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Jonathan Blow, the creator of Braid and the upcoming puzzle-symphony The Witness, is a very cool dude. Chatting with him last week, I had this realization about what he was doing with his upcoming game—the way that his carefully crafted puzzles locked together like the motives and themes of a symphony.
So, I thought I'd ask about his favorite band. As it turns out, Blow is partial to Dirty Three, an Australian instrumental outfit made up of Warren Ellis on violin, Mick Turner on guitar, and Jim White on drums. They are super, super good.
Their music is simple, mournful even, something like a more rough-and-tumble version of the wonderful (and sadly, now defunct) San Francisco outfit Tin Hat Trio.
Blow told me he likes to listen to this music as he works; there are no distracting vocals, and each time he listens, he hears something new. I've noticed the same thing—their songs are very simple on the surface, but they carve out a wide open space for their music, creating an immersive and emotional hodgepodge with each tune.
The piece above, titled "Sea Above, Sky Below," is a great example of what they're all about. It even has a melody that comes close to the sax solo in "Careless Whisper," which earns super extra bonus points with me.
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Anyone who has waited endlessly at a red light at an empty four-way intersection knows traffic signals are not the most efficient way to keep traffic flowing. Computer scientists have figured out a way to utilize the space in intersections far more efficiently. The problem is the solution will have to wait for a day when cars can drive themselves.
To Make Intersections Smarter, We Need Cars To Be Smarter, Too
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
Car companies have already begun to design cars that can drive themselves. But to make these smart cars really useful, they'll also need smart roads. As part of his series, "Joe's Big Idea," NPR science correspondent Joe Palca has this story about some computer scientists who were designing a smart traffic intersection. How smart? Well, it can keep traffic flowing at least 10 times faster than old-fashioned intersections.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: I've done my share of late night driving, so I can sympathize with what happened to Kurt Dresner one night about a decade ago. At the time, Dresner was a computer science grad student at the University of Texas at Austin. He was working in the lab late one night - did I just make you think of a song? - and didn't head home till nearly 2 in the morning.
KURT DRESNER: I was driving home, and I was at a stoplight. And the stoplight was red but there was nobody around. And I was just thinking to myself, there's got to be a better way to do this.
PALCA: The better way Dresner came up with requires autonomous cars - cars that know exactly where they are, precisely how fast they're going, and can drive themselves without any help from a human. It also requires smart intersections. In his system, Dresner says, as a car approaches the intersection, it would request a reservation to enter the intersection by sending ahead detailed information.
DRESNER: This is how big my vehicle is, this is when I'm going to enter the intersection, this is how fast I'm going to be going, this is how I am going to exit the intersection and when I'm going to exit the intersection.
PALCA: A computer at the smart intersection looks at this information and information it's getting from other cars wanting to enter the intersection, then makes a decision.
DRESNER: All the intersection ever says is yes or no. Either it says, yes, that works and I've confirmed your reservation or it says, no, that doesn't work and you need to come up with something else.
PALCA: So the car can propose speeding up or slowing down or stopping for a while until it finds a plan the intersection will accept.
DRESNER: It's up to the car to change the plans.
PALCA: I've seen a simulation of how this would work. On the screen, there's a four-way intersection with each road carrying five lanes of traffic. With light traffic, cars just zoom through. But with heavier traffic, even though some cars are turning and some are going straight, in the simulation at least, the cars don't slow down all that much, although they frequently come terrifyingly close to each. And this is why you need autonomous cars. Dresner says a human driver just couldn't make the necessary adjustments fast enough or remain on course reliably enough to make the system work.
DRESNER: You have to trust the vehicle at that point, and the vehicle can do it a lot better than you can. I mean, I don't - I can't count the number of times I'm driving around and I think to myself, this would be so much better if there were a computer driving these cars around me because the people around me are not driving very well.
PALCA: Dresner knows right now most people wouldn't be comfortable putting themselves or their families into the hands of a car that drives itself.
DRESNER: My personal feeling is when you're neighbor buys that autonomous vehicle and you're seeing them not have to worry about driving when they're tired or getting a designated driver for a party or having the car drive their kid to soccer practice without them having to wake up, you know, early on Saturday morning or whatever, personally, I think you'll be sold.
PALCA: He may be right, but we're probably not going to find out for a while. Joe Palca, NPR News.
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A Pint Glass Is No Longer An Acceptable Vase Substitute
I wouldn't say that I try to impress my boyfriend's parents, but: if you're reading this, Robert and Mary, you're totally brilliant!
I jest, of course. I don't try to impress Robert and Mary – as I am over 40, feel totally able to be myself around them, and they are very forgiving people. But I confess that I hope they like me, that they know how much I love and care for their son, and that they realise I am a Grown-Up who is capable of keeping a Nice Home.
Not least because I am possibly still trying to prove the latter point to myself.
As I flatshared through my 20s and 30s, never truly able to make a place my home because it was always someone else's, I always hoped that I had it in me to be such a Grown-Up. And since buying my own little flat two years ago, I confess that I've found great joy in both creating my own home, and feeling house-proud as a result.
I've bought furniture. I've découpaged some of that furniture. I've framed photos – and not even in clip frames, oh no. I mean properly, ie like grown-ups do, ie with mounts.
I've also started buying flowers for the place. And by 'the place' I naturally mean 'myself'.
I've bought flowers for myself before, of course, and not just because I was single. But now that I'm in my own place, I'm buying more – because I regard them as pretty much the easiest single thing you can do to a home to instantly make it a more joyous, more pleasurable and more pleasantly smelly place to live.
I don't go crazy – I don't always have flowers in the flat; when I do it's limited to one bunch; and that bunch is probably made up of lilies, tulips or daffodils, ie flowers that cost between £1 and £7 and never more than a tenner. Yet because they're ostensibly one of life's luxuries, rather than necessities – even when they only cost £1 – I feel like I'm treating myself every time I buy them. Which only ups the pleasure rating, of course. If I earned more money or lived in a larger place, I could see myself buying flowers for every room – in fact, I could easily become like Elton John, who famously racked up a £290,000 bill for flowers because, as The Independent pointed out, he could. Although obviously I'm not saying I'd spend £300k on lilies – imagine the smell! – but merely the same equivalent percentage of my income as Elton John's. Which is probably about, yes, a tenner. Clearly, for now, I am a poor man's Elton John. The Phil Collins of flowers, if you will. ("I can feel it coming in the air tonight… because I can smell it as soon as I walk through the front door. It's lilies, isn't it?")
But I digress. Because the point is: now that I like to have flowers, I'm wishing that I'd held on to more vases over the years.
During The Flatshare Years I often left vases behind or gave them to charity shops. And the only reason I had any in the first place was because I'd been given them. Without wishing to sound like a terrible ingrate, back then, vases felt so grown-up to me. TOO grown-up. They felt a rather unnecessary item to have in one's home; a frippery that I couldn't really justify owning. Not only because I only ever seemed to have flowers to put in them on birthdays – which was, conveniently, when I'd receive the vases – but also because I quite honestly thought: what's wrong with a pint glass? Or a half-pint glass? Or a wine bottle? The latter makes a fine stem vase for a gerbera, for example.
Now, in my defence: not all pint glasses are created equal. When I talk about putting flowers in pint glasses, I don't mean this sort – which you probably had several of in your kitchen cupboard if you were ever a student because you'd nicked them from pubs (well, you didn't, obviously. Your housemates did):
Classic pint glass (from 'The Hare And Hounds')
No, I mean this fine figure of a pint glass:
Modern pint glass (from the 'Fancy-Dan' range at Habitat)
Now, not only does that latter not look like stolen goods but it also, to an untrained eye, looks not unlike a vase. And a few years ago – nay, a few weeks ago – I would have considered it to be a perfectly fine vase substitute.
But then Robert and Mary came to lunch.
Ahead of this event, I bought some daffodils. Because, as we've established, I now buy flowers; and secondly, I knew that these daffs would make for a pleasant table decoration come Saturday lunchtime.
Not having a vase of the right size – because I own precisely one vase, and it is huge – I put them in a pint glass. Thus:
Initially, I thought this was fine (and look! I wasn't kidding about the découpage). But then over the next few days, something rather strange happened.
I found that, the more I looked at these flowers, the less they looked like an arrangement of daffodils in a glass vase and the more they looked like a bunch of daffs shoved into a pint glass.
I suddenly realised how pathetic they looked – and how, at the age of 41, with a home, a job, and curtains (not a sheet or duvet or ethnic throw) for curtains, I no longer had to choose which of my drinking glasses I was going to have to sacrifice for two weeks while it doubled up as a vase. A pint glass is no longer an acceptable substitute for a vase, I realised. Even if that pint glass cost £1.50 from Habitat.
So the next day, I bought a vase from, yes, Habitat. (Look, there's one right next to my office. In fact it's one of only a handful left in the country now, so I consider it my duty to help keep it going. Plus, it's a good place to spend 20 minutes on a lunch break. Every lunch break. There's nothing I don't know about their bedding range.)
I chose one which I liked and which I thought my boyfriend would like, too, because this is how I think now (ie. unselfishly, thoughtfully, and with one eye on living together). And I put the daffodils in it. Thus:
My satisfaction at how much better this looked was equalled only by my satisfaction at knowing that I had successfully passed some sort of rite of passage. I was now a Proper, Over-40 Grown-Up: capable not only of hosting a lovely lunch, but also of realising what was no longer socially acceptable.
Lunch went without a hitch, and I don't think Robert and Mary noticed that they were drinking out of vases.
And what's more: the next time I was killing (lunch)time in Habitat, I found myself spending more time in the vases department. (I think it's a department. It might be a section. I think the differentiation between the two is rather like biological classification: class/order/etc. I think a department is bigger than a section, but not as big as a floor. But I'm not sure. And I digress.) It was if some sort of spell had been broken: I no longer saw vases as dull, unnecessary household items but rather, as beautiful objects that were necessary to make the joyous, happy, smelly presence of flowers even more so.
I particularly coveted a round, glass vase in the Habitat collection (a collection being part of a section) – and in fact, I realised that the seed of Vases Being OK Really was planted some months before Daffodillunchgate, when I went to a house-proud friend's for dinner, and she had one such round, glass vase with white roses in it, and it looked gorgeous.
So imagine my delight when, in one of my other lunchtime-killing activities, I found exactly such a round, glass vase in a charity shop near work. It cost £5, a mere fraction of the Habitat price – and if there's one thing more satisfying than helping to keep Habitat afloat it's helping to keep the YMCA going.
And here it is:
The only thing more delightful than how it looks, how little it cost, and how that money went to the YMCA, is the fact that the lady in the shop thought it was a goldfish bowl.
Which is sweet – but I had to laugh. Because as we all know, a goldfish bowl is not an acceptable vase substitute.


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When were we hit with the "big bang" explosion of modern family life, one that left us sick with the demands of parenting in the new age, and virtually vomiting undigested stress over the days of our lives like the detritus of a karmic kinder piñata?
It wasn't like that when I was growing up. Life was simple then. Little things mattered; and they were remembered.
Toys were treasured and maintained for their rarity and value—either as a hand-me-down from an older sibling, a prized Christmas gift, or a memorable "win" at the county fair. You could actually count them, polish them, and store them with care in your bedroom closet.
In fact, my father still has stored away the rocking horse my brother received when he was 5 years old in the 1950s.
It's the age of instant McGratification.
Forget about impromptu games of street hockey, or lacrosse, when kids obligingly pulled the goalie nets off the road every time a neighbor gently nosed his car home from work. Gone are the twilight hours when parents would stand on the veranda, cup their hands over their mouths, and sound the call for kids of all ages to come in from the trees, gardens and sloping lawns next door and prepare for bed.
Gone are the days of Huckleberry Finn. And I highly doubt we're the better for it.
These days, moms are powered by pedophile paranoia, multitasking madness, and mini-cab moonlighting.
As we gather breathlessly around our children's music, hockey, ballet, soccer, gymnastics, art and what-have-you classes (a different flavor each day of the week) like personal body guards to budding royalty, we are nothing more than frenetic adrenaline burn-outs, each sounding like Minnie Mouse rushing out of a Disneyland fun den, after sucking back on a helium hookah.
Speed talking, fast driving, manic making of snacks and lunches—that's my life—it's all fast-forward and I realize I don't have the wheels for it.
There are days when I long to slap my hand to my chest, reach up my other hand beseechingly to the sky and say "I'm comin' Elizabeth, I'm comin'", just like Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) from the 1970s TV show, Sanford and Son used to do.
I just want my house to stop spinning and land somewhere—even if it's on the Wicked Witch of the East. I thought perhaps it might be just my age.
That was until I happened upon a recent article in Time by Nancy Gibbs, entitled The Backlash Against Overparenting, aptly beginning with a hallmark opening "The insanity crept up on us slowly; we just wanted what was best for our kids." It's a must-read.
According to the author of Simplicity Parenting, the average kid today has 150 toys (and I'll wager at least 80 of them are "free" gifts from the McMarketing guys). He says that when life is "a series of improvisations and emergencies" with a stress level leaving parents feeling "beaten down, mentally and physically" it's time to simply the family process.
Payne says that, even if we are at the point of saturation and burn-out, feeling that simplification is (quite simply) an overwhelming exercise in futility, there's still stuff we can do to tone it down, little by little.
In a nutshell, the keys to "simplicity parenting" are threefold: 1) streamline your home environment to reduce toys, clutter, and sensory overload; 2) establish predictable routines to ground you and your kids like "pasta nights", and time anchors for doing things, and 3) make sure you put down time in the schedule—you know, a good old fashioned "coffee break" in the midst of Munchkin Land.
Frankly, there's a rosy sadness in me as I peruse this book. Had life not changed so drastically from growing up in the 1960s and 70s, the concept for this book would never have spawned from the author's creative imagination.
It's hard to believe that we need someone to re-educate us on how to enjoy the process of just being parents and kids, taking pleasure in hanging out together in the brief bubble of the weaning to tweening years, in the creation of our own family myth and ritual to be passed down to future generations.
On the other hand, Mr. Kim John Payne, M.Ed., I wonder what took you so long. I think I see Opie strolling down the lane in the distance with a fishing rod slung over his shoulder…or could that be Huck Finn?
Yes, it was all so simple then.


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Swing Shift
Usually when movie lovers talk about legendary lost works in which auteur directors had their films taken from them and butchered by the American studios that produced them, they're referring to "holy grails" of cinema such as Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924) or Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). But I recently stumbled across an account of another supposed lost classic, Swing Shift—Jonathan Demme's tribute to America's "Greatest Generation" of World War II and the women on the home front who found a new sense of self and independence by working for the war effort in the factories.
I actually really love the movie Swing Shift as it is but I hadn't seen it in years. I remember my mom taking her mother to see it and letting me tag along. My grandma was part of that generation of women who did what they could for the war effort, whether it meant volunteering at the local USO or planting a Victory Garden in their backyards. By 1984, when the movie was released, that generation was elderly while I was only six. Seeing the movie as a kid, I think I just really loved the sentimental look at the U.S. during the 1940s. Taking place in Southern California, in Santa Monica, between the attack on Pearl Harbor and VJ Day, the film has a melancholic feel, with the sky looking perpetually overcast and the music usually something slow and beautiful, such as one of Jo Stafford's torch songs. And though I don't remember if Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" is on the soundtrack it really should be.Continue Reading


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Title: "Let the Yeti Win"
Size: 12" x 12"
Medium: Acrylics on gesso board
Another painting for a second show tonight in LA. It's Hero Complex Gallery's Weapon of Choice group show, hosted by Design Matters. Get all the deets here: http://www.herocomplexgallery.com/
The painting is a scene from Scott Pilgrim vs The World. A movie that's based on the comic.
I watched this flick again while I was doing the painting. Not sure why this movie got such a bad wrap. Loved it a second time as well. A movie that plays like a live action video game/comic? C'mon! Edgar Wright was the perfect director for it. Can't wait to see what he does with the Ant-Man movie.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
We have already stopped using the Ghash.io Litecoin Mining Pool after the initial problems and changes of rules to the one week double mining awards for LTC promotion that CEX.io was running. We did recommend to our readers to do the same as we were really disappointed by how things were handled and the problems that were appearing. It seems however that what we have experienced as issues in the first day wasn't the only problem, we got reports from readers that apparently still remained mining at the pool after that for more issues. Below is a quote from one such reader:
I would like to inform you of cex.io's poor behavior. Notwithstanding your warnings about the LTC Promo, I was using their LTC pool for the last 2 days.
Here is the current state of things:
* They allowed a multipool to participate in the 2x promo(easily pushing the hash rate over the 2x limit of 25Gh/s)
* Agreed to pay for server error that kept our machines hashing without getting paid for 10 blocks. Then said "the support member was wrong " when he said we "would get paid, so keep your machines running on the pool".
* Randomly hashing blocks(3) without receiving payment(blocks not orphaned)
* Currently(as of this writing) having LTC withdraw issues. Users are reporting a "insufficient funds" error, despite having 5+ LTC.
All of these issues are experienced by many users. This is a very bad start to a site that looks so promising. In any event, I simply wanted to pass on this information in an attempt to prevent others from possibly getting Goxed.
There are a little over 3 days that remain until the end of the Doubled rewards for LiteCoin mining at the Ghash.io mining pool and we are again going to recommend you to stay away from the pool. Currently the multiplier is x1.25 and will hardly go back to x2 as the hashrate of the pool needs to drop in half. And if you experience a few more issues in the remaining time you could easily end up with the same or even lower than x1 the expected earnings from directly mining LTC in another pool.
After the announcement of the dual mining awards for the new Ghash.io Litecoin mining pool and then "changing the rules" on the go two times already, now it seems the LTC mining pool at the CEX.io operated service is experiencing some temporary issues. A series of blocks (11 in total) in the LTC pool are getting no confirmations, probably marked as orphans, however this is about 3 hours of mining time literally wasted for the people that expect to be getting double awards for their hashrate. We have already gave our recommendation to move your miners from the LTC pool as soon as they started adding extra rules some time after the initial announcement for double mining awards. So if you still haven't done so, we are again going to recommend that you do this now, because with a few more rule changes and issues in the pool there is a chance that you might end up with less than the normal LTC mining profit for a week instead of the promised 2x (or up to 2x in the best case). It seems that CEX.io were not fully ready to launch their LTC mining pool and they were not ready to handle the overwhelming user interest to their 2x mining award and they are not handling it well even after changing the rules for the 2x award.
It seems that CEX.io did not expect so overwhelming users interest in their dual mining rewards for Litecoin mining in their new pool. The pool has almost reached 40 GHS of Litecoing mining hashrate in less than 24 hours since the announcement of the promotion for the double payout per LTC block. And in order to prevent getting 51% of the Litecoin network, now the reward multiplier will be adjusted according to the pool speed. For a total hashrate of the pool below 40 GHS the 2x multiplier will remain active, between 40 and 60 GHS the multiplier will be just 1.25x and for over 60 GHS it will will go down back to x1. And since the Litecoin pool hahrate has already gone very close to 40 GHS it is possible that soon the profitability of mining LTC at the CEX.io Litecoin mining pool might not be as good as if mining in alternative pools with automatic switching for the most profitable altcoin. So keep an eye on the pool hashrate if you have moved your Scrypt miners to the Ghash.io pool already to mine Litecoin and if the hashrate of the pool continues to rise so rapidly be ready to move back to other pools…
Update: It seems that CEX.io now wants to drive away all of the users they brought back to their pool. The 2x bonus awards that was initially without a limit and then was available with the total pool speed of up to 40 GHS has now been reduced for a pool speed of 25 GHS. We no longer recommend to stay at their Litecoin mining pool, get your miners away from there as they are really not handling the situation well… move them now and withdraw your mined LTC earnings. We don't want to have to check every few minutes if they have changed their mind yet again and as a result to have mined less LTC that we could've if we used another pool with no rules that change all the time and probably neither do most of you!


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I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, Commodore-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.
This week marked an astounding leap forward, scientifically speaking - taking a picture of something that cannot be seen.
Chiropractic is a surprisingly popular form of alternative medicine - so mainstream that it's hardly 'alternative' and so non-scientific that it's barely 'medicine'.
Blockchain is the programming that gives Bitcoin its value, but it could be much more than that. Blockchain could change the world.
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Clinical and Laboratory Investigation of Humans With Informative Iron or Erythroid Phenotypes
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00102245
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : January 26, 2005
Last Update Posted : February 14, 2018
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This study will examine blood for factors that may cause or prevent diseases involving iron or red blood cells. Iron is an important nutrient for human health that is needed to produce red blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen to body tissues. A better understanding of iron and red blood cells may help lead to better treatment of several diseases including anemia.
Patients of all ages with red cell abnormalities in the following categories may be eligible for this study:
- Diseases with deficiency, overload or maldistribution of iron
- Known red blood cell diseases, such as anemias and hemoglobinopathies
- Red blood cell diseases of unknown cause, such as hemolysis of unknown cause
- Red blood cell abnormalities with no overt clinical disease, such as hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin
Participants undergo the following procedures:
- Medical history
- Physical examination
- Standard medical tests related to the individual's iron or red blood cell condition
Blood draw for the following purposes:
- Testing for syphilis and for the hepatitis B and C, HIV, and HTLV-1viruses, and for a pregnancy test for women who can become pregnant
- Research purposes. This blood is analyzed for genes, proteins, sugars, and fat molecules.
|Condition or disease
|Hemoglobinopathies Hemolysis Iron Deficiency and Overload Anemias
Studies of iron and erythroid cells, have provided fundamental insights into structure function relationships of proteins, energy metabolism, and the molecular basis of many diseases. Based upon the importance of iron for hemoglobin production, the regulation of erythropoiesis and iron metabolism are closely linked, and iron deficiency anemia remains as one of the most common diseases worldwide. The discovery of sickle hemoglobin as having an abnormal electrophoretic mobility marked the beginning of the molecular medicine era. The advent of recombinant DNA technology and sequencing methodologies resulted in the characterization of erythroid cells well beyond that of protein based studies to include gene structure and expression. Globin gene research, in particular, has provided a wealth of information about the expression, regulation and insulation of mammalian genes. More recently, studies of iron absorption and trafficking provided new avenues of research aimed toward growth and energy homeostasis. Genome based approaches were also utilized for the discovery of direct relationships between erythroid cell biology and iron homeostasis. Hence, there is strong evidence that fundamental clinical advances in the field of iron and erythroid biology have been based upon the careful study of humans with informative phenotypes. Clinically based correlation of genotype and phenotype is a proven, systematic approach for understanding the molecular basis of disease.
With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome, a more complete, genetically based description of disease is now achievable. Efforts aimed toward haplotype mapping will further enhance genotype phenotype correlation directly from clinical samples. Considerable progress has already been made in this regard using normal human erythroid cells. In contrast to classic studies involving single genes or proteins, computational biology and high throughput technologies permit the analysis of complex erythroid phenotypes including those with related iron pathologies. This information will be invaluable for understanding those molecular mechanisms that are altered in disease states.
The immediate aim of this protocol is to perform phenotypic analyses in humans with informative iron or erythroid phenotypes. These studies are expected to result in detailed clinical phenotyping and the collection and banking of clinical specimens for further study. In addition, we predict an ongoing growth of new technologies that may eventually be used for molecular and genetic phenotyping of clinical samples (examples include oligonucleotide chips and high throughput mass spectroscopy). Based upon this prediction, we plan to use the samples collected here to assess possible clinical uses of those technologies as they become available. The eventual aim is the discovery of identifiers that may be predictive of disease pathogenesis, severity or clinical response to intervention.
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|334 participants
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|Clinical and Laboratory Investigation of Humans With Informative Iron or Erythroid Phenotypes
|Study Start Date :
|January 18, 2005
|Study Completion Date :
|August 4, 2017
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|1 Year and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
A clinically definable iron or erythroid cell phenotype as defined by:
Group 1: Patients with known iron or erythroid diseases (examples: iron deficient anemia or ineffective erythropoiesis).
Group 2: Patients with diseases of unknown etiology (example: unexplained iron overload or anemia).
Group 3: Patients with an informative phenotype in the absence of overt clinical disease (example: hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin).
Group 4: Healthy volunteers whose blood or bone marrow samples will be utilized to understand normal iron and erythroid biology and for comparison with the other groups described above.
- Age range: Infancy to unlimited
- Adults: Adults who fall into Groups 1-4 are eligible to enroll in this protocol. They must possess the ability to comprehend the investigational nature of the study and provide informed consent.
- Minors: Minors who fall into groups 1-4 are eligible to enroll in the study for collection of research blood. Within Group 4 (healthy volunteers, minors), the research will not involve greater than minimal risk.
Healthy volunteers and Subjects with iron or erythroid diseases who are unable to comprehend the investigational nature of the laboratory research are ineligible to enroll in this protocol.
With the exception of minors, pregnant females, and breast-feeding mothers, volunteers who meet the General Inclusion Criteria for blood collection may be offered the option of bone marrow sampling as part of this protocol. Minors, pregnant females, and breastfeeding mothers will be excluded from bone marrow sampling specifically performed for this protocol. However, they will be asked to consent for collection of up to an additional sample of bone marrow if 1) they are undergoing a bone marrow sampling procedure for clinical purposes, and 2) collection of the additional bone marrow undergoing a clinical procedure if the research sample collection doesn t alter the clinical procedure.
Other bone marrow sampling exclusion criteria include: 1) allergy to xylocaine (lidocaine) or the skin cleansing medication chlorhexidine/Hibiclens. 2) clotting disorders, low platelets (<50,000k) or are taking medications that interfere with blood clotting, such as aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (such as Motrin or Advil) or blood thinning agents (such as coumadin/warfarin).
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00102245
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Jeffery L Miller, M.D.
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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|January 26, 2005 Key Record Dates
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|February 14, 2018
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In high school, my friends and I had a special activity to celebrate the end of exam week. When the last exam paper was turned in, we changed out of our uniform into what was then called "˜civilian clothes' and we hied off to Mile Long (is it still called that?) for our quarterly all-you-can-eat Mongolian BBQ feast.
While Mile Long today is dodgy-looking with plenty of shuttered offices and even more adult entertainment lounges, in the early 90's, it was a happening strip of restaurants. There were Korean, a smattering of Filipino, and about four restaurants that specialized in Mongolian BBQ.
Mongolian barbeque is basically a "create your own stir-fry" meal in a bowl. It's a smashing mishmash/hodgepodge of ingredients of one's own choosing from a great variety of meats, seafood, vegetables, sauces, and spices. Once it's filled to the brim (and by this time, overflowing), the bowl is then carefully handed to the waiter in exchange for a numbered tag. The food is then stir-fried in a hot pan back in the kitchen.
looks like parmesan, is actually a heapload of crushed peanuts
This eat-all-you-can activity has its roots from who else, but the Mongols. It's said that the hunting parties of the emperors Khan would celebrate their victories by communing in banquet-style tents on the banks of the river Khan-Balik. The Mongols would use their well-honed swords to prepare pieces of meat and vegetables. The food would then be cooked by searing it on their overturned shields that were heated by a roaring fire. Knives and large sauté pans have replaced swords and shields in the present day; the only thing that's new is the selection of sauces.
Indeed, while the maxim "hunger is the best sauce," rings true, in Mongolian barbeque, it's the sauce that either makes or breaks your bowl. It's the sauce or sauces that you do or don't put in that will affect the way your barbecue looks, smells, and tastes. My high school friends and I would often pass our bowls so that everyone would have a taste of each one. Pleasurable sighs of "Yours is great!" to laments, "I like yours better than mine," were often heard. Of course as is expected in volume cooking, there were occasions when some of us would get a bonus ingredient that we didn't remember adding: "Hey, why do I have a red pepper slice here? I didn't put this in!"
I'm the type of person who needs a recipe when working with food. My sauce mixture is more often than not a slap-dash, fly by the pick of my chopsticks affair. Tsamba lang (It's all luck). Even when I follow a fellow diner's lead to the letter, I still end up liking his or her barbeque better than mine. Some people just have that touch.
When the Mongolian BBQ restaurants in Mile Long shut down (why! why!), I felt that dull pain all food lovers get when their favorite restaurant closes down or a favored food item is discontinued. It's really a heartbreak of sorts. Slowly, I got used to it, but sometimes something or someone would trigger the memory and then I remember again.
There's a somewhat prosaic restaurant along Jupiter Street in Makati with an equally unremarkable name: City Grill. Unlike a Gerry's or a Dencio's, City Grill's menu is more Continental. Often-ordered dishes include the creamy pesto chicken or fish fillet (P150/P160), and the prime rib (P275). To the restaurant's credit, there's a section on the menu called "From the Grill," the most popular of which is the boneless chicken inasal (P125).
The first time I came to City Grill, I had the prime rib just because I was hankering for steak and at that point, any steak would do. While its price alone indicates that it's more a peer of Sizzler's than Highlands Steakhouse, it's all right.
But it's the Mongolian BBQ that I keep coming back for "" I've already clocked in five visits to City Grill just for it. For only P225, I can stuff myself silly with my ultimate stir-fry. I start off with a choice of white rice, vermicelli (sotanghon), egg noodles "" or all three! "" make my way through the meats, throw in a few veggies for health, dump loads of mashed garlic and crushed peanuts, and then my waterloo, the sauces. Since I've already mentioned that I'm no good without a recipe, I simply follow the City Blend, the restaurant's house concoction, the recipe of which you see here. It never fails to give me the perfect bowl of Mongolian BBQ. My god, I should've had this recipe in high school!
The only thing that worries me about City Grill is that there are hardly any people when I go there. In fact, it doesn't seem to be drawing a crowd at all. When I'm here, I often have three waiters all to myself, so service here is a dream and me and my little group can make as much noise as we like. The owner tells me that they make money on functions, but I still think it'd be worth it if people come here just for the Mongolian BBQ. It's that good, and where else can you get Mongolian BBQ in Manila now? But then again, it's up to what YOU put in your bowl. And that's where all the fun is. By the way, if you're like me and don't like dining in dark places, ask the waiters to crank up the lights a bit. Better light, better appetite, I say.
City Grill
2 branches:
136-138 Jupiter Place Bldg.
Jupiter St., Makati City
Open from 11 am "" 2:30 pm/ 5-11pm
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What does Music Theory Grade 3 include?
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- Some simple and compound time signatures
- Some major and minor keys & scales
- Rhythm writing
A step-by-step presentation of the basic facts of music theory.
A valuable resource for students preparing for ABRSM Theory exams.
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San Joaquin Solar 1 & 2
Power Plant Licensing Case
Docket Number:
08-AFC-12 (Application For Certification)
Project Status: Proceedings Terminated
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Anthony Eggert, Commissioner, Presiding Member
James Boyd, Vice Chair, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Raoul Renaud
Key Dates
- 11/26/08 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed
- 3/11/09 - Commission accepts AFC as "data adequate."
- 6/23/10 - Applicant files Notice of Withdrawal dated June 17, 2010.
- 6/28/10 - Committee Order Terminating Proceedings
San Joaquin Solar 1 LLC and San Joaquin Solar 2 LLC, collectively referred to as San Joaquin Solar 1&2 LLC, filed an Application for Certification with the California Energy Commission on November 26, 2008, for the proposed San Joaquin Solar 1&2 hybrid power plant project (depicted in the artist drawing to the right).
The project consists of two hybrid design solar thermal electric generating plants, comprising a solar field and biomass facility for each plant and will produce up to a nominal 106.8 megawatts (MW) net of renewable energy. The two plants will be owned and operated by San Joaquin Solar 1 LLC and San Joaquin Solar 2 LLC, a subsidiary of Portugal-based Martifer Renewables Electricity LLC. The electricity generated by the project will meet the requirements of renewable energy power purchase agreements with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E).
Each plant will be sized for a nominal 53.4 MW net of solar generation, complemented by 40 MW net of biomass-generated production. The biomass energy production will be subordinate to production from the solar field, supplementing solar production during non-solar periods and shoulder solar hours. Thus, the maximum net generating capacity of the Plants will be 53.4 MW each. If approved by the Commission, the project is expected to be on line by the first quarter of 2011.
The project site is in Fresno County in the southern San Joaquin Valley, 6 miles east of the City of Coalinga. The proposed site is approximately 3 miles west of the intersection of Interstate 5 and West Jayne Avenue. Roadway access to the site will be from West Jayne Avenue, which runs adjacent and parallel to the northern border of the entire site.
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The California Energy Commission is the lead agency (for licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts and larger) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and has a certified regulatory program under CEQA. Under its certified program, the Energy Commission is exempt from having to prepare an environmental impact report. Its certified program, however, does require environmental analysis of the project, including an analysis of alternatives and mitigation measures to minimize any significant adverse effect the project may have on the environment.
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FAQ About Immunization Requirements
We're so excited about the upcoming Portland Pet Expo™! With that said, we want you to be as prepared as possible to enjoy to Expo with your furry, feathered or reptilian family member.
In order to attend the event with a pet, we require that you complete a waiver. While we have them available at the door, you can click here for a copy so you can get in the door more quickly. Print it out and bring it with you!
We also offer a list of helpful tips that we've accrued after doing dozens of these events. Click here
to make sure that you have the most amazing day possible with your best friend!
As you may know, we require all cats and dogs be immunized for rabies in order to attend the event. Here are some FAQ that we're often asked:
Does my pet have to have be immunized to attend this event?
Every state in the United States has its own laws regarding pet ownership and pet vaccines. Many states require that certain vaccines be obtained before your pet can be registered with the state or county. The most important pet vaccine requirements are those that pertain to rabies since that disease is communicable and can be harmful to humans (and other animals).
There are a number of life-saving vaccines that you should get for your pets, such as those that protect against distemper and parvovirus, but we only require rabies per state law and insurance requirements.
Yes, we require that all cats and dogs be current on age-appropriate rabies vaccines in order to enter the event or you should plan on getting your pet's vaccines at the event as part of our low-cost vaccine clinic. If you plan to get immunizations at the expo, you'll still need to complete a pet waiver and our staff will direct you where to go with your pet for shots; we require that you go straight there.
Please note: the abbreviated medical exam that your pet will have at the event (if you plan to get low-cost vaccinations) should not take the place of an annual complete wellness exam done by your own veterinarian. As you may know, preventative veterinary care done in the comfort of your own veterinarian's practice is the very best way to help ensure that your best pet friend lives a long and healthy life. If you don't yet have a primary care vet, there will be dozens of veterinarians and animal hospital representatives at the Expo who can provide you with information about their services.
Also, if you're experiencing a financial hardship and are unable to afford needed veterinary care, Portland - like most cities - has pet food pantries, low-cost immunizations, free spay and neuter resources and even wonderful rescue groups that offer help so that these four-legged family members can stay right where they belong: with their family.
What do you accept as proof of immunizations?
We accept a number of things! You can provide us with your vet-issued rabies certificate, city/county license, a rabies tag that lists the current year, a receipt of vaccination purchase/label for those who self-vaccinate, a vet receipt that itemizes the vaccination payment, adoption paperwork that lists the pet has current vaccinations or serologic titer results issued from a veterinary clinic.
I don't believe in getting annual vaccines for my pets. How can I bring my pet to this event?
We recognize that the issue of vaccinating pets can be controversial to those who choose not vaccinate.
Unfortunately, due to state laws and our event insurance requirements, your pet must be vaccinated for rabies, plan to participate in our low-cost vaccine clinic at the event or have current serologic titer results in order to attend the show. Please note that we're not making a statement about vaccines, one way or another; our job is to keep everyone safe.
I just adopted my pet or have a puppy that I'd like to bring. What should I do?
That's no problem! Adoption paperwork which shows current vaccinations is just fine to prove that your pet has had its shots.
Our requirements apply to *age-appropriate* immunizations. Puppies and kittens normally aren't vaccinated for rabies until they're four months old, so we realize that he or she wouldn't have been vaccinated for rabies yet if they're younger than that. Puppies/kittens not yet vaccinated for rabies must be at least 12 weeks old or have two sets of puppy or kitten boosters to attend the event.
However, as much as we'd love to meet your new family member at the Expo, puppies, kittens and other baby mammals have an immature immune system. That means that if another pet, who may be ill or diseased (and may not even be showing symptoms yet), could pass along that illness to your new baby. With that said, if you still choose to bring your puppy or kitten, we urge you to carry it or have it in a closed stroller at the show, limit any interactions with other animals, not allow him/her to drink from communal water bowls or use common pet potty areas and take lots of breaks so as not to overload your precious new buddy. We also recommend using these guidelines if bringing an elderly pet to the event.


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i use the stock rom JB 4.1 on Nexus 7 8G. There is a small play store icon in the top-right corner in app drawer(not app icons in ap drawer).
i found that the icon in my cm10 version phone and my friend's nexus 7 can be clicked and open play store directly, but mine wont work. just as it is disabled.
why? how to enable it?


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VOGSY: Mobile ERP with Google Cloud Platform
About VOGSY
VOGSY is a mobile-only ERP business solution for mid-size professional services organisations. A project by veteran Amsterdam-based developers, VOGSY enhances powerful business management tools with an interface inspired by social media, including a real-time activity stream. VOGSY is available on the G Suite Marketplace. More about VOGSY: www.VOGSY.com
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By applying a social media interface to business management tools, the innovative VOGSY business solution reimagines ERP for mid-size companies. Created by veteran Amsterdam software developers, VOGSY simplifies ERP by arranging information into linear narratives, increasing efficiency with activity streams inspired by social media timelines. Because the solution is mobile-only and cloud-based, it demands low latency and cutting-edge, well-integrated components. VOGSY founder Leo Koster chose to build on existing technology, basing VOGSY exclusively on G Suite tools and Google Cloud Platform."When you start something from scratch, look at what other successful software companies are doing. Most of them do as little as possible, so make use of other people's hard work and use a platform as a service. I made an inventory of all the existing platforms and Google Cloud Platform was by far the most innovative, the most fun, and the most technologically advanced. It gave me all the opportunities I needed to develop something beautiful," says Leo Koster, founder and CEO, VOGSY.
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As business management tools become more powerful, business software developers are looking for breakthroughs in a highly competitive market. Where most ERP systems are laptop or desktop-based, VOGSY is designed to accommodate flexible working practices with a mobile-only platform that can be accessed from anywhere. Storing and collaborating on data in real-time through VOGSY's innovative mobile activity stream demanded fast cloud technology and major development resources, so VOGSY's team looked for a well-integrated cloud toolset requiring minimal maintenance.
By building VOGSY for G Suite using Google App Engine and Google Cloud Platform, the team made the most of existing technology without reinventing the wheel. Streaming data with Google BigQuery and storing information in Google Cloud Datastore allows VOGSY developers to cut back on maintenance with high-capacity, stable, scalable, NoOps data solutions. GCP servers ensure VOGSY is accessible from any internet connection and its strong data security reassures clients that their information is safe. Meanwhile regular Google updates to GCP and G Suite help optimise VOGSY's long-term integrity, with forward-thinking changes that ensure compatibility between GCP and G Suite tools."In the '90s we had to build our own frameworks, libraries and file system management for web-based software. Now we just plug in one of the APIs from App Engine and they're ready to use. I haven't seen the richness of App Engine's APIs, toolsets and infrastructure in any other platforms. AWS provides infrastructure, not a platform. Azure isn't as advanced as App Engine or GCP. Force.com has too many rules and regulations. I can't imagine building VOGSY on anything other than GCP," says Leo.
A step-change for developers
Now on the G Suite Marketplace, by 2022 VOGSY aims to have at least 2 million business users at 25,000 companies worldwide. NoOps GCP solutions for data storage and server maintenance leave the VOGSY team free to focus on development, finding new and inventive ways to incorporate APIs into the product."My history in software development goes back three decades. The last couple of years have been a step-change. It used to take up to nine months before a new ERP developer was fully productive on our old system. Now it's a matter of weeks. Everything's easier to use and understand with GCP and App Engine. I just couldn't have imagined that even five years ago," says Leo.
About VOGSY
VOGSY is a mobile-only ERP business solution for mid-size professional services organisations. A project by veteran Amsterdam-based developers, VOGSY enhances powerful business management tools with an interface inspired by social media, including a real-time activity stream. VOGSY is available on the G Suite Marketplace. More about VOGSY: www.VOGSY.com


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Balotelli shakes off racist chants in derby tie, Juventus wins
MILAN (AP) ? Four days after beating Barcelona, AC Milan's mood was tempered Sunday following a 1-1 draw with Inter in a derby that was a tale of two sharply different halves.
Milan dominated the first half and took the lead through Stephen El Shaarawy in the 21st minute, but Inter responded after the break and substitute Ezequiel Schelotto equalized in the 71st.
"It was a fair result,'' Inter coach Andrea Stramaccioni said. "Milan had a great first half and they put us in trouble but we responded well and finished better, in a crescendo.''
The draw left Milan third, six points behind second-place Napoli, which visits Udinese on Monday, and 13 points behind Serie A leader Juventus, which beat Siena 3-0 earlier.
Inter is one point behind Milan and level with Lazio, which hosts struggling Pescara on Monday.
In front of a colorful crowd at the San Siro, the 20-year-old El Shaarawy put the Rossoneri ahead by deftly controlling a pass from Kevin-Prince Boateng before using the outside of his foot to launch a precise shot in under the crossbar for the forward's 16th goal of the season.
Six minutes later, Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic prevented Milan from taking a two-goal lead with an acrobatic save to stop a powerful header from Mario Balotelli.
Balotelli, playing against his former club for the first time since transferring from Manchester City last month, also had two other chances in the first half.
Inter fans waved inflated bananas and whistled at Balotelli. The forward, who is of Ghanian descent, responded by holding a finger to his mouth midway through the second half, signaling for the fans to shut up.
Schelotto equalized by heading in a cross from Yuto Nagatomo after being left unmarked in the center of the area.
A midfielder, the Argentine-born Schelotto joined Inter from Atalanta last month, having debuted for Italy's national team last year.
"When the opposition is hurt, you need to kill it,'' Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said, regretting his players' inability to score more in the first half.
Earlier in Turin, Juventus bounced back from its loss to Roma in convincing fashion.
Switzerland midfielder Stephan Lichtsteiner gave Juve the lead in the 30th after Siena goalkeeper Gianluca Pegolo redirected a pass from Mirko Vucinic directly into Lichtsteiner's path. Sebastian Giovinco doubled Juve's lead in the 74th from a sharp angle, with Pegolo again responsible, deflecting the shot off the bar and in.
France midfielder Paul Pogba added another for Juve in the 89th with a shot from beyond the area, his fifth this season after joining from Manchester United.
Siena's best chance came in the 76th when Innocent Emeghara, the Switzerland forward who has scored four goals since coming over on loan from French club Lorient last month, threatened with an impressive header that Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon did well to tip off the bar.
"We had the right approach against a squad in very good health,'' said Juventus coach Antonio Conte, who previously managed Siena. "Today wasn't easy and the guys did well. We're in a key phase of the season and the details also make a difference.''
Elsewhere, Roma won 3-2 at Atalanta under the snow, which at times made the pitch in Bergamo completely white.
On loan from Inter Milan, 19-year-old Croatian forward Marko Livaja scored twice for Atalanta but Roma responded with goals from Marquinho, Miralem Pjanic and Vasileios Torosidis - the Greece defender who scored the winner in the 71st with a header from a sharp angle for his first goal since transferring from Olympiakos last month.
Roma, which beat Juve 1-0 last weekend with a blistering strike from Francesco Totti, is eighth, 18 points behind the leader.
Catania stayed two points ahead of Roma with a 2-1 win at Parma, getting goals from Francesco Lodi and Spanish forward Keko.
Also, Cagliari edged Torino 4-3 in a match behind closed doors at Cagliari's Is Arenas stadium, which has safety issues. Cagliari captain Daniele Conti scored the winner in the fifth minute of added time with a long shot that deflected in off a defender, two minutes after Rolando Bianchi had equalized for Torino with a penalty.
In the lunchtime fixture, Sampdoria moved safely into the middle of the table with a 2-0 win over Chievo Verona, extending its unbeaten streak to five matches.
Andrea Poli put Samp ahead in the 33rd with a precise, angled shot, then Brazilian forward Eder sprinted past three defenders to finish off a counterattack in the 83rd.
Sampdoria protested to no avail for a last-man foul on Chievo goalkeeper Christian Puggioni in the 55th after Puggioni charged forward from his area and tripped rising Argentine standout Mauro Icardi. Icardi remained on the pitch and was eventually replaced by Eder.


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