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Had he not enjoyed a fantastic 2-0-1 week between the pipes, Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas might've still been voted as the Bruin of the Week by readers of TheBruinsBlog.net.
Thomas' save on Francois Beauchemin of Toronto in overtime of Saturday night's shootout loss to the Leafs was just that great.
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That highlight-reel goal completed a highlight-reel week, even if it came in eventual defeat. Thomas was brilliant all week, with 116 saves on 119 shots. He shut out Philadelphia on 41 saves and made sure Boston's offensive eruption against Tampa Bay was never challenged by the Lightning. The 2008-09 Vezina Trophy winner is obviously the front-runner for this year's award, as he leads the league in goals-against average (1.46), save percentage (.956) and shutouts (5).
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Following a standout senior season at wide receiver and safety, Newton's Collin Reynolds has been named among the 20 state finalists for the Wendy's High School Heisman Award for Iowa.
Of the 45,000 seniors who applied nationwide, 688 applicants came from Iowa and have been narrowed down to the state's 20 finalists. These finalists embody the Heisman spirit of hard work and dedication through their outstanding achievements in athletics, academics and community/school leadership.
Nov. 5, one male and one female finalist from each state will be named state winners. Of those state winners, 12 will be chosen as national finalists and will go on to compete for the national winner title in New York City on Dec. 7. National finalists will be featured during a televised ceremony on ESPN networks and will receive gold medals and $2,000 awards for their high schools.
One male and one female national winner will receive a crystal Wendy's High School Heisman trophy, a $500 gift certificate to Wendy's, and Wendy's will donate $10,000 to each winner's respective high school.

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Lightning lived up to his name a little too well. The dog, a stray living in the woods of New Hampshire, was so wary of humans he tended to bolt whenever rescuers got too close, eluding capture for almost a year.
So when animal rescue folks eventually collared Lightning, they attached a GPS tracking device to him. Now, says his new owner, Linda Copson, if Lightning "gets spooked" and takes off, she will be able to track him across her 13 acres in Sugar Hill.
Pet owners are increasingly turning to technology to keep track of, or find, their house pets. Devices such as infrared cameras and night vision monoculars that can ferret out a hidden pet are being used to supplement more established social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter to keep animals safe.
"We reunited over 600 dogs last year and a lot of that was due to social media," said Beth Corr of Granite State Dog Recovery, a Salem, N.H., volunteer group. "It makes me wonder how dogs were found before social media."
But the rescue group also uses more sophisticated tools: For example, Granite State might set up motion-sensing infrared cameras in suspected locations to narrow down where to capture an animal. Other times, they will scope out an area at night, when frightened lost dogs may be out seeking food, with a night vision monocle.
Figures on sales of tracking devices and other tech tools are not available, but Bob Vetere, the president of the American Pet Products Association, said electronics represent a growing part of the $56 billion that consumers spent annually on their pets. And he expects sales to only grow.
"We are helicopter parents and we hover over our kids all the time and now we are hovering over our dogs and cats," he said.
There are not official numbers on missing cats or dogs in the United States, but the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that about 7 million pets are turned in to animal shelters annually. The small number of those reunited with their owners typically have identifying tags or tattoos in their ear, or were implanted with microchips that contain information on the pet and its owners, and can be read by scanners at most animal shelters and veterinarian clinics.
But the microchips cannot be used to track the animal's location. For that, there are pet-tracking systems such as SpotLite GPS Pet Locator, Tagg the Pet Tracker, and location devices from the main makers of GPS technology, such as Garmin.
Systems such as Tagg and SpotLite run from $100 to $150 and typically include a tracking device about the size of a large wristwatch that is attached to the pet's collar, and software that tracks the animal's whereabouts on a computer or mobile device.
In December, Kim Chappell of Nashville, was at a training session in Boston for local medical company Abiomed Inc. when she received an alert on her smartphone that her Labrador, Bing-O, had strayed too far from home. Because Bing-O has a penchant for wandering, Chappell used the Tagg system to set up a safe zone around her neighborhood in rural Tennessee that would send alerts whenever he breached the perimeter. From Boston, Chappell called her husband, who followed Bing-O's GPS track and brought him home.
Sales figures aren't public, but the maker of Tagg, Snaptracs Inc. of San Diego, said it received a major boost when its tracking collar began selling at Apple Store retail locations throughout the United States last spring.
And some pet owners who don't have such technology often turn to social media for help once their dog is lost.
Local author Dennis Lehane and his wife, Angela, turned to Facebook when their beagle, Tessa, disappeared from their Brookline yard on Christmas Eve. On a special Facebook page, the Lehanes asked people to help hand out flyers at transit stops in Brookline or help search different neighborhoods. They got a huge response.
"I saw people, both friends and strangers, act with total selflessness on behalf of a dog they'd never met or barely knew," Dennis Lehane said. "They gave up their time, they went out in the cold, they asked for nothing in return."
Back in Sugar Hill, Lightning is still getting used to his new owner — and jittery from living on his own — so Copson doesn't let him outside without a leash. And when she is ready to let him run free, the GPS system will keep Lightning in virtual sight. Said Copson, "It's all about having peace of mind."Michael B. Farrell can be reached at email@example.com.


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Update: Microsoft has informed us that the Kinect gestures will be different when the console releases, so the original document may not be accurate. We have removed that image from the story, but will post an updated version once the Xbox One has launched.
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Kinect is an impressive piece of technology, but it isn't intelligent. If you say or do something it hasn't been programmed to recognize, you won't get your desired result. How do you know what Kinect understands? With these two handy cheat sheets.
The images below outline the specific voice commands and motions that Kinect responds to. Save them and print them out for easy reference if you want to avoid prolonged bouts of random shouting and gesticulating.
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Sixteen of the 19 carload commodity groups increased from the comparable week in 2009, with significant gains in metallic ores, up 164.7 percent; coke, up 30.1 percent; and metals and products, up 23.9 percent. Commodity groups posting declines included nonmetallic minerals, down 19.2 percent; motor vehicles and equipment, down 14.8 percent; and primary forest products, down 6.2 percent.
Carload volume on Eastern railroads was up 2.4 percent compared with last year. In the West, carload volume was up 8 percent from the same week in 2009.
For the first 45 weeks of 2010, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 12,909,986 carloads, up 7.2 percent from last year, and 9,828,447 trailers or containers, up 14.5 percent from the comparison week in 2009.
Canadian railroads reported volume of 77,578 cars for the week, up 8 percent from last year, and 49,298 trailers or containers, up 19.1 percent from 2009. For the first 45 weeks of 2010, Canadian railroads reported cumulative volume of 3,297,448 carloads, up 17.8 percent from last year, and 2,136,778 trailers or containers, up 15.7 percent from last year.
Mexican railroads reported originated volume of 13,973 cars, up 10.1 percent from the same week last year, and 7,487 trailers or containers, up 10 percent. Cumulative volume on Mexican railroads for the first 45 weeks of 2010 was reported as 619,011 carloads, up 19.4 percent from last year; and 306,387 trailers or containers, up 24.8 percent.
Combined North American rail volume for the first 45 weeks of 2010 on 13 reporting U.S., Canadian, and Mexican railroads totaled 16,826,445 carloads, up 9.6 percent from last year, and 12,271,612 trailers and containers, up 14.9 percent from last year.
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To get this item you have to go to 66.30 31.54. There will be a green and a red circle. To summon Warlord Gurthan, the quest mob that drops this item, someone has to stand on the green circle and do /lie and another person has to stand on the red circle and do /kneel.
After you do it he'll yell: "You wish to pay me tribute? Then pay it with blood!"
He summons some stone dogs but this guy is easy. After you kill him, collect his loot. He can be tagged by everyone and this item can be looted by everyone.
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RENO, Nev. Hundreds of people gathered in Idlewild Park Sunday for the annual Earth Day celebration.
The crowds came out in full force, everyone taking advantage of one of the first warm weekends of Spring.
"It's a beautiful day," Matthew Ramer said. "[We thought we'd] bring our dog out, pull him around in the wagon for a bit, see what's going on in the community."
This year's festival took up twice as much space in the park than it did last year. Vendors from across the region displaying ways people can live environmentally aware.
"This whole event is about a new, sustainable lifestyle," Dave Asher, director of the Reno/Sparks Local Business Co-op said.
The theme of this year's festival was climate change, and some say one way people can help is by growing your own food.
"You food travels a long way," Asher said "And gas prices are still on the rise. When you grow your own food, it's twice as healthy, it tastes better, and it's just better all the way around."
River School Farms was at the festival to give tips on how people can grow their own food, even if they don't have a yard.
"We are really trying to promote gardening for people who don't own their own homes so that means growing on your deck, or your patio, Tom Stille, owner of River School Farms said.
If you don't have a yard, Stille recommends using pots and barrels for your garden. He even offered two solutions for those with busy lives.
"One of the issues is you have to water it all the time, but if we have solar water containers, then it waters by itself," he said.
The solar watering system can be found and purchased online, but a simpler, and more cost efficient way is through sub-irrigation.
"We advocate a bottom up watering system," Asher said. "You put a pipe in the barrel, and there's an outlet so you don't put too much water in. So about 4 inches up from the bottom of the container, water can come out. So you fill until the water comes out, and you know it's full."
There was also plenty for the little ones to do at the festival. Many vendors had crafts available, like paper making offered by Keeping Truckee Meadows Beautiful.
"it's just a fun art project you can make with something you put in your recycling bin," Jaime Souza, from KTMB said.
Shredded newspaper soaked in water is all that is needed to make the paper. Souza says it can be used to make Christmas cards or just use as coloring sheets.
You can find the directions at http://ktmb.org/resources/education/papermaking-discussion/


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A committee of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has selected Nicholas Flanagan '11 as the 2010 recipient of the Leonard Loeb Family Law Scholarship.
Flanagan, who receives $5,000 as the scholarship recipient, is a senior board member of the Wisconsin Law Review. He was selected based on his high academic standing, his record of success in family law (which may be demonstrated through coursework and/or clinical programs), and his activity in the UW Law School community. Before coming to UW Law School, Flanagan earned his B.S. in Business from the UW-Stevens Point and his M.B.A. from Marquette University.
The scholarship honors the memory of Leonard Loeb, a 1952 graduate of the UW Law School and former president of the State Bar of Wisconsin who was a leader in family law and community service during his long and distinguished legal career. Past winners include:
2009: Megan A. Phillips
2008: Elisabeth Stockbridge
2007: Rachel Abhold
2006: Rebecca L. Smith
2005: Jennifer Grissom
2004: Hannah Renfro-Sargeant
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey wasn't able to put his team's 2012 season into perspective after Tuesday's 31-10 loss to Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
The Huskies had been outmatched by a bigger, stronger, faster Seminoles team, which was considered to be a national title contender at the start of the season. For Carey, it was tough to talk about the 12 consecutive wins, second Mid-American Championship title in a row or the school's first ever BCS berth.
"Well, talk to me [Wednesday] and I'm sure I'll have it in better balance. I hate to lose, and I know these guys [hate losing], too," said Carey, who made his debut as coach after taking over for Dave Doeren the day NIU earned its Orange Bowl berth. "I told you when we first all talked when I got the job, I wear my emotions on my sleeve and I'm upset. I give them a lot of credit. Florida State is a great team and Jimbo [Fisher] does a great job.
"They are a well-coached, well-oiled machine. They beat us, no doubt about it. That doesn't change the fact that I don't like to lose."
Ever since the Huskies' Orange Bowl berth was made official, the team had many doubters, most prominently ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, whose negative comments about NIU irked Huskie fans from the start.
NIU certainly didn't play its best game in south Florida, but the Huskies were in the contest well into the third quarter. After recovering an onside kick following Martel Moore's 11-yard touchdown catch from Jordan Lynch, the Huskies drove into the red zone down by seven points.
The Huskies' hopes of an upset diminished when Florida State safety Terrence Brooks picked off Lynch on a pass he probably should have just thrown away.
With the final score, NIU's critics certainly won't go away. The Huskies don't seem to care.
"People are going to say what they want regardless; we are not worried about that," said receiver Tommylee Lewis, who caught a team-high five passes for 61 yards. "We came out and played our game and fought hard. FSU was the better team today and came out with the win."
When players, coaches and fans look back on NIU's 2012 season, they'll remember games like the thrilling MAC Championship win over Kent State in Detroit, beating Toledo to clinch the MAC West and the victory over Kansas, when the school hosted a BCS team at Huskie Stadium for the first time since 2003.
The Huskies finished the season with a school-record 12 wins, and could be ranked in the final top 25 polls for the first time.
For a month, NIU's appearance in the Orange Bowl was one of the hottest stories in college football.
Despite the New Year's Day defeat, Huskies right tackle Matt Krempel summed up the Orange Bowl win like most players probably will when they sit back and remember their week in south Florida.
"I thought it was a blast. I am very proud to be a Huskie and proud to be here. I am very happy we got here and hope to make it again next year," he said. "The fact that we lost doesn't put a damper on the overall season. We had a 12-win season for the first time in school history.
"I think we are going to take motivation out of tonight and move forward."


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This A list mostly movie actress who is also an Academy Award winner/nominee got into a huge fight with her husband before boarding a plane because she says he was drunk and obnoxious. She refused to sit next to him and there were no more seats in first class. He refused to budge so our actress sat in the very last row of the plane in a middle seat.


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Uhmm... Office 2013 is available as a standard license, like it's always been...
my advice from being in similar positions? Just use excel.
Depending on the amount of data, and how it is used, a text file may also work well.
There are way too many missing pieces of information:
1. What are they using now?
2. Do they think they need a "new database", or does the submitter think that? In either case, why is a change needed?
3. How much data?
4. How is it being used?
5. Do they have a reliable internet connection? If so, Google Docs may be a good, and free, solution.
6. How long is the submitter going to stick around? Can things be patched remot
My general guidelines, for data storage, Fields A, B, through Z by $X records
is $X > 10,000 records? - If Yes use a DB if No see Next Question
Do I need separate out data by type or access, such as Joe can see Name, DOB, Telephone number, Address, Emergency contact info etc. But Jane should only see Name, and Emergency Contact? - If Yes use a DB if No see Next Question
Will more than 1 user need to write data at to this at the same time? If Yes use a DB if No see Next Question
Will more than have users need to read data from this at the same time or will anyone need to read real time changes data? If Yes use a DB if No see Next Question
If you have answered No to all of the above questions, Then use a spreadsheet.
I assume that if the submitter is planning on building a MySQL and django database system for this charity where nobody else has tech experience, he will commit to moving to Senegal and working for the charity to maintain this db for the next decade+ while the db is in use. All for free.
alternatively, he could build a tool nobody knows how to use, migrate critical data to it, then bail.
Everyone here has an answer. But you seem to be the only one who is asking the right questions.
What about something like wagn [wagn.org]? Not much tech experience needed to mess around with it, once you set it up.
libre/openoffice base can both be used as a frontend to a mysql database. i'm surprised so few people know about it.
http://extensions.libreoffice.... [libreoffice.org]
Agreed. Between Django's built in admin interface and mysql editors like adminer [adminer.org] you can do an awful lot without any code at all. And a web interface has the advantages that it 1) is easy to run dev/production environments, 2) is easy to make changes and ensure that everyone is using them, 3) runs on obsolete equipment (anything that can run a browser), 4) mobile/tablet ready, and 5) scalable.
But also important, while other people are arguing that spreadsheets and access and the like could be run better
I'm surprised a die-hard OSS geek hasn't heard of OpenOffice or LibreOffice's Base.
For anything you create, the data storage part should be completely transparent to the end users. Something that connects to a database of some kind should handle all the data manipulation they're interested in. The storage mechanism should pretty much run itself as should the application server if you are using that kind of component.
There are plenty of apps that have database backends that don't require a great deal of IT skill to deal with.
They should never have to worry about directly manipulating the d
Sorry, but base is a joke. by far the LEAST functional part of that suite. (And it's too bad. I'd use it for all kinds of stuff, if it were just a little more reliable...)
Sorry, but base is a joke. by far the LEAST functional part of that suite.
How is that different from MS Access?
Access is a joke that's actually funny. Like, "Haha, that idiot did something important in Access! Oh my $DEITY, can you believe people are that dumb?!?"
Base is like an attempted joke that makes people shuffle their feet and look away from you. "Um... did you have to talk about that? Like, really, dude, not cool..."
OpenOffice has a database thing similar to Access (at least on the surface). Dunno how well it fits the use case, but the product blurb sounds right up your alley: https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html
Its friggen terrible. Really... try it out. I like most of Open Office but Base is a buggy joke.
Agreed. If there is truly no IT expertise and no budget, then I'd say a spreadsheet is what will serve them best. You can help them set it up, and they'll be much more likely to be able to manage it once your gone. No doubt it will be more error-prone and cumbersome than a relational database, but they'll understand how it works. They can set up organizational processes to make up for the lack of built-in data quality checking.
A simple relational database with a simple front end is great if there's support.
The back half of this comment is what needs to be paid attention to:
If you give them software that they can't use then most likely they will stop using it once you are on the plane.
Just bite the bullet and get Access. Everyone can use it. Training is fairly universal. The next guy through will be able to use it right off the bat with no effort. Do these folks a favor and future proof them with Access.
... and if you are a charity you can get it cheaply.
http://www.techsoup.org/ [techsoup.org]
Just bite the bullet and get Access. Everyone can use it. Training is fairly universal. The next guy through will be able to use it right off the bat with no effort. Do these folks a favor and future proof them with Access.
That is only true until Microsoft changes the UI for access completely again and then nobody can use it. Don't you remember what they did to the entire office suite not-too-many years ago? And if any software is never future proof, it is Office. Every time Microsoft releases a new version they muck up backwards compatibility in a new and exciting way.
Google docs will let you connect multiple people to the same spreadsheet at the same time..
It works pretty well too... as long as the slightly chaotic editing that this creates is OK (like you don't need multi-cell/multi-sheet locking to keep people out of each other's business)..
Google Forms will probably create enough of an access like experience to get the job done.
Africa generally doesn't have reliable internet connections, unless they're via satellite, but those are very expensive and therefore only used for the really important things. It also depends whether the OP will be working in Senegal's capital or elsewhere.
Best option: just ask local people where they get their software and use their versions (even if they are illegal). You can also consider using an older (secondhand) version of Access.
Take a look at the latest release works great.
Otherwise use a real DB like mySQL and a nice User frontend.
Just use PostgreSQL from the outset, and include some operational procedures for trailing in your project's requirements.
The requirement to allow non-technical people to perform technical tasks without the knowledge and experience is a critical modern mistake. Cars are easy to drive, but we make you take driver's ed. We don't try to dumb down brain surgery or rocket science. Yet in computers and, horrifyingly, food, we often avoid providing proper training.
Fast food businesses often use a dedicated grill operator. The sandwich line never interacts with raw meat, so nobody explains food handling safety to anyone. In part, we assume you know; in part, we just don't put people in that position. That's half-assed risk management.
It's no more acceptable in computers, where you expect people to understand what they're doing yet not understand how to use OpenOffice.org Base to modify tables, or even the command line. People who can't use computers can't complete this task; you put an interface in front of them that does all the back-end work. If you're giving them direct back-end access, they're technical people.
Just use PostgreSQL from the outset
There are lots of situations where this is simply not an option. You should be able to do simple real world database work without requiring the assistance of a DBA. The inability to do this speaks to the poor quality of the interfaces available for database creation.
The requirement to allow non-technical people to perform technical tasks without the knowledge and experience is a critical modern mistake.
I disagree. I think it is a deficiency in the quality of the tools that the technical people have made thus far. Hell I *am* a technical person and I would dearly love for a database that made it as easy to create a simple database as it is
Using PostgreSQL is the same as using Access. If you are plugging directly into a database, no fancy tools will prepare you for this.
You either want people to understand what a table is, what rows and columns are, what indexes are, and how to use them; or you want to create an interface that provides an abstract concept (helpdesk tickets, accounting ledgers, whatever) and uses the database as a back-end. If you want people who don't know what the fuck tables and indexes are to create tables and indexes
While I never did get around to implementing it (or really needing it), I was always intrigued by the fact that the OpenOffice "Base" application can connect to a MySQL database (and has been able to for many, many years). You may want to consider investigating that, as it may provide a fairly "user friendly" and "easily supported" interface to a solid database backend.
phpMyAdmin? [phpmyadmin.net]
The problem is not the database. We all know Access is no PostGres or MySQL. It is the GUI to build forms and store them.
For example you can create a car parts inventory system really quick and easy for a small shop. You do not have to be an expert developer and an average Joe who knows a tiny bit of sql can develop it and have a working solution within an hour or 2. I wish Access was more used than god aweful Excel to store data, but that and File Maker Pro have filled this market.
I thought about starting a file maker/access clone a few years ago that would be simple and could backend to a SQL database of choice. I never got around to it because I knew it would never compete.
It would be nice to a a gui like Access that can work with a web browser too easily. Until that time there is no replacement for File Maker or Office. (Does Apple even make File Maker anymore ?)
Kexi has worked on Windows and Mac for more than 5 years already and latest builds are available as part of Calligra
Even with access, it takes a lot of know how to get what you really want done on the forms, even diving into vba.
There are fields who only access excel, and there are many levels of expertise within excel from macros to vba to complete what you're trying to do. Someone who's not familiar won't be able to use it. Zero experience in databases doesn't mean they can't learn the basics to support it.
CiviCRM is web-based, open source, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software geared toward meeting the needs of non-profit and other civic-sector organizations.
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To this end, CiviCRM has created a robust web-based, open source, highly customizable, CRM to meet organizations' highest expectations right out-of-the box. Unlike proprietary software, each new release of this open source software reflects the very real needs of its users as enhancements are continually given back to the community.
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There is too little information given to decide what product solution is "best' for this situation.
Note cards work, Spreadsheet is often enough for "simple" databases. Access and similar are good for designing a good front end (not for the database) and so on.
From the sounds of it (reading between the lines), a good CRM like SugarCRM might actually be a better solution. However without more information, any recommendation is pure guessing at this point.
Who is going to maintain this after you leave? Are you making a firm commitment to provide maintenance in the long term? If so, your off-site VPS solution with a web front end may be appropriate. If not, and there is no local IT expertise at the charity, something self-contained that needs only a single consumer software package to work (Access, Libreoffice Base, even an Excel or Calc workbook) has a better chance of remaining useful when you're gone. Since this is personal data, have you considered how the
Microsoft Access is designed for people with good intuition in computing but little technical knowhow to be able to build simple databases and database related applications by themself. This is not to say that the systems built are easier to use than something built using a competing system or the databases are easier to maintain, but simply that it takes less learning to build them.
So, if you already know how to use Django/MySQL, then why not? Take the time you didn't spend learning a different platform an
A lot of details missing on what the end-user environment is.
I am assuming they have internet access? Dial-up or faster?
If so, why not consider building a BaaS (Kinvey, Parse, Azure, Amazon) with a simple webapp served up using WAMP or equivalent? I can't imagine this app will run over the limits of the free account providers such as Kinvey and Parse offer. And, you could probably talk to the provider see if they have discounts or willing to donate services.
Wrap everything up in a nice Windows installer.
Well, I don't know what you want to use it for.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're trying to manage work, tickets, or something to that effect.
I'd try SugarCRM http://www.sugarcrm.com/ [sugarcrm.com]
It's open source and free (without support)
It's the biggest open source CRM I know of.
Every alternative to Access I've seen is terrible. So I'd stop looking for something that replicates Access and start looking for something that does what you're wanting access to do. You might even settle on several applications if
web2py [web2py.com], multi platform, well documented, non mandatory web based IDE, good security practices, out of the box has a db admin interface and many facilities for auto generating forms, with relationships, that mind validation rules. It can use sqlite3, mysql, postgres, and a lot other db. It has an integrated webserver for low traffic sites. Backwards compatibility is a design goal, so upgrading is easy.
IMHO it is well worth the little additional work over an access like RAD tool because it has a web client/se
I have done extensive work with Access, but almost never used it as the actual storage. Instead, the back-end was on a MySQL, MSSQL, or Postgres server and Access just used as a quick-development environment in the same manner as VB6 would have been.
Nowadays, I usually use MSSQL or Postgres as the backend, and build the front-end in VB.NET or C#. Once your tables are designed, just add a function that has the appropriate bunch of CREATE TABLE statements and initial INSERTs to set up a default schema, and
FileMaker Pro...charity license...done. That'll be $800 of consulting time please
The charity staff have a few computers running Windows 7
why on earth does a charity run w7? were those computers a gift?
But it needs to be understandable by the non-geeks in the charity
average computer illiterate users can do absolutely nothing with ms-access. specially smart average computer illiterate users can do utter crap with ms-access in which they themselves will get lost very soon. geeks can use ms-access as they would use any other relational engine (just a very limited one). in short: ms-acces offers zero, it's not really an alternative in this case.
developing something for them (the cited mysql/django approach) i
developing something for them (the cited mysql/django approach) is cool but will make them dependent on you. do it only if you reasonably expect you'll be around for a while and are up for the compromise
some ideas just to not rule this option completely out:
- make it public, host it in github or similar. someone might volunteer to help maintain it. i could.
- contact unicef. as a peer in the workflow they might be able to help with resources, tools, knowhow or specifications.
Dunno, if their DB needs can be met by access -- then the level of db skills and complexity of the db itself is pretty minimal. We're not talking about load balancing, replication or anything of that nature. would it even be relational, or just a single table?
You could probably write a PHP front-end in about 20 minutes to handle the data input/retrieval.
If you ever needed to modify the database throw in something like workbench or navicat, and basically like modifying a spreadsheet -- they might need a
If they know and use Windows now, don't be a zealous wanker and force them to spend their resources learning something completely different. Microsoft offers Windows and Office for free to non-profits.
Quickbase - it's a kind of expensive service but amazing.
All online, no software or machine maintenance. Access from anywhere.
The amount of flexibility it has is astonishing.
Get a free demo - they'll set it up for you exactly how you want it. They've rarely said 'no' to anything I've asked if it could do, and then they implemented it, within minutes. It also has an API so you can add on to it all you want. There are a number of affiliated vendors that have ready made add ons for it as well.
Quickbase can do very very quickly what would take hours or days to program into a custom SQL type app.
Do not role your own solution. You're effectively crippling your org once you leave. Which will eventually happen.
I've done IT for small non-profits. Used both Access, FileMaker Pro. The third party apps targeting non profits range from okay to terrible. Biggest challenge is customizations and forward porting that crap. No different than orgs which customized bugzilla and then had rework when a new bugzilla comes out.
What we're doing now is moving to SalesForce. It's free for small non-profits.
http://www.sa [salesforcefoundation.org]
"I'm doing some volunteering for a street kids charity in Senegal, West Africa, and they need a new database to store all their information for the kids, and to help the funding organizations like UNICEF"
Suppose a department in the company you're working for came to you and said "We want a database to store information, and we want to do it with Lotus Notes". Would your first response be start implementing Lotus Notes, or would it be to say "Umm, just a sec here. Why do you think you need a database?" and "What kind of data, how much data will there be, what do you want to do with it?"
Of course, that's one of the most annoying things that IT people do: ignore your question and try to help solve your actual problem. I apologize now.
For one thing, your problem may already have been solved for someone else.
Are we talking about committing to paying monthly fees for a VPS server? If so, I do not see why the problem with paying for MS Access licenses.
My other question is, if we're talking about about a few PC's running Windows 7 and zero-tech knowledge, how are you going to handle backups and restores of the mysql database and the custom apps?
With MS Access or Excel, you can do backups and restores to/from a CD-ROM, or to a USB stick with a trivially easy restore that anyone could assist with over the phone. With SQL Server Express and some other suggestions, not so easy.
Given this info you've given us:
. . . it needs to be understandable by the non-geeks in the charity — there is no IT expertise here . .
you need to do the simplest possible solution. And by simple, I mean one flat file you can backup and restore and one application that needs to be (re)installed would not be overkill (or is that underkill for this situation?)*. The more you have to add to that in terms of re-creating the system after a failure, the more you've set up a "dead-man" system -- where the "dead man" is you. One out-of-control cement mixer with your name on it and your system is one dead hard drive
they need a new database to store all their information for the kids, and to help the funding organizations like UNICEF. The charity [has] a few computers running Windows 7. Being a die-hard OSS geek I'm more inclined to knock up a MySQL backend with a Django front-end and run the whole thing from a reliable VPS. But it needs to be understandable by the non-geeks in the charity--- there is no IT expertise here
You might better begin by asking what local sponsors and organizations like UNICEF are using. What support they can offer. If Windows and MS Office are the de facto standards here, you may need to rethink your priorities.
That the charity is running Win 7 is a significant clue. Top 7 OSs in Senegal [statcounter.com]
a MySQL backend with a Django front-end and run the whole thing from a reliable VPS
Does this really sound to you like something anyone but a geek would understand and be able to maintain?
Friends do not let friends suffer MySQL. Go for Glom or LibreOffice Base over PostgreSQL.
Look into NationBuilder - they are exactly what you are looking for. http://nationbuilder.com/ [nationbuilder.com]
Don't pay for web development of a one-off app.
you just ask on slashdor for people volunterring for the setting it up, knowing the specific requirements, and thinking about it.
The real question is: is tehre already a MS Access DB?
If yes, then dont touch a running system.
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Best Buy Employees Selling "The Last Wii" Over And Over Again?
Reader John tells us that he witnessed some Best Buy employees announcing "the very last Wii" over and over again. Oh those crafty kids at Best Buy!
Saturday morning (11/10) I witnessed some amazing sleaziness over at the Princeton,NJ Best Buy. I was standing near the back of the store when one of their salespeople came strolling from a back door holding a Nintendo Wii over his head, and started walking the aisles announcing that it was their last unit. I followed, wondering both how quickly would it get snatched up and how quickly could I decide if I wanted to buy it. It took a few minutes for a couple to come rushing up to claim it, exclaiming how happy their kids were going to be. I went back to looking around the store. About 30 minutes later, I heard this announcement on the store's PA: "Attention Best Buy customers! Julie is now walking through the store with our last Nintendo Wii! If you're looking for a Nintendo Wii, please look for Julie!" And there was another salesperson doing the same thing as the first – walking the aisles of the store holding the Wii above her head.
I was now in the store solely to witness more of this sales technique. The second Wii took just over 15 minutes to sell – I overheard two manager-types (one in a suit, the other a yellow shirt) discussing it, the suit asking "Did Julie sell that Wii, yet? How long?" And then "Wait 40 minutes and send out the next one." Too long for me to wait around, so I left (after stopping in at the store's new Apple niche to set the a Macbook's home page to the Best Buy tagged stories on Consumerist).
I suppose there's nothing illegal or unexpected about this, but as some one tentatively in the market for a hard-to-find Wii I'm annoyed enough to swear off Best Buy this holiday season.
Anyone else witnessed this clever bit of chicanery?
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November 13, 2012 > Policies for posting minors' information online
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris urges parents, coaches and officials for youth sports to develop protective policies related to minors' personal information, particularly for information posted online.Harris also announced that after an inquiry from her office, GameChanger, a popular sports statistics website, has updated its privacy policy and practices to better protect minors. The action comes as an increasing amount of information about minors appears online, often without adult consent."Most parents probably do not realize that the simple act of enrolling a child for soccer or Little League could put enough information online to put the minor in harm's way," said Harris. "While the Internet makes tracking games and statistics easier, it's important that parents, coaches, school officials and volunteers are informed and consider any information to post online, especially when it pertains to children."GameChanger updated its privacy policy and put new protections for minors in place after an inquiry from Harris's Privacy Enforcement & Protection Unit.The changes include: not allowing anyone under the age of 13 to sign up or post on the site; removing last names of team members under the age of 13; and providing privacy information pertaining to minors to users when teams are added to the website.The inquiry into GameChanger's policies came after the Attorney General's office was contacted by a parent who was concerned about the amount of information being posted on the site. For some teams, information included travel schedule, child's statistics, full name and nicknames."I was disturbed when I realized so much information about my son's team was being posted without my permission," said Amanda Biers-Melcher of Burbank. "I appreciate Attorney General Harris' assistance with the company and dedication to helping protect the privacy of our children."The Attorney General's Privacy Unit will work with parents and sports leagues to develop best practices for handling children's personal information in youth sports programs.Youth sports teams provide great opportunities for children to engage in exercise and learn valuable lessons about team work, healthy competition and fair play. When enrolling your children for such activities, be careful to protect their personal information.Ask if the team or league will post any of the child's personal identifying information, such as name, address, school or photo on a website. Tell them if you do not want your child's information posted online.Ask questions about any request for your child's Social Security number, health insurance number or birth certificate. Propose alternatives.For instance, instead of handing over a copy of a birth certificate, offer to show a copy and ask that the child's date of birth be entered in the records and noted as verified. Resist providing the Social Security number. In most cases, the child's Social Security number should not be necessary. Insist that a health insurance number, if required, be protected with strong security measures, such as locking it in an office file cabinet or encrypting it, if in a digital format. Ask if the team or league has a written privacy policy and ask for a copy. If they do not, encourage them to develop an official policy statement that describes the kinds of personal information they collect, how they use it and how it is shared. (Note: If they collect personal information through a website, they may be required to post a privacy policy on the site.)For more information, visit http://oag.ca.gov


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Feb. 14, 2007
Sophomore Alina Liao earned the ECAC's Gymnast of the Week award, after a solid performance this past weekend at home against Southern Connecticut. Liao posted career highs of 9.775 on floor and 38.475 in the all-around.
Liao had her highest scores of the season on the other three events as well. She placed second on floor, placed third on vault with a 9.45, and won bars (9.575) and beam (9.675). She was also the all-around champion.
Yale won the dual meet, 189.775 to 180.7. The team has another home meet coming up on Saturday, Feb. 17 against URI. Competition starts in the John J. Lee Amphiteather at 1pm.
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Manchester United chief executive David Gill believes that Sir Alex Ferguson's successor will face a difficult task in replacing the legendary Scot, but not an impossible one.
After reports began to circulate on Tuesday night about Sir Alex's retirement plans, the club and the manager revealed on Wednesday morning that he would indeed be stepping down at the end of the season.
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"I don't know if it's the great unknown, but change always increases the element of risk," he told The Times.
"Lots of jobs are deemed to be impossible. I don't think it's an impossible job, you are coming in with a very impressive support structure on and off the pitch in terms of the players and facilities.
"It's tricky because we always knew [that for] anyone coming after Alex, and all those trophies he has won, it is not going to be easy. But it's a great job.
"The best people in my experience, in business and football, want to get to the top, they want to manage the best, and what better way to do it than here. The opportunity to manage Manchester United has got to be the pinnacle of a person's career.
"It's a difficult job, but the rewards reflect that. It's not a walk in the park, you have got to be good, so we want a person at the top who is willing to take on that mantle and the pressure that comes with it and deliver."
Gill is certain Sir Alex will take an immediate step back, and is unlikely to visit the training ground, in order to give the new manager space to stamp his own personality on his new surroundings without being in the 71-year-old's enormous shadow.
"Alex will give the new manager space," Gill added. "He certainly won't go on the pre-season tour [in July].
"It's like me, I won't go on the tour, it's totally wrong. So I'd be very surprised if he [Ferguson] was at Carrington in the early days."


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In an ideal world, the English Premier League would have as many English players coming through as possible.
This would, in turn, help increase the quality of the international team, whilst emulating the German and Spanish divisions philosophy of placing a greater emphasis on producing homegrown talent.
However, the reality is that the price tag for this talent is so high that the only option for many clubs is to cast their transfer nets further afield. Not only can clubs save money from looking abroad, but the quality of foreign stars is seemingly better than those produced on English shores.
One doesn't have to look too far to see how many Premier league sides have paid over the odds for English players. Liverpool's acquisition of Andy Carroll from Newcastle for £35m in 2011 made him the most expensive British player of all time.
After a mere 11 goals, and some quite abject performances, Carroll was loaned out to West Ham, and will unfortunately go down as one of the biggest British transfer flops of recent years, perhaps ever.
Add Jordan Henderson, Joleon Lescott and Ashley Young to this overpriced transfer list having all cost over £15m, and we can see a worrying pattern emerging. English players are failing to deliver performances that match their over-inflated price tag. That's not to say that these players do not possess any quality at all, but not relative to their price tag.
Cheaper alternatives can be found abroad. Think Yohan Cabaye to Newcastle United for £4.3m, Demba Ba's move to West Ham for an initial loan fee of 500K, and the arrival of free-scoring Michu to Swansea for as little as £2m. These are just a small handful of notable examples, the list of successful and significantly cheaper imports is an extensive one.
Additionally, the financial difficulties of foreign clubs, especially in Spain, is enabling Premier League clubs to take full advantage of their European counterparts monetary woes.
Michu is an important example when highlighting the common sense approach behind these transfer decisions. Often, the foreign imports are proven quality. Michu was not a gamble, although many view foreign buys as such, but the reality is that he was the top scoring midfielder in Spain with Rayo Vallecano last year, with 17 goals in all competitions.
One must wonder where the inflated price tags come from? Obviously Premier League sides will not want to sell to rivals on the cheap, but the greatest problem derives from media hype shown towards English players. We are often ignorant to the host of talent overseas, as we are blinded by the bias towards our own and the desire to replicate the likes of Spain and Germany by producing world class players consistently.
Clubs like Newcastle and Swansea have been successful in looking further afield, and remain focused on the task of signing talent, not just an English name with a big reputation and the price tag to match.
The price tag alone is not an indicator of talent. Many English clubs have fallen foul of this trap - in giving in to the perceived hype, by forcing the deal through with an exorbitant fee.
Just because a player is English, it does not mean they are any better than a cheaper foreign alternative.
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WASHINGTON — Parris Griffith wanted President Lincoln to know that his son was a good and true soldier and should not be executed for mutiny.
Union Sgt. Thomas Griffith, and others in his company, had refused to serve under a lieutenant they had not elected — having been promised on enlistment they could elect their commanders.
The younger Griffith was "as fine a man as lives," his father wrote the president in 1863. He had voted for Lincoln and spent eight months as a prisoner of war. Now, "because he desired a voice in selecting his officers, he must be shot."
David J. Gerleman, assistant editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, came upon this stark Civil War vignette last week at the National Archives. It is one of thousands of Lincoln-related documents, large and small, that the project has been collecting there since 2006.
But as the country approaches the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in November, the project's work at the Archives might soon end.
Gerleman and Daniel W. Stowell, the Papers director, said last week that, barring new funding, money for their Archives research will run out in June of next year, and their work there could stop well before then.
The overall project, based at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., would continue. But the digging in the Archives, where the vast majority of Lincoln documents are located, would be suspended.
Stowell said a five-year, $1.4 million charitable grant ran out last month, and the project's Illinois state funding has been more than halved. The Papers, which has an annual budget of $775,000 to gather all things Lincoln, gets funding from federal and other private sources, he said, which make up only about 60 percent of its budget.
"We need to replace that [charitable] funding . . . and the now-missing portion of our state funding," Stowell said. If not, "we would have to say come June of next year, 'We can't go on.'' He said the project would retrench and focus mainly on its work in Springfield.
And his small Washington staff might not wait until then to hunt for new jobs.
But why search for Lincoln papers at all?
With hundreds of books written about the assassinated president, don't we know everything?
"No," Stowell said. A similar project in the 1950s, by historian Roy P. Basler, focused primarily on things Lincoln wrote, he said. This time, researchers are also looking for, among other things, documents Lincoln received.
This "enriches Lincoln so much by giving the full cast of characters, by giving all of the people who are writing to him, giving their voices," he said.
"Some of them are hilarious, a lot of them are poignant, a lot of them are tragic, some of them are noble. . . . You get this swath of humanity."
"We're building a new Lincoln Memorial," he said. "We're building it not out of granite and marble, we're building it out of the words of Abraham Lincoln and all of his contemporaries."
The file of the Griffith military court proceedings is an example. It contains entries by John Nicolay, one of Lincoln's personal secretaries; Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; and an endorsement by Lincoln.
The case also illustrates the quirky and short-lived wartime custom of soldiers electing their officers. The practice was abandoned after it produced popular but not necessarily competent leaders.
Griffith, of the 11th Illinois infantry regiment, was charged with mutiny. He was arrested and taken before his colonel, where he was "warned of the enormity and danger of his conduct," Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt reported to Lincoln.
Griffith stated that when his company was recruited, the colonel had promised members the right to elect their officers, according to Holt's report.
"It was the old American idea that you could elect your officers and everything would be fine," Gerleman said at the Archives last week. "Except elected officers are usually friends, neighbors and family, and they're not really going to enforce rules and discipline."
Holt went on to recount that the men also found the new lieutenant to be "a bad man" and his appointment "a disgrace."
When the colonel threatened to have them all shot, the men became incensed, and "would have suffered themselves to have been shot rather than to have submitted," Holt reported.
Griffith was sentenced to death.
But a military court recommended clemency, noting that he had been given poor guidance by his officers, and that the other defendants had been exonerated.
Holt reported that Grant agreed with their recommendation. And on a closing page of the file is the simple endorsement: "Pardoned. A. Lincoln Feb. 15, 1864."
The project began work in 1985 searching for Lincoln's legal papers. It published them in four volumes and posted them online in 2008. Meanwhile, it expanded its scope in 2001 to include all Lincoln papers. It is transcribing and annotating Lincoln documents from the years before his presidency. Many of them are online. And it is still searching out papers from his war years.
An estimated 75,000 documents at the Archives remain to be examined, Stowell said. Without additional funding, the research might have to wait.
And who knows what gems wait to be seen?
Last year, the project announced that it had found a copy of the medical report written by the doctor who rushed to the president's side moments after he was shot at Ford's Theatre.
Project researcher Helena Iles Papaioannou found the apparently unpublished 21-page report by Charles A. Leale, the Army surgeon who was the first to reach the president after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Leale wrote his account hours after the president died the next morning, the project said. But this copy, penned by a clerk, had gone undiscovered until Papaioannou found it.
"When I reached the President he was in a state of general paralysis," Leale wrote. "His eyes were closed and he was in a profoundly comatose condition. . . . I placed my finger on his right radial pulse but could perceive no movement of the artery."
Lincoln rallied slightly, was carried from the theater to a boardinghouse across the street, and Leale, then 23, became part of the vigil.
"At 7.20 A.M. he breathed his last," Leale wrote. "We all bowed and the Rev. Dr. Gurley supplicated to God in behalf of the bereaved family and our afflicted country."


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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Snakes on a Car
In a nutshell, Samuel L. Jackson plays an FBI agent who is escorting a former mob member to testify in a big case. But, on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles, a hitman pays airport security to sneak a time-release crate of 400 snakes onto the flight in order kill the witness (swear to God. Unlike Pat Robertson, we're not making this up).
So what does this have to do with college football and a sports blog? Well, apparently, somebody in the Ohio Valley Conference got the idea this was a good way to send a message to conference rival Eastern Kentucky University.
EKU assistant athletic director Dan McBride was at the league baseball tournament last week when he got in his rental car to find a 2-foot-long python draped across the car's console. Thinking it was a rubber snake somebody had put there as a joke, McBride touched it as he put the car in drive. But...
As he drove toward the exit, the snake lifted its head. McBride hit the brakes, then started to get out of the car. However, the snake was on the gear shift, forcing McBride to keep his foot on the brake.
You know, folks, I hesitated to put up this post. Last thing I want to do is give fans in Columbus any ideas. I mean, Michigan was already subjected to bomb sniffing dogs two years ago at the 'Shoe. Then again, I'm sure the Tosu faithful are already way ahead of me on this one. Dare I say Snakes on Team Bus?
5 comments:
- Benny Friedman said...
Boy, those guys in the Missouri Valley Conference are pretty competitive. You know it was those Murray State dicks who did this to this EKU guy.
- May 30, 2006 11:17 AM
I can't exactly speak for all my fellow Ohio State brethren, but if someone ever did that to a rival (this is football, not...well...war, for lack of a better choice), then they deserve to be cut up with dull blunt rusty knives.
On an unrelated note, that sounds like the worst movie in creation. It's like someone watched Airplane stoned and tried to come up with a better idea. And failed. Amazingly miserably.
- May 30, 2006 7:07 PM
- Yost said...
So true, E. Sounds awful. But for some reason, it's caught on in cyberspace. I guess one of those "So bad it's good" things.
- May 30, 2006 7:11 PM
It'll still be better than Soul Plane.
- June 01, 2006 4:04 PM
- Reed4AU said...
After I saw this post I had to find out more about this future blockbuster. Found an interview with Sam(apparently i'll do anything for a check) Jackson where he discussed his latest movie. The funny thing is the producers wanted to change the name to "Ocean Flight 121" or some thing like that. Jackson said hell no! He says he chose to be in the movie just for the title. Who needs to read a script? Shit man, it's Snakes on a Plane!!!
By the way 20+ great posters for the movie: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1949081&thread_type=voteresults
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Obama signs Senate health-care bill into law at 11:15 am ET… After that, the political world shifts its attention to other issues, like financial reform… On the reconciliation bill, the Senate parliamentarian makes his first ruling -- in favor of the Democrats… McCain vows not to work with the White House or Democrats for the rest of the year… The GOP's dilemma on what do now that health care has passed… NBC's Pete Williams breaks down the legal challenges to health care… And Meg Whitman has already spent $46 million on her race.
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*** Moving on: At 11:15 am ET, President Obama will sign the Senate health-care bill into law. And later this afternoon, the Senate will begin its debate on the reconciliation fixes to the health bill. But beyond the drama over whether Senate Republicans can stymie those fixes -- and they failed in their first attempt -- the political world now begins to move on to other issues. Financial reform (the Senate Banking Committee moved its bill to the Senate floor). Immigration reform (after Sunday's march in DC). Middle East peace (with Obama's closed-door meeting at 5:30 pm with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu). The economy. Afghanistan. Iraq. Energy. And the upcoming midterm elections.
*** Dodd's push: Turning to financial reform, the Senate Banking Committee approved Chris Dodd's (D) bill on a party-line vote, sending the legislation to the Senate floor. "All 10 Senate Banking Committee Republicans opposed the measure proposed by Dodd," BusinessWeek says. "The 13-10 vote in Washington yesterday means negotiations will continue as the bill moves to the Senate floor." Why did Dodd force the legislation through committee? Answer: to get this on senate floor and find a few more Republicans to possibly support the bill, like Bob Corker and Judd Gregg. MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" interviews Gregg this morning. Neither Corker nor Gregg seemed thrilled with Dodd's decision to simply get the bill out of committee, but both issued optimistic statements saying they could make the changes they wanted on the floor. Even some Committee Democrats aren't happy with what Dodd pushed through, but everyone seems on the "fix it on the floor" page.
*** The parliamentarian makes his first ruling: The latest guidance, according to NBC's Ken Strickland, is that the Senate won't take up the reconciliation bill until after 2:15 pm ET. But Roll Call reports that Senate Democrats already scored their first victory with the parliamentarian. "Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin late Monday ruled against a Republican challenge to the health care reconciliation package, a Senate aide confirmed. Senate Republicans Monday afternoon argued to Frumin that a provision of the reconciliation package approved by the House violated Section 310g of the Budget Act. Had Frumin ruled in the Republicans' favor, the bill would have been stripped of its reconciliation status." By the way, both the White House and House Dems seem to doing everything they can to ignore the show in the Senate, simply expressing confidence that the Senate will approve MOST of the fixes. Steny Hoyer said on "Hardball" last night that the House was willing to re-take up a fixes bill if the Senate had to make some "minor" changes.
*** McCain vs. the White House: On the issue of immigration, we've long wondered whether John McCain -- who is facing a primary challenge this year from the right -- would end up working with the White House. Well, we got an answer yesterday. "There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year," McCain told an Arizona radio station, per the Washington Post. "They have poisoned the well in what they've done [on health care] and how they've done it." That remark prompted this response from White House adviser David Axelrod: "You know, that's okay on the sandlot, but that's not really okay when you're trying to govern a country and move a country forward. It's a disappointing attitude." And that drew this blistering comment from McCain's spokeswoman: "Sen. John McCain will always stand on the side of the American people. Get used to it, Mr. Axelrod, that's what strong, independent members do -- you'd know that if you had ever worked for one."
*** The GOP's dilemma: The Republican responses to health care's passage -- including McCain's above -- present the GOP with this question: What do they do now they've lost? Launch a full repeal campaign (as many Republicans like McCain are advocating), or steer a more pragmatic course (as David Frum is arguing)? "In political terms, Republicans face strong crosscurrents," the New York Times' Nagourney writes. "Polls suggest that a sizable part of the nation is unenthusiastic about the bill or opposed to it. Conservatives see it as a strike at the heart of their small-government principles… But at the same time, many provisions of the bill that go into effect this year … are broadly popular with the public… And in a week when Democrats are celebrating the passage of a historic piece of legislation, Republicans find themselves again being portrayed as the party of no, associated with being on the losing side of an often acrid debate and failing to offer a persuasive alternative agenda." The Paul Ryan solution is "Repeal and Reform"; can the GOP strike that compromise?
*** Breaking down the legal challenges: NBC's Pete Williams has a good explainer on the legal challenges that at least nine GOP state attorneys general are mounting against the health care legislation. They claim that the bill's "individual mandate," designed to push the uninsured into buying health insurance, is unconstitutional. Here's the issue, Williams says: The Constitution gives Congress authority "to regulate commerce." In general, once someone engages in commerce, the government can regulate it. But opponents say that does not include the power to require an individual to buy something -- like health insurance. Supporters of the bill, however, say Congress does have the power to regulate activities that have a cumulative effect on the economy -- like health care. Our question: Can these lawsuits be filed BEFORE the mandates go into effect? Or do they have to wait until 2014?
*** Midterm news: In California, Meg Whitman has already spent $46 million on her gubernatorial campaign, putting her well on pace to spend more than $100 million if she's the GOP nominee… In Illinois, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington says Alexi Giannoulias is a "dead man walking"… And in Utah, today is the first round of narrowing the candidate fields as the neighborhood caucuses take place.
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Hi,I've been doing some research into the various ways of communicating with a microcontroller using bluetooth. I understand how to set up the pc side by using a usb bluetooth dongle as a serial port, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding what I would like to know about the micro controller connection.I noticed in the bluetooth tutorial it says that one way of doing this is to buy an rs232 to bluetooth converter and plug it into the serial port of the microcontroller. I also saw in the UART tutorial that you can use a USB to UART converter that allows you to create a serial link between your pc and microcontroller using a standard USB cable. What I would like to know is can you add a USB to UART converter to your microcontroller, then plug a USB dongle into this? Effectively replacing a USB to USB cable with two USB bluetooth dongles.If this is not possible, why are you able to connect to a bluetooth to rs232 addaptor but not a bluetooth to USB addaptor, when they are both connected to the UART pins? Is it only USB that has the issues of defining a "host" and "device"?I hope I've managed to state my question clearly. The reason I'm looking to connect using this method is that it seems to be much cheaper to buy usb bluetooth dongles than it is to buy bluetooth rs232 dongles, or bluetooth UART modules. I'm also just curious about both USB and bluetooth interfaces.Cheers


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Michaels Gift Cards for Teacher Appreciation Week
Popular craft store Michaels conducted a survey in April asking over 1,000 teachers what their preferences for gift giving during Teacher Appreciation Week (May 3 – 9). While many children and parents wonder what gifts they should get for the teachers Michaels survey has revealed what teachers want this Teacher Appreciation Week.
The 73% of teachers prefer gifts made by their students; they said that the handmade gifts involving creative elements. Half the teachers said they have had enough of the typical coffee mugs, candles and bath products typically given as gifts.
The most desired gifts by teachers after home made pieces were gift cards. One third of teachers enjoyed receiving gift cards to retail stores. Although the company obviously recommends Michaels gift cards as the perfect gift for teachers, most teachers have probably had enough of arts and crafts during the school year.
Giftah is in favor of giving gift cards for teacher's week. Students can save money by using Giftah to buy discounted gift cards to give their teachers. If the teachers do not like the gift card, they can always come back on Giftah and get cash for their gift cards.
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Today is Data Privacy Day. See http://www.staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/
To celebrate, here is a true story culled from the vaults of HMC server administrator lore. Read it, weep… and then change your passwords.
Once upon a time there was a moderator of the students-l list. She was diligent and hard-working, devoted to the task of saving other students time by only approving messages that she judged to be of interest to students, and collecting together announcements about events at the other Colleges so they could all be included in one message. She worked on this most days, using the students-l list software.
The students-l list system is very old and resides on a Linux machine called Odin. The list system is so old that it may have been created when "GUI" was only a railway code for a station on the Glossop Line and graphical user interfaces were figments of fevered imaginations at Xerox PARC.
Now one day our diligent moderator (let's call her Agnes) logged in to the system and noticed it was really slow, slower than usual. At first, Agnes thought that maybe the list system was on the blink or even that Odin was finally giving up the ghost. She couldn't moderate messages or send anything out to students-l. Agnes quickly reported it to the CIS Help Desk.
The server admins were soon busy examining Odin as it lay there on its sheets of Irish linen. Little did they know that they were entering their very own long dark teatime of the soul, not working on high priority HMC projects, but just trying to figure out what was going on.
Bit by bit (was that pun intended?), they discovered that Odin was sending out tons of spam and then getting back tons of bounce messages. So many that poor Odin was choking, unable to give any attention to Agnes' plaintive login requests. Even worse, Odin was failing to recognize Agnes' user name and trying to send error messages about that.
"But why?" said the server admins, pulling at their hair (long dark teatimes can have that effect). "Why Odin? Why now? Why spam? …Why us?".
Now you just have to sit there and imagine time passing. Slowly. No students-l messages are getting through. Spam is spewing. The server admins are ignoring other things. "Educational Technology?…no time for that". Are you imagining that?
OK. In the end, they figured it out. Another user account on Odin had been hacked and the hackers were using it to send their spam. And how did they hack it? You guessed it. A weak password on the user account…. Sigh. Once they figured that out, the server admins had to spend several hours cleaning up the mess and then let Agnes know she was back up and moderating. Lots of time lost and all because of a weak password.
Data Privacy Day. It's everyone's responsibility to ensure data privacy. And it can start with a better password. For tips on creating a better one, maybe even creating one that meets HMC requirements, take a quick look at the HMC Password Policy.
Held annually on January 28, Data Privacy Day encourages everyone to make protecting privacy and data a greater priority. DPD is an international effort to empower and educate people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint. It kicks off Data Privacy Month (http://www.educause.edu/focus-areas-and-initiatives/policy-and-security/educause-policy/community-engagement/data-privacy-month).
Thanks for reading. Now go forth and change your passwords.


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Third annual Believers Conference scheduled
Amazing Grace Outreach Ministries and Family Worship Center will host the third annual Believers Conference at 7 p.m. Aug. 22-24 at the Faith Lutheran Church, at 705 Leeland Heights Blvd.
The Rev. Delroy Ferron will lead the special praise and worship services, with Tamika King and others. The public is invited.
Among the speakers will be the Rev. Ann-Marie Broomfield, Rev. Ferron as the conference host and Sister Joan Clarke, as the psalmist.
Featured will be the Lehigh Singers, the Saviors Place Praise Team and the Living Waters Ministries and more.
For information, call (239) 645-9226.
Annual Artists', Crafters' Holiday Bazaar planned
The 6th Annual Artists' and Crafters' Holiday Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Blessed Pope John XXIII Catholic Church, at 13060 Palomino Lane, Fort Myers.
Sponsored by Women's Guild, it will feature holiday gifts, a bake sale, crafts, raffle prizes, refreshments and live entertainment.
Free admission and parking.
Proceeds from the event will be used toward the guild's projects.
For information, call (239) 561-2245 or visit online at: www.johnxxiii.net.
Annual Fall Festival set
St. Raphael's Catholic Church will host the annual Fall Festival on Nov. 14-17 at 2514 Lee Blvd.
The event features rides, food, music, a bake sale and auctions.
There will also be entertainment under the big tent each evening and a spagetti dinner Nov. 16.
The church is currently seeking donations for the silent auction. To donate, contact Skip or Linda Addison at (205) 495-8604 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Arrangements can be made to pick up donations.
The chuch is also looking for sponsors for the festival.
For information, visit: www.srfallfest.com.


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Inst. Child Health Microarray and High Throughput Sequencing Facility
Operational for over 10 years the Microarray and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) facility at the Institute of Child Health uses the most up-to-date equipment to support your genomic research requirements.
GOSgene aims to identify novel gene defects in patients and families with inherited disorders using cutting-edge technologies including linkage analysis and next generation sequencing.
Inst. Neurology Next Generation Sequencing
The NGS facility at IoN has Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq systems and also offers support for data analysis.
UCL Genetics Institute
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Callie is turning out to be a pretty darn good animal resuer. She found Mikey, now she found this odd looking cat at the bus stop as we sent Cam to school:
Trixie is trying to figure him out
I guess you're ok, but you certainly are a strange looking cat.
Mikey's still trying to figure out what to make of him.
Callie is acting like the bumbling idiot I know and love. He's just walking around sniffing everything and ignoring the cats. He's a sweet dog. I've been on the phone all morning with the police trying to find his home. They wanted to send a cop over to take him to the Animal Rescue League and I said, "no way!" I told them that I would prefer he stay lost in a home rather than a cage. They have all my contact info. They have his rabies license number from his collar/tag.
I just hope they find his family soon because I do not want to adopt a lost chi! :D :p


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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Little Help Out There
Anybody out there have a clip they can put up on YouTube? Please. For the love of all that is holy.
7 comments:
- critical fanatic said...
- August 28, 2007 11:01 AM
- Out of Conference said...
or if that can;t be read, try this and click on the link when you see it
it's the paper near the girl's home
- August 28, 2007 11:39 AM
- Dipa said...
Here's the youtube link:
It's at about 3:43
- August 28, 2007 11:57 AM
- One Man Gang said...
Incredibly, she botched it again. Obviously not in the same way as the first time, but let's be honest here. This question is a goddamn softball. We all know what the "correct" answer is. And yet she comes out, after 2 days to formulate the perfect response, with, "My friends and I don't know ANYONE who can't loccate the US on a map."
That's astounding.
- August 28, 2007 12:59 PM
- DanteJones said...
Props to the M Zone for finding this nugget of hilarious information...
Unfortunately our student section ahs a scant (Scant, I say! Scant!) three days to come up with various chants to destroy any sense of App. St's sself worth and pride in their education.
- August 28, 2007 3:55 PM
- TitleIX said...
Do you think that Miss Lauren Caitlin Upton will appear at half-time this Saturday???
Cuz, you know, ALLLL her friends will be there....
if they can find it on the map....
- August 28, 2007 8:37 PM
- TitleIX said...
from TMZ.com
"The baby boy of Bridget Moynahan has finally been named -- and Tom Brady probably won't be very happy with it.
As reported in People magazine, Bridge named the lil' pigskin John Edward Thomas Moynahan -- offsides!
Moynahan's rep would not comment on why no Brady, baby.
JET Moynahan. that's kinda cool.
perhaps TB isn't the baby daddy? I mean why else would you leave him off the birth certificate???? spite? that's really stooopid....NO CASH FOR U BRIDG!
- August 28, 2007 8:44 PM


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Update: More good news! Leen tells us she's accepted an internship at the Participatory Culture Foundation and will be starting on June 1.
By Synthia Salas and Alex Braun
New York City living isn't so outrageous when your rent is free.
Last month, we partnered with Educational Housing Services to give away a summer room at one of EHS's state-of-the-art, fully-furnished student housing complexes. EHS finally has their winner — and it's none other than Leen Zada, a senior PR student at George Mason University. We asked Zada what it felt like to win and what she plans to do with her awesome new pad.
Have you ever been to NYC?
A: Yeah, I have been to New York a couple times with my family when I was younger, a couple times with my photography class from high school, and the last trip I made to New York was two summers ago for a reunion with four of my girlfriends (Giselle, Camille and Iva). We had been best friends all through middle school and high school, but Giselle moved to New York and Camille moved to Ohio. So it was really great to reunite with them over the summer.
Do you know yet who you are going to take with you?
A: I've asked a few of my friends to come with me, but unfortunately all of them already have their summer plans set; whether its taking summer classes or interning in DC. But I'm still waiting to hear from one of my good friends Katie, she might be coming! I have a few friends that live in the city to show me around, and I'm really excited to meet new people to experience New York.
What do you want to do with your career?
A: I am going into my senior year at George Mason University, and after that I will be working towards getting my master's. From what I have been learning in school, I love PR and I cannot wait to be immersed in this field and learn as much as I can. I was born in Jordan and have lived in the DC metro area (Mclean and Vienna) for the past 10 years, and I'm fluent in both Arabic and English and quite comfortable with both cultures; which is a great advantage.
Do you have an internship lined up yet for this summer?
A: Public relations is huge in New York, and this is my time to take advantage of this opportunity in order to set off my career. Unfortunately, I do not have an internship yet. I am really hoping to find an internship in PR or media production. I have been applying to different internships hoping to find one this late. One company I have been in contact with is Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a nonprofit organization that creates open and decentralized video tools and services.
Have you completed any internships before this?
A: Yes, I had a summer internship with Greyscale Films, a production company based out of Amman, Jordan. I worked around the office of the video and film production company, shadowing different members. I also assisted in filming some of their projects in Amman.
I also worked with Image Makers — Women in Film and Video, which is sponsored by Discovery Channel. I worked with a group of other students on a 30-second pubic service announcement (PSA) for a nonprofit organization. We met with our client, Mentors Inc.; then researched, wrote, produced, directed, and edited a PSA to help spread their message. Our group actually won the competition between two other PSAs, and had a chance of our PSA being aired on TV.
How has this contest changed your plans/goals?
A: This contest has changed my plans/goals in so many ways. When I saw the email about the contest I thought I'd enter it, but always thought in the back of my head I would never win it. I was not expecting to win this contest at all, so it really came as a big surprise!
I was set on staying in DC to take summer classes and trying to find an internship. This is a great opportunity for me to step out of my comfort zone, to experience living on my own in NYC for about 3 months and to get an internship in PR/media production. My goal is to be immersed in the real-life communication/public relations field and to learn as much as I can. I can't describe how happy I am to have this opportunity to live and intern in New York.
Want to learn more about EHS housing for New York City interns? Click here to visit their website.