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|Dr. Paul Wagner and students Wade Hanson, Mark Forseth and Adam Wasdovitch work on Election Tracker.
EAU CLAIRE — Political candidates are coached to be ready for anything, but an on-air primary election night interview with a winning candidate took one politician by surprise.
When Wisconsin Public Radio's Dean Kallenbach, anchor of the Sept. 14 primary results coverage on WHWC, 88.3 FM, asked candidate Warren Petryk about his chances for winning the November general election, a clearly surprised Petryk said he was not aware that he'd won the 93rd Assembly District Republican primary that night until he'd heard it from WPR.
How did WPR confirm the election results before a candidate who was closely monitoring the returns?
Kallenbach credits the Wisconsin Public Radio Election Tracker, a state-of-the-art software program created by a team of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire computer science students under the direction of a computer science professor.
"In the primary election in September, there were four key legislative races we were covering," said Kallenbach, senior regional manager for WPR. "When we called the winning candidates for interviews, three of the four said they found out they won from us — our numbers were even faster than those the candidates were gathering themselves. That's great testimony to a great system, and the students are always brainstorming with us to put in even better features."
Each election night since WPR created a western Wisconsin news bureau in 1986, WPR has worked to gather original results for regional legislative races so its information was up-to-the-minute, Kallenbach said.
"For years, we did it by hand and calculators, an incredibly labor-intensive process prone to errors," Kallenbach said. "In the early '90s, a volunteer developed a computer program that helped us compute the data. It worked great but getting the information from the computer to the studios was a cumbersome process. As we moved into the 21st century, we realized we needed something different."
The WPR Election Tracker began as a class project in a software engineering course in 2007, said Dr. Paul Wagner, chair of UW-Eau Claire's computer science department. Four students worked to create a program to replace the pre-Windows program to help WPR aggregate election night vote totals, Wagner said.
"Their work allowed the on-air announcers to give up-to-the-minute reports on the voting results," Wagner said. "The project was not completed that semester, but one of the students on that original team continued work on the project and completed the first version of the program in spring 2008. WPR was able to use the program successfully in the 2008 elections."
Since then, WPR staff has had ideas for adding to the program, Wagner said. As a result, students from an upper-level software engineering course have continued work on the system each fall, fixing small problems and adding enhancements, he said.
"Election Tracker is custom made to our needs," Kallenbach said. "It works very smoothly, and is lightning fast. Each election, a new group of students works on the software to add features and increase ease of use."
Wagner said students gain a great deal by working on projects such as Election Tracker.
"Projects like this — where students investigate, design and develop technical solutions to real-world problems — are very valuable," Wagner said. "This truly is a capstone course, as it helps the students build on their academic knowledge and transition to larger problems that they'll see in industry or graduate school."
By working with WPR, students practice working as part of a team on a non-academic problem, Wagner said. They also experience challenges that occur in the real world, such as trying to communicate clearly and working in a different computing environment that the client has as compared to what is in university laboratories, he said, adding that students also learn to take a project all the way to completion.
"Working on a project like this is a really good experience for any computer science major because we will most likely be working with old code that we may not necessarily be familiar with," said Mark Forseth, a senior computer science major from Hudson. "In this case, there was a framework which none of us have used before. We changed it to fit the client's needs."
Talking with clients to identify their needs and how the students' work can make their lives easier has been interesting, Forseth said, noting that he's excited to continue the project.
It's especially meaningful for students work on a project for a nonprofit organization such as WPR, Wagner said.
"The students get a sense that the work they've done is not just for their benefit, but contributes to making a better world," Wagner said. "Hopefully this helps them establish a lifelong willingness to contribute part of their time to service to society."
Forseth said he's looking forward to seeing how the Election Tracker project helps the WPR team during the Nov. 2 election.
"We have been invited to stop by the WPR station on election night to see the program and all of the volunteers in action," Forseth said. "I think that will be really neat to see."
Students working with Forseth on the WPR project this semester are senior computer science majors Wade Hansen, Neillsville, and Adam Wasdovitch, Chilton.
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Magazine Copy Cat Challenge: Herbal Elixir
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This article was posted by Senior Editor 2 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 16 hours, 5 minutes ago.
It appears as though the Detroit Beautification Project has officially kicked off. Today these images circulated of fresh new burners in the Motor City by an all star line-up of graffiti writers including Revok, Risk, Nekst, Steel, Askew, Knows, Yes2, Dmote, and Ces.
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Gilles Joubert
French, Paris, 1769
Oak veneered with kingwood, tulipwood, holly, satiné (bloodwood), and ebony; gilt bronze mounts; sarrancolin des Pyrenées marble top
3 ft. 13/16 in. x 5 ft. 11 1/4 in. x 2 ft. 3 in.
Gilles Joubert was eighty years old when he delivered this chest of drawers to the French royal family. It is one of a pair that was made for the Versailles bedroom of Madame Louise, a daughter of Louis XV. The Journal of the royal household's furnishings records its delivery on August 28th, 1769, along with the name of its maker, its dimensions, a detailed description of the piece, and its assigned inventory number, 2556.2, which is boldly inscribed on the back. The trellis marquetry mounted with gilt-bronze rosettes at the cross-sections is a decorative motif frequently found on Joubert's furniture. The thick gilding, large size, carefully detailed mounts, and heavy marble top all contribute to an overall impression of luxury suitable for a royal owner.
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Presidential Records
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 22)
§ 2201. Definitions
§ 2202. Ownership of Presidential records
§ 2203. Management and custody of Presidential records
§ 2204. Restrictions on access to Presidential records
§ 2205. Exceptions to restriction on access
§ 2206. Regulations
§ 2207. Vice-Presidential records
As used in this chapter--
(1) The term "documentary material" means all books, correspondence, memorandums, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and motion pictures, including, but not limited to, audio, audiovisual, or other electronic or mechanical recordations.
(2) The term "Presidential records" means documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, his immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term--
(A) includes any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the President or members of his staff, but only if such activities relate to or have a direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; but
(B) does not include any documentary materials that are (i) official records of an agency (as defined in section 552(e) of title 5, United States Code; (ii) personal records; (iii) stocks of publications and stationery; or (iv) extra copies of documents produced only for convenience of reference, when such copies are clearly so identified.
(3) The term "personal records" means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term includes--
(A) diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business;
(B) materials relating to private political associations, and having no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; and
(C) materials relating exclusively to the President's own election to the office of the Presidency; and materials directly relating to the election of a particular individual or individuals to Federal, State, or local office, which have no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.
(4) The term "Archivist" means the Archivist of the United States.
(5) The term "former President", when used with respect to Presidential records, means the former President during whose term or terms of office such Presidential records were created.
§ 2202. Ownership of Presidential records
The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
§ 2203. Management and custody of Presidential records
(a) Through the implementation of records management controls and other necessary actions, the President shall take all such steps as may be necessary to assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies that reflect the performance of his constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented and that such records are maintained as Presidential records pursuant to the requirements of this section and other provisions of law.
(b) Documentary materials produced or received by the President, his staff, or units or individuals in the Executive Office of the President the function of which is to advise and assist the President, shall, to the extent practicable, be categorized as Presidential records or personal records upon their creation or receipt and be filed separately.
(c) During his term of office, the President may dispose of those of his Presidential records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value if--
(1) the President obtains the views, in writing, of the Archivist concerning the proposed disposal of such Presidential records; and
(2) the Archivist states that he does not intend to take any action under subsection (e) of this section.
(d) In the event the Archivist notifies the President under subsection (c) that he does intend to take action under subsection (e), the President may dispose of such Presidential records if copies of the disposal schedule are submitted to the appropriate Congressional Committees at least 60 calendar days of continuous session of Congress in advance of the proposed disposal date. For the purpose of this section, continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the days in which Congress is in continuous session.
(e) The Archivist shall request the advice of the Committee on Rules and Administration and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on House Oversight and the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives with respect to any proposed disposal of Presidential records whenever he considers that--
(1) these particular records may be of special interest to the Congress; or
(2) consultation with the Congress regarding the disposal of these particular records is in the public interest.
(f)(1) Upon the conclusion of a President's term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President. The Archivist shall have an affirmative duty to make such records available to the public as rapidly and completely as possible consistent with the provisions of this Act.
(2) The Archivist shall deposit all such Presidential records in a Presidential archival depository or another archival facility operated by the United States. The Archivist is authorized to designate, after consultation with the former President, a director at each depository or facility, who shall be responsible for the care and preservation of such records.
(3) The Archivist is authorized to dispose of such Presidential records which he has appraised and determined to have insufficient administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value to warrant their continued preservation. Notice of such disposal shall be published in the Federal Register at least 60 days in advance of the proposed disposal date. Publication of such notice shall constitute a final agency action for purposes of review under chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code.
§ 2204. Restrictions on access to Presidential records
(a) Prior to the conclusion of his term of office or last consecutive term of office, as the case may be, the President shall specify durations, not to exceed 12 years, for which access shall be restricted with respect to information, in a Presidential record, within one or more of the following categories:
(1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and
(B) in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order;
(2) relating to appointments to Federal office;
(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than sections 552 and 552b of title 5, United States Code), provided that such statute
(A) requires that the material be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or
(B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of material to be withheld;
(4) trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;
(5) confidential communications requesting or submitting advice, between the President and his advisers, or between such advisers; or
(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
(b)(1) Any Presidential record or reasonably segregable portion thereof containing information within a category restricted by the President under subsection (a) shall be so designated by the Archivist and access thereto shall be restricted until the earlier of--
(A)(i) the date on which the former President waives the restriction on disclosure of such record, or
(ii) the expiration of the duration specified under subsection (a) for the category of information on the basis of which access to such record has been restricted; or
(B) upon a determination by the Archivist that such record or reasonably segregable portion thereof, or of any significant element or aspect of the information contained in such record or reasonably segregable portion thereof, has been placed in the public domain through publication by the former President, or his agents.
(2) Any such record which does not contain information within a category restricted by the President under subsection (a), or contains information within such a category for which the duration of restricted access has expired, shall be exempt from the provisions of subsection (c) until the earlier of--
(A) the date which is 5 years after the date on which the Archivist obtains custody of such record pursuant to section 2203(d)(1); or
(B) the date on which the Archivist completes the processing and organization of such records or integral file segment thereof.
(3) During the period of restricted access specified pursuant to subsection (b)(1), the determination whether access to a Presidential record or reasonably segregable portion thereof shall be restricted shall be made by the Archivist, in his discretion, after consultation with the former President, and, during such period, such determinations shall not be subject to judicial review, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section. The Archivist shall establish procedures whereby any person denied access to a Presidential record because such record is restricted pursuant to a determination made under this paragraph, may file an administrative appeal of such determination. Such procedures shall provide for a written determination by the Archivist or his designee, within 30 working days after receipt of such an appeal, setting forth the basis for such determination.
(c)(1) Subject to the limitations on access imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b), Presidential records shall be administered in accordance with section 552 of title 5, United States Code, except that paragraph (b)(5) of that section shall not be available for purposes of withholding any Presidential record, and for the purposes of such section such records shall be deemed to be records of the National Archives and Records Administration. Access to such records shall be granted on nondiscriminatory terms.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to confirm, limit, or expand any constitutionally-based privilege which may be available to an incumbent or former President.
(d) Upon the death or disability of a President or former President, any discretion or authority the President or former President may have had under this chapter shall be exercised by the Archivist unless otherwise previously provided by the President or former President in a written notice to the Archivist.
(e) The United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction over any action initiated by the former President asserting that a determination made by the Archivist violates the former President's rights or privileges.
§ 2205. Exceptions to restricted access
Notwithstanding any restrictions on access imposed pursuant to section 2204--
(1) the Archivist and persons employed by the National Archives and Records Administration who are engaged in the performance of normal archival work shall be permitted access to Presidential records in the custody of the Archivist;
(2) subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United States or any agency or person may invoke, Presidential records shall be made available--
(A) pursuant to subpoena or other judicial process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction for the purposes of any civil or criminal investigation or proceeding;
(B) to an incumbent President if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of current business of his office and that is not otherwise available; and
(C) to either House of Congress, or, to the extent of matter within its jurisdiction, to any committee or subcommittee thereof if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of its business and that is not otherwise available; and
(3) the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President or his designated representative.
The Archivist shall promulgate in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Such regulations shall include--
(1) provisions for advance public notice and description of any Presidential records scheduled for disposal pursuant to section 2203(f)(3);
(2) provisions for providing notice to the former President when materials to which access would otherwise be restricted pursuant to section 2204(a) are to be made available in accordance with section 2205(2);
(3) provisions for notice by the Archivist to the former President when the disclosure of particular documents may adversely affect any rights and privileges which the former President may have; and
(4) provisions for establishing procedures for consultation between the Archivist and appropriate Federal agencies regarding materials which may be subject to section 552(b)(7) of title 5, United States Code.
§ 2207. Vice-Presidential records
Vice-Presidential records shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter in the same manner as Presidential records. The duties and responsibilities of the Vice President, with respect to Vice-Presidential records, shall be the same as the duties and responsibilities of the President under this chapter with respect to Presidential records. The authority of the Archivist with respect to Vice-Presidential records shall be the same as the authority of the Archivist under this chapter with respect to Presidential records, except that the Archivist may, when the Archivist determines that it is in the public interest, enter into an agreement for the deposit of Vice-Presidential records in a non-Federal archival depository. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the establishment of separate archival depositories for such Vice-Presidential records.


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October Med School Café: "In a Slump? Straight Talk About Posture"
The Med School Café for October will feature Renee Hall, OTR/L, CHT, clinical supervisor for therapy services at the University of South Alabama department of orthopaedics.
Her lecture, entitled "In a Slump? Straight Talk About Posture," will take place on Oct. 16, 2008, at 11:30 a.m. at Christ United Methodist Church located at 6101 Grelot Road.
Research shows that 85 percent of the population will experience back pain or injury at one point or another in their lifetime. According to Hall, 90 percent of all back injuries are preventable and in many cases can be avoided by maintaining proper posture.


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Men's basketball: Indiana looks to avenge last home loss to Minnesota
By Andy Proffet Post-Tribune correspondent January 11, 2013 11:40PM
Updated: February 13, 2013 6:13AM
BLOOMINGTON — It's almost as if the Big Ten schedule makers had it planned.
One year to the day after Indiana's last loss at Assembly Hall, the fifth-ranked Hoosiers host the team that beat them last Jan. 12, with No. 8 Minnesota coming to Bloomington for today's matchup.
It's the first time Assembly Hall has hosted a matchup of two top 10 teams since Feb. 19, 2000, when No. 7 Ohio State beat No. 10 Indiana 82-71 in Bob Knight's final season as coach.
The Hoosiers (14-1, 2-0 Big Ten) are hoping for a better showing today against the Golden Gophers (15-1, 3-0).
In Minnesota's 77-74 win on Jan. 12 last year, the Gophers took advantage of IU's cold shooting in the first half — the Hoosiers were just 10-of-26 (38.5 percent) from the field in the first half, including a 1-for-8 showing from 3-point range — to build a three-point halftime lead.
Indiana was able to stay close because of its success at the free-throw line. The Hoosiers were 13-for-13 from the line in the first half and 22-of-25 overall. Minnesota shot just three free throws in the first half of last year's game in Bloomington but secured the win by scoring its final seven points from the line.
That Minnesota team had lost its first four Big Ten games before knocking off the Hoosiers, but these Gophers have been much hotter. Their only loss this season has been to current No. 1 Duke on Thanksgiving in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas.
Since then, the Gophers have won 11 straight, including double-digit wins over Michigan State, Northwestern and Illinois to start the Big Ten schedule.
Austin Hollins had 18 points to lead Minnesota in last year's game, but he's fourth in scoring for this year's team, averaging 10.8 ppg.
Andre Hollins leads four double-digit scorers for the Gophers, averaging 13.7 ppg.
Cody Zeller scored 23 points with a 9-for-9 night at the free-throw line in last January's game. He's scored in double digits in seven straight games and 13 of 15 games this season for the Hoosiers.


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Birds--Pima County
Pima County hosts a few local "hot spots" for bird enthusiasts. "These fine birding destinations offer seasonal specialties and reliable Sonoran Desert birds that thrive in the saguaro forests of Tucson Mountain Park and the lush riparian habitats at Cienega Creek Preserve and Agua Caliente Park." Pima County offers a list of birds that can be located at each destination at their webpage: www.pima.gov/nrpr/parks/nrparks.htm
Pima County also offers a list of birds that can be located in and around the area at their Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan webpage: www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/birds.html
"SDCP Bird Listing." Pima County Government Arizona | Tucson, Marana, Ajo, Oro Valley, Sahuarita, Three Points, Arivaca.http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/birds.html (accessed October 11, 2011).


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Roses & Flowers
Whether you have an established garden or you are just getting started, you're probably thinking about how to add color and beauty to your landscape. Learn how to select, plant and nurture gorgeous roses, annuals and perennials, as well as how to protect them from insects and diseases. Increase your home's curb appeal with confidence, and then sit back and enjoy the show!
- 12 Great Landscape Roses
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- Quick & Easy Flowers From Seed
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My dad was required to go to a "diabetes" class, get a blood glucose meter, and take Januvia, an oral medication. I, out of curiosity, wanted to go to the class with my dad. I was shocked to learn how many people had no clue about what a carb or protein source was. Even more surprising, the instructor – a licensed dietician mind you – told one woman she could still have her cinnamon roll but to just had some protein to it. I couldn't help myself and became a disruptive class member in the sense that I challenged most of what the dietician said. All in all, my dad was sent home to fend for himself.
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They not eat 5-6 smaller meals throughout the day. No one misses breakfast. All carbs were removed from their diet for the first week and they ate lots of chicken, fish, and veggies. My dad's favorite snack of Ritz crackers and Jif peanut butter were replaced with celery and a no sugar added peanut butter. Then I started to add in some low glycemic fruits, however, my dad does better with a half of grapefruit or 1/2 apple and can't handle any more than that or any other type of fruit. My mom has lost 55 pounds and my dad's blood sugar is consistently around 120-122 in the mornings and nor higher than the 130's after eating.
My dad's doctor was shocked at his last appointment. My dad is sold that diet is a powerful tool and feels much better now that his blood sugar is under control and now thinks all doctors are quacks. Diet does have a strong impact on all processes in the body!! There is no excuse for doctors to push pills and insulin over diet changes other than the money they make from doing so! We need more doctors out there that truly want to help people through proper nutrition!
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As the start of a new school season looms, the Vancouver School Board (VSB) is looking to automated storage tiered technology to help its systems cope with spikes in workload and storage demand.
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Bridging the Cloud and Legacy Environments
By Tony Kontzer
When it comes to integrating the legacy and cloud environments he oversees, Larry Bonfante, CIO of the U.S. Tennis Association, has a simple solution: He doesn't.
Bonfante, whose primary focus is on supporting the annual U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, has neatly divided the USTA technology environment into three independent buckets: back-office applications, all running on Amazon's cloud infrastructure and supported by his IT team; several hosted consumer-facing applications that run in private data center facilities managed by the likes of Ticketmaster and Active.com; and a handful of standalone apps, such as departmental tools and file/print services, that run in the association's small internal data center.
There are no direct integrations between the USTA's partner systems and its Amazon cloud environment. Bonfante's team receives transaction and reporting data subsets from Ticketmaster and Active, the latter of which hosts USTA's proprietary TennisLink player-registration and event-management app. That data arrives as SQL databases, which are then fed into USTA's Infor Lawson financial app, but Bonfante characterizes it as a simple automated data feed, not a systems integration. In fact, no customer data is actually moved. It's all anonymized before being fed.
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As organizations have increasingly added software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and other public cloud resources to their technological bag of tricks, figuring out how to bridge the old and new has become a growing area of focus. And while the USTA has been able to keep things tidily separated, not every company has that luxury.
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Yuvi Kochar knows of what Heffner speaks. Kochar is CTO and vice president of technology at Graham Holdings, a diversified company with businesses in education (Kaplan), online media (Slate), cable and Internet (CableOne), and broadcasting (Post-Newsweek Stations, owner of six local television stations).
Known as The Washington Post Co. prior to Jeff Bezos' acquisition of the Post last summer, Graham finds itself adding more and more SaaS applications in order to meet its varied and specialized needs, and each of those applications needs to interact with virtualized instances of Oracle financials, PeopleSoft HR and Microsoft Exchange running in a private, hosted data center, Kochar reports. There are also on-premise and cloud-based shared services for things such as recruitment automation, learning and performance management, and financial reporting.
The PeopleSoft environment alone has 60 integrations, with pension and benefits providers, a variety of SaaS apps, and several of those shared services. All of the integrations are hard-wired, some with Web services integration tools, and others using FTP servers or data-direct connections. It's the tip of an iceberg Kochar hopes to address in the coming years.
"We're very poorly resourced in terms of integration, but I do want to start migrating away from that," says Kochar. "I don't like this spaghetti of an integration architecture. It works well, but it's a maintenance nightmare and requires a lot of care and feeding."
For instance, a change to any single integration requires at least four weeks to complete because of the sheer number of moving parts that have to be coordinated. That kind of lengthy process is cutting into Graham's agility and slowing its time to market, Kochar says, and that's a big reason he's planning to replace his current integration architecture sometime in 2015.
Because of the growing role SaaS apps are playing at Graham, Kochar says he and his team have been investigating cloud-based integration tools such as SnapLogic and IBM's CastIron as possible solutions. He likes that such services promise to take matters out of his hands by managing any changes to the adapters used for cloud integrations—all while ensuring that applications are monitored for performance and quality.
"If there are changes, they change the adapter, and you can be protected," says Kochar. "Connecting up a new vendor becomes just a configuration. It all sounds good … but we'll see."
Keeping It Simple
Charles Zieres, vice president of IT at the Preferred Hotel Group, has taken an approach similar to that of the USTA's Bonfante: He's opted for keeping integration simple by limiting it to data feeds.
Zieres has an advantage in that he only is running one application that he considers legacy, and it's a Microsoft Access database of details on the hundreds of hotels the company supports. It includes details such as the names of general managers, types of rooms, and where letters and emails should go. That data is fed nightly into Preferred's Citrix desktop virtualization engine, along with data from the company's Microsoft CRM environment and other apps, all of which are running in Terremark's multitenant Infinicenter infrastructure-as-a-service cloud.
Citrix is used to put all that data in the hands of Preferred's 100 mobile salespeople, who can run Citrix on their laptops rather than running multiple clients locally.
Zieres says handling legacy-cloud integration in this way via an outsourced infrastructure is ideal for a company structured like Preferred, whose brands included Preferred, Summit and Sterling.
"It works really well because Preferred Hotel Group is a mile wide but an inch deep," he says. "We have 250 employees spread over 50 offices worldwide. The more global I can have my infrastructure, the better."
That doesn't mean he isn't seeking improvement, however. Because the Access app remains a pain point for his team, Zieres says he's planning to retire it this year. At that time, the Access app will be removed from the Citrix list, and his team will begin feeding the data into the Microsoft CRM.
The other area closest to a legacy-cloud integration Zieres contends with involves the nightly data files Preferred receives from distributors like Travelocity and Orbitz. That data, which must be fed into the company's SynXis SaaS booking engine, comes in two ways: More sensitive data such as credit card numbers and other personal customer data come in as encrypted SFTP files, while non-sensitive data is packaged in unencrypted FTP files.
While the USTA, Graham Holdings and Preferred Holdings have all fashioned rudimentary integration workarounds between their shrinking legacy footprints and growing public cloud environments, Forrester's Heffner dreams of a time when enterprises can rise above the integration fray. He says that if all the siloed applications enterprises rely on today were running on-premise, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) would be the simplest solution to the integration quagmire.
Heffner believes that companies should apply that SOA mindset by designing custom role-based interfaces that move data from multiple applications through a single business service, combining all of a user's applications into a single-sign-on work environment.
"What if I looked at it as a business coherence problem and not a data integration problem?" Heffner asked. "That offers potentially higher business-value integration."


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Obama Campaign Uses Mother's Day to Raise Cash
The Obama campaign, which seemingly will try any fundraising scheme that occurs to it, is using Mother's Day to get people to part with their money.
In an campaign email with the subject line "My best friend," President Obama suggests to recipients that they "sign my card to her today."
Here's a portion of the note, which is signed by "Barack."
If you're lucky enough to get to marry your best friend, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Michelle amazes me every day, and in the years we've been together, nothing inspires me more than watching her be a mom to our two girls . . .
This year, I wanted to try something a little different. I know Michelle treasures every single person who is part of this movement we've built, so I'm hoping each of you will sign my card to her today. It'll mean a lot to her.
Will you join me in wishing Michelle a happy Mother's Day?
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"…I know Michelle treasures every single person who is part of this movement we've built…"
"Treasures" being the operative word there. She wants all of ours.+5
Makes perfect sense: 0′s a real mother.+3
He married his best friend? So, who is Moochelle married to?Noteworthy Comment +12
He/she's a whore – no other way to descrbe that beast in the White House.+7
Michelle amazes me every day…
…because even at her age she is able to hide her true gender from you morons who haven't caught on to the fact that she's a man and these children are adopted!+6
Mo money, mo money, mo money!+1
Who wrote this for him?+2
There are many ironies in life, and you need not look far to find the most ironic among them- the President of the Unites States, Obama. One of the biggest ironies is that he reminds me of another socialist leader who ran his country through personality and total control over the media. The irony was that this man condemned all those with Jewish blood- yet his grandmother was a Jew. He exalted the blond hair, blue eyed of his country- yet he had black hair and brown eyes.
He expelled God from his land, economically destroyed his country, took total control of the media and came to office with no governmental experience- wait… was I writing of Hitler or Obama here?
Well, what spawned this rant was a campaign email sent out today, Mother's Day, by Obama:
If you're lucky enough to get to marry your best friend, you'll know what I'm talking about. Michelle amazes me every day, and in the years we've been together, nothing inspires me more than watching her be a mom to our two girls . . . This year, I wanted to try something a little different. I know Michelle treasures every single person who is part of this movement we've built, so I'm hoping each of you will sign my card to her today. It'll mean a lot to her.
Will you join me in wishing Michelle a happy Mother's Day?
What makes this email ironic is that when you go to wish Mrs. Obama a Happy Mother's Day there's no place to leave a comment. Better yet, it also hits you up for a donation for Obama's reelection. In reality, I wish all mothers and those acting as a mother figure a Happy Mother's Day- including Mrs. Obama.
However, what irks me about this email is that it typifies Obama's elitist's attitude. Instead of writing something sincere to his wife, he just wants money. It would have been nice to cull some of the nicest comments and present them to her on this day. No, instead Obama used it as a means to motivate the masses to give him more money. Is nothing sacred?
The irony doesn't end there. While he preaches that the country should tighten their belt and live a more austere life, he owns a million dollar mansion, drives an expensive car and owns the most expensive amenities of life. Why does he need to care how everyone else is doing financially? As president he also gets everything paid for him. His meals, his air travel, his vacation home; all that he wants or needs is on the taxpayer's tab. Sure the gas prices rise. Why should he do anything when his tank is always full and there's a chauffeur to take him anywhere at his own whim. Maybe that's one of the reasons he stands idly by and does nothing as the price of gas crushes the already suffocating economy.
While most Americans are hesitant to go to Europe because of the weakening dollar (thanks again Obama), he sends his wife to Spain on a half-million dollar trip. And the irony is: we all here in America paid for it. I don't know about you but I never received a thank you or at least a 49 cent postcard. I'm just saying, it would have been nice. While I was working all day it would have been polite for the first lady to thank me and the rest of the tax payers for her exorbitant trip.
Another irony is that Obama condemns the rich- yet he is the rich. He wants to stick it to them man- yet he's the man! Am I the only one paying attention to these things? In 2011 he made almost 2 million dollars- yet he condemns all those American who are wealthy. The irony is: he's a one percenter. He lives the rich life. He send his kids to private schools, rides on a private jet, has chauffeurs, maids, cooks and has someone clean his home. The irony is that when he leaves the White House this will not all end. Don't just think it's because he's president.
We should have all known he would be like this. Remember his inauguration? Remember the size and cost of the event? Remember how many were there? Remember the cost of the security alone? The irony was this occurred during our recession. If he really wanted to show an example, he would have made the event small and saved the tax payers some money. But the irony is, he doesn't care about the tax payers or our money. He prints money quicker than a counterfeiter and spends it to the point of economic collapse.
Unfortunately, I could go on forever. Hopefully I cannot say the same about Obama's presidency. The irony is that our president is a self-absorbed egotist who cares only for himself and his own power. There is no love for America, for American history, for all the good America has done, for the soldiers, for the tax payers, for the churches and finally for capitalism itself.+3
I didn't get that solicitation. I wonder why.
What I did get, disappointingly, was an invitation to send in $3 for a chance at having dinner with Mitt Romney. If I thought his campaign was SPOOFING Obama's, I'd jump on it, but I believe they've been suckered into believing that was a good idea.
The race is Romney's to lose. Hope his people don't pull too many more stunts like that.+1
and he puts me on The Enemies list. What a mother forker.+1
Michelle has the same bad habit as Barack's mother…….+2


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