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Introduction to IBM Cognos BI, Business Intelligence suite of IBM
- Business Performance Management
- Key Performance Indicators
- Analysis
- Data warehouse
- Data mart
- Reporting
- Dashboard
- Business Intelligence
- Cognos BI
- Cognos Planning
- Business Intelligence
- Analysis
- Business Intelligence
- Cognos
- Cognos Planning
- Corporate Performance Indicators
- Corporate Performance Management
- data mart
- Data Warehouse
- information
- Scorecard
- suites
- tools
IBM Cognos 8 BI suite is one of the most widely used business intelligence. Software is a fairly comprehensive, yet manageable, and one of the BI market leaders.
The main applications are used from a web portal that controls the Business Intelligence Server, which is the heart of the tool.
This portal is called Cognos Connection and from the same, provided by web, you can access environmental management options and services to the different applications that provides Cognos, the folder structure that organizes the reports, to dashboards, and other accessories that can be integrated in the portal.
Each application is designed to cover a type of needs that often occur in such environments. Most handles 100% from the web browser, both to develop and design reports, events and metrics to consult or analysis tasks.
These are the main tools provided in the suite:
- IBM Cognos Query Studio
- IBM Cognos Report Studio
- IBM Cognos Analysis Studio
- IBM Cognos Event Studio
- IBM Cognos Metric Studio
- IBM Cognos Powerplay Transformer
- IBM Cognos Framework Manager
- IBM Cognos Planning
- IBM Cognos TM1
IBM Cognos Query Studio
It is the most simple, and could be considered rather as a complement. Its purpose is to allow the user to perform simple queries to quickly resolve specific issues that may arise.
Allows access to the same data structure used by other tools, whether it is a relational model as if the structure is dimensional.
With Query Studio can create a report in seconds by dragging fields from the Data Explorer to the report design area. It also allows to apply filters, sorting, grouping of data operations and even create graphs. It also has options for formatting, but quite limited.
Where precisely is more limited in formatting the report, and the creation of complex calculated fields, using benchmarks and many other advanced options that have been to use Report Studio.
IBM Cognos Report Studio
Is the main application for creating reports. Query Studio is like, but it is much more complete.
On the left shows an object browser from which you can access the data structure, and other objects inserted into the reports. To the right is the report design area where you can drag these objects and go to compose the structure.
These objects can be of different types: data source, specifics of the report and design tools. Each object that is embedded in the report has configurable properties, and through these you can reach a very high level of customization, both in the data shown in the design of the format.
You can work with both relational data structures as dimensional structures, you just have to keep in mind that depending on the type of origin there are differences in the properties applicable to the data, and even in behavior in the design area . Although not required to do so, to show dimensional structure data, it is more appropriate to use crosstab type reports. You can choose from several types of basic structure for reporting.
There are different types of graphs, and even maps that can be included in the reports, display or store individually to form part of a scorecard that would be displayed on the site.
The options for the use of parameters and prompts are also fairly complete, although how they are defined is not very intuitive and is somewhat cumbersome.
As in all these types of tools, you can define filters, sorting, grouping, and working with aggregates, create subtotals, calculated fields, conditional formatting. You can also enable the drill up and drill down, and using drill through.
The consultation done with the operational origins SQL and MDX dimensional models used. The resulting query can be viewed and even edited and changed directly.
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio
Analysis Studio is a function similar to Query Studio, but for multidimensional sources. This tool allows navigation structures such as multidimensional OLAP cubes, which may not necessarily be of Cognos. It can also attack relational data sources, provided they are dimensionally modeled from Framework Manager.
The main purpose of this software is to enable the business analyst can 'navigate' through the data loaded into the dimensional structures without relying on IT support area. As announced by the manufacturer, using Analysis Studio a business user you can perform complex analysis and comparative data to discover trends, risks and opportunities.
The work area is similar to Query Studio and Report Studio and options for creating standard reports are very similar to Query Studio, applying filters, sorting, grouping operations data, creating charts, etc. .
It also offers more functionality dimensional oriented sources, such as navigation with drill up / drill down or filter the creation of context.
IBM Cognos Event Studio
This is the tool of notifications and alerts in the suite.
With Event Studio are created agents are checking the data or KPI's defined, and detect major events for the business when certain values are reached or certain conditions are met.
At that time, the tool proceeds to execute actions or tasks that are associated with events. You can run and distribute reports, generating emails, communicate with other software tools, or other agents to run jobs, call stored procedures database, or even call a Web Service.
Once constructed agents Event Studio, with the same environment Scheduler used to schedule automated execution of reports, program and controls the periodic execution of them.
IBM Cognos Metric Studio
It is the tool used for the construction of metrics and scorecards.
Studio With Metric defines the KPIs or Key Performance Indicators of the business, are organized and relate to each other, are associated with different profiles, and monitor, allowing at all times to compare against performance objectives, and define automated actions such as notifications in case of deviations.
With these metrics are built dashboards that enable operational level to monitor performance against objectives, and strategic level "map" of corporate strategy and facilitate its transmission to all levels of the organization.
The metric can be constructed from different data sources, such as OLAP cubes, relational databases, spreadsheets, text files, and even values reported manually, and the tool features wizards to facilitate the construction of metrics and dashboards.
IBM Cognos Powerplay Transformer
The above tools provide access to OLAP cubes as a data source. IBM Cognos PowerplayTransformer is the tool to build OLAP cubes, called IBM Cognos PowerCube. Although Cognos reporting tools can work in and attack ROLAP relational databases, to perform analytical tasks is often most efficient to use an OLAP cube as a data source, ie work in MOLAP. With a data volume controlled response times in the use of the reports can be much better.
With Powerplay defined data sources is modeled multidimensional structure which will shape the cube, validates, and proceeds to its construction.
This tool is installed in client mode, not accessible by web. It is used independently to generate the cubes, which is attacking the other web tools.
IBM Cognos Framework Manager
This is the tool used to build the necessary metadata for all other work. Not often mentioned as a product because it is the area that uses the technique to create metadata packages that query reporting tools to show the business user an intelligible structure, and allow navigation to create a tree just by viewing the system daots origin.
Optionally, the suite also offers other tools such as IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos TM1,two tools designed to budgeting and financial planning, but each one best suited to a type of environment.
TM1 highlight analysis technology used in memory, so you can get impressive response times.
Finally, I make mention of the Express version of the Suite, IBM Cognos Express, IBM has developed the focus to small and medium enterprisesa as a more affordable and easy to implement.
I hope this little review of the product suite of IBM Cognos BI will be useful, any new contribution, opinions or comments are welcome in the section of IBM Cognos BI Dataprix Forum


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Hardware/Software Architectures for Real-Time Caching
Jacob, Bruce
"Hardware/software architectures for real-time caching." Bruce L Jacob. Proc. Second Workshop on Compiler and Architecture Support for Embedded Systems (CASES'99), pp. 135-138, Washington DC, October 1999.
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There are two fundamental problems in guaranteeing cache performance for real-time embedded systems: conflict and capacity misses. Though fully associative caches would solve conflict misses, they are too expensive to implement in embedded systems. There are two alternatives: a real-time cache (a software managed fully associative cache with extremely large cache blocks) and a virtually addressed cache. To address capacity misses, one can dynamically (and predictably) manage the cache contents.

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Dave Smart
A day round Cannes and Antibes
I had no plans for the day but, after chatting with a girl that I shared the room with, I decided to stay in Nice for another night so we headed to Cannes for a look. The coast road was very busy and slow. but the views across the port areas were great. One of the yachts in the bay had a helicopter parked on the back of it – who only knows what the combined price of that lot was!
We parked up in Cannes harbour area and took a wander round the town. After a very pleasant, but rather expensive, lunch we headed back to the car where we met an American tourist who wanted a picture taken of himself with the port in the background. This was another person only too pleased to come and sign the Mini.
As we drove back along the coast road to Antibes, my passenger said she felt like a celebrity with the number of people smiling and waving at us but, by this time I had become pretty immune to it. We spent the rest of the afternoon on a lovely little sandy beach near the city wall. I then drove the girl back to the hostel in terrible traffic so she could collect her stuff and took her to the airport where we parted. It was only then I realised we hadn't even introduced our selves to each other…
Back at the hostel, I attempted to type up a few of these blogs, only to get drawn into a drinking game with the 3 Canadian girls I was sharing the room with that night and a bunch of other people they had met. I brought out the bottle of Tequila from the car which, thankfully, we didn't manage to empty. Another 2 o' clock finish, again though…
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Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...
Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.
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On page 124 of scholar Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, he writes about a fascinating era when men of eminence (culturally recognized Geniuses; Nobel Prize winners) donated their brains to science.
Some men of genius did very well indeed. Against a European average of 1,300 to 1,400 grams, the great Cuvier stood out with his topheavy, 1,830 grams. Cuvìer headed the charts until Turgenev finally broke the 2,000-gram barrier in 1883. (Other potential occupants of this stratosphere, Cromwell and Swift, lay in limbo for insufficiency of record.)
The other end was a bit more confusing and embarrassing. Walt Whitman managed to hear America singing with only 1,282 grams. As a crowning indignity, Franz Josef Gall, one of the two founders of phrenology – the original "science" of judging various mental capacities by the size of localized brain areas – weighed in at a meager 1,198 grams. (His colleague J. K. Spurzheim yielded a quite respectable 1,559 grams.) And, though Broca didn't know it, his own brain weighed only 1,424 grams, a bit above average to be sure, hut nothing to crow about. Anatole France extended the range of famous authors to more than 1,000 grams when, in 1924, he opted for the other end of Turgenev's fame and clocked in at a mere 1,017 grams.
While Gould doesn't report the average eminent brain, a simple way to estimate it is to observe the range, from the largest Genius brain (Turgenev; 2021 g) to the smallest (Anatole France; 1,017 g), and take the midpoint: 1519 g. However as scholar J.P. Rushton has explained, brain weight increases by 9% postmortem so I will divide this figure by 1.09 to get the in-vivo weight which gives 1394 g. Now to convert brain weight to volume, you multiply by 1.036 which gives 1444 cm3
How does this compare to normal men of that generation? The average year and average age when these two eminent men died was 1904 and 72 respectively. Meanwhile data from the general population shows that British men who died in 1907 (average age 47) had a mean brain weight of 1372 g. But these men were born 28 years later (on average) so to make their brain weights comparable we adjust for age by noting that from age 25 to 80, brain weight varies negatively with age by 2 g per year, so general population British men of the same average generation as Turgenev/France would be 1316 g. Dividing this by 1.09 and multiplying by 1.036 reveals this generation of men had a mean volume of 1251 cm3, 193 cm3 smaller than the average Genius of that era. Since Rushton's military data shows that the cranial capacity standard deviation (SD) in white men is 91 cm3, the average Genius had a brain 2.12 SD bigger than normal!
Corrected for reliability and range restriction, the true correlation between IQ and brain size is probably 0.5, suggesting the true correlation with g (general intelligence) is 0.53. This correlation is far from perfect, and suggests that the brain size of Geniuses regresses precipitously to the mean (see validity generations). To correct for this regression, we divide the average Genius brain size (+2.12 SD) by 0.53 which gives an average IQ on a hypothetically pure measure of general intelligence of 4 SD above white men (IQ 162)! However because the typical IQ test "only" has a g loading of about 0.85, Geniuses should regress 15% to the mean on an IQ test and average 153 when tested (assuming the test has sufficient ceiling). Indeed an important study of extremely eminent scientists found they had a mean tested IQ of 150.


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If you live in Texas, you know these YETI stainless steel tumblers are all the rage. They're pricey, but they keep your beverage super cold (or super hot) for what seems like hours longer than any other cup or mug you've ever owned.
While some argue that there are almost identical yet more affordable options to keep your beverages temperature-controlled, Texans are pretty loyal to their brands. Which means it was only a matter of time before this happened:
Reddit user u/need-a-refill (appropriate name) posted a custom-painted YETI in the r/Texas subreddit in mid-October, and it didn't take long for the Texas-based fast food chain to respond with their own version.
Ask and you shall receive. You can buy your own Whataburger-branded tumbler, which looks just like a large Whataburger cup (but no styrofoam here!) on Whataburger's website for $42.99. That's a few bucks more expensive than a YETI brand, but you don't have to paint it yourself.
RELATED: Here's how you can get Whataburger breakfast 24 hours a day
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2ct Fancy EMERALD Step Cut Pave Dangle Cz Diamond Stud Earrings
Gorgeous, sophisticated and elegant stud earrings.
Featuring .75 carat fancy emerald step cut solitaire stones completely surrounded with pave stones and dangling below a strand of pave set tiny rounds
The designer setting of placing pave stones around a solitaire give the illusion of larger stones.
2 carats total weight for the pair
3/4's of an inch in length
Rhodium over silver
Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle
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- Manufacturer: Samantha Manzo


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SR-42302P is 42" Full HD Interactive kiosk with embedded Windows player and 2 points touch screen.
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You can activate the personalization if the addition of their weights is enough. The personalization will start only if the main conditions, or if most of the conditions are reached.
To steps are needed to do so: first, you must define the weight of your conditions when you create your segment. Then, define the weight needed to activate the personalization.
Defining the weight of your conditions
You can define the weight of your conditions when you create your segment. If you want to define the weight of an existing segment, you must edit it.
Defining a weight allows you to rank the conditions of your segment. If a condition is more important than another, its weight should be higher.
When you select a condition, the weight appears on the right of the block:
By default, the weight of each condition is 1. Click on it to edit this number.
1 is the minimum weight. If the condition is important, you can define a higher weight.
Defining the cumulative weight needed
When you create your personalization, go to the "Micro-targeting" in the "Display settings" part to define the cumulative weight of the targeting conditions. You can use this option even if you have not set up the weight of your conditions: by default, the weight of all conditions is 1.
By default, the option checked is "All targeting conditions of your segment are observed".
To define a cumulative weight, click on "The cumulative weight of the active targeting conditions is sufficient".
A new field opens, allowing you to choose the minimum weight to reach.
As an example, let's take a segment set up with:
- Condition 1 - weight 1
- Condition B - weight 4
- Condition C - weight 2
- Condition D - weight 2
If you define '7' as cumulative weight to reach, the addition of the weight of the conditions reached should be at least 7 for the visitor to display the personalization.
In our example, the conditions A+B+C (7), B+C+D (8) or A+B+D (7) would be enough to activate the personalization.


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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Sophomore Matt Moomjian shot a 4-under par 67 in Wednesday's final round at the St. Mary's Invitational to help UC Santa Barbara jump from 16th-place and into 14th-place, one shot ahead of Texas Arlington and UC Irvine.
Moomjian finished the tournament at 5-under par to tie for ninth-place. He shot all three round at or under par in a tournament that was populated by top schools.
As a team, the Gauchos finished at 880, three shots behind Fresno State and 10 back of Oregon State. USC and Stanford finished 1-2 in the tournament, which was played at the Poppy Hills Golf Club.
Sophomore Brett Bennett carded an 8-over par 221 to tie for 59th-place. Tyler See was at 11-over and tied for 68th, while Brandon Bauman finished at 14-over par and in a tie for 80th and Nick Swanson tied for 88th at 16-over par.
The tournament was won by USC which finished six shots ahead of Stanford and 16 up on Colorado State. Trojan Justin Suh won the individual title at 13-under par, five shots ahead of the second-place finisher.
The St. Mary's Invitational is the final fall event for UCSB. The Gauchos next tournament is slated for Jan. 29-30 when they travel to the Waves Challenge at Saticoy Golf Course in Somis, Calif.


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Its been a long while since Creative reported a profitable quarter. The last one I think was the US$100 million from Apple patent dispute. This time, Creative should thanks Intel who spend US$20 million for the Zii chip licensing and the bought over of the ZiiLabs UK for US$26 million. Although this is a long awaited relief for Creative but its a short term relief indeed. Creative is still spending on R&D to produce innovating products and there are no potential products in sight. So they are likely to report a loss the next quarter.
Hang in there!
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Last July, I blogged about the silly efforts I always make to avoid picking out a thin towel at the fitness club; I prefer newish towels with thick nap that will dry more efficiently. I regarded my efforts to select desirable towels as mere foibles, because it was unlikely that there was any variation in the towels at all.
Today I casually grabbed what was obviously a "thin" towel. It lay flat, without the thick fold I always prefer. I knew it looked thin, but my tired mind said "for goodness sakes, what difference does it make?" And you know what I got? An old, thin towel. Almost napless, a pitiable thing to dry a wet body. From now on, I'm going to follow my own advice.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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Tools to get the facts
Having the right tools for the job is basic planning. Cutting through the crap isn't always easy and people with an agenda often come armed with cherry picked information, presented in a way to make it look legitimate. We have some tools you may find useful when you smell something fishy.
Trisha Greenhalgh
Author of How to read a paper
Author of How to read a paper
- Nutrition - A very short introduction - A great starter point to wet your appetite. Short and to the point.
- How to read a paper - A great resource if you want to learn how to check what your reading has any merit.
- Bad Science - Ben Goldacre has perfected the art of calling out bullshit wherever he sees it and telling it as a good story. This should be essential reading in all schools.
- Games people play - an odd choice indeed but Berne's ideas are more relevant today when we have big corporations telling us what we should and shouldn't be doing. Many marketing strategies and how information is delivered can be described using Berne's models.
- USDA Food composition database - a great site that will give you just about as much information you can think of about any food.
- Cochrane Reviews - The home of the meta analysis. An excellent starting point to any question you have and the evidence for it.
- PubMed - the largest collection of medical journal articles. Its easy to get lost in this and its worthwhile taking some time to learn how to use this site properly before just entering random search terms into it or you will end up with thousands of articles with no way of knowing what is relevant or not. There are lots of guides online on how to use PubMed and How to read a paper is probably the best print guide we know.
Website Bits - All the clever things we used to make this site are here
- 1and1 Hosting - we use this hosting provider as they have a UK site, have a great price and there was no faffing with how many visitors you were going to have per month or how much space you needed. So far so good.
- Other people have a good word to say about BlueHost and WPengine also. There is a good review of different providers to be found here. All the providers offer 'Managed' wordpress hosting which is useful if you want to avoid some of the more technical aspects of running a blog but comes with some limitations. There are many sites that will walk through in detail the difference between managed and self managed hosting. WPengine is a little more pricey than some other hosting but is specifically designed for WordPress and promises lightening fast sites because of this.
- Thrive Themes - we use the thrive themes content builder and one of their themes on this site. Having had no experience in WordPress before we have nothing but praise for these tools. Other people use the Genesis Framework for WordPress design and themes although it seemed more complicated than thrive themes.
- Problogger - a great website full of resources if you want to get on the blog bandwagon.
- WordPress - we use WordPress as our blog platform as its the most popular and easiest to use for all levels. Its also free. Nuff said.
- Recurpost - A top notch service for scheduling your social media posts. Think MeetEdgar but free!
WordPress Plugins
- Sucuri Security - A great and easy to use security plugin. They offer a paid service which is a complete security option if you want to let someone else do the hard work.
- bbPress - the software we use for our forums, made by the people who make WordPress.
- bbPress Style Pack - This allows you to customise the design of your forums, believe us when we say this is an absolute time saver.
- Ninja Firewall - A web application Firewall to protect your site. Fun to see the hacking attempts counter increase as they get blocked!
- Yoast SEO - a great plugin for optimising your content for search engines


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Sunday, May 1, 2016
Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme
17 comments:
- Larry Wright said...
Thank you & God bless.
- May 1, 2016 at 6:50 PM
- Margery Bills said...
Why is there a photo of a female with the meme? It takes two to tango-equally.
- May 1, 2016 at 6:56 PM
- Margery Bills said...
Bulls like alfalfa, grass, salt lick mostly. Some other things like corn can make them sick or not.
- May 1, 2016 at 6:58 PM
- John Wells said...
Margery...that is a photo of Bruce Jenner.
- May 1, 2016 at 7:07 PM
- Adriana said...
John,you can feel however you want about this of course but I'm not sure how one person's struggle and journey impacts you one bit. How about live and let live and refrain from judging others. Nobody turns their entire life upside down for kicks. Tolerance works both ways.
- May 1, 2016 at 7:57 PM
- greg said...
Sad to say that somewhere along the way live and let live stopped being the Christian way, and 'judge not lest' sounds good but is not and never has been the Christian way.
- May 1, 2016 at 8:05 PM
- Margery Bills said...
:-) Oh yes, then one picture should be good enough for everyone.
- May 1, 2016 at 8:24 PM
- Margery Bills said...
I am watching a special now about good and evil and world religions and God. The pictures are interesting to me.
- May 1, 2016 at 8:27 PM
- Stephan Marc Dubois said...
What John is saying is the gospel of the Holy Bible and the absolute truth. Our world has kicked God and his moral absolutes and values out of it. Gender and sex are for procreation in a marriage, period. It's the truth, no matter how much someone in the world believes the Bible to be "distorted by man" or it's "a book of fairy tales"...it's GOD'S word, nothing less. Just because you don't believe, doesn't mean it's not true.
And the Christian way in this world is never to turn an eye to sin. It's not judgment when you point out where someone has gone astray. Our job, as outlined in the "Great Commission" is to inform the lost of Jesus Christ and His plan of salvation and in order to do that, the sin in a person's life has to be pointed out. And just because we, as Christians, point out a problem in someone's life, doesn't mean we're perfect, it just means we're forgiven. Only one person in the history of the world and humanity was ever perfect...Jesus Christ Himself. HE was the one that told us in Matthew 28: 16-20...Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
You can't more absolute than these verses...
- May 2, 2016 at 11:13 AM
- Nicki said...
Agree wholeheartedly. Just because our government is denying God's Word does not make His Word irrelevant to our world today. You hear, "Judge Not." Well, if people would read the complete passage they would see that they are not to judge others to a different standard than they are willing to hold themselves to. On another note, we are actually only a jury, God in Heaven is the Judge. :-)
- May 2, 2016 at 11:42 AM
- Ted Webb said...
I personally wonder at times how a human body is wired, that area that is not on the surface but inside .I believe there's more to it than what meets the eye. When God created the Universe he done a perfect job. When he created carbon base creatures and gave them free will ,that where I question his judgment
- May 2, 2016 at 12:36 PM
I pop in here occasionally to read about off grid living. And then I get this crap...this bible thumping mythology is nuts. You believe ridiculous stories made up to give you some "faith" to believe in, and live your life by this type of outdated garbage? Wake up....it's 2016...there is a whole world evolving out there passing you by. Oh no wait, I assume you don't believe in evolution either?
- May 2, 2016 at 1:19 PM
- bayrider said...
Every time someone tells me they know the 'word of god' my eyes roll. People have used that trope throughout history. It just an accumulation of human written manipulation the same as the many political 'truths' we are constantly beaten over the head with.
Having said that I respect people's religious beliefs and I find great value in the Christian theology in particular, chiefly love each other and treat each other with respect. The ignoramuses like the Duck Commander don't seem to grasp that most basic tenet of Christianity, why listen to any of their nonsense?
- May 2, 2016 at 1:39 PM
- Jay B said...
At the age of 13, I had heard a sermon given by Reverend Cole of the Martinez Methodist Church in Martinez, Georgia. He had made a metaphorical statement that Jesus walked with a 2 edge sword. I did not understand what he was talking about at that time, but when I was 33, after meditating on the beatitudes: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." And this verse: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me"; I had an Epiphany. It was not only about Christians being persecuted, but also about the people that Christians persecuted.
This lead me into an understanding of this verse: Matt: 7-1: "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2. "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." No matter how many times I read this, I have not been able to find any justification to judge another human being for being human. It does not mean I do not judge, it just means I am seeing me in that person when I do.
To make it more frustrating for me, there is Jesus' Commandment: Mark 12:31: "The second most important commandment is this: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these." If I am not loving my neighbor, what am I saying about myself? If I am judging my neighbor then am I judging myself? When I judge my neighbor not worthy of God's love then am I saying I am also not worthy of His Love?
What it comes down too for me is this: What I see in another human is me, when I judge, I judge me, when I hate them, I hate me, when I call them all kinds of things, I am really only talking about myself. So, it is easier to Love them for who they are because I rather chose to Love me.
- May 2, 2016 at 6:01 PM
- Margery Bills said...
Acceptance. Thank you Jay B. That was so incitefull. WhenI point a finger, I have three pointing back to me. Double edge sword-excellent.
- May 2, 2016 at 7:23 PM
- Space City Books said...
Guess you need to pray to gawd why she made man with 2 penis's, women with 2 viagina's, and all the mix in between.
Better pray for perfection, hurry!
- May 8, 2016 at 1:44 PM
- Unknown said...
I liked it better when "they" were still in the closet. Have a nice day.
- June 25, 2016 at 9:28 AM


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Funding Frenzy
Who are they funding? How broad is their influence? Should the funding priorities of a small number of foundations drive local education policy? Is Bill Gates our national superintendent, as Diane Ravitch has suggested?
For those clamoring for disclosure, academic institutions where I have worked and studied have received grants from the Gates Foundation, and I have undoubtedly benefited from those grants. My intent is not to villainize these foundations, but to wonder out loud whether it is a good thing for American education when local reform strategies are shaped so strongly by a small number of private, uber-wealthy foundations.
To get us started, here's a link to a spreadsheet with the grantees of the Gates, Broad, and Walton Foundations. I pulled these from data from the Foundation Center's database; these are not real-time data, so grants from 2006-2007 are not exhaustively represented here. You can follow these links for a more up to date list of Gates, Broad, and Walton grantees. I'll hit this myself tomorrow, but in the meantime, may a thousand blog posts bloom...
P.S. Be sure to check out this A-Rus post about the growing role of foundations in American education.


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Baby Boy is two years old and loves to play on the Wii, unfortunately for him, most of the games are just a little too complicated for him to play with any great success. When Ubisoft asked if I would be interested in reviewing a new Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends Game titled "Hero of the Rails" I knew that Thomas mad Baby Boy would adore the game.
The first screen gives you two options, you can either go to a "Story" section or a "Game" section. On our first play Daddy went to the Game section and we chose a random game which was a race between two engines, one of which is controlled by your hand movements on the Wii controller. The game started before explaining how you were to use the controller to make your engine move and Daddy found himself working very hard to catch up (and then overtake) the engine he was racing.
Baby Boy, Top Ender and I played the other games taking turns as they are all one player games and I was thinking that this might not be a good game as it was rather boring and didn't seem to be as great as I was expecting for something associated with Thomas the Tank Engine brand.
After doing all the games, we decided to listen to the story. I was sitting on the floor when suddenly I realised that the story needs input in order to progress. All the games that we had just been playing in the Games Section are in the story! This put a new spin on things and even Top Ender (who says that she doesn't like Thomas the Tank Engine) was enjoying helping Thomas and friends help save a long forgotten steam engine called Hiro (Yes like in Heroes) get fixed up all whilst keeping it secret from Spencer.
Baby Boy found the game easier for him to complete than other games that we have and it took thirty minutes to listen to the story and do the games within the story. Daddy was a bit worried that Baby Boy would get bored after he had completed the game, but he has asked to play it again on a couple of occasions and has played along with little or no help from me.
The game has an RRP of £19.99 and is rated PEGI 3 and I think that this is a great game to get for younger Wii users, as they will get to grips with what they need to do quite quickly and it uses characters that they are familiar with, as I don't think I know any children who don't know of Thomas the Tank Engine!


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Art is My Therapy!
What is the thing that you do that makes you forget time and place for a while? This is what happens when I draw. It's like an escape or a zone that I go into for a couple of hours, and when I come back to reality I am mentally refreshed. I decided to write about that, so I did a little Google-searching on the subject and came up with all kinds of articles about how making art is therapeutic. Turns out art therapy is widely practiced by health care professionals to help physically, mentally, and emotionally challenged or disabled individuals using all kinds of methods.
That is not really what I am referring to though. I love the way that doing art, whether it is drawing, painting, dancing, writing music, or whatever art form, is therapeutic in general. I don't even think I can name all of the ways, but some biggies are self-expression, relief from stress, grief, or anxiety, and the pleasurable experience of creating something. Doing art, specifically drawing, allows me to focus on the present moment, setting all of the other cluttered thoughts aside for a while. I get lost in it, because it seems to force other distracting mental activity out of the way so that I can do the art work.
Let me know your thoughts about this subject. I think it is fascinating.
Have a great week!
With Joy,
"Winners Win" is finished!
It's at the frame shop!! This was a fun project. I can't wait to get it back and get it shipped to Phoenix. Thank you Jake and Tim for putting me up to the challenge!
With Joy,
Do You Smell Smoke?
While working on the background of this group portrait, I suddenly realized something was wrong. I had been using dark colors for the wall with lighter shades coming from behind Trump that was supposed to look like lighting. I was satisfied until I realized it looked like Trump's hair was on fire! Just above his already yellow-orange hair there was a blaze of orange-red flames. Ha! It made me think of the "Heat Miser" on that old Christmas cartoon. I got a good laugh then I toned down the colors above his head. I wish I'd gotten a picture of that (lesson learned) but here's a shot of Trump after I put out the fire.
With Joy,
Based in Birmingham, AL, I love creating portraits in charcoal and pastels. Join me on my creative journey, inspired by the people, places, and pets I've met along the way!
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12 Foods All Smokers and Ex-Smokers Must Eat to Cleanse Their Lungs
Posted on Mar 10, 2016
Let's not even start to talk about how smoking is bad for your health. We just hope you'll quit soon, and if you've already quit: good job! Be tenacious, it's the best decision you've ever made. Still, your body needs a detox, especially your lungs. Even if you haven't smoked a cigarette in your life, you should eat these foods because they're super healthy for everyone!
1. Onions
Rich in folic acid, as well as vitamins B6 and C. They are rich in antioxidants, which can help clean the toxins from the lungs.


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I have four children and one of the ways we save money is to cook a lot of our meals from scratch but before that happens we buy some ingredients in bulk. Today I thought I'd share with you the items I always buy in bulk for the pantry. 1. Flour We buy flour in… Continue reading Ten Items I Buy in Bulk
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Learn to Pinch a Penny Until it Squeaks
If you are anything like me your Pinterest feed is filled with money saving tips and posts with topics like "21 things frugal people don't buy". Have you looked at these posts? Some of them are legit and I genuinely like them but the majority seem to be things that a person who is on… Continue reading Learn to Pinch a Penny Until it Squeaks


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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will deliver his third State of the City Address Tuesday evening, Jan. 17, in Boston's Symphony Hall. Details are scant so far, with the Press Office offering only that the speech will focus on "his administration's accomplishments over the past year working to create a thriving, healthy, and inclusive Boston."
The address will be livestreamed on the City's website. Pre-programming begins at 6:45 p.m.
Last January, during his second such address, Mayor Walsh focused on education, affordable housing and the arts. In it, he also announced the creation of the Office of Housing Stability.
In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.
"New homes will help bring costs back to working people's budgets. But many just want a fair deal where they live right now. Last year, we doubled the compensation people get when their apartments are turned into condos. But we should do more than compensate," he said. "We should help people stay in their communities."
This address holds a bit more weight now that Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson has formally announced he'll be running for Boston Mayor.
"We've lost our way," Jackson said in his strongly worded announcement speech. "We're not focusing on the right things right now."
Read Mayor Walsh's entire 2016 State of the City Address, below:
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Monday, 22 July 2013
Stark Trilogy - J.Kenner! Blog Hop & Giveaway
For fans of Sylvia Day & E.L James allow me to introduce you to J.Kenner!
"Finally, I write emotionally charged erotic romance as J. Kenner. Book 1 & 2 of the Stark Trilogy, Release Me, and Claim Me, are New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. Book 3, Complete Me, is coming soon!"
I love erotic romance, and this is next to Sylvia Day in terms of my favourites and trust me, i have read alot. Stark is a beautiful, dark and determind man. Nikki is independent, stubborn and the perfect match for Damien. Both well written, enticing and full of drama the series just roles on in a perfect flow. I loved this series and really think anyone who loved Gideon Cross a little bit, will fall in love with Damien. Now -lets review book 3 shall we.
This sexy, emotionally charged romance continues the story of Damien Stark, the powerful multimillionaire who's never had to take "no" for an answer, and Nikki Fairchild, the Southern belle who only says "yes" on her own terms.
Our desire runs deep. But our secrets cut close. Beautiful, strong, and commanding, Damien Stark fills a void in me that no other man can touch. His fierce cravings push me beyond the brink of bliss—and unleash a wild passion that utterly consumes us both.
Yet beneath his need for dominance, he carries the wounds of a painful past. Haunted by a legacy of dark secrets and broken trust, he seeks release in our shared ecstasy, the heat between us burning stronger each day.
Our attraction is undeniable, our obsession inevitable. Yet not even Damien can run from his ghosts, or shield us from the dangers yet to come
What can i say - WOW! i wish i never finished this book, seriously. The last part of the series sees so much tension and drama that kept me page turning and well up past bedtime. This is such a well written series, that every single character involved is relevent, and not just a page filler. Nikki & Damien continued to be as frustrating as ever, but brilliant. I can only sing praise for this, being able to review this before release has being a highlight for afternoonbookery. Damien is a strong man, but in this book we see some parts i never thought as a reader we would be allowed to. Brilliant, all round.
Rating; 10/10
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Chris Maynard – cmiVFX Guru and VFX Maestro is here to share his success story.
RIP Chris Maynard cmiVFX …
In real sense, Chris had been 'rebellion' artist. Through his brand cmiVFX, he fought against the wrong policies of the system and strived his best to get fair price to the artist and to the end user. He was always concerned about the highest quality knowledge sharing rather making quick money.
In his own words: " We are all about the Education and the Science."
Chris was an exceptional VFX Maestro and Trainer. I had learned a lot from his various training videos. Words will never be enough to express. A huge thanks for your revolutionary brand who truly cared for the artists.
Just considering myself lucky to talk with him digitally one to one during his interview session. I was astonished listening his thought process, the journey he embarked and clarity of vision. You are truly an inspiration to follow.
The Animation and VFX world will always miss you SIR. God bless your family and friends.
Welcome Chris. Tell us more about cmi aka 'Creative Minds Imaging'.
cmi has gone through many different acronyms. Originally, it was "Chris Maynard Images". I launched cmiStudios, my production service focusing on Design. This lasted the entire length of all my other ventures and is the backbone that always holds things together. During the many many advertising campaigns, the letters CMI were used as design elements which would be followed by various words like an acronym puzzle. Some of the other words changed from Chris Maynard Imaging to Creative Minds Images, Crazy Men Inventions, and more. All light hearted attempts at levity to increase the likability of the brand. Over the last 5 year, we have been preparing for a new marketing concept for CMIVFX which would be said "SEE MY VFX", but still be spelled "cmiVFX".
Naturally the name is just a gateway for people to find our services. It ranges everything technical in Computer Graphics science, but now focuses on the development, invention and training of Visual Effects techniques and applications. I currently manage upward of 150 mentors at one time, which is up from 1 mentor back in 2003.
You have a huge list of impressive credentials. Kindly brief us all milestones of your career ranging from Rochester to till date.
If I were to list everything, we would never finish this interview because I am working on ideas as I answer this question. The trick is to never be idle, or you might stagnate.
Some of the keystones in my career are all related to being the 1st person to try the thing I mastered. If the readers of this interview takes anything from this, I hope it is that there are still infinite things left to be invented. Just not the easy stuff. If you look at my past, what was impossible back then, people are able to do it now. Such as, being the first to use Adobe software to print thermal heat transfer plastics, or using 3D Animation software to simulate laser holography on a super computer. In the past which can take the entire room, now its just a simple simulation on your laptop.
To sum it up, everything that I achieved in my career was based on me thinking WAY outside of the box. I wait for people to tell me it can't be done and then I do it. Even in my design work, I break all the rules. I take as many things that should not work, and put them in together combinations to see if a new solution will be born. Often times, it produces fruit. So make sure you say YES to life, you will at least not regret anything when its all over.
What continuously inspires you to get mastery in versatile subjects of Animation and VFX?
I was born for this.
Basically, VFX is one of the most complicated things on this planet. Everything we do, inspires science and invention which follows years later. So instead of inventing things later, I like to be involved with the conception of it in VFX years before. It lets me satisfy my needs to create, and with less raw materials and cost.
How was your experience of being a freelance artist?
Being a freelancer is only good if you are on top of your game.
If you are starting your career, working in several studios first is must or you will never going to make it on your own. You need to know how things work and how to communicate with your peers. After that, it's the best thing ever. You can travel, or you can take lots of time off. To talk on financially matters; if you are on top of the industry skill level, the pay can be fantastic. I paid my dues early and I was able to make the money people dreamed of being an artist.
The phrase 'starving artist' doesn't even compute to me. Artists can get the highest paid salary in the world if they work smart.
How you stumbled upon the idea of making video tutorials for VFX training?
During my years working in studios, I ended up working on multimedia CD training for various customers. Mainly focusing on teaching medical processes to doctors, we used animation and interactive game like environments to help teach doctors about oncology or even skin care. After learning how to teach instructional design to smart customers, I took another job in multi-media training which allowed me to get into high-end compositing as part of the job.
I then got my hands on some SGI (Silicon Graphics Incorporated) machines with Shake, and decided that I was going to make my own DVD for people like myself. Back then, nobody had ever made training for any VFX specific softwares. Lightwave and Maya were about the only apps with video training but they were mainly in CG field. So the world saw what I made and a few short months later, I was doing it full time. Of course now, new comers to the industry can possibly afford to take on the bigger shops. The market is now cornered and highly competitive. That's why I created cmiVFX as profit sharing, so new mentors could teach and sell their stuff without having to build a million dollar website setup.
We will love to hear the success story of cmiVFX, starting from its inception.
It's a story about building roller coasters. They are fun that goes up and down, which starts off slow, then goes super fast for a while, then chugs up the next hill ever so slowly before it breaks free again at light speed. If you don't like roller coasters, you shouldn't run a company. It tests your hidden strengths in ways you can't even expect. I am a glutton for punishment, so it fits my personality just fine. Now that you get the general picture in your head, here is the story.
Once upon a time, my dad brought home some pencils with Disney characters on them. I used them to draw pictures of myself. My mother's friend who was dying of cancer like to sketch of me while she had the motivation. At the time, I just saw her has an Aunt like person who could draw my eyes with pencil and have it look like real glass around the cornea. This was the defining moment for me at the age 4. By age 6, I was able to sketch this picture of myself by memory in just a few minutes. I would say it probably looked like a freshman in high school drew it (Understand it was the only thing I would draw with a human or animal in it, and I practiced it nonstop in my in-door free time).
My dad then explained that the pencils with Disney characters were created by aunt for Disney. It was favour for my dad who was selling at Disney parks. I got obsessed with this. Later on, my father started his own specialty printing company with 2 other partners when I was young, and my aunt was one of those "starving artists". She was typical SVA (School of Visual Arts) graduate from NYC, even named her daughter Chelsea!
To skip a bit forward and explain how this is important, I unveiled the truth about what was going on at my father's large warehouse like company. Several printing presses, roto gravure and silkscreen took up most of the floor space, and several slitting stations to cut the materials. It was getting printed on pencils, lunch boxes to Mercedes Benz fake wooden dashboards back in the 80's. It started off slow and then picked up much later. During this time, I spent time working for the company in some ways. I took it upon myself to try lots of things without him knowing it.
My dad took a design course at the local college and bought a Quadra AV Macintosh computer which was the biggest baddest Mac at the time. I sat at that thing once and never left. I started off playing with the simple paint program which was built in at the time. I made some photo realistic renderings in this paint program during my oil painting phase. Software's ability to undo changed everything for me. He later bought Adobe Photoshop 3 and Illustrator 5. His company was never digital, until one day I showed him how to break up his printing plates into colors doing some manual trickery. At the time, you could not do this with any software feature alone, so Adobe found out about what I was doing and before you know it, I was working with them designing the new versions of Adobe apps. It was just a small contribution, but I was only 18 years old and they had no idea.
I started the cmiStudios bank account and started doing this custom pre-press work via FedEx and internet while I went to Rochester Institute of Technology to wrap up some of my main stream education. It allowed me to survive until graduation and on to the next phase. At this point in time, I had to leave Rochester to get away from a toxic relationship I was in. On my way home, I found that right down the road from where I grew up, was a branch of Metacreations. It was bought by Adobe. I got to help design the UI for Bryce and Poser (which is still using my UI elements!). Many of you might not know where the glass button came from. It's still in older versions of OSX. This glass button design which lasted for a decade or more came from my work with this company. That led me into full time user interface design along side with part time digital pre-press. So now I am doing all sorts of things. Also, before leaving Rochester, I had signed up with SGI to work as a beta tester for an app code named MAYA. Yeah … I was one of the first to ever see it. It was still in pieces, but the hotbox UI caught my attention BIG TIME. And, so on, I spent a huge time helping lots of companies since making user interfaces. Every one of you reading this has used something i had designed, you just don't know it!
In some cases, I designed entire applications. You can call this 'Chris Maynard cmiVFX'. This allowed me to learn the apps better than the average user. SO, if we jump ahead, you can now see the bridge to how I became a trainer of VFX softwares. Of course, I worked on tons of films and TV commercials during my VFX only years. I had worked at many places and consulted 99% of them. I found that I likes to move around. I am like a boomerang which always comes back. But, when it is related to cmiVFX though, I am 100% focused and my main goal is to help others and who are working with me.
From your private label Chris Maynard cmiVFX , why you made it a profit sharing organization?
It wasn't always!
In the beginning I would pay a few thousand bucks for a single video to be made. I would still produce and edit it, but I wanted others to join the fun ride. But, some shady practices in the industry got me frustrated. It made me to come on the decision that, I would lead the world by the hand and let artist's work determine their pay that others would follow. It turns out that cmiVFX is still the leader in profit sharing business of visual effects.
We put our money where our mouths are. This is why our videos are the best. As a final result, our mentors and customers are the happy ones. We are all about the Education and the Science. Those other guys, we don't know what they are about, probably money. cmiVFX is certainly not the end product. We had to take all their abandoned customers and help them get back on track. It's frustrating to see how much money was spent and wasted before they get to us. That money could have gone to our team and given exponential treatment to the customer. We still don't let people suffer though. If you had spent money in the wrong place, we know it's tough to deal with and we will help you anyway. In the future, they will do their best to return the favor, and that's good enough for us.
Any tips for fresher artists?
Each artist has his / her own mentality. You can't be afraid to listen to others about advice, but not if it goes against your very core beliefs. Don't be stubborn, but stick to your guns none the less. If you want an honest opinion about your work, ask several others that don't know you and wouldn't care what happens to you. This is how you can grow as an artist. It can be painful, only if you take it personally.
You should not get upset about your work because it means something to you. Who is the art for? If it is meant for someone else, then you should make it good for them, not for yourself. Once you get past that, you cannot lose!
Always make an extra version that breaks all the rules given to you to show as a last resort. Often times, clients will get a kick out of seeing such a thing ONLY after you do what they ask for first.
How do keep evolving in various technologies?
Every day, I get this question asked. I go back to my former statement.. " I am a glutton for punishment". I can't take a beating and keep on going. So, I would say; it's part intestinal fortitude and part insanity. Just make sure you learn something new every single day, WITHOUT FAIL.
Do share your future goals.
There are so many projects which I am running simultaneously. It's not one to two to showcase by this time.
All comes from my head. I can't always be right all the time, so I need to ask others many different things until all the problems get solved. If you don't share your goals, then you won't feel as obligated to get it done. I make sure to tell everyone that I am going to do so and so things. Then I am forced to do it, otherwise I would be a liar. 🙂
What do you do out of your digital life?
I am sort of an extreme sports enthusiast. I have done many things. Out my my tag of Chris Maynard cmiVFX; I still go for surf, snowboard, skateboard, bike, fly, jump, etc. I currently started back up with motocross. But now I am all electric! I am even reselling super high end bikes for power riders.
Outside of my personal excitement, I have love of my life and my kid who both adore me. They inspire me to be the best I can be all the time. I also spend lots of time with my animals. I have 3 sugar gliders (Kick-Flip, Pixel, Papi-seed) and my comedian chinchilla named for the lack of a better name "Chichee".
My life is jam packed with love and work. What else can a guy ask for?


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$200 in West Sacramento. Please note the reason for the "Circle of Sound" title – those amazing wood-covered speakers tucked into the sides of this rolling cart unit. Everything about this thing is nuts; the wood, the fact that this is a rolling party station, insanely unique speaker setup, and a lil' space for your records! Ay yo DJ!
"It is time to let this gem go to a new home.
It is a real great looking piece and just screams mid-century.
The plastic cover is in great shape and the stand, very hard to find, is in great shape as well.
I had this into the "Stereoadvisor" over a year ago to get repaired and tuned up."


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You have no idea how excited I am about finding these paper garden ideas!
As a newly choosen cat guardian I "had to" send all of my house plants into exile.
It's ok, I got a super sweet cat now, who needs plants, right?
Still, it looks rather plantless in our house now, a bit bare. So along comes the idea for paper gardens!
How awesome is that!!! Now all I have to do it hope my cat will not chew them apart
as soon as I place the new "plants" somewhere, maybe I should stick to the wall-mounting idea.
I looove these and will for sure be crafting paper gardens very soon :)
I looove these and will for sure be crafting paper gardens very soon :)
Hopefully you find these little crafty projects as exciting as I do, have fun planting! :)
Here is the paper garden that I first came across, soooo cute!!
The color scheme, the embroidery frame, the chalk paint, those little eyes peaking out from under the plants, everything about this is absolutely perfect.
A crafty salute to Sonia Poli who came up with this beautiful vertical garden.
As I don't have a die cutting machine yet (but soon, oh joy :)) I looked around the net a bit
to see if I could find any usable printouts of other ideas how to make these gardens.
Over at Honey and Fizz Simone has a little tutorial for a cactus garden that she found Beci Orpins's book Home , she found a usable template too.
She also found another tutorial for paper succulents at Craftberry Bush
Two designers at One Bit Wonder created cute potted plants with aluminium foil, wire and self-designed and cut out leafes.
I had real trouble finding any templaes for printing out these plants so I made some templates myself.
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Presenting on the topic of "Deduction of novel phenotypes and disease mechanisms in uropathogenic E.coli using comparative evolutionary analysis" is our featured speaker Dr Swaine Chen, Senior Investigator,NUS, Genome Insititute of Singapore. He will be at Drug Discovery World Asia 2012, part of a series of conferences at the 5th Annual BioPharma Asia Convention 2012, held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
Topics that he will be speaking on include:
1. Analysing a case study to making use of increased DNA sequence availability
2. Effective translation of sequence data in silico into new mechanistic insights in vivo using the FimH protein
3. Advantages of in silico evolutionary approaches for identification of in vivo phenotypes
A brief introduction on Dr Chen:
Dr Swaine Chen received his Ph.D. in Developmental Biology and an M.D. from Stanford University in 2004. He became interested in applying computational tools to infectious diseases during his post-doc in the lab of Scott Hultgren, Ph.D. at Washington University. Since 2010, he has been a Senior Research Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore and an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Medicine, doing research on new computational methods for probing host-pathogen interactions. By focusing on evolutionary methods, the pathways most relevant for pathogen survival and thus most interesting from a therapeutic perspective may be identified. He has worked specifically on E. coli that cause urinary tract infections, but the computational methods are easily generalized to other infectious diseases.
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Amy Eber, Food Scout at WRS, recently invited me to join forces with her at an American Women's Club of Zurich foodie event. The chat was all about what's good to eat in Switzerland, and where and when to find it. With map in hand we did a whistlestop virtual tour round the Confederation, each of us chipping in with our fave festive, regional and seasonal foods – from all those Carnival goodies that are just coming in (Fasnachtskiechle, Fastewähe, onion tart and burnt flour soup) to the wealth of delectable breads and sausages that are the pride of each canton, to the strictly seasonal delights of asparagus and wild garlic in the spring, followed by strawberries, which in turn give way to succulent apricots from the Valais, then wild mushrooms, game – and of course Vacherin Mont d'Or, which lights up my autumn and winter and which – we both agreed – is one of the most outrageously delicious foods known to [wo]man.
To my great delight, Rachael Sills of KäseSwiss was good enough to provide a fabulous cheese platter, with samples of the kind of wonderful Swiss farmhouse cheeses she exports to the UK. Never heard of KäseSwiss? Allow me to introduce you!
Rachael hails originally from New Zealand, and like many a Kiwi, sooner or later she made her way to London. With a hotel management background, she looked around for jobs in the hospitality business, but all along she had a secret yen to make cheese. Instead of entering the hotel world, she went to work for the famous cheese shop Neal's Yard Dairy where she learnt not only to sell but also to make cheese, and soon progressed to being one of the Neal's Yard buyers.
In 2004 she came to Switzerland and dived with relish into the wonderful world of Swiss cheese. Soon KäseSwiss was born, which specialises in selected farmhouse cheeses from all around the country. Nowadays she divides her time between Zürich and London, where KäseSwiss has a stand in the famous Borough Market, a magnet for serious foodies whether they live in London or are just visiting.
Rachael's sample cheeses included a fragrant Heublumenkäse, a semi-hard beauty from the Toggenburg made by Thomas Stadelmann; a beautifully matured hunk of l'Etivaz, which tops my list of favourite alpine cheeses, made only in the summer months in the Alps of canton Vaud; some gorgeous Gruyère – which needs no introduction – and a truly wonderful, spruce-bound Forsterkäse, which (rather like its distant cousin Vacherin Mont d'Or) has a tendency to run about in a deliciously unruly fashion, so you need to serve it with a spoon.
You can read about many of these cheeses, where and how they're made and what they taste like in my book Cheese: Slices of Swiss Culture (which recently won an award as best book from German-speaking Switzerland in the cheese category in the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards). And you can find them at Borough Market or direct from Rachael via the KäseSwiss website.


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Champion Will Take Charge Favored in Saturday?s $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap
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Champion Will Take Charge Favored in Saturday's $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap
Will Take Charge, the reigning 3-year-old Champion and one of the top handicap horses in training, will take on a formidable field of six other horses when he goes postward as the early favorite for the $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap at Oaklawn Park on Saturday.
The Oaklawn Handicap G2) is one of four stakes events on the 12-race card, which is highlighted by the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1), on the closing day of the track's prestigious Racing Festival of the South and of the meet.
Multiple graded stakes winner Will Take Charge, who is owned by Willis Horton of Marshall, Arkansas and Three Chimneys Farm and is trained by Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, has been installed as the even-money choice for the 1 1/8 miles test over his home track.
Will Take Charge will be asked to shoulder highweight of 123 pounds, including regular rider Luis Saez, who picked up the mount on Strong Mandate for Lukas in the Arkansas Derby. Will Take Charge, a son of Unbridled's Song, has amassed earnings of $3,305,148 from a record of six wins and five seconds in 17 tries, and he comes into the Oaklawn Handicap after two impressive seconds in a pair of Grade 1 races on opposite coasts this season.
He began his 4-year-old campaign with his trademark powerful closing kick to miss by 1 1/2 lengths behind Lea in Gulfstream Park's Donn Handicap (G1), and then the margin was 1 ¾ back when Game on Dude won a record third consecutive Santa Anita Handicap (G1) on Mar. 8.
Will take Charge must concede from 10 to five pounds to his rivals and will break from post #2.
Todd Pletcher, who cut his teeth as one of Lukas' former top assistants, will take aim at the prohibitive favorite with two solid shots in Revolutionary and Golden Lad.
"That is a formidable task," said Pletcher, also sends out Commissioner and Danza in the Arkansas Derby that day. "I have a lot of respect for Will Take Charge and how good he is, especially on his home track. It's a tall order, but we felt like it was the right spot for our two horses and we'll hope for the best."
The multiple graded stakes-winning Revolutionary, a WinStar Farm homebred by War Pass, was seventh when he faced Will Take Charge in the Donn last out. Golden Lad proved an affinity for Oaklawn's racing strip when he whistled over it while winning the Razorback Handicap (G3), the local prep for the Oaklawn Handicap, by almost seven lengths Mar. 15. Mrs. Paul Robsham's homebred Golden Lad seeks his fifth consecutive victory on Saturday.
"We're very pleased with the way Golden Lad handled the track there and he seems to be improving all the time. This will be his toughest test to date, but based on the strength of his performance in the Razorback, this seems to be the logical next step for him," said Pletcher.
Revolutionary, who won the Withers (G3) and the Louisiana Derby (G2) and was third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) last year, will break from the inside under new rider Mike Smith. Golden Lad, a son of Medaglio d'Oro who won the Razorback in his first try in stakes company, drew post #6 and will partner with Gary Stevens for the first time.
"I'm not overly concerned with Revolutionary being in the one-hole because he's going to drop back a bit. He had an inside post in the (Kentucky) Derby and an inside trip and he seemed to have handled it pretty well that day, so I'm okay with that and with Golden Lad's post," Pletcher said. "We're very pleased with the way Golden Lad handled the track there and he seems to be improving all the time. This will be his toughest test to date, but based on the strength of his performance in the Razorback, this seems to be the logical next step."
Will Take Charge will also get a rematch with Moreno, who hopes to turn the tables for the first time, on Saturday. The two met in four consecutive graded stakes races last year- the Jim Dandy (G2), Travers (G1), Pennsylvania Derby (G2) and Breeders' Cup Classic (G1)- but Moreno could never best his rival.
Will Take Charge and Moreno ran 2-3 behind the Pletcher-trained Palace Malice in the Jim Dandy, then staged a memorable battle in the Travers when Will Take Charge closed through the lane to prevail over Moreno by a nose. The Pennsylvania Derby was won decisively by Will Take Charge when Moreno was beaten by 2 14/ lengths. Will Take Charge missed by just a nose in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic while Moreno was no factor.
Moreno, who trained by Eric Guillot, is the second highweight at 118 pounds and he gets a new rider in Joel Rosario for the grudge match.
Zayat Stables' Prayer for Relief, recently transferred to the barn of Dale Romans, looks to get back on the winning track after a dull effort in the Mineshaft Handicap (G3) in his last start, and the locally based Carve and Right to Vote, the Essex Handicap winner here Feb. 14, complete the field.
The field for the Oaklawn Handicap, from the rail in post-position order with riders, weights and odds is: Revolutionary, Mike Smith, 117, 9-2; Will Take Charge, Luis Saez, 123, 1-1; Right to Vote, Ricardo Santana, Jr., 113; Carve, Jesus Castanon, 113, 12-1; Moreno, Joel Rosario, 118, 9-2; Golden Lad, Gary Stevens, 116, 4-1; Prayer for Relief, Norberto Arroyo, Jr., 116, 12-1.


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For many years of my life, anger was my only emotion. It took a lot of thawing to get past that, in part because I was "trained" to behave that way, as are many men.
We can't repress anger - that's also destructive - so getting to know our anger and the emotions it is covering over is important to our becoming whole healthy men. This is one area of my life where meditation has been essential to my personal growth.
Becoming mindful of the ways and the whys I became (and still become) angry helped me learn what was real anger (and this Daily Om points out, anger is a powerful ally when it's "clean") and when the anger was just the easier, habitual emotion (often covering fear or anxiety for me).
The blocking of anger often results in rage - out-of-control, violent, pathological anger. We damage ourselves and risk hurting others if we allow her anger to get pushed down until it becomes rage.
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Habitual Anger
Anger can easily become our go-to emotion; to remedy, start noticing when and why you get angry.
Sometimes when we feel anger, it is coming from a deep place that demands acknowledgment and expression. At these times, it is important that we find healthy ways to honor our anger, remembering how dangerous it is to repress it. However, anger can also become a habit, our go-to emotion whenever things go wrong. Often this is because, for whatever reason, we feel more comfortable expressing anger than we do other emotions, like sadness. It can also be that getting angry gives us the impression that we've done something about our problem. In these cases, our habitual anger is inhibiting both our ability to express our other emotions and to take action in our lives.
If it's true that anger is functioning this way in your life, the first thing you might want to try is to notice when you get angry. You might begin to see a pattern of some kind. For example, you could notice that it is always your first response or that it comes up a lot in one particular situation. If the pattern doesn't become clear right away, you could try keeping a journal about when you get angry and see if you can find any underlying meaning. The good thing about keeping a journal is that you can explore your anger more deeply in it—from examining who in your family of origin expressed a lot of anger to how you feel when you encounter anger in others. This kind of awareness can be a formidable agent of transformation.
Anger can be a powerful ally, since it is filled with energy that we can harness and use to create change in the world. It is one of the most cathartic emotions, and it can also be a very effective cleanser of the emotional system. However, when it becomes a habit, it actually loses its power to transform and becomes an obstacle to growth. Identifying the role anger plays in your life and restoring it to its proper function can bring new energy and expansiveness to your emotional life.


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WESTPORT — The Westport Fishermen's Association has taken a major step toward preserving Westport's Lifesaving Station by providing a home for a 25-foot Lawley surfboat once used to rescue people from shipwrecks off Cuttyhunk Island.
WESTPORT — The Westport Fishermen's Association has taken a major step toward preserving Westport's Lifesaving Station by providing a home for a 25-foot Lawley surfboat once used to rescue people from shipwrecks off Cuttyhunk Island.
"Volunteers from these lifesaving stations would go out in these long rowboats and save people's lives. It was very dangerous, but they weren't concerned about coming back themselves, just saving others," said project director Jeanne Girard.
Before the advent of the Coast Guard and modern technology, often the only thing keeping a shipwreck victim from drowning or freezing to death was a courageous crew willing to row out into the surf, often during winter storms in the middle of the night. Many crew members lost their lives trying to rescue passengers, such as during the February 1893 wreck of the brig Aquatic on Sow and Pigs reef off the west end of Cuttyhunk. During that attempt, five of the six rescuers were lost.
"This surfboat is a good representation of what most stations had," said Ms. Girard. "We weren't able to track down the one that was in the Westport Lifesaving Station. Mystic was looking to give this one back to Cuttyhunk, but they don't have the room right now. We were happy to take it because it will add significantly to our Horseneck Beach station restoration project."
The boat, which was built by Lawley and Sons Shipyard in Boston, was delivered by trailer to Tripp's Boatyard on Tuesday morning. Members of the Westport Fishermen's Association were impressed by the condition of the antique vessel.
"It is in amazingly good condition considering that she dates back to the 1800s," said Cukie Macomber.
The early history of this particular surfboat is uncertain, but it is known that the boat was used by the U.S. Life-Saving Service, a predecessor of the Coast Guard, on Cuttyhunk. During the 1800s, the waters off Cuttyhunk saw a significant amount of traffic.
"In 1851 alone, for example, 6,676 ships passed Cuttyhunk," said Shelly Merriam, associate curator of exhibits for the Cuttyhunk Historical Society.
The area was referred to as the "graveyard of ships" because of the number of wrecks, she said.
As the years passed, rescue technology advanced and there was no longer a need for surfboats.
"In 1905, the boat was sold for $7 to a guy who wanted to use the boat for fishing," said the WFA's Chip Gillespie, who has done significant research on the boat.
In 1924, Major William Smyth, superintendent of the New England Oil Company in Fall River, acquired the boat and named her Dawn. Moored in Westport, Dawn was fitted with a cabin and a sailing rig for pleasure fishing. Mr. Smyth took her to Essex, Conn., when he relocated to manage the Dauntless Shipyard. She was transferred to Mr. Smyth's brother in 1935, then bought by Thomas Willets Jr., who donated her to Mystic Seaport in 1941.
Through the efforts of Coast Guard personnel in Groton, Conn., the boat was restored to her original appearance and remained in Mystic until this week.
"We would like to have the boat returned to Cuttyhunk once we have the boathouse ready. We don't know how long that will take," said Sandy Earle, director of the Cuttyhunk Historical Society.
The Westport Fishermen's Association has been working to restore the Westport Lifesaving Station to use it as a museum and educational center. After presenting the boat in the Fourth of July parade, the plan is to keep her at Tripp's Boatyard until the station is rebuilt.
"It is good to have this boat here now, because we may use it as a model to build our own for the lifesaving station," said Mr. Gillespie.


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This has been asked more than once on help forums, so I list below a Java function that I believe will extract all variables from an instance of IloCplex. Something quite similar should work in the C++ API, and hopefully if you use the C API you can make the leap from the Java code. The Python API seems to provide a VariablesInterface class that I think provides a mechanism (if it's even needed in Python -- I don't really know). I'm blissfully ignorant about the Matlab API.
I've tried to stress-test the Java code, but nonetheless you use it at your own peril.
private IloNumVar[] parse(IloCplex cplex) throws IloException { HashSet<IloNumVar> vars = new HashSet<IloNumVar>(); Iterator it = cplex.iterator(); IloLinearNumExpr expr; IloLinearNumExprIterator it2; while (it.hasNext()) { IloAddable thing = (IloAddable) it.next(); if (thing instanceof IloRange) { expr = (IloLinearNumExpr) ((IloRange) thing).getExpr(); it2 = expr.linearIterator(); while (it2.hasNext()) { vars.add(it2.nextNumVar()); } } else if (thing instanceof IloObjective) { expr = (IloLinearNumExpr) ((IloObjective) thing).getExpr(); it2 = expr.linearIterator(); while (it2.hasNext()) { vars.add(it2.nextNumVar()); } } else if (thing instanceof IloSOS1) { vars.addAll(Arrays.asList(((IloSOS1) thing).getNumVars())); } else if (thing instanceof IloSOS2) { vars.addAll(Arrays.asList(((IloSOS2) thing).getNumVars())); } else if (thing instanceof IloLPMatrix) { vars.addAll(Arrays.asList(((IloLPMatrix) thing).getNumVars())); } } IloNumVar[] varray = vars.toArray(new IloNumVar[1]); return varray; }
Update: I have updated the code, incorporating some suggestions I received on a CPLEX forum. The parser is now a static method in a class of its own. You can download the source code (one file, plain text) from Google Docs. To use it, you will likely want to change the package name. Also feel free to delete the various print statements, which are there only for demonstration purposes.


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While on the highway, I was going between 55-60 mph. The A/C was on and CD was playing. An animal ran in front of the car and I firmly hit the brakes to avoid hitting it. The way I hit the brakes was not hard enough to screech the tires, but it was still very firm. Then… the whole car shut off! I lost power steering and the dash quit. My CD was even ejected. After coasting to the side of the road I tried restarting it and got 'click click click click...' It sounded like a dead battery. I tried to take the key out of the ignition, but it was stuck for a moment, but finally did release. After waiting for a moment, I inserted the key back into the ignition and the car started immediately. It sputtered for a few feet before moving, finally. Then, with no other problems, I was able to drive home. But naturally, after all that experience, I'm scared to drive my car. Please explain to me why the car did all of this and should I take it to the auto repair shop?
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