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In short, I review clinical research on an almost daily basis. What I post tends to be articles that are relevant to the readers in addition to some curiosities that have intriguing potential.
As a hobby, I truly enjoy the puzzle-solving play that statistics and programming as in the python language bring to the table. I just do not enjoy problem-solving, I love problem-solving and the childlike inspiration and exploration of that innocent exhilaration of discovering something new.
Enjoy ;-)
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Three quarters of a million Britons living in Europe could see their savings raided to help save the European Union’s single currency following the Cyprus debt crisis.
British expats in Cyprus face eurozone raids on their savings By Bruno Waterfield, in Brussels 9:43PM GMT 25 Mar 2013 A senior eurozone figure on Monday suggested the plan to save Cyprus could serve as a template for rescuing… Read More ›
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Nicholas Papadopolous, chairman of the Cypriot parliament’s finance committee, said “They wanted to send a message that the Cypriot economy ought to be destroyed”
Russians aware Germany is stealing their money in Cyprus PDF Print E-mail Monday, 25 March 2013 Russia clashed with Germany today over a €10 billion bailout to rescue Cyprus from bankruptcy and stop a wider economic crisis. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry… Read More ›
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Cyprus deal is model for future bailouts says top European official as banks are told to open
EEV: Second confirmation on the EU’s statements The deal will see investors with more than €100,000 in the nation’s largest banks forfeit a large chunk of their deposits Rob Williams Monday, 25 March 2013 A top European official… Read More ›
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Cyprus bank restructuring deal should be considered a template for the rest of the single currency bloc
Dutch Finance Minister and President of the Eurogroup Council Jeroen Dijsselbloem gestures during a joint press conference after a Eurogroup Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on March 25, 2013. Photo: AFP Head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance… Read More ›
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Vial containing strain of potentially deadly virus missing from Texas laboratory
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:20 EST, 24 March 2013 | UPDATED: 18:20 EST, 24 March 2013 A small vial containing a potentially harmful strain of virus has gone missing from a Texas laboratory, it was revealed today. The… Read More ›
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Planck shows almost perfect cosmos – plus axis of evil/ suggests that new universes are continually popping into existence and expanding
13:42 21 March 2013 by Jacob Aron For similar stories, visit the Cosmology Topic Guide Interactive graphic: See how Planck brings the cosmic ripples into focus The universe is almost perfect, 80 million years older than we thought, and… Read More ›
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TIMELINE: Bailout deal reached Cyprus: May take as much as 40 per cent
TIMELINE: Bailout deal reached Published on March 24, 2013 President Nicos Anastasiades in Brussels UPDATED 2.58am Cyprus and international lenders reached a draft deal in the early hours of this morning, which had to be approved by the… Read More ›
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THOSE responsible for the sorry state of the economy should be put on trial, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said yesterday
Archbishop: those who are to blame should be put on trial By Poly Pantelides Published on March 24, 2013 Cypriots light candles in Church yesterday THOSE responsible for the sorry state of the economy should be put on… Read More ›
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Harvard stripped of quiz championships for cheating
Harvard University has been stripped of a string of US quiz championship titles after a cheating scandal was uncovered by organisers. Championships awarded to the Ivy League college, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2009 and 2010, and two separate titles… Read More ›
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Cyprus bailout: Kremlin ‘could punish Europe’ in reprisal for bank levy
Fears mount that Russia could act against European companies if charge on deposits hits €30bn Russian investments Helena Smith in Nicosia, Simon Goodley and Toby Helm The Observer, Saturday 23 March 2013 15.20 EDT A pressure valve on a Russian… Read More ›
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Cyprus, Troika agree to 20% tax on deposits over 100,000 euros at Bank of Cyprus
EEV: Need 2n confirmation. This is the first story in Published time: March 23, 2013 18:31 Edited time: March 23, 2013 19:20 Bank workers shout slogans during a protest outside Cyprus presidential palace in Nicosia on March 23,… Read More ›
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Tense in Cyprus, National Guard burns German Flags
Friday, 22 March 2013 Cypriot national guard soldiers have removed German flags from two building and burn them. The buildings housed German soldiers who are engaged in UN peace mission in Lebanon. Bank employees are protesting in Nicosia, earlier in… Read More ›
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She’s being thrown out the home she’s lived in for 47 years because of $49 in property taxes — which she paid early
The Saddest Story You Ever Heard By DAVID LEE AUSTIN (CN) – An ill, elderly Texas woman claims in court that she’s being thrown out the home she’s lived in for 47 years because of $49 in… Read More ›
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Child Soldiers In Syria: Sick Mascots or the New Face of Global Jihad?
posted by Versha Sharma on March 22,2013 in Sneak Peek Young kids with Ak-47s. Really young. As in toddlers. Some of the rebels in Syria’s civil war think it’s cute. Some of the pro-Assad forces are using the pictures of… Read More ›
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Education Department website removes Chairman Mao quote
5:21 PM 03/22/2013 Robby Soave Reporter, The Daily Caller News Foundation In this Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012 photo, anti-Japan protesters hold portraits of the late Communist leader Mao Zedong and wave Communist party and national flags while marching on the… Read More ›
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How Low Can a TV Show Go?
By ROBERT KAHN MANHATTAN (CN) – ABC TV filmed a man dying in a hospital, and a doctor telling his family he had died, and broadcast it all on the show “NY Med” without telling the family or… Read More ›
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Cyprus considers taxing a quarter of big deposits at largest bank as president prepares to fly to Brussels to discuss eurozone bailout
Finance minister says ‘significat progress’ is being made with proposals expected as early as this evening Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas, Steve Anderson Saturday, 23 March 2013 Cyprus MPs are looking at seizing up to a quarter of the value of… Read More ›
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Europeans set up financial blockade of Cyprus
Photo: EPA Jacques Sapir, PhD in economics, head of the Center for Studies of the Modes of Industrialization at the French Institute of Social Sciences, one of the leading French specialists in the area of defense economics, a specialist on… Read More ›
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Couples caught having sex before marriage could be sent to prison for FIVE YEARS under new Muslim law in Indonesia
Even couples living together out of wedlock and have sex to face year in jail Part of a raft of proposals which include a ban on witchcraft and black magic Bid to revise laws based on laws of former colonial… Read More ›
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Cyprus Keeps Banks Closed indefinitely
Friday, 22 March 2013 Russia rebuffed Cypriot entreaties for aid on Friday, leaving the island’s increasingly isolated leaders scrambling to strike a bailout deal with the European Union by next week or face the collapse of its… Read More ›
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Guccifer releases second trove of Clinton emails
Published time: March 22, 2013 18:17 Hillary Clinton.(AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan) The hacker that has targeted Hillary Clinton and the Presidents Bush has leaked a new trove of classified emails to RT that discuss in detail the Algerian… Read More ›
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Cyprus allows capital controls, creates “solidarity fund”
Photo: EPA Cyprus MPs approved a bill Friday night, granting the government the right to restrict withdrawals from bank accounts in exceptional cases. The parliament in Cyprus also approved a “national solidarity fund” to help the state raise the necessary… Read More ›
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Florida college student suspended for not ‘stomping on Jesus’
By Arturo Garcia Friday, March 22, 2013 14:38 EDT<!– Begin Social Code — A Florida Atlantic University student is accusing an instructor and local Democratic party leader of suspending him for refusing to stomp on a piece of paper… Read More ›
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Number of dead pigs found in Shanghai rivers rises to 16,000
Melanie Leather Friday, 22 March 2013 A police campaign to curb the illicit trade in sick pig parts in China appears to be having little effect as the number of dead pigs recovered in the last two weeks from… Read More ›
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Fury as child porn goes viral on Facebook with 16,000 ‘shares’ and 4,000 ‘likes’
The clip was of a young girl apparently being abused by a grown man Some users shared grabs of video on Twitter to alert others of the danger Twitter hosted a torrent of furious tweets asking how clip got onto… Read More ›
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Rapper gets jail for calling police dogs in song
Reuters Friday, Mar 22, 2013 TUNIS – A Tunisian court has sentenced a rap singer to two years in jail in absentia for insulting the police in a case likely to fuel debate over free speech under the Islamist-led government…. Read More ›
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EuroGroup insists Cyprus must tax deposits
Photo: EPA The EuroGroup has rejected the Cypriot plan to raise billions of euros for addressing debt problems by nationalizing pension funds and issuing bonds backed by the promise of massive oil and gas profits. 0Reports say it continues to… Read More ›
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151st Health Research Report 22 MAR 2013
In this Issue: Folic acid lowers risk of autism Bitter melon juice prevents pancreatic cancer in mouse models Study: Probiotics reduce stress-induced intestinal flare-ups Green tea, coffee may help lower stroke risk How oils and fats regulate feeling of satiety… Read More ›
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USA: Almost Half of Children born to Unwed Mothers
Thursday, 21 March 2013 Calling it “The Great Crossover,” a report by academics and social activists shows that for the first time in history the median age of American women having babies is lower than the median age of marriage… Read More ›
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CIA recording every Facebook Msg, Tweet…
Thursday, 21 March 2013 Just days after the CIA inked a $600-million cloud computing contract with Amazon, chief technology officer Gus Hunt admitted that the agency is trying to amass as much data as it can,… Read More ›
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U.S., Japan review plans for retaking disputed islands
National Mar. 21, 2013 – 06:05PM JST ( 52 ) Disputed islands claimed by China and controlled by JapanAFP WASHINGTON — U.S. and Japanese officers are discussing worst-case contingency plans for retaking disputed islands in the East China Sea if… Read More ›
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South Korea Cyber Attack was launched from a Chinese IP Address
South Korea Cyber Attack, Wiper malware and Chinese IP Address Posted by: Mohit Kumar onThursday, March 21, 2013 Yesterday we reported about a massive Cyber attack on South Korea that was responsible for shutting down networks of South Korean banks and… Read More ›
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What if the real reason behind the whole Cyprus crisis is the desire to confiscate the country’s gold?
Could Cyprus’s gold reserves play a part in the crisis? Photo: RIA Novosti The Cyprus bailout proposal made by the Eurogroup is both economically and politically absurd. But what if the real reason behind the whole Cyprus crisis is the… Read More ›
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New study highlights strong anti-cancer properties of soybeans: inhibited cancer cell growth by 73% for colon cancer, 70% for liver cancer and 68% for lung cancer
Contact: Sacha Boucherie S.Boucherie@elsevier.com 31-204-853-564 Elsevier First study to report that proteins found in soybeans, could inhibit growth of colon, liver and lung cancers, published in Food Research International Soybean meal is a bi-product following oil extraction from soybean seeds…. Read More ›
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Researchers link Gulf War Illness to physical changes in brain fibers that process pain
Contact: Karen Mallet km463@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Medical Center WASHINGTON — Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found what they say is evidence that veterans who suffer from “Gulf War Illness” have physical changes in their brains not seen… Read More ›
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US company selling lead paint in Africa 5,000 times the allowable limit and is refusing to remove it !!!t
Contact: Melody Harris melody.harris@taylorandfrancis.com Taylor & Francis US company identified as manufacture of lead paint in Africa SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 19, 2013) – House paint containing dangerous concentrations of lead is being sold in Cameroon by an American company… Read More ›
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New disorder could classify millions of people as mentally ill
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmjgroup.com 44-020-738-36920 BMJ-British Medical Journal New condition that may lead to ‘inappropriate medical decision making,’ warns expert Personal View: The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill Millions of people could… Read More ›
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Was there a Chinese spy at NASA? Fleeing researcher ‘carrying hard drive and laptops’ arrested on China-bound plane at Virginia airport
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:20 EST, 20 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:23 EST, 20 March 2013 Arrest: Bo Jiang, who worked for NASA, ‘failed to disclose the devices he was taking back to China’ A Chinese national… Read More ›
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Is she a spy? Mystery of 27-year-old enigma Chinese student who ‘caught US defense contractor, 59, in honeytrap to get classified information’
Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, of Honolulu, charged with passing on secrets The defense contractor met younger lover at military defense conference He did not tell authorities about her as he should have done A covert search of his home in… Read More ›
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South Korea on alert for cyber-attacks after major network goes down
Computer systems of banks and broadcasters are interrupted, with fingers immediately pointed at North Korea Tania Branigan in Beijing ◦guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 March 2013 06.00 EDT South Korea is investigating a suspected cyber-attack that paralysed systems at major media and… Read More ›
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Kosovo school book: Rock Music is Criminal
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 Kosovo authorities are telling teachers and students to ignore a paragraph in a high school textbook that labels rock music as criminal. The citizenship textbook states that “rock music, pornography, violence on television – all… Read More ›
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N. Korea threatens US bases in Japan, Guam
21 Mar 2013 The North Korean army on Thursday threatened a possible strike against US military bases in Japan, in response to the use of nuclear-armed US B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea. “The US should not forget that… Read More ›
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U.S. autism estimates climb to 1 in 50 school-age children: 72% increase since 2007
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:05 GMT Reuters * Boys four times more likely than girls to have diagnosis * Milder cases made up much of the increase (Adds CDC and expert interview, byline, background) By Julie Steenhuysen March 20 (Reuters)… Read More ›
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New York Times says Royal Charter harms free speech
Small publishers and websites under threat, says paper that helped expose hacking scandal IAN BURRELL Wednesday, 20 March 2013 The New York Times has warned that British proposals to regulate the press through a Royal Charter will “chill free speech… Read More ›
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Cyprus banks will not resume operation until Marсh 26
Photo: EPA Banks in debt-hit Cyprus will stay closed until at least Tuesday, a Central Bank official told AFP, after the authority issued a decree stating banks will not open their doors on Thursday and Friday. With Monday a scheduled… Read More ›
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French authorities raid IMF chief Christine Lagarde’s home in ’embezzlement’ probe
Investigation concerns the payment of almost €400m in state compensation to a disgraced French tycoon John Lichfield Wednesday, 20 March 2013 French magistates and anti-fraud police have raided the Paris home of the International Monetary Foundation (IMF) chief,… Read More ›
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Cyprus rejects bailout deal leaving eurozone facing fresh crisis: May get Loan From Russia
Cash-strapped nation expected to seek funding lifeline from Russia after dramatic no vote in country’s parliament Angelique Chrisafis in Nicosia and Jill Treanor The Guardian, Tuesday 19 March 2013 A Cypriot protester outside the country’s parliament after hearing… Read More ›
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US Army lieutenant colonel accused of passing nuclear secrets to Chinese mistress
Published time: March 19, 2013 16:42 Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann A Hawaii-based US defense contractor is facing charges for giving classified defense information, including top secret information about nuclear weapons, to a 27-year-old Chinese woman that he had a romantic interest… Read More ›
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