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Is this growing up?
A few days ago, or maybe it was a few weeks ago, my guild decided to take a look at our loot system to see where we can makes some tweaks. We do, however, need to accommodate our More Focused, More Disciplined For More Kills attitude with a modern, attitude-appropriate loot system.
What happens when you bring up loot issues in a guild like mine?
That's right.
After about a week of poking and prodding, a few people finally spoke up and we got a bit of discussion going after last Tuesday's raid.
To a group of people who don't like to rock the boat, it was probably shocking, but I enjoyed it. The resulting dynamics were wonderful to discover. I felt like it was the first time I really got know my guildies as actual people and not just fellow raiders, and I love them all the more for it. Plus, some of them are kinda sexy when they yell. (But shhhh don't let them know I said that! Can't afford to be sued for sexual harassment.)
And me? The general me?
I'm playing once in awhile, still getting critted by work. I love my job, but dammit there is a lot of job. I'd estimate I do at least 2 hours of unpaid work a day, on top of my normal shift. I've become very fast, very efficient, but I can't stop to think. Stop and you drown.
It's still better than school. Don't get me wrong. It's WAY better than school. Those people who talk about how college is wonderful, a joke, the life? Liars or idiots.
Or people who didn't do enough college to know what it's really like beyond the first four undergrad years.
I've always felt like college was sacrificing 10 years of my life. 10 years without significant romantic relationships (I know, I know, some students manage to have significant others while in college, but I couldn't manage it. Us stupid people have to dedicate 100% of our energy to the books just to get by). 10 years of limited friendships. 10 years where I couldn't start a family. 10 years of not being able to afford a car/a smartphone/the kind of food I like/having my own living space.
You know, I get a half smile when I hear someone talk about gaming making them/their friend/their spouse/their cousin/their pet drop out of college. Gaming is what got me through school. Castle of Doctor Brain, Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, that NHL game where you can make the guys fight and Commander Keen got me through grade school. Kings Quest, Space Quest, Might and Magic and Final Fantasy got me through high school. Final Fantasy and WoW got me through college (10 whole years of it, sdsfgklsdjflsdkj).
Thank goodness for gaming. And for the Final Fantasy message boards, the Red Tears, the Conquests and the Team Sports of this world.
It is worth it in the end. Even though it took forever to get where I am, and where I am is still a bit rough, I love the freedom that comes with having a secure job, and a job that is in high demand. And even beyond the job, I'm happy for the lessons I learned. I had to sacrifice a lot to get where I was, but it taught me to persevere, to live on very little, and it taught me to be patient.
I raid two nights a week. I level an alt for a couple hours sometimes. I plan on giving Star Wars a casual run. I might get Skyrim. But generally gaming is something I think about and say "…oh yes… I liked that once…" I say that about chocolate too. Gaming and sweets. The two things I've lost appetite for.
Now that I finally have somewhat a shred of control over my life, is it that I don't need gaming anymore?
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21 Comments on "Is this growing up?"
November 28, 2011 at 6:23 am
Very, very solid topic.
I wasn't expecting the question so much at the end. Though, I have asked myself the same at certain points.
Is it because the way you game isn't so constructive as what you could be doing instead? Such as learning an instrument, making new friends/relationships, taking up a sport, many things. Mean, you have a blog which is great, which utilizes your game time for something constructive. But do you want more now?
Maybe it's because, like many of us, gaming has become so intertwined with our lives that we take it as the norm and it isn't something to 'pursue' because it's always there and always will be.
I'd be interested to see where you go with this, keep us updated,
– Jamin
November 28, 2011 at 11:23 am
"I've always felt like college was sacrificing 10 years of my life. 10 years without significant romantic relationships (I know, I know, some students manage to have significant others while in college, but I couldn't manage it. Us stupid people have to dedicate 100% of our energy to the books just to get by). 10 years of limited friendships. 10 years where I couldn't start a family. 10 years of …living alone."
That made me cry. Such a sad thing to say.
As regards your work – 2 hours of unpaid work a day? Please, think about that. Would your boss pay you to stay at home for 2 hours a day? Whether you like your work or not, you should still be paid for what you do.
Life is to be enjoyed, and while we have to work to live, don't let work be all your life is. Don't miss out on the other aspects of your life.
November 28, 2011 at 3:31 pm
It has certainly happened to a lot of my RL friends who've moved on from table-top RPGs to other things as they grew older, got jobs and stuff.
I'm one of the few hold outs, I think I'll be gaming, whether pen-n-paper table-top stuff, or video-games, most of my life. I think it's an evolution thing that happens to a lot of people, it could also be a time to try other stuff and see if it stirs your interest in the same way and then return later.
That happened with my wife – she was into gaming in high-school, but after college she gave it up, only to come back to it, about ten-years after graduating.
You seem like you're open to change and that's awesome and exciting! Good luck! 🙂
November 28, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Is this growing up?
It's one step on the path.
November 28, 2011 at 11:23 pm
Odd question, but where are you initially from? Because you say you're from Alberta yet you talk about university like an American 😛
(sorry if you've mentioned this before, just started reading your blog recently)
November 29, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Hi, I've been reading your blog for a while and I guess it's only fair that I comment at least once. And this one really hit home so I just had to.
I also went to college for 10 years (though it was on and off) before graduating and I think anyone who thinks college (or any school prior for that matter) is better than adult working life is crazy. Taking classes and having home work and tests really, really suck, especially home work and tests part.
I've been gaming ever since I could remember, and similar to you, I don't find myself as attached to games anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'll probably never quit gaming, even when I'm a senior. But, I don't have the passion (read: obsession) for it like I used to. For example, good ol' Starcraft was a BIG part of my problems in college. I spent countless days and nights trying to master it. But, Starcraft 2? I bought the game and beat the regular campaign basically out of obligation. It couldn't hold my interest even in the least.
Probably a part of the reason is that my favorite genres have changed as I grew older as well. I no longer have twitchy reflexes and prefer a game with a good story than extremely challenging game play. But, I think the biggest reason is that, at this point in my life, no matter what game I play, I feel like "been there, done that."
Does all of this just mean that I got gaming out of my system? Or has gaming become such a constant in my life that it lost its significance? Gaming brought me much joy (and consequences) over the years and I'll never quit it. But, as you put it, I guess maybe I grew up, just a little.
Thank you for this great post and many others you've written. I've always enjoyed reading them. Good luck with your career and gaming and just don't forget that even grown-ups need to have fun. =)
November 30, 2011 at 11:50 am
I hesitate to use the phrase "growing up," because to me it indicates that you were immature, or childish, or that you needed to grow up. I don't think any of those things apply to you.
I would just say that your needs are changing and what you needed to get by in life or to make things easier to deal with may not be what you need right now. It doesn't mean that you will never enjoy such things again, but that you may not be enjoying them right now.
You're fabulous. Don't ever forget that.
December 3, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I enjoyed reading this and finding out I wasn't alone. I'm 35 and I wonder what will happen in 5 years. Will 20something gamers want to read a gaming blog by a 40 year old? /shudder …..I'm scared….:)


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What do you think of this year's White Sox, Kenny?
"In another month, I'll answer that question. I'd like it to take only a few days, but if I evaluate the team on the performance so far, it wouldn't be such a great evaluation. So we'll wait. I'd really like to tell a white lie right now, but if I said I had a lot of patience, you'd call me on it. Let's just say I'm patient enough."
Kenny remains in a patient no-trade mode:
"Well, No. 1, I don't think anyone is really prepared to make any deals right now. And any interest expressed in any players out there who are impact guys have been done so for quite some time. There really isn't much substance to anything at this stage of the season. Another 30 games, and you'll start to see talk pick up. If you're not playing well, it doesn't make any sense to go down those roads, anyway. You got to warrant that."
could you host a fire-sale Kenny?
"Perhaps. We haven't been in that position before. Even when we were, we were actively looking to get better, not just for now but for setting us up for the next year. Even if on the surface it's not going as well as we like, there's still that aggressive part of who we are at that stage that will probably prevent that. It's tough with the type of personalities around here, it's tough to dial it back."
Did you talk it over with team president Jerry Reinsdorf?
"We've talked about the offense a little bit, but I probably talked more basketball than baseball with him in our last couple of conversations."


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The Broadmoor adds a swank Italian restaurant to its stable of fine dining rooms
Need yet another reason to head to The Broadmoor? Here you go. The swank sprawl of rooms, restaurants, amusements and more is adding Ristorante del Lago, a place fixing on Italian regional cuisine, to Broadmoor West, a $100 million expansion and renovation project slated to finish in May.
The joint will sit on the western bank of Cheyenne Lake, and will include an outdoor patio, a community dining table, a wine room, charcuterie, cheese cellar, exhibition kitchen and a wood-burning oven with a rotisserie.
New York designer Adam D. Tihany created the space – a good sign. The guy has done restaurants like Per Se, Daniel New York, and Bar Boulud in London. This is good company.


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Firstly I'd like to say forgive me if this has already been thoroughly discussed elsewhere, in which please feel free to link me to that post.
So my question to people who already have Fibre or some form of "UFB" (Telstra's 100mbit cable, or VDSL, etc) is what kind of speeds are you getting to other countries? Seen as a huge majority of our daily web applications are hosted internationally I feel these 30/10, 100/50 speeds people are getting are fairly "useless" unless the international speeds are improved as well.
To anyone who is willing to spend a couple of minutes testing this for others to see in this post, please post:
- The plan you are paying for (eg: 100/50, 30/10, 50/50, etc - regarding speed)
- Some speedtest results to NZ servers
- And then any speedtest results you get to international server (especially, Australia, USA, etc)
Of course SpeedTest.net Only shows part of the story however I feel it would be a good start in determining how useful these new UFB technologies actually will be in real world usage. If anybody else has other simple ways of testing international bandwidth that would be great! :)


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Inventory of Miscellaneous Photographs of San Francisco Shortly after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 [graphic], ca. 1906-1907
Inventory of Miscellaneous Photographs of San Francisco Shortly after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 [graphic], ca. 1906-1907
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1--PIC [Mission St. District Burning as Seen From Chinatown.] 1906-04-
2--PIC [The Fire on the west side of Town.] 1906-04-
3--PIC [The City Burning at Night, as seen From Alta Park] 1906-04-
4--PIC [The City on Fire as seen From 16th St. Hill] 1906-04-
5--PIC [Down Market St. from corner of Sansome.] 1906
6--PIC [View down Market Street from Twin Peaks.] 1906
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Down Market St. from Twin Peaks, May 28, 1906. 1906-05-28
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
The Mission [District] from Twin Peaks, May 28, 1906. 1906-05-28
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
From Corbett Road, May 28, 1906. [View down Market Street toward downtown from lower slopes of Twin Peaks.] 1906-05-28
10--PIC [View south: Post near Market] [Some reconstruction progress visible.] 1906
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Down California St. from Nob Hill, May 3[?], 1906. 1906-05-03
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Unburned section, Washington St. May 13, 1906. [Residences.] 1906-05-13
13--PIC [Restaurant and Buttermilk Stands.] [Food vening carts, wagons, streetcars, and tents among rubble on Market Street.] 1906
14--PIC [Dynamite crew, Market St.] 1906
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Blasting the Walls, St. Ignatius Church. August 11, 1906. 1906-08-11
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Blasting the Walls, St. Ignatius Church. August 11, 1906. 1906-08-11
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Removing Debris by Car, June [?]7, 1906. [Southern Pacific Railroad car loaded with rubble and workers on top.] 1906-06-07
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Removing the Debris, May 16[?], 1906. [Wagons being loaded among ruins.] 1906-05-
Cohen, E.A.
[Sloss Doorway.] ca. 1906
20--PIC [Crocker residence entrance, California St., Nob Hill] ca. 1906
21--PIC [Corner of A.M.[?] Towne residence, California St., Nob Hill] 1906
Cohen, E.A.
[Crocker residence, California St., Nob Hill] ca. 1906
[Turrill and Miller (photogs.)]
Burned Cable Cars, California and Hyde, June 23, 1906. 1906-06-23
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Wreck of Linda Vista Hotel, Turk and Jones Sts., May 16, 1906. 1906-05-16
[Turrill and Miller (photogs.)?]
[Headquarters of Committee on Reconstruction of SF.] ca. 1906
26--PIC [Mission San Francisco de Asis, Dolores, Built 1780.] ca. 1906
Cohen, E.A.
[Portsmouth (Square?) SF Hall of Justice.] [With tents in plaza.] 1906
Cohen, E.A.
[Down O'Farrell from corner of Stockton, Call Bldg.] 1906
29--PIC [View South from top of Nob Hill.] [Reconstruction in progress.] ca. 1906
Cohen, E.A.
[Pacific Union Club ruined, corner of Post and Stockton.] ca. 1906
31--PIC [Hibernia bank, Jones and McAllister.] 1906
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
St. Ignatius, Sep. 2, 1906. 1906-09-02
33--PIC [Crossley Bldg., New Montgomery and Mission Sts.] [Men seated among street filled with brick rubble.] 1906
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Franklin and Clay, Where Heroic Efforts Stopped the Fire, May 9, 1906. 1906-05-09
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Palace Hotel, Built 1874, Monadnock Building, in course of construction, Examiner Building, demolished by dynamite. May 12, 1906. 1906-05-12
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
Interior Crocker-Woolworth National Bank, June 14, 1906. [Gutted by fire.] 1906-06-14
37--PIC [Chinese Refugee Camps near Presidio.] ca. 1906
38--PIC [Refugee camp near Presidio.] ca. 1906
39--PIC [Mission Relief Headquarters Guerrero St. near 25th.] [Food (?) line along residential street.] 1906
40--PIC [Mission Relief Headquarters] [Guerrero near 25th Street. Crowd in street.] 1906
Turrill and Miller (photogs.)
[7600 Sacks of Flour for Relief, May 10, 1906] [With armed guard.] 1906-05-10
42--PIC [Encampment National Guard, May 10, 1906.] 1906-05-10
43--AX [Fire at corner of 2nd and Mission Sts.] 1906
44--AX [500 block south side of Market St.] 1906
45--AX [Crossley Bldg. Fire.] 1906
46--AX [Post St. near corner of Montgomery, Boss Ruef at right, Masonic Temple right background.] 1906
47--AX ["The Last Stream" where the water gave out, up Market from 3rd St.] 1906
48--AX [Ruins of building with lions at entrance.] 1906
49--PIC [Down Market St. from corner of Kearney.] [Before the earthquake and fire?] ca. 1905?
[Relief camps on top of Nob Hill after the fire. Fairmont Hotel and Ferry Building visible.] 1906
51--PIC [Rubble in front of residential houses, possibly at edge of fire line.] 1906
52--PIC [Rubble in front of residential houses, possibly at edge of fire line.] 1906
Blumberg, A.
[View from Nob Hill of city burning.] 1906-04-
Rue, James O.
[Montgomery St. from California looking south.] 1906-04-
56--PIC St. Dunstan[?] Van Ness. [View of Van Ness Street.] ca. 1906
Genthe, Arnold
[San Francisco Fire, 1906.] 1906
58--PIC [(Resi)dents part of city overlooking the Business Part.] [View of downtown taken from a hillside.] 1906-1907
59--PIC [View of the Cliff House burning and spectators on Ocean Beach. 1906
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Earthquake damage. Examiner office. [Interior.] 1906
61--PIC [View from Nob Hill looking down California Street and over downtown. Old St. Mary's and Grace Church[?] are visible.] 1906-1907
R.J. Waters and Co.
San Francisco rising from Ruins, April 18, 1907. [View from Nob Hill showing reconstruction progress, with ruined home entrance dubbed "Portals of the Past" in foreground.] 1907-04-18
63--PIC [Ruins of Grace Church at California and Stockton Streets?] 1906
R.J. Waters and Co.
Powell and Post looking N.E. showing Synogogue. 1906
R.J. Waters and Co.
[Masonic Temple] 1906
Lovick Bros.[?]
Ruins of City Hall after earthquake and fire, 1906. 1906
67--PIC [Ruins of City Hall: detail of two columns.] 1906
Rieder Cardinell Co.
[A view of the ruins of the City Hall after the earthquake and Fire. San Francisco, Cal., April 18-20, 1906] 1906
Rieder Cardinell Co.
[The James D. Phelan monument at the corner of Market, Turk and Mason Sts. still proclaims the spirit of progress and Victory and is one of the few objects of value to be spared from the ravenous flames in SanFrancisco, Cal., April 18-20, 1906. 1906
Street, W.J. (photog.)
[Call Building with smoke pouring out as people on the street watch.] 1906-04-
71--PIC [View of gutted Old Saint Mary's church on California Street after earthquake and fire.] 1906
Whigham Photo.
Market St. Ap. 18 '06. [Fire hose in operation, Call Building and wall of smoke in background.] 1906-04-18
Haley, George W.
[View of downtown going up in flames, probably taken from Nob Hill.] 1906
Weidner, Charles
San Francisco--One year after: the beginning of new and greater San Francisco showing a large amount of reconstruction in the heart of the city.... 1907
San Francisco Examiner.
In the Heart of the Ruins--Panorama taken from the roof of the St. Francis Hotel. 1906
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Panoramic View of the burning of San Francisco from the roof of the St. Francis Hotel, April 18, 1906. 1906
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Panorama from St. Francis Hotel after the fire. [Some reconstruction evident.] c1906
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Panorama from Ferry Building. [Some reconstruction evident. Waterfront and shipping are included.] c1906
Pillsbury Picture Co.
Panorama of San Francisco from the Grant Building. [Some reconstruction evident. City Hall is prominent, as is the view up Market Street toward the Financial District.] c1906
80--AX [Columns at entrance of ruined building: possibly those dubbed "Portals of the Past" prior to removal to Golden Gate Park.] 1906
[Wholesale district, SF 1906 from Russian Hill.] 1906
[View east from Sutter and Jones Sts. The Family Hotel and Boarding House. District of the "400"] 1906
83--B [Donahue Building at left, view down Market from Taylor.] 1906


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Spring Orientation
Before Attending Your Session
Before attending the required orientation, you should:
Send your health forms to Student Health Services. You MUST have your health forms turned in, or you will be unable to register for classes at orientation! Forms can be printed by visiting the Student Health Services website.
Send in a photograph of yourself and completed ID form to have your student ID made.
Read the information under What to Bring to Orientation on this website.
Check the orientation programs website and your Ole Miss email for updates often.


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I've been finding myself in the Exchange 2013 world for the last few months, helping with some administration and updates. As a result I stumbled across an unknown, yet cool (to me) Exchange API. Naturally I couldn't resist trying this out in PowerShell. For those who just want working script, here it is. This script will return the most recent 10 items.
#Change the Exchange Version to work with your environment
#Change the "UseDefaultCredentials" to false if you want to specify alternate creds
For those of you who are still with me…a little history.
The Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API appears to have come onto the scene in early 2009 (Where was I?) with it's Beta 1.0 release. Fast forward to today, it's in its 2.2 release and is applicable to Exchange 2007 SP1 and UP including Office 365. This API can be used to work with e-mail messages, calendar, task, and contact information…Translation it's so much easier for a non-developer (like me!) to harness Exchange resources without dealing with the underlying SOAP interface of EWS. I mean how cool is it that Microsoft took the time to make a wrapper to get to the EWS.
The construction was super simple, and is executed like this.
1.) Create the client object which looks like this
2.) Set the URL by passing the "AutodiscoverURL()" method your email address. This will go out to your Exchange environment to get and fill the object with the correct "Exchange.asmx" web service. This might be something like "https://mail.contoso.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx"
3.) Create a variable for the inbox folder
4.) Create a variable for mailitems filling it with a search from the inbox using the "FindItems()" method. Incidentally this is where you might decide to do other things like use the "MarkAllItemsAsRead()" method to take care of those pesky unread items should you desire.
5.) Loop through each of the mail items so they are loaded into PowerShell using the "Load()" method
6.) Display them selecting whatever fields you deem important. For the sake of this demonstration it "Sender,Subject,Body"
All this to say I really am wildly excited about being able to use this as an alternative method to send e-mail from PowerShell Scripts where I use the .net method. Not to mention demonstrating how powerful and friendly powershell really is. Past that I can think of application within SharePoint synchronizing a calendar and task items from a mailbox without a third party program. I'm not saying this is the end all be all by any means but it's a nice new egg of putty I can make immediate use of to fill some gaps until a better solution can be designed and implemented.
It certainly made me think…"Hmm…This might work" for this,that, and the other thing too!
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Greg Tate
I have been running Windows 10 since the preview was released. My experience, so far, would be positive. It has been very smooth transition. As someone using a machine without a touchscreen, I would say it is a lot more functional than Windows 8/8.1. I still find the full screen apps lacking, but the operating system is smoother, overall, to me, and I enjoy using it.
I own, and generally enjoy using, a MacBook Pro 15. My only complaint on the MacBook is the lack of physical Home, End, Insert, and Delete keys. I have run Windows of various versions on it in the past using Parallels to great success.
Windows 10 has been happily living on my PC laptop, but I wanted to consolidate it, if I could, onto the MacBook Pro, so I could carry one thing. The resolution on the MacBook Pro is much higher as well and makes some of my work much easier. I am typing this on my Windows 10 VM that was restored onto Parallels on the MacBook Pro, and it's been working for a few days like a champ. I thought I would document the steps I took to move from the Physical machine to this Virtual machine if anyone else needed, as it was not that complicated once I located the information I needed.
That is the high level, now I'm going to go through the steps I took to get there.
One thing to note is that the Parallels tools need quite a few reboots. So if you are rebooting over and over again manually, you may think something is wrong, but it is probably fine. I wasn't being super observant, but I think it was 4 or 5 reboots that all looked like they did the same thing when they started.
This was my first time using the system image recovery tool, and I have to say compared to Time Machine, it's a bit ridiculous and convoluted. It *did* work though once I found the commands and figured out what to do. By contrast, when I got my new mac, I just pointed it at my Time Machine location (which setup found automatically for me) and pushed a button. I imagine a OSX VM would work the same way. Apple! Why don't you have HOMEENDINSERTDELETE KEYS!!! Then you would be perfect!
For the page that I drew my inspiration from, look here:
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Roy Ashbrook
Install It:
Use it:
void Main(){ //config file location var fl = @"path to my app.config"; //name of the config section in the config file above var cs = "riakConfig"; //name of our riak bucket to store things in var b = "mybucket"; //connect to the cluster using our config file var clst = RiakCluster.FromConfig(cs,fl); //create a client var clnt = clst.CreateClient(); //create an object to store var kvp = new KeyValuePair<string,string>("0","zero"); //put it in a bucket in riak, key it, and drop the object in there var o = new RiakObject(b,kvp.Key, kvp); //put the object in riak clnt.Put(o); //go get the object using the same key as above var r = clnt.Get(b,kvp.Key); //dump the value we got back r.Value.GetObject<KeyValuePair<string,string>>().Dump();}
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Roy Ashbrook
I recently had a need to mash-up some data from a SharePoint 2007 list in an Excel document I was working on. I already knew that I could work with SharePoint 2007 data in Excel by using the following instructions from Microsoft:
Do one the following on a SharePoint site: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 If your list is not already open, click its name on the Quick Launch. If the name of your list doesn't appear, click View All Site Content, and then click the name of your list. On the Actions menu , click Export to Spreadsheet. If you are prompted to confirm the operation, click OK. Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 If your list is not already open, click Documents and Lists, and then click the name of your list. On the page that displays the list, under Actions, click Export to spreadsheet. In the File Download dialog box, click Open. If you are prompted whether to enable data connections on your computer, click Enable if you believe the connection to the data on the SharePoint site is safe to enable. Do one of the following: If no workbook is open, Excel creates a new blank workbook and inserts the data as a table on a new worksheet. If a workbook is open, do the following in the Import Data dialog box that appears: Under Select how you want to view this data in your workbook, click Table, PivotTable Report, orPivotChart and PivotTable Report. Under Where do you want to put the data, click Existing worksheet, New worksheet, or New workbook. If you click Existing worksheet, click the cell where you want to place the upper-left corner of the list. Click OK.
If you click Existing worksheet, click the cell where you want to place the upper-left corner of the list.
That's all very well, but in my case I had an existing spreadsheet with quite a few tables and an existing excel model. I didn't want to go through these gyrations. Isn't there some way to just get the data right off the list as a web page?
Yes. Enter the "Import XML data" feature in Excel. MS Offers the following following guidance for getting XML data from a web service:
Import XML data from a Web service To do the following procedure, you must have access to a server that is running pnSTS11. A default installation of pnSTS11 provides a data retrieval service for connecting to data in SharePoint lists. A SharePoint site administrator can install the Microsoft Office Web Parts and Components to add additional data retrieval services for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Business Solutions. The installation program for Microsoft Office Web Parts and Components is available from the Downloads on Microsoft Office Online. On the Data menu, point to Import External Data, and then click Import Data. Do one of the following: Open an existing data source Create and open a new data source connection Select one of the following options: XML list in existing worksheet The contents of the XML data file are imported into an XML list in the existing worksheet at the specified cell location. XML list in new worksheet The contents of the file are imported into an XML list in a new worksheet starting at cell A1. If the XML data file does not refer to a schema, then Excel will infer the schema from the XML data file. To control the behavior of XML data, such as data binding, format, and layout, click Properties which displays the XML Map properties dialog box. For example, existing data in a mapped range will be overwritten when you import data by default, but you can change this.
To do the following procedure, you must have access to a server that is running pnSTS11. A default installation of pnSTS11 provides a data retrieval service for connecting to data in SharePoint lists. A SharePoint site administrator can install the Microsoft Office Web Parts and Components to add additional data retrieval services for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Business Solutions. The installation program for Microsoft Office Web Parts and Components is available from the Downloads on Microsoft Office Online.
Open an existing data source
Create and open a new data source connection
The contents of the XML data file are imported into an XML list in the existing worksheet at the specified cell location.
The contents of the file are imported into an XML list in a new worksheet starting at cell A1.
But how to get the URL to call for the XML data? The following link holds the key:
You have to replace {0} with your site URL and the {1} with your GUID for the list ID on SharePoint and {2} with the view GUID. How to get these? Well the easiest way (I think) is to go to your list, then select the view you want. Click view dropdown and select "Modify this view." This will open the link to the screen where you can modify that view. The URL in the browser should have a View and List value. I stripped the %7B and %7D off as those are the { and } respectively. You don't need to use a view and can omit that completely if you want to connect directly to the list. But I found I normally wanted to just get a certain view or I wanted to create a special view just for this activity.
Regardless, you can now follow the auto prompts to get the data into a spreadsheet. You can also open the developer tab and dive into the XML itself (see the MS link above for more instructions) and drag and drop the fields to other locations. Now when you get the data it will put it wherever you bound it.
By default it will dump it into a table and will include the schema items which you don't need. You can open the Developer tab, select "Source" in the XML section and then just deselect the ns2 : Schema element. It will stop syncing those fields and you'll have to clean up your table to get rid of them. I was able to rename the columns etc as needed, but since this is a read only feed I was typically using it to calculate other columns so I frequently stick with the ows_* columns that are the defaults for the data element.
Screenshot of the XML section from Developer tab in Excel:
Once I figured out I needed to find the XML import stuff for Excel, I was able to find lots of articles on it online to help. The following was my favorite and links to a lot of other ones.
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Roy Ashbrook
Well the non-whimsical title aside I must say "hats off " to those PowerShell gurus at Microsoft. You've made my live a bit easier. This quick post is a look at the New-SelfSignedCertificate CMDLET and how the PowerShell Certificate (CERT) Provider.
I realize both are rather self explanatory, the first creating a self signed certificate where as the other providing directory like interaction / access within PowerShell to the certificate stores. Essentially making the need to spin ye old mcc certificate console a moot point.
Suppose you're tasked with building a functional lab {insert Microsoft software title here} environment, naturally you want to automate as much as possible yet those pesky certificates cause you to break open IIS to create a self signed certificates. Sure, it's only an extra manual step or two but my take, why do manual when automation isn't but half the effort more?
That said what if the requirements are for a SharePoint 2013 LAB, with a functioning APP Model. The app model requirements bring along with it the requirements for wildcard certificates. Now I could be missing something but my testing within IIS8 didn't allow for specifying the FQDN (CN). I guess at this point, one could consider a few options. First one might be inclined to stand up a lab PKI(or leverage an existing one) Of course a more simple but costly route would be to use public certificates.
If time and money are constraints then our friendly neighborhood PowerShell cmdlet and CERT provider can quickly help us out. After all the New-SelfSignedCertificate will let us specify our DNS name or DNS names. Yes…That was plural of names, as in more than one. And since we are talking DNS names, well then we only find ourselves limited by what is defined in DNS or the server HOSTS file (none of us do that – right?)
So take this snippet and incorporate it into your automated lab builds or conversely offer your own opinion
Hope this helps someone.
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Greg Tate
I use a table similar to this quite frequently for my own personal reporting and analytics on various things. I figured I would polish it slightly and publish it in case anyone else needed it. =)
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Roy Ashbrook
I have a set of documents I need to review regularly. They are *mostly* form data in word so I wanted to write a simple script to extract the data I need from all of the documents and put it into a table. I wasn't sure how to do this so I wrote a little script to iterate over the data in the document. The documents I review have several versions, different form fields, and other irregularities. I wanted to save a little script I wrote that uses various methods to iterate through the document. I use LINQPad regularly, so I wrote this in there in C# as a method for opening and handling the word document, and an extension for iterating it.
posted @
Roy Ashbrook
Google search yields a ton of sources for this. I'm just going to reference the first one that I looked at:
posted @
Roy Ashbrook
I think the standard plan would be great for most people. Reasonably priced if you need office or not. I think using the MS Office 365 would be a better deal for most, but it's certainly nice to get turnkey with no work on office and anti-virus. I'm surprised MS doesn't offer something like this yet really. I wish there was a save password option for the client to make use of complex passwords easier, but this could be solved by a password reset policy I suppose.
My Profile:
My computer time is split between Communication and Content Creation about 70/30. Communication is via the usual Email, Chat, and Screen Sharing. Most content creation is in MS Office or some type of coding application. The most important thing for me when utilizing a VDI platform is that it is fairly responsive when I'm working in multiple applications and need to alt-tab back and forth. VDI doesn't exactly shine in this capacity when you are working remotely, but I feel like I can get a good sense of a worst case scenario for typical users when I am testing.
Good, but I am not going to replace my standard solution for this (local use of Parallels on my MBPro), yet.
Pricing, Setup, Experience, Recovery, Performance
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Roy Ashbrook
I'm throwing this script out there for any developers or admins who are seeking a quick SharePoint focused script for user account creation.
In my environment we're working towards automated unattended install of SharePoint, including account creation. AutoSPInstaller is cool but it seems too complicated for me. Put another way, if I'm going to spend time learning I'm choosing to learn PowerShell and SharePoint in more detail.
With that said, here is my script. This script could easily import from a CSV (or other file), read a SharePoint List, or any other means of input. For the purpose of an example, an array is used.
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Greg Tate
A friend of mine and I were discussing the topic of Disabling LoopBack and which is the better route to go when it comes to creating a new SharePoint 2013 farm.
My perspective, when possible, abide by Microsoft's recommendations. In this case Microsoft seems to take the classic "it depends" stance on disabling ye old loopback.
Being me, I asked my self why not have both? After all I'm sure PowerShell could help out here. To those who know me or have read this blog; I'm not a developer and
it probably shows in various scripts. That said, the following script does accomplish the desired result of one script allowing you to choose if you are going to take the
"Developer" route and disable the loopback, or take the "Admin" route and call out your exceptions. If you are a new SharePoint Admin this might be useful, if you arent
new to SharePoint then I'm sure you've already clicked off of this post a few lines back…lol
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Greg Tate
Today I had to fall in line and do something I'm not entirely proud of. I had to create a script to replicate files from a fileshare to Sharepoint. Struggling to find value in the efforts, I figured a blog post to remind me of this event was fitting. The script was rather basic, something good, and I took the opportunity to grow, exploring the world of Powershell – SharePoint interaction outside of the SharePoint PS SnapIn.
Surprisingly, it was a bit easier than I had imagined. While I wish I could take 100% of the credit, inspiration for this function comes from this article
So that's the basic of uploading a file to SharePoint using the .net webclient…to many this is old hat…To me something new to start out the new year.
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Greg Tate
If you need to interface with SQLite there are a couple of steps.
1) You need to get the .net provider for SQLite from sourceforge.net 2) Then add a reference to System.Data.SQLite to your project. 3) You need to make sure the reference is marked to be copied locally.
Here is a C# class to for doing select, insert, update, and delete.
public class SqlLiteHelper
String dbConnection;
/// <summary>
/// Single Param Constructor for specifying the DB file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="inputFile">The File containing the DB</param>
public SqlLiteHelper(String inputFile)
dbConnection = String.Format("Data Source={0}", inputFile);
/// <summary>
/// Single Param Constructor for specifying advanced connection options.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="connectionOpts">A dictionary containing all desired options and their values</param>
public SqlLiteHelper(Dictionary<String, String> connectionOpts)
String str = "";
foreach (KeyValuePair<String, String> row in connectionOpts)
str += String.Format("{0}={1}; ", row.Key, row.Value);
str = str.Trim().Substring(0, str.Length - 1);
dbConnection = str;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to run a query against the Database.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sql">The SQL to run</param>
/// <returns>A DataTable containing the result set.</returns>
public DataTable GetDataTable(string sql)
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
using (SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection(dbConnection))
using (SQLiteCommand mycommand = new SQLiteCommand(cnn))
mycommand.CommandText = sql;
using (SQLiteDataReader reader = mycommand.ExecuteReader())
catch (Exception e)
throw new Exception(e.Message);
return dt;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to interact with the database for purposes other than a query.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sql">The SQL to be run.</param>
/// <returns>An Integer containing the number of rows updated.</returns>
public int ExecuteNonQuery(string sql)
int rowsUpdated = 0;
using (SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection(dbConnection))
using (SQLiteCommand mycommand = new SQLiteCommand(cnn))
mycommand.CommandText = sql;
rowsUpdated = mycommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
return rowsUpdated;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to retrieve single items from the DB.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sql">The query to run.</param>
/// <returns>A string.</returns>
public string ExecuteScalar(string sql)
using (SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection(dbConnection))
using (SQLiteCommand mycommand = new SQLiteCommand(cnn))
mycommand.CommandText = sql;
object value = mycommand.ExecuteScalar();
if (value != null)
return value.ToString();
return "";
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to easily update rows in the DB.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="tableName">The table to update.</param>
/// <param name="data">A dictionary containing Column names and their new values.</param>
/// <param name="where">The where clause for the update statement.</param>
/// <returns>A boolean true or false to signify success or failure.</returns>
public bool Update(String tableName, Dictionary<String, String> data, String where)
String vals = "";
Boolean returnCode = true;
if (data.Count >= 1)
foreach (KeyValuePair<String, String> val in data)
vals += String.Format(" {0} = '{1}',", val.Key.ToString(), val.Value.ToString());
vals = vals.Substring(0, vals.Length - 1);
this.ExecuteNonQuery(String.Format("update {0} set {1} where {2};", tableName, vals, where));
returnCode = false;
return returnCode;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to easily delete rows from the DB.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="tableName">The table from which to delete.</param>
/// <param name="where">The where clause for the delete.</param>
/// <returns>A boolean true or false to signify success or failure.</returns>
public bool Delete(String tableName, String where)
Boolean returnCode = true;
this.ExecuteNonQuery(String.Format("delete from {0} where {1};", tableName, where));
catch (Exception ex)
returnCode = false;
return returnCode;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to easily insert into the DB
/// </summary>
/// <param name="tableName">The table into which we insert the data.</param>
/// <param name="data">A dictionary containing the column names and data for the insert.</param>
/// <returns>A boolean true or false to signify success or failure.</returns>
public bool Insert(String tableName, Dictionary<String, String> data)
String columns = "";
String values = "";
Boolean returnCode = true;
foreach (KeyValuePair<String, String> val in data)
columns += String.Format(" {0},", val.Key.ToString());
values += String.Format(" '{0}',", val.Value);
columns = columns.Substring(0, columns.Length - 1);
values = values.Substring(0, values.Length - 1);
this.ExecuteNonQuery(String.Format("insert into {0}({1}) values({2});", tableName, columns, values));
catch (Exception ex)
returnCode = false;
return returnCode;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the programmer to easily delete all data from the DB.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>A boolean true or false to signify success or failure.</returns>
public bool ClearDB()
DataTable tables;
tables = this.GetDataTable("select NAME from SQLITE_MASTER where type='table' order by NAME;");
foreach (DataRow table in tables.Rows)
return true;
return false;
/// <summary>
/// Allows the user to easily clear all data from a specific table.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="table">The name of the table to clear.</param>
/// <returns>A boolean true or false to signify success or failure.</returns>
public bool ClearTable(String table)
this.ExecuteNonQuery(String.Format("delete from {0};", table));
return true;
return false;
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Chris Barba
Here we are, a cold crisp 20 degree Wednesday in November. I thought to myself…this is not cool (no pun), but you know what is cool? Yeah, I'm sure you guessed PowerShell's ActiveDirectory module.
Just a quick blog note to show how PowerShell quickly settled a dispute during an upgrade of our AD schema to handle a Windows 2012 DC. Of course this wasn't a big dispute, many other tools could have been used. The question was had the Schema already been changed to support a 2012 Server. Again, there are many tools that could provide the answer, but what made this so cool was being able to share the experience with others who didn't know PowerShell could replace some of the old stand by AD tools. So this is more of an AH-HA moment that felt right to share (and the script)…All brought to us by PowerShell and the ActiveDirectory module.
(An academic honesty note here…this script is not 100% my own work...More like 5% – 10% my work, I can't remember where I snagged the meat of this script so the credit remains unknown.)
So there you have it, another way PowerShell rocks.
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Greg Tate
The other day while reviewing an Exchange 2010 Environment, I noticed a few active mailboxes belonging to disabled users. For obvious reasons this isn't a good thing, if for nothing else it clutters up the Exchange Address Book.
Next thought in my mind…So what's the best way to hide these disabled users? Having the PowerShell bias that I do in fact have, I had to spend 15 minutes reviewing the options.
Here is the script I used in a resource / user environment. Keep in mind this is a down and dirty version, a proof of concept. I would limit the use of this example as an inspiration only. (good or bad)
#Uncomment this section if you want to include changing the address book visability
Foreach ($user in $usrrpt){
Write-Host "Changing address book visability for" $user.alias
Set-Mailbox -Identity $user.alias -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
Of course the next thought of automation comes to mind…but that's a different post.
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Greg Tate
Here is some code to get a list of identity columns in database.
select so.name as TableName, + o.list as IdentityColumnName
from sysobjects so
cross apply
case when exists (
select id from syscolumns
where object_name(id)=so.name
and name=column_name
and columnproperty(id,name,'IsIdentity') = 1
) then
end + ' '
from information_schema.columns where table_name = so.name
) o (list)
where xtype = 'U'
AND o.list is not null
AND name NOT IN ('dtproperties')
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Chris Barba
Here is some code to use to check if a database exists. Just replace the string 'DATABASE NAME'.
SELECT * FROM [master].[sys].[databases] WHERE name='DATABASE NAME'
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Chris Barba
If you have a connection to a database through entity framework and you need to switch it to another database (with the exact same structure) you just need to set the Connection.ConnectionString (as seen below). I had an application where we created a copy of the Master database when setting up a new client. So using Entity Framework I switched from the master database to the client (depending on what the admin was doing).
using (MasterEntities aEntities = new MasterEntities())
//Switch db connected to aEntities.Database.Connection.ConnectionString = aEntities.Database.Connection.ConnectionString.Replace("OldDatabaseName", "NewDatabaseName");
//Some Query}
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Chris Barba
In my continued automation efforts, I was looking to convert documentation provided from a consultant into something more…well…automated. In this first of four parts I'll list out creating a Result Source with Powershell.
Subsequent posts (part 2 – 4) will give example of creating Result Types, Query Rules, and Search Navigation. The aim of this effort is to make use of PowerShell in rebuilding, essentially cloning without data, a search service application. This is useful when Microsoft support gives the classic solution of "rebuild" your service application. Doh!
It should be noted:
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Greg Tate
First things first. I'm not a developer. I seem to do ok working my way through the SharePoint object model with PowerShell and writing automation scripts, but that doesn't make me a developer.
With that out the way, I do find myself in an odd place with developers neglecting (for whatever reason) to automate population of web parts in the content pages their solution has deployed. An example might be Search Content web part needing to have the proper display template selected for displaying conversations. Ah…My Dev friends (don't hate me) but why not go that extra mile? If I can do it through script, surely you can employ your superior coding skills to include it in the solution (wsp)!
For those of you who may find yourself in my shoes, here is a script I created to help ease that cross farm (environment pain). Essentially the script is a function with a few parameters. This is the core, from here you can customize to your needs. It's a great starting point for anyone who wants to automate changes to web parts via PowerShell. You can copy and paste the script below into PowerShell ISE and save it to whatever name you like
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
#----Start of Function-------
Function Set-WebParts {
[String]$SiteUrl = $(Read-Host "Please Enter Site URL"),
[String]$PageUrl = $(Read-Host "Please Enter Page URL")
$web = Get-SPWeb $SiteUrl
#+Get and Checkout Page
#+-Get Page
$page = $web.GetFile($pageURL)
#+-CheckOut The Page
#+-Load Limited Web Part Manager
$wpm = $web.GetLimitedWebPartManager($pageURL, [System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope]::Shared)
#+Change Conversations WebPart - In my example I had some webparts titled "Conversations" and some Titled "Content Search"
$wp = $wpm.WebParts | Where {$_.Title -eq "Conversations" -or $_.Title -eq "Content Search"}
#+-This is the base url for the template - Change this to whatever meets the need
$base = "~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/Display Templates/Content Web Parts/"
#+-This is the template name
$template = "Item_Discussion.js"
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|MEN'S GOLF - NCAA Championships Preview
|Head Coach Bowen Sargent talks about the Cavaliers' preparation for the NCAA Championship at Eugene Country Club.
|NCAA Tournament Preview
|CUE: Men's Golf - Derek Bard
|The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence special feature on the junior that had the chance to live out a dream by playing in the Masters.
|CUE: MEN'S GOLF - Denny McCarthy
|The Chasing Uncompromised Excellence special feature on the senior All-American and his amazing year.
|Men's Golf - 2012 NCAA Championships Round 3
|The Cavaliers wrap up the 2012 season with a strong performance on the third day of the tournament at Riviera.
|Men's Golf - 2012 NCAA Championships Round 2
|Freshman Denny McCarthy leads the Cavaliers as they bounce back from a tough first round.
|Men's Golf Highlights - VCU Shootout
|Cavaliers win 27-under 837 to better runner-up East Carolina by seven shots.
|Men's Golf - Steve Marino's PGA Rookie Season
|2002 UVa graduate is having a great rookie season on the PGA Tour.
|Men's Golf - 2009 NCAA Championship
|2009 NCAA Championships at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
|Men's Golf - 2008 NCAA Championships
|2008 NCAA Championships at the Kampen Course in W. Lafayette, IN.
|Men's Golf - Steve Marino & James Driscoll
|Two Cavaliers were paired together for the first time on the PGA Tour.
|Men's Golf - Steve Marino Interview
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Original mark sheets along with 4 attested copies of mark sheet of all the exams. Affidavit of gap between two exams and after. Original Bonafide Resident Certificate along with 4 attested copies of Bonafide resident. Income certificate in case of SC / ST / OBC candidate. Black & white photographs (4 copies). Transfer certificate from the institution last attended. To Obtain Eligibility from the University.
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When I look at the the image below, I am able to "hear" the sounds of the weapons in my mind:
Artwork Credited to Bill Sienkiewicz
For me, the sound effects for the weapons made the cartoon much more enjoyable.
Were these effects the product of some person (or team) sitting in front their tools (whatever they may have been at the time) and conjuring the best sound?
Or, would they have cycled through existing sound effects created over the years?


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Inside the Dallas Convention Center, 60,000 pairs of heels are making their way into the arena for this year's seminar.
In fact, women from all over the world are in Dallas, as evidenced by the cavalcade of different flags march across this stage.
It's a sight the Mary Kay Chief Marketing Officer Sheryl Adkins-Green says means big money for the area.
Business News
"We are generating about $33 million in revenue, beyond that, we support over 6,000 jobs, just with this event alone," Adkins-Green said.
Since the beginning of the year, Mary Kay reports that 94,000 women have become independent beauty consultants. The company says that one third of those are under the age of 35.
Mary Kay is trying to appeal to Generation Y through a series of iPad apps that also serve as selling tools for consultants.
Audrey Nickell is 25-years-old and has been a Mary Kay consultant for 4 years. Her mother sold Mary Kay and she says she's putting herself through college being a beauty consultant.
"That's what's so cool is that when you put in hard work into this, you really do get paid and I think that is empowering in itself," she said.
But it's not just women that are making their way here. Men are too -- husbands, to be specific.
September and Tim James are here from Carrollton. Why come to the Mary Kay convention?
"This business really is a partnership, if you don't do it together, you won't be as successful," Tim said.
Tim says he's here to support his wife -- he lost his job for six months and with Mary Kay she supported the family, a role she was happy to step into.
"When you do what you love, you'll never work another day," said September.
For all those men that will be here supporting their wives at this convention, organizers have lots of things planned for them to do, including tours of Cowboys Stadium and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
The convention runs through August 4.
NBC 5's Andrew Tanielian contributed to this report.


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Rent Like A Champion started in 2006 as a student housing company – much different than what the company is today! The original founders (Drew, Derrick, and Jordan) listed a vacant apartment on Craigslist and eBay, offering it as a weekend rental for football games. The home was immediately scooped up by rabid Notre Dame fans, and just like that, RLAC had stumbled onto a new business model.
In 2010, Mike Doyle joined the company and began expanding the business to other college towns with major football programs. Early success proved that Rent Like A Champion was needed nationwide! Rent Like A Champion is now offering weekend rentals in more than 20 college towns around the country.
After graduating from 1871, Chicago's hub for digital startups, Mike and the team moved into Catapult Chicago, an incubator for startups that are scaling quickly. The Rent Like A Champion team is made up of rabid college football fans with a passion for providing a high-level of customer service to make sure that their customers have the best college football experience possible.
Learn more about renting a home, listing your home or working with Rent Like A Champion!
Our team
Mike Doyle
Mike began working with Rent Like A Champion in 2010 as a college sophomore and hasn't looked back since. Mike sets the vision for the company, helps clear obstacles from the path of his team, and oversees the general operations of the business. The de facto HR department, Mike is always looking for talented new people who are interested in joining the Rent Like A Champion team - if that sounds like you, reach out today! Mike attended Notre Dame, graduating in 2012.
Denise Wright
Community Manager
Denise Wright joined the Rent Like A Champion team in 2014, quickly becoming a vital member of the team. Denise came to us from non-profit world where she worked for Junior Achievement of Chicago, coordinating thousands of volunteers in Northern Indiana. Denise ensures that RLAC renters and homeowners alike have a fantastic experience, providing prompt and exceptional customer service and advice. Denise graduated from Purdue University with an engineering degree.
Dave Longwell
Dave joined RLAC in 2015 and is our digital marketing expert. Dave is tasked with exposing college football fans around the country to our site and ensuring that our guests have the best possible experience. Prior to joining Rent Like A Champion, Dave was very active in the Chicago startup community, working for companies like SpotHero and Pathfinder Software as well as organizing the Lean Startup Challenge. Dave holds a BA from the University of Illinois.
Betty Kunisky
Customer Experience
Betty Kunisky joined the Rent Like A Champion team in March of 2015 and assists with a variety of renter and homeowner customer service needs. Betty also assists on several marketing and outreach projects. Prior to RLAC, Betty was working in Business Development for an international law firm. Betty graduated from Notre Dame in 2013.
Hank Greene
Content Strategist
Hank Greene joined the Rent Like A Champion team in February 2017, and handles the team's marketing/web communications, email campaigns, and social media strategy. Prior to joining RLAC, Hank worked at Goodman Theatre as an Audience Development Associate, and as a freelance writer specializing in web and marketing copy for clients in a wide variety of business spaces. He is a former member of the Disney College Program, and is a proud graduate of Indiana University.
Mike Hostetler
Mike Hostetler is an entrepreneur & technologist currently working to help technical teams grow and thrive. Mike formerly founded appendTo, a boutique consultancy born out of the jQuery project. He is an active OSS supporter and currently serves as editor-in-chief of ModernWeb.com. Mike is passionate about remote work, the future of work, leadership and helping others succeed.
Reuven Lerner
Reuven joined Rent Like A Champion in April 2010, back when the company served only Notre Dame. Today, Reuven manages the technical aspects of the site, including servers, databases, billing and payments, as well as the implementation of new features. Reuven has a degree in computer science from MIT, where he created one of the first 100 Web sites in the world, and a PhD from Northwestern. Reuven lives with his wife and three children in Modi'in, Israel.
Genadi Reznichenko
Software developer
Genadi joined RLAC in Fabruary 2012. He has more than a decade of software-development experience in technologies as diverse as C++ and Ruby. Genadi currently specializes in web applications using Ruby, JavaScript, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. He studied at the Technion before graduating from Polytechnic University in New York. Genadi previously worked at Columbia University, Citibank, and Amdocs.
Trevan Hetzel
Front-end developer
Trevan Hetzel is a front-end engineer working to make Rent Like A Champion as user friendly and performant as possible. Trevan formerly wrote lots of CSS & JavaScript at appendTo, where he led several front-end projects for clients such as Zumba, Celebrity Cruises and Microsoft. He is currently a member of the Flywheel team, where he works to change the way WordPress websites are hosted.
Jordan Curnes
A serial entrepreneur, Jordan lives in Chicago with his wife and two children. Jordan is also the Co-Founder of MicroTransponder, a medical device company treating tinnitus and stroke patients. He co-founded the Irish Angels and currently serves on the board. Jordan holds a BA from Notre Dame and an MBA from Duke.
Drew Mitchell
One of the original founders of Rent Like A Champion, Drew Mitchell started the company while in graduate school. The company's real estate expert, Drew works in real estate development in the Northern Indiana and Chicagoland areas. Drew has a BBA and MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Derrick Shenk
Derrick is the President and Founder of Mobile Generation, the Chicago area's fastest growing chain of Verizon Premium Retail stores. Prior to Mobile Generation, Derrick worked at Accenture for 7 years. An avid boater, Derrick lives in Chicago with his wife. Derrick holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame.


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Astros shake up coaching staff
HOUSTON -- The Astros made changes to their coaching staff Tuesday, naming pitching coach Doug Brocail as a special assistant to general manager Jeff Luhnow and senior pitching adviser, while announcing first-base coach Dave Clark and bullpen coach Dennis Martinez would not have their contracts renewed.
The fact the Astros chose to shake up their coaching staff comes as no surprise considering they're coming off a season in which they lost a franchise-record 111 games, including 15 in a row to end the season under first-year manager Bo Porter.
"Any time you lose as many games as we lost, you've got to take a look at every part of the operation and see where we think we can improve," Luhnow said. "I think everybody on the staff did a good job this year. Whether or not they had the resources they needed to be successful is one thing we could discuss, but when Bo and I talked about it we felt a couple of new voices would give us a chance to mix things up a bit and potentially help us improve on the field."
Luhnow said bench coach Eduardo Perez and third-base coach Dave Trembley have been offered contracts to return next season, though he didn't specify in what capacity. Hitting coach John Mallee is coming back for 2014.
The GM said he and his staff would begin putting a list together Wednesday for possible candidates to take over as pitching coach.
The Astros plan to hire a pitching coach who will have input in the bullpen coach hire because both positions have to be on the same page. Additionally, Luhnow said he would like to add a coach with a background working with middle infielders to help along the development of shortstop Jonathan Villar and second baseman Jose Altuve.
"That's the one technical area we were missing this year, someone that has middle-infield experience," he said.
The move of Brocail into a new role was done in conjunction between Luhnow and Brocail, who had served as pitching coach since June 14, 2011. Prior to that, Brocail worked nearly two years (2010-11) as a special assistant to the GM after a 15-year career that included two stops in Houston.
Brocail will help with pitchers throughout the organization, which has bolstered its pitching depth considerably in the last few years by adding arms like Mark Appel, Brady Rodgers, Kent Emanuel, Andrew Thurman and Lance McCullers Jr. to join up-and-comers like Mike Foltynewicz, Asher Wojciechowski and Vincent Velasquez.
The Astros ranked last in the Majors in ERA this season, but they had the youngest staff in the league. What's more, several young pitchers showed promise, led by starters Jarred Cosart, Brett Oberholtzer, Brad Peacock and Dallas Keuchel.
"Given the investments the organization was making in pitching, some of whom have been to the big leagues and a lot of whom haven't, Doug has a good feel for the organizational pitching philosophy and it's a great opportunity to get him involved like he was before he took this [pitching coach] role," Luhnow said.
Martinez, 58, was with the Astros for only one season after working as a pitching coach in the Cardinals organization for six years. Luhnow admitted Brocail and Martinez didn't see eye-to-eye early in the season.
"There might have been a few miscommunications," he said. "That's to be expected when you're putting two people together who have never worked before, which is why when we're talking about hiring a new pitching coach, we felt it important to give that person the opportunity to be involved in the recruiting and selection of a bullpen coach. They need to be joined at the hip."
Martinez said he was disappointed in the decision and felt he worked fine with Brocail.
"I don't know what the situation was to be let go, but they decided to let me go and they said they want to bring in a pitching coach and a guy he can get used to and be on the same page with him," he said. "I don't know what that means. I thought Brocail and I were on the same page, but I guess I was wrong. I didn't feel that way. I don't think that was true. I'll just take it as a professional and move on."
Clark, 51, spent five consecutive seasons on the Astros coaching staff, serving as the third-base coach for four seasons (2009-12) and the first-base coach this season. He had been with the organization since 2005, managing at Double-A Corpus Christi for three years and Triple-A Round Rock for one year.
Clark also served as interim manager at the end of the 2009 season when Cecil Cooper was let go, managing the final 13 games.
"The Astros thank Dave Clark for his many years of service to the organization and wish him the best going forward," Luhnow said.
Clark was in charge of the baserunning, and Porter told reporters in September he was planning to take over baserunning coaching after the Astros made several mistakes on the bases. Clark and Brocail were the only coaches Porter inherited.


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Shaggy, this handsome Lhasa Apso, needs a loving home.
He is a 6-plus-year-old neutered male who acts younger than his age. He loves to jump around and play, loves children and comes with all shots including rabies. He is good with other dogs, crate-trained and microchipped. Adoption donations is $182.
Napier's Log Cabin Horse & Animal Sanctuary Inc. is a not-for-profit, no-kill Florida corporation that provides loving adoptive homes or permanent homes to needy animals. For more information, visit www.NapierFamilyFarm.com or call 750-8185.
Shaggy, this handsome Lhasa Apso, needs a loving home.


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Policies and Procedures here include:
The C-Pen Exam Reader pen scanner is an electronic pen the uses text to speech to read aloud printed text. The C-Pen Exam Reader is an orange portable, pocket-sized device that reads text out aloud with an English human-like digital voice used instead of a human reader.
This device means students who have reading difficulties such as dyslexia can independently take exams knowing that they can read and understand the questions. Students using the pen bring their own in-ear headphones to use with the reading pen via 3.5mm headphone socket. All students are given the opportunity to train on the reading pen prior to exams.
The reading pens have been used in UL for the last four years by first years through to postgraduate students. The reading pen is also available as a reasonable accommodation in the Leaving Cert resulting in more and more students entering college and university already trained on how to use the reading pen in exams.
Below is a very short video on the exam reader pen.


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Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Law Society of Upper Canada's 17h Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review program. My talk canvassed developments in copyright in Canada and around the world in 2012. My slides are shown below. The associated paper prepared in collaboration with Glen Bloom, with the help of others, is available here.
The following copyright cases from Canada, the USA, UK and Ireland, Australia, and Europe are dealt with in the paper and slides.
Adobe Systems Incorporated v. Dale Thompson DBAAppletree Solutions, 2012 FC 1219
Aga Khan v. Tajdin, 2012 FCA 12