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Medical Marijuana…The "Good" Weed
The "Good" Weed
(It's time to legalize it already!)
A Commentary by Bob Berger, MS, MVSc, PhD
The time has definitely come to legalize Marijuana (MJ), in every state in the U.S. It is a fact that the thought processes of most U.S. citizens concerning the use and legalization of MJ has changed considerably, and has been steadily changing [about this] over the last 3 decades, as more and more published scientific research has proven how truly beneficial MJ is for medicinal use…and how truly ridiculous it has been to challenge otherwise!
When I was growing up in Los Angeles, California was considered "the MJ state of the nation", and MJ, sarcastically referred to as "weed", "dope", "pot", "grass", and even "hay", was never taken seriously as a potential medicinal that could be beneficial…so much more so than the majority of dangerous, lethal narcotics that are legally prescribed and kill people on a daily basis. MJ was usually associated with "Cheech and Chong", "Easy Rider", stuff that only beatniks and "hippies" smoked to get high and escape from reality, and smoking it made people lazy, dumb, and brain-dead!
Now it appears that the truly lazy, dumb, and brain-dead people are those who are unwilling to change their "medieval" thinking and opinions, such as the greedy lawmakers, and the nearsighted "throwbacks" who refuse to accept the facts about this amazing plant. MJ should no longer be referred to as the "bad weed" any more…instead, more like the "good weed".
When Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the world-famous neurosurgeon and CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent/Spokesperson, did a 180-degree turnaround on his professional view/opinion concerning medical MJ, this was probably the strongest push that MJ advocates needed to convince the naysayers that the acceptance and use of medical MJ needs to be seriously considered as a legitimate "drug" of choice…if you want to label it a "drug". In reality, it's actually a joke that cannabis is labeled a Schedule I drug, especially when Heroin (also a Schedule I), and Schedule II narcotics such as OxyContin® and Percocet® are all dangerous and highly addictive…MJ is neither of these! As a trained pharmacologist in both human as well as veterinary pharmacology, I have to really wonder what the folks who created these laws back when (i.e., the "Lawmakers"), were smoking themselves. So thus, there were these people, of course, along with the greedy, graft-takers who were in bed with the profiteers of the drug industry!
It's time for MJ to be used discriminately, no doubt, with Rx, etc., etc., etc., but we need to stop wasting the taxpayers money busting folks who are caught with a joint in their back pocket. We need to stop this silliness and go after the real criminals…the ones who are murdering our innocent men, women and children…yes, those criminals. Leave the old guy who is dying with M.S. or the woman suffering from Stage 4 breast cancer alone…let them live what little time they have on this earth in peace, tranquility, and without agony. But no, the laws in many states still say that they are only allowed to stop their pain and suffering by using painkillers and appetite stimulators that someone makes a huge profit on and which will kill them eventually anyway. Do we have our priorities screwed-up or what?!
To the states that are still contemplating the vote on whether to legalize medical MJ or not; get with the program and stop wasting everyone's time, pain, money, and health…face it, MJ will be legalized in every state in the U.S. one day or another anyway…unless of course, succession is on some lawmaker's agenda as well.
We all know that MJ increases appetite and makes one feel good…this is so important for folks who are suffering from many of the horrible, chronic and/or terminal diseases. I previously wrote about this in an article titled; "Medical Marijuana".
What is truly important here is that, when MJ is prescribed and used medicinally, because it makes one feel good, (or better in most cases), and helps someone to be somewhat free from pain, the endorphins that are released from the brain can now be used for both physical and mental healing, instead of just to fight the pain and stress of an illness or disease. Anything that elevates mood and heightens euphoria, (by simply relieving the pain alone), naturally, and without the side-effects of the dangerous pain-relievers and narcotics, also strengthens the immune system. So basically, whereas the pre-mentioned narcotics lower immunity, medicinal MJ actually has the potential to strengthen it…and anything that strengthens immunity fortifies the overall health of an individual, especially one who is health-compromised.
These are the facts…take them or leave them…but always go with the facts.
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Yesterday was Day 1 at PASS, and it was full of event.
We officially announced the new name for Project Crescent.
Project Crescent shall now be known as "Power View". I was told I need to emphasize
the empty space between the two words. It apparently is critical, so here you
go. We had PowerPivot and we now have Power View to complete the second phase
of our Self Service BI investment.
We also showed and unveiled many of the new capability that
will be made available at RTM. Amongst which, a couple seemed to be very much appreciated
by the audience: Multi-View and Export to PowerPoint.
We also showed the New Self Service Alerting capability that
will provide a lot of additional value to existing operational scenarios that
use Report Builder and BIDS reports today.
We got lots of traffic to our booth, lots of excited
customers and lots of very nice comments to the team for a job well done on the
Power View design. Thank you very much to all of you for the warm comments. It
goes straight to the heart of the team who has put so many days, nights and
weekends of effort on finalizing our design and feature set. We all look
forward to release any day now…
So what else happened yesterday?
Well Amir, our new Technical
Fellow, and Ted Kummert our Vice-President unveiled our Mobile BI strategy and
showed some prototypes of some of the work that is in development. It seems
that we didn't do an ideal job clearly communicating our strategy, so let me
decompose it here for the benefit of all…
After looking at market trends and industry expectations, we
crafted our long term Mobile BI strategy that covers all of the Microsoft BI
assets. It is a 3 phase strategy:
Phase 1 – 1HCY12:
Enable our existing SharePoint based BI assets (SSRS Operational report, Excel Services,
Performance Point) to run on various browsers (including IOS). This was
actually not shown on stage during the keynote but is pretty straight forward
to picture.
Phase 2 – 2HCY12:
Provide touch based and touch optimized experiences on multiple devices. Prototypes
of these were shown by Amir on stage on a set of WP7, Android and iPad devices.
Some in the audience have assumed that this
demo did mean that this capability would be available with Denali as a result.
That is NOT the case. We announced a timeline for it, not a release
vehicle. At this point, we are also not disclosing the technology choices we
are making in order to enable these experiences.
Phase 3 – Windows 8 Wave:
Provide an immersive experience on Windows 8 device. A prototype of
what this experience could look like was shown by Amir on stage during the keynote. Again this demo DID
NOT suggest that this would be available in the Denali timeframe. Timeline
is TBD on this as we will look to align with Windows 8 itself. We are also at
this point not disclosing the technology choices we are making in order to
enable this immersive experience on Win8 devices.
Now Customers looking to deploy and use Microsoft BI on mobile
devices today have a broad host of Microsoft partners available to them. These
partner solutions support a broad range of mobile devices and are built off of
the Microsoft BI solution stack.
Examples include:
- Decision Support Panel http://www.prweb.com/releases/DSPanel/iPad/prweb4351514.htm.
- RoamBI www.roambi.com.
- Extended Results http://www.extendedresults.com/products/pushbi.aspx
- Install Free http://www.installfree.com/
- MobiWeave http://www.mobiweave.com/Products/BI/SSRS.aspx
The official press release can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/oct11/10-12PASS1PR.mspx
This is important to highlight that we have now stated our commitment
toward timeline and deliverables and are working aggressively toward those.
Meanwhile please enjoy SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services new capabilities and remember
to provide us feedback on Connect so that we can appropriately plan our next
set of investments…
Thierry D'Hers

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By Thomas Perry, Defense Contract Management Agency
/ Published March 07, 2018
Defense Contract Management Agency Lockheed Martin Fort Worth's flight operations team is led by Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joe Hutcheson (back row, first from left). The team provides program support and worldwide delivery for the F-35 Lightning II, the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-22 Raptor. It is a global effort supported by eight active duty service members, multiple civilians and two Air Force Reserve officers — Lt. Col. Michael Kirk (front row, third from left) and Maj. Kerry McAnally (back row, fourth from left). According to leadership, the pair play a vital role within the mission. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics-Angel DelCueto)


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Milton Copulos blows the whistle on James Webb's claims about his role regarding the Vietnam memorial. Webb says he "first proposed, then led the fight for including an African American soldier in the memorial statue that now graces the Vietnam Veterans memorial of the National Mall." But Copulos, one of for members of the panel that chose the statue, says this is false. It was the idea of the sculptor, Federick Hart, to include an African American. And, according to Copulos, Webb didn't lead the fight for inclusion either. Rather, says Copulos, Webb was mostly above the fray, claiming at one point that his participation in important meetings arranged through Sen. Warner would hurt sales of an upcoming book.
Webb takes credit for a key telephone call to Secretary of Interior Watt. However, Copulos says he made the call and that Webb had nothing to do with it.
Capulos concludes:
While this is not the only example of Mr. Webb's shameless self-promotion, more than any other, it shows his true nature. He tries to portray himself as another George Washington, but he's really another Huey Long.
Having watched Webb's filthy campaign from across the Potomac River, I don't think this comment is that much of an exaggeration.


text: Several readers sent us links to an NIST news release about their robotic wheelchair research. The goal of the project is to understand what a robotic wheel chair needs to do so that appropriate standards can be developed. Their research has lead to the development several robotic healthcare mobility devices including the HLPR robotic chair (previously known as RoboChair), a 3D camera that provides navigation for the blind, robotic leg lifters, and a patient lifter. For more, see the recent ScienceDaily story on the NIST robotic wheelchair. For the technical details on what the robotic wheelchair can do and how it works, see the paper, HLPR Chair - A Service Robot for the Healthcare Industry (PDF format).


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Mexico's a-cookin'. Columnists contemplate a popular explosion just three years from now. How come? Well, the hundred years will be up. On September 16, 1810 Miguel Hidalgo called on his parishioners in the town of Dolores to rise against the ruling Spanish regime in Mexico – his famous "cry of Dolores" that marked the start of the War of Independence, now celebrated as Independence Day. A hundred years later, on November 20, 1910 Francisco Madero published his "Plan de San Luis" (supposedly in San Luis Potosí, but actually from his refuge in the United States) repudiating the fraudulent reelection of tyrannical President Porforio Días. This date is celebrated as Revolution Day, the start of the bloody, decade-long struggle that gave Mexico perhaps its most inspirational martyr, Emiliano Zapata, who sought not a seat of power but 'Land and Liberty!' for the campesinos. So, predict the numerologists, 2010 will mark the next great social explosion. Who knows? Sure as hell not the New York Times and the rest of the fat-money corporate media.
Here in Oaxaca, the daily newspaper Noticias on November 18, 2007 ran a near-full page reprint of an article from the national magazine Proceso with the blazing headline, ¡...Es una revolución! ("...It's a revolution!"). The Washington correspondent of Proceso, J. Jesús Esquivel, knows very well that Mexico today is a seething volcano. He wrote his article in the context of his understanding that now, just as a hundred years ago, the so-called mainstream U.S. press doesn't provide a clue of what's happening here. Although a casual reader might see his account as nothing more than a nostalgic reminiscence about the revolution of 1910, it is in fact an indictment of the U.S. corporate media's intrepid pursuit of its task: to keep the American people ignorant.
Esquivel wrote, "The first signs of the [1910] revolution in Mexico surprised the United States press. It disseminated confused, contradictory, decontextualized, at times without any source, plagues of rumors and speculations as news. Apparently it neither knew nor understood what was happening further than its southern frontier when the revolution exploded… At the end of November the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times gave assurance that Madero's movement would have no future."
We see the same thing today, in the commercial media's efforts to insure that Americans remain ignorant of the Zapatista 1994 uprising and continuing struggle, and of the popular current struggle for liberation in Oaxaca. Calculated ignorance for the bulk of the population is the principal product of the corporate media, in the U.S. and everywhere.
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Chronique des fouilles en ligne
Olynthos. Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool/BSA), and Lisa Nevett (Michigan/BSA) report on the third season of this collaborative project which aims to build a holistic picture of Greek households within their urban and regional settings. Fieldwork was split over two seasons in April and July 2016 with four objectives: to excavate further house B ix 6 on the North Hill; to continue field survey beyond the fenced archaeological site to the south, north and west (i.e. the transition between the built-up area of the city and the countryside); to extend investigation to the South Hill, which is thought to be the core of the original settlement and is the least well-understood part of the city; and to create a new plan of the site in order to enable the data from Robinson's trenches to be integrated more effectively with the results of the project's geophysical survey, surface collection and excavation (Fig. 1).
The South Hill was the focus of the April season, during which geophysical survey (employing four different techniques) and surface collection were both carried out according to the same 30-m grid. Surface collection was then completed in July, when supplementary geophysical survey (using seismic wave technology) was undertaken and three small trial trenches were also excavated. Geophysical survey focused on the southern area of the hill, less extensively explored by Robinson. Tentative initial interpretation of the geophysics results suggest that this part of the hill was laid out in a somewhat regular fashion as a kind of grid, with parallel sets of curving east-west streets terminating at Robinson's two north-south avenues and continuing beyond on an off-set alignment. In a few locations overlapping walls or differing alignments imply at least two different phases of occupation, but determining their chronology requires further investigation through excavation.
Surface collection provided a wider chronological range of material than recovered so far from any other area of the site: alongside typical pottery of the earlier fourth century BC, significant amounts of earlier material were recovered across the hill, both local and imported, such as handle fragments with high-standing knotted handles, sherds of a Chian chalice, a banded Ionian cup fragment and part of a copper-alloy fibula of Early Iron Age type (Fig. 2).
Three small test trenches were located to investigate various anomalies detected by geophysical survey. All three revealed that the upper deposits on the South Hill are deeper and more mixed than those on the North Hill, and evidence of fourth-century BC occupation, plus residual finds of sixth-century BC date, and possibly earlier. The overall results from exploration in 2016 on the South Hill will guide a strategy for larger scale excavation there planned for 2017.
The main aim of the excavation on the North Hill was to extend our knowledge of the organisation of space in the final phase of occupation of house B ix 6 by laying out eight new trenches (Fig. 3). These improved our knowledge of how the house articulated with its surroundings (through excavation of sections of the boundary walls); its layout (revealing the location of several new spaces, including a cobbled courtyard); the distribution of activities within (through the discovery of further well-preserved deposits of artefacts); and of the destruction of the superstructure (indicated by concentrations of collapsed roof-tile).
Excavation of trenches on the western and eastern boundaries of B ix 6 showed that the block within which the house sits was terraced into the hillside, the boundary walls between properties perhaps serving in places as terrace walls. In the northeast corner of adjacent house B ix 4 the corner of an andron was located with a well-preserved mortar platform and a non-representational black and white pebble mosaic. Part of the street facade at the south of house B ix 6 was faced with a row of narrow ashlar blocks, perhaps intended to enhance its appearance. A major feature of the organisation of internal space was a courtyard surfaced with large cobbles, with a linear edge, perhaps marking the transition to an area with a shed roof. A further roofed space was located in the northwest corner of the house to the north of the pastas and west of the oikos complex excavated in 2015; a terracotta installation found at the end of the season may be linked with food production or industrial processing. To the south of the west end of the pastas a further internal space yielded a number of ceramic vessels apparently crushed in situ as the house was destroyed. Two distinct strata here suggest the possibility that the upper storey extended over this area in addition to the north of the pastas (as suggested by excavation in 2015). As in previous seasons, no evidence was found this year of any kind of burned destruction; rather the project's view remains that the house simply fell apart or was demolished.
This year, an area of 0.71 km2 – a total of 294 fields – was walked beyond the fenced area designating the boundary of the archaeological site (Fig. 4). As previously, very little material was identified as not being contemporary with the occupation of the North Hill. The few artefacts noted from other periods included Hellenistic and Late Roman amphora sherds and Byzantine glazed sherds. West of the North Hill high densities of material recorded within the first 100m outside the fence suggest there was settlement in this vicinity, while further west three or four very large tiles probably indicate graves. North of the North Hill the density of artefacts dropped off as the team moved northwards, as well as northeast and southwest. South of the South Hill one line of fields was covered, revealing low densities, perhaps a result of alluvial processes here; densities were greater at higher elevations to the east. East of the South Hill revisitation of an area located close to the so-called 'theatre' designated 'unsurveyable' in 2014 due to poor visibility revealed high concentrations of material after ploughing, including numerous pebbles from a mosaic presumably damaged through ploughing.
In July a 3-dimensional optical mapping project was completed, which was used to construct a preliminary digital elevation model (DEM) (Fig. 5), and is currently being used to prepare a new site plan, which will now form the basis for all of the project's GIS models and will improve understanding of how new data relate to the structures investigated by Robinson.
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This article provides an overview on product management and our experiences with introducing, improving and deploying the role of a product manager in different industries. We will look at the interface of product management with requirements engineering.
Effective product management is the critical success factor to make a product successful – across its life-cycle and across markets. This article provides an overview on product management and our experiences with introducing, improving and deploying the role of a product manager in different industries. We will look at the interface of product management with requirements engineering. We found that with increasing institutionalization of a consistent and empowered product management role, the success rate of projects in terms of schedule predictability, quality and project duration improves. So we provide concrete practices that will boost product management in your company and thus the success rate of products in terms of predictability, quality and efficiency. The article describes the discipline of product management. Starting with a framework of product management it indicates what solutions are available to practically implement this framework. It underlines the basic concepts and practices of product management with experiences taken from a broad range of industries and also summarizes current trends in product management. In working with hundreds of product managers we achieved efficiency and cost gains of up to 20% per year. Explanatory factors for this positive impact of product management include leadership and teamwork, managing risks and uncertainty, mastering stakeholder needs, and accountability towards agreed business objectives with one empowered individual across the whole product life-cycle. In the words of a senior executive of one of the organizations with whom we had been working on competence evolution over the past years: "Product management has a pivotal role for us. They are the glue that brings together operations, marketing and engineering. We have seen the benefits of product management in terms of reduced delays and faster product acceptance in the market. The benefit of investing in our product managers' training has far outweighed the cost." At the end of the article we will also look to trends in product management. These trends indicate close collaboration between industry needs and research at both universities and enterprises. Product management trends naturally are influenced and determined by external trends that impact our society and therefore buyer behaviors as well as individual needs.
No matter what business you are in, product management matters. However, often we focus too much on technology, and not enough on value. Features are lined up like a washing list. Yet only half of the originally allocated requirements appear in the final product release [1]. This is primarily the consequence of not having one clear corporate owner with assigned accountability for its success. Sales and marketing are disconnected from strategy and product development. Poor product management causes insufficient project planning, continuous changes in the requirements and project scope, configuration problems, and defects.
From the rather tangible IT systems in finance and industry to the many applications we are using on an almost daily basis to ubiquitous computers in smart phones, automotive and consumer electronics, products must be managed from strategy to concept and development and market entry and of course throughout the life-cycle including maintenance, service, variant and version management etc. When looking in the rear mirror we see many companies and endeavors which failed due to overemphasizing technology and not sufficiently implementing a sound business strategy [1,2,3]. Take Netscape. For many of us it was the first experience of the Internet. In 1995 it had a market share of 80% - more than enough to stay in the pole position forever, as companies such as Google or Amazon show. But already in 1997 it slowed down, lost market share, and in 2003 went into bankruptcy. What went wrong? One of the managers put it in simple words: "We had no product management; it was just a collection of features" [3]. More recently and in another domain, a previous Nokia senior manager claimed that the lack of product management is the primary reason for their loss of market share in the past years [3]. On the other hand, we all admire companies such as Apple or Google for their excellent product management.
Product management is the business management of a product (including solution or service) over its life cycle with the objective of generating the biggest possible value to the business. The successful product manager not only masters the life-cycle processes, he is their owner. He must get as early as possible and well before the project start a good systems perspective to assess the value proposition and priorities. He has to balance projects, people and politics. His primary tools are roadmaps, requirements, milestone reviews and the business case.
The success of product development is measured in delivering the right products at the right time for the right markets. Naturally the success of a product depends on many factors and stakeholders. However, we realize that it makes a big difference whether many cooks spoil the broth, or whether one person is empowered to lead all activities for the product from inception to market and evolution – and be accountable for the results. This is the product manager.
We continuously work with companies worldwide to improve their product management. A recent benchmark [2] shows that 53% of the companies have the vision that the product manager has end-to-end responsibility for the success of the product. In reality however, only 33% are actively implementing this vision. This means that about half share the concept of a strong product manager. For the other half, product managers are mostly subordinate to marketing and play an administrative role, such as maintaining technical roadmaps.
Often the roles of product manager, project manager and marketing manager are confused. Fig. 1 shows these three key roles and their responsibilities. One might argue that in a concrete organization, one or several of these roles are laid out differently and might simply be coordinating directions that they receive from their management. While this is certainly true as an observation, we should note that such organizations often face interface and responsibility battles and have a lack of ownership for results. These three roles are necessary and need to be empowered – and held accountable for results. This not only stimulates motivation but also facilitates faster and more effective decision-making in a company.
Does better product management mean better business performance? We performed root cause analyses of hundreds of products that underperformed and found similar causes reappearing. Root causes included business cases that were never re-evaluated, unbalanced portfolios that strangulate new products, insufficient management of new releases and service efforts, and the lack of vision that caused requirements to continuously change.
Having worked with product managers we achieved efficiency and cost gains of up to 20% per year [2]. Explanatory factors for this positive impact of product management include leadership and teamwork, managing risks and uncertainty, mastering stakeholder needs, and accountability towards agreed business objectives– managed by one empowered person across the product life-cycle. In the words of a senior executive from one of the organizations with whom we had been working on competence evolution over the past years: "Product management has a pivotal role for us. They are the glue that brings together operations, marketing and engineering. We have seen the benefits of product management in terms of reduced delays and faster product acceptance in the market. The benefit of investing in our product managers' training has far outweighed the cost."
Product management must hold a particular position in the organization to be successful. It translates between strategy and implementation, such as in requirements development (Fig. 2). From our survey [2] and in working with many companies worldwide, we found four success factors that will help to advance product management:
These four success factors were most often named by the interviewees as those that facilitate success as product managers. We will briefly explain these four topics. We draw the experiences from different projects where we have been introducing product management in companies around the world with different sizes and from different industries. We do not claim that this set is exhaustive; however underline the emphasis they received as top four from a longer list.
1) Product managers uniformly claim that different stakeholders have unaligned agendas which make the project late and cause lots of overheads and rework. The first success factor therefore is to formally create a core team with the product, marketing, project and operations managers for each product (release) and make it fully accountable for the success of a product (Fig. 3). These persons represent not only the major internal stakeholders in product or solution development, but also sufficiently represent different external perspectives. The multi-disciplinary core team leads the product development in all its different dimensions. Decisions are taken and implemented by the respective function, such as deciding requirements priorities, test strategy, increment planning, backlog, etc. This core team is operational throughout the product life-cycle. The success factor is to give this core team a clear mandate to "own" the project. Too often we face silo organizations in marketing, product management and engineering that don't work together. This means in many cases not only to build teams, to train and to coach, but also to adjust annual targets and performance management. Culture will change when targets are adjusted to such team ownership.
2) A standardized product life-cycle should be mandatory for all product releases, i.e., all engineering projects. Most companies today have such a life-cycle defined but rarely use it as the pivotal tool to derive and implement decisions. Too often, requirement changes are agreed in sales meetings without checking feasibility, and technical decisions are made without considering the business case and downstream impacts. A useful product life-cycle has to acknowledge that requirements may never be complete and may indeed be in a "continuum" state. The product life-cycle should guide with clear criteria, i.e., determining what is good enough or stable enough. This implies that it is sufficiently flexible to handle different types of projects and constraints. Requirements and business objectives must be managed (planned, prioritized, agreed, monitored) throughout the life-cycle to assure focus [6]. To avoid reporting overheads we recommend using online workflow tools to support such product life-cycles.
3) Good product management understands the customer's voice and business case and then develops necessary features. Each single requirement must be justified as supporting the business case and to allow management of changes and priorities. If a product is developed without the business rationales underlying its requirements it is in trouble because the requirements will continuously change. A product or solution must address a need and must have a strong business vision. This vision (i.e., what will be different with the release of the product) must be coined into a story. The story then translates to business objectives and major requirements. Requirements are a contract mechanism for the project internally and often for a client externally. They must be documented in a structured and disciplined way, allowing both technical as well as market and business judgment. Ask a tester to write a test case before processing the requirement. Ask the marketer in the team to check whether he can sell the feature as described. Determine what is good enough and ensure that any further insight is adequately considered. After evaluation they are approved by the core team.
4) For each product the product manager drafts a high level roadmap document with the product strategy and the functional and technical features planned in releases for the coming years. Managing and maintaining roadmaps and the portfolio as a mix of resources, projects and services must be the focus of each product manager. With moving targets, the sales department has no guidance on how to influence clients, and engineering will decide on its own which technologies to implement with what resources. When it comes to his own portfolio, the product manager has to show leadership and ensure dependable plans and decisions that are effectively executed. Apply adequate risk management techniques to make your portfolio and commitments dependable. Projects may need more resources, suppliers could deliver late or technology will not work as expected. As mitigation, platform components used by several products might use resource buffers, while application development applies time boxing. If there is a change to committed milestones or content within your portfolio, it must be approved first by the core team and secondly, where necessary, by the respective business unit's management, and then documented and communicated with rationales.
Often product managers advance from a technical career and grow into this discipline, lacking any form of formal education. There is no typical career path both into and inside product management. In Europe and Asia product managers mostly evolve from the technical role, such as technical project manager. However these product managers are not really pursuing a product management role as we defined it in the introduction. Rather than formal certification, product management competences must be aligned with what provides value to the business. A product management framework fulfils this demand in providing a framework and individual training modules. It was shaped by working with hundreds of product managers world-wide in different industries [3,4].
Only 27% of the companies practice a systematic competence management and training program [2]. Training correlates highly with product management success across the interviewed companies. External certification is rarely used, as it is, for example, with project managers. The reason is that often the product management role is very much tailored to company-specific needs and constraints. Several senior managers with whom we talked perceive that "there is currently a flood of certification programs which in the end only fill up CVs of people applying for other positions".
As a senior manager with whom we worked pointed out: "We had many so-called product managers which were just promoted from a technical role without a clue about the business needs and the skills they should have." In consequence they are not content with the role and rather often in our interviews blame "politics" for not achieving their missions. These product managers do not master their role.
Often we are asked by product managers what they can do themselves to deliver better results. Here is our top-ten list to personally grow as a product manager:
We will finally look to trends in product management (Fig. 4). These trends indicate close collaboration between industry needs and research at both universities and enterprises. Product management trends naturally are influenced and determined by external trends that impact our society and therefore buyer behaviors as well as individual needs. Here is what we see for the near future:
These ten best practices are applicable for each individual product manager. Having looked at hundreds of industry projects from various domains such as automotive, transport, healthcare and IT systems, we strongly suggest applying these practices to improve personal performance – and thus business results. They depend on each other, so it is not of much value to select only few and disregard the rest. Start using them and you will achieve better results – and more recognition.
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Product management is a key business role in the entire company – empowered to act as a business owner. It provides the basis for success or failure in product development. Real progress is what creates a lasting user experience, and this is defined from a product perspective – and not ad-hoc during project work in a shouting contest.
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Dear Dr. Ebert
Few product management articles I read discuss intellectual property (patents, trademarks, designs, utility models) and how to incorporate IP into an efective product management strategy.
As an instructor in the area of Business Analysis and being in a 'Product Manager' role as CEO in my own start-up, I have daily nightmares about how I am failing to leverage IP into my company's business model, despite having worked (many years ago) as a trainee Patent Agent in London for semiconductor company clients.
What are your thoughts about how businesses in general (and start-ups in particular) should incorporate IP into an innovative product strategy?
kind regards
Mr. Manoj Phatak, C.Eng
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Tropical cyclone size: in observations, at equilibrium, and in risk assessment
Speaker: Dan Chavas, MIT
Series: CEE Departmental Seminars
Location: Friend Center 004
Date/Time: Friday, March 1, 2013, 01:30:00 p.m. - 03:00:00 p.m.
Tropical cyclone size remains an unsolved problem in tropical meteorology, yet size strongly modulates damage risk due to wind, storm surge, and inland freshwater flooding. This work explores the physical determinants of tropical cyclone size and structure at equilibrium in an idealized state of radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE), the simplest representation of an Earth-like tropical climate. We find that the equilibrium radial wind profile is primarily a function of a single non-dimensional parameter given by the ratio of the storm radial length scale to the parameterized eddy radial length scale, with a secondary non-dimensional parameter modulating only the far outer circulation. The storm radial length scale is found to be the ratio of the potential intensity, which is the theoretical upper bound on storm wind speed, to the Coriolis parameter, matching the prediction for the "natural" storm length scale embedded within prevailing axisymmetric tropical cyclone theory. More broadly, this talk will place our understanding of storm size within the context of hurricane risk assessment.


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In football, success on and off the pitch does not simply come down to talent and tactics, but requires years of meticulous planning. With this in mind, Goal.com presents a statistical and structural evaluation of five top clubs in the South-east Asian region, along with a verdict on why these teams are heads and shoulders above the rest.
In this edition, we take a look at one of the most prestigious clubs in Myanmar, Yangon United.
Yangon United FC (YUFC) is a Burmese football club based in Yangon, the former capital city of Myanmar. They are owned by Tay Za, a Burmese business tycoon.
YUFC was founded in 2007 when the chairman of Htoo Group Of Companies announced his desire to establish a football club. The company then took over first division club Viva FC, renamed them to Air Bagan FC and competed in the 2007/08 league season.
After the league was transformed to the nation's first professional football league (Myanmar National League), Air Bagan FC was again renamed to Yangon United FC in 2009, and sought to represent the Yangon District and its population of five million.
|Thuwunna Stadium was the previous home ground of Yangon United, but after the Yangon United Sports Complex was completed, the Lions decided to host their home matches there instead. The new YUFC ground consists of an artificial turf football pitch, complete with a 5,000-seater stand and a gymnasium - the first of its kind amongst the Burmese clubs.
|To cater to their foreign players, Yangon United built a two-story apartment complex within the facility. The building also houses the administrative staff of the club. Apart from these great facilities, YUFC also have an official club store located at Alan Pya Pagoda street.
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|The joint-venture with BEC Tero Sasana FC was also supposed to offer Yangon United's promising youth players the chance to get a trial with Premier League club Arsenal who are affiliated with the Thai club.
BEC Tero Sasana's owner Brian Marcar, is a mix of American and Burmese. He attended St. Paul school in Myanmar.
He said: "It's a good decision for Myanmar to have a professional league as it'll develop the strength of football in the [country]. The sole purpose of Tero Sasana's affiliation with Yangon United is to help develop Myanmar football."
Yangon United Academy is the one of the youth academies established by professional clubs in Myanmar - others include Yadanabon, Ayeyawady United and Nay Pyi Taw FC academy. In 2010, an English-Australian football coach, Andrew Ord, was appointed as the Academy Director who held on to the postion for six months.
The Yangon United youth team has produced several talented players such as Kyi Lin, Kaung Si Thu, David Htan, Si Thu Aung and Pyae Phyo Aung - all of whom became part of the YUFC senior team and the Myanmar national team.
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|An influential player for the two-time Myanmar National League winners, Kyi Lin joined the senior team in 2009. The 20-year-old midfielder has also cemented his spot with the Myanmar national team after his solid performances during the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup.
|Though he joined Yangon United early last year, the Brazilian-born attacker is already a key player for the Lions. He performed brilliantly in the 2012 MNL campaign, scoring 15 goals in the season to making him the team's top scorer.
|The diminutive winger is an important player for the club. The 22-year-old has explosive speed and a good array of passing. The Kachin-born footballer has been capped 11 times for the Myanmar national team.
|The 48-year-old Burmese business tycoon is the owner of Yangon United. His major business interests include Htoo Group and Air Bagan, the country's first and only fully privately owned airline. Tay Za's airline is the main sponsor of YUFC. His son is the chairman of the club.
|The former Bulgarian player has been in charge of the club since early 2012. He successfully led the team to claim the Myanmar National League title in 2012 during his first season with the club. The 55-year-old tactician spent most of his coaching career in South-east Asian. He had coached Indonesian clubs, Persija Jakarta, Mitra Kukar, Persipura Jayapura Sriwijaya FC, and also the Indonesia national team during the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.
Yangon United embodies professionalism and has undoubtedly become a role model in Myanmar football. Owned by one of the most successful Burmese business tycoons, the Lions have improved their reputation and have become one of the most popular clubs in Myanmar, even though they were only re-established as a professional club four years ago.
They also have a keen interest on the youth developement of their home-grown players after the club opened a youth academy in 2009. The club's long-term objectives were explained to Goal.com by Thurein Kyaw, a YUFC fan. He said: "Our club's main goal is to compete in AFC competitions and to be able to nuture players for the Myanmar national team."
Commercially, Yangon United are on the right track. They have a great fanbase in Myanmar, and some of them are Burmese celebrities. YUFC also have regular support for their away fixtures - a feat that is rare amongst most MNL clubs.
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Album: Handel's Water Music And Royal Fireworks
Genre: Jazz, Fusion, Piano
Label: Telarc
Release Date: 28/10/2002
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...Many Jazz musicians train their fingers by playing Bach in various styles and at various speeds - I played Bach not only for the training but because I liked the harmonies, chord changes and arpeggios. Jacques Loussier has taken playing Bach to an art form. I like this album only and NOT volume 2. The original Play Bach album contains most of bach's better known works such as His Toccata and Fugue, also the 1st and 2nd preludes and the 1st and 2nd fugues, hair on a G string (joke) and Jesu joy of man's desiring. This really is a cracking album with the trio (including bass and drums) really jazzing up bach and playing some pieces with phenominal speed, cool showmanship and originality. It's a swinging, foot tapping, jazz party! In my opinion there is only one song on this album that isn't brilliant and that is Jesu joy of man...
1. Grave
2. Allegro I
3. Adagio
4. Allegro II
5. Andante
6. Bourree
7. Alla Danza
8. Aria
9. Trio
10. Grave
11. Allegro I
12. Siciliana
13. Allegro II
14. Passacaglia
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Blogger: Craig Roth
The spigot on the information coming out of Microsoft about SharePoint 2010 was cranked up from a drip to a trickle on July 13th with the debut of the SharePoint 2010 web site. Microsoft has been promising to open it to a full-blown fire hose at the SharePoint Conference in October, but until then it's worth going through what has been released. (there's also an invitation-only technical preview).
First, before we get to features, there's a new conceptual view. The old 2007 "SharePoint donut" got tons of usage since most everyone is at a loss to describe what SharePoint is without it. Sure, it's a "collaboration server", but what does it do? Well, let me whip out this diagram and walk through it …
Here's my best guess so far on how the old donut maps to the new one. "Sites" is the most vague (statements like "Sites allows you to expand across environments" that describe capabilities rather than a definition). I think Sites is just a generic, catch-all bucket for anything involving creation of websites, so it overlaps with all the others.
Here are my takeaways from the main video (with marketing-speak omitted except where I found it interesting or telling). I'll be clear where I'm injecting my own point of view by using [brackets], although the rest is paraphrased so what you see here is filtered through my own perspective. I encourage you to view the videos yourself as well.
Sharepoint 2010 Overview (Tom Rizzo)
- Mentions how they are supporting all browsers (although he tellingly stumbles when trying to say "Safari" ... )
- Promises great strides in social computing
- Went around the SharePoint 2010 donut:
- Sites
- Sites are all about sharing information
- Mentions a further push into extranets and internet sites
- Communities
- Plans to support a hierarchical structure of communities
- "Regardless of how they come together" [implies to me embracing end user creation and maintenance of their own communities rather than just enabling administrators to create communities]
- Content
- People-centric, LOB-centric
- "We've been Working hard to manage content from creation to disposition and destruction … "
- Will enhance ability of users to discover content
- [our analysis of SharePoint 2007's enterprise content management showed weakness at the later stages of the process , so beefing up capabilites around disposition and discovery seem to show positive action from Microsoft to close the gap]
- Search
- FAST will be combined with existing SharePoint search.
- More investments have been made in uncovering hidden assets
- People search will be (better) blended with search.
- At 8:22 he says "You'll be able to find rich people across your organization". [I guess that's handy if Bill Gates works at your company and you need to borrow money for lunch]
- There's a plug for the business connectivity services (formerly business data catalog) in terms of searching structured data
- Insights
- Combining the rest of SharePoint with the business intelligence stack. [not really any detail here, or nothing new to talk about]
- Composites
- "Rapidly create dynamic bus solutions" [At the SharePoint conference in 2006, none other than Bill Gates said building composites is the #1 capability of SharePoint. If they're going to get away from the "portal" word which is increasingly watered down then this is a good choice. Composite applications encompasses portals, but also other important styles of web apps made from piece parts including any type of assembly of web services or RESTful services, mashups, or business process management]
- Sites
- Features shown in the demo
- User interface
- The Office ribbon now shows up all over SharePoint and is removable, customizable, contextual
- He showed live editing of text in a website, and as you mouse over different font sizes you get preview of fonts just like in Word 2007
- He showed a very fat client-like resizing of images, adding a border, etc.
- You can add Silverlight with an out of box Silverlight web part
- There's the ability to apply PowerPoint themes to sites (colors, fonts, etc.)
- Business connectivity
- You'll be able to put a Visio diagram directly in SP, and since Visio can have links to get live data from business systems that means live data too [neat!]
- Forget BDC: it's now BCS. There's a new acronym: Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to replace the business data catalog (BDC)
- Instead of just sites in SP designer 2010, it has lists, workflows, etc.
- Also has an item in SP designer called "entities" for creating connections to bus data
- Demoed a SQL connecter that auto-creates CRUD (create, read, update, delete)
- You cal see a BCS data set in SharePoint and it looks like a list, but it's a SQL database. Demoed filtering.
- You can also click "edit item" and update the item. [I hope they improve the interface. It refreshes and fills the whole screen with a data dump of the row. Not at all like editing in a cell]
- Demoed creating a new doc from SharePoint in Word which has a bunch of fields defined in BCS. You can select a customer name from the list and it fills in all the fields from that record in the document information panel
- Work with data in richer ways
- Microsoft finally clarified that Groove (new name=SharePoint Workplace) is the rich client for SharePoint. [wow, that took a long time for something we knew was going to happen]
- Workplace can sync info from a SharePoint site
- Showed in SP workspace how he can edit info offline, and then synced back up by selecting "Connect to server" and "Sync supplier list". [Not sure why its so manual. In Notes you don't have to hit "connect" then "sync". Maybe there are automated, scheduled options too that weren't shown. I hope so]
- Tom emphasized that these are just some of the features - not an exhaustive list.
- User interface
SP 2010 for IT professional video (Richard Riley)
- He mentioned on premise or as SaaS
- Beta later this year, general availability 1st half of 2010
- Goal is to scale up and out with high reliability [just as Bill Pray noted in his thoughts on Exchange 2010, it seems many of the administrative enhancements for SharePoint 2010 are to help it support SaaS rather than to just help current on premises installations]
- [bookmark] IT professional productivity
- Central admin: he mentioned "easier to find" and ribbon UI [he didn't mention any actual functionality changes]
- There's a best practice analyzer
- It analyzes health, performance, and has reporting
- Rules can regularly run and send pop ups with issues encountered. Admins can build rules and automatically apply fixes
- There is a new logging database, extensible with custom data and custom reports
- Scalable unified infrastructure
- Large lists will not hang the system anymore [yahoo!]
- The admin can set thresholds for how many rows max will be returned. And there's a "happy hour" when you can get larger responses from queries.
- Unattached content database recovery
- Admins can browse content in repositories, create an export, and upload to list
- Flexible deployment
- You can detach a 2007 database and attach it to 2010
- When you migrate to 2010 it keeps UI the same, but you can select an option to switch user experiences
SP 2010 for Developer (Paul Andrew)
- Developer productivity
- Paul talked about the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
- There is a new visual Web Part designer and team foundation server
- You can look at lists and other server items from the server explorer within VS without having to go to SharePoint
- Can specify deployment configuration such as a package WSP file that can include custom installation steps
- Demoed click and drag creation of a Web Part with a button that calls LINQ query
- Rich platform
- There is the ability to use LINQ to access SharePoint lists including joins
- The new client object model can be used to run code on the client machine (.NET, Javascript, Silverlight)
- Paul also mentioned the Silverlight Web Part and business connectivity services
- Flexible deployment
- Paul talked about solution deployment [but frankly I got distracted at this point and don't have notes here. I believe this is an attempt to address SP2007 weaknesses around staging from test to QA to production]
Data connectivity services
- In the demos, DCS still showed as BDC in VS 2010 since it's not finished yet
- Paul showed how it supports creating methods for BCS CRUD
- In SharePoint you can create an "external list" now, which means data from the BCS
- There are new "list" menus in the ribbon bar in the SharePoint web UI
- Demoed using Silverlight to fill a data grid with data from a SharePoint list. With Silverlight, it's running on the client so things like sorting the list are done without calls back to the server
That's a summary of what I took away from the latest information on SharePoint. At our SharePoint Workshop (SharePoint 2007: The Current Governance Nightmare—and Will It Get Better?) on July 28th at Catalyst we have added a module on what's new in SharePoint 2010 that includes our statements on what we thought was missing from 2007. Seeing new stuff is great, but lining it up against the weaknesses in 2007 provides a better view of the progress being made. All said though, it's still too early to stand up and applaud. There's a lot more information left in the tank that has to trickle out first.
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It was late afternoon Wednesday and Aaron Golden was in the West Palm Beach Auditorium resting with a bagful of brochures.
``It`s going to take me a week to read all the literature,`` the 73-year-old Boynton Beach resident said.
He and his wife, Tillie, had been spending the day at the First Annual Senior Activities Festival, a collection of song and dance acts, craft demonstrations, seminars and more than 50 informational booths set up by health and social service organizations, businesses and other groups.
An estimated 3,000 seniors from around Palm Beach County attended the daylong event organized by the Gulfstream Area Agency on Aging and co-sponsored by Florida Power & Light Co.
The Goldens spent the last half-hour of the festival listening to a vocal group from their condominium complex, Village Royale on the Green, sing old standards.
Earlier, the couple had stopped to talk with a financial planner from a local bank, checked out the free income tax advice offered by the American Association of Retired Persons and visited the Retired Senior Volunteer Program booth.
``I`m curious to find out about things. I like to know what is going on,`` Golden said.
Carolanne Brown of the Gulfstream Agency said attendance at the festival exceeded all expectations.
Before the event began in the morning, about 100 senior citizens already were waiting in line for the auditorium doors to open, she said. ``The flow (of visitors) has been steady all day,`` she said.
Brown said the idea for the festival grew out of some problems discovered during a survey of the region`s senior citizens conducted last summer by the Gulfstream Agency. The private, non-profit agency channels government funds for the elderly to various social service groups.
``A big problem in Palm Beach County is that people didn`t know where to turn to find out about the senior social service system until there was an emergency,`` she said.


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How we Love our Heirloom Tomatoes
If you ask me, there is nothing better than a traditional caprese salad with colorful Heirloom tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and lots of basil, especially with a glass of wine on a summer evening. The Sac Foodies have been noticing Heirloom tomato dishes popping up on menus all over town lately. Brittany had a delish Heirloom tomato salad the other day at 33rd Street Bistro, Twin Soup blogged about a caprese salad with Heirlooms from Piatti and even the Hot Italian is touting their new menu items with Heirlooms which we can't wait to try. At our Sac Foodies potluck a few weeks ago, Kim presented us with a delicious Roasted Tomato Caprese Salad. However, since the Heirlooms weren't quite at their peak, she used plum tomatoes which are a great substitution when Heirlooms are not available. Here's the recipe: – Liz Conant
Roasted Tomato Caprese Salad
I love caprese salad and here in Sacramento we have our pick of beautiful Heirloom tomatoes in the summer, especially in August. However, sometimes fresh tomatoes can be hit or miss, and I crave caprese salad all year long. So what's a girl to do? Well, of course Ina Garten helped me with another cooking dilemma (she is truly my idol!). In her latest book, "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics," Ina shows us how to make a scrumptious yet simple Roasted Tomato Caprese Salad that uses plum (or Roma) tomatoes, which are available all year long. I thought this would be perfect to bring to the Sac Foodies potluck since the tomatoes can be roasted the night before and all I had to do was assemble it right before the party.
12 plum tomatoes, halved lengthwise, seeds (not cores) removed
¼ cup good olive oil, plus more for drizzling
1 ½ tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 large garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons sugar
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
16 ounces fresh salted mozzarella
12 fresh basil leaves, julienned
Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
Arrange the tomatoes on a sheet pan, cut sides up, in a single layer. Drizzle with the olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle with garlic, sugar, 1 ½ teaspoons salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper. Roast for 2 hours until the tomatoes are concentrated and begin to caramelize. Allow the tomatoes to cool to room temperature.
Cut the mozzarella into slices slightly less than ½-inch thick. If the slices of the mozzarella are larger than the tomatoes, cut the mozzarella slices in half. Layer the tomatoes alternately with the mozzarella on a platter and scatter the basil on top. Sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper and drizzle lightly with olive oil. Serve at room temperature.
Makes 6 servings.
Recipe courtesy of "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics" (Clarkson Potter, 2008)
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Oram is central to the New Zealand game plan and his defiant 61 was the only New Zealand innings of substance when they were thrashed by 32 runs in the opening match on Tuesday.
However, he confirmed Wednesday he had tweaked a hamstring during the match and would not be taking part in Thursday's second fixture in Christchurch.
Although the injury is not serious, he has been withdrawn to give him more time to recuperate fully before the first of five one-day internationals on Saturday.
"I have a wee bit of a sore hamstring. It's not completely torn and it's not overly bad," Oram said.
"It's similar to what I did in South Africa (in November) where I missed a Test match but it's nowhere near as bad as that, thankfully."
Oram being out has made it even harder for New Zealand to square the Twenty20 series.
He was as economical with the ball as he was efficient with the bat, taking one for 24 off four overs.
"I'm more happy with the bowling than the batting to be honest," he said.
Aside from Oram, only debutant Jesse Ryder (22) and bowler Kyle Mills (11) reached double figures as New Zealand never seriously threatened England's imposing 184 for eight.
Oram's robust knock from 40 balls was never going to be enough as the New Zealand top order crumbled just as they did against Australia and South Africa late last year.
Although England's spearhead bowling trio of James Anderson, Ryan Sidebottom and Dmitri Mascarenhas kept the New Zealand batsmen tied down, Sidebottom taking three for 13, most of the dismissals came from poor shot selection.
The exception was Ryder, who was run out when he slipped trying to regain his crease after backing up too far.
In contrast for England, the early dismissal of Luke Wright for one was insignificant given the feature innings from Kevin Pietersen and man-of-the-match Mascarenhas.
Pietersen was all class as he scored freely around the ground, hitting 43 off 23 balls in a warning to New Zealand of what is to come through the five one-day matches and three Tests.
Big-hitting Mascarenhas clubbed four successive sixes off spinner Jeetan Patel, falling one short of the five consecutive sixes he hit against India's Yuvraj Singh at the Oval last year.
Of the 10 England batsmen who made it to the middle, seven reached double figures and looked comfortable against the New Zealand bowlers.
Oram injury further blow for demoralised New Zealand
The New Zealand cricket team, humbled in its first Twenty20 encounter with England, was struck a further blow on the eve of the second match with all-rounder Jacob Oram out injured.