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There are boatloads of considerations one has to take into account when planning a long-term trip around the world. The flight is often the biggest one as it generally takes the biggest chunk out of the budget. Accommodations are usually the next biggest expense for a long-term trip. Many travelers only consider the usual suspects – hostels, guesthouses, and hotels. People generally combine a mix of these when traveling round the world.
What many travelers never consider, though, is the idea of rentals. Budget travelers may immediately dismiss this idea as out of their price range. Other travelers may think this option is only for long-term stays. The fact is that rentals can be a great accommodation option for any trip, both long-term and short-term, and we're here to outline the benefits of this option.
Some travelers, particularly those traveling on a tight budget, never consider the rental option because they assume that it costs too much. In fact, you may be able to save money by renting a house/condo/apartment on your travels, particularly if you are traveling long-term and want to hunker down in one location for a while.
Depending on the part of the world in which you find yourself, you can find a rental for as low as $25-$30USD per night (for those with a higher budget, there are also some amazing deals to be had on unique housing options), or the cost of a private hostel room in those same areas of the world. If you choose to stay in that spot for a few weeks or months, the savings will continue to add up as you will have your own kitchen, saving a ton of money on meals out.
While cooking your own meals is also a possibility in many hostels, many travelers tend to cook less than they would with their own space because of the difficulty of cooking in many hostel kitchens. We've all been in those cramped kitchens with four stove burners, two pots, three pans, one knife, one cutting board, and 30 hungry travelers all trying to make meals at the same time. While this can admittedly be fun, it does get old after a while. During our RTW, we were in South America for about three months, staying in hostels the entire time and doing a lot of cooking in these situations. During month three we rented an apartment in Buenos Aires, and I have to tell you what a relief it was to have our very own kitchen, with a refrigerator that was all OURS!
Depending on the part of the world in which you find yourself, you can find a rental for as low as $25-$30USD per night.
Any time you travel slowly, you are going to save money, and renting a house or apartment during your travels will have you living more like a local, doing less touristy things, and thus spending less money by default. Though we were in the more expensive city of Buenos Aires when we had a rental, we spent less during that month than we did in Peru, which is typically cheaper.
Getting to know the locals
One of the best parts of indie travel is really digging into the culture that you are visiting. When you travel long-term, you have an excellent opportunity to really learn about different cultures and get to know the locals. While it's certainly still possible to do this while staying in hotels or hostels, it's much easier when you rent an apartment or house.
When you rent, you are typically staying in areas where the locals actually live, not tourist ghettos where you are only surrounded by other travelers. If you stay in an apartment, much of the time your new neighbors are local people that are just living their lives. It's great to be able to meet, converse with, and make new friends with your temporary neighbors.
If you are staying for a few weeks or even months, then you will probably start to develop a routine. You'll start shopping at the same markets, having drinks at the same bars, and visiting the same parks. You'll get to know those in the community, making for an awesome indie travel experience.
Even the most hardcore backpackers who travel for months at a time, staying in hostel dorm rooms, ultimately get sick of the lack of privacy. Even if a rental is bit out of your budget, it's always nice to splurge from time to time on accommodations, treat yourself right, and get some much-needed privacy and down time.
When you're on the road for a while and the dreaded travel burnout starts to take hold, getting some privacy and down time to yourself (or with your traveling partner or family) is a welcome respite from life on the road.
So instead of spending over $100 per night on a nice hotel room for a few nights, consider renting a small apartment or house for your splurge. Unpacking your backpack, not having to put your valuables in a locker, and being able to buy some beer and not worry about it getting snatched out of the communal fridge is really nice from time to time. When you're on the road for a while and the dreaded travel burnout starts to take hold, getting some privacy and down time to yourself (or with your traveling partner or family) is a welcome respite from life on the road. No matter how much you love being on the move, having some normalcy from time to time is always a good thing.
Short term rentals
Don't think that rentals are only for long-term, round the world travelers. It's certainly possibly, and recommended, to look into renting a house, condo, or apartment on a short-term trip, even if its only for a few days. When only traveling for a long weekend, a week, or two, the budget is usually a bit higher than a RTW, so splurges are more common. But even if you have a low budget for your short trip, remember that in many areas of the world (Latin America and Asia come to mind), you can find a rental for as low as $30 a night.
The same benefits apply to renting during a shorter trip as they do for a longer one. When traveling for a week or two, it's more difficult to really dig into the culture as you're not there for a long time. Rentals speed up that process by throwing travelers into the culture of living with the locals.
There were three of us traveling together, and it was far cheaper than getting a hotel room and comparable in price to private hostel rooms.
We took a short, two-week jaunt through Guatemala and Belize last summer, and we rented a house in both countries, for 4 nights each. It was nice to be able to wake up and cook our own breakfast, shop at the local markets, and get to know the people living around us, even if only for a few days. There were three of us traveling together, and it was far cheaper than getting a hotel room and comparable in price to private hostel rooms.
The options for travelers keep getting better and better as time goes on. Recently, there has been an explosion of rentals on the market, so no matter if it's a weekend at the wineries or a yearlong round the world trip, these local homes give us one more great option to consider. Price, living like the locals, and privacy are all huge benefits when renting your own place, and if you've never done it before, it's definitely something you should try out on your next trip.
For more on slow travel and renting while on the road, check out the following articles and resources:
- Vacation Rental resources
- Travel is Not a Contest (and Other Reasons to Embrace Slow Travel)
- Why and How to Embrace Slow Travel
- From Tourist to Resident: 7 Signs You Just Want To Stay Put
- Travel Burnout: Is It Real? Will I Get It?
This post is sponsored by Flipkey. FlipKey is a great resource for finding rentals around the world. With over 160,000 properties in locations from Argentina to Zagreb, FlipKey has great local options for indie travelers. FlipKey puts you in touch with vacation rental owners who can provide excellent local information and tips – not to mention good deals on lodging. They also provide travel tips and news on the FlipKey Blog.
Adam Seper and his wife, Megan, decided that 50+ hour workweeks with 2 weeks of vacation a year simply wasn't going to cut it. So they decided to take a leap of faith and put The American Dream on hold. In October 2008, they took off on an epic, year-long adventure, traversing the globe and traveling to 89 cities and 11 countries across 4 continents, never to be the same again.
Now BootsnAll is going to tell you how you can plan your own epic adventure. Every week, on "Round the World Wednesday" we'll share tips for planning, budgeting and selecting a route, plus advice on where to go and what to see and do all around the world.
Photo credits: 2bgr8, all others courtesy of the author and may not be used without permission.


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There are many activities that can be offered at high quality adventure facilities including offing the chance to try archery. Finding a good archery range can allow anyone from the budding amateur to the seasoned professional to try their hand and improve their technique. Some centers will offer all inclusive training inclusive of targets, quivers of arrows and all the tools required while also allowing those with their own equipment to hire facilities for their own target practice.
Many archery ranges can offer a level of tutelage, at a reasonable cost to their customers. This level of training can start at the very basics of how to remove an arrow from a quiver and place it into anyone of the variety of longbows. There are also opportunities to improve skills of the more experienced archer with experts on hand to offer advice on how to tweak the regular archers' technique. Offering these kinds of training opportunities has seen archery grow as a sport and pastime.
Away from the traditional form of longbow archery there are other options available to those looking to try new things. Many centers will offer the chance to try using one of the many types of crossbows. The difference between the longbows and crossbows is the style of delivery. Once a crossbow is cocked the tension is released mechanically while a longbow requires the user to release the tension themselves and thus release their arrow. This means that even for the experienced user of longbows there is the opportunity to sample something different and challenge themselves at a new skill and level.
Archery offers a variety of different skills and opportunities to learn a new discipline, and it does not matter if you want a new sport or a one off experience. The archery range is an ideal place to practice the hand eye co-ordination that is often lacking from our everyday life. The strength and technique required make an ideal challenge for anyone looking for something new to really sink their teeth into. This should see archery continue to grow as both a sport and a new activity for the more adventurous among us.

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CELF4_Case_Studies.pdf (application/pdf Object) CELF-4 Ppt Presentation. Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals 4th Edition: Victoria Villanueva Professor Martin Azusa Pacific University EDCO 534 Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals 4 th Edition CELF-4 is an individually administered clinical tool for the identification, diagnosis and follow-up evaluation of language and communication disorders in individual ages 5-21.
It also evaluates an individuals strength and communication needs. CELF-4 What is being measured? Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Fourth Edition UK (CELF-4 UK) CELF-4 UK has been used by The Communication Trust as part of their Talk of the Town Project.
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Fourth Edition UK (CELF-4UK), features a new approach to assessment that enables you to accurately and reliably assess a child's language difficulties. Combine core subtests with supplementary subtests to get a comprehensive assessment of a child's language skills as you create a pathway to intervention. With improved diagnostic power, CELF-4UK uses a four-step assessment approach to identify children with language disorders quickly and with confidence.
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A small population of Oregon Spotted Frogs was discovered in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in 2003.
According to Southern Oregon University biologist, Michael Parker, this species is "the most imperiled amphibian species in the Pacific Northwest" - 2009 Status Report
The Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa, meaning "precious frog") is a member of the frog family Ranidae of order Anura. It is a medium-sized aquatic frog endemic to the Pacific Northwest and historically well distributed in the Puget Trough/Willamette Valley province and the Cascade Mountains of south-central Washington and Oregon. It is relatively rare within its range and is listed globally as vulnerable.


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Previous coverage of this event >> 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Giro Donne, 2010 WCN quicklink >> Preview Stage 1 Stage 1 Full Stage 2 Stage 2 Full Stage 3 Stage 3 Full Stage 4 Stage 4 Full Stage 5 Stage 5 Full Stage 6 Stage 6 Full Stage 7 Stage 7 Full Stage 8 Stage 8 Full Stage 9 Stage 9 Full |
On this page >> Write-up Comments Results General Classification Photos Stage 4- Teutenberg wins stage 4 Ficarolo - Lendinara 90 km Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC Columbia) made it four in a row to maintain her lead in the Giro Donne. Teutenberg powered to the line from a long way out to secure first place ahead of Kirstin Wild (Cervelo Test Team) and American Shelly Evans (USA). The attacks started early on and it was the team of Gauss RDZ Ormu , who were stirring things up. They could not create a break however. Silvia Valsecchi (Top Girls) tried to get away on a lone break. She was joined by a small group of riders that included, Iris Slappendel (Cervelo Test Team), Ellen van Dijk (HTC Columbia), representation from Australian National team, MC Fanini, USA National team and Gauss. The peloton however was not far behind and they closed the gap. The escape of the day came from the USC Chirio Forno D 'Asolo rider, Viktoriya Vologdina. She managed to get herself away for a long time before the peloton decided that enough was enough with 35km to go. They closed the gap but immediately Uenia Fernando Da Souza the team mate of Vologdina, counter attacked. The reaction came immediately Linda Villumsen (HTC Columbia) covered the move and by 20km to go the race was back together. Fassa Bortolo moved to the front to string the bunch out and attempt a final attack but the teams of Netherlands and USA ensured it did not happen. In the final sprint, Teutenberg maintains her speed and finished with a record of four wins and a 40 second advantage going into stage 5. Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC Columbia) flt strong today, "Way to survive....switch of the brain+close eyes at times. Did finish 2 years ago. Went same. Super long sprint. 4 in row" said Teutenberg on Twitter just after the win. "It's a very special
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J. Cole recently performed his latest single, "Crooked Smile", with Jennifer Hudson at the 2013 Do Something! Awards but for his segment on Conan, he opted to hit the stage alone. Dressed in a simple white shirt and worn cap, Hip-Hop's golden boy rapped with the backing of a live band.
The 2013 Do Something! Awards was hosted at the Avalon in Hollywood since July 30 but footage from the event has only just been released. Among the performers at the event were J. Cole and Jennifer Hudson, both of whom teamed for a rendition of the former's latest single, "Crooked Smile".
Drake hosted the 4th annual OVO Fest in Toronto last evening, and brought out a range of special guests to give his fans a night that they would never forget. TLC, J. Cole, Miguel, Big Sean and Kanye West were all on hand to support the top-selling rapper as he performed in his glowing white […]
J. Cole's bank account is certainly brimming with revenue from back to back hit albums but there is always room for more. So, to celebrate the success of his Born Sinner LP, the rapper has announced the list of dates for his latest venture, the What Dreams May Come Tour, which features Wale.
Ciara's fans have resoundingly told her "I'm out." Proving the previously reported sales predictions as accurate, the singer's new self-titled album has tumbled out down the US charts and barely scraped a spot in the top 20 of the Billboard 200. Indeed, it's a sad day to be a member of the C-Squad.
The fans of The View are accustomed to the sounds of Alicia Keys and Jewel but on this morning's episode, they were introduced to J. Cole. Dressed in a cap and simple white shirt, the rapper performed a rendition of "Power Trip" as he expanded his audience to include a new market.
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The numbers are in and the usual suspects have once again found themselves in the same position on the US charts as they did in the past. Indeed, scoring yet another monster debut this week was Jay-Z with his Magna Carta Holy Grail while Ciara started incredibly slow with her new self-titled set.
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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Leading geneticist plans to recreate Neanderthal man with surrogate mother
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January 22nd, 2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) It's an idea so far-fetched, that it's difficult to begin to conceive of how, or why, a scientist might manage to clone and produce, a Neanderthal man. Although fraught with ethical concerns, Professor David Church of Harvard Medical School would like to do just that and believes he can, if he only finds a woman willing to be a surrogate. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - After over 30,000 years of extinction, Professor David Church wants to bring Neanderthal men back, using genetic engineering. After successfully mapping the human genome, and mastering genetic manipulation, Church believes it is possible with the assistance of a woman who would act as a surrogate.He is now looking to forge ahead. Professor Church does his work at Harvard Medical School and gained fame by helping to initiate the Human Genome Project which successfully mapped all known human DNA. Church's proposal would involve using reconstructed Neanderthal DNA and injecting it into human stem cells. Those cells would form a Neanderthal baby that would have to be carried by a surrogate mother. However, the proposal is an ethical nightmare, since essentially Church would be playing God by manipulating life in the laboratory. Even if a child of Neanderthal lineage could be born, then what next? The very notion almost invokes the cautionary tales of the Island of Dr. Moreau, or Jurassic Park. According to anthropologists, Neanderthal men (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis) were humans, although a slightly different species from ours (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) with some physical distinctions. They were generally shorter than us and had slightly larger brains. They were excellent hunters who ate meat almost exclusively. They flourished in Europe during the last ice age and are usually the ones we think of when we think of "cave men." They also appear to have practiced some form of religion, ritually burying their dead. Despite their larger brains and robust build, anthropologists believe they went extinct around 30,000 years ago as modern humans competed for resources and the climate warmed, changing the environment. Neanderthal man was not able to adapt. There is no evidence to suggest they interbred with modern humans, despite occupying the same territory at times. To foster a human life in the laboratory for scientific principles, stands in opposition to morals and ethics, both scientific and Christian. Human life, even if primitive, should not to be manipulated to satiate scientific curiosity. Humans have a much higher purpose and while they may devote their lives, and even bodies to science, it must always be a free and conscious decision made by a rational individual. Unfortunately, Dr. Church's plan to do just that stands in opposition to good science, and good sense. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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A Washington and Lee University School of Law international law expert shared her thoughts recently on what can be learned from errors made during the war-crimes trial of former Iraq President Saddam Hussein. Assistant Professor Melissa Waters' remarks on the Harrisburg campus on Thursday, April 19 marked the first John Gedid Lecture in what is to become an annual series.
Waters has worked with Iraqi judges and attorneys over the last three years, training them in international human rights law and criminal defense law. Some of the judges participating in the training went on to preside over Hussein's war crimes trial.
Waters said those in power should think twice in the future before trying to conduct such a trial in a country still experiencing such upheaval and conflict. She said the trial could have waited or been moved to a neutral country. The trial also needed more international support, and better public relations efforts could
have been employed to explain to the Iraqi people that the trial was about justice for them. Finally, tribunal judges could have been even better trained before putting them in a position to direct one of the most important trials of the century.
"What went wrong with the Saddam trial? I think everything went wrong," she said.
The event honored Professor John L. Gedid, who has been a leading figure on the Harrisburg campus since it opened in 1989. He served as the campus associate dean during its first six years of operation and is a beloved professor, treasured mentor and active public servant. Gedid currently directs the school's Law & Government Institute, which is dedicated to improving law that defines the structure and operation of government and the rights and duties of citizens dealing with government.
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InfoWorld's 2009 Bossies spotlight today's Top 40 open source products for business and IT pros
If you think you can easily whittle down the best open source software to a manageable number, you'll soon discover that you can't do it without a great deal of hair pulling, nail biting, and gnashing of teeth. There are just too many excellent tools. Even if you give up on a "manageable" number and go whole hog -- say, a top 100, which is certainly doable -- you'll still face too many hard decisions and too many arguments. You'll be looking for a way out.
To bring you this year's 40 top open source products -- our 2009 Bossie winners -- we pulled a couple of fast ones. Our first inspired dodge was to come up with the InfoWorld Open Source Hall of Fame. There's a certain number of obviously great open source solutions (we settled on 36) that deserve a hall of fame, and though our annual Bossies selection regularly passed over most of these because of their sheer obviousness, a few inevitably complicated the process. Erecting the hall of fame allowed us to honor these inconvenient legends -- the Linuxes, BSDs, Sendmails, and Snorts -- once and for all.
[ See the slideshows of the 2009 InfoWorld Bossie Award winners: The best of open source developer tools | The best of open source enterprise software | The best of open source networking software | The best of open source platforms and middleware. ]
Our second shortcut was to omit desktop productivity tools and focus strictly on enterprise software, application development tools, networking and network management software, and platforms and middleware. We covered some of the top desktop productivity tools in "The best free open source software for Windows" -- including Linux standards such as OpenOffice.org and Firefox -- but there's so much more to talk about. Once you start down this road, you have to walk a long way.
Desktop OSS, briefly
OK, we'll just mention a few. We'd have to pick GIMP, the open source Photoshop alternative, and Blender, a formerly commercial 3-D graphics editor that was purchased by the community and made freely available through the GPL. That gets a big thumbs-up. There's also Inkscape, the vector graphics illustration program, and ImageMagick, a very cool scriptable tool used for mass graphics manipulation. On the audio/video front, no doubt the excellent Audacity audio editor and the VLC media player take a prize. VLC is also a very good streaming video server that supports both uni- and multicast.
And that's just graphics and multimedia. We'd also have to explore all the open source utilities available, like the Handbrake DVD ripper and the Growl notification system, and whether to include software like LinuxMCE, a home automation controller (think lights, cameras, thermostats, media centers), or Musix, a Debian-based distribution that's chock-full of top-notch software for musical composers and performers. Not to mention all of the open source browsers, and maybe even variants of OpenOffice.org. Should Google Chrome win a Bossie?
(Should we include games too? Do you remember that old arcade game called Battlezone with the wire frame tanks? BZFlag is like Battlezone for the 21st century. Highly recommended.)
We're going to dodge all of these questions, at least for now, and stick with InfoWorld's traditional sweet spots of serious business software and serious tools for IT professionals. Thus, the 40 Bossie winners we set here before you include the best free (and sometimes hybrid) open source we know for building and running Web, mobile, and even cloud-based data processing applications; managing and securing business networks; migrating and integrating enterprise data; building and integrating Web services; and meeting business needs for salesforce automation, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, reporting and BI, and business process management.
Application development
The iPhone, Android, Palm webOS, BlackBerry, and their app stores have made mobile application development all the rage in the past year, and 2009 marks the first year we award Bossies in that arena: to the PhoneGap development framework and the WebKit browser engine.
The PhoneGap project combines a focus on pure JavaScript and HTML with the ability to tap native device features such as the iPhone's accelerometer and geolocation data. Given tools such as PhoneGap and the fact that so many mobile platforms have caught WebKit fever, standard Web technologies may become more important to mobile development than native SDKs.
Building applications for large-scale, distributed data processing isn't a new thing, but it's becoming more common as organizations try to come to grips with huge volumes of intelligence-packed data (think Facebook's Web logs, for example) and Amazon EC2 and other clouds make it more practical and affordable to do so.
Hadoop and Hive are tools for processing data collections in the terabyte and petabyte range. Hadoop provides a framework that makes it relatively simple to unleash parallel algorithms on large data sets. Hive, which is erected atop Hadoop, fools the underlying distributed file system into seeing tables (rather than stream-accessed files) and lets users execute SQL-like queries against those tables.
Eclipse is a fine IDE in its own right, and some of us have used it repeatedly to build and debug Java applications. But this year Eclipse wins a Bossie for its Web Services Tools plug-in, particularly the Web Services Explorer, which is invaluable in debugging Web services applications. Point the Explorer at a service's WSDL, and it will enumerate all the services available at that endpoint. Launch a request at the service; the Explorer captures the response and displays it either in raw or structured form.
The NetBeans IDE takes our Bossie, thanks to what may be its best release ever. While most free IDEs have stood still or been adding noncore features, NetBeans 6.7 hewed closely to its mission of providing developers with an IDE that works fast and well with multiple languages. This release boosts support for Ruby and JRuby, significantly advances its Groovy capabilities, expands its C/C++ capabilities, and enables unit testing in PHP. It has also expanded project-level tools with built-in support for Maven and seamless integration with projects hosted at Kenai.com, including SCM and Jira interoperability.
Another repeat winner is JBoss Drools, the free open source rival to business rule management systems from IBM/ILOG, Fair Isaac, Oracle, Pega Systems, and others. The great irony behind the "business logic" of business applications is that it is impossible for businesspeople to understand. Rulebase engines such as Drools are designed to change that, presenting business users with an English-like decision language and views into the rules (spreadsheets, flowcharts, and so on) that they can readily understand.
Finally, a Bossie also to OpenStreetMap, an open source version of popular mapping services like Google Maps and MapQuest. OpenStreetMap holds mapping parties for areas where it doesn't have good mapping data. Because all the geolocation data comes from volunteers, it can be shared and reused in ways that Google and other commercial mappers don't allow. It's an ambitious and well-organized project that you don't have to be a developer to help out.
Platforms and middleware
There's a big new buzzword in town, so service-oriented architecture and enterprise integration aren't on as many tongues these days. But even if obscured by clouds, application and data integration needs never go away, and these are needs that the open source world is especially well equipped to meet.
Two leading lights of open source SOA are MuleSource and WSO2. The Mule ESB takes our prize for the finest enterprise service bus in the open source pantheon, while WSO2 receives a Bossie for its Carbon framework, the basis of a completely componentized SOA platform.
We award a pair of data integration solutions as well. Talend Open Studio has everything one would look for in a traditional enterprise data integration platform: batch delivery, transforms, ETL (extract, transform, and load), data governance, and a strong set of connectivity adapters. At the same time it keeps pace with important trends with such features as change data capture, metadata support, federated views, and SOA-based access to data services.
Jitterbit is a lighter-weight and extensible point solution that is just the ticket for one-off data migration projects. Able to shortcut such projects by weeks, Jitterbit makes simple work of configuring source and target specifications with its form-based wizards. It may be the most uncomplicated tool available to get data from one place to another.
Powering nearly 4 percent of the world's Web sites and growing, the Nginx Web server argues that lighter, smaller, and faster -- than Apache -- is better, and there are several reasons to agree. Lighter, smaller, faster, and easier is the formula behind Turnkey Linux, which preconfigures popular server stacks (LAMP, Tomcat, Ruby) and applications (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress) with a core configuration of Ubuntu to produce ready-to-run software appliances that can be easily installed on bare metal or in a virtual machine.
Bossies also go to three virtualization solutions. You may know Xen as the hypervisor in the free (as in beer) Citrix XenServer and enterprise Linux distributions, or OpenVZ as the kernel of Virtuozzo, the not-free (as in beer or speech) container-based virtualization solution from Parallels. Both can be used and useful without the elaborate management consoles these vendors provide with the commercial products.
The third virtualization tool is VirtualBox, backed by Sun Microsystems. It too is available in both the open source and an enterprise edition. The free version lacks a few features found in the commercial product, the worst omission being USB support. Nevertheless, VirtualBox is probably the best way to test out a Linux distribution before installing it, certainly if you want to install software on that distribution beyond what you'll find on a LiveCD version. In addition, if you want to develop and test a multimachine client-server system, you can run multiple VMs on a single system and wire them all together through VirtualBox's virtual LAN.
Networking and nework management
Two winners in this category will surprise no one, as Cacti and Nagios have been staples of network monitoring for years. Cacti is the current standard-bearer of open source network graphing; if a device or service returns numeric data, then it can probably be integrated into Cacti. Nagios, a mature monitoring framework backed by a very active community, draws on a huge collection of plug-ins to keep tabs on virtually anything that talks to the network.
A newer development is the emergence of open source solutions that can challenge traditional enterprise monitoring giants HP/OpenView and IBM/Tivoli. OpenNMS and Zenoss provide a broad set of features at a dramatically lower cost (or no cost) than these tier-one commercial competitors, and they can scale to monitor large numbers of network nodes. Both are very advanced systems capable of monitoring a wide variety of network devices. Both also provide means to extend the functionality of the system and to add custom support for uncommon or esoteric network devices.
OpenNMS is a purely open source software project, meaning that customers get the complete set of features available for free as open source. There is no "enterprise" version. Zenoss provides an open source version of its software with a limited feature set for free, and it sells a more extensive "enterprise" version of the software with support through an annual subscription. Because Zenoss's free open source edition falls far short of what OpenNMS provides for free, OpenNMS wins the Bossie.
In security, Bossies go to the flexible and secure KeePass password manager, the light and simple IPCop firewall, and the neatly packaged Untangle network gateway. We know it's just some glue and a pretty AJAX interface, but that's exactly what was needed for this type of appliance. Another winner is PacketFence, a simple LAMP-based network access control solution that works with a number of common enterprise switches and wireless APs.
Kamailio, the SIP proxy formerly known as OpenSER, earns a Bossie for being such a good partner to Asterisk, helping the VoIP PBX meet the scalability and reliability requirements of business environments. Where Asterisk works well, you'll likely also find Kamailio/OpenSER.
Our winning NAS is also our winning SAN. Openfiler can operate at either the SAN or NAS level -- or both simultaneously. It can talk to disk drives on IDE, SAS, SATA, SCSI, or iSCSI interfaces. It's compatible with RAID hardware from Adaptec, LSI Logic, Intel, and others. It can handle file systems up to 60TB in size, and it supports Fast, Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers from Intel and Broadcom, among others.
In spite of these bounteous capabilities, Openfiler's actual processor and memory requirements are modest. A standard x86 system with 256MB of RAM, 1GB of disk space for the OS image, and at least one Ethernet card is all you need to get going. Installation is as easy as booting a CD, though managing Openfiler will take some time to learn, given everything it can do. We're fond of FreeNAS also, especially because it runs in flash so nicely. But Openfiler is the bomb.
Reporting and BI
Open source BI stacks offer exciting, lower-cost alternatives to the traditional commercial juggernauts. Java-based projects Pentaho BI Suite and Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite dominate the open source playing field, and while their basic reporting capabilities are free, getting advanced functionality out of either stack will require a commercial license.
Other open source BI solutions, notably the well-rounded SpagoBI toolset and Actuate's scalable, RIA-enabled BIRT-based tools, show solid underpinnings but fall short of Jaspersoft's and Pentaho's more complete BI stacks.
Both Pentaho and Jaspersoft have streamlined their design tools, helping to bring more minds to the data mining mix with minimal training. Pentaho has even added an Adobe Flash-based dashboard UI that breaks the bonds of static reports, while Jaspersoft has incorporated in-memory analysis for ad hoc queries, performed locally in the browser or pushed back to the server when the client device has resources.
For multidimensional analysis, OLAP, workflow, and ETL, Pentaho's well-guided interfaces and robust engine make it the best choice. Jasper, however, delivers a better overall reporting experience and ready customization. Considering the two are not mutually exclusive in their deployment, you might find it beneficial to look at both for their respective specialties.
That said, Pentaho's dashboards and wizards for report creation are nothing to sneeze at, although some of the more enterprise-worthy features like cluster and repository management require a paid subscription. By the same token, Jaspersoft's professional edition provides solid data mining with drag-and-drop tailoring of analytics.
To be considered beyond departmental-use cases, both Pentaho and Jaspersoft must continue to improve their handling of larger data sets, beef up overall security, and incorporate performance management features: financial/operational performance metrics that help companies align their strategic goals and business planning across their organizations.
Nonetheless, plenty of bells and whistles such as workflow and alerts help round out both of these stellar offerings.
SFA and CRM
SugarCRM takes the Bossie for best open source customer relationship management platform. With tools for salesforce automation (leads, pipeline forecasting, and account management), e-marketing, and online lead capture, as well as customer support and automated service handling, Sugar has the most comprehensive feature set among open source competitors.
The sizable user community behind Sugar brings with it a wealth of connectors to integral business systems and plug-in options to extend functionality. Another big plus: SugarCRM's well-designed user interface and uncomplicated setup and customization help speed up deployments and make new users productive quickly.
SugarCRM's advanced functions -- sales forecasting, order management, report customization, automated alerts, customer self-service portal -- are available only in professional and enterprise editions, as are interfaces that make the application accessible to wireless devices and Microsoft Office. The new SugarCRM 5.5 beta streamlines interfaces for mobile users and adds a collaborative tool. SugarCRM also supports REST Web services, making it easier to integrate the CRM application with legacy systems.
Sugar's e-mail marketing and campaign management tools are challenged by no other open source competitor. Budgeting and response tracking support tactical marketing efforts versus generic carpet-bombing campaigns. And automatic lead routing (also available via the customer portal) employs predefinable forms that help lock in potential leads.
SugarCRM does have open source rivals. The .Net-centric SplendidCRM shares many of the features in SugarCRM 5.2 and does a good job with mobile access. As with SugarCRM, advanced features such as full Outlook integration, the new workflow engine, and reporting require a professional or enterprise license. Concursive continues to carve out a niche market with its combination of basic CRM functionality and social networking, but falls short of a complete CRM solution.
Enterprise resource planning
Open source ERP has come a long way in a short time, and may in fact be the next big growth area for open source in the coming year. Because ERP is anything but one size fits all, specialized verticals will no doubt begin to take root.
The two projects leading the way in open source ERP are Compiere and Openbravo, and both earn a Bossie from us this year. Although forked from the same code base, both companies have moved in slightly different directions.
Along with these co-winners, OpenERP and OFBiz deserve mention. Tiny's OpenERP (formerly TinyERP) has significantly improved its strength and scope -- even wading into BI and workflow. The product could still use more enterprise features, such as an asset management system, but this Belgian company is on the move.
Apache OFBiz is also one to watch. Its rich e-commerce functionality, strong services layer, and handy MVC (model-view-controller) framework unfortunately remain overshadowed by usability issues and installation complexity. Themed interfaces are being introduced to improve the UI, and Derby -- OFBiz's embedded database for transaction processing -- is incorporating examples that should help draw interest. OFBiz will start to look much more attractive as these wrinkles get smoothed out.
Openbravo impresses with a well-developed POS (point-of-sale) solution, procurement and warehouse management tools, financial and accounting features, and production logistics for shop floor oversight. Further, Openbravo's plug-in architecture offers the same sort of extensive modularity found in SugarCRM and traditional commercial applications from the likes of SAP and Oracle. That means your developers can extend system functionality without worrying about stepping on core functionality. And the entire Openbravo system is supported by a healthy set of alerts, role-based user provisioning and access control, and a good Web-based UI.
Most of Openbravo's functionality is available in the free community edition, while more Compiere features -- including a Web UI, PDF reports, and warehouse and manufacturing management capabilities -- are locked away in paid editions. You will need Openbravo's enterprise edition to get OLAP functionality and clustering -- crucial for any large enterprise deployment.
Compiere's core features are also top-notch. The free community edition has the basics for materials and order management as well as purchasing, finance, and business performance management. As noted above, warehouse and manufacturing management are absent, but if those are not a requirement for your business, you'll find the HR/payroll features, reporting, and Java client in Compiere's community edition to be up to the task.
Although both Compiere and Openbravo offer some CRM-style features, you won't mistake them for full-blown solutions. Features such as forecasting, pipeline workflow, mobile access, and partner relationship management are light-years behind SugarCRM and commercial offerings such as NetSuite. But they cover the basics of sales management vis-à-vis master data overlap with ERP.
Business process management
When it comes to automating business tasks, the only open source solution capable of addressing the full matrix of enterprise requirements is Intalio BPM. It's simply the most comprehensive open source BPMS available.
The remaining choices are rather narrowly focused. Active Endpoints makes its ActiveBPEL Engine available free under the GPL, but requires you to pay up for the companion orchestration toolkit, the ActiveVOS Designer. (Intalio includes its modeler, BPEL server, and workflow in the free community edition.) Colosa ProcessMaker and uEngine have well-developed human workflow support, but they lack the heavy-duty, system-to-system integration capabilities of Intalio.
Intalio has been criticized regarding its open source claims, most likely because the company does not provide source code on its Web site (where binaries of the free community edition can be downloaded). However, Intalio's enterprise edition customers do get full access to source code, and the source code of community edition components -- which fall under Apache and Eclipse licenses -- are obtainable from their community-based repositories.
Intalio's Eclipse-based graphical modeler simplifies process design while the Intalio Server provides an extensible plug-in environment to connect most enterprise infrastructures. The Tempo framework (part of the server) adds human workflow and connectors to a variety of technologies including BPEL, Web services, REST, and XForms, while Intalio's underlying ecosystem stretches from lifecycle management tools to deployment monitoring. A new perk comes by way of the OpenPMF 2.0 framework, which is now included for application security. Your developers don't need to be security experts to configure security properly.
Intalio has been working to plug CRM functionality into the mix, but so far those capabilities remain basic. Another nit: Apache Geronimo is the only application server supported in the community edition.
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DURHAM — It was a homecoming of sorts for A.J. Cook recently.
The Oshawa-born star of TV's Criminal Minds spent a few days visiting family in Whitby — her first trip home in two years.
Among her stops was the drama department at Anderson Collegiate, where her entertainment career began.
"It was a lot of fun. I was there talking to drama students for a Q and A. I got to tell them my experience and reminisce with drama teachers," the 28-year-old says.
She also donated to the department a costume she wore during a high school production of Romeo and Juliet.
Cook credits Michael Trites's Grade 9 drama class with sparking her passion for acting.
"He was a big inspiration to me, just very encouraging and positive," says Cook, who moved to Whitby at the age of eight and also attended Dr. Robert Thornton Public School.
She began dancing at the age of four, competing for Creative Dance Workshop and also teaching for the City of Oshawa's dance programs.
Cook is miffed, however, about how a rumour spread that it was upon seeing Dirty Dancing that she decided to become an actress.
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On hiatus from Criminal Minds until July 9, Cook says the show, when in production, leaves little time for other projects.
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Mile-High Pumpkin Meringue Tart
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Pumpkin pie is an irresistible fall classic; here, a new dimension is added with a few simple additions, including adding molasses to the filling and finishing off the pie with an airy meringue.
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Calories | 372 |
Total Fat | 18g |
Saturated Fat | 9g |
Cholesterol | 105mg |
Sodium | 227mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 50g |
Dietary Fiber | 2g |
Sugars | n/a |
Protein | 5g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 10
Total Time: 2 hr
Prep Time: 1 hr
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- 1 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoon(s) all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoon(s) confectioners sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 3 tablespoon(s) each cold unsalted butter and solid vegetable shortening, cut in bits
- 1 large egg yolk mixed with 1 tsp cold water
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup(s) packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon(s) molasses
- 1.5 teaspoon(s) pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1 can(s) (15 oz) 100% pure pumpkin
- 1 cup(s) heavy cream
- 1 cup(s) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup(s) water
- 4 large egg whites, at room temperature
- Lightly butter a 9 x 1-in. tart pan with removable bottom. In food processor, pulse flour, confectioners' sugar and salt to mix. Add butter and shortening; pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pour egg mixture over crumbs; pulse until dough starts to clump together. Remove dough from food processor and squeeze together into a ball. Press dough evenly over bottom and up sides of pan, slightly extending about 1/4 in. above the top edge of pan. Freeze shell 30 minutes.
- Adjust oven rack to bottom third of the oven. Heat oven to 375°F. Remove crust from freezer; line with nonstick foil tightly against bottom, sides and top edge of crust. Place tart pan on baking sheet; bake 25 minutes. Carefully remove foil; return crust to oven 5 minutes (if crust puffs, gently press it down). Cool completely on rack. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
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Have you ever really thought about air? About how it can smell or even taste? Sure, you probably notice if the air around you is a little ripe, or smells of chips, and you may notice just-sprayed air freshener or cut grass – but for most of us, that's it. We're dependent on the stuff and surrounded by it, but rarely pay it any real attention. Once you do start thinking about it though, it's clear that, much like personal tastes in food or wine, air is a highly subjective thing – and people can veer from mountains to kebab shops in their preference. So where is do our experts think you'll find Britain's perfect air?
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How can the international community assist democratization?
Introduction by Mr. Roel von Meijenfeldt, Executive Director Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) and acting President of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD), at Transatlantic Policy Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, 29 September 2008.
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Discuss ways in which the international community has promoted democracy and development programmes.
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