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FOXBOROUGH — Jerry Rice never did it. Neither did Marvin Harrison. Tonight, Wes Welker takes his swing for it.
Just eight more catches and the New England Patriots standout receiver will achieve another of his many milestones that he insists he doesn't dwell on.
He'll break a tie with those retired stars and become the first player with 100 receptions in five different seasons.
Is he looking forward to it? Is he excited for it? Does he even care?
"Maybe when I'm done playing," Welker said Friday. "But right now, I'm just focused on however many catches I need to get to help us win."
Welker has a decent chance to make those eight grabs tonight when the New England Patriots (9-3) face the Houston Texans (11-1) in a marquee AFC matchup.
After all, he's averaging 7.3 receptions per game in his six seasons since being traded from Miami, and he traditionally comes up big in key games.
He could add that mark to a long list of accomplishments on Monday:
Welker is tied with Rice in NFL history with 17 games of at least 10 catches.
Welker is on pace to break a tie with Cris Carter as the only player to catch 120 passes in a season twice.
Welker has the most receptions in the past six seasons (646), by a large margin over Brandon Marshall (565).
And what really matters is this. The Patriots have won six in a row and they are already AFC East champions as they welcome the conference's top team.
"There's nothing more important in Wes's life than being a football player and thinking about football and making the big play and running the right route and getting open when it's most important," quarterback Tom Brady said. "That's what quarterbacks dream about."
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It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring your telephone and Internet communications, but for most of us it's only the marketers who are really interested in our everyday online activities. And with many billions of dollars at stake, companies are increasingly turning to more sophisticated techniques to identify potential clients and deliver relevant advertising.
Many Internet advertisers rely on cookies, digital code stored on your browser. Some websites place multiple cookies when you visit, allowing them to track some of your activity over time (you can see who is tracking you by installing an application such as Ghostery or Abine's "DoNotTrackMe").
The problem for marketers is that some users set their browsers to reject cookies or quickly extinguish them. And mobile phones, which are taking an increasing chunk of the Web usage, do not use cookies.
To combat the cookie's flaws, advertisers and publishers are increasingly turning to something called fingerprinting. This technique allows a web site to look at the characteristics of a computer such as what plugins and software you have installed, the size of the screen, the time zone, fonts and other features of any particular machine. These form a unique signature just like random skin patterns on a finger. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that 94% of browsers that use Flash or Java – which enable key features in Internet browsing – had unique identities.
Fingerprinting may prove a more robust tracking technology than cookies because the user's identity endures even if they erase their cookies. Making changes to your software and settings only makes you more identifiable, not less. An EFF study several years ago found that it is easy to track when someone changes their profiles by adding software updates, for example. You can see what details your computer is transmitting right now by visiting this site.
A startup called TapAd, profiled recently by Forbes, is growing fast from sales of its fingerprinting technology. But the marketers using fingerprinting technology are often reluctant to talk about their efforts, lest they alarm the public. One business transparent about such efforts is a San Francisco start up called AdStack. They have developed a technology that allows firms to send an email but deliver the content only when a user opens it, giving the sender a chance to change the message in a few milliseconds. The email is sort of like a picture frame, with the content delivered interactively much as a webpage. They aim to deliver a personalized message at the right time.
For example, if you open a restaurant promotion in the morning it might advertise a lunch special, or later in the day, dinner. And perhaps they know you like sushi rather than steak. A flower store might advertise different specials depending on their inventory at the time a person opens their email.
In helping clients decide what ads to send via email, AdStack partners with Rapleaf to learn more about people from their email addresses. Rapleaf appends data as such as age and gender, and says it has at least one field of additional information for about 80% of all U.S. consumer email addresses. Armed with this extra personal data, the advertiser, using an AdStack plugin generating code in their email, tries to serve up the most relevant ad to an individual user. AdStack says clients have included online travel companies and retailers such as Publishers Clearing House. They charge between $1,000 and $50,000 for their services, depending on how many emails are sent out in an ad campaign, says CEO Evan Reiser.
The company uses fingerprinting rather than cookie technology because cookies do not work on mobile phones or email programs such as Microsoft Microsoft Outlook, and they want to show their advertising clients which campaigns are working most effectively. Reiser, a software engineer who set up his company in 2011, says fingerprinting allows him to identify 98% of Internet users, although he is trying to identify users those have opted in to receive a company's emails. "We have data on at least tens of millions of people," he says.
Reiser understands some users will see the practice as a violation of privacy, but feels he is one of the good guys. "There is a pretty fine line between cool and creepy. And for anything that I think is really great technology I can guarantee there is someone out there who thinks it's horrible and we shouldn't do it. I think the tracking, in and of itself, is not good or bad. Really, it's what the intent is. My philosophy is that if you can make content more relevant, make advertising more relevant it becomes less like spam and more like content."
The head of online advertising for a major company said the decay of cookies over time, the growth of mobile phones and different kinds of portable devices and Apple Apple's default settings all make fingerprinting the key for future online advertising. Yet he knows that embracing fingerprinting in public could potentially damage his company's reputation, so he asked that neither he nor his firm be identified.
"At the end of the day, there isn't really a legal case against it, there isn't really a privacy case against it. It's really a PR thing. What are you going to do when the Wall Street Journal decides to write a nasty article about the practice?" he says. "If you don't want anybody to know anything you've done online, don't go online. If you are going to create murder, don't research your weapons on Google Google."
Good article. But I have a concern here. It's next to impossible to stop data being tracked by the third parties on the Internet. Ghostery and tools the like may help identifying the cookies and other malware but then who knows the .exe files you run on your computer have no tracking element?
The potential threat of breaching privacy remains a pain area in the world of WWW. We cannot keep our eye on every element being downloaded through .exe or any other file that we think is necessary for the application to run on our computer. In other words -if you don't want to get tracked, STOP using Internet! That's all!!!
"If you don't want anyone to know what you've done online, then don't go online."
WTF? When did he buy for the internet?
"If you don't want anybody to know anything you've done online, don't go online."
I learned the hard way a couple of years ago: if you don't have a credit or debit card, or online access to your bank, or a cell phone, you're screwed. I even tried to get cell phone customer service at one place and they wouldn't accept cash! When I tried to buy my iPhone from an AT&T store, they wouldn't accept cash! That's two instances of cash not being allowed. On airplanes, if you want to purchase something, they don't accept cash! If you need to call someone, good luck finding a pay phone. I was at a major grocery store and had to call out, but they didn't have a phone available for me. Want a job? You better be online. Not only that, but many employers expect you to have an online presence.
To not be connected in today's society is to be at a major disadvantage. To tell us not to go online is completely unrealistic.
Quite true. For many jobs now, you can't even collect your paycheck without an EFT bank account for direct deposit.
Yeah, this is a big part of the problem and it goes beyond what you've said. Basically, since most economic transactions are technically "voluntary" on the part of both parties, the other party is free to refuse your service unless you allow yourself to be tracked or unless they are able to pull up tracking information on your.
So we're at a point where, yes, you can "protect your privacy", but if you do so, everyone else chooses not to interact with you, so it becomes impossible in the practical sense.
It's like trying to get a loan without credit history, etc. Now your entire "consumer profile", as well as address, telephone, credit history, prison history, etc. is expected to be available to any merchant or employer at all times, so if you do anything to try to minimize either access to that info or the trail you leave behind, the result is that companies simply won't deal with you at all.
It's just like stuff like G-mail. Yeah, you can turn off cookies and use software like Tor to hide your IP address and location, but if you do this then G-mail detects it and won't let you log in. Basically they require you letting them track you before you can use their services.
What is more scary are "Optical Trackers" on the other side of your computer screen, as well as "Pixel Advertising." Scary stuff.
How is "Pixel Advertising" scary? I don't think you understand what it is… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_advertising
"You can see what details your computer is transmitting right now by visiting this site."
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Now THAT is creepy!
Am I right in thinking that this digital fingerprint technology would work even if you are using Tor and masking your IP address?
Is there some way to suppress some of the identification information being used?
This would seem to make it easy to identify anyone from their computer.
Why aren't banks and others using this to verify that I am who I say I am? Or are they already?
Banks, credit card companies, ecommerce companies and airlines are all using different forms of device recognition to prevent fraud. One of the interesting things about the whole recognition question is that most people are cool with it for fraud prevention but uncomfortable with it when it comes to marketing – even though it may be the same company using the same data but for different purposes.
Yes absolutely. And it's possibly the tech that was being used when authorities briefly took over a number of 'dark web' tor servers recently. By capturing a fingerprint of a user in normal browsing and then comparing it to the users accessing the tor sites they could potentially identify individuals.
If you're serious about using tor for privacy and secrecy (rather than just obscuring traffic source from the remote party) then you use an entirely separate browser at the very least. Better still – have a virtual machine that you ONLY use for tor browsing and reset it to a previously saved state after each use.
Thank you for this as Ghostery reports FORTY separate tracking cookies and issues with this page on Forbes. Good to know.
"for most of us it's only the marketers who are really interested in our everyday online activities."
Yes, but,
Amazon, Facebook, or Google et al can't break into my house with a SWAT team, seize my assets, arrest and imprison me on the basis of faulty information. See bgladd.blogspot.com
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Americans often think of World War II as the "good war," but historian Mary Louise Roberts says her new book might make our understanding of that conflict "more truthful and more complex." The book, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, tells the story of relations between American men and French women in Normandy and elsewhere.
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Americans do love their bacon, but is that romance a national security issue?
This week, China's biggest pork producer announced plans to buy Virginia-based Smithfield Foods Inc. Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa wants a national security review by an interagency panel known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS.
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An asteroid nine times the size of a cruise ship is dropping by Earth on Friday, and it's not coming alone. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be about 3.6 million miles from our planet at its closest approach. And its proximity has already given scientists a surprise: It has its own moon, measured at about 2,000 feet wide.
A new film from the Oklahoma City metro's Fall Films dealing with addiction and its affect on relationships premieres Saturday at Oklahoma Contemporary.
Tarsus features the group of young actors that have been a part of other Fall Films productions, including Danny Marroquin and Rebecca Cox.
Marroquin plays struggling crack and cocaine addict Johnny McGuire who meets up with Cox's character, Patricia Peters, at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.
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The Storm Prediction Center in Norman warns there is a moderate risk of severe weather over much of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday.
"We have a very complex forecast again today," says National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist Rick Smith. "We do look into the atmosphere and see more ingredients in place today for supercells and tornadoes than what we saw yesterday."
Over the last decade, Turkey has averaged at least five percent growth of gross domestic product per year with a per capita income now more than $17,000, according to the country's Ministry of Finance.
Those numbers are only expected to rise, even as a revolution continues to boil over next door in Syria, Iran faces severe economic sanctions, and economies in Greece and Cyprus melt down.
Joshua Landis, the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, says after Turkey's attempt to join the European Union failed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan forged a new path, facing neither East nor West.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but as Ansel Adams once stated, "When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." Fortunately, this week's OneSix8 highlights two art events worth talking (and of course, writing) about.
While the drought continues to ease in eastern portions of the state, it's still raging in much of western Oklahoma, where the state's wheat harvest is taking a hit.
The Oklahoma Grain and Feed Association recently released its estimate of this year's wheat crop, which Oklahoma Farm Report summed up with one word: "dismal."
Technology is changing the way we experience art. High-resolution imaging not only allows museum curators to catalog and preserve their collections, it also changes the structure and function of the museums themselves.
"If you look at almost any great museum, it starts either with the collections of private individuals, or else with the heads of state," says Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor of The Art Newspaper. "If you go around the Met in New York, it's like a kind of series of chapels devoted to various donors – galleries that have not just been financed, but have actually been filled with works of art collected."


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Starting 27 February 2012, Carlton Hotel Singapore presents a fine indulgence of English High Tea at Gravity Bar. The new, elegant three-tier English High Tea Set features delectable finger sandwiches, delicate handmade pastries and tea cakes, with a pair of heavenly, warm and fluffy scones baked to perfection. To complete this mid-day indulgence, enjoy the freshly baked treats with a selection of tea or coffee. The man leading the Carlton's Pastry team to greater heights is none other than our newly appointed Executive Pastry Chef, Alex Chou Tze Jen, who specialises in European pastries, in particular French pastries.
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Today at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin (28C3), Sadia Afroz and Michael Brennan presented a talk called "Deceiving Authorship Detection," about research from Drexel College on "Adversarial Stylometry," the practice of identifying the authors of texts who don't want to be identified, and the process of evading detection. Stylometry has made great and well-publicized advances in recent years (and it made the news with scandals like "Gay Girl in Damascus"), but typically this has been against authors who have not taken active, computer-assisted countermeasures at disguising their distinctive "voice" in prose.
As part of the presentation, the Drexel Team released Anonymouth, a free/open tool that partially automates the process of evading authorship detection. The tool is still a rough alpha, and it requires human intervention to oversee the texts it produces, but it is still an exciting move in adversarial stylometry tools. Accompanying the release are large corpuses of test data of deceptive and non-deceptive texts.
Stylometry has been cited by knowledgeable critics as proof of the pointlessness of the Nym Wars: why argue for the right to be anonymous or pseudonymous on Google Plus or Facebook when stylometry will de-anonymize you anyway? I've been suspect of these critiques because they assume that only de-anonymizers will have access to computer-assisted tools, but as Anonymouth shows, there are many opportunities to use automation tools to improve anonymity.
Stylometry matters in many ways: its state of the art changes the balance of power between trolls and moderators, between dissidents and dictators, between employers and whistleblowers, between astroturfers and commenters, and between spammers and filters.
During the Q&A, a questioner asked whether Anonymouth's methods could be used by, say, fanfic authors to make their writing style match the author whose universe they're dabbling in; the researchers thought this would be so. I instantly wondered if avid fans might make a JK-Rowlingifier that could be used by dissidents to anonymize their speech, homogenizing it to pitch-perfect Potterian English so that stylometry fails. And of course, this makes me wonder whether stylometry could be used to falsely identify a block of prose with a third party (making a terrorist rant stylometrically match an innocent's prose-style) -- the researchers doubt this, and suggest that when deception is a possibility, prose-style shouldn't be considered as identifying evidence.
As an aside, the Anonymouth team is part of a lab at Drexel seeking grad-students and postdocs.
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17 Responses to "State of Adversarial Stylometry: can you change your prose-style?"
El pulpo pacifico says:
Well, this will escalate the plagiarism wars in higher ed.
Chrs says:
I'm doubtful that this will be useful in the next ten to twenty years without massive human input; computers currently have enough difficulty parsing complex sentences on their own, much less rephrasing them in a less-identifiable manner.
Spotting identifiable passages and asking you to rewrite them, now, that's much more feasible. It's going to take work to anonymize one's own writing.
This also means I'm similarly dubious about its ability to change your writing to mimic another person's, again at least in the near-ish future.
Darcy Casselman says:
"Stylometry has been cited by knowledgeable critics as proof of the pointlessness of the Nym Wars: why argue for the right to be anonymous or pseudonymous on Google Plus or Facebook when stylometry will de-anonymize you anyway?"
I look forward (?) to the world where, as well as fingerprints, authorities ask you to submit an essay to aid in future identification. If all you ever write is your (pseudonymous) blog, they have nothing to compare your writing against. So it's hard to claim that said blog's author might as well just put their name on it as they rail against the Iranian regime.
Then again, maybe they kept all my highschool essays…
Volker says:
Maybe such a tool could also be used to translate youtube comments into proper English with impeccably-spelled complete sentences?
Ito Kagehisa says:
Please, please let it be so.
Wreckrob8 says:
OMFG!!! UK or US spelling?
DewiMorgan says:
This has been something I've worried about for some time: I know from experience that my writing style is detectable by some who know me in about one line of chat, even when I'm trying to conceal that I have made a new identity, and they have no reason to suspect that I have done so.
I also downloaded Freenet once, and anonymously posted a single paragraph answering a help request on the Frost boards — I was very careful to give no personally identifiable information. Yet I had a "Hey, Dewi, is that you on Freenet?" PM from a friend within the hour. Experiment failed.
This is why I no longer bother concealing my real name on the net, or participating in anonymous communities: I am simply very, very bad at not being myself – and I think that is a skill that will become increasingly important for anonymity, free speech and privacy in the future.
I get the feeling that this inability has prevented me from exploring much of the awesomeness that is the internet. I'm very glad that there are stylistic prostheses being developed.
artbyjcm says:
I still think it is a useful skill to have though, to be able to change writing style. Keep practicing, I think you'll get it. Just try writing in the style of a specific author for an entire day, even if it's not the style you intend to write in ever again it'll be good practice.
tyger11 says:
This has been happening for some time, and is already available as a Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bork-bork-bork/
bardfinn says:
The process is not hard.
Analyse source text
Identify symbols outside the range of target text
Permute through nearby symbols in a synonymical database and replace source symbols
Rinse repeat
You can even build a b-tree of potential targets and trim and walk it.
artbyjcm says:
Aside from the more useful purposes of this, it would be fun for MMOs. Make it so people always talk in character depending on the character's origin they decided to be.
Mujokan says:
To be sure I can changeth my style, my good chum.
bardfinn says:
Thou mayest a change in styling of thy prose effect, good Sir, yet it may happen that thy efforts do not any certain result attain, to be sure.
Marktech says:
"It might be entertaining to run J.K.Rowling's work through it, in the hope of coming up with some decent prose!" snorted Marktech controversially.
Thomas Juette says:
"Stylometry matters in many ways: its state of the art changes the balance of power between trolls and moderators, between dissidents and dictators, between employers and whistleblowers, between astroturfers and commenters, and between spammers and filters."
I can't help but wonder (and be made extremely uncomfortable) by this whole "balance of power" idea. "Power" to do what? Mod away plain speaking when the plainness goes against the party line grain? Silence freedom of speech when that same speech makes or wins a point that is not held by someone in power? A recent discussion (yesterday, on the boy toys vs girl toys thread) makes it appear that the majority of people here are in favor of advertising and manipulation, when the manipulation is of the "correct" kind. Such "end justifies the means"ers scare the crap out of me, regardless of their philosophical or political stripe.
Sexism and prejudice are seen as repugnant, but I've only today (for the first time, personally) encountered the word "mansplaining" here on boingboing a number of times, and it, though quite offensive, prejudiced and sexist, seems to be perfectly okay. Again, the increasing prevalence of the idea that "it's okay to hate them, since they deserve to be hated", and the smug / intellectually self-satisfied attitude it bespeaks (on the part of educated people, no less) is alarming.
Socrates wouldn't need to drink his hemlock in the 21st century: he'd be accused of being a "concern troll", and told to get back under his bridge. And the way things are going, he wouldn't even have to be called anything, since no one would even get to see what he said in the first place: pretty soon an automod will be able to detect his post and delete it at the first mention of "erring", "wrongdoing", "virtue" or "knowledge" within the same paragraph.
Fairly soon, "men (and women) of good will" will have have no recourse but to take a page out of John Fletcher's book (or, alternately, that of Megaforce): "Deeds, not words shall speak me".
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Cory, you might be interested in the recent history of pro skateboarder Rodney Mullen. After receiving news of impending physical problems due to his career, he spent a couple of year re-engineering his stance on the board and tricks in order to minimize physical repercussions. I'm not sure if this stuff is in his book.
autark says:
1) Isn't style part of the content of a message? Maybe this is not important to people who really need to remain anonymous, but I would think that part of the power of political speech is the style in which it's written. If you divorce the content from its style sufficiently to obfuscate the author, might you not also divorce it of some of its power and persuasiveness?
2) I'm not going to argue that some people don't really need to remain anonymous, but I do think the idea is kind of sad that for speech to remain free it *must* be anonymous. I'm trying to imagine Martin Luther King Jr's speeches being as powerful, read by a synthetic reader and anonymized in such a way as to protect his identity. Perhaps he'd still be alive, but I don't think his message would have been as powerful.


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- DATEADD() function
- DATEPART() function
- CAST()/CONVERT() function
- CASE expressions
- IF expressions
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Query Examples
- Why three categories have been chosen
- Defining variables for queries
- Case 4-R1: Four variables in one query
- Case 4-R2: Variables first or last
- Date function—where the most problems emerge
- Case 4-D1: Balance of production for a month
- Case 4-D2: How to input a fixed date range
- Orange arrow—an excellent tool for drill down
- Case 4-O1: Make it simple
- Case 4-O2: Sales order updating alert with drill down
- Getting a subtotal from the query
- Case 4-T1: By Union ALL
- Case 2: By running total
- Query for marketing documents
- Case 4-M1: Overview of BP with selection of realized balance
- Case 4-M2: Top five items sold
- Case 4-M3: A filter by notes from OCRD
- Case 4-M4: Adding sales employees' names to a query
- Case 4-M5: A case for solution just from deduction
- Case 4-M6: Goods Receipt PO within 10 days
- Case 4-M7: Quantity purchased, received, and returned
- Case 4-M8: Customized sales analysis report
- Case 4-M9: Average sales per month
- Case 4-M10: Credit Memo user check
- Case 4-M11: Delivery date on sales order
- Case 4-M12: Reducing from two to one line for the sales summary
- Case 4-M13: Tax code summary
- Case 4-M14: Sales by states
- Case 4-M15: Many linked tables in one query
- Case 4-M16: Sales Order with PO
- Query for inventory transactions
- Case 4-I1: Adding stock total to the query
- Case 4-I2: Adding a total to the query bottom
- Case 4-I3: Items not delivered within 15 days
- Case 4-I4: Active item list
- Case 4-I5: How to find stock taking details
- Case 4-I6: Query on price updates
- Case 4-I7: Planned quantity versus in stock
- Case 4-I8: Adding to the production orders list from a sales order
- Case 4-I9: Complete item list with or without transactions
- Query for financial transactions
- Case 4-F1: Top five customers
- Case 4-F2: Incoming payment
- Case 4-F3: Linking an incoming payment with an invoice
- Case 4-F4: Listing both types of payment transactions
- Case 4-F5: Incoming payment filtering
- User query for alert
- Case 4-A1: Creating a right alert without duplicated lines
- Case 4-A2: Alert for invoice without base document
- Case 4-A3: A/R Invoice past due alert
- Case 4-A4: Special ship to alert for Sales Order
- Case 4-A5: Open Sales Opportunity alert
- User query alert guide
- Miscellaneous query examples
- Case 4-X1: Query related to service call
- Case 4-X2: Concatenating two text columns
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Securities and Approvals
- How to handle securities for query usage
- Giving only a few users the capability to build a query report
- Creating queries under different categories
- Query Groups: a tool to assign user permissions
- How to use query for approval procedures
- Creating approval stages
- Creating approval templates
- Originator
- Documents
- Stages
- Terms
- Examples of user queries for approval
- Case 1—Approval for adding delivery document
- Case 2—"On Account" outgoing payment approval
- Case 3—Approval for invoice to special customer groups
- Case 4—Approval for over booking sales order
- Case 5—None cash outgoing payment approval
- Summary
- Chapter 6: SQL Query for Formatted Search (FMS)
- Formatted Search and User-Defined Values
- How to work with User-Defined Values
- Search in existing User-Defined Values according to the saved queries
- Where do the $ values come from?
- How to get the value you need from, and for, the FMS query
- Can you run FMS queries directly?
- What is the negative sign's function in FMS query?
- Search in existing User-Defined Values only
- A typical FMS query application: auto code creation
- BP code auto generation
- Item code auto generation
- Special code auto generation
- General FMS query examples
- Case 1—Double quotes should be avoided
- Case 2—Price value validation on line level
- Case 3—Populating a UDF from OITM in a UDF on quotation
- Case 4—Difference between two UDFs into another UDF
- Case 5—Displaying warehouse name beside warehouse code
- Case 6—Showing purchase order due date on sales order
- Case 7—Auto populating the profit center code
- Case 8—Calculation by three user-defined fields
- Case 9—Open order reminder in new order
- Case 10—Commitment checks for warehouse in stock
- Case 11—Multiplying a field from OITM with a field on order line
- Case 12—Multiplying two UDF values from two tables
- Case 13—Last sales price for a customer
- Case 14—Calling a UDF value in the BOM to Production Order
- Case 15—Multiplying a UDF value with a system field value
- Case 16—Eliminating the duplicate lines returned by FMS query
- Case 17—Getting the sales rep code assigned to an activity form
- Case 18—FMS query for User-Defined Table (UDT)
- Summary
- Chapter 7: SQL Query for Reporting Tools
- Query Print Layout Designer (QPLD) and its usage
- Simple query report printing
- Query Print Layout Designer
- Working with a QPLD report
- Creating a QPLD report
- Editing a QPLD report
- Saving a QPLD report
- Printing a QPLD report
- Deleting a QPLD report
- Recreating the QPLD report
- Direct query for Crystal Reports (Command)
- Working with Standard Report Wizard
- Creating a new database connection
- Adding a Command to a report
- Working with a Command
- Basic formatting for a Crystal Report
- Summary
- Chapter 8: SQL Query for a Stored Procedure
- Why Stored Procedure is included in this book
- SBO_SP_TransactionNotification overview
- How to work with SBO_SP_TransactionNotification
- Some example queries for this SP
- Case 1—Blocking an outgoing payment for a specific BP
- Case 2—Restricting outgoing payments above 20,000
- Case 3—Blocking goods receipt entry
- Case 4—Blocking a sales quotation if no value in row level UDF
- Case 5—Blocking invoice based on GL account and project
- Case 6—Blocking GRPO if quantity is more than PO quantity
- Case 7—Blocking, adding, or updating an order for duplicated BP ref #
- Case 8—Blocking sales documents based on dates
- Case 9—Validation service type A/R credit memo
- Case 10—Blocking goods issue for none super user
- Case 11—Blocking Goods Receipt PO if no based PO
- Summary
- Chapter 9: More Complicated SQL Query Topics
- The Case expression usage
- Case 9-C1—Displaying Transtype as code instead of a number
- Case 9-C2—Combining two queries with a Case expression
- Case 9-C3—Showing discount percentage for each interval
- Case 9-C4—Item wise subtotal in a goods receipt
- Case 9-C5—Updating UDF with different dates
- Working with a subquery
- Case 9-S1—Item groups not in use
- Case 9-S2—YTD sales for two years
- Case 9-S3—Checking only the similar records
- Case 9-S4—Showing the last A/P invoice document date for items
- Using PIVOT to simplify a cross tab style queries
- Case 9-P1—Monthly sales by geography
- Case 9-P2—Complete list of all items with/without sales
- Database query for Excel
- Creating a new data source
- New data source added within Excel
- New data source added from the control panel
- Query wizard for database query in Excel
- Microsoft Query window
- Avoiding pitfalls while building queries
- Creating a query before knowing the data table structure
- Complicating the logic instead of simplifying it
- Trying to do too many things in one query
- Relying on others' help only
- Summary
- Appendix
- Original transaction list by code
- Original transaction list by name
- Object codes and names
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What you will learn from this book
- Quickly get up and running with SAP's Query Generator and Query Wizard
- Develop best practices for creating SQL queries for use with SAP Business One
- Discover how "keeping it simple" will lead to a better SQL query
- Assign SQL query security within your company
- Learn how to get user queries ready for approval
- Optimize user queries for alerts through step-by-step instruction
- Build special queries for Formatted Search
- Create the core part of the query to utilize the SBO Transaction Notification stored procedure
- Master Query Print Layout design
- Improve your Crystal Reports with SQL queries
- Employ expert-level query methods
- Reduce your learning curve by following real-world examples and expert advice
- Achieve advanced SQL query building and troubleshooting skills
In Detail
SAP Business One is an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software which offers an ideal solution for growing small to midsized businesses. For such companies, retrieving the most relevant information from their business data can be key to standing out from the competition. SAP Business One is a rapidly growing software package and this book is timely in giving those businesses an advantage in the area of Business Intelligence. Having SQL query skills in- house is the most important and cost-effective move you can make in this growing field.
This practical guide will provide you with the skills to gain more specific business information from SAP Business One by using SQL queries. It will provide you with solutions for solving complicated report related problems, covering basic tools like the Query Generator and Query Wizard. More advanced content like using queries with Crystal Reports will also be delved into.
SQL query is one of the advanced tools available in SAP Business One which is easily learned and quickly utilized. By referring back to and applying the many examples in this book, you will be able to create and run correct, and therefore effective, SQL queries to help your business.
The book begins by teaching a clear definition of the SQL query, and covers the data dictionary and table links. Coverage will then jump to a higher level of complex SQL queries, discussing features like FMS. Along the way more advanced SQL Query topics will be covered, such as extending the scope of basic SQL queries for more complicated cases. You will ultimately gain in depth query knowledge to bring more Business Intelligence into SAP Business One.
Gain the skills to provide much needed business information within your company with SQL queries for SAP Business One
This is a practical guide providing comprehensive solutions for SQL query problems, and is full of concrete real-world examples to help you create and troubleshoot your SQL queries in SAP Business One.
Who this book is for
If you are a system administrator who uses SQL query as your tool of choice for solving specific problems throughout SAP Business One, then this book is for you. It may also be useful if you are a developer or consultant using this technology, and can benefit end users by improving your search for important business information. A rudimentary knowledge of SAP Business One and SQL Server is required to use this book efficiently. Examples covered are relevant to SBO 2007A users, for which the 8.8 release is mostly compatible. All SQL query examples within the book are verified under SQL Server 2005, so they are guaranteed to run under this release, in addition to SQL Server 2008.
Non-SAP Business One users can also gain knowledge from the many examples throughout the book. It is hard to find another book with so many SQL query examples.


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If you're looking for unique gifts, unique dining experiences, or you are just trying to get into the holiday spirit, try Ellicott City.
As the holiday shopping season gets going, Patch decided to put together a guide to local shops to help you make the most of your time here.
Parking in the Historic District is free through Jan. 1, and if you don't know where to find parking, try using Parker – a smartphone app that will let you know where the available spaces are. There are also several parking lots in the Historic District, find them on the attached map.
Is there a local business you think shoppers should try for the holidays? Expand our guide by telling us about it in the comments section below.
Looking for toys?
Mumbles and Squeaks, 8133 Main Street
There are three reasons why Mumbles and Squeaks is a one-of-a-kind store, according to co-owner Ed Williams:
- Quality of product
- Customer service
- Unique merchandise you won't find anywhere else
From Bananagrams in English, Spanish, French and Hebrew to plush Lamb Chop dolls to Schwings (wings for you shoes -- get it?) to science kits that offer hands-on building kits supplemented with online components, Mumbles and Squeaks is a toy wonderland.
"People think of us as traditional, but we're on the cutting edge, too."
Cutting edge doesn't mean "electronic," it means having those toys - real, tangible, hands-on things – that eventually muscle their way past video games to find a permanent spot in children's hearts.
The Man Cave, 3715 Old Columbia Pike
Have a Magic the Gathering or HeroClix fan on your shopping list? A hot sauce addict? Comic book collector?
The Man Cave might be the place for all three.
This shop boasts a wall of role-playing game accessories, stands full of comic books and a room full of hot sauces (and they can special order thousands of additional brands).
All Time Toys, 8185 Main Street
Star Wars figurines? Check. Simpsons figurines? Check. Old School G.I. Joe figurines? Yep, they have those too at All Time Toys.
Collectors young and old will find something they've been looking for for "sooooooo long" at All Time Toys. And maybe find something they didn't even know they wanted.
For the budding or professional musician:
Mike's Music, 4872 Montgomery Road
Try out the ukuleles or bang on a drum – Mike's Music is of a rare breed, a non-chain musical instrument store where you can pick up guitar picks, or have your violin tuned. And Mike's offers music lessons for a variety of instruments, including voice.
For the holidays, Mike suggests you "Give the gift of music with a gift card for a month of music lessons," how cool is that?
And from now until Dec. 21, the store is offering big savings on Fender and Squier guitars and amps.
For the hip homemaker:
Sweet Elizabeth Jane, 8125 Main Street
Located in the former Caplan's Department Store – and with an updated version of the old sign to prove it – Sweet Elizabeth Jane offers all things kitschy and kitchen-y, including aprons. Dozens of styles of aprons.
"We just got a box in today," owner Tammy Biedman said. "And baking tins shaped like gingerbread men."
Biedman's into the kitchen, but there are also bath accessories, boutique clothing lines and ornaments. "There's a lot of sparkle," employee Caitlin Mullett said of the ornaments. "And we have an amazing range of prices."
As for Ellicott City, she said it's the place to be for the holidays. "We have a lot of holiday spirit" – from Midnight Madness to the holiday window decorating contest – "It's like a Christmas wonderland here."
Randy & Steve's The New General Store, 8249 Main Street
Looking for fresh culinary herbs? Or just candles that smell like them? You'll find both at The New General Store as well as an assortment of kitchen and bath accessories.
Many of the store's offerings are local, so if you really want your gift to say "Ellicott City," this store is a must.
Gifts for the sake of giving
Work.Play.Bark. (Formerly Yuppy Puppy), 8104 Main Street
"Every dog needs their own antlers," said Marc Lund of Work.Play.Bark. To the relief of some and the dismay of others, he wasn't talking about costumes. "We have naturally shed deer and moose antlers," they help keep dogs teeth clean and, Lund said "They last forever."
Of course, Work.Play.Bark. does have clothes for your pets, as well as accessories, toys and just about anything else pet-related.
Even if you don't have a dog, Lund suggests you check Ellicott City out this winter. "The holiday shopping experience is one that everyone should participate in. It's unsurpassed."
8020 Main Street
Shopping for the seasoned collector or just want to find a special artisan-produced gift? You're in luck.
The merchandise at Art & Artisan is carefully selected, says owner Karen Besson and mostly regionally sourced, combining "good design, beauty and functionality. In addition, we feature original artwork by area artists in various media."
There are a range of prices, too, so there's certain to be something for everyone.
The Wine Bin, 8390 Main Street
"The Wine Bin is a specialty wine boutique," says owner Dave Carne. "We don't have your average, run-of-the-mill wines – we have wines you can't get anywhere else."
This holiday season Carne suggests … a cheese board.
This year he is selling barrel stave cheese boards and, he said, "They're breathtaking. They're made from wine bins from a winery in Sonoma. It's my favorite new item."
Of course, there's the wine. The shop boasts 200 wines for less than $20 each. Overwhelmed? Don't know where to start? Just ask the friendly staff. They're one of the shop's greatest offerings.
Still Life Fine Art Gallery, 8173 Main Street
Looking for local? Still Life Fine Art Gallery has more than 120 original, local artists. Currently on exhibition is "Miniature Masterpieces -A Big Show of Small Paintings.
"These make truly unique and sophisticated holiday gifts," co-owner Sara Arditti writes. In addition to paintings, Still Life carries a full like of local artistic jewelry and fine ceramics as well as gift certificates that can be applied to anything in the store, including custom framing.
"Everyone has something they would like to have framed!"
Arditti encourages local shopping in Ellicott City because o fit's "authentic, old-fashioned charm.
"It is a lot more intimate and fun than a soulless shopping mall and it is socially responsible to support local small business owners."
Keeping up appearances:
Wind River Inc., 8188 Main Street
Wind River is a nationwide clothing label, but you can only get these discounts in Ellicott City – an outlet location. And Jeni Porter says you can save an extra 50 to 70 percent during the holidays on these handmade clothes.
Adding to the holiday spirit? Bring canned goods with you to the store and save an additional 20 percent. The food will be donated to the St. John's Church food bank, just up the street.
Salon Marielle, 8239 Main Street
Salon Marielle is Ellicott City's Aveda Concept Salon and Spa.
"Look good, feel good, do good with naturally derived sustainable plant based hair and skin care services and products," writes Rachel Rawlings.
As for unique gifts? How about this: "Your holiday gift list has met its match with our Aveda gift sets beautifully wrapped in fair trade paper from Nepal."
GoGo Guru, 8289 Main Street
From Hilary Brich: GoGo Guru sells athletic apparel, mostly yoga clothes. They also also carry comfy loungewear and a few delectable accessories. When people make resolutions to work out more, we want them to see our clothes.
Target is nice, but there's nothing like having an outfit that actually fits, and that you can't wait to wear on your first day of a new exercise class! We cater to special fitting needs (petites or XXL). We focus on US designers and manufacturers.
Don't forget to eat:
Ellicott Mills Brewing Company, 8308 Main Street
Patch reader Peter Edlan sums it up, short and to the point:
"German style beers brewed on premises. Lunch and dinner specials. Great atmosphere to take a break from shopping and enjoy a brew."
Tersiguel's French Country Restaurant, 8293 Main Street
Patch readers love Tersiguel's. See for yourself.
The restaurant, named the best romantic restaurant by readers, is known for its local, fresh ingredients. And for its Saucisse Grillée Alsacienne – house-made sausage served with warm potato salad. Mmm.
La Palapa Grill & Cantina, 8307 Main Street
La Palapa Grill & Cantina is a bit of Mexico in Ellicott City. According to the restaurant, it boasts "a distinctive Hacienda decor setting, a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, with exceptional prices, live Mariachi style music on weekends, and the real flavors of México."
The family owned and operated restaurant is a great place stop after shopping for dinner and a margarita.
Portalli's, 8085 Main Street
Patch reader Kristin Shields writes that Main Street is a wonderful place to spend the day and go shopping for friends and families. "The restaurants are amazing too," she wrote. "My favorite being Portalli's, a nice Italian restaurant with amazing food! Every time I go there I leave happy!"
Phoenix Emporium, 8049 Main Street
How thirsty are you? The Phoenix Emporium has a wide selection of beer - more than 100 varieties of local and imported beers, in fact. Drink 99 and get your name on a plaque.
The menu is extensive, too, and features some locally sourced foods and a variety of specials.
The Bean Hollow, 8059 Main Street
Need a little jolt to help you with all of this shopping? The smell of coffee roasted in-house might be enough to get you going, but you should really try this coffee.
Bean Hollow was voted the best coffee shop in Ellicott City by Patch readers, and in addition, offers a selection of over-sized pastries, sandwiches and other light fare.
One Dish Cuisine, 8001 Hillsborough Road
Nowhere in Ellicott City, nowhere in Howard County, nowhere in Maryland will you find a restaurant so dedicated to feeding everyone.
One Dish Cuisine is gluten-free and is sensitive to all food allergies with a color-coded menu that indicates items free of several ingredients, including soy, peanuts, casein, dairy, animal products and more.
Whether you're allergic, vegan or just plain hungry (the food is delicious), One Dish Cuisine is an Ellicott City gem.
"We spent so long not being able to eat with everyone else," owner/head chef says. "Welcome back."
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ABMC Rescue has a 3 year old female Malinois named Dodi who is headed from her foster home south of Greensboro to receiving kennel in Joppa MD. She is about 65 lbs and 22-23". We can provide transport to Greensboro. She is currently in Cleveland NC. We of course would have someone meet her at arriving airport. She is in very good health, neutered and UTD on all vaccinations.
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