Deacon Home Enhancement

I have a good friend who runs a custom carpentry business called Deacon Home Enhancement. A blurb from their site summarizes it as follows.

At Deacon Home Enhancement, LLC, we specialize in the finest finished carpentry — including custom trimwork and built-ins — as well as intelligently thought out, creatively designed finished basements . We listen carefully to understand your needs, work closely with you to develop a plan, and then use our creativity and skills to deliver a finished product that is intended to exceed your expectations.

I worked with Jeff some time ago to create a web site, landing on SmugMug as the platform to build his application on due to the need for a lot of photos and long term ease of maintenance. He is happy with the results and so am I. It showcases his great work well. You can check it out here: http://www.thedeacondifference.com and let me know what you think.

Leave it in, will ya??

So - big surprise here, Tommy seems to not like having a tube stuck down his nose and taped to his face. He has pulled it out a couple of days running despite loads of creative tape work. The bright side is that he seems to like to do this in the morning which leaves an entire day free of worrying about the tube and tape! The downside is it means the bedtime routine is a little rougher as we have to stick a tube up his nose as a first step to bed time - never high on anyone's list of things to do I wouldn't think.

The valves on the tubing also get loose VERY quickly - despite taping them, we have also had 2 blowouts from them which makes a mess and sort of defeats the purpose of pumping it in... We are getting the hang of it despite these minor setbacks and working with the home care nurse on alternate strategies. Lifes a journey all about learning, right? I have to say - right now, I am as tired as I have been in a long time and I am sure Jess is right there with me, but all in all, things are still good. Tommy is doing great and so mobile. It is fun watching the little ones interact and play all the time - we are so very blessed to have such great kids.

The tube process

His tube, taking a nap

The box o stuff

Prepping the drip 

hooking him up

Ontology based data & semantic relationships

Working through a data architecture and strategy for clients recently, I had to compile some information regarding development of the landscape. This information is reflected below.

The primary components to reference are detailed in the included diagram. In this case, the ontology is clearly a piece of the stack, but not the “data” or the single UI.

The ontology is best thought of as a view of an established information set that uses concepts to define relationship. The data is then mapped onto ontology to provide a specific high value view of the data, aiding in the generation of information and knowledge. Clearly there is an assumption that as a precursor to the use of the selected ontology, significant work has gone into the process of cleaning the target data through direct manipulation or a meta data based transformation layer to manage synonym matching, etc. across sources.

Another definition, more succinct is, “Ontologies are computable conceptualisations of a knowledge domain” as defined by Nico Adams, emphasizing the transformation from data to information that can then be further acted upon.

The OWL Web Ontology Language is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full. Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/

The semantic layer-cake.: (Copyright © 2008 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal

Useful links :

1. W3 OWL Reference a) http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
2. Good article on Ontology implementation a) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T64-4GMB0F0-F&_user=358874&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000017638&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=358874&md5=4b5c6decc4b2f01fad8183b00aec72b1
3. 3) DDI - An Ontology for Drug Discovery Investigations a) http://users.aber.ac.uk/ddq/ddi/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
4. Open BioMedical Ontologies a) http://www.obofoundry.org/crit.shtml
5. OWL ontology browser a) http://pellet.owldl.com/ontology-browser/
6. OBO Ontology Download Matrix a) http://www.berkeleybop.org/ontologies/
7. Semantic Chemistry a) http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-chemistry.html

Reference:Stephen P. Gardner, Ontologies and semantic data integration, Drug Discovery Today, Volume 10, Issue 14, 15 July 2005, Pages 1001-1007, ISSN 1359-6446, DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03504-X.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T64-4GMB0F0-F/2/f296f93f44347cfd561668ede72ac5f9)

Nico Adams, Semantic Chemistry http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-chemistry.html

More to come...

Another night down

We go the tube in last night with minimal fuss though Tommy was unhappy and not ready to sleep for another hour or so. I think he is struggling to adjust to the process and the tube must feel weird pumping into his stomache. Once he went to sleep, he slept well, and this morning the unhooking went well with just a little mess. We will get the hang of this soon. Tonight we are upping the quantity and rate so I hope that goes well. He does seem to tolerate it well.

Adrienne is also doing well with the whole process and is a little mother sometimes. All the kids are supportive of him and the babies in general, we are so lucky for that.

I will be posting some photos of the process soon...

Tommys NG Tube

So, we got it all hooked up and got through a night of feeding... It was not without adventure though. I have to get used to the sound of the pump when it kicks on as I am sure he does. Also - there is that little joy when we were woken from the sleep of the exhausted by a screaming pump and monitor complete with flashing light. Wow - I was so confused I did not know where to go or what to push I just wanted it to stop - auughhhh what's happening??? oh no - it's an alarm, is it bad? no - what's it say - can't read it, to small - too light - where's the off button - no can't push that, we'll loose our place in the cycle sowhaddayadowhenitsscreaminginthemiddleofthenight????

  So, after that little episode, we worked together and got it straightend out and my wonderful wife settled him down for round 2.

This morning she sent me a txt - he pulled out the tube - had to see that one coming! Tonight when she gets home we put it back in and try again. We'll get the hang of it yet poor kid!