views on social issues and his messy divorce from his second wife.
Tony Carbonetti, a senior political adviser to Giuliani, told the Washington Post the latest document was not "relevant" because of what Mr Giuliani had achieved as mayor of New York.
"He made New York City not only governable but liveable once again," Mr Carbonetti said.
"I have no concern over a pre-campaign strategy book because Rudy's going to be judged on his record."
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A deputy checks prisoners after lights out at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center in this Gazette file photo.
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New details about so-called 'fight club' competition at El Paso County Jail
By RACHEL RILEY rachel.riley@gazette.com
Rachel Riley
Aug 25, 2018 Updated Jun 16, 2020
A rogue competition that rewarded participating deputies for using force on inmates at the El Paso County jail only spurred a formal investigation after a deputy became convinced that a fellow deputy had slammed a woman face-first on a cell floor just to boost his ranking.
The whistleblower deputy tried more than once to report the so-called fight club sport to his superiors — including to the Detention Bureau chief in 2015. He eventually told one sergeant that he had "lost faith" in the agency's leadership after months of futile attempts urging supervisors to punish the deputies' behavior.
But it wasn't until late April 2016, when a now ex-deputy, 6-foot, roughly 250-pound Ryan Sanders, took down a 5-foot-2, 130-pound woman for ignoring his order to get on her knees that the whistleblower's supervisors finally told him to document his concerns and a formal investigation ensued, according to hundreds of pages of documents provided to The Gazette by the Sheriff's Office.
Use of force on inmates a last resort, El Paso County jail staff say
Dan Montgomery, an Arvada-based police practices expert, praised the Sheriff's Office for completing an Internal Affairs investigation and later commissioning a consulting firm to review its use-of-force protocols.
By not acting immediately, however, supervisors who overheard conversations between participating deputies allowed the flourishing and festering of "cowboy subculture," in which deputies feel they have "unfettered discretion to do what they please" and ignore protocols and policies, Montgomery said.
"As a supervisor, or as a watch commander, you got to jump on it, and you got to stop it — like right now," said Montgomery, whose 55-year law enforcement career included serving as police chief in Westminster.
That didn't happen.
By the time action was taken, what the informant called the "Mid-night Fight Club" — which had spanned four years from 2012 to 2016 and involved deputies on the overnight Intake and Release shift at the jail — had created a civil liability nightmare for Sheriff Bill Elder and would eventually contribute to the largest settlement ever by the county.
"You've got a roomful of witnesses. You've got a roomful of litigation," Sgt. Robert "Bud" Perry later told sheriff's staff assigned to the investigation, while describing his warnings to deputies to stop the open bantering about their rankings before nonparticipating colleagues and in front of inmates.
First-hand accounts from those deputies and their supervisors are among the revelations in the nearly 1,000 pages of documents that raise questions about the attempts by supervisors' to halt the practice.
The reporting deputy — whose name is redacted from the documents — said talk of the competition had become "so common that no one believes it is something to be reported."
The county had sought to keep the cache of court documents secret.
But a judge ruled that the records were public in court proceedings leading up to a $675,000 payout, finalized last month.
Former inmate Philippa McCully sued the Sheriff's Office in U.S. District Court in Denver in 2016, two years after she suffered a torn ACL, broken knee and other injuries after jailers yanked her legs out from under her in an incident that, her attorney has noted, might have even given the deputies involved an advantage in the fight-club competition.
Supervisors were aware of the rankings to some extent and tried, as one sergeant told sheriff's staff assigned to the investigation, to "resolve the issue internally" by rebuking deputies in back-room conversations and at daily briefings instead of documenting the transgressions and sending them up the chain of command.
Records show supervisors overheard jailers comparing their stats as early as October 2015, when Sgt. Jeanette Reid asked one deputy — who was later revealed as the unsanctioned scorekeeper for the rankings — to admonish two co-workers after they joked about their numbers.
Three months later, after witnessing a similar conversation between two deputies in the inmate booking area, Sgt. Christopher Klug pulled the jailers aside, warning, "This is the last time this type of conversation goes undocumented."
The Sheriff's Office acknowledged supervisors' lapses in judgment in a statement issued to The Gazette on Aug. 16, saying that the matter should have been routed up the chain of command and addressed immediately.
"The Sheriff's Office expects its supervisors, among other things, to accept responsibility in matters of procedure; to hold their personnel responsible for their own conduct and the conduct of their subordinates; and to report any incidents or observations of misconduct," the agency said in the statement.
"Unfortunately, there were some supervisory failures in this particular matter and those failures were part of the internal investigation conducted into the inappropriate keeping of statistical comparisons on the use of force."
The Sheriff's Office had been exposed for years to heightened civil liability for what one supervisor had chalked up to "stupid boys doing stupid things," according to the documents.
Those interviewed as part of the investigation said repeatedly that the practice resulted in no real harm to inmates.
The so-called fight club, which became a "pattern or practice" among deputies on the overnight shift, paved the way for what's known as a "Monell claim," brought by those alleging violations to their constitutional rights due to deficiencies in an entity's policies or failures to punish violations of those rules, said Baltimore-based police policies expert Jerry "Buz" Busnuk.
The rankings gave inmates who alleged use of force during the fight club era a "stepping stone" for a lawsuit, and pinned the motive of bragging rights on any accused jailer, said Busnuk, a retired Baltimore police captain who's spent nearly 30 years working in law enforcement.
Thanks to a two-year statute of limitations, claims of use of force against inmates during the four-year period of the rankings have likely expired, said Darold Killmer, McCully's attorney.
Sheriff's officials have downplayed the investigation, saying the "fight club" moniker, coined by the whistleblower deputy, made the practice sound worse than it was.
Supervisors have said they weren't aware of a competition, only deputies that ribbed one another about their stats, according to documents from the investigation.
Several deputies also denied there was a competition, saying the rankings were lighthearted statistical comparisons made by checking an internal report that shows each sheriff's employee and the number of uses of force incidents in which they've been involved in a given period.
In the wake of the probe, six Sheriff's Office staff received letters of counseling and four received written reprimands, one of the lowest forms of disciplinary action.
Letters of counseling were issued to at least two supervisors, Lt. Lari Hanenberg and Sgt. Perry, because the deputies had participated in the competition on their watch.
No one was demoted, and no salaries were docked, sheriff's officials confirmed.
Sanders has since left the agency, and Reid has retired, Undersheriff Joe Breister previously told The Gazette. But all others who were investigated for policy violations in association with the fight club remain employed by the Sheriff's Office, although some are now working for different bureaus within the agency.
The Gazette attempted to reach several named employees for comment through a spokeswoman for the agency and through email, but was unsuccessful.
Even those who received written reprimands appeared to have faced just an administrative slap on the wrist and no real consequences, said Gregory Gilbertson, a former Georgia police officer and expert in police misconduct.
"I'm surprised that this, quite honestly, didn't get the attention of the Justice Department and there wasn't a major inquiry into this," said Gilbertson, who's now a criminal justice professor at Centralia College in Washington.
"The supervisory staff had to have known that this was going on. And for them not to be called to the carpet, for them not to be disciplined, it just defies logic and reason."
In late 2014, a deputy sent out an email to three supervisors and about eight other jailers that featured a pair of "memes," or pictures with text superimposed, showing a deputy spanking an intoxicated inmate who had mouthed off to her. "When you are wondering if the force you used was 'reasonable and appropriate' … " the first image reads. Then, the second: "And your buddies are wondering, 'Did she just spank him?' "
Early in 2015, Deputy Sean Grady called the deputy featured in the meme, Sandra Rincon, "an inspiration to us all" and "the gold standard" in an email sent out to more than a dozen colleagues, including two sergeants and one lieutenant. Grady congratulated Rincon for hitting "the big 5-0" — a reference to both her birthday and the more than four-dozen instances she had used force on an inmate in 2014.
The whistleblower deputy told sheriff's officials assigned to the internal investigation that one deputy would regularly reference adding to his count, the documents state. Another had once remarked to him that he hoped an inmate would give him the chance to release his "pent-up" energy.
At a Sheriff's Office awards banquet in 2016, one deputy heard another deputy share their rankings with a television news reporter.
Initially, the deputies in the jail's Intake and Release section took notice that their use of force numbers appeared higher than the figures for those who worked floor security at the jail. As Lt. Hanenberg noted in an interview with sheriff's officials assigned to the investigation, the section deals with some of the most "volatile" inmates because tempers are high when people are first taken into custody — making use of force a natural topic of conversation during day-to-day operations.
But what started as monitoring an internal report documenting use of force later morphed into an "unhealthy" and "unsavory" competition that created a culture where "it seemed OK for deputies to embrace use of force as a 'badge of honor' and a part of everyday conversation," one investigating sheriff's staff member reported.
The deputies involved have denied that there was a competition, instead characterizing it as somewhat routine statistical comparisons. Sgt. Perry offered a different description in his interview with sheriff's staff assigned to the investigation:
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Ансамбль братьев Авсеник () ( — «Славко Авсеник и его оригинальные верхнекрайнцы») — словенский верхнекрайнский (или оберкрайнский) музыкальный народный ансамбль, которым руководили знаменитый словенский аккордеонист Славко Авсеник и его брат-аранжировщик Вилко. Образован в 1953 году в местечке .
Репертуар насчитывает более 1000 песен, музыку к которым писал Славко, а аранжировку делал Вилко, академический композитор.
Авторы текстов песен — Марьян Старе, Ферри Суван, Иван Сивец, Франц Кошир, Тоне Форнецци, Винко Шимек и многие другие.
Распущен в 1990 году в связи с болезнью Славко Авсеника.

Название группы менялось несколько раз: сначала это было трио, ставшее позже квартетом и квинтетом с двумя-тремя певцами.

Ансамбль приобрёл неслыханную популярность, помимо самой Словении, в Австрии, Германии, Швейцарии и словенской диаспоре во всём мире. Он считается автором верхнекрайнского музыкального стиля, всего было распродано 32 миллиона пластинок и дисков с записями песен, что сделало ансамбль самым популярным словенским музыкальным коллективом в мире.
Ансамбль дал более 10 тысяч концертов в мире, в том числе трижды выступил с Берлинским филармоническим оркестром.
Самая известная песня — «» или «Trompeten-Echo» 1955 года, которая занимает первое место по числу исполнений, среди инструментальных композиций.

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Q: Xamarin Studio freezes when selecting a .net solution or project I need to modify one of the projects of an old .net solution developed with MonoDevelop and previously edited and released from within Xamarin Studio.
When I open he solution and just select any one of the projects (I mean merely click on its name) Xamarin Studio hangs: the spinning disc keeps spinning. Same result when selecting the solution name.
Maybe it is msbuild.exe that is hanging, although I never started a build. But I do see two xamarin tasks: the studio app and msbuild.exe:
63369 /Applications/Xamarin Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/XamarinStudio
63384 /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.2.0/bin/mono /Applications/Xamarin Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/monodevelop/bin/MSBuild/4.0/MonoDevelop.Projects.Formats.MSBuild.exe

Using the XS for iOS targets works fine.
I detected this problem after having switched to OSX Maverick, but it might have been present without being detected before this upgrade.
Any suggestions about how to tackle this problem?

A: Bugs go to http://bugzilla.xamarin.com (freezing the UI is obviously a bug). Attach to it a minimal solution that reproduces the problem.

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In 1966, as a way of fund raising for their new monastery, the Benedictine Sisters of Erie turned to one of their strengths: their music, and formed a 50+ member choir: Sisters '66. Over the next year, these sisters traveled throughout the diocese performing and raising funds for what is today Mount Saint Benedict.
On one of these occasions a man connected to the Ed Sullivan Show caught their performance and, as one thing led to another, Sisters '66 were invited to appear on what was then the #1 nationwide Sunday night variety show.
On January 15, 1967, 52 sisters: singers, musicians and assistants, appeared on the show--along with singer Petula Clark, comedian Allan King and The Rolling Stones---yes, THE Rolling Stones.
Last Friday on the 43rd anniversary of "that fateful night," a local TV station asked to interview some of the sisters who had been part of that unique experience. At 6:00 am Friday morning a reporter and cameraman arrived at the Mount and for the next 1/2 hour interviewed five sisters who were in Sisters '66.
They were articulate, humorous, and had amazing memories of the whole experience. Only a 2-3 minute snippet of their interview made the local news that night, but it brought back wonderful memories for all.
Left to right, Sisters '66 members: Sisters Mary Daniel M, Mary Ellen C, Rose Ann K, Roberta L, and Irene S.
A three-minute YouTube video shows the most memorable piece from that night: Kum-ba-ya. Sr. Mary Ellen Cummings is the soloist.


MSF is a flexible, interrelated series of models that can guide an organization through assembling the resources, people, and techniques needed to bring technology infrastructure in line with business objectives.
The purpose of the process model is to provide a framework that will assist organizations to successfully implement technology solutions that meet or exceed the predefined vision and business objectives.
There are four phases in the process model: Envisioning, Planning, Developing, and Deploying (for infrastructure projects) or Stabilizing for development projects)—and there are four milestones associated with them: Vision/Scope Approved, Project Plan Approved, Scope Complete/First Use, and Release.
The MSF Team Model focuses on staffing, competency, management, responsibility, and quality in complex projects.
Product management The goal of product management is customer satisfaction. The product management role is positioned to achieve this by acting as the customer advocate to the team and as the team advocate to the customer.
Program management The role and focus of program management is to meet the quality goal of delivering the product within project constraints. To meet this goal, program management owns and drives the schedule, the features, and the budget for the project. Program management ensures that the right product is delivered at the right time.
Development To succeed in meeting its quality goal, the role of development is to build a product that meets the specification and customer expectations. It is important that development focus not only on coding to the functional specification but also on meeting customer expectations. This is because functional specifications are written before any significant development or building take place, leaving them inherently incomplete. Therefore, development must innovate, but only to solve the customer's problem, not just for the sake of implementing interesting features.
Testing The goal of testing is to make sure that all issues are known and addressed prior to releasing the product. An issue is anything that prevents the product from meeting its requirements.
User education User education focuses on enhancing user performance so that users are as productive as possible with the product. To accomplish this, user education acts as the advocate for the end user of the product, much like product management acts as the customer advocate to the team.
Logistics managment Logistics management serves as the advocate for the operations, product support, help desk, and other delivery channel organizations in its focus on smooth deployment and ongoing management.
In order for a team to be successful, it must interact, communicate, and coordinate with other external groups. These range from customers and end users to other product development teams.
The following diagram illustrates how coordination occurs either with a business focus or a technology focus. Program management, product management, user education, and logistics management are the primary facilitators. These roles are both internally and externally focused, whereas development and testing are internally focused and insulated from external communications.


Ever think meal replacement drinks might be a whole lot easier than making a meal? It's true that meal replacements save time and make cutting calories much easier. However, there are some drawbacks with substituting meal replacement drinks for a meal.
*Note, a common ingredient in powdered meal replacements is carrageenan, which we've already noted leads to more than 100 human diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and arteriosclerosis.
Meal replacement drinks tend to be very low in fiber and very high in sugar.
The bottom line is that meal replacements aren't as effective as eating real, nutritious food. The weight loss achieved with meal replacements is also usually short-lived: You're highly likely to gain the weight back after resuming normal eating habits.
Preparing your food gives you a connection to your food. Often times, your food tastes better and brings greater satisfaction when you have ownership in creating it. Food should be enjoyed and savored, not merely tolerated.


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Cardiovascular biochemical risk factors among women with spontaneous preterm delivery
Karst Y. Heida*, Marlies A. Kampman, Arie Franx, Monique W. De Laat, Barbara J. Mulder, Joris A. Van der Post, Catia M. Bilardo, Petronella G. Pieper, Krystyna M. Sollie, Gertjan T. Sieswerda, Carrie Ris-Stalpers, Martijn A. Oudijk
Amsterdam Reproduction & Development
Objective: To determine whether women delivering preterm have unfavorable cardiovascular profiles as compared with women who deliver at term. Methods: A prospective observational cohort study enrolled 165 women with spontaneous preterm delivery (sPTD) at 24 +0 and 36 +6 gestational weeks in three perinatal care centers in The Netherlands between August 2012 and August 2014. Total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol, apolipoprotein, glucose, and homocysteine were measured within 24 hours after delivery. Lipids and cardiovascular biochemical risk factors were compared between women with sPTD and an external comparison group of 30 women with term delivery via analysis of covariance. Results: Mean gestational age at delivery was 30.7 ± 3.6 weeks in the sPTD group and 40.3 ± 1.3 weeks in the reference group. Data were adjusted for body mass index, age, and center. As compared with the reference group, total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol levels were lower and glucose levels were higher among women with sPTD. Conclusion: An association between sPTD and unfavorable lipids and cardiovascular biochemical risk factors was not established. The higher levels of glucose in the sPTD group might be due to increased insulin resistance, which is associated with a higher risk of sPTD.
International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.12423
Published - 1 May 2018
10.1002/ijgo.12423
Heida, K. Y., Kampman, M. A., Franx, A., De Laat, M. W., Mulder, B. J., Van der Post, J. A., Bilardo, C. M., Pieper, P. G., Sollie, K. M., Sieswerda, G. T., Ris-Stalpers, C., & Oudijk, M. A. (2018). Cardiovascular biochemical risk factors among women with spontaneous preterm delivery. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 141(2), 206-211. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.12423
Heida, Karst Y. ; Kampman, Marlies A. ; Franx, Arie ; De Laat, Monique W. ; Mulder, Barbara J. ; Van der Post, Joris A. ; Bilardo, Catia M. ; Pieper, Petronella G. ; Sollie, Krystyna M. ; Sieswerda, Gertjan T. ; Ris-Stalpers, Carrie ; Oudijk, Martijn A. / Cardiovascular biochemical risk factors among women with spontaneous preterm delivery. In: International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2018 ; Vol. 141, No. 2. pp. 206-211.
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Home » Recognize Israel's Golan Heights Rule_Ad 168
Recognize Israel's Golan Heights Rule_Ad 168Steve Caramia2019-01-21T17:23:46-07:00
Deadly Dictators: Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Ali Khamenei of Iran oppose Israel's existence and U.S. influence in the Middle East, so they demand an end to Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Recognize Israel's Golan Heights Rule
It's time to affirm Israel's Golan Heights sovereignty—protecting U.S. interests and preventing Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists from overrunning the Middle East.
Syria abused its 21-year commanding position on the Golan Heights to shell Israeli civilians below with thousands of mortars. Since repulsing Syrian attacks in 1967 and 1973 wars, Israel finally annexed the Golan Heights, keeping it peaceful and secure now for 52 years.
Syria has treated Israel as its enemy since the founding of the Jewish state, waging belligerent wars against Israel in 1948, 1967 and 1973—and losing each one. Israel took possession of the Golan Heights following the 1967 Six-Day War. After consistent refusals by Syrian dictator Hafez al Assad to negotiate peace, Israel asserted sovereignty over the Heights in 1981. As the Syrian state dissolved into civil war and now exists as a puppet state under Russian and Iranian protection, Israeli control over this 695-square-mile territory provides invaluable strategic security on its Syrian border—for itself, as well as for U.S. and world interests. These critical concerns make a compelling case for the United States and other world powers to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights now.
Israel's Golan Heights sovereignty keeps U.S. enemies in check. The U.S. has opposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad since he ascended to office in 2000, due to brutal treatment of his own people—including the murder of half a million Syrian civilians—as well as his sponsorship of international terror and consistent opposition to U.S. policies. Today, Syria's existence depends on its power-sharing with two of America's greatest enemies, Russia and Iran. With the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Syria, Israel's sovereignty on the Golan Heights remains our strongest bulwark against Syrian, Russian and especially Iranian aggression.
Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights impedes Iranian imperialism. As the world's largest sponsor of global terrorism, Iran has mounted an expansionist drive designed to give it a powerful hegemonic land bridge from Teheran through Baghdad and Damascus to Beirut. Both Iran and its Lebanese proxy, the designated-terrorist group Hezbollah, have sworn to destroy Israel, and both have stationed troops and armaments near Israel's border with Syria. Iran also uses its Syrian bases to ferry advanced missile and anti-aircraft technology to Hezbollah in order to fortify the terror group's hand against Israel from Lebanon. Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights allows Jerusalem to monitor Teheran's imperialist misdeeds closely and defeat them before they can further threaten Israel and regional stability.
International law supports Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. While international law prohibits the acquisition of territory through aggressive conquest, it is universally agreed that Israel's control of the Golan Heights was the result of a defensive war. When Israel defeated Syrian belligerence in 1967, no international strictures against defensive conquest existed. What's more, the United States has even recognized territory seized in aggressive wars, such as the Republic of Vietnam's sovereignty over both the north and south of the country, and India's illegal seizure of the Portuguese territory of Goa.
Syria's Assad regimes should be punished for warmongering. Syria has been one of the most brutal and bloody nations in the Middle East, having engineered the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri, used outlawed poisonous chemicals to kill its own people, and committed such war crimes as torture and bombardment of its civilians. In addition, Syria has waged unprovoked war against Israel three times. To insist on return of the Golan Heights to Syria would reward the evil of the Assad regimes—whereas recognizing Israel's sovereignty would be a powerful form of justice.
Syria's civil war and subsequent domination by Russia and Iran have turned the Arab nation into one of the most unstable in the Middle East—and likely to remain so for generations to come. In addition, Syria has steadfastly refused to consider peace with Israel in exchange for return of the Golan Heights. Israel has now controlled the Golan Heights for 52 years—more than twice as long as Syria's 21 years. Whereas Syria's reign over the Golan Heights was marked by constant attacks on neighboring Israel, Israel's rule has ensured peace and stability. It's time for the U.S. to recognize Israel' righteous, legal and strategically critical sovereignty over the Golan territory.


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Agnostic Analytics Solutions vs. EHRs: Six Reasons EHRs Can't Deliver True Healthcare Interoperability
Mark McCourt
Mike Noke, MBA
Neil Andersen
Ryan Smith, MBA
, Senior Vice President and Executive Advisor
Posted in Enterprise Data Warehouse / Data Operating system and Health Catalyst Products and Services .
An EHR system from a major vendor isn't designed to meet the increasingly broad and complex enterprisewide analytics demands in healthcare today. Virtually all health systems that have invested heavily in these EHRs already have hit limitations around accessing the data they need for a comprehensive understanding of their patient populations and running advanced analytics to meet population health management (PHM) and value-based payment (VBP) goals.
In addition to implementing fee-for-value (FFV) business arrangements, healthcare organizations are also rapidly pursuing these goals:
Growth strategies through mergers and acquisition, new business partnerships, and complex revenue diversification strategies.
Innovation strategies to reduce unwarranted clinical and operational variation, waste, and expenses.
Digital strategies to dramatically enhance the experience, engagement, and "stickiness" of services provided to healthcare consumers, patients, and workforce members.
EHRs Don't Meet Today's Holistic Data Management and Technical Strategy Demands
The modern healthcare enterprise understands that rapidly achieving these transformative strategies is paramount to the short-term success and longer-term viability of the organization. However, organizations (in particular, IT and analytics leadership) have struggled to define a holistic data management and technical strategy for dealing with these sea-change transformations. IT and analytics teams are falling behind business and clinical demands, often forcing the business to adopt and implement point solutions from myriad vendors. Unfortunately, a point-solution strategy further compounds the organization's data challenges and significantly increases cost.
Like many other IT vendors (e.g., enterprise resource planning, revenue cycle, budgeting, staff scheduling, project management office, marketing, etc.) that have added point-solution reporting and analytics capabilities to their products, EHR vendors have joined the fray of building analytics infrastructure and tools around their core product offerings. With Meaningful Use incentives dried up, EHR vendors are rushing to build new revenue streams and are predominantly focusing on aggregating EHR and claims data and providing analytics tools to support VBP arrangements.
Extracting Greater Value from EHR Investments
Healthcare organizations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars implementing EHR systems within their organization; yet, the industry recognizes that most EHR implementations are not living up to their original expectations. In fact, physician dissatisfaction with EHRs is at an all-time high and often cited as a key contributor to physician burnout.
Given the significant investments in procuring and implementing EHR technology, IT leaders are feeling pressure to extract greater value from their EHR vendors. And, true to form, the EHR vendors are marketing their point-solution analytics capabilities as the answer to their clients' data management and analytics needs. It's understandable that a number of healthcare IT leaders are buying into the belief that their EHR vendor can indeed satisfy their data management, reporting, and analytic needs.
Modern Strategic Goals Demand More than Typical EHR Capability
The reality is that EHR vendor analytics offerings predominantly focus on supporting PHM use cases—with their core analytics offerings centering around the data stored within the EHR itself. The typical EHR vendor approach to an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) largely supports EHR data, aggregated with available claims data and several other data sources, forming the basis of their analytics capabilities. When compared to the strategic and transformative imperatives listed above (e.g., growth, innovation, and digital), the EHR vendor approach to enterprise analytics doesn't adequately meet an organization's short-term needs and poses serious challenges to mid-range and long-term needs.
Achieving Healthcare Interoperability with an Enterprise-Level Analytics Solution
Health systems that rely on their EHR vendors to meet enterprise analytic requirements are asking the system to perform beyond its capabilities—similarly to expecting a primary care physician to specialize in orthopedic, neuro, and general surgery, and cardiac procedures. For enterprise analytics, an open-standards, cloud-based enterprise data platform with best-in-class analytic solutions is paramount for success.
IT and analytic leaders are feeling challenges and pressures (Figure 1) regarding their EHR vendors' analytics offerings, typically coupled with homegrown solutions and myriad analytics point solutions. While EHR vendors may promise broader analytic capabilities, health system data analysts spend most of their time cleansing and preparing data, leaving little time to produce meaningful analytics.
Figure 1: Pressure and challenges impacting analytics and IT leaders
So where do health systems stand that have invested heavily in their EHRs but need expanded healthcare interoperability and advanced, enterprise-level analytics capabilities? They need a vendor-agnostic analytics platform that can extend EHR capabilities, allowing health systems to maximize their EHR's potential.
Such a platform (e.g., the Health Catalyst® Data Operating System [DOS™]), Figure 2, works with existing EHRs; it can quickly and flexibly ingest data from hundreds of other industry data sources to populate workflows with critical point-of-decision insights, significantly increasing the value of the EHR to care providers.
Figure 2: DOS provides the framework for a high-functioning analytics platform
Six Key Differentiators Between an Enterprise Data Platform and an EHR Vendor Approach
Six key elements differentiate an enterprise data platform approach from an EHR vendor's analytic capabilities:
1. Supports the Broad Analytic Needs of the Enterprise.
As depicted in Figure 3, an enterprise data platform must support the broad data management and analytic use cases spanning all clinical, operational, and financial functions, including:
Merger and acquisition support and integration.
Medicare Shared Savings Program initiatives (e.g., ACOs, CINs) and other FFV programs.
Clinical outcomes improvement work (e.g., sepsis, congestive heart failure [CHF], readmissions, etc.).
Operational improvements (e.g., revenue cycle, finance, supply chain, patient flow, etc.).
Strategic initiatives (e.g., patient experience, consumer digital, marketing, etc.).
Internal/external measures (more than 2,500 compulsory measures, internal metrics, etc.).
Precision medicine, research, etc.
Figure 3: Composition of an enterprise analytics portfolio
2. Supports the Rapid Ingestion of Virtually Any Data Source and Data Type, Including Images
An EHR vendor's core product is the EHR itself (Figure 4), not its offerings. It builds its analytics infrastructures and tools, out of necessity, to support its 25-plus-year-old data structures and core EHR infrastructure. This places numerous and onerous restrictions on these analytics infrastructures, both in the short-term and longer-term.
Figure 4: A typical EHR vendor approach to analytics
A key challenge for organizations is that data analysts spend much of their time writing custom scripts to map sources of data to database tables, and even more code to query those tables to answer every analytics question. The heavy investment of analyst time (typically about 80 percent) means ROI rarely, if ever, meets stakeholder expectations.
To keep pace with the breadth of an organization's enterprise analytics needs, an enterprise data platform must be able to flexibly and rapidly ingest all types of data across myriad data sources. The platform should automate and standardize data mapping and modeling for all data sources and data types. To further bolster ROI and productivity, the platform should automatically map sources to marts and capture metadata for every field in a comprehensive repository, as well as organize columns and data loads during nightly ETL processes.
3. Provides a Data Lake Infrastructure for Accessing Granular, Detailed, Raw Source Data
Primary EHR vendors analytics infrastructures don't provide customer-accessible source data marts. This prevents data scientists, researchers, and advanced analysts from accessing the level of granular, detailed, non-normalized data they need to build advanced analytics. An enterprise analytics program feels significant constraint, and organizations must maintain a separate data warehouse infrastructure for accessing raw source data.
Maintaining a separate EDW environment from the EHR vendor's EDW infrastructure significantly increases total cost of ownership and complexity and decreases data scientists' and analysts' flexibility and efficiency. Over time, organizations view the EHR vendor's EDW as yet another point analytics solution that addresses only a subset of the organizations' overall analytics requirements.
An enterprise data platform must include an integrated data lake environment that aggregates all source data, preserves raw data granularity, is open and scalable, and allows for direct access by data scientists and advanced analysts using open tools. This must be a fully integrated environment that also allows advanced users to simultaneously access fully curated, shared data, along with any needed domain-specific data within the platform's subject area marts.
4. Provides a Balanced Data Model Approach
The healthcare industry has been torn on data model approaches to support analytics needs. With arguable pros and cons to each approach. it's helpful to have a better understanding of each:
A fully curated data model approach lies at one end of the spectrum. The core EHR vendors have pursued this approach, along with companies that sell healthcare data models (e.g., IBM and Teradata). This data model approach necessitates fully curating (or modelling) every data element stored within the model and assigning it specific meaning. The vendor must maintain a team of vocabulary specialists that define and assign all data elements to their prescriptive model.
A curated data model approach simplifies the querying of data substantially by analysts. Any particular type of data, irrespective of its source, has been homogenized into the standardized model, which reduces the time typically spent by analysts in preparing data for analytic use. This approach can work well in point solutions that have a relatively small total number of data elements that tools and/or analysts need to access. The primary challenge with fully curated models is that data can't be added to the model (and thus accessible to analysts) until the vendor's vocabulary team can extend their data model to support new elements. These types of client requests for expanding a data model to accommodate new types of data can take weeks, months, or even years for the vendor to both agree to the model changes and to prioritize the effort.
The homegrown EDW approach, at the other end of the spectrum, doesn't really model data; rather, these organizations land source data into source marts within their custom EDW and then manually create and maintain subject area marts unique to each analytic domain—an approach commonly referred to as late data binding. The upside to late data binding is massive flexibility that can accommodate any type of data. The downside is that analytics engineers and analysts spend, on average, 80 percent of their overall time cleansing, aggregating, and preparing data to load into proprietary subject area marts to build reports and analytics. The homegrown EDW has not proven to be a sustainable model for organizations requiring nimble analytics and rapidly built solutions.
A balanced data model approach is efficient and reusable, yet highly flexible to adapt to new types and volumes of data. An enterprise data platform must be able to rapidly deploy analytics solutions (e.g., reports, dashboards, scorecards, etc.) based on frequently used data types while providing full flexibility to rapidly ingest new data sources and data types that can be manually curated into subject area marts as needed. This hybrid approach to a data model provides two key capabilities:
The fully curated data sets for the data that most analytics solutions require.
The flexibility to rapidly ingest and utilize non-curated data in platform-supported subject area marts, including full access to raw data stored in the data lake environment.
5. Provides Enterprise-Wide and Domain-Specific Analytics Applications and Accelerators
The primary EHR vendors only offer a handful of analytics applications. These predominantly focus around basic population health management functions, such as patient registries and care management tools. In addition, EHR vendors only offer a narrow selection of third-party analytics and reporting tools that support their data infrastructure. Again, client organizations are forced to develop (or hire their EHR vendor's professional services) to build the bulk of the tools and solutions they need to provide analytics.
An enterprise data platform should provide the bulk of the analytics tools and solutions an organization needs to address many enterprisewide and domain-specific needs. Healthcare-specific accelerators should be included in the platform that, out of the box, meet more than 60 percent of healthcare domain-specific analytics (e.g., sepsis, heart failure, diabetes, readmissions, CLABSI, CAUTI, etc.) In addition, the platform should provide self-service tools for users across the organization to build patient populations and registries, track measures, and visually drill into domain specific data sets.
6. Supports Real-Time Data Ingestion
A new breed of enterprise analytics use cases requires real-time data ingestion to enable immediate decision support. EHR vendors have built their EDWs using a legacy approach that follows the traditional ETL model of batch loading data from source systems via custom ETL scripts. EDWs ingest data afterhours, so data is typically 12 to 24 hours old before it's available to analytics consumers. Worse yet, some vendors require that data generated within the EHR must first be batch loaded into a data subset and subsequently loaded into the EDW, further delaying load times to potentially 30-plus hours.
A modern enterprise data platform must still be able to support traditional data batch load processes; however, it must also support the real-time ingestion of data from required source systems or external tools to support real-time decision making at the front line—whether within an EHR workflow, at the front office in a revenue cycle workflow, or within the contact center integrated in a customer relationship management (CRM) workflow.
The Big Picture: Pairing an Existing EHR System and an Enterprise Analytics Platform
In the big picture of an EHR vendor system and an enterprise analytics platform (e.g., DOS, Figure 5), the two systems work together to maximize each entity's capabilities and fully leverage patient data.
Figure 5: The enterprise analytics platform
The EHR vendor brings key capabilities to enterprise analytics:
Real-time operational reporting using EHR data (e.g., census reports, medical administration reports [MARs], patient transfer [TXFR] reports, rounds reports, etc.).
PHM insights (e.g., care gaps and patient registries) within the same vendor EHR workflows via the embedded EHR.
Integrated basic care management capabilities.
Basic EHR analytics that work out of the box without customization.
The enterprise analytics platform builds on EHR competencies and adds critical data and analytics capabilities:
Enabling analytic solutions supporting growth initiatives, innovation and outcome improvement objectives, strategic initiatives, payment reform and risk-bearing arrangements, and operational improvements across the organization.
Enterprise-level platform, analytics, and reporting spanning all organizational data sources.
Best-in-class domain-specific analytics applications, especially when speed is important.
Rapid-response, self-service analytics at all leader levels.
An enterprise-class outcomes improvement program and adoption methodology.
The Case for Health Catalyst: A Key Solution for Ever-Evolving Analytics Demands
Organizations should pursue a data and analytics strategy that will fully support the broad needs of the enterprise, both for today and the future. Building that strategy on an EHR vendor analytics infrastructure and tools will have many shortcomings and require a mix of custom and point-solution analytics to fill the gaps, further perpetuating multiple data stores and disjointed solutions.
In a better analytics strategy approach, health systems partner with a vendor that provides a robust, modern, enterprise data management and analytics platform. In addition, the right partner has decades of successful healthcare analytics and outcomes improvement implementation experience, ensuring an enterprise analytics program gets the right start and will sustain itself for the long term.
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Daniel's passion for singing began at age nine, when he was a boy soprano who would sing with his Grandmother as his piano accompaniment. In the many years since Daniel has gained a wealth of performance experience.
Since beginning his professional career, Daniel has been in demand as a performer for numerous large sporting events, including rugby union's Bledisloe Cup and Lion's Tour, International One-Day Cricket finals, A League Football finals, and the Australian Swimming Championships. Daniel has also often found work as a recording artist and vocalist for weddings and various corporate events.
The Gale Edward's directed production of Jerry Springer The Opera – held in 2009 at the Sydney Opera House – saw Daniel cast as the cover for both Dwight and God, as well as an ensemble member. In 2012, Daniel joined the internationally acclaimed vocal group The Ten Tenors and performed in theatres around Germany, America, Australia, and Europe as part of The Ten Tenors' Double Platinum tour.
Daniel was also guest singer for the arrival of Pope Benedict at Barangaroo in 2008, has been a guest performer at the annual Merry Makers concert, and was a finalist for both The Rob Guest Endowment and The Joan Sutherland Scholarship. He has taught at, and is a graduate of, the Australian Institute of Music.
Well accomplished in both theatre and studio vocal techniques and attitudes, Daniel's skills extend to arranging, producing, song writing, and teaching. As a result of his studies and broad musical interests, Daniel's repertoire includes opera, lieder, musical theatre, cabaret and contemporary music.
In 2014 – 2016 Daniel toured in the international production of Les Misérables covering the role of Jean Valjean and playing it over 100 times. Since then he has re-created the role in Christchurch, Hobart and at the Riverside Theatre, Parramatta.
Daniel will soon be appearing as Lord Pinkleton in the national tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.


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The phrase that no man is an island is a great one that explains to us that everyone is supposed to have some kind of support, and this is mainly through having a partner. Even so, the process of finding a good partner is never that straightforward since we have to compare different individuals who are already in our lives. Other individuals lack the opportunity to meet new people so that they can start dating, and this is as a consequence of working for long hours. You will also come across a large population of people who are not dating yet since the people they mingle with at work or in other places do not have the particular characteristics they desire such as religion, origin, and many more.
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Although there are many myths, the second-most-popular one states that all dating websites are primarily used by individuals who are too desperate. This information is not right since people today use the internet as it provides better convenience in almost everything. When you are employed and have two or more jobs, you basically lack time to go out and meet people who can eventually become a good partner; so, dating websites offer a good link that is dependable. It is also misleading that all websites for dating purposes are means for the young as the truth of the matter is that anyone can create an account and meet people of the age they desire.
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World Cup Focus – Hee-Chan Hwang, South Korea
By: Tom Reynolds
The fourth OptaPro World Cup analytical profile focuses on South Korea and RB Salzburg forward Hee-Chan Hwang.
While Heung-Min Son is the first name that springs to mind when discussing the South Korea national team, rising star Hee-Chan Hwang is certainly another to watch this summer. The 22-year-old has been turning heads for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga for the past two seasons and also won the 2017 Young Asian Player of the Year award.
Having joined RB Salzburg in 2014, Hwang was then moved a few miles down the road to farm team FC Liefering, where he made 31 appearances – 26 of them starts – and scored 13 goals across two seasons.
Due to injury, Hee-Chan only managed to complete just 991 out of the 3150 available minutes in the Bundesliga 2017/18. He completed 741 minutes throughout South Korea's World Cup qualification campaign and in their international friendlies where he accounted for a third of the team's total assists, created 11 chances and scored two goals.
The majority of his 37 career goals have been scored from inside the area. Even of those from outside the 18-yard box, two have been Opta-defined 'Big Chances'.
The past three years has seen Hee-Chan Hwang further reinforce his reputation as a centre forward, with the striker's xG/shot sitting at a high 0.2, suggesting the player has an ability to get himself to high quality shooting positions, as well as being able to get these shots off.
Alongside his eye for goal when inside the penalty area, Hee-Chan Hwang's movement is fantastic. He likes to take the ball in behind opposition defences, often from an arching run to get on the end of through balls, but the forward is also happy to receive to feet in front of defenders. The below heatmap outlines where he has received passes this season, showing him to be much more than just a penalty box centre forward.
Hwang is also comfortable with the ball at his feet, able to take on players with his pace and intelligence and can weave in and out of tight defences with great balance, before playing a penetrative pass into dangerous areas. Demonstrating his creativity, Hwang ranks first for chances created in the Austrian Bundesliga over the past two years when analysing strikers (with more than 2000 minutes), tallying 1.29 chances per 90. The player's expected goals from key passes (0.16 per 90) also ranks him second in the league.
Hee-Chan Hwang key passes, 2016-18
Hwang's key passes (including assists), shown below, further illustrate his intricate nature in the final third. Subtle touches around the penalty area, combined his shot map, showcase a player who is not particularly selfish, and one is happy to lay the ball off as well as take a shooting opportunity when the time is right.
With all this being said, combining Hee-Chan's combined expected goals and expected assists output him ranks him above all players in the Austrian Bundesliga (minimum of 800 minutes).
Hee-Chan Hwang did struggle with injury throughout the Austrian Bundesliga season. However, he has been declared as fit for the World Cup and he will be looking to make an impact in a group where all teams will be hoping to progress to the knockout stages.
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Singer Tank is one of many celebrities taking to social media, sharing their opinion of Kevin Durant's move to the Warriors. As you know, on Monday the NBA baller announced his decision and now everyone has an opinion. However, Tank is not a fan of the comments made by popular sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith. Here's a short clip of Smith's comments.
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Q: AWS EC2: m5.24xlarge vs m5.metal Are there any differences between m5.24xlarge and m5.metal?
According to AWS, both instance types cost the same ($4.608 per Hour) and have the same specifications:

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*Memory: 768GiB

*Instance Storage (GB): 4 x 900 (SSD)

*Network Performance: 25 Gigabit

*Cost: $4.608 per Hour

A: They are the same hardware.
The difference is that m5.metal is a Bare Metal server that allows you to use a different Hypervisor, such as Hyper-V.
Unless you really know what you are doing, just select a normal m5.24xlarge instance.


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On the benefits of philosophy as a way of life in a general introductory course.Jake Wright - 2020 - Metaphilosophy 51 (2-3):435-454.details
Philosophy as a way of life (PWOL) places investigations of value, meaning, and the good life at the center of philosophical investigation, especially of one's own life. I argue PWOL is compatible with general introductory philosophy courses, further arguing that PWOL-based general introductions have several philosophical and pedagogical benefits. These include the ease with which high impact practices, situated skill development, and students' ability to 'think like a disciplinarian' may be incorporated into such courses, relative to more traditional introductory courses, (...) as well as the demonstration of philosophy's value to students by explicitly tying philosophical investigation to students own lives. (shrink)
Classification of Strategies for Dealing with Student Relativism and the Epistemic Conceptual Change Strategy in advance.Jonas Pfister - forthcoming - Teaching Philosophy.details
"Many people are saying…": Applying the lessons of naïve skepticism to the fight against fake news and other "total bullshit".Jake Wright - 2020 - Postdigital Science and Education 2 (1):113-131.details
'Fake news' has become an increasingly common refrain in public discourse, though the term itself has several uses, at least one of which constitutes Frankfurtian bullshit. After examining what sorts of fake news appeals do and do not count as bullshit, I discuss strategies for overcoming our openness to such bullshit. I do so by drawing a parallel between openness to bullshit and naïve skepticism—one's willingness to reject the concept of truth on unsupported or ill-considered grounds—and suggest that this parallel (...) indicates three principles for how we ought to combat our openness to fake news and other bullshit. First, the root causes of bullshit openness are not monolithic; we should adopt anti-bullshit strategies in recognition of this fact. Second, our efforts to overcome bullshit openness should be collaborative efforts to create an environment that allows for sustained interrogation of our bullshit openness, rather than a confrontational provision of contrary evidence, despite the fact that such strategies are more time-intensive. Third, social media is unlikely to be a fertile ground on which we will make meaningful progress in the fight against bullshit because of the inherent nature of social media platforms as spaces for short, declarative, confrontational claims. (shrink)
Using Lectio Divina as an in-class contemplative tool.Jake Wright - 2019 - Journal of Contemplative Inquiry 6 (1):71-93.details
This manuscript discusses the author's experience implementing a secularized version of Lectio Divina, a medieval monastic contemplative reading practice, in an introductory philosophy classroom. Following brief discussion of Lectio Divina's history and a description of how the practice was modified for the classroom, I discuss three benefits (increased attention to cognitive and noncognitive reactions to the text, willingness to engage with the material in novel ways, and the opportunity to engage in independent disciplinary practice) and three potential challenges (the time (...) required, student engagement, and the practice's perceived religiosity) arising from the exercise. Following this, I discuss potential modifications to the exercise that instructors may wish to consider, namely strategies for addressing students' status as novice meditators, focusing textual selections on course materials, and having students engage in some aspects of the practice as homework. (shrink)
Towards a response to epistemic nihilism.Jake Wright - 2021 - In Alison MacKenzie, Jennifer Rose & Ibrar Bhatt (eds.), The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era: Dupery by Design. Springer Nature. pp. 39-59.details
This chapter develops an account of epistemic nihilism—roughly, the rejection of truth's intrinsic or instrumental value in favor of statements that reject or obscure truth to secure an advantage for the speaker—by examining three instances of such nihilism: lying, bullshit, and trolling. It further argues that epistemic nihilism, exacerbated by changes in the media landscape, can pose a significant threat to liberal democratic institutions and ideals by undermining the democratic ideal of good faith engagement on a level playing field, while (...) also encouraging undemocratic actions (e.g., terrorism) among interlocutors who take the nihilist's claims seriously. Finally, this chapter argues that in extreme cases, we are justified in denying epistemic nihilists a platform from which to speak by drawing a parallel with vexatious litigant laws that deny individuals the right to petition courts for redress on the grounds that abuse of that right results in significant harm to both individuals and the legal system itself. (shrink)


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This US Youth Soccer event gives our teams the opportunity to compete at state, regional and national levels. For 2019, we have continued the U12 boys and girls bracket. It is an exciting transitional age of physical, technical and tactical awareness and skill development and one of the most critical age groups in the player development process, and we feel it is an excellent opportunity for these teams to "test their mettle". The primary intention of this tournament is to engage the approximately two-thirds of our travel teams which are not as likely to win a state championship title.
The 2019 MSYSA Presidents Cup application will become available on January 2nd, 2019 with applications closing on March 2nd, 2019 (extended to March 9th, 2019) for all teams not in State Cup and March 20th, 2019 for teams eliminated in State Cup round of 32. The Presidents Cup draw will be held on Sunday, March 24th @ 1:00pm. The draw will be a Facebook Live Streaming event via the MSYSA Facebook page. View it HERE!
All games are scheduled to be played in Harford County at Carsin's Run Park, Aberdeen MD. Please continue to check the MSYSA website for a complete schedule of dates and times. Over the course of the tournament dates, updates and alerts on scores, weather, schedule adjustments and other pertinent matters will be posted on our website as close to real time as possible. Also, it is extremely important to review and study the tournament rules found on the Presidents Cup page of the website (click HERE for Rules).
We are very excited to bring this event to Maryland's greater community of competitive soccer teams and promise you an environment of fun, great competition and sportsmanship. Remember! Your team's hard work can earn it the distinguished privilege to play teams from other states in the 2019 Presidents Cup Regional Championship Tournament scheduled for June 14–June 18 in Charlestown, WV. U13-U18 Regional winners will then compete in Murfreesboro, Tennessee for the National title in your age group.
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