Sci Transl Med. 2014 Apr 30;6(234):234cm3. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3008604.
Biobanks and electronic medical records: enabling cost-effective research.
Bowton E1, Field JR, Wang S, Schildcrout JS, Van Driest SL, Delaney JT, Cowan J, Weeke P, Mosley JD, Wells QS, Karnes JH, Shaffer C, Peterson JF, Denny JC, Roden DM, Pulley JM.
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
The use of electronic medical record data linked to biological specimens in health care settings is expected to enable cost-effective and rapid genomic analyses. Here, we present a model that highlights potential advantages for genomic discovery and describe the operational infrastructure that facilitated multiple simultaneous discovery efforts.
Comparison of traditional NIH-funded pharmacogenomic studies versus EMR/biobank studies (BioVU). (Left) Median cost of study per subject. (Right) Median length of study in years.


Honestly, we have been on the go so much that I really haven't given it much thought.
But some of the things you said do resonate – quick rinses, but not full soaped up showers every day, etc.
We're glad that you're finding your spot.
Thanks Gee-Spot, by your photos looks like you guys are still having a lot of fun!
Bill Bryson skipped more than 500 miles of the AT, barely mentioned it in his book and still made a ton of money on the book and movie rights.
You guys had a life-changing and affirming experience that will be part of you for the rest of your life. Congratulations on Walla Walla and let me know when the movie is coming out.
Comet.., YES!!! All of the above!!! I would love to chat with you sometime, we hiked alone so much, I thought I was the only one feeling this way, no one to commiserate with… David, like Jason, did not struggle the way I did and that in itself was difficult for both of us. I, like yourself am having many many many thoughts about the trail now that we have been off and they are becoming more positive every day… I even find myself wishing I could have a do-over, but knowing that isn't the case, I need to continue to process and learn from the experience I actually had and come to terms such as you have. I loved the trail and hated it so deeply at the same time. I stopped writing my blog because of all the conflict I was having but one day I may be able to write about it again! How far is Walla Walla from Portland? That is where we landed & if you are ever in the area I would love to get together!


Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Wicca, Feb 5, 2019.
To get our squad player base rolling, we are gathering in teamspeak on Sunday the 10th of February for a squad get together. If we have more than 12 players at that time, we will seed our server.
The objective is to talk a little ahead of us playing, to figure out what we want.
Last time we got a lot of people joining us, can we beat the record of 20 players this time too?
Good squad leaders, fire team leaders and asset or mortar players will show up, split up into each team as the server gets seeded, and ensure each team has the full spectrum of branches represented. Let's have some good games!
If we don't have enough people show up, we will find a decent server and play together.
If you intend to show up, sign in..


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Muay Thai's Impact on Mixed Martial Arts
David Wray
Mixed martial arts has been one of the booming sports for much of the past 20 years, and there is no sign of that popularity slowing down any time soon. However, many experts still expect it to be a considerable amount of time before MMA is able to truly test the popularity of boxing, but it is able to sell out events across the world nevertheless.
The UFC remains the height of the MMA pyramid, with some of the biggest stars in the company paid huge amounts of money to compete at their biggest events. However, MMA has been able to reach this unprecedented level of popularity due to the impact that Muay Thai has had.
1 What Is Muay Thai?
2 Muay Thai Reaching New Audiences
3 Valentina Shevchenko
4 Mauricio Rua
5 Donald Cerrone
What Is Muay Thai?
Muay Thai was founded in Thailand and is the national sport of the country. It is a combat sport that uses striking techniques, as well as clinching techniques to wear down an opponent. The sport is known amongst many as the 'art of eight limbs. The reason for that is due to the number of options that opponents have to strike an opponent. Striking with fists is popular amongst many, but knee strikes, as well as strikes using elbows and shins, are also allowed.
READ MORE: Ex-Champion Glover Teixeira confirms MMA retirement following title fight loss at UFC 283 in Brazil
While MMA disciplines such as judo and karate have been around for generations, and have been able to stay relevant throughout their histories, Muay Thai has reached its peak in popularity over the 20th and 21st centuries.
Muay Thai Reaching New Audiences
The sport finally reached Western shores after visitors traveled to Thailand to compete in mixed-rules matches and kickboxing events. However, the success has been taken to new levels after it has been adopted by some of the biggest stars in UFC and Bare Knuckle Fighting.
This has opened a door to newcomers to the sport, as they wish to learn the skills that some of their favorite UFC stars have perfected. But, who are some of the biggest stars in the UFC that have been able to excel with the use of Muay Thai?
There are few more Muay Thai strikers in the UFC than Valentina Shevchenko. The 34-year-old remains as competitive in this modern day as she has ever been, as she is still ranked as the second-best fighter in the pound-for-pound rankings. She has achieved success throughout her career and is currently the reigning Women's Flyweight champion.
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She won the title in a thriller against Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 231 in December 2018 and has since successfully defended the title on seven occasions. Shevchenko also achieved success in the bantamweight division, but she came up just short when bidding to win the title against Amanda Nunes in September 2017.
Mauricio Rua
Mauricio Rua was a fighter that all UFC fans loved watching when he was at the very top of his game. He was one of the purist strikers in the company, which was hardly surprising given that he has a 'black prajied' in Muay Thai. Rua continues to be a pioneering star behind the scenes, as he was a founding member of the Chute Boxe Academy, which helps athletes to learn the art of Muay Thai. Mua rose to prominence as he won the PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix in 2005.
However, he would take that excellent striking record into the UFC. His biggest win in the company was achieved at UFC 113, as he captured the Light Heavyweight Championship with a stunning first-round KO against Lyoto Machida. However, he would lose the title in his very next bout against Jon Jones. During his career, he won 27 of his 41 fights, with 21 victories being scored by knockout.
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Donald Cerrone
There are few more celebrated MMA fighters in history than Donald Cerrone. Cerrone has shared the octagon with many of the biggest stars throughout his career, and he has competed across the lightweight and welterweight divisions. Cerrone boasted an impressive Muay Thai record before transitioning to the UFC, as he was unbeaten in six fights, winning on five occasions. However, it was in UFC where he would be most fondly remembered.
Cerrone fought professionally on 55 occasions, winning 36 times, with ten wins coming by knockout. His final victory in the UFC came by decision against Al Iaquinta before he suffered six defeats in his final seven fights before heading into retirement.
Muay Thai is one of the most significant forms of combat sport in history, and that is highlighted by some of the biggest stars that have been trained in the discipline. That shows no signs of stopping, and it will only lead to more stars picking up the skill in the future.

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Summoner of Sleep
About Summoner of Sleep
A dark family secret—A town that doesn't exist on any map—and a drug that will unleash an apocalyptic, transformational horror on the world.
Ryder Ashling's world is turning upside down. He's lost his job, wife, home, and now he's doubting his sanity. Behind his descent are horrific nightmares so vivid that they follow him into the waking world. When he discovers his neighbor has been documenting his nightmares with scientific precision and leaving him vials of a drug called Summoner of Sleep, things get weirder.
His neighbor disappears and Ryder follows his trail to Marble Woods, a town erased from all maps after a historical atrocity. Now it's whispered to be the home of marble-skinned demons, as well as the source of the plants used to manufacture Summoner of Sleep.
It's here in Marble Woods that Ryder will come face to face with the darkest of family secrets and be forced to make a decision that will change the fate of the world.
Rich in magic and occultism, fractured characters, and a taste of mystery, Summoner of Sleep is a fast paced, thrill-ride bursting with psychological terror.
A.I. Winters is an award-winning horror and fantasy author. Her titles include Summoner of Sleep, Strange Luck, The Nightmare Birds, and A Darling Secret.
Born in Northern California, Winters has since lived in every region of the country, but now resides in Colorado with her husband. She has published numerous articles on writing and publishing, and has worked as a grant writer and copy editor for non-profits, municipalities, and major corporations.
When not writing books, she enjoys breaking a sweat in Jiu-Jitsu class, baking desserts, and traveling.


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package io.fares.bind.xjc.plugins.extras.testing;

import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.BeforeAllCallback;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtensionContext;
import org.jvnet.mjiip.v_2.XJC2Mojo;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

public class JaxbMojoExension implements BeforeAllCallback {

  private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(JaxbMojoExension.class);

  private final Path resourcePath;

  private final Path generatePath;

  private final XJC2Mojo mojo;

  public JaxbMojoExension(Path resourcePath, Path generatePath, XJC2Mojo mojo) {
    this.resourcePath = resourcePath;
    this.generatePath = generatePath;
    this.mojo = mojo;
  }

  @Override
  public void beforeAll(ExtensionContext context) throws Exception {

    // construct schema and generate paths

    if (context.getTestClass().isPresent()) {

      String testName = context.getTestClass().get().getSimpleName();

      // configure the schema location
      Path testSchemaPath = Paths.get("schemas", testName);
      Path schemaPath = resourcePath.resolve(testSchemaPath);
      mojo.setSchemaDirectory(schemaPath.toFile());

      // configure the generated output location
      Path targetPath = generatePath.resolve(testName);
      mojo.setGenerateDirectory(targetPath.toFile());

    } else {

      Path schemaPath = resourcePath.resolve("schemas");
      mojo.setSchemaDirectory(schemaPath.toFile());

      Path targetPath = generatePath.resolve("xjc");
      mojo.setGenerateDirectory(targetPath.toFile());

    }

    // region clean output target

    File generateDirectory = mojo.getGenerateDirectory();

    if (generateDirectory.exists()) {

      Files.walkFileTree(generateDirectory.toPath(), new DirectoryCleaner());

      if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
        log.debug("cleaned {}", generateDirectory.getAbsolutePath());
      }

    }

    // endregion

    mojo.execute();

  }

  public Path getGeneratedPath() {
    return mojo.getGenerateDirectory().toPath();
  }

  public static Builder builder() {
    return new Builder();
  }

  public static class Builder {

    private boolean enableExtension = true;

    private boolean verbose = false;

    private boolean debug = false;

    private String resourcesLocation = "src/test/resources";

    private String generatedLocation = "target/generated-test-sources";

    private LinkedList<String> args = new LinkedList<>();

    public Builder verbose() {
      this.verbose = true;
      return this;
    }

    public Builder debug() {
      this.debug = true;
      return this;
    }

    public Builder disableExtension() {
      this.enableExtension = false;
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Override where the resources will be placed in relative to {@link #baseDir()}.
     *
     * @param generatedLocation the location path
     * @return this builder
     */
    public Builder generatedLocation(String generatedLocation) {
      this.generatedLocation = generatedLocation;
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Add XJC compiler arguments
     *
     * @param args the XJC compiler arguments to add
     * @return this builder
     */
    public Builder arg(String... args) {
      if (args != null) {
        this.args.addAll(Arrays.asList(args));
      }
      return this;
    }

    public JaxbMojoExension build() {
      return build(null);
    }

    public JaxbMojoExension build(Consumer<XJC2Mojo> mojoConfigurer) {

      XJC2Mojo mojo = new XJC2Mojo();

      mojo.setProject(new MavenProject());

      // enable extension unless disabled
      mojo.setExtension(enableExtension);

      // configure the arg switches
      args.remove("-extension");

      mojo.setArgs(args);

      // set verbose and debug levels
      mojo.setVerbose(verbose);
      mojo.setDebug(debug);

      if (mojoConfigurer != null) {
        mojoConfigurer.accept(mojo);
      }

      // region base directories for mojo execution

      Path basedir = baseDir();

      if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
        log.debug("executing jaxb2 mojo in working directory {}", basedir.toAbsolutePath().toString());
      }

      Path resourcePath = basedir.resolve(resourcesLocation);

      Path generatePath = basedir.resolve(generatedLocation);

      // endregion

      return new JaxbMojoExension(resourcePath, generatePath, mojo);

    }

    Path baseDir() {
      return Paths.get("").toAbsolutePath();
    }

  }

  private static final class DirectoryCleaner extends SimpleFileVisitor<Path> {

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path path, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
      Files.delete(path);
      return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult postVisitDirectory(Path dir, IOException exc) throws IOException {
      if (exc != null) {
        throw exc;
      }
      Files.delete(dir);
      return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }

  }

}

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FORMER HORSE FARM with a 26 x 50 barn and a 2 bedroom 1 bath attached home on almost 5 acres in pristine Port Republic. This is a unique opportunity for a buyer that has needs that requires a large barn type building plus housing with acreage. Use your imagination! New well in '95, new submersible pump in '16, new vinyl siding & gutters '17, new metal roof in '18. The attached home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bath, huge living room and master suite, outside shower, plenty of storage too. Land is mostly cleared and ready to be farmed! EZ to see with 24 hour notice!


This post is sponsored by Hill's. I am being compensated for helping spread the word about Hill's® Science Diet® Perfect Weight 10 Week Turnaround, but To the Motherhood only shares information we feel is relevant to our readers. Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. is not responsible for the content of this article.
Statistics indicate that over half of cats and dogs in North America are either overweight or obese. This makes them susceptible to a myriad of health issues that can shorten their lifespan. According to scientific studies, excessive weight, alone, can decrease a pet's lifespan by 2-4 years! An extra five pounds on a small dog is akin to 30 extra pounds on a human being. Pet owners that are not exercising their pets enough or overfeeding them, are some of the main culprits behind this health epidemic.
The obvious way of nixing these culprits are reducing their caloric intake and increasing physical activity. Pets are like us – they thrive when they adhere to a well-balanced diet, daily physical activity, and have regular check-ups with a health professional to ensure optimum health and wellness!
My dog's breed (Maltese) is generally known be quick-moving and playful dogs that don't require much physical outdoor activity, but my curious explorer enjoys wildly flitting from one destination to the next in our yard! He also enjoys going for walks. I believe that the earlier you establish a healthy routine for your pet, the easier it will be for your pet in the long run. It will help them maintain a healthy weight, while preventing many health issues that is associated with obesity.
A healthy weight calculator, such as this one here, will help you determine if your pet is at a healthy weight range based by their age, breed, body condition, and current weight. Your pet can be a success story within 10 weeks with this 10 Week Turnaround Calendar in conjunction with Hill's Science Diet Adult Perfect Weight Formulas for dogs or cats.
Hill's® Science Diet® Adult Perfect Weight Small & Toy Breed (available in bag sizes 4lbs and 15lbs), their newest product, is specifically for dogs that weigh 25 lbs and less. It is 100% precisely balanced nutrition and contains prebiotic fibers for gentle digestion. It's available at your local vet or pet specialty store, but can also be purchased via Pet360.
Studies show that 70% of cats and dogs who were fed Science Diet Perfect Weight lost weight within 10 weeks. Their weight loss success stories can be found here.
Hill's Science Diet is giving away a 10 week supply of Hill's Science Diet Perfect Weight Formula to four winners (2 dog owners and 2 cat owners). Have a chance to win by filling out the Rafflecopter giveaway form below.
My Go-to's for a Happy, Healthy, and Comfortable Dog!
My dog is the perfect weight right now, but I would like to keep him this way! I will pick some of this up!
Your dog is such a cutie! It's so important to keep dogs at healthy weight, looks like this food is great.
My mom's dog is so overweight that we refer to her as sausage. She's a country dog though – in the summer she runs through the fields and gets very thin and then in the winter she doesn't like snow in her toes so she doesn't leave the porch so she gains a lot. Maybe a weight managing dog food would help her in the winter time.
I feel like your dog knew that you were writing about its weight and refused to look at the camera…ha! But really, it is so important to monitor your pet's weight to ensure they live a long and healthy life.
What an adorable dog! It's great that you're keeping track of your dog's weight and being a great, responsible dog owner.
I've only had one pet in my life, a cat. For a while she was overweight because we would feed her table food. Gasp! I know. The vet quickly told us to stop and recommended a brand. She went to her regular size within a month or so.
Your dog is adorable! Keeping dogs at a healthy weight makes their life more comfortable and also live a longer life.
I know a few dogs that could stand a little weight loss. My dogs aren't overweight, but their diet could stand to be better.
This is an awesome giveaway indeed. It truly is so important to have a exercise routine with your animals. The Science Diet is a great food for every dog and I love that it is recommended by Vets. Your dog is so so cute. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! This is awesome product, I've never heard that there's dog food had a perfect weight! This is great for those who having pets. btw, your puppy is adorable.
That's a great giveaway. It's important to ensure the dogs live a healthy lifestyle too, definitely.
If you have pets, this would be a great giveaway. The little guy in your photos is adorable.
Our dog's weight is just right at the moment but this is such an awesome giveaway and would help towards a pet's health.


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By: Aiden Tran, Reporter
TikTok is a social media app created in September 2016. It has over 800 million users and has been downloaded over 2 billion times on the app store and google play.
TikTok plays videos created by millions of content creators which are filtered to certain categories. TikT0k adapts to your liking the more you watch. There are many different categories that are sure to fit your liking. Some consists of dancing, music, entertainment, sports, travel, beauty, food, etc.
There is also an option to create your own videos. You can choose to have your account available to the public or made private. You can make videos up to 60 seconds long using hundreds of different filters or just a plain video.
TikTok is also many peoples jobs. Content creators, if big enough, make money off of TikTok. Some big content creators consists of The Rock, James Charles, JoJo Siwa, Jason Derulo, Charli D'amelio, etc.
Is Warner Bros. Going Out Of Business?
How to Set Up a Podcasting Studio
Five Interesting Websites
What Elon Musk is Planning on Changing About Twitter
Elon Musk Buys Twitter For $44 Billion
Everything That You Should Know About The Metaverse
The Story Of R/place
The Nature & Propagation of memes
Three Steps On How To Make Money On YouTube
Is YouTube Dying?


Emergency shut off in cabin.
a fuses all located in a convenient box in the trunk or in the arm rest (12 Volt only).
Battery boxes built from expanded resin core and insulated with foam core around 65 degree battery heaters for cold weather storage and operation.
Two battery boxes, one in front boot and the other in the engine compartment in the rear, to distibute weight evenly.
Room in the trunk for the convertable top plus some tools or gym bags.


Los Mochis is the starting point for a spectacular trip by train, which leads you through the Copper Canyon as far as Chihuahua - see here the sunset of Los Mochis.
The bridge over the Rio Fuerte.
The breathtaking view of Divisadero, halfway through.
Have you seen already my South America Photo Pages?
Click on a town to see the photos of that region...!


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Q: ITagAggregator.TagsChanged is never fired I have fairly simple TagProvider which I want to consume by my custom adornment. It works all well except hooking on TagsChange event.
Here is the code which I am using to get the tag service factory:
[Import]
internal IViewTagAggregatorFactoryService AggregatorService = null;

...

MyTagAggregator = AggregatorService.CreateTagAggregator<MyTag>(View);
MyTagAggregator.TagsChanged += MyTagAggregator_TagsChanged;

But MyTagAggregator_TagsChanged delegate is never fired. I tried with different types of tags, some are custom and some are built-in (for instance SmartTag).
Am I missing something, should I set something else before I can consume this event?

A: After some research I've located the problem.
AggregatorService.CreateTagAggregator method will call IViewTaggerProvider.CreateTagger method. In my case implementation was something like this:
[Export(typeof(IViewTaggerProvider))]
[ContentType("text")]
[TextViewRole(PredefinedTextViewRoles.Document)]
[TagType(typeof(MyTag))]
internal class MyTaggerProvider : IViewTaggerProvider
{
    public ITagger<T> CreateTagger<T>(ITextView textView, ITextBuffer buffer) where T : ITag
    {
        return new MyTagger(this) as ITagger<T>;
    }
}

This returned always the new instance of TagAggregator. So when I changed something on one instance, it was, naturally, not affected on others. Solution for this is to leverage the Properties property on TextView, so every subsequent call will return the same instance for particular TextView:
[Export(typeof(IViewTaggerProvider))]
[ContentType("text")]
[TextViewRole(PredefinedTextViewRoles.Document)]
[TagType(typeof(MyTag))]
internal class MyTaggerProvider : IViewTaggerProvider
{
    public ITagger<T> CreateTagger<T>(ITextView textView, ITextBuffer buffer) where T : ITag
    {
        return TextView.Properties.GetOrCreateSingletonProperty(delegate() { return new MyTagger(this); }) as ITagger<T>;
    }
}

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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians.
Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on June 26, 1892. Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, on furlough at the time of her birth from their activities in Chinkiang, China, although they soon returned there. During the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the family was forced to flee to Shanghai where, from 1907 to 1909, Buck attended boarding school. She moved to the United States the following year to enter Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia. After receiving a bachelor's degree in 1914, she took a teaching assistantship at the college but almost immediately returned to Chinkiang to care for her ailing mother.
In 1917 she married John Lossing Buck, an American agricultural specialist, with whom she settled in northern China. From 1921 until 1934 they lived chiefly in Nanking, where her husband taught agricultural theory. Buck occasionally taught English literature at several universities in the city, although most of her time was spent caring for her mentally disabled daughter and her infirm parents. In 1925 Buck returned to the United States to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University, where she received a master's degree in English in 1926. Back in Nanking the following year, she barely escaped a revolutionary army attack on the city. Meanwhile, because of her family's financial difficulties, she resolved to begin writing.
Novels Reflect Love of China
Buck's first novel, East Wind: West Wind (1930), a study of the conflict between the old China and the new, was followed by The Good Earth (1931), a profoundly affecting novel of Chinese peasant life, which won her a Pulitzer Prize. In 1933 Buck received a second master's degree, this time from Yale University, and in 1934 she took up permanent residence in the United States. In 1935 she divorced John Buck and married Richard J. Walsh, her publisher. Her extensive literary output—Sons (1932), The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), The Mother (1934), A House Divided (1935), and biographies of her father and mother, The Exile (1936) and Fighting Angel (1936) respectively—culminated in a 1938 Nobel Prize for literature, the first ever awarded to a woman.
Humanitarian Efforts Occupy Later Life
In the next three decades, while continuing to write prolifically, Buck worked to promote racial tolerance and ease the plight of disadvantaged Asians, particularly children. In 1941 she founded the East and West Association to promote greater understanding among the world's peoples, and in 1949 she established Welcome House, an adoption agency for Asian-American children. She always had a special interest in children, and among her many books for them are The Water-Buffalo Children (1943), The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat Sen (1953), The Beech Tree (1955), Christmas Miniature (1957), and The Christmas Ghost (1960). A steadfast supporter of multiracial families, in 1964 she organized the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which supports Asian-American children and their mothers living abroad.
Although Buck's literary career embraced a variety of genres, almost all of her stories are set in China: the extremely popular novel Dragon Seed, its less popular sequel, The Promise (1943), and a raft of later novels, including Peony (1948), Letter from Peking (1957), and The New Year (1968). Among her other works, the highly acclaimed The Living Reed (1963) details the history of a Korean family during the late 19th and early 20th century. In the late 1940s Buck also authored a trilogy under the pseudonym John Sedges. The novels were later published as American Triptych (1958).
Lauded for Generous Spirit
Buck's play A Desert Incident was produced in New York City in 1959. Her ability as an essayist is exemplified by American Argument (with Eslanda Goode Robeson, 1949) and Friend to Friend (1958), "a candid exchange" with Philippine president Carlos P. Rómulo. Buck died of lung cancer in 1973, with more than one hundred written works to her credit. But even more significant, perhaps, were the over three hundred awards she received for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of improved race relations worldwide.
Further Reading on Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
There has been very little critical attention given to Mrs. Buck's work. Her autobiography is My Several Worlds (1954). The best biographical sources are Cornelia Spencer, The Exile's Daughter: A Biography of Pearl S. Buck (1944), Paul A. Doyle, Pearl S. Buck (1965), and Nora Stirling, Pearl Buck: A Woman in Conflict (1983).


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Les partis politiques belges germanophones se présentent aux élections en Communauté germanophone de Belgique.

Partis germanophones parlementaires

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Moore promises formal complaint of voter fraud
Kelan Lyons :: CT Mirror
Sen. Marilyn Moore campaigning for last minute votes at the polls Tuesday.
State Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, has informed Secretary of the State Denise Merrill that her mayoral campaign intends to file a formal complaint of absentee-ballot fraud with Merrill's office and the State Elections Enforcement Commission.
In a letter sent Friday evening and released Monday, Moore makes no specific allegation of wrongdoing in her close loss last week to Mayor Joseph P. Ganim, instead saying that the lopsided absentee vote for Ganim defies belief.
"My opponents (sic) campaign received an astonishing 932 absentee votes to my 303. In total, approximately 12% percent of total votes cast came through absentee ballots. A number of experts agree it is extremely high and unusual," Moore wrote. "It is an open secret that the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee abuses the absentee voting process to manipulate the outcomes of elections."
Moore won on the voting machines, but lost by 270 votes once the absentee ballots were tallied. Unofficial results showed Ganim winning, 5,304 to 5,034.
The State Elections Enforcement Commission has the investigators and jurisdiction to investigate allegations of fraud. Merrill's office does not.
"We don't have a process for official complaints," said Gabe Rosenberg, a spokesman for Merrill. "We don't have any authority to investigate. Our role is to clarify for local election officials what the law is. An official complaint would go to SEEC."
To file a complaint with SEEC, Moore's campaign needs someone willing to allege in a sworn statement a specific violation of state elections law. Moore says her campaign is aware of several claims of improprieties.
"We are doing our due diligence to substantiate these claims and intend to file an official complaint with your office and the State Elections Enforcement Committee," Moore wrote.
Moore also seemed unwilling to accept that Merrill's office has no jurisdiction.
"Your office must take substantive action to ensure the integrity of Bridgeport elections," Moore told Merrill. "It is not enough to say you can't do it. It is your job, as well as your moral and civic obligation to stand up and fight for democracy. The time is now to end absentee ballot abuse in Bridgeport."
Her letter does not suggest what substantive action Merrill should take, and Moore and her campaign manager, Gemeem Davis, did not return calls for comment.
Moore told The Hartford Courant in May that she wanted state supervision of absentee balloting in Bridgeport.
"Placing an election administration expert in a town to ensure that Connecticut election laws are followed to the letter, as our office has done successfully in Hartford in the past, would require legislation to be passed by the General Assembly," Rosenberg said. "We would be happy to work with Senator Moore should she decide to introduce such a proposal."
Special language authorizing oversight of Hartford elections was placed in the 2015 budget in response to a series of election-day snafus in 2014, including the failure to have voting lists prepared in time for the election.
Moore apparently never followed up on Rosenberg's suggestion.


On a rather windy, rainy autumnal night at Liverpool Empire, we were transported to an American 60's summer at Kellerman's resort in the mountains (which vaguely reminded me of days spent at Pontin's Middleton Towers holiday camp in Morecambe and their photocopied entertainment schedules).
The latest musical stage version of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing follows the original dialogue without any variance, albeit at a rather rushed pace, particularly in the first half. Katie Eccles, who plays Frances Houseman ('Baby'), is very believable and reminds us of those idealistic times and carefree summers.
Lewis Griffiths, who plays dance instructor Johnny Castle, struts onto the stage. Tight black vest and high waist trousers, comb to hand which made the predominantly female audience give a little sigh, most likely in memory of the late Patrick Swayze. Lewis does a great job of bringing the character Johnny to life.
The cast have boundless energy, and the dancing is absolutely brilliant and definitely dirty at times! Special mention goes to Carlie Milner, who plays Penny and managed to merge the strength of a diva dancer with the vulnerability of the character's storyline.
The familiar songs from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack are all there. The only omission for me was Johnny singing She's Like The Wind, though the song features as an instrumental. There are some great vocal performances, particularly from Sophia Mackay (Elizabeth), Michael Kent (Billy Kostecki) and Greg Fossard (Neil Kellerman). The live Kellerman's band did a great job, and the saxophone playing by Thomas Sutcliffe was outstanding.
I didn't feel there was a huge amount of chemistry between Johnny and Baby, but the audience appreciated every move, recognising and singing along to the soundtrack, and rising to their feet in the second half to cheer on Baby being led from the corner for (I've Had) The Time Of My Life, and a lift that Kevin and Karen Clinton would be proud of (Strictly reference!).
Love conquers the social divide, and on an evening of big knickers, sensible bras and a flash of Johnny's behind, the audience left the theatre full of smiles and summer memories.


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Cybersecurity challenges in 2013
by Guest Contributor in IT Security , in Security on February 8, 2013, 12:10 AM PST
Dmitriv Ayrapetov describes the threats that Dell SonicWall has identified as the top challenges for companies to prepare for in 2013.
By Dmitriy Ayrapetov, Director, product management, Dell SonicWALL
The issues affecting businesses are similar around the world. The key issues and points of vulnerability are around human engagement - most of it innocently - such as bringing an infected personal mobile device into the corporate network, or clicking on a social media link that looks harmless but hides a Trojan or Worm that will secretly steal data and money and, potentially, remain undetected with severe impact on security of the infected device.
The major cyber-security challenges to businesses through 2013 will come from
Increase in Exploit Kits
Increase in mobile device cyber-security threats
Increase in sophistication of threats
Exploit Kits represent the dark but massively profitable side of cyber-security attacks. Exploit kits comprise malicious programs. They quickly identify and then attack cyber vulnerabilities and spread malware. Exploit kits are created, sold and rented, on the black market. We predict they will be increasingly used because of their ease of deployment (rental model) and ease and speed of infection they deliver. The impact of these attacks will be felt in loss of data, IP, identify theft, financial fraud and theft, as well as in diminished business productivity and continuity. We expect to see exploit kits targeting Windows 8, MAC OS X and mobile devices, particularly Android based, in 2013 as these three targets represent fast-growing segments used by corporates and consumers alike to transact communications, business and commerce.
The growth of malware will continue at an explosive pace. In 2012, Dell SonicWALL identified nearly 16 million unique malware samples through its GRID (Global Response Intelligent Defense system) compared to 13.5 million in year 2011. Already, there are around 44,000 new malware samples every day.
MALWARE ATTACKS PAST 90 DAYS IN NORTH AMERICA (source: Dell SonicWALL Global Response Intelligent Defense system)
Increase in mobile cyber-security vulnerability
The adoption of NFC (near field communication) for mobile payment systems makes mobile platforms a very attractive target for financially motivated cybercrimes. The increased use of personal devices because of trends like BYOD (bring your own device) in businesses creates entirely new cyber security issues from loss of company data and IP, financial threat, and non-compliance issues to name a few. As social media continues to be adopted universally for personal and business purposes alike, malware will increase dramatically across Facebook, Twitter, and Skype in 2013. This triple threat threatens targeted mobile devices at the point of commerce, through their access to corporate networks and through their access to social media channels. It will be particularly dangerous and become more advanced and prevalent.
Increase in sophistication of cyber-attacks
Last year, we saw cybercriminals abandon older scareware methods such as Fake AV scams and move over to Ransomware scams. We expect to see this continue and become more global and multi-lingual, which also represents a growing threat to Latin America. Ransomware attacks lock down a computer, device, or service and holds all the data hostage or even threatens court action if the user does not pay. These are very devious attacks that are embedded deep into the computer or device and it is nearly impossible for an average user to regain control over his own system and data.
The sophistication and ability to attack and paralyze websites will continue to grow at dramatic pace. For example in 2011, there were 1,596,905 DDoS (distributed denial-of-service attacks) compared to 120,321,372 in 2012. As businesses of all sizes continue to move services and infrastructure to the cloud, the issue of DDoS will be high on many agendas at it has the potential to quickly cripple entire cloud infrastructures.
Are the risks different for small and large enterprises?
Viruses, Trojans, Worms, and Ransomware do not differentiate between a large or small business. They represent the same risk, no matter if you have a lot or only very little budget to invest in network security. Irrespective of the size of your business, these threats can mean loss of profitability and productivity, loss of data and financial assets, and potentially catastrophic loss of business continuity. It is likely that small businesses are more likely to fall pretty to these attacks, because they do not have the budget, IT infrastructure, or support that a large business can afford. On the other hand, the more people a business employs, the greater the vulnerability of its network.
What steps can business take to protect itself from cyber-attacks?
The most important steps for a business of any size to protect itself from cyber-attacks is to be aware of the most obvious and dangerous variants. Secondly, it is key to educate employees how to recognize and avoid accidentally bringing a virus/malware/trojan into the corporate network. A recent survey by Dell SonicWALL customers shows that 68 percent of all businesses reported that employees cannot identify fraudulent attacks on the corporate network.
It is the dirty little secret of the beautiful world of social networks and mobile device interconnectedness that they are a breeding ground for malware and Internet criminals. Many businesses believe their existing firewalls will protect them from an attack. The reality however, is that old firewalls pose a serious security risk to organizations today. First-generation firewalls technology has become obsolete as it fails to inspect the data payload of network packets circulated by today's Internet criminals and to protect from attack.
To prepare and protect from the massive growth in social media, applications, BYOD and multi-media files flowing through a corporate network, entirely new technology is needed. It is today's next-generation firewalls that include advanced technology such as application intelligence and control, intrusion prevention, malware protection and SSL inspection at multi-gigabit speeds, scalable to support the highest-performance networks and protect them effectively from the modern threats every user of email or the Internet encounters on a daily basis.
If an organization does business anywhere on the Internet, it is likely not a question if, but when it will be targeted by cyber criminals. While no protection is ever perfect, there is much that business can do to minimize and deflect the impact of these potential threats. Especially, the IT organization should closely collaborate with the company leadership to identify vulnerabilities lie, prepare with appropriate countermeasures including advanced high performance, high redundancy network security components and educate employees for the best possible defense and protection of business assets.
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Sadly if Americans just said "no" to the elective vaccination program, 5,888 lives would have been spared, and possibly tens of thousands more not yet reported or still backlogged at the CDC.
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We also have Dr. Tess Lawrie, who is also based in the UK and is a well-recognized contract analyst to the WHO. She has submitted a report this week to the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency with the conclusion that the COVID-19 vaccines are not safe for human use. Her analyses are unassailable, and the MHRA has a problem on its hands. So strap in, headphones on, and let's cycle our way through this next edition of The McCullough Report.
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– https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data (accessed June 15, 2021)
– https://joppp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40545-021-00315-w
– https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/06/08/why-we-petitioned-the-fda-to-refrain-from-fully-approving-any-covid-19-vaccine-this-year/
– https://freedomalliance.co.uk/2021/06/10/open-letter-from-dr-tess-lawrie-to-chief-exec-mhra-dr-raine-urgent-report-covid-19-vaccines-unsafe-for-use-in-humans/
Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, managing the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas, TX, USA. Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published "Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection," the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine and subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.
He has 51 peer-reviewed publications on the infection and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID-19 crisis in The Hill, America Out Loud, and on FOX NEWS Channel. On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and throughout 2021 in the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Colorado General Assembly, New Hampshire Senate, and South Carolina Senate concerning many aspects of the pandemic response.
Dr. McCullough has two years of dedicated academic and clinical efforts in combating the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In doing so, he has reviewed thousands of reports, participated in scientific congresses, group discussions, press releases, and been considered among the world's experts on COVID-19.
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30673-2/fulltext
https://rcm.imrpress.com/EN/10.31083/j.rcm.2020.04.264
https://www.truthforhealth.org/patientguide/patient-treatment-guide/
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Keywords Academic year 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 2010-2011
Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Terrorism
Admission to the Masters programme.
The course examines the substantive and procedural law that governs situations related to international terrorism and counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 world. In this regard, it will give an overview of the main principles of international humanitarian law (jus in bello or IHL), and international human rights law, how these legal regimes interact with one another and to some extent with other relevant areas of international law, such as the law on peace and security and international criminal law. The course will explore how the legal framework unfolds in practice, by engaging with difficult issues of contemporary international practice and the challenges they give rise to. It will also look at the applicability of the 'law of war' paradigm that has been applied in the 'war on terror' and its impact in specific concrete situations, such as in relation to the use of force and targeted killings, security-based detentions, the securitization of criminal law and/or the right to reparation for victims and accountability in the context of terrorism and counter-terrorism. It will touch on the responsibility of states, armed groups and individuals within this framework, and consider the impact of law and practice from numerous, sometimes competing, perspectives such as those of victims, governments and armed forces.
Lectures will provide students with the theoretical underpinnings of the respective areas of law and show how they are related to each other and address cases of particular interest. Leading practitioners and experts in these fields may be invited as guest lecturers.
This course aims to provide an overview of the main principles of international humanitarian law, human rights law and the law on the use of force, including also the perspective of war victims. Students will gain insights into the interactions between these branches of international law and practical challenges and controversies with the application of the legal framework in the security context.
Achievement levels
Knowledge: after successfully completing this course, the student has knowledge of and insights into the existing legal framework, principles and system of international law and how it adjusts and responds to security situations. The student will have understanding of the interaction between branches of public international law, in particular IHL and human rights law, in this context. The student is well aware of the challenges that arise with regard to the practical implementation of the legal framework.
Academic skills and attitude: after successfully completing this course, the student is able to interpret and analyze the relevant literature and sources in a critical manner and to present solutions for legal problems after thorough legal research.
The timetable of this course can be found in uSis.
Mode of instruction
Number of double (3 hour) lectures: 5 (once a week)
Names of lecturers: Prof. dr. Helen Duffy and guest lecturers (where possible)
Required preparation by students: Mandatory literature and case law
Other methods of instruction
Assessment method
Examination form(s)
Written exam with questions. Since the mode of instruction is limited to lectures and the course topics are not dealt with in a comprehensive textbook, attendance all lectures is strongly recommended and deemed essential for successfully passing the written exam.
Regulation retake passed exams
In this course it is possible to retake an exam that has been passed (cf. art. 4.1.8.1 and further of the Course and Examination Regulations), on the condition that this course is included in the compulsory components of the degree programme. Students who have passed the exam may retake the final written assessment (test) of the course. Please contact the Student Administration Office (OIC) for more information.
Submission procedures
Areas to be tested within the exam
The subjects taught in the lectures, and all other materials which are part of the course and made available, e.g. via Blackboard.
More information on this course is offered in Blackboard.
Obligatory course materials
Helen Duffy, The War on Terror and the Framework of International Law (2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, 2015). Please note that the second edition of this text is required for this course.
Recommended course materials
Made available via Blackboard
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Work address: Campus Den Haag, Stichthage Kantoren, Office 12.40
Contact information: Every day
Telephone number: 071-527 3615
Email: t.b.a.
Institution/division
Institute: Public Law
Department: Public International Law
Room number secretary: KOG, B1.21
Opening hours: 9.00 – 17.00
Telephone number secretary: 071 – 527 7578
Email: volkenrecht@law.leidenuniv.nl
Prof.dr. H. Duffy
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Law: Public International Law Master
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I made this cross stitched book /organizer cover about four years ago, circa 2006. After the year has passed, it was stored away inside a box when we moved to our new home.
Recently, as I was doing some spring-cleaning to give more space for my kids' stuff, I was delighted to find this cross stitched cover still in good condition. I gave it a gentle rinsing and some ironing and it's as good as new!
I finished the cross stitch and sewing in a hurry and it was really a rough job – just look at the sewing! It was sometime after I learned to use the sewing machine (and I am terribly out of practice now!). The purple cloth is a leftover from my baju kebaya.
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Q: Building dictionary of unique IDs for pairs of matching strings I have a dataframe like this
#Test dataframe
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

#Build df

titles = {'Title': ['title1', 'cat', 'dog']}
references = {'References': [['donkey','chicken'],['title1','dog'],['bird','snake']]}

df = pd.DataFrame({'Title': ['title1', 'cat', 'dog'], 'References': [['donkey','chicken'],['title1','dog'],['bird','snake']]})
#Insert IDs for UNIQUE titles
title_ids = {'IDs':list(np.arange(0,len(df)) + 1)}

df['IDs'] = list(np.arange(0,len(df)) + 1)
df = df[['Title','IDs','References']]

and I want to generate IDs for the references column that looks like the data frame below. If there is a matching between the strings, assign the same ID as in the IDs column and if not, assign a new unique ID.

My first attempt is using the function
#Matching function
def string_match(string1,string2):
    if string1 == string2:
        a = 1
    else:
        a = 0

    return a

and to loop over each string/title combination but this gets tricky with multiple for loops and if statements. Is there a better way I can do this that is more pythonic?

A: # Explode to one reference per row
references = df["References"].explode()

# Combine existing titles with new title from References
titles = pd.concat([df["Title"], references]).unique()

# Assign each title an index number
mappings = {t: i + 1 for i, t in enumerate(titles)}

# Map the reference to the index number and convert to list
df["RefIDs"] = references.map(mappings).groupby(level=0).apply(list)

A: Let us try with factorize
s = df['References'].explode()
s[:] = pd.concat([df['Title'],s]).factorize()[0][len(df['Title']):]
df['new'] = (s+1).groupby(level=0).agg(list)
Out[237]:
0    [4, 5]
1    [1, 3]
2    [6, 7]
Name: References, dtype: object

A: In addition to the answers this can also be done with the help of a function, apply and lambda:
id_info=dict(df[['Title','IDs']].values)
def check(title,ref):
    new_id_ = max(id_info.values())  #get latest id

    ids=[]
    for i in ref:
        if i in id_info:  #if Reference value is defined before, get its id
            new_id=id_info[i]
        else:
            new_id=new_id_ + 1 #define a new id if not defined before and update dictionary to get latest id in next steps
            new_id_+=1
            id_info.update({i:new_id})
        ids.append(new_id)
    return ids

df['new_id']=df.apply(lambda x: check(x['Title'],x['References']),axis=1)
print(df)
'''
    Title   IDs References              RefIDs
0   title1  1   ['donkey', 'chicken']   [4, 5]
1   cat     2   ['title1', 'dog']       [1, 3]
2   dog     3   ['bird', 'snake']       [6, 7]

'''


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Low Calcium Intake: The Culprit in Many Chronic Diseases
Heaney, R. P.; Barger-Lux, J. (1994). Low Calcium Intake: The Culprit in Many Chronic Diseases. Journal of Dairy Science, May 1994, 77(5):1155-1160. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(94)77052-1
Effects of Vitamin D3, 25(OH)D, and 1,25(OH)2D on Calcium Absorption Efficiency
Barger-Lux,J.; Heaney,R. P. (1998). Effects of Vitamin D3, 25(OH)D, and 1,25(OH)2D on Calcium Absorption Efficiency. In Peter Burckhardt, Bess Dawson-Hughes and Robert P. Heaney (eds), Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis. Springer New York. p. 229-236. doi:http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2228-6_25
Association of Bone Dimensions with a Parathyroid Hormone Gene Polymorphism in Women
Gong, G.; Johnson, M. L.; Barger-Lux, M. J.; Heaney, R. P. (1999). Association of Bone Dimensions with a Parathyroid Hormone Gene Polymorphism in Women. Osteoporos Int, April 1999, 9(4):307-311. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001980050152
Vitamin D and its Major Metabolites: Serum Levels After Graded Oral Dosing in Healthy Men
Barger-Lux, M. J.; Heaney, R. P.; Dowell, S.; Chen, T. C.; Holick, M. F. (1998). Vitamin D and its Major Metabolites: Serum Levels After Graded Oral Dosing in Healthy Men. Osteoporos Int, May 1998, 8(3):222-230. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001980050058
Absorption of Calcium as the Carbonate and Citrate Salts, with some Observations on Method
Heaney, R. P.; Dowell, M. S.; Barger-Lux, M. J. (1999). Absorption of Calcium as the Carbonate and Citrate Salts, with some Observations on Method. Osteoporos Int, January 1999, 9(1):19-23. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001980050111
Bone Dimensional Change with Age: Interactions of Genetic, Hormonal, and Body Size Variables
Heaney, R. P.; Barger-Lux, M. J.; Davies, K. M.; Ryan, R. A.; Johnson, M. L.; Gong, G. (1997). Bone Dimensional Change with Age: Interactions of Genetic, Hormonal, and Body Size Variables. Osteoporos Int, September 1997, 7(5):426-431. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00004150
Calcium Absorptive Effects of Vitamin D and its Major Metabolites
Heaney, R. P.; Barger-Lux, M. J.; Dowell, M. S.; Chen, T. C.; Holick, M. F. (1997). Calcium Absorptive Effects of Vitamin D and its Major Metabolites. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, December 1997, 82(12):4111-4116. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jcem.82.12.4412
Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism, Bone Mass, Body Size, and Vitamin D Receptor Density
Barger-Lux, M. J.; Heaney, R. P.; Hayes, J.; DeLuca, H. F.; Johnson, M. L.; Gong, G. (1995). Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphism, Bone Mass, Body Size, and Vitamin D Receptor Density. Calcif Tissue Int, August 1995, 57(2):161-162. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00298438
An Investigation of Sources of Variation in Calcium Absorption Efficiency
Barger-Lux, M. J.; Heaney, R. P.; Lanspa, S. J.; Healy, J. C.; DeLuca, H. F. (1995). An Investigation of Sources of Variation in Calcium Absorption Efficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, February 1995, 80(2):406-411. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jcem.80.2.7852497
Caffeine and the Calcium Economy Revisited
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The AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) platform, currently in version 3, gives designers and developers using Adobe Flash CS6 a way to use their existing skills to create cross-platform desktop applications.
Users can download the AIR runtime for free and install it to manage and play AIR applications directly from their desktops. The best news for designers and developers is that AIR applications can be created from standard FLA files in Flash by making a few simple changes to your publish settings.
Before you get started, download and install the Adobe AIR runtime.
Open a document in Flash CS6 that you want to publish as an AIR application.
Choose File→Publish Settings. In the dialog box, locate the Target drop-down list and select Adobe AIR 3.2 for Desktop as the target type.
Click the Settings icon directly next to the Target drop-down list.
The AIR Settings dialog box opens.
Output file/Output as: Select a filename and location for your published AIR application. The Mac Installer /Windows Installer option provides an alternative installation file type for the Mac and Windows platforms. If you're unsure which one to use, leave this option deselected.
App Name: Your application displays this name when it's installed and when it's running on your desktop.
Version: This option indicates which version of an application is installed or running. Attach a version number so that users can distinguish between versions as you create updated releases of your application.
App ID: This identifier is often used to distinguish one company's applications from another, or even several applications from the same publisher. A common naming scheme is the "reverse DNS" scheme.
Copyright: Enter your copyright information here.
Window Style: This setting determines how your application is "framed" within the operating system environment. You can use the default system windows (System Chrome); your own, custom frame; or even no frame (Custom Chrome — opaque or transparent).
Render Mode: Determines whether or not AIR should render the application with your graphics processing unit (GPU) or the main central processing unit (CPU).
Included Files: This panel shows all files to be packaged and included in the AIR application, typically a .swf file and an application manifest (.xml) file. If your application depends on other files (such as external audio or video files), you can add them here as necessary.
After you finalize your settings, click the Publish button at the bottom of the AIR settings dialog box.
The Certificate tab of the Settings dialog box will appear, prompting you to choose or create a digital certificate for signing your application.
Click the New (Mac) or Create (Windows) button on the right side and, in the dialog box that opens, fill in the information necessary to create your own self-signed certificate.
Enter information for the publisher name, organization unit, organization name, country, and password, and then click Browse to choose a save location.
Click OK to create and save your certificate.
This step returns you to the digital signature dialog box, where your new certificate is already selected.
Reenter the password you chose when you created your certificate and click Publish.
A dialog box notifies you that your AIR file has been created.
Click OK to exit the Application & Installer Settings dialog box and then click OK to close the Publish Settings dialog box.


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A Breath Of Snow And Ashes
(Outlander 6)
THE SIXTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES.
The long fuse of rebellion has already been lit.
It's 1772, the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and preserve the colony for King and Crown.
One minor problem: Jamie Fraser's wife, Claire, is a time-traveller, as are his daughter and son-in-law. And Jamie knows that three years hence, the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the end of it all will be independence - with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile.
Beyond present danger, though, looms the threat of a tiny clipping from the Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports the destruction of the house on Fraser's Ridge and the death by fire of James Fraser and all his family.
For once, Jamie Fraser hopes the time-travelers in his family are wrong about the future. But only time will tell.
DIANA GABALDON is the author of the international bestselling Outlander novels and Lord John Grey series.
She says that the Outlander series started by accident: 'I decided to write a novel for practice in order to learn what it took to write a novel, and to decide whether I really wanted to do it for real. I did – and here we all are trying to decide what to call books that nobody can describe, but that fortunately most people seem to enjoy.'
And enjoy them they do – in their millions, all over the world. Published in 42 countries and 38 languages, in 2014 the Outlander novels were made into an acclaimed TV series starring Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser and Caitriona Balfe as Claire. The series has now been renewed for a fifth and sixth season.
Diana lives with her husband and dogs in Scottsdale, Arizona and is currently at work on her ninth Outlander novel.
Also by Diana Gabaldon
Praise for A Breath Of Snow And Ashes
'Gripping'
'Diana Gabaldon is a born storyteller'
Los Angeles Daily News
'History comes deliciously alive on the page'
'A blockbuster hit'
The sixth instalment of the adventures of Claire and Jamie Fraser, already number one on the bestseller list, is a whopping 980 pages of action-packed escapism. It also has surprisingly melancholy and insightful views on the experience of growing old and dealing with the losses that entails.... One of the things that sets Gabaldon apart from other romance writers is exhaustive research of the times in which her characters live, so evident in her attention to period detail.... plot lines and stand-alone yarns are expertly woven together with the overall theme of impending doom and the question of predetermination
Fans of Diana Gabaldon's popular Outlander series have another rousing historical-science-fiction-romance novel to savour in A Breath of Snow and Ashes.... For fans, this book is another slam-dunk hit. It's a massive, long-lasting source of entertainment
The Gazette (Montreal)
Riveting. Gabaldon has a true storyteller's voice.
Triumphant. . . . Her use of historical detail and truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer
Readers will find every expectation fulfilled.... The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters
Lore Olympus: Volume One
Rachel Symthe
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
The Colour Of Magic


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Dublin City Amenities on Your Doorstep
Dublin City Amenities
Located in the heart of Dublin city, you are in close proximity to many of the best Dublin city amenities. These include colleges such as the Royal College of Surgeons and National College of Ireland as well as Technological University Dublin. Maldron Hotel Kevin Street is also situated near two hospitals and various transport networks.
Technological University Kevin Street & Aungier Street
Technological University Dublin offers students a range of part-time and full-time courses. TU Dublin is the state's first technological university and is the countries largest third level institution. TU Dublin has campuses all over Dublin City, making the city centre their campus.
TU Dublin is only a 5-minutes' walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
National College of Art and Design
National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Ireland's oldest art institution offering students the largest range of art and design degrees in Ireland at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Many of Ireland's most important artists, designers and art teachers have studied or taught in the college. NCAD is considered to be the most important art and design educational institution in Ireland.
NCAD is just a short ten-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
Established in February 1784, the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland provides education and training to future healthcare professionals. RCSI is responsible for the medical speciality of surgery throughout Ireland. RCSI's international student body represents more than 80 countries from around the world.
RCSI is located just a ten-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Dublin Business School (DBS) was established in 1975 and is Ireland's largest independent third level college with more than 9,000 students. The extensive list of programmes offered at DBS includes law, finance, business, psychology, arts and much more.
Dublin Business School is located less than a ten-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
St James's Hospital
St. James's Hospital is the largest university teaching hospital in Dublin. The St James's campus is an ever-evolving healthcare campus offering a hub of services designated to meet patient's needs. The campus is home to Trinity College Dublin's Health Sciences Building which incorporates schools of medicine, dentistry and nursing to name a few. The new St. James Hospital opened in stages in the early 1990s making it a relatively new hospital in Dublin.
St James's Hospital is located just over 2km from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
The Coombe Hospital
Established in 1826, the hospital has been renamed several times over its almost 200 years in Dublin, with the most recent being The Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital. The Coombe is the largest provider of women and infants healthcare in Ireland, and one of the largest in Europe.
The Coombe hospital is located 1.5km from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Heuston Station
Heuston station is Dublin's largest and busiest railway station, providing access to the South, South West and West of the country. Established in 1846 as Kingsbridge Station and later re-named Heuston Station in the mid 1960's in honour of Sean Heuston, an executed leader of the 1916 Easter Rising who held a post in the station's offices.
Heuston Station is only 2km away from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street.
Nearest Luas stops – Red/ Green lines
The Luas Cross City opened in late 2017 and connects both the Red and Green line providing the public with easy transport across Dublin City and beyond.
St Stephens Green stop on the Luas Green line is just a 12-minute walk from Maldron Hotel Kevin Street while the Four Courts stop on the Luas Red Line is only a 14-minute walk away.
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My children spend more time building with Lego than just about anything else. Almost always, what they make is surprising, unexpected, startlingly new.
I want to share some observations from when a totally different thing enters the picture: the Lego building challenges.
When they are building for the contest — for that $100 gift card and their picture in the magazine — their creations are startlingly less creative. All of a sudden, they are timid and anxious about their creations. Honestly, their for-contest work is always inferior to their regular work.
Why does this matter? Because I think it shows us something important about motivation and its effect on creativity.
1. The premise feels phony and staged.
Pollan has said that he is "more at home in the garden than the kitchen" (In Defense of Food), but this modesty about his cooking skills is less than convincing to those who read The Omnivore's Dilemma, in which he prepared a highly local meal of wild pork cooked two ways, bread leavened with wild yeasts he captured himself, and a sour cherry galette with fruit from Pollan's own trees.
I am not shy about using the saltshaker, and neither I nor anyone else in my family has any sort of problem with blood pressure. That's because we mostly don't eat things that come out of packages or from fast-food places (where someone else takes them out of packages), and the salt that is a problem in the North American diet doesn't come from the saltshaker but from the extreme levels of sodium in packaged foods.
But you will never hear Michelle Obama say that.
There was a similar unutterability to everything having to do with AIDS back in the day. Even when scientists had a fairly clear understanding of the nature of the threat and how it was spread, most "official" speech tended toward a hedging: "we don't know what causes it; we don't want to say what's causing it …" Even today people don't get tested because they don't want to know, even though getting tested obviously doesn't give you the virus — it merely points out that it is there. It seems to point to so much more, though.
"My biggest annoyances are those "If you love Jesus, 'like' and share" posts. My faith and my love are not to be measured by whether I like your cheesy photo/slogan/tool of judgement."
Amen, sister. I think these are even more annoying than those "Just checking to see if you will even read this…if you are reading it, comment and then copy this exactly and paste as your status update. 95% of you will ignore this. Just trying to see who my real friends are" updates. Sniff. Sob. Poor me!
I often think that anxiety probably has some helpful prehistoric function, like sensing that a large, hungry carnivore is on the prowl and being the one to let the rest of the group know.
But in the absence of large, hungry carnivores (or other clearly perilous situations) anxiety sometimes feels as useful as the appendix, though it flares up even more often, and can't be easily removed.
For me, anxiety can run in circles, like a sad, neurotic dog in a too-small pen, or a hamster on a little exercise wheel. And there are different paces–different circles, different wheels–that my anxiety puts me through. Because my dad is awesome, he illustrated it for me thus.
Every day, or nearly so, women and men look in mirrors, step on scales, count calories, and worry about body fat and about their appearance. It happens enough that children as young as four begin to develop anxiety over food, or express fears of being seen in a bathing suit. Even eating healthfully can become an unhealthy obsession. And often enough, people become so desperate to get control over their eating as to spend huge amounts of money on drugs, diet plans, and surgery. Occasionally, the burden of eating, of bodily existence itself, is too much to bear, and people lose their lives to anorexia — the deadliest of all mental illnesses.
The top 10 or 20 bestselling books at Amazon.com vary slightly from hour to hour, day to day, but one thing remains pretty constant: There are always several books on spirituality, often with Protestant evangelical leanings; and there are always books on diet, promising either dramatic weight loss or astounding well-being through some "revolutionary" plan.
Having been a skeptic for as long as I can remember, I've never had much patience with those books. If books (and checkout-stand magazines, for that matter) really held the secrets for people to "get skinny by this weekend" or "beat cancer with these super-foods," why did people from my church choose gastric bypass surgery, and why did my father (a pastor) perform so many funerals for the non-survivors of cancer? And if miracles could happen, and people could find success, happiness, and assurance of a place in a heaven that's "for real," why, throughout the course of my pious Bible-reading upbringing, did I never seem to find anything in the Bible that sounded remotely like that?


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Cheatin' Stories Episode 2: Bill Yeoman's Magical Drawer of Cash
In our ongoing efforts to bring you the fabric of the old Southwest Conference we aren't inclined to candy coat things. We're here to chronicle the history of the SWC, warts and all. We can't do that without addressing the issue of cheatin'. NCAA violations committed by SWC schools helped bring the league down. (It also made it pretty great.) Tonight, Episode Two: Bill Yeoman's Magical Drawer of Cash.
Bill Yeoman pioneered an offense called the Houston Veer. In the late 60's and 70's it was unstoppable. A fair amount of today's spread concepts trace back to Yeoman's offense. From 1966 to 1974 the Cougars were ranked seven of eight years and went to four Astr0-Bluebonnet Bowls.
In 1976 Yeoman's Cougars joined the SWC. The SWC was known for liberal interpretations of NCAA rules and conservative views on just about everything else. Yeoman fit right in thanks to his unstoppable scheme and his magical drawer of cash. More on that later.
The Cougars took the conference by storm, winning three titles in their first four seasons in the SWC. Yeoman's charges went 25-7 in the league and busted up the good ol' boys club, including blue bloods Texas and Texas A&M. The Horns, Aggies and the rest of the league had just about enough of the newcomers. They knew the Cougars were cheating, but hell, everyone in the league was. It was how they went about it and the nondescript office accessory that helped pay the way that set them apart.
"It was a tradition."
Since the 60's the legend of Bill Yeoman's magical drawer of cash had grown. Darrell Royal, the unchallenged, unofficial deity of the league despised Yeoman in part because he felt Yeoman played fast and loose with the NCAA rules. He also knew about the second drawer on the left hand side of Yeoman's desk.
By the time David Roberson showed up on Houston's campus, handing out cash was a well established practice. He was more than eager to partake. So were many of his teammates.
After their playing days, Roberson and Lonell Phea swore in affidavits that they received cash from Yeoman and their position coaches. Roberson who was a second team All-SWC receiver and estimated that he received between $8,000 and $10,000 during his four seasons at Houston. Phea, an Honorable Mention All-America, estimated that he received at least $18,000. According to Roberson the payments were commonplace "[i]t was a tradition. They had always done it."
According to Houston legend Warren McVea, the practice went back to his era in the mid-60s. In 1966 the Cougars received three years probation for improper benefits, including those given to McVea. McVea was perhaps the most explosive athlete in the state. A disgruntled former assistant went to the NCAA and turned in his ex-employer. In the SWC the sun rose and set, deaths occurred, taxes were levied, and former assistants typically beat a path to the NCAA once their contracts were terminated.
Cheatin' Stories Episode 4: Polygraphs and Payments
Cheatin' Stories Episode 3: The Datsun 300ZX
Cheatin' Stories Episode One: The Pizza Man
In 1977, Yeoman's program again ran afoul of the game's governing body when information leaked that prized recruit Darrell Shepard's brand new Pontiac Trans Am was secured by Yeoman and the Cougars. Shepard famously turned down Fred Akers and the University of Texas to sign with Houston. Texas' AD was Darrell Royal, the Cougars' rise had coincidentally come at the same time Royal was suffering through his only non-winning season on the 40 acres. According to Jim Dent, Royal had grown none to fond of Yeoman and his interlopers from Houston.
Magically, as though dropped like mana from heaven, the car loan story appeared in the Dallas Times Herald. Funny how that worked.
As the story goes Shepard, from Odessa, somehow secured a loan from the Bank of Brazoria. The Bank of Brazoria Chairman also happened to be a member of the Houston Booster Club and a close friend of Yeoman's. The value of the loan was worth more than twice the value of the Shepard home. Not to mention that the Bank of Brazoria was 500 miles from Odessa. In the pre-internet 1970's the story seemed to good to be true.
The car by the way had the word "Darrell" emblazoned on the trunk in four inch lettering. No word on whether it had spinners.
The Cougars were placed on probation for one season thanks to transactions like Shepard's. Shepard by the way transferred to Oklahoma where he helped the Sooners beat the Cougars in the 1981 Sun Bowl. He was still driving the Trans Am. We're sure he never got any help with the payments in Norman. Barry Switzer was pure as the driven snow.
Loans were one thing, but cold, hard cash was the preferred mechanism of influence. According to Phea the coaches cut out the middle man or bag man and just handed out the cash themselves. When players visited Yeoman's office, he would open his magical drawer and in todays vernacular "make it rain." Well technically, the players wouldn't strip and get showered with bills, but you get the idea. "Sometimes (the money) would come out (the coaches') pockets. Sometimes Yeoman would take it from a drawer in his desk" Phea would claim. Roberson went further, saying the money was kept in a left hand drawer in an envelope, "a large envelope" that contained only hundreds.
Yeoman on the Cover of Texas Football.
Other players described a gray coffee can. That sort of repurposing would be applauded today.
Phea claimed that at times Yeoman's cash drawer would be used to get players out of some harry predicaments. "I needed $1,200 one time and I got that from coach Yeoman. He helped me with some pretty serious personal issues that I needed money pretty bad for."
All these cash gifts or philanthropic donations came back to bite Houston in the backside in 1986 when the NCAA got wind of the windfalls and started investigating the Cougars. NCAA investigators must've got a group rate on airline tickets to Texas as at the time NCAA investigations were ongoing at Texas, A&M, TCU, Texas Tech, and Houston. Then there was SMU, where the NCAA blew up the Mustang football program in 1987.
Can I borrow the Credit Card?
Details of the Cougars' money lending practices began to trickle out. Turns out players were given money to purchase things like wedding rings, wedding gifts, rent for a player's mom, and even an abortion. Coaches continued the practice of arranging bank loans.
Yeoman at the 1985 Cotton Bowl. Photo: Gary Weber
The allegations went beyond just the cash, Phea claimed that Yeoman and the football staff only wanted him around to play football. "I ain't took no math or english since the first year I was there" he claimed. The quote itself tends to be self proving.
An internal audit found that the academic issues were profound and athletic department wide. On the football team alone 21 players were either academically ineligible or quite after the 1985 season. All those defections contributed to a 1-10 season.
Roberson was on academic suspension for five of his nine semesters at Houston yet somehow continued to play. After the third academic suspension, the registrar noted that "no further enrollment should be contemplated" but Roberson was good at football and that changed things. By the time Roberson finished his eligibility at Houston he was 37 hours short of his degree but he had a sweet $3,000 stereo system in his dorm room.
If academic issues and cash payments weren't enough, 23 players said they bought gas for their cars using credit cards provided by coaches. Houston AD Tom Ford resigned in June of '86 and was replaced by interim AD Mike Johnson. In July of that year the NCAA gave the Cougars notice that investigators were officially going to sniff around the program.
Johnson was either a steely operator or deluded because he told the local media, "I really don't think they're going to find much, if anything." Optimism was running high. He also said the NCAA investigators would be coming to Houston as soon as they were free. Apparently they were "up to their ears" in investigations. The Texas branch of the NCAA investigatory wing must have been open 24/7.
After resigning following the 1986 season, Yeoman admitted paying players, though according to Yeoman, never more than $35 and never for anything other than a true financial hardship.
Opportunity Lost
By 1988 the NCAA had made its decision: the Cougars were placed on three years probation for violations stemming from conduct from 1978 to 1985.
The NCAA found, among other things, that a player was given $500 in bathroom stall, a player was given $200 after signing a letter of intent, another player was given a car and $800 to pay for his mother's utility bills, players also received other improper benefits like free hotel stays and credit cards.
Jack Pardee took over for Yeoman and after a difficult four win season in '87 and in spite of scholarship restrictions, led the Cougars to two straight nine win campaigns including a bowl trip in 1988. After Pardee left to take over the Oilers, John Jenkins led Houston to a 10-1 season in 1990 and #10 ranking in the final AP poll. That great Houston squad was ineligible to go to the post season. By the time the Cougars were back in the post-season hunt, whatever lightening Jenkins had was gone. His last two years Jenkins' Houston teams won eight games combined.
Yeoman went from coaching to fund raising for the university he loved and the program he built. He's still revered in coaching for his offensive innovations and for taking the SWC by storm. His legacy also includes a bit of impropriety, as is the case with so many of our SWC legends. Coach Yeoman was tempted by the football Gods to pay to compete in a cheating league. He was hands on with his indiscretions, he kept his money in his desk drawer for easy access.
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Posted on July 3, 2017 by The Roundup and filed under Houston, Southwest Round-Up and tagged Houston Cougars Bill Yeoman Tom Ford Jack Pardee Lonell Phea David Roberson Mike Johnson Cheating Stories.


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  belongs_to :leave_time

  after_create :transfer_leave_time_hours

  private

  def transfer_leave_time_hours
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Q: My pushpins in bingmaps for WP7 are all black. Why? I am trying to work with WP7 and Bingmaps.
I have this code
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
    <my:Map Height="389" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="28,28,0,0" Name="map1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="409" />
</Grid>

and
    public MapInfo()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        GeoCoordinate lHamburg = new GeoCoordinate(53.550556, 9.993333);

        //map1.Radius = 5000;
        map1.ZoomLevel = 10.0;
        map1.Center = lHamburg;
        map1.CredentialsProvider = new ApplicationIdCredentialsProvider(APPLICATION_ID);

        //Add a pin to the map
        Pushpin pushpin = new Pushpin();
        Location location = new Location();
        location.Latitude = 53.550556;
        location.Longitude = 9.993333;
        pushpin.Location = location;

        map1.Children.Add(pushpin);
    }

But my pushpin is black, without any style.
Did I forget something?
Thanks,
Oscar
Edit: it looks like that they ARE black. I would have to set some style to it or something like that. Anyone could give me some hints of how to add a simple style? Very simple, maybe only change the color, or make it round like google maps or something like that.
Thanks,
Oscar

A: You can use a style for example:
<Style TargetType="my:Pushpin">
    <Setter Property="Background"
            Value="White" />
</Style>

or directly set color while creating them:
    //Add a pin to the map
    Pushpin pushpin = new Pushpin();
    Location location = new Location();
    location.Latitude = 53.550556;
    location.Longitude = 9.993333;
    pushpin.Location = location;
    pushpin.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red);

    map1.Children.Add(pushpin);

[NOTE: I used background property here. You may need to set different property/properties to change it's appearance to needed state.]

A: The following MSDN exercise will provide you with all the information that you need: Exercise 2: Handling and Customizing Pushpins. Scroll down to item 5 which is where the customizations of pushpins begins.