Manning Park

http://owj.ca/hikes/manning-park/2007-08-25-three-brothers/three-brothers.html

To reach the trailhead drive east on Highway 5 past Hope. Take exit 177 onto Highway 3, which you follow for 67 km (42 mi) to Manning Park Lodge. Turn left opposite to the lodge and inmediately turn left and drive uphill for 17 km to the very end of the road. You can start the hike one kilometre before at Blackwall Peak parking lot as well. Do not forget to pay the $3 parking fee.

From the upper parking lot you need to follow Heather Trail.

Display TIMESTAMP in history using HISTTIMEFORMAT

http://linux.101hacks.com/command-line-history/display-timestamp-using-histtimeformat/

in ~/.bashrc:

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%c "

Andre Kushniruk - human-computer interaction in health care

http://www.uvic.ca/hsd/hinf/people/faculty/andre/index.php

Dr. Kushniruk conducts research in a number of areas including evaluation of the effects of technology, human-computer interaction in health care and other domains as well as cognitive science. His work is known internationally and he has published widely in the area of health informatics. He focuses on developing new methods for the evaluation of information technology and studying human-computer interaction in health care and he has been a key researcher on a number of national and international collaborative projects. 

• Research interests

• Evaluation of the use and usability of information systems
• Design and evaluation methodologies
• e-Health and telemedicine
• Consumer informatics
• Cognitive aspects of decision support systems
• Data mining in health informatics
• Computerized patient record systems
• Intelligent information filtering
• Usability engineering
• Knowledge representation
• Design of health care user interfaces and human-computer interaction in complex domains

http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2013/GRAD/GPROGS/HISc/PrRe.html

Health Information Science, 2-year program

Expression Language in JSP not working (not getting evaluated)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2168832/expression-language-in-jsp-not-working

process.jsp:
Welcome, ${param.name}

Page URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp/process.jsp?name=test123

Expected ouptut:
Welcome, test123

With other words, the EL expression doesn't get evaluated? That can have one or more of the following causes:

1. Application server in question doesn't support JSP 2.0.
2. The web.xml is not declared as Servlet 2.4 or higher.
3. The @page is configured with isELIgnored=true.
4. The web.xml is configured with <el-ignored>true</el-ignored> in <jsp-config>.

In my case, it was Problem #2 so edit the web.xml file to include

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">
...
</web-app>

Drug Research in China Falls Under a Cloud

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/business/global/drug-research-in-china-falls-under-a-cloud.html?hp&_r=0

The report revealed that the drug’s project leader belatedly learned the results of three studies of ozanezumab in mice. During their investigation, auditors came across six studies whose results had not been reported, even though early trials in humans were already under way.

“If that’s true, it’s a mortal sin in research requirements,” said Arthur L. Caplan, the head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. He served as the chairman of an advisory committee on bioethics at Glaxo from 2005 to 2008. “No one could approve human trials without having that information available, scientifically or ethically. That’s kind of a Rock-of-Gibraltar-sized ethics violation.”

B.C. taps into growing telehealth technology trend

http://www.biv.com/article/20130723/BIV0112/307239917/bc-taps-into-growing-telehealth-technology-trend

Livecare is one of two Vancouver companies to launch new telemedicine services in B.C. in recent weeks.

 Until recently, a major barrier to telemedicine in Canada was billing. But in the past 18 months, most provinces in Canada have introduced new billing codes to allow doctors to bill their provincial health ministries for telemedicine visits.

Medeo CEO Ryan Wilson said telemedicine could benefit the health-care system by reducing hospital visits.

IMS Research estimates the global telehealth market will be worth $6.28 billion by 2020. It’s a space that Telus (TSX:T) has developed as a separate business entity, investing $1 billion in telehealth through its Telus Health division.

Last year, it acquired Vancouver’s Wolf Medical Systems – which developed electronic medical records – for $30 million. Telus Health services include remote patient monitoring, where people can take their own blood glucose tests or blood pressure and upload the information to health-care providers.

Telus’ Pharma Space allows people to refill prescriptions online using their computers or smartphones.

Transfer files between LG Nexus 4 and Windows XP

- Make sure to download and install the Google USB Android Driver
- Connect you Nexus 4 using the USB cable, make sure to check MTP mode (alternatively, PTP mode will allow you to transfer pictures only)
- Disable USB Debugging on the phone

If these doesn't work, try:
- Installing MTP drivers for Windows XP from the Microsoft Website
- Installing Windows Media Player 11
- Reboot

Javascript visualization libraries

http://www.elisa-dbi.co.uk/blog/38-tools-for-beautiful-data-visualisations/

Javascript Libraries

• Arbor.js - Node-link
• Cubism.js - Time series
• D3.js - Matrix, node-link, circular hierarchy, hive, icicle/partition, radial hierarchy, treemap, tree, hyperbolic tree, radial tree, Marimekko charts, parallel set, heat map, bubble chart, word cloud
• Dance.js - Interactive diagrams
• Envision.js - (HTML5 visualisations) Time series, fractals
• Flot – Interactive charts
• Highchart – Interactive charts
• Google Chart Tools  / Google Fusion Tables - Maps, pie chart, bar chart, radial chart, tree map, scatter plots, bubble charts, line chart, step chart, area chart, boxplot, trees, tree maps, node-link
• Infovis - Area chart, pie chart, bar chart, radial hierarchy, treemap, Marimekko chart, tree, node-link, radial chart, radial tree, hyperbolic tree
• Leaflet.js - Maps
• Modest Maps.js - Maps
• Processing.js  – Interactive diagrams
• Raphäel.js – Line chart, pie chart, time series; SVG generated charts.
• Rickshaw - Time series
• Sigma.js - Node-link

A Continuous Semantic Space Describes the Representation of Thousands of Object and Action Categories across the Human Brain

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312009348

What's the world's greatest lie

“What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”

 -- Paulo Coelho "The Alchemist"

Eclipse Open Resource (Ctrl + Shift + R), Open Type (Ctrl + Shift +T)

Eclipse Open Resource (Ctrl + Shift + R), Open Type (Ctrl + Shift +T)

Fast way of searching for files

MyUnity - Ubuntu 12 Unity Desktop Configuration

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/unity-tweak-tool/

change number of workspaces

Windsurfing, Deals

http://www.windsure.com/windsurfing.html
http://vancouverwateradventures.com/

https://www.livingsocial.com/
http://www.wagjag.com
http://www.wagjag.com

Java jar files - FatJar

http://fjep.sourceforge.net/#inst

The Fat Jar Eclipse Plug-In is a Deployment-Tool which deploys an Eclipse java-project into one executable jar.

It adds the Entry "Build Fat-JAR" to the Export-Wizard.
In addition to the eclipse standard jar-exporter referenced classes and jars are included to the "Fat-Jar", so the resulting jar contains all needed classes and can be executed directly with "java -jar", no classpath has to be set, no additional jars have to be deployed.

Jars, External-Jars, User-Libraries, System-Libraries, Classes-Folders and Project-Exports are considered by the plugin.
The Main-Class can be selected and Manifest-files are merged.
The One-JAR option integrates a specialised Class-Loader written by Simon Tuffs ( http://one-jar.sourceforge.net/ ) which handles jar-files inside a jar.
Individual files and folders can be excluded or added to the jar.
Different settings can be stored and re-executed as "Quick Build" via the context-menu.

Or

JARS=$(echo ${LIB_DIR}/* | tr ' ' ':')

java -classpath $JARS org.HelloWorld


Or

in Linux (Java 1.6 and above)

java -cp ".:../lib/*" org.HelloWorld


Maven shaded plugin

Junior / Senior Bioinformatician

http://bioinformatics.ca/node/17199

Institution/Company: 

Harvard School of Public Health

Location: 

Boston, MA, US

Job Description: 

*About us*

Harvard NeuroDiscovery serves neuroscientists from across the Harvard Medical School community and beyond, providing a range of core facilities, research platforms and funding opportunities to investigators that seek to understand the nervous system and to use that understanding to reduce disease burden. We embrace the broad spectrum of neurobiological investigation, from the most fundamental research, through applied translational research. We also promote a more collaborative biomedical neuroscience research community.  For more information, please visit www.neurodiscovery.harvard.edu.

As part of a new initiative, Harvard NeuroDiscovery is partnering with the Harvard School of Public Health’s Bioinformatics Core (HBC, http://compbio.sph.harvard.edu/chb)
to provide support in computational biology to our community

Institution/Company: 

Harvard School of Public Health

Location: 

Boston, MA, US

Job Description: 

*About us*

Harvard NeuroDiscovery serves neuroscientists from across the Harvard Medical School community and beyond, providing a range of core facilities, research platforms and funding opportunities to investigators that seek to understand the nervous system and to use that understanding to reduce disease burden. We embrace the broad spectrum of neurobiological investigation, from the most fundamental research, through applied translational research. We also promote a more collaborative biomedical neuroscience research community.  For more information, please visit www.neurodiscovery.harvard.edu.

As part of a new initiative, Harvard NeuroDiscovery is partnering with the Harvard School of Public Health’s Bioinformatics Core (HBC, http://compbio.sph.harvard.edu/chb)
to provide support in computational biology to our community

Linked - Albert-László Barabási

Linked,how everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life
Albert-László Barabási
Release Date: 2003-01-01
No. of Pages: 308
ISBN-10: 0452284392
ISBN-13: 9780452284395

Description:
A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nations foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previoulsy thought. Grasping a full understanding of network science, will someday allow us to design blue chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick brought the discovery of the Chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert-L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Barab%C3%A1si

Best known for his work on network theory

Finding Simple Tests for Brain Disorders Turns Out to Be Complex

http://www.wbur.org/npr/198086616/MENTAL-ILLNESS-BIOMARKERS

The Big Book of Key Performance Indicators

http://webanalyticshub.com/PDFS/The%20Big%20Book%20of%20Key%20Performance%20Indicators%20by%20Eric%20Peterson.pdf

The Big Book of 
Key Performance Indicators
by 
Eric T. Peterson 

web analytics

Lucene snowball stemmer

http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_0_3/api/contrib-snowball/

Debug hibernate

production-data-source.xml <property name="show_sql">true</property>
hibernate.cfg.xml  <property name="show_sql">true</property>

Poems, Karuta

Impassionate gods have never seen such Tatsuta River, crimson that flows above, the water below.

http://onethousandsummers.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ogura-hyakunin-isshu-poem-17-ariwara-no.html

A Disease Without a Cure Spreads Quietly in the West

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/health/a-disease-without-a-cure-spreads-quietly-in-the-west.html?hp&_r=0

Coccidioidomycosis, known as “cocci,” is an insidious airborne fungal disease in which microscopic spores in the soil take flight on the wind or even a mild breeze to lodge in the moist habitat of the lungs and, in the most extreme instances, spread to the bones, the skin, the eyes or, in Mr. Klorman’s case, the brain.

Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12213.html

Major international projects are underway that are aimed at creating a comprehensive catalogue of all the genes responsible for the initiation and progression of cancer^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9}. These studies involve the sequencing of matched tumour–normal samples followed by mathematical analysis to identify those genes in which mutations occur more frequently than expected by random chance. Here we describe a fundamental problem with cancer genome studies: as the sample size increases, the list of putatively significant genes produced by current analytical methods burgeons into the hundreds. The list includes many implausible genes (such as those encoding olfactory receptors and the muscle protein titin), suggesting extensive false-positive findings that overshadow true driver events. We show that this problem stems largely from mutational heterogeneity and provide a novel analytical methodology, MutSigCV, for resolving the problem. We apply MutSigCV to exome sequences from 3,083 tumour–normal pairs and discover extraordinary variation in mutation frequency and spectrum within cancer types, which sheds light on mutational processes and disease aetiology, and in mutation frequency across the genome, which is strongly correlated with DNA replication timing and also with transcriptional activity. By incorporating mutational heterogeneity into the analyses, MutSigCV is able to eliminate most of the apparent artefactual findings and enable the identification of genes truly associated with cancer.

The Lions

http://vancouverhiking.tripod.com/id10.html
http://www.trailcafe.com/hiking/individual/lion_heads.html
http://www.clubtread.com/routes/Route.aspx?Route=239 

6 BEST CAR-FREE HIKES IN VANCOUVER

http://vancouverist.info/6-car-free-hikes-in-vancouver/


1. Hanes Valley Traverse
2. Whyte Lake/ Eagle Bluffs Lookout
3. Mosquito Creek Cascades/Mt. Fromme Summit
4. Diez Vistas or Lindsay Lake Loop
5. Mt. Gardner on Bowen Island
6. Norvan Falls/ Coliseum/Lynn Peak/Lynn Lake/The Needles