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President Trump calls for 'law and order,' threatens to deploy troops to major cities
Amid racial unrest across the nation, President Donald Trump on Monday declared himself "the president of law and order" and threatened to deploy the United States military to American cities to quell a rise of violent protests.
As Trump spoke, an incredible TV split screen developed around the White House. While he addressed the nation in the White House's idyllic Rose Garden, a series of military vehicles rolled out front on Pennsylvania Avenue and military police and law enforcement clashed with protesters at Lafayette Park.
Those peaceful demonstrators were cleared so Trump could walk across the park to St. John's Episcopal Church, known as "The Church of the Presidents," which suffered fire damage in a protest this week. Holding a Bible, he then stood with several of his Cabinet members as the cameras clicked.
"We have the greatest country in the world," Trump declared. "We're going to keep it safe."
Trump said he would mobilize "thousands and thousands" of soldiers to keep the peace if governors did not use the National Guard to shut down the protests. Loud tear gas explosions could be heard as authorities moved what appeared to be peaceful protests in the park. The escalation came just after Attorney General William Barr came to the park to to survey the demonstrators.
According to senior defense officials, between 600 and 800 National Guard members from five states were being sent to Washington to provide assistance. Those troops were either already on the ground or will arrive by midnight.
Under the Civil War-era Posse Comitatus Act, federal troops are prohibited from performing domestic law enforcement actions such as making arrests, seizing property or searching people. In extreme cases, however, the president can invoke the Insurrection Act, also from the Civil War, which allows the use of active-duty or National Guard troops for law enforcement.
The officials said that some of the National Guard in D.C. will be armed and others will not. They said that the D.C. guard members do not have nonlethal weapons. The military police that are visible in the city are members of the Guard.
Earlier on Monday Trump derided many governors as "weak" and demanded tougher crackdowns on burning and stealing among some demonstrations in the aftermath of violent protests in dozens of American cities.
Trump spoke to governors on a video teleconference that also included law enforcement and national security officials, telling the state leaders they "have to get much tougher."
"Most of you are weak," Trump said. "You have to arrest people."
The days of protests were triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air. The demonstrations turned violent in several cities, with people trashing stores, smashing and burning police cars and igniting fires in historic Lafayette Park across from the White House.
Accused by critics of doing too little to defuse the crisis, Trump was to address the nation early Monday evening.
The president urged the governors to deploy the National Guard, which he credited for helping calm the situation Sunday night in Minneapolis. He demanded that similarly tough measures be taken in cities that also experienced violence, including New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
"You've got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again," said Trump. "We're doing it in Washington, D.C. We're going to do something that people haven't seen before."
The president told the governors they were making themselves "look like fools" for not calling up more of the National Guard as a show for force on city streets.
Attorney General Bill Barr, who was also on the call, told governors that a joint terrorist task force would be used to track agitators and urged local officials to "dominate" the streets and control, not react to crowds. He urged the governors to "go after troublemakers."
Trump's angry exhortations at the nation's governors came after a Sunday night of escalating violence, images of fires and looting and clashes with police filling the nation's airwaves and overshadowing the largely peaceful protests. The protests had grown so heated Friday night that the Secret Service rushed the president to an underground bunker previously used during terrorist attacks.
On Monday, Trump also spoke of trying to criminalize flag-burning. The Supreme Court has conservative new members since it last ruled on that issue, and Trump said that "I think it's time to review that again."
He continued his effort to project strength, using inflammatory tweets and delivering partisan attacks.
As cities have burned night after night and images of violence have dominated television coverage, Trump's advisers have discussed the prospect of an Oval Office address in an attempt to ease tensions. The notion was quickly scrapped for lack of policy proposals and the president's own seeming disinterest in delivering a message of unity.
Trump did not appear in public on Sunday and was not scheduled to on Monday either.
The demonstrations in Washington appeared to catch officers by surprise. They sparked one of the highest alerts at the White House complex since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
Trump has told advisers he worries about his safety, while both privately and publicly praising the work of the Secret Service.
Demonstrators returned Sunday afternoon, facing off against police at Lafayette Park into the evening. Trump retweeted a message from a conservative commentator encouraging authorities to respond with greater force.
"This isn't going to stop until the good guys are willing to use overwhelming force against the bad guys," Buck Sexton wrote in a message amplified by the president.
In recent days security at the White House has been reinforced by the National Guard and additional personnel from the Secret Service and the U.S. Park Police.
The Justice Department deployed members of the U.S. Marshals Service and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration to supplement National Guard troops outside the White House, according to a senior Justice Department official. The official could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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After we were done with the lunch and shopping at Terminal 21 shopping mall in Sukhumvit, my friend and I took the BTS Skytrain from Asok Station to Siam Station. Located on the 6th floor of Siam Discovery, Madame Tussauds Bangkok is a mere 5 minutes walk from Siam Station.
However, after alighting from the Skytrain at Siam Station, we did not immediately walk over to Siam Discovery. Instead we did some window shopping at Siam Center, which is just next to Siam Discovery.
The entrance to Siam Center
It so happened that we bumped into a ticket counter selling Madame Tussauds tickets in Siam Center. The person in charge told us we can buy the tickets there which was priced at 800 baht per ticket.
As with most things in Bangkok, I wondered if we could bargain for cheaper prices so I pretended to be shocked at the price and told the guy that my friend had told me the ticket price was 300 baht. The guy said that was impossible and then offered to sell us the ticket at 20 percent discount, which is 640 baht. We of course grabbed it without hesitation. LOL!
Later, I found out that if you book the tickets online, you could actually get the tickets at half price! Oh well, I guess 20 percent discount is better than nothing! Haha!
Location of Madame Tussauds courtesy of Madame Tussauds Bangkok (click to enlarge)
From Siam Center, we walked over to Siam Discovery next door. At the ground floor, we were greeted with a wax figure of Steven Gerrard, the Liverpool footballer!
Are you a fan of Steven Gerrard? I must say Madame Tussauds did a fine job with him! There was this guy who was such a fan that he asked me to take a few shots of him and Steven together at different angles! LOL!
We were directed up the lift to the 6th floor. When we came out from the lift, we walked along a passageway where I saw this on the wall. OK, so I would be expecting to see Beyonce at least, haha!
Bangkok seemed to take security quite seriously as my backpack was opened and thoroughly checked before we were allowed to enter Madame Tussauds. We were each given a booklet and a 200 baht voucher which can be exchanged for a professionally taken photo with a one of the wax figures.
The first wax figures were that of Thailand's royalty. This is not surprising considering the Thai people's respect and loyalty to the monarchy.
That's HRH Prince Mahitala Thibed Adulyadej Vikrom Phra Baroma Rajajanok (phew! hope I got his name correct!) standing beside HRH Princess Srinagarindra. Here, visitors can learn about the life of the Royal family and also the history of the Chakri Dynasty using the interactive display.
Next, were wax figures of world leaders and politicians, starting with Thailand's third Prime Minister, Pibulsonggram.
No prize for guessing who this is! Yes, he's Mahatma Gandhi of India.
Seni Pramoj, the 6th Prime Minister of Thailand.
He first became Prime Minister in 1945, on the day he returned to Bangkok following World War II. A politician in the Democrat party, Seni was Prime Minister for three terms.
Mao Zedong or commonly known as Chairman Mao, leader of the Chinese Revolution.
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu is a Thai-born influential philosopher who is also considered a highly respected Thai Buddhist monk worldwide.
Wow! Our very own Dr M (Mahathir bin Mohamad), Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister!
I think Madame Tussauds should open an outlet in Malaysia featuring our very own politicians and celebrities! Would be nice to see wax figures of Anwar Ibrahim, singer Siti Nurhaliza, actress Carmen Soo, squash champ Nicol David, AirAsia's Tony Fernandes and maybe the chairperson of Bersih, Ambiga Sreenevasan. LOL!
Princess Diana of Wales, looking good!
Hu Jintao, the current leader of People's Republic Of China, and possibly the world's most powerful man.
Lee Hsien Loong, the current Prime Minister of Singapore.
The famous Dalai Lama.
USA President Barack Obama and wife Michelle.
I heard that President Obama is so popular he is featured in all Madame Tussauds museums worldwide.
Next, were wax figures from the Arts and Science. First up, Sunthorn Phu, Thailand's best known royal poet.
Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor.
Dr. Porntip Rojanasunan, the famous Thai forensic pathologist with her unorthodox punk-rock hair dyed purplish red, eccentric clothing, glittery eye make-up and platform shoes.
I was actually thrilled to see her although she looked younger than the real person.
Albert Einstein, the German theoretical physicist and genius, who needs no introduction.
Silpa Bhirasri, known as the 'Father of Modern Art' in Thailand.
Born in Italy, Silpa went to Thailand to train Thai artists and craftsmen, and created a profound impact on the development of Thai art. He created 18 monuments in Thailand, which include the Democracy Monument, Victory Monument, and the statue of King Rama I at Memorial Bridge.
Next, were wax figures of sports personalities. Here's Christiano Ronaldo, the most expensive footballer in history who moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer worth 80 million pounds!
Famous American boxer Muhamad Ali.
Khaosai Galaxy, a former professional Thai super flyweight boxer, Muay Thai kickboxer and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He's widely considered as one of the greatest boxing champions of all time.
David Beckham, the professional footballer from England who first made it big with Manchester United, and who is now still as famous as ever.
Serena Williams, the American professional tennis player who was ranked No.1 in singles on five separate occasions.
Wax figures of famous singers and music stars were next. First, there's Shayne Ward, the Irish-English pop singer who was the winner of the second season of The X Factor.
Nichkhun Horvejkul, the Thai American singer and rapper in 2PM, currently one of the most popular boy bands in South Korea.
If you are a fan and female, you will surely want to take a photo of yourself with him. So for all the fans of Nichkhun, here's another shot of him LOL!
I have to admit I have no idea who Ad Carabao is. Thanks to the information provided, I learnt that he's the lead singer of Carabao, a rock band formed in the Philippines by two Thai students.
Carabao's songs often tackle social and political issues, and taking on the causes of the ordinary Thai people, hence their popularity in Thailand. But Ad Carabao sure reminds me of the rock guitarist Santana!
Beyonce needs no further introduction but I did not quite like her wax figure. What about you?
Pumpuang Duangjan drew a blank from me as I was not familiar with this Thai singer. Checking on her biography, I learnt that she's actually a very famous megastar in Thailand who pioneered the electronic luk thung, a type of Thai folk music.
I had the chance to listen to her songs as they were available for anyone interested to listen via a headphone.
Tata Young, famous Thai singer, model and dancer whose first album sold one million copies within 5 months!
Michael Jackson's wax figure looked stunning.
Teresa Teng, still one of the better Chinese singers of all time.
Bie The Star is a Thai pop singer and actor. After winning first runner-up in the Thai talent contest The Star, his popularity rocketed. Incredibly, after just two years in show business, Bie was ranked one of the most influential people in Thailand!
In Part 2, I shall post more pictures of wax figures of singers, actors and celebrities, so stay tuned! : )

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This week I want to look at a technique I've begun to use which has really enhanced my writing. One of the areas I struggled with the most as a beginning writer was descriptions. I came from a screenwriting background. I just wasn't use to going into so much visceral detail, and I struggled to build a vocabulary that seemed authentic to my voice in writing them. So I have spent a lot of time thinking about and examining how to write visceral passages better.
When I started the John Simon Thrillers, I set it in 2029 Kansas City. And I decided to use as many authentic locations as I could for the story to lend it a sense of authenticity and to entertain local readers both. But I figured if I was going to write those locations, I needed to know what they were really like, so I began taking road trips to scout locations, much like they do for films and television. I took pictures, made voice memos, and even wrote a few sample passages describing what I saw, what I smelled, tasted, heard, and so on. This really leant my John Simon novels a nuance that readers seemed to enjoy so I have employed it as much as I can since (COVID period being excepted).
And there are a number of tools besides a map or GPS and my car that have added to my ability to find and scout these locations and write them well I thought I would share with you.
First, Google maps is fantastic because it not only has the geographic (default) mode but a satellite mode that shows actual pictures of places, and in some you can even do street view and view the area in 3D. This, of course, enables you to write descriptions in as much detail as you desire but also to pick out any unique features you want to examine more closely on your scout. Oh yes, you should still scout, because Google maps is only updated so often and it can't capture the sounds, taste, smell, and so on of the actual place—things that your characters can recall as standing out most to make the descriptions jump off the page.
Second, do you have local film commission or a state one? And do they have a locations database? In Kansas City, the database is fantastic—filled with pictures and addresses of all kinds of locations, many of which I was unaware of and can use in my stories. You can find that here.
Third, good notebook or digital recorder is essential. For one scout, I had a longtime resident drive around with me for a couple hours and tell me all about the city, leading me to various locations that had historical importance or other significance for him and describing his memories. This was also a great way to discover cool locations to use in my stories, many of which I would have overlooked or not been made aware of easily on my own. I also use the recorder/notebook to record my own impressions in person at each location I scout, so I get a fresh bird's eye perspective of what it's like to experience them first hand and what really stands out.
Fourth, I recommend checking out the Images of America series of local books to see if there are any on your area. Several cover Kansas City in various detail, including one about the history of all the neighborhoods that really adds fun details you can drop into your story to add depth and nuance. These books are available at any bookstore, especially big chains in large numbers in the travel section but also via Amazon and so on.
Fifth, visit local museums and ask to talk to a curator or historian. Tell them what you are doing and ask if they have any insights or suggestions. You will be surprised what you come up with. And may even find a new friend or source willing to be available as a resource for answering questions and so on.
Sixth, talk to friends and family who live in the area or nearby and ask them what the interesting features are and what stands out in their memories. This is a great way to pick up little real descriptions that sound like people talk which you can drop into your stories.
In the end, putting in this effort will not only enhance your Setting choices themselves but the Descriptions you write about them, making them seem far more authentic than you could have managed using just your imagination or long term memory. For local readers, who can be annoyed by writers who just guess and get little details wrong, it will earn you respect. For nonlocal readers who may decide to go visit favorite locations from your stories, it will do the same when they experience the very same sensations you describe in your books upon their own visits. More than that, you can write with a confidence and surety that you "got it right" on a whole new level that will strengthen everything you write for that project.
That's how I use location scouting to enhance my writing. What unique techniques do you use? I'd love to hear your ideas in comments. For what it's worth.


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Zegapain Garuda
Review by JoshB
Although I've never seen Zegapain (ゼーガペイン), I liked this mecha the first time I saw it. It's got cool lines and lots of clear parts so I decided to check it out.
The Zegapain anime aired for 26 episodes in 2006 – I have no idea what it is about but it looks pretty cool.
The toy is part of Bandai's Robot Spirits line, and as such features excellent quality and details. The toy is covered with translucent bits that let you see through to the inner workings of the robot.
Robot Spirits Zegapain Garuda arrives courtesy of HobbyLink Japan
Articulation is excellent as usual. The head is ball jointed, as well as the chest. Shoulders are double ball jointed and feature movable shoulder armor in two places.
The elbows swivel and bend at a hinge, and the hands are on a ball joint. Several variant hands are included and they change easily. The hands are small, so be careful not to lose any!
The hips are ball joints, the knees are double jointed, and the ankles have a double ball joint so that both the leg "cuff" and the feet are articulated. There are leg panels on the upper thigh that tend to fall off – I'm not sure if this is a feature or a QC issue, but it's a bit annoying.
The back of the figure features two large translucent wings that need to be attached. They snap onto joints on the back, but the joints have somewhat hampered movement due to placement. I would have liked to have been able to spread the wings out wide to the side but can only have them pointed back.
Garuda includes a few unique weapons.
On the right arm you can attach a blade to the arm guard. This is called the Holonic Blade This clear yellow blade consists of several different pieces – the core, the clear attachment part, the front blade, the rear blade and an optional "ribbon" blade effect.
On the left arm a translucent shield (Holonic Shield) attaches with the same mechanism.
Two clear energy burst parts, called "Holobolt Breaker" attach to the arms. They have embedded hands in them, so you need to remove the existing hands before applying. Each is actually two parts so don't be alarmed if they separate.
While no stand is included, Garuda is fully compatible with the Tamashii Stand system.
Overall it's an attractive looking mech, and I just may have to hunt down the blue variant which is a webshop exclusive. Bandai also released toys of the Hraesvelgr and Altair.
Robot Spirits Zegapain Garuda arrives courtesy of HobbyLink Japan
4 comments postedThe reason so much of the armor and weapons was clear was because, in Zegapain, the robots used 'Hard Light', holograms, really, instead of armor plating. I can't recall why, it's been years since I've seen the show... the enemy was probably immune to normal weaponry or something.
Though I am weak to translucent accessories and parts, I can't say that this one interests me. I'm not quite sure why...I think it may be the general design and shape. The thing looks awkward and almost looks like it shouldn't be - I dunno - together? Like it's just waiting to fall apart. I really love the hard light angle, but I just wish it was in a better looking mech.
Looks like kitbash of the following:
Macross Plus YF-19
Technoman (Tekkaman)
TF Cybertron Sideways
Gundam Seed Gundams
Previous poster I think the reason why the translucent parts here don't interest you is that they
seem (at least from the photos) to be made with a diluted lighter color with no shine.
Usually whenever you see translucent parts they are always so colorful like sugar candies and
soo shiny like its almost glowing the way light hits it. I think they were trying to work in that this
was supposed to be holographic armor & so on, therefore lighter looking translucence.
Cause even the yellow weapons look sooo lackluster.


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Brussels, 5th & 6th September 2012
Complexity science is coming of age, however it has yet to make a significant impact upon social, economic and environmental policy – there is a still a "gap" between the worlds of complexity science and policy. This workshop is aimed at this gap – to promote work which applies complexity science to policy questions and to discuss how to do this better. Both national and EU funding councils are increasingly demanding such policy relevance in grant proposals and funded research so we anticipate there being a high level of interest in this workshop. Thus the workshop will examine ways in which the results of complexity science can be applied to issues of policy relevance. Complexity researchers, policy advisors, think tanks, consultants all welcome!
Topics include: research in the complexity sciences that has relevance to policy issues ways in which the gap between complexity science and the policy world can be bridged ways forward for applying complexity science to the real world, establishing its impact new instruments to handle collective actions in government the needs/views of people in the policy/research world of each other policy problems/issues that would benefit from complexity science approaches the relation of policy modelling to practice and research
Programme Committee (in no particular order):
Peter Allen, Paul Omerod, Yannis Charalabidis, Klaus Troitzsch, Steven Bishop, Petra Ahrweiler, Andreas Pyka, Nigel Gilbert, Diane Payne, Bruce Edmonds, Sylvie Occelli, Claudio Inguaggiato, Gianluca Misuraca, Armando Geller, Cathy Urquhart, Jeff Johnson, John Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Giovanni Rabino, Richard Taylor, Nick Gotts, Jorge Louçã, Sérgio Bacelar, Simone Landini, and Liz Varga.
The workshop will include a discussion session to develop networks and initiatives to further work in this area across Europe.
Plans for post-workshop publication are being discussed with a couple of journals, including the Transactions of the Royal Society A.
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Citation: ranked #3 after only Man O'War and Secretariat |
So I'll post my 300th mea culpa. But I will share with you my ongoing project which fascinates me!
I mentioned that Pinterest had caught my addiction, er, eye despite my best efforts. I had never really had any desire to look at scrapbooks or teenagers' bulletin boards, but with some digging, I did find more to it. Poking led to clicking, clicking led to more clicking and I began to put together a visual collection of Encore's family tree, among a few other fun boards. And it's amazing!
Discovering new parts to old stories and new stories of new horses is like finding a key to one of the most amazing treasure chests of all time. My childhood was filled with re-readings of my favourite stories such as "Man o' War" and "Black Gold" (who I never knew was infertile) and "Old Bones: the story of Exterminator." My shelves were lined with Stablemate models of Swaps and Native Dancer (and many more!). Now I feel like I am touching each one as I lay my hand on Encore's neck.
I never knew they were related! Count Fleet, 1943 Triple Crown winner -- and Mr P's great grandsire! |
The one and only... |
I continue to dig deeper and find more information about each horse and uncover the stories of the less famous, but still incredibly influential names. I itch to organize it better! Where is that catchup time again???


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BATIMORE, Md. — Inside the plant shop B. Willow, owner Liz Vayda carefully tends to her livelihood.
"Plants are the basis of life," she said.
Yet, they're also the basis of something else: a lucrative, illegal trade in plants poached from the wild, cacti and succulents, in particular.
"If someone's buying a cactus, they need to know that," Vayda said.
Out of the more than 1,800 known cactus species, about 1/3 of them are considered endangered.
Cacti are found in nearly every U.S. state, with the most varieties found in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Texas.
The vast majority of all the cacti in the world can only be found in the Americas, making them highly coveted. Recently, authorities in Italy recovered 1,000 rare cacti, which were poached from the wild in Chile and valued at $1.2 million.
Thieves dig the plants up from their native habitats and then turn around and sell them, usually online.
Upon learning of the plant poaching struggle, Vayda decided she and her Baltimore plant shop would do something about it.
"For me, personally, as a small growing business, my focus initially was very much on kind of 'How can I bring environmentalism into my work?'" she said.
Plant sales are a big business, which has grown even more so during the pandemic. When compared to May 2019, plant sales in May 2020 were up nearly 11%, more than double the 4% sales increase of the previous year.
"The illegal trade and poaching of plants is very often overlooked," said Barbara Goettsch of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Liz Vayda reached out to Goettsch, who is a cactus expert and the co-chair of the IUCN's Cactus and Succulent Plants Specialist Group.
"Liz decided to support our work and I just find that incredible, right?" Goettsch said. "Because she's an entrepreneur - a business selling plants - and she wants to return something to those plants."
Vayda is also raising money to return poached plants to where they belong.
"It was 10% of sales every week, it was this virtual lecture, portion of specific plant sales – relatively small actions that helped to affect actual change," Vayda said.
They've raised more than $1,000 so far. Vayda said she's also careful to note where the plants she sells come from.
"I don't stock anything that I can't reliably get from our main suppliers who are selling cultivated plants," she said.
For those in the market to buy greenery, she cautions: do your homework first, especially when shopping online. If the plants look weathered, like they have been out in the elements for a long time, or even damaged, that's a red flag.
"It's really when you get into independent sellers -- selling on the internet, eBay, Etsy," Vayda said. "We don't necessarily see plants in the same way because we just aren't relating to them. They don't have eyes; they don't move around. We largely view them as inanimate objects and that is a big risk within the horticultural industry – is just breaking that kind of idea that plants are objects."
Rather, she wants people to see plants as living, breathing examples of how Mother Nature can thrive in the harshest of environments.


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OME Data Model and File Formats 5.6.4 Documentation¶
This documentation covers the OME Data Model, OME-XML and OME-TIFF.
The OME Model is a specification for storing data on biological imaging. The model includes image parameters, such as XYZ dimensions and pixels type, as well as extensive metadata on, for example, image acquisition, annotation, and regions of interest (ROIs). This common specification is essential for the exchange of image data between different software packages. OME-XML is a file format used to store data according to the OME Model, serving as a convenient file format for data migration from one site or user to another. OME-TIFF is a multi-plane tiff file that contains OME metadata in the header, in the form of OME-XML. This allows the pixels to be read with any TIFF-compatible program, and the metadata to be extracted with any OME-aware application. Our paper describing the design and implementation of the OME-XML file appeared in Genome Biology.
The OME consortium currently provides three major tools capable of working with OME-XML and OME-TIFF:
- The Bio-Formats library is a full-featured library with many features related to OME-XML, including conversion of third party file format metadata into OME-XML structures. It can write image data to the OME-TIFF format.
- OME Files C++ is a reference implementation of the OME data model and OME-TIFF for C++ developers wishing to support these in their own software. It can read and write OME-TIFF data.
- The OMERO server works directly with OME-XML. It can import data from OME-XML and OME-TIFF, as well as export to OME-TIFF.
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Sacred lotus has many similarities to and is frequently confused with Nymphaea Caerulea. Sacred Lotus has long been celebrated as a religious and mythological symbol. In both Buddhism and Hinduism the lotus has spiritual meaning. As the national flower of India, Hindus associate it with fertility, rebirth, purity and beauty. It is said that Buddhists, who view it as an object of meditation and transcendence, borrowed the symbolic significance of the flower from Hindus. Perhaps nucifera's reputation as a symbol of fertility is best represented in its seeds? ability to retain viability for extreme periods of time. According to the Sailsbury University Arboretum, a 1,288-year-old nucifera seed from an ancient lake bed in China is the oldest known of all seeds to germinate. Its mysticism may also be linked to the mild narcotic or sedative effects from flowers that are eaten, smoked or steeped in wine and drank. In addition to having an incredible list of medicinal applications from helping premature ejaculation to having anticancer properties to helping cramps and digestion, all parts of the plant are considered edible and appear widely in Asian cuisine. Nelumbo is a perennial blooming from July through September with little to no maintenance required. Individual plants can reach a several feet out of the water with a spread of about four feet. This variety produces huge pink flowers with characteristic round, sometimes cupping lily pads. Its native range includes much of Asia and Australia but it has been widely cultivated throughout the world, specifically in zones four through ten. Sacred lotus is a favorite of aquatic gardens particularly those in India, China and Thailand, and it is frequently paired with colorful goldfish. The dried flower pods are also popular in floral arrangements. CONTACT FOR WHOLESALE!
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Database Open Access
ECG Effects of Dofetilide, Moxifloxacin, Dofetilide+Mexiletine, Dofetilide+Lidocaine and Moxifloxacin+Diltiazem
Published: Sept. 15, 2016. Version: 1.0.0
New Database Added: ECGDMMLD (Sept. 15, 2016, midnight)
The ECG effects of Dofetilide, Moxifloxacin, Dofetilide+Mexiletine, Dofetilide+Lidocaine and Moxifloxacin+Diltiazem in Healthy Subjects database contains data from a randomized, double-blind, 5-period crossover clinical trial in healthy male and female subjects, 18 to 35 years of age, to compare the electrophysiological response of hERG potassium channel blocking drugs with and without the addition of late sodium or calcium channel blocking drugs.
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The ECGDMMLD database contains data from a randomized, double-blind, 5-period crossover clinical trial in 22 healthy male and female subjects, 18 to 35 years of age, to compare the electrophysiological response of hERG potassium channel blocking drugs with and without the addition of late sodium or calcium channel blocking drugs. The 5 treatment periods are 1) dofetilide alone, 2) mexiletine with and without dofetilide, 3) lidocaine with and without dofetilide, 4) moxifloxacin with and without diltiazem and 5) placebo. During each treatment period, 12 blood samples for pharmacokinetic measurements are obtained with matched 12-lead ECG recordings.
Experimental Method
In each of the five treatment periods, the subjects were dosed three times during the day [Johannesen et al, Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2016]. Dofetilide (Tikosyn, Pfizer, New York, NY) and mexiletine (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, North Wales, PA) were administered orally immediately after meals, whereas lidocaine (B. Braun Medical, Bethlehem, PA), moxifloxacin and diltiazem were administered intravenously. Intravenous infusions were split into a 60-minute loading dose followed by a 30-minute maintenance dose.
The primary pharmacokinetic samples were taken at the start and end of each of the three maintenance doses during the day (morning, afternoon and evening), as these were expected to be associated with highest plasma concentrations of both the oral and intravenously administered drugs. Additional pharmacokinetic samples were taken at 30 and 120 minutes poststart of intravenous dosing during each of the three dosing periods during the day. There was one week between treatment periods.
During each period, continuous ECGs were recorded at 500 Hz with an amplitude resolution of 2.5 μV using the Mortara Surveyor system (Mortara, Milwaukee, WI). From the continuous recording, triplicate 10‐second ECGs were extracted before the draw of each pharmacokinetic sample at 14 predefined time‐points: 1 point pre-dose (-0.5 h) and 13 points post‐dose (1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 12, 12.5, 13, 13.5 and 24 h), during which the subjects were resting in a supine position for 10 minutes.
At each of the 14 time‐points, 3 optimal 10‐second 12‐lead ECGs were extracted with stable heart rates and maximum signal quality using Antares software (AMPS‐LLC, New York City, NY). The resulting ECGs were up‐sampled from 500 to 1000 Hz.
The raw directory contains the 4211 original extracted 10-second standard 12 lead ECG segments organized in subdirectories named after the subject number or randomization number RANDID
in the second column of the SCR-003.Clinical.Data.csv file. The ECGs are stored in standard MIT format, with a signal .dat
file and corresponding header .hea
file for each segment
The medians directory contains derived representative median beats for the raw ECG segments. Median beats were obtained as follows: the median PQRST waveform (median cardiac beat) for each lead was calculated by sample-by-sample synchronization of the QRS complex, and beats of a nonsinus origin were excluded based on a cross-correlation coefficient and RR interval history [1].
There are also semi-automatic annotations of each median beat based on the vector magnitude lead, containing P onset, QRS onset, QRS offset, T peak, secondary T peak (if present) and T offset. The annotations are stored in standard MIT annotation format, with annotator extension .atr
The SCR-003.Clinical.Data.csv file contains demographic information about the subjects, and important metadata about each ECG recording including their time-point, dosing period, associated drug, various beat intervals, and morphology measurements. The spreadsheet column headings are described in the SCR-003.Clinical.Data.Description.txt file.
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January 25, 2013
• John Bonnes, Parker Hageman, Nick Nelson, and Seth Stohs from Twins Daily are hosting a get-together Saturday night at Hubert's across from the Metrodome. It starts at 6:00, which is when TwinsFest ends for the day, and I'm told there will be several rounds of free beer and prize giveaways. I'll be there, probably hanging out until they kick me out, and would love to see some AG.com readers and "Gleeman and The Geek" listeners there too.
• Delmon Young's one-year contract with the Phillies includes a be-less-fat clause that basically would pay the 238-pound "outfielder" $600,000 for losing eight pounds. I've asked to renegotiate my contract with NBC to include the same clause, at which point they'd owe me $11.25 million.
• Another week, another missed connection for me.
• Seriously, how did I not make this list?
• As someone who never knows how to get anywhere and often previews the route via Google street view this was pretty great.
• This is definitely the first time in my life I've ever been referred to as "hot." Well, sort of.
• Rotoworld's annual "Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide" is now available online and in magazine form, featuring about 10,000 of my words.
• Sammy Sosa talked to HardballTalk's automated Twitter feed.
• Like me, David Brauer of MinnPost dropped out of the University of Minnesota to become a full-time writer. Unlike me, the prospect of returning to school--three decades later in Brauer's case--apparently doesn't make him physically ill. This is how I imagined Brauer's first class:
And then presumably he'll join the diving team.
• My blog-mate and lifelong Cardinals fan Drew Silva wrote a touching tribute to Stan Musial.
• I've often talked here about the potential downsides to having "access" and Jeff Sonderman of Poynter put together some interesting notes on how that applied to the Manti Te'o story.
• I watched "Breaking Bad" when it first aired on AMC in 2008 and gave up after a few episodes because it seemed cheesy to me and none of the secondary characters were compelling. Since then basically everyone I know has fallen in love with the show, so I gave it a second chance and re-watched it from the beginning on Netflix instant. And it's amazing. I watched all 54 episodes in nine days and can't wait for the final eight episodes to air on AMC this summer.
I still think the first handful of episodes are mediocre at best, but I've never seen a show improve more dramatically and once it gets cooking "Breaking Bad" never lets up. From the second season forward nearly every new character introduced is compelling, including a few of the best regulars in recent television history, and the show's narrative and visual styles are fantastic. If you haven't yet, definitely check out "Breaking Bad" on Netflix or Amazon.
• And for everyone who's watched "Breaking Bad" already, you'll enjoy re-watching my favorite scene from the fourth season. Such a great quote/delivery.
• Speaking of great AMC shows, Pete Campbell apparently has sideburns now.
• This beauty arrived in the mail yesterday as a late birthday present, which gives me an idea for a new weekly podcast segment and should come in handy tomorrow night at Hubert's.
• Speaking of the best characters in recent television history Robert Chew, who was excellent on "The Wire" as Proposition Joe, died at age 52. My favorite Prop Joe moment:
Compelling arguments from both sides, really.
• Friend of AG.com and Fan Graphs writer David Temple, with whom I've consumed many beers, started a new baseball podcast that's so professional sounding he's calling it a radio show.
• In addition to being a Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver was into sabermetrics before such a thing actually existed and the author of a must-read book.
• A couple weeks ago I noted that Bill Burr, Nick Offerman, and Tom Segura are all performing in Minnesota within the next two months and now John Mulaney can be added to the list of good stand-up comedians doing shows here soon. I'm thinking of going to all four.
• Terry Gross' interview with Jimmy Kimmel was funny and touching and just great.
• Two of my longtime favorite writers/online buddies got new gigs, as Kevin Pelton goes from Basketball Prospectus to ESPN.com and Chris Wesseling goes from Rotoworld to NFL.com.
• On this week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode we discussed whether the Twins can truly be done pursuing starting pitching and what happens when the person cutting your hair wants to talk about nothing but prostitutes killing their customers.
• Some of this week's weird and random search engine queries that brought people here:
- "What if I forget what flavor my Lean Cuisine was for rewards?"
- "What does an 11 x 16 bedroom look like?"
- "Drew Butera girlfriend"
- "How long for pounds to show up?"
- "Older women who have lost 50 pounds"
- "Jon Rauch father"
- "Solomon Burke underrated"
- "Nicholas Batum languages spoken"
- "Gus Johnson millionaire"
Finally, in honor of Brauer going back to school this week's AG.com-approved music video is Chuck Berry with "School Days" from 1958:
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License Terms for ``Engineering
Engineering a Beowulf-style Compute
Engineering a Beowulf-style Compute
License Terms for ``Engineering a Beowulf-style Compute Cluster''
General Terms
The ``Beverage'' Modification to the OPL
OPEN PUBLICATION LICENSE Draft v0.4, 8 June 1999
Introduction and Overview
What's a Beowulf?
What's a Beowulf Good For?
Historical Perspective and Religious Homage
Overview of Beowulf Design
Beowulf Design Protocol
Task Profiling and Analysis
Parallelizing your Code
Building Price and Performance Tables
Protocol Summary
Organization of this Book
Parallel Programs
Estimating the Speedup: Amdahl's Law
Amdahl's Law
Better Estimates for the Speedup
Visualizing the Performance Scaling
IPC's, Granularity and Barriers
Shared Networks
Switched Networks
Specific Parallel Models
Embarrassingly Parallel Computations
The Network is the Computer: MOSIX
Batch Systems with a Heart: Condor
Master-Slave Calculations
Lattice Models
Long Range Models
Beowulf Hardware
Node Hardware
Rates, Latencies and Bandwidths
Microbenchmarking Tools
Lmbench Results
Netperf Results
CPU Results
Network Hardware
Basic Networking 101
Networking Concepts
10 Mbps Ethernet
100 Mbps Ethernet
1000 Mbps Ethernet
The Dolphin Serial Channel Interconnect
Building a Beowulf
Building and Maintaining a Beowulf
Physical Infrastructure
Location, location, location
Power and Cooling for your Beowulf
Your Friend, Electricity
Building ``Workstation''-like Nodes
Building the Beowulf
Expensive but Simple
Cheap, Scalable, and Robust
Cheapest and Hardest: Diskless Nodes
Beowulf Maintenance
Tools and Tricks
The Food Chain: Recycling your Beowulf
Beowulfs Made to Order: Turnkey Vendors
Guidelines for Turnkey Vendor Submissions
Beowulfs Everywhere
Beowulfs in Business
Beowulfs in Schools
Beowulfs in Government
Beowulfs in Developing Countries
Beowulfs at Home
Everything You Wanted to Know about Home Networking but were Afraid to Ask
The Rest of the Story
Justifying a Beowulf
Beowulf Description
Portable Beowulfs
Special Engineering Problems
Portable Example(s)
Conclusion and Appendices
Conclusions: The Path to the Future
Beowulf Software: Libraries, Programs, Benchmarks
Beowulf Hardware: Computers, Networks, Switches
Beowulfery and Me: a Short Memoir
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License Terms for ``Engineering a Beowulf-style Compute Cluster''
General Terms
The ``Beverage'' Modification to the OPL
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Black Sabbath's Bill Ward Hospitalized With Heart Problems
Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward has been hospitalized after suffering unspecified heart problems, and as a result has been forced to cancel an upcoming United States tour with his new group Day of Errors.
Happily, Ward reports that he is "OK and in good recovery at this time." However, the seven December west coast dates he had planned with his new group have understandably been called off.
Ward explained the situation with a post on his Facebook page: "It's with great, great sadness that I must tell you I have to cancel the Day Of Errors tour dates scheduled in December. I wound up in hospital this past weekend with heart problems. I am OK and in good recovery at this time. However, I've never experienced this particular type of heart problem before, and due to its nature, I had to make the decision to cancel the dates. I want to send my sincere apologies to everyone who was planning to come out to the shows. I'm so sorry we won't be making it – I was looking forward to seeing you all and sharing this music with you. I'll be in touch soon."
Ward drummed with Black Sabbath from their formation in 1968 until 1980, and then reunited with the pioneering metal band several times in the '80s and '90s. A mild heart attack in the spring of 1998 forced him to miss Black Sabbath dates in Europe. He was initially set to participate in their 2012 reunion tour, but soon opted out after claiming he wasn't offered a "signable" contract.
A war of words between Ward and his former bandmates quickly erupted. Among other things, singer Ozzy Osbourne claimed that Ward wasn't in shape for the tour: "He looked like an old guy. I don't think he had the stamina to play for an hour or so onstage." In an interview with the New York Daily News, Osbourne added: "He's already had two heart attacks. I don't want to be responsible for his life."
Ward continually contested these health claims, most recently in a Facebook post this past August. "What they believe is quite opposite from my experience," Ward said, "especially in 2011 when no one spoke to me of being alarmed by my playing or my health."


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June 1977
The six previously unpublished daguerreotypes on the following pages represent an extraordinary historical find. Made in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1850 at the behest of Louis Agassiz, the celebrated father of American natural science, they are among the earliest known photographs of Southern slaves. So far as we know they are also the earliest for which the subjects are identified by name and by the plantation on which each one toiled. And, perhaps most remarkable, all but one of the slaves they depict were born in Africa, and three can be identified with the tribe or region from which they came.
These pictures, part of a cache of fifteen, might have remained unknown had it not been for Elinor Reichlin, a former staff member of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, who found them early last year in an unused storage cabinet in the museum's attic. Each daguerreotype case was embossed "J. T. Zealy, Photographer, Columbia" and several had handwritten labels. Nothing further was known about them. Ms. Reichlin spent months tracking down their story, and in the following article she explains just how and why these poignant images were made.
Until the late 1830's, American scientists had little reason to question the Biblical explanation for mankind's racial diversity. They assumed that all men were descended from the sons of Noah, who had dispersed across the world as the waters of the Great Flood receded. Racial differences were the result of centuries spent in different climates.
Then, Dr. Samuel Morton, an eminent Philadelphia anatomist, published two books, Crania Americana (1839) and Crania Aegypticus (1844), which seemed to cast doubt on mankind's unity. After examining hundreds of ancient and modern skulls from both the Old World and the New, he noted that each region had been peopled by distinct races since antiquity. The Biblical time allotted to man's dispersal was far too short to account for such an ancient and extensive settlement of two widely separated continents by distinct races. Therefore, he reasoned, "mankind" must not be one species but several, each specially created by God to suit its own geographical environment.
Abolitionists decried Morion's theory; so did many religious persons, who considered it an attack on Scriptural truth. But it was eagerly seized upon by defenders of slavery who saw in it a "scientific" basis for racial inequality. The battle lines were drawn.
The most prestigious convert to the doctrine of separate creations was Louis Agassiz, who arrived from Switzerland in 1846, already persuaded from fossil studies that all animal species except man had been separately created and confined to the "zoological province" in which they lived. Talks with Morton and his followers helped convince Agassiz that the races, too, were different species. In March of 1850, before a meeting of the Association for the Advancement of American Science at Charleston, South Carolina, he declared that the races were "well marked and distinct" and did not originate "from a common center … nor from a common pair."
Special creationists were jubilant: "… with Agassiz in the war," wrote one, "the battle is ours." Their opponents were stunned. Agassiz was accused of unorthodoxy and was attacked for advocating slavery. Such assaults bewildered him; Agassiz was, in fact, deeply religious and largely indifferent to politics. Scientists, he believed, had a duty to search for truth wherever it led them, regardless of political and social consequences.
His method was to "study nature, not books," and after the Charleston meeting he traveled to Columbia to conduct field research on race. His host was Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, an admirer of Morton. Together, Gibbes and his illustrious guest traveled to nearby plantations where, Gibbes wrote, "Agassiz was delighted with his examinations of Ebo, Foulah, Gullah, Guinea, Coromantee, Mandrigo and Congo Negroes," and found enough evidence to "satisfy him they have differences from other races." Agassiz concentrated exclusively on African-born slaves and their first-generation offspring. By means of this restricted sample he hoped both to define the anatomical variations unique to "the African race" in its original form and to establish a standard against which to measure the permanence of racial characteristics among American-born slaves of more remote African ancestry who had been exposed to a temperate climate for several generations. (African-born slaves in fact constituted only a tiny fraction of the U.S. slave population in 1850, more than four decades after Congress declared the importation of slaves illegal; some of those whom Agassiz examined must have been smuggled into America as part of the illicit trade that continued until the Civil War.)
His firsthand studies completed, Agassiz departed from Columbia at the end of March, but he evidently left instructions for Gibbes to gather corroborative photographic evidence — one of the first such instances in scientific history. Gibbes enthusiastically complied, arranging for J. T. Zealy to photograph the slaves Agassiz had examined, then posing each one nude to point up anatomical details in which the scientist had shown special interest and, finally, labeling each image with the subject's first name, tribe, and owner.
Gibbes was pleased with his work. "I have just finished the daguerreotypes for Agassiz of native Africans of various tribes," he wrote to Morton in June. "I wish you could see them."
Agassiz was probably satisfied as well; certainly his Columbia visit had reinforced his belief that Africans were a distinct species.
Although Agassiz never wavered in his belief, the theory of special creations was soon to be supplanted by the theory of evolution propounded by Charles Darwin in his Origin of Species (1859). Modern anthropologists, of course, are unanimous in their belief that mankind is a single species.
Agassiz' theory was discredited by the mid-1860's, but the daguerreotypes survived; and it is ironic that these pictures, made to demonstrate the supposed inferiority of their subjects, instead conferred a kind of immortality on the men and women we know only as Renty and Delia, Jem and Jack.
It was no consolation for the humiliation they endured both as slaves and as objects of scientific curiosity, but a rare gain for those who now encounter these people as memorably real survivors of a painful epoch.


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The Witches' Wisdom Tarot (Standard Edition): A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook
The Witches' Wisdom Tarot (Standard Edition): A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook
A portable edition of spiritual pioneer Phyllis Curott's empowering interpretation of the Tarot, which blends the divine magic of nature with modern Witchcraft to awaken the witch within.
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American Wiccan Priestess and best-selling author Phyllis Curott and British Hedgewitch and artist Danielle Barlow undertook a year-long quest involving almost 200 shamanic journeys to create this empowering new interpretation of the Tarot. It leaves behind the Devil, Hierophant, Judgment, and other patriarchal imagery and reverses the direction of the Major Arcana, offering a path to self-awareness and fulfillment that takes you into the natural world rather than away from it. The cards of the Minor Arcana share empowering teachings from the living forces of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth and reveal the wild, wise, and divine magic of nature and human nature, and the love of Mother Earth.
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Follow the guidance of this healing, inspiring, and empowering Tarot deck, and let it awaken the magic within you!
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Ten Facts for Mortgage Debt Forgiveness
If your mortgage debt is partly or entirely forgiven during tax years 2007 through 2012, you may be able to claim special tax relief and exclude the debt forgiven from your income. Here are 10 facts the IRS wants you to know about Mortgage Debt Forgiveness.
1. Normally, debt forgiveness results in taxable income. However, under the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, you may be able to exclude up to $2 million of debt forgiven on your principal residence.
2. The limit is $1 million for a married person filing a separate return.
3. You may exclude debt reduced through mortgage restructuring, as well as mortgage debt forgiven in a foreclosure.
4. To qualify, the debt must have been used to buy, build or substantially improve your principal residence and be secured by that residence.
5. Refinanced debt proceeds used for the purpose of substantially improving your principal residence also qualify for the exclusion.
6. Proceeds of refinanced debt used for other purposes – for example, to pay off credit card debt – do not qualify for the exclusion.
7. If you qualify, claim the special exclusion by filling out Form 982, Reduction of Tax Attributes Due to Discharge of Indebtedness, and attach it to your federal income tax return for the tax year in which the qualified debt was forgiven.
8. Debt forgiven on second homes, rental property, business property, credit cards or car loans does not qualify for the tax relief provision. In some cases, however, other tax relief provisions – such as insolvency – may be applicable. IRS Form 982 provides more details about these provisions.
9. If your debt is reduced or eliminated you normally will receive a year-end statement, Form 1099-C, Cancellation of Debt, from your lender. By law, this form must show the amount of debt forgiven and the fair market value of any property foreclosed.
10. Examine the Form 1099-C carefully. Notify the lender immediately if any of the information shown is incorrect. You should pay particular attention to the amount of debt forgiven in Box 2 as well as the value listed for your home in Box 7.
For more information about the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, visit IRS.gov. A good resource is IRS Publication 4681, Canceled Debts, Foreclosures, Repossessions and Abandonments. Taxpayers may obtain a copy of this publication and Form 982 either by downloading them from IRS.gov or by calling 800-TAX-FORM (800-829-3676).
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Savage (Dragonrider Legacy #1) by Nicole Conway
Publication Date: September 26, 2017
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy® award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN's reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN's shows domestically and internationally, and contributes to CNN.com. His medical training and public health policy experience distinguishes his reporting from war zones and natural disasters, as well as on a range of medical and scientific topics, including the recent Ebola outbreak, brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, and HIV/AIDS. Additionally, Dr. Gupta is the host of Vital Signs for
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