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What would you recommend using between a datetime and a timestamp field, and why? (using mysql). I'm working with php on the server side.
Timestamps in MySQL generally used to track changes to records, and are often updated every time the record is changed. If you want to store a specific value you should use a datetime field. If you meant that you want to decide between using a UNIX timestamp or a native MySQL datetime field, go with the native format. You can do calculations within MySQL that way
In MYSQL 5 and above, TIMESTAMP values are converted from the current time zone to UTC for storage, and converted back from UTC to the current time zone for retrieval. (This occurs only for the TIMESTAMP data type, and not for other types such as DATETIME.) By default, the current time zone for each connection is the server's time. The time zone can be set on a per-connection basis, as described here: MySQL Server Time Zone Support |
I always use DATETIME fields for anything other than row metadata (date created or modified). As mentioned in the MySQL documentation: You're quite likely to hit the lower limit on TIMESTAMPs in general use -- e.g. storing birthdate. |
The above examples shows that how I've converted my answer into article so more people can find this useful. http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/22599/mysql-datetime-vs-timestamp-data-type/ |
The main difference is that DATETIME is constant while TIMESTAMP is affected by the So it only matters when you have — or may in the future have — synchronized clusters across time zones. In simpler words: If I have a database in Australia, and take a dump of that database to synchronize/populate a database in America, then the TIMESTAMP would update to reflect the real time of the event in the new time zone, while DATETIME would still reflect the time of the event in the au time zone. A great example of DATETIME being used where TIMESTAMP should have been used is in Facebook, where their servers are never quite sure what time stuff happened across time zones. Once I was having a conversation in which the time said I was replying to messages before the message was actually sent. (This, of course, could also have been caused by bad time zone translation in the messaging software if the times were being posted rather than synchronized.) |
I make this decision on a semantic base. I use a timestamp when I need to record a (more or less) fixed point in time. For example when a record was inserted into the database or when some user action took place. I use a datetime field when the date/time can be set and changed arbitrarily. For example when a user can save later change appointments. |
TIMESTAMP is 4 bytes Vs 8 bytes for DATETIME. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html But like scronide said it does have a lower limit of the year 1970. It's great for anything that might happen in the future though ;) |
Depends on application, really. Consider setting a timestamp by a user to a server in New York, for an appointment in Sanghai. Now when the user connects in Sanghai, he accesses the same appointment timestamp from a mirrored server in Tokyo. He will see the appointment in Tokyo time, offset from the original New York time. So for values that represent user time like an appointment or a schedule, datetime is better. It allows the user to control the exact date and time desired, regardless of the server settings. The set time is the set time, not affected by the server's time zone, the user's time zone, or by changes in the way daylight savings time is calculated (yes it does change). On the other hand, for values that represent system time like payment transactions, table modifications or logging, always use timestamps. The system will not be affected by moving the server to another time zone, or when comparing between servers in different timezones. Timestamps are also lighter on the database and indexed faster. |
A timestamp field is a special case of the datetime field. You can create timestamp columns to have special properties; it can be set to update itself on either create and/or update. In "bigger" database terms, tiemstamp has a couple of special-case triggers on it. What the right one is depends entirely on what you want to do. |
TIMESTAMP is always in UTC (i.e. elapsed seconds since 1970-01-01, in UTC), and your mySQL server auto-converts it to the date/time for the server timezone. In the long-term, TIMESTAMP is the way to go b/c you know your temporal data will always be in UTC. E.G. you won't screw your dates up if you migrate to a different server or if you change the timezone settings on your server. |
I would always use a unix timestamp when working with MySQL and PHP. The main reason for this being the the default date method in php uses a timestamp as the parameter so there would be no parsing needed. To get the current unix timestamp in php just do time(); and in MySQL do SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(); |
Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but worth noting in MySQL you can use something along the lines of below when creating your table columns
This will update the time each instance you modify a row, sometimes very helpful for stored last edit info. This only works with timestamp, not datetime however. |
From my experiences If you want a date field in which insertion happens only once and u don't want to have any update or any other action on that particular field go with date time . For example in a If you are creating the table from PHPMyAdmin default setting will update the timestamp field when row update happens. If your timestamp filed is not updating with row updation . You can use the following query to make a timestamp field get auto updated
I always use a UNIX timestamp, simply to maintain sanity when dealing with a lot of datetime info, especially when performing adjustments for timezones, adding/subtracting dates, and the like. When comparing timestamps, this excludes the complicating factors of timezone and allows you to spare resources in your server side processing (Whether it be application code or database queries) in that you make use of light weight arithmetic rather then heavier date-time add/subtract functions. |
I prefer using timestamp so to keep everything in one common raw format and format the data in PHP code or in your SQL query. There are instances where it comes in handy in your code to keep everything in plain seconds. |
I'm not sure it it's already been answered, but I found unsurpassed usefulness in TIMESTAMP's ability to auto update itself based on the current time without the use of unnecessary triggers. That's just me though, although TIMESTAMP is UTC like it was said, it can keep track across different timezones, so if you need to display a relative time for instance, UTC time is what you would want. |
Timestamp data type stores date and time but in UTC format, not in current zone format as datetime do. And when you fetch data, timestamp again convert that into current zone time. So suppose you are in USA and getting data from server which has time zone of USA, then you will get the date and time according to USA time zone. Timestamp data type column always get updated automatically when its row gets updated. So it can be useful to track when a particular row was updated last time. For more details you can read following blog: http://codebucket.co.in/timestamp-vs-datetime/ |
The TIMESTAMP data type has a range of '1970-01-01 00:00:01′ UTC to '2038-01-09 03:14:07′ UTC. It has varying properties, depending on the MySQL version and the SQL mode the server is running in.
I like UNIX timestamp, because you can convert to numbers and just worry about the number. Plus you add/subtract and get durations etc. Then convert the result to Date in whatever format. This code finds out how much time in minutes passed between a timestamp from a document, and the current time.
Beware of timestamp changing when you do a UPDATE statement on a table. If you have a table with columns 'Name' (varchar), 'Age' (int), and 'Date_Added' (timestamp) and you run the following DML statement
then every single value in your 'Date_Added' column would be changed to the current timestamp. |
Another Different between Timestamp and Datetime is in Timestamp you can't default value to NULL. |
The major difference is
look at this post to see problems with Datetime indexing |
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History: Psychic is not any ordinary girl. Her past was mostly normal, however, but from an early age she had shown signs of being different. For one thing, she was always a quiet girl who always kept to herself, not being a sociable person, so she had trouble making friends. The fact that she could be a real daydreamer didnt help, either, making many people think she was odd. She didnt mind this- in fact she preferred to be left alone, preferring solitude from company. The only company she could ever stand was those of Pokémon, and when asked why, her answer would always be Because theyre not human.
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Current Pokémon:
Current Form: Scyther
Obtained Through: Starter
Type: Bug/Flying
Gender: Male
Level: 11
Held Item: Silver Powder
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Level-Up Moves: Quick Attack, Leer, Focus Energy, Pursuit, False Swipe (16), Agility (21), Wing Attack (26), Slash (31), Swords Dance (36), Double Team (41), Fury Cutter (46)
Egg Moves: Silver Wind
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Obtained Through: Trade with Skrusti
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Gender: female
Level: 10
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TM Moves: Calm Mind
Egg Moves: Thunderpunch
Current Forn: Hoothoot
Obtained Through: Trade with Skrusti
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Gender: male
Level: 6
Held Item: none
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Level-Up Moves: Tackle, Growl, Foresight, Peck (11), Hypnosis (16), Reflect (22), Take Down (28), Confusion (34), Dream Eater (48)
TM/HM Moves: Flash, Fly
Healing Items
99 Revives
99 Potion
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1 Premier Ball
1 Ghost Ball [from trade with Skrusti]
1 Fire Ball [from trade with Skrusti]
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Blizzard [from FB birthday]
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1 Kelpsy Berry [from Berry Shop]
1 Pecha Berry [from Berry Shop]
1 Pomeg Berry [from Berry Shop]
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2 Lansat Berry [from Berry Shop and Berry Shop]
1 Grepa Berry [from Berry Shop]
1 Leppa Berry [from FB birthday]
1 Figy Berry [FB birthday]
1 Spelon Berry [from FB birthday]
1 Belue Berry [from Berry Shop]
1 Pamtre Berry [from Berry Shop]
1 Pinap Berry [from Berry Shop]
Level Boosters:
30 Rare Candies
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1 Chocolate Egg (gives double level ups) [from Easter]
1 Halloween Candy [from Halloween]
1 Valentines Candy [from Valentines Day]
Contest Items:
Purple Pokéblock (+20 Cool) [from FB birthday]
Red Scarf [from FB birthday]
Red Pokéblock (+20 Cool) [from Christmas, Day 7]
Passion Pokéblock (+20 Cute and Beauty) [from Valentines Day]
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Heart Scale [from FB birthday]
Nugget [FB birthday]
Devil Horns (boost any Fire attack when worn by a Pokemon) [from Halloween]
Gengar plushie (teaches one Pokemon Torment and Taunt) [from Halloween]
Special Wand with a Sneasel head at the end of it (when used by a pokemon it gives them a level and teaches it Nightmare) [from Halloween]
Double Move Tutor Pass [from Christmas, Day 3]
Shoal Salt [from Christmas, Day 4]
Heart Scale [from Christmas, Day 8]
Heart Scale [from Valentines Day]
Valentines Necklace (has a 25% chance of making an opponent of the opposite gender Attracted to the Pokémon wearing the item) [from Valentines Day]
Red Valntines Coin Case containing 2,000 Coins
Cupid's Bow & Arrow (a held item that can be used once per battle, and if the arrow hits, will cause an opposite-gendered opponent to be Attracted for either 2 turns or until they're hit by an attack)
Red Flute [from Valentines Day]
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"I had an aunt die from cancer recently, and I have another aunt that just got diagnosed with cancer," Baker said. "I just thought it would be a good idea to give back to some kids who are struggling with cancer."
So Melinda, 11, and Derek, 16, came with their families to Dove Valley for an early Christmas.
The children had written wish lists, which Baker and teammates Robert Ayers and Alphonso Smith took with them as they shopped for gifts for each child.
Later in the afternoon, Baker headed to a local hospital to meet another 11-year-old, Jonathan, to personally hand him his gifts as the child recovers from surgery.
Baker got the event rolling because of how directly cancer has affected his family, and it didn't take much convincing to get Ayers and Smith involved, as well.
"Zero," Smith said. "He said it's three kids that have been diagnosed with cancer and they're going to make a Christmas list. I was like, 'I'm in.' It was my pleasure. I'm just glad to be a part of it."
As the children tore open their gifts, their siblings, parents and friends watched intently. The three players all stood together by a Christmas tree, waiting as each present was revealed.
There were iPods, board games, DVDs, a jersey — even a laptop, a Nintendo Wii and a flat-screen television.
"Whatever they wanted on their wish list — they got everything they wanted," Baker said. "Just to see them with a smile on their face with the struggle that they go through, it's all worth it."
Melinda sat in her mother's lap as she opened each present, smiling as she unwrapped gift after gift. After Derek unwrapped a gift, he would proudly display it to the group, as family members snapped photos.
When Derek received an authentic No. 56 jersey from Ayers, he put it on immediately, and of course the rookie linebacker signed it.
"Those kids, being so young and so happy, just to see them smile, it humbles you a little bit," Smith said. "It almost made me cry a little bit, because I can't imagine being that young and going through the things that they're going through."
But you wouldn't be able to tell their struggles from how happy the children were on this Tuesday morning, just three days from Christmas.
After she finished opening her presents, Melinda stood up and hugged all three Broncos one by one, thanking them for all they had provided. Needless to say, all three couldn't stop smiling.
When Derek was finished, he handed Ayers, Baker and Smith letters. He wrote to them, thanking them for their gifts and explaining how he hopes his cancer can help other children through their struggles.
"That meant a lot, the letter that he wrote me," Ayers said. "It was coming from the heart, and the gifts that we gave were coming from the heart. That's what made this Christmas a good thing."
Smith agreed. And as the players and children parted ways, everyone exchanged hugs, and some even offered phone numbers, promising to be there for support.
"That's probably the best gift that I'm going to get this entire year for Christmas," Smith said of the children's reactions. "Just feeling that hug from Melinda, it was so authentic, it was so real. Just to see (Derek), how he turned around like, 'Look what I have!' It's something that I'll always remember and I'll always cherish."
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Thoughts on the Cleveland Cavaliers and Free Agency
The more time I spend thinking about how Anthony Bennett and his game will fit into the Cleveland Cavaliers rebuilding puzzle the more bullish I become about the big man from UNLV.
As Ryan Kern wrote here at StepeinRules.com back on February 11, "Bennett has a pure jump shot and is absolutely ferocious on the glass. Lose sight of him for a second and he's flexing at your crowd."
Beyond the obvious benefits of adding a player capable of flexing at your crowd on a moment's notice, though, is also the prospects of Bennett spending some time at the small forward position. Over the weekend, Ed Graney of the Las Vegas Record-Journal told Glenn Moore from Cleveland.com that he also believes in that possibility for Bennett.
But while we'll have plenty of time to discuss the big Canadian, how he fits with Tristan Thompson, Dion Waiters, Kyrie Irving and even what type of impact we can expect from my guy Sergey Karasev in the months ahead, free agency is the task at hand for now.
Below are my thoughts on a handful of potential FA targets for the Cavaliers.
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A veteran outfit makes its most ambitious record yet.
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NOFX plays with punk politics
Manson gets his freak on
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Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11.
Larry Livermore looks out for punk rock's legacy.
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The Broncos won the coin toss and elected to receive.
After the kickoff, the offensive starters jogged onto the field, led by Caleb Hanie at quarterback. From left to right, Chris Clark, Adam Grant, C.J. Davis, Philip Blake and Ryan Harris made up the offensive line. Knowshon Moreno and Gronkowski were in the backfield, Jason Hill and Andre Caldwell were the two receivers and Virgil Green lined up at tight end.
After a punt, it was the defense's turn. Starting on the line were Jeremy Beal, Sealver Siliga, Kevin Vickerson and Robert Ayers. At linebacker were Nate Irving and Danny Trevathan. Drayton Florence, Tony Carter, Omar Bolden, Quinton Carter and Jim Leonhard rounded out the group in the secondary.


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Lady GaGa is out pushing her new album "Artpop." But because it takes more than great music to sell albums these days, she's also disclosing to People magazine that she's addicted to marijuana and has been hooked on a variety of drugs for the past 10 years. So all those folks who took one look at the meat dress or the orbital costumes or the crazy performances were right when they suspected she may have been high when she came up with those concepts.
The adult film industry here in California will take another blow if a new workers bill is passed requiring porn stars to wear condoms and now goggles. But that's not all. TMZ is reporting Jenna Jameson is broke and returning to porn to support her kids. Jameson famously announced back in 2008 that she'd never do another pornographic film again. Never say never. Right now she's stripping for tips in front of a webcam.
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January 26, 1999
I am James G. Neal, Dean, University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. I am here today as a representative of five of the Nation's leading library associations, the Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association and its division, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association. I appreciate the opportunity to testify on distance education - this is an issue that is increasingly redefining how our institutions provide educational services, both today and in the years ahead.
There are four key points that I would like to emphasize this afternoon:
There are many definitions of distance education which in part are illustrative of the rapid change that the field is experiencing. Two popular definitions by the U.S. Distance Learning Association and the University of Wisconsin are:
The key feature of distance learning, as described in these definitions, is its ability to be delivered anytime, anywhere, to anyone utilizing a growing array of information technologies. This exciting potential K-99 for both the public and private sectors - holds important promise for the United States to maintain its leading edge in the global economy.
A variety of approaches can facilitate distance learning. With the advent of new technologies a number of new delivery models have emerged; the remote classroom, networked learning, and self-paced independent learning. These approaches include both asynchronous and synchronous communication, Internet and web-based training, interactive television, audioconferencing, videoconferencing, and more.
The remote classroom approach to distance learning is modeled after the traditional classroom method of teaching. It is enhanced, however, by the use of audio and video technologies. This approach is often used in an effort to deal more efficiently with large groups of students in different locations. It allows instruction to be delivered beyond the confines of the originating site, and provides significant opportunities for real-time interaction between instructors and learners. Modes of delivery which support this approach to learning include technologies such as interactive television and one-and two-way satellite videoconferencing.
Interactive television and videoconferencing allow two or more people at different locations to see and hear each other at the same time. These technologies establish a visual connection among participants and can facilitate a high degree of collaboration between delivery sites. Videoconferencing varies in its level of synchronous interactivity. It can be one-or two-way video with one-or two-way audio. Although interactive television and videoconferencing bridge distance by linking disparate locations, they do require participants to travel to a downlink site at a pre-defined time.
The networked learning approach is characterized by its predominant use of asynchronous communication between learners and teachers. It is time-and place-independent, unlike the remote classroom approach, and involves many-to-many interactive communication. This approach is unique in its goal of fostering collaboration and interaction between and among instructors, learners and their educational resources. Networked learning is very flexible in that it allows the learners to determine the pace of study and control their activity. The predominant mode of delivery for networked learning is the web-based course.
Web-based learning presents dynamic content in an environment allowing self-directed and self-paced instruction. Web-based learning has several key characteristics. It has the ability to deliver diverse media components and is platform independent. Learning resources can extend beyond the basic course content to include Internet resources, commercial databases, and public domain resources. Communication between learners and facilitators can be seamlessly integrated into the web-based course environment via online discussion software tools. Content can be easily updated to reflect the changing interests of the facilitators and learners. Finally, elements of asynchronous communication can be built into the course design in order to provide learners with a real-time educational experience.
With the rapid growth in distance education initiatives, there is an expanding role for libraries in distance education support services. Experience to date demonstrates a variety of programs supported by different academic departments with the library providing a number of services. These distance education programs range from instruction at remote sites by traveling faculty, to satellite transmission, to distance learning via the network with students and faculty working from a variety of settings. The challenge to the library is to support all of these disparate activities which, in part, calls for experimentation to address evolving programs. Such support can include maintenance of off-site collections at regional centers and campuses, interlibrary loan units, other delivery services including electronic delivery of information resources, reference assistance, and access to needed materials locally and off-site via consortium and other arrangements.
Providing access to reserve readings in the electronic environment is one of the most innovative services being offered. Students enrolled in a distance education course may access readings online. Librarians use passwords to protect e-reserve files and make them accessible only to students enrolled in a specific course and only for the duration of the course.
In addition, librarians in many instances coordinate and manage the permissions process for distance learning courses and provide additional training and technical support to distance education students. Another key role for the library in a distance education program is to establish how these students will be authenticated to have access to licensed resources in addition to taking advantage of other library services. Ensuring effective access, both technologically and with regards to meeting information needs, is a crucially important element of a successful distance learning enterprise.
The following examples illustrate how selected libraries are using digital technologies to serve the needs of distance learners.
As the Copyright Office undertakes to review and consider possible changes to the copyright law to accommodate digital technologies in distance education activities, it is important to consider the context for educational exemptions included in the 1976 Act and why these are equally applicable, indeed, require updating today. Educational institutions, including libraries, are the primary means by which our society permits the free and open exchange of information and ideas. The Copyright Act and subsequent revisions such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act encourage such exchange in recognition of the clear public policy benefits, which accrue to members of the public and private sectors and to the advancement of knowledge.
In crafting an exemption for educational institutions in 1976, Congress explicitly recognized that not-for-profit educational institutions are instrumental in "promot[ing] the progress of science and the useful arts." Thus, among some of the exemptions included was a limitation on proprietary rights of Sec. 106 in support of educational activities. This and other exemptions are the means by which the drafters balanced the rights of owners and users of copyrighted information while advancing societal interests. Such balancing is again needed today to permit educational institutions, including libraries, to fully capitalize and realize the benefits of information technologies and the networked environment.
In a nutshell, the law should be updated to make it unequivocal that, just as face to face teaching is an essential educational activity, so to is distance learning. As a matter of copyright policy, members of the educational community should be expressly authorized to engage in distance learning activities, using digital technologies, as is permitted today in the classroom. There should not be a distinction between what is permitted in a "traditional" classroom and access to educational resources in a remotely controlled environment. Technologies are no longer limited to non-interactive modes of delivery and include videoconferencing, computer- based training, web-based training, and more.
Policies should encourage experimentation and exploration to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the networked environment. In addition, in designing changes to the copyright laws, it will be important to ensure that the statute is sufficiently flexible to incorporate new technologies not yet developed or now thought of as "cutting edge." In a rapidly changing technological environment, permitting institutions to utilize the most effective and efficient technologies is critical to meeting the educational mission. These policies will, in part, depend upon a legal framework that allows for educational programs to evolve over time and not be restricted to outmoded delivery mechanisms.
Libraries and educational institutions negotiate hundreds, indeed thousands of licenses each year in support of educational activities. In the library community, we purchase or license approximately $2 billion of information resources each year. Licensing has become a fact of life in our institutions, and is one of several outgrowths of law to further define terms and conditions of access. But licensing is by no means a replacement for a statutory balance of rights. In fact, statutory language provides important policy guidance that permits reasonable parties to engage in licensing discussions which, ultimately should complement the law. The mere availability of license agreements by no means negates the need for a reaffirmation of congressional policy with regards to access to educational materials, locally and at a distance. Absent reform, current law leaves those in distance education at a disadvantage negotiating licenses.
Congress has acknowledged the crucially important societal function of educational institutions, including libraries in the distance education arena. This has not changed today with the availability of licenses. In fact, it has been demonstrated that licenses can undermine privileges available to libraries and educational institutions. Licenses can restrict, indeed deny fair access to needed information resources, price users and institutions out of the market depending upon terms, and importantly, deny access to resources based solely on cost.
It is critically important to comment at this juncture on a few of the letters received by the Copyright Office regarding the availability of license agreements. Some libraries have noted that site specific license agreements make serving remote users almost impossible. In some cases, access to remote users is expressly prohibited.
Finally, statutory recognition of educational and library limitations or exemptions has permitted a fair and more balanced process to occur in license negotiations. Such leverage is crucial to maintaining a level playing field in a license discussion. The notion that there would be appropriate exemptions in support of educational purposes should not be undercut nor negated by license agreements. Unless federal copyright policy explicitly provides for a modern distance learning limitation in keeping with educational needs and technological opportunities, users negotiating licenses will find that the current law leaves them more subject to terms and pricing on a "take it or leave it" basis.
The Copyright Office has also raised the issue of the value of voluntary guidelines such as those discussed over the past few years under the auspices of the Conference on Fair Use. Despite extensive discussion, none of the draft guidelines were ever adopted by the higher education and library community. The proprietary community endorsed the CCUMC guidelines, but only after negotiations broke down. In fact, the CCUMC Guidelines were extremely controversial in part because of the suggestion that the guidelines could be converted from a 'reasonable safe harbor' to the outer perimeter of fair use. The leading higher education and library groups (fourteen associations) opposed them. Thus experience in this arena demonstrates that development of guidelines upon which all sectors can concur has not been productive, indeed, became a highly controversial exercise with little to show for extensive effort. The library community does not support revisiting the process of guideline development in the distance education arena.
The library community welcomes the opportunity to work with the Copyright Office to explore the current and evolving parameters of distance education and to ensure that the benefits of the networked environment can be realized by education institutions of all types in designing distance education programs both now and in the future.
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The American Library Association is a nonprofit educational organization of 58,000 librarians, library educators, information specialists, library trustees, and friends of libraries representing public, school, academic libraries dedicated to the improvement of library and information services. One division of ALA, the Association of College and Research Libraries, has a membership section dedicated specifically to distance education with an interest in how to provide resources and services to distance learners.
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Clinical Technology Under C-Suite Scrutiny
Alison Page CEO
Baldwin (Wis.) Area Medical Center
We are not cutting back on high-level technology. We look at it by the services we offer and what equipment we need to offer that service. We roll them up and we have a magic number that we set for how much we can spend—which in our case is the equivalent of our last year's depreciation. We are a small hospital, less than $50 million in revenues. So it's about $880,000 in capital each year that we are spending now. We look at what we have to do and what we'd like to do to offer more and better services or to upgrade the standards. We put it in the capital budget and see if it will fit.
We are part of a larger imaging co-op that buys the equipment and leases it back to us. Then you transfer those costs to the operating budget versus the capital budget. That saves money in the capital budget. If you have more capital appetite than you have dollars, we look at what we can transfer off the capital budget into the operating budget through some sort of lease arrangement.
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The exclusive Cohasset Golf Club definitely isn't offering memberships to the flocks of Canada geese wintering in this toney coastal town: The private club is shooting them instead.
A few neighbors have complained about the goose hunting, but it is perfectly legal, as long as the shooters stay 150 feet away from a street and 500 feet from a dwelling, according to acting police chief William Quigley. The club has a "depredation" permit from the federal Fish and Wildlife Service, which allows it to shoot a small number of the birds daily for a limited time beyond the normal hunting season.
Only "resident" Canada geese — the ones that don't migrate — are fair game, police said. Those are the ones still hanging around this time of year in the hundreds.
"For some reason, [they] lose their instinct to migrate, and they hang around and cause a lot of property damage and health issues [from their excrement]. It's pretty disgusting," Quigley said.
The 122-acre Cohasset Golf Club, which was established in 1894, has been tangling with a Canada goose problem for years, according to longtime member John Englander, who lives next to the golf course on Lamberts Lane.
The birds are "very messy, they interfere with play, and they ruin the course," he said.
The geese, which weigh 10 to 14 pounds, each produce from half a pound to a pound and a half of droppings per day, according to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, or MassWildlife. Multiply that by the estimated tens of thousands of resident Canada geese in the state and that's a lot of goose dung.
"Canada geese are a big problem on the East Coast," said Peggy Labonte, who issues the depredation permits in the Northeast for the Fish and Wildlife Service. While permits issued in the state of Virginia tend to be for vultures, and Connecticut focuses on woodpeckers, the main nuisance bird in Massachusetts is the Canada goose, she said.
The number of permits in Massachusetts varies but usually is about 75 to 80 a year, according to Tom French, assistant director of MassWildlife, which is involved with the program. The permits are given to protect property and public safety and health, with airports getting permission to take out the largest numbers of birds, he said.
"Everybody knows birds can take an airplane down," French said, adding that a 1960 fatal crash at Logan Airport caused by a bird-strike helped inspire the federal depredation program.
Besides airports, major water supplies such as the Quabbin Reservoir have permits to cut down on contamination from bird poop, as well as many golf courses and farms, he said.
Labonte said permits are given to protect humans' well-being, as well as health, since the nesting birds can "be quite aggressive and can do some damage. We had one nesting in a planter next to the door of a restaurant and it chased everyone going in and out."
The wildfowl also devour farmers' seed and seedlings, particularly enjoying young cranberry plants, French said.
Labonte said she sometimes feels sorry for the geese. "They're only doing what geese do. They don't realize that children can't go in a pond if [the geese] poop all over it. But I also feel sorry for the people who can't go swim, or who get some disease," she said.
The federal agency won't issue a permit until an applicant shows they've tried to scare the geese away and "done what they could to make their property unattractive to the geese," she said.
"And they have to have a no-feeding policy. They can't feed them, because that's not fair," she added.
The typical permit only allows a limited number of geese to be shot — usually about 10 percent of a flock — with the hope that the rest of the birds will find someplace less dangerous to congregate.
"All we're trying to do is scare them off," Labonte said.
There has been pushback, though. The Coalition to Prevent the Destruction of Canada Geese, for example, formed in 1993 in response to a plan to kill geese in Rockland County, N.Y. The group dedicated itself to protecting geese there and serving as a resource to other communities "whose geese are being vilified and targeted for extermination," according to the organization's website.
Locally, some places swear by less than lethal tactics.
"My 4-year-old black lab, Rodney, is my solution," said Jim Dion, superintendent of the public Rockland Golf Course. "He chases [the geese] and they're terrified of him. We used to have a terrible problem — the goose poop was everywhere — but it's not a problem now." Continued...