Swine Flu in Google Earth

OK, guess where I found this article about tracking the Swine Flu outbreaks on Google Earth. Right! Once again, the GearthBlog. This is yet another wonderful post that points us to a kml file (Google Earth format file) that will plot all cases of the Swine Flu on the map - and even post live updates! It shows both confirmed and suspected cases, too.So, if your current events class is talking about this (and how can it NOT be, as the Swine Flu is also being blamed for fluctuating oil prices) then this is a must-read artic...

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Looking for data? Try (and link to) this

A recent post in the Official Google Blog really caught my eye. Now it's possible to not only find public data and view it in a chart, but now you can interact with it, adding other data for comparison, for example. Even better, you can link to your chart!Take a look at the video at the end of that blog post and then try it yourself. Here is one that I made that compares the unemployment rate in PA with that in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) and Philadelphia.Another great way for kids to create non-powerpoint presentatio...

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Reflections on the Webinar

It was really exciting to be able to offer a free webinar on the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. I decided about three weeks ago with all of the clamor of this stimulus package to share my ideas on how school districts can begin to dialog on how best to plan for purchases and professional development. First off I would like to thank Glance for providing me with use of their incredibly easy to use screensharing and teleconferencing service. It went off almost without a hitch- slight error on my part of giving my participants my old Glance address. Once I rectified that, we were on our way to having a smooth and successful webinar.The stimulus package is an ideal was to really build and shore up your school's assistive technology program. While there is a lot to think about,...

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Posted in: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,assistive technology,brian friedlander,IDEA,Stimulus package

Impressions from One to One

In no particular order, some thoughts about this year's One to One conference held in Penn State over the past three days.VERY frustrating Internet connectivity. ARRGGHHH!!!The kids from the CLC Charter School did a GREAT job with their projects AND their presentations. One team created a video that told the story of "Flowers for Algernon" but from the perspective of the character of Miss Kinney. Excellent. Another team did a project that told the story of Nuclear power that rivaled the kinds of movies you might see at Three Mile Island. It was just incredible. And really, it was made in one day. OUTSTANDING! The last was a funny movie about Pirates. A fun and funny video and a nice presentation. All the students represented themselves and their school VERY well. I am SO glad I got to see...

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Invert Image Processing and Source Code In Delphi

Hi Friend. Do You need Source Code of Image Processing..? But I’m only have in Delphi Programming. It is easy to Follow and Understand.Invert Image is one of image processing to invert the color. The easy way to understand is Change Black Color to White and White to Black, but there are variation if the Red, Green and Blue value have variation.Invert Image Basically obtain from decrease Value of 255 to Red Pixel Value, 255 to Green Pixel Value and 255 to B Pixel Value.Below is Source Code for Invert Image Processing in Delphi.procedure TForm1.ToolButtonInvertClick(Sender: TObject);var i,j :byte;PH:PByteArray;R,G,B : integer;begin for i:=0 to...

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Brightness Image Processing and Source Code In Delphi

Hi Friend. Do You need Source Code of Image Processing..? But I’m only have in Delphi Programming. It is easy to Follow and Understand.Brightness manipulation is widely use in image processing. We give a value to the procedure to change the brightness. Positive value mean increase brighness and negative value mean decrease brightness.(a. normal image) (b. decrease brightness, histogram spread) (c. increase brightness 1, histogram collect together in right side)(d. increase brightness 2, histogram collect together in right side) Below is Source Code for Brightness Image Processing in Delphi.procedure TFormBright_Con.Brightness (A:integer);var...

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Posted in: Image Processing

PollDaddy Polls for Twitter

Thanks to @mackrellr for pointing me to this: Polldaddy polls for twitter.There are others, for sure, but what I like about this one is the ability to leave comments on the poll to explain your vote.Check out this samp...

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The 16th Carnival of Computer Help and Advice

Welcome to the sixteenth monthly Carnival of Computer Help and Advice. Another collection of blog articles to help you avoid problems and get the most out of your PCs.I would like to thank everyone who contributed yet another bumper haul of excellent posts. As ever, limitations of space mean that not all submissions can be included.We get the ball rolling this month with Kristofer Brozio's review post 16gb USB Drive Comparison - 17 Drives Compared from Testfreaks | The Blog. While we are on the subject of hardware, Jules of PCauthorities.com tells us how to How to Boost Your Laptop Audio.In recent years the Linux has emerged as a viable alternative...

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Informix community news

International Informix User Group is hosting the annual Informix User Conference. It's taking place in Kansas City, not far from the Lenexa development labs where most of the IDS development is done.This allows the conference participants to meet with some of the more influential people in Informix development. Most of the product architects will be at the conference.It should be starting, and it will end on Wednesday. You can check the schedule on the IIUG site.The conference is packaged with a lot of interesting sessions, workshops and you can even take the exams for IDS v11 certification. If you're not going to the conference you can also take a free online test just to get some feedback on your knowledge level. The exams are available on the Prometric website and you can get a promotional...

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"The Beauty of Knowledge"

In the latest daily email from the Diigo in Education group was this bookmarked site: Be Very Afraid."Prof. Stephen Heppell and his team once again brings together some of the best examples of Digital Creativity from schools, colleges and Higher Education in the South East." Note that along the top of the page are links to the various year's events. BVA1 thru BVA5. (BVA=Be Very Afraid) Spend some time watching the videos from the various years. Yo'l be glad you did.This particular piece was done in 2005, but don't let that stop you from watching it. In particular, I was impressed by the two girls in the Matching Green School video. At one point these two girls talk about the work that they've been doing - solving a problem of a computer having crashed. The computer crashed and now has the...

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra performance

I hadn't seen this part before. Here are three children playing a piano piece, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vase from Two Pieces for Piano. It's the first piece when this starts.Having spent the first part of my life as a (bad) music teacher, but still holding onto the soft spot in my heart for young musicians, this caught my breath when the camera moved the the image of these three young children seated at the piano.If you've got some time, watch the entire piece. Oh, and don't forget to watch the first half of their performance here, t...

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What Stops Population Growth? - Hans Rosling

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth/I'm sure that you know of the WONDERFUL website: Gapminder.org (correction made to original post). You might have seen one of his presentations on Ted. I was browsing the gapminder.org site just now and was exploring some of the other , perhaps less well known features of the site. For example, under the Gapminder World link, click on the link for "Gaps Between" and watch data about the gaps between states in the US, or in China. Or, on the front page, click the links to watch some of the videos like the one I linked to at the top of this post.First, watch the video (above) and then ask yourself if that data told the story. I think you'll agree that it did. Then ask yourself if giving a presentation like this is better than diving...

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Falcon Cam active in Harrisburg again

http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon/Every year I try to remind folks about the camera atop the Rachel Carson building in Harrisburg, PA that is trained on the nest of a peregrine falcon. You can either watch the still images as they are updated every two minutees or you can watch the live camera.Right now mama is sitting on the nest so there's not a whole lot of action. But, soon the egss will begin to hatch and the fun starts. Last year I watched as one or the other of the adults brought back a pigeon it had caught. It was fascinating watching it feed the four eyasess.You can find lesson plans for teachers, and even register a class to receive updates and other information about the birds.Check it out. Register your class so that you know when the eggs begin to hatch. Great f...

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Returning to null...

In a recent article I talked about the way to return a NULL from a query. That remembered me how "picky" Informix is with NULL. Did this sound like me saying Informix does something wrong?! That would be strange in an Informix dedicated blog...Well... I said "picky" because that's the feeling I get from people who face the way Informix deals with NULL. Usually those persons have a background in other RDBMS which may times behave differently. Let me show some situations common in Informix:The query below returns NULL. Most of the times people expect it to return "SomeString"SELECT "SomeString"||NULLFROM systablesWHERE tabid = 1;The query below return no rows. People would expect it to return some rowsSELECT "SomeString"FROM systablesWHERE "A" != NULL::CHARThe...

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Posted in: informix,NULL,null comparison,null concatenation

Ocean Trash Vortex

Sorry this is too late for Earth Day, but not too late to make a lesson out of it. I hope you already knew about this and already built it into your lessons for Earth Day.Enormous Ocean Vortex of TrashImagine garbage covering the entire state of Texas. Now imagine it floating in the ocean. Now imagine that it's not only floating, but it's swirling in the ocean and circumnavigating the globe."Researchers have discovered a Texas-sized area of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean. Composed primarily of plastic garbage from landlubbers, the area has become both a major threat to marine life and a frightening example of how polluted our oceans are."There's a great animation of how this happens here on the GreenPeace site. Scroll down and click the blue map. Once you're viewing the map, click the...

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Using the Vernier GPS Sensor with the LabQuest

I first want to thank Vernier Software & Technology for sending me their latest GPS Sensor to review that can be used with LoggerPro 3.7 and the LabQuest. I have always had a keen interest in both science and technology and would have loved to have access to a LabQuest in my science classes when I was in school. In this day in age of technology, the LabQuest foots the bill for an easy to use handheld data collection tool. The LabQuest continues to grow as an educational tool as more and more sensors get added to the product line. I was very glad to hear that Vernier was going to release a GPS Sensor this spring that could be used with the...

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Posted in: google maps,Labquest,probeware,sensors,vernier

Computer Business Plan Tips for Getting Great Clients

As you are writing your computer business plan, you need to think about a very important question: WHO will be benefit from your services?Many computer business owners make the mistake of chasing after prospects that only need services now and on a short-term basis. What you should be doing however is marketing to those prospects that will be with you for many years to come and bring you predictable, steady revenue. This is the core, but potentially $100,000+ difference between transactional-oriented cherry-picking, one-shot-deal customers and long-term, steady, high-paying great clients.Although many mistakenly use the terms customer and client synonymously, it's a huge oversight because of their enormous differences in long-term potential to your computer business.They fail to see how...

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Compress and free....

Guy Bowerman post's about two new Informix white papers. One of them talks about the new compression feature of IDS 11.50.xC4. Be sure to check it, if you feel your data is growing beyond acceptable limits.The other paper gives an extensive and detailed overview of managing IDS on Windows platform.Here's the article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/gbowerman?entry=new_informix_white_pap...

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Posted in: informix compression,windows

Project Planning in MindView 3

In a previous post, I had asked my readers to share their thoughts and ideas about project planning and management and mind mapping software. I had created a short 10 question poll about the issues and features that you are looking for in your mind mapping software and just how important and integral is project management to the tool. Not surprising a large percentage of the respondents felt that using mind mapping software for project planning was a very important reason for using the tool.Earlier this week I posted a review of MindView 3 from Matchware, Inc. which focused on the mind mapping environment and thought that you would be interested...

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Posted in: MindView 3,project management,project planning

Proloquo2Go Webinar

With the marvels of the Internet I was able to connect with David Neimeijer, from Assistiveware via Skype and began chatting with him about the impending release of Proloquo2Go. Proloquo2Go is a portable augmentative communication device that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Proloquo2Go is a very innovative, programmable and cost effective device that can be used with students to give them a "voice". As we were chatting, I asked David if he would mind giving my Assistive Technology Class and introduction to Proloquo2Go-but considering the time difference he thought that his partner Samuel Senott might be available to do it. Within minutes...

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Posted in: AssistiveWare,David Neimeijer,Proloquo2Go,Samuel Senott

Undergraduate Examination

Dear All,I need Support from All My Friend in The Blog Worldto Succeced my Undergraduate Examination in Friday, 24 April 2009wish all the best for ...

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra performance

This gives me goosebumps!How cool is th...

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2020 Forecast - a tool to help shape the future

Many thanks again to John Branson for sharing this one with me via email. Thank you, John. You'll see that John referred to this article back in that comment.There are many changes taking place, and many trends taking shape, as well as may new technologies that allow us to do new things, involve more people, visualize data, take control of your own learning, and organize people like never before. This report identifies these factors and shows how they interact to create real change. From the report: "Over the next decade, the most vibrant innovations in education will take place outside traditional institutions. This 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning presents a critical dilemma facing these institutions: how to reconcile bottom-up developments...

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Empat Tingkatan Kekuatan berdasarkan Pekerjaan Seseorang

Apakah anda setuju ataukah tidak dengan pendapat berikut :Ada 4 tipe pekerjaan yang berlaku di masyarakat dan menjebloskan kita ke masing-masing tipe /level pekerjaan itu :1. Teknik / Teknis.2. Ekonomik.3. Hukum.4. Dewan atau tingkat wakil rakyat.Orang orang teknik ternyata paling bawah levelnya, mereka diperintah untuk benerin ini itu, ngecek ini itu, dan memastikan semua berjalan baik.Orang ekonomi menguasai orang teknik, manajemen kebanyakan dilakukan oleh orang-orang yang tau ekonomi dan yang mampu memanajemen penghasilan.Orang Hukum tentunya diatas orang ekonomi dan juga teknik levelnya. Keputusan keputusan yang ada tentunya harus menaati hukum yang ada. orang ekonomi dan teknik tidak boleh melaksanakan sesuatu pekerjaan yang melanggar hukum tentunya.Diatas semuanya ada level yang banyak...

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Posted in: Pengetahuan

Informix authentication and connections

The idea for this post comes from a recent discussion on c.d.i and also from checking the URL referrers that bring people here.Most of this blog visits comes from Google or other search engines. And apparently there are a lot of questions about how Informix authenticates and establishes user connections.I will try go give a generic overview on these subjects. I'll point out a few less known aspects of Informix authentication.This article in no way tries to substitute the official documentation, but I hope this can be used as a concentrated information resource about the subject.Authentication versus privilegesFirst, we have to create a distinction between two steps involved in a connection establishment.As we all know, IDS and other databases have several privileges required for doing any...

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Posted in: connection,informix change password,informix pam,informix user,pam,trusted connection

Computer Business Ideas for Getting More Steady, High-Paying Clients

Are you trying to come up with computer business ideas that will get you the stable revenue you need to survive, even in challenging economic times?Many new and inexperienced computer business owners spend most of their time and energy chasing down one-shot-deal customers and keeping their fingers crossed that these clients will call them again in a few months or a few years. If you are relying on this same business model (or lack thereof!), you are headed down a dead-end street.You can’t build a successful computer business around the needs and wants of one-shot deal customers. First of all, it is just not financially viable to spend all that time and money acquiring customers for one-shot deal transactions. But secondly, you are going to drive yourself crazy waiting for the phone to ring...

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