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Wolf Creek is located in Lawton, Oklahoma in Comanche County which is within the Central Great Plains ecoregion. The Central Great Plains is by far the largest ecoregion in the state. The creek drains part of Lawton and part of Fort Sill. The watershed (drainage area) of this creek is about thirty-five square miles. The location where the water samples are taken is Louise D. McMahon Soccer Park on the south side of Lawton.
Wolf Creek has an excellent amount of shading from trees left along the banks. It also has a high food source coming into it from the grasses and shrubs that are along the banks, although the vegetation stability on the bank is not as good as it should be. There are some places in the stream that provide structure for fishes and insects to hide beneath, behind, and even within. The bank stability is fair; there is quite a bit of loose sediment on the bottom of the creek. There is little flow with hardly any difference in water depth throughout the stretch of creek assessed. The creek doesn't have many curves, it seems to follow a straight line and not deviate from that line much. The habitat in Wolf Creek received a total score of 46. The average high quality stream in the Central Great Plains ecoregion has a score of 78.
Fish were collected by seining on August 9, 2007. There were actually more different species of fish collected than are found in the average high quality streams in the ecoregion, however there were no sensitive benthic species found at all. There were eighteen different species caught in this creek: six different species of sunfish (Green sunfish, Orangespotted sunfish, Bluegill sunfish, Longear sunfish, Redear sunfish and Largemouth bass), and one intolerant species (Suckermouth minnow) caught. The condition of this creek was ranked B when compared to high quality creeks in the same ecoregion, which means that there was decreased species richness, especially to the sensitive species.
In the summer of 2007 benthic macroinvertebrates (bugs) were collected from woody debris. While the total number of species was not quite as good as the high quality streams, there were almost as many sensitive species and the number of sensitive individuals was considerably higher. In addition, the diversity of the collection was better than reference conditions. The condition of the bugs was ranked at an A when compared to high quality creeks in the same ecoregion; this means that the creek is comparable to the best situation expected within the ecoregion. This creek has a balanced trophic and community structure for stream size.
Water chemistry was tested only four times in 2007. Everything tested was within normal ranges except the orthophosphate phosphorus (median value 0.05 mg/L P) was in the caution range half of the times it was tested. The oxygen saturation for this creek has a median of 113.5% and can range higher than 120% and occasionally lower than 100%. A normal oxygen saturation range is between 80% and 120%. The pH of the water has a median 7.75 and ranges from 7.5 to 8.0. Neutral pH is 7.0. The soluble nitrogen level of the creek is .68 mg/L N. The chloride level has a median of 45 mg/L Cl and occasional reaches up to 80 mg/L Cl.
Wolf Creek is located in south Lawton in Comanche County. It is in the Central Great Plains, one of the biggest ecoregions of the state. The watershed for this creek is about thirty-five square miles. The creek has a low flow and doesn't divert much off of a straight course. There is little water depth variation and quite a lot of sediment built up on the bottom of the creek. Though there were many fish there was a lack of sensitive fish. This caused the fish condition to be ranked at a B; there was decreased species richness, especially to the sensitive species. The bug condition for the summer of 2007 produced many of the sensitive bug species. The bug condition was ranked at an A, meaning that the creek was comparable to the best situation expected within an ecoregion. The chemistry was found to be suitable with phosphorous being a bit high at times. Wolf Creek is your average creek. With some care and consideration for this creek the chemical quality and biological community could do very well.
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Pats the Philly Way is a great option for that steak sandwich fix. This is surely one of the best steak sandwiches in Melbourne (along with Grilld).
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(if there ever was a game for Owings to bat higher than 9th...)Brandon Phillips is sick also. Here's the third version of the lineup:
Willy Taveras cf
Jerry Haisston 2b
Jay Bruce rf
Ramon Hernandez 1b
Laynce Nix lf
Adam Rosales 3b
Ryan Hanigan c
Paul Janish ss
Micah Owings p
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Wow. We're partying like it's 2001 tonight.
Is something wrong with BP? I don't get why you would sit him & Votto the same night especially when Brandon's been heating up
Votto and Phillips both came down with the flu this afternoon.
a super volcano of ridonkulous suckitude.
I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
If the Reds win tonight with that lineup, the Brewers might as well just pack it up and prepare for 2010.
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Chat is open!
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Let's go Reds. Hopefully Owings can pitch a great game.
The Reds have some decent sticks in that line-up. I think they can score.
The bigger issue for me is what is left on the bench? They have not DLed ALex G, but he can't play either, so he's out. Are Joey and Brandon also out? If so, what are they down to, two bench players, McDonald and Dickerson? If so, that's non-optimal...
Ok. It's official. Baker's man-love for Hairston is greater then he had for Patterson. It's sad when one of the best hitters in that lineup is probably the pitcher.
"panic" only comes from having real expectations
Brewers first inning, three up, three down, a fly ball out to RF, a three pitch K, and a lineout to SS.
0-0, middle of 1.
Taveras leading off for Cincy.
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Published: Tuesday September 24, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated: Tuesday September 24, 2013 MYT 8:03:15 AM
by dr wan azhar wan ahmad
The belief in and practice of human rights are subject to limitations as may be provided by religion, international law and/or the national law of any given country.
THE discourse on human rights ("human rightism") has now become – or almost – a discipline of its own. It first modern landmark achievement was the official acceptance and adoption of its Holy Book – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations in 1948.
Since then human rightism has evolved into a powerful notion and movement, receiving huge support measurable by tremendous availability of literature on its various dogmas, giving the impression as if the whole subject matter represents an enormous body of genuine scholarship.
A number of significant principles and values like privacy, freedom, equality, dignity and justice has been defined, or redefined, and developed into fundamental premises of the human rights doctrines, embraced by many as their indispensable philosophy, forming a worldview through which they value almost everything in this worldly life.
The advocates, champions and vanguards of human rightism, indeed, put aside religion – any religion for that matter – or any ethical system based on religion, as a more meaningful guideline for man.
To them, human rights principles are superior, absolute and supersede all other religious considerations by default.
This is a sheer delusion that needs to be rectified. Strictly speaking, nothing pertaining to this mundane life is absolute. Human rightism falls under this realm. So the belief in and practice of human rights are subject to certain limitations, beyond which man must apply their wisdom to not hold to such a conviction any more.
These limitations may be provided by religion, international law and/or national law of any given country.
Obviously most religions impose certain restrictions on their adherents like the prohibition of killings, adultery, liquor consumption, same sex marriages and many others.
In the international conventions of human rights themselves, for example, there is a provision towards the end of the UDHR, which says:
"In the exercise of his rights and freedom, everyone shall be subject to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society."
The above is further reinforced by an almost similar provision in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Article 19(3), where it points to the need to have a legitimate reason in order to limit the right to freedom of expression: "... respect for the rights and reputations of others, and protection of national security, public order, public health or morals".
The same is echoed if we look into our own Malaysian law.
For instance, the Federal Constitution prescribes, in Article 5(1) that "No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with law."
In the case of freedom of religion, Article 11(5) spells out that it "... does not authorise any act contrary to any general law relating to public order, public health or morality."
From all the above, we understand that one is not free to act according to one's own whims and fancies, beliefs or philosophy. Even if one is a stern believer of human rightism, one's overzealousness and obsession with it does not grant a licence for one to act as one wishes and pleases.
On the one hand, the above limitations seem to be exceptions to the rule. But, on the another, under certain circumstances, these limitations are actually the rules to be observed in earnest, in order to protect (i) the rights and reputations of others, (ii) national security, (iii) public order, (iv) public health, and last but not least, (v) morality.
Within our Malaysian context, perhaps we may extend this scenario to the ongoing controversy over the usage of the term Allah.
Non-Muslims who claim that it is their right to apply the word Allah as a translation of the word 'God' in their rituals and publications must be aware that their questionable insistence on it will only adversely affect particularly items (i), (ii), (iii) and (v) mentioned above.
As rightful as their claim may appear to be to them, it does not, in fact, be claim-worthy as, firstly and primarily, both the concept as well as the name Allah have never existed in their original sacred book.
Neither can they be at liberty to introduce changes to the extent of corrupting the original understanding of certain concepts peculiar to certain language, culture and religion of others.
Hence, either way, such claims do not warrant them any rights whatsoever to do so.
In the light of their current persistence in pursuing the matter legally, it is deemed downright wrongful even.
Thus, rather than merely expend their efforts on their rights to make such a hollow claim, a society as plural as ours would benefit much more if they give due attention to their duties and responsibilities to be truthful to the tenets and teachings of their religion so as to preserve peace and harmony.
Indeed, rights do not come in a vacuum as they are always accompanied or preceded by certain duties, obligations and responsibilities.
> Dr Wan Azhar Wan Ahmad is Senior Fellow/Director at Ikim's Centre for Shariah, Law and Politics. The views expressed are entirely the writer's own.
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ISLAM recognises entrepreneurship not only as a means to earn a livelihood, but also as a noble vocation that can elevate the rank of a Muslim, equivalent to those righteous servants of Allah.
THE theme of the BioBorneo 2015 Conference and Exhibition to be held on April 20 and 21 in Kota Kinabalu is "Bio-Based Technologies for Wealth Creation".
THE amendments to the Syariah Criminal Code II 1993 at the Kelantan Legislative Assembly last month attracted much debate.
It would be a gross injustice to undermine, let alone to deny altogether, their place and role in the Muslim community.
THE topic of university excellence has risen again in response to the initiative of the Government, particularly the Education Ministry, to propose a new higher education blueprint following the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (covering pre-school to secondary school).
It is important for Muslim students who pursue science to understand that they have a collective responsibility to contribute to society as a whole.
If IS claims to have originated from the true teachings of Islam, then something must be fundamentally wrong with its version of Islam.
Islam strongly condemns all forms of exploitation and domination that can lead to deprivation of social justice.
The Quran calls for the world's resources to be used not only to meet individual needs but also moral obligations.
To improve decision-making, consider a consultative council which could assist the government to create policies and assist the legislature to legislate law.
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I have never really been a huge part of the community, namely because I am not clever by any means and I don't participate in Friday Night Fights for whatever reason (I'm working on changing that). But I can look at this community of thousands and say to myself 'I am extremely proud to belong to this fantastic group of people'. I've seen the way that these people help others out of their despair, celebrate together, create astounding projects, and most importantly, game together.
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Reindeertoid is the creation of my friend, while Santatoid is my own design. I think I got pretty ripped off when it came to my linoleum sheet, seeing as how I had to glue it to a piece of unusually thick wood making it was difficult to produce an adequate print of my image. But I'm just whining now.
Now here's a close up of my friend's Reindeertoid:
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I wanted to ink and scan in my original drawing of Santatoid, it's a much better drawing then it is a linoleum print, but I'm too tired and/or lazy to do so. Perhaps I will be able to fit it in around my insane gaming schedule during the holiday break.
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To start off this pseudo-review, I would like to briefly describe my journey to the venue that held
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Vancouver Orpheum Theater
I had finally dragged my sorry corpse to the SkyTrain station. After boarding a train I seated myself in the area of the train car that had the lowest population of crazy people, which was about two. For the most part it was quite boring. It mostly consisted of me on the twisting and whirring train trying to keep my ass on the seat and my face off the floor. That was until, in the train car in front of me, a strangely dressed lady stepped on to the train and was standing in just a way that I could see her through the windows between the two train cars. After a little bit of deliberation I had determined that the woman was cosplaying as Link of The Legend of Zelda fame and promptly looked away uninterested, knowing that I was going to see at least three other people dressed similarly. So my boredom continued for a while before I took another lazy glance to the train cart ahead of mine and saw something that was nigh unbelievable.
Shifting from foot to foot and getting stared at by just about everyone in the train cart in front of mine was another lady who had her entire head and neck painted the most impeccable shade of blue, sporting something that I now presume to be a bald cap with molding attached to it to resemble the sculpted skin that the Asaris of Mass Effect have. At this point in time I was overcome with great joy. Not only was I looking at a great costume, something I greatly appreciate, but it also marked the point which I somehow instinctively knew that this evening was going to be, to put it lightly, simply amazing.
Before the actual show began they played a bunch of game related fan videos on the large projector, which I think was a nice touch and a welcome alternative to trying to writhe my way through the massive crowds of approximately three thousand people. But finally the show was beginning after a short wait. And what a beginning it was.
To start of the show they had a huge rose tinted retro montage. To say it was glorious is a rather dubbed down way to describe it.
Jack Wall
, the co-creator, executive producer and conductor of Video Games Live as well as composer for games like Mass Effect and Jade Empire, was conducting the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra through a beautiful rendition of a classical song (not game related) that escapes my memory with a synced video of dozens of retro games from Super Mario to Kid Chameleon. Once all of the gamers in the audience were properly energized from a retro induced high, the host and co-creator of Video Games Live, as well as the co-host of Reviews on the Run and the
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came out on stage and introduced everyone and the show itself. From there it quickly descended into a dizzying amount of awesome.
From Metal Gear Solid to Civilization to Mario, they played a myriad and varied range of music with absolutely stellar videos synced to the live music. I am having problems communicating how I exactly feel about all the music and videos they played, but I think one can sum it up as totally fucking ecstatic. But Vancouver was also the premiere of their Need for Speed: Undercover section of the show, so we had a special treat. One of the bands that have a song in the game, Splitting Adam, played their song along with the orchestra, and it was admittedly pleasant. Along with that the Vancouver version of Video Games Live had a bunch of audio guys from EA Burnaby come down and play a DJ remix of the SSX Tricky theme and it was apparently the Canadian premiere of the Metroid section of the concert.
And through all this presentation of games musical might, there were interactive sections in which people were called up from the audience to play games on stage for prizes while the orchestra played along. The first game was interactive Space Invaders. The goal was to beat the first level of Space Invaders. The prize was an incredible table top arcade machine preloaded with over five thousand games. You may say thats too easy but heres the catch: the guy was only given a stick with a big button on it. The way he had to move his ship around was he actually had to run back and forth across the stage. To say the least, he didnt beat the level before the allotted time; he lost all of his lives before the two minutes is up. But Ill be damned if it wasnt awesome.
But in the end of it all, it was quite amazing to see something made by gamers for gamers that seemed to contain everything I loved about games in a two hour event. It contained the obvious passion that the creators had for games and game music while facilitating the great interactivity that comes along with the medium. I walked away in a sort of blissful haze, wowed by the level of professionalism and the sheer scale of the event. The only real complaint that I could level at this event was that the lighting seemed to be done by someone having a seizure on the lighting board. I know this is quite normal and I understand what effect theyre trying to get at but it didnt help that I was sitting on the ground level directly parallel to group of main lights. Getting a strobed in the face isnt fun, let me tell you. That and I was really hoping that they would play Beyond Good and Evil, but we cant have everything.
Maybe I'm just playing the role of slowpoke here (I wrote parts of this blog during school just to keep myself from falling asleep so I figured I may as well finish it off and try my hand at a large blog), but I can say with the utmost certainty that I will be returning to Video Games Live concerts whenever I get the chance and I hope that anyone that even remotely likes games or music get out and see this fantastic spectacle.
Long blog is long.
Note: None of the pictures of VGL are mine, the security at the Orpheum would have ripped my arms off before letting me take a camera in and the pictures taken by the staff aren't up yet.
My First Piece of Swag OR Why Destructoid Is King
on 10.27.2008
So, I come home from an average (read: pretty lousy) day of school to find a small average box awaiting me inside. Now it isn't highly unusual for me to receive strange boxes from all over the globe, seeing as how I order plenty of stuff and have myriads of friends sending me strange things which I don't know how they get through customs, so I wasn't surprised to have a box come in unannounced.
But upon viewing the big white slab of paper taped to the top of the box I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it had come to my house all the way from Miami, Florida care of the Destructoid office. And as such, I of course hastily retrieved the necessary supplies needed to open the well taped box and started on my way to freeing the contents.
Here are some shitty pictures of the unboxing. I really need to fix the lighting in my house.
Blurry Saturday Night Fever Optimus Prime approves of this offering.
And finally it's hallowed place on my shelf of glory/shame.
Fish eyed because the lighting sucks/I suck at cropping properly sometimes.
<3 Destructoid4Ever. Well, until ModernMethod gets bought out by CNET. ;)
CAG, Goozex 80 GB PS3 and LittleBigPlanet Contest On Now
on 10.13.2008
Cheap Ass Gamer
and the game trading site
have teamed up to give away a 80 GB PS3 and a copy of LittleBigPlanet in a new contest, as well as combine their wicked money saving abilities to rescue you from debt.
All you have to do to enter the contest is either
sign up
for a new Goozex account with the coupon code
, or post your current user name and a comfirmation that you are indeed a Goozex member already in
this thread
over at the CAG forums. If you sign up for a new Goozex account with the coupon code CAG you will also receive 100 (The equivalent of $5) free Goozex points and a trade credit! That's a deal if I've ever seen one.
The contest ends October 27 with the winner being announced on the 28th. The contest is open to the USA, Canada and Bermuda.


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My daughter wanted a Minnie Mouse party for her third birthday. So I got together all my red, white, black, and yellow scraps and made her this skirt. It is out of Sandi Henderson's book, Sewing Bits and Pieces.
There are so many projects in this book I want to try. I really want to make the cute little slippers. I have so many scraps and really need to use up some of them.
Anyway-here is the skirt on the girl.
It is very full and twirly, which she loves. If I make it again, I may make each tier a bit longer. The fullness doesn't translate in to greater length, which would be nice. But overall the instructions were very easy to follow and the skirt went together really quickly. I do have a serger and I think not having one would make everything go so much slower, it was easy to serge a rolled hem on all those ruffles. If I had to do a quarter inch one though, it would have more than doubled my time.
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Based on one of Squaresoft's most famous Final Fantasy characters, the chicken-like Chocobo, Chocobo Racing marks a departure from the company's trademark role-playing titles. Instead, they have driven into the racing spotlight to give the Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing titles a run for their money.
Along with the loveable Chocobo, Mog makes a glorious return to videogame action. For those unfamiliar with the character, the white-furred critter made his debut in Final Fantasy VI (released as Final Fantasy III on American shores) for the Super Nintendo. Together, they set off on a grand adventure looking for pieces of the legendary Blue Crystal. In order to obtain the pieces, they must defeat other wacky racers including the Chubby Chocobo, White Mage, Behemoth, and more (eight in all).
There are also eight various racetracks, each unique in design and location. Cid's Test Track is a simple high-speed circuit; Moogle Forest is located throughout Mog's homeland; the Mythril Mines track is set in a deserted mining town; and The Black Manor is a racing romp through a haunted mansion.
Players have the ability to drift their vehicles (like power sliding) and pick up special items and magical stones. Magical stones are scattered around each track; by picking one up, players are able to cast magical spells on their opponents. There are Fire stones, Thunderbolts, Minimize spells, Doom (curse your opponent), Reflect, and more. Each vehicle can hold up to three stones; by collecting multiple stones of the same type, players can cast even more powerful spells. For instance, one Thunderbolt stone will cast Thunder; two will cast Thundara; and three will cast Thundaga — the most powerful form of Thunder.
In addition to the stones, each racer has a special ability. Dash allows players to travel faster via turbo-blast; Flap protects racers from hazardous material on the track; Mug allows you to steal an opponent's magical stones; and Magic Plus increases a magical stone's casting power.
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The Grand Prix is a tournament style league in which six racers compete in over four tracks. By finishing a race, players are awarded a certain point total — whoever has the most points at the end of the Grand Prix wins. Time Attack allows players to race against the clock and/or a phantom racer (your best time).
What Squaresoft game would be complete without a story of some sort? The Story mode documents Mog and Chocobo's quest for the Blue Crystal pieces. Their adventure involves meeting up with new characters, racing them, and moving on; completing the story will unlock hidden goodies.
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I'm trying to test some environment-specific settings (middleware to be specific, but it doesn't seem to matter), but I'm having trouble getting the tests to run in the correct environment. The symptoms:
- If I run
ruby test/unit/my_test.rb
, all is fine because the first thing it does is requiretest/test_helper.rb
, which sets the environment to"test"
and then loads the Rails environment. - If I run
rake test
, the first batch (functionals) run fine, but the second batch (units) fail. The failure is thatENV['RAILS_ENV]
somehow gets unset between batches, thenconfig/environment.rb
sees that none is set and uses the default of"development"
. The environment is correct at the beginning ofconfig/environment.rb
and at the beginning of the configuration block in that file, but wrong by the end. I can tell by using aputs
or by deletingconfig/development.rb
causing it to not find the file. - If I run
rake test:units
, I get the same problem as the second batch ofrake test
(that is, all fail) - If I run
rake test:functionals
, I get the same as forrake test:units
- If I run
rake test RAILS_ENV=test
orrake test:units RAILS_ENV=test
orrake test:functionals RAILS_ENV=test
, all is fine!
One thing I tried that doesn't work at all is the following:
# in Rakefile:
task :set_test_env { ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'test' }
Rake::Task[:test].prerequisites.unshift :set_test_env
# and similarly for other test tasks
I even tried creating a separate one of those :set_test_env
tasks for each test task so that I was sure it would get called before each one instead of just once. Still no dice. It does get called, and the environment is correct at the beginning of config/environment.rb
but something goes wrong inside.
I have no calls to set ENV['RAILS_ENV']
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By Matt Luchette
March 18, 2013 | One of the most surprising parts of Atul Butte's lab website is his open-access calendar. At the bottom of his profile page, Butte, Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University and a keynote speaker for the Bio-IT World Expo on April 10, lists his daily commitments, instructions for making an appointment, and his assistant's phone number. The message is subtle, but clear: personal data cannot stay personal for long if Big Data will succeed in medicine.
The past year has seen significant advances in the analysis of large data sets to arrive at more simple conclusions: using multiple polling sources, Nate Silver's Bayesian algorithm perfectly predicted the outcome of the Electoral College for the 2012 election; and Facebook's Graph Search, announced this past January, allows users to quickly search their friends' profiles for shared interests and trends.
The challenge is not generating the necessary data (in 2012, nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes of data were generated worldwide each day, enough to fill nearly a million iMacs), but making any useful sense of the ocean of data available. Many of the most impactful contemporary scientists are those who can draw elegant and interesting conclusions from this vast information ether.
The genome sequencing revolution helped catalyze a similar Big Data revolution in the life sciences. With the results of over a million gene expression microarrays publicly available online, the trick for biologists is no longer figuring out how to sequence the genome, but rather what the data is saying. Butte found his niche in this developing field. In an April 2012 TEDMED talk, Butte explained this next big challenge for biologists, saying "We have so much data that the new magic now is figuring out what question we want to ask."
Butte's lab at Stanford is focused on developing computational methods to draw new insights from the world's publicly-available experimental data published each year in thousands of biological journal articles. "Scientists often use only a fraction of the data they collect," Butte explained to Bio-IT World, "And only a smaller fraction of that data is fully appreciated and reanalyzed."
Using a Bayesian method, similar to the one used for Nate Silver's election forecasting, Butte hopes to help doctors harness the mountain of experimental data currently available. In one study, Butte's lab analyzed over 12,000 scientific papers for the influence of genomic factors on specific diseases, such as cancer or Type 2 Diabetes. By creating an algorithm that ranks the correlation between genomic variation and a certain health complication, doctors could foreseeably provide medical recommendations based on a patient's sequenced genome as a part of a routine check-up.
Similar studies may even change the type of diseases a specialist treats. In the first iteration of the International Classification of Diseases in the early 1900s, the World Health Organization's taxonomy guidelines for grouping diseases to facilitate statistical analysis, diseases were classified largely based on the symptoms they caused or the organ in which they presented. Since then, the advent of molecular biology has helped doctors understand the pathology for many diseases on a subcellular level. Medicine today would seem completely foreign to the authors of the first I.C.D., but many of their original guidelines are still in place. As Butte put it in a lecture at TEDx San Francisco this past November, "Why did we ever even think that cancers would look like each other, just because the same doctor takes care of them?"
Reclassifying and relating diseases based on their molecular abnormalities, rather than their organ of genesis, could aid researchers in the process of drug repositioning. As pharmaceutical companies lose millions of dollars each year on candidate compounds that fail the early stages of FDA testing, many researchers are hoping to expand the indications for approved drugs into new diseases. As Butte described it to me, the goal is to "show that a Big Data approach can be translated for existing drugs." Knowing which diseases are caused by disregulated microtubule formation, for example, could help researchers identify existing microtubule inhibitors that could aid in treating them.
But the problem, Butte says, is, "there's no funding for clinical drugs for repurposing." The NIH has only recently created pilot funding mechanisms for repurposing existing drugs. Yet after publishing two papers on possible candidates for drug repositioning—including an ulcer medication that shows promise in treating lung cancer—Butte helped start a company, NuMedii, in 2008 to fund these clinical trials and develop new Big Data technologies to determine promising new drug candidates for repositioning. The company's successful algorithms attracted the attention of executives at Aptalis Pharma, who in October 2012 struck a deal with NuMedii to test proposed drug candidates of cystic fibrosis and gastrointestinal disorders.
Since founding NuMedii, Butte has used his research at Stanford to launch and consult for a number of other companies, including Personalis, which Butte helped found in 2011. The goal of Personalis is to provide researchers an accurate and comprehensive end-to-end human genome sequencing and analysis solution. By combining high-accuracy genome sequencing technologies with genome annotation and analysis from a number of proprietary genomic databases, Personalis hopes to help researchers glean more information from their genomic data.
Butte recognizes that many of the problems bioinformatics hopes to solve may seem daunting at first, especially to clinicians who will someday be expected to take advantage of these new discoveries, but he has encouraging words for his fellow health care providers.
"Don't be afraid," he advised in a live-tweet from his talk at the Future of Genomic Medicine conference last week. "We've learned how to interpret CT and MRI, we'll figure out genomics too."
Editor's Note: The Bio-IT World Conference and Expo will be held in Boston, April 9-11, at the World Trade Center. For more information, visit www.bio-itworldexpo.com.
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In this wonderfully simple recipe that I learned from reading Marcella Hazan, hot boiled risotto rice is mixed with fresh mozzarella cheese and fresh basil. The heat of the rice melts the mozzarella into thin strands, making an utterly satisfying quick main course. Although I usually make this dish with a round-grain risotto rice such as Arborio or Carnaroli, you can use just about any large-kernel grain you like, such as brown rice or farro. The only caveat is that this dish must be eaten at once, while it is hot, or it will cool into a rubbery mass.
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Felix, S and Sukumaran, N and Jegatheesan, G and Sundararajan, N (1990) Shrimp farming by private enterprise- A case study. CMFRI Bulletin-National symposium on research and development in marine fisheries Sessions III & IV 1987, 44 (2). pp. 412-415.
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In view of the encouraging results shown by the research organisations of India and other countries in prawn culture on scientific methods, a commercial research and development project on prawn culture was established by the TATA Oil Mills Co. Ltd., at Pulicat. Experiments were conducted in aarthern ponds of size ranging from 0.4 to 1.25 ha- Stocking rates ranging from 6.5 to 15 prawns/mz were attempted and production to the tune of 0.5 to 1.0 tonne/ha/crop was achieved. Survival rate over 80% could be maintained in all the crops. An artificial feed formulated with shrimp meal, trash fish and vitamin mineral mix along with other usual ingredients, with a protein content of 40%, proved to be better than the other conventional feed. Effect of design of a pond, aging of pond, stocking density, stocking size and various hydrobioiogical parameters viz. salinity, dissolved oxygen and pH were also studied. The intensive stocking rate, the successful feed formula and the effective water managements adopted were the important reasons for the successful production of shrimps in this farm. The cost of production of 1 kg of shrimps considering the variable cost, varied from Ks 20.00 to 34.00 and thus a net revenue of Rg. 8000.00 to 20,000.00/ha/crop was achieved.
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"Dude, you should be here! I'm drinking Slayer's Heinekins right now!"
- Budo 8/11/2010
Agreed. I loved the original fights, and that main event was going to be absolutely unreal. Now we have a main event where we know the outcome already (still excited to see JDS ko Mir), and then the rest of the new match ups just aren't as appealing as the originals...Bummer all around.
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i wonder who will be #4 against nelson?
crazy deck shuffling.
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
There's no such thing as an easy fight for Roy.
Card keeps getting worse and worse.
I mean it's STILL going to be cool to see JDS/Mir despite our knowing that outcome, Cain/Bigfoot will also be exciting, I just hope it's not too one sided, Hunt/Struve is sure to have a great knockout and my former training partner Glover Teixeria's coming out party with his future win over Kyle Kingsbury all make this a card I'm STILL looking forward to nevertheless.
But ****, this card really has gone from being One of the best EVER to a card that is just "pretty good".
All because of ****ing Overeem.
I hope he's been paying attention and realizes that he has single handedly ****ed up AN ENTIRE CARD.
I would bet that Dana and Joe Silva are FURIOUS with him at this point, and with DAMN good reason.
Anyways....I think this should actually be a pretty good fight that Herman has a chance of winning, but Nelson folded Struve who TKO'd Herman....unless Herman avoids the standup and can dominate with wrestling he's probably getting finished.
Reminds me a bit of Barnett sinking an entire fight org. when he couldn't fight Fedor at Affliction. But funny how these things turn out when the smoke eventually clears ... Barnett's fighting for Zuffa again, and who know? The UFC might be next for him if he wins the now-tattered HW tournament in SF.
It sucks that card has changed so much, still some good matchups, but the first incarnation was really exciting to me.
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Evidence from epidemiological and clinical studies has implicated potassium (K+) depletion in the pathogenesis and maintenance of essential hypertension. In adolescents prone to develop hypertension in the future, several studies have shown an inverse relationship between K+ intake and blood pressure (BP). The aim of this study was to determine whether the variation of red blood cell K+ content (RBCKi) in adolescents could be explained by a single distribution or by a mixture of two or more distributions. If more than one distribution could be identified, we studied whether they differed in BP, parental hypertension and other variables. METHOD AND RESULTS: Adolescents (n = 100) were recruited from a High School in the city of Valencia, Venezuela. BP, anthropometric measurements and parental history of hypertension were obtained from each subject. Venous blood and urine sample were obtained for RBC, plasma urine electrolyte measurements. Mixture analysis was used to analyze RBCKi distribution. The distribution of RBCKi levels fit significantly better in a bimodal (p < 0.01) than a unimodal or trimodal distribution. Diastolic blood pressure (75 +/- 1 vs 72 +/- 2 mmHg), systolic blood pressure (SBP) (119 +/- 1 vs 113 +/- 2 mmHg) and pulse pressure (PP) (44 +/- 1 vs 41 +/- 2 mmHg) were higher in the subgroup with low-RBCKi, but only SBP and PP values were statistically significant (p < 0.05). The low-RBCKi subgroup had 40% of the hypertensive parents vs 20% in the high-RBCKi subgroup. Adolescents with low RBCKi were three times more likely to have a hypertensive parent than adolescents with high RBCKi (chi 2 = 3, p = 0.04). CONCLUSION: K+ depletion in RBC, its bimodal distribution and its strong association with BP and parental hypertension suggest that low RBCKi in adolescents might represent an early sign of K+ depletion that could contribute to the development of future hypertension. |
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Title: Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD Volume: 12 ISSN: 0939-4753 ISO Abbreviation: Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis Publication Date: 2002 Jun |
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Created Date: 2002-09-27 Completed Date: 2003-01-30 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9111474 Medline TA: Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis Country: Italy |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 112-6 Citation Subset: IM |
Division of Hypertension, 3918 Taubman Center, Box 0356, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. email@example.com |
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Adolescent Analysis of Variance Biological Markers / analysis Blood Pressure Determination Erythrocytes / chemistry* Female Humans Hypertension / diagnosis*, epidemiology Male Mass Screening Potassium / analysis, blood* Probability Sampling Studies Sensitivity and Specificity Venezuela / epidemiology |
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0/Biological Markers; 7440-09-7/Potassium |
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