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What recession? That must be the question asked at Vyre (news, site) who has recorded a revenue rise of 81% compared to the first half of 2008 thanks to sales of its Unify CMS.
Bringing Unity to the Web
You can't knock success, particularly in these trying times and UK-based VYRE is raking in the money. With big name clients such as Virgin Holidays, Nokia and Cambridge University Press, that might not come as too much of a surprise.
The Unify name is used to signify a single platform solution to the challenges of CMS, DAM, marketing resources and search. Unify is a JEE product that uses Portlets to provide access to data from a Web interface.
Onwards and Upwards
Unify also picks and chooses some top-notch components to fit into its system. It uses Lucene as a search framework, Hibernate handles data extraction and Spring is employed to help out with development. Then there are front-end applications like Tiny MCE used for WYSIWYG. There's a full wiki available for anyone wanting to find out more.
Aiming to do even better for the rest of the year, perhaps a small part of VYRE's success is down to moving its own hosting operations from Windows to Solaris and Linux. With major appeal to the digital media set, we'll follow VYRE's fortunes with interest.


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Taste of Home: Cooking School Cookbook: 400 + Simple to Spectacular Recipes
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Learn to cook with confidence with The Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook based on the popular Taste of Home Cooking Schools attended by millions.
The Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook, "is just like having a Cooking School instructor in your very own kitchen," says Catherine Cassidy, Editor in Chief, Taste of Home. "This essential cookbook captures the highlights of our cooking school lessons and presents them in a way that allows people of all skill levels in the kitchen, to create memorable holiday meal moments in their own homes with family, friends and neighbors."
Learn fresh techniques, tips, secrets and entertaining ideas straight from the Taste of Home Cooking School team. Each chapter builds from simple, beloved classics to spectacular dishes handed down by families from generation to generation that are sure to impress family and friends. Better yet, all of these recipes can be created with affordable ingredients available at your local grocery store. As you move from one recipe to the next, you will enhance your cooking skills and discover new favorites.
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It has always been an interest of mine to draw fabric. In a piece I once did, called The Miracle of the Paint Can, I took a low-resolution frame grab of fabric and used it as a guide to create long flowing robes. Actually, I quite enjoyed the long hours of work that went into this piece. But since it was intended to be a mosaic, I didn't really work too hard at creating fine detail of the fabric.
The other day I began to wonder how and why the look of fabric has drawn artists in. Vermeer, Dürer, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, and many others all clearly enjoyed depicting the lush fold and sinuous shadings of fabric.
So I drew this small piece. I used my iPad to get a frame grab of a part of my shirt. One with lots of twists and turns.
The first thing I did was to move it to the new iPhoto application on iPad. Then I used the lighten and darken there to enhance the natural shading. This increased the contrast of the frame grab and also allowed me to artistically pick areas I wanted to feature or drop back. It felt like fingerprinting meets the darkroom enlarger. Really I was just dodging and burning.
Then I moved it into Painter on my Mac Pro. Using a Wacom stylus, I chose the standard digital airbrush, changed its size to a few pixels, and cloned the image. Then, with the color set to clone, I sketched the image directly using clone color.
Now, this method is really the "cheating" way of creating an image, and so, once it was cloned, I switched back to standard color, chose some blue, and masked out the background, which was irrelevant to my intended creation.
Then, I changed the size of the brush to 1.0 pixels, changed the brush method to Buildup:Soft Buildup, and lowered the opacity to about 18%. Now I was ready to really sketch. I chose a ruddy orange to give it a bit of color and sketched in the darker sections with millions of brush strokes, like I was scribbling but really I was just enhancing the actual shading of the fabric itself.
Then I changed the brush method to Eraser:Paint Remover, which actually removes density rather than just being a white brush, and, with a size of 1.0 pixels again, I sketched in the highlights. This is very much the same method used in the 15th century by artists that preferred the silverpoint method of highlighting their subjects in a sketch.
Finally I chose a darker, redder, less saturated brown and went back to the Soft Buildup method to sketch in the darker lines and also the darker shadings of the fabric. This gives the fabric a multi-tone scale that approximates the renaissance sketches I have seen.
It is a nice test of my technique and also of my vision of a fabric sketch. Although the subject is unremarkable, of course!
It also shows how I like to take a standard brush, and change the internals of it to suit my style. Really I am only using one brush and, mutatis mutandis, the brush becomes a buildup sketch pencil, a fill-in brush, a cloner, and a silverpoint brush. Knowing the internals of the Painter brushes probably helps me to keep my art honest.
I think I'll try to draw some more fabric! Now, where is that velour bedspread? Maybe a still-life?


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May 3, 2016
Amgen has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for priority review the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for BLINCYTO® (blinatumomab) for including new data supporting the treatment of adolescent and pediatric patients with Philadelphia chromosome?negative (Ph-) relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
"Children and adolescents with ALL who experience a second or greater relapse or are refractory often have a dismal prognosis with survival rates below 10 percent. The FDA's acceptance of the sBLA submission for BLINCYTO reinforces immunotherapy as a potential option for children in need of new treatments to fight this complex disease and help prevent further relapse," said Sean E. Harper, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen.
Priority review is assigned to applications for drugs that treat serious conditions. Furthermore, if approved, it would provide substantial improvements in the effectiveness or safety of the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of severe conditions. The target action date of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) is Sept. 1, 2016.
ALL is a rapidly progressing and rare type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow impacting both children and adults. In fact, it is the most common type of cancer in children. Of the approximately 2,500 U.S. children and adolescents diagnosed with B-cell precursor ALL each year, around 15-20 percent (375-500) will experience relapse or fail to achieve recovery.FDA Grants Priority Review for Supplemental Biologics License Application of Amgen for BLINCYTO® (Blinatumomab) last edit: 2016-05-21T11:28:35+00:00 da


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New design layout for Genex's Kidston project to deliver increased generation capacity
Genex Power Limited, the developer of the Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project, has provided an update on the progress of the feasibility study for the construction of a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant at the disused Kidston Gold Mine in North Queensland.
The company said the feasibility work was is advanced stages, with project consultants Entura and HydroChina currently working on finalising the detailed design for the scheme.
According to Genex, the new design process has produced an innovative option that could increase the plant's storage and peaking generation capacity of the project to a maximum of 450 MW over a 5-6 hour period, beating earlier expectations.
"The design layout of the Project has evolved substantially since the pre-feasibility study concept was initially identified. The optimal design identified provides for a "Turkey's Nest" shallow dam design for the upper reservoir to be adopted to maximise the potential of the Project," the company said in statement to the ASX.
"The "Turkey's Nest" deign incorporates a number of strategic advantages, with the new configuration removing a number of the previous constraints inherent in the initial concept and, most significantly, enables a significant increase in the installed capacity of the Project."
Genex Power's project aims to transform the old Kidston gold mine into a large-scale hydroelectric power plant that will deliver power into Queensland's electricity network during peak demand periods.
The proposed plant will take advantage of the Kidston mine's unique characteristics and the existing infrastructure at the site, using the former mining pits as upper and lower water storage reservoirs.
The project is supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), which provided $4 million in funding for the feasibility work that will allow the company to examine the technical and commercial viability of the project.
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text: Posted by: jsharpe on July 29, 2015 in Installer Blog Leave a comment The importance of having boilers serviced in the summer Darren Payne Operations Director, Vokèra looks at the benefits of encouraging customers to have their boilers serviced in the summer. As Installers know regular servicing is vital to ensure that a boiler is running safely and efficiently but for customers it's not always at the top of their priority list, especially in the summer. However, the summer months are a great time to encourage your customers to have their boiler serviced. Homeowners, landlords and tenants tend to not pay much attention to their heating systems during the warmer months of the year, which can lead to problems that are only realised in the winter when heating is required and installers are at their busiest. For this reason, summer is the perfect time to service a boiler, carry out any maintenance required or upgrade to newer, more-efficient model. During the warmer months, condensation tubes can easily become a nesting place for insects. Come the winter if a boiler hasn't been serviced homeowners can be faced with large blockages that can interfere with the smooth running of the appliance or break it completely, taking a simple tube cleaning job to a much larger and time consuming re-installation. Another reason to encourage customers to get their boilers serviced in the summer is that it tends to be less busy and therefore installers can respond quickly and efficiently. When the cold weather strikes, it affects everybody at the same time. All across the country, boilers will fire up to ward off the dreaded cold and it is at this point that homeowners will discover any faults with their heating system. At Vokèra, we would recommend that homeowners have their boilers serviced before the colder months hit. With summer in full swing, now is the time for installers to speak to their customers and prepare for winter. For news and updates, visit Vokèra at www.vokera.co.uk or follow Vokèra on: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Share ! tweet


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SharePoint 2010 has many new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features. Document sets, which give you the ability to aggregate documents into a cohesive set based on common metadata attributes. "In Place" records management, giving users the ability to declare a document located anywhere as a record and apply corporate policies to that document. "Document ID" service, which applies a unique ID to all documents which can be used to locate that document within a site collection. Finally, the "Content Organizer" which enables companies to centrally apply rules to incoming documents so they can be routed to the appropriate document libraries within a site collection.
This multi-part series will explain how you can use new and existing coding techniques to enable your SharePoint applications to take advantage of these new SharePoint ECM capabilities. The series will illustrate both server side and client side code to accomplish this.
The Content Organizer
The content organizer feature in SP2010 allows administrators to set up routing rules based on content types and metadata to organize incoming documents. This feature entails the use of a "drop off library" where incoming documents are submitted and evaluated using the rules. So if your application submits documents to a document library then you must determine if the site collection is using a content organizer and whether the document library is a target of a content organizer rule. Once this determination has been made you must then upload your document to the "drop off library" so it can be routed correctly. The first thing your application must determine is if the content organizer is enabled and if users are allowed to bypass the "drop off library" . These settings can be seen in "Content Organizer Settings" under "Site Administration" in "Site Settings".
Below is a server side code which determines if the content organizer is enabled and if it is being enforced. The code uses the Microsoft.Office.Policy.dll and the new EcmDocumentRoutingWeb class. You want to first determine if content organizing is being enforced for a particular SharePoint site. The code will check the "client_routerEnforceRouting" SPWeb property. Once this is determined that the user does not have the option to override the drop off library, then the second piece of code determines if the document library is a target of a content organizer rule. If the code determines it is, then the third piece of code will return the url to the "drop off library" so you can submit the document there.
public static bool IsContentOrganizerEnforcedForWeb(string webUrl)
bool enforced = false;
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(webUrl))
return enforced;
public static bool IsContentOrganizerEnforcedForLibrary(string webUrl, string libraryName)
bool enforced = false;
if (IsContentOrganizerEnforcedForWeb(webUrl))
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(webUrl))
enforced =
return enforced;
public static string GetDropOffLibraryUrl(string webUrl)
string dropOffUrl = string.Empty;
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(webUrl))
dropOffUrl = edrw.DropOffZoneUrl;
return dropOffUrl;
The Content Organizer and remote applications
The previous code will work with web parts or asp.net applications running on a SharePoint server. However, you may have a desktop application not running on a SharePoint server or a silverlight application that requires you to access SharePoint remotely. If this is the case, then you can use a combination of the SharePoint client object model and the Official web service to accomplish the same thing. The first example of code uses the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll which enables you to access a subset of the SharePoint server object model remotely. It basically does the same thing as the previous IsContentOrganizerEnforedForWeb method.
public static bool IsContentOrganizerEnforced(string webUrl)
bool enforced = false;
ClientContext context =
Web web = context.Web;
PropertyValues pv = web.AllProperties;
if (pv.FieldValues.ContainsKey("client_routerenforcerouting"))
return enforced;
This code would be called first to determine if the content organizer is being enforced. In order to determine if the document library is a target of content organizer rule and get the url to the "drop off library", then you can call the the Official web service's GetFinalRoutingDestinationFolderUrl method. It takes the target document library's full url along with a file name, for example, "http://basesmc2008/shared documents/whatever.txt" and will return either "http://basesmc2008/shared documents/whatever.txt" if it is not a target or "http://basesmc2008/dropofflibrary/whatever.txt" (localized) if it is a target. The strange thing is, the method needs a complete url to an item or document for it to work. This was a change from RC to RTM.
public static string GetDropOffLibraryUrll(string documentLibraryUrl)
string url = dr.Url;
This all can be accomplished the same way with a silverlight application by just using the Microsoft.SharePoint.Silverlight.dll along with the Official web service. The only change is the code must be called asynchronously.
So now you have all the code you need to make your applications "Content Organizer" aware and to make sure you upload your documents to the appropriate document library, so your application can participate in a company's taxonomy rules.
In the next part of this multi-part post I will explain how you can determine if a document is part of a document set and how to add a document to a document set in SharePoint 2010.


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Monday, April 23, 2012
Scenes From The Weekend
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i want that fire pit! :)ReplyDelete
looks like you had awesome family time.
isn't it just so nice to be together and enjoy time alone? i love it!
AND you have such a beautiful family girlie!
have an amazing week!
our comments over at alicia's just crossed paths and i want to sit with YOU girls, too! ;)
muah! xoxo
Ok, Addy's face made me smile. Girl likes her smores! What a sweet husband for arranging some family time!ReplyDelete
ps...my weekend was "interesting" too. That is why I just skipped posting about it all together. Ha! :)
Have a great day! Hugs!
Your weekend looks like fun! It was a bike weekend here too, the nicest weather we have had yet! I'm glad you like your apron...so cute on tiny you! Are you coming over for farm chicks this year? Helping in your friend's booth again? It would be so fun to see you!ReplyDelete
Glad you had a great weekend!!!!ReplyDelete
so much fun here! i love bike rides. i just wish i had a bike. ha! peeps smores? how fun and yum!!! little miss in her flips are so cute... sage wore them once and they were a total flop! ha! : )ReplyDelete
There are those peeps smores...they look wonderful and why would they not be peeps and chocolate?ReplyDelete
I love when kiddos wear flip flops for the first time.
Happy Monday
Awe, Maggies little toes! So cute! Looks like a great weekend- love that last pic!ReplyDelete
fun fun, I want some. My fave pic. has to be your daughters toes in the flip flops...how sweet. Happy week ahead!!! MicaReplyDelete
your backyard is sooo pretty! love your firepit. i've never done smores with peeps, but you make them look so good!!ReplyDelete


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As of September, Fox News Channel added a new live broadcast addressing various health issues. The host of the show is Dr. David Samadi, Chairman of Urology and Cheif of Robotic Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Dr. Samadi's new show, called "Sunday Housecall", will air live on Sundays at 12:30 PM ET. Viewers will also be available to stream the show on YouTube Live, Facebook, or DrSamadiTV.com.
During the show, Dr. Samadi will be addressing health topics such as exercise, food and diet, common diseases, prostate health, sexual health, and other popular subjects. Since the show will be broadcasting live, viewers will be able to call in during the show to have some of their questions answered by Dr. Samadi himself or a health specialist. Guests, such as health specialists who have peer reviewed medical products, authors of books on health topics, or other experts in health and wellness, will be welcome on the show.
Regular viewers of Fox News Channel may recognize Dr. Samadi. He often contributes to the Fox News Health segment. One of the topics he recently addressed on the health segment is how adding plant protein to your diet can reduce the risk of death even if you don't change other unhealthy lifestyle choices. Dr. Samadi encourages people to add more grains, vegetables, and other plants to their diet.
More About Dr. David Samadi
Dr. Samadi was born in Iran and fled the country with his brother due to the devastation of the Iranian Revolution. When Dr. Samadi applied for college, he received many scholarships for his major attempts to succeed after fleeing Iran. He earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Stony Brook University and continued at the Stony Brook School of Medicine to earn his medical degree. He graduated from medical school in 1994 and completed his residency at Montefiore Medical Center.
Dr. Samadi is well known for his tremendous success in urology. He earned the reputation of being one of the best cancer treatment specialists in the area. His specialties include treating bladder, kidney, and prostate cancer. He has helped many of his patients by finding innovative ways to treat their cancer. He hopes to bring global awareness to prostate cancer, the second leading cause of death in men.
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Is it tru dat European Beer taste better Than American Beer?
Just wondering cause i read it in a Tom Clancy Book
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i think it depends on the hops you use too as stelar artois is 5% just like bud but it sends me loopy after two pints!
in britain we also have a lot of bitters (boddingtons & john smiths) and stouts (guiness & murphys) do they have them in the US?
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Monday, May 23, 2011
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Here is a card that I have never posted and another tag. The card uses the Millieflori technique for the background. The image is from Twisted Papers.
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I am a notebook ADDICT to the point that we are presently (very slowly) having a clear out and I have around 3 crates of notebooks; unused, half used, randomly used. It's a terrible situation but I have to confess; I just love a nice notebook.
Moleskine limited editions have been around for a while now, I always get a new pocket sized one every time a new design comes out (last one I got was the Cassette). I have tried other notebooks but Moleskine are my favourite because they aren't to pretty to really scribble in.
Anyway, I had been SWORN OFF buying any more new notebooks unless absolutely necessary; well, this was absolutely necessary:
Yep – Moleskine have a new The Hobbit range out – so far I can see the standard releases, 2 pocket and 2 large sizes, in ruled and lined. There is a burgundy cover for the ruled books and a black cover for the plain. At the moment they have 1-3 weeks delivery times , but the pocket lined is not in stock at all (boo hiss – this is my standard go to. You can find it on other sites though and I just found one on eBay at a discount too. Score!
Now let me compose myself.
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A comprehensive guide to more progressive individual or high performance sports training in the water.Learn how to correctly assess your clients and create specific programs to meet their individual needs. To created an effective overload, all athletes and clients should be properly assessed for baseline health, flexibility,cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength and balance.This is an excellent idea for training any sports or activity successfully and accurately. WaterART owns the patent for this assessment process. Learn thorough assessments to help you establish a baseline for your client.The program will review both shallow and/or deep H20 assessments. Learn how to assess anthropometic measurements, posture, flexibility, balance, muscular balance and strength as well as cardiovascular fitness. Learn protocols for either swimmers ( skilled) or non-swimmers ( modified assessments) designed to create purposeful and safe programs. This will help you for liability and program design.
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The National Down Syndrome Society has created an initiative to encourage businesses to hire people with Down syndrome and increase opportunities for individuals with Down syndrome to work in competitive employment settings. This new employment initiative is called #DSWORKSTM.
The resource page includes links for employment/volunteer work, employers, webinars, scholarships for entrepreneurs, and more.
In order to better serve the community with this employment initiative NDSS is asking people with Down syndrome, their parents, or employment specialists/job coaches to fill out this survey.
The first-ever employment conference will be in Arlington, VA next April and geared towards ages 14 and older.
Two recent adults with Down syndrome have made the news for becoming the first teachers with Down syndrome in their respective countries.
Teacher with Down Syndrome Inspires Students in Gaza and Argentina's First Teacher with Down Syndrome.
I'm starting to think about employment or volunteer opportunities with Kayla. Not that there is a big rush right now, but when I was 13 I did have some babysitting jobs and I was also a 'cart pusher' at the base commissary. We collected all the grocery carts from the parking lot ... we would work a few hours on Sat/Sun and I remember the feeling of accomplishment and empowerment it was to have my own money.
She did have that one job experience that she enjoyed helping out the hostess at a local restaurant.
Her first job will probably be at Dairy Queen, if she has her way about it! I would just worry that she would try to eat more of the ice cream than serve it!
Farther in the future I can see Kayla having a job like the two ladies featured in the links above - working with young children. She is really drawn to the younger kids and I think she would do great in a job like that - assisting, or teaching.
I can also see her getting a job at Disney World as one of the characters. She loves dressing up and again, interacting with younger kids. She would be in her element in a job like that; it would probably be her dream job!
Only time will tell what she ends up doing, but I am going to look at possibly having her volunteer at the library next summer for the summer reading program as a place to start being involved and responsible.
If you have older children with Down syndrome what was their first job and/or volunteer experience?
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An old 1960-1969 Rolleiflex camera that I am selling for a girl that I am trying to date. Amazingly good condition camera with only one piece missing. Wish I was a good enough photographer at the moment to try and use it as well as able to afford it. It is quite nice!
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When it comes to fashion, most of us categorize it as something that should be in, trendy, up to date. I personally am not a trend setter or a Fashionista even. I am not a person who bothers much about trashing or bad mouthing some dude who walks down the road wearing a purple polka dotted pants and a bright pink and purple striped top. I am also not a person who enjoys big exclusive brands or over expensive handbags. I would rather give all that money spent on a ten thousand dollar shoe to charity. With that said, that does not mean I am unable to dress up and look the way I want to look.
This week in Fashion tutorials, I am going to teach you how to embellish an old jacket and make it your very own style statement. I am quite quirky when it comes to clothes and I dress according to how I feel on that particular day. On some days, I like the edgy look, while on other days, I like to dress down but today, I feel like candy! Most of you have been with me for a little while would probably know that I was in Japan for quite a long time. I love how individual they are when it comes to fashion, so much so, the Japanese made it big into the international market for their quirk and creativity. Believe it or not, most of the things that they wear are handmade to fit their style mood and I find that amazing.
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Boxes and boxes of Girl Scout cookies were ruined when vandals hit a Monroe family's garage on Sunday.
Girl Scout "cookie mom" Dee Brown tells KING 5 $2,500 in cookies were destroyed. The boxes were covered in paint and oil.
The Girl Scouts organization has agreed to replace the cookies.
But the cookies weren't the only things destroyed. Jeff Brown says tools and some of his kid's toys were also damaged.
Authorities are reportedly searching for three suspects that they believe may be teenagers. Anyone with knowledge of the crime is asked to contact police.


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a few things I've been collecting…
if you read my guest posts on 100 Layer Cake, you know we've been collection lab glass for our wedding decor. here's a shot of some things I've bought or thrifted recently.
if you read my guest posts on 100 Layer Cake, you know we've been collection lab glass for our wedding decor. here's a shot of some things I've bought or thrifted recently.
Beautiful finds!
Oh me too! There is something so beautiful about the glassware.
wow. so incredible! great finds
(beautiful pic too!!!)
these are so beautiful all together!!
Very stylish!so I'll try this the kitchen :)
Oh wow, these are so beautiful! I have thrift store envy.
i love that you've been collecting lab glass! one of my good friends is a chem major and keeps her scarves in a beaker! i love it.
I love it! Fun and different.
Alyson, I love that you're such a science geek. I need to start thrifting for some cool lab glassware like this. They're perfect for your wedding decor. I can't wait to see more photos!
I love this idea! Have you tried asking around at local schools? I know UW periodically has flea/rummage sales where they sell school supplies (like lab gear) that they no longer need. I wonder if OHSU or PSU has a simmilar system?
Oh gosh, so beautiful!
…being a sciencey person myself, I don't think I would ever buy something used unless I knew for sure that no one would be drinking out it…it just gives me the willies. There are a few stores online that sell new glassware, and while it doesn't give the cool old vintage look, it's loads safer. Just my two cents…I'm not meaning to burst any bubbles…
I just checked your post on 100 Layer Cake which states you're planning to use them as centerpieces — which is definitely not drinking out of them (phew!) but I'd still worry about chemicals leaking into the water and killing flowers and such. I'd suggest Alcanox (a fairly strong lab detergent), but there's also the possibility that the glassware has acid/base residues that could be dangerous to just wash down the sink, or to splash on you accidentally while cleaning. I don't know—I love this idea myself (might even steal it someday!) but I would just go ahead and buy new (and I'm the thrift store queen, so that'd be a big deal for me).
really? seriously? you took this photo and these are your things? amazing! this photo is totally gorgeous, LOVE!


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The Game – Jesus Piece (Tracklist)
The Game reveals an all star cast on the tracklist for his fifth album Jesus Piece. Out December 11th. The album boasts features from Kanye West, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Common and more.
The track with J. Cole and upcoming artists JMSN also looks appealing. JMSN was credited on 4 songs off Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, m.A.A.d City. Expect as many namedrops as there are features on this album. The album is available to pre-order on Amazon.
Check out The Game's "Jesus Piece" Tracklist after the jump.
Game – Jesus Piece Tracklist
1. Scared Now feat.Meek Mill
2. Ali Bomaye feat. 2 Chainz & Rick Ross
3. Jesus Piece feat. Kanye West & Common
4. Pray feat. J. Cole & JMSN
5. All That (Lady) feat. Lil Wayne, Big Sean, Fabolous, Jeremih
6. Name Me King – The Game, Pusha T
7. See No Evil – The Game, Kendrick Lamar, Tank
8. Can't Get Right feat. K. Roosevelt
9. Heaven's Arms
10. Hallelujah feat. Jamie Foxx
11. Freedom feat. Elijah Blake
12. Celebration feat. Chris Brown, Tyga, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne
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26 Responses to "The Game – Jesus Piece (Tracklist)"
Luminous Story on November 17th, 2012 4:08 pm
I'm looking forward to tracks 4, 6 and 7. I don't know who K. Roosevelt and Elijah Blake are so I'll want to see what goes on. I'm hoping its better than RED and Kendrick drops a verse like in The City.
Riggs on November 17th, 2012 5:06 pm
I'm sorta looking forward to this…
Tebatso on November 17th, 2012 5:06 pm
So many features though!
PatrickJnr93 on November 17th, 2012 5:08 pm
No Drake O_O???
chris on November 17th, 2012 5:11 pm
im pretty sure this lp is nice , cant believe people are hatin cause of the feats . 1. if you think game needs features , you are stupid , you dont know Game and you dont know HipHop. 2. im pretty sure the features still give game enough room on his lp , some may just do a hook or whatever . cant wait to hear it.
C-Hustle on November 17th, 2012 5:45 pm
CURIOUS!!! Cant What To Hear This Shit….
elle on November 17th, 2012 6:00 pm
Yeah nice can't wait
no on November 17th, 2012 6:02 pm
song 1&2 will be extremely generic & song 8 to 12 will probably be filled with corny pophooks
track 3 to 7 will be dope hopefully, otherwise this only 12songs album will be a complete waste of time
Holy water's dope, why can't he make an entire album like that, this will just be 12 random songs mashed together so he can leave Interscope & join YMCMB with his buddy Busta into irrelevance…
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November 17th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
@no, can u send me the link where you already heard the album and where you read the he will def sign to ymcmb? …smh ignorant people.
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November 17th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
1)as far for the album, no I can't predict the future, but I said the same thing when I saw the RED's tracklist-> look how that turned out & this album has even less songs & possibly more features
so if you know hip hop, then you'd guess this won't be a classic or even an album up to Game's standards, cuz I see zero content, weak concept and unoriginal features
2)he has a 5album deal with Interscope & after his 5th album=Jesus Piece he wants to leave Interscope-> so where is he gonna go?
Seeing how he's tight with almost the entire YMCMB family & there's been talk about it as well it's not impossible
besides when I said he was gonna join YMCMB this was also hypothetical & obviously cynical, so think twice be4 you call me ignorant …
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November 17th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
@no, I feel what your saying..I dont look forward for game albums anymore. Im like 90% sure this shit is going to be forgotten after a few months. I purchased his first three albums after that as far as an album its been below average. This is the kind of album you get from mainstream artist now a days. No content a lot of features. Just add another one to all the wack mainstream albums out this year.
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November 17th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
So when did you learn to tell the future?? How can a song have no content with names like Hallelujah, freedom, heaven's arms, pray, jesus peice. I don't think they will be any dance tracks or "pop" songs based off the tracklist. And by the way Game had some dope ass songs on R.E.D album. The city, Ricky, Born in the trap, Good girls gone bad, Good, bad, and the ugly. I still listen to those on the regular
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November 17th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
@Mr. Tv Reference, Holy water sounds like this crazy ass lyrics and content and he talks about washing his car with holy water haha Dont get fooled by the tittle. Your right he didhve dope songs on R.E.D but we're talkingatalkingabout as a whole album. Anyone can make a few good songs but only a few could make a great cohesive album. I still listen to the city as well its a good song as well as ricky. That doesnt mean the album was good lol
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November 17th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
"Sleep outside for days for a pair of j's then yousleep outside forever because you ot sprayed" Game spit some real shit in that song but I get what you sayin it was some wack songs on R.E.D but i dont think it was as bad as people say it is. I enjoy almost all rap music except for a handful of people like lil b, French montana, gucci and a couple others but when it comes to everyone else if you stick to your roots then i will enjoy your music. Thats why i see myself looking forward to this album because i know what i'm goonna get.
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November 18th, 2012 at 12:09 am
@Mr. Tv Reference, I get what your saying. Dont take it the wrong way. Am I a Game fan ofcourse. Am I looking forward to some songs in here ya I am. As a fan though there needs to be a time where you shouldnt lie to yourself. As a game fan I look forward to his songs. In this day and age I dont look forward to his cds cause he cant make a full LP anymore. Just the way it is sometimes…I wish I was wrong lol its not hate either. Good music is one of my fave mainstream labels but did there album meet standards to me it didnt shit was super wack lol jus cause theyre one of my fave doesnt mean ima sit here n dickride them thats my point…
Wu Tang on November 17th, 2012 6:43 pm
first i was like " Did dj khaled changed his name to The game??"
game could make a classic album but not like these shit. too many FT. This aint even funny
and to all the game fans who talk shit. PLEASE calm down and see the truth in the eyes. Game killed himself with all these ft.
True on November 17th, 2012 10:52 pm
Everyone get thoughts bout this album good and bad, but features or not this LP feels right in timing, songs, and concept.
AfricaRising on November 17th, 2012 11:23 pm
When this album leaks I'll judge. . . On the bright side he's keeping it sh0rt. More chances of it being a good album. . .
Can I just be blunt though. . . It looks to me like The features are more of a strategic thing than a musical bond thing. Think about it fam. . . Theres a reason why Akon and Kanye have never worked together. Now lemme also say this. . . . I know that usually The Games feature record on albums is a bit more cohesive than most. . . But when Game is out performin the tracks off this album what then?
NINON on November 18th, 2012 12:57 am
Mr. TV Reference on November 18th, 2012 5:19 am
I agree with you. I don't think it will be classic but I'm sure I will enjoy it and I agree with the Good Music album. I didn't like it that much and the slaughterhouse album. I felt it was a disappointing considering their talent lyrically
The Royal One on November 18th, 2012 10:11 am
Game will never make an album better than his 1st album the Documentary.
I'll give it a quick listen but since the Doctor's Advocate, most Game's album cut songs weren't worth listening to after two times.
jaman on November 18th, 2012 12:56 pm
Frank White on November 19th, 2012 1:34 pm
Kanye common N Game in a same that gon be a worth it
if u don't like the new Game Album go buy the old one's then
RED album had a lot of Ft's but its still the hottest album out here so quit hating hater
Listen To Charlie on November 19th, 2012 6:54 pm
12 tracks, 11 feats. – YKM
Waiting for 4, 7,8 and 10.
True on November 20th, 2012 7:26 am
Snippets out Fuck everyone that hated this LP is dope close to his best work on the 18th Jesus Piece nd Troubleman!!!!'
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From the last few weeks i am working with Oracle OSB. In this post i want to share my some experince to apply Business rules engine to message broking in OSB. The full article has been written in Russian language for Oracle Magazine and will add the link soon after publish.
From the few years we have been familliar with Business rules and java rules engine API(JSR-94) and successfully usees business rules on many project. From the view of OSB - sometimes it's very important to separate the business logic or policy implementions from the OSB proxy service. In any corporate business logic or business policy could change often, specially in tele-communication sector and stock exchanges.
This post is not to discuss about when and why to use Business rules engine rather than how to use it with OSB to implement and separate business policy for message broking.
Here i will discuss about ilog Jrules and it's funtionallity to integrate with OSB.
In the market of BRMS - Ilog Jrules is one of the best and costly implementation of business rules, however open source Drools or Jess is not a toy at all.
Ilog Jrules gave opportunaty to call business rules via web service or ormi protocol (Also jboss t3 and much more).
Actually it's very easy to develop web service as a client which will invoke business rules or rule set.
Ilog jrules offeres plugin in eclipse to create and deploy business rules as web service.
Here below is fragment of code to invoke business rules for web service.
Properties jndi = new Properties(); jndi.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory"); jndi.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"ormi://172.24.10.74:12401/paksession"); jndi.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL,"bres"); jndi.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS,"bres"); /* Jboss configuration System.setProperty("java.naming.provider.url","jnp://172.24.10.74"); System.setProperty("java.naming.factory.initial","org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"); */ try { IlrRuleSessionProvider rsProvider = new IlrRuleSessionProviderFactory.Builder(jndi).build(); IlrStatelessRuleSession session = rsProvider.createStatelessRuleSession(); // prepare a new request String rulesPath = "/UFTPNRuleAppS/1.0/RosFinMonitoringReportUPFT/1.0"; IlrSessionRequest request = new IlrSessionRequest(rulesPath); // Set the input parameters for the execution of the rules IlrSessionExecutionSettings sessionExecutionSettings = request.getExecutionSettings(); IlrSessionParameters inputParameters = sessionExecutionSettings.getInputParameters(); inputParameters.setParameter("paramOperation", 1429691l); request.getSessionDescriptor().enableTrace(); //set the rule Set parameter in the request IlrSessionResponse response = null; IlrSessionExecutionResult executionResult = null; response = session.executeRules(request); executionResult = response.getExecutionResult(); System.out.println("FiredRule:"+ executionResult.getNumRulesFired()); ArrayList firedRules = executionResult.getRulesFired(); for(int i=0, cnt=firedRules.size(); i < cnt; i++){ //ilog.rules.engine.IlrRule rule = (IlrRule) firedRules.get(i); System.out.println("Fired Rule Name:"+firedRules.get(i)); } } catch (IlrRuleSessionCreationException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch(RemoteException e){ e.printStackTrace(); } catch(IlrRuleSessionException e){ e.printStackTrace(); } /*catch(NamingException e){ e.printStackTrace(); }*/In the part of OSB, have a severel way to use Business rules in proxy service. 1) Define a business service with the WSDL of the web service of business rules, which will have higher level of abstraction of the buseiness rule. Assaign the input message and invoke the service and assaign the result in any local variable for further using. Here is nothing special than any other call of service. 2) Create a java project first to invoke j2ee call to Business rule. Implements the invoke such as above in any static method. Compile and create artifact(a jar file) from the project and import or copy the jar file into the OSB project. Define a java call out node in proxy service of OSB and prepare input and output message to call the business service. In the such way we can use business rule or policy in OSB. In Ilog there is another type of service named decision service, it's simply a web service with JMX manegment. In the following see the rules engine invocation in action: Also follow the following articles to know much more about business rules invocation: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/bpel_cookbook/geminiuc.html http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-drools/


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Don't try this at home
Gavin Francis
- Adrenaline by Brian Hoffman
Harvard, 298 pp, £18.95, April 2013, ISBN 978 0 674 05088 4
There's a scene in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in which John Travolta's character, a hitman called Vincent Vega, who has escorted his boss's wife home after an evening out, returns from the bathroom to find her unconscious on the floor. Mia (Uma Thurman) has taken a bag of heroin from his jacket pocket and, mistaking the white powder for cocaine, snorted a line and collapsed. Vincent throws her into a car and hurtles round to his dealer's house. The dealer fills a syringe with adrenaline and tells him to stab it into Mia's heart; Vincent slams it through her breastbone and pushes the plunger. Her eyes flicker, she convulses, and then, shocked into life like the Bride of Frankenstein, she suddenly sits up, wide awake and gasping for breath.
I was a medical student when Pulp Fiction came out, and my understanding of human bodies was based largely on dead ones, but I knew that an intracardiac injection of adrenaline was a bad idea. It's the wrong drug (the correct antidote is naloxone), and the wrong technique: an IV injection is the thing. But a stab in the heart makes better cinema, and everyone thinks they know about adrenaline's effect on the body. We hear of adrenaline junkies and adrenaline highs; we talk about 'running on adrenaline'.
I first learned about adrenaline, and the glands that produce it, from a headless and limbless torso, skinned and sprayed with preserving fluids. Each Friday afternoon in anatomy class it was unzipped from a white body bag labelled '1101-Female'. The smell of the preserving fluids was overwhelming at first, as was the nip they brought to the eyes. Once you recovered, you could see that the abdominal wall had been cut from the flanks to the pubis bone so that a frontal flap of stomach muscles could be lifted, the way you'd open a car bonnet. The abdominal viscera are covered by the peritoneum, a sheeny lining like shrink-wrap, which makes it possible for the organs to glide against one another without causing irritation (it's inflammation of this lining that causes the pain of appendicitis). Some of the organs had been liberated from the peritoneum, so it was possible to heft the intestines out of the way, weigh them down with the spleen, wedge up the liver and reveal the retroperitoneal organs, such as the kidneys, pancreas, parts of the colon and the adrenal glands.
The adrenal glands have that name because they lie by the kidneys: ad-renal. Ancient anatomists like Herophilus and Galen didn't notice them because in death the glands look similar to fat, and the kidneys are embedded in particularly rich fat (this is suet, present in humans as it is in animals). It was the Renaissance anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachi who first spotted the glands, though he had no idea what their purpose was. He observed their excellent blood supply and their close association with the kidneys. They have bulky bundles of nerves, connected to the sympathetic nervous system, parallel trunks of nerves that run down either side of the spine like train tracks – part of the 'autonomic' system, the internal calibration of our bodies over which we have little control. Among other functions the sympathetic system is involved in preparing our bodies for action, in what have become known as 'fight or flight' responses, and it is aided in this by the hormone adrenaline. Sympathetic nerves work locally, but adrenaline is released into the bloodstream and so acts throughout the body. It is released when we're frightened or angry, and when we exert ourselves physically. It incites the liver to pour out glucose as fuel for muscles, the airways to open in order to make breathing more effective, the heart to accelerate and the pupils to dilate. Its effect on the brain is to make us more attentive and alert. An overdose can be fatal.
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GLENDALE — Having finally found its finest form and used it along with some overwhelming momentum, the Flintridge Prep boys' volleyball team is back in the CIF Southern Section Division V quarterfinals after a one-season hiatus.
Standing in the way of the Rebels making a return to the semifinals for the second time in three seasons is top-seeded Vistamar.
The two will collide today when the Rebels (12-13) host the visiting Vikings (19-2) at 5 p.m. at Flintridge Prep.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Terminator" star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the new host of NBC's reality TV show "The Celebrity Apprentice," the network said on Monday, replacing Donald Trump who quit the show to run for U.S. president.
Schwarzenegger, 68, who returned to movie making after ending his second term as California governor in 2011, will take over when the show returns in the 2016-17 season, NBC, a unit of Comcast Corp CMCSA.0, said in a statement.
"Arnold Schwarzenegger is the epitome of a global brand in entertainment and business, and his accomplishments in the political arena speak for themselves, " Paul Telegdy, president of alternative programming for NBC, said in a statement.
Telegdy said Schwarzenegger had ideas for "a fresh take" on the show, in which celebrities compete with each other on business tasks while raising money for charities.
Trump, who coined the catch phrase "You're fired," stepped down from the show earlier this year because he decided to run as Republican candidate for U.S. president in 2016. He is currently leading opinion polls.
Schwarzenegger said he was a huge fan of 'The Celebrity Apprentice' and "the way it showcases the challenges and triumphs of business and teamwork. I am thrilled to bring my experience to the boardroom and to continue to raise millions for charity."
The Austrian-born action hero and former bodybuilder has released a handful of movies since returning to the entertainment industry, but few have had the box office success he enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s with films like "Conan the Barbarian" and "The Terminator."
His latest outing "Terminator: Genisys," released in July, brought in a disappointing $90 million at the North American box office but fared much better overseas with about $350 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com
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Now he is a fat, funny hedgehog who likes to eat, sleep, make a fuss over everything... (Yep, he's the same!) and I still love him to bits despite all his grumpy behaviour.
(Note: He had a pile of worms in front of him, but he gobbled them up before I could get the camera ready. Arrggh! Or is that a good thing for you? Cuz HE'S certainly happy!)


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June 25 — Answering a certified question, the Delaware Supreme Court June 24 concluded that a parent corporation may sue to enforce its own contractual rights directly, even if the harm from the alleged breach is to its subsidiary.
The state's high court clarified that commercial contract actions are not subject to derivative lawsuit requirements under its ruling in Tooley v. Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc., 845 A.2d 1031 (Del. 2004).
Writing for the court, Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. opined: "Reading Tooley to convert direct claims belonging to a plaintiff into something belonging to another party would, we confess, be alien to our understanding of what was at stake in that case."
In the underlying case, the plaintiff NAF Holdings LLC created two subsidiaries to effectuate a merger with Hampshire Group Ltd. To facilitate the deal, the parent corporation contracted with defendant Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd. to serve as sourcing agent for Hampshire.
However, the merger between the NAF subsidiaries and Hampshire fell apart once Trading allegedly repudiated its deal with NAF. While Hampshire and the subsidiaries eventually resolved their differences by entering into a settlement agreement, NAF proceeded with claims for breach of contract against Trading in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Specifically, NAF sued Trading for $30 million in damages that allegedly resulted from a diminution of NAF's subsidiaries' stock
Applying Delaware law, the district court dismissed NAF's breach of contract claims because it had not met the pleading requirements of a derivative lawsuit. Basing its decision on language in Tooley that states that a stockholder-plaintiff is required to establish it "can prevail without showing an injury to the corporation" to bring a direct claim, the district court held that NAF could only proceed with its claims derivatively.
As a result of the lower court's decision, NAF filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit, arguing that Tooley did not apply to its commercial contract claims.
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In answering the certified question, the state court concluded that NAF could bring its claims directly, without proceeding by way of a derivative action. The court held that NAF does not need have to proceed derivatively with contractual claims that it possesses, regardless of whether the harm was suffered by its subsidiary.
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He opined that consistent with fundamental Delaware law contract principles, parties seeking to enforce their own commercial contracts should not be subjected to the burdensome demand excusal process.
In reaching its decision, however, the court clarified that its decision did not address the merits of NAF's claims, including the effect of its subsidiaries' settlement, which included a broad release of claims.
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Roger Wolcott Sperry
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.Thomas Traherne
Roger Wolcott Sperry (20 August 1913 - 17 April 1994) was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and pioneer in the sciences of consciousness who, together with David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his independent work in split-brain research.
- The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.
- "Action Current Study in Movement Coordination" in Journal of General Psychology (1939)
- I have never been entirely satisfied with the materialistic or behavioristic thesis that a complete explanation of brain function is possible in purely objective terms with no reference whatever to subjective experience; i.e., that in scientific analysis we can confidently and advantageously disregard the subjective properties of the brain process. I do not mean we should abandon the objective approach or repeat the errors of the earlier introspective era. It is just that I find it difficult to believe that the sensations and other subjective experiences per se serve no function, have no operational value and no place in our working models of the brain.
- Discussion in The first Conference on The Central Nervous System and Behavior (1958), p. 420 - 421, as quoted in the obituary at the National Academies Press
- Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety.
- "Evolution of the Human Brain" (1964), p. 2
- There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.
- "Evolution of the Human Brain" (1964), p. 3
- Any model or description that leaves out conscious forces ... is bound to be sadly incomplete and unsatisfactory ... This scheme is one that puts mind back over matter, in a sense, not under or outside or beside it. It is a scheme that idealizes ideas and ideals over physical and chemical interactions, nerve impulse traffic, and DNA. It is a brain model in which conscious mental psychic forces are recognized to be the crowning achievement of some five hundred million years or more of evolution.
- Mind, Brain, and Humanist Values (1965)
- Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
- Statement (1981), as quoted in the first pages of a special tribute issue of Humankind Advancing, Vol.5, No.1 (21 January 1994)
- It is mutual fear and distrust that mostly generate world tensions and these can be traced in no small measure, like other root causes of worsening world conditions, to different people's conflicting and often intolerant, value-belief differences ... Whereas in the past science did little, if anything, to remedy this situation and in some ways made things worse, our reformed "macro-determinist" science that includes consciousness and subjective values ... provides common universal ethical foundations on which all nations could work to build a World Government or at least a World Security System to help control nuclear developments and other global threats that require international collaboration.
- The Human Predicament: A Way Out? (1985), p. 3
- To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.
- The Human Predicament: A Way Out? (1985), p. 4
- The time has passed when nations should be allowed to do as they individually wish with regard to global matters, each striving solely in its own interests, with the more powerful now able to destroy all humanity and more.
For the common good, we need to frame and abide by a higher system of law and justice, designed with less national, more godlike, perspectives for the preservation and welfare of the biosphere as a whole.
The problems of setting up and administering an effective, international force of this kind can hardly be more grave, formidable or insoluble than those we encounter on any alternative course.
- Toward a Higher System of World Law and Justice (1986)
- The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.
- As quoted in Genius Talk : Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries (1995) by Denis Brian ISBN 0306450895
Science and the Problem of Values (1972)
- It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.
- p.119
- The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.
- p. 127
- The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.
- p. 128
- The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.
Nobel lecture (1981)
- With few exceptions, the bulk of the collected lesion evidence up through the 1950s into the early '60s converged to support the picture of a leading, more highly evolved and intellectual left hemisphere and a relatively retarded right hemisphere that by contrast, in the typical righthander brain, is not only mute and agraphic but also dyslexic, word-deaf and apraxic, and lacking generally in higher cognitive function.
- Earlier contentions that the right hemisphere is not even conscious largely gave way by the mid seventies to an intermediate position conceding that the mute hemisphere may be conscious at some lower elemental levels, but claiming that it lacks the higher, reflective, self-conscious kind of inner awareness that is special to the human mind and is needed, so it is said, to qualify the right conscious system as a "self' or "person". Self awareness in particular is reported, on the basis of mirror tests mainly, to be a predominantly human attribute and is rated by developmental as well as by evolutionary standards to be a highly advanced phase of conscious awareness.
- Unlike other aspects of cognitive function, emotions have never been readily confinable to one hemisphere. Though generated by lateralized input, the emotional effects tend to spread rapidly to involve both hemispheres, apparently through crossed fiber systems in the undivided brain stem.
- One of the more important things to come out of the split-brain work, as an indirect spin-off, is a revised concept of the nature of consciousness and its fundamental relation to brain processing. The key development here is a switch from prior non-causal, parallelist views to a new causal, or "interactionist" interpretation that ascribes to inner experience an integral causal control role in brain function and behavior. In effect, and without resorting to dualist views, the mental forces and properties of the conscious mind are restored to the brain of objective science from which they had long been excluded on materialist-behaviorist principles.
- Cognitive introspective psychology and related cognitive science can no longer be ignored experimentally, or written off as "a science of epiphenomena", nor either as something that must, in principle, reduce eventually to neurophysiology. The events of inner experience, as emergent properties of brain processes, become themselves explanatory causal constructs in their own right, interacting at their own level with their own laws and dynamics. The whole world of inner experience (the world of the humanities) long rejected by 20th century scientific materialism, thus becomes recognized and included within the domain of science.
- The former scope of science, its limitations, world perspectives, views of human nature, and its societal role as an intellectual, cultural and moral force all undergo profound change. Where there used to be a chasm and irreconcilable conflict between the scientific and the traditional humanistic views of man and the world, we now perceive a continuum. A unifying new interpretative framework emerges with far reaching impact not only for science but for those ultimate value-belief guidelines by which mankind has tried to live and find meaning.
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
- As a brain researcher, I'd started out simply accepting the strictly objective principles of the behaviorist position. In the 1950s and early 1960s, all respectable neuroscientists thought in these terms. In those days, we wouldn't have been caught dead implying that consciousness or subjective experience can affect physical brain processing.
My first break with this thinking — although I certainly didn't see it that way at the time — came in a 1952 discussion of mind-brain theory in which I proposed a fundamentally new way of looking at consciousness. In it, I suggested that when we focus consciously on an object — and create a mental image for example — it's not because the brain pattern is a copy or neural representation of the perceived object, but because the brain experiences a special kind of interaction with that object, preparing the brain to deal with it.
I maintained that an identical feeling or thought on two separate occasions did not necessarily involve the identical nerve cells each time. Instead, it is the operational impact of the neural activity pattern as a whole that counts, and this depends on context — just as the word "lead" can mean different things, depending on the rest of the sentence.
- When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.
- Science traditionally takes the reductionist approach, saying that the collective properties of molecules, or the fundamental units of whatever system you're talking about, are enough to account for all of the system's activity. But this standard approach leaves out one very important additional factor, and that's the spacing and timing of activity — its pattern or form. The components of any system are linked up in different ways, and these possible relationships, especially at the higher levels, are not completely covered by the physical laws for the elementary interactions between atoms and molecules. At some point, the higher properties of the whole begin to take over and govern the fate of its constituents.
A simple way to illustrate this idea is to imagine a molecule in an airplane flying from L.A. to New York. The molecule may be jostled somewhat or held in position by its neighbors, but these lower-level actions are trivial compared to its movement as the plane flies across the continent. If you plot the movement of the molecule through time and space, those features governed by the higher properties of the plane as a whole make those controlled at the level of the molecule insignificant by comparison. The higher properties control the lower, not by direct intervention, but by supervention.
- I have a very one-track mind that needs to concentrate. I asked myself which issue is more important: whether mental states are more left- or right-hemispheric, or whether they are causal in brain function. From weighing the pros and cons, I decided that the left-brain, right-brain work was well in orbit and that it would be more important to shift my primary focus to consciousness.
The mind-brain issues are intrinsically more compelling. They carry strong humanistic as well as scientific implications. I could foresee changes in our world view, guiding beliefs, and social values. In the context of today's worsening world conditions and our imperiled future, this work seemed far more important than whether you can find a brain theory enabling people to learn faster, draw better, make better medical diagnoses, and so on.
We're beginning to learn the hard way that today's global ills are not cured by more and more science and technology.
- What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
- Instead of maintaining the traditional separation of science and values, cognitive theory says the two come together in brain function. If we are correct in saying that our conscious mental values not only arise from, but also influence brain processing, then it becomes possible to integrate values with the physical world on a scientific rather than supernatural basis. It's been the traditional role of religion to affirm the primary importance of our higher values in this world by invoking a supreme power. In cognitivism, it is science that affirms the powerful controlling role of higher values, and it is able to do so on grounds that are verifiable — that is, testable against reality as it really is.
On these new terms, science no longer upholds a value-empty existence, in which everything, including the human mind, is driven entirely by strictly physical forces of the most elemental kind. We get a vastly revised answer to the old question "What does science leave to believe in?" that gives us a different image of science and the kind of truth science stands for. This new outlook leads to realistic, this world values that provide a strong moral basis for environmentalism and population controls and for policies that would protect the long-term evolving quality of the biosphere.
- Cognitivism bridges the chasm between what the writer C. P. Snow has called the "two cultures" — the widening gap between the world view of the scientist and the humanist. The Caltech philosopher W. T. Jones has called this the crisis of contemporary culture.
- I think time will show that the new approach, emphasizing emergent "macro" control, is equally valid in all the physical sciences, and that the behavioral and cognitive disciplines are leading the way to a more valid framework for all science. Although the theoretic changes make little difference in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and so on, they are crucial for the behavioral, social, and human sciences. They don't change the analytic, reductive methodology, just the interpretations and conclusions. There seems little to lose, and much to gain.
Quotes about Sperry
- Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).
- Theodore J. Voneida in the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs V.71 (1997), p. 326
- The impact of Sperry's philosophy, similar to that of his scientific discoveries previously, has now transcended the boundaries of science and reaches into human awareness worldwide. Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, for instance, is deeply impressed by, and actively promotes, Sperry's work — He fully recognizes the significance of the neuroscientist's theory of emergence and downward causation, which transcends dualism and reductionism, leads in an unbroken continuum from atoms to subjective experience, and describes each newly emergent phenomenon in the universe as an entity in its own right with laws and properties that never before existed. Such new emergents (which disappear in reductionist thinking) affect everything else on earth, including the elements that created them (downward causation) but most importantly the future quality of evolution. Values, thus — as emergents of brain function — are recognized as the most powerful determinants on earth, even in the world of science.
- Editorial introduction to the special tribute issue of Humankind Advancing, Vol.5, No.1 (21 January 1994)
- 90% of our brain's energy is used for posture alone.


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This week we completed another new vehicle livery for our valued customers over at Lakeland Computers. This is the fourth vehicle which we have liveried for Nigel and his team and we have also supplied their office signage, exhibition displays and branded clothing.
Based in nearby Irvinestown, and specialising in the food retail and hospitality sector, Lakeland Computers are one of the UK and Ireland's leading suppliers of EPOS, stock management, accounts, labelling and customer loyalty software and systems based around their Eureka product database. Visit their website to discover more about how Lakeland Computers and Eureka could help your business.


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API Leader Accreditation Process - STAY TUNED AS WE ANNOUNCE A NEW LEADERSHIP PROCESS
API Support Groups are held all over the world. Groups usually meet monthly in a library, religious institution, community center, hospital or someone's home. Accredited Leaders support parents by offering information and guidance needed to empower and strengthen the family. API Support Group Leaders are making progress with community outreach activities that educate parents and professionals who are not familiar with Attachment Parenting (AP).
No Support Groups in Your Area?
Consider forming a new group by taking the first step which is to become an accredited leader. In the final stages of accreditation, you will be connected with current leaders who will mentor you as you establish the new group in your community.
Why does API have a Leader Accreditation process?
Partnership - The accreditation process helps API align applicants who desire to become Leaders in a way that each person is working to serve parents and communities in unison from the API Mission Statement.
Preparation - Leaders are peer parents who represent API in their neighborhoods. As such, API is responsible to the parents in those communities and wishes to provide the necessary preparation and support needed for those who volunteer in the role of Leader. API desires for a successful and fulfilling Leadership experience for each applicant.
Mission - API's mission is to educate and support all parents in raising secure, joyful and empathic children in order to strengthen families and create a more compassionate world. Dedicated volunteers help to make this happen. Through the Leadership process API promises to provide the information and support to each Leader so that they can offer it to the parents who attend support groups.
What do Leader Applicants gain from the accreditation process?
The API Leader accreditation process is designed to provide applicants access to and practice with valuable skills and knowledge that can be applied in multiple aspects of API Leadership and life.
API Leader Applicants will be exposed to:
• Knowledge about Attachment Parenting information, theory, and practice.
• Preparation for sharing ideas and resources with other parents.
• Skillful communication techniques.
• Effective methods to overcome challenges with individuals and group dynamics.
• Successful ways to help parents problem-solve in family situations.
Accredited API Leaders enjoy access to:
· An established network of like-minded parents, professionals, and organizations throughout the world.
· Free publicity via a support group listing on API's website with meeting times, locations, and a link to the group's website.
· Support from peer Leaders and staff via private forums, sites and publications.
· API's library of meeting ideas, research, news articles, and other materials.
· Personal parenting support for API Leaders, as needed.
· Marketing assistance and templates for promotions.
How long does it take to become accredited?
The accreditation process averages six or more months and has been completed in as little as two months. Applicants work at a pace that is best for the individual and his/her family. As an Applicant please allot time for:
- Reading the three core books as well as four additional selections * and preparing brief reviews.
- Responding to a series of questions from the Leader Applicant Liaison (LAL).
- Reviewing videos and training documents provided by the LAL.
Accredited API Leaders are expected to allot time to:
- Organizing, advertising and facilitating at least nine meetings per year.
* The list of additional readings is provided by the LAL. Applicants may also ask about substituting other readings they might have already completed.
Why the accreditation process structured the way it is?
API's accreditation process works well for applicants who are motivated, have strong initiative and are open to alignment with API's work and mission. Applicants need to be comfortable working within a structure that falls between "anything goes" and that of an extensive, expensive training. These are some of the same qualities that we appreciate in our API Leaders.
This approach allows for a joint exploration of important and influential beliefs and attitudes as well as helps to strengthen the alignment between API and the applicant. The written format of our process facilitates reflection and the personalized attention from the LAL means that the experience is more likely to "stick" and continue to serve as a touchstone as applicants move into Leadership.
On a practical level, our structure is ultimately the most sustainable. Leader applicants live all over the world and are typically parents with young children, busy schedules and snug budgets. The accreditation process allows API to come into communities in the most flexible and practical ways possible for volunteers while still providing standards and support for strong API Leadership.
Accreditation steps
The accreditation process may be loosely categorized into three main parts. Upon application, volunteers will be provided with greater detail of the process and have the ability to track their progress by referring to the detailed steps in each Part:
- Part I - Application
- Part II - Reading, Reviewing and Conversing
- Part III - Final Administrative Steps
Part I - Getting Started with API's Accreditation Process
- Read API's Eight Principles of Parenting and the Leader Guidelines.
- Application support - details coming soon
- Contact Lisa Ricciuti, API Leader Applicant Liaison (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Part II - Reading, Reviewing and Conversing
1. Read and Provide Brief, Personalized Reviews of the 3 Core API Leader Books.
1. This can be done before submitting your application or during any and all parts of the application process.
· Attached at the Heart by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker
· Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
· Hold Onto Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld (DVD or Book)
2. Read and Provide Brief Reviews of Four Additional Resources.
1. When your application has been received, the LAL will send a list of approved books as well as provide guidance on writing reviews.
2. Some applicants will have already read many of these books and are encouraged to read as many as possible.
3. Materials other than the ones listed may be substituted at the discretion of the LAL - please ask! Exceptions to the requirements will be made for non-English speaking applicants.
4. In instances where the applicant lacks experience with a particular API principle additional reading may be selected or required. An example might be in the area of positive discipline for applicants who have infants and have not yet had the opportunity to practice positive discipline with their own children.
3. Dialogue.
a. The LAL will sequentially introduce and discuss via email the following topics with the applicant:
1. Applicant's answers from application
2. API's Eight Principles of Parenting
3. API Leader Guidelines and book reviews
4. Support group facilitation and benefits of co-leadership
5. Personal bias, nonjudgmental communication and respect of others
6. Role playing support situations
7. API's Leader Manual and other documents that focus on:
§ Organizing and leading meetings
§ Finding a meeting place
§ Creating meeting topics
§ Raising funds for the group
§ Finding appropriate reporting forms for the group
§ Publicizing the support group
b. Through this reflective conversation API learns about the applicant as a parent and a person. The LAL explores these reflections with the applicant in order to assist in any areas where additional skills, knowledge or comfort may be helpful in representing the principles of API, helping parents and/or leading meetings.
c. Responses are not required to be very long, but they do need to be complete and include references to the applicant's personal experiences and journey. The LAL may extend any question where more clarification or understanding is needed.
Tips for completion:
- The reading and reviews can be going on simultaneously with the dialogue.
- Follow the guidance letter on how to complete the reviews which will be provided with the approved reading list.
- Write up and submit each review as you complete the reading.
Part III - Final Administrative Steps
- Confirmation of contact information for Leader.
- Determination of new support group name*.
- Leader Community Site and Yahoo Group.
- New Leader is listed on API Resources.


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Firefox 4.0 is not due to be released for well over another yeah but mock-ups of the premier open-source browser's proposed visual refresh as it will look on Linux have been mocked-up and shown off today.
Version 4 will see a raft of major new features and improvements – not least of which is the refined interface above.
Another major addition will be Browser Sync via Mozilla Weave, allowing for cloud syncing of bookmarks, passwords and favourites.
Is it enough?
The majority of the forthcoming improvements are a reaction to Google Chrome. The speed, features and slick interface it offers really puts the "established" browsers in the shade – and Firefox is stepping up it's game. But is it too little, too late?
Google Chrome will offer browser syncing in just a few months time (it's already in testing, add --enable-browser-sync as a flag to use it.) Weave will rear it's head in Firefox well over a year away. It already has the interface, it's extension framework has potential to be far greater than Firefox's (add-ons can be installed, disabled and removed without needing to "restart" the browser) and browsing just keeps getting faster.
In The Mean Time…
The next "minor" release of Firefox which will bear a visual change will be that of 3.7 which has also received some Linux mock-up treatment.


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…..chafing thighs! As Lady Gaga sings, "I was born this way" and shorter legs with muscular thighs are what I was graced with. I could have it so much worse! I could have no legs, I could have injured legs….but I have strong legs and, in particular, strong thighs to motor me up the godforsaken hills that make up my running neighborhood. To be honest, I actually don't mind hills and rather embrace them most of the time. I did avoid one hill this morning, but on a good note, it added an additional mile to my planned route. So I'm feeling pretty full of myself right now.
I headed out this morning for a rolling 6.25 mile run. It's already very warm, so I got out as early as I could. A combination of a bad night of insomnia and a cranky stomach was not a good precursor to this morning's running plan. But I grabbed my grape Gatorade, headed out…..
…and had an awesome run! I love when all the cards seem stacked against me and I pull off a decent run anyway. It just goes to show how strong the mind/body connection can be. Some of my splits –
1 8:50
2 8:38
3 ?
4 ?
5 8:40
6 8:35
7 8:15
(there's a .25 in there somewhere and a reminder to me that I really need to mark miles 3 and 4 for future reference)
And did I mention it's warm today? It was close to 80 degrees when I finished, so although not super fast, I feel great and very happy with this mid-week longer run.
Back to the chafing thighs….
One of my tried and true running necessities is Body Glide. Nothing like it. I get it pretty cheap on nationalrunningcenter.com and my running has left fewer battle scars ever since my recent loyalty to this product. I heart Body Glide – swoon. And no, this isn't a feeble attempt at getting free Body Glide (though I'll take it if offered!).
So, in looking at my thighs from a glass-half-full perspective, thanks thighs! Keep up the good work, cuz I'm not moving to flats-ville anytime soon. Bring on the hills and the Body Glide. Match made in heaven.


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Standard & Poor's revised the United Kingdom's outlook to "negative" from "stable" Friday, citing risks posed by the country's potential departure from the European Union.
The ratings agency affirmed its "AAA/A-1+" rating for the U.K. The recently re-elected government of Prime Minister David Cameron is slated to hold a referendum on EU membership by 2017.
"The outlook revision reflects our view that the decision of the newly elected Conservative majority government to hold a referendum on the U.K.'s EU membership by 2017 represents a risk to growth prospects for the U.K.'s financial services and export sectors as well as the wider economy," S&P said in a release.


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I encourage readers to support funding LD 1143, "An Act to Provide Full Day Kindergarten Programs," to mandate full-day kindergarten in all districts in Maine.
Early childhood is an incredibly formative time for children both academically and socio-emotionally, and school systems need to take advantage of this time. It has been empirically proved that students who attend full-day kindergarten learn more and are better prepared for school than students who attend half-day kindergarten. Children who attend full-day kindergarten are also less likely to be held back in later grades. Further, studies show that full-day kindergarten programs are especially beneficial for traditionally disadvantaged students because they are able to spend more time engaged in learning.
The beauty of public schooling is that it attempts to give every child the same opportunities regardless of their socioeconomic status. Full-day kindergarten would help to mitigate the opportunity gap. It would give all kindergarten students access to a full-day academic program, which is needed for educational readiness and is the basis of school success.
With the implementation of the Common Core State Standards soon approaching, the stakes are even higher for proficiency and academic readiness. Maine needs full-day kindergarten programs in order to give students the foundation they need to be successful in school and meet kindergarten standards. Without providing districts funding and support for implementation, however, a simple mandate will not be effective.
Andrea Levinsky