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SEATTLE — The hardest ball Angels pitcher Jason Vargas threw Sunday may have been the bullet he fired in disgust to first base on Jesus Montero's comebacker to end the eighth inning.
The left-hander was venting his frustration after giving up a home run to Michael Morse with one out in the eighth, a solo shot to left field that gave the Seattle Mariners a 2-1 victory in Safeco Field and sent the Angels to their fifth loss in seven games.
"I mean, who wants to give up a homer in the eighth inning with their closer getting loose and they take the lead?" Vargas said. "Yeah, it's something that definitely got under my skin."
BOX SCORE: Seattle 2, Angels 1
Vargas wasn't the only one in the visiting clubhouse in a sour mood. The Angels thought they had turned a corner with last weekend's three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers, but after losing two of three to Texas and three of four to lowly Seattle, they have the same 9-15 record they had after 24 games in 2012.


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NORTH AURORA – North Aurora teen Emily Laughead will go to Capitol Hill next month to tell her story about what it is like to have Type 1 diabetes.
Emily, 14, who will be a sophomore at Rosary High School in the fall, has been selected to attend the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Children's Congress from July 8 to 10 in Washington, D.C. She will be one of the delegates from Illinois in the Children's Congress.
"I want to give the disease a personal face," Emily said.
As someone who has Type 1 diabetes, her body does not produce insulin.
She was diagnosed at age 4. Type 1 diabetes usually is diagnosed in children and young adults, and previously was known as juvenile diabetes.
Insulin is a hormone that controls the level of blood sugar (also called glucose) in the body.
There is no known way to prevent Type 1 diabetes. Emily must use an insulin pump that passes insulin into her body.
As part of the application process to the Children's Congress, she had to make a video talking about her battle with diabetes.
She also wrote letters to U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; and U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., talking about her diabetes and why continued research is important.
Emily is no stranger to trying to educate others about Type 1 diabetes.
For the past several years, Emily and her family have headed Emily's Hope, an organization that promotes Type 1 diabetes education and organizes fundraising events.
They have raised more than $56,000 for JDRF, as well as helped to spread awareness.
She has a website, www.EmilysHope.org, that is geared toward educating others about juvenile diabetes.
Emily's Hope had a float in the recent Swedish Days Parade in Geneva, Loyalty Day Parade in Batavia and North Aurora Community Parade.
The float was named best float in the North Aurora Community Parade, and the North Aurora Mothers Club presented Emily with a trophy and a $250 check for Emily's Hope.
Because of her efforts, she received the 2008 North Auroran of the Year and the 2010 Kane County Roscoe Ebey Kane County Citizen of the Year award.
She hopes her story has helped to educate others.
"Diabetes has made me a better leader," she said. "It's pushed me out of my comfort zone."
That's not surprising to her mother, Amy Laughead, who is proud of her daughter's efforts.
"She doesn't have to do this," Amy Laughead said. "A lot of people just go through the motions. She's an awesome kid."

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Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader (2nd ed.)
Writing Passion Plus: A Catullus Reader Supplement
(Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2013)
As well as presenting the Latin text of forty-six poems with line-by-line notes and vocabulary, Writing Passion provides an introduction to the life of Catullus and his body of work and includes historical and literary background. The second edition features four poems that were not in the first edition (75, 83, 92, and 107), which expand the elegiac selections about Lesbia, and an updated bibliography. Writing Passion Plus: A Catullus Reader Supplement contains poems 6, 16, 32, and 57. Ronnie Ancona (Prof., Hunter) serves on the doctoral faculty in classics.
Purchase this book
Purchase the supplement
Submitted on: SEP 11, 2013
Category: Classics | Faculty Books


text: The Lexicomp app, although free, requires an online subscription to Lexicomp, which is a trusted comprehensive resource for mobile drug and clinical information for pharmacists, physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals. New users will receive a free 30-day trial subscription with access to Lexicomp's database. This app not only explains the best drug for the symptoms and illness, but also shows images of that drug and explains the shape, color and imprint. It also offers a medical calculator to estimate the dosage needed based on the gender, age, height and weight of the patient.


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Alfonso Soriano clubbed three hits, including a go-ahead two-run blast in the sixth to help the Cubs down the Padres, 11-7, in the opener of a three-game series on Monday at Wrigley Field.
Soriano finished with three RBI and scored twice, Ian Stewart and Starlin Castro each added two-run homers and three RBI and Darwin Barney smacked a solo shot as the Cubs put the brakes on a 12-game skid.
"It's been two weeks since we won a game," remarked Stewart. "A lot of guys are a little more relaxed in here. It's just a better feeling in the clubhouse."
Randy Wells (1-1) got the win despite allowing one run on three hits in just 1 2/3 innings in relief of starter Travis Wood, who surrendered six runs on seven hits and three walks over five frames.
Alex Hinshaw (0-1) absorbed the loss after serving up Soriano's two-run blast in the sixth. Jeff Suppan went five innings in the start, yielding six runs on six hits as the Padres dropped their fourth straight contest.
Chase Headley homered twice and knocked in three runs while Carlos Quentin went 1-for-4 with an RBI in his first game with the Padres after missing the first 49 games of the season while recovering from surgery on his right knee.
"When it's hot and you come here and the wind's blowing, you're going to be rewarded for good swings," remarked Headley about his two home run game.
After a double from Will Venable gave the Friars a 7-6 edge in the top of the sixth, Chicago responded in the bottom half as Bryan LaHair worked a leadoff walk before Soriano crushed his sixth of the year over the bleachers in left field to give the Cubs a one-run lead.
Castro's two-run blast in the seventh extended the margin to 10-7 before Stewart made it a four-run margin with an RBI single to score LaHair.
Earlier in the game, Quentin made his first plate appearance as a Padre worthwhile, lacing a two-out double into left field to score Chris Denorfia from third and give San Diego a 1-0 edge.
The Cubs responded with two in the bottom half as David DeJesus tripled to start the frame and Castro plated him with a single. Castro then swiped second, moved to third on a bunt and scored on a groundout from LaHair to give Chicago a 2-1 lead.
Barney's solo shot in the second made it a 3-1 game, but Venable answered in the third with a solo shot of his own to cut the difference in half.
San Diego used a pair of solo homers to jump in front in the fourth. Headley tied the game with a leadoff homer to center field before Everth Cabrera put the Padres on top with his first of the season two batters later.
Chicago battled back in the bottom half as LaHair started the frame with a double and quickly scored on Soriano's double to left to tie the game.
Stewart then provided the Cubs with a two-run lead when he crushed the 10th pitch of his at-bat over the wall in center field to make it 6-4, but the lead was short-lived, as Headley clubbed a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the fifth for his second of the day to knot the game, 6-6.
Game Notes
The Padres acquired Quentin in the offseason from the Chicago White Sox in exchange for minor league pitchers Simon Castro and Pedro Hernandez...Yonder Alonso's hit streak ended at 10 games with an 0-for-5 performance...San Diego went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base.


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Instead of interrupting your regular schedule to fundraise for KLRU-TV, Austin PBS, we've decided to stick to our normal program lineup and TRUST YOU to support your PBS station.
We often hear from our viewers, "Why don't you air the shows I depend on all year long during the fundraising drive…I'd like to pledge my support for them?" Well, now is your chance. This week (Monday, June 7 through Friday, June 11) we're reaching to achieve an aggressive June fundraising goal, but we've set aside the traditional pledge programs to bring you a lineup of PBS Newshour, Antiques RoadShow, American Experience, Nova, Frontline, and more. We only ask that you support KLRU. We also have some great thank you gifts, plus every online supporter this week will receive a new KLRU water bottle.
In addition to your favorite PBS programming, members of the community will be joining us to show their support this week. We hope you'll tune in to see your friends and neighbors live in our studio. It is truly a community effort running Austin's only locally owned and operated TV station and we thank everyone for their help!


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Hummingbirds represent one of nature's most interesting paradoxes — they are the tiniest of birds, yet they qualify as some of the toughest and most energetic creatures on the planet. Knowledge gained from scientists currently making great breakthroughs in hummingbird biology makes this a perfect time to focus on these shimmering, flashing jewels of the natural world. Beautiful high-definition, high-speed footage of hummingbirds in the wild, combined with high-tech presentations of their remarkable abilities, help viewers to understand the world of hummingbirds as never before.
Nature's "Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air" can be seen on Wednesday, June 12th at 7:00 p.m. on channel 3 and channel 3-1.


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Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez believes Steven Gerrard made the right decision in rejecting a transfer to Premier League rivals Chelsea.
Gerrard was continuously linked with a move to Roman Abramovich's Chelsea during Benitez's six year-stint at Anfield and the Spaniard is glad the Liverpool captain rejected his current employers.
"He won the Champions League and he is a legend in Liverpool. I think he will say he made the right decision at the time," Benitez told the Daily Mail.
Benitez also banished suggestions Gerrard and Blues star Frank Lampard were unable to form a successful midfield partnership for the England national side.
He added: "They can play together, especially now they have more experience. When they were younger, they were so good they wanted to be involved in every part of the pitch.
"They are great players, both are very good technically and both can score goals. They have a lot of good things in common."
Interim manager Benitez, who will be leaving Stamford Bridge at the end of the season, returns to Anfield this weekend for the first time since his 2010 departure from the Reds.
Chelsea will be hoping to build on their 3-0 derby win over Fulham and opponents Liverpool will be looking to close the six-point gap on Merseyside rivals Everton.
Do YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? Get started today by signing-up and submitting an article HERE: https://www.givemesport.com/writeforgms


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MOLINE — The Princeton Tiger soccer team brought home the regional championship Saturday outlasting the host Rock Island Alleman Pioneers and Mother Nature Saturday at the Alleman Athletic Complex.
The Tigers posted a 3-1 win to take the regional crown in contest played on and off through heavy rain to advance to sectional semifinal play Tuesday at Mendota.
The Tigers took a 2-0 halftime lead on goals by Jacob Estrada (Brody Hunt assist) and Dylan Schaefer.
The Pioneers struck in the second half, but PHS senior defender Austen Stewart sealed the win off a free kick with 6:19 to play.
PHS will face Hinckley-Big Rock at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in Mendota. HBR was a 2-0 winner over Somonauk at Aurora.
IHSA State Golf: Saturday's finals of the IHSA stateboys golf sites at Bloomington and Normal were canceled with Friday's 18 holes standing up as finals.
IHSA Sectional tennis: Saturday's semifinals of the Ottawa Sectional were postponed to Monday. PHS junior Jen O'Neil has qualified for state, but is playing for sectional positioning.


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Exit133 is about Tacoma
Depave (& Replant) Division & Sprague
March 23, 2014 at 12:00 pm
The City of Tacoma is inviting residents to take part in a one-of-a-kind experience to rip out blacktop and plant trees and native plants at the intersection of Division and Sprague avenues. The work will beautify the intersection and filter polluted rainwater runoff to compliment the City rain garden being installed on Sprague Avenue.
Depaving will take place Sunday, March 16 from noon to 3 p.m. and planting will occur the following Sunday, March 23, from noon to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers of all ages are welcome and all tools, safety gear and refreshments will be provided.
"It's exciting," said Councilmember Mello, who will be attending the event. "It's innovative. We're inviting people to play a hands-on role in protecting waterways and Puget Sound. They'll probably have fun and learn too; about plants and trees that naturally do so much to protect us."
The event will take place rain or shine; to volunteer gather under the shade tents along 6th Avenue next to Mt. Tahoma Seventh Day Adventist Church at noon. Volunteers must wear long pants and closed-toed shoes. For more information, email email@example.com.
The depaving and planting is made possible through a partnership between Depave, the River Network, Stewardship Partners, Russell Family Foundation, Pierce Conservation District and the City of Tacoma Environmental Services.
LocationMeet at Mount Tahoma Seventh Day Adventist Church


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DENVER – The Colorado Rockies announced today that the club has placed outfielder Carlos Gonzalez on 15-day disabled with left knee patella tendinitis and a right ankle sprain. His placement on the DL is retroactive to August 9th. To take his place on the active roster, the Rockies have recalled infielder Ben Paulsen. Paulsen (#4) will be available for today's Rockies at Diamondbacks game at Chase Field (2:10 p.m. MDT).
Gonzalez, 28, is returning to the disabled list for his second stint of the season, as he spent over a month on the DL from June 4th-July 11th earlier this season. In 70 games in 2014, Gonzalez is batting .238 (62-for-260) with 15 doubles, 1 triple, 11 home runs, 38 RBI and 35 runs. This is Gonzalez's seventh Major League season, six of which with Colorado (2009-2014) and one with Oakland (2008). In 761 career Major League games he is batting .294 (828-for-2817) with 166 doubles, 32 triples, 136 home runs, 457 RBI and 483 runs.
Paulsen, 26, is returning for his second stint in the Majors, as he made his Major League debut on July 21st and was a member of the Rockies for eight days before being optioned on July 29th. In seven games, Paulsen hit .455 (10-for-22) with 4 doubles, 2 RBI and 3 runs scored. Paulsen has hit safely in each of his seven career Major League games, and his 10 hits in seven games are tied with Matt Holliday and Nolan Arenado for the most in club history. Paulsen has spent the balance of his season at Triple-A Colorado Springs. For the Sky Sox, he has batted .285 (111-for-390) with 27 doubles, 6 triples, 15 home runs, 63 RBI and 66 runs. He was originally selected by the Rockies in the third round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of Clemson University.


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The jailed members of the punk group Pussy Riot have parted company with their lawyers in a rancorous split that has seen the legal team claim that the freed member of the group, Yekaterina Samutsevich, is a Kremlin collaborator, while she has claimed the lawyers are trying to profit from the band's notoriety.
The trio burst into Moscow's biggest cathedral in February wearing bright balaclavas and mimed a song entitled Virgin Mary, kick out Putin. Over the northern summer, Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and jailed for two years.
They have become renowned across the world, and Samutsevich says that the wife of one of the lawyers had registered "Pussy Riot" as a trademark in the hope of cashing in on the group's notoriety. She also accused the lawyers of taking her passport and keys and not returning them.
Samutsevich had already parted company with her initial lawyers after the first verdict. At an appeal hearing, she announced unexpectedly that she wanted to change lawyers, and made a new argument that she had not actually been properly involved in the stunt. As a result, she was freed, while Tolokonnikova and Alekhina had their two-year sentences kept in force.
This week, it became clear that the other two women were also parting company with the lawyers. Initially, one of the lawyers, Nikolai Polozov, said that he and two colleagues were leaving the case by mutual agreement with their clients, because the lawyers have developed too much of a media profile and were harming the two women in prison. The other two women will now be represented by Irina Khrunova, Samutsevich's lawyer during the appeal.
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Does anyone know anything about "Google Sites"?
My forum's homepage is made with google sites and I'm having issues.
My forum and it's homepage were set up by the previous admin. He arranged for a homepage and a few other pages off it for our site using google sites and a forum using freeforums. I took over as admin about 2 years ago (previous admin is no longer reachable). I tidied up the site a little and change the "doorbell" every month or two.
The "doorbell" is a single picture icon on the homepage that if you click it, it takes you to the forum. Since it's a puzzle forum, I change the pic to a new puzzle that catches my eye every so often.
What I have to do is scroll down to the bottom of the homepage and click "sign in". It then loads a login page and takes me back to the home page, but with various edit options added. From there I can edit, then sign out and changes are made.
Problem is, for the last week or two, the sign-in page doesn't load. Nothing. Blank page. At first I thought it might be down to browser or some linux compatibility issue, but I've just had chance to test with chrome, firefox, and IE on linux and windows.
I've managed to sign in with gmail as that account, but it won't accept I'm signed in when I get back to my site. I've searched google forums and threads and not found a reason, or better, a fix.
Any suggestions / ideas?


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This command will find the biggest files recursively under a certain directory, no matter if they are too many. If you try the regular commands ("find -type f -exec ls -laSr {} +" or "find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -laSr") the sorting won't be correct because of command line arguments limit. This command won't use command line arguments to sort the files and will display the sorted list correctly. Show Sample Output
This does the following: 1 - Search recursively for files whose names match REGEX_A 2 - From this list exclude files whose names match REGEX_B 3 - Open this as a group in textmate (in the sidebar) And now you can use Command+Shift+F to use textmate own find and replace on this particular group of files. For advanced regex in the first expression you can use -regextype posix-egrep like this: mate - `find * -type f -regextype posix-egrep -regex 'REGEX_A' | grep -v -E 'REGEX_B'` Warning: this is not ment to open files or folders with space os special characters in the filename. If anyone knows a solution to that, tell me so I can fix the line.
This command uses the recursive glob and glob qualifiers from zsh. This will remove all the empty directories from the current directory down. The **/* recurses down through all the files and directories The glob qualifiers are added into the parenthesis. The / means only directories. The F means 'full' directories, and the ^ reverses that to mean non-full directories. For more info on these qualifiers see the zsh docs: http://zsh.dotsrc.org/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#SEC87
this will show the names of the deleted directories, and will delete directories that only no files, only empty directories.
Find Word docs by filename in the current directory, convert each of them to plain text using antiword (taking care of spaces in filenames), then grep for a search term in the particular file. (Of course, it's better to save your data as plain text to make for easier grepping, but that's not always possible.) Requires antiword. Or you can modify it to use catdoc instead.
By putting the "-not \( -name .svn -prune \)" in the very front of the "find" command, you eliminate the .svn directories in your find command itself. No need to grep them out.
You can even create an alias for this command:
alias svn_find="find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \)"
Now you can do things like
svn_find -mtime -3
using mb it's still readable;) a symbol variation $ du -ms {,.[^.]}* | sort -nk1 Show Sample Output
somewhat faster version to see the size of our directories. Size will be in Kilo Bytes. to view smallest first change '-k1nr' to '-k1n'.
This command gives you the number of lines of every file in the folder and its subfolders matching the search options specified in the find command. It also gives the total amount of lines of these files. The combination of print0 and files0-from options makes the whole command simple and efficient. Show Sample Output
Makes any files in the current directory (and any sub-directories) group-readable. Using the "! -perm /g=r" limits the number of files to only those that do not already have this property Using "+" on the end of the -exec body tells find to build the entire command by appending all matching files before execution, so invokes chmod once only, not once per file.
Obviously, you can replace 'man' command with any command in this command line to do useful things. I just want to mention that there is a way to list all the commands which you can execute directly without giving fullpath. Normally all important commands will be placed in your PATH directories. This commandline uses that variable to get commands. Works in Ubuntu, will work in all 'manpage' configured *nix systems. Show Sample Output
"find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755" thanks masterofdisaster
With this command you can get a previous or future date or time. Where can you use this? How about finding all files modified or created in the last 5 mins? touch -t `echo $(date -d "5 minute ago" "+%G%m%d%H%M.%S")` me && find . -type f -newer me List all directories created since last week? touch -t `echo $(date -d "1 week ago" "+%G%m%d%H%M.%S")` me && find . -type d -cnewer me I'm sure you can think of more ways to use it. Requires coreutils package. Show Sample Output
unzips all zip files in any subdirectory under the current directory. The zip files are unzipped in their respective subdirs
In the example, uid 0 is root. foo:foo are the user:group you want to make owner and group. '.' is the "current directory and below." -print0 and -0 indicate that filenames and directories "are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace."
This uses Bash's "process substitution" feature to compare (using diff) the output of two different process pipelines.
The "find" command can be annoying when used inside of a Subversion (or CVS) working directory. Obviously, you can combine this with other predicates and commands to create a more elaborate pipeline:
find /var/svn -type f -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
Note: You can use my "dont-go-there.sh" script to wrap the "find" command and do this automatically at http://forwardlateral.com/blog/2006/02/27/dont-go-there/
commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.
Delete a file/directory walking subdirectories (bash4 or zsh)
drizztbsd 1
Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
indexsmithy 1
SSH Auto-login with password
o0110o 4
Print diagram of user/groups
point_to_null 19
Calculating series with awk: add numbers from 1 to 100
kaan 4
easily find megabyte eating files or directories
askedrelic 8
Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.
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Can a movie that New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick called "basically a three-hour homage to 'Blazing Saddles'" manage to pull in a few Oscar nominations? Time to check in with the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and, in the rare, applicable instance, the souls of academy members and how they'll be voting this awards season.
Signs point to yes: "Django," the last movie to start screening for awards consideration, could come away empty-handed, as it did with SAG voters. Or the academy could go for Tarantino's latest over-the-top, alternative history lesson in much the same way it did for the bloody "Inglourious Basterds," the 2009 movie that won eight nominations, including best picture. Its most solid shot appears to be for Tarantino's audacious screenplay, which would give him a third nod for writing. Crafts recognition for sound editor Wylie Stateman, a five-time Oscar nominee, and the great Robert Richardson, who won the cinematography Oscar last year for "Hugo," wouldn't at all be surprising.
Ask again later: Oscar pundits penciled in Leonardo DiCaprio's name in the supporting actor category months ago. And indeed, he brings a relish to his work as the film's self-entitled, foppish white devil plantation owner, but many see him as the third-best player in the movie, behind Christoph Waltz's bounty hunter and Samuel L. Jackson's power-hungry head house slave. The SAG snub could indicate trouble. Verbal virtuoso Waltz, not DiCaprio, could be "Django's" nominated supporting player. It's hard to see both making it in. And the fact that there are three worthy candidates doesn't particularly help anyone's chances here.


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University Compounding Pharmacy Injection Products: Recall - Lack of Sterility Assurance
Audience: Consumer, Pharmacy, Patient, Health Professional
ISSUE: University Compounding Pharmacy is voluntarily recalling products, including Testosterone Cypionate (Sesame Oil), Testosterone Cypionate/Testosterone Proprionate, and PGE-1 NS, for injection, to the consumer level (refer to Recall Notice for a detailed product list with affected lot numbers and expiry dates). In a recent inspection, FDA investigators observed that methods used by the Independent Third Party laboratory to assess sterility may have resulted in pharmacies receiving inaccurate laboratory test results. FDA has concerns that results obtained from the laboratory are not reliable. If there is microbial contamination in products intended to be sterile, patients are at risk of serious infections which may be life threatening.
BACKGROUND: The prescription preparations were distributed nationwide from May 9th, 2013 to September 7th, 2013.The preparations would have been sold, directly to customers by pick up and by mail.
RECOMMENDATION: Customers that have product which is being recalled should stop using it and contact University Compounding Pharmacy to arrange for return of unused product. Customers with questions regarding this recall can contact University Compounding Pharmacy at 1875 Third Ave, San Diego CA 92101 619-683-2005.
Customers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking or using these preparations.
Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
- Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178
[09/08/2013 - Recall Notice - FDA]


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Any favorites? Adam asks. Well, of course, I'm for Denise Jackson, the one who called herself a "crack baby." She from Madison. Here's a video about her. Here's a local newspaper article about her:
"You know how you're supposed to have a childhood?" she explains. In the Chicago housing project where Denise lived off and on, "You don't really get to have that childhood."Good luck, Denise!
With a mother who was largely absent and a father who vanished before her birth, Denise grew up thinking at times that her eldest sister, Nicole, was her mom.
"I think I've seen things that you shouldn't see when you're a little girl," says Denise, who moved to Madison with her grandmother at age 9....
Until she moved to Madison in 1999, Denise had never met a white or Asian person. "The part of (Chicago) I lived in, we never saw these people," she says. "You heard all these stupid things about white people, like white people are mean, they're racist.
"When I came to Madison, I found the sweetest people you would ever meet." Still, she was terrified when she learned her fifth-grade teacher would be a white woman; she'd never had a white teacher. Today she speaks affectionately of how that teacher tried to get her interested in piano lessons. "She would take me out for ice cream," says Denise.
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I am looking into using the Sencha DatePicker - but have a few things that I don't understand how to do.
Firstly, let's say I want the entire thing (including the fonts, etc) double-sized - literally say scaled up to 200% (or 300%, etc). How do I do this? Is providing a DatePickerAppearance the only way to do so?
Secondly, say I want to mark specific dates with a different background color - say the birthdays of family members, things like that. How do I change the style/color/whatever of a specific date on a given DatePicker?


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A man who traveled the world as part of a Christian ministry has been arrested for murder in connection with the Valentine's Day death of his wife during an incident allegedly staged to look like a burglary.
Nathan Leuthold was apprehended about 8:15 a.m. Wednesday during a car stop in Pekin. Police had been monitoring him and took him into custody after he left a home in the area where he had been staying.
He was booked into the Peoria County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder, though he has not yet been formally charged. Nathan Leuthold will have to make an initial appearance before a judge to be charged and have his bond determined within 48 hours or be set free.
"We believe the husband committed this murder, and it was staged to look like a burglary," Chief Steve Settingsgaard said Wednesday at a press conference announcing the arrest.
Few additional details were released Wednesday morning because the investigation is still active and ongoing, the chief said.
A Baptist missionary who traveled frequently to Lithuania over the past 15 years with his wife and children to start churches and sports- or music-centered outreach efforts, Nathan Leuthold called police about 3:15 p.m. Feb. 14 to his in-laws' home at 700 Mossville Road.
The incident was initially reported as a burglary, but police found 39-year-old Denise Leuthold's body just inside the front door with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Some items were missing from the home, and Denise Leuthold's vehicle was missing, though it was discovered shortly afterward parked about a quarter mile away in a parking lot of Robinson Park.
It appears police suspicion centered on Nathan Leuthold from the very beginning of the investigation.
"There were indications early on that he may have been involved," Settingsgaard said. "We found his behavior and his actions to be a little unusual at the time."
Court documents indicate Nathan Leuthold had a large amount of foreign currency and his passport with him in his vehicle when police responded to the reported burglary. Police also sought a temporary restraining order preventing him from accessing two local safety deposit boxes for about a week.
The Leutholds had been back in the United States for more than a year, living with Denise Leuthold's parents, while Nathan Leuthold traveled the country raising money for additional missionary work overseas.
Police arrest Peoria murder suspect in Pekin
A man who traveled the world as part of a Christian ministry has been arrested for murder in connection with the Valentine's Day death of his wife during an incident allegedly staged to look like a burglary.


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Three UH Manoa graduate students selected to prestigious Presidential Management Fellows ProgramUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Vice President for Student Affairs
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HONOLULU — Three University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa graduate students were recently selected as members of the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program's Class of 2005. Established in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter, the PMF Program is designed to attract to the Federal Service outstanding graduate students from a wide variety of academic disciplines who are interested in and committed to a career in the federal government.
Selected as part of the Class of 2005 from UH Mānoa are Michelle Lombardo, a graduate student in environmental sciences and natural resources; Danna Ponce, a student in the William S. Richardson School of Law; and Morgan Tulang, a graduate student in business management and administration.
The PMF Program is a two-year fellowship program, which enables students who have completed graduate degree requirements to be appointed to federal positions as PMFs and to also have the opportunity to be converted to a permanent federal position following their successful fellowship.
Students are nominated for the PMF Program by the dean, director or chairperson of their graduate academic program for demonstrating breadth and quality of accomplishments, capacity for leadership, and a commitment to excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs. The nomination process is extremely competitive as they compete with other nominated graduate students from across the nation.
For more information about the PMF Program, visit www.pmf.opm.gov.
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Ripped From Today's Headlines, Pt . 3
We continue to Rip from today's headlines
where we learn the cut of Robert Greasy's jib. Spoiler: the cut is
somewhat nefarious. It is an ambitious, mercenary jib.
Russia is still a little scary. Now that I am an adult, I can understand that we were probably doing things they didn't like either, so they had to have their own stash of apocalyptic world-ending weaponry. The nuance of that doesn't really come across in elementary school. What you come away with is that those who survive the atomic blast will discover new agonies each day they persist. No context for irrational Russian aggression was offered because there was no framework that justified their loathing for America. The standout mental image from this period was my stuffed animals obliterated in a flash of coalesced science.
Allofmp3.com has really helped to heal these old wounds.
Every one of you already knows about this Soviet music service, but the experience has been so profound that I had to mention it. Quick information for you, if you don't know what I'm talking about: imagine that you could purchase digital media "by the pound," that is to say, purchase it according to the amount of space it takes up on the hard disk. Music as raw bits, a true commodity. That's essentially what the service is. A'feared to give our actual credit card number to the Russian Bear, we had a couple cash cards made and began to swim - as Scrooge McDuck might swim - in a luxuriant pool of shoulder-deep data.
Utilizing every engine of my creative power I imagined a way that this could be legitimate. What we were doing, see, was simply tasting the bulging, global fruit that was always the promise of international commerce. There's going to be some country out there where such licenses can be obtained for a negligible fee. So long as that nation is connected to my house via the Internet, I can begin greedily plucking the results of that loophole directly from a kind of electronic vine.
And what a sweet harvest it was. It handles things a little different than other music services, largely because it is a shadowy online fence for stolen goods. There's no protection on the files, obviously - which means you can do what you want with them, just as you'd expect to do with other things you purchase with money. Of keen interest to me is that you can purchase the files not merely in whatever bitrate seemed appropriate to the service - the compression rate is completely up to you. Because you're paying for the file/song/album by size, you can get the son of a bitch at 320k lossless if you want. You can even download it in a way that takes solid shape and ride it down the hall.
I was talking about this before, that I don't want to be a person whose mutable morality allows for out and out theft, so I clapped my hands for a while and tried to believe it was okay to do this stuff. It was a lot easier when the jury was still kind of out on it, and I heard conflicting reports, because there's got to be a thousand posts out there from guys who say that it is "totally" legal. Now I'm hearing it might not even be legitimate behind the Iron Curtain. Thanks a lot, CNet. You've essentially stolen Christmas. My delicious, immoral holiday is gone because of your monstrous facts.
To nourish you news-wise, Tekken 5 drops today, which is to say Friday. The series completely lost me with the fourth one, which added interactive environments and removed my enjoyment absolutely. I've heard people say that the series has always aped Virtua Fighter, but I never found that to be the case until 4. The review I read of the new one makes it sound like the developer shares my low opinion of that title. We need a new fighter to carry us to the next Soul Calibur, I'll grab it and tell you what I find out.
The fourth content drop ("Issue") for City of Heroes is about to hit, and I've been looking with fondness upon some of the features. I don't know that I'd actually recidivate any time before the City of Villains expansion, but they really do keep dishing up neat shit. The main reason I mentioned it was the notes on their new Arena feature, listing how the regular powers players use against enemies have slightly different effects in Player vs. Player combat. Even as someone who doesn't play anymore, I found those distinctions interesting.
And something else, something fascinating: Hironobu Sakaguchi (Gabe: "Who?"), the inventor of Final Fantasy, is working with MS to drop an RPG on the next generation Xbox, whatever the fuck they end up calling it. That's sort of big news. The Xbox has always really hurt for RPGs that actually fit into the traditional genre. You've got action hybrids, okay great, but I think I can count the true RPGs and tactical strategy games on one hand. I've never understood why this is, because Microsoft owns the rights to some of the most potent intellectual property that could be applied to roleplaying and tactical games through FASA: Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, and Crimson Skies. In the last two cases, I've certainly enjoyed their rebirths as action franchises - but frankly, they're capable of more.
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Admissions & Financial Aid Fine Arts Materials
Visual Art
Please bring your portfolio to campus for review. This portfolio should consist of at least 10 works completed during your high school years. The majority should be completed during the junior and senior years. Original work is preferable when possible, but a digital portfolio is acceptable. In the case of a digital portfolio, quality reproductions are essential. During your visit, you will discuss the portfolio in an interview with Art Department faculty. In addition, candidates will be required to do a short still-life drawing exercise. To be named a Fine Arts Scholarship winner in Visual Art, the Art Department will be looking for serious art students who demonstrate a commitment to sustained creative production.
Creative Writing
Please send 15 pages of your best work in poetry, fiction, and/or playwriting. Include with your creative work a 1-2 page reflection on the sources of your inspiration as a writer and what you strive to achieve with your creative writing. Your material must be received with your registration for the Fine Arts Celebration. All material should be typed and double-spaced. Candidates will discuss their work in an interview with a professor as part of the review process.
Candidates for a music audition should be prepared to perform two or three accompanied movements or pieces in contrasting styles that have been prepared for accompanied solo performance in advance with a music instructor (pianists, percussionists, and guitarists need no accompanist). Vocalists must also prepare at least one piece that is not in English. For voice and single-line instruments it is assumed that you will bring your own accompanist to the audition. The Music Department can provide an accompanist for you, but at the time you submit your registration for the Fine Arts Celebration, you must immediately call or email the music professor listed below to request an accompanist, and to arrange to email copies of your music well in advance of your audition. Candidates will interview with a member of the Music Department faculty as part of the audition.
Candidates should be prepared to work with Theater Department faculty in an informal workshop setting focused on the acting process. Students interested in design and/or technical theater should bring a portfolio with evidence of previous work (production photos, sketches, renderings, light plots, etc.). Students interested in film should bring a DVD of an original short film or selected clips from original film projects. Candidates will be interviewed by members of the Theater Department faculty.
Candidates with any questions or concerns regarding the application process are encouraged to contact the following professors:
|Doug Calisch
|Creative Writing
|Eric Freeze
|Peter Hulen
|Dwight Watson
Please remember to submit or bring all required materials as outlined above. If submitted in advance, materials should be mailed to the Admissions Office, Wabash College P.O. Box 352 Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933-0352
Candidates must register for the Fine Arts Celebration no later than March 1, 2018. Candidates will be given the opportunity to showcase their talents, along with current Wabash students, during the Fine Arts Celebration on Thursday and Friday, March 17-18, 2018.


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Educational Background
- B.S. (elementary & special education teacher certification), Buffalo State College
- M.S., Buffalo State College
- Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Interests
- Meaningful learning in science education
- Misconceptions in science and engineering
- Conceptual learning in heat transfer and thermodynamics in chemical engineering
- Service learning in non-traditional educational environments
- Collaborative/Interdisciplinary research
- Gender Issues in Education
- Advanced Educational Psychology
- Differentiation and Diversity
- Teaching in Diverse Environments
- Quantitative Research Methods
Other Activities
- Member of CMSU Developmental Supports Board, Adult Recreation Program (helping to plan recreational activities for adults with disabilities in the local area).
- Kappa Delta Pi
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|23 weeks 4 days ago
|The silent majority....
The silent majority....
|2 years 23 weeks ago
|I belive there is quite a bit
I belive there is quite a bit of research out there to "crowd source" the answer or the truth. Prior to the days of social media, many advocated a stock market model -- where the general populous could buy / sell stock in certain events. I seem to recall the DoD or CIA stood one up for geo-political events shortly after 9/11 that was taken down, because buying stock in possible terrorist actions wasn't perceived very well :)
In anycase, I think you could argue that blogging and message boards have an interesting big data component to them....
|2 years 34 weeks ago
|You're an asshole
You're an asshole
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|Then inform me. Or do
Then inform me. Or do anonymous internet snark that keeps me from posting on message boards. Either way I don't care.
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|I'll bite. I think Hoke
I'll bite. I think Hoke deserves one more year. Having said that, I think he's done a bad job this year. So why one more year?
1. 0 seniors at OL.
2. 0 seniors at WR.
3. 0 seniors at RB (depth chart looks like soph / soph - untill green got hurt).
4. QB who doesn't fit his system.
5. From my eyes, a steadily improving OL that could be a monster next year.
None of that is particullarly Hoke's fault (to be clear NOT blaming RR).
If we run out a coach after 3 years (RR) and then run out a coach after 4 years (Hoke) no one will want to come here regardless of who the athletic director is. A coach should be allowed to build his program and let it stand on its merit. IMHO, I think that takes 5 years.
It may sound like I'm afraid of change, I'm not. (I just joined a start up at 38!!!) I just think we as a community have to give any coach ample opprotunity to suceed. I understand some of you think he has already had that, but that's where I come from. If next year, its more of the same, then yes broom him.
|4 years 20 weeks ago
|Congrats Coach Carr! It
Congrats Coach Carr! It occurs to me, that if they had the 4 team playoff that starts next year, he probably would have had UM in it in 1997, 2003, and 2006. I'll take that any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Again, congrats to coach a class act and thanks for all he has done for UM.
|4 years 24 weeks ago
|One. We have one rivalry.
One. We have one rivalry. Ohio.
We, as a fan base, measure all our successes and failures on the relation to that school. Everything else is theater. Don't get me wrong, ND is nice but it was forced upon us by ADs and TV execs. MSU is nice, but a lot us have friends, family with ties to East Lansing. I don't hate MSU. Many have already pointed out that our historical success makes us "rivals" with many, many schools.
Toledo war, Bo, Woody. Griffin & Woodson. 10 year war, snow bowl, '69, 313, go for two.
Nothing against ND & MSU, but last game of the season, it really feels like UM has four phases of the season ( in chronological order):
1. Preseason
Sans maybe iron bowl, Red Sox / Yankees, USSR/ USA, there is nothing like it in all of sport......
Just my $0.02 (like most things on the internet )
|4 years 35 weeks ago
|Your anger is misplaced. The
Your anger is misplaced. The cable companies blocked that one. DirecTV is not a broadband provider, so no cable / internet company (Comcast, Xfinity, Time Warner, etc, etc) is going to let you use their own infrastructure to by-pass their own products (that is no ESPN3 on their broadband unless your paying them for ESPN3).
At least that's their rationale. I think its monopolistic.
5 years, this will all be moot when all channels will be apps on your Apple TV, Roku, or Xbox. TV's are a changing, and some companies want to fight it and bleed you dry, which of course ends up bleeding them dry as customers go running to providers who you give you what you want and how much you want without having to pay for a bunch of other crap. Its nearly a perfect reply of the music industry the last decade. When was the last time you saw a Tower Records?
|4 years 49 weeks ago
|Disagree. There are cases
There are cases where the Harvard degree won't open any more doors than the UM degree or give an incremental benefit that isn't worth the cost of tuition.
I'm specifically thinking of engineering.
I've worked for NASA and DoD for 13 years, and rarely have encountered Ivy league graduates during my career. The ones I have encountered haven't had doors opened for them that weren't available to graduates at other top engineering schools.
If she's undecided or doesn't want engineering, than yeah Harvard. The opprotunities in business, public policy, or law are just too great and no university can compete with them. Especially if she wants to do something that might be constrained to a limited number of academic positions (ie theorhetical astrophysics or 15th centurary Irish lit). In those cases, having an Ivy league degree gives you the cache to land one of the few academic positions available.
But if she wants to do engineering, then UM.
|4 years 51 weeks ago
|5 star depth at RB? Yes
5 star depth at RB? Yes please....
Granted its a long shot, but here's guessing that Peppers does reel in a suprise stud for us with this type of attitude. Gotta love the passion for UM
|5 years 3 days ago
|The physical adjustment I'm
The physical adjustment I'm more concerned about is how well his body responds to getting hit by guys 3-4 years older and are stars from around the nation, as opposed to folks who look like me ;)
Nothing to back it up, but for running backs I get the sense that pounding is more of a transition then putting on lbs.
|5 years 1 week ago
|Chill man.... Its
Chill man....
Its offseason, so raise your tolerance for things that aren't 100% maize and blue. Besides, commenting on the relative success of a conference member in a post that calls out conference member rankings is fair game.
My $0.02: Enjoy your summer, have a beer, comment on things that interest you and ignore things that don't....
|5 years 1 week ago
|Yeah! As a side note, I know
As a side note, I know they have been doing well, but it is still freaky to see Northwestern up there.....
|5 years 4 weeks ago
|Give me a break. 2005 we
Give me a break. 2005 we lost 4 games by 4 points or less in a season riddled with injuries.
2007 we were 9-4.
I'll give you that we underperformed in both seasons, and had one of our programs (neigh the sports') most embarrassing losses, but we were a long way from "damn lucky to not be under .500".
There's no doubt that Carr's later years showed signs of slippage, but your comment just reeks of unnecessary spite and is just factually not true.
|5 years 7 weeks ago
|Yep. There is a huge and
Yep. There is a huge and unfortunate misconception by many that a charge only occurs when the defender is stationary. Blasting through someone's chest is almost always a charge, regardless of whether ones feet are moving. You beat someone to a spot, you have a right to be there.
|5 years 11 weeks ago
|Correct. There was never a
Correct. There was never a tribe of "Illini" or Chief Illiniwek.
The suit worn by the Illinois mascot, was somehow donated in the 1920's by a Sioux tribe (nothing to do with Illinois or Illinois' native americans). The dance performed was based on a traiditional Illinois native american "happy" dance, but it was altered for apperances sake when performed in a football stadium. Also, Fighting Illini was the term endeared upon Illinois residents who voluntarily took up arms during WW1, but many take to imply a war-like tribe of native americans. (Their memorial stadium is actually a WW1 memorial).
All these loose pieces together allowed various political factions to somehow unite against their mascot. The factonization of the Illinois mascot over all those sources no doubt contributed to said mascot's retirement.
Contrast that to Florida State who had one tribe to negotiate with.
|5 years 11 weeks ago
|Spot on. Data to back you
Spot on. Data to back you up:
|5 years 19 weeks ago
|Lol, Sparty :)
Lol, Sparty :)
|5 years 26 weeks ago
|Illinois' take is: 1. They
Illinois' take is:
1. They had a slush fund scandal in 60's when Pete Elliott was the AD.
There's a few more things going back to the Yost / Red Grange era that I can't remember, but the bottom line is the two universities haven't always seen eye to eye. Contrast that to the closeness Bo/Moeller/Carr had ( still do) to the Iowa administration and coaching staff
|5 years 28 weeks ago
|For me, its a case by case
For me, its a case by case basis. I think exceptional players sometimes stuggle with coaching later in life because they have unrealistic expectations on player capabilities and can't comprehend the need for motivational techniques (because motivation has never been an issue for them). So in the case of Woodson, its unclear in my mind whether he would be an effictive coach.
I also don't think coaching searches should limit themselves exclusively to UM players or family tree. See one Mr. Schembechler.
|5 years 28 weeks ago
|For the life of me, I don't
For the life of me, I don't understand why we can't work with B1G , OSU, and UNL to break up the let's play 2 of the historical top 10 teams on the road thing to once a year, every other year. I guess it would require either us or one of those schools playing us to have 2 road games in sequential years, but I think I'd be fine with that to even things out in the long run.
Tangential to that thought.... the B1G schedule in 2016 is especially brutal.
|5 years 28 weeks ago
|Btw, there was an absolutely
Btw, there was an absolutely in excussible PI call on Pitt that extended a nd td drive during this game....
|5 years 29 weeks ago
|Absolutely correct. Of issue
Absolutely correct. Of issue though, is personally attacking the kid, stating he will never be good, or that you could have done a better job.
|5 years 29 weeks ago
|I just moved to NoVa from
I just moved to NoVa from Houston this year. I thought I was done with this crap. Oh we'll, got candles, batteries, crackers , and alcohol. So I'll be ok....
|5 years 30 weeks ago
|I agree 100%. I'd also add
I agree 100%. I'd also add this policy protects UM as well as the kid. For example, say a kid is wavering, takes visits to other schools but Hoke & Co bank on him receiving a scholly from UM. Come signing day, UM could be left holding the bag with no real options if the kid chooses elsewhere.
|5 years 30 weeks ago
|Eh. I have hard time blaming
Eh. I have hard time blaming Martin for this. The article states he was signed. Martin was probably thinking it was normal work rythm time, and yes, I do believe he should be able to turn off his cell phone for an hour.
In anycase, its probably all for the best. We've got a good thing going in bball, I'm not sure Pitino would have thrived in an environment where bball was always the bridesmaid never the bride, and I don't think UM would have been as forgiving as Lousville was with respect to his personal short comings.
Ships passing in the night, water on the under bridge, your favorite cliche here, but both sides seem better off for it IMO.
|5 years 33 weeks ago
|Purdue rushes out to a 18-0
Purdue rushes out to a 18-0 run due to 9 Robbie Hummel tip ins. AIRBHG screams "HEY this is FOOTBAWL" and goes east to blow up Hummel's knee for the 3rd time allowing UM to get the 1pt safety. We get 4 td's and denard finishes off the half with a 75 yr field goal.
|5 years 43 weeks ago
|^^^. This. The only thing I
^^^. This. The only thing I would add is the Freeh report puts the blame squarely not just on Paterno et al, but the entire "culture" at Penn State. The kids on current scholly will be fine one or another ( transfer -- whatever ). But that enire University, athletic department, and fan base must give their pound of flesh.
|5 years 50 weeks ago
|This is why I read this blog
This is why I read this blog
|5 years 50 weeks ago
|ask me in 5 years....
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Palm Beach Atlantic University education students in the Teaching Science and Teaching Math course recently held a Math/Science workshop for the voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) students in First Baptist Church's pre-school program.
Four-year-olds rotated through several stations, including Alligator Greater/Less Than, Finding Fossils, Christmas Patterns and the Water Cycle.
Students made water cycle beads bracelets, Cheerios pattern necklaces, Play-Doh fossils and munching alligators to take home.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla. Warmer weather is just around the corner, but before families fire up the barbecue, roast marshmallows around a crackling campfire or burn yard debris, they should consider some common precautions to help snuff out a serious childhood health risk.
University of Florida researchers warn that the same warm-weather activities that create lasting childhood memories are some of the leading causes of pediatric foot and ankle burns in the southeastern United States.
In what is thought to be the largest such evaluation to date, UF burn experts found that 69 percent of the 155 pediatric foot and ankle burns reviewed were caused by children walking on hot ashes, coals and embers with some injuries occurring as long as a day or more after the fires were thought to be extinguished. Most of these youngsters were barefoot or wearing footwear that did not fully cover their feet, such as sandals.
We wanted to look at our experience with these burns because it appeared to us, anecdotally, that we were treating a fair number of children with burns isolated to the feet, said Elizabeth Beierle, M.D., a UF associate professor of pediatric surgery and the principal investigator of the study, published in the January/February edition of the Journal of Burn Care and Research. We felt that there may be a pattern that could be identified that would lead us to potentially develop prevention strategies.
In the retrospective study, researchers used hospital and pediatric surgery databases to identify patients ages 8 months to 17 years admitted to the Shands at UF Burn Center between September 1992 and February 2006.
Two-thirds of the ash burns occurred after children came into contact with burning yard waste or garbage, nearly a third were caused by campfires and 6 percent involved encounters with a barbecue.
About half of the total cases studied which also included scald, flame or contact burns were classified as second-degree burns, and more than a third were third-degree burns, the most serious type.
Clearly theyre not going to have this problem in Manhattan, where most people dont even have space for a backyard, Beierle said. I think this is a problem in rural areas with warm weather because it tends to be more common to burn trash and leaves in the backyard in these areas.
Wayne Cruse, M.D., a professor of surgery at the University of South Florida and assistant director of the Regional Burn Center at Tampa General Hospital, said about one-third of the pediatric burns treated at the Tampa General burn center are foot and ankle injuries.
The study is a great review of these burn cases because it shows how the origins of these injuries tend to be region-specific, he said. We see about two to three cases a month, and in about half of the instances, the accidents occurred on the beach from kids running over ashes and hot sand that were supposed to extinguish a bonfire.
These smoldering byproducts of burning yard debris, charcoal and campfire timbers posed the greatest risk to children under age 5. Lack of parental supervision, open sandals and running around outdoors with bare feet were some of the factors contributing to the burn injuries.
The classic story is that a 2-year-old goes running outside through the ashes without footwear and gets burned, Beierle said. In many cases parents burned yard trimmings or trash and didnt put water on the underlying coals to properly extinguish the fire. They just thought it was out because there werent open flames any longer.
Cruse said the burns can be easily prevented by using common sense when families make outdoor fires.
Parental supervision is paramount and proper closed footwear is also very important in the presence of a fire, he said. But the best preventative modality is to learn how to extinguish the fires appropriately. The best resource that tells you how to do that is the Boy Scouts of America handbook.
Although a smaller percentage of the ash foot and ankle burns required skin grafting compared with the other types of burns studied, the average hospital stay was five days, which is valuable time lost for both the children and their parents, Beierle said.
For a child or a parent, thats five days out of school or five days out of work, often for both parents, she said. Its not only a physically painful experience for the child and his or her family, but it has a painful economic impact as well. The point is that this is an easily preventable injury.
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The next meeting of the Hutchinson Photography Club will be on Tuesday, February 19th, at 7:00 PM at the Hutchinson Center for the Arts (15 Franklin Street SW). Anyone interested in photography is welcome. The club meets the third Tuesday of each month. For more information, visit www.hutchphotographyclub.com.


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TRAPPE – The fifth-graders of South Elementary were taken back to their colonial roots in the 23rd annual Colonial Fair on May 17. This program took place on the grounds of the South Elementary School, where each student dressed in colonial period clothing and participated in activities from that time period, including quilting, candle-making, and much more.
This unique project, developed by the teachers of South, Evergreen, Schwenksville, and Skippack elementary schools, was created to give fifth-graders an opportunity to experience the many aspects of American colonial life, which they have been studying throughout the year. Approximately 16 presenters from the Perkiomen Valley community and staff members provided the children with a variety of colonial activities.
Examples of these activities included creating artwork by stenciling or lucet weaving (a special braiding technique using old-fashioned tools to create clothes), making and eating homemade ice cream, churning homemade butter, learning colonial dances, playing games and making music that were popular in the 1700s andinstruction in the skills of quilting and candle making.
Throughout the years, this all-day activity has been a most enriching experience for the students of Perkiomen Valley School District.
"The fair gives the kids a taste of what colonial life was like, which is important in our curriculum," commented fifth-grade teacher Mrs. Sarker at the event. "It's a really authentic and fun experience for them, and I love seeing all the kids dress up!"
South Elementary School is located at 200 East Third in Trappe.
-Submitted by Perkiomen Valley School District
4: Students Samantha Wolff, Mason Kinsey and Eli Johnston about to press flowers to create bookmarks
5: Andrew Meeley getting served his homemade ice cream
6: Reese North making some freshly squeezed lemonade
10: Former Perkiomen Valley School District teacher Dominic Manderachi acting as the town friar with student Isabella Cracchiolo


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Microsoft Office 2000 to Open Office 3.0
I will say that although I have not had the joy of opening Office 2000 files with OO.o 3.0, I do recall there being some serious issues between powerpoint slides. Some weird rendering going on in OO.o for what reason I do not know. In my line of work, powerpoint is perversely pervasive--to the point of alarm for me. If this is true for you, do some testing before taking the plunge!
Are there any reliable ways to view/edit/save a document saved in the OpenXML format through Open Office
I regrettably give you the option of getting Novell's OO.o distribution [novell.com] (here [novell.com]) in which you can install an extension for OpenXML.
The best recommendation I can give you is to do this change only if you can assure that it will not hinder your ability to serve your customer or detract largely from productivity.
It's a shame they haven't found a way to make OpenOffice work better with MSoffice files. I can't recommend open source for business applications, but it is great for home users or schools tyo reduce their costs to near-zero.
Do other alternatives like WordPerfect or WordStar handle MSoffice files better?
which is why it is such a popular malware container.
Frequently, OpenSource tools like OpenOffice.org or AbiWord read the files perfectly well, and then can save them un-corrupted in ".doc" form. My wife is an attorney, and she has to jump through that hoop all the time.
Lawyers make a lot of use of change tracking. Word does a horrible job in this area and frequently corrupts files, especially when editing with multiple versions (which you do when exchanging draft documents). OpenOffice 3 does a much better job of change tracking in every conceivable way bu
Technically it would be binary lob or blob, since binary blob is redundant:)
Blob = binary large object
Just thought I would be annoying and point that out
Technically it would be binary lob or blob, since binary blob is redundant:)
Well, maybe he's referring to an amorphous object consisting of binary data...
Nothing handles MSOffice files well, not even other Microsoft applications. Their format is a mystery wrapped in an enigma enveloped by a binary blob.
This notwithstanding, if Office 2007 fails to open an old document it will probably be considered "one of those things, document must be corrupted, never mind, these things happen". This may not be the reaction if something similar happens with OO.o
I can confirm this...
MSOffice files from diferent versions are just mangled up by each-others.
Thankfully, apart from very small errors, OpenOffice.org opens them all with easy to correct errors only (apart from a bug that sometimes makes some images to vanish).
Do other alternatives like WordPerfect or WordStar handle MSoffice files better?
About as well as Notepad.
In my experience, OO.o handles damaged MS Office files far better than MS Office does. I've never known it to fail to open an MS Office 2003 or earlier file, but the formatting can be changed, and of course any VBA in the document is going to be a problem.
This is worth taking into account. I've been saved numerous times by OOo: Word files sometimes refuse to open in Word. And without constant backups, if this were to happen in a monoculture you'd be helpless. Even with backups you stand the risk of losing a revision.
Of course none of this justifies making OOo your primary office suite, just a good backup app. But IMHO, making it your main office suite is a question of how well you can tolerate occasional formatting errors, and how many hundreds of dollars it's worth to avoid them most of the time. Also, keep in mind that after a while all your docs will migrate to ODF, so those formatting errors are temporary.
Of course, the obvious cautious approach is to install OOo on a couple of machines, telling users to double check the saved docs open well in whatever MS version the office is using. If no problems, widen the "test" until everyone is using it, at least part time. If still OK, suggest to management that costs can be cut by not purchasing MSO on every machine, just one or two, "just in case" some specific need arises. Management usually likes to have a backup plan. Management always likes to save costs.(w
The problem is that in the eyes of your users, if MS Office corrupts or cannot read a file, it is the file's fault, but if OpenOffice cannot read a file, it is OpenOffice's fault.
Since it costs nothing to try, why not download a copy and try opening several examples and try saving several examples (and testing if you can "round trip" the documents.)
There are some documents which used some features which wouldn't come across (specialized formatting stuff,) when it was tried at one of my employers/clients.
For most (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) it was okay.
The database is way too primitive (so is Microsoft's so no loss there) so we rolled our own and we used specialized drawing tools.
They fixed it. I'm the Linux Guy at work, and I have to toss together powerpoint presentations.
Specifically what doesn't work:
* Slide transparency isn't supported, so anything you paste into slides will be 100% opaque when opened in MS Office
* Vector art does wild stuff. Whatever coordinate system OO is using, MS isn't. If you use anything that uses vectors, convert them to bitmaps first.
The same whiners that will complain about OO will also complain about MS Office 2007... the GUI change is so drastic. OO's GUI is closer to Office 2000 than Office 2007 is.
Also, don't compare moving to OpenOffice to Office 2000... Compare it to Office 2007
I think I agree, but I'm confused by the phrasing.
I'd say, compare the transition from Office 2000/2003 to Office2007 to the transition from Office 2000/2003 to OO.o. Users are likely to find the user interface transition much smoother to OO.o, and either transition introduces some file compatibility problems.
not far off the ball, but what I'd say:
MSO 2000 or MSO 2003 -> OO 2 or OO3 is easier than to MSO 2007.
I have had a couple issues.
Supercript: does not transfer well. You end up with the superscripted text way too large (full height, raised by about 1/2 the height of the base text, instead of half height raised by about 1/2 the height of the base text).
Page borders: Opening a word document in OO will open it with page boarders equal to the default of OO, not whatever you saved them as.
Excel comments: I
Are your users simply using Word or are there a lot of Excel users also? Because Excel has always been the hang up when I have tried to convert a SMB or SOHO. If they don't use Excel it usually isn't a problem to switch. But if you have a lot of Excel users, especially if the Excel spreadsheets have a lot of VBA macros, then you will be in a world of hurt.
Because IMHO while Writer has come a long way to catching up with Word, and as some users point out with corrupted docs it even beats it, and Impress ca
Short : YES.
Long : Yes, but you will have to tell the office whiners to STFU.
Honestly it's not that hard, it requires some retraining of habits. and requires users to not be raging Luddites.
If you get management buy in for it, the transition will take weeks before all the whining dies down. the only problem is when you get users that are not smart enough to understand what they were instructed to do because they did it the other way for the past 5 years.
Is there a piece of software that will tell the whiners to STFU?
just make sure that the message is a powerpoint presentation of a scanned copy of a photograph of a screenshot of a PDF of a
IN fact, you better split the screenshot into a multipart rar file, zip that into a
You're joking, but this can be a serious deterrent to switching for some businesses.
Of course, vital business logic being locked away in an Excel macro is a WTF in and of itself, but sometimes there's no getting around it...
Is there a piece of software that will tell the whiners to STFU?
Maybe the whine activated pink slip generator?
Your response to this disqualifies you as any kind of authority on this type of question. You are combative, hard headed and have absolutely no empathy for the folks you are supposed to be serving. As a manager, I would NEVER have this type of attitude towards people or allow that type of attitude to germinate in my department. You think your point of view is the only valid ones and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. frankly, you are the type of person that gives IT workers a bad name.
You're absolutely wrong. This isn't "just a little bit of re-training". This is a big deal. The thing is, everyone uses MS Office. If someone can't do some little task, chances are they can ask one of their co-workers. You can't ever really under-estimate this kind of knowledge, and what it's worth. The cost of an entire corporation which is switching over all at once to a new piece of productivity software is quite high, in terms of productivity.
I say this as a low-level project manager who successfully convinced my company to move to OpenOffice 3. We're doing phased deployments, one team at a time, over the course of the next year, that way the whole thing doesn't grind us to a halt. We're sticking with Outlook, at least for now, but the rest of MS Office is going away, starting with Word. Why are we doing this?
1) cost
2) extensibility (plugin development)
3) stability of the ODF format
We've built some automation tools that leverage ODF to save us hundreds of man-hours per year. ODF is more elegant and stable than any of Microsoft's solutions, and so we built a whole stack of XSLT's and tools around it. We support MS Word formats, but only by running them through OO.o's conversion filters to ODF first.
If we didn't build this, the cost of switching to OO.o would far outweigh the licensing costs.
Your response to this disqualifies you as any kind of authority on this type of question. You are combative, hard headed and have absolutely no empathy for the folks you are supposed to be serving.
I disagree although I wouldn't have worded it the way he did. No matter what office suite they switch to, whether OOo or MS Office, the end users will have to learn something new. Some people will complain that it's not what they're used to, and that's a legitimate concern even if there's nothing really to be done about it other than offer training. Others will complain that "it's not the real Office", and you can dismiss those out of hand.
One thing I learned as a software developer, is you can create an application that conforms to specifications but is hated by the end users, even those who designed the spec. What I learned is that you need to take a lot of time up front, and talk with all of the users and other stakeholders. You need to listen to what they say and don't say and then you need to figure out what they really want. It is usually different than what they are expressly asking for. Part of that is respecting everyone in the process, regardless of their attitude. If you can demonstrate that you really want to give them what they need and will help them with that process, you will get very little of the backbiting that original poster expressed.
Where does this begin? Nothing technical. Nothing taught in school. You have to sincerely respect people from all areas, not just the IT minded. Not just the higher ups. Everyone. Once you start with that frame of mind, doors open. Granted, sometimes it takes a conscious effort to get to that frame of mind. Sometimes, people rub you the wrong way.... they have agendas, and you have to take a deep breath and step back. But calling your users Luddites and worse sure ain't the way to go. Frankly, the attitude disgusts me.
But calling your users Luddites and worse sure ain't the way to go.
But he wasn't saying that all protesters were Luddites. I totally agree with everything you said, but also understand his frustration about people who protest all change, regardless of how carefully planned or coordinated with the end users, seemingly for the sake of having something to complain about. Those were the people he is railing against.
If you're doing IT for people who's job descriptions require basic computer skills, it's perfectly okay to tell them to suck it up when they have to transition away from software that is one week shy of a decade old, particularly if you offer some training classes.
Besides, when has it ever made sense to pamper employees who's skills are ten years out of date?
I always deal with managers like you. In fact one, just like you, was encouraged to leave that did put up a big fuss. When we did the transition here to OO.o away from MS office. His complaints were all for HIS scripts he wrote in Excel and Access. we told him he could stick with Office 2003 and he complained that he NEEDED the office 2007 upgrades. His scripts saved HIM time and were not useful for anyone else in the company. they could have stayed at Office 2003 for the next 56 years just fine...
I transitioned my home office to OO3 on XP from Office95 on XP which had been installed for the last 10 years. No real complaints yet. We don't have a massive legacy of old documents to open, and very little powerpoint to deal with, but in general powerpoint has worked for us on OO3.
I bet if management would give employees a $100 or $200 bonus to learn OO3, there'd be very few complaints.
Wow, not a good answer...
The real question is what do your users do? If you have plain vanilla users then shifting them to OO will be not that bad.
However, if there is any use of style sheets, macros or any other automation technique then you are going to have problems galore and not worth the effort.
The problem that you are going to be fighting is why upgrade?
Open Office is not Office 2007 comparable. Office 2007 is quite the package. Though that does not mean Open Office is not usable. It really depends.
For example do you have Word setup to access a database or something ridiculous like that?
Mail merge is not usually an odd-ball feature for anyone who has more than a handful of friends or clients. As an aside and from experience, attempting to mail merge anything with over 3,000 rows in OOo generally results in pain.
I think you're missing a point.
For many slashbots, "common" == those folks who agree with what I think is important, appropriate, or valuable. So, if you need VBscripts or mailmerge, you're out there on the fringe.
A corollary group of slashbots, zealots, extend this to mean that "If my chosen software package doesn't do it, it doesn't ever need to be done. If you think you need it, think again, because you're wrong and stupid."
We need to be honest with the shortfalls of Free or Open software, because love i
Do your documents utilize VB macros? If so, you may want to look at Novell's fork of OOo at go-oo.org which improve macro support. Otherwise mainline OOo should open all your MS Office 2000 documents with ease.
The interface of OOo is closer to MS Office 2000, than MS Office 2007's interface is. Training users should actually be easier than training users on MS Office 2007.
When I converted my mother to Linux I told her she'd have to give up MS Office. When I installed openSUSE 11 and OOo 3, she thanked me for giving her MS Office. It looked so similar, she couldn't tell the difference.
The only little bit of advice I'd give you, is to go into the program options and set the default file formats. While I praise ODF, and want the world to adopt it, if you're going to send documents out to the rest of the world, you'll have to save them either in PDF format (which OOo does natively) or save them in MS formats for everyone else.
When you're done, tell your boss how you just saved the company $400 a pop times 50 people, and ask for a raise.
Go-OO is considered a development build/branch and should not be used in a production environment. It doesn't go through the level of testing and QA of OpenOffice.org for each release.
Funny. SLES ships with a Go-OO build. Many distros use the Go-OO branch in their stable releases that they advertise for production use.
There is an unstable branch of Go-OO, and there are stable releases of Go-OO. Obviously, I'd suggest you use the stable branch in a production environment.
Make sure the group has management in it as well -- need a Lead By Example person.
Also, you'll need to understand the interoperability comfort level, as your clients and business partners will continue to use M$oft.
Our office of 50+ transitioned back in the early 2.0 days with nary a hitch. A couple of people still have MS Office for specific compatibility reasons (certain spreadsheet macros, that sort of thing) but everyone else from IT to the receptionist has OOo. We spent approximately $0.00 on training, instead going with "here's your new word processor". People who need office suites picked up on it quickly and people who primarily do other things didn't really care.
short answer: yes.
long answer: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees (sorry Yahtzee!).
a friend of mine migrated to OOo a year ago and most of his employees didn't even noticed. he owns a small architecture office.
only the oddball document that doesn't open right in OOo, he opens and converts on his own notebook, the only one in the company that have MS stuff.
What other answer do you expect here on slashdot? Hell, most of the time we're ready to tell you to drop Windows altogether and go with the blessed Linux. I'd rather do real world tests on complex documents. Particularly hear if someone is using any "smart" Excel sheets or other wierd things.
Yes, for most things.
No for powerpoint. From what I've used, OO.org's Impress is simply not as good, has rendering issues, flickers, is a resource hog, is not smooth, etc. Powerpoint is way better.
Can you do office docs and spreadsheets? Yeah. If not using the aforementioned VB macros and whatnot, it's easy to use openoffice.org for stuff like "word" documents and spreadsheets.
But presentations
As far as migration, in many ways OO.org does a better job with file formats than MS Office. In particular, I recently had to open a MS Office 2007 document(docx), and rather than getting the filter into MS Word, I just loaded in into OO.org. To put it plainly, I have no problem opening any files in OO.org.
So those people who depend on weird MS Office features never give the documents they create to anyone else to view?
Seems like that's the real issue-- whether or not you create documents using edge features, you will occasionally be called upon to view one.
At the point where OO.o lets the user down to the extent that she can't get the information she needs (as opposed to a little big of rendering oddity), she'll abandon ship real fast out of sheer self-preservation.
You can't dictate which features in Office
If you are going from Office 2000 to OpenOffice.Org you will go almost effortlessly.
There may be a few small things here and there that users may gripe about, like obscure formatting issues, but nothing earth shattering.
If, as you say, you are going from MSO-2000 to OO.o3.x, then Microsoft Office XML should not be an issue as 2000 can't open that anyway.
Tell everyone to check their spreadsheets for numeric accuracy and functionality as some funtions and macros work differently.
After that, you have to sell it!! Tell them how wonderful it is. Talk about PDF export. Tell them they can have a copy for home!! Tell them they don't have to enter an endless stream of letters and numbers just to install it.
Your biggest griper will be a finance guy (like me). For him, just buy excel. Forcing him to use something other than excel is cruel and unusual punishment.
Instead of asking Slashdot, although I'm happy you did as OpenOffice always generates a good flameware, you should be asking your users.
In particular you should gather the people who're likely to have the biggest problems with migrating: accountants for example, often have massive and complex spreadsheets, not to mention VB macros. Create a focus group, or go around each of these people to see how they're using the software, then create a requirements document and test OpenOffice against it.
The advantage of a requirements document is that if OpenOffice doesn't 'fit the bill' at the moment, you'll be able to check newer versions (and even different office suites, such as KOffice) against it in future.
If OpenOffice meets the requirements of your users in theory, test them in practice. Gather anyone who's adventurous enough to try out OpenOffice alongside Microsoft Office and get them to give you feedback. Even if OpenOffice doesn't meet requirements now, check back in a year. Also, check on how other office suites, such as KOffice, are coming along. You may not be able to replace Office immediately, but that doesn't mean you should give up on trying!
It depends on what you're doing with email and calendar. MS Office includes Outlook, after all, and if your office is using Outlook/Exchange as its email solution then you could hit a big problem in the transition.
OOo is a good replacement for the document preparation parts of Office, with a much less irritating UI than Office 2007, but email is a problem.
We tried migrating a company with 40 users maybe three years ago, to Sun's boxed version. It was a complete and utter failure. Maybe it's gotten better now, but I'd be pretty weary. There were a thousand and one little incompatibilities. Plus some of our people use Excel for things god never intended it to do.
One thing is we deal with the government a lot, which always has the latest version of Office. Keeping up with that using non-MS software is pretty hard.
I think if your office only does very general word processing and spreadsheet use, it might work. But a lot of people have noted the powerpoint issues.
Basically, if it doesn't just work perfectly, it's a support nightmare. When we tried the experiment, I remember we'd author something, send it off, it'd come back with revisions from a customer with real MS office, we'd open it and it'd be all messed up, and that would happen going the other direction as well.
I don't think I'm ready to try that experiment any time soon. It's not worth the money saved, yet.
Has the Open Office suite evolved to a point that permits easy transition from Microsoft's suite?
Maybe. It depends what you need from Microsoft's office suite.
what are some of the pros and cons of transitioning?
Pros: Choice of OS, and a format which is truly an open standard. For example, if some people find KOffice works better, or some people prefer Gnumeric to OO Calc, there's no problem -- ODF is supported by everyone except Microsoft.
Cons: Support with Microsoft Office will probably never be "bug for bug" complete. In fact, you may want to keep a copy around for comparison. And depending how competent everyone else is, it may require some training,
There will be two key things that determine how much work the transition will be, (in my experience).
1. How much VB is used mainly in Excel.
2. How are your workflows set up? Do they depend on other MS things that don't work with anything else?
All the other stuff is no harder than moving from an older version of MS Office to a newer. I have found it is worth looking at the little apps that people built in Excel, and spending the time on the transition seeing whether they can't be refactored to use Base, since everyone will have it, or moved over to the Starbasic stuff. (Or will it work with small changes in Novell's version?)
In transition you will need to give an overabundance of help right away to the heavy duty users, and engage them even before hand. In a small situation even have them help in looking at the little hand built apps. Plus you will find out usually about a month later when people actually really use the little odd things when they get to documents and and reports that they only look at quarterly, or monthly. Be prepared for that. Try really hard to separate the grumbling that will come simply because of change, and real issues that hurt someone's job.
I am currently looking for a job (as I suppose a lot of folks are). At home we all use Macs. My Girlfriend has Apple Pages, so I decided to use it. I was astounded how easy it was to make a resumé that looked pretty good from one of the templates. So I applied for a job and sent them the Word export (as I figured word was a default filetype). Not only does the resumé look really bad, many windows users can not open it. So I exported to PDF, same. So I took it to where I work now opened with the current version of word (disaster!)... spent a while fixing it, saved it... and people have trouble opening docx files in the more common older MS Word application.
I am a scientist, not a typesetter! And I wound up doing several iterations of this to get something that older versions of MS Word (running on older versions of windows?).
So bottom line, I used Rich Text and a MS font. I blame this on MS making their applications so picky when opening various competing filetypes.
It should roll out just fine. But here is a few points:
*There may be some issues with macros or VB Script on spreadsheets that use them.
*Impress doesn't always play nice with PowerPoint presentations that use embedded windows media player stuff.
*Draw is still not able to open Publisher docs. So this could be a problem if you rely heavily on Publisher. Also its not as nice to work with yet.
*Don't forget about the extensions! Here is a list of the ones I use here when I deploy: http://blogs.frederic.k12.wi.us/paulsenj/?p=50 [k12.wi.us]
*You will have to deal with the "But its not Microsoft" people. This is actually the number one issue that I run into.
*If you use Outlook you will need to find something to replace it with. I would suggest a webmail system, it will make your life much easier.
A few users who resist all change will put up a fight first. Then the local MS sales office will contact your bosses and overrule you. If that fails they will back a truck load of money and essentially give you MSOffice07 for free and some more freebies. If that too fails, MSFT will buy your small business and fire you.
We did a pilot project at my workplace (800-1000 users, pilot of ~30) and everything went smoothly because we gave a course to all. Message: factor some training for all users in the transition costs.
To answer the specific question: OO.o can save in
I tried converting an office of about 25-30 people to Open Office and I can assure you that it will not be smooth. Now this was about 3? years ago, so I'm sure Open Office has improved greatly, and will make the job easier, but the problems I encountered were:
1) A general reluctance to move off of what they knew;
2) Concern that customers would not be able to communicate (whether the concern was valid or not);
3) Lack of training on Open Office. Everything is not the same and unfortunately users are not willing or able to work it out for themselves;
4) Some modules just were not as good as the Office modules particularly where there were heavy users or Powerpoint or Excel.
My recommendation isn't that you don't do it though. Its that you find a few people (5 or so) who will test and try and gently roll it out through the organisation, who are open to new things and who can act as "go to" people for others as you roll it our further.
I'd also be at pains to get the expert Powerpoint and Excel users to use it with some of their current presentations or spreadsheets to be certain that it works for them, and if not just say no problem and let them go on using what works.
I've found that people don't like change, and change unfortunately needs to be gradual, if its to succeed.
To get the full value out of OpenOffice, think about going beyond merely swapping out Word. If you take advantage of some of OpenOffice's unique features, it might get you a quicker ROI.
For example, I once had to pull together the technical response to a large RFP. We had over a dozen authors. Rather than shlepping copies of the whole response doc back and forth to everyone (my nightmare scenario), I used Open Office's Master Document feature to create a live, compound document: a Master Document for the entire response, and a separate Chapter Document for each section. Since the Chapters were separate documents, the various authors could work on them independently. Once a week I would refresh the Master Document, which would automatically pull in all the work thus far.
This worked really well, and the way Open Office cleanly separated the master from the sub-documents was very impressive. The point is, we got a lot of bang for the buck out of that experience, and that one project pretty much sold everyone on the value of making the switch to Open Office.
I know if it was me I wouldn't necessarily trust what I read on Slashdot.
At a minimum I would do the following:
1. Open and check many documents in my organization. If possible I would ask people in the business to help with this.
2. I would see if any documents had any macros or God forbid DDE, OLE or VB macros in them. If so I would see how hard it would be to convert them or look at what Novell offers to help with that.
3. I would do a small pilot group with both Microsoft and OO installed to test.
4. If all went well with the pilot group I would remove Microsoft Office from their workstations and test some more.
5. If all that went well I would expand the rollout to more of the company. I would probably save sales for last.
At some point I would have cheat sheets developed and possibly offer some training for the people. I would probably try and do this as early as possibly but expect to change the training depending on feedback from the pilot group.
Having said all this, you will probably find some things that don't work as well and others that will work better. This is the nature of the beast. My personal experience running OO is that it is very good, and we migrated years ago. My experience "may" be totally different than someone who uses Microsoft Office a ton. I will say that when I first tried it in our organization (old org), the employees HATED it. I was a bit surprised on the amount of hate for a Office product... The weird part was that we found out it was because we told them that they were loosing Microsoft Office. When we changed our wording from "removing Microsoft Office" to "upgrading to the latest version of Office" the general attitude changed considerably. Suddenly most of the people said they loved it. Weird, but my experience.
I didn't participate in such transitions, but one of my past employers did such migration already in OO.o 1.x times.
They have employed rather pragmatical approach and made (partial) migration in several phases. At first they mandated that all employees have OOo installed. Then whole R&D (and all of internal documentation) migrated to OO.o. That was rather painful yet rewarding. Then those who didn't need M$O ditched it. At the end of migration we had most of personnel using OO.o (rather successfully; it's when I joined the company) - only of sales (minority in engineering company) and test department were using simultaneously OO.o and M$O.
I'd rate OO.o for technical purposes higher than M$O since many features in former are implemented much simpler than their counterparts in M$O. Comparing old documentation M$O template with newer OO.o template I found that OO.o template was missing all the black magic people had to employ to make derived M$O documents easy to edit. OO.o's outlines alone were saving lots of time. Export to PDF was beautifully solving problem of communication with business partners.
All in all, I'd say, that using OO.o internally is pretty easy. Yet company has to be ready to have also number of M$O installations to be able to read/edit documents from partners. Hinting your partners that you are using internally OO.o and PDF/SWX/ODF are preferred formats might lead to some nice surprises: many companies at least pilot OO.o internally and pretty happy to send you documents in your preferred format.
And piece of advise: do NOT mix OO.o and M$O documents: binary
Don't ever expect migrating from MS is going to be smooth, MS' is software that is designed to screw you up for migrating to something else, expect some pains and costs, that's right, there are gonna be costs, that's the problem with MS software, the bill is usually bigger in the long term.
Also Lol @ the guy that seemed to advertize Novell's fork of open office because it had OOXML filters. News flash: so does Sun's OOo 3.0
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