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Standort: 2.2.1.10.12: FLASH record .
2.2.1.10.18: LHC first physics .
URL: http://www.desy.de/news/news/archive_before_2010/2010/flash_record/index_eng.html
FLASH record
Record wavelength at FLASH – First lasing below 4.5 nanometres at DESY´s free-electron laser
The spectrum of the record laser pulse peaks at a wavelength of 4.45 nanometres.
For the first time, FLASH produced laser light with a wavelength of 4.45 nanometres; thus, DESY's free-electron laser for soft X-ray light considerably beat its previous record of 6.5 nanometres. At the same time, the peak intensity of single light pulses nearly doubled, with 0.3 millijoule. Prior to this, there was a five-month machine upgrade, above all with a significant improvement of the superconducting linear accelerator and the installation of a seeding experiment together with the University of Hamburg.
FLASH, the world's first X-ray free-electron laser is available to the photon science user community for experiments since 2005. Last winter, the facility underwent a major upgrade. The accelerator was equipped with a seventh superconducting accelerator module to increase the maximum electron energy to 1.2 Giga-electronvolts (GeV). Moreover, a special 3.9-GHz module was installed to improve the quality of the accelerated electron bunches. The first tests during the current commissioning showed excellent results: the linear accelerator was operated at 1.207 GeV and the 3.9-GHz module shapes the electron bunches in a way that the intensity of the laser light is higher than ever before.
"It is absolutely impressing, how fast and promising FLASH is operating after such a substantial upgrade. My compliments to the FLASH accelerator team," congratulates Reinhard Brinkmann, director of the DESY accelerator section. With the now obtainable laser wavelength, experiments with carbon in organic molecules come within reach, and magneto-dynamics experiments with the third-harmonic wavelength benefit from substantially increased intensities.
This success is also an important milestone for the European XFEL on the way to the observation of movements that only take femtoseconds. The accelerator module recently built-in at FLASH is a prototype for the XFEL accelerator, and the properties of the 3.9-GHz module too are decisive for operating the XFEL injector. The third FLASH user period is to start end of August.

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I'm reading two books in parallel right now – Ben Ramalingam's 'Aid on the Edge of Chaos' and Kentaro Toyama's 'Geek Heresy'. With both books I'm finding myself regularly pausing for a nod of approval or a wry smile. Both books are spot on in their identification of the issues – Ben in global development more broadly, and Kentaro in ICT4D, a sector/field/discipline/specialism of global development.
A while back when Bill Easterly published his 'Tyranny of Experts' I started to wonder what impact his previous book – 'The White Man's Burden' – has had on the practice and policy of global development. I have the same question for Dambisa Moyo, too, whose 'Dead Aid' is another classic development critique. Both provide strong arguments for a new aid world order (or, more to the point, no aid at all).
Suffice to say, if you're not a fan or supporter of big development there are countless books out there to feed your anger, frustration and despair. But for all the hundreds of billions of words written over the past decade or two citing the challenges, problems and issues, have any forced any kind of change in how those hundreds of billions of Pounds, Dollars or Euros of development aid were spent? Almost everyone I meet who works in big development has at least one major frustration with it – many have several – but the one that drives me to despair the most is that no-one seems to be able to change anything.
I published my first book – 'The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator' – because I wanted to help steer young social innovators-to-be away from expensive university or design thinking courses and encourage them to firstly get out into the world, meet the people they wanted to help, gain some empathy, and find their passion. Before they did anything. I can't speak for Ben or Kentaro, but they probably hope something might improve or change as a result of their writing efforts, too.
Last week I stumbled across a BBC News article provocatively titled Barbie challenges the 'white saviour complex'. It's a brilliant example of creative – innovative? – thinking in how to challenge much of what many see is wrong in our field.
As with the Barbie account, there are plenty of other examples of books, games, conferences and campaigns that seek to raise awareness around the issues in our sector, but few seem to be able to drive change to the same degree that they're able to raise awareness or anger, or laughter, or point fingers. The same tweets get sent out conference after conference, and retweets abound, and heads nod – but again there's very little sense of what can be genuinely done to address the challenges so beautifully described in many of these 140 character outbursts, or in those cleverly Photoshopped Instagram images.
After more than two decades working 'in' global development, my question remains unchanged. What to do when the yelling stops?


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It was, as it was a year ago, film noir at last week's opening of the 2012 state legislative session: No music, no dancing, few flowers, sobriety everywhere. The residents of the so-called "People's House" were in high re-election-year mode: all business, levity at a minimum.
The Senate's minority of one, East Honolulu Republican Sam Slom, complained: "Let me say right upfront we (meaning he) acknowledge the majority's unilateral decision to once again suspend, as was done in 2010, our tradition of making Hawaii's opening day colorful, special and unique, in order to appear more serious and businesslike. But we (meaning he) respectfully disagree. The lack of aloha diminishes the citizens' role and ownership of our government. It is their chance to be here and we have marginalized that."
Hear! Hear! Whatever one may have felt about pre-Great Recession opening days at the Legislature, they were indeed unique celebrations of Hawaii's culture, expressions of aloha and marvelously democratic.
Oh, opening day always brought out the paid lobbyists in force, as they would come out every day of every legislative session. But on opening day, company CEOs often walked from office to office as well. So too did union chiefs and university presidents, unpaid lobbyists and, most important, a goodly number of common folk.
The pre-Great Recession opening days could get crowded and sweaty, in days of yore sometimes less than sober, but they were indeed, as the good minority senator said last week, expressive of the "citizens' role and ownership of our government."
Is there a more important principle? Certainly it's more important than the appearance of being "serious and businesslike." Lawmakers have 59 other working days to prove themselves "businesslike."
In his remarks, state Senate President Shan Tsutsui, speaking for the Senate's 24 Democrats, highlighted "The Invest in Hawaii Act of 2012" to "address the long overdue backlog of repair and maintenance issues projects that are shovel-ready and permit-ready."
It's patented Democratic Party pump-priming: "Projects would be seen in every single one of our 255 public schools, all 10 University of Hawaii campuses, all of our state hospitals, and provide work for painters, roofers, electricians, masons, plumbers, local engineers ... in every corner of the state, and in return generate millions of dollars in disposable income throughout our economy."
So long as all the painting, plumbing and roofing wouldn't cost anything, Slom would probably agree. But it will, and Slom insisted that a "better day" for Hawaii means, among other things, "no new taxes."
Where bipartisan agreement could be heard on this allbusiness opening day was in regard to solar energy. Said House Minority Leader Gene Ward: "We really need to get serious about the sun." He called for making Hawaii "first in the world" in solar water heating and photovoltaic contributions to the grid. On the Senate side, Tsutsui made a similar plea, arguing that "if photovoltaic panels were installed in all of our public schools, the state could realize a savings of more than 500 millions of dollars over the next 20 years alone."
In the grimmest and dimmest spirit of film noir, however, House Speaker Calvin Say called for balance and responsibility: "No new taxes for state government from residents and businesses ... no major general fund appropriation for the expansion of state programs." Both, Say insisted, would endanger a fragile state economic recovery.
The Speaker apologized for his "intrusion of reality," adjusted his green eyeshade and concluded his address.
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With its resolutely unglamorous approach, it's hardly "Folk Idol", although I suspect the spectacular Laus dancers on Saturday afternoon could easily wow a Saturday night UK TV audience!
The 1700 or so inhabitants of this year's picturesque venue Otta, some four hours North of Oslo, found their numbers quadrupled for the weekend as more than 5000 amateur and professional participants, plus spectators, poured in to soak up hours of music and dance, rather than the notoriously expensive beer. Later on, as category winners were announced and with some even more serious dancing about to start in the beer and food tent, most of them seemed to be trying to squeeze their way into the town's kulturhaus, where choreographer and Halling folk dancer Hallgrim Hansegard and his Frikar dance company, widely credited with helping Norway win the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, were premiering "8", the project he had been hard at work on ever since. "It was like the Tarantino film Kill Bill without the violence," he observed of travelling to China without a translator to try to combine the very different dance and training disciplines of four Halling folk dancers with four Chinese kung fu monks. If Landskappleiken aims to tell the story not only of Norwegian traditional music but also the culture as a whole, it was a perfectly-judged final event.
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Q: Why linux ld somtime use the symbolic link of libs I use the jsoncpp lib in my linux cli tool.
The CMakeLists.txt contains
find_library(LIB_JSON jsoncpp)
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${LIB_JSON})

The result is
/usr/bin/c++ -rdynamic CMakeFiles/cktwagent.dir/agent_main.cpp.o -o cktwagent -ljsoncpp

When i check the binary I found:
 $> ldd cktwagent
    linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe4cfd1000)
    libjsoncpp.so.24 => /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so.24 (0x00007f87505bd000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f87503e0000)
    libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f875029a000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8750280000)
    libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f87500b7000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f87506ce000)

Why ld use /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so.24 and not the symbolic link /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so?
Why the ld sometime resolv the linbrary link to the real library file?
$> ls -l /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 26. Sep 17:02 /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so -> libjsoncpp.so.24

In case of /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 the ld use the symbolic link. When i check the path from ldd output, libstdc++.so.6 point to a symbolic link.
$> ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19  9. Nov 12:43 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.28

I like to understand this behavior. Because when i copy the binary to a different system, the link to libjsoncpp.so available. But it points to some different version.
Many thanks
Thomas

A: That's a version compatibility feature. By convention, API compatibility is determined by the major version number. So 6.0.28 would be is compatible with 6.1.1, but not with 5.0.1 or 7.0.1.
To allow for compatible upgrades, libstdc++.so.6.0.28 is symlinked as libstdc++.so.6. Then it can be binary-upgraded to e.g. libstdc++.so.6.0.29 without touching applications that rely on API version 6 of libstdc++.
In addition, it allows libraries with different major version numbers to coexist on the same system. Installing libstdc++.so.7.0.0 will not break apps that link against libstdc++.so.6.

Why ld use /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so.24 and not the symbolic link /usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so?

That's because libjsoncpp has a soname of libjsoncpp.so.24. Apparently it is following the same convention of having the major version number determine compatibility.
You can achieve the same behavior with your shared lib libfoo if you link it like this:
gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.<major> -o libfoo.so.<major>.<minor>

For more details refer to GCC Howto -  Version numbering, sonames and symlinks.

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In an effort to mitigate risk and improve their account opening process, a top 50 financial institution wanted to determine if they could predict which new accounts would result in a forced closure in the first 6 to 12 months.
Annual losses from account closures were almost $7 million. The losses were a result of accounts being overdrawn for extended periods of time, causing the institution to close those accounts for cause.
The account closures and inability to recuperate from the loss occurs when customers, who have opted-in to having the institution pay items when funds aren't available, overdraw their accounts and fail to pay the overdraft over a period of time. The average loss institutions incur when closing accounts for cause is $200-$400 per account.
The institution submitted over 100,000 records to be run against Clarity's proprietary non-prime consumer database to aid in identifying predictors of future account closures.
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The submitted records were run against the Clarity database to search for evidence that the consumer had engaged in high risk activities.
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Evidence of Retail Check Writing – A consumer that writes checks in retail stores, rather than using a debit card, may have the need to use the time between the day a check is written and the day the check clears due to financial instability.
Out of over 100,000 submitted records, more than 40% had a hit in Clarity's database. More than 50,000 had evidence of one or more high-risk categories: alternative financing, check cashing, or retail check writing.
Consumers that engaged in any one of these categories had double the risk, while consumers that engaged in two or more activities had three times the risk of early account closure.
By turning down nearly 2,000 of the riskiest accounts (as determined by Clarity's custom bank account opening score), more than 600 bad accounts could have been avoided.
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Nice work, Katy.
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Katy Perry found herself embroiled in one of 2016's most high-profile break-ups on Tuesday (13 July), when Calvin Harris namechecked her in a series of tweets aimed at his ex Taylor Swift - but don't worry, she had the perfect response.
It all began when Taylor confirmed that she's the mystery co-writer on Calvin and Rihanna's recent hit single 'This Is What You Came For', and Calvin wasn't too pleased with the fact she made the revelation, claiming Taylor was the one who wanted to keep her involvement on the track a secret.
This feels like a century ago.
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In the tweets that followed, he dragged Katy into it, referencing the duo's rumoured feud, and writing: "I know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC but I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it." Ouch.
All eyes were then on Katy, who responded in a typically humorous way, posting a gif of… Hillary Clinton:
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— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) July 13, 2016
This was then followed by a retweet of one of her posts from 2015:
Time, the ultimate truth teller.
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) May 9, 2015
Nicely done, Katy. Nicely done.
Taylor is yet to respond to Calvin's comments, and there's no guarantee that the '1989' star will.
Calvin certainly knows how to cause a whole load of commotion, doesn't he?
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At present, she's in Australia with her new beau Tom Hiddleston, who addressed their relationship for the first time during an interview with an Aussie TV station.
Well, we say addressed, but dodged the topic and looked more awkward than ever is probably a more accurate description of events.
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Artist: Shiny Toy Guns
Title:Season of Poison
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"Season of Poison" is the highly anticipated sophomore album from Shiny Toy Guns. The album is the follow up to their critically acclaimed Grammy nominated debut record "We Are Pilots" which was released in 2006. The band spent the better half of 2 years on and off the road progressing their dance/rock and electronic roots. Once again producing the album by themselves, founding members Chad Petree (vocals, guitar) and Jeremy Dawson (synthesizer, bass) used 2008 technology to marry dynamic late-70's style synthesizer programming with face-erasing stoner rock; gently spreading this over layer upon layer of ethnic and tribal rhythms. Not to mention their keen pop sense in lyrics and arrangement have collided with the legendary mixing abilities of super-engineer Andy Wallace to create a completely new color in the future-forward musical spectrum. The first single off of Season Of Poison is "Ricochet", a heavy rhythmic guitar laden song already being heard on radio stations across the nation.
"Season of Poison" marks an evolution for the band not only sonically but in the band dynamics as well. Sisely Treasure from the band Cooler Kids replaced departed vocalist Carah Faye Charnow who left the group this past summer to pursue other interests. Dawson explains, "We moved forward with our initial choice for co-lead singer of the band in 2002, longtime friend Sisely Treasure. At that time she was still locked into her Dreamworks Records deal with her former project Cooler Kids and we were not able to professionally move forward with her. So we have returned to the exact original idea and lineup that Shiny Toy Guns was meant to be." With a new singer who is also now a writing partner to Petree and Dawson, Treasure brings in whole new complimentary perspective to the band. The result is a hard rocking, groove shaking album that will appeal to die hard Shiny Toy Guns fans and new ones alike.
The mercurial foursome (which also includes Mikey Martin on drums), has been described as everything from 'glam-goth-new wave-chic' to 'electronic mash-up with a dance floor destroyer,' thanks to their riveting breakthrough single "Le Disko" which topped the charts in 2006. The playful dance-anthem permeated radio and clubs, was featured in advertisements for Motorola and Apple and was a single of the week on iTunes' playlist. The band also was a "MTVU Freshman Five Artists for Fall 2006" as well as a MTV and MTV2 Discover and Download artist. They appeared on several television shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The positive attention and legendary live shows led to an incredible accolade for the band, a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Album this past year.
"When Did This Storm Begin" – Interesting in parts but not necessary as a whole. Sisely's attempt at vocal toughness leaves a lot to be desired.
"Money For That" – One track that doesn't let fans down.
"It Became A Lie On You" – This is the one song that will have you listening over and over again.
"Ghost Town" – Compared to the first two tracks this is completely ridiculous. Sisely's contribution lacks any power.
"Frozen Ocean" – Painful.
"Ricochet!" – I'm sorry, but any song that appears to feature Sisely never holds up against Chad Petree vocal tracks. They sound hollow and weak no matter how tough Sisely tries to sound edgy.
Sadly "Season of Poison" is mostly unremarkable. There are a lot of good ideas but some that miss entirely. The addition of Sisely Treasure hurts more than it helps Shiny Toy Guns. The tracks where she appears are the least interesting and devoid of any substance.
Season of Poison
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Jonny Brovo January 16, 2009 at 12:57 am
Wow, this band has nothing that i originally loved them for. They are no longer electronic or danceable.
Yo March 20, 2009 at 5:26 am
It took a bit, but I grew to love the album. When I first heard it, it was like 'eh' but then i "really" listened and I love it :]
I love their new songs just as much as old, just not Sisley
Who ever wrote this review is lame. Sisely can out melodie and out scream the best. Maybe you should stop writing and listen, You might learn something. If I did a review so far off as this is, I wouldn't put my name on it either. I heard these guys live several times, and Sisely sounds great and strong both on the new rockier and the old dance stuff.


WASHINGTON - Wed., Feb. 8, 2006 - The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Pfizer Global Research & Development, New London, Conn., today announced the launch of a unique public-private medical research partnership - the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) - to unravel the genetic causes of common diseases over the next three years. The information derived from GAIN will be publicly available to researchers world-wide.
GAIN brings new scientific and financial resources to the NIH's existing whole genome association programs, encouraging all partners - across and beyond NIH - to work together toward the common goal of understanding the genetic contributions to common diseases. Organizers of the GAIN partnership believe the model holds promise of achieving rapid, scientifically sound results that any single researcher or institution working alone would be hard-pressed to equal.
GAIN is designed to help medical researchers quickly identify the many genetic contributions to common illnesses such as heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and stroke by comparing the genetic makeup of people with the disease to people who are healthy. Identifying genetic differences between these two groups will speed up the development of new methods to prevent, diagnose, treat and even cure common illnesses.
"Our partnership with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to speed up this research exemplifies the aim Congress had in mind when it established the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health to support the mission of NIH," said John E. Porter, Vice Chairman of the Foundation's Board of Directors. "Through the generous financial support of Pfizer and other private sector participants, NIH will now be able to launch immediately this exciting initiative. As with other large FNIH public-private partnerships, such as the Grand Challenges in Global Health, the interaction of scientists from the public and the private sector dramatically increases the likelihood that this initiative will get off to a quick and efficient start that will genuinely produce important advances for all patients."
The Foundation for NIH will manage GAIN with guidance from leading scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Pfizer, as well as outside experts and project partners. Pfizer has led the private sector by committing scientific and financial support, including an initial $5 million to set up the management structure for GAIN, plus an estimated $15 million in genotyping capacity to study five common diseases. The genotyping services provided by Pfizer will come from its partnership with Perlegen Sciences, Inc., of Mountain View, Calif.
"We've translated early information from genetic research into potentially valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease, and prevention of organ rejection, but these advances have only scratched the surface of possible revolutionary approaches to treat and cure diseases," said Martin Mackay, Senior Vice President Worldwide Research & Technology, Pfizer Research & Development. "Pfizer, the NIH and other public/private biomedical research interests have complementary missions greater than the sum of their parts. Our hope is that this public/private initiative will encourage a deeper collective understanding of the genetic factors of disease, for major new therapeutic advances."
In addition, Affymetrix, Inc., a Santa Clara, CA company that provides tools for use in genomics-related research, has agreed to provide its support to GAIN by donating 500K DNA microarrays, which will be used to find the genetic variations associated with two common diseases. FNIH is actively seeking additional partners, and anticipates strong interest in participating in GAIN among other industry leaders, disease advocacy groups, and philanthropists to enable the investigation of additional diseases.
The GAIN initiative proposes to raise $60 million in private funding for genetic studies of common diseases. The initiative does not require new expenditures of public funds nor will it be implemented at the expense of any existing or pending publicly funded biomedical research programs.
"This initiative would not have been technologically possible only a year or two ago," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the NIH, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. "Over many years, NIH has spent billions of dollars to collect and study patient populations with a wide range of illnesses which can easily be part of this initiative. In addition, we now have the results of the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project to guide us, and we can apply newly available technologies, developed with NIH support, that have reduced the cost of genotyping more than 100-fold, making such a comprehensive effort affordable."
Dr. Zerhouni added: "We now stand on the threshold of creating a future that will revolutionize the practice of medicine by predicting disease, developing more precise therapies and, ultimately, pre-empting the emergence of disease."
The genetic analysis focuses on the alternative spellings - called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs - that normally occur in the sequence of the 3 billion DNA letters that make up a person's genome. SNPs are like single-letter variations in the spellings of a word. Most of these variations occur at single letters in the genetic code and are biologically meaningless. But a small fraction of these differences alter the function of a gene - often only slightly. Combining the effect of many slightly altered genes may significantly increase the risk of a specific disease, but identifying such a complex set of genetics differences is challenging. Finding these disease-causing variants is one of the highest priorities of current biomedical research.
"Virtually all diseases have a hereditary component, which is transmitted from parent to child through the three billion DNA letters that make up the human genome," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at NIH. "But progress in identifying the genetic factors that influence health or disease, or even the response to treatment, has been difficult. This initiative promises to identify rapidly the many genes in an individual that, taken together, contribute to an increased risk of illness - or that increase the chances of a healthy life. As these genetic underpinnings become clear, researchers will be empowered to develop targeted treatments that either prevent illness from occurring or treat it effectively once it does."
An investment of $3 to $6 million is needed for the first stage of genotyping in each study of 1,000 to 2,000 patients with a specific disease and a similar number of people who do not have the disease (controls). Follow-up studies to validate the results with additional patients and controls, data analysis, and patient management expenses-efforts beyond the scope of GAIN-will add to these basic costs. It is important to note, however, that these costs are a small fraction of what has already been invested by the NIH in enrolling these study subjects, examining them, carrying out extensive laboratory investigations, and collecting their DNA.
The foundation will invite investigators at universities and research centers worldwide to submit applications to have genotyping performed on existing DNA samples from patients with specific diseases and control individuals in case-control studies. The genotyping will be free to the investigators. The genetic results will be made available to any qualified scientists to use. FNIH expects to begin accepting applications for genotyping in spring 2006. Eligibility and online submission procedures will be posted on the Foundation for NIH Web site, www.fnih.org.
In addition to representatives from NIH, Pfizer, and leading independent scientists, GAIN's leadership will include representatives of other partnering corporations, private foundations, and advocacy groups, as well as concerned individuals. The project will be guided by a steering committee representing all partners and coordinated by the FNIH. A peer review committee and technical advisory board will provide additional scientific rigor to the project.
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health was established by the United States Congress to support the mission of the National Institutes of Health - improving health through scientific discovery. The foundation identifies and develops opportunities for innovative public-private partnerships involving industry, academia, and the philanthropic community. A non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation, the foundation raises private-sector funds for a broad portfolio of unique programs that complement and enhance NIH priorities and activities. The foundation's Web site address is www.fnih.org.
The National Institutes of Health -- "The Nation's Medical Research Agency" -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
The National Human Genome Research Institute is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health. NHGRI led the NIH's portion of the Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003, and the International Hapmap Project, which was completed in 2005. NHGRI now works to translate genetic knowledge into medical advances. Additional information about NHGRI can be found at www.genome.gov.


Running a map with dollar amounts mapped to it. For each transaction that tries to get imported, receiving an error that says "Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Decimal". The odd thing is if the transaction amounts are integers, the map runs. It's only when decimal places are added to the values that the map fails with this error.
Make sure that the service account that is assigned to your eConnect service is using the same regional settings as the data you are trying to import. For example, your dollar values in your source file are using the US currency format 100.99 (using a period as a decimal separator).
If your eConnect service accounts regional settings are set to French Canadian, their format is 100,99 (using a comma as the decimal separator). When you run the map, it's running under that users context and expecting to see 100,99 for a value, and it's receiving 100.99 from the source file. This will give you the error "Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Decimal" because it doesn't understand the period.
In the Windows services fine the "eConnect for Microsoft Dynamics 20XX Integration Service". Right click on it and go to Properties, then go to the Log On tab. Write down the user ID that is used there.
Login to Windows as the user you found above. Then go to Start – Run and type in "Control international" This will open the regional settings window.
Change the regional settings to match the format your data is in. After doing this, restart the eConnect service by right clicking on it and picking restart.
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Q: ssh asking for password; but then "Read from remote host ... Connection reset by peer" When I try to connect to remote server, ssh asks for password, checks it (if I put wrong password it will say "Permission denied") but doesn't let me in:
$ ssh user11@123
user11@123's password:

nothing happens, and some time later:
Read from remote host 123: Connection reset by peer

123 is hided server's ip.
Both ssh and sftp do this.
Remote is linux+OpenSSH and week ago ssh worked ok.
in -vvv mode I have after entry of password
debug3: packet_send2: adding 64 (len 58 padlen 6 extra_pad 64)
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0
debug2: channel 0: send open
debug1: Entering interactive session.

after some time...
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open:
  #0 client-session (t3 r-1 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/5 cfd -1)

debug3: channel 0: close_fds r 4 w 5 e 6 c -1
Read from remote host 123: Connection reset by peer
debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 63 bytes in 117.1 seconds
debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.5

A: There can be a few different causes of this, there's not enough information here to narrow down the problem exactly.
You'd have to check in your various log files on the server "123" in /var/log to see what's going on. This means checking out its console if you can't SSH to it.
An (incomplete) list of possible causes might be:

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*Some kind of runaway processes on your server filling up your process table, meaning it can't spawn your shell

*Not enough RAM to spawn a shell.

*Hard disk failure, meaning it can not load your shell from disk even though sshd might still be alive.

*Your login shell set incorrectly to /bin/false or something

*Somebody felt it would be funny to rm -rf / your server.

*Some script kiddie tried to install a rootkit but botched it up to the degree that a shell won't launch.

Either way you're going to have to go to the console of the server to see what might be going on.