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Q: How to create an object copy from a pure abstract base class reference? I want to write a function that works for any derived classes in a certain hierarchy, without modifying the abstract class input parameter:
class A {
public:
    A(int val): m_i(val) { }
    virtual void add(int i) = 0;

    int m_i;
};

class B: public A {
public:
    B(int val): A(val) { }
    B(): A(0) { }
    virtual void add(int i) { m_i += i; }
};

class C: public A {
public:
    C(int val): A(val) { }
    C(): A(0) { }
    virtual void add(int i) { m_i += i*2; }
};

int f(const A& base_class)
{
    // how to create a concrete copy of class base_class?
    base_class.add(5);
}

Here f() should work for both B and C, but I can't create a copy of the concrete class because I don't know the actual type, unless I use dynamic_cast.
Is there another approach to solve this problem or should just use dynamic_cast?

A: The typical approach commonly known as the virtual constructor idiom is to define another virtual method for cloning the concrete class, make it virtual in the abstract base, and call it as needed to produce instances of the desired class without knowing its type:
class A {
public:
    A(int val): m_i(val) { }
    virtual void add(int i) = 0;
    virtual A* clone() const = 0; // Override in derived classes to return new B/C
    int m_i;
};

A: It is not clear from your question why you even need to make a copy.
However, if you do, you could have a clone() method:
class A {
public:
    virtual A* clone() const = 0;
};

class B: public A {
public:
    virtual B* clone() const { return new(*this); }
};

class C: public A {
public:
    virtual C* clone() const { return new(*this); }
};

A: The problem is that you are passing const A& but add is not a const method if you take away the const modifier then this works:
int f(A& base_class)
{
    // how to create a concrete copy of class base_class?
   base_class.add(5);

   ///Need a return here
}

I am using gcc and the error that really tells you what is going is this:
error: no matching function for call to 'A::add(int&) const'
  base_class.add(a);                                  ^^^^^

no known conversion for implicit 'this' parameter from 'const A*' to 'A*'
                                                        ^^^^^^^^

Based on your response the other option is make m_i mutable and make the member methods const like so:
class A {
  public:
    A(int val): m_i(val) { }
    virtual void add(int i) const = 0;

  protected:
    mutable int m_i;
};

class B: public A {
 public:
    B(int val): A(val) { }
    B(): A(0) { }
    virtual void add(int i) const { m_i += i; }
};

class C: public A {
  public:
    C(int val): A(val) { }
    C(): A(0) { }
    virtual void add(int i) const { m_i += i*2; }
};

int f(const  A& base_class)
{
    base_class.add(5) ;

    //Need a return here
}

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Back in the day…back, back, back when I was living on the streets of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood…back in 1968 when I was 20 years old, there was a presidential election going on as well. Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Hubert H. Humphrey that cycle. Nixon was one scary dude.
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• "Speechless" is a song recorded by American country music duo Dan + Shay for their 2018 self-titled third studio album.
• It was first released digitally as a promotional single on May 18, 2018. "Speechless" was serviced to country radio on August 6, 2018 as the album's second official single.
• In a review of the album, Jon Freeman of Rolling Stone wrote that the duo are "at their most collectively potent" on "soulful cuts" like "Speechless," in which the production reinforces the song's message.
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How is KNN different from k-means clustering?
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answered Sep 30, 2021 by Robin
K-Nearest Neighbors is a supervised classification algorithm, while k-means clustering is an unsupervised clustering algorithm. While the mechanisms may seem similar at first, what this really means is that in order for K-Nearest Neighbors to work, you need labeled data you want to classify an unlabeled point into (thus the nearest neighbor part). K-means clustering requires only a set of unlabeled points and a threshold: the algorithm will take unlabeled points and gradually learn how to cluster them into groups by computing the mean of the distance between different points.
The critical difference here is that KNN needs labeled points and is thus supervised learning, while k-means doesn't—and is thus unsupervised learning.
answered May 7, 2022 by sharadyadav1986
KNN or K nearest neighbors is a supervised algorithm which is used for classification purpose. In KNN, a test sample is given as the class of the majority of its nearest neighbors. On the other side, K-means is an unsupervised algorithm which is mainly used for clustering.
In k-means clustering, it needs a set of unlabeled points and a threshold only. The algorithm further takes unlabeled data and learns how to cluster it into groups by computing the mean of the distance between different unlabeled points.
Is KNN different from K-means Clustering in Machine Learning
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Compare K-means and KNN Algorithms.
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bgrommes 23 January 2023 18:35 #21
Yes relatively rational actors such as yourself are one thing but there is a lot of FUD out there around "will we be able to find anybody to work on it", "will the vendor disappear one day", etc. In my view these concerns are mostly specious (even MSFT could disappear one day, that is exactly why your have source code escrow agreements and the like; to me, any language environment has its mix of up and downsides and one can find enjoyment working within those constraints and there are ways to keep current / expose your team to an interesting mix of technologies). But the reality is that a lot of people making such decisions are political animals who advance to the level of their own incompetence by making "safe", non-controversial decisions that don't have to be defended to anyone and are fairly airtight. Also, they often read magazine articles and pick up the buzz about the latest & greatest and feel no one can fault them for staying with those supposedly ascendant technologies. So they go with magic silver bullets and by the time the decision proves a bad one they have been promoted somewhere else.
I was a little slow on the uptake so didn't get a chance to investigate but there was a job on Dice a couple of weeks ago where supposedly someone was looking for deep FoxPro expertise here in the year of our Lord 2023. I could have probably been a shoo-in for that despite being rusty as hell (haven't touched FP since about 2007, but I wrote books and authored and taught courseware on the product and was tech editor of FoxTalk for several years). Someone has clearly decided that something ain't broke and shouldn't be fixed – just maintained and extended. Depending on the company, the management and their reasoning process and strategy, I might have actually gone ahead with that retro-computing assignment. But I am sure they are finding it very hard to locate expertise or to hold onto developers in-house for a "dead" language that has to be coaxed to run on modern versions of Windows. That's of course a somewhat different question from a still-living platform with questionable staying power, but it's not entirely unrelated, either.
npalardy 23 January 2023 19:22 #22
bgrommes:
But the reality is that a lot of people making such decisions are political animals who advance to the level of their own incompetence by making "safe",
Remember the saying
No one ever got fired for buying IBM ?
Until IBM missed the boat with desktop computing and client server supplanted mainframes - which IBM was late to the game on
And then it turned into
No one ever got fired for buying MS ?
which might be changing as everything heads to the cloud - but MS hasn't completely missed that boat so maybe they are still "safe"
But I am sure they are finding it very hard to locate expertise or to hold onto developers in-house for a "dead" language
That was the US govt's issue with the PPP and so many other programs
They couldn't find COBOL programmers to update the systems to handle it all
cacm.acm.org
COBOL Programmers are Back In Demand. Seriously.
States race to upgrade their legacy mainframe systems to meet the cascade of unemployment claims caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
That's of course a somewhat different question from a still-living platform with questionable staying power, but it's not entirely unrelated, either.
Definitely related
And may be related
Long ago as RB "gained steam" you could see more & more "experienced" programmers joining the various mailing lists etc
There used to be articles in many trade mags - I wrote several for MacTech
There was a noticeable "upswing" in the number of full time developers using it
And work became more & more common to find
Now that seems to be in decline
Much the same curve as so many other "dead languages" have gone through
At first the # of people using tit is low & rates can be high IF its "the cool new thing"
As more people learn rates moderate downwards as more & more developers learn the lang
Then something new comes along & there are increasingly few devs still using "that old language" and rates can start to move up again as there are fewer & fewer devs that use tat "old language"
Personally I think Xojo is in that last phase where there are increasingly few expert users left
Yeah I am going through a similar thing at my current gig. Long story short, this was a startup I got in on the ground floor of in 2008 and designed and built most of their operations code, down to the ops dashboards, much of the DB, and one of their key customer-facing products.
In 2020 we were acquired by what I shall call Giant International MegaCorp at firesale prices due basically to the founder going senile and no succession plan.
At Giant International MegaCorp (GIMG) they are standardized on Java and Google Cloud. We, the acquired company, use C# and Azure. To the executives of GIMG, .NET and Azure Cloud might as well be Xojo or COBOL. But their plan was to just Keep the Lights On for a year or so, digest our data and our customer list, and shut us down.
It's been 2.5 years and counting. Their offshore team, we discovered last month, in trying to absorb our data into their cloud initiative (everyone calls it "the data fabric" but mostly doesn't know what that even is) has been coding to our internal work/scratch files instead of the actual contributor files (1500 of them contributing anywhere from monthly to daily), which means what little they have accomplished in 2 years has to be ditched.
Meanwhile I'm 5 weeks away from the limit of how long they can keep me on as a "contingent employee" and someone in the hierarchy has the bright idea that they can just cut me loose and put one of those geniuses in Mumbai in my place at a tenth of the cost.
I almost don't care how it sorts out because I either keep the highest paying gig I've ever had (if they're rational about it) or I get to watch them suffer and die in the most baroque possible ways. The other key person has told me they will quit if I am cut loose and they will be hemorrhaging clients and drowning in lawsuits inside of 2 months, tops. All this because despite spending $14M on us they have never even thought to inquire whether our technology would benefit the larger company, because, you know, it's Not Java and it's not on Google Cloud. They have not thought to understand how it works even from a self-protection standpoint. Indeed, they let the only person besides me who has any technical understanding of how operations works quit without bothering to replace him. From what I'm told their existing legacy DB is a dogpile of – well, I won't say what, except that it really, REALLY smells. Because they are sales and profit driven and not technology driven, all that matters is that their data turns a profit, even if it is the product of a distal orifice.
So it goes …
DaveS 23 January 2023 21:12 #24
WOW… change the names of the companies, and you just told MY story word for word.
They transitioned my "job" to a "team" in India… and those morons never could understand the logic behind the system I spent 10 years working on… They could write code, but they could not design shit.
And previous, during an acquistion, I ran it to the same thing you did with Azure, just it was a different set of tools.
It's a story old as time, I guess!
bkeeney 23 January 2023 21:38 #26
They could write code, but they could not design shit.
I lost out a couple of consulting gigs because the product owner hired it out to Indian developers. Probably 1/5 the price of me. I heard back from them two years later - they wished they had retained us because it would have been done on time and more or less on budget. We estimated it at about 6 months worth of work.
Like everyone else we have piles and piles of tooling that we include just because every app needs them. We just assume you need a preferences system and we have something to drop in place. The offshore folks didn't even think about it until the client brought it up. Change order for big $$. Unless you specified exactly what they had to code then they didn't do it. What a scam. I didn't feel sorry for the client in the slightest.
bkeeney:
Unless you specified exactly what they had to code then they didn't do it. What a scam. I didn't feel sorry for the client in the slightest.
Yes I have had that happen so many times in so many forms. Way back in the late 1980s I had a small manufacturer that wanted customizations to their accounting software. The owner's nephew offered to do it for a third of the cost. I just smiled, wished them well, and went my way. Six months later I was called in on an emergency basis because their company was paralyzed due to dear nephew's changes. He didn't understand file locking, which was more manual in those days, or the difference between an optimistic and pessimistic locking strategy, etc. In the end they became one of my most loyal clients, until I moved out of the area and turned my local clients over to a very capable subcontractor. I was sad to see the other day that they have gone out of business. One of the last employee reviews on Glassdoor stated this was their favorite place to work, they were treated and paid well and had interesting problems to solve (metal working) – but just one problem, the company couldn't afford the raw materials to build their designs out. Small little detail there.
anic297 24 January 2023 05:59 #28
it's a French company with mostly only machine-translated docs and support in English, and that right there is a significant annoyance.
So you can imagine why French users of Xojo are disappointed that Xojo stopped translating years ago.
Non-english speakers are forced to use programming languages in english; we have the same disappointment you've experienced, but all the year along
YogiYang 24 January 2023 10:36 #29
The best thing for you is to try out their Express Edition before you make any concrete decision.
Being an Ex-FoxPro expert it will be very easy for you to learn and adapt to WinDev.
I have observed that most if the non-French speaking developers come from Clarion background to WinDev.
Frankly having developed a few software and tools in WX I can say that it is very powerful and has a very large collection of controls and I have never found a need to use any third party ActiveX or .NET component for any of my development.
For example if I were using Xojo for building a document management system which allows users to edit Word Documents, Excel Sheets & Images (jpeg/png/gif/bmp) also support PDF viewing, I would have to buy separately many third party libraries and controls but not in case of WX!
Here is a link to a document listing all the new features and updates in WinDev 27.
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Indeed a fair point. Which still doesn't make it optimal in the other direction. Also (and you can rightly regard this as our self-inflicted problem) but far more French speakers have reasonable fluency in English as a second language than the inverse. In my immediate family we have, among us, a stale high school level knowledge of Spanish, French and German, but I don't think even that is typical of us "ugly Americans".
YogiYang:
Now THERE is a blast from the past. I haven't thought of Clarion since I looked at it as a possible platform for myself in the late 1990s. I was reasonably impressed with it, but like the XBase language / product families, it was doomed.
I will definitely check WinDev out, as well as the FreeBasic ecosystem. While single code base cross platform is not a trivial thing to implement, someone HAS to have figured it out and executed on it better than Xojo and the other alternatives I've looked at so far.
Spiff 25 January 2023 07:14 #32
[…] Also (and you can rightly regard this as our self-inflicted problem) but far more French speakers have reasonable fluency in English as a second language than the inverse. […]
I've been working for a French company for 6 years now and the experience I've made there is that about 98% of French people do not speak English at all.
Do not … or will not? I was always amazed how many places in Europe you could get by with English but in France particularly it seemed like you couldn't win for loosing because they either seemed to take it as disrespect not to speak French or if you weren't very good with French they would not meet you halfway, either. Even as a tourist. and not playing the Ugly American, either. But I guess simply not knowing English would explain that, too.
Enjoyed my times there in spite of it though!
Only place I ever encountered that was in Quebec - but that was right at the height of the separation debate in the early 80's
When we were in France we stumbled along with a smattering of French and people realized we were NOT from there, smiled at our lousy French, & were very polite. And if they spoke a little English we made it work.
Spent a nice afternoon on a patio with a very nice young family & their kids & enjoyed a nice drink & a snack with them.
Had a great time


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Scientists Restore Eyesight Using A Bioengineered Cornea
By Staff Writer13 August 2022August 18th, 2022No Comments
In what is considered a medical breakthrough, scientists from Linköping University in Sweden have restored vision to people with impaired eyesight. This includes those who were previously blind.
A team of surgeons in Iran and India conducted a successful pilot trial of 20 people who were either blind or close to losing their sight from advanced keratoconus. They used bioengineered corneas from pig skin, as described in Nature Biotechnology. This innovation could help restore sight to people in countries where human cornea transplants are in short supply, and for a lower price.
Unlike human corneas, which must be transplanted within two weeks, the bioengineered implants can be stored for up to two years, which could help with shipping them to those who need them the most.
A scientific breakthrough in restoring eyesight
Corneal blindness is a big problem: around 12.7 million people are estimated to be affected by the condition. Every year, cases are rising at a rate of around a million. Iran, India, China, and various countries in Africa have particularly high levels of corneal blindness, and specifically keratoconus.
The cornea implant is made from collagen protein extracted from pig skin. Pig skin has a similar structure to human skin. Purified collagen molecules were processed to ensure that no animal tissues or biological components remained.
The team, from Linköping University in Sweden, then stabilized the loose molecules into a hydrogel scaffold . The scaffold is designed to mimic the human cornea, which is robust enough to be implanted into an eye.
Surgeons in Iran and India conducted a pilot trial of 20 people who were either blind or close to losing their eyesight from advanced keratoconus. This disease thins the cornea, the outermost transparent layer of the eye, and prevents the eye from focusing properly.
The implant restored the cornea's thickness and curvature. All 14 of the participants who had been blind before the operation had their vision restored. Three of them actually achieved perfect 20/20 vision.
Safer cornea transplants
While human cornea transplants in patients with keratoconus are traditionally sewn into sutures, the team experimented with a new surgical method that's simpler and potentially safer.
They used a laser to make an incision in the middle of the existing cornea before inserting the implant, which helped the wound heal more quickly and created little to no inflammation afterwards. Consequently, the patients only needed to use immunosuppressant eye drops for eight weeks, while recipients of traditional transplants usually needed to take immunosuppressants for at least a year.
One unexpected bonus was that the implant changed the shape of the cornea enough for its recipients to wear contact lenses for the best possible vision, even though they had been previously unable to tolerate them.
The cornea helps focus light rays on the retina at the back of the eye and protects the eye from dirt and germs. When damaged by infection or injury, it can prevent light from reaching the retina, making it difficult to see.
Affordable eyesight
Scientists say that as pig skin is a by-product of the food industry, using this bioengineered implant should cost a fraction as much as transplanting a human donor cornea.
Neil Lagali, a professor at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at Linköping University, one of the researchers behind the study commented, "It will be affordable, even to people in low-income countries. There's a much bigger cost saving compared to the way traditional corneal transplantation is being done today."
Approval to take this eyesight device to market
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The safety and effectiveness of bioengineered implants have been at the core of the team's work.
Mehrdad Rafat, PhD, is adjunct associate professor at LiU's department of biomedical engineering and founder and CEO of LinkoCare Life Sciences, which manufactures the bioengineered corneas used in the study. He explained further.
"We've made significant efforts to ensure that our invention will be widely available and affordable by all and not just by the wealthy. That's why this technology can be used in all parts of the world."
The team is hoping to run a larger clinical trial of at least 100 patients in Europe and the US. They are also working on the regulatory process required for the US Food and Drug Administration to approve the device for the market.
Bioengineered corneal tissue for minimally invasive vision restoration in advanced keratoconus in two clinical cohorts
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Mahmoud Jabbarvand,
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Raha Omrani,
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Anthony Mukwaya,
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Yes, You Are a Creative Genius!
by Craig B. Wynett and T George Harris
Illustration by Blair Thornley
Don't give up on corporate America. Breakthrough research in creativity points away from the superstar CEO and toward a selfless, spiritual enterprise we might call Innovators R Us.
This article appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of Spirituality & Health.
Where facts are thin, superstitions flourish, even in allegedly rational activities like business. Consider the risk-loving, money-driven entrepreneur, the familiar John Wayne myth of macho capitalism that permeated the cultures of Enron and WorldCom. Thirty years ago, Harvard's late, great David McClelland and dozens of protégés around the world put the lie to the risklover stereotype. In hundreds of experiments, they found that successful entrepreneurs hate risk like the Devil, as do other true innovators. That's why they talk about it so much and get all the feedback possible on how to beat it -- and thus achieve their driving dream.
The myth that entrepreneurs are motivated by greed is even harder to dig out of capitalism's conventional economic theology. When you talk incentives in business, the dogma remains dollars. Yet McClelland demonstrated again and again that entrepreneurial people do not perform better when they are offered economic incentives. In fact, they do worse. "It is the challenge of the job itself that rewards the achiever people," he wrote. He found that entrepreneurs who do get rich from their efforts tend to be surprised because it wasn't really the goal of their enterprise.
McClelland and his followers developed rigorous measures of what really motivates achievement, what he called the need to achieve, or nAch, that energizes artists as well creative entrepreneurs. His measures were standard pictures and drawings. One favorite is of two women in lab coats, one with glasses and the other working with beakers. Each test-taker writes a few paragraphs telling what's going on. If the story tells of one bossing the other, the test taker tends to be power-driven, either for social power (more admirable) or personal power (more apt to be noxious). If it's two friends talking about a good time together, it's need for affiliation. If the story tells of colleagues working toward an important accomplishment, it's achievement need. McClelland taught start-up CEOs to think in such images. He also measured such images in pop culture and art to measure which cultures are moving into a hotter entrepreneurial phase and thus more productive economies.
McClelland, whose work would become a backbone of research into emotional intelligence (EQ), took his entrepreneurial training to India in a ten-day course for small businessmen. Compared to a matched sample who did not take the course, those who learned to think in achiever images started four times as many new businesses over the next two years, invested twice as much new capital, and created twice as many new jobs.
The myth of the money-hungry risk-lover is part of a much larger, even more powerful illusion by which business hierarchs blind themselves to normal, everyday creativity of men and women at all levels. Creativity is expected to be weird, different, dangerous, not for mere mortals. It's a myth that's hard to beat because it goes so far back. The Old Testament frowns on man for biting into the apple of knowledge and later, at Babel, for presuming to create his own environment. The Greek gods tortured one of their own, Prometheus, for daring to bootleg creative tools and fire to mere mortals. Small wonder that centuries of poets and painters felt obliged to beg for divine inspiration from fickle little goddesses, the Muses.
Around World War II, the myth took on the flavor of historical reality with Arnold Toynbee's popular theory that most people don't count because "creative minorities" shape history. Mainstream psychology focused for years on the search for personality traits, perhaps inherited, among an inspired few certified as "creative." More recently it's the myth that empowers newly minted MBAs to look in the mirror and see the best and the brightest unfettered by any connection, let alone obligation, to anyone else. Enron recruited the hottest of this breed. Sure that greed is good, the best and brightest, as they saw themselves, figured out how to unlock the wealth of companies for their own purposes.
Even now, despite mountains of contrary data and record-setting bankruptcies, the elitist illusion lives on. The most comprehensive summary of this conventional confusion was published in September 2001 in the Harvard Business Review by Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton. In "The Weird Rules of Creativity," Sutton argues that creative environments are "remarkably inefficient and often annoying places to work." He goes on into never-never land: "Managing for creativity means placing bets on ideas without much heed to their projected return on investment. It means ignoring what has worked before. It means taking perfectly happy people and goading them into fights among themselves. Good creativity management means hiring the candidate you have a gut feeling against. And, as for those people who stick their fingers in their ears and chant, 'I'm not listening, I'm not listening,' when customers are making suggestions? It means praising and promoting them."
From 15 years of research in many companies, Sutton assures everyone that such rules are close to universal. He's a believer himself, by the way, and shares the widespread conviction that the weird stuff really works. It's nonsense, buried in blinding beliefs. But such is the power of convenient illusion.
Ordinary Innovators, Driven by Fun and Fascination
The very word "creative" has become so polluted that for the last eight years of building teams to develop new products -- and figuring out processes that work for them -- the coauthors of this article often tried to abandon it entirely. We work with a humble trust in "ordinary innovators."
Psychologist Teresa Amabile gave our work the grounding it needed. She began at Brandeis in the 1980s to build upon a body of research into motivation. The extrinsic motives triggered by money incentives and social approval, or the fear of losing them, served the industrial revolution's need for regiments of industrial workers to do the same things over and over. More money will speed up an assembly line. But people don't do something original, she found, unless their primary motives are intrinsic -- the interest and joy of the work itself, often in service to others. Her findings clicked with McClelland's as well as with years of our own struggles among innovators and entrepreneurs.
Brushing right past the creative elite dogmas, Amabile herself sounded an audacious call to humility: "Although lay people and creativity theorists often make the assumption that individual creativity depends primarily on talent, there is considerable evidence that hard work and intrinsic motivation -- which can be supported or undermined by social environment (and so by bosses) -- also play central roles." Under the right conditions, most of us have creative genius in things we care about.
Our Corporate New Ventures (CNV) teams at Procter & Gamble begged Dr. Amabile to let us be guinea pigs in her 26-company database. Her central concept turns typical top-down management control on its head. At CNV, the boss begins not by assigning people to jobs already defined, but searches instead for each person's deepest interests and driving passions. All CNV members came in as volunteers. Each initiated a new product team, or joined one. They came at their previous salaries and were given no extra financial incentive for success. The one big carrot was the intrinsic pleasure of originating something useful, and when a fast-track woman passed up the prestigious job of Tide brand manager to join CNV, we knew we were onto something.
Tapping 30-something years of creativity research in management and psychology (much of it dead ends) we worked down through layers of New Age assumptions endemic to new product teams. We abandoned their blinding beliefs in brainstorming, focus groups, off-site inspirational junkets, the incremental advances of experts, and most of the "weird rules" of orthodoxy in the creativity cults of so many companies. Creativity and innovation seemed to us more like the natural output of diverse groups who figure out how best to combine their knowledge and talents in common work.
We took nothing for granted. Designing our own office space for easy flow of information and ideas -- both scientific and pop journals in coffee areas and both johns -- we were startled at the energy welling up among two dozen men and women who went into business with their favorite product ideas. Having first scored about average on Amabile's innovation scale, in ten months CNV outscored all the other 25 companies. After 15 years of launching no categorically new products, P&G jump-started a new era of creativity in a 164-year-old company. Over the next four years, P&G new-ventures teams, not just CNV, launched a third of all new U.S. packaged products with yearly sales above $100 million. Adding up to $2 billion in sales, these products focused on everyday human needs: the Swiffer mop, the first with its own liquid reservoir and disposable cleaning pads, Crest White Strips for bleaching teeth at home, and ThermaCare, the self-heating pads for pain relief. We were having such a ball that we got moved out of our offices at corporate headquarters for making too much noise.
Taking Time for Creativity
Meanwhile, Amabile's research into the intrinsic nature of creativity keeps getting stronger. Writing in the Harvard Business Review this August, she dispels the myth that time pressure is a good nudge for creativity. Practical originality involves combining information from two or more knowledge silos and letting the combos incubate. It takes its own sweet time. Intense pressure tends to make people feel more creative but it actually tends to reduce creative thinking -- even after the pressure lightens up.
Redeeming Capitalism
What all these studies add up to is an overwhelming correlation between creativity and spirituality. Both require listening, tapping into our deeper concerns with the world around us. Both flourish with a heartfelt desire to improve our capacity to serve others. And both can be altruistic.
As our country reels from its era of infectious greed, it's handy to notice McClelland's conclusions from years of research into entrepreneurs: "One of the peculiar ironies of history is that Marx won his case with his sworn enemies, the capitalists, who have accepted his charge that they work only for self-interest, the profit motive. I'm an academic, and nothing has surprised me more than to find myself trying to rescue the businessman from the academic trash heap, dust him off, and offer him intellectual respectability." In other words, there is no inherent contradiction between capitalism and spirituality. Where one appears, capitalism has betrayed its primary function of service through innovation.
Six Thoughts for Ordinary Innovators
Intuition comes not from a eureka light, but a miner's lamp. Or, as a management guru Peter Drucker puts it, "Creativity is an activity, not a gift." If you want to keep your group at its creative best, consider these six ideas.
1. Thinking "out of the box" assumes that there is a box. Believing that creativity is some weird kind of thinking blinds people to the seasoned insights that help you begin to glimpse unlikely new connections between different technologies, different disciplines.
2. Information is energy. It is useless unless it flows around and combines with other information. When turf wars lock knowledge into separate "silos" such as university departments or company divisions, innovation stagnates.
3. Innovation — like civilization — blossoms on trade routes. When different cultures mix their insights, art flourishes and knowledge makes magic.
4. Keep Out of Skunkworks. Remembering the success of Lockheed's super-secret "skunkworks" (a name borrowed from Li'l Abner) back in World War II, corporations love to create their own teams of certified creative geniuses who are carefully insulated from the outside world. The problem is that these "creatives" tend to be cut off from good information – such as the needs of consumers.
5. Women and men create better together. Data from a review of initial public offerings during the high-flying '90s is clear: Companies where women made up a significant proportion of the executive team achieved both higher stock prices and greater earnings. When women made up at least 20 percent of the executive team, share prices were 28 percent higher and earnings were 28 percent higher than at all-male companies. Synergy of the sexes pays off.
6. Look for common work, which emerges when people are able to elevate mission above ego. That means not letting pride or selfish concerns corrupt your contribution. Don't let your ego block your insight or blind you to someone else's.
People don't create something original unless their primary motives are intrinsic — the interest and joy of the work itself, often in service to others.
Creativity Vision Innovation
In 2003, Craig B. Wynett was General Manager of New Business at Procter & Gamble. T George Harris founded Psychology Today and American Health magazines, and led the team that created Spirituality & Health.
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Very, very few highlights in a sorry performance.
It has been a summer to forget - in three series across three formats, Australia is yet to take home a trophy.
However, this one will hurt the most, with India claiming their first ever Test series win in Australia.
While the plaudits for Virat Kohli and his men will ring in, the post-mortem will begin on an Australian outfit horribly bereft of confidence and performance.
Surrendering such a record - all 71 years of it - proves this truly is one of the worst Australian sides in recent memory.
Just five months out from a World Cup defence effort, and with an Ashes series just weeks later, Justin Langer has a mountain to climb to get his players up to the task.
Two Tests against Sri Lanka could provide an opportunity to heal the pain, but even then, irreparable damage has been done.
Here's how Sporting News rated the Australian team from the fourth Test.
The one Aussie batsman to actually turn up. His first innings 79 was fluent and aggressive, right out of the Warner mould. Sadly, so was his dismissal as he chopped on searching for more. A breakout series, but not exactly what was forecast prior to his debut.
Taken at face value, Khawaja's series has been a huge let-down. In the absences of Smith and Warner, the left-hander needed to stand up. Instead, he'll wear a series average of 28.28 as India created history. Being promoted to opener in Sydney didn't change a thing.
Came in looking to make an impact with the ball with his part-time leggies. That experiment failed. Was popped into first drop. That experiment didn't overly fail - he looked solid, and played every ball on its merits, including the one that cost him his wicket. Admirable, but didn't set the world alight.
And everybody hurts sometimes, sings R.E.M. Whether that goes for Marsh, or people watching his continued failures in white clothing, well, that's open to interpretation. However, his frustrations were exacerbated by a 'lazy' push at Jadeja in the first dig.
Head's ongoing modes of dismissal aren't helping his case to become a fully-fledged Test stalwart. Caught and bowled by Kuldeep on 20, it's clear Head isn't fully settled. Can play, but is letting himself and his team down.
Came back in with a job to do, and initially looked the goods. Caught in two minds as he chopped on a Bumrah ripper, but demonstrated his commitment to refining his technique. Whether that will save him for the Sri Lanka series and beyond will remain to be seen.
As soon as he lost the toss, Paine must have wanted to crawl into a hole. He had a 50/50 chance to get what he wanted, but by the end of day three, his team stood no chance. Being the the first Australian captain to lose a series at home to India will seriously hurt, no doubt about it. Glovework admirable as always, but was exposed by Kuldeep Yadav in the first dig.
Went wicketless in an innings for just the third time in his Test career as he returned 0/101. Copped a Shami worm-burner in the first dig. Played his heart out, but didn't get the results.
26 expensive overs, returning 1/123 as India piled on the runs. Reads of a player without the confidence and bite that made him a force in all conditions, across all formats. Did no harm with the bat, but he's not there to score runs.
Conceded 178 of India's 622 runs, and took four wickets, but wasn't overly threatening like India's tweakers were. Ending Pujara's epic just seven runs shy of a double century helped Australia gain some fight, but it was too little, too late. Was criticised for not reviewing his lbw in Australia's first innings.
Again did a decent job on a flat deck, but it wasn't enough. No bowler is spared when the opposition scores 622, but Hazlewood looked threatening and bowled without luck.


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Large Menu Underpins Thai Restaurant's Success
Authentic Thai Restaurant Helps Educate Customers About The Cuisine
Kung Fu Plaza's Thai Smoked Pork Salad
Everything is different between Thai food and Chinese food
Las Vegas, NV (Vocus) July 15, 2010
When Americans visit Kung Fu Plaza, a Las Vegas Restaurants that has been serving the oldest and most authentic Chinese food and Thai food in the valley since 1974, it is not uncommon for them to browse some 800 dishes and ask if there is a difference between Thai food and Chinese food. The question always makes Allen Wong, general manger of Kung Fu Plaza, smile.
"Everything is different between Thai food and Chinese food," Wong says. "Many Thai dishes cannot even be cooked properly at home because they require temperatures of 400 degrees for the ingredients, vegetables, and meats to bond properly, which most conventional stovetop burners cannot reach. I know, I've tried myself."
Wong should know. His parents immigrated to the United States from Thailand in the 1960s, opening one of the first Thai restaurants in the United States. The concept was so different then that his parents named the restaurant Kung Fu to help distinguish it from Chinese restaurants.
"Most people assume the difference is the spice, but that is not really true," says Wong. "Thai cooking was influenced by India, China, Persia, and other countries across Southeast Asia. That is the charm about our food; it blends all of these influences to make something very new and unique."
Like American cuisine, Thai cuisine is also divided into regional cooking, with the central region consisting of the most dishes familiar to Americans. Rice, fish, vegetables with garlic, black pepper, and fish sauce-nam pla are common. The introduction of fiery-hot chili peppers was not introduced until the 1500s, along with coriander, lime, and tomato imported from the West. All of these ingredients were used to create increasingly complex blends.
The most common staple is sweet jasmine rice, which is indigenous to Thailand. Most authentic Thai meals consist of rice khao with complementary dishes served concurrently. "Gang pad" and "Gang juud" refer to curried dishes and soups whereas "Yum" refers to Thai style salads.
Alongside traditional dishes such as Tom-Yum Koong, Pad Thai, Pa-nang and Laarb, Kung Food Plaza serves an abundance of Chinese dishes. Originally, they were incorporated at the request of customers looking for popular Chinese dishes in the 1970s. Since, Kung Fu Plaza has added dozens of lesser known recipes.
"We use curries from several regions to create unique dishes, including Pa-nang and a spicy Thai Green curry," says Wong. "We also serve Laarb, which is a rural classic, and have created our own Smoked Pork Salad.
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Opengear Launches NetOps Automation Platform
New platform brings together network operations automation, provisioning and hardware that enables Docker containers to run at the edge of the network.
By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted Jun 11, 2018
Opengear announced its new NetOps Automation platform on June 11, providing a new integrated solution to enable network operations.
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The solution includes Opengear's Lighthouse 5 centralized management software, network operations modules and the OMS2000 Operations Manager hardware appliance.
"The NetOps platform is built on Opengear's core technology, but it brings new technologies together that create a unique solution for automation and provisioning, which is patent pending," Opengear CTO Marcio Saito told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.
Saito explained that the new hardware brings Trusted Platform Module technology, which had previously only been available in server platforms, to secure an embedded appliance. He added that with the software the NetOps Automation platform creates an infrastructure capable of managing distributed applications and integrating components at the central site and at the edge of network.
"Going beyond the access part of out-of-band, the new platform adds in automation and provisioning capabilities," Saito said.
Saito said that the OM2000 is a stand-alone appliance and doesn't replace any existing product.
"In fact, a deployment of the NetOps Automation platform is expected to include one or more OM2000 appliances at each location to orchestrate the NetOps functionality, working in concert with Opengear's existing IM7200 or Resilience Gateway appliances in each rack, " he said.
The OM2000 is also able to run Docker containers, enabling organizations to deploy applications on the device. Saito said that the initial use of containers has been to implement the provisioning for NetOps Automation. He added that Opengear plans on introducing new solutions in the near future to solve other use cases.
"Software companies providing solutions for network management can now leverage the presence and proximity of Opengear appliances to deploy agents and other software modules at the edge of the network," Saito said. "End users who need to run distributed applications can also package them as containers and let Lighthouse 5 manage them."
NetOps Modules
As part of the platform update, Opengear is releasing a secure provisioning NetOps module which allows enterprises to ship a rack to site and then provision it remotely via cellular access. Saito said that additional NetOps modules will provide the ability to automate other processes, based on use cases developed with its enterprise customers. The modules are an add-on to the Lighthouse platform and will be sold as an additional license.
Intent-Based Networking
The Opengear NetOps platform is intended to help enable and work with both software-defined networking (SDN) and intent-based networking (IBN). Saito explained that both SDN and IBN require the distribution of configuration or "intention" files from the central management to the devices at the edge of the network. Usually, the distribution of those files is done "in-band" (i.e., using the network infrastructure itself), which is contradictory to the concept of separating the control plane from the data plane.
"Every time you rely on the network to manage the network, you run the risk of deadlock if the network is disrupted," Saito said. "Lighthouse 5 and the new OM2000 appliances keep all the files where and when you need them."
Saito said that if the network is down, Lighthouse pushes those files over the out-of-band channel (e.g., cellular). He added that even if the remote site is completely offline, the OM2000 appliance is capable of storing the files locally and serving them to the devices to bring them back to operation.
Saito said that over the past 10 years, IT complexity has migrated from the edge to the core of the network; in the next 10 years, there will be a migration to the edge.
"Applications such as self-driving cars, AR/VR, artificial intelligence, video, etc. will drive the need for more infrastructure nearer to the end user," Saito said. "Deploying IBN agents, telemetry servers, monitoring agents and other software modules to the edge will become more important, and the NetOps Automation platform is anticipating that trend."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.