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NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: KERX) today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of common stock consisting of 8,234,000 shares at $8.49 per share. In connection with this offering, Keryx granted to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase 1,235,100 additional shares of common stock. We intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of our common stock to fund pre-launch/launch inventory build-up and select pre-commercial/commercial activities related to Zerenex, and other general corporate purposes.
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The securities described above are being offered by Keryx pursuant to a Form S-3 shelf registration statement (including a base prospectus) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in the registration statement and related prospectus supplement that Keryx has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Keryx and this offering. The prospectus supplement is available for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may also be obtained from the offices of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717 (telephone: 866-803-9204).
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I'll be immersing myself in the delights of SIN for the next few days. Singapore, that is...
Michelle and I spent part of our honeymoon here sixteen years ago, but we haven't been back since. Now we're back with the kids and some friends.
It's easily one of the best places to eat in the world since it's the crossroads of so many cultures. I can't wait to get started; we have a bunch of recommendations from friends already (more appreciated!)
March 14, 2010
We've been eagerly awaiting the opening of Fatburger in Beijing for sometime. Last night, we saw the restaurant -- it opens tomorrow! It's been hard to find a good burger in Beijing, so we're looking forward to their opening.
Happy days...
Location: Grand Summit in the Liangmaqiao Diplomatic Residence Compound, across from the Kempinski Hotel (and right next to the Liangmaqiao subway stop!)
Here's a sign near our apartment in Beijing. Apparently, the construction project behind this sign isn't really the best.
I saw this ad near our apartment in Beijing. Not quite sure what they're really advertising, but it looks like the robot had a tough night of drinking and is not talking on the porcelain telephone to God. ("Oh God, <cough cough> oh God...")
I saw this ANA 747 on the tarmac at Haneda Airport in Tokyo yesterday. Pretty cute! Too bad the kids weren't with me to see this.
March 13, 2010
While I was in Tokyo this week, my colleague, friend, and ramen fiend K1 (his name is actually Keiichiro, but since ichiro means one in Japanese, he goes by "K1") took a few of us to his absolute favorite ramen place -- Ramen Jirou.
As it turns out, this shop has a cult-like following among the Japanese. Ramen Jirou is completely different from other ramen places I've been like Ippudo or Kyushu Jangara (some purists don't even consider it to be ramen.) People have compared the place to the restaurant of "Soup Nazi" fame. To begin with, the branch we went to kind of dirty, more like something I'd expect in Beijing, not Tokyo.
There's nothing to order besides ramen -- no gyoza and if you want something to drink besides water, you can buy it from the machine outside. There are only a few seats, and often a half-hour line. You sit when a seat opens up -- no waiting for enough room for your party.
There's only one basic menu choice -- a super-rich pork-based soup with thick and dense noodles (vs. the thin ramen noodles or lighter udon noodels), a few slices of pork, and a pile of cabbage and bean spouts mounded on top. It has none of the classic ramen toppings, no egg, no menma (pickled bamboo shoots), no cod roe. It's not a really visually attractive bowl frankly -- kind of monochromatic and slopped in vs. the carefully composed look of most Japanese food. The only choices are whether you want a big or small bowl with extra meat or not. You buy a chit from a machine that specifies your preference. I ordered a small bowl with a normal amount of noodles and meat. It was 600 yen, a little over USD$6.00.
When the chef hands you the bowl, you specify whether you want garlic, vegetables, more pork fat, and additional soy sauce (K1 says it's too salty with additional soy sauce). You have to order in a specific way, like ordering a latte at Starbucks, or you will be met with derision. (I had to memorize the order in Japanese before I sat down; naturally I had it with everything except the additional soy sauce. You say "yasai, niniku, abura" for "vegetable, garlic, fat") Once the bowl arrives, you eat silently, seemingly as fast as you can. Once complete, you put the bowl on the upper counter, wipe off the counter, and leave quickly.
OMG -- it was fantastic and unlike anything I had ever had. The soup was amazingly rich and tasty with blobs of pork fat suspended in the soup. The noodles were dense and chewy, the meat tender, and the veggies added enough crunch and variety to balance the thing out. A few shakes of white pepper kicked it up even a little more. I slurped up my bowl in a few minutes with a huge grin on my face. There's nothing subtle about it. Just pure porky goodness.
K1 has described the various stages of Ramen Jirou addiction. Early on, other ramens taste wimpy. Apparently at the last stage (the one he's in), you can't think of anything else. He dreams of Jirou incessantly and goes there first whenever he lands in Japan. It's not just K1. There are a lot of write-ups on Ramen Jirou including an NPR story, a CNN article, a Guardian UK article declaring it one of the 50 best things to eat in the world, and more.
I'm fast on my way toward Ramen Jirou addition too.
Some pix:
The line outside Ramen Jirou. All of the official branches have this yellow awning sign.
The scene inside as I look longingly from outside. There are a few few seats at the L-shaped counter and two people working inside.
This is the machine you order from. The row on top are the small bowls, the lower row is the large bowl. The choice on the right is extra meat.
The master at work. He kind of just slops everything into the bowls. You can see the sliced pork at the bottom.
The bowl of happiness. It doesn't look like much, but damn, it's good.
March 12, 2010
As I mentioned in a post a long time ago, my family and I love the Motoyama Milk Bar in the Roppongi Hills mall in Tokyo. Since I'm in Tokyo right now, I thought I'd stop by for a lovely coffee milk and to bring some of their luscious caramels back to my loving family (who would love me a lot more if I brought back Motoyama caramels, I assure you.)
Imagine my surprise when I saw it was closed. Out of business. Kaput. The sign on the left basically said, "Thanks. Really thanks. We closed on January 17. If you have questions, call this number xxx."
Goodbye, MMB! I will always remember your flan, those cute little milk jars, and your cute waitresses...
March 9, 2010
The boys are way into Chuck Norris jokes these days; apparently they're all the rage right now at school (last year it was "your momma" jokes).
Andrew (12) generally gets the genre and has come back from school with a few good ones like "Chuck Norris counted to infinity. Twice." or "When Chuck Norris jumps into the water, he doesn't get wet. The water gets Chuck Norris'ed."
Michael (9) doesn't quite understand what makes these funny but is still trying to make up jokes, like "Chuck Norris doesn't rob banks. He just walks in and they give him the money." We'll have to keep working on this with him.
Here's a list of funny ones I found. A few of my favorites:
"Chuck Norris doesn't breath. He holds air hostage."
"When the boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris."
March 7, 2010
As you've all undoubtedly heard by now, Google has decided to (someday) to stop filtering search results for sensitive content in China. They're apparently trying to help people in China circumvent the firewall through the ads they show too. As you can see below, there's an ad in the China Daily for a VPN (virtual private network -- a way to "tunnel" your internet connection out of China through another country). Even better, the ad was shown on an article about this spat between Google and the Chinese gov't (which the Chinese gov't doesn't seem to care too much about.)


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A huge thanks to all Blurbarians who purchased Blog Aid – Recipes for Haiti. This collaborative cookbook, spearheaded by Canada's own Julie Van Rosendaal of "Dinner with Julie," racked up the sales and resulted in a mega-donation to fund relief efforts in Haiti.
Sales of this limited-edition book ended February 12, 2010 – exactly one month after the tragic earthquake in Haiti. As mentioned in our earlier post, sales proceeds were matched by the Canadian Red Cross.
Final tally: 1,818 books sold and a grand total of $47,266 donated to Haiti's relief efforts (total includes matching funds). Well done! Here's to the power of books and to the generosity of Blurbarians worldwide. We always knew you were big-hearted people!


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Ask 6-year-old Faith Miller why the Spring Ridge Sharks swim team is different, and she'll say it's because of the games she plays and the fun she has.
Ask her mother, Valerie Miller, the same question, and she'll say it's because Melissa Lapham, head coach, and Jen Dickson, assistant coach, learned a great deal of sign language to help her daughter and four other deaf swimmers be part of the team.
"I'm really impressed with the coaching staff and the attitudes of all the kids," Miller said. "I pray the coach next year will be willing to sign as much as Jen does."
To the children, speaking two languages is the norm of swim practice. To the parents of deaf children, the coaches' efforts mean they can take a step back from constantly translating and watch their children do something they enjoy.
Races start when the referee throws his arm down and blows a whistle. Coaches announce what exercises the group is doing with spoken word and sign language. They count repetitions with their fingers in sign and aloud.
The coaches use common sense to ensure communication barriers don't prevent capable children from participating.
"It's fun to swim," Faith said in American Sign Language. "We get in the water, we swim, we like to hold our breaths."
Her comments were translated by her mother.
While activities with deaf and hearing children sometimes result in two distinct groups, the swim team has been inclusive, Miller said.
"All the kids come up, ask what's the sign for this, what's the sign for that," she said. "I've seen a lot of team cohesion."
Lea Martinez, a 9-year-old on the team, said she enjoys learning sign language.
And unlike other sports, Miller said she doesn't need to act as an interpreter and be around her daughter all the time.
"I want to create some independence, but I don't want her to miss anything," she said. "It's a balance thing."
"I like helping them. It's fun," she said. "My sister knows a lot of sign language, which helps me speak and understand them."
Both coaches got their start learning sign language while in college.
"I think most of the enthusiasm comes from the fact (that) both of us want to be teachers," Dickson said. "There are other languages. It's not just verbal."
Dickson took a class at Towson University, where she's a senior. Lapham learned some sign language as part of the education curriculum at Hood College, which she graduated from this year.
They said instructing deaf children to swim will help them in their teaching careers.
"I feel like I can have a better relationship with the kids," Lapham said. "It's more fun for me, it's more like a hobby."
The Sharks will compete in a divisional championship Saturday, where the coaches hope they finish strong, though either way, the two are proud of what they've accomplished.
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"Most men are not really complicated–we are. But I know I take my husband's uncomplicated nature for granted. And too often, I default to trying to improve him in one area or another, instead of seeing and building his enormous strengths in so many other places. (Why do we major on the minors, anyway?)
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This one really hit home this morning. I'll spare you most of the details, but I certainly needed to read it.
This: "…all the while he is leading and teaching by his quiet example and his faithful, daily walk…" I am forever missing the opportunity to thank my husband for that very thing, instead of wishing (secretly or openly) that he would lead us in Bible reading/devotions, etc, more often. I grew up with that example, but he didn't, although his was a churchgoing family like mine. I know from my own life right now how difficult it is to establish new habits that were not formed or reinforced in childhood, but I don't extend to my husband the same grace I expect him to show me when it comes to being diligent in areas I never developed. I don't know why that's so hard, to just apply the Golden Rule, and treat him as I want to be treated!
I'll have to try writing the list you speak of, Kelly, though it will be painful for me to contemplate how I've (not) expressed my gratitude in those areas I record. Very challenging and convicting, but much needed in my case! Thank you.
P.S. Kelly, totally unrelated, but the link when I clicked on Read more.. is broken. I get a 404 on that one. (The links in the first sentence work, though.)
Wow! I have so been there! I'm certainly not perfect today, but by His grace, I've changed so much and am so thankful for His working in my life! How easy it is for us to ignore the good our husbands *are* doing and focus and the areas where WE think they need work. All the while ignoring that beam in our own eye!
Thanks Kelly, I shared it, and plan to share again tomorrow!


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We're used to thinking of the nation's economic woes in terms of unemployment. But even our sobering jobless rate masks a deeper economic sickness. In 2011, the National Bureau of Economic Research reported that 44 percent of Americans say they would have trouble coming up with two grand in 30 days if they needed to. These "financially fragile" households—one medical bill or busted furnace away from bankruptcy—cut across low-income groups and the middle class alike. What unites this huge swath of America is not an employment problem, but a savings problem.
Savings aren't just important for buffering life's emergencies; research shows that financial assets, more than income, are a strong predictor of upward mobility. They're also crucial later in life. In 2010, 75 percent of Americans who were approaching retirement age—many of them in the tidal wave of aging baby boomers—had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts. According to economist Teresa Ghilarducci, about half of middle-class workers will live out their golden years on a food budget of about $5 a day. So here's the question: Why don't Americans save?
1. Because It's So Easy to Borrow
In 1923, a battle for the soul of the American consumer economy took place in Detroit. General Motors was eating Henry Ford's lunch, thanks to a revolutionary innovation: consumer financing. For the first time, ordinary folks could borrow against future earnings from a big corporation. Ford, who despised finance, parried by offering savings accounts at his dealerships. You could sock away money for a new Model T—and you'd earn interest! But Ford's idea didn't stand a chance. In modern American history, the availability of credit and the savings rate stand in an almost perfectly inverse relationship. And GM's peculiar new business model was just the beginning of credit's availability to the average man. When usury laws were rolled back in the 1970s, easy credit flooded the market. According to analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, changes in the availability of credit can explain about 90 percent of the long decline in American savings—down to where we are today, with an anemic savings rate of about 4 percent.
–Consumers and the Economy, Part I: Household Credit and Personal Saving, by Reuven Glick and Kevin J. Lansing, January 2011
2. Because We Throw Bones to the Wrong Dog
As a nation, we spend about $130 billion each year through the tax code to encourage people to save for the future. Trouble is, almost all of those tax benefits accrue to the wealthy—who of course don't need the help and would save anyway. According to this paper from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the highest income quintile receives 70 percent of the benefits from these tax incentives. The lowest income quintile receives only 0.2 percent.
–A Penny Saved is Mobility Earned: Advancing Economic Mobility through Savings (pdf), by Reid Cramer, Rourke O'Brien, Daniel Cooper, and Maria Luengo-Prado, November 2009
3. Because So Many of Us Live Off the Financial Grid
Roughly 30 percent of Americans have no savings account, while 8 percent have no bank account at all. Absent a relationship with a bank, it's incredibly hard to build wealth. American banks don't make it easy for small depositors: minimum balance requirements and onerous fees regularly drive financially fragile savers away. When unbanked Americans need financial services, they often turn to expensive, down-market, sometimes predatory options like payday loans, check-cashing services, and money orders, whose high costs further erode wealth and potential savings. It doesn't have to be this way: European nations like France, Germany, and Belgium have special banking systems for small depositors—often in the form of post office banks—and boast savings rates in the neighborhood of 10 percent.
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Might this be why ispconfig was not automagically installing bastille on updates?
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> I suspect it is by Xanthe Clay, though this is not explicitly stated
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> The soup does indeed take only a few minutes to prepare, being
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> Victor
> Quick tomato soup
> Makes four little cupfuls or two bowlfuls
> The chilli sauce is optional, but often popular with even small
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> 400g tin of tomatoes
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The success of last weekend's Bonnaroo festival, a three-day concert that attracted at least 90,000 people to a Tennessee farm to hear the likes of Bob Dylan, the Dead, and Dave Matthews, was marred by the deaths of two concertgoers. The Coffee County Sheriff's Department told MTV News that drugs were suspected in the deaths of 20-year-old Brandon Taylor and 22-year-old Amber Stevens, but toxicology results were still pending. The deaths were the first in the festival's three-year history.
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