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Random shots and shoes from last night's James Beard Awards
By Paolo Lucchesi on May 10, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Another year of the James Beard Awards has come and gone. With the notable exceptions of Michael Tusk and Charles Phan, San Francisco may not have won a lot of medals, but it's safe to say that the Bay Area family represented the local scene quite well on the East Coast, even if Jose Andres and New York dominated the winnings. But before we put another year of the Beards in the books, here are some random thoughts from last night's event:
[Side note: Amanda Gold and the rest of The Chronicle staffers will take over Inside Scoop for the rest of the week, so please do send your juicy tips and fun items to agold@sfchronicle.com or insidescoopsf@sfgate.com.]
1. Todd English said he probably wouldn't open a restaurant in San Francisco (He joked: "Doesn't San Francisco have enough restaurants?"). That said, he added that if he did, he thinks he would want it to be a dive bar … with Michael Mina.
2. SPQR vet Daniel Holzman and his Meatball Shop crew were in the press room, slinging — what else? — meatballs to the writers and chef winners.
3. Then there was the Bay Area person who mistook Dana Cowin for Suzanne Goin. Oof.
4. Thomas Keller had, by far, the best (and most buzzworthy) shoes of the evening:
Thomas Keller had, by the far, the best shoes of the night.
5. And then he explained that the shoes weren't a grunge rock thing, or anything like that, but rather, the shoes from Barker Black, an English craftsmanship company that has been making shoes for over a century.
6. David Lawrence and his 1300 on Fillmore team were among the many serving food after the show; he served up cups of maple-syrup braised short ribs with horseradish grits. Jose Andres served Fermin Jamón ibérico de Bellota — with American caviar. Bar Agricole was at the awards show, too, slinging impressive cocktails. The ice cubes had people talking too, though the ice had to be shaved down, because it was initially too big to fit in the glass. There was some vigorous shaving going on.
7. Of course, there were the after-parties at Per Se, Boulud's new place (Boulud Sud), the Jane Hotel, and Eleven Madison — the latter which featured dancing on the tables well into the late evening. Wonder how lunch service is going today?
8. Just because, here is a photo of pigs and whiskey on the red carpet:
Photo via James Beard.

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108 - Episode CVIII - The Drowned Goddess 32:49
In episode 108 of Fireside, Kevin tells the mythological story of the origins of the River Boyne - the results of curious goddess and an enchanted well. Also of this goddess' love affair with the father of all Gods - and the result of their union...By HeadStuff
107 - Episode CVII - The Bard and the King of Cats 29:04
In episode 107 of Fireside, Kevin tells a Galway folktale about a poet named Seanchan, whose satire got him in hot water, with the gigantic and monstrous King of the Cats.By HeadStuff
106 - Episode CVI - Manannán at Play 29:20
In episode 106, Kevin delves deeper in the individual Gods of Irish Mytholgoy with two tales of Manannán Mac Lir - God of the SeaBy HeadStuff
105 - Episode CV - The Voyage of Bran 31:00
In episode 105, Kevin tells the earliest recorded tale to feature an Irish God - the story of Bran - High King of Ireland, and his encounter with Manannan Mac Lir - God of the SeaBy HeadStuff
104 - Episode CIV - A Fireside Christmas 50:06
Epsiode 104 is a very Christmassy Fireside! Kevin reads Kavanagh's A Christmas Childhood, the Dickens story that inspired A Christmas Carol, and the greatest Christmas fairytale of them all - Fairytale of New YorkBy HeadStuff
103 - Episode CIII - The Robin and the Wren 40:04
In episode 104, Kevin tells festive tales to warm the winter months - reclaiming pagan traditions of a Christianised holiday - the two birds of Christmas - the good natured, kind hearted robin and the clever, mischievous trickster wren.By HeadStuff
102 - Epiosde CII - The Adventure of Connlae 32:12
Kevin tells the story of Connlae, son of Conn of the Hundred Battles, in a tale that is the earliest surviving medieval Irish text...how's it holding up?By HeadStuff
101 - Episode CI - King O'Toole's Goose 28:42
In episode 101, Kevin returns to his home county of Wicklow, for a story about a local chieftain, who, in old age, adopts an unusual pet. But when the companion grows old like her master, the two must seek the help of the namesake of your Fireside Bard: Kevin of Glendalough.By HeadStuff
100 - Episode C - Conn of the Hundred Battles 54:02
The 100th episode of Fireside! Appropriately; Kevin of the Hundred Episodes tells of Conn of the Hundred Battles. He also discusses the journey of the podcast up to this point - from Yeats to Fry. Listen to the end, for a special surprise: a remembrance of the very first episode!By HeadStuff
Episode XCIX - Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods 33:06
Episode 99 - The epic finale of Norse Mythology. The doom of the Gods. Kevin tells how it happened. Or how it will happen. Has it happened yet?By HeadStuff
Episode XCVIII - Ragnorak: The Death of Baldr 30:26
Episode 98 - Norse Mythology is unique in that it has a beginning...and a definitive end. In this episode Kevin builds the tower of cards that would collapse with the story of the shining God Baldr, and how his death led to the doom of the Gods.By HeadStuff
Episode XCVII - FIonn MacCumhaill in the Old Man's Hourse 33:24
Episode 97 - Kevin returns to the familiar territory of the leader of the Fianna; Fionn Mac Cumhaill - in a tale which grew from Norse Mytholgy. Fionn and his hunting party take refuge in an old man's house. There's a goat and beautiful young woman, but is all what it seems?By HeadStuff
Episode XCVI - Fireside of Horror II 1:01:08
Episode 96 is The second Halloween special of Fireside; celebrating the gothic and the ghoulish in Irish literature, poetry and song. Kevin reads the eerie ballad of The LaKe of the Dismal Swamp Frankenstein's monster is loose in Ireland? And I've heard of Christmas songs, but what about Halloween songs? Also discussions on the pagan feast of Samha…
Episode XCV - Thor in the Land of Giants 40:16
In Episode 95 Kevin dips another toe into the bulging, brutish and brilliant world of Norse Mytholgy with Thor and Loki's adventure to Jottenheim - The Land of Giants. But all is not as it seems...By HeadStuff
Episode XCIV - Brian Boru - The Battle of Clontarf 29:16
Episode 94 - This week on Fireside, Kevin gives the conclusion of the epic saga of Ireland's Warrior King - Brian Boru, and clears the history from the myth, while keeping the story!By HeadStuff
Episode XCIII: The Cow that Ate the Piper 27:36
This week on Fireside is Episode 93: The Cow that Ate the Piper Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode XCII: Brian Boru – The Emperor of Ireland 30:26
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Episode XCI: The Secret Token 30:09
This week on Fireside is Episode 91: The Secret Token Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode XC: Brian Boru – Ireland's Warrior King 33:49
This week on Fireside is Episode 90: Brian Boru – Ireland's Warrior King Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXIX: Seán na Bánóige – Part II 32:13
This week on Fireside is Episode 89: Seán na Bánóige – Part II Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXVIII: The Battle of Tara 33:28
This week on Fireside is Episode 88: The Battle of Tara Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXVII: Seán na Bánóige – Part I 29:30
This week on Fireside is Episode 87: Seán na Bánóige – Part I Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXVI: The Origin of the Norse 34:17
This week on Fireside is Episode 86: The Origin of the Norse Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXV: The Queen of the Planets 30:30
This week on Fireside is Episode 85: The Queen of the Planets Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXIV: The Wars of the Gael and the Gaul 47:26
This week on Fireside is Episode 84: The Wars of the Gael and the Gaul Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXIII: The Cat and the Rat 29:00
This week on Fireside is Episode 83: The Cat and the Rat Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXII: The Doctor of Little Aran 33:13
This week on Fireside is Episode 82: The Doctor of Little Aran Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXXI: The Three Laughs of the Leprechaun 40:04
This week on Fireside is Episode 81: The Three Laughs of the Leprechaun Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXX: The Remarkable Rocket 37:20
This week on Fireside is Episode 80: The Remarkable Rocket Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXIX: The Devoted Friend 35:56
This week on Fireside is Episode 79: The Devoted Friend Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXVIII: Bedding St. Kevin 27:00
This week on Fireside is Episode 78: Bedding St. Kevin Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXVII: The Dargle Lovers 26:40
This week on Fireside is Episode 77: The Dargle Lovers Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXVI: The Selfish Giant 27:25
This week on Fireside is Episode 76: The Selfish Giant Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your supportBy HeadStuff
Episode LXXV: The Hungry Grass 24:36
This week on Fireside is Episode 75: The Hungry Grass Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXIV: The Nightingale and the Rose 26:04
This week on Fireside is Episode 74: The Nightingale and the Rose Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!By HeadStuff
Episode LXXIII: The Devil is in the Glen 28:00
This week on Fireside is Episode 73: The Devil is in the Glen A folk tale from Co. Wicklow about the lore behind the Devils Glen, a mysterious woodland in the Wicklow hills that once contained the beast from Hell. Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate…
Episode LXXII: The Happy Prince 35:29
This week on Fireside is Episode 72: The Happy Prince The first story from the Wilde Cycle, Kevin's adaptations of the Fairy Tale's of Oscar Wilde. We begin with the iconic Happy Prince. The story of the friendship between a little swallow and the statue of a Happy Prince. Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any …
Episode LXXI: A Clash of Faith 24:26
This week on Fireside is Episode 71: A Clash of Faith A Wicklow Folk Tale about a Protestant landowner and his Catholic indentured servant, rivals in faith, in life...and in death. Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your…
Episode LXX: The Death of Cú Chulainn 38:18
This week on Fireside is Episode 70: The Death of Cú Chulainn The final tale from the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology tells of the final battle and death of the greatest hero this island has ever known: Cú Chulainn. Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please dona…
Episode LXIX: The Rent Arrears Resurrection 31:31
This week on Fireside is Episode 69: The Rent Arrears Resurrection A folk tale from County Wicklow of a poor farmer living on rented land who seeks to pay off his families debts. The only issue is... his family buried him underground three days ago. But he doesn't know that! Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have an…
Episode LXVIII: The Deaths of Kings and Queens 34:30
This week on Fireside is Episode 68: The Deaths of Kings and Queens The penultimate tale of the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology wraps up the stories of Conchobar mac Neasa, Fergus mac Róich, Ailill and of course, Queen Méabh. Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! P…
Episode LXVII: A Hand in the Dark 29:01
This week on Fireside is Episode 67: A Hand in the Dark A cautionary Folk Tale from County Wicklow, about a face off with the devil, and then dangers of getting off with Young Bucks in your farmer father's barn! Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate t…
Episode LXVI: The Champion's Portion – A Trial of Beheading 29:01
This week on Fireside is Episode 66: The Champion's Portion – A Trial of Beheading Part two of the Champions Portion tale from the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology. Cú Chullain, Laoighaire Budhach and Conall Cernach seek out the sorcerer Cú Roí Mac Daire, to settle the matter once and for all... Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Tw…
Episode LXV: Tom of The Faeries 27:01
This week on Fireside is Episode 65: Tom of The Faeries A cautionary folk tale about a Kerryman who goes off each night with the Faeries... and lets it go to his head. Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your support!…
#161 Ireland's Little Ark 5:51
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Episode LXIV: The Champions Portion – Bicriu's Feast 29:10
This week on Fireside is Episode 64: The Champions Portion – Bicriu's Feast. A tale from the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology, on the feast of a bitter host named Bicriu, and how he incites a feud between three mighty warriors over who should get the Champions Portion... Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ide…
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Holycross didn't always have that name... until the arrival of a relic of the True Cross arrived it was known as the Church of the Eight Hands -- for rather gruesome reasons. There's a lot more to this church than you might notice on first glance, and I'm happy to tell you some highlights. Music composed by Hicham Chahidi Library Genval Style & Gre…
Episode LXIII: The Faerie Frog 31:58
This week on Fireside is Episode 63: The Faerie Frog. A twisted and gothicesque folk tale about a sheltered young girl and her dream for adventure and to meet the other folk... Get in touch with the show on Kevin's Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas for the podcast, or just want to say hi! Please donate to the Patreon Page to show your sup…
#159 The Pietà in the Bog 4:14
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Famed Ivorian singer, DJ Arafat, died Monday following a traffic accident that occurred in the night before, state broadcaster Public Radio-Television (RTI) has reported.
The 33-year-old was credited as being the originator of the coupé-décalé genre of music. Grieving fans gathered outside Abidjan hospital in tribute to musician who was took the coupe-decale music to the world
"The death of artist DJ Arafat, his real name Houon Ange Didier, Monday, August 12 at 8 am (local and GMT), as a result of a traffic accident that occurred in the night of Sunday to Monday in Abidjan,"RTI said in tweet
According to information and photos circulating on social networks, DJ Arafat was riding a motorcycle when he rammed into a car.
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The auspicious month of Ramadan is a time of sacrifice and showing our dedication to Allah (SWT) by participating in a month-long fast and removing all vices from sunrise to sunset. In reward for our sacrifices, the prophet Muhammed (PBUH) permitted great celebration on the two days of Eid, Eid ul Fitr and Eid Al Adha.
This year Eid ul Fitr 2021 in the UK is anticipated to begin in the evening of Tuesday 11th May on the sighting of the moon, with the majority of celebrations taking place on Wednesday 12th May. The Eid 2021 date will vary slightly from country to country and some communities choose to celebrate Eid over three days.
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Eid ul Fitr, also written as Eid al Fitr literally translates to the "Festival of Breaking the Fast" and is the celebratory holiday that indicates the end of the month-long Ramadan fast.
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Chronic pain is a major societal problem. Approximately 20% of the population suffers from chronic pain and currently this pain is very difficult to treat. To be able to identify potential novel pain treatments we need to have a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that drive the development of chronic pain.
We are interested in the neurobiology of chronic pain and focus primarily on the peripheral sensory nervous system and the spinal cord.
We aim at understanding which neuro-immune interactions are important contributors to chronic pain development and which of those could potentially be targeted to prevent debilitating painful conditions. We do basic work and aim to translate our research into the clinic. For this interdisciplinary work we closely collaborate with basic scientist and clinicians.
Neuro-immune interactions contributing to rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, with a specific focus on monocytes/macrophages.
Eijkelkamp N, Linley JE, Torres JM, Bee L, Dickenson AH, Gringhuis M, Minett MS, Hong GS, Lee E, Oh U, Ishikawa Y, Zwartkuis FJ, Cox JJ, Wood JN. A role for Piezo2 in EPAC1-dependent mechanical allodynia. Nat Commun. 2013;4:1682.
Eijkelkamp N, Quick K, Wood JN. Transient receptor potential channels and mechanosensation. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2013 Jul 8;36:519-46.
Eijkelkamp N, Wang H, Garza-Carbajal A, Willemen HL, Zwartkruis FJ, Wood JN, Dantzer R, Kelley KW, Heijnen CJ, Kavelaars A. Low nociceptor GRK2 prolongs prostaglandin E2 hyperalgesia via biased cAMP signaling to Epac/Rap1, protein kinase Cepsilon, and MEK/ERK. J Neurosci. 2010 Sep 22;30(38):12806-15.
Willemen HL, Eijkelkamp N, Garza Carbajal A, Wang H, Mack M, Zijlstra J, Heijnen CJ, Kavelaars A. Monocytes/Macrophages control resolution of transient inflammatory pain. J Pain. 2014 May;15(5):496-506.
Wang H, Heijnen CJ, van Velthoven CT, Willemen HL, Ishikawa Y, Zhang X, Sood AK, Vroon A, Eijkelkamp N, Kavelaars A. Balancing GRK2 and EPAC1 levels prevents and relieves chronic pain. J Clin Invest. 2013 Dec;123(12):5023-34.


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using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using NuPattern.ComponentModel.Design;
using NuPattern.Modeling;
using NuPattern.Runtime.Schema.Properties;
using NuPattern.VisualStudio;

namespace NuPattern.Runtime.Schema.Design
{
    internal class HostedExtensionPointPropertyDescriptor : PropertyDescriptor
    {
        private ExtensionPointSchema extensionPoint;
        private IUserMessageService messageService;

        public HostedExtensionPointPropertyDescriptor(PropertyDescriptor descriptor, ExtensionPointSchema extensionPoint, IUserMessageService messageService, params Attribute[] attributes)
            : base(descriptor, attributes)
        {
            this.extensionPoint = extensionPoint;
            this.messageService = messageService;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, gets the type of the component this property is bound to.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value></value>
        /// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.Type"/> that represents the type of component this property is bound to. When the <see cref="M:System.ComponentModel.PropertyDescriptor.GetValue(System.Object)"/> or <see cref="M:System.ComponentModel.PropertyDescriptor.SetValue(System.Object,System.Object)"/> methods are invoked, the object specified might be an instance of this type.</returns>
        public override Type ComponentType
        {
            get { return typeof(ExtensionPointSchema); }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, gets the type of the property.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value></value>
        /// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.Type"/> that represents the type of the property.</returns>
        public override Type PropertyType
        {
            get { return typeof(string); }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an editor of the specified type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="editorBaseType">The base type of editor, which is used to differentiate between multiple editors that a property supports.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// An instance of the requested editor type, or null if an editor cannot be found.
        /// </returns>
        public override object GetEditor(Type editorBaseType)
        {
            return new StandardValuesEditor();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the type converter for this property.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value></value>
        /// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter"/> that is used to convert the <see cref="T:System.Type"/> of this property.</returns>
        /// <PermissionSet>
        /// 	<IPermission class="System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" version="1" Flags="UnmanagedCode"/>
        /// </PermissionSet>
        public override TypeConverter Converter
        {
            get
            {
                // Filter out this extension point
                return new ExtensionPointConverter(
                    ext => !ext.RequiredExtensionPointId.Equals(this.extensionPoint.RequiredExtensionPointId));
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, gets a value indicating whether this property is read-only.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value></value>
        /// <returns>true if the property is read-only; otherwise, false.</returns>
        public override bool IsReadOnly
        {
            get
            {
                return this.extensionPoint.IsInheritedFromBase;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, gets the current value of the property on a component.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="component">The component with the property for which to retrieve the value.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// The value of a property for a given component.
        /// </returns>
        public override object GetValue(object component)
        {
            return this.extensionPoint.RepresentedExtensionPointId;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, returns whether resetting an object changes its value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="component">The component to test for reset capability.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// True if resetting the component changes its value; otherwise, false.
        /// </returns>
        public override bool CanResetValue(object component)
        {
            return !this.extensionPoint.IsInheritedFromBase;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, resets the value for this property of the component to the default value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="component">The component with the property value that is to be reset to the default value.</param>
        public override void ResetValue(object component)
        {
            this.extensionPoint.Store.TransactionManager.DoWithinTransaction(() =>
            {
                this.extensionPoint.ClearAllProperties();
                this.extensionPoint.RepresentedExtensionPointId = string.Empty;
            });
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, sets the value of the component to a different value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="component">The component with the property value that is to be set.</param>
        /// <param name="value">The new value.</param>
        public override void SetValue(object component, object value)
        {
            var extensionPointToHost = value as IExtensionPointSchema;
            if (extensionPointToHost == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException(Resources.HostedExtensionPointPropertyDescriptor_InvalidValue, "value");
            }

            // Warn user that they cannot host the self-extension point
            if (extensionPointToHost.RequiredExtensionPointId == this.extensionPoint.RequiredExtensionPointId)
            {
                this.messageService.ShowWarning(
                    string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, Properties.Resources.HostedExtensionPointPropertyDescriptor_CantSelfHost));
                return;
            }

            // Warn user that they will lose any regular variable properties
            if (this.extensionPoint.Properties.Any(p => !p.IsInheritedFromBase))
            {
                var resume = this.messageService.PromptWarning(
                    string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, Properties.Resources.HostedExtensionPointPropertyDescriptor_PropertiesWillBeDeleted));
                if (!resume)
                {
                    return;
                }
            }

            // Add contract properties
            this.extensionPoint.Store.TransactionManager.DoWithinTransaction(() =>
            {
                this.extensionPoint.ClearAllProperties();
                this.extensionPoint.CopyHostedContractProperties(extensionPointToHost);
                this.extensionPoint.RepresentedExtensionPointId = extensionPointToHost.RequiredExtensionPointId;
            });
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// When overridden in a derived class, determines a value indicating whether the value of this property needs to be persisted.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="component">The component with the property to be examined for persistence.</param>
        /// <returns>
        /// True if the property should be persisted; otherwise, false.
        /// </returns>
        public override bool ShouldSerializeValue(object component)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
}

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It's been a bit crazy this week on the work front. Part of it is my own fault for forgetting that I was supposed to give a talk in the Ultra-High Pressure Group Meeting on Monday; a fact of which I was reminded at about 1 am Monday morning as I was on my way to bed. Awesome.
So I spent the first couple of hours at work on Monday preparing for the talk I was to give in the afternoon. Luckily, since I had just given the lecture to the 3rd year undergrads this past Thursday, I was able to recycle a lot of the basic information and just add in some more specific details.
Let's hear it for Copy/Paste!
Posted by Matt on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at 20:02 under Bureaucratic B.S., Emiko Renee Whitaker, Professional Prattlings.
Short post tonight because I am dog tired. I had the lecture for the third year undergraduate students today. I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out exactly what to do for the talk because I was trying to balance out what was too much detail and what was not enough. I was also very afraid that because of the language issue, many of the students would just tune me out and automatically write me off. This fear had been reinforced by some of the other people in the GRC telling me that was what was going to happen.
Posted by Matt on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 23:09 under Professional Prattlings.
I met with my boss again at the end of this week to pick up our discussions where we left off, and I definitely feel much better about things. We went over, in detail, the events of the meeting, what they mean and where we are headed now. He explained to me that it was unprecedented and a difficult situation to discuss, so he opted to do it in Japanese to minimize the time and trouble it would be with the intent of involving me one-on-one afterward. When he explained everything to me, I understood where he was coming from, and we had a little shared laugh at my "Don't do it again!" joke.
Aside from the meeting, I also discussed with him some of the other things I mentioned in my previous post. I appreciate the fact that he took about an hour and a half out of his time to talk with me about all these things, as he definitely helped to put my mind at ease.
Posted by Matt on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 23:03 under Professional Prattlings.
It's been an interesting week or so at work. Being a new faculty member can be a bit of a challenge anywhere, I imagine, and getting used to the changes from being either a Post-Doc or even a student can be overwhelming at times. I'm not sure how it is for anyone else who has been in this type of situation, but I feel sometimes I am having difficulty trying to integrate into the department. I feel that became abundantly clear this week.
Posted by Matt on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 00:34 under Professional Prattlings.


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What's the role of a PR firm?
When is the right time to seek media attention?
What are common PR mistakes by early-stage founders?
Brand & Marketing
When to Hire a Public Relations Agency for Your Startup
Christine Choi
Christine is a partner and the head of brand at M13. She previously worked directly with Sir Richard Branson and executives to build Virgin Group's North American portfolio of branded companies as the head of communications at Virgin Galactic and head of brand and communications at Kitty Hawk.
When you're building awareness about your company, it's helpful to first map out the company story and what editorial content you want to share with the world. That requires a regular cadence of news and stories that you produce and promote on your owned channels. From there, pick out a few timely pieces of news that you can use to pitch the press.
But how do you know if your startup is prepared for the spotlight?
In this guide, we'll answer top questions, including:
What are common PR mistakes by early-stage startup founders?
By Christine Choi


The Christian Socialist Movement (CSM) is to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with a series of events at the Labour Party Conference later this month.
Peter Smith, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, will preach in Manchester Cathedral for the conference church service – organised, as usual, by CSM. The service will also feature Manchester's Singout Gospel Choir. A reception to celebrate the anniversary will follow.
CSM, which serves as a grouping for Christians within the Labour Party, aims to celebrate the anniversary by "showing how it remains a strong progressive force within the party".
CSM aims to "look to the future with a renewed Labour Party focused on building relationships in every community". Unlike most meetings at the conference, CSM's events will be open to the general public as well as to party delegates.
They will mostly be held in Manchester Friends' Meeting House. According to the Movement's Director, Andy Flannagan, the venue "creates a unique opportunity for the people of Manchester and others to have access to government ministers and MPs, without the need for passes into the secure zone".
He added, "Our events are for anyone interested in seeing change in the world around them".
Leading Labour politicians to be hosted at CSM events include Ed Miliband, who hopes to be declared Leader of the Labour Party when the result of the leadership election is announced on 25 September.
Other leading speakers include shadow ministers Douglas Alexander and David Lammy and influential backbencher Jon Cruddas. The events cover topics such as political engagement, reshaping the Labour Party, separating the banks, and the housing crisis.
The Labour Party Conference will run from Sunday 25 to Thursday 29 September.
The concept of Christian Socialism was developed by nineteenth century thinkers and activists who drew on much older traditions of socially progressive Christianity. The term is now employed by socialists outside the Labour Party as well as by CSM.


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We live in the ha ha culture now. Maybe you've noticed all the magazines and newspapers saying ha ha you don't have what these people have. It's literally everywhere. Our culture is based on presenting people with what they don't have. A trip to the grocery store is an odyssey in self evaluation. One only has to stand in the check out line for five minutes to see that the rest of the world is much better off, much better looking, much younger, and of course much more famous. The whole slant of our culture supports this. And who do we blame for the current state of culture degradation? I'd say ourselves.
I think it began with the boomers. They created the original ha ha culture about thirty-five years ago. That began with ha ha we're young and you're not. Remember don't trust anyone over thirty? Well, that started the ball rolling. If you weren't young then you might as well leave the country. The youth culture became the culture. Millions of smug young people sticking their tongues at the older generation until finally they became well, the older generation. Which brings us to the current state of affairs where the young have become the old and the old have become insufferable. Have you ever seen so many articles on aging? Have you ever seen so much ink and television time spent in trying to not say that getting old is really getting old. Well, this is because the boomers who are now well in their fifties have control of the media and we are treated to many articles on prostrates and menopause and real age versus chronological age. There's quite a bit of sneering going on. Why don't these old rockers just hang it up? If they can't be young then can't they just go off and hide somewhere? The ha ha has turned sour maybe even acidic. So they turn to money. At least we have that. The plain fact is the youth culture is strangling the people that started it. They can't be young and even the young can't be young enough anymore. The under thirty fives, the under forty fives, the twenty something becoming the thirty somethings. One group continually asserting their supremacy only to be knocked over by the next. Can anyone be young enough, rich enough, hip enough, cool enough, famous enough for the megalomaniac we now have sitting in the driving seat of this culture? Gang culture seems to be the only thing evil enough to survive the test. Suburban white teenagers listening closely to the rap music of the inner city is only a small indicator of the level of cultural aberration we have reached.
Sounds to me like we have an adolescent culture now. Adolescents are self absorbed and very unsure of themselves. They raise hell and rant and rave to cover up their own insecurities. About the only thing they can say with certainty is, ha, ha, we're young and you're not. Ha ha. Just wait.


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An Introduction to Insider Trading, Business Ethics, and Material Information
Entrepreneurs, business
Insider Trading Definition
Material Information and Business Ethics
SEC Financial and Criminal Penalties for Insider Trading
Insider Trading and Business Ethics
In the wake of the Enron scandal, insider trading was once again brought to the front pages of business newspapers and magazines. The grey areas that surround insider trading help confound the public's understanding of the definition of insider trading and the business ethics issues associated with it. This article briefly discusses a definition of insider trading and explores the business ethics, the concept of material information, and the financial and criminal penalties associated with insider trading.
Insider trading is said to occur when an individual with special knowledge of a corporation uses this knowledge to buy and/or sell securities such as stocks and bonds to make a profit. This special knowledge is known as material information and includes any pertinent knowledge about a company that is not known to the general public.
Suppose, for example, that a company is about to announce that its quarterly earnings were much higher than that which was forecasted in the previous quarter. An individual on the inside of the company, say a manager or vice present, who quickly buys up stock in the corporation knowing that the pending announcement will drive up the price of the company's stock, is said to have engaged in insider trading. The underestimated quarterly sales is said to be material information not known to the general public.
One of the problems of discussing business ethics in insider trading has to do with the definition of material information. Although material information is defined by whether it is known or not known by the general public, a question of who may possess this knowledge often creates a grey area from a business ethics point of view.
For example, not all insider trading is perpetrated by people inside an organization. The term "insider" is a misnomer because you need not be inside the company to possess material information. If the vice president of the large corporation were to tell you about the underestimated quarterly sales, for example, you are said to possess material information. Using this information to profit from the public's ignorance of the information would make you an inside trader even though you are in no way associated with the organization.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has the power to seek legal action against individuals suspected of insider trading. Individuals convicted of insider trading may not only have to give back the profit they amassed through using the material information, they may, at the recommendation of the SEC, be forced to pay a penalty of up to three times the profit they made through insider trading.
There is also the possibility of criminal charges. These criminal penalties carry with them jail time and further fines based on the principle of defrauding stockholders. This fraud may be categorized as a felony depending on the severity and consequences of the insider trading.
The focus of business ethics when it comes to insider trading has to do with the idea of a level playing field. Generally, it is believed that securities markets work best when everyone is privy to the same information. Insider trading creates too much asymmetrical information allowing a few to profit at the expense of others. Consequently, trading becomes too risky and far fewer trades would take place as a result. By creating and maintaining a level playing field, investors have the confidence that their wealth will not be pulled out from under them because of unforeseen, asymmetrical information and insider trading.
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With righteousness on full volume from Mercury stationing direct, nearly at a standstill in Capricorn, the moon enters Virgo … the space where the last Solar Eclipse assisted us in imprinting our personal truth into the collective consciousness. Over the next several days, as energies wane toward the Virgo Moon's Last Quarter Square with the Sagittarius Sun at the final degree of both signs … we build toward a climax and are given the opportunity to balance our aspirations for the future with what we believe to be TRUE about ourselves/the world.
Throughout the entire Virgo Lunar Transit, the moon will have exchanges with the t-square of Jupiter square Pluto/Mercury conjunct in Capricorn, and opposite Aries in Uranus, also square Pluto/Mercury … holding the potential to bring expansion to our points of view and resolve what our identity has disrupted in our relationships. Further assisted by the Saturn Sun waning conjunction in Sagittarius trining Uranus grounding the consciousness in reality, while the Neptune in Pisces reminds us we are one, and we are all given an extra boost to 'walk our talk' … to find our place within the greater community, to make a difference, through Mars in the final degree of Aquarius forming a sextile to the Sagittarius Sun.
With these powerful energies at our backs, over the next couple days we are being asked to review our intentions with regards to our personal truth (Virgo Moon) and faith (Sagittarius Sun). No better energies to 'live out and share with others what you have found to be meaningful' than THAT! Just be conscious … the intense inner transformation of personal faith that is occurring and the inner critic are powerful forces to bring your intentions to life. Use them wisely.
These intentions being the one's cast during the powerful Sagittarius New Moon surrounding our faith/visions for the future at the beginning of this lunar cycle and those emoted on August 31, 2016 into the Virgo Solar Eclipse (the second solar eclipse in a row, the first being on September 12, 2015) … where we projected our heart-centered soulful spirit into the universe and authentically expressed what we are creating in the world. This phase is an opportunity for analysis of both, presented in a dance between the two. Every lunar transit our beliefs manifest in our lives through the interplay between the sun (conscious) and moon (subconscious) energies. Right now the sun is in Sagittarius and the moon is in Virgo.
Remember, individually all of the energies you experience are focused through the imprint made at your birth by the presence of planets, their aspects, and the house placement within each sign … from both the sun (Sagittarius) and the moon (Virgo). The resonance of that energy is determined by your beliefs, emoted with each new moon, whether they were created intentionally, or not … and the manifestations of those energies will occur in your life according to the houses.


My poster for Maria's talk.
Mother of Dragons: the displaced princess in Greek tragedy and Game of Thrones.
Maria Haley draws out the comparisons between Daenerys Targaryen and Medea, both princesses have left their native lands, use magic and command dragons. Focusing on George R. R. Martin's novels and Euripides' Medea and its associated mythology, Maria's comparisons reveal a key role for dragons in the narrative of the displaced princess.
The recording has been edited for ease of online listening to remove hesitations, corrections and (where possible) interruptions.


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Q: Best Way to Assert a Bulk Insert I've done some searching and having trouble finding an answer to what I'm assuming is a bit of a noobish question.
I'm writing a test class for code which updates the owner of a lead. I'd like to write a unit test for a bulk insert scenario and assert the owner for the list of inserted leads was set properly. I don't want to use a for loop as it doesn't sound bulkified, but maybe that's the way to go.
Here is what I have for the test:
    //build test company leads for insert
    list<Lead> companyLeads = new list<Lead>();
    for (Integer i = 1; i <= 250; i++){
        Lead a = new Lead(FirstName='Test', LastName='Leada '+i, Title='CEO', Company='Consulting Co '+i,
                          Status='New', Phone='(555)-555-5555', Email='Test@test.com',RecordTypeId = Util.getRecordTypeId('Lead', 'Client'),
                          Account__c=companyAccounts[0].id);
        companyLeads.add(a);
            }
    //Single record insert
    Lead l = companyLeads.remove(249);
    try{
        insert l;
    } catch (exception ex) {
        system.debug('Single Record Insert on LeadHelper.companyLeadAccountChange exception' + ex);
    }
    l = [SELECT Id, ownerId
         FROM Lead
         WHERE Id = :l.Id];
    system.assertEquals(l.ownerId, companyAccounts[0].ownerId);
    //Bulk record insert
    Database.SaveResult[] lsr = Database.Insert (companyLeads,false);

I would like to assert that every inserted record has their ownerId = companyAccounts[0].ownerId, just like the single record insert above it. Is it common practice to assert bulk insert or should I only concern myself with asserting single inserts?

A: You can use the SOQL statement to make sure that all the Leads have the expected OwnerId. If the OwnerId isn't set correctly then the SOQL will return less than 250 records in the below code.
//build test company leads for insert
List<Lead> companyLeads = new list<Lead>();
for (Integer i = 1; i <= 250; i++){
    Lead a = new Lead(FirstName='Test', LastName='Leada '+i, Title='CEO', Company='Consulting Co '+i,
                      Status='New', Phone='(555)-555-5555', Email='Test@test.com',RecordTypeId = Util.getRecordTypeId('Lead', 'Client'),
                      Account__c=companyAccounts[0].id);
    companyLeads.add(a);
}
insert companyLeads;
List<Lead>  leads = [SELECT Id, ownerId
     FROM Lead
     WHERE Id in :companyLeads
     and OwnerId = :companyAccounts[0].ownerId];
System.assertEquals(companyLeads.size(), leads.size());

A: I house my common assertion methods in a public, @isTest-annotated utility Apex class called something like TestUtils. The most common bulk assertion methods I use are to verify that a single record or set of records were successfully inserted (in which case they will have been given Ids), so here are some utility methods that do that:
@isTest
public class TestUtils {

   public static void AssertInserted(List<SObject> objs) {
       for (SObject obj : objs) System.assertNotEquals(null,obj.Id);
   }

   public static void AssertInserted(SObject obj) {
        System.assertNotEquals(null,obj.Id);
   }

}

which could be used like this in your example:
//Bulk record insert
Database.SaveResult[] lsr = Database.Insert (companyLeads,false);
// Make sure our records were ALL inserted successfully
TestUtils.AssertInserted(companyLeads);

You could also extend field validation to be set generically in a similar manner, e.g.
public static void AssertFieldEquals(List<SObject> objs, String fieldName, Object expectedValue) {
      for (SObject obj : objs) System.assertEquals(expectedValue,obj.get(fieldName));
}

which could be used in your scenario like this:
TestUtils.AssertFieldEquals(companyLeads,'OwnerId', companyAccounts[0].ownerId);

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DigitalOutbox Episode 181 – Apple Keynote and Microsoft buy Nokia
1:07 – Nokia's handset business bought by Microsoft for €5.44bn
6:48 – US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
9:58 – Ministry of Sound sues Spotify
11:32 – Amazon's 'Kindle MatchBook' finally bundles physical books with a copy for your Kindle
13:00 – Android KitKat unveiled in Google surprise move
14:41 – Google's browser becomes a true platform with today's launch of Chrome Apps
17:00 – Xbox Music gets iOS and Android apps, free web playback; cloud locker to follow
18:52 – Xbox One Launch Date
20:24 – Sony – thinner Vita and Vita TV
23:22 – Sony at IFA
26:59 – Samsung at IFA
31:14 – iOS 7
33:43 – iPhone 5c
35:49 – iPhone 5s
Posted on September 13, 2013 Author ianCategories Featured, PodcastTags amazon, android, android kitkat, apple, chrome, google, ios7, iphone, iphone 5c, iphone 5s, microsoft, ministry of sound, nokia, Samsung, sony, Spotify, vita, xbox music, xbox one
DigitalOutbox Episode 97
In this episode the team discuss Apple, Android 4 and poor old RIM.
3:31 – Apple
– Steve Jobs dies
– iOS 5 – error 3200 trending world wide on twitter, Ian- reboot machine after each iOS device upgrade failed
– Newsstand working well
– Wired supports it, and print subscribers will get access to iPad editions at no extra cost – lovely
– Guardian iPad app supporting Newsstand as well
– Lots and lots of Future mags supporting Newsstand
– iPhone 4S
– In non-U.S. countries, or if you're not using U.S. English as your device language, Siri can't look for businesses, use maps or access traffic info. So asking it to find the best route to your cousin's house in Germany won't produce results, nor will inquiring about restaurants in your immediate vicinity.
– iCloud – took 36 hours before I could move and enable
– Half baked – Mac syncing of docs gone, many third party app's in the dark. Sharing docs with the Mac is pretty awful
– Despite that, 4 million 4S's sold in three days – double the sale rate of iPhone 4 at launch
21:11 – Box.net
– Twenty-four hours after Apple released iOS 5 and accompanying iCloud storage offering, Box has announced that they're offering iPad and iPhone users 50 gigabytes of free storage starting tonight. It's also increasing file upload limit from 25 MB to 100 MB.
To get that amount of storage from iCloud, users have to fork over $100 per year to Apple.
– Box's promotion is good for the next 50 days, but once redeemed, the data is good for life. To activate it, simply download the latest version of Box for iOS and log into (or create) your account.
22:43 – Blackberry Outage
– Down for three days
– No internet, twitter, Facebook or BBM
– Horrible time for this to happen
– Affected people on 4 continents and indeed spread to America
– Apology from CEO
– Failure allegedly in Slough
26:30 – Google Fall Sweep
– At the start of September Google killed a slew of products – now it's killing a few more
– Here's the latest update on what's happening:
Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
– In a few weeks we'll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it usingGoogle Takeout.
– Jaiku, a product we acquired in 2007 that let users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012. We'll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku.
– Several years ago, we gave people the ability to interact socially on iGoogle. With our new focus on Google+, we will remove iGoogle's social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
– The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to our search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will close on January 15, 2012.
– In addition, later today the Google Labs site will shut down, and as previously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Search.
29:03 – Youtube offers film rentals in the UK
– Video site YouTube has started a movie rental service in the UK.
Blockbusters such as The Dark Knight and classics including The Birds can be watched via the site. In total, about 1,000 movies have been made available.
– New releases will cost £3.49 to rent and library titles £2.49. Users have 30 days to begin watching a film, and 48 hours to finish it once they start.
– Most aren't HD – 480p, DVD quality
– Does show ratings from Rotten Tomatoes and information about the films from elsewhere
31:09 – Google Books hits the UK
– Readers in the UK now have access to the world's largest ebooks collection, with hundreds of thousands of ebooks for sale – from major UK publishers like Hachette, Random House and Penguin – as well as more than two million public domain ebooks for free.
– Just as in the US, we've designed the Google eBooks platform in the UK to be open. You can purchase, download and view Google eBooks on many devices: Android and Apple tablets and smartphones, the Google eBooks Web Reader and eReaders from Sony, Kobo, Elonex, and more. Your Google eBooks are stored in the cloud, so you can easily access them and continue reading wherever you last left off, regardless of which device you were on.
– We've partnered with independent booksellers, so you will soon be able to buy Google eBooks through your favourite bookstore. Booksellers like Gardners' Hive, as well as others to come, will be selling Google eBooks in the UK. We're also working with local retailers like Blackwell's as affiliate partners.
32:24 – New Android Devices
41:08 – Android 4 – Ice Cream Sandwich revealed
– New UI – toned down honeycomb but still has that Tronesque UI
– No more physical buttons
– Native resolution – 720p
– Near instantaneous voice dictation
– Face unlock
– Android Beam – uses NFC to communicate between Android devices – contacts, video's, URLS – API to come to allow developers to use it
– Camera app – brings many of the iOS UI features, gallery also improved bringing filters
– Lots of cloud enhancements
– Lots of tweaks throughout the OS
– SDK for dev's already released
– Most gingerbread running phones should be able to run 4
47:24 – WH Smiths to launch e-book reader
– The UK newsagent will begin selling the Kobo reader from the Canadian company of the same name on 17 October.
– Kobo has e-book stores in Canada and Australia, and the WHSmith deal will bring its 2.2m – of which 1m are freebies: out-of-copyright classics and the like – to UK high streets.
– WHSmith will offer two devices: a basic £90 model and an upgraded version with a touch-sensitive screen for £110.
48:38 – Shopping centre calls police for father taking illegal pictures of his daughter
– Chris White claims a security guard told him that the pictures, taken at the Braehead centre near Glasgow on Friday afternoon, were "illegal".
– The guard allegedly then asked Mr White to delete the photographs, taken on his mobile phone. Mr White, a mental health trainer, said: "I told him I had taken two photographs of my daughter Hazel, and that since I had already posted them on Facebook there was little point in deleting the pictures.
"The guard then told me to 'remain right there' while he called police, which I chose to do."
– According to Mr White, Hazel was in tears while they waited five minutes for officers to arrive at the scene. He said he was then quizzed by two uniformed policemen who told him there had been a complaint about him taking photographs and that there were "clear signs" in the centre stating that the use of cameras was forbidden.
– Police issued a statement denying the above
– After the story exploded on Twitter and Facebook, Braehead issued an apology
– A spokesman for the centre said it was changing its photography policy with immediate effect to allow people to take pictures of family and friends in the mall. "We have listened to the very public debate surrounding our photography policy and as a result, with immediate effect, are changing the policy to allow family and friends to take photos in the mall. "We will publicise this more clearly in the mall and on our website. We will reserve the right to challenge suspicious behaviour for the safety and enjoyment of our shoppers. "We wish to apologise to Mr White for the distress we may have caused to him and his family and we will be in direct contact with him to apologise properly."
51:53 – Playstation Vita UK Details
– The Wi-Fi only model will be yours for £230.
– The higher-specced 3G edition will cost £280.
– They'll arrive on 22 February, 2012
57:24 – Lytro Details
– You won't be able to get one until early 2012, but you can order one now for $399 (and $499 for a more advanced version).
– In design, Lytro takes more than a couple of cues from Apple. It's supremely simple, with just two buttons and a slider for zooming. Plus, it's available in a variety of colors. Hit the shutter button and it takes a picture instantly — no need to wait for it to focus.
– The Lytro is long, thin and small, like a viewfinder with a rubberized end (and nothing at all like a regular camera). Its "electric blue" and "graphite" models will have 8 GB of storage on board, which the company says is enough for 350 light-field pictures. For $100 more, you get 16 GB, with room for 750 pictures and a "fire red" design. (See the different colors below).
– The battery is a selling point, too. You should be able to fill up the entire camera with pictures on a single charge. That translates to about two weeks of battery time, with regular usage.
– Desktop editor only supports Mac
PressPausePlay
– The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
– But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
– This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era.
– Buy on iTunes (£9.99, or rent) or Amazon….or download via torrent for free
Posted on October 21, 2011 Author ianCategories PodcastTags android, apple, blackberry, box.net, Cloud, google, ios5, iphone 4S, lytro, photography, playstation, rim, sony, steve jobs, vita, youtube
In this episode the team discuss Newsbin Blocked, UK Copyright Laws Updated, Google Patent Issues, trouble for Nintendo and Sony handhelds and don't mess with Duncan Bannatyne
1:42 – Police charge Scottish Teen over SOCA attack
– UK police have charged an 18-year-old with hacking the Serious Organised Crime Agency's (Soca) website as part of an ongoing investigation into the infamous LulzSec and Anonymous hacktivist crews.
– Jake Davis, who allegedly used the online nickname Topiary and acted as a spokesman for the groups, will face five computer hacking charges at a hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday.
– The rap sheet includes a charge related to participating in denial of service attacks that floored Soca's website in June.
– Davis, who was arrested in the Shetland Islands last week, is the second person to be arrested over attacks on Soca's website, following the arrest of Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, last month. A 16-year-old teenager from South London was arrested and questioned by police around the same time as Cleary's arrest and bailed to return in late August, pending further inquiries.
4:39 – BT Ordered to block links to Newzbin 2
– A High Court judge has ruled that BT must block access to a website which provides links to pirated movies.
Newzbin 2 is a members-only site which aggregates a large amount of the illegally copied material found on Usenet discussion forums.
– The landmark case is the first time that an ISP has been ordered to block access to such a site. It paves the way for other sites to be blocked as part of a major crackdown on piracy.
– In his ruling, Mr Justice Arnold stated: "In my judgment it follows that BT has actual knowledge of other persons using its service to infringe copyright: it knows that the users and operators of Newzbin 2 infringe copyright on a large scale, and in particular infringe the copyrights of the studios in large numbers of their films and television programmes."
– He continued: "It knows that the users of Newzbin 2 include BT subscribers, and it knows those users use its service to receive infringing copies of copyright works made available to them by Newzbin 2." BT and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which brought the case, will be back in court in October to work out how the blocking will work. BT said it will not appeal the ruling.
– Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed – which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse – to block Newzbin 2. In an email interview before the verdict, Newzbin 2 threatened to break BT's filters.
– "We would be appalled if any group were to try to sabotage this technology as it helps to protect the innocent from highly offensive and illegal content," said a spokesman for BT.
– The Internet Service Providers' Association has been a fierce critic of web blocking. It said that using blocking technology designed to protect the public from images of child abuse, was inappropriate.
10:46 – UK Proposing changes to Copyright and Website Blocking Rules
– Plans to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped by the government. Website blocking was one of the key provision contained in the Digital Economy Act. Internet Service Providers had objected to the idea that copyright owners could compel them to cut off some sites.
– Speaking to the BBC, Vince Cable appeared to suggest that the Newzbin2 case had opened up other legal avenues."We've discovered that the drafting of the original laws, which took place a year or so ago, were not tight.
– The government's decision to drop the DEA's blocking provision was criticised by UK Music, the body which represents musicians and record labels in the UK. Its chief executive, Fergal Sharkey said: "Who wants to tell the 80% of music businesses that employ fewer than five people, and the thousands of artists who self-finance the production of their own albums, that to enjoy the protection of the law, all they need now is to have millions of pounds and spend years in court to protect their work."
– Mr Cable also announced a raft of measures intended to update the UK's copyright laws. The changes are based on the Hargreaves Review which was set up to examine current legislation's fitness for purpose in the digital age. One of the most significant recommendations that the government plans to implement is the legalisation of "format shifting" – where users rip content from CDs or DVDs for their own personal use.
– "Bringing the laws more up-to-date to have a proper balance which allows consumers and businesses to operate more freely, but at the same time protect genuinely creative artists and penalise pirates." The business secretary said the economy would benefit by £8bn over the next few years by updating the legislation.
– Millions of people regularly convert movies on DVDs and music on CDs into a format that they can move around more easily, although most do not realise that it is technically illegal. "The review pointed out that if you have a situation where 90% of your population is doing something, then it's not really a very good law," said Simon Levine, head of the intellectual property and technology group at DLA Piper.
– Legalising non-commercial copying for private use would bring the UK into line with many other nations and also meet the "reasonable expectations" of consumers, said the government.
– Could also include fair usage and re-use clauses so that fan fiction, remixes etc are now legal and can be published online without threat of takedown
16:21 – Smartphone Watershed in the UK
– for the first time, smartphone sales outstripped sales of regular mobiles in the first half of this year as the enormous demand continues to rise. Just over half of the total 13.6m mobile sales from January to June 2011 were smartphones, according to research by GfK Retail and Technology UK.
– Of the new generation of smartphone users, 60% of teenagers classed themselves as "highly addicted" to their device, compared to 37% of adults.
– "Our research into the use of smartphones, in particular, reveals how quickly people become reliant on new technology – to the point of feeling addicted. As more and more people acquire smartphones, they are becoming an essential tool in peoples' social lives whether they are out with friends socialising or using Facebook on the move."
– Facebook remains far and away the most popular website for mobile users, with users spending almost four times the amount of time socialising online than using Google or any other website. Unsurprisingly, multi-tasking teenagers said they were less likely to read books if they owned a smartphone. But they also said that owning a smartphone made them more likely to ditch games consoles like the PS3 and the computer, in favour of their pocket-sized handset.
– The huge boost in smartphone sales has led to a 67% increase in mobile data use as phone users watched videos and sent emails on the go. Mobile operators, such as O2 and Vodafone, have been put under huge strain by the new load. But Thickett said the carriers are coping with the enormous demand.
– Over half (51 per cent) of adults and two thirds (65 per cent) of teenagers say they have used their smartphone while socialising with others, nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of adults and a third (34 per cent) of teenagers have used them during mealtimes and over a fifth (22 per cent) of adult and nearly half (47 per cent) of teenage smartphone users admitted using or answering their handset in the bathroom or toilet.
19:56 – BBC Launches Global iPlayer App
– The BBC is launching an international version of its on-demand video service, the iPlayer, for Apple iPad users.
– Customers who pay a monthly subscription will get access to a range of current and classic programmes. The app will have one feature not available in the UK – the ability to download content and watch offline.
– The project is being run BBC Worldwide– the corporation's commercial arm – which said that money earned would help supplement licence-fee income. Initially, global iPlayer will be available in 11 European countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Republic of Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
– It will cost 6.99 euro per month (£6.14), with the option of an annual subscription priced at 49.99 euro (£44). According to BBC Worldwide, the international product will look and feel similar to the UK iPlayer, but function in a different way.
– Rather than a seven-day catch-up service, it will offer a showcase of BBC shows, old and new. Examples given include Fawlty towers, Only Fools and Horses, Sherlock and Doctor Who.
– It is possible that may provoke questions from viewers in the UK who do not have access to older shows.
21:14 – Amazon App Store – Rotten to the Core
– Amazon's biggest feature by far, has been their Free App Of The Day promotion. Publicly their terms say that they pay developers 20% of the asking price of an app, even when they give it away free. To both consumers and naive developers alike, this seems like a big chance to make something rare in the Android world: real money. But here's the dirty secret Amazon don't want you to know, they don't pay developers a single cent.
– Did the exposure count for much in the days afterwards? That's also a big no, the day after saw a blip in sales, followed by things going back to exactly where we started, selling a few apps a day. In fact Amazon decided to rub salt in the wounds a little further by discounting our app to 99 cents for a few days after the free promotion. All we got was about 300 emails a day to answer over the space of a few weeks, that left us tired and burnt out. For all we know most of the people who wanted our application, now have it. To add insult to injury Pocket Casts relies on a server to parse podcast feeds (allowing instant updates on your phone), and all these new users forced us to buy more hardware just to meet demand. Hardware that we are going to have to support indefinitely at our own cost.
– But that's not our only beef with Amazon:
Lengthy review times of anywhere up to 2 weeks (I've lost count of the amount of emails from people asking why our Google Market app is newer)
Amazon gets to set the price of your app to whatever they want, without any input from you, or even the chance to reject their price
Amazon re-writes your description, and in ours they even made up things like 'add up to 100 podcasts'. No idea where on earth they got that number from
Amazon don't provide error reports like Google do making it hard to fix errors
They don't yet support Google's new multiple APK initiative
Amazon pays far later than Google does, and to date we haven't received any cheques from them, even though we are listed as being 'payed'
Much less real-time sales information than Google
Update: (and this one surprised us) you can't remove apps from their store! You have to ask them for permission via an email. Every other store lets you remove apps from sale.
28:09 – Trojan risk for Android phones
– A mobile application for Google's Android smartphones can secretly record users' phone calls and transmit them to malicious hackers,security researchers have found.
Once downloaded by a user, the app – which the researcher has not named, but seems to have a name relating to "System Messages" – surreptitiously stores a recording of the user's incoming and outgoing calls to the phone's memory card, according to the New York-based security experts CA Technologies.
– In a blog post unveiling the finding, researcher Dinesh Venkatesan said the so-called "Trojan app" is one of the most invasive they have ever uncovered. He also warned that there is an increasing trend targeting smartphones using Google's Android software, which allows developers to submit apps with little vetting.
– Google had not returned requests for comment at the time of publication.
– Venkateskan wrote on the researcher's official blog: "In one of our earlier blogs, we have demonstrated how a Trojan logs all the details of incoming/outgoing calls and call duration in a text file.
– "This Trojan is more advanced as it records the conversation itself in 'amr' format [which is optimised for recording speech]. Also it has many other malicious activities that we have seen in many of the earlier malware incidents targeted for Android platform."
– The app, which was not named by the researchers for security reasons, asks users' permission to intercept outgoing calls and record audio before it is installed. Once downloaded, all calls the user makes will be logged on the phone's memory – which can potentially be accessed by the app's makers. The sound is filed in a folder called shangzhou/callrecord, suggesting that its author is Chinese.
30:39 – Nortel Patent Argument Continues
– Remember the group of tech companies that bought the Nortel patents for $4.5 billion – Microsoft, Apple et all?
– Google is still smarting – In a post just put up on the main Google Blog, Google SVP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond takes shot after shot at Google's competitors. By name, he calls out Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. What's this all about? What else? Patents.
– "I have worked in the tech sector for over two decades. Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other's throats, so when they get into bed together you have to start wondering what's going on," is the way Drummond kicks off his post. He goes on to lay out what he believes is a "hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents."
– While Drummond says that their rival's "anti-competitive strategy" is driving up the price of patents on the market to insane levels, he believes the law will eventually prevail and "this patent bubble will pop".
– "In this instance we thought it was important to speak out and make it clear that we're determined to preserve Android as a competitive choice for consumers, by stopping those who are trying to strangle it," he notes, going on to say that the Department of Justice is currently looking into if Apple and Microsoft's acquisition of the Nortel patents was for anti-competitive means.
– "We're also looking at other ways to reduce the anti-competitive threats against Android by strengthening our own patent portfolio. Unless we act, consumers could face rising costs for Android devices — and fewer choices for their next phone," is how the post ends.
– Typical Google – painting themselves as the white knight in amongst these big bad companies who are out to destroy, not innovate…yawn. Post also doesn't mention that Google bid over $4 billion as well.
– A couple of hours later…"Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no," Brad Smith, Microsoft General Counsel tweeted out in response.
– Just in case that wasn't enough, Frank Shaw, Microsoft Head of Communications, followed up with the real heat-seeker. "Free advice for David Drummond – next time check with Kent Walker before you blog. tweeted, referring to another Google SVP and General Counsel. Attached to that tweet was the picture of an email Walker apparently sent to Smith on October 28, 2010. It reads as follows:
Brad –
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you — I came down with a 24-hour bug on the way back from San Antonio. After talking with people here, it sounds as though for various reasons a joint bid wouldn't be advisable for us on this one. But I appreciate your flagging it, and we're open to discussing other similar opportunities in the future.
I hope the rest of your travels go well, and I look forward to seeing you again soon.
– Kent
– While it's only one instance, this really does undercut Google's entire argument. Google was attempting to set up a pattern of Microsoft teaming up with other Google rivals to damage them. But the first instance listed was actually the result of Google turning Microsoft down, as the email shows. That doesn't not look good for Google.
– Love this – Google are pussies – http://brianshall.com/content/google-are-pussies
39:44 – Push Pop Press acquired…by Facebook
– Now we're taking our publishing technology and everything we've learned and are setting off to help design the world's largest book, Facebook.
– Although Facebook isn't planning to start publishing digital books, the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories. With millions of people publishing to Facebook each day, we think it's going to be a great home for Push Pop Press.
– Al Gore's Our Choice will remain available for purchase, and we've decided that our future profits from the book will be donated to The Climate Reality Project. There are no plans to continue publishing new titles or building out our publishing platform that was in private beta. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported and expressed interest in Push Pop Press.
– Both Push Pop Press and Facebook share a passion for improving the way we share and explore ideas and we couldn't be more excited about what the future holds.
– Good for them, sad for everyone else? Good talent acquire by Facebook but that future of digital publishing that worked so well for Our Choice and promised so much has now gone. However Mike Matas, lead at Push Pop Press, was part of the iPhone UI team at Apple. Rumours of Facebook phone still around and there's no doubting hat Facebook UI as they move into HTML5 is in need of help.
42:49 – Vita in Europe…next year
– Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai has today been quoted as saying that the portable console will not be available in the US or Europe until "early next year." Japan, he hastens to add, is still on track for the "holiday season" release window we've been hearing since the PlayStation Vita's first announcement under the NGP moniker.
– So import if you want it this year looks to be only option
44:22 – Nintendo 3DS Price Drop
– Price to drop by around a third
– Trying to kickstart poor sales
– Additionally, Nintendo Europe plans to offer an exclusive Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Programme to consumers who have purchased the Nintendo 3DS at the original launch price.
– The programme will enable these Nintendo 3DS owners to download ten NES games and ten Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games for free.
– To register for this programme, Nintendo 3DS owners need to connect to the Nintendo eShop before the 12th of August. The free software will then be made available at a later stage.
– Currently, the machine has a recommended retail price of £269.99, which retailers have already eroded to a street price of £199.99 with a game bundled in. But from 12 August, presuming that retailers resist the urge to increase their margins on the 3DS, we can anticipate a new RRP of around £170 – equating to a street price of between £130 and £140.
– Why is it struggling – EA results – http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=594196
– iPad is fastest growing platform and consoles used to account for 80% of sales…now 40%
47:49 – EA launches Sports Season ticket
– $25 or 2000 points a year
– It will grant full access to digital versions of games three days before their retail launch, offer a 20-percent discount on DLC, and enable "free premium web content" and brand you as a paying customer (i.e. "membership recognition").
– However…"The digitally downloaded game will time out when the game is available at retail and consumers have the option to purchase the same full game on disc at retail." If we're reading that correctly, it means you get to download the game three days early, but you still have to go to the store to actually buy it.
– What?
– 5 games supported – Madden NFL 12, along with NHL,FIFA, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR golf and NCAA Football
51:05 – Don't Mess With Duncan Bannatyne
– The Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne has been forced to delete tweets after offering a £50,000 reward for anyone who broke the arms of a man who used Twitter to threaten his daughter.
– Someone going by the name of Yuri Vasilyev tweeted Bannatyne three days ago, saying: "I'm looking for a £35,000 investment to stop us hurting your Hollie Bannatyne. We will bring hurt and pain into your life. We are watching her. She is very attractive. Want photos?"
– After revealing that police had been informed of the threat, Bannatynetold his 371,653 Twitter followers: "I offer £25,000 reward for the capture of the coward who calls himself @YuriVasilyev_ Double if his arms are broken first."
– Got lots of criticism on twitter
– The criticism appeared to bring about a change of heart, and Bannatyne deleted the offending tweets and amended his offer to "£30,000 reward for info leading to his arrest".
However, he kept up the pressure, telling his followers he had tracked the alleged criminal to an internet cafe in Moscow.
– "@YuriVasilyev_ My people are getting closer to you every minute, run and hide you little coward in Moscow," he tweeted. "Go home to your mum and cry we are closing in on you little boy."
– Still developing and updating… may have debugging purpose but really it just looks cool.
Posted on August 5, 2011 Author ianCategories PodcastTags amazon, android, apps, bbc, bt, copyright, facebook, google, iplayer, lulzsec, microsoft, newzbin, nintendo, patents, smartphones, sony, vita