Acquired by Pluralsight which was recently acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in April. The founder of the PE firm was caught for tax evasion a year or so ago.
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Also, why do you think a CIA-affiliated site would do a write-up on this? Seems like it makes soldiers and their secure info look bad.
Any links or sources for this?
Great channel for those interested in urbanism.
From the actual descriptions of patients that have gone through it and been hospitalized, there are much worse symptoms, and maybe they should be addressed more immediately. The main one I've come across is the heavy chest pressure. I don't understand why, in the US at least, there isn't more specific messaging so that we can make sure people with more severe or COVID-19-related symptoms have the ability to get through. Not to mention the BS here of having to 'call your doctor' first before getting seen. There are a lot of people out there now without primary care doctors or that can't afford a visit. There have been no federal instructions on how we would get waivers for visits, testing, and possible hospitalization. If you've ever had to fight with medical billing in the US, it's frustrating and will be even more so after all this dies down.
On a side-note:
I was turned away from donating blood yesterday because I admitted to having a runny nose and a bit drainage that caused some coughing. I have seasonal allergies - it's March, it's been raining and plants are blooming, etc. I understand the caution but I had no fever (tested at 36.6 C / 97.8 F), which is about the same temp I've had for the past week (I've tested that and my blood pressure daily, just in case). I was a bit frustrated, because I really wanted to do something immediate to give back but so be it.
While walking home, it did make me wonder why they even bother taking 'healthy' people who could be asymptomatic if it's such a concern. They admitted to having no way to test the blood.
I think there's a lot that needs to be fixed and I hope that this crisis will provide a better future for us all. Epidemics aren't going to go away. We can learn and plan better.
I agree with you but I think at least the nurses, doctors, NPs/PAs, bring more value than what I've seen within my own department at a hospital. A manager hits $100-150k pretty easy and the middle and upper middle ranks are stacked. We have someone that's a director of a three person team, and seven new middle management roles (being filled w/ no internal hires).
We had one user who called after filling in every email address she had into a very plausible looking O365 login page. She admitted she initially distrusted the email/link that led her to this page and had replied saying so. The hackers on the other end told her to go ahead and do so. I mean, who she to question when it's coming directly from the hospital's lawyer?
Upper level IT management doesn't communicate with the team when large changes are made, and pretty much treat them disrespectfully, even though they have their fingers on the pulse of what's going wrong from the medical staff. There's also a lot of waste from poorly implemented/delayed projects (there are more PMs than IT staff to implement the projects). Definitely a frustrating and bureaucratic area to be in.
Yeah, our org is on Cerner and there's excited talk around going to Epic in the future. People don't seem to understand that it's just going to be more of same in dealing with an old, monolithic system.
Not sure if it's a contractual thing to get the coveted release window there or extra $.
Or look at The Meg, which was a US-Chinese co-production that was like a tourist video for Sanya Bay towards the end of the film.
But Hollywood isn't going to stand down over taking Chinese money. Right now, most of the money is made overseas on the big movies. Much like Germany was a huge overseas market in the 30s.
It might be worth calling up Amazon customer service. They are usually very helpful and might be able to route you to the correct person.
Work at a hospital and in the orientation the first speech is given by the head of compliance who goes over what executives have gone to jail, why, and all the underlings that have been fired for seemingly innocuous HIPAA or PHI violations (looking at a friend's chart, posting on social media, etc).
The money sounds nice but OP could probably make the same at somewhere more reputable with less a chance of feds walking in and taking everything.
I also keep my eye on NYRB Classics Suspense/Crime offerings as they have a pretty good international selection (some Simenon included):
Manual Work Is A Bug: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520
Makes a lot of sense and something I advocate for in my department.
- The CEO's semi-monthly emails have either contained a) reminders to get the flu shot in flu season and b) statements about washing hands.
- Thirty minutes of your new employee orientation is used to discuss handwashing with some funny stories about diarrhea and they go around to every single person to make sure they're washing them correctly.
- Upon entering a patient room, anyone entering is supposed to wash their hands
- Anyone can call out a doctor and ask if they've washed their hands and there are signs to make patients comfortable asking them to do so as well.
So yeah, 2019 and people still need all that as reminders.
Another French "WWII" film with an amazing production story is Children of Paradise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Paradise#Productio...