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I am a visiting assistant professor of law at Northeastern University Law School, researching intellectual property, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, I founded and lead the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. I serve on the Board of Directors of Tor, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology.
I have taught Internet Law, Copyright, and Information Privacy at Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World.
I speak frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. I have an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally take a break from legal code to program (Perl).
I developed and
now coordinate the Berkman Center's Openlaw project,
bringing the model of open source and free software development to
legal argument in the public interest. Openlaw connects lawyers and
non-lawyers to develop arguments, strategies, and amicus briefs
in important cases. In the Openlaw/DVD forum,
we recently filed an amicus
brief in Universal v.
Reimerdes, one of the first cases testing the anticircumvention
provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Eight major
movie studios sued 2600 magazine
over the posting of DeCSS--a program that can decrypt and read the
data on commercial DVDs. Plaintiff movie studios claimed at trial
that DeCSS illegally circumvented their DVD movies' access controls,
while defendants argued that the DMCA did not create a new right to
block fair use and interoperability through encryption.
The Openlaw
participants' brief argued that the DeCSS program, and
particularly hyperlinks to
it, were protected speech under the First Amendment. I also
helped to draft the cryptographers'
amicus to the Second Circuit, arguing that a ban on computer
programs that could be used for circumvention unduly restricted
scientific communication.
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Located in the heart of the Coosa Valley area of North Georgia, Rockmart's name was derived from the two words Rock and Market. The town was once a scene of roofing slate business. This area has an abundance of slate, limestone, iron shale, and clay. Now, it's one of the cities along the multi-purpose Silver Comet Trail, a favorite for locals and visitors alike. Many visitors travel to Rockmart in July for the annual Homespun Festival. Nearby sites of interest include the historic community of Van Wert, Cedartown Performing Arts Center, and more to be discovered on the Polk County Historic Driving Tour.
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Bonus: Below, a page from the book "Charting The Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI."
I think a large part of the Star Trek phenomenon is the mythology about how the show went away and the fans never forgot that, and keep telling themselves the story over and over again. Thankfully, it did return, but that never seems to stop us from remembering how that first decade went.
good to see you back. i love that Trek VI book!
Glad to see you're back, Frederick! You're right, the article said nothing, but even that was pretty good for 1977! Interesting how the caption misidentifies Yoeman Rand as Nurse Chapel and the breakout box gives Kirk's middle initial as "D"!


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Thor Halvorssen, the leader and founder of the Human Rights Foundation, has protested the actions of Nicki Minaj who accepted the opportunity to perform a concert that is financed by the President of Angola. This action has broken several human rights violations as Angola is an oppressed country under the President of Angola. Mr. Halvorssen has spoken out against Nicki Minaj's actions due to the fact that the company that is financing her concert is funded by the President's family. This offense has been repeated by international pop-singer, Mariah Carey who accepted payment to perform for an African regime just a few years prior to this offense.
The Human Rights Foundation was founded by Thor Halvorssen in 2005. This particular foundation was created due to several horrific events that happened to his family in 2004. Though the Human Rights Foundation is fairly new, Mr. Halvorssen has extensive experience with fighting for universal rights. One example is his involvement in campaigns that were against the South Africa apartheid.
Thor Halvorssen is a Venezuelan and Norwegian mix that has dedicated himself to the complex political issue and controversies of global human rights. His one goal is to fight against oppressive regimes through mounting campaigns, implementing activists within the country, or inviting dissidents or journalists from other countries to discus the regimes. Through his actions in fighting for human rights, it is easily noted how fiercely he fights against oppressive regimes such as the regimes noted in the 20th century in South America.
Though his contributions to society have been great, his humble earnings of only $85,000 per year do not match up with the successful leaps that he has made with regards to improving human rights. The goal with this investment is to inform the public in order to gain more members in the human rights movement.
One of his biggest commitments is to fight for the individual rights for an education. As noted, this particular right is not to be seen in Angola due to the rigged election. Instead, it is pretend democracy with a convenient vote that elects the same oppressive leader each time it is time to elect a new president.


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Yay...hello everyone!!!
It is a time of the month where i share my creations at Penny Black inc under the Fun Friday featuring lovely layers ladies.
If you have been following my blog, you will know that i love love penny black critters. I never stop collecting almost all the stamps releases with their cute critters. My most favorite is hedgehogs, cats and mouse. I am always hoping they always release at least one critter stamp set for each release :).
So here is my sneak peek for today's card over the blog.
Since i could not share the inside of the card in the PB blog, so i will share it here.
Be sure to visit Penny black inc blog and download the instructions to create a similar card to mine :)
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Here is Lea's favourite Elliott Smith song that I recorded 2 nights ago. Those of you who heard Angeles and liked it should absolutely love this song. It is probably his best song out of about 50 amazing songs.
Unfortunately I can't sing as good as him but I'm quite pleased with my version of his wonderful song Waltz No 2!
Click here to hear my version of Lea and my favourite Elliott Smith song!
Would love to hear your opinion of this song!
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Waltz No 2
3 comments:
- Lea said...
My absolute favourite song! Another really good performance Paul! You did it really well! This song is one that really touched me the first time I heard it. Perhaps because aspects of it I felt I could sort of relate to.
- 25 February 2012 at 22:47
- Lea said...
And I have to add, I really like your voice in this performance as well as the intensity you added!
- 25 February 2012 at 22:54
- blackhuff said...
I love this song. Agree with you that this is most definitely one of his best songs.
- 28 February 2012 at 22:19
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- Name: Advanced ETL Processor (32-bit) 18.104.22.168
- File Size: 15.8MB
- Date: 19 Jun 2018
- License: Shareware
- Price: $340.00(per license)
- Eval: 30 days
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Paid search campaign managers are always on the lookout for optimization opportunities that ultimately lower costs (total cost, average cost per click, cost per conversion, etc.) while increasing conversions. One way that I've accomplished this is through mirroring campaigns. The results have typically come quick and have been significant. Within a few days, you'll be reporting higher CTRs and lower CPAs that will make your clients extremely happy.
Here's how you do it:
- Create clones of existing campaigns. Let's say campaign A is the existing campaign. Simply copy campaign A so that you have campaign B and campaign C. Campaigns B & C should be exact copies of campaign A…everything from budget, CPCs, ads, etc.
- Rename the campaigns as such: Campaign A – Broad, Campaign B – Exact, Campaign C – Phrase
- Change all keyword match types in Campaign A – Broad to broad match
- Change all keyword match types in Campaign B – Exact to exact match
- Change all keyword match types in Campaign C – Phrase to phrase match
- Launch
Seriously, its that easy! However, it doesn't stop there.
As time passes, you're going to see differences in performance and that's to be expected. Here's my typical setup for each campaign:
- Broad match campaign: because of the nature of broad match terms you'll need to manage this campaign very tightly. Assuming you have no prior history to draw upon, use this campaign as the "data-gatherer" for the short-term. In other words, this campaign is going to get you a lot of clicks and you'll be able to make decisions on what works and what's not working. Eventually, you may want to tone down the daily budget. With the data you've collected you'll be able to adjust bidding strategies, implement stronger negatives and use the converting terms in the Phrase and Exact match campaigns.
- Phrase match campaign: this is your opportunity to leverage terms that perform well in the broad match campaign and identify new long-tail keywords that may perform even better. You will find plenty of converting terms here and CPAs should be a bit lower than the broad match campaign. Use the data to fortify negative terms, improve bidding strategies and funnel converting terms to the exact match campaign.
- Exact match campaign: this is the gold-mine! Put all converting keywords here and let them bring you conversions at very low CPAs. Sometimes I find CPAs to be 80% lower than the broad match campaign. You'll need to pause terms that simply didn't work from the day the campaign launched, but that's part of the game. Adjust bids/budgets to maximize Impression Share and you have a conversion producing machine in your account.
Now, one assumption I make above is that your primary goal is getting conversions (e.g. sales, leads, etc.). Give it a try and let me know how things go!


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Can I just say.... A-M-A-Z-I-N-G? I clipped this recipe out of a William's Sonoma Catalog. We had it for breakfast this morning and it might be my new favorite breakfast. You make these in a "filled-pancake" pan, or some of you may know it as an abelskiver pan (NO idea if I spelled that correctly). Either way, it's a pan that you put on a burner and it has 7 little wells to put batter into. I would dare say that these are almost worth purchasing a pan. (They sell them at William's Sonoma!) If you live close to me and want to borrow my pan, let me know. I'm doing a bad job at remembering to take a picture of the actual food, so for now, here's just a picture of the pan.
4 oz graham crackers, broken into pieces (this is 7 whole graham crackers, or enough crumbs to fill a 1 cup measuring cup)
3/4 C all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
5 Tbs. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs, separated
1 3/4 C buttermilk
6 Tbs. (3/4 of a stick) of butter, melted
2 bananas, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch dice
1 cup heavy cream
maple syrup for serving
Put graham crackers in blender; blend on high until powdery. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, 3 Tbs. sugar, and salt; pulse to combine. In large bowl, whisk egg yolks and buttermilk. Whisk in flour mixture; batter will be lumpy.
Using electric mixer, beat egg whites on high speed until stiff (but not dry) peaks form, 1-2 min. Gently stir whites into batter in 2 additions.
Put 1/2 tsp. butter into each well of filled-pancake pan. Heat over medium heat (I kept it on medium-low to avoid burning them, and my pan is cast-iron). Pour 2 tsp. batter into each well. Place 3 banana pieces in center of each pancake; top with 1 tsp. batter. Cook 3-5 minutes. Using 2 skewers flip pancakes over; cook about 3 minutes more. (You know that they are ready to flip when you move it around with the skewer, and the whole pancake moves...if part of it sticks, they're not ready to turn yet.) Transfer pancakes to plate. Repeat with remaining batter.
In measuring cup, combine cream and 2 Tbs. sugar. Whip until firm. (I just served them with spray whip cream from a can because it was easier.) Serve pancakes warm with whipped cream and maple syrup. Makes about 35 pancakes.


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Busted!… Ohio ACORN Hired 'Get Out the Vote' Workers to Canvass For Obama & Even Advertised It
More hope and change for America…
Two different Ohio blogs posted an email from ACORN on February 21, 2008 announcing that Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign.
The email even admitted:
Ohio ACORN is hiring canvassers to go door to door encouraging voters to vote for Barak Obama.
This was back in February during the Democratic primary.
SuperSekritZH#? discovered this–
Writes Like She Talks blog posted the email from Ohio ACORN:
Ohio Daily Blog also posted the email:
Here is the email from Ohio ACORN:
GOTV for Obama! Ohio ACORN is doing a Get Out The Vote project with the OBAMA Campaign. Ohio ACORN is hiring canvassers to go door to door encouraging voters to vote for Barak Obama.
ACORN is hiring in Cleveland (216)431-3905 , Columbus (614)425-9491, Cincinnati (513)221-1737, for Dayton (call Cincinnati), and for Toledo call Cleveland. Or email [email protected] and your inquiry will be routed to the appropriate person in each of these cities. Intake and training will be held daily at local ACORN offices. Canvass begins on Wednesday Feb. 27th and will work through election day. Please, only persons wishing to work all or most of these days (Saturday and Sunday included) should inquire.
Please do not contact the Obama campaign directly regarding this post as they are not the organization doing the hiring and it will only distract their staff and volunteers from the other important work they are doing on behalf of Senator Obama.
The Cleveland Leader has more on the liberal Ohio Daily Blog.
This is so obviously crooked.
It is similar to what ACORN workers were doing for Claire McCaskill in 2006 in Missouri.
Isn't it time the feds stepped in?
Babalu says it's about time for one of these speeches: "That's not the ACORN I knew."
–Much more on the ACORN scandal here.
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Jody Powell's reflections (Editorial Pages, May 27) on the Democratic Party under its new chair, Paul Kirk, lead me to predict continuing erosion of Democratic ideals and officeholders in '86 and '88.
Kirk and other top Democrats focus solely on refashioning the party's image. Abolishing caucuses, wooing Southern conservatives and ending mid-term conferences are cosmetic measures that attempt to blunt the party's so-called "liberal" edge. Like many current plans to re-tailor the Democrats, they lack content and engaging substance. Does anyone really imagine that Republicans, lapsed Democrats, fence-sitters and non-participants will find such reforms compelling?
As a Democrat still committed to progressive party reform, I believe we are losing the issue battle with the Republicans, not the PR battle, as many think. As much as we may abhor it, laugh at it or find it dangerous, the Republican right has captured the GOP and educated and drawn its constituents toward the right. It struggles now to articulate a national ideology--based partly on militarism, big business, and high-tech--and to identify it with Republican conservatism. That's a radical program, and it is content based and issue driven. To assume it's mere PR, as the Democratic leadership does, is to miss the ideological fervor of the conservatives--they want to "change history" and reshape the country's consciousness.


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So you've collected all of your 1-up, fireball and super growth mushrooms in the real world. Now it's time to chop them up and throw them on a pizza. Don't use just any cutting board. Use this awesome NES Cartridge cutting board.
It's perfect for making both 1 and 2 player meals. It measures about 9″ × 10″. Whether you are making a Goomba casserole or a Koopa Salad, or just chopping some vegetables for your Princess, this cutting board will do the job. The cartridge grooves even help to drain away juices as you're cutting.
You can get it in walnut, maple, mahogany, or cherry wood. It makes chopping food into an old school game.
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21 July 2008
Posted by Carole at 06:00
Labels: coast, north east england, north of england, seascape, Tynemouth
5 comments:
- André Lemay said...
I love the pictures that you published in the last 3 days, especially with the borders and title on each. Very well done.
- July 21, 2008
- Susanne49 said...
I agree with Andree, you are on a very good creative path just now!
The "splash" is picture perfect.
- July 21, 2008
- Dominique said...
As André and Susanne, I really enjoyed all of these last three days photos.
- July 21, 2008
- Photo Cache said...
bloghopped from carol...you have amazing shots. awesome blog.
- July 22, 2008
- Carole said...
Thank you all for your lovely comments, i'm flattered. I'm really enjoying using my new Olympus. I know some people don't rate them but I like it.
Welcome Photo cache for visiting my blog, I hope you come back often.
- July 22, 2008
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- Macrophages from human pluripotent stem cells September 24, 2018
- Genome editing in induced pluripotent stem cells rescues TAF1 levels in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism September 7, 2018
- FRMD8 promotes inflammatory and growth factor signalling by stabilising the iRhom/ADAM17 sheddase complex August 30, 2018
- Variant U1 snRNAs are implicated in human pluripotent stem cell maintenance and neuromuscular disease August 1, 2018
- Multiplex High-Throughput Targeted Proteomic Assay to Identify Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells July 8, 2018
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Sally Cowley joined the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology as a Wellcome Trust Career Re-Entry Fellow in 2007, engaged in a program of research into the differentiation of human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived macrophages and their applications for HIV studies. With William James, she has set up the James Martin Stem Cell Facility, affiliated to the Oxford Stem Cell Institute, for work with human Pluripotent Stem cells.
Collaborative projects she works on within this facility include: iPSc-derived macrophages as a genetically-modifiable model system for understanding macrophage biology; developing iPSc-microglia to study the contribution of microglia to neurodegenerative disease; generating iPS cells from Parkinson's Disease patients as part of a large scale Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre research programme funded by Parkinson's UK; EU IMI StemBANCC, which is establishing a panel of iPS derived cell lines from 500 patients as a platform for cellular phenotypic drug screening with industry partners; MRC DPUK Experimental Medicine Dementia Stem Cell Network, a UK-wide network (Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh) using iPSc for modelling dementia.
A graduate of Natural Sciences at Cambridge, Sally's began her research career working on host-pathogen interactions in mycobacteria (Ph.D, 1990, Royal College of Surgeons, University of London, and later at AHRI, Ethiopia). Her post-doctoral work (New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, and Institute of Cancer Research, London) centred around signal transduction pathways involved in differentiation: She identified and cloned a novel tyrosine kinase, MATK (expressed predominantly in megakaryocytes and implicated in their differentiation [JBC 1994]); and was the first to demonstrate that the protein kinase MEK (/MKK) is downstream from the product of the important cancer associated genes Ras and Raf, and is critical for signal transduction pathways leading to differentiation and to tumorigenic transformation [Cell 1994 cited over 1800 times; EMBO J. 1994].
She chose to break from lab-work whilst raising young children, though continued undergraduate teaching at the University of Oxford and the Open University. She subsequently obtained a Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry fellowship and joined the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in 2007.
Information for prospective students
Enthusiastic, hardworking, able graduate students and University of Oxford undergraduate project students are welcome to enquire about potential projects. Details of current departmental D.Phil programmes are available on the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology website.
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Haenseler, W., Zambon, F., Lee, H., Vowles, J., Rinaldi, F., Duggal, G., Houlden, H., Gwinn, K., Wray, S., Luk, K. C., Wade-Martins, R., James, W. S., and Cowley, S. A. (2017). Excess α-synuclein compromises phagocytosis in iPSC-derived macrophages. Scientific reports, 7(1).
Beevers, J. E., Lai, M. C. C., Collins, E., Booth, H. D. E., Zambon, F., Parkkinen, L., Vowles, J., Cowley, S. A., Wade-Martins, R., and Caffrey, T. M. (2017). MAPT genetic variation and neuronal maturity alter isoform expression affecting axonal transport in iPSC-derived dopamine neurons. Stem cell reports, 9(2):587-599.
**Haenseler, W., Sansom, S. N., Buchrieser, J., Newey, S. E., Moore, C. S., Nicholls, F. J., Chintawar, S., Schnell, C., Antel, J. P., Allen, N. D., Cader, M. Z., Wade-Martins, R., James, W. S., and Cowley, S. A. (2017). A highly efficient human pluripotent stem cell microglia model displays a Neuronal-Co-culture-Specific expression profile and inflammatory response. Stem cell reports, 8(6):1727-1742.
Sandor, C., Robertson, P., Lang, C., Heger, A., Booth, H., Vowles, J., Witty, L., Bowden, R., Hu, M., Cowley, S.A., Wade-Martins, R. and Webber, C. (2017). Transcriptomic profiling of purified patient-derived dopamine neurons identifies convergent perturbations and therapeutics for Parkinson's disease. Human molecular genetics.26(3):552-566.
Baud, A., Wessely, F., Mazzacuva, F., McCormick, J., Camuzeaux, S., Heywood, W., Little, D., Vowles, J., Tuefferd, M., Mosaku,O., Lako, M., Armstrong, L., Webber, C., Cader, M.Z., Peeters, P., Gissen, P., Cowley, S.A., and Mills, K.O. (2017). Multiplex High-Throughput Targeted Proteomic Assay To Identify Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Analytical chemistry 89, 2440-2448
Vazquez-Arango, P., Vowles, J., Browne, C., Hartfield, E., Fernandes, H. J., Mandefro, B., Sareen, D., James, W., Wade-Martins, R., Cowley, S. A., Murphy, S., and O'Reilly, D. (2016). Variant u1 snRNAs are implicated in human pluripotent stem cell maintenance and neuromuscular disease. Nucleic acids research. 44, 10960-10973.
Dafinca, R., Scaber, J., Ababneh, N., Lalic, T., Weir, G., Christian, H., Vowles, J., Douglas, A. G., Fletcher-Jones, A., Browne, C., Nakanishi, M., Turner, M. R., Wade-Martins, R., Cowley, S. A., and Talbot, K. (2016). C9orf72 hexanucleotide expansions are associated with altered endoplasmic reticulum calcium homeostasis and stress granule formation in induced pluripotent stem Cell-Derived neurons from patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 34(8):2063-2078.
Kapellos, T. S., Taylor, L., Lee, H., Cowley, S. A., James, W. S., Iqbal, A. J., and Greaves, D. R. (2016). A novel real time imaging platform to quantify macrophage phagocytosis. Biochemical pharmacology. 116, 107-119.
Fernandes, H. J., Hartfield, E. M., Christian, H. C., Emmanoulidou, E., Zheng, Y., Booth, H., Bogetofte, H., Lang, C., Ryan, B. J., Sardi, S. P., Badger, J., Vowles, J., Evetts, S., Tofaris, G. K., Vekrellis, K., Talbot, K., Hu, M. T., James, W., Cowley, S. A., and Wade-Martins, R. (2016). ER stress and autophagic perturbations lead to elevated extracellular α-Synuclein in GBA-N370S parkinson's iPSC-derived dopamine neurons. Stem cell reports, 6(3):342-356.
Handel, A. E., Chintawar, S., Lalic, T., Whiteley, E., Vowles, J., Giustacchini, A., Argoud, K., Sopp, P., Nakanishi, M., Bowden, R., Cowley, S., Newey, S., Akerman, C., Ponting, C. P., and Cader, M. Z. (2016). Assessing similarity to primary tissue and cortical layer identity in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons through single-cell transcriptomics. Human molecular genetics, 25(5):989-1000.
Flynn, R., Grundmann, A., Renz, P., Hänseler, W., James, W. S., Cowley, S. A., and Moore, M. D. (2015). CRISPR-mediated genotypic and phenotypic correction of a chronic granulomatous disease mutation in human iPS cells. Experimental hematology, 43(10).
van Wilgenburg B, Moore MD, James WS and Cowley SA (2014) The productive entry pathway of HIV-1 in macrophages is dependent on endocytosis through lipid rafts containing CD4. PLoS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086071
Hartfield EM, Yamasaki-Mann M, Ribeiro Fernandes HJ, Vowles J, James WS, Cowley SA and Wade-Martins R. (2014). Physiological characterisation of human iPS-derived dopaminergic neurons. PloS one, 9(2):e87388+.
Wilgenburg Bv, Browne C, Vowles J, Cowley SA (2013) Efficient, Long Term Production of Monocyte-Derived Macrophages from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells under Partly-Defined and Fully-Defined Conditions. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71098. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071098
O'Reilly D, Dienstbier M, Cowley SA, Vazquez P, Drozdz M, Taylor S, James WS, and Murphy S. Differentially expressed, variant u1 snRNAs regulate gene expression in human cells. Genome research 2013, 23(2):281-291.
Jiang Y*, Cowley SA*, Siler U* , Melguzo D, Tilgner K, Browne C, deWilton A, Pryzborski S, Saretzki G,James WS, Reichenbach J, Seger RA, Lako M and Armstrong L. *joint first authors. Derivation and functional analysis of patient specific induced pluripotent stem cells as an in vitro model of Chronic Granulomatous Disease. Stem Cells 2012 30(4):599-611.
Raposo RASA, Trudgian DC, Thomas B, van Wilgenburg B, Cowley SA and James W. Protein Kinase C and NF-κB-dependent CD4 downregulation in macrophages induced by t cell-derived soluble factors: consequences for HIV-1 infection. Journal of immunology 2011 187(2):748-759.
Zhou L, Sokolskaja E, Jolly C, James W, Cowley SA and Fassati A. Transportin 3 Promotes a Nuclear Maturation Step Required for Efficient HIV-1 Integration. PLoS Pathogens 2011 7(8):e1002194+.
Mandegar MA, MoralliD, KhojaS, Cowley S, ChanDY, YusufM, MukherjeeS, Blundell MP, VolpiEV, ThrasherAJ, JamesW and Monaco ZL. Functional human artificial chromosomes are generated and stably maintained in human embryonic stem cells. Human Molecular Genetics 2011 20(15):2905-2913
Xu X, Cowley S, Flaim CJ, James W, Seymour LW and Cui Z. The role of apoptotic pathways in the low recovery rate after cryopreservation of dissociated human embryonic stem cells. Biotechnology progress 2010 26(3):827-837
Xu X, Cowley S, Flaim CJ, James W, Seymour LW and Cui Z. Enhancement of cell recovery for dissociated human embryonic stem cells after cryopreservation. Biotechnology progress 2010 26(3):781-788
Brook FA, Cowley SA, Evans EP, Turner K, James WS and Mardon HJ. Derivation and characterization of the human embryonic stem cell line, OxF1. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology – Animal 2010 46(3-4):173-177
Karlsson KR, Cowley S, Martinez FO, Shaw M, Minger SL, and James W. Homogeneous monocytes and macrophages from human embryonic stem cells following coculture-free differentiation in M-CSF and IL-3. Experimental Hematology 2008 36 1167–1175
Mache A, Mengistu Y and Cowley S. Shigella serogroups identified from adult diarrhoeal out-patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: antibiotic resistance and plasmid profile analysis. East African Medical Journal 1997 74 179-182.
Mache A, Mengistu Y and Cowley S. Salmonella serogroups identified from adult diarrhoeal out-patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: antibiotic resistance and plasmid profile analysis. East African Medical Journal 1997 74 183-186.
Alessi DR, Cohen P, Ashworth A, Cowley S, Leevers SJ, Marshall CJ. Assay and expression of mitogen-activated protein kinase, MAP kinase kinase, and Raf. Methods in Enzymology 1995 255 279-90.
Towatari M, May GE, Marais R, Perkins G, Marshall CJ, Cowley S and Enver T. Regulation of GATA-2 phosphorylation by mitogen-activated protein kinase and interleukin- 3. Journal of Biological Chemistry 1995 270 4101-4107.
Gillespie-Brown J, Fuller SJ, Bogoyevitch MA, Cowley S, Sugden PH. The mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase MEK1 stimulates a pattern of gene expression typical of the hypertrophic phenotype in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry 1995 270 28092-6.
Freshney NW, Rawlinson L, Guesdon F, Jones E, Cowley S, Hsuan J and Saklatvala J. Interleukin-1 activates a novel protein kinase cascade that results in the phosphorylation of hsp27. Cell 1994 78 1039-1049.
Cowley S, Paterson H, Kemp P and Marshall CJ. Activation of MAP kinase kinase is necessary and sufficient for PC12 differentiation and for transformation of NIH 3T3 cells. Cell 1994 77 841-852.
Alessi DR, Saito Y, Campbell DG, Cohen P, Sithanandam G, Rapp U, Ashworth A, Marshall CJ and Cowley S. Identification of the sites in MAP kinase kinase-1 phosphorylated by p74raf-1. EMBO J. 1994 13 1610-1619.
Bennett BD*, Cowley S*, Jiang S, London R, Deng B, Grabarek J, Groopman JE, Goeddel DV, Avraham H. *joint first authors. Identification and characterization of a novel tyrosine kinase from megakaryocytes. Journal of Biological Chemistry 1994 269 1068-1074.
Avraham H, Cowley S, Chi SY, Jiang S, Groopman JE. Characterization of adhesive interactions between human endothelial cells and megakaryocytes. Journal of Clinical Investigation 1993 93 2378-84.
Cowley SA, Groopman JE, Avraham H. Effects of transforming growth factor beta on megakaryocytic cell fusion and endomitosis. International Journal of Cell Cloning 1992 10 223-231.
Avraham H, Vannier E, Cowley SA, Jiang S, Chi S, Dinarello CA, Zsebo KM, Groopman JE. Effects of stem cell factor, c-kit ligand, on human megakaryocytic cells. Blood 1992 79365-71.
Gschmeissner SE, Pereira JH, Cowley SA. Rapid assessment of nerve stumps. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1991 73 688-89.
Pereira JH, Cowley SA, Gschmeissner SE, Bowden REM, Turk JL. Denatured muscle grafts for nerve repair: an experimental model of nerve damage in leprosy. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1990 72 874-80.
Cowley SA, Gschmeissner SE, Negesse Y, Curtis J, Turk JL. Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II antigen expression in nerves in leprosy. An immuno-electron microscopical study. International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial diseases 1990 58 560-565.
Cowley SA, Butter C, Gschmeissner SE, Curtis J, Turk JL. An immuno-electron microscopical study of the expression of MHC Class II antigens in guinea pig sciatic nerves following induction of intraneural granulomas. Journal of Neuroimmunology 1989 33 223-231.
Cowley SA, Butter C, Verghese S, Curtis J, Turk JL. Nerve damage induced by mycobacterial granulomas in guinea pig sciatic nerves. International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial diseases 1988 56 283-290.
Book Chapters and Reviews
Lee, H., James, W. S., and Cowley, S.A. (2017). LRRK2 in peripheral and central nervous system innate immunity: its link to Parkinson's disease. Biochemical Society transactions 45, 131-139.
Dodsworth, B. T., Flynn, R., and Cowley, S. A. (2015). The current state of naïve human pluripotency. Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio), 33(11):3181-3186.
Hartfield, E. M., Fernandes, H. J., Vowles, J., Cowley, S. A., and Wade-Martins, R. (2012). Cellular reprogramming: a new approach to modelling parkinson's disease. Biochemical Society transactions, 40(5):1152-1157.
Cowley, S. A., Karlsson, K. R., van Wilgenburg, B., Carter, G., Browne, C., Vowles, J., Martinez Estrada, F., Pelchen-Matthews, A., Miller, J., Moore, M. D., and James, W. (2012). Macrophages from human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Chapter 3 in Handbook of Macrophages: Life Cycle, Functions and Diseases, pages 83-120. Nova Science Publishers, NY. ISBN: 978-1-62081-162-7
Cowley S Induced pluripotent stem cells and their application into personalised therapy. Chapter in: Comprehensive Biotechnology 2nd Edition. Elsevier. 2011 ISBN 13: 978-0-444-53352-4
Lufino M M P, Popplestone, AR, Cowley SA, Edser PAH, James WS and Wade-Martins R. Episomal transgene expression in pluripotent stem cells. Methods in Molecular Biology 2011 767(27): 369-387. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.
Cowley S and Romero I. Signal Transduction. Chapter in Molecular and Cell Biology 2004 Open University Press, Milton Keynes.
Cowley S and Romero I. Tumorigenesis. Chapter in Molecular and Cell Biology 2004 Open University Press, Milton Keynes.
Cowley S. The biology of HIV. Leprosy Review 2001 72 212-220.


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I m********* thinking about my best friend. I want him to suck my c*** and penetrate my a******. We got drunk one night and started touching each other and making out, but it didnt go further as our girlfriends were in the house sleeping. Now I cant stop thinking about how desperately I want to have s** with him.
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Tell your women you want to try a mmf. After you get buzzed, tell the women you want to watch them lick each other. If they are hesitant tell them that you guys will blow each other if they will 69 each other. If they are still wavering, volunteer to go first if they both agree to at least let you watch them kiss. It worked for me and one of our couple friends. Now we have bi mmf all the time. Best is to give a couples b******* to someone.
And what if the girls tell him to eff off?
I did the same thing and felt just add curious afterwards. But when i brought it up with my friend we went further. After sucking his c*** a few times i got bored and just went back to my gf


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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Regarding Arizona
Christina Taylor Green
Dorothy Morris
John Roll
Phyllis Schneck
Dorwin Stoddard
Gabriel Zimmerman
Fourteen others were wounded, but these people -- each some mother's child -- died.
These people were killed and injured by a deranged dungheap rat, who probably should have been taken out behind the barn and Ol' Yeller'd a long time ago.
I do not name this pile of walking fungus-scrapings, as I have seen his smirking face repeatedly on the National Media, and it is clear from his expression that he is enjoying his moment of fame and glory -- he shall have none of that from me.
Also notice, do, that I make no mention of his political leanings, aspirations or alleged beliefs. This is intentional, as rabid dogs have no politics -- only a disease.
I notice that others have made no such distinction. To these people I have two things to say:
One: have the common decency to stop dancing in the blood and making political hay with their dead bodies long enough for their kith and kin to lay their loved ones to rest. There will be more than time enough for your hypocrisies and your political agendas once the mourning is done.
Two: have a care to remember that when you point a finger at me, you're pointing the other three at yourself. When you're running your sanctimonious mouth about the "violent tone of political discord", you'd better take a good, long look at your side -- it wasn't Republicans who filmed an "art movie" about assassinating President Bush.
And where the hell was your outrage when someone (hint: not a Tea Party member, not a conservative, and not a Republican) shot and destroyed his television because the daughter of Sarah Palin happened to be on a popular dance show? Where was your concern with "civil political discourse"?
Have members of the Tea Party and other conservatives stepped up to, if not over, the courteous line in politics? Oh, yes.
But before you go flapping your sanctimonious, hypocritical cake-holes in our direction, I strongly suggest you take a broom to your own damned side. The lovely Michelle Malkin has a list where you can start.
23 comments:
- MiniKat said...
Well said, sir. I particularly like "rabid dogs have no politics -- only a disease."
- Eri said...
I'm a huge fan and find that you always say what I *want* to...somehow, I always wind up sputtering instead. Wish I could shake your paw in person! God bless.
I am a 66 year old high school only (no college) working man. I was raised in St. James orphanage, and a foster home (Dairy farm) Joined the Army and have worked the rest of my life to provide a better life for my children and grandchildren.
I have also learned that the killer in Arizona has the ability to rationalize his actions without the help of the intellectual elite, most of whom have a poor grasp of reality. The killer is the ONLY one responsible for his actions. The socialist, nanny state types have the need (almost Pavlovian) to spread the blame for a mans evil actions. Blame conservative radio, or politicans. Blame the tool (gun)
Blame everything but the Troll.
Light at the end of the tunnel, we the people are much more aware of this tactic now than in previous decades. Hell I saw it 40 years ago and now find more people agreeing with me. I think there is still hope.
Paul in Texas
- suz said...
Can't help noticing how the hypocritical right is all upset about inflammatory rhetoric from the hypocritical left. So, is it all just harmless free speech, or isn't it?
"rabid dogs have no politics -- only a disease."
Indeed. And there is only one treatment for rabies.
- Old NFO said...
Good one LD... GOOOD one!
- R.L. Hunter said...
All I can say is come Nov 2012 if your local congress critter is up for reelection and has acted in an ill mannered fashion about this tragedy. NO MATTER WHAT their political affiliation is send them a polite note saying something like "Remember how you responded to the Tucson shooting? That is why I'm not voting for you"
Neither side has a monopoly on incivility, in my experience. If it had been a Republican shot, fingers would be pointing at the Democrats. Nobody pulled the trigger except the madman with the gun in his hand, and there's plenty of blame for inflammatory rhetoric to go around.
- Da Curly Wolf said...
there's another pack of rabid animals that need to be put down. To be honest if this particular bunch of rabid animals were put down I suspect people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum would throw a party. The name of this pack? Westboro "Baptist Church" I put the words baptist church in quotes because it's far from a church. it's actually a family of lawyers who make their way through this world, picketing the funerals of soldiers, rock stars..slaughtered children..causing hate and discontent until someone on the side that's being picketed loses their temper and throws a punch..or a harsh word..and then sues the very victims their antagonizing.
LD, I heartily agree with your post. All I can say is I hope the justice system holds this individual accountable for his actions. I pray for the speedy and full recovery of his victims, the souls that have gone to a better place, and the ultimate punishment for the animal who did this horror.
- Cybrludite said...
LD, agreed 100%. We saw this in the aftermath of Katrina as well. You can't imagine how ticked I was at the folks using the coffins of my erstwhile neighbors as soapboxes, while the smell of their unrecovered bodies was still in my nostrils. (I work for a New Orleans area hospital, and was back within a week of landfall.) This time the bat rastards were screeching that the right in general, and Palin in particular, had blood on their hands before Congresswoman Giffords had been put into a stretcher, much less in an ambulance.
Well said Dog
- Joshkie said...
Posted a link to Michelle Malkin list on my site as well.
Thanks for the info and the good works.
- Bernard Brandt said...
Dear Lawdog:
Thank you for this post.
In a somewhat related post, I thought perhaps you would appreciate this:
LawDog, I completely agree with everything that you posted. It's the responses to tragedies like this that reinforce the utter contempt I have for most politicians of any stripe. Something like this should never be used to further someone's political career.
As to the animal that did this, well, as they say, karma is a bitch. He has one hell of a payback coming his way.
I've watched this thing from the inside...I live in Tucson and have for most of 40 years.
Dupnik started out as Sheriff of a large rural county. That county is still as large, but significant parts are anything but rural anymore. Under Dupnik's leadership, the Pima County Sheriff's Office as an organization has adapted very poorly to the changes. Their policies and structure are much better suited to rural policing, but the still have to deal with a broad range of very urban challenges. This is Dupnik's legacy, and his response to this incident clearly shows the political triangulation that has gotten him re-elected multiple times, despite his leadership failures. I'd like to hope that he will retire or be defeated in the next election, but he's survived too many times to write him off so easily. Perhaps his recent public ass-flashing will hasten his departure, but it might not.
One topic that gets little discussion is the security at this event. It does not appear that Giffords' staff even considered security in their planning, despite multiple death threats and acts of vandalism to her offices over the last several years. This isn't too surprising as Giffords' staff is drawn from the Liberal gene pool, most of whom believe that bad things don't happen to 'good' people like them. What is more distressing is the the PCSO didn't even know about the event, and thus had no plan for security either. There are so many fails in this…why didn't they know about the event?…do they not reach out to politicians offices for information like this?…when they found out about the event, did they immediately station deputies nearby or dispatch a team to the event?. Why or why not? A deputy or two stationed at the event might not have prevented Giffords from being shot, but it might have shortened the list of the dead and wounded. Of course in a liberally inclined crowd, it is silly to hope that someone was carrying a concealed pistol, even in 'cowboy country'…
I listened to part of the "memorial service" on the radio while it was on. With the cheering and applause, that was no memorial service. It was the first event of the "Re-Elect Meeeee in 2010″ campaign. That the entire event was organized by the embattled liberal University of Arizona President (Shelton) as an obvious effort at building political patronage to try to keep his job, is immaterial. And, the Campaigner-in-Chief hit a home run with his speech, as one would expect. But that was no 'memorial service', and Obama didn't come here out of any great concern for Giffords.
From the moment this tragic chain of events hit the news it's been a political football, and it hasn't stopped in either national or local news since then.
Dupnik started out as Sheriff of a large rural county. That county is still as large, but significant parts are anything but rural anymore. Under Dupnik's leadership, the Pima County Sheriff's Office as an organization has adapted very poorly to the changes. Their policies and structure are much better suited to rural policing, but the still have to deal with a broad range of very urban challenges. This is Dupnik's legacy, and his response to this incident clearly shows the political triangulation that has gotten him re-elected multiple times, despite his leadership failures. I'd like to hope that he will retire or be defeated in the next election, but he's survived too many times to write him off so easily. Perhaps his recent public ass-flashing will hasten his departure, but it might not.
Amen, Cyberludite.
I'm sorry to hear of your experiences post Katrina. I get that now.
I live in Tucson and have both personal and professional connections to the Safeway where this atrocity took place.
I've had some pretty tart exchanges with Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman, as well!
It just sickens me and also frightens me(I'll admit it)a bit to see the condemning hand of "national opinion" slapped down on my city.
We are NOT a bunch of racist gun-toting, right wing lunatics here in AZ.
These are my NEIGHBORS for Pete's sake! And while the scale of this incident pales in comparison to the devastation wrought by Katrina it is nonetheless just as personally traumatic to those of us who live here.
(I won't even comment on Sheriff Dupnik's conduct. I'll just have to mind myself and not be rude next time I interact with a deputy. Not YOUR fault your boss is a flaming jackass and destructive to basic civility in this town.)
In short.
I wish to say to ALL those who feel the need to instigate a "national conversation" about this that and the other, in the wake of the "Tucson Tragedy" to kindly eff off!
We haven't yet had the time to properly bury our dead, much less feel the ABSENCE of our lost ones.
Violence and bloodshed just HURT in ways not treatable at hospital.
It wounds even those who were spared the immediate horror.
I most fervently pray for Representative Gifford's full recovery so that I can vote AGAINST her. AGAIN!
(And no. I don't need a "grief councilor". I'm just going to have to internalize this cloud of anger, shock and sadness.
I don't think that it can be LESSENED in any way.
Someday, that nerve won't be so raw but the burden of sorrow is always kind of there, isn't it?
I think that part of the job of being a grown-up is shouldering that bag and carrying on.
I'm still immature enough to want to bitch about an extra load though!
Giffords and her staff didn't "fail" to plan for security at this event due to some liberal gene defect.
They thought that it was PERFECTLY NORMAL for a Congresswoman to meet and greet her constituents in the parking lot of a local grocery store.
I agree with that basic assessment!
You simply CAN'T account for the actions of a determined lunatic.
More importantly, you should not even attempt to!
Gabby Giffords was not shot by any one of those poor souls who lined up that bright morning to speak with her.
The constituents of AZ CD8 are just NOT that particularly threatening!
Wanna know WHY the Sherrif's office didn't have that event on their radar?
Because it was boring, banal.
Completely unexceptional, just up till a deranged madman started gunning people down and murdering senior citizens, a federal judge, and a little girl.
What sort of "security measures" would YOU have put in place to prevent this tragedy?
Would having Dorwan Stoddard go through a metal detector and frisked for weapons before he met his Representative have helped any, do you think?
This is nonsense on stilts!
Congress Critters should be accessible to their constituency!
I agree
Also there WAS an armed citizen, on the scene and here is what he did.
Noticed the line for Gifford's event and was interested but decided that he would rather purchase a pack of smokes from Walgreens first before checking things out.
When he heard the gunfire he knew exactly what it was and rushed out to help.
"I had my hand on my gun and was looking for the shooter but I wanted to be careful so then--"
"You had a GUN sir? Why? If you were just going to the store to buy some cigarettes."
"Oh, I always carry a weapon but about that day--"
"You ALWAYS carry a weapon? A gun specifically? Every day?"
"Yeah, of course!"
Anyway, THIS solid citizen saw someone with a gun in their hand and tackled the bloke and pinned him to the wall.
Turns out the gun wielding dude was NOT Jared Loughner but someone who had just wrested the gun away from the shooter.
Joe Zimudie, adrenalin pumping in his veins, confused and alarmed, hand on his weapon, decided to act on imperfect information and tackle the fuck out of the one guy he saw standing and holding a gun.
(Wrong guy, but still..)
Here is what did NOT happen...
An armed citizen did not, I repeat did NOT, start shooting up the joint, though he was armed and ready to help.
He didn't SHOOT the man he saw wielding a gun, even though he "had his hand on his weapon" he elected, instead, to physically tackle this threatening figure as the best way to most quickly neutralize the threat.
Kudos to Joe Zimudie for not only being a brave lad but also, for putting to rest one of the gun grabbers favorite hypotheticals.
What if the average citizen has a gun in a crisis situation? They will end up shooting innocent bystanders and likely get shot by the police as well!
Doesn't work that way.
Joe Zimudie proves that.
More significant than his physical possession of a gun that day, was his reaction.
He was armed.
He was mentally prepared to do whatever it takes to protect others.
Are some young men just borne that way?
I find it a marvel.
- Dedicated_Dad said...
I don't want more "nice" with The Enemy -- I want the Dead-Elephant bunch to stop trying to play nice with the devil.
We're in a street-fight for the very existence of what little remains of our Republic. You don't "play nice" with the enemy - and there's nothing "civil" about a street fight.
Maybe - if we can engender enough outrage with words, we can avoid the bloodletting that seems more inevitable every day.
- Dedicated_Dad said...
PS: I feel for Ms. Giffords - I really do - but there are reasons why my previous comment didn't say so:
Aiyana Jones, Eurie Stamps, and literally Thousands of others killed by police in the last 40 years or so.
I have no problem with them killing the bad-guys, but 7 year old girls and other innocents? Heck, even the guy with the couple-joints who was killed for holding a golf-club - when awokened at 3AM by men breaking in his house. He had a grand total of 5 seconds from the first shout until he was dead on his floor, effectively mozambiqued by the entry-man in the stack from a good thirty feet.
5 seconds.
When they're limited to 10-round mags, we can talk about mine.
I grieve even more for the little girl killed in Tucson - but no more than I do for little Aiyana.
I'm frankly tired of the whole circus. Voldemort Jr. is vermin - so's Lon Horiuchi, but he ain't looking at a walk to ol' Sparky.
The reality is that people die and survive grave wounds every day - I don't see a reason why Giffords deserves any more attention than any of the rest - nor any need for further idiotic laws that the criminals and loons will simply ignore while they further limit We The People without cause.
Lastly, I'm simply floored that The Stupid Party has fallen for the "civility" BS. My response to further PC sickness is "F*** you!
Don't expect me to forget what those traitors have done for the last two years, nor the "we won", "slaughter rule" "deem and pass" and etc, nor the filthy slander directed at we nazi/racist/domestic-terrorists who support the Tea-party.
Now that you're on the losing side, you suddenly want civility?
Oh HELL* NO!``
- Gwenda said...
Really effective info, lots of thanks for the article.


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This brings to mind foliage and hot apple cider! Very autumn-y!
If you would like to see the other colors from the Hunger Games collection, here's Foie Gras, Luxe & Lush with Dress Me Up, Fast Track, Riveting, Hook & Line, Stone Cold, Mahogany Magic, Smoke & Ashes, and Electrify! (I will be wearing Argo soon too!). Only took me the entire year to go through all of them ;)


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Razor server "like" and "str" function not in PE 2015.2
regarding the missing "str" and "like" function in the actual PE repo, i want to know when you will merge the git changes into the repo releases.
Right now i'm stuck, because razor-server lacks the ability to regex match e.g. macaddresses.
Reading this, https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse..., the missing functions are available in the git repo.
Howto merge the git repo into a running yum PE based installation ?
When you will update the repo so that these functions will be available ?
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Darling Didies and Free Downloads!
The Technique Boutique is still going strong! This is the second project I created for the event. I used the Inked Embossing Folder technique and made some baby shower favors:)
If you would like to see more of the 40+ projects for this event, check out UStampWithDawnandFriends.com . It is a great value for only $24.95!
I know most of us are in Holiday mode, but there are babies being born all the time and we still need fresh ideas! You can fit about 5 nuggets in the diapers, and I am sure there are lots of other things that would fit also.
Now, back to designing stuff for the Stampin' Addicts MDS Blog Hop Nov. 2-4th! Be sure to come back and check that out too! There are 3 free downloads available this week and 50% off the digital kits! How exciting is that ?!
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- A parent from the University of La Verne says of her son's portrait, "I love it, it's great! I appreciate your customer service. I was really impressed!" -Beverly H.
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- "It's great, it's beautiful. She wishes she could use that portrait (in her year book) instead of her senior portrait." A comment regarding our Girl Scout Gold Award portraits. Brenda T.
- Congratulations to the Juris Doctorate candidates of Loyola Law School graduating this spring. These L3 students commissioned us to create their portraits celebrating three years of hard work and the beginning of their role as 'America's Future Leaders.' Our role in life is to create portraits of these soon-to-be community, state, business and national leaders of America. And of course, the f... [read more]
- "It's an impressive portrait! My 92-year-old mother couldn't wait to take my daughter's portrait to her senior group and show it off." Mary S.
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- http://vimeo.com/33919446 Scouting encompasses many things: survival skills, camping, hiking, and all the other careers represented by merit badges. In this image, William Hodge pictures one part of the Scouting experience with another art portrait.
- Some time has passed since I researched and wrote about the coming new wave in photography, the dominance of cell phone cameras, specifically the new generation of SmartPhones. (SmartPhones Morphing into The New Point & Shoot Camera for Consumers, August 3, 2011, published on this site, and published in Professional Photographers of California's September magazine.) As an exclamation mark to my article, I heard Paul Simon's song, 'Kodachrome' the other day and began to think about how art... [read more]
- A short thank you note from a recent University of La Verne graduate who just received her pictures: "The portraits are very, very, very nice, you did a wonderful job and I'm really very happy with them. Roberta L."
- Is the consumer's love affair with dedicated digital cameras coming to an end? Will consumers reacquaint themselves with professional photographers as they jettison their bulky DSLRs and unconnected point-and-shoot cameras? Has the consumer realized that little 'P' on the Mode dial doesn't think for them? Will the pinhole camera in their cell phone become the new standard for consumer imagery? Over the past several years consumers have enjoyed their new digital point-and-shoot and DSLR cam... [read more]
- You can now carry pictures of Orange County Council's Eagle Scouts in your smart phone, both Android and iPhone! You can see Orange County Council's 'Future Leaders of America' in either of these applications. Included in the App are the art canvas images '12 Points of the Scout Law' Eagle portraits currently displayed in Orange County Councils Service Center as well as video slideshows of our recent Eagle Scout portraits created by GradPortraits.com of your scouts for the Eagle Honor Wall. ... [read more]


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Real Life Music & Studio Camp -
The We Rock Workshop Travels to Camp Oasis
Creative.Life.Support went to Camp Oasis, a camp established by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) for children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, June 19-21 to host a We Rock Workshop.
This workshop was done with help from The Reeva Project, a project within Creative.Life.Support that is dedicated to easing the struggle of children who suffer from Crohn's disease. The Reeva Project is named in memory of Reeva Alexis Kelly, Mr. Smalls owner Liz Berlin's niece, who passed away on November 15, 2010 at the age of 12 after a two-year struggle with Crohn's disease.
Katie Berlin, mother of Reeva and sister of Liz, said of the We Rock Workshop's visit to Camp Oasis, "My heart is warmed to know that my sister has the talent and ability to bring this kind of spirit into the lives of these children."
Liz Berlin served as the main teaching artist, with Mike Hammer contributing as Assistant Engineer, and Evan and Shaunden Smith as teaching assistants.
Liz and her team guided campers through the process of music, helping them open up creatively and look into the affect music has had and will have in their lives. The message brought to Camp Oasis was that music is a universal language, and with proper guidance and encouragement, music can help kids open up to their emotions.
A collaborative Camp Oasis song was presented to the campers, and each cabin was encouraged to contribute to the song. On the final night, the song was performed before the closing bonfire.
"Some lyrics came straight from the heart, feeling so good to get it out. Some came from their silly side, resulting in tons of laughter," said Shaunden. "The final product was outstanding."
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What would you do? If my heart was torn in two (More Than Words, Extreme)
Playing with
rCharts package I had the idea of representing the list of 100 best love songs as a connected set of points which forms a heart. Songs can be seen putting mouse cursor over each dot. This is an screenshot of the graph:
If you want to play with the visualization, you can download it here. Or better than this, you can reproduce it with this simple code:
library(dplyr) library(rCharts) library(rvest) setwd("YOUR WORKING DIRECTORY HERE") heart <- function(r,x) {ifelse(abs(x)<2, ifelse(r%%2==0, sqrt(1-(abs(x)-1)^2), acos(1-abs(x))-pi), 0)} data.frame(x=seq(from=-3, to=3, length.out=100)) %>% mutate(y=jitter(heart(row_number(), x), amount=.1)) -> df love_songs <- html("http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~davet/music/list/Best13.html") love_songs %>% html_nodes("table") %>% .[[2]] %>% html_table(header=TRUE, fill = TRUE) %>% cbind(df) -> df m1=mPlot(x = "x", y = "y", data = df, type = "Line") m1$set(pointSize = 5, lineColors = c('red', 'red'), width = 850, height = 600, lineWidth = 2, hoverCallback = "#! function(index, options, content){ var row = options.data[index] return '' + row.ARTIST + '' + '
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Adapting Chinese cooking techniques to Indian flavours and tastes, we draw on the vibrant culinary culture of Bombay and use the classic Chinese wok to produce fantastic dishes that would leave you craving for more.
Our chef who has his roots from Calcutta (where Indo – Chinese cuisine was born) not only has he inherited this cuisine but has also learned the trade by working at the famous "China Garden Restaurant" in Mumbai where he mastered this particular art.
Chef has dished a menu that features not only the classics like "Chicken Chilli" and "Szechuan" but also some of his own creations, making most of finest local british produce, and ensuring there is enough variety for everyone to enjoy!


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Gerald Pope
Tips for Taking Wedding Photos
I want to start doing wedding photography in the hopes that my expensive hobby will become a sustainable one. I have talked a few friends into letting me "practice" at their weddings while another photographer did the official work. I have had good results, but I feel that I still need more experience (and equipment) before I would be comfortable doing this on my own. My friends don't get married every week, so do you have any suggestions on how to get more experience?
|Michael H. Cothran
Join some wedding photographer organizations, and online forums. WPI is probably the largest organization, but joining your local, state, or national PPA would also be an asset to you. Your best-case scenario would be to hire yourself out as an assistant, if you can get the work.
Michael H. Cothran
Gerald Pope
Thanks for the advise! I have found the PPA group here in SEattle, and plan on attending their meeting next month. Since I am trying to find a job there, I would like to put together a portfolio. I have only done a couple weddings, so I may not have enough of that genre to put together a good collection. Should I include some of my other work as well? Oh yeah, and I have got a clue what a portfolio should look like or include. Any advise or direction to portfolio info would be great! Thanks!
Apprentice and freelance for a studio as an aditional photographer. After observing a few weddings they will kick you out of the nest and make you do one on your own. That's when you'll really learn.
|Maria Melnyk
Aside from the excellent suggestion from Gregg, another terrific way will work wonders if you have a lot of friends and family willing to help. This is the way one of my colleagues learned, and we've suggested it to others who have very successfully and quickly learned wedding photography this way.
Hire a couple to pose as bride & groom for a day. Hire a priest or minister to perform a "mock" ceremony. Either pay him or donate something to the church you're "borrowing" for the day. (This will be easy if you know your priest/minister well.) The bride should wear a gown with a train and veil so that the new photographer properly learns to position them. The groom should at least wear a suit. Get a few more friends to pose as bridesmaids, groomsmen, and guests. Start at the bride's house, just as a real wedding would begin. Depart for the church in a regular car (pretend it's a limo). Go through the entire ceremony (and yes, you may stop the priest if you'd like to repeat something). Do the altar pictures. Go to a park for pictures. Then go somewhere for a mock reception (someone's basement will do). Do formal portraits with backdrop and lighting. Do the first dance, cake-cutting, bouquet and garter toss, good-bye shots, etc. Use fake props. Then get everything printed, and learn from your efforts. Practice on perfecting your shots.
This may all sound silly, but it works. It's live training without interfering with someone's real wedding. And you know what could happen? The bride & groom could end up with better photos than they had at their real wedding. This happened to my colleague; he sold a lot of his practice-wedding shots to his volunteer-models.
One more thing. If you possibly can, hire an established photographer to teach you and guide you throughout the day. Some photographers will be willing to teach you, but you must find them.
Now, about that portfolio. Have two. One should be a book of proofs from a complete wedding, and in the other have enlargements showing a wide variety of work. Color and black & white. Make some wall portraits too. You can't sell what you don't show.
Good luck. It's a long road, but the rewards will be great.
Gerald Pope
Thanks for the great suggestions!
By the way, I meant to say in my previous question is that I HAVEN'T got a clue what a portfolio should include or look like. I have enough photographs to show a wide variety of work, but don't really know how to put it together to make it look like more than a photo album. Do I need to?
|Maria Melnyk
Hi, Gerald. As a wedding photographer your portfolios should look like whatever you intend your final product to be that you give to the bride and groom. I have a sample finished wedding album (the professional kind, with mats, like you see in the studios.) I also show a sample proof book from 3 different weddings with about 300 total photographs. These pages are removable (3-ring binder) so that I can show the weddings I feel are most appropriate for the type of bride I'm meeting with. For example, if I'm meeting with a Mexican bride, I'll show her a Mexican wedding, and 2 others so she sees a variety. If her wedding will be held outdoors, I put an outdoor wedding in the binder. I work out of my home, by the way, so I don't have a studio that brides can visit. By the way, I do realize that you probably don't have a lot of photographs yet. That's OK; just work with what you have. In either case, do show some enlargements. If you don't have a finished wedding album (they're expensive) you can buy a nice 3-ring album, and fill it with plastic pages that will hold 5x7's or 8x10's. Buy them at office supply stores, or order them from photographic supply houses. The important thing is that you have something nice to hold your photographs in. You should show a variety of posed photographs (bride alone, bride & groom, groups, etc.), and photojournalistic-type images; there is quite a market for thoses. Also, show something in black & white; you will get requests for it.
Now, if you intend to show your work solely to photo studios to see if they will hire you, all you need is proof-book-size images. The large albums are for showing to prospective clients.
Small suggestion: After I did just a few weddings, I spent a lot of money to gets tons of samples printed. Later, my work got better, so I replaced them with the newer stuff. So the old expensive stuff is just laying around gathering dust. Moral of story: Don't spend too much money at first on samples; just print what you need.
|Jerry & Karen Bengtson
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Monday, November 24, 2014
[Links to my books The Ghost in the Gospels and True Jew, on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, are at the right.]
Last month, in the post immediately below this, I recounted an episode of It Takes A Thief from around 1970, which made a very good point about scientific method. This time, I will go back ten years earlier to circa 1959 for an episode of Fathers Knows Best that shared another great insight about the way science works.
Jim Anderson is an insurance salesman and he proudly announces one day to his family that he is going to be interviewed by a reporter for a feature article in the monthly insurance magazine. They are not particularly impressed. Not his wife, nor his children. The kids moreover are annoyed that they will have to stay home on Saturday to meet the reporter who wants to interview them all.
If I recall, when the reporter arrives, he explains to Jim that he has a theory that in order to be a good insurance salesman, the man must have a family that is very supportive and organized. As it turns out, everything soon goes south. The two older kids, Betty and Bud, have prior commitments and are running off to see their friends. Even wife Margaret who hardly ever leaves the house has to see a neighbor about something. Jim gets a call which reminds him that he had a golf date right now with a client. The reporter is left alone with little Kathy and soon she has to leave to take care of the cat.
Here is the part that gets me: The reporter returns to his hotel room and calls his editor. He tells him that the theory he was hoping to justify is all wrong. There is nothing organized, unified, or very supporting about this family. The editor says they will just have to cancel the article and tells the reporter to return to the office. Then the reporter says something like this: Wait a second. Not so fast. So my original theory is wrong. But what do we know? Let's go back to the facts. We know Jim Anderson is a good salesman. There still might be something that will explain why he is so good, and if I go back and observe more carefully, I just might see it.
I did not put that in quotation marks because I would not swear those were the exact words, but that was certainly the gist of it. If the facts contradict a theory, then let's go back to the drawing board. Let us more carefully observe what the facts are in this situation and see if we can formulate a new theory that will better account for the observations. (By the way, when the reporter does go back, he finds that, in a crisis, this family will all pitch in together to help out whoever is in a jam.)
That is good science. And a TV comedy was telling us this in 1959. If the facts do not support that there was a hostile judicial procedure against Jesus, then let's go back to the drawing board. If the Gospel evidence does not clearly tell the story of Judas as a traitor (because almost all the clues are so ambiguous), then let's drop that theory, pay careful attention to the ambiguities, and see if a better theory will respond to this evidence.
This is science. It's not rocket science, but it is science and it's not that hard to do—provided you can take the very first step which is to acknowledge that some very deep prejudices had us all fixated on inadequate theories; the only thing going for them was that they had been asserted for a very long time. Time cannot turn a falsehood, no matter how popular, into a truth. If something makes no sense, it makes no sense no matter how often it is repeated.
Or as the medical examiner says on this week's episode of NCIS: New Orleans, "When the dead have something to say, not even time will shut them up."
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Martin McDonagh takes a break from Broadway to bring us his first film since 'In Bruges'
Martin McDonagh, the man who finds humor in the very darkest places has brought us two movies up until this point. The first a short film, named Six Shooter, which won him an Oscar in 2005. The second, the brutally hilarious and touching In Bruges, starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brandan Gleeson, which I am a huge fan. In Bruges was Sundance's opening film in 2008 and McDonagh received another Oscar nom for Best Original Screenplay.... Read More
The trailer for Duncan Jones' debut film Moon doesn't give a whole lot away when it comes to the film's plot, but it certainly shows it's influence from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris. This notion, it's notoriously small budget, and its first time director are enough to make anyone weary going in. Jones did little to disperse these concerns in the first half of Moon. Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, the lone... Read More
While Frost/Nixon is, in fact, a great film, it's easy to see why Americans, and particularly those responsible for delegating awards, are giving it such recognition. People are pining for a piece that not only nails an arrogant, unrepentant president, but forces him to admit his wrongdoings in the end. It's all so relevant. Painfully so. However, this observation should not be considered a discredit to director Ron Howard, the... Read More
Hitting theaters this Friday is Choke, coming to us from the 'incendiary author of Fight Club!' Who doesn't get excited when the words 'from the [insert pronoun here] who brought you Fight Club!; Like most angsty young men, I hopped on that train when it came through. Tyler Durden, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, they became my heroes. I wanted the 'Save Marla Singer' t-shirt (but never found one). And I also... Read More


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Voted Best Private School In Orange County
Fairmont Private Schools is proud to announce its second consecutive victory as the 'Best Private School' in Orange County!
Fairmont swept the 14th Annual Parenting OC Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards by winning the 'Best Preschool,' 'Best Private Elementary/Junior High School,' and 'Best Private High School' categories. Fairmont was first named 'Best Private School' during the 2015 competition.
Parents and community members agree that Fairmont's reputation for academic rigor, a low student to teacher ratio, and a caring and nurturing environment are primary reasons for choosing Fairmont. In the past year alone, our students have shown exceptional academic merit, extreme creativity, and heartfelt character growth. Fairmont Private Schools also prides itself on providing a wealth of activities and programs to not only foster creativity and curiosity in students, but also to provide an easy, pleasant experience for our Fairmont families.
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With over 60 years of educational experience, Fairmont prides itself on providing students with an individualized education and advanced curriculum. Unique offerings cultivate higher level thinking, creativity, social responsibility, collaborative learning, problem-solving skills, and social responsibility. Our educational environment nurtures a sense of self, fosters confidence, and creates tomorrow's global leaders.
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Fairmont's reputation in academic excellence is demonstrated by 24 years of consecutive 1st place wins in the Orange County Academic Pentathlon. In 2016, Fairmont was named the National Pentathlon Winner, and was featured in a segment on KCAL 9 news (below).
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We offer 22 AP courses, an Advanced Science and Engineering Program, International Baccalaureate (IB), International Business Program (IBP), Advanced Math Program and Honors Programs for high school students seeking rigorous studies.
Our low student-to-faculty ratios mean that each student receives the attention, knowledge, and care he or she needs to flourish. We value the importance of individualized academic guidance—our student: college counselor ratio is 44:1. With this high level of support, students excel in academics, play multiple varsity sports, and participate in clubs and ASB. They even have opportunities to engage in robotics, science, and debate competitions along with performing arts and visual arts productions.
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