This article is about the data storage technology. For other uses, see Raid (disambiguation).
The term "RAID" was invented by David Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, in a paper titled "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)" in June 1988 at the SIGMOD conference.
The term "RAID" was first defined by David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. They studied the possibility of using two or more drives to appear as a single device to the host system and published a paper: "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)" in June 1988 at the SIGMOD conference.
Around 1983, DEC began shipping subsystem mirrored RA8X disk drives (now known as RAID 1) as part of its HSC50 subsystem.
Around 1988, the Thinking Machines DataVault used error correction codes (now known as RAID 2) in an array of disk drives. A similar approach was used in 1970s on the IBM 3330.
In 1977, Norman Ken Ouchi at IBM filed a patent disclosing what was subsequently named RAID 4.
In 1986, Clark et al. at IBM filed a patent disclosing what was subsequently named RAID 5.
Industry RAID manufacturers later tended to interpret the acronym as standing for "redundant array of independent disks".
Many RAID levels employ an error protection scheme called "parity", a widely used method in information technology to provide fault tolerance in a given set of data. Most use simple XOR, but RAID 6 uses two separate parities based respectively on addition and multiplication in a particular Galois Field or Reed–Solomon error correction.
RAID 1 comprises mirroring (without parity or striping). Data are written identically to two (or more) drives, thereby producing a "mirrored set". The read request is serviced by any of the drives containing the requested data. This can improve performance if data is read from the disk with the least seek latency and rotational latency. Conversely, write performance can be degraded because all drives must be updated; thus the write performance is determined by the slowest drive. The array continues to operate as long as at least one drive is functioning.
RAID 2 comprises bit-level striping with dedicated Hamming-code parity. All disk spindle rotation is synchronized and data is striped such that each sequential bit is on a different drive. Hamming-code parity is calculated across corresponding bits and stored on at least one parity drive. This level is of historical significance only. Although it was used on some early machines (e.g. the Thinking Machines CM-2), it is not used by any current commercially available systems.
RAID 5 comprises block-level striping with distributed parity. Unlike in RAID 4, parity information is distributed among the drives. It requires that all drives but one be present to operate. Upon failure of a single drive, subsequent reads can be calculated from the distributed parity such that no data is lost. RAID 5 requires at least three disks. RAID 5 is seriously affected by the general trends regarding array rebuild time and chance of failure during rebuild. In August 2012, Dell posted an advisory against the use of RAID 5 in any configuration and of RAID 50 with "Class 2 7200 RPM drives of 1 TB and higher capacity".
The final array is known as the top array. When the top array is RAID 0 (such as in RAID 1+0 and RAID 5+0), most vendors omit the "+" (yielding RAID 10 and RAID 50, respectively).
RAID 0+1: creates a second striped set to mirror a primary striped set. The array continues to operate with one or more drives failed in the same mirror set, but if drives fail on both sides of the mirror the data on the RAID system is lost.
RAID 1+0: creates a striped set from a series of mirrored drives. The array can sustain multiple drive losses so long as no mirror loses all its drives.
Linux MD RAID 10 provides a general RAID driver that in its "near" layout defaults to a standard RAID 1 with two drives, and a standard RAID 1+0 with four drives; though, it can include any number of drives, including odd numbers. With its "far" layout, MD RAID 10 can run both striped and mirrored, even with only two drives in f2 layout; this runs mirroring with striped reads, giving the read performance of RAID 0. Regular RAID 1, as provided by Linux software RAID, does not stripe reads, but can perform reads in parallel.
Hadoop has a RAID system that generates a parity file by xor-ing a stripe of blocks in a single HDFS file.
The distribution of data across multiple drives can be managed either by dedicated computer hardware or by software. A software solution may be part of the operating system, or it may be part of the firmware and drivers supplied with a hardware RAID controller.
ZFS supports equivalents of RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 (RAID Z), RAID 6 (RAID Z2) and a triple-parity version RAID Z3. As it always stripes over top-level vdevs, it supports equivalents of the 1+0, 5+0, and 6+0 nested RAID levels (as well as striped triple-parity sets) but not other nested combinations. ZFS is the native file system on Solaris and also available on FreeBSD and Linux.
Btrfs supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 (RAID 5 and 6 are under development).
Apple's OS X and OS X Server support RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0.
FreeBSD supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 3, and RAID 5, and all nestings via GEOM modules and ccd.
Linux's md supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, and all nestings. Certain reshaping/resizing/expanding operations are also supported.
Microsoft's server operating systems support RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5. Some of the Microsoft desktop operating systems support RAID. For example, Windows XP Professional supports RAID level 0, in addition to spanning multiple drives, but only if using dynamic disks and volumes. Windows XP can be modified to support RAID 0, 1, and 5. Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduces a RAID-like feature known as Storage Spaces, which also allows users to specify mirroring, parity, or no redundancy on a folder-by-folder basis.
NetBSD supports RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 via its software implementation, named RAIDframe.
If a boot drive fails, the system has to be sophisticated enough to be able to boot off the remaining drive or drives. For instance, consider a computer whose disk is configured as RAID 1 (mirrored drives); if the first drive in the array fails, then a first-stage boot loader might not be sophisticated enough to attempt loading the second-stage boot loader from the second drive as a fallback. The second-stage boot loader for FreeBSD is capable of loading a kernel from such an array.
Software-implemented RAID is not always compatible with the system's boot process, and it is generally impractical for desktop versions of Windows. However, hardware RAID controllers are expensive and proprietary. To fill this gap, cheap "RAID controllers" were introduced that do not contain a dedicated RAID controller chip, but simply a standard drive controller chip with proprietary firmware and drivers; during early stage bootup, the RAID is implemented by the firmware, and once the operating system has been more completely loaded, then the drivers take over control. Consequently, such controllers may not work when driver support is not available for the host operating system. An example is Intel Matrix RAID, implemented on many consumer-level motherboards.
Because there is some minimal hardware support involved, this implementation approach is also called "hardware-assisted software RAID", "hybrid model" RAID, or even "fake RAID". If RAID 5 is supported, the hardware may provide a hardware XOR accelerator. An advantage of this model over the pure software RAID is that—if using a redundancy mode—the boot drive is protected from failure (due to the firmware) during the boot process even before the operating systems drivers take over.
RAID can provide data security with solid-state drives (SSDs) without the expense of an all-SSD system. For example, a fast SSD can be mirrored with a mechanical drive. For this configuration to provide a significant speed advantage an appropriate controller is needed that uses the fast SSD for all read operations. Adaptec calls this "hybrid RAID".
Data scrubbing (referred to in some environments as patrol read) involves periodic reading and checking by the RAID controller of all the blocks in an array, including those not otherwise accessed. This detects bad blocks before use. Patrol reading checks for bad blocks on each storage device in an array, but also uses the redundancy of the array to recover bad blocks on a single drive and to reassign the recovered data to spare blocks elsewhere on the drive.
Frequently, a RAID controller is configured to "drop" a component drive (that is, to assume a component drive has failed) if the drive has been unresponsive for eight seconds or so; this might cause the array controller to drop a good drive because that drive has not been given enough time to complete its internal error recovery procedure. Consequently, using RAID for comsumer-marketed drives can be risky, and so-called "enterprise class" drives limit this error recovery time to reduce risk. Western Digital's desktop drives used to have a specific fix. A utility called WDTLER.exe limited a drive's error recovery time. The utility enabled TLER (time limited error recovery), which limits the error recovery time to seven seconds. Around September 2009, Western Digital disabled this feature in their desktop drives (e.g. the Caviar Black line), making such drives unsuitable for use in RAID configurations. However, Western Digital enterprise class drives are shipped from the factory with TLER enabled. Similar technologies are used by Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi. Of course, for non-RAID usage, an enterprise class drive with a short error recovery timeout that cannot be changed is therefore less suitable than a desktop drive. In late 2010, the Smartmontools program began supporting the configuration of ATA Error Recovery Control, allowing the tool to configure many desktop class hard drives for use in RAID setups.
While RAID may protect against physical drive failure, the data are still exposed to operator, software, hardware, and virus destruction. Many studies cite operator fault as the most common source of malfunction, such as a server operator replacing the incorrect drive in a faulty RAID, and disabling the system (even temporarily) in the process.
An array can be overwhelmed by catastrophic failure that exceeds its recovery capacity and, of course, the entire array is at risk of physical damage by fire, natural disaster, and human forces, while backups can be stored off site. An array is also vulnerable to controller failure because it is not always possible to migrate it to a new, different controller without data loss.
In practice, the drives are often the same age (with similar wear) and subject to the same environment. Since many drive failures are due to mechanical issues (which are more likely on older drives), this violates the assumptions of independent, identical rate of failure amongst drives; failures are in fact statistically correlated. In practice, the chances of a second failure before the first has been recovered (causing data loss) is higher than four random failures. In a study of about 100,000 drives, the probability of two drives in the same cluster failing within one hour was four times larger than predicted by the exponential statistical distribution—which characterizes processes in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate. The probability of two failures in the same 10-hour period was twice as large as predicted by an exponential distribution.
Unrecoverable read errors (URE) present as sector read failures. The unrecoverable bit-error (UBE) rate is typically specified at one bit in 1015 for enterprise class drives (SCSI, FC, SAS), and one bit in 1014 for desktop class drives (IDE/ATA/PATA, SATA). Increasing drive capacities and large RAID 5 redundancy groups have led to an increasing inability to successfully rebuild a RAID group after a drive failure because an unrecoverable sector is found on the remaining drives. Parity schemes such as RAID 5 when rebuilding are particularly prone to the effects of UREs as they affect not only the sector where they occur but also reconstructed blocks using that sector for parity computation; typically an URE during a RAID 5 rebuild leads to a complete rebuild failure.
Double protection schemes such as RAID 6 are attempting to address this issue, but suffer from a very high write penalty. Schemes that duplicate (mirror) data such as RAIDs 1 and 10 have a lower risk from UREs than those using parity computation. Background scrubbing can be used to detect and recover from UREs (which are latent and invisibly compensated for dynamically by the RAID controller) as a background process, by reconstruction from the redundant RAID data and then re-writing and re-mapping to a new sector; and so reduce the risk of double-failures to the RAID system.
Drive capacity has grown at a much faster rate than transfer speed, and error rates have only fallen a little in comparison. Therefore, larger capacity drives may take hours, if not days, to rebuild. The re-build time is also limited if the entire array is still in operation at reduced capacity. Given an array with only one drive of redundancy (RAIDs 3, 4, and 5), a second failure would cause complete failure of the array. Even though individual drives' mean time between failure (MTBF) have increased over time, this increase has not kept pace with the increased storage capacity of the drives. The time to rebuild the array after a single drive failure, as well as the chance of a second failure during a rebuild, have increased over time.
Some commentators have declared that RAID 6 is only a "band aid" in this respect, because it only pushes the problem a little further down the road. However, according to a 2006 NetApp study of Berriman et al., the chance of failure decreases by a factor of about 3,800 (relative to RAID 5) for a proper implementation of RAID 6, even when using commodity drives. Nevertheless, if the currently observed technology trends remain unchanged, in 2019 a RAID 6 array will have the same chance of failure as its RAID 5 counterpart had in 2010.
Mirroring schemes such as RAID 10 have a bounded recovery time as they require the copy of a single failed drive, compared with parity schemes such as RAID 6, which require the copy of all blocks of the drives in an array set. Triple parity schemes, or triple mirroring, have been suggested as one approach to improve resilience to an additional drive failure during this large rebuild time.
A system crash or other interruption of a write operation can result in states where the parity is inconsistent with the data due to non-atomicity of the write process, such that the parity cannot be used for recovery in the case of a disk failure (the so-called RAID 5 write hole). The RAID write hole is a known data corruption issue in older and low-end RAIDs, caused by interrupted destaging of writes to disk.
This is a little understood and rarely mentioned failure mode for redundant storage systems that do not utilize transactional features. Database researcher Jim Gray wrote "Update in Place is a Poison Apple" during the early days of relational database commercialization.
A concern about write-cache reliability exists, specifically regarding devices equipped with a write-back cache—a caching system that reports the data as written as soon as it is written to cache, as opposed to the non-volatile medium.
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510 F. 2d 1145 - United States v. Townsend
510 F2d 1145 United States v. Townsend
John Marvin TOWNSEND, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 74--2606.
Ron Minkin, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant.
William D. Keller, U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.
Before ELY and WALLACE, Circuit Judges, and TURRENTINE,* District Judge.
PER CURIAM:
Townsend appeals from his conviction for possession of heroin with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). He questions the denial of his motion to suppress the heroin, claiming his consent, while in custody, to a search of his hotel room was not freely and voluntarily given. We affirm.
Townsend argues that his consent was coerced because he was not advised of his right to refuse to consent. While he acknowledges that the Supreme Court rejected a similar contention in Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218, 93 S.Ct. 2041, 36 L.Ed.2d 854 (1973), he asserts that the holding in that case should be limited to its facts (a consent given by one not in custody) and that our earlier cases, which require such an admonition prior to an in-custody consent to search, control. See Schoepflin v. United States, 391 F.2d 390, 399 (9th Cir.), cert. denied 393 U.S. 865, 89 S.Ct. 146, 21 L.Ed.2d 133 (1968); cf. Cipres v. United States, 343 F.2d 95, 97--98 (9th Cir. 1965). He also urges us to follow the holding of the Fifth Circuit that where there is evidence of coercion, an in-custody consent to search is valid only if the defendant has been advised of his right to withhold consent. See United States v. Luton, 486 F.2d 1021, 1023 (5th Cir. 1973), cert. denied 417 U.S. 920, 94 S.Ct. 2626, 41 L.Ed.2d 225 (1974); United States v. Legato, 480 F.2d 408, 413 (5th Cir.) (alternate holding), cert. denied 414 U.S. 979, 94 S.Ct. 295, 38 L.Ed.2d 223 (1973).
We have already decided this issue adversely to Townsend. United States v. Heimforth, 493 F.2d 970, 971--972 (9th Cir. 1974); United States v. Rothman, 492 F.2d 1260, 1263--1264 (9th Cir. 1973). Whether consent was freely and voluntarily given depends upon the totality of the circumstances, even where the consent was given while in custody. Id. The fact that the defendant is in custody and lacks knowledge of his right to refuse to consent forms part of the circumstances, but it is not determinative in and of itself.
Here Townsend's arrest was based upon an out-of-state fugitive warrant which was executed after he negotiated a heroin sale with an undercover officer. Townsend asked to be taken to his hotel to retrieve valuables. The arresting officers granted his request but only on the condition that he allow them to search his room. Townsend agreed but recanted at the door to his hotel room, claiming that the room was not his and that he had no key. The agents advised him that they would honor his withdrawal of consent, after which Townsend again changed his mind. The assistant manager was summoned with a key and he asked Townsend if he could unlock the door. Townsend nodded his assent.
Townsend correctly admits that he must show that this finding of consent is clearly erroneous. United States v. Page, 302 F.2d 81, 82--83, 85--86 (9th Cir. 1962) (en banc). He has failed to do so.
Honorable Howard B. Turrentine, United States District Judge, Southern District of California, sitting by designation

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There are currently two main methods to determine the three-dimensional structure of a protein: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. While structure determination with the NMR method is limited to proteins with an upper molecular weight of approximately 25 kDa, the X-ray method is suitable to resolve the structure of larger proteins or macromolecular complexes.
The first step in the determination of an X-ray crystal structure, that is often also the most difficult one, is the growth of diffraction-quality protein crystals. Co-crystallization with protein specific ligands (e.g. substrates, cofactors, small-molecules) is already an integral part of most initial screening → Crystallography & Cryo-EM and optimization → Crystallography & Cryo-EM strategies.
For crystallization of enzyme-nucleotide complexes, non-hydrolyzable nucleotide analogs have become indispensable tools. This is due to their modified phosphate moiety that renders them resistant to hydrolysis and allows formation of stable nucleotide-protein complexes for structure determination[2,3].
Subsequent structure solution techniques (multiple isomorphous replacement (MIR) or multiple wavelength anomalous dispersion (MAD)) still involve the incorporation of heavy atoms into protein crystals. The search for suitable heavy-atom derivatives is the second major bottle neck in structure determination since binding of heavy atoms often results in disrupting the crystal lattice. Halogenated, mercurated and Selenium-containing nucleotides however, may provide an alternative method that allows rational incorporation of heavy atoms into a large number of nucleotide- or DNA-binding proteins.
 Hassell et al. (2007) Crystallization of protein-ligand complexes. Acta Crystallogr. D. Biol. Crystallogr. 63:72.
 Xia et al. (2011) Structural insights into complete metal ion coordination from ternary complexes of B family RB69 DNA polymerase. Biochemistry 50:9114.
 Jiang et al. (2011) Use of chromophoric ligands to visually screen co-crystals of putative protein-nucleic acid complexes. Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry 7.15.1-7.15.8:S46.


After spending most of the day shooting fashion on location for Adnan Bayyat, we then started work on the Couture collection at the studio, and there was an awful lot of it too. It was certainly going to be a long day. All the collections needed to be photographed in one day, as the London Fashion Week with Fashions Finest was looming.
We chose to use a light grey background, mainly because it was neutral, and wouldn't impact in any way on the outfit colours or textures. Lights tended to be Lencarta Elite Pros or Superfasts.
Lets start with the background lighting. You can see a central spot on the background, although a little high in this instance as it was set for the model standing, and basically, I forgot to lower it. The light is provided by an Elite pro 600 firing through a gridded high intensity reflector at ½ power and is positioned off to the right. The rest of the background is evenly lit by two Elite Pro 300 heads, one either side, and both firing into white reflective umbrellas with an output of ¼. They were positioned at about six feet tall.
Accent lighting, although fairly subtle here, was provided by two Elite Pro 600 heads, firing through strip boxes and each at around 1/8th output. The heads were placed either side and slightly further back than the model.
The main light was provided by a SuperFast 600 firing at ¼ output into a very large 165cm jumbo para umbrella, which provided the softest of light.
I also set up what our cousins from across the pond would refer to as a "kicker light". Basically, a 60×60 softbox lay on the floor, which means it naturally has an elevation of about 45 degrees. This lifts the shadows under the chin and eyebrows. It also lifts the light a little on the lower limbs. This had a Superfast 300 firing through it at just under ½ power. The kicker light was turned off for the above image, as our model was quite close to it, and there was a fair bit of difference in brightness from his foot to his face. The kicker was used in all other images, and the lighting and camera settings changed very little between images, if at all.
Anyway, I wanted to capture the motion of this dress top as the model span around. The fabric was quite light and span out to a beautiful circle.
This was the longest shoot I have worked on. We started at 0800hrs and finished at 0100hrs the following morning. That said, it was one of the most enjoyable days too.


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Using Data to Provide Better Health Care to New York's Homeless
Laura Jacobson
Remle Newton-Dame
Kalpana Bhandarkar
Dave A. Chokshi
As the safety-net health system for the city, New York City Health + Hospitals, which serves more than one million New Yorkers a year, is responsible for identifying and helping to care for the homeless. By sifting through registration documents electronic medical records, and insurance claims and matching addresses to homeless shelters, searching for "homeless," "undomiciled," or "shelter," flagging patients whose zip code changed 10 or more times in one year and other strategies, a Health+ Hospitals population health team used data analytics identify and categorize the systems homeless patients, (more than 20,000 in one year), helping Health+Hospitals to better understand their health care needs, tailor their care and match them to the right hospital and community-based supports—ultimately including housing itself.
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New York City has the largest homeless population in the country, an issue the city has tackled through prevention, affordable housing and health care initiatives. At the safety-net health system for the city, New York City Health + Hospitals, which serves more than one million people a year, identifying and helping to care for homeless New Yorkers is a part of our transformation efforts. Using data science to identify and "phenotype" our homeless patients helps us tailor their care and match them to the right hospital and community-based supports—ultimately including housing itself.
Ideally, health systems should identify homeless patients at the point of care, since homelessness can affect a person's ability to access services, take medications, and administer self-management (for example, monitoring blood glucose while taking insulin). However, in many big systems like ours, capture of this information is inconsistent and often in unstructured fields across fragmented data systems. Most of New York City's homeless people reside in city shelters, some live on the streets, and some are temporarily doubled up with family members or couch surfing with friends. Fearing stigma, homeless patients may not disclose their homelessness to clinic staff or may convey it discreetly, for example by providing a proxy address such as a shelter as their home address.
To better characterize the homeless patients we see throughout NYC Health + Hospitals, we talked to our colleagues – including social workers, emergency room doctors and homeless service providers – about proxy indicators for homelessness and where this information is documented in our vast and disparate information systems. They told us it could be found in registration documents (basic information on the patient such as name, address, and insurance), electronic medical records, and insurance claims. To capture as many patients as possible, we created a composite definition of homelessness by:
Matching addresses for each of our one million patients to homeless shelters and our own hospitals
Searching for the words "homeless," "undomiciled," or "shelter" anywhere in the address fields
Flagging patients whose home zip code changed 10 or more times in one year
Pulling records with a "homeless" flag from registration at the few facilities that record this
Searching for the diagnosis code for homelessness on the clinical problem list, other diagnostic assessments, or in the billing data
While this search misses unstructured data like narrative social-work assessments, mining homeless status from our data systems flexibly across multiple domains captured more than 20,000 adult homeless patients served within one year. This enabled us to understand our homeless patients as a population, across clinical diagnoses, utilization, demographics and other factors. They come to us disproportionately through the emergency department, have longer and more frequent hospital stays, and experience higher rates of behavioral health issues such as substance use, mood disorders, and schizophrenia. Specifically, we found that they were nine times more likely to visit the ER or be admitted than our average patient. This finding was so substantial that we incorporated the homeless flag into our overall score predicting risk of high hospital use, which we are deploying to front line providers via the electronic medical record.
Categorizing our homeless patients also revealed important sub-groups, reminding us that homelessness is not a homogeneous experience. For instance, those living in family shelters had lower rates of chronic disease and were more likely to use primary care than other homeless patients, suggesting that a tailored version of our current care management programs for this group could be effective. Our presumed street homeless patients, on the other hand, were three times as likely as those in family shelters to have a behavioral health diagnosis and over eight times as likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, requiring more intensive services.
At NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, which has the largest number of homeless patients of the hospitals in the system, we opened an outpatient complex-care clinic that offers flexible walk-in appointments and longer visits, which are required to better address overlapping health and social needs. The clinic also has dedicated staff knowledgeable about the issues homeless patients struggle with, such as substance use disorder and the need for assistance navigating the public housing system.
At NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx, one of the busiest hospitals in our system, the adult medicine clinic started a pilot program that identifies patients who are homeless or at risk of eviction and connects them to resources including food benefit programs, legal help, health insurance navigation, public shelters, and local housing organizations. Addressing housing instability places patients in a better position to engage with their clinical team and avoid preventable emergency room use and hospital stays. Since the cost of one night in the hospital is more than a typical month's rent for a one-bedroom apartment in New York, investing in services for a group known to need a lot of inpatient care makes financial as well as clinical sense.
As housing is an essential component of healthcare for these patients, we use our data to compile lists of patients who meet eligibility criteria for local supportive housing complexes, such as people living with HIV/AIDS or with behavioral health diagnoses, and reach out to assist with housing applications. We also work with sister New York City agencies to match our high-risk homeless patients to a city housing agency database to verify approved housing applications and identify needed follow up. We also convey profiles of homeless patients shared with managed care plans such as Metroplus, New York City's "public option," so that they can be active partners in care management and support discharge planning for inpatients.
Given the links between homelessness and health, all health systems should work to address the underlying causes of illness, including lack of housing. The first step is identifying homeless patients and understanding how they intersect with our system; data science helps us meet patients where they are and connect them with health care and social supports on their own terms.
Laura Jacobson is the Program Manager for Data Services in the Office of Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals.
Remle Newton-Dame is the Senior Director of Healthcare Analytics in the Office of Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals.
Kalpana Bhandarkar leads the Social Determinants Team within the Office of Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals
Dave A. Chokshi, MD, is Chief Population Health Officer at New York City Health + Hospitals and CEO of its Accountable Care Organization.
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Английская художественная литература в оригинале Автор Christopher B. Издательство Little Издательство Brown and Company
No Way to Treat a First Lady
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автор: Christopher B.
издательство: Little Brown and Company
Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor is not surprised - he's the only attorney up to the job and he knows it. It's all going swimmingly - he's got it nailed, until his client decides she wants to take the stand and restore her reputation and he has no choice but to acquiesce. Throw in several egos the size of the White House, media-spin like there's no tomorrow, the old boy network, some very underhand business involving the FBI, a pregnancy, a few sex toys and a dose of Viagra and you're some way into this delicious farce - which becomes all the more delicious when you realise how small a leap of the imagination is required to get there.
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Rohler,Brock kickoff 62 yards to the VALPO3, GESSINGER return 22 yards to the VALPO25 (Siegel,Jordan).
1st and 10 at VALPO25 BILINSKI pass complete to KLUCK for 5 yards to the VALPO30, out-of-bounds (Siegel,Jordan).
2nd and 5 at VALPO30 BILINSKI pass incomplete to NORBERG.
3rd and 5 at VALPO30 BILINSKI pass complete to RENE for loss of 3 yards to the VALPO27 (Siegel,Jordan;Fishel,Wyatt).
4th and 8 at VALPO27 ULBRICH punt 8 yards to the VALPO35, out-of-bounds.
1st and 10 at VALPO35 Salima,Jordan rush for 4 yards to the VALPO31 (TURNER;REED).
2nd and 6 at VALPO31 Salima,Jordan rush for 4 yards to the VALPO27 (TURNER;PETRIE).
3rd and 2 at VALPO27 Salima,Jordan rush for 2 yards to the VALPO25, 1ST DOWN TSU (BOOKER).
1st and 10 at VALPO25 Salima,Jordan rush for 4 yards to the VALPO21 (TRUMPOWER;REED).
2nd and 6 at VALPO21 Satulla,Andy rush for 3 yards to the VALPO18 (SNOUFFER).
3rd and 3 at VALPO18 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Brown,CJ, QB hurry by PETRIE.
4th and 3 at VALPO18 Salima,Jordan rush for 6 yards to the VALPO12, 1ST DOWN TSU (BOOKER;TURNER).
1st and 10 at VALPO12 Salima,Jordan rush for 1 yard to the VALPO11 (REED).
2nd and 9 at VALPO11 Salima,Jordan rush for 4 yards to the VALPO7 (REED;STUDYVIN).
3rd and 5 at VALPO07 Barr,Jaden sacked for loss of 4 yards to the VALPO11 (OLOJO;WHEELER).
4th and 9 at VALPO11 Scheiderer,Josh field goal attempt from 28 GOOD, clock 08:06.
Rohler,Brock kickoff 65 yards to the VALPO0, touchback.
1st and 10 at VALPO25 BILINSKI pass complete to NORBERG for 29 yards to the TSU46, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Knight,D.).
1st and 10 at TSU46 EARLEY rush for 18 yards to the TSU28, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Nadle,Zach).
1st and 10 at TSU28 EARLEY rush for 5 yards to the TSU23 (Myerson,Travis).
2nd and 5 at TSU23 CARTALES rush for 8 yards to the TSU15, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Edwards,Bryan).
1st and 10 at TSU15 CARTALES rush for 6 yards to the TSU9 (Siegel,Jordan;Knight,D.).
2nd and 4 at TSU09 BILINSKI pass complete to SUTTER for 9 yards to the TSU0, 1ST DOWN VALPO, TOUCHDOWN, clock 05:10.
LATSONAS kickoff 54 yards to the TSU11, Robbins,Malique return 22 yards to the TSU33 (LATSONAS;FOX).
1st and 10 at TSU33 Barr,Jaden pass complete to Brown,CJ for 3 yards to the TSU36 (DIAZ-MARTINEZ).
2nd and 7 at TSU36 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Nichols,Mitch, QB hurry by WHEELER.
3rd and 7 at TSU36 Barr,Jaden pass complete to Nichols,Mitch for 23 yards to the VALPO41, 1ST DOWN TSU (DIAZ-MARTINEZ;SNOUFFER).
1st and 10 at VALPO41 Salima,Jordan rush for 3 yards to the VALPO38 (PETRIE;KELLY).
2nd and 7 at VALPO38 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Sharpe,Monty.
3rd and 7 at VALPO38 Barr,Jaden pass complete to Salima,Jordan for 14 yards to the VALPO24, 1ST DOWN TSU (CAMPBELL;SKARECKY).
1st and 10 at VALPO24 Salima,Jordan rush for 3 yards to the VALPO21 (TURNER;VELASCO).
2nd and 7 at VALPO21 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete (BISHOP).
3rd and 7 at VALPO21 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Sharpe,Monty (SNOUFFER).
4th and 7 at VALPO21 Scheiderer,Josh field goal attempt from 38 GOOD, clock 01:48.
1st and 10 at VALPO25 CARTALES rush for 4 yards to the VALPO29 (Chipley,Spencer).
2nd and 6 at VALPO29 BILINSKI pass complete to EARLEY for 20 yards to the VALPO49, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Yakle,Eric).
1st and 10 at VALPO49 EARLEY rush for 14 yards to the TSU37, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Nadle,Zach;Siegel,Jordan).
1st and 10 at TSU37 BILINSKI pass intercepted by Nadle,Zach at the TSU10, Nadle,Zach return 0 yards to the TSU10.
1st and 10 at TSU10 Salima,Jordan rush for 10 yards to the TSU20, 1ST DOWN TSU (SKARECKY;PETRIE).
1st and 10 at TSU20 Salima,Jordan rush for 5 yards to the TSU25 (PETRIE).
2nd and 5 at TSU25 Salima,Jordan rush for 4 yards to the TSU29 (GOEBEL;TURNER).
3rd and 1 at TSU29 Salima,Jordan rush for 4 yards to the TSU33, 1ST DOWN TSU (CAMPBELL).
1st and 10 at TSU33 Barr,Jaden rush for no gain to the TSU33 (BOOKER;STUDYVIN).
2nd and 10 at TSU33 Barr,Jaden pass complete to Brown,CJ for 7 yards to the TSU40 (PETRIE;SNOUFFER).
3rd and 3 at TSU40 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete, QB hurry by OLOJO.
4th and 3 at TSU40 Rohler,Brock punt 49 yards to the VALPO11, fair catch by GESSINGER.
1st and 10 at VALPO11 SEEWALD pass complete to NORBERG for 5 yards to the VALPO16 (Knight,D.).
2nd and 5 at VALPO16 SEEWALD pass complete to NORBERG for loss of 3 yards to the VALPO13 (Knight,D.;Floyd,Jake).
3rd and 8 at VALPO13 SEEWALD pass complete to CARTALES for 7 yards to the VALPO20, out-of-bounds.
4th and 1 at VALPO20 EARLEY rush for 3 yards to the VALPO23, 1ST DOWN VALPO (McBroom,Reed).
1st and 10 at VALPO23 SEEWALD pass complete to GESSINGER for 2 yards to the VALPO25 (Fishel,Wyatt), PENALTY TSU roughing passer (Devecchi,A.J.) 15 yards to the VALPO40, 1ST DOWN VALPO.
1st and 10 at VALPO40 CARTALES rush for 14 yards to the TSU46, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Knight,D.;Nadle,Zach).
1st and 10 at TSU46 SEEWALD pass incomplete to CARTALES.
2nd and 10 at TSU46 CARTALES rush for 1 yard to the TSU45 (Scheeler,Jon;Floyd,Jake).
3rd and 9 at TSU45 SEEWALD pass complete to RENE for 4 yards to the TSU41 (Nadle,Zach;Edwards,Bryan).
4th and 5 at TSU41 SEEWALD punt 40 yards to the TSU1, downed.
1st and 10 at TSU01 Barr,Jaden rush for no gain to the TSU1 (REED;ORLANDINI).
2nd and 10 at TSU01 Salima,Jordan rush for no gain to the TSU1 (PETRIE;SNOUFFER).
3rd and 10 at TSU01 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Morris,Jacob.
4th and 10 at TSU01 Rohler,Brock punt 38 yards to the TSU39, fair catch by GESSINGER.
1st and 10 at TSU39 CARTALES rush for 4 yards to the TSU35 (Devecchi,A.J.).
2nd and 6 at TSU35 CARTALES rush for 4 yards to the TSU31 (Nadle,Zach).
3rd and 2 at TSU31 FOX rush for 4 yards to the TSU27, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Reeves,Sam;Devecchi,A.J.).
1st and 10 at TSU27 CARTALES rush for 4 yards to the TSU23 (Myerson,Travis), PENALTY VALPO holding (RENE) 10 yards to the TSU37, NO PLAY.
1st and 20 at TSU37 SEEWALD pass incomplete to EARLEY, QB hurry by Reeves,Sam.
2nd and 20 at TSU37 SEEWALD pass incomplete to EARLEY, dropped pass.
3rd and 20 at TSU37 CARTALES rush for loss of 5 yards to the TSU42 (Swope,Bennett).
4th and 25 at TSU42 NG punt 42 yards to the TSU0, touchback, PENALTY TSU offside (Griffin,Israel) 5 yards to the TSU37, NO PLAY.
4th and 20 at TSU37 NG punt 27 yards to the TSU10, downed.
1st and 10 at TSU10 Salima,Jordan rush for 5 yards to the TSU15 (CAMPBELL;SNOUFFER).
2nd and 5 at TSU15 Salima,Jordan rush for 7 yards to the TSU22, 1ST DOWN TSU (LANE;SNOUFFER).
1st and 10 at TSU22 Satulla,Andy rush for 3 yards to the TSU25 (SKARECKY).
2nd and 7 at TSU25 Satulla,Andy rush for 8 yards to the TSU33, 1ST DOWN TSU (LANE).
1st and 10 at TSU33 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete.
2nd and 10 at TSU33 Salima,Jordan rush for loss of 2 yards to the TSU31 (PETRIE), PENALTY TSU holding declined.
Timeout Truman State, clock 00:52.
3rd and 12 at TSU31 Barr,Jaden rush for 7 yards to the TSU38 (LANE).
4th and 5 at TSU38 Rohler,Brock punt 32 yards to the VALPO30, fair catch by GESSINGER.
1st and 10 at VALPO30 SEEWALD pass incomplete to NORBERG.
2nd and 10 at VALPO30 CARTALES rush for 1 yard to the VALPO31 (Yakle,Eric;Reeves,Sam).
Timeout Truman State, clock 00:27.
3rd and 9 at VALPO31 SEEWALD pass complete to CARTALES for 3 yards to the VALPO34, out-of-bounds (Myerson,Travis).
4th and 6 at VALPO34 NG punt 51 yards to the TSU15.
1st and 10 at TSU15 TEAM rush for loss of 1 yard to the TSU14.
LATSONAS kickoff 65 yards to the TSU0, touchback.
1st and 10 at TSU25 Robbins,Malique rush for no gain to the TSU25 (WHEELER;SNOUFFER).
2nd and 10 at TSU25 Barr,Jaden pass complete to Nichols,Mitch for 75 yards to the VALPO0, 1ST DOWN TSU, TOUCHDOWN, clock 14:11.
Barr,Jaden pass attempt to Ellis,Jake good.
Rohler,Brock kickoff 65 yards to the VALPO0, GESSINGER return 23 yards to the VALPO23 (Yakle,Eric), PENALTY VALPO unsportsmanlike conduct (TWIGG) 12 yards to the VALPO11, 1st and 10, VALPO ball on VALPO11.
1st and 10 at VALPO11 CARTALES rush for 1 yard to the VALPO12 (Devecchi,A.J.;Myerson,Travis).
2nd and 9 at VALPO12 BILINSKI pass complete to NORBERG for 11 yards to the VALPO23, 1ST DOWN VALPO.
1st and 10 at VALPO23 CARTALES rush for 6 yards to the VALPO29 (Devecchi,A.J.;Reeves,Sam).
2nd and 4 at VALPO29 BILINSKI pass incomplete to KOEHLER (Reeves,Sam).
3rd and 4 at VALPO29 BILINSKI pass incomplete to FOX.
4th and 4 at VALPO29 ULBRICH punt 15 yards to the VALPO44, downed.
1st and 10 at VALPO44 Satulla,Andy rush for 4 yards to the VALPO40 (TURNER;SNOUFFER).
2nd and 6 at VALPO40 Barr,Jaden rush for 6 yards to the VALPO34, 1ST DOWN TSU (CAMPBELL;WHEELER).
1st and 10 at VALPO34 Satulla,Andy rush for 4 yards to the VALPO30 (LANE).
2nd and 6 at VALPO30 Barr,Jaden rush for 29 yards to the VALPO1, 1ST DOWN TSU (SNOUFFER).
1st and 0 at VALPO01 Satulla,Andy rush for no gain to the VALPO1 (OLOJO).
2nd and 0 at VALPO01 Satulla,Andy rush for no gain to the VALPO1 (TURNER).
3rd and 0 at VALPO01 Satulla,Andy rush for loss of 1 yard to the VALPO2 (SNOUFFER;TURNER).
4th and 0 at VALPO02 Scheiderer,Josh field goal attempt from 18 GOOD, clock 07:47.
Rohler,Brock kickoff 59 yards to the VALPO6, GESSINGER return 15 yards to the VALPO21 (Woods,Lawrence;Hayes,Jake).
1st and 10 at VALPO21 EARLEY rush for no gain to the VALPO21 (Yakle,Eric).
2nd and 10 at VALPO21 BILINSKI pass incomplete to KOEHLER.
3rd and 10 at VALPO21 BILINSKI pass incomplete to NORBERG, dropped pass.
4th and 10 at VALPO21 NG punt 38 yards to the TSU41, Newell,Spencer return 14 yards to the VALPO45 (TWIGG).
1st and 10 at VALPO45 Satulla,Andy rush for 4 yards to the VALPO41 (DIAZ-MARTINEZ).
2nd and 6 at VALPO41 Robbins,Malique rush for 11 yards to the VALPO30, 1ST DOWN TSU (DIAZ-MARTINEZ).
1st and 10 at VALPO30 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Ruffin,Dante.
2nd and 10 at VALPO30 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete to Nichols,Mitch.
Timeout Truman State, clock 05:27.
3rd and 10 at VALPO30 Barr,Jaden rush for no gain to the VALPO30 (GOEBEL).
4th and 10 at VALPO30 Barr,Jaden pass intercepted by DIAZ-MARTINEZ at the VALPO12, DIAZ-MARTINEZ return 23 yards to the VALPO35 (Nichols,Mitch).
1st and 10 at VALPO35 BILINSKI pass complete to RENE for 41 yards to the TSU24, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Woods,Lawrence;Nadle,Zach).
1st and 10 at TSU24 BILINSKI pass complete to SUTTER for 14 yards to the TSU10, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Fishel,Wyatt).
1st and 0 at TSU10 CARTALES rush for loss of 2 yards to the TSU12.
2nd and 0 at TSU12 CARTALES rush for no gain to the TSU12 (Edwards,Bryan;Floyd,Jake), PENALTY VALPO holding declined.
3rd and 0 at TSU12 PENALTY VALPO unsportsmanlike conduct (KAMARA) 15 yards to the TSU27.
3rd and 0 at TSU27 BILINSKI pass complete to GESSINGER for 5 yards to the TSU22 (Edwards,Bryan).
4th and 0 at TSU22 LATSONAS field goal attempt from 39 GOOD, clock 01:49.
1st and 10 at TSU25 Barr,Jaden rush for 27 yards to the VALPO48, 1ST DOWN TSU, out-of-bounds.
1st and 10 at VALPO48 Satulla,Andy rush for 4 yards to the VALPO44 (WHEELER).
2nd and 6 at VALPO44 Satulla,Andy rush for 7 yards to the VALPO37, 1ST DOWN TSU (SNOUFFER).
1st and 10 at VALPO37 Satulla,Andy rush for 8 yards to the VALPO29 (SNOUFFER;BISHOP).
2nd and 2 at VALPO29 Satulla,Andy rush for 4 yards to the VALPO25, 1ST DOWN TSU (TURNER;BISHOP).
1st and 10 at VALPO25 Satulla,Andy rush for 8 yards to the VALPO17 (SNOUFFER).
2nd and 2 at VALPO17 Satulla,Andy rush for 2 yards to the VALPO15, 1ST DOWN TSU (TURNER).
1st and 10 at VALPO15 Satulla,Andy rush for 2 yards to the VALPO13 (LANE).
2nd and 8 at VALPO13 Barr,Jaden rush for 10 yards to the VALPO3, PENALTY TSU holding (Sharpe,Monty) 10 yards to the VALPO13.
2nd and 8 at VALPO13 Barr,Jaden rush for loss of 1 yard to the VALPO14 (WHEELER).
3rd and 9 at VALPO14 Barr,Jaden pass incomplete, QB hurry by OLOJO.
4th and 9 at VALPO14 Scheiderer,Josh field goal attempt from 31 GOOD, clock 11:56.
1st and 10 at VALPO25 SEEWALD pass complete to NORBERG for 13 yards to the VALPO38, 1ST DOWN VALPO.
1st and 10 at VALPO38 SEEWALD pass incomplete to EARLEY.
2nd and 10 at VALPO38 SEEWALD pass complete to CARTALES for 40 yards to the TSU22, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Devecchi,Alec;Edwards,Bryan).
1st and 10 at TSU22 CARTALES pass incomplete to NORBERG.
2nd and 10 at TSU22 CARTALES rush for 4 yards to the TSU18 (Hurd,JD;Edwards,Bryan).
3rd and 6 at TSU18 SEEWALD pass incomplete to CARTALES.
4th and 6 at TSU18 LATSONAS field goal attempt from 35 GOOD, clock 09:58.
LATSONAS kickoff 57 yards to the TSU8, Woods,Lawrence return 92 yards to the VALPO0, TOUCHDOWN, clock 09:46.
Rohler,Brock kickoff 61 yards to the VALPO4, GESSINGER return 23 yards to the VALPO27 (Fishel,Wyatt;Holt,Hayden).
1st and 10 at VALPO27 SEEWALD pass complete to NORBERG for 3 yards to the VALPO30 (Knight,D.).
2nd and 7 at VALPO30 SEEWALD pass incomplete to NORBERG.
3rd and 7 at VALPO30 SEEWALD sacked for loss of 1 yard to the VALPO29 (Reeves,Sam).
4th and 8 at VALPO29 NG pass incomplete to FOX (Wilson,Anthony).
1st and 10 at VALPO29 Satulla,Andy rush for 9 yards to the VALPO20 (SNOUFFER).
2nd and 1 at VALPO20 Satulla,Andy rush for 1 yard to the VALPO19, 1ST DOWN TSU (SNOUFFER;LANE).
1st and 10 at VALPO19 Satulla,Andy rush for loss of 1 yard to the VALPO20 (BISHOP).
2nd and 11 at VALPO20 Barr,Jaden rush for 7 yards to the VALPO13 (KELLY).
Timeout Truman State, clock 05:06.
3rd and 4 at VALPO13 Barr,Jaden rush for 13 yards to the VALPO0, 1ST DOWN TSU, TOUCHDOWN, clock 05:01.
Rohler,Brock kickoff 64 yards to the VALPO1, GESSINGER return 22 yards to the VALPO23 (Holt,Hayden).
1st and 10 at VALPO23 BILINSKI pass complete to NORBERG for 3 yards to the VALPO26 (Myerson,Travis;Nadle,Zach).
2nd and 7 at VALPO26 BILINSKI pass complete to GESSINGER for 15 yards to the VALPO41, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Myerson,Travis).
1st and 10 at VALPO41 BILINSKI pass complete to NORBERG for 6 yards to the VALPO47 (Nadle,Zach;Yakle,Eric).
2nd and 4 at VALPO47 CARTALES rush for loss of 1 yard to the VALPO46 (Devecchi,A.J.;Edwards,Bryan).
3rd and 5 at VALPO46 BILINSKI pass incomplete to KOEHLER (Hurd,JD).
4th and 5 at VALPO46 BILINSKI pass complete to CARTALES for 10 yards to the TSU44, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Fishel,Wyatt).
1st and 10 at TSU44 BILINSKI pass complete to RENE for 29 yards to the TSU15, 1ST DOWN VALPO (Hurd,JD).
1st and 10 at TSU15 BILINSKI pass complete to CARTALES for 15 yards to the TSU0, 1ST DOWN VALPO, TOUCHDOWN, clock 01:56.
LATSONAS kickoff 15 yards to the 50 yardline, on-side kick, recovered by TSU Jefferson,J. on 50 yardline.
1st and 10 at TSU50 PENALTY VALPO offside 5 yards to the VALPO45.
1st and 10 at VALPO45 Satulla,Andy rush for 5 yards to the VALPO40 (TURNER).
2nd and 5 at VALPO40 Satulla,Andy rush for 2 yards to the VALPO38 (WHEELER).
3rd and 3 at VALPO38 Barr,Jaden rush for 24 yards to the VALPO14, 1ST DOWN TSU.
1st and 10 at VALPO14 TEAM rush for loss of 2 yards to the VALPO16.
2nd and 12 at VALPO16 TEAM rush for loss of 1 yard to the VALPO17.


Chicken and Tim visit the Huka Falls in Taupo, New Zealand are the largest falls on the Waikato River, near Taupo on New Zealand's North Island. It is the most visited waterfall, and one of the most visited natural attractions in New Zealand!
The Waikato River is NZ's longest river – it stretches a massive 425km on the North Island. The river drains Lake Taupo – the largest freshwater lake in all of Australasia – and from there it descends to the Huka Falls, then meanders through the Waikato Plains until it reaches the Tasman Sea.
At the Huka Falls, the Waikato River which is normally 100m wide, is squeezed through a 20 metre wide gorge and over an 11m drop.
Up to 220,000 litres of water each second gushes through the gorge and shoots out over 8m beyond it to create a beautful aqua coloured white water pool.
The name Huka is the Maori word for 'foam', which is appropriate as the falling water and rapids certainly resembles foam, especially under flooding conditions.
What causes the Huka Falls?
The Waikato River, normally up to 100 metres wide, abruptly narrows to just 15 metres as it crosses a hard volcanic ledge. This of course causes a huge volume of water to collide together, forming a spectacular visual feast of powerful falls and rapids.
Around 220,000 litres per second of pours over the cliff face, and then rushes under a pedestrian bridge (great photo opportunity here!). The water then bursts out of its rapids, over the 11 metre falls, and back into the Waikato River.
Huka Falls is located in Wairakei Park. This is only a short 5 minute drive north of Lake Taupo. Or you can choose the 30 minute riverside walk as a way to get to the several viewing platforms that are available.


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WELCOME TO GT SUITES CORFOS BAY!
GT Suites Corfos Bay is a luxury "Boutique Hotel", opened its doors to the public in June 2015 and consists of 3 Mykonian traditional houses built with hand-cut and fitted stone, ceilings of wooden beams and natural materials which can be the ideal choice for your holidays!
The suites are located in the bay of Corfos in Ornos and only 2.5 km from Mykonos Town. They are built on a plot of 4.850m2 and they have wide and unrestricted view of the sea, with a range satrting from Little Venice of Mykonos and mills, up to Syros island.
Ornos beach and its nightlife, hotels and restaurants in the area and many more attractions make Ornos a beautiful town full of life and one of the most desirable places to stay in Mykonos. Following the traditional architecture of the island, GT Suites Corfos Bay combine tradition with luxury and comfort.
Each suite is about 50m2 and consists of two spaces. A master bedroom with a spacious bathroom, a lounge with comfortable sofas and a dining area with luxury furniture and an open fully equipped kitchen. In GT Suites Corfos Bay we have given great importance and attention to the issue of high quality of sleep! The suites are fully equipped with the latest technology, for your best and pleasant stay.
Each suite is decorated and designed with great attention and accommodates up to four people, while outside each suite has its own terrace overlooking the blue Aegean Sea. GT Suites Corfos Bay provide a quiet environment keeping your privacy undisturbed and also a private parking lot.
Altogether, GT Suites Corfos Bay contribute to spend a carefree holiday with amenities like your home. Welcome and have the best holidays of your life!!!


If you are looking for a group of perfomers that will create a spectacular show during your event, then you have no need to look further. A cabaret band will add a flair of drama to any party. It's not just duo -- it's a production! It includes dance, music and even a little bit of drama.


The DPM Systems AR-15 .223/5.56 Cal is a direct replacement for the stock buffer, this does not require any other alterations to the gun to reduce the recoil. The system produces advanced recoil reduction by gradually slowing down the bolt carrier before stopping in the bottom the tube. Included also two extra buffer springs, two counterweight springs and an extra heavier counterweight. The shooters can fine tune the rifle circle, the recoil and further to secure the correct bolt locking.


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Inside the Market
Friday's small-cap stocks to watch
Brenda Bouw
Published October 31, 2019 Updated November 1, 2019
Our roundup of Canadian small-caps of between $100-million and $2.5-billion in market capitalization making news and on the move today.
Aecon Group Inc. (ARE-T) reported third-quarter revenue of $1.03-billion, which the company said was $6-million, or 1 per cent, higher compared to the same period in 2018. Profit was $42.1-million or 60 cents per share versus a profit of $42-million or 60 cents a year ago. Analysts were expecting earnings of 58 cents and revenue of $1.02-billion.
Adjusted EBITDA $91.1-million (margin of 8.9 per cent) improved by $1.6-million compared to adjusted EBITDA of $89.5-million (margin of 8.8 per cent) for the third quarter of 2018, the company stated. Reported backlog as at Sept. 30 of $6.6-billion compares to backlog of $7-million a year earlier.
Sleep Country Canada Inc. (ZZZ-T) said its third-quarter revenue increased by 14.2 per cent to $210-million from $183.9-million a year ago. Same-store sales increased by 0.5 per cent. Net Income decreased to $21.5-million or 58 cents per share compared to $23.7-million or 64 cents per share a year ago. Adjusted net income decreased to $22.4-million or 60 cents per share from $24.7-million or 66 cents in the same quarter last year. Analysts were expecting revenue to come in at $214.6-million and adjusted earnings of 68 cents.
Kinaxis Inc. (KXS-T) said its third-quarter revenue increased 29 per cent to US$47.1-million versus US$36.6-million a year earlier. Profit came in at US$4.5-million or 17 cents US per share versus a profit of US$9.4-million or 10 cents US a year ago. Analysts were expecting revenue of US$44.8-million and earnings of 11 cents.
Eldorado Gold Corp. (ELD-T) said its third-quarter revenues increased to US$172.3-million from US$81.1-million in the third quarter of 2018. Analysts were expecting revenue to come in at US$173.4-million. The increase was a result of higher sales volumes and a higher average realized gold price of US$1,513 per ounce in the third quarter of 2019 compared to US$1,177 per ounce in the third quarter of 2018, the company said.
Net earnings attributable to shareholders of US$4.2 million or 3 cents US per share improved from a net loss attributable to shareholders in the third quarter of 2018 of US$128-million or 81 cents US per share.
"The improvement was primarily a result of higher sales volumes in the third quarter and an impairment charge in the third quarter of 2018 of US$117.6-million... relating to the Kisladag heap leach pad," the company stated.
Adjusted net earnings came in at 5 cents US per share compared to a loss of 14 cents US per share a year ago and below expectations of 9 cents US.
Private equity fund Catalyst Capital Group Inc. claims to have gathered enough votes to block the planned $1.1-billion buyout of Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC-T) and is pushing HBC's board of directors to put the retailer up for sale.
Toronto-based Catalyst announced late Thursday that investors holding a 28.2-per-cent stake in HBC plan to oppose a bid to take the company private from a group led by HBC executive chairman Richard Baker. HBC owns real estate and more than 300 department stores under the Saks Fifth Avenue and Hudson's Bay banners.
Mr. Baker's buyout offer was approved last week by the HBC board after it was sweetened to $10.30 a share, and needs the support of the majority of minority investors. Mr. Baker's group, which includes several private equity funds, controls 57 per cent of HBC's shares, so a majority of the remaining 43 per cent is any shareholder group voting more than 21.5 per cent of the shares. Mr. Baker's group and HBC could not be reached for comment late Thursday.
Wayland Group (WAYL-C) announced that it has agreed to terminate the transactions relating to the sale of its international portfolio of assets to ICC International Cannabis Corp.
"Pursuant to this termination agreement, ICC will no longer have any right to acquire any of Wayland's portfolio of international assets and Wayland will cease to hold the common shares of ICC previously received by it," the company stated.
It also said the termination agreement sees Wayland retain certain assets it previously transferred to ICC, "together with a mutual release."
Wayland also said that it continues its discussions with Cryptologic Corp. regarding the previously announced plan to sell of Wayland's Canadian business, including its Langton, Ontario production facility, to Cryptologic in exchange for common shares of Cryptologic. "We have been working daily with the Cryptologic team, and believe that their professional approach, experience and financial discipline provide a platform for unlocking additional value in the Canadian business. We look forward to continuing to work toward completion of this transaction with them," CEO Matt McLeod stated.
Horizon North Logistics Inc. (HNL-T) reported revenue of $116.6-million down from $100-million a year ago. Its net loss increased to $3.4 million or 2 cents per share versus $112,000 or nil per share a year ago.
Tucows Inc. (TCX-Q; TC-T) announced that it plans to acquire Cedar Holdings Group, a telecommunications provider serving multiple markets in the Western Slope of Colorado and northwestern New Mexico, through its Ting Fiber subsidiary for $9-million in cash and $2-million in restricted stock upon closing.
"There are additional contingent payments of up to $4-million in total that are subject to meeting specific benchmarks, and that would be paid at 24 and 36 months from closing," the company stated. It said the cash component of the purchase price will be funded through Tucows' existing credit facility.
The acquisition of Cedar adds approximately 1,400 customers and 6,400 addresses passed by fiber to the Ting Internet footprint.
Baytex Energy Corp. (BTE-N; BTE-T) reported adjusted funds flow of $213-million or 38 cents per share in the third quarter up from $171.2-million or 45 cents a year ago. Sales came in at $424.6-million versus $436.7-million a year ago and ahead of expectations of $416.9-million.
Net income of $15.5-million or 3 cents per share compared to net income of $27.4-million or 7 cents a year ago. Analysts were expecting EPS of 4 cents.
Baytex also said it expects to exceed its 2019 full-year annual production guidance of 97,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d). 2019 exit production is forecast at 95,000-97,000 boe/d, the company stated.
Namaste Technologies Inc. (N-X) appointed Annie Holmes as chief financial officer. succeeding Ken Ngo who will be leaving Namaste "to pursue another opportunity," the company stated.
Ms. Holmes has held the position of chief financial officer for a number of private companies and senior financial roles with publicly traded Smart Employee Benefits Inc. and Katanga Mining Inc.
Namaste also announces that Kenneth Jones has resigned from the company's board, while Baran Dilaver has been appointed to the board.
With a file from Andrew Willis
Follow Brenda Bouw on Twitter @BrendaBouw


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1998: Alonnisos to Skyros
This document contains the logs of the fifth singlehanded leg of the return trip with S/Y Thetis from the Greek Aegean island of Samos, to her base in Glyfada, near Athens. The leg is from Votsi, Alonnisos to Linaria, Skyros. The places seen on the way are: the small uninhabited island of Skatzoura, Agios Demetrios Monastery, Tris Bookes, and Chora in Skyros. The logs are illustrated with maps and photographs, and also include some historical and geographical descriptions of the places visited as well as several links to other related web sites.
Votsi
Skantzoura
Tris Boukes
Route to Skyros
Thursday September 17, 1998 Day 15
After a good night's sleep, I got up and started getting ready to leave Votsi. I had decided that, since there was no wind and it was extremely calm, not to go directly to Skyros, but to stop first in Skantzoura, for a few hours to swim and have lunch. The idea was that by delaying I might get some wind in the afternoon and be able to sail.
While preparing for departure, I ended up having a very early morning swim in Votsi. I raised the second anchor from the zodiac and got it inside the zodiac. I then untied the line from the chain, so that I could coil it for storage. I then brought the zodiac next to Thetis and put most of the chain on Thetis' deck while the anchor was still in the zodiac. Then I lifted the heavy anchor to put it onboard Thetis. Now I am not so sure exactly how, but I lost my grip on the anchor and it dropped into the water pulling all the 15 m of chain with it. So, I had to quickly put on the mask and flippers and after grabbing the end of a long rope, dive to retrieve the chain and the anchor. The water was cold! It was very careless of me to untie the line from the chain before securing the anchor.
We left Votsi, without another mishap, at 0910. We motored the 12 M to Skantzoura over the flat sea. We anchored [39° 04' N 24° 06.7' E] there at 1015. The barometer had risen to 1012 mB, and the Navtex forecast called for NW 4-5.
In Skantzoura
Skantzoura (Σκάντζουρα) is an uninhabited island. The only structure on it, that I know of, is an old hermitage, now abandoned, which I had visited in 1991.
I had a nice swim and a peaceful lunch under the tent. As I was getting ready to leave, the MOm patrol boat entered the cove, I waved and they waved back but they did not approach. I guess it was not my new friend Stamatis.
We left Skantzoura at 1240. Initially there was no wind and we were motoring, but later the wind came at 7-10 knots from the ESE, still not too useful. Later it changed direction to ENE and picked up some speed reaching 10-14 knots which allowed us to at least motor-sail. We arrived at the harbor of Linaria (Λινάρια), Skyros [38° 50.6' N 24° 32.1' E] at 1720. The distance from Skantzoura was 26.7 M.
There was no room in the small harbor which already had at least two yachts tied to the ferryboat quay. Not having much choice, I went to the nearby cove of Linaria [38° 50.9' N 24° 32' E] and anchored off-shore. This cove is a little bit tricky because there are some submarine power cables on its S side that must be avoided. I had a little trouble at first with the anchor catching weeds instead of digging into the sand, but on my second attempt it held. We were anchored at 4.8 m depth with over 40 m chain rode. I tested the holding by revving the engine in reverse and later inspected it by snorkeling.
Skyros (Σκύρος) has about 4,000 inhabitants and an area of 210 km². The tallest peak is Mt. Kokhilas (792 m). Skyros has a rather long history. In Greek Mythology its king, Lycomedes, offered hospitality to Theseus when he was an old man, but he became very jealous of his fame and murdered him. The same Lycomedes hid Achilles as a favor to Thetis, Achilles' mother, so that he could avoid going to the Trojan War. In more historical times, the island was conquered by the Athenians in 470 BC. In 404 BC it was taken over by the Spartans, and in 322 BC by the Macedonians who were followed by the Romans. Skyros then became part of the Byzantine Empire until the 15th century when it was taken over by the Venetians. They held it until 1538 when the Ottoman Turks took it and held it until the end of the war of independence in 1821 when it became part of Greece. Today Skyros is renowned for its folk art and its Carnival. The largest town is Chora, or Skyros, which is built around the Venetian castle. It is about 10 km from the Linaria harbor. Native to Skyros is a species of small pony called Pikermic.
Embroidery from Skyros
I went ashore with the zodiac and made a few phone calls because the Autolink did not work here. The cove is very pleasant except for a distant hum from the nearby power plant. I had supper aboard. The Navtex predicted light SW winds of force 4-5.
After I went to bed, the wind changed direction to SW but it was not strong. Thetis reoriented herself and stabilized at 4.4 m. Despite the light wind, I was somewhat worried because of the considerable swell. I even contemplated setting a second anchor but finally decided against it since the boat was not drifting to shallower water anymore. Nevertheless the night was not a very peaceful one, and I got up several times to check the depth and the anchor.
Friday September 18, 1998 Day 16
I woke up early, still uneasy about the change of wind direction. This uneasiness was further aided by Nikos who yesterday on the phone had told me that he had heard a long range forecast which predicted very bad weather for the weekend. So, after coffee I rode to the harbor in the zodiac to see if there was any room. I already had seen a large catamaran and another sail boat leaving the harbor. Still, there was no room. I asked a chartered sail boat, with German crew, which was docked sideways at the best spot, if they were planning to leave the harbor. Yes, they were, and within an hour. I then asked them if they could be kind enough to hail me on channel 72 on the VHF just before leaving. They kindly promised to do so. Back to Thetis I went and started preparing her for docking: fenders on the side, docking lines etc.
Linaria, Skyros
In less than an hour, the Germans hailed me and informed me that they were about to leave. I was ready. I raised the anchor and motored to the harbor, just as they were leaving. No chance for another boat to take the coveted spot. A nice young crewman from the Coast Guard patrol boat helped me with the lines. By 0920 Thetis was totally secure with extra spring lines.
The distance from Votsi to Linaria was 29.2 M, covered in 7 hours.
My first objective in Skyros was to visit the well known Faltaitz Museum of Folkloric art. In my previous visits to the island, I was somehow unable to see this museum, so now it was my chance. I asked about renting a scooter but all the scooter rentals were in Chora. The next bus was not due for several hours and no one was exactly certain to its schedule. There were no taxis either. After some inquiries I got the telephone number of the taxi stand in Chora and called for a taxi. My plan was to visit the museum first, then climb to the Venetian castle, and then look for a place that rents scooters.
The Faltaitz Museum is small but very eclectic. It was founded by Manos Faltaitz who is still overseeing its function. He is Greek, and a native of Skyros. The original family name was Faltsis, but it was corrupted to Faltaitz in Odessa where his father did business. The museum is housed in the family mansion (αρχοντικό) and a number of rooms have been re-created as there were last century. The exhibit consists of Skyrian furniture, chests, embroidery, traditional costumes, carnival costumes with their large bells and masks, books, etc.
Vicky and Thomás
After seeing the exhibits I was loitering in the nice museum store which sells some antiques and handcrafted items made by contemporary craftsmen. I was particularly admiring a restored chest. The young lady in attendance did not know its price but promised to find out and let me know by tomorrow. While talking to the young lady, I heard a familiar sounding voice. It was none other then my cousin Vicki Papantoniou and her nephew Thomás. I had not seen Vicki since 1988 when she was visiting in Washington D.C. Vicki, who has a degree in Archaeology, is an hagiographer (painter of Byzantine icons) of some note, but to supplement her income she also works as a freelance tourist guide. She was in Skyros for a couple of days scouting in advance of her leading a large tour next week. She and Thomás arrived in Skyros last night and are leaving with the morning ferry tomorrow.
The three of us, Vicki, Thomás, and I, walked in the narrow streets of Chora with the many interesting houses up to the Venetian Castle. The view was magnificent. Since we were hungry and they had a car, we drove to the Magazia beach, N of the town, where we had lunch while watching the few people sunbathing and swimming in the surf. In the meantime, the wind had arrived and it was fitfully blowing from the SE. They drove me back to Thetis and they retired to their hotel, just across the quay, for the afternoon rest.
Chora, Skyros
A street
View from the Castle
From the Castle
Later in the evening Vicki and Thomás came aboard and we had an ouzo in the cockpit. Thomás is very interested in sailing and would like to join me sometime. Vicki scrutinized the boat and voiced her concern about me sailing all by myself, but unlike the majority of Greeks she seemed to understand the deep satisfactions of solitude. Following the ouzo and conversation, we drove back to Chora.
First we located a store that rented motor scooters. It was run by a young German lady who spoke excellent Greek. After securing a motorbike, we walked along the streets and in and out of the stores, which unlike the ones on many other islands, were interesting and inviting. Handicrafts, particularly wood carving, embroidery, and ceramics have a long tradition here. I was captivated by a terra-cotta mermaid, and by a rather pricey lapis lazuli necklace. Later we sat for dinner at the "Ο Παπούς και εγώ… (My Grandfather and I ..)" restaurant. They had an endless variety of Skyrian mezedes (tasty treats): fava, domatokeftedes (ντοματοκεφτέδες - tomato balls), grilled local goat cheese, grilled meat balls in an ouzo based sauce etc.
It was a very cold ride down to the harbor on the motorbike. On board, I found the Navtex had received a new forecast: thunderstorms to be followed tomorrow night by strong N winds. We shall see.
Saturday September 19, 1998 Day 17
During the night the rain came with a vengeance. The leak of the Plexiglass window was very much with us. Nothing serious, but it was very annoying to have to string a number of sponges along the couch to catch the water before it seeped in the storage areas. In the very early morning hours I was woken by the thunderstorm, which was going at full force. Prodigious amounts of water with thunders everywhere. The whole sky was ablaze. The zodiac, which was afloat besides Thetis, was totally filled with water. There must have fallen at least 30 cm overnight (the mean yearly rain fall for Athens is 40 cm)!
Around 7:00 Vicki appeared, all covered in heavy rain gear, to say goodbye. By 8:00, when her ferryboat left, the rainfall had abated somewhat. The harbor water which yesterday was crystal clear, had been transformed to a deep chocolate color. It had not rained in Skyros since April. All the accumulated dust was washed into the harbor within a few hours.
I walked to the store across the harbor to buy some fresh bread. In the store I met Andrew McCullah the owner of the British S/Y Ismira. He was trying to ascertain when the next bus for Chora was due. I help him by translating, but the best we could gather was that the bus would not come for at least 3 hours. The rain started coming hard again. Although I was wearing storm gear, it was hard to walk the 50 m back to Thetis in this deluge. Andrew invited me aboard Ismira for a cup of tea and to meet his friends and mates from Germany, Monica and Matias. They had strung a plastic tarpaulin over the cockpit and, despite the downpour, we could sit and talk outside. When the rain became less violent I walked back to my boat.
View from the Museum
Later in the morning the rain finally stopped and I drove the motorbike up to Chora. I went to the Faltaitz Museum to find out the price of the old chest that I was admiring yesterday. Well, it turns out it belongs to Mr. Faltaitz himself and it is not for sale. I then visited the near-by Archaeological Museum. It is small but it has an interesting collection of Prehistoric, Mycenean and Geometric finds from the Magazia excavation, but they are not exhibited as nicely as the exhibits in the Limnos museum. I walked some more around the town with its lovely old houses, all kept up, freshly white washed, and clean.
Another street in Chora
I then, following the advice of the German lady at the bike rental, rode the bike to a back road, and then walked through the pine woods to the tiny monastery of Agios Demetrios. The woods, freshly washed, were sparkling and the smell of the soil and pines was intoxicating. Alas, the church was locked because, as I later learned, it had been burgled recently. I then attempted to drive to Agios Fotios, on the NW of the island, but I lost my way and eventually gave up.
Woods near Agios Demetrios
Agios Demetrios
View of Chora
After pulling off the road and having a light lunch, which I had packed in my backpack, I rode to the SE toward the Tris Bookes (Τρείς Μπούκες) or Trebuki, all the way to the grave of the British Poet Rupert Brooke. The name means three mouths and is descriptive of this large bay protected by two islands that give it three openings. The ride through the mountains which were topped by heavy dark clouds and the dark sea underneath was very dramatic.
View of Tris Bookes
The grave of Rupert Brooke
Near the grave I was lucky to see 3 of the rare Pikermic ponies, native to Skyros.
Rupert Brooke's grave is considered British soil and is maintained by a society in England. He was already a well known young poet when he died in 1915, at sea, on his way to the Gallipoli battle. He was 28 years old. They buried him here, some distance from the sea, while the boat lay at anchor in the bay. It is still very moving. I could not get near the water because it is a restricted area used by the Greek navy.
On my way back, a few km from the harbor I met Andrew, Monica, and Matias walking. They did go to Chora, but as the bus back was not due until late at night they decided to walk. They were exhausted, Monica in particular could hardly drag her feet. I gave her a ride on the back of the bike. At the harbor, I persuaded the man at the gas station to drive his small truck for a few meters and refueled Thetis with 32 L of fuel, without carting jerry cans. I then, anticipating a morning departure, drained the zodiac, raised it, and lashed it on the deck.
After a shower, I drove the motorbike up to Chora and returned it. I then took a taxi back to Linaria since I had been invited to dinner aboard Ismira. They had prepared a nice meal with potatoes baked with onions, yogurt, and cheese. We ate it under the tarpaulin as it started raining again. Matias is an engineer and had met Andrew a few years ago at a boat show in England. Now he and Monica charter Ismira, with Andrew as a skipper, every year for a few weeks. They have all sailed all over the Mediterranean. With the wine and the conversation time slipped away fast. By the time I got back on Thetis it was almost midnight. The Navtex prediction for Central Aegean and the Kafireas channel was 5-6 NW with rain. I decided to leave early tomorrow morning.
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Press release: "Taking the quality of biomedical research to a whole new level"
Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University comes to Berlin as an Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow
He is among the world's most famous researchers: John Ioannidis of Stanford University published a paper in 2005 that was provocatively titled "Why most published research findings are false." Ioannidis has now come to the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) as an Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow at the BIH QUEST Center – funded by Stiftung Charité and the Einstein Foundation Berlin ‒ to establish the Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-Berlin), the European "sister" of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). Together, METRIC-Berlin and the BIH QUEST Center seek to take the quality of biomedical research at the BIH and Charité ‒ and also in Berlin and beyond – to a whole new level.
German Research Minister Anja Karliczek expressed her delight that the BIH was hosting the internationally respected guest research: "Medical research findings need to be high quality, reliable, and clinically viable so that new therapies and drugs can benefit patients quicker. METRIC-Berlin will enable Professor John Ioannidis to further advance his initiative on quality assurance in medical research. He will thus make an important contribution to improving the translation of findings. I am pleased that the Berlin Institute of Health can welcome Professor John Ioannidis as an Einstein Visiting Fellow. This proves again that Germany is a leading location for research and has a very strong international appeal. I wish Professor John Ioannidis and his colleagues at the Berlin Institute of Health great success!"
John Ioannidis will initially serve for three years as an Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow at the BIH Institute of Health. "We want to find out what works best – and what doesn't work – in scientific research," is how Ioannidis outlines his goal for METRIC-Berlin. METRIC-Berlin's researchers – in collaboration with their colleagues from the BIH QUEST Center – will take a close look at the scientific process itself: What research methods are used? How are results obtained, verified, and published? How are researchers appraised, and what incentives and rewards exist in the scientific system? "In this way, we want to produce recommendations that increase the effectiveness and value of research – and thus science's importance to society," explains Ioannidis.
Professor Axel Radlach Pries, interim Chairman of the BIH Executive Board and Dean of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, welcomes the addition to the BIH: "The BIH's mission is translation – in other words, the transfer of basic research findings into clinical practice. The findings must be high quality to successfully move research from the lab to patients. Through the support of METRIC-Berlin, going forward we will be able to promote the achievement of research quality in the best possible way. Professor Karl Max Einhäupl, Chairman of the Executive Board of Charité, concurs: "The quality of medical research is already in many cases outstanding, but there is still need for improvement in other aspects. John Ioannidis's exceptional research has gotten an unparalleled response internationally." Professor Martin Lohse, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), is also pleased to have Ioannidis come to Berlin: "The credibility and reliability of science is essential to basic researchers like us. We are therefore looking forward to this opportunity to focus attention on the quality assurance that our accomplishments require."
Stiftung Charité has since 2014 been supporting international exchange at the BIH through several programs of its Johanna Quandt Private Excellence Initiative. Nineteen Einstein BIH Visiting Fellows have come to Berlin since the BIH's founding, including prominent scientists such as Nobel Prize winners Thomas Südhof, Edvard Ingjald Moser, and Brian Kobilka. Stiftung Charité, together with the Einstein Foundation, funds the Einstein BIH Visiting Fellows. Professor E. Jürgen Zöllner, Chairman of Stiftung Charité, welcomed John Ioannidis to Berlin: "Stiftung Charité is delighted to have John Ioannidis serve as the new Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow in Berlin. He is indeed the most important advocate in the drive to fundamentally and permanently improve research practices and performance culture in biomedicine." Professor Günter Stock, Chairman of Einstein Stiftung Berlin, emphasized that "with the arrival of John Ioannidis and the start of METRICS Berlin the scientific region of Berlin will take a pioneering role besides Stanford regarding to securing quality and further developing biomedical research."
"We are very thankful to the Einstein Foundation and Stiftung Charité for the opportunity to advance our research in Berlin in collaboration with the BIH QUEST Center," John Ioannidis said at the press conference. In his frequently quoted paper, John Ioannidis explains that many spectacular research findings – especially findings in biomedical research – are not reproducible. This could be the result of insufficient samples, poor study design, preconceived hypotheses, or incorrect interpretations. "In the last few years much has improved in biomedical research," said Ioannidis. "For example, scientific journals are paying closer attention to make sure submitted work meets certain quality criteria. And funding organizations are also supporting projects that check the findings of other researchers. But there is still a lot to do before we achieve our goal of ensuring that most research findings are correct!"
Ioannidis's host is Professor Ulrich Dirnagl, head of the Department of Experimental Neurology at Charité and founder of the BIH QUEST Center, whose work is also dedicated to increasing the quality and thus the benefits of biomedical research. QUEST is an acronym that stands for Quality, Ethics, Open Science, and Translation. "John Ioannidis is one of the founding fathers of, and leading researchers in, an entire scientific discipline called meta-research," Dirnagl stressed. "Meta-research holds the key to the analysis of flaws in published research, but also of successful research models and best scientific practices. It provides the scientific basis for measures with which we can further improve research at the BIH for the benefit of our patients. We are thrilled that, thanks to having John as an Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow and being able to work with his research team at METRIC-Berlin, we can now do this in a way that is entirely novel and more internationally visible."
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