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Festivus Hogswatch Solstice Christmachanukwansa 2008
By JAdP on December 24th, 2008
In Food and Drink
The winter holidays are upon us, and it's time to cook and cook and cook. Of course, the holidays are all about people, but for me, only from the standpoint of them eating what I cook.
For Solstice, I made one of my favorite dishes, Maccheroni alla Chitarra con Abruzzo Polpettine, though I made it more of a ragù with the meatballs as the recipe says, veal shanks and pork baby back ribs. I made over three pounds of meatballs, as I'll be using them for Christmas supper as well. I served the veal shanks on Solstice, as that's what I like, and since it's also the day I turned 53, I figured what I like mattered. Dad likes the pork ribs, so, that's what I'll serve on Christmas Day.
I hunt the solstice shrub on this day, traditionally, but this year I went the day before, as it rained on the Solstice. I brought it up to the living room on the Solstice and set it up to be decorated later.
Christmas Eve
Friends and relatives from around the Bay Area to Carmel decided not to brave the wet weather that we're having this year. Bunkey is still in Iraq, though this is his last year. Without the big appetites that I was expecting this year, we're not doing the traditional seven fishes this year, just four. For four people. This year, we'll be having a soup of anchovies and white beans, Dad's making his tuna in marinara over spaghetti and I'm make a putanesca sauce to go with it. We're also having Chilean Sea Bass, brushed with olive oil and lemon, roasted in the oven and Shrimp Scampi. I'll be serving a latke type of side with those last made of four potatoes and two zucchinis, stripped in a mandolin (or the big holes in a cheese grater), squeezed dry, and mixed with two leeks, sliced thin and sautéed, and two eggs, patted into cakes and fried, then served with sour cream.
Part of the fun of Christmas Eve is decorating the solstice shrub and watching Hogswatch (the movie based upon the Terry Pratchett book, and my favorite winter holiday movie).
Christmas Day
Four people again will be eating on Christmas Day, so nothing too elaborate. Dad is making Italian Wedding or Holiday soup (chicken stock, spinach, teeny-tiny meatballs and cubes of parsley frittata), and I'll be making spinach & cheese ravioli with the meatballs and pork rig ragù from the Solstice and a roast chicken basted with a rosemary twig dipped in olive oil & garlic, served with Brussels Sprouts & Chestnuts, as I make for Thanksgiving.
Boxing Day
This year we're going to friends for a ham dinner on Boxing Day. I'm looking forward to eating and not cooking.
New Year's and Epiphany
Three more winter holidays are coming, and don't forget that the 12 days start too. New Year's Eve is often crab cioppino, New Year's Day is often baby back ribs in sauerkraut, ham hocks and hopping john, and other fine stuff. I'll blog about these holidays later.
That's all of that. Enjoy your holidays, whatever your beliefs, and may Peace be upon the land.
SOA-C SOA MDM SaaS
By JAdP on December 8th, 2008
In Master Data Management, SOA, as a Service
We'll be leading a session at the SOA Consortium Meeting being held at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency on 2008 December 10 & 11. I'm saying "leading a session" because, as opposed to the normal slide deck in MS PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org/NeoOffice Impress or Apple Keynote, we'll be using a mindmap to, as the agenda says:
"An interactive session based upon a mindmap for developing a system architecture using Master Data Management (MDM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS) principles. The goal is not to talk about having an enterprise mashup with salesforce.com, but how to apply these principles to internal enterprise initiatives. We'll discuss the success, lessons learned and future of integrating MDM & SOA, and how this approach allows IT to provision business needs quickly through a SaaS approach to the users. Bring your own experiences and ideas, as we'll be expanding the mindmap in the direction you want. A PDF of the basic mindmap will be emailed to all members of the SOA-C and be included in the meeting handout. Changes to the mindmap made during the session will be posted after the meeting."
As consultants, we like to listen and as believers in the power of collaboration, we like to leverage the wisdom of the group rather than pontificate from a podium. Indeed, this opportunity to speak came through interactions on Twitter, the so-called micro-blogging 24x7 TeleInterActive conversation. Thanks to Brenda Michelson, or @bmichelson by Twitter handle, for arranging this opportunity. The result of all this, is that we prefer to have a fully interactive session with the participants. We want the conversation to go in new and interesting directions. The way we do this, is much like the job of a community manager, but at the micro level. We're hoping that all will join in, and it's our job to assure that we maximize the value of the conversation to the group without abusing anyone's comfort level.
The point of this discussion is to explore how the concepts and principles of Master Data Management (MDM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software as a Service (SaaS) can help Information Technology (IT) departments better serve their customers. We'll be exploring how MDM and SOA work in a SaaS environment from our work with several SaaS firms, how SaaS companies leverage these principles to quickly provision and respond to their customers, and how this differs from a traditional IT department responding to business users and bringing them into production.
One of the most important aspects of this area, is the idea of data services, and how Master Data Management works within a Service-Oriented Architecture to give the users what they really need: access to legacy, historical and transient data.
We'll be starting with our MDM, SOA & SaaS mindmap, collapsed to the first level of branches, and following the branches that are of most interest to the participants. We'll be extending and modifying the mindmap as we go along, and posting the revised mindmap on this blog after the session.
Thanksgiving 2008
By JAdP on November 26th, 2008
In Mobile and Wireless, Food and Drink
This year we've decided not to go to The Sardine Factory in Monterey, with me cooking on the weekend. I'll just be cooking tonight and tomorrow. At the request of @IdaRose and @TiffanyAnderson via Twitter, where I'm @JAdP, here's my menu and recipes. Nothing new really. I'm following my traditions of the past few years.
As always... Don't forget to preheat your oven(s) and simmering bricks.
Colonial Virginia Peanut & Chestnut Soup
- Parboil raw peanuts in the shell for about 10 minutes, then roast them for another 10 in a medium oven.
- Cut an X in the shells of raw chestnuts and roast in the medium oven for about 20 minutes.
- Allow the peanuts to cool, and then put the chestnuts in a brown paper bag, just until they're cool enough to handle, and then shell them.
- Cook a rich vegetable stock that includes the normal onion, parsnip, carrot, celery, bouquet garni and garlic, but also has a diced turnip in it.
- When the stock has been simmering on the bricks for most of the day, add the peanuts, still in the shell, as well as the shelled and skinned chestnuts into the stock.
- After about 10 minutes, remove the peanuts and allow to cool, and then shell.
- Using a stick blender or a food mill, purée the stock, leaving all the vegetables and chestnuts.
- If too thick, add more stock or hot water to thin.
- Shave a raw turnip with a mandolin or slice it thinly with your favorite, sharpest knife, and add the cooked, shelled peanuts and slices of turnip to the soup, and cook for another half hour - salt to taste.
Pumpkin Soup
- Take the "lid" off two sugar pumpkins, scrape out the seeds and fibers, and roast for two hours at 325°F
- Scrape out the meat of the pumpkin, and allow to cool
- Toast the pumpkin seeds in the oven - they make great garnish later
- Bring 8 cups of fire roasted vegetable stock to a boil, add the roasted pumpkin meat, fresh thyme, fresh ginger grated, a bouquet garni of bay leaf, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, dry sherry and sautéed onions
- Cook for two hours, then purée in the pot or by passing it through a food mill
- bring back to a boil and tip in a cup of heavy cream right before serving
Spiked Spiced Cranberry Orange Sauce
Here's a "per bag" recipe.
- 12 ounces fresh, whole cranberries, washed and picked over for stems or wrinkly, bursting, rotting rejects
- 1 glass [~6 oz.] of sherry, port or mistral
- 2 or 3 Satsuma mandarin oranges - remove the rind, cut in half along the torus cross-section and remove any seeds
- one cup turbinado [raw] sugar
- a bouquet garni consisting of a cinnamon stick and 5 cloves
- Put it all in a heavy pan [I use porcelain coated cast iron] and over a high heat, stirring often during the cooking, until the cranberries start to pop, about five minutes, than remove to a lower heat [I use simmering bricks over a gas flame] to simmer until the oranges release their juices [get mushy], remove the spices and cool overnight in a heavy crock or non-metallic bowl - may be served whole or passed through a food mill or processor
Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding
A vegetarian version in a pan is what I'm making, as well as using it as the stuffing by mixing with mild sausage and stuffed into the bird. I use a mix of dried and fresh mushrooms, so the first step is to soak the dried ones [this year porcini and mixed wilds] for an half-hour in a 50/50 mix of white wine and warm water [never use stale water from the hot water tap for cooking]. The only fresh mushrooms I'm using this year are cremini and portabello.
- 1 medium red onion, Italian torpedo if you can find it, sliced
- two cloves of garlic, two carrots and two stalks of celery, sliced
- 1 tablespoon each of unsalted butter and olive oil
- sautée until the vegies are soft
- About 1-1/2 pounds of fresh mushrooms and four ounces [dry weight] of the dried mushrooms are used; remove the dried mushrooms from the soaking liquor and pass the liquor through cheese cloth or coffee filter or white paper towel; rinse and squeeze the soaked dried mushrooms and then mince them; clean and slice the fresh mushrooms, and sautée the mushrooms
- Add fresh sage, chiffonade, and fresh thyme leaves, salt and freshly ground peppercorns, finish the sautée, and add a glass of white wine - whatever you'll be serving with the meal is always best and at least a cup of the reserved mushroom soaking liquor
- Set aside the vegies and start on the bread pudding
- Cube some bread - less than 1/2-inch on a side; you can use heavy bread, light bread, even brioche; I prefer a potato rosemary batard and use about two loaves
- Make the "custard" from 1-1/2 cups of heavy [not sweetened] cream, 2 cups of milk, 6 eggs, salt and pepper to taste
- Pour the liquid custard over the bread cubes and squeeze the custard into the bread cubes until they are saturated; lightly toss in the sautéed vegies, and place in a heavily buttered casserole dish or lasagna or roasting dish [glass or ceramic, not metallic]
- Bake at 350°F for about an hour, until the top is brown and a knife stuck in slight to the left of center comes out clean
- If your going to use this to stuff the bird, reserve the amount that you'll need later in the day, or, if you cooked the bread pudding more than 24 hours in advance of stuffing the bird, reserve the vegies and bread that you need, and make up custard to use the day you'll be dressing the bird; add two-to-four links of broken up, cooked mild sausage to the vegie mixture before tossing
Mashed Roots with Garlic and Brown Butter Sage
Ok, ok, basically mashed potatoes with added rutabaga and turnip goodness, boiled with garlic and using a brown butter sage sauce as well as cream to get to the finished product.
- 1/2 potato per person, 1 rutabaga and 1 turnip for every 4 potatoes [potatoes of choice are yukon gold or red creamers], 1 clove of garlic per potato.
- Leave the potatoes whole, skin on or not as you like, cube the rutabagas and turnips, add the root vegetables, including the garlic, to salted boiling water and boil until a fork easily pierces a potato [15 minutes maybe],
- drain,
- [if you left the skins on the potatoes, cool and remove now if you want].
- Put 1 teaspoon of unsalted butter per potato into the hot pan, leave the butter to melt and then wait until the edges of the melted butter turns brown, add chiffonade sage [1 leaf per potato or to taste], let it sizzle for a minute,
- add 2 tablespoons of cream per person and stir until the cream bubbles,
- add the root vegetables back and mash 'em with a potato masher, keep stirring until heated through. One alternative is to stir in a consistent direction until the mash is like taffy - about three hours.
Squash and Potato Casserole
Roasted and mashed, or sliced thin with a mandolin and layered with the custard, this is a must for Thanksgiving.
You could be roasting the sweet potatoes whilst the bread pudding is baking. You need three cups of mashed roasted sweet potato, so start with two 8-inchers.
- 2 each sweet potatoes yams and carnival squash, roasty, toasty and mashed
- 1/2 cup of turbinado [raw] sugar added to the mash
- salt as you like it and you might like paprika, cayenne or black pepper, or not
- this custard is 2 large eggs, 1/2-cup of milk, a tablespoon of cream and you can even add pure bourbon vanilla [I have about a gallon left from my Montara Magic days] or maple syrup; add the custard to the potato mixture
- top with a mixture of 1/2-cup brown sugar, 1/2-cup flour, 4 tablespoons melted butter and a 1/2-cup of toasted whole pecan halves
- bake at 350°F for 30 to 45 minutes
Brussels Sprouts with Chestnuts
Maybe not that traditional, but the best way to prepare those little green balls that I've ever found. I really do like this dish, though I can't remember where I found it. It's not a family tradition.
- Clean the outer leaves, and any loose, damaged or brown leaves from around the brussels sprout, slice off the woody stem, cut an X in the bottom and let sit in salt water for about 15 minutes - oh, and use about 10 sprouts and 4 chestnuts per person
- Cut an X in the shell of each chestnut and roast at a low temperature up to an hour or at a high temperature for 10 or 15 minutes, or buy vacuum packed or jarred cooked, shelled chestnuts, for as much as I like old fashioned cooking, in this case it is a real pain in the nicta and very time consuming
- Heat a pint of vegetable cooking stock, and add the sprouts and chestnuts, cook until tender which I've seen take as little as 15 minutes and as long as 45
Wild Mushroom and Giblet Gravy
Or leave out the giblets if you're going for Tofurkey instead.
Take the pan drippings from cooking the turkey and separate off the fat. While that is settling, in a pat of butter and a splash of olive oil, sauté the minced shallots, diced up giblets, and sliced mushrooms [maybe reserved from the bread pudding, maybe not]. I reserved some of my minced wild mushrooms that I had soaked earlier - add those now. Remove from the pan. Add [per cup of finished gravy desired] a tablespoon of butter and allow to brown slightly, then add a tablespoon of flour, mixing into the butter until all the butter is absorbed. Keep scraping from rue from the bottom of the pan, until the flour is cooked - about 3 minutes. Add a glass of your white wine, slowly, mixing it into the flour, and then add a glass of the dried mushroom soaking liquor that you reserved, stirring it in. Cook down to the desired thickness - there should be a cup of gravy. Add a chiffonade of sage, and some thyme leaves.
Stuffed Turkey
Here's the basics: remove the fresh turkey from the brine that its been soaking in overnight, take enough of the Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding recipe [don't mix this more than an hour in advance of stuffing the bird] with added, broken up and cooked mild sausage, to fill the body and neck cavities of the bird, put peeled garlic cloves under the skin of the bird [usually takes at least one head of garlic], brush bird with a rosemary twig dipped in olive oil and herbs de Provence before putting in the oven and as the basting method, cook it as you normally would. Add white wine and maybe stock [vegie stock, white stock - chicken and veal - or turkey stock made from the neck] to the bottom of the pan. Get the skin nice and brown, and cover with aluminum foil to keep if from burning if it's browned before the turkey is done. If you do that, uncover the bird for the last 15 minutes of cooking.
: I've been using the term chiffonade. Let me explain. One can only chiffonade larger leaves: think basil, sage, mint. Wash and dry about eight leaves, and make a "cigar" out of them. That is, layer them by overlapping them about half-way along the long axis, and roll them up so they look something like stogies. Sharpen your knife, the sharper the better. Slice along the "cigar" cross-section, so that your getting very thin slices of herb.
Dad made an apple cake from the four types of apples growing in the back yard. I bought, yes, bought, a pumpkin pie. Earl is bringing Black Sambuca to serve with coffee. Stilton and crackers will also be served.
Have a great Thanksgiving. Enjoy.
I'll update as things change while I'm cooking.
Agile Project Management
By JAdP on November 18th, 2008
In Business Perspective, Project Management, Agile
In response to a comment that I left to a blog post of his in Herding Cats, Glen Alleman said "... phrase Agile Project Management, were so clearly defined". While I'm not an official source of definitions, I would like to take a stab at answering "What is Agile Project Management?". There are really four questions here:
- What is Agile?
- What is a Project?
- What does it mean to manage a project?
- How does one manage a project in an Agile fashion?
What is Agile?
Agile is a mindset, a philosophy, for software development. The Agile Manifesto lays it out quite clearly. Any software development, product management, project management or other methods that claims to be Agile must embody the mindset laid out in the Agile Manifesto. You really must read the whole manifesto. I won't copy it here, but I will discuss the main ideas. The emphasis in the Agile Manifesto is on satisfying the customer and responding to changing user needs for competitive advantage. Self-organizing teams, ongoing communication and working end products are preferable to formalized, stultifying processes. Supportive environments for sustainable efforts using simplicity, technical excellence and good design allow the sponsors, developers and users to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. Reflection on the process at regular intervals allows for continual and appropriate tuning and adjustments to the agile process.
Most of this isn't strange to project management, though the concept of "self-organizing teams" might seem a bit odd to a traditional, hierarchical organization.
What is a Project?
A project is a temporary, collaborative effort to achieve a specific goal in a set time. At least, this paraphrases the definition I first saw in my first project activities in the Aerospace & Defense industry back in 1979. I've seen definitions that add things like "create a unique product", but the end result can be almost anything: a product, a pyramid, a rocket engine, a scientific advancement, a data warehouse, etc, etc, etc.
The emphasis for a project is that people and other resources come together temporarily to deliver a well-defined result by a specified due date.
What does it mean to manage a project?
Whips often come to mind. That was the main tool to manage the various pyramid building projects. Ok, maybe not.
Project management is the skill of leading people and controlling the expenditure of resources to achieve specified goals on-time and within budget.
There are a variety of schools of thought, methodologies and guides to managing a project. I agree with Glen in that a good starting point is the Project Management Institute (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK). I would also add PRINCE2 to that. The Prince2 link given is to a USA based training organization; Jay gives a link in his comments, which redirects to a UK based training and accreditation organization, APMG-UK.
I also need to step onto one of my favorite soap boxes for a moment. Project Management does not equal Product Management. Program and Portfolio Management are also unique and separate disciplines. These four professions often get confused. Product Management is a blend of marketing and engineering with the goal of translating user needs into technical specifications that result in marketable goods or services. Program Management specifies, implements and governs large initiatives that impact cross-disciplinary groups within a organization, and changes the process by which an organization conducts its daily affairs; examples are things like a Quality Program or a Decision Support program. Portfolio Management is the art and science of prioritizing and coordinating a set of Projects, often large capital projects, that may or may not overlap in goals, but definitely compete for money, people and resources. Ok, stepping down off the soap box and getting back on point now.
How does one manage a project in an Agile fashion?
Ah, well now. This is the point isn't it? Agile project management requires reconciling the discussion of Agile above with the definition of a Project and Project Management and developing a methodology that uses the Agile mindset of customer satisfaction, responding quickly to changing market needs for competitive advantage with self-organizing teams that reflect upon how they work and change their processes on the fly, while delivering working, valuable, as-specified results in an incremental fashion, on-time and in-budget.
Hmm, that doesn't sound so hard, does it?
Over time, we have evolved our project management methodology for delivering data warehousing, business intelligence and MDM solutions in such a way that, in the words of Todd McGrath of supergloo, inc. have become quite agile, and are now deliberately agile. We've gone from five dimensions of a project to eight over the eight years that IASC has been in existence.
Here's a mindmap that gives you an idea of what we're doing. Though there's a lot more to discuss about this, including the strategic, tactical and implementation tracks, and how iterative waterfall and agile mindset must work together to keep everything and everyone working a sustainable fashion, without burn-out and without missed deadlines, while learning from each iteration, and responding to changing user needs.
Apps on my iPhone
By JAdP on November 16th, 2008
In Mobile, Wireless
In January of 2007, I wrote that the iPhone didn't qualify as meeting my perfect handheld criteria. Now that I own one, and now that the app store has been open for five months, but mostly because Tawny Press has bought a new iPhone and asked for app advice on Twitter I'm writing to say that I'm close to changing my mind. The iPhone isn't perfect, but it's close.
While having a conversation with Tawny Press in Twitter about her new iPhone, I realized it was time to start blogging again, and what better way to start than with my use of the iPhone apps that have come close to replacing my Palm Lifedrive.
The home page of the iPhone, or the first screen of apps, or the screen that shows when you press the one big round button at the bottom of the phone, is the screen that holds my most used apps. First, let's take a look at my 2005 criteria for a perfect handheld, slightly updated in 2007 for the iPhone:
- Open Source OS but I would take MacOSX, if it was really the full OS - Check
- Lot's of third-party apps - as of today, there are 1573 Games, 705 Entertainment, 141 Social Networking, 204 Music, 320 Prodcutivity, 270 Lifestyle, 301 Reference, 258 Travel, 201 Sports, 135 Navigation, 276 Health & Fitness, 101 Photography, 180 Finance, 166 Business, 413 Education, 41 Weather and 277 Books - that's a lot of apps
- Multiple input methods including [soft] QWERTY keyboard, handwriting recognition, taps and multi-touch gestures, and voice [commands and dialing] - yes on the soft keyboard, handwriting recognition coming through Phatware apps, yes to taps & multi-touch and third-party apps do a so-so job of voice recognition in some areas
- wired & wireless synchronization of ALL my digital life: contacts, calendar, audio/video/photo/eBook media, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases... all files, all the time - yes and no, which is why it's not perfect yet, some of this is available through third party apps, but it's all in individual sandboxes
- wireless PAN, LAN, MAN & WAN and GPS, and keep IR too - whatever the latest protocols, such as those listed above for today, with expandability and upgradeable for tomorrow - again, yes and no, with limited bluetooth for PAN, WiFi for LAN, EDGE/3G for WAN, and iPhone3G gives GPS
- convenient Voice and Data, and SMS, MMS, IM, chat, VoIP, and web & video conferencing - Yes, Yes, Yes, No, Yes [3rd party], Yes [3rd Party], Coming [3rd Party]
- advanced graphics rendering for data visualization, games, and more - oh yes, indeed
- Storage and more storage, hard drives, solid state disks, and maybe more than one compact flash memory slots, like SD and CFII - not really, no, but maybe in the future
- Full IMAP & POP3 email compatibility with all servers that meet those protocols and with the ability to send, receive and handle all attachment & MIME types - yes on IMAP & POP3 & Exchange, Yes on viewing attachments and many MIME types, but No on sending attachments; there's that sandbox again
- Complete web, wap & location services - Yes, emphatically so, though no need for WAP
- feed syndication reader - third party apps & web apps
- Full encryption handling for SSL, VPNs, etc. - Yep, yep, yep
So, look at what's on the home page, the main screen, the number one of my iPhone. The bottom four are the native apps that come with the iPhone, even before web apps were available. You can decide what four apps are in that bottom area, and the four apps in that bottom area appear in every screen. I stick with the phone, safari, mail and iPod as the four apps. But then, I'm a bit anal. I should also mention that I arrange the apps from the outside in, that is, the apps on any one screen that I use most often are towards the outside of the screen, top or bottom, left or right, and then I move inwards.
The rest are more important. I used my Lifedrive mostly for reading books and taking notes, so the first thing I wanted from the App Store when it opened in June was eReader from Fictionwise and a way to sync my 12 years of memos from my various Palm devices to my iPhone, to take new notes and to edit the old ones. On the very first day, eReader was on the App Store with a very easy way to get my purchased books from Peanut Press, Palm Digital and Motricity onto my iPhone. This was a serious win for me, and was the first step for the iPhone in approaching my perfect handheld. The second area, notes, is more problematic. The MissingSync from Mark/Space allows one to offload notes from the native Notes app onto one's Mac, but no two-way sync. That's not good. The iPhone doesn't have a system wide select/cut/copy/paste clipboard mechanism. That's not good for notes. But TextGuru does have copy & paste, and an awkward but workable two-way sync, and I've been able to get my old notes onto my iPhone and my new notes into Mark/Space Notepad. I prefer to take notes by writing vs. typing, to break up my day from keyboard to cursive, and a third party app may one day fulfill that desire. We'll talk about that later.
Next to eReader, and below TextGuru, you'll find TwittelatorPro. Now, I never tweeted from my Lifedrive but I use TwittelatorPro all day long to keep in touch with my tweeps. Twitter has been the best social networking medium I've found, and TwittelatorPro allows me to use all the features of Twitter with ease. Next is the web app leading to m.newsgator.com/iphone and that is my preferred feed syndication app for the iPhone, as the mobile page of Newsgator was for my Lifedrive and earlier Palms. Later you'll see that I also have NetNewsWire, and it's good for a pared down list of my feeds, for reading offline, such as when traveling, but it becomes too unstable with all my feeds, and I'm rarely away from a connection around the Bay Area.
And now, in the lower right hand corner, you'll find my new favorite app, Pandora. Pandora radio has been around for about three years, but it really became useful to me on my iPhone and has replaced my car radio as I drive around the Bay Area to meet with clients, work out of my café offices and run errands.
TextGuru also provides for other files to be brought onto the iPhone, and it has viewers for MSoffice, PDF and other file formats, but the viewers aren't great. One powerful capability that TextGuru provides is to share files between mobile devices that also have TextGuru [that sandbox principle again]. By mobile devices, I mean iPhone, iPhone3G and either generation of iPod-Touch devices. Next to TextGuru, you'll see AirSharing. This app provides a more streamlined way of moving files from a desktop/laptop to your mobile device and it provides very good viewers for MS Office, iWork, PDF and other file formats.
The remaining apps on the home screen are from Apple, standard on the iPhone, and apps to which I want quick access.
Now what else do I have on my iPhone?
The second screen has apps that I use somewhat frequently, or, such as Hahlo3, a web app for Twitter, that I moved while checking out a native app. EccoNotePro is my favorite of the voice recorders. Facebook is a native app for accessing Facebook - doh! Sketches provides a very nice way to draw and to annotate pictures, drawings and google maps, and is nicely integrated with the iPhone apps. As you move across that row, you'll see other media oriented apps, MediaShare, from Brancipater, the TextGuru folk, allows for sharing media file formats, as TextGuru allows for sharing of other formats. MyShow accesses pictures on the web, according to your search terms, and creates slide shows: a great screen saver. Next is Photos, from Apple.
The next row are news oriented. Instapaper allows one to bookmark web sites, transfer them to the iPhone for offline reading in their original or text only format. Seismic ties into the USGS and provides updates on earthquakes worldwide. AP Mobile news provides world, US, local, whacky, etc news from AP for both online updating and offline reading. NetNewsWire is the best iPhone feed reader for me, as it syncs with Newsgator and NetNewsWire on my Mac.
Palringo for IM and Fring for IM plus Skype for communication. Fliq is from Mark/Space and provides a way to send contacts as VCF files and media files from one Fliq user to another.
The third screen has some good apps for translations, social networking, such as LinkedIN, another file sharing app, and two types of terminal apps: VNC to control my Mac remotely, and iSSH to log into our linux server out in the Internet.
The fourth screen is a mish-mash from Obama'08 to Uiqloq: performance art and a clock, another screen saver sort of thing. Shazam and Midomi listens to songs and identifies them for you; you can even purchase a tune through iTunes from them. The rest are self-explanatory, I think.
Screen 5, above, has some good ones. SplashID, which syncs with Mac or PC, and is available for PalmOS, WinMo, etc, etc, etc is a great way to generate and securely store passwords and private information of all types. eMailContact is a great way to share contact information with others. I use it to introduce folk that may want to do business together. Wikipanion reformats wikipedia for the iPhone and stores searches, great app. Most of the rest show that I'm a geek. One app for which I have great hope is WritePad, handwriting recognition for the iPhone; this is a proof of concept only, and I'm waiting less than patiently for a note taking app that takes advantage of it. The last app, EasyWiFi has proven to be
useless useful once you RTFM and know to enter the information for each public WiFi network manually, even if you don't actually need login information; it does n't keep me connected to free WiFi at Tully's or others that require web logins.
Screen 6 has some games, which I rarely play. Sorry, I try, but gaming just isn't my thing.
The final screen has the web apps that I used before the App Store opened, and I rarely use them now.
I'm still looking for an outliner to replace BrainForest on my Palm. The app, Outliner may be it, especially as it now imports OPML, which BrainForest exports, so I can have my old gift lists, business plans, corporate values, etc. There is also mindmapping software for the iPhone that might do the job even better, and of course, there is the renowned but troubled and expensive OmniFocus.
Since I like taking notes on my handheld, you may ask why I don't use Evernote. Two reasons: no cut and paste, and I don't want my notes stored on a web service that may or may not be available in ten years.
So there you have it. The apps I use now. The apps that are making the iPhone close to my perfect handheld, and have very much replaced my Lifedrive.


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Extract icons from EXE, DLL and ICO files with GdiPlus-X
The GdiplusX library can easily extract these icons, using the function "ExtractAssociatedIcon" from the xfcIcon class, as follows:
All samples below use the Gdiplus-X library from VFP-X project. Download the latest stable release from codeplex:
* the following code example demonstrates how to extract icons from an exe file
do locfile("system.app")
local lcfile, lnindex
local loicon as xfcicon
local lobmp as xfcbitmap
lcfile = getfile("exe;ico;dll") && _vfp.servername
lnindex = 0
with _screen.system.drawing
do while .t.
loicon = .icon.extractassociatedicon(lcfile, lnindex)
if isnull(loicon)
lcNewfile = "c:\" + justfname(lcfile) + transform(lnindex) + ".png"
lobmp = loicon.tobitmap()
lobmp.save(lcnewfile, .imaging.imageformat.png)
lnindex = lnindex + 1
The file extracticons.scx in the samples folder brings a form that permits you to select any file, and GdiplusX will draw all associated icons inside an imagecanvas object, like in the picture below:
need more icons ?
In my tests, after I created this function, I was very curious about what icons my computer could be storing inside so many executables and dlls installed, so I created a simple program that will scan through a selected directory, and does a recursive search in all of its subfolders, looking for all the files that can possibly store icons.
To my surprise, lots, really thousands of icons emerged... and very interesting results, I ensure you !
You can try this in your computer too.
Save the program below as howto_extracticonsfromdir2.prg in the help folder of the library. It uses a very cool routine from michael reynolds, that he kindly published in www.fox.wikis.com to obtain the names of all files from the subdirectories. Please note that this will consume some big efforts from your machine, so be prepared to wait about a minute till this task is finished. after running this sample, all the icons will be stored in "c:\myicons\".
* file : howto_extracticonsfromdir2.prg
* author : VFPIMAGING
* save this file in the help directory in the gdiplus-x library folder
* the following code performs the following actions:
* asks the user for a path
* creates a cursor containing all available file names (exe, dll and ico)
* from the selected and its subfolders
* scans the cursor and extract all associated icons from each file
* init gdi+
do locfile("system.app")
* create destination directory to receive the extracted icons
lcdir = "c:\myicons\"
if not directory(lcdir)
mkdir (lcdir)
* create the cursor that will store the valid file locations
create cursor recursive (cfile c(250))
local lccurdrive, lccurdir, lcselecteddir
lccurdrive = justdrive(fullpath(curdir()))
lccurdir = curdir()
lcselecteddir = getdir()
if empty(lcselecteddir)
wait window "invalid directory"
return .f.
wait window "retrieving folders information" nowait
* scan through the selected and the subfolders
chdir &lccurdrive.&lccurdir.
* browse
with _screen.system.drawing
local lcfile, lnindex, lntotrec
local lnoldpercentage, lnpercentage
local loicon as xfcicon
local lobmp as xfcbitmap
store 0 to lnpercentage, lnoldpercentage
lntotrec = reccount()
lcfile = recursive.cfile
lnindex = 0
do while .t.
loicon = null
* extract the associated icon
loicon = .icon.extractassociatedicon(lcfile, lnindex)
if isnull(loicon)
lcnewfile = lcdir + justfname(lcfile) + transform(lnindex) + ".png"
lobmp = null
* send the icon to a gdi+ bitmap object
lobmp = loicon.tobitmap()
if vartype(lobmp) <> "o"
* save the bitmap as png
lobmp.save(lcnewfile, .imaging.imageformat.png)
lnindex = lnindex + 1
* show progression
lnrec = recno()
lnpercentage = round((lnrec / lntotrec),1)
if lnpercentage > lnoldpercentage
wait window "extracting icons from files..." + chr(13) + ;
"elapsed: " + transform(lnpercentage * 100) + " %" nowait
lnoldpercentage = lnpercentage
* function : recurse
* author : michael reynolds
* description : good for performing file processing throughout an entire directory tree.
* the function, recurse(), is called with the full path of a directory.
* recurse() will then read all files and directories in the path.
* a function can be called to process files that it finds.
* plus, the function calls itself to process any sub-directories.
* http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?wiki~recursivedirectoryprocessing~vfp
function recurse(pcdir)
local lnptr, lnfilecount, lafilelist, lcdir, lcfile
chdir (pcdir)
dimension lafilelist[1]
*--- read the chosen directory.
lnfilecount = adir(lafilelist, '*.*', 'd')
for lnptr = 1 to lnfilecount
if 'd' $ lafilelist[lnptr, 5]
*--- get directory name.
lcdir = lafilelist[lnptr, 1]
*--- ignore current and parent directory pointers.
if lcdir != '.' and lcdir != '..'
*--- call this routine again.
*--- get the file name.
lcfile = lower(fullpath(lafilelist[lnptr, 1]))
*--- insert into cursor if .exe, .ico or .dll
if inlist(lower(justext(lcfile)),"dll","exe","ico")
insert into recursive (cfile) values (lcfile)
*--- move back to parent directory.
chdir ..
The above procedure shows how to extract the associated icons from some files. Before using those icons in your applications, you first need to make sure you have the rights to do that. Read carefully the eula from those applications prior to using them !
I hope you enjoy !
7 comments:
Great post Cesar, Thank you!ReplyDelete
Can I extract the office 2007 icons with this class? I'm just wondering since many icon extractor tools out there do not extract these icons, it looks like they use a different file format or are stored differently.ReplyDelete
Hi, I really don't know, since I don't have Office 2007. Maybe you could try and tell us if it works or not ! ???
I've just tried to extract the Office 2007 icons with no luck.ReplyDelete
That's a pity, MS probably is storing those images in a different format.
Versión en Español de este artículo en / Spanish version at http://www.portalfox.com/article.php?sid=2370ReplyDelete
- esteban ramirezOctober 24, 2012 at 4:04 AM
i was trying to run your example but it didn't work for me. the exAmple that brings all icons into the folder myicons it run and looks like its work but there are nothing in the directory at end.ReplyDelete
i really want to know how it work this exaple.
can you help me please?
- VFP IMAGINGNovember 19, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Please check the captions of the API declarations. Unfortunately, when this blog was migrated to "WordPress", all the capitalizations were lost.ReplyDelete
- dan orosanFebruary 19, 2013 at 2:31 PM
"O" not "o"ReplyDelete
"D" not "d"


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You're on the beach this summer. The sun's shining, the waves are rolling in. People are playing cricket on the grass nearby. All that's missing is beer.
And then a truck arrives. It pulls up next to the burger trucks, slides open a window, erects a sunshade and starts serving ice-cold stubbies. Easy. After a couple of rounds it rolls out, leaving you to enjoy your encroaching sunburn.
Jerome Borazio has had this dream. The entrepreneur behind generations of trend-bucking bars in Melbourne, as well as the nationally touring St Jerome's Laneway Festival and St Jerome's Hotel, has a penchant for making fringe ideas a reality. He's even tried to do something about it. Except in Borazio's first iteration, it was a boat, not a truck.
"You go down to Torquay, Lorne, Sorrento, any of these places," says Borazio, referring to some of Melbourne's most popular holiday spots. "Imagine having a boat cruise around all the little beaches and drop off some cold beers. What more could you want? But try to do that on a beach in Australia and you'd be crucified."
Borazio says he actively looked into the possibility of making a beer boat happen. But it was an extension of his very first inspiration: a roving beer truck.
"Maybe 15 years ago, that's all I ever wanted to do," he says. "To build a really cool beer truck that would travel around to festivals and markets and wherever. There'd be DJs on the roof. It wouldn't be so much a party vibe, more of a chilled thing. The kind of thing you sometimes see in Europe. Why not here?"
Borazio's idea was ultimately put on ice by the intricate web of sponsorship deals most music festivals and other major events sign themselves up to. It was just too hard to find a space for an independent operator.
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Borazio raises other issues on which the idea would potentially become unstuck. Council support would be imperative, he says, as would careful planning around waste management and community impact.
"You can't just have a truck or a boat rock up with the intention of selling as much booze as possible, then leaving without addressing anything else," he says. "What's the benefit to the municipality where you're turning up, outside of providing a service?
"You've got to look at it from all angles," he continues. "Imagine you're in your favourite park walking your dog with your kids and suddenly a van rocks up and there's 30 people smashing cans. How do you feel about that? Do you feel intimidated? Do you feel scared? And then, are there enough bars already in that area? Are there too many food trucks? Would it complement a food truck?"
It's these kinds of questions that quickly stack up.
Victoria, along with New South Wales, is typically considered a step ahead of other states in the flexibility of its liquor licensing laws. Still, Emily Marson of BestHooper Lawyers, one of Melbourne's oldest and most experienced firms practising town planning and law, reckons it's difficult finding a place in the legislation for a beer truck that simply arrives on your street and starts dishing out frothies.
"This is probably an area where the current regime wouldn't facilitate it being easy for someone to acquire a liquor licence for a beer truck," Marson says. "In Victoria, the planning schemes require you to get planning permission from the local council for the use of land for the supply of liquor. I think food trucks is an area where the law doesn't reflect that scenario being able to occur easily."
BestHooper has expertise in helping venue owners get permission under council planning schemes for the supply of liquor. That's where Marson envisions a lot of operators would come unstuck. When you consider there are 31 municipalities in the greater Melbourne area, planning permission for a beer truck has the potential to become a major headache.
"A roving beer truck is something that doesn't clearly fit into any of the categories that are currently available," says Mason. "The closest I would think would be a renewable limited licence, but you need to narrow the scope of where and how you're supplying liquor. So that's where it can get difficult."
By way of example, Marson mentions a Red Tape Commissioner report in January of this year where the Chief Commissioner of the Victorian Police objected to a limited renewable licence for a food truck on the basis the truck might be moved – which it would, obviously – and that events and dates weren't known at the time of the application.
Still, despite all this, Borazio reckons it's possible to make a beer truck a going concern in Victoria — if you're dedicated.
"I'm sure you could navigate your way around it," he says. "An innovative, forward-thinking council might look at something like that. [But you'd] have to be very well organised. " He returns to the questions the very idea of a beer truck provokes. "If you serve someone then drive off and they leave their beer can on the ground, what happens then? Who's managing that? You need to take all of those elements into consideration."
We can dream.
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Category: MTB Maintenance
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• DATE: 03/10/2017 • CATEGORY: MTB Maintenance
10 Amazing Hacks for Mountain Biking and Beyond explained by Seth's Bike Hacks! "Today, I'll show you 10 hacks that can be used for mountain biking, working on your bike, and fueling up during your ride. Enjoy." – CREDIT: Seth's Bike Hacks Watch more hacks for MTB at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… 10 Amazing Hacks...
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VIDEO Basic MTB Fork Maintenance You Should Be Doing
• DATE: 08/08/2017 • CATEGORY: MTB Maintenance
Subscribe to GMBN: http://gmbn.eu/subscribe Mountain bike suspension is something we all take for granted! It makes our ride easier, more comfortable and allows us to ride the kind of trails that would be impossible without it! We're all guilty of maybe not looking after our suspension as much as we should,...
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Subscribe to GMBN: http://gmbn.eu/subscribe Fork feeling dry and ropey? Well if you've ridden your fork for 50 hours without giving it any attention then chances are it needs a lower leg service. So follow Doddy's tips to get your fork running buttery smooth again with just some fork oil and basic...
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VIDEO How To Service And Install A Press Fit MTB Bottom Bracket | Mountain Bike Maintenance
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Subscribe to Global Mountain Bike Network: http://gmbn.eu/subscribe Love them or hate them a lot of bikes these days come with a press fit bottom bracket. So if yours is creaking or you need to install a new one, follow Doddy's tips to get it running smooth. If your bike is...
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VIDEO ROCKSHOX 50 Hour Lower Leg Service
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This video will guide you through the 50 hour service procedure for RockShox suspension forks. It is recommended that thus procedure be done every 50 hours to restore small bump sensitivity, reduce friction, and extend bushing lifespan. Find the full service manual for your fork at www.sram.com/service. Credit: SRAM TECH...
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Friday is here again... & I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs for Five for Friday!
On Tuesday, teachers had a faculty meeting and were told that next year, a school-wide goal will be to use the flipped classroom model. We will be given a book soon to help us to better understand the concept and we will also receive training before September. Although I see the wonderful value in this model, I am a little concerned due to the very little information/ videos out there for early childhood. I tend to watch youtube videos, when learning about new teaching strategies, but I found roughly 5 videos of flipped classroom ideas for younger learners. I teach Pre-K4, and would love any ideas or advice! I think a flipped classroom is really beneficial for the students, so I am eager to jump in and learn before we have to implement it in September!
We started a Dr. Seuss author study and the students practice counting skills with these Cat in the Hat inspired math station activities from my Count Ten Frames with the Crazy Cat, Hats, and Things Pack.
On Wednesday I read the students The Cat in the Hat and they watched The Cat in the Hat on Thursday. Today, they watched The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. They absolutely love Dr. Seuss books and appreciate them more now that they know about the author and the joy he had when writing silly rhyming books. Students also "read" a variety of Dr. Seuss books and will continue to learn more about Dr. Seuss and other great books of his throughout the month of March.
This week we covered the letter F. Students met Ms. F from the Land of the Letter People Program, listened to the story Follow My Funny Feet by Lynell Johnson, and colored her puppet. They sang several songs about the letter F: The Letter F Song, The Letter F Song (ABC Mouse), and The F Song (KidsTV123). They cut, pasted, and glued fish on an Ff template and they colored, cut, pasted, and circled pictures that begin with /f/. We also did a handwriting activity each day, with the use of a variety of handwriting worksheets, where students traced and printed the letter Ff.
For the Pre-Kers who know most/all their letter sounds, we have been working on blending and segmenting CVC words. We are working on the _at family for the next couple of weeks. The Word Machine Game is from Starfall and the worksheet is from Miss Kindergarten's Word Builders (_at Family Freebie).
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My life's burning desire is my reason why - the reason I am choosing to become an entrepreneur. A big part of my desire revolves around my commitment to build wealth that can stand the test of time. Then, I can pass that knowledge on to my family members and loved ones.
Knowing and understanding my true reason for becoming an entrepreneur accomplishes several things. First and foremost, it allows me to live my dream on my own terms and create my life according to my passion, commitments, and values. In addition, when I have made a commitment to myself and to others based upon that burning desire, my commitment will sustain me and give me the stamina and perseverance to carry on during the times when things do not go as planned, or when the tasks feel overwhelming or even impossible to complete.
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Whose lifestyle benefits? Regulatory risk-benefit assessment of enhancement devices
Nearly everyone would agree that a device or drug that relieves pain, or alleviates symptoms of depression confers a benefit – plausibly, a substantial benefit – on its user. No matter what your goals are, no matter what you enjoy, you are likely to agree that your life will go better if you are not in pain and not depressed: whether you're a painter, a footballer, a Sudoku-enthusiast or a musician, you will be better able to pursue your projects and engage in the activities you love. It is unlikely that you will even question whether pain relief or alleviation of depression indeed constitute benefits.
This general consensus with respect to medical benefits makes it relatively straightforward for regulators to conduct risk-benefit assessments of medical products when they decide whether a particular product can be put on the market. A very small risk of a mild rash or gastrointestinal upset, for example, will be considered reasonable in the context of effective pain relief, as long as patients or consumers are informed. Even as the risks get more significant, substantial pain relief will be considered a large enough benefit to out-weigh a range of negative side effects in many cases.
So far, so straightforward. Continue reading
Are Corporations Moral Agents?
Joshua Shepherd
Misbehaving corporations are in the news again. In the New York Times, Jack Ewing and Graham Bowley provide an interesting look into the 'corporate culture' behind Volkswagen's emissions-cheating scandal. As Ewing and Bowley note, Volkswagen has blamed "a small group of engineers." But as their reporting suggests, any anatomy of blame in the Volkswagen case should consider a wide range of social influences – for example, Volkswagen's institutionalized commitment to aggression, and more local factors such as fear of those in positions of power on engineering teams.
But who is really at fault? It is natural to think that some individuals are responsible, at least in part. Are any individuals responsible in whole? Or is it possible that the corporation – Volkswagen itself – bears some of the responsibility? This kind of idea is something a number of philosophers have recently suggested. These philosophers argue that above the level of individual agency, there is such a thing as group agency. Groups (like Volkswagen) can be constituted by individuals (and also by historical and socio-structural features). Groups can intend to act – even when no member of the group has a similar intention – and act intentionally. Two philosophers (Björnsson and Hess forthcoming) have even argued that corporations are full moral agents, capable of expressing emotions like guilt, and open to the same kinds of blaming and praising attitudes we typically direct at individuals.
I'm not sure whether that is right. Corporations may be less like full moral agents, and more like extremely dangerous psychopaths – capable of manipulating their own responses to achieve the ends they truly value (i.e., maintaining profit margins). Or, corporations may be capable of a kind of agency, but one very unlike our own – one that is masked by thinking of them by analogy with human agents. It is unclear whether all the features associated with human agency are appropriately applied to the issue of corporate agency.
Guest Post: Should the army abandon their zero-tolerance policy on substance use?
Written by Anke Snoek
Macquarie University
In the UK around 500 soldiers each year get fired because they fail drug-testing. The substances they use are mainly recreational drugs like cannabis, XTC, and cocaine. Some call this a waste of resources, since new soldiers have to be recruited and trained, and call for a revision of the zero tolerance policy on substance use in the army.
This policy stems from the Vietnam war. During the First and Second World War, it was almost considered cruel to deny soldiers alcohol. The use of alcohol was seen as a necessary coping mechanism for soldiers facing the horrors of the battlefield. The public opinion on substance use by soldiers changed radically during the Vietnam War. Influenced by the anti-war movement, the newspapers then were dominated by stories of how stoned soldiers fired at their own people, and how the Vietnamese sold opioids to the soldiers to make them less capable of doing their jobs. Although Robins (1974) provided evidence that the soldiers used the opioids in a relatively safe way, and that they were enhancing rather than impairing the soldiers' capacities, the public opinion on unregulated drug use in the army was irrevocably changed. Continue reading
Sex and death among the robots: when should we campaign to ban robots?
Today, I noticed two news stories: BBC future reported about the Korean work on killer robots (autonomous gun turrets that can identify, track and attack) and BBC news reported on the formation of a campaign to ban sex robots, clearly mirrored on the existing campaign to stop killer robots.
Much of the robot discourse is of course just airing hopes and fears about the future, projected onto futuristic devices. But robots are also real things increasingly used for real applications, potentially posing actual threats and affecting social norms. When does it make sense to start a campaign to stop the development of robots that do X?
A Code of Conduct for Peer Reviewers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
1. The fact that you disagree with the author's conclusion is not a reason for advising against publication. Quite the contrary, in fact. You have been selected as a peer reviewer because of your eminence, which means (let's face it), your conservatism. Accordingly if you think the conclusion is wrong, it is far more likely to generate interest and debate than if you agree with it.
2. A very long review will simply indicate to the editors that you've got too much time on your hands. And if you have, that probably indicates that you're not publishing enough yourself. Accordingly excessive length indicates that you're not appropriately qualified. Continue reading
Three Ethical Ways to Increase Organ Donation in Australia
Authors: William Isdale & Julian Savulescu
An edited version of this post was published by The Conversation
Last week the Federal Government announced that there would be a review of Australia's tissue and organ transplantation systems. The impetus for the review appears to be continually disappointing donation rates, despite the adoption of a national reform agenda in 2008.
Since 2008 there has been an increase from 12.1 dpmp (donations per million population) to a peak of 16.9 in 2013 – but the dip last year (to 16.1) indicates that new policies need to be considered if rates are to be substantially increased.
Australia's donation levels remain considerably below world's best practice, even after adjusting for rates and types of mortality. At least twenty countries achieve better donation rates than Australia, including comparable countries like Belgium (29.9), USA (25.9), France (25.5) and the UK (20.8).
The review will focus in particular on the role of the national Organ and Tissue Authority, which helps coordinate donation services. However, many of the key policy settings are in the hands of state and territory governments.
It is time to go beyond improving the mechanisms for implementing existing laws, and to consider more fundamental changes to organ procurement in Australia.
What to do with Google—nothing, break it up, nationalise it, turn it into a public utility, treat it as a public space, or something else?
Google has become a service that one cannot go without if one wants to be a well-adapted participant in society. For many, Google is the single most important source of information. Yet people do not have any understanding of the way Google individually curates contents for its users. Its algorithms are secret. For the past year, and as a result of the European Court of Justice's ruling on the right to be forgotten, Google has been deciding which URLs to delist from its search results on the basis of personal information being "inaccurate, inadequate or no longer relevant." The search engine has reported that it has received over 250,000 individual requests concerning 1 million URLs in the past year, and that it has delisted around 40% of the URLs that it has reviewed. As was made apparent in a recent open letter from 80 academics urging Google for more transparency, the criteria being used to make these decisions are also secret. We have no idea about what sort of information typically gets delisted, and in what countries. The academics signing the letter point out how Google has been charged with the task of balancing privacy and access to information, thereby shaping public discourse, without facing any kind of public scrutiny. Google rules over us but we have no knowledge of what the rules are.
Strange brew: opiates from yeast
A recent series of papers have constructed a biochemical pathway that allows yeast to produce opiates. It is not quite a sugar-to-heroin home brew yet, but putting together the pieces looks fairly doable in the very near term. I think I called the news almost exactly five years ago on this blog.
People, including the involved researchers, are concerned and think regulation is needed. It is an interesting case of dual-use biotechnology. While making opiates may be somewhat less frightening than making pathogens, it is still a problematic use of biotechnology: millions of people are addicted, and making it easier for them to get access would worsen the problem. Or would it?
What's Wrong With Giving Treatments That Don't Work: A Social Epistemological Argument.
Let us suppose we have a treatment and we want to find out if it works. Call this treatment drug X. While we have observational data that it works—that is, patients say it works or, that it appears to work given certain tests—observational data can be misleading. As Edzard Ernst writes:
Whenever a patient or a group of patients receive a medical treatment and subsequently experience improvements, we automatically assume that the improvement was caused by the intervention. This logical fallacy can be very misleading […] Of course, it could be the treatment—but there are many other possibilities as well. Continue reading
A Challenge to Gun Rights
Written By Professor Jeff McMahan
On this day in the US, around thirty people will be killed with a gun, not including suicides. Many more will be wounded. I can safely predict this number because that is the average number of homicides committed with a gun in the US each day. Such killings have become so routine that they are barely noticed even in the local news. Only when a significant number of people are murdered, particularly when they include children or are killed randomly, is the event considered newsworthy.
Yet efforts to regulate the possession of guns in the US are consistently defeated. Continue reading


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Pramodya Wickremasinghe president of the Sri Lanka Cricket Players Association speaking to the Sunday Times states that changes to the tour itinerary is the only option that SLC has put forth thus far - that change however is not feasible as the next T20 World Cup begins on the 5th of June 2009. Pramodaya goes on to state that with the current situation the only available option is to play a 3 match ODI series between May 26 and June 5 2008.
The IPL tournament is scheduled to end on the 26th of May 2009
Posted by Hilal
Island Cricket
Sunday, October 19, 2008
England tour crisis deepens - Lankan cricketers will not change their stance
Tags: 2009 Sri Lanka in England, IPL, The Scoop
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ENGLAND'S two-Test series against Sri Lanka next May will become the first big Test cricket casualty of the Indian Premier League's explosive growth.
Sri Lanka's tour of England will be cancelled because the 13 best Sri Lankan cricketers are contracted to play in the IPL.
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noun Electronics.
a photosensitive semiconductor diode.
Origin of photodiode
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a semiconductor diode, the conductivity of which is controlled by incident illumination
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A diode that exhibits sensitivity to light, either by varying its electrical resistance like a photoresistor, or generating a electric potential in the manner of a photoelectric cell. See more at photoelectric.
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I've been thinking about blogging on the new Criterion Collection release of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," which is now available as a hefty box set. But, I'll punt to Dave Kehr and the New York Times. Let me just say this… the "Six Moral Tales" box set is amazing, and will probably exist as one of the definitive Criterion releases of all time. It has all the ingredients of what Criterion has mastered (great films, gifted-but-underrated filmmakers, expert packaging & resources). Kehr even comments in his New York Times write-up, that "This is certainly one of the most significant DVD releases of the year."
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The Virginian-Pilot is staying up on things and has sent out an email saying that because they don't know what the situation with Hurricane Irene will be on Sunday, they'll be delivering the inserts and ads on Saturday morning. The news portion will be delivered on Sunday, but not until they can assess the roads,Read More
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Harris Teeter Super Doubles – August 10-16
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Fund for the City of New York and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Reward City Teachers/
You'd think it would be a lot easier to sit through chemistry class if the experiments involved pancakes and M&Ms. For students in David Griffin's chemistry classes at the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science, boring classes are a thing of the past. Imaginative and interactive lessons have struck a chord with low-income and minority students who would may have otherwise never taken a chemistry class. Not surprisingly, Griffin's efforts haven't gone unnoticed. David Griffin is one of seven teacher recipients of the annual Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics in New York City Public High Schools.
The annual Sloan Awards reward New York City public high school teachers for creative tactics that inspire underprivileged students to pursue careers in math and science. Each of the seven teacher awardees received between $5,000 to $7,500 and each of their respective schools received an additional $2,500 to strengthen math and science programs. The Fund for the City of New York, along the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has been doling out these grant funds since 2009. (Read Sloan Foundation STEM education program director, Elizabeth Boylan's IP profile).
Griffin isn't your average science teacher and the Collegiate Institute isn't your average school. Griffin has been known to serve pancakes to illustrate chemical and physical change, compare the tastes of lemon and chocolate to demonstrate the effects of chemical composition on taste, and make M&Ms explode to show the power of oxidation. But not all of Griffin's experiments revolve around food. Despite criticism about lower test score averages, he ditched the AP Chemistry pre-requisites so that anyone could take his class. The 680-student Collegiate Institute gives admission priority to students from the Bronx and requires extended-day, community service, and Saturday program participation. (See Grants for K-12 Education).
Although the awards are named after Sloan, the Fund for the City of New York handles the bulk of the grantmaking duties. The Sloan Foundation is in the business of the funding research studies of advanced professional scientists and mathematicians. Therefore, the Fund manages the annual awards as one of its core programs, alongside public service awards and technology consulting. Although you can't directly apply for a Sloan award, it's incredibly simple to nominate someone else for one. Anyone can nominate a New York City public high school teacher to receive the award, and the winners are selected by an independent panel of scientists, mathematicians, and educators. Questions about the Sloan Awards can be directed towards President Mary McCormick at firstname.lastname@example.com. (Read Mary McCormick's IP profile).


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COMPIEGNE, a town of northern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Oise, 52 M. N.N.E. of Paris on the Northern railway between Paris and St Quentin. Pop. (1906) 14,052. The town, which is a favourite summer resort, stands on the north-west border of the forest of Compiegne and on the left bank of the Oise, less than 1 m. below its confluence with the Aisne. The river is crossed by a bridge built in the reign of Louis XV. The Rue Solferino, a continuation of the bridge ending at the Place de l'H6tel de Ville, is the busy street of the town; elsewhere, except on market days, the streets are quiet. The hotel de ville, with a graceful facade surmounted by a lofty belfry, is in the late Gothic style of the early 16th century and was completed in modern times. Of the churches, St Antoine (13th and 16th centuries) with some fine Renaissance stained glass, and St Jacques (13th and 15th centuries), need alone be mentioned. The remains of the ancient abbey of St Corneille are used as a military storehouse. Compiegne, from a very early period until 1870, was the occasional residence of the French kings. Its palace, one of the most magnificent structures of its kind, was erected, chiefly by Louis XV. and Louis XVI., on the site of a chateau of King Charles V. of France. It now serves as an art museum. It has two facades, one overlooking the Place du Palais and the town, the other, more imposing, facing towards a fine park and the forest, which is chiefly of oak and beech and covers over 36,000 acres. Compiegne is the seat of a subprefect, and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a communal college, library and hospital. The industries comprise boat-building, rope-making, steam-sawing, distilling and the manufacture of chocolate, machinery and sacks and coarse coverings, and at Margny, a suburb, there are manufactures of chemicals and felt hats. Asparagus is cultivated in the environs. There is considerable trade in timber and coal, chiefly river-borne. Compiegne, or as it is called in the Latin chronicles, Compendium, seems originally to have been a hunting-lodge of the early Frankish kings. It was enriched by Charles the Bald with two castles, and a Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Corneille, the monks of which retained down to the 18th century the privilege of acting for three days as lords of Compiegne, with full power to release prisoners, condemn the guilty, and even inflict sentence of death. It was in Compiegne that King Louis I. the Debonair was deposed in 833; and at the siege of the town in 1430 Joan of Arc was taken prisoner by the English. A monument to her faces the hotel de ville. In 1624 the town gave its name to a treaty of alliance concluded by Richelieu with the Dutch; and it was in the palace that Louis XV. gave welcome to Marie Antoinette, that Napoleon I. received Marie Louise of Austria, that Louis XVIII. entertained the emperor Alexander of Russia, and that Leopold I., king of the Belgians, was married to the princess Louise. In 1814 Compiegne offered a stubborn resistance to the Prussian troops. Under Napoleon III. it was the annual resort of the court during the hunting season. From 187o to 1871 it was one of the headquarters of the German army.End of Article: COMPIEGNE
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Kelly Broeg is a Property Manager for NAI Ohio Equities. She has specialized in medical office property management for the last two years, overseeing a portfolio of over 500,000 square feet to include imaging, ASC and administrative space in Central Ohio. Kelly currently represents clients such as The Daimler Group, Healthcare Realty (REIT), OhioHealth and Mount Carmel Health. Before joining NAI Ohio Equities, Kelly's responsibilities included sales, leasing and retail property management.
I was born in Columbus but moved away at a young age and grew up in Northern, Ohio. After attending school at BGSU, I relocated to a couple of different cities but knew I always wanted to end up back in Columbus to live near my family. I love Columbus and all that this great city has to offer!
Everywhere! Traveling is my #1 favorite activity to do. My bucket list is multiple pages long, but, I feel fortunate that I have traveled to over 25 states, throughout Central America, the Caribbean and all throughout Europe.
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Neural Circuits of the Insect Ventral Nerve Cord
There exists a rich, foundational, history of investigating neural mechanisms of sensorimotor transformation in the insect ventral nerve cord (VNC). Recently, new methods for genetic manipulation, optical imaging, and large-scale anatomical reconstruction of neural circuits have been applied to study insect nervous systems.
The goal of this meeting is to synthesize the fundamental insights gleaned from classic studies of the VNC, and to identify outstanding questions that can be answered as these new tools begin to be applied to VNC circuits. The major themes will be: 1) motor control of walking and flight, 2) mechanosensory processing of touch and proprioception, and 3) descending and ascending communication with the central brain. Presentations and discussions will cover current approaches for studying the VNC using electrophysiology, functional imaging, behavior, and anatomy. We will also include a handful of special talks from investigators working on vertebrate spinal cord circuits to provide a big picture view and facilitate discussions about common anatomical and functional principles. We especially encourage applications from female scientists and those who identify with groups traditionally underrepresented in science.
Application deadline: November 28, 2017 (11:59 p.m. ET)
Gwyneth Card, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Wyatt Korff, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
John Tuthill, University of Washington
Invited Participants
Silvia Arber, University of Basel & Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Malcolm Burrows, University of Cambridge
Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne
Eugenia Chiappe, Champalimaud Foundation
Itai Cohen, Cornell University
Einat Couzin-Fuchs, University of Konstanz
Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology
Barry Dickson, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Abdel El Manira, Karolinska Institutet
Jessica Fox, Case Western Reserve University
Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institutet
Harald Hess, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Richard Mann, Columbia University
Tom Matheson, University of Leicester
Shigehiro Namiki, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Pavan Ramdya, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Nino Ramirez, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Roy Ritzmann, Case Western Reserve University
Sarah Ross, University of Pittsburgh
Sanjay Sane, National Centre for Biological Sciences
David Shepherd, University of Southampton
Julie Simpson, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Stern, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
James Truman, University of Washington
John Tuthil, University of Washington
Anne Von Philipsborn, Aarhus University
Rachel Wilson, HHMI/Harvard Medical School
Sasha Zill, Marshall University
Marta Zlatic, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
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