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Scrumptious Eggs
1 ½ lbs. shredded Monterey Jack Cheese
2 cans mushroom stems and pieces, drained
½ large onion, chopped
¼ cup margarine, melted
1 cup cubed ham
7 eggs, beaten
1 3/4 cup milk
½ cup flour
1 Tbsp. dried parsley
1 Tbsp. seasoned salt
1 tsp. pepper (optional)
½ cup cooked, crumbled bacon (optional)
½ cup red or green bell pepper (optional)
Grease 9×13-inch baking dish with margarine. Arrange half the cheese in the dish. Sauté mushrooms, onions and peppers (if desired) in margarine until soft but not browned. Arrange over cheese. Distribute ham over mushrooms and onion; add remaining cheese. (If desired, cover and refrigerate until time to bake.) About 1 hour before serving, beat eggs, milk, flour, parsley, salt and pepper, if desired, together. Pour evenly over ingredients in baking dish. Top with bacon, if desired. Bake at 350-degrees for 45 minutes.
Makes 6-9 servings
Breakfast Sausage Casserole
1 cup frozen hash browns
1 can cream of celery soup
1 lb. sausage, browned & drained
2/3 cup milk
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup cubed Velveeta cheese
Mix everything together. Put in flat casserole. Sprinkle with crumbs and grated cheese or cheese croutons. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Serves 6-8 people. This casserole keeps well in a warm oven and also freezes well.
Breakfast Casserole
4-7 slices of ham or ½ lb. of bacon or ½ lb. of sausage4 slices bread (remove crust and cube)
1 ½ cups milk
1/3 lb. Velveeta cheese
4 eggs, beaten
¼ tsp. dry mustard
Fry ham, bacon or sausage. Drain, and break up. Combine remaining ingredients and add meat. Refrigerate overnight. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 ¼ hrs.
Serves 4-6 people. May be doubled or halved.
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Previously, I expressed my disapproval of the Joey Votto's contract extension. I just failed to see any appreciable value in it for the Reds. It makes a lot of sense for Joey Votto, but the Reds failure to buy out even a single free agent year makes it a poor one for the organization. And, interestingly enough, Theo Epstein would seem to agree:
"Our philosophy, which is actually a policy in writing, is if we're going to sign arbitration-eligible players long term, we have to get one free agent year and we have to get an option for the club. Because we're giving the player certainty. We need to be able get some of those prime years back in exchange. That makes it a fair bargain. We got that with (Kevin) Youkilis. We got that with (Dustin) Pedroia. We got that with (Jon) Lester. Those players decided to give us that flexibility in exchange for security. If players don't want to do that, that's fine with us. We'll just treat them accordingly, year to year."
Epstein's opinion is more in line with my feelings on the extension. It's interesting to note that they believe so strongly in the policy that they actually put it in writing. Not sure what type of writing that would be, but I'd love to read it. Now, there are many ways to run an organization and it must be pointed out that the Reds and Red Sox aren't identically situated. Maybe the revenue disparity between Boston and Cincinnati means that the Reds need to use different policies in regard to contract extensions. Maybe there is a rational financial basis for the Reds more heavily weighing the value of payroll savings than do the high revenue Red Sox. Personally, I tend to doubt it. I still don't see the potential cost savings as outweighing the injury/performance risk that the organization incurred.
Any discussion of the best run MLB franchises necessarily includes the Red Sox along with the Twins, Braves, Phillies, and Rays. So, when one of those franchises does something, it's worth taking note. Walt Jocketty has undoubtedly done some real nice things during his tenure as the Cincinnati GM, but I still struggle to see the value to the organization of the Votto extension. The Jay Bruce extension was a very strong move for the organization, but it might have been better for them to go year-to-year with Votto.


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EGAP is pleased to announce the addition of 37 new members to its research network: 33 experimental researchers and 4 institutions active in research and policy. The researchers are based at 26 universities and research institutions spread over 11 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. Our new institutional members are based in 3 countries: Kenya, Uganda, and the United States.
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Capturing Bartholdi Fountain
Each month AOC's photography branch will break down an iconic photo of Capitol Hill and share tips and tricks for snapping beautiful images at the Capitol. This month AOC photographer Susanne Bledsoe walks us through a shot of Bartholdi Fountain in Bartholdi Park on the Capitol Grounds.
I took this photo of Bartholdi Fountain just after it returned from its recent restoration in 2011. The fountain had been off site for more than two years so this photo would help reintroduce this stunning sculpture to the world. One of the key elements of the restoration was restoring the glass lanterns atop the fountain, so I knew I wanted to photograph it at night, to show off these lights.
I set up in Bartholdi Park around dusk. It only took about 5 minutes to get my gear in place, but it took much more time to decide what angle to shoot from. I decided to compose my shot with the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory in the background, and also worked to keep other distractions (like street lights) out of the photo. In this shot I also chose to shoot facing one of the nereids (sea nymphs) of the fountain in order to show the most details.
After setting up my gear and selecting the right angle it was getting closer to dark. The color in the sky was getting more saturated which really helped the lights of the fountain pop and the rich sky and clouds provided more color and drama to the image. The time of day also allowed me to shoot with a longer shutter speed, which is how I achieved the blur in the water (at least a one second shutter speed is needed for this effect).
I used my Nikon D3 and 24-70mm lens (shot at 40mm). I set the ISO at 200, the aperture at f/14 and the shutter speed for 5 seconds. A tripod and cable release were essential for shooting at this speed, so make sure you reach out to the U.S. Botanic Garden to request a tripod permit.
Post production I did some work to color balance the color of the sky (daylight) and the lights of the fountain (tungsten). And at the end of the day I think I achieved a shot that truly showcases the beauty of Bartholdi's Fountain of Light and Water.


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Welcome to the AIG Study Website
Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma (AIG) is a multi-center bioengineering partnership sponsored by the National Eye Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The goal of this partnership is to develop advanced imaging technologies that can improve the detection and management of glaucoma. Currently-employed advanced imaging devices include optical coherence tomography, scanning laser polarimetry and scanning laser tomography. The imaging technologies will be evaluated in a longitudinal 5-year clinical trial. The study subjects will include patients with normal eyes, patients with glaucoma, and individuals at risk for developing glaucoma.
ANNOUNCEMENTS - AIGS comes to an end
The Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma Study officially ended on August 31, 2013. As principal investigator, Dr. Huang would like to thank the participants for their commitment to the project.
With your participation, we were able to evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracy of the eye measurements made by various imaging technologies. We learned that diagnosis could be improved by combining measurements from different parts of the eyes that were affected by glaucoma the optic disc, nerve fiber layer, and macular ganglion cell complex. And we found that these imaging results could help predict the development of glaucoma and its subsequent progression.
September 2013 - Letter from Dr. David Huang to AIGS Study Participants
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Specific Aims
The specific aims of the AIG clinical studies are to:
1. Predict the development of visual field (VF) abnormalities in individuals at risk for developing glaucoma based on anatomic abnormalities detected by advanced imaging;
2. Predict the development of VF abnormalities in individuals at risk for developing glaucoma based on anatomic changes detected between successive advanced imaging tests; and
3. Determine the sensitivity and specificity of a glaucoma diagnosis based on advanced imaging tests.
The coordinating center for the AIG partnership is located at the Oregon Health & Science Unversity (OHSU). There are a total of four centers that will be conducting the AIG clinical study, two basic science and engineering centers that will develop the advanced imaging instruments and conduct laboratory studies on glaucoma and one resource center.
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The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has just sent out the "News" this week - the August-October, 2008 newsletter.
This issue is 55 pages long, and covers such topics as The Early Carleton County Settlers (Early Medical Practitioners in Carleton County and The Lillico Family Chain Migrants to Gloucester Township, Ontario); Early Residents of Ottawa's Sandy Hill Neighbourhood; Celebrating Beechwood Women! Beechwood Cemetery 14th Annual Historical Tour; and the section titled, Old-Time Stuff covers Early Trangraphs.
They have a section called "News", which really brings you up-to-date about what's going on in the National Capital Region of Ottawa-Gatineau.
In this issue, they have set the date for the Gene-O-Rama conference for March 27 and 28, 2009 and the special focus will be on the census. The Ryan Taylor Memorial Lecture will be held November 1st, with Brian Gilchrist talking about developing a Research Strategy. On Tuesday, September 16, there will be a meeting of the OGS in which Marc St-Jacques will talk about Searching Gatineau Archives.
In the "Electronic Noteboard" is the latest of the websites on the Internet, and Heather Oakley always does an interesting article about places to check on the Internet.
It is interesting to note that Mike More, the Chair of the Ottawa Branch of the OGS, states that their attendance is down 5% per year since the late 1990s.
They, unlike the Nova Scotia Genealogy Society, aren't thinking about cutting back on the number of issues on the newsletter but are looking for a Publicity Coordinator to get the message out about their meetings, etc.
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Living the legend: Mandan life on display
Pint-sized adventurers who wander down the hall to the Back Gallery at the Virginia Discovery Museum often find themselves in another world. Until May 4, these explorers can tread in the tracks of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who settled in for the winter of 1804 with the Mandan Indian tribe in North Dakota.
Young natives can dress up in brightly decorated fringed costumes and play in the gardens tended by Mandan women where corn, sunflowers, beans, and squash were grown. Tobacco grew there, too, but that was the territory of the men who used it for ceremonial purposes only… smoking the peace pipe, for example (a replica of which is displayed nearby).
Aspiring hunters can do some target practice with a hoop-toss game where they try to pitch an ear of corn through a rolling ring. (It's not as easy as you think.) To help hunters bring back the buffalo, there's a device called a "travois" that lashes the burden to two long poles strapped to a horse or dog to be dragged back to the village.
A bull boat was also used to transport people and objects, and the folks at the museum have fashioned a very authentic example. They've woven together a sapling shell into a half-sphere frame, then covered it with a real buffalo hide (presumably a bull– hence the name). Kids can climb in and rock the boat as they pretend to sail down the Missouri River.
The biggest attraction to the exhibit by far, though, is a 14-foot diameter rendition of a Mandan home: the earth lodge. Again with as much authenticity as they could muster, museum folks patted a mud-like compound onto a domed wooden frame at least 10-feet high. A realistic "fire" burns within, and a collection of carved wooden bowls stacked on the dirt floor (well, sort of) invites the visitor to stay for supper. A four-panel Lee Morrison-inspired mural depicts a scene from the interior of an Indian earth lodge and gives a sense of how the Mandan lived, complete with stable space for dogs and horses.
A sign language corner invites kids to use pictographs to "read" a story or write their own on a buffalo hide or tipi. Period maps adorn the walls along with replica displays of everything from clothing to the coins Lewis and Clark traded for food and good will.
For young travelers who need to experience to understand, "Up from the Earth" is a must-see additions to the Lewis and Clark bicentennial extravaganza.
"Up from the Earth: The Mandan Way of Life" hovers in the Back Gallery of the Virginia Discovery Museum until May 4. The exhibit is included in the price of admission. East End of the Downtown Mall. 977-1025. www,vadm.org.


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Many people mistakenly believe that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a problem that comes with old age. In fact, CVD is increasingly being diagnosed in younger adults, and that's part of the reason why it has become one of the world's – and Thailand's – biggest killers. And the problem is only getting worse.
It may be surprising to hear that diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease, especially among patients who've had diabetes for many years and for patients whose diabetes is poorly controlled.
To better understand the connection between diabetes and CVD, Better Health sought the expertise of Dr. Varaphon Vongthavaravat, a US board certified endocrinologist specializing in diabetes and metabolism disorders. Dr. Varaphon sheds light on the importance of keeping diabetes under control to prevent diabetic heart disease, a leading cause of death among diabetes patients.
Diabetes is a disease marked by high levels of blood sugar that cause cell malfunctions and damage the walls of blood vessels and arteries. "Diabetes patients with uncontrolled blood sugar are 50 to 80 percent more likely to die prematurely from cardiovascular disease than people without diabetes," says Dr. Varaphon. "They are also more prone to coronary heart disease at a younger age, and with greater severity. Over time, high sugar levels cause serious harm to blood vessels, from inflammation as well as from hardening or narrowing of the blood vessels. And since diabetics have high rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, they're already at a tremendous health disadvantage compared to non-diabetics."
Not all diabetes patients will experience these complications. Lifestyle modifications can make a tremendous positive difference. "Though diabetes patients have a greater risk of heart disease," explains Dr. Varaphon, "the good news is that the disease can be well-controlled if the patient adopts a healthier lifestyle, gets regular exercise, and takes sugar-reducing medication as recommended by his or her doctor."


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Paul Escobar wrote:Did you play any hurling while in Ireland?
Rosander University's motto confuses me. My Latin is very rusty - "to burn from beginning to end"?
Pravus wrote:What's hurling?
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I was told that it's like a blend of field hockey and lacrosse.
TheSuburbanLetdown wrote:AH, I actually passed through Cork and Limerick.
The ball is called a sliotar and is roughly baseball sized. I picked one up at a shop and it was pretty dense and heavy, though a little softer than an baseball but still pretty hard. And the seams are raised.
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Welcome! Explore this area to access resources including Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope free email devotional, 42 audio messages for you to learn your purpose, and leadership courses that will take you deeper into a purpose driven life.
Welcome to the Diving Deeper area where you can learn more about Discipleship.
Discipleship is the process of becoming more like Christ. God doesn't just want you to know about Jesus, he wants you to become like Jesus.
Refer back to this page for sermons and resources that can further develop your life long journey through Discipleship.
"Reliable friends who do what
they say are like cool drinks in sweltering heat — refreshing!" (Proverbs 25:13 MSG)
The more people trust you, the happier you're going to be. If people
don't trust you, you're going to live a pretty miserable life.
If you want to be happy, you've got to become somebody that people
Paul uses Timothy as an example of this: "You know the kind of person Timothy is. You know he
has served with me in telling the Good News, as a son serves his father" (Philippians 2:22
Paul had seen Timothy in action, in all kinds of circumstances, and he
considered him genuine, trustworthy, and reliable. God's Word translation says,
"You know what kind of person Timothy proved to be." Do people know what kind
of person you really are? Have you been proven trustworthy like Timothy?
Any time you go to a bank for a loan, they're going to do a credit
check. They want to know if you're worthy of being trusted with credit. Do you
pay your bills on time? Do you have a track record of keeping your word? Can
you be depended on to pay this money back? Are you creditable?
The thing is, everybody around you is doing a credit check on your life
every moment of your life. They want to know if you are what you say you are.
Are you the real deal? Are you showing your true colors? Can you be trusted?
If you're going to be happy in your relationships and in life, you have
to learn to be a trustworthy and reliable person.
How do you develop a reputation of reliability?
First, you live with integrity. Integrity doesn't mean you're perfect.
It means what you see is what you get. You are the real deal, because your
actions match your words.
Proverbs 25:13 says, "Reliable friends who do what they say are like cool drinks in
sweltering heat — refreshing!" (MSG) Can your friends rely on you to be the person
you claim to be?
Second, you keep your promises.
Psalm 15:4 says, "They
always do what they promise, no matter how much it may cost" (TEV).
This means you keep a promise, even when you find out it's going to
cost you more than you thought.
Learning to live with integrity and keep your promises will show others
that you can be trusted and will in turn make you a much happier person.
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Roasted Cauliflower Bites wrapped in Prosciutto
December 14, 2010
You can't mess this recipe up, I promise. It is very simple. Spread the cauliflower bites in an even layer on a cookie sheet, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Wrap cauliflower with thin slices of prosciutto, drizzle extra virgin olive oil over top, and bake at 400 for 20 minutes (depending on oven); or until prosciutto appears crisp and cauliflower is caramelized. Pancetta and bacon may also be used, instead of prosciutto. Serve with walnut-basil pesto as dipping sauce. Perfect for holiday entertaining!
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The ambrotype was created by coating a glass plate with collodion and photosensitive silver nitrate. The plate was exposed in a camera, then quickly taken out and treated in a dark room with a developing solution to bring out the image. This produced a photographic negative which was then backed with something dark, such as dark felt or black varnish, which had the effect of inverting the image. It was then mounted and framed or cased, as had been the daguerreotype.
The ambrotype shown above is one from my own small collection. Unusually for Victorian portraits, both subjects are smiling, and she is grasping his hand quite firmly, which is what attracted me to it in the first instance. Unfortunately it has lost the frame or case in which it would have originally been mounted, but the the thin gilded, pressed metal, decorative frame is still present and in good condition. It shows the characteristic greyish appearance of an ambrotype - few of them have any of the lighter shades, and if you see lighter areas, it is wise to look for signs of touching up or that it may in fact be a cased tintype.
The three-quarter length portrait is of an unidentified seated couple, perhaps in their mid- to late 20s. I think they must be a recently married couple, because her wedding ring, earrings and the brooch at her neck, as well as his shirt buttons, have been highlighted with gold paint. It is interesting to note that the ring is on her left hand. As the ambrotype was a negative, the image would be reversed and ring should have been on her right hand. The photographer appears to have anticipated the problem, and perhaps instructed her to change the ring to the opposite hand and finger. As the enlarged and enhanced image below shows, however, she appears to also have a less prominent - and ungilded - ring on her "right" hand! The photographer's artist obviously took some liberties. The buttons on the gentleman's shirt and waistcoat give the game away, as they appear to be done up on the wrong side.
Typically for portraits from the mid- to late 1850s, they are seated side by side. This pose was not commonly used again in portraiture, except in the case of larger groups, and by some less experienced artists, until much later in the century. The woman's clothing (bell-shaped, layered and fringed sleeves, pleated bodice closed at the top with a gold brooch and trimmed with a lace collar, pointing downwards to a tightly corseted waist; a single full, ground-length skirt) and hair style (centrally parted, curved back down over the forehead to almost cover her ears, and drawn back to a bun on the back of her head) are indicative of the mid-1850s. The young man is wearing what appears to be a frock coat, simple dark waistcoat, and shirt with a turned over collar and rather untidily knotted bowtie. He has a slight Quaker-style chin-beard, with only a suggestion of a moustache, and hair parted on his "left"(right)-hand side.
I estimate that this was quite an early ambrotype, and probably dates from between 1854 and 1857. Nobody looks quite the same in the mirror - in other words, nobody has an absolutely symmetrical face. For the first time in a century and a half, we can now view the photo as it might have been printed more accurately, had the technology been available at the time.
Dating Family Photos 1850-1920, by Lenore Frost, self publ. 1991, Essendon, Victoria, Australia.
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Surrounded by her husband's military friends, one who offered a glove to wipe away her tears, Taya Kyle stood in front of the flag-draped coffin, her voice trembling as she described to a crowd of thousands what ex-Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle meant to his family, friends and country.
Surrounded by her husband's military friends, one who offered a glove to wipe away her tears, Taya Kyle stood in front of the flag-draped coffin, her voice trembling as she described to a crowd of thousands what ex-Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle meant to his family, friends and country.
"Chris, there isn't enough time to tell you everything you mean to me and everything you taught me," his widow said Monday at Cowboys Stadium during a two-hour memorial service for her husband, a decorated sniper and best-selling author who was slain earlier this month at a gun range in North Texas.
Kyle's funeral service is scheduled for Tuesday. He will be buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin after a 200-mile funeral procession starting in the Dallas area. Drivers along Interstate 35 will not be allowed to pass the procession, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Nearly 7,000 people, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, attended the service Monday. Dozens of military personnel and others were seated in front of the podium near the Dallas Cowboys' star at midfield, where Kyle's coffin was placed.
Taya Kyle described herself as broken but said the family will "put one foot in front of the other" to get through their grief. She told her two children that they will remember Kyle's silly side, Texas twang and prayers they prayed together.
After her eulogy, country singer Randy Travis sang "Whisper My Name," which he said Taya Kyle had told him was a meaningful song for the couple, and "Amazing Grace." At the conclusion of the service, bagpipers played as military personnel carried out the coffin and many in the crowd saluted.
His fellow service members told mourners that Kyle was more than an excellent sniper — he was a devoted family man known for his sense of humor, compassion, selflessness and generosity. Kyle completed four tours of duty in Iraq and wrote the best-selling book "American Sniper."
Childhood friends recalled his mischievous side, and one said he and Kyle played with BB guns as kids — but Kyle "wasn't a good shot back then."
Bo French, an executive at Craft International, the security training company Kyle started after he left the Navy, said Kyle had a passion for helping others. Kyle also founded a nonprofit, FITCO Cares, that provides at-home fitness equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans.
Pictures of Kyle with his family and SEALs were shown on a large screen in the stadium. The back page of the memorial service program included copies of handwritten notes from Kyle's young kids: "I will miss your heart. I will love you even if you died" from his daughter, and "I miss you a lot. One of the best things that has happened to me is you" from his son.
Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh, 25, has been charged in the Feb. 2 killings of Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a North Texas gun range. Routh is jailed in Erath County on $3 million bond.
Taya Kyle also paid tribute to Littlefield during the service Monday, saying he was the "effortless, no expectations" friend that her husband needed.
Many said before Monday's service that they didn't know the 38-year-old Kyle. Air Force Master Sgt. Kevin Phillips said he came from his Fort Worth home to honor "a brother in arms."
Steven O'Bryan and his wife, Carol, drove more than two hours from their home in Marshall in East Texas because "he's just an American hero," Carol O'Bryan said.
FITCO's director has said the men apparently had been helping Routh work through post-traumatic stress disorder.
Kyle, Littlefield and Routh arrived together at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, authorities say. Routh later fled in Kyle's truck and went to his sister's home.
According to a search warrant, Routh told his sister and brother-in-law that the men "were out shooting target practice and he couldn't trust them so he killed them before they could kill him." Routh's sister called the police, describing her brother as "psychotic." Routh was arrested after a short police chase.
Routh's brother-in-law told authorities that Routh had recently been diagnosed with PTSD.
One of Routh's attorneys, J. Warren St. John, said his client had been released from the Dallas Veterans Affairs hospital against his family's wishes just two days before the shootings.
Littlefield's funeral was held Friday in Midlothian. Afterward, Littlefield's relatives said the outing with Routh was intended to be therapeutic.


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Game of the Month November 2011: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
November has certainly seen some great releases. Of course, there's the eight-hundred pound gorilla, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with its colossal world and massive scale. On the other end of the spectrum, there's indie darling To the Moon and its unforgettable tale of a dying man's final moments. There's also a little release from Nintendo that you may have heard of.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is a game that some see as the grand compromise between the hyper-cheerful cel shading of Wind Waker and the gritty darkness of Twilight Princess. This is true, in a way, but to say that any part of this game is a compromise would be to do it a great disservice. For the first time in years, Nintendo has taken a scalpel to this series, cutting away long-held traditions in a way that some have called sacrilegious.
Yet, for everything taken away, something new has been added–bold changes to progression and exploration, new ways of approaching long-standing series traditions, and tight, 1:1 motion controlled swordplay. Gone are the days of "comb the overworld for the dungeon, find an item in that dungeon, beat the boss with that item, and repeat eight times." In Skyward Sword, you'll cruise the skies and hurl yourself off endless drops like a daredevil, traveling across huge-yet-disconnected areas that slowly reveal more of their secrets as your collection of those ever-important items expands. You'll look down across the landscape as it bleeds away into a beautiful watercolor background, and for the first time in many years, you may find yourself surprised by a series that is acclaimed for just about everything other than its propensity for change.
We've seen a number of incredible titles this month. And while most of those games have their strengths and weaknesses, Skyward Sword runs ahead of the pack in every aspect: the story, with its sharp writing and memorable characters; the music, fully orchestrated for the first time in the series' history; the graphics, impressionistic, colorful, and utterly breathtaking in spite of their lack of high definition resolution; and, as always, the classic Zelda gameplay, which has captivated gamers for 25 years and stands now in its arguably greatest form yet. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is the total package, and it is for that reason that we have chosen it as RPGFan's November Game of the Month.
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Dear MySQL users, MySQL Server 5.6.9 (Release Candidate) is a new version of the world's most popular open source database. The new features in this release are of Release Candidate quality. As with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when installing on production level systems or systems with critical data. Note that 5.6.9 includes all features in MySQL 5.5 and previous 5.6 Development Milestone Releases. An overview of what's new in MySQL 5.6 is available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing MySQL 5.6.9 on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/installing.html For upgrading from previous MySQL releases, please see the important upgrade considerations at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/upgrading-from-previous-series.html Please note that **downgrading** from MySQL 5.6.9 RC or other pre-production releases to a previous release series is not supported. MySQL Server 5.6.9 is available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from the "Development Releases" selection of our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ Please note that the list of platforms for MySQL 5.6 has been adapted to the changes in the field: - Apple Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (Binary packages of MySQL 5.6 are not provided for OS X 10.5), - Debian 6 on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (Binary packages of MySQL 5.6 are not provided for Debian 5), - RedHat Enterprise / Oracle Linux 5 and 6 on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (Binary packages of MySQL 5.6 are not provided for RHEL/OL 4), - SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 on x86_64 (Binary packages of MySQL 5.6 are not provided for SLES 10), - generic Linux (kernel 2.6) on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64, using glibc 2.5 (or newer), - FreeBSD 9 on x86_64 (Binary packages of MySQL 5.6 are not provided for FreeBSD 7 and 8), - Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 on Sparc (64 bit), x86 (32 bit) and x86_64, - Windows Vista, 7, and 2008 on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (Binary packages of MySQL 5.6 are not provided for Windows XP and 2003). This does not affect the list of supported platforms for 5.1 and 5.5. For Linux, the dependency on glibc 2.5 is new with 5.6.9, it is reflected in the names of the binary packages for generic Linux: "linux-glibc2.5" (former: "linux2.6"). All supported specific platforms (RedHat 5 and newer, SuSE 11, ...) are using glibc 2.5 or newer. If you want to check your system, you may simply "run" the library: > Prompt$ /lib/libc.so.6 > GNU C Library stable release version 2.7, by Roland McGrath et al. > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > ... The above example was done on Debian 6, it shows glibc 2.7. Packages for specific Linux distributions are provided in the specific format (RPM or deb), in addition the generic tar.gz packages will fit these distributions. For RedHat-alike distributions like CentOS or Fedora, both the RedHat and the generic packages should work. If you are using a newer version of your operating system, its binary compatibility approach (supporting applications built for older versions) should ensure you can use MySQL 5.6. Windows packages are now available via the new Installer for Windows Installer or .ZIP (no-install) packages for more advanced needs. It should be noted that the previous MSI packaging is no longer available and the point and click configuration wizards and all MySQL products are now available in the unified Installer for Windows: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/ We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, etc.: http://bugs.mysql.com/report.php The list of all "Bugs Fixed" for 5.6.9 may also be viewed online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/news-5-6-9.html If you are running a MySQL production level system, we would like to direct your attention to MySQL Enterprise Edition, which includes the most comprehensive set of MySQL production, backup, monitoring, modeling, development, and administration and migration tools so businesses can achieve the highest levels of MySQL performance, security and uptime. http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/ Enjoy! On behalf of the MySQL Build Team at Oracle, Jörg Brühe ========= Changes in MySQL 5.6.9 (2012-Dec-11) Installation Notes * The --random-passwords option for mysql_install_db is now used for MySQL install operations (not upgrades) which are done using Solaris PKG packages. Functionality Added or Changed * Incompatible Change: Replication: A number of variable and other names relating to GTID-based replication have been changed, with a view to making these names more appropriate and meaningful. The old names are no longer supported. The features so renamed are shown in the following list: + The --disable-gtid-unsafe-statements server option has been renamed --enforce-gtid-consistency; the disable_gtid_unsafe_statements system variable has been renamed enforce_gtid_consistency. + The gtid_done server system variable has been renamed gtid_executed. The gtid_lost server system variable has been renamed gtid_purged; in addition, this variable is no longer read-only. + The SQL_THREAD_WAIT_AFTER_GTIDS() function has been renamed WAIT_UNTIL_SQL_THREAD_AFTER_GTIDS(). For more information, see Replication with Global Transaction Identifiers (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/replication-gtids.html ), and Global Transaction ID Options and Variables (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/replication-options-gt ids.html). (Bug #14775984) * Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and newer support native symlinking using the mklink command. This makes the MySQL Server implementation of database symbolic links using .sym files redundant, so that mechanism is now deprecated and will be removed in a future MySQL release. See Using Symbolic Links for Databases on Windows (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/symbolic-links.html#wi ndows-symbolic-links). Bugs Fixed * Performance: InnoDB: The timing values for low-level InnoDB read operations were adjusted for better performance with fast storage devices, such as SSD (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_ssd ). This enhancement primarily affects read operations for BLOB columns in compressed (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_com pression) tables. (Bug #13702112, Bug #64258) * Incompatible Change: The THREAD_ID column in Performance Schema tables was widened from INT to BIGINT to accommodate 64-bit values. If you upgrade to this release of MySQL from an earlier version, you must run mysql_upgrade (and restart the server) to incorporate this change to the performance_schema database. (Bug #14664453) * Incompatible Change: Connection ID (thread ID) values greater than 32 bits can occur on some systems (such as busy or long-running 64-bit systems), causing these problems: + Connection IDs written to the general query log and slow query log were incorrect. This was true for logging to both files and tables. + The CONNECTION_ID() function could return a value with a data type too small for values larger than 32 bits. + The mysql_thread_id() and mysql_kill() C API functions did not handle ID values larger than 32 bits. This could result in killing the wrong thread; for example, if you invoked mysql_kill(mysql_thread_id()). Connection IDs now are permitted to be 64-bit values when the server supports them (when built with 64-bit data types), which has these effects: + Connection IDs are logged correctly to the general query log and slow query log. Note This change involves a modification to the log tables, so after upgrading to this release, you must run mysql_upgrade and restart the server. + CONNECTION_ID() returns a data type appropriate for values larger than 32 bits. + mysql_thread_id() is unchanged; the client/server protocal has only 4 bytes for the ID value. This function returns an incorrect (truncated) value for connection IDs larger than 32 bits and should be avoided. mysql_kill() still cannot handle values larger than 32 bits, but to guard against killing the wrong thread now returns an error in these cases: o If given an ID larger than 32 bits, mysql_kill() returns a CR_INVALID_CONN_HANDLE error. o After the server's internal thread ID counter reaches a value larger than 32 bits, it returns an ER_DATA_OUT_OF_RANGE error for any mysql_kill() invocation and mysql_kill() fails. To avoid problems with mysql_thread_id() and mysql_kill(), do not use them. To get the connection ID, execute a SELECT CONNECTION_ID() query and retrieve the result. To kill a thread, execute a KILL statement. (Bug #19806, Bug #11745768, Bug #65715, Bug #14236124, Bug #44728, Bug #11753308) * Important Change: InnoDB: A DML (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_dml ) statement using the index merge access method could lock many rows from the table, even when those rows were not part of the final result set. This fix reduces the excessive locking (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_loc king) by releasing the locks of unmatched rows. This optimization affects only transactions with isolation level equal to or less strict than READ COMMITTED; it does not apply to transactions using REPEATABLE READ or SERIALIZABLE isolation level. (Bug #14226171) * Important Change: Replication: Because running the server with GTIDs enabled prevented changes to nontransactional tables, programs such as mysql_upgrade and mysql_install_db were unable to operate on system tables that used the MyISAM storage engine and therefore could not function correctly. Now, when running with --enforce-gtid-consistency (required whenever --gtid-mode=ON), the server allows single statements on nontransactional tables. (Bug #14722659) * Important Change: Replication: Formerly, the value of the Seconds_Behind_Master column in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS was always set to NULL whenever the SQL thread or the I/O thread was stopped. Now, this column is set to NULL only if the SQL thread is not running, or if the I/O thread is not running following a check to determine whether or not the SQL thread has processed all of the relay log. (If the SQL thread has finished processing and the I/O thread is running, Seconds_Behind_Master is 0.) (Bug #12946333) * Partitioning: InnoDB: Previously, when attempting to optimize one or more partitions of a partitioned table that used a storage engine that does not support partition-level OPTIMIZE, such as InnoDB, MySQL reported Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead, then re-created the entire table, but did not actually analyze it. Now in such cases, the warning message is, Table does not support optimize on partitions. All partitions will be rebuilt and analyzed. In addition, the entire table is analyzed after first being rebuilt. (Bug #11751825) * InnoDB: An online DDL operation for an InnoDB table incorrectly reported an empty value ('') instead of the correct key value when it reported a duplicate key error for a unique index using an index prefix. (Bug #14729221) * InnoDB: InnoDB tables with FULLTEXT indexes could allocate memory for thread handles that was never released, possibly leading to resource issues on Windows systems. (Bug #14759163) * InnoDB: During an online DDL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_onl ine_ddl) operation that copies the table, the secondary index (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_sec ondary_index) of the table could become corrupted. (Bug #14753701) * InnoDB: If an ALTER TABLE statement failed while attempting to create a FULLTEXT index for an InnoDB table, the server could halt with an assertion error while dropping the incomplete index. (Bug #14504174) * Replication: If a table to be replicated had a FULLTEXT index, this index was not ruled out when selecting the type of scan to be used in finding the next row, even though it cannot be used to find the correct one. The row applier subsequently tried unsuccessfully to employ an index scan, causing replication to fail. Now in such cases, indexes which do not provide for sequential access (such as FULLTEXT) are not considered when determining whether to use a table, index, or hash scan for this purpose. (Bug #14843764) * Replication: When using the GTID-aware master-slave protocol, the slave I/O thread used the wrong position. When using GTIDs, the position is not normally used, but as a special case, the position was used in addition to the GTID when the slave reconnected to the same master (even though this was not necessary). This problem is fixed by making the GTID-aware master-slave protocol not use positions at all any longer. (Bug #14828028) * Replication: Given a stored routine R in which the GTID_SUBTRACT() function was invoked: Once GTID_SUBTRACT() returned NULL when called inside R, it continued to return NULL every time it was called within R, for the remainder of the client session. (Bug #14838575) * Replication: MySQL Enterprise Backup, mysqldump, and mysqlhotcopy could not be used with a GTID-enabled MySQL Server, because they were unable to restore the server's GTID state and so could not restore from any point in the binary log other than the very beginning. As part of the fix for this problem, the gtid_purged system variable (formerly named gtid_lost) is no longer read-only; now it is possible to add GTIDs to it when gtid_executed (formerly gtid_done) is empty. (Bug #14787808) * Replication: Restarting replication after the first binary log file was purged resulted in the error Got fatal error 1236 from master when reading data from binary log: 'The slave is connecting using CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_AUTO_POSITION = 1, but the master has purged binary logs containing GTIDs that the slave requires.' This led GTID-based replication to fail. (Bug #14756691) * Invalid memory reads could occur for queries that selected from a zero-length table name. (Bug #14780820) * With LOCK TABLES in effect, CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ... LIKE could raise an assertion. (Bug #14788976) * An assertion was raised if ALTER TABLE was used to rename a column to same name as an existing column while also reordering the renamed column using AFTER or FIRST. (Bug #14756089) * An assertion could be raised if semi-join materialization was used to evaluate a NOT IN subquery. (Bug #14751858) * For some continuation handler nestings, continuation could occur at the wrong location. (Bug #14724836) * SHOW PROCESSLIST output was not sorted in Id order. (Bug #14771006) * For UPDATE statements, EXPLAIN showed the total key length in the key_len column rather than the length of the used key parts. (Bug #14682438) * Starting the server with --bind-address and then setting host_cache_size to 0 could result in the server stopping for certain kinds of client connections. (Bug #14689561) * With index condition pushdown enabled, the optimizer could produce incorrect results for derived tables. (Bug #14640176) * The optimizer could incorrectly use a nonspatial index to optimize spatial operations, causing an assertion to be raised. (Bug #14600994) * CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE could crash if a MyISAM table had a corrupt key (.MYI) file. Now the server produces an error. (Bug #13556441) * CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE could crash if a MyISAM table had a corrupt key (.MYI) file. Now the server produces an error. (Bug #13556107, Bug #13556000) * For dumps of the mysql database, mysqldump skipped the event table unless the --events option was given. To skip this table if that is desired, use the --ignore-table option instead (Bug #55587, Bug #11762933) * mysqld_safe ignored the value of the UMASK environment variable, leading to behavior different from mysqld with respect to the access mode of created files. Now mysqld_safe (and mysqld_multi) attempt to approximate the same behavior as mysqld. (Bug #57406, Bug #11764559) * LAST_INSERT_ID(expr) did not work for expr values greater than the largest signed BIGINT value. (Bug #20964, Bug #11745891) -- Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bruehe@stripped ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRA 95603 Komplementaerin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Utrecht, Niederlande Geschaeftsfuehrer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher
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As many of you know, when an EMR or EHR vendor wants to show me their system, instead of getting a full demo of their EMR I instead ask them to show me the unique features of their EMR. Basically, I'm interested in seeing the features, functions, approach, etc that makes an EMR or EHR vendor unique from the 300+ other EMR companies in the market today. This was my approach when EPOWERdoc approached me with a request to take a look at what they've created with their EMRDoc software.
Turns out that EPOWERdoc has been around for 12 years and is already in 250 hospitals in 40 states. That's a pretty good footprint for an Emergency Department comnpany. In fact, I read that they've done 17 million Emergency Department visits in North America in their 12 year ED
EHR history. Of course, these numbers come from EPOWERdoc and we know how good EMR install counts are from EMR vendors. However, even if that numbers bloated it's a decent sized install base. Update from EPOWERdoc: The client numbers and ED visits are correct, we started out as a Paper Template system from software printing and that is where the large client base is predominantly. We are 36 months into the EDIS market with the product you looked at and have 18 live and another 9 by first qtr 2012.
During the short demo, EPOWERdoc showed me 3 or 4 interesting things about their Drummond Group modularly certified EHR. However, the feature that hit me most was the EMRDoc prose generator. In fact, this demo was one of the reasons that I've started predicting an EMR documentation revolution against hard to read, bulky, clinical notes.
I wish EPOWERdoc had a video of their EMR notes prose generator to demo it. If they create a video, I'll post it to my EMR, EHR and Healthcare IT videos website. Until then, here are before and after screenshots of the EPOWERdoc interface which shows the granular data entry and the note that was created (click on the image to see the full image).
And now the image of the outputted documentation:
We could certainly debate the finer points of the user interface for inputting the data. Plus, a screenshot doesn't show some of the other elements they've created to be able to quickly handle the input of the granular data elements. What hit me was how much the second image read like a clinical note. To be honest, as I read it I felt like I was hearing someone dictating a clinical note. Are their subtle differences where dictation is better, definitely. However, they seem to have done a good job of taking the granular data and turning it into clinical prose. I'll be interested to hear some doctors thoughts on the above to see if they agree or disagree.
There were a few other interesting EMRDoc features that stood out to me in my short EMR demo.
-As an ED EMR, you have a different workflow than an ambulatory practice. As such, you need the ability to manage multiple open records at the same time. What I think EMRDoc does really well is switching between patients, but then also tracking your last documentation location for that patient.
-Related to seeing multiple patients, EMRDoc documentation feedback tool provides the user (doctor, nurse, etc) with a real time feedback as to the status of the level of documentation for medical coding as well as what has been completed in the note. In the ED where you're regularly pulled away to deal with a pressing problem, the feedback statuses are a great little feature.
-EMRDoc has a feature that forwards clinical information and data from the Nursing Record to the Physician Record and from various sections of the Physician Record to other sections. Pretty slick implementation that reduces having to document that same thing multiple times.
-One of the big questions for an ED EHR like EPOWERdoc is how they deal with the hospitals large HIS system. EPOWERdoc's answer was a partnership with Iatric who uses technology allowing data insertion into non accepting systems such as Epic, Cerner, McKesson or Meditech. I'd seen Iatric (They had the amazing trick shot pool table guy at HIMSS), but it sound like I should get to know them a little more. Maybe I can get Katherine Rourke to cover them over on Hospital EMR and EHR as well.
As I said, I didn't do a full scale top to bottom demo of the EMRDoc ED EHR system, but I thought these were some interesting features of their EHR that were worth sharing. I'd love to hear some first hand experiences from any EPOWERdoc users. Let's hear what you think in the comments.


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If pieces of a satellite crash on your home or car -- or on you -- does insurance cover that?
Yes, according to the Insurance Information Institute:
"Damages caused by falling objects are generally covered under standard auto, business, homeowners, and life insurance policies..."
the industry group says. It also noted, however, that the odds of being struck by space debris are extremely low.
Monday, October 24, 2011
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Compliance Features in Exchange Online
Applies to: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, Office 365 for enterprises, Live@edu
The compliance features of Exchange Online help your organization meet legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements in the following ways:
- Preserve Prevent the deletion of messages to comply with data retention requirements or legal requirements.
- Discover Search for relevant items relating to specific legal cases or requests from regulatory authorities.
- Control Control the flow of messages and implement actionable rules based on message content, or who sends and receives the message.
- Protect Encrypt content and enforce policies that apply to the use of e-mail.
Let's take a closer look:
- Compliance features in Exchange Online
- Common compliance scenarios supported by Exchange Online
- Compliance feature availability
For more information about the compliance, security, and privacy features in Microsoft Office 365, see the Office 365 Trust Center.
Compliance features in Exchange Online
- Messaging records management (MRM) MRM helps your organization prevent the permanent deletion of e-mail messages and other messaging content, deleted by users or by messaging policies, needed to comply with company policy, government regulations, or legal needs. MRM also lets you automatically remove older messaging content that has no legal or business value. MRM uses retention policies and retention tags to control how long to keep items in users' mailboxes and define what action to take on items that have reached a certain age.
See Set Up and Manage Retention Policies in Exchange Online with Windows PowerShell.
- Discovery Discovery harnesses Multi-Mailbox Search, a GUI-based tool that allows legal and human resource professionals and other discovery managers to search primary and archive mailboxes across your organization for messages that match specified criteria. Because discovery searches don't require full administrative permissions, you can assign regular users the necessary permissions to search mailboxes and limit the scope of mailboxes that a person can search. The results of a multi-mailbox search can be printed or exported to a .PST file by using Microsoft Outlook.
See Multi-Mailbox Searches.
- Personal archive You can create an archive mailbox, called a personal archive, for a user's primary cloud-based mailbox. Users can use the archive mailbox to store historical messaging data by moving or copying messages from their primary mailbox to their archive mailbox. Administrators and users can use MRM features to automatically move messages that reach a certain age to the archive mailbox. Because items in a user's archive mailbox are indexed, archive mailboxes are included in a multi-mailbox search.
See Enable an Archive Mailbox.
- Litigation hold You can put a litigation hold, also known as legal hold, on a mailbox to preserve e-mail messages and other mail items for an extended period. Litigation hold also prevents items from being permanently deleted. When a user's mailbox is put on litigation hold, the user can purge items from their mailbox but the items are retained indefinitely on the servers in the Microsoft datacenter. Litigation hold also maintains the version history for items that are modified.
See Put a Mailbox on Litigation Hold.
- Information rights management (IRM) IRM provides online and offline protection of e-mail messages and supported attachments. IRM protection can be applied by users in Outlook or Outlook Web App, and it can be applied by administrators using transport protection rules and Outlook protection rules. IRM helps administrators and users control who can access, forward, print, or copy sensitive data within e-mail messages. Note that IRM requires that you have an Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) server deployed in your on-premises organization.
See Set Up and Manage Information Rights Management in Exchange Online.
Note For a list of the file attachment types allowed and blocked in Outlook Web App, see the "File and attachment settings" section in Outlook Web App Mailbox Policies | Available Settings.
- Transport rules and transport protection rules Transport rules let you control the flow of and apply messaging policies to e-mail messages sent within your organization and sent in to and out of your organization. Using transport rules, administrators can define specific message attributes, or conditions, and the actions to apply to any message that contain those attributes. For example, you can use transport rules append a disclaimer to message sent outside your organization or prevent e-mail communication between specific groups of users.
Transport protection rules let you use transport rules to IRM-protect messages by applying an AD RMS rights policy template.
See Organization-Wide Rules.
**Microsoft Live@edu** Outlook Live for Live@edu also provides supervision policies to help schools control who can send e-mail to and receive e-mail from the users in their institution. See Supervision Policies.
- Journaling Journaling can help your organization respond to legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements by recording inbound and outbound e-mail communications. Journal rules are used to record, or "journal", the e-mail messages sent to or from specific recipients. When a message matches the criteria defined by the journal rule, a journal report that contains the original message is generated and sent to a journaling mailbox.
See Journal Rules.
- Audit logging Auditing Reports is a GUI-based tool that helps your organization track the unauthorized access to a user's mailbox, identify mailboxes that are on litigation hold, and identify any change made to administrator role groups. You can also export the administrator audit log that identifies any action performed by an administrator.
See Use Auditing Reports in Exchange Online.
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Common compliance scenarios supported by Exchange Online
Let's look at some of the most common compliance scenarios supported in Exchange Online.
Store historical messaging data for each user
Retain messaging data and remove it after the retention period expires
Collect, process, and review messaging data relevant to litigation
Prevent the removal or modification of mailbox items during litigation
Allow members of a legal team to enable and disable litigation hold
Allow members of legal team to perform mailbox searches
Create a discovery mailbox for a specific legal case
Prevent e-mail communication between members of different departments, legal teams, or schools
Apply persistent protection to messages sent outside of the organization
Add a disclaimer to message sent by users in your organization
Collect e-mail messages sent outside of your organization
Determine if a mailbox was accessed by someone other than the owner
Store historical messaging data for each user
To implement and manage an archive strategy for your organization, you can enable an archive mailbox for each user. This provides administrators and users a single, unified archive for managing historical data. MRM technology automatically moves items into a user's archive mailbox and Multi-Mailbox Search searches archive mailboxes for items that meet the search criteria. See Enable an Archive Mailbox.
Retain messaging data and remove it after the retention period expires
To help organizations meet business, legal, or regulatory requirements, a default retention policy is applied to all Exchange Online mailboxes. This retention policy applies retention settings to the following default mail folders in a user's mailbox:
- Deleted Items Applies to messages in the Deleted Items folder. Thirty days after a user deletes a message, the message is permanently deleted and moved into the Recoverable Items folder, also called the dumpster. A user can recover items in the Recoverable Items folder by using the Recover Deleted Items feature in Outlook or Outlook Web App.
- Junk E-mail Applies to messages in the Junk E-mail folder. Thirty days after a junk e-mail message is moved or sent to the user's Junk E-mail folder, the message is permanently deleted and moved into the Recoverable Items folder.
- Recoverable Items Applies to messages in the Recoverable Items folder. Fourteen days after a message is moved to the Recoverable Items folder, it is moved to the Recoverable Items folder in the user's archive mailbox. At this point, only an administrator can recover an item by using single item recovery in Exchange Online. If the user doesn't have an archive mailbox, no action is taken and the item remains in the Recoverable Items folder in the user's primary mailbox.
Note Users can remove, or purge, items from the Recoverable Items folder using the Recover Deleted Items feature in Outlook or Outlook Web App. Single item recovery retains purged items for an additional 14 days; after 14 days, MRM moves purged items to the Recoverable Items folder in the user's archive mailbox.
All other items in the user's mailbox that aren't affected by these retention settings are moved to the user's archive mailbox after two years. Exchange Online also provides default personal retention tags that users can apply to folders and individual items in their mailbox. See the following:
- Set Up and Manage Retention Policies in Exchange Online with Windows PowerShell
- Recover Deleted E-Mail Messages in Exchange Online
Collect, process, and review messaging data relevant to litigation
To comply with legal discovery requests, organizations can use the discovery features in Exchange Online to collect, process, and review e-mail messages relevant to a legal case. See the following:
- Create a New Multi-Mailbox Search
- View Multi-Mailbox Search Results
- Use Outlook to Open a Discovery Mailbox
Note Your organization has to implement a hybrid deployment to search mailboxes in both your on-premises and cloud-based organizations. For more information, see Exchange Hybrid Deployment and Migration with Office 365.
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Prevent the removal or modification of mailbox items during litigation
If an organization is informed of a pending litigation, it must preserve relevant data such as e-mail that may be used as evidence. To retain e-mail related to a legal case, mailboxes can be put on litigation hold. Then, as part of legal discovery, a mailbox on litigation hold can be searched to find items relevant to the case. When litigation hold is enabled, it is also applied to the user's archive mailbox. See the following:
Allow members of a legal team to enable and disable litigation hold
You can assign members of your legal team or other authorized personnel the necessary permissions to use the Exchange Control Panel to put a mailbox on litigation hold. See Put a Mailbox on Litigation Hold.
Allow members of legal team to perform mailbox searches
You can also give members of a legal team the necessary permissions to use the Discovery features in Exchange Online. This enables lawyers, legal team members, and discovery managers to use the Exchange Control Panel to perform multi-mailbox searches. See Give Users Access to Multi-Mailbox Search.
Create a discovery mailbox for a specific legal case
Discovery search results are copied to a discovery mailbox. A default Discovery Search Mailbox is created for each Exchange Online organization. However, administrators can create additional discovery search mailboxes, each with a 50 GB default quota, for specific legal cases or legal teams. Administrators then assign permissions to discovery managers to access the discovery mailbox. See the following:
Prevent e-mail communication between members of different departments, legal teams, or schools
Your organization may need to prevent conflicts of interest that might result when members of different departments, legal teams, or schools have the capability to share sensitive information. To address this, organizations can prevent different groups of users from exchanging e-mail. This type of restriction is sometimes called an ethical wall. Here are some examples:
- Law firms that need to maintain client confidentiality need to restrict mail flow to personnel working on specific legal cases.
- In investment organizations, where market researchers may have confidential information that might influence a broker, regulatory requirements frequently state that those two groups must be prevented from communicating in any way.
- School districts that want to prevent students in different schools from using their school accounts to exchange e-mail.
See Use Rules to Prevent Mail Flow Between Specific Groups.
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Apply persistent protection to messages sent outside of the organization
If users in your organization have to send e-mail messages with financial, legal, or other confidential information to recipients outside of your organization, you can create transport protection rules that apply a Rights Management Services (RMS) template to protect content in e-mail messages. Depending on the settings you specify in the RMS template, recipients are prevented from performing actions such as forwarding, copying, or printing an IRM-protected message. You can also use transport rules to apply RMS templates to messages sent by members of a distribution group or sent by members of a specific department. See the following:
- Set Up and Manage Information Rights Management in Exchange Online
- Create a New Rule
- Conditions and Exceptions for Transport Rules
- Actions for Transport Rules
Add a disclaimer to message sent by users in your organization
You can use transport rules to automatically add text, commonly called a disclaimer, to e-mail messages. Disclaimers are typically used to provide legal information, compliance information, or for other reasons specific to your organization. See Add Disclaimers to Messages.
Collect e-mail messages sent outside of your organization
To comply with regulatory requirements, your organization may need to collect all e-mail messages sent to external recipients. In this case, you can create a journal rule to generate a journal report for every message sent outside of your organization. You can also create journal rules for messages sent to or received by specific users or by members of a distribution group. See Create Journal Rules.
Determine if a mailbox was accessed by someone other than the owner
By default, only mailbox owners can access a mailbox, but permissions to access the mailbox can be assigned to other users, such as delegates or administrators. If you have legal, human resource, or IT reasons to suspect that a mailbox was accessed by or tampered with by someone other than the mailbox owner, you can run a non-owner mailbox access report. See Run a Non-Owner Mailbox Access Report.
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Compliance feature availability
Use the following table to see the compliance features available in Exchange Online for Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Live@edu.
|Compliance feature
|Office 365 for professionals and small businesses
|Office 365 for enterprises
Personal archive
Yes (Combined total size of 25 GB for primary and archive mailboxes)
Yes (Combined total size of 25 GB for primary and archive mailboxes); 100 GB default quota for Exchange Online (Plan 2) subscription or higher
Messaging records management
Litigation hold
Yes; requires Exchange Online (Plan 2) subscription or higher
Multi-Mailbox Search
Information rights management
Transport rules
Audit logging
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If you could only pick one word to sum up 2017 in sports, it would be the year of the comeback.
Jan. 9: The 2017 action really ramped up when Clemson faced Alabama in the National Championship game. It was a back-and-forth matchup that came down to the last seconds. While the Tide took a 31-28 lead with just two minutes left, Clemson put together an impressive final drive that secured them the championship with just one second left in the game.
Jan. 28: In the Australian Open final, Serena Williams beat her older sister Venus to win her 23rd Grand Slam singles title. Later the world would find out Serena was 10 weeks pregnant at the time. Serena wound up accidentally revealing her pregnancy on Snapchat a few months later.
Feb. 5: Sorry Falcons fans, you knew this one was coming. In Super Bowl 51, the Patriots were trailing 28-3 in the second quarter, then scored 31 unanswered points to win it in overtime. It was also the first-ever overtime game in Super Bowl history. And ever since then, the "28-3" trolling has not let up.
Feb. 26: Kurt Busch won the Daytona 500 with a last-lap pass as other contenders ran out of gas in the final laps. It was Busch's first Daytona 500 victory in his 17th try and after coming in second on three different occasions.
March 16: Northwestern found itself in the NCAA tournament for the first time in 77 seasons and they made sure not to throw away their shot. The Wildcats did cough up a 15-point second-half lead but survived to score their first tournament victory.
March 19: March Madness is always filled with special moments and shocking upsets and 2017 was no exception. One of the year's biggest upsets was when No. 7 South Carolina knocked off No. 2 seed Duke, 88-81. The Gamecocks would build on that momentum in the later rounds and made it into the Final Four for the first time in program history.
April 2: Meanwhile in the women's tournament South Carolina won its first NCAA championship after defeating Mississippi State 67-55. The title win came after the Gamecocks men's basketball team lost in its Final Four appearance.
April 3: One year after narrowly losing to Villanova in the NCAA tournament final, UNC was back in the national championship game and beat Gonzaga 71-65. The Tar Heels became just the fourth team to come back from losing the national championship the year before then win it the following year, according to USA TODAY.
April 17: In one of the most touching moments from this year's Boston Marathon two soldiers who were running the race helped carry a fellow runner across the finish line.
April 26: Maria Sharapova, the five-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1, returned from a 15-month doping ban and won her first match.
June 11: With its Stanley Cup Final victory over the Nashville Predators, the Pittsburgh Penguins became the first NHL back-to-back champion since 1998. Many saw the Penguins impressive playoff run as solidifying the team's status as a dynasty.
June 12: Steph Curry, Kevin Durrant and the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers to take home the NBA title. It was the team's second championship in three seasons.
July 26: Well this was a new one and a funny highlight from the MLB season…Adrian Beltre got ejected from a game after he wasn't standing in the on-deck circle. When the umpire instructed him to get into the circle Beltre instead grabbed the circle and moved it a few feet to where he had been standing. The umpire didn't like that and tossed him from the game.
July 29: The return of Jon Jones in the UFC could've been one of the year's biggest comeback stories, instead his big return gets a massive asterisk by it. Jones returned from a one-year suspension to beat Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 and win the light heavyweight title…but his title reign didn't last very long. In September, he was stripped of the title (again) after failing a drug test (again). The case has yet to be settled but Jones faces up to a four-year ban after a drug test found a banned steroid. Jones has said he "never knowingly" took the substance in question.
Aug. 5: Usain Bolt closed out his record-breaking career at the world track and field championships but it wasn't the victory lap that most people expected. In the 100-meter final, Bolt ended up in third place behind American runners Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman. It only got worse from there for Bolt. The eight-time Olympic gold medalist then tore his hamstring in the final leg of the 4x100 meter relay and couldn't finish what was his last race ever.
Aug. 26: After so much hype and build-up the world finally got to see 'The Money Fight' between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor. Mayweather won with a 10th round TKO and earned himself a guaranteed $100 million but anticipated he would make an additional $200 million as part of his share of the profits.
Sept. 2: Fans at the University of Iowa created what's become one of the best in-game college football traditions – waving to patients at the Iowa Children's Hospital. While the public-address announcer tells fans when its time to wave, this new Iowa tradition grew from the fans. According to USA TODAY, it all started when Iowa fan Krista Young came up with the idea and posted about it in a fan Facebook page. It's a moment that's now very special to fans, opponents, and the patients and families watching the action from the hospital.
Sept. 14: The Cleveland Indians historic win streak ended at 22 games but it was the second longest win streak in baseball history. USA TODAY Sports compiled a handful of statistics from that incredible run: The Indians only trailed 9 innings…out of 199, they outscored their opponents 142-37, and had a team ERA of 1.58.
Oct. 10: After losing to Trinidad and Tobago the U.S. men's national soccer team failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986. It was a terrible night for U.S. soccer who just needed a tie to make the World Cup, but couldn't make it happen.
Nov. 1: The Houston Astros World Series championship couldn't have come at a better time for Houston. The region had been devastated by Hurricane Harvey just a few months earlier and the Astros first franchise championship brought a glimmer of hope and pride back to residents.
Nov. 19: The end of this season's NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series marked the end of the 19-year career of the sport's most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr. He wrapped up his career as Martin Truex Jr. won his first series championship.
And this year in the NFL season, one thing we all can be thankful for is the rule change allowing more celebrations following touchdowns. It's led to all sorts of end zone creativity and ESPN recently asked the players to pick their favorite of the season. The top four vote-getters were the Minnesota Vikings doing Duck, Duck, Goose (Gray Duck); the Steelers playing Hide-And-Seek; the Chiefs Potato Sack Race; and the Eagles with an Electric Slide.


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When I opened the chart, this is the paragraph that greeted me. I present it without further comment, as nothing could be added to make it better (or worse, depending on your point of view).
"History of present illness: This is a 78 year old male who was transferred from Big City Hospital for insurance reasons, due to a vibrating foreign object that has been impacted in his rectum causing anal obstruction. The patient states that he was using the vibrator to 'scratch an itch' around his anus and 'lost control' of it. He states that his internist was unable to remove it, and so he then went to Local Urgent Care Center. They were unable to remove it either, and he left there and went to Big City Hospital. For insurance reasons Big City Hospital has now transferred him here to get it removed."