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I sometimes think that search tools are like my local bus: none comes along for ages and then three turn up in quick succession. For quite some time Beagle and Kat have been meeting the needs of users like you and me who fill up their hard drives with the results of our internet meanderings and because we have been remiss in keeping those drives well organized we eventually have to use search tools to find that PDF or HTML article we spent an eternity looking for.
Beagle has been out for quite some time and was very much launched as the poster boy of Mono along with F-Spot. Before I get flamed, I know some purists will regard the installation of Mono as cause for being strung up outside Micronovell by piano wire from a lampost but if you want Beagle you will have to turn a Nelsonian eye to it and grit your teeth. (Is that a mixed metaphor?) Don't worry. There is no truth in the rumour that every time someone uses a Mono-based application Satan blinds an innocent puppy.
It comes frequently pre-installed with many distros today and, where it is not, it can usually be installed from the software repositories which will pull in any dependencies required. You can see a list of dependencies here. If a precompiled binary is not available for your particular distro you can always head over to the Beagle website for the source tarball. Install from source? Why not? It reminds me of the good old days when men were real men and installing from source was real installing from source, when real men made their own frocks and crocheted their own yoghurt!
Beagle was designed for the GNOME desktop but it will also work on KDE, and the Kerry frontend was designed specifically for that desktop. In either incarnation, it is still going strong but I'm afraid that Kat is floundering. In fact it appears to be dead. Go to either here or here and you will be redirected to the main page of Kat's sponsor, Mandriva, which informs you that the Kat project webpage is closed. It is still available for download in either precompiled binaries for earlier versions of various distros or in source format which now looks like the best bet.
GNU/Linux is about choice and therefore freedom and therefore power and when it comes to desktop search tools the same mantra applies. If some efforts have fallen by the wayside the GNU/Linux community possesses sufficient imagination and talent in depth to come up with alternatives and I want to look at three Beagle rivals and compare them to that established search tool.
Beagle: best in class?
Well, there's quite a lot to list so let's get the facts out on the table about Beagle. It has been out for a few years now and version 0.2.17 has just been released. Beagle offers real time searching and it supports the following data sources:
- File system
- Evolution mail, calendar, and addressbook
- Thunderbird mail, news, RSS feeds, and addressbook
- Korganizer events and TODOs
- KMail mail
- KAddressbook addressbook
- Pidgin (formerly Gaim) and Kopete instant messaging and IRC logs
- Firefox and Epiphany web pages (as you view them, through browser extensions, automatically disabled for secure websites for things like online banking and credit card transactions)
- Konqueror web pages
- Blam, Liferea and Akregator RSS feeds
- Tomboy, KNotes, and Labyrinth notes
- Konversation IRC logs
- Opera Web History
It supports extraction of text and metadata from the following file formats:
- Folders
- Office Documents
- OpenOffice.org (
.sxiand more)
- OpenDocument (
- Microsoft Office (
- AbiWord (
- Scribus (
- Rich Text Format (
- Text Documents (
- Source code (Boo, C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Matlab, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scilab and Shell scripts)
- Plain text (
.txt, any plain text file that isn't filed under any other category)
- Documentation/Help Documents
- Texinfo
- Man pages
- Docbook
- Monodoc
- Windows help files (
- Images (
- F-Spot and Digikam tags in the images are also indexed
- Audio (
.aac, tracker, amiga audio,
- Archive files (
.bzip2) and their contents
- Application launchers
- Linux packages (ebuild,
- Generic XSLT files Video (
.mp4, quicktime and other formats supported by MPlayer or Totem
And, if you want to see a list of supported data sources for a Beagle installation, then just issue the following command:
beagle-info --list-backends
This is what I got on my laptop running Mepis:
Mail (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) Files (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) GaimLog (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) IndexingService (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) Tomboy (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) Blam (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) Liferea (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) Akregator (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) KonquerorHistory (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll) Kopete (/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll)
And here is a list of applications using Beagle:
- The GNOME-based search tool included in Beagle.
- Kerry Beagle: a KDE-based search tool.
- Nautilus: The GNOME file manager can use Beagle to quickly find files based on content and metadata.
- Yelp: The GNOME help browser uses Beagle to search Docbook and
- Deskbar: A versatile search interface
- Tangerine: allows for publication of music over a local network using DAAP can find all your music automatically using Beagle.
- Brasero: A CD/DVD-burning application can find files on your system using Beagle.
- The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop main menu has a search entry which uses Beagle.
- beaglefs: A FUSE filesystem built on top of Beagle.
- kio-beagle: A KDE IO implementation for Beagle integration into KDE applications like Konqueror.
- Peagle: Beagle Web frontend, coded in PHP, with a look and feel similar to modern web search engines.
- catfish: A unified frontend to beagle, (s)locate, doodle and tracker, written in PyGTK2.
- kBeagleBar: A KDE kicker applet for beagle.
- yaBi: A pyKDE application for querying beagle. It uses KHTML to display results, CSS for designing and beagle-python bindings to query beagle.
Given such extensive support it is not surprising that the implementation of Beagle has been seen as one of the factors in the adoption of GNU/Linux on the desktop.
Beagle's a clever dog. How does he do it?
First off, it utilizes the Lucene search engine from Apache and uses
inotify. inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem to provide file system event notification and has been in the main kernel since version 2.6.13. This is ideal for search tools like Beagle because it permits
reindexing of changed files obviating the need for scanning a file system frequently which would be CPU-intensive. Another thing you can do is to enable extended file attributes. It is a file system to enable users to associate computer files with metadata not interpreted by the filesystem. It is supported in Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS and XFS filesystems. If not enabled, the default for Beagle is to track file status by using the slower sqlite.
To enable
user_xattr you will need to edit
/etc/fstab (as root) and add it to the file attributes for the partition in question—usually the partition containing
home (e.g.,
/dev/hda3/home). You then need to remount the partition with
mount -o remount /home. A word of caution though: I have seen reports of adding this feature to the XFS filesystem which resulted in a read only filesystem on reboot, so keep a rescue/repair LiveCD on hand just in case! In fact, it might not be a bad idea to try all of this on a fresh, testbed install to be on the safe side and copy in some files for Beagle to chew on when you execute searches. For further information on
inotify and
extended attributes look here and here respectively.
Allied to the above-listed features Beagle makes for a powerful search tool although it has been accused of being something of a resource hog. Run Beagle for a few hours and check it with the
top command; enabling
user_xattr will use some tens of megabytes for several gigabytes of files. If you are bothered by this then you can set the environmental variable with
BEAGLE_DISABLE_XATTR but be aware that this will not reset
ctime back to
mtime which some worry might affect backups (For more detail on what this is have a look at this Wikipedia entry. This is perhaps a small price to pay for such a versatile piece of software which interfaces to so many applications.
Other tips
If you are determined to run it on your laptop but are concerned about the drain on your battery you can disable the Beagle Daemon either by issuing the command
beagle-shutdown or in all versions since 0.2.14 simply uncheck the box marked "Start search & indexing services automatically". Or, to use Beagle without indexing, to conserve battery power, issue the command
beagled --disable-scheduler. If you are on AC power, this will not be strictly necessary, but a matter of personal preference and how much resource you are prepared to give to Beagle on your hard drive. Users of Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn will have Beagle version 0.2.14 which will have an option to disable indexing whilst on battery power. I have that feature on Kerry Beagle on Fedora Core 6, which can be set directly from the graphical user interface configuration option. (However, Fiesty Fawn ships with Tracker, a Meta search tool and I have heard that that it might scrap with Beagle like a pitbull unless you disable the Beagle daemon first. As I am not running that version of Ubuntu yet, can anyone comment on this?) If you are using a different version you can disable Beagle and run it manually on a per session basis as and when needed. To do this issue the following commands and exercise the little mutt:
beagle-shutdown export BEAGLE_EXERCISE_THE_DOG=1 beagled
This will index the hard drive agressively and hog resources, so leave it to get on with and resume other tasks later.
Whilst for most tasks the GUI for Beagle will be quite ample for your purposes, as always with GNU/Linux, the command line can be your friend—to exercise a fine degree of granular control try these commands for size:
- beagle-config—Current documentation is probably too limited to be useful. Use the
beagle-settings guiinstead.
- beagled—The main Beagle program behind the scenes. Coordinates indexing and searching.
- beagle-query—A command line search interface to the Beagle indexes.
- beagle-settings—a graphic interface for beagle-config.
- beagle-shutdown—Launch to cleanly shutdown the beagled program.
- beagle-status—Continually displays the number of items indexed by type.
- beagle-search—The graphic user interface for Beagle.
I mentioned earlier that there were two graphical frontends for Beagle, one for GNOME (which will also run on KDE) and Kerry Beagle. I prefer the latter. Once you have completed a search you can right-click and select the application with which you want to open it. In the case of web pages, I have a choice of five installed browsers as well as the extra option on the open icon at the bottom of each search result to open with the default browser, Konqueror. There is another menu for actions that offers me the options to attach as an e-mail, edit as root and send with Bluetooth. By contrast the GNOME-based frontend offers only the opportunity to double-click and open a webpage with Konqueror. Kerry Beagle as a front end seems to lack granular configurations. You seem to need either to launch the GNOME frontend or, if you prefer, launch the settings option only. In a terminal, as normal user, type
beagle-settings and a small front-end will give you Search Preferences box with two tabs—search and indexing. There are options for adding file paths and excluding them too on the grounds of privacy. If you are curious as to what the busy little canine is up to you can also issue the following command as normal user in a terminal:
ls ~/.beagle/Log/ | grep current.
Give the dog a bone
If there is one bone Beagle might be grateful for it would perhaps be integration with Google. Indeed, that is one of the projects at the Google Summer of Code but, in fact, it is already available via the installation of the Deskbar Applet, a facility for GNOME users which is only as far away as a command in your package manager of choice but a little more needs to be done to integrate the applet with Google web search.
Basically, you will need to go to the Google API page and use your Google account or create a new one. Once an account has been created a Google Web API licence key will be generated and e-mailed to you. The installation and any problems associated with it are too detailed to itemize here, but there is a very good guide on the following website. You will probably also need to know that Google is no longer issuing new keys for the SOAP Search API which is needed to integrate Google and Beagle and has switched (for new, not existing, users) to an AJAX Search API. There is a good guide here. Just follow the links. Your mileage may vary and I have not tried this yet.
Other frontends: Catfish, Peagle and Yabi
There are, it is said, nine ways to skin a cat and GNU/Linux knows all of them. So, it will come as no surprise to the reader that people have been busy creating new frontends for Beagle and the three listed above are well worth a look. I will look at them in part two. In the meantime, have a look at the Beagle, Catfish, Yabi and Peagle screenshots categories.
Have you tried Tracker?
Beagle is a bit buggy and extremely slow. It also uses lots of memory/cpu. But fear not a new search tool is available that doesn't have all the problems of beagle. It's called Tracker - http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/index.html Tracker is written in C and is super fast and uses very little resources and it is improving even more every day. It is also much more than a search tool.
Yes I use it. It is great
Yes I use it. It is great on older hardware as it has a very low memory footprint. it doesn't yet cover emails but it already handless a wide range of filetypes, video, music, documents, test and code. It is indeed lightening fast.
Its front end is written using pyGTK so it fits in nicely on a GNOME desktop and it also integrates into Nautilus as its search function. I would reccomentd it to anyone. Cut out the bloat of Mono. On that vein a superior repacement for Tomboy is Zim http://www.pardus.nl/projects/zim/ which is written using PerlGTK and I find I use to organize my whole life. While when I had Tomboy installed it was just a nice toy I hardly ever used.
Kat is dead
You do know that kat is dead? strigi will be the search backend mainly used in KDE 4.
Recoll, as Beagle can be buggy
I, like a number of people and at least 1 major distro (Fedora) have found Beagle resource heavy (the use of Mono)and a bit buggy and have removed it. I turned to Recoll which I find lighter on resources and a little more useful as it allows stemming though it does not have kio_slave functionality like Beagle.
I'd love to see a head to head with Beagle, Recoll, Tracker and Pinot.
A very nice and indepth article, hoping the next parts are as well done.
Will a pluggable indexer system become part of GNOME?
Is there any plan to include some means of letting OS distributors easily plug in an indexer (the user could then pick what indexer they like, what front-end they like, etc.)? Some effort to make it easy for all sorts of programs to use the indexing system would be great too. I haven't yet done enough work with GNOME or GTK+ to know how to best approach this, however I'm sure others do know how to best allow this kind of flexibility and inter-app indexing.
It would be great to format the search results like another Nautilus window so I could sort the results in the same way I sort a folder contents in Nautilus' detailed view. It would also be helpful to index e-mail without having to download them locally to one's account so I could more easily find emails in the huge hierarchy of emails I've stored on my IMAP server.
I like the speed of Tracker and it seems to use far less RAM than Beagle. But I've noticed that Tracker misses some of the documents that should be in the hit list (for lack of a better term) and the default front-end I tried doesn't allow sorting the results.
J.B. Nicholson-Owens
[email protected]
Second recoll
I second the recommendation for recoll. It's much nicer to system resources, and does just about as good a job as Beagle. Plus, it doesn't rely on Mono (icky!).
Still prefer Recoll
I prefer Recoll as it's less buggy, less resource hungry and doesn't need to have GNOME libs or KDE libs installed to work.
I can't believe you just ignored it...
*thought I'd cross-post my comment from digg in reply to opencoder saying beagle used too many resources and "locate" command *
I just spent the last couple of years on fedora then Ubuntu and searched the same way, but locate is only as good as your last updatedb and sometimes filenames don't cut it. My impression of beagle when I installed it on Ubuntu was that is was a very good app, but the resource use seemed a bit iffy for how often I used it (at most once a day).
This resource issue is going to be a major issue with linux in the future I think, I just got a macbook and it's got spotlight integrated and I have dashboard loaded up with apps, there is negligible cpu use at idle. And while it may be acceptable for beagle to be a little porky (as anyone who's owned a real beagle knows) gDesklets is a resource disaster compared to dashboard, I have had it up in the 20-30% cpu range with a desktop full of apps on a P4 northwood 2.8gighz on Ubuntu. Maybe that doesn't count so much on a desktop (though I'd argue it does) but on a laptop that is suicide, Vista was getting a panning for taking up people's batteries faster than XP so I dont' think linux should be off the hook for that.
All that said after a week of using OS X after using Linux exclusively for 4 years there isn't any technology it has that Linux doesn't, it's all just in the polish which is comforting for the future of the Linux desktop. I got the macbook because it's one of the most Linux compatible laptops out there, in addition to best value laptops you can buy here in Australia (where they are still trying to palm off celerons at the same price point often) and OS X doesn't really impress me enough to swap loyalties, Ubuntu is going on soon.
XFS and xattr
"I have seen reports of adding this feature to the XFS filesystem which resulted in a read only filesystem" - no wonders there: XFS supports xattr without (!) any fstab option.
Therefore it doesn't make sense to edit fstab in case of xfs file systems. It can even be that the additional option creates an error because it is not understood.


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Morning treadmill session 3.5 mi in 27:43, evening session 3.5 miles in 28:51. Warm again today tried to beat and outlast the warmer stuff. Didn't help much.
Rich, hope the foot is doing better.
DH and Mike hope you both got some exercise in today.
First workout was a 4 mile run on the railtrail, splits were 10:14, 9:57, 9:40 and 9:34. Second was a 6 mile mtn bike ride in 27:43
I stretched and iced my foot after both the run and ride, but it wasn't enough, I have to stop running 'til my foot gets better. Runner's tend to be a hard headed bunch, we hate to lose the fitness we've worked so hard to build and I'm no exception.
However, I've been through this sort of thing before and know that the sooner I stop acting like an idiot by running when I shouldn't, the sooner I'll be running the way I want.
Sooo... it's time to break out the walking sticks, oil the chain on the bike and try to hang onto as much fitness as I can.
Enjoy life, this ain't a rehearsal...
Rich in NH wrote:
Sooo... it's time to break out the walking sticks
Rich, don't walk! Walking is bad, too! The bike may be OK, though, if you aren't pressing on the pedal with your heel.
Dark Horse
I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course.
Rich, sorry about the foot. Hopefully it isn't too bad and you'll be up an running soon.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Former Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball players Demond Watt and Justin Reynolds have signed professional contracts overseas. Reynolds has inked a deal to play in Macedonia, while Watt will be headed to Sweden to further his basketball career.
Watt signed a deal with Eco Orebro of the Swedish Basketball League – the Ligan. The team is based in Orebro, a town about two hours west of Stockholm, in the center of the country. The season starts in the second week of October.
The Chicago native twice earned Third Team All-Southland Conference recognition for his efforts at the Island University. As a senior, he finished fifth in the league with 15.0 points per game, while his 8.9 rebounds were second among Southland players. He finished his career with a school-record 851 rebounds in his career and his 1,272 points are fourth in Islanders lore.
Reynolds is headed to Torus Skopje of the Cup League and Balkan League, where the Pearland native signed a two-year deal. Playing at the Pro A level, Torus went 17-11 to finish fourth in the Superleague a year ago. The team, based in the city of Skopje, begins its season against Mornar Bar on Oct. 11.
Reynolds wrapped up his four years in an Islanders uniform with 1,242 points, the sixth-highest total in Islanders lore. His 71 games scoring in double figures are a school record, while his 777 rebounds are third among Islanders. He scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in his final home game, against UT Arlington on March 2.
The duo joins Kevin Palmer (NDBL Austin Toros), Chris Daniels (Japan), Michael Hicks (Italy), Josh Washington (Germany) and Will Bullard (Harlem Globetrotters), who all played professionally last season, in the ranks of Islanders currently in the pros.


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Fed's Lacker: Skills Mismatch Part of Unemployment Problem
The long-run U.S. unemployment rate may end up higher than current estimates because of the time it takes workers to find new skills and fill available jobs, a Federal Reserve official said Tuesday.
"People talk about the natural rate of unemployment–if part of the unemployment is people finding skills and moving to other jobs then the natural rate is higher than you think it might be," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker told reporters.
Lacker's comments followed a meeting with students and administrators at Guilford Technical Community College. The students were taking courses and earning degrees to make a switch to new occupations, such as welding, information technology or aviation services.
"Doubling the demand for welders isn't going to make it any easier for them to learn welding," Lacker said. "To me it's powerful evidence about the time it takes to resolve the mismatch problems."
The natural unemployment rate is the rate for a healthy economy without undue inflation. The Fed last month projected longer-term unemployment in the U.S. between 5.2% and 6%. The rate last month was 8.1%
Earlier Tuesday, the Labor Department said employers advertised 3.74 million job openings in March, the most since July 2008. Still, an average of 3.4 people are competing for each open job.
Lacker said broad shifts in the economy are making it more difficult to fill existing openings.
In a speech Monday, Lacker said the high U.S. unemployment rate stems in part from a mismatch between workers' skills and job openings. To help fill a shortage of skilled labor, he favors job training and education programs.
Lacker highlighted community college programs that teach skills demanded by local companies.
A new round of stimulus from the U.S. central bank risks higher inflation and is likely to have little impact on unemployment, Lacker said.


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anomaly wrote: thanks for the link.....
anyone else love video/audio interviews a zillion times better than when you read it? I like to hear the people being interviewed talk, how they respond to some questions, how they laugh, get their character, etc.
I know nothing about Reanimator in the sense mentioned above. I want to see exactly how Reanimator coughs or something. Is that wierd?
It's great to hear he doesn't use midi interfaces. That midi is a muddafucka to mess with.
Sage Francis wrote: I didn't realize it was in 3/4 time either. I know it was a different type of rhythm that took some getting used to.
Dick & Jane has been posted on www.myspace.com/prolyphicandreanimator
As for video interviews, they don't tend to be great. Or revealing. Cameras make people nervous and they filter a lot. That being said, I'd love to see Reanimator do a video interview. haha. He's still an enigma to me.
erich wrote: i dont think it's in 3/4, at least in what i understand to be the technical sense. like, im listening to it and i count 4 beats for every bar = 4/4. but there's 16th note triplets the whole way through, so if you count in doubletime, you would be counting by threes. im sure that somewhere, on one of reanimator's sequencers, something is set to 3/4, (and probably doubled in tempo) but im pretty sure that in the end, that song is in 4/4 time. i admit the possibility of being wrong, though.
erich wrote: when it's saying "plain, dick, jane, world," that's more or less counting "1,2,3,4." the flute and the hi hats are definitely using triplets, but in order for it to be 3/4 (again, as i understand it) it would have to go "plain, dick, jane, plain, dick, jane..." the subdivisions of each beat can be in threes (triplets) but the time signature refers to beats per bar, and by counting "plain, dick, jane, world" as "1,2,3,4" it seems to indicate 4/4.
and, yes, it's a great song no matter how you slice it. i like the loping kinda carnival aesthetic to it. and ms. macro and pro really gelled, i think.
Code: plane dick
1 2 3 4 5 6
jane world
1 2 3 4 5 6
Code: plane dick
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The winner(s) will be selected on Dec. 17 at 2 p.m.
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8.7-2 Computer Crime for Terrorist Purposes -- § 53a-301
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant is charged [in count __] with computer crime in furtherance of terrorist purposes. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of computer crime in furtherance of terrorist purposes when such person, with intent to intimidate or coerce the civilian population or a unit of government, commits computer crime.1
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Committed
computer crime
The first element is that the defendant committed a computer crime.
<See 9.6 Computer Crimes and 10.5 Internet Crimes for the various computer crimes.>
Element 2 - Intent
The second element is that the defendant specifically intended to intimidate or coerce the civil population or a unit of government. "Intimidate" has its ordinary meaning. "Coerce" means to compel or induce another to do something, or not to do something, by instilling fear in that person. "Civilian population" has its ordinary meaning. "Unit of government" means any unit of any branch, subdivision or agency of the state, or any locality within it. <Insert specific allegations.>
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant committed a computer crime, and 2) (he/she) did so with the intent to intimidate or coerce the civil population or a unit of government.
If you unanimously find
that the state has proved
beyond a reasonable doubt
each of the elements of
computer crime for a
terrorist purpose, then
you shall find the
defendant guilty. On the
other hand, if you
unanimously find that the
state has failed to prove
beyond a reasonable doubt
any of the elements, you
shall then find the
defendant not guilty.
1 As defined in General Statutes § 53a-251, or a violation of any provision of General Statutes § 53-451.
Sentence Enhancer
General Statutes § 53a-301 (b) provides for a mandatory minimum of five years imprisonment if the offense "is directed against any public agency, as defined in section 1-200, that is charged with the protection of public safety." General Statutes § 1-200 (1) defines "public agency" as:
Any executive, administrative or legislative office of the state or any political subdivision of the state and any state or town agency, any department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official of the state or of any city, town, borough, municipal corporation, school district, regional district or other district or other political subdivision of the state, including any committee of, or created by, any such office, subdivision, agency, department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official, and also includes any judicial office, official, or body or committee thereof but only with respect to its or their administrative functions.
Any person to the extent such person is deemed to be the functional equivalent of a public agency pursuant to law.
Any "implementing agency," which is defined in General Statutes § 32-222 (k) as one of the following agencies designated by a municipality: (1) An economic development commission; redevelopment agency; sewer authority or sewer commission; public works commission; water authority or water commission; port authority or port commission or harbor authority or harbor commission; parking authority or parking commission; (2) a nonprofit development corporation; or (3) any other agency designated and authorized by a municipality to undertake a project and approved by the commissioner.
The jury must find this
fact beyond a reasonable
Sentence Enhancers,
Instruction 2.11-4.


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Thursday, June 21, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's summertime and you know what that means ... tackling home projects. One of the most popular ones is exterior painting.
The tell-tale sign you need a paint job is when the paint is peeling. Fresh paint will not only add curb appeal to your home but also protect it from the elements.
When you go to pick out paint, make sure you pick standard outdoor paint for flat surfaces and elastomeric for textured surfaces like brick and stucco. Keep in mind that areas around high moisture may require mold resistant paint that contains fungicide, but the most important thing to remember is prepping before you paint.
"A lot of homeowners tend to tackle painting on their own, but keep in mind the most common mistakes made is not properly prepping before you paint. And lot of times consumers underestimate the true work involved in prepping properly -- scrapping and getting the surface clean is really important to a lasting paint job. Also, keep in mind if you have a two-story house and you don't have the proper ladders, it can be dangerous, too," said Angie Hicks of Angie's List.
When you're picking a color, consider your landscaping. Maybe try to work in the colors from shrubbery and flowers with the color of the home. Just remember the color you choose will be there for years, so take plenty of time to make your decision.
If you don't want to paint your home yourself, you still have options. Make sure to get at least three estimates, make sure the painter is insured and check whether he or she is certified to deal with lead-based paint, especially if your home was built before 1978.


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Produce has certainly earned its healthful reputation. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fiber, while being low in calories and fat. All of these factors contribute to many health benefits, such as:
How much fruits and vegetables you need is based on your age, sex, and activity level. In general, adults should aim for these amounts every day:
Try to fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables. Visit the
website for more information.
Focus on color when eating fruits and vegetables. Dark green, red, and orange vegetables are especially packed with good-for-you nutrients.
Also, within your daily servings, try fruits and vegetables rich in
vitamin A
or beta-carotene and
vitamin C. Produce rich in vitamin A and beta-carotene (which is converted to vitamin A in the body) includes:
Produce rich in
vitamin C
While it may be tempting to just pop a supplement instead of eating more produce, this is not the best way to go. The majority of the research has shown positive health effects from foods rich nutrients, not from isolated nutrients. Experts think it may be the package of nutrients in fruits and vegetables that delivers the biggest health benefits.
Additionally there are hundreds of phytochemicals in each bite of fruits and vegetables that are not available in pill form.
ChooseMyPlate.gov—US Department of Agriculture
EatRight.org—Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Dietitians of Canada
Health Canada Food and Nutrition
Dietary guidelines for Americans 2010. US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Health and Human Services. Available at: http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2010/DietaryGuidelines2010.pdf. Accessed April 23, 2014.
Food groups: fruits. United States Department of Agriculture Choose My Plate website. Available at: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/fruits.html. Accessed April 23, 2014.
Food groups: vegetables. United States Department of Agriculture Choose My Plate website. Available at: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/vegetables.html. Accessed April 23, 2014.
How many vegetables are needed daily or weekly? United States Department of Agriculture Choose My Plate website. Available at: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/vegetables-amount.html. Accessed April 23, 2014.
How much fruit is needed daily? United States Department of Agriculture Choose My Plate website. Available at: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/fruits-amount.html. Accessed April 23, 2014.
Jiang R, Jacobs DR Jr, Mayer-Davis E, et al. Nut and seed consumption and inflammatory markers in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
Am J Epidemiol.
Kuriyama S, Shimazu T, Ohmori K, et al. Green tea consumption and mortality due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all causes in Japan: the Ohsaki study.
Vlachopoulos C, Aznaouridis K, Alexopoulos N, Economou E, Andreadou I,
Stefanadis C. Effect of dark chocolate on arterial function in healthy individuals.
Am J Hypertens. 2005;18(6):785-791.
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Why Cornell University Chose Oracle Data Masking
By Troy Kitch-Oracle on Aug 29, 2012
One of the eight Ivy League schools, Cornell University found itself in the unfortunate position of having to inform over 45,000 University community members that their personal information had been breached when a laptop was stolen. To ensure this wouldn't happen again, Cornell took steps to ensure that data used for non-production purposes is de-identified with Oracle Data Masking.
A recent podcast highlights why organizations like Cornell are choosing Oracle Data Masking to irreversibly de-identify production data for use in non-production environments. Organizations often copy production data, that contains sensitive information, into non-production environments so they can test applications and systems using "real world" information. Data in non-production has increasingly become a target of cyber criminals and can be lost or stolen due to weak security controls and unmonitored access. Similar to production environments, data breaches in non-production environments can cost millions of dollars to remediate and cause irreparable harm to reputation and brand.
Cornell's applications and databases help carry out the administrative and academic mission of the university. They are running Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions that include highly sensitive faculty, student, alumni, and prospective student data. This data is supported and accessed by a diverse set of developers and functional staff distributed across the university.
Several years ago, Cornell experienced a data breach when an employee's laptop was stolen. Centrally stored backup information indicated there was sensitive data on the laptop. With no way of knowing what the criminal intended, the university had to spend significant resources reviewing data, setting up service centers to handle constituent concerns, and provide free credit checks and identity theft protection services—all of which cost money and took time away from other projects.
To avoid this issue in the future Cornell came up with several options; one of which was to sanitize the testing and training environments.
"The project management team was brought in and they developed a project plan and implementation schedule; part of which was to evaluate competing products in the market-space and figure out which one would work best for us. In the end we chose Oracle's solution based on its architecture and its functionality." – Tony Damiani, Database Administration and Business Intelligence, Cornell University
The key goals of the project were to mask the elements that were identifiable as sensitive in a consistent and efficient manner, but still support all the previous activities in the non-production environments. Tony concludes,
"What we saw was a very minimal impact on performance. The masking process added an additional three hours to our refresh window, but it was well worth that time to secure the environment and remove the sensitive data. I think some other key points you can keep in mind here is that there was zero impact on the production environment. Oracle Data Masking works in non-production environments only. Additionally, the risk of exposure has been significantly reduced and the impact to business was minimal."
With Oracle Data Masking organizations like Cornell can:
- Make application data securely available in non-production environments
- Prevent application developers and testers from seeing production data
- Use an extensible template library and policies for data masking automation
- Gain the benefits of referential integrity so that applications continue to work
Listen to the podcast to hear the complete interview.
Learn more about Oracle Data Masking by registering to watch this SANS Institute Webcast and view this short demo.


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Saturday, April 20 • 1 p.m./3 p.m. CST
Saturday, April 21 • 12 p.m. CST
Ladyjacks Softball Field • Nacogdoches, Texas
The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball team will embark on its final Southland Conference road series of the season this weekend when it takes on Stephen F. Austin in a three-game series. The Islanders will face the Ladyjacks in a doubleheader on Saturday, April 20 before wrapping the series on Sunday, April 21 in a single game at Ladyjacks Softball Field. The Islanders will then return home to Chapman Field for its final six conference games.
The Islanders swept the Ladyjacks last season at Chapman Field and will face Stephen F. Austin for the 28th time in history in the first of two games on Saturday. The Ladyjacks hold the 14-13 all-time series.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is coming of a pair of non-conference losses to UTSA on Wednesday. Prior to that, the Islanders went 1-2 against Sam Houston State last weekend at Chapman Field. The Islanders are 2-16 on the road this season, including 1-8 on the road in conference play.
Stephen F. Austin will continue its six-game homestand on Saturday. The Ladyjacks have dropped seven of its last eight games, with all seven coming in conference play. Stephen F. Austin has won five games in conference play for a 5-13 record in the conference.
The Islanders will head into the weekend with an 8-33 record while the Ladyjacks hold a 12-27 record.
•The Islanders are young with just one senior and 14 on the roster. The squad returns three starters and 11 letterwinners from a team that finished with an 18-23 overall record (11-9 SLC) a year ago.
•Senior Meagan McKinney is powering the Islanders' bats with a .283 batting average. She is second on the team with 32 hits and co-leads the team with 19 RBI.
•Mickayla Cochran is right behind McKinney with a .278 batting average. The sophomore has been consistent as the Islanders' leadoff batter. She leads the team with 37 hits. She also has a team-high four home runs and a team-high 22 runs to go along with six doubles on the year.
• Last weekend in conference action, the Islanders tied a game-high six RBI in the second game against Sam Houston State and matched a game-high 24 putouts in the third game against the Bearkats.
•Valerie Perez tallied her third career homer and second of the season in the second game at UTSA. She also recorded her seventh double of the season.
•Perez is on a two-game hitting streak while McKinney, Cochran, Natalie Zarzabal and J.J. Jackson are all on a one-game hitting streak.
•Junior Constance Brandenburg leads the Islanders in the circle with a 4.69 ERA. Her 113.1 innings and 46 strikeouts pitched this season have surpassed her recorded innings pitched and strikeouts in her first two seasons. She recorded 54.1 innings and 31 strikeouts her first two years.
•Assistant Coach Briana Bishop is in her second year with the Islanders and will face SFA where she was a four-year letterwinner under former All-American Gay McNutt and coach Craig Snider. Bishop garnered several academic and athletic awards on and off the field.
•Saturday's first game will mark the 28th meeting between the two teams in program history. The Ladyjacks hold the 14-13 all-time series record.
Stephen F. Austin heads into Saturday's game with a 12-27 record including a 5-13 record in the Southland Conference. The Ladyjacks are 4-6 at home this season and will continue a six-game conference homestand at Ladyjacks Softball Field. SFA has dropped seven of its last eight games. The Ladyjacks have conference wins against Lamar (2), Nicholls State (1), Sam Houston State (1) and McNeese State (1).
Elizabeth Arana leads Stephen F. Austin with a .369 batting average and a team-high 41 hits, 20 runs and 16 RBI while Kaneisha Gray is second on the team with a .333 batting average. Carlie Thomas (9-12) leads the Ladyjacks with 133.1 innings pitched, while posting a 3.51 ERA and a team-high 113 strikeouts. Angela White (3-14) is second with 80 strikeouts in 107.1 innings, while posting a 7.30 ERA.
Pitching coach and seven-year NPF veteran Sarah Pauly has a young group of pitchers this season after losing standout pitchers Greta Cecchetti, Jordan Trujillo and Vianca Pesina. Cecchetti was second in the Southland Conference last season with a 0.58 ERA and second in strikeouts with 82.
Junior Constance Brandenburg (5-13) has been the Islanders go to pitcher in the circle this season with a 4.69 ERA in 113.1 innings. Brandenburg has tallied 46 strikeouts in a team-high 27 appearances (T-4 in SLC). The junior recorded a career-high nine strikeouts in a complete game strikeout, while allowing just one walk and four hits over Kansas.
Leadoff hitter Mickayla Cochran has been consistent for the Islanders this season. The sophomore is second on the team with a .278 batting average in all 41 starts. She has a team-high 37 hits and has recorded six doubles to go along with a team-high four home runs. Cochran also has a team-high 22 runs and has posted 53 putouts in center field. Cochran went 3-for-4 with three hits and two RBI in a 6-4 victory over Northern Colorado in the Miken Classic in Waco, Texas. She opened the CenturyLink Classic going 2-for-3 in back-to-back games against North Texas and Purdue. Cochran went 2-for-4 in the conference opener vs. HBU. She recorded her fourth career homer in the Islanders victory over Sam Houston State.
Hayley Galloway went 2-for-3 in the first game against UTSA to lead the Islanders' bats while Valerie Perez went 2-for-3 in the second game at UTSA. Perez is on a two-game hitting streak while Meagan McKinney, Mickayla Cochran, Natalie Zarzabal and J.J. Jackson are all on a one-game hitting streak.
Senior Meagan McKinney leads by example on the field. The co-captain leads the team with a .283 batting average and leads the team with 278 putouts at first base, which is good for third in the conference. Her 129 putouts in conference play ranks first along with her 137 chances in conference play. She is second on the team with 32 hits and leads the team with 19 RBI.
Co-captain junior Valerie Perez has been the vocal leader for the team this season along with McKinney. Perez has tallied 27 hits and a team-high seven doubles this season in 37 games. She has also recorded 68 putouts at shortstop this season. The Islanders have won eight games when Perez has been in the starting lineup and 0-6 when the junior hasn't started or been in the game.
Against the Bearkats, the junior stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the seventh with one out and cranked a two-run walk-off homer to lift the Islanders to a 6-5 victory. The win snapped a five-game losing skid and led the Islanders to its third conference victory of the season. Perez drilled her second home run of the season at UTSA.
Sophomore Hayley Galloway has battled back from off-season surgery to record a .274 batting average. She has made starts in 39 of the Islanders 40 games and has a team-high eight sacrifice hits. Galloway has 31 hits and 69 putouts between second base and shortstop this season.
Lindsey Lyles has stepped up for the Islanders in conference play. She leads the team with a .327 batting average in conference play, including a team-high 13 RBI and three doubles. Lyles along with Hayley Galloway have a team-high 16 hits in conference play. In game two at Lamar, Lyles cranked her first career grand slam.
Assistant Coach Briana Bishop is in her second year with the Islanders and will face SFA where she was a four-year letterwinner under former All-American Gay McNutt and coach Craig Snider. During her junior campaign she set a new SFA home run record for a single-season with 12 and also holds the school's career mark with 25. Bishop went on to break two more records for doubles and RBIs during her senior year. Bishop was named SFA's Scholar Athlete of the Year in addition to Female Athlete of the Year and earned First Team All-Conference accolades her junior and senior year.
The Islanders will return home to Chapman Field for its final six conference games. First up is a three-game series against Nicholls State on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28.


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Commissioner Sommers to Leave CFTC Next Week
WASHINGTON—Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Jill Sommers said Monday that she would leave the agency July 8, after concluding oversight of the agency's investigation of MF Global Holdings Ltd.
"I cared deeply about seeing this investigation brought to the point of us filing a complaint," Mrs. Sommers said in an interview. Mrs. Sommers first announced she would leave the commission in January, after serving over five years.
The CFTC filed civil charges Thursday against former MF Global Chief Executive Jon S. Corzine and a top lieutenant for overseeing the misuse of almost $1 billion in customer funds, as the firm collapsed in Oct. 2011.
Ms. Sommers took over the CFTC's investigation of MF Global after Chairman Gary Gensler recused himself because of his ties to Mr. Corzine at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., where the two were co-workers in the 1990s.
She is one of two Republicans on the five-member commission and a frequent critic of the agency's post-crisis regulations. Her departure won't prevent the agency from continuing to pass rules that garner at least three votes.
Some CFTC observers consider Chris Giancarlo, executive vice president of the brokerage firm GFI Group, to be the forerunner to replace Sommers. Mr. Giancarlo declined to comment.
Mr. Gensler's term is also up at the end of the year but he hasn't disclosed his next steps. The White House could decide to pair the two nominations together once both a Democrat and Republican seat on the commission are open, potentially making it easier to get nominees through Senate confirmation.
A spokeswoman for the White House declined to comment.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- A relatively small, but passionate, throng of pop-star wannabes endured long waits and frigid temperatures outside AT&T Park on Tuesday in hopes of landing a coveted spot on Season 13 of "American Idol."
Based on numbers alone, their chances of making a solid impression in this early audition session appeared to be much better than in years past. The last time "Idol" made a stop in the Bay Area -- for Season 10 -- long lines snaked around the ballpark and beyond.
This time, the crowd was held to only Willie Mays Plaza in front of the park. Meanwhile, behind AT&T, several long rows of metal barricades set up in anticipation of a massive turnout were all for naught.
It was yet another sign that much of the luster has come off Fox's venerable reality show. Once, a Nielsen juggernaut that towered over prime time, "Idol" suffered a steep rating decline in Season 12, partially because of a judges panel that lacked chemistry and partially because of the inevitable wear and tear of old age.
Now, "Idol" is in transition. Longtime judge Randy Jackson, along with Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, have departed, and the show's top two executive producers have been dismissed. Speculation is swirling over not only who will fill out the new panel, but whether "Idol" has much life left in it.
The AT&T crowd, of course, wasn't concerned with any of that. They arrived with hopes of taking the first steps on the path to stardom previously traveled by Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert and others. And when cheery host Ryan Seacrest got on a megaphone to ask, "Bay Area, are you ready?!" they responded with boisterous cheers.
As you would expect, Seacrest, the last holdout from the original "Idol" crew, is taking an upbeat approach to Season 13.
"We're finalizing the panel and I think fans of the show will be excited over what we'll actually end up with," he said during a brief chat with reporters.
Seacrest was asked what he thought of reports that the judges' panel may feature one or more contestants from past seasons of the show.
"I think it's an interesting idea," he said. "I think it depends on who that former Idol is -- what kind of experience that Idol has had since they've been through the program, what kind of success they've had. All of that is part of the credibility we're looking for."
As for the experience of witnessing the chilly vibes between Minaj and Carey last season, Seacrest acknowledged that there "was never a dull moment."
"It's a live television show and you've got a lot of different personalities, so you never knew what to expect," he said. "For me, that's part of the fun -- that you just aren't exactly sure how anything is going to end up. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't. Such is life."


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Your daughter has just been in a car crash. She falls unconscious on her way to the hospital, but not before she is able to tell the paramedics the name of her doctor. This is vitally important because the emergency room won't know that she's an insulin-dependent diabetic with a penicillin allergy, but her doctor will be able to give them her relevant medical history.
Or, at least he would be if he'd renewed the tech support contract on his medical records software. He didn't, though, and now his information—and your daughter's—is locked away in a proprietary database he can't access.
As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes. When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients' information.
This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
In the short term, cases like the example above are all too possible, and simply unacceptable in every way. With today's large practices built around large numbers of patients, many using multiple prescription medicines, these practice management systems are absolutely critical and can't be permitted to be held ransom. Additionally, doctors in the United States are saddled with a giant bureaucratic tangle known as HIPAA. Even if a doctor and her software vendor are working happily together, the government may take a dim view of an outside party controlling access to patient records.
In the long term, patients could lose their own medical history as doctors migrate from one proprietary system to another by simply starting over rather than paying thousands of dollars for expensive data format conversion. Even if you have an excellent personal relationship with your doctor, a relocation or changes to your insurance could make you need a copy of your records to give to a new doctor's office. Your old physician may know to monitor that funny looking spot on your shoulder, but might not have entered it into the new system he put in place since your last visit.
Finally, practice management software can be extremely expensive. Doctors have to pass these expenses along to their patients, increasing treatment costs for all involved.
Fortunately, the situation isn't entirely bleak. New online communities are developing to build and market free software solutions. LinuxMedNews is a regularly updated online forum for discussing industry news. GPLMedicine is a similar site maintained by Fred Trotter, project manager for the Free software ClearHealth management system. A project by Canada's McMaster University, OSCAR, became the first IT system certified by OntarioMD.
Although these don't have the name recognition among the medical community of commercial ventures such as Dr. Notes, they're available for testing and implementation—free of charge and usage restrictions—today.
If you are a doctor or other healthcare provider, you owe it to yourself and your patients to take a look at these forums and applications. At the worst, you'll find them uninteresting and unuseful. However, you could also find ways to protect your patients' and your own best interests—all while saving money.
If you are a patient, print a copy of this blog and hand it to your doctor next time you see her. She may not be aware that there are viable alternatives to the expensive, restrictive systems she's been leasing. If she's not interested, you've lost nothing. If she finds something useful, though, then you may have done a real service to yourself, your doctor, and your fellow patients.
My project is now called MirrorMed thanks for the mention! The scenario you have referenced is very common, but usually not recognized for what it is. Once healthcare provider see that vendor lock-in is the result of ignoring the software freedoms, I think things will start changing.
Fred Trotter
Nice project
I too agree with you that things will start changing but not by the same reasons.
I think that vendors will start to see that they have plenty of good and easier to modify applications in the area and that costs with code maintenance and development could be deminished so they will do -- as IBM, SUN and Novell did -- the slow move to supporting F/OSS instead of developing it single handed.
This will cause more awareness on the healthcare systems costumers side and the company that offers the best support and/or integration will win more costumers. Also, having employees in the developer teams will be more and more a marketing issue also for those companies.
On the other hand I see many projects but few can cooperate between then.
A good example is how could this project relate with other healthcare projects like Care2x?
Another doubt I have concerning your project is if it isn't just like ClearHealth, which is also released under GNU/GPL? What is different in your Mirromed that would make people choose yours instead of ClearHealth?
About Healthcare and the many issues with that I let you here the link to e-HealthExperts that may be of any use.
Multiple projects
"On the other hand I see many projects but few can cooperate between then.
A good example is how could this project relate with other healthcare projects like Care2x?"
I'm not sure about the particular situation here, but free software often has multiple projects covering the same basic territory. However, unlike commercial companies, they don't compete destructively.
They do compete constructively, trying to create new and better functionality. However, they have strong motivations to cooperate, and since the code itself is free to share, any sufficiently good idea will be incorporated into multiple packages.
This is particularly true at the data storage level -- projects with any kind of maturity will usually have interchangeable or at least importable/exportable data formats. If it hasn't happened yet with this particular application, it is likely to happen pretty quickly (OTOH, asking questions about it is a start on getting the developers to realize there's a need).
This happened at Lewis-Gale Clinic in Salem, VA. Nobody got hurt or died because of it, though... but they weren't paying their bills to their transcription company and got locked out of their patients' information.
Contact Me
Please contact me (Fred Trotter) about this offline. This is exactly the kind of thing that I want to document on GPLMedicine
Medic Alert Braclet
A simple device that doesn't require you to even be awake to notify emergency medical personnel that you have a medical condition.
That's just not enough
When a life is at risk, isn't it worthwhile having as much backup as possible. A bracelet doesn't convey your entire medical history. "Sure" you'll say "but make at USB bracelet". And then your doctor has to update it everytime you go and you can't get it wet, or fall off, or get damaged, or ... on and on.
I'd still prefer a solid backup. The best backup I can think of is a complete medical history on file, available and accessible 24/7 in a central (secure and backed up) database. This data should never be held by a license that could in anyway prevent or delay access... EVER. It should also be available in an open format so that every piece of software in every doctors surgery, lab or hospital can read it, and so that if I move country my data is still accessible and readable.
This is an ideal situation and might not be easily achievable (at least not in the near future) what with all the regulatory redtape and different stake holders needing to agree on a solution. However, I'd still prefer steps be taken to head in that direction.
A correction
Fred Trotter is no longer managing Uversa's ClearHealth system, although he is still active in the industry.
Bad Analogy
I think you should write this as:
"Or, at least he would be if he'd renewed the lease on his medical center. He didn't, though, and now his information�and your daughter's�is locked away in an office he can't access.
As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare is the landlord of a popular medical office park in Anytown, PA. When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual lease, they were cut off from accessing their own offices.
This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly open doctor-patient relationship when doctors can contract with an unrelated third party as the de facto owner of and gatekeeper to their physical location."
Or you could substitute computers, cars, cell-phones...software and data storage are useful things that people often PAY FOR. I'm not opposed to them selecting open-source solutions if that what they prefer...but if they make a bad choice that is *their* responsibility. Ask your doctor what software they use, and if you don't like their choice, switch healthcare providers.
Or, at least he would be if
Or, at least he would be if he'd renewed the lease on his medical center. He didn't, though, and now his information�and your daughter's�is locked away in an office he can't access.
In an emergency, you can break a window or ask a security guard to let you into a building. To continue your analogy, what's the software equivalent of a human security guard, and do you know whether you doctor's office management system has one?
Bad analogy redux
A better analogy would be if, when a doctor decided not to renew the lease, the landlord wouldn't let him remove his files from the building.
Talk about vendor lock-in
Pay our licensing fees or you will die!!
There's nothing wrong with making a little money from your hard work, such as a medical info. system that works very well, but this is a bit much. This may be splitting hairs, but I'm in no way against using proprietary software, as long as it's the best product. I do, however, have a major problem proprietary file formats. The information contained in those files does not belong to the proprietary vendor, and the end user should be able to easily take their dollars and info. elsewhere if the vendor is essentially extorting them because they have a monopoly.
I wonder if the programmers of the GPL'd med systems have given any thought to making an attempt at reverse-engineering some of these proprietary databases for compatibility?
Pay our licensing fees or your patients will die !!
slightly more sinister
I don't understand why you
I don't understand why you are blaming the proprietary software industry itself for the lack of foresight of the medical community. Doctors should understand the terms and length of their contract, have a backup plan for when that contract expires, and make sure that they can at least move the data elsewhere should they decide to stop using a particular vendor's storage solution.
Two wrongs == OK?
So it's your opinion that tragedy is OK as long as you can assign blame? I'm of the opinion that it's far, far better to prevent the problem than to decide who's fault it was afterward.
Strange state of affairs...
I know that in France at least, an old law called 'Informatique et Libertés' (litterally, computing and freedom) says that an individual must have unrestricted access to read, modify or delete any information about him/her - separating actual data from software. In such a situation where there is no access whatsoever to the data, the company responsible for hosting the data would be liable not only for data theft, but also for not helping a person in a perilous situation...
While doctors should indeed read their software support contracts more closely, they should retain legible access to their patients' files even after software support goes bye-bye.
It is also unfair to tie software use to technical support: if you paid for your software licence but decide to deal with bugs, breakdowns and updates on your own, that's your problem. Would you consider it fair that your refusal to pay a plumber every month to keep your pipes nice and tidy (even if the plumber actually does nothing because you did all your repairs yourself) would result in your water supply being cut? No. HEre is the very same situation taking place.
When we (BFMC) went to an EMR/EPM solution we stipulated that we have a fully documented database schema with non obfuscated data. This allows us in the event of application failure (for any reason) to have access to all data entered into the system.
Avoid the problem altogether
and develop the software in house!
"Sorry, the doctors can't see you...
...they're all too busy adding a reporting facility to our software."
I've run into real-life situations very close to this, where doctors (and staff) have guess-only access to appointments and zero access to patient data following a business application failure. My GP used paper records on the day; remarkable that they still kept them, in a way.
This is very likely to happen
Thank you for this very likely scenario. I fear that seeing it happening somewhere over the world is just a matter of time.
I witnessed something comparable several years ago, while I was working in a university hospital. This one was managing an official emergency call desk for emergencies and ambulancies. The call desk was (and still is) reachable through a single phone nimber. In one case, the national phone company did not integrate correctly the periodic payment they received, and a fairly low level employee decided to cut this emergency line which is handling cases of life an death! By chance, the problem was detected very quickly and it was quickly fixed. Later there was a serious explanation, behind the scene, between the hospital and the phone line.
So, even if the scenario you propose could be considered as data theft, at least according to the continental law system, it is likely to happen, just because of uncompetent and unsensitive clerks.
It is even likelier to happen as doctors are neither lawyers nor computer sciencists, most still consider computers as an unavoidable chore and they are very unlikely to understand the need and the subtleties of an extensive sevice level agreement with their provider.
IMO, the only way to avoid this problem are some very strong legislative measures, which would force service providers to:
_ Register medical file services (so that no medical data could be placed somewhere else)
_ Guarantee the strict protection of the privacy of medical datas (in any circumstance) and to guarantee read access to their data 24H/24 7days/7 to their clients, even in case of contract break, at least for a period of several weeks/months,
_ In the case of contract interruption, the delivery of their data to the client on a media and in a format agreed by the client.
I am not sure that there will be many interested providers.
Marie-Noëlle Baechler
Belmont-sur-lausanne / Suisse
Medical Data
I find it hard to imagine that the medical "professionals" in the US take the time to review your records to any great extent! Obtaining your own records and storing them yourself with access via a card, tag or bracelet with critical information would be in the best interest of the individual patient. Would it really be realistic to imagine the Doc or hospital staff taking the time to review massive amounts of data for just one patient?
Good (scary) example from non-medical industry
I just read a similar example of the perils of using proprietary software at Wired magazine
Giant robot imprisons parked cars
The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But it wasn't the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.
The garage is owned by the city; the software, by Robotic Parking of Clearwater, Florida.
In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before the contract between both parties was set to expire. What the city didn't understand or perhaps concern itself with, is that they sent the company packing with its manuals and the intellectual property rights to the software that made the giant robotic parking structure work.
Michael Britt
Image Mechanics
You are right. Doctors
You are right. Doctors should upgrade their programs and the data base. I myself have many allergies to all sort of medicine I might be given if I crash. I'm always afraid I;ll die in the hospital because the doctors had no idea of my allergy status.
Mary-Anne Davis
This type of info should be
This type of info should be stored in an online database accessible by all emergency units. Imagine that you're out of the country and something happens. You don't really know the language or you can't talk. What happens then?
E Verify
This will cause more
This will cause more awareness on the healthcare systems costumers side and the company that offers the best support and/or integration will win more costumers. Also, having employees in the developer teams will be more and more a marketing issue also for those companies. I'm not sure about the particular situation here, but free software often has multiple projects covering the same basic territory. However, unlike commercial companies, they don't compete destructively.
This is great news for
This is great news for everyone especially for medical personnels.
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SAN DIEGO -- The Raiders are fading, having lost four straight games and six of the last seven.
Coach Dennis Allen's job security is a topic of debate, and the roster has a lot of players on one-year contracts who are either looking to come back or merely playing out the string on a 4-10 team.
The San Diego Chargers are peaking, having won three of their last four games to get to 7-7 and with a shot at the playoffs should they finish with wins over the Raiders and Kansas City.
Coach Mike McCoy is getting rave reviews for installing an offense that has quarterback Philip Rivers playing at or near the Peyton Manning-Drew Brees-Tom Brady realm, and the Chargers are well-rested after a 27-20 Thursday night win at Denver on Dec. 12.
There is no good reason to think the Raiders, given their play of late, have any shot at taking down the Chargers other than the fact that there are upsets every week.
"It's shown every week that a team everybody thinks is top dog or a lot better gets knocked off," McCoy said by conference call. "You have to play your best. It doesn't matter what week of the season it is."
It wasn't that long ago that the Raiders beat the Chargers 27-17 in Oakland on a late Sunday night on Oct. 6. It was the closest thing to a complete performance by the Raiders in all three phases this season.
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor, since replaced by Matt McGloin, was 18 of 23 for 221 yards, including a 44-yard touchdown pass to Rod Streater on the first offensive play from scrimmage. Pryor also had 39 yards rushing. The defense forced a season-high five turnovers, including three interceptions of Rivers and a 25-yard touchdown return of a fumble by Charles Woodson.
The Raiders led by as much as 24-3, holding on for a 10-point win that was the largest margin of victory over San Diego this season.
"It's a team we have some familiarity with and it was one of our better performances of the season," Allen said. "Our guys feel confident that they can play against these guys, and we just have to go out and do it."
The Raiders' frame of mind is an open question. Allen has been steadfast in his refusal to address anything but the next game on the schedule, having received no assurances about his employment beyond this season.
"My job is to try to get this team better, to try and put a good product on the field, to help these guys and put them in the best position to have success," Allen said. "That's been my job since Day 1 and that won't change."
Wide receiver Denarius Moore believes being concerned with the future of the coaching staff and roster makeup would be counterproductive.
"Once you let it get to your mind, that's when it gets the best of you and you could possibly lose your job," Moore said. "You're worrying about something else, you start messing up, making too many mistakes."
Fullback Marcel Reece said the coaching staff has kept the roster focused, but that the on-field performance will be most affected by how the core of the roster is affected.
"I think the coaches have done a great job, but at the same time, that's not necessarily their responsibility," Reece said. "That's our responsibility, as players, as leaders, as veterans, to keep our team focused on the task at hand."
The task is considerable, considering how San Diego has played of late. Rivers is completing 69.9 percent of his passes with 28 touchdowns and nine interceptions, Ryan Mathews has 1,012 yards rushing, and a leaky secondary was good enough to keep Manning under control.
"We understand the challenge that's in front of us," Allen said.
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Trey came out and put on a spectacular show. Him and his acoustic was really cool to see.
Part of the shows performance can be found on the extra disc from the album, "Shine", he was was supporting that tour.
Red Rocks really is a magical place.
Set 1: Drifting, Cayman Review, Air Said to Me > Dark and Down, Invisible[1], Night Speaks to a Woman, Spin, Plasma > Push On 'Til the Day, Goodbye Head, Back on the Train[2], The Inlaw Josie Wales[2], Pebbles and Marbles[2], Waste[2], Shine, Sand, Tuesday > Mr. Completely > 46 Days, Come As Melody
Encore: Love is Freedom > I Am the Walrus
[1] Trey on acoustic.
[2] Trey solo acoustic.
Notes: Sound Tribe Sector 9 opened. Before "Goodbye Head" Trey gave props to the venue noting that "this is the most incredible place to play, on earth!" Trey dedicated the song to his daughter, Eliza, with whom he co-wrote the song and who was in the audience. He then brought out his then-93-year-old grandmother to take a bow! Trey played acoustic on "Invisible" and performed "Back on the Train" through "Waste" solo acoustic.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Jennifer Hartswick, Skeeto Valdez, Ray Paczkowski, Christina Durfee, Les Hall, Tony Hall


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Latest 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Trailer Storms the Web
The third trailer for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" makes the latest installment in the blockbuster mutant saga look like it's going to be the biggest one yet.
Previous promos hinted at a time-hopping narrative, with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) being recruited by Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) to travel to the past and warn their younger selves of a great cataclysm. This time around, we see the clawed one tracking down the younger incarnations of Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Xavier (James McAvoy) to form a team in a bid to stop the devastation that awaits.
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Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry and Peter Dinklage also star.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is scheduled to premiere in U.S. theaters May 23.
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MARTINEZ -- Jan Depuy gently strokes the matted flaxen hair of a bedraggled porcelain doll. She examines Maryindiana's chipped paint and reassures a potential client that she can bring the doll -- that once belonged to the client's mother -- back to her pristine self.
"I don't manhandle the dolls," says Depuy, a Martinez resident, who for nearly three decades has meticulously restored dolls dating back to the 1880s -- and is among a diminishing group of artisans with these skills.
"People find doll people. You don't have to find them," she says, noting the receipt of shipments of dolls needing repairs from overseas.
On this particular day, a quick look on the back of the doll's neck reveals its manufacturer, and that the doll was made in the early 1930s.
The client's own eyes well up when Depuy says she can adjust the doll's lids to open and shut again and replace its crier. The restoration feels like a deep honoring of her mother, long deceased.
Depuy is accustomed to treating a client and a damaged doll with a kind heart and kid gloves.
"(The doll) might signify their happy place. So many things are emotionally connected with them, with a life that can kick them in the gut, and when they (leave the store), the doll looks like she looked when they were a child," she says. "I don't want to take a doll apart in front of someone. It does something to their psyche."
Depuy lovingly tends to Lucy Anne, an 1800s-era China Head with a torso of goat skin that was a customer's great-grandmother's doll. She has baked sawdust she collected from local woodshops in a 200-degree oven overnight to "kill off any parasites," before stuffing the doll's interior. Delicate cotton knitting she found in Washington state will be used to mend tears in her dress.
Currently, roughly 200 dolls in various states of disrepair are lying in wait for Depuy's gentle touch. She will spend hours on each one, sanding, airbrushing, custom-mixing from more than 200 paints to create an exact match, and repacking the doll torsos so their bodies will have integrity and no longer slump.
A 31-inch Kestner doll that was "smoke damaged to no end" in a fire on Brown Street in Martinez is among those in need of her care. Depuy is working to revive the treasured figure that the client's grandfather -- who operated a doll hospital in San Francisco -- gave to her, making her wig from locks from his granddaughter's hair.
Depuy will contact a chemist she knows in Maine, who will mix a compound to clean up the oily soot.
Meanwhile, Depuy tells Maryindiana's owner that she also will replace the doll's missing arm with a matching one retrieved from her "morgue," a room in the back of the Martinez store that houses dismantled bodies, countless appendages, wigs, eyes of all sizes, neck buttons and rows of porcelain heads.
She frequents doll shows, antique shops and secondhand stores to find such doll parts.
"I buy antique boots wherever I go," she adds, also noting trips she takes to the California Millinery to find vintage hats, or papier-mache or gilded flowers.
The Alhambra Avenue storefront of Nature's Way -- signifying "from the earth" -- brims with sizable samples of the 1,000 dolls Depuy has collected and more than 700 she has made. They herald from 40 countries and historic periods from the Civil War era, the boudoir dolls of the 1920s, the rare celluloid "flirt" dolls -- with their eyes moving alluringly back and forth -- to the more recent models.
"It has to do with an eye (for detail). I have to like it to add it to my collection. My dolls have to talk to me," she says.
She describes the trips to the Los Angeles garment district where she procures silks, satins and wools to dress the dolls in their historically accurate attire.
"I wear myself out till I can't even walk," she says.
Other more spontaneous trips through the countryside have turned up bags of shorn wool from sheep she admired on a hillside; the sun just hitting it to highlight auburn undertones that were the ideal shade for a doll wig to be used in an upcoming doll making class.
She discovered a taxidermist in Arizona who agreed to raise white pigeons for the wings of the 24-inch animated angels for a doll-making workshop that attracted students from across the country.
"I have just a thimble full of Jan's knowledge," says Lori Hanson, an Isleton resident who used to repair porcelain dolls and now attends Depuy's weekly class.
"Ask her anything about a doll, anything, and she'll tell you," adds Hanson.
Her students are drawn to Depuy's encouraging teaching style and an expertise she has honed, being largely self-taught and constantly researching, including poring over a library of an estimated 2,000 books in her collection.
"I told my husband to just bury me with a doll book," Depuy says with a lilting giggle that is a favorite trait for her students.
Antioch resident Jeannie Mullen has been studying with Depuy for 13 years.
"It's her laughter, just the atmosphere she brings to this room. It's pure joy," Mullen says.
Nature's Way Doll Centre is located at 1616 Alhambra Ave. in Martinez. Call 925-228-5263.
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November 30, 2012
Large numbers of young people are hoping to set up their own business when they leave education, according to a new poll released by Dell and StartUp Britain. 63% of students who took part in the survey said that they wanted to start their own business after leaving college or university.
The main reasons for setting up their own business were cited as "more freedom" (29%) and the desire to be their own boss (29%). However, 32% of respondents highlighted finance as a potential barrier to getting started.
The survey was conducted as part of the 2012 StartUp Britain bus tour, of which Dell is a founding sponsor, designed to inspire and support young people who are interested in starting their own business. It was conducted with 380 students aged 15–24 across Britain between October and November 2012. The main findings were:
Sarah Shields, UK & Ireland general manager and executive director, Dell Consumer and Small Business, said: "It is refreshing to see so many of Britain's youth interested in starting their own company and it is important that we do everything we can to support them on this journey. These students will be the business leaders of tomorrow and play an important role in the future of the global economy."
StartUp Britain co-founder, Emma Jones, said: "It's no surprise to us that the younger generation are looking to entrepreneurship as a career path. Their innate understanding of technology and the fresh opportunity that exists out there right now means they are perfectly placed to start up a business and work for themselves."


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STOCKTON - Sheriff's deputies stopped a man for riding a bicycle without a light at 11:37 p.m. Wednesday, but they ended up arresting the man on much more serious charges, authorities said.
John Blackwell, 26, was stopped on North Belvedere Avenue near East Francis Street. Blackwell told deputies he had a loaded handgun in his right pocket, authorities said. In his pocket, deputies found a loaded, stolen .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun with four live rounds and one in the chamber, authorities said.
They also discovered a clear plastic bag containing 4.9 grams of suspected methamphetamine, deputies said. Authorities also determined that Blackwell had a felony no-bail warrant for drug possession and drug sales, deputies said.
Blackwell was arrested for the warrant and on suspicion of use of a firearm, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a concealed firearm and receiving stolen property, authorities said.
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I have recently connected this Blue-Ray player (192.168.1.63), but does not show up as a renderer device. My PS3 (192.168.1.64) shows up fine, but it does not even detect as an unknown device. First I thought it was an issue with my blue-ray, but after installing Plex Media Server, Plex was able to detect it, but I did not like the folder layouts on the system. I personally prefer PS3 Media Server, so if anyone could assist me it would be great.
It just stops after access granted, no other logs continue for my blueray
PS3 Media Server is hosted on:
Windows 2012 server, 6gb ram, quad core
Here is my Debug log:
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:00.496 [New I/O server worker #1-1] Access granted to /192.168.1.64 by rule: 192.168.1.63-64
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:00.521 [pool-7-thread-1] Checking IP: 192.168.1.64 for Playstation 3
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:00.704 [New I/O server worker #1-2] Checking shared folder: D:\Data\Kids
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:00.704 [New I/O server worker #1-2] Checking shared folder: D:\Data\Video
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:00.705 [New I/O server worker #1-2] Checking shared folder: D:\Data\Pictures
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:00.707 [New I/O server worker #1-2] Checking shared folder: D:\Data\Music
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:02.263 [main] The server should now appear on your renderer
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:05.136 [pool-7-thread-1] Renderer Playstation 3 found on this address: 192.168.1.64
DEBUG 2013-01-02 00:09:05.142 [pool-7-thread-1] Starting ping -n 3 -l 64000 192.168.1.64
DEBUG 2013-01-02 00:09:07.149 [SpeedStats Failsafe] Stopping process: ping-0
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:07.151 [pool-7-thread-1] Address /192.168.1.64 has an estimated network speed of: 117 Mb/s
DEBUG 2013-01-02 00:09:12.269 [UPNP-AliveMessageSender] Sending ALIVE...
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:13.755 [UPNPHelper] Access granted to /192.168.1.63 by rule: 192.168.1.63-64
INFO 2013-01-02 00:09:31.080 [New I/O server worker #1-1] Access denied to /192.168.1.100
DEBUG 2013-01-02 00:09:36.569 [UPNP-AliveMessageSender] Sending ALIVE...
DEBUG 2013-01-02 00:12:41.157 [UPNP-AliveMessageSender] Sending ALIVE...


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Benderson subsidiary buys 5 acres near its mall
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 8:44 p.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - A subsidiary of Benderson Development Co. bought a house and five acres of property on DeSoto Road near its University Town Center mall property.
Desoto 5470 LLC, the subsidiary, purchased the 2,341-square-foot house on five acres at 5470 DeSoto Road in Sarasota County out of foreclosure from First Federal Bank for $300,000.
The property is on the west side of the already built part of University Town Center, the mall complex anchored by Target.
The house and land previously belonged to Victory Word Faith Church Inc., a Sarasota religious organization headed by Joseph S. Green. Green's church bought the house for $150,000 in October 2000 and lost a $519,788 foreclosure judgment in May of this year.
Benderson has work under way on the eastern portion of its new mall, slated to open before the holiday season on Oct. 16, 2014.
The 880,000-square-foot mall, which at $315 million represents the largest new construction project in the area since the Great Recession began more than five years ago, is expected to include department stores Macy's, Dillard's and Saks Fifth Avenue as well as 100 other specialty retailers.
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