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Mina

This is Mina, stalking her brother in the backyard.

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Taken with my new Canon PowerShot S3. I think I'm going to like this camera.

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Pedestrian bridge in Maastricht, NL.

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Welcome to therickards.com.

I am using the site as a testbed for Drupal development, particularly the MySite module, which I maintain.

If you'd like to test the MySite module, you may login as user demo with pass demo or you may register a new account. Then click on My therickards.com.

Update: Due to recent spam attempts, if you wish to create a test account, you must enter a valid email address and validate your account.

For more about me, see Second Goose.

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Myologie 2008 en images

Retrouvez, tout au long de la semaine, des interviews (en français ou en anglais) de chercheurs présents au Congrès Myologie 2008 que nous avons interrogés sur leurs parcours et leurs projets de recherche en cours, sur le site http://www.myology2008.org/fr/actualites/99.html.

Synthèses de publications scientifiques

Tous les mois, nous vous présentons une sélection de publications scientifiques et médicales. Chaque publication vous est présentée sous la forme d'une synthèse didactique reprenant les principaux points de l'article et les conclusions de l'auteur.Dernières synthèses mises en ligne :> Myopathie de Duchenne et saut d'exon : un pas de plus vers la clinique.> Une nouvelle revue Cochrane sur les essais thérapeutiques dans les maladies de Charcot-Marie-Tooth.> Le mofetil aussi efficace que la corticothérapie dans les stades précoces de myasthénie oculaire : à propos d'un essai en ouvert.> L'existence de troubles de déglutition dans la myopathie FSH débattue.> Fréquence élevée des phénomènes douloureux dans la myopathie FSH et dans la maladie de Steinert : à propos d'une étude comparative nord-américaine.D'autres synthèses de publications sont en ligne pour la myopathie de Duchenne, la fibrodysplasie osseuse progressive, la paralysie périodique primitive hyperkaliémique/hypokaliémique, la myopathie congénitale à central core, la myopathie facio-scapulo-humérale, la dystrophie musculaire oculo-pharyngée, les amyotrophies spinales proximales, la dystrophie musculaire de Becker.

Le réseau Euromyasthénia fête ses 2 ans

Deux ans, déjà ! Lancé en janvier 2006 grâce à une subvention du programme de santé publique européen, le réseau Euromyasthénia compte aujourd'hui plus de 30 partenaires, représentant 19 pays européens, un site internet actif (http://www.euromyasthenia.eu) et de nombreux projets en cours.« L'objectif de ce réseau est d'améliorer le prise en charge et la classification des différentes formes de Myasthénie Grave », explique Olivier Freund, chef de projet à la Direction du développement des thérapeutiques de l'AFM. « Pour cela, on a collecté différentes données (socio-économiques, biologiques,...) dont l'analyse servira à élaborer des lignes directrices pour la prise en charge, ou à créer une carte européenne de la myasthénie».

Saut d'exon effectué grâce au gène U7 modifié : le point avec Luis Garcia

L'équipe "Biothérapies des Maladies Neuromusculaires" qui fait partie du groupe Myologie de l'Institut de myologie (Paris) travaille sur l'utilisation du saut d'exon pour traiter la myopathie de Duchenne. Luis Garcia, le responsable de l'équipe, revient, pour le site AFM, sur les travaux qu'elle mène sur le saut d'exon effectué grâce au gène U7 modifié.Après avoir montré l'intérêt du petit gène U7 codant pour un ARN anti-sens chez un modèle murin de la myopathie de Duchenne, vous avez décidé d'évaluer son efficacité chez le chien. Où en sont ces travaux aujourd'hui ?Luis Garcia : Dans un premier temps, nous avons cherché à rétablir une dystrophine tronquée mais fonctionnelle dans la patte d'un chien affecté par la myopathie de Duchenne en lui injectant par voie sanguine des vecteurs de type AAV porteurs du gène U7 modifié. Ces travaux sont maintenant terminés. Les résultats ayant été positifs, nous avons alors décidé de traiter des chiens "corps entier", c'est-à-dire d'apporter le gène U7 facilitant le saut d'exon à l'ensemble de la musculature. Cette étude vient de débuter, nous n'avons donc pas encore de résultats mais, pour l'instant, tout se passe bien.

Urgence d'un revenu d'existence : mobilisation le 29 mars à Paris

L'AFM se mobilise, le 29 mars prochain, aux côtés de 70 associations, pour demander une réforme globale urgente des ressources des personnes en situation de handicap ou de maladie invalidante et un meilleur accès à l'emploi.La loi du 11 février 2005, en dépit de fortes mobilisations n'a, en effet, pas apporté de réponse à ces questions.Aujourd'hui, les ressources des personnes en situation de handicap qui ne peuvent pas travailler sont inférieures au seuil de pauvreté. Les différents dispositifs existants sont peu cohérents, complexes et largement insuffisants.Pour ces raisons, 70 associations du collectif mobilisent leurs adhérents, le 29 mars Prochain à Paris, à travers une marche vers l'Elysée.
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Policy Patrol Enterprise Version 5 Now Available

Enhance your organization’s resistance to spam and phishing with Policy Patrol Enterprise Version 5, a server-based email filtering suite recently made available by Red Earth Software to eligible organizations through TechSoup Stock. You can also use Policy Patrol to standardize email signatures and disclaimers, turning email communications into promotional tools.

NetSquared Teaming Up with Sun Microsystems for Global Hack Days!

NetSquared is teaming up with Sun Microsystems to create community hack days in conjunction with a series of recruiting events that Sun hosts called "Tech Days." First stop San Paolo, Brazil on October 1, 2008. Next up, China.

A Few Good Page Layout Tools for Nonprofits

Do you want to create a letterhead for your nonprofit or lay out a monthly newsletter or report? Send thank-you cards to donors? Create an invite for your next event? All these tasks fall under the umbrella of page layout. Idealware spoke to five nonprofit technology and creative professionals about the page layout tools that have worked for them and their organizations. We’ve consolidated their advice to help you find the tool you need.

Kicking Paper with Google Notebook and Dabbleboard

Drop the paper habit with two simple online tools for note-taking and collaboration.

How Do Nonprofits Take Second Life to the Next Level?

Rik Panganiban of Global Kids explores how nonprofits can use Second Life effectively in his recent presentation .

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Industry Standard using Drupal

The Industry Standard, aka thestandard.com, is using Drupal. The Industry Standard features news and analysis that covers emerging technologies and companies, venture funding, acquisitions, site launches, and other developments in the internet space. This system is built as a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network. The site is part of the IDG network, which includes sites like Computerworld, Infoworld, JavaWorld.com, Macworld, PC World, and more.

Like most big Drupal sites, they use CCK, Views, memcache, and a master-slave database configuration. Two noteworthy items are the fact that they use Apache Solr for search, and Mollom as their spam deterrent.

Hagen's Drupal 6 book in the mail

Hagen Graf has written his second German Drupal book: Drupal 6: Websites entwickeln und verwalten mit dem Open Source-CMS published by Addison-Wesley. The book also comes with a German Drupal 6 training video. And for every copy sold, 1 EUR is donated to the Drupal Association Thanks Hagen!

@Hagen, next time take a picture of your book on my website? ;-)

The book talks about Mollom!

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 book

Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 is an update to David Mercer's two year old book Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites.

Just like David's previous book, this book is geared towards people who are new to Drupal and that have little or no experience in website design, PHP, MySQL or HTML. If you want practical advice on how to get a Drupal site up and running, this book is for you. Unlike David's first Drupal book, this book also caters to the intermediate Drupal user as it talks about Drupal's content construction kit, actions, triggers and even jQuery. Reading this book won't make you a Drupal expert, but it will give you a solid base from which to build.

Learning Drupal 6 module development book

Matt Butcher's Learning Drupal 6 module development book an great introduction to begin developing on Drupal. It is not for the die-hard developer, but it looks like a must have for new Drupal developers. Thanks for for putting this book together, Matt!

State of Drupal presentation (August 2008)

Last week at DrupalCon Szeged I gave my traditional state of Drupal presentation. The video of the presentation is provided below, and you can download a copy of my slides (PDF, 11MB) as well.

The presentation discusses the results of the recent survey that I conducted; the survey ran for 30+ days and collected more than 1300 responses so it should provide a good idea of the community's current thinking. I'll provide more color and details about the survey results in a number of follow-up posts.

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kforet submitted a stumper: http://drupal.org/node/158378

Looks like we're on track for a fix.

Caesar

In the interest of equal time, here's a photo of Caesar.

IMG_0201.jpg

Mina

This is Mina, stalking her brother in the backyard.

Mina strikes
Click image to enlarge.

Taken with my new Canon PowerShot S3. I think I'm going to like this camera.

Test

Test one two

IMCE Test

This is a test of the IMCE module.

Pedestrian bridge in Maastricht, NL.

DSCN3029_0.jpg

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Announcing a New Book: Drupal in Education and E-Learning

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Bill Fitzgerald, of FunnyMonkey, has written Drupal for Education and E-learning, due out from Packt Publishing in late October. Targeted for Drupal 6, this book covers how to set up community sites to support interactive teaching and learning. This book gives an overview of the functionality of Drupal core, and then gives precise instructions on using CCK, Views 2, Organic Groups, and a range of other contributed modules to extend the functionality of your site.

This book is written with the needs of educational users in mind, but the information in this book can be useful for site administrators, or for people looking to build a community/social networking site in Drupal.

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The Do It With Drupal Seminar

Lullabot is pleased to announce the largest independent Drupal event ever. Do It With Drupal is a 3-day seminar focused on the configuration, architecture, and processes behind building successful Drupal websites and communities.

The event is geared at attendees with a wide range of Drupal experience. For new developers and decision-makers, DIWD will offer a great introduction to Drupal and the Drupal community. For more experienced Drupalers, DIWD will offer a great chance to pick up tips and tricks straight from the experts and a chance to connect and socialize with other Drupal professionals.

The Do It With Drupal Seminar will feature the following highlights:

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Raincity Studios Releases Improved Bryght Drupal Hosting Platform

Some of you may have noticed we recently gave the Bryght hosting system a facelift and added some functionality under the hood. Bryght Drupal hosting combines a custom install profile with a tuned hosting environment, incorporating best practices used on Drupal.org, to make a fully functional, out-of-the-box VPS.

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Knight Drupal Initiative monthly proposal review -- 11 September 2008

After a week of delay due to DrupalCON related travel, it is time for our monthly open review meeting. We will meet for the next round of proposal reviews on Thursday, September 11th at 14:00 Eastern (US) (18:00 UTC).

The meeting will be held in IRC #drupal-dojo on irc.freenode.net. (See http://drupal.org/irc for information about using IRC.) We will meet for 1:30 with the following agenda:

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iCitizenForum.com Case Study

At the end of 2007, Aten Design Group worked with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to deploy iCitizenForum.com, a Drupal website about Citizenship. The following case study documents some of the factors that led to choosing Drupal, and outlines the technical approach for the project.

Background

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. The foundation preserves and interprets a 301-acre Historic Area; operates museums, outreach programs, and the John D. Rockefeller Library; and carries out important research and archaeology pertaining to the origins of America. In accordance with its mission, "That the Future May Learn from the Past", the foundation is concerned not only with recreating the 18th-century experience, but with facilitating education about the idea of America–both in its beginnings, and in its relevance for the future.

iCitizenForum.com, a website that promotes discussion around the topic of Citizenship, is a fitting extension of this core mission.

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