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Visit http://www.bc.edu/sswnews for the latest stories, profiles, and news from the Boston College School of Social Work.
Research represents the lifeblood of everything the Boston College School of Social Work does. Find out about some of our latest projects.
Visit http://www.bc.edu/sswnews for the latest stories, profiles, and news from the Boston College School of Social Work.
A team of researchers from the Boston College School of Social Work's (BCSSW) Center for Social Innovation delivered a research report to the philanthropic network Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities (FADICA) that offers a working definition of "Catholic social innovation" and highlights 64 examples of such work in response to the global refugee and migrant crisis.
In today's culture of fast-paced technological and entrepreneurial innovation, nonprofits have much to gain by looking within their own organizations to find new solutions to social problems, according to a new book by Stephanie Berzin, an associate professor and assistant dean of doctoral programs at the School of Social Work. Co-authored with Humberto Camarena, Innovation from Within: Redefining How Nonprofits Solve Problems (Oxford University Press, 2018) offers a practical framework for how leaders in the nonprofit sector can foster innovation and creativity within their organizations.
Associate Professor Susan Tohn and Boston College School of Social Work alumna Suelen Yancor, MSW '05, offer a two-day training on Solution-Focused Therapy techniques with a focus on Spanish language interventions, a project designed to help practitioners understand some of the unique cultural competencies associated with best serving Latinx populations.
GRIT is a monthly research group/webinar designed to provide a space for investigators to receive constructive feedback from peers on grant proposals while learning about grant writing, research methods, and implementation science from experienced senior investigators.
She was one of ten featured faculty, students, and alumni to presenting on the theme of this year's event, "Research and the Common Good."
Boston College School of Social Work Assistant Professor Jessica Shaw has been awarded a $313,558 grant by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women for her project "Evaluation of a Cross-System Cooperative Response to Adolescent Sexual Assault Victims."
Robert Rosales, who expects to graduate this coming August, counts health access and disparities among Latino populations as his research interests. In this blog post, he delineates the important points around a recent paper published in Social Work in Health Care.
Associate Professor Scott Easton has contributed a chapter to the recently released book Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys & Men, edited by renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst Richard B. Gartner. In this Q&A with Innovate, Easton discusses what it means to him to have been included in the project.
The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, of which BCSSW Dean Gautam N. Yadama is a commissioner, has released a report analyzing the scope of the health and economic costs of air, water, soil, and occupational pollution in the world today.


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Living in Newport Beach has it's many perks, especially for those who live on Balboa Island. Be surround by the water from bustling tourists and quaint shops makes Balboa Island the hot spot to be in the summer time. Many are not aware that there are different sections to Balboa Island which includes a small piece of land separate entirely by water on the south side and thus named "Little Balboa Island." You won't find two many homes for sale in this section of Balboa Island do the small number of homes existing on the Island. What you will find is charming Spanish, Mediterranean, Cape Cod & Cottage style homes with bayfront and ocean views that make you forget the pressures of life. Currently, there are 5 properties for sale on Little Balboa Island ranging from $1,495,000 to $3,895,000. If you are in the market to buy a home in Balboa Island under $2,000,000 you may be interested in a Cottage style home that just came on the market for $1,995,000 on Little Balboa Island. No matter where you decide to live in Newport Beach, visiting the wonderful homes on Balboa Island is a fun endeavor. We encourage you to visit this wonderful homes on the Balboa Island in Newport Beach!

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If you feel that you are suffering from any kind of magic so here you can find a complete solution, and by following this solution you can get rid of any type of magic. You have to follow the steps which are given below to break the magic.
Prayers to Break Black Magic:
- Recite bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ (786 Times Daily).
- Recite (ayat al kursi Dua) 11 times daily
- Recite (darood ibrahimi) 11 time before and after the wazif.
After doing this you have to do dam on water and drink it daily, also give this water to your family members to drink and increase the water in the water bottle. Also for babies you have to recite and do dam on babies too.


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How do you create inventory procedures?
- Determine needs and demands
- Organize your inventory
- Choose your inventory management technique
- Maintain tracking records of your incoming and outgoing inventory
- Ensure accuracy through inventory counts
A large part of what makes a company successful is their inventory management. In the Philippines, both big and small companies are slowly taking inventory management more seriously. When your products flow from storage to store shelves and ultimately to the hands of your customers smoothly, other business processes are made easier.
When you don't keep track of your inventory, chances are you might get overwhelmed when the smallest of issues arise. Proper inventory procedures take these into account and develop or use existing techniques to bypass or at the minimum, control it.
Business owners that don't understand inventory management completely can face a lot of issues that can lead to lower profitability and efficiency. By creating a personalized inventory management system that's developed solely for your business, you're basically optimizing the entire process of manufacturing, distributing, and selling your products!
Here's a detailed guide to creating the most appropriate inventory management process for your business!
Determine Needs and Demands
Just like how you would research on your target market before you start your business, you also have to do research about the needs of your customers. It's important to understand what your customers need in order for you to accurately forecast the demand for your products.
This should be the first step in your inventory management process. Data gathering is incredibly important in making sure that your efforts will come into fruition quicker than expected. Remember to take note of your past sales, inventory records, and seasonal selling patterns. Use all that you learn to create a forecast for your future demand. When you've taken note of this information correctly, you'll benefit from a reliable prediction of supply and demand!
For relatively new businesses that lack data on past sales, your focus should be on market research and revenue predictions; make do with what you have. By doing so, you'll make sure that you have the optimal amount of inventory on hand at any given time while also avoiding issues such as running out of stock and unforeseen carrying costs.
Organize your Inventory
Every process is smoother if you know what's what. The more organized your inventory is, the easier it is to execute strategies and procedures for the entire process. You don't need to be particular with the organization of your inventory. Something as simple as using labels to help categorize inventory depending on their demand or lifespan can already help immensely.
The most basic way to organize your inventory is to categorize them into three classifications. First are the highest sell-through items or those with high demands from your market. Second are the items that sell at a moderate pace. The remaining items, those who are slow to be sold is the third classification.
Choose Your Inventory Management Technique
Anyone who specializes in inventory management in the Philippines should know the importance of the right inventory management technique. Choose wisely from the ones that are already known such as the just-in-time technique that can reduce carrying costs or safety stocks which adds a safety net for demand security.
In the Philippines, a point of sales systems is probably one of the most important systems for retail businesses. But when paired with a great inventory management technique, it can be used to further optimize the process of managing your inventory.
Maintain Tracking Records of your Incoming and Outgoing Inventory
Make sure that you know the exact number and the cost of all the items you have in your warehouse and how inventory is moving in and out of storage. Oftentimes undermined, keeping track of inventory and is absolutely important in making sure that your entire business process is as efficient as possible.
Smaller businesses can do this by simply using spreadsheets as a means to track and record everything, albeit with a few manual steps involved. To make this easier, there are a lot of software options available online. These records will be used to help develop business forecasts, inventory tracking, and report generation.
Ensure Accuracy Through Inventory Counts
Using inventory management software is one of the best things that you can do to optimize your inventory management process. But don't rely on it too much, especially when it comes to inventory count accuracy. Make sure you do thorough recounts manually to ensure a much better data collection. One of the most common methods to do so is through cycle counting. This involves specifying a certain set of inventories to physically count each day and comparing those numbers with the data in your inventory management system. In doing so, you can easily identify potential problems and inaccuracies without having to do the overwhelming job of conducting a complete physical count.
Key Takeaway
By creating an inventory process of your own, you open your business up to more opportunities for growth and sales. You'll also be able to save a lot when it comes to the operational costs of taking up inventory. Incorporate your own inventory management process and reap the benefits that it provides to every business!


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Does Third-Party Data Help You Understand Your Customer and Improve Targeting?Oct 11 2018 | 09:00 PM | 6 Mins Read | Level - Intermediate | Read Mode
Simon Poole Lityx, VP Analytic Services
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Simon has over 20 years of experience successfully building and managing Marketing Analytics and CPG Analytics teams. He started his career as a statistician in the Credit and Risk department at HSBC in the UK. After moving to the US in 1995, he spent 10 years at IRI where he was responsible for managing the deployment of consumer packaged goods processing, reporting and analytic capabilities in Greece, Poland, Venezuela and Cyprus. He was also a leader at Allant for 10 years, delivering analytics and strategy to the cable, telco, retail, energy, healthcare, insurance, and financial service industries.
Simon graduated from Sheffield University in the UK with a Bachelor of Science in Statistics/Economics and a Master of Science in Statistics.
Third-party data comes in lots of flavors. At a basic level, there are examples like age, income, gender and the presence of kids; but there are potentially thousands of available variables. Is it worth appending third-party data to better understand your customers? Simon Poole, VP Analytic Services, Lityx, answers the question.
It is generally accepted that third-party data provides foundational knowledge for any marketer. But, it can also be effectively used to enable more precise target marketing that can dramatically improve marketing KPIs.
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Third-party data comes in lots of flavors. At a basic level, there are examples like age, income, gender, and presence of kids; but there are potentially thousands of available variables. Some are collected from various public records, magazine subscriptions, sourced from social media and some are even modeled from survey data. Data is also available on behavioral and attitudinal characteristics; for example, likelihood to subscribe to financial newsletters, or interest in gourmet cooking or gardening, as well as likely political affiliation.
A valid question to ask is whether apparently interesting information on an individual or household can be correlated with a client's very specific customer behaviors. It might seem surprising, but if correlations (data relationships) exist, which is typical, one can often find proxies for specific customer behaviors. This enables us to describe who are our best customers at a fundamental level but can also help us create predictive models to use in target marketing.
Over the past few years, we have built models at Lityx which really illustrate the power of third-party data particularly when it is combined with advanced targeting methods. For example, for a Hearing Aid device provider it was generally accepted that targeting those aged 65 and over would generate a higher response than just targeting say those aged 50 and over. Without advanced analytic-driven targeting, this is true, and it is clearly an obvious way to target the most qualified prospects at a reasonable Cost-Per-Sale. However, while Age and Income select work they leave customers and dollars on the table. This is because a targeting model enables you to further segment or "cherry-pick" from different age groups based on other key variables that help predict response.
How does it work? Age is powerful in predicting response but combining it with other variables one can create a complex algorithm that assigns a probability score to every possible prospect. A model is essentially a scorecard based on a set of variables (8-12 is common). Although Age is the most predictive variable for this product, segmenting on multiple variables allows you to find sub-segments that are not as obvious. Once the score has been assigned, prospects are ranked from highest score to lowest score. Note that it only takes a few incremental sales to generate a significant ROI given the low cost of applying the model.
So why shouldn't the client continue what they have been doing? Invariably potential customers and dollars will be left on the table. If you have competitors that are not using third-party data and advanced analytics, you will have a competitive advantage since you can tap into segments they are not. If your competitors are using advanced analytics and you are not, you will get left behind.
By deploying advanced techniques with third-party data you will invariably see Cost-Per-Sale decrease which will free up dollars to acquire even more customers and/or to spend on other channels.


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Merry Christmas from Hooper Signs
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Well it's that time of year again. This year seems to have disappeared too quickly. We would like to thank all our customers for the work and projects that we've been involved with in 2012. We are already looking at the schedule for January, which is kind of weird using 2013 already.
We (just like many trades) will be closing for Christmas on Friday 21st at noon.
- Friday 21st December: 9.00 – 12.00 noon
- Saturday 22nd December: Closed
- Sunday 23rd December: Closed
- Monday 24th December: Closed
- Tuesday 25th December: Closed
- Wednesday 26th December: Closed
- Thursday 27th December: 9.00am – 5.00pm
- Friday 28th December: 9.00am – 4.00pm
- Saturday 29th December: Closed
- Sunday 30th December: Closed
- Monday 31st December: Closed
- Tuesday 1st January: Closed
- Wednesday 2nd January: 9.00am – 5.00pm (back to normal hours)
If we don't see you before, we hope you have a great Christmas and an awesome New Year. Don't eat too many sprouts and I'll see you in the returns queue on Thursday!!


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Federal prosecutors asked the judge overseeing Michael Cohen's criminal case in Manhattan to reject the Trump Organization's request for more time to review documents seized from Cohen's premises.
"Further delay will unreasonably impede the Government's investigation," U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami wrote in a Monday letter to Judge Kimba Wood.
The three parties—Cohen's attorneys, the Trump Organization, and federal prosecutors —have wrangled since April over the attorney-client privilege review process for the millions of documents FBI agents took from Cohen's office, hotel room, and apartment.
On Friday, the Trump Organization asked for two additional weeks to complete its review, saying a "password issue" kept it from accessing a trove of documents until the middle of last week.
But as Khuzami notes in his response, Judge Wood already granted the parties more time, moving her initial deadline of June 15 back to June 25 for Cohen and June 27 for the Trump Organization.
Khuzami also points out that only a tiny fraction of the documents reviewed by Special Master Barbara Jones, an independent party brought in by request of the Cohen and Trump teams, were determined to be privileged.
On those grounds, Khuzami says, the Trump Organization should not be granted yet another extension. If it is, it should be only one more week, or a deadline of July 5, Khuzami argues, adding that the government will "oppose any future requests for delay in their entirety."
Wood last week announced that she was adopting the report that Jones filed, which designated 161 items as privileged. As Wood explained in her order, the bulk of them involved text messages exchanged between Cohen and his own outside counsel requesting or receiving legal advice. Wood agreed with Jones' determination that seven other documents could be withheld from prosecutors because they are highly personal documents concerning Cohen's "family affairs."
In addition to the Trump Organization, former adult film star Stormy Daniels is also intervening in the case. Some of the seized materials involve the $130,000 Cohen paid to Daniels just before the 2016 election to keep her from talking about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.
Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, lashed out at federal prosecutors on Monday, alleging that they canceled a scheduled Monday interview with his client because it leaked to the press.
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Betting odds: Diamondbacks at Rockies
- Diamondbacks moneyline: -122 (Zack Greinke)
- Rockies moneyline: +112 (Antonio Senzatela)
- Over/Under: 10.5
- First pitch: 8:40 p.m. ET
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The National League West is a three-horse race with the Rockies, Dodgers and Diamondbacks. Colorado is in the catbird seat with a 1.5-game lead on Los Angeles with Arizona 3.5 games out.
Needless to say, this four-game set between the D-backs and Rockies is huge, and the Snakes are basically in must-win mode after losing Monday night at Coors Field.
It's been a rough September for Torey Lovullo's club, as Arizona has lost seven of its first nine games to start the month. The Diamondbacks will lean on a struggling Zack Greinke to right the ship Tuesday.
It will be easier said than done for the former Cy Young winner, as he's up against a deep Rockies lineup that ranks third in the MLB in wOBA (weighted on-base average) at home (and 10th overall).
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Symposium a week to share, honor scholarship and growth
Read some "snapshots" of the breadth of offerings from Saint Michael's College's Academic Symposium 2016:
- Academic-presentations
- An "Experiential Showcase" on Thursday
- Saturday's poster session component in the Dion Family Student Center.
After fine arts musical performances Monday and Tuesday, activity ramped up with the traditional first major assembly of presentations:
Wednesday afternoon, Dion Student Center
Media Studies , Journalism & Digital Arts Senior Projects Exhibit:
Susan Shigo '16 of Shelton, CT, has been going to camp since she was 6 and worked at one for the last four years "so they have a big place in my heart," she said of her book project "Cabin Fever: a behind the scenes look at American Summer Camps." She was surprised to learn that summer camp experiences are centralized in the U.S. and Canada and have not expanded to other nations of the world.
Professor Kimberly Sultze stopped to admire Paige Leahy's book "Let There be Darkness," comprehensively exploring the problem of light pollution as it impacts the environment, animals, humans and biorhythms, with a section even about artists inspired by literal darkness. Sultze said besides books and websites, this year MJD students also produced eight documentary films, most by partners or groups. One was by Kathryn Miyahara of San Mateo, CA, who has a double major in Spanish, and Paul Detzer of White River Junction, VT. Their film explored s how "people use the internet and social media to express grief and connect, almost, with the dead, sharing memories," explained Kathryn. The duo collected personal stories and found that younger generations are more comfortable sharing grief online, across the world's cultures. "it's more a generational shift than a cultural shift, we found," Kathryn said.
Bridget Conway of Bethel, CT built her book from an internship experience in South Africa working for an environmental social enterprise. Seeing some issues that nonprofits struggle with there, she thought the topic would be worth exploring further once back in the U.S. She used "statistical story-telling" as her approach: "It's something I learned through my experiences with these organizations, using data and results-based analysis to attach to a story that tugs on your heart strings." She admits, "I started with big ignorance toward nonprofits — I thought they were struggling — but found this is really a thriving and resilient sector. They are adaptable and will be around a while."
Ryder Schumacher of South Berwick, ME, Ben DiNardo of Bedford, NH, and Kristian Nammack of Stamford, CT, were another team of film producers, reporting on aging population trends in New England states, and the most effective ways that some communities have found to attract youth: namely, through community, culture and the arts. They were surprised by how powerful arts are in a community setting to bring people together and attract a youthful demographic. Among sites they studied were the Moran Plant in downtown Burlington, a music hall in Manchester, NH, and another site in Maine. All would love to find work in media production, based on their experience, and they feel well-prepared by their program to find a job after graduation.
MJD Professor Jon Hyde said what jumped out at him this year is "the massive diversity of project ideas we had among close to 50 students, one of our largest groups ever." Among them – nearly 10 film projects, about 20 books and 7 or 8 websites. Work starts in the fall and continues to April, Hyde said. The biggest challenge, most realize early on," is finding a topic that hasn't been done, that's innovative and can attract a national or international audience." That might involve finding a narrow subtopic within a broader topic already covered, and includes much give and take between students and faculty advisers. Applying skills from class, students typically interview 30 to 40 people for each project.
Dory Robins of Montpelier, VT, created a website exploring issues and experiences of Chinese adoptees who have grown up in white families – which has been her own personal experience. Some she interviewed feel fully and only American culturally, with no deep-felt connection to China and no interest in making one, she said; but others felt a strong connection, mirroring her own experience: Dory learned Chinese in high school and at Saint Michael's, and already has visited China three times. "For study-abroad, I spent my summer with a host family, working on the fluency in Mandarin that I hope to achieve," she said. It's helped her with some interactions with Chinese students at Saint Michael's, one of whom tutored her in Chinese.
Appearing to have a lot of fun with their project were Connor Vandagriff and Sean Faust, two southern Californians who did a documentary film on classic cars and their collectors. "We talked to a wide variety of people from the West Coast to the East Coast, spending a lot of time in California interviewing racers, mechanics, collectors," Sean said. Connor got to drive Ferrari; but his dream car is a Porsche 917K while Sean's is a Shelby Cobra – he got to see chassis No. 1 of that model in Beverly Hills, and dreams of building a kit-car look-alike Cobra. Both would like to work on their automotive skills after this project. They attended rival Catholic high schools in southern California and heard of Saint Michael's independently through friends of family friends and school connections, and have no regrets about coming. They planned to screen the film in McCarthy Arts Center before summer break; booking screenings was part of the assignment for film groups, Professor Hyde said.
Maya Richmond of Hiram, ME, came back from study abroad in Italy last year, felt out of shape from too much pasta, and "mentally defeated." So at a friend's recommendation, she took up bodybuilding , and that world has become a centerpiece of her life. For the past year it has been her senior MJD project in the form of a web documentary that she titled "Pumping Irony: An Updated Exploration of Female Bodybuilding." Maya's research included traveling to an enormous bodybuilding event in Ohio attended by 18,000 athletes, where she used her photojournalism and digital media skills from St. Mike's classes to gather images and impressions. "They prepare us well to make these projects in the most multidimensional-media way possible, " said Maya, whose comprehensive website covered the physical, emotional, economic and other facets of the sport. "I explored bodybuilding stereotypes and showed how not all bodybuilding journeys are the same," she said. Maya does not compete in the sport, but identifies as a "lifestyle bodybuilder." Laurence Clerfeuille, Maya's French professor (the MJD major has a French minor), talked with her about the student's work and hopes to teach English in France – which has bodybuilders too, the professor said.
Sarah Haselton of South Burlington, VT turned her chief hobby interest into a book for her senior MJD project. "I've been into quilting since I was 14 and it runs in my family" she said, introducing the aunt who got her started. That quilting aunt had come with Sarah's parents to support her. Her book covered quilting history, social practices and changing trends. "A lot of people think it's for old women and don't know about the diversity in it," said Sarah, whose book contains interviews with men and younger quilters too, along with many women, all producing a diversity of styles. "It's something I can do the rest of my life, and I want to keep going with it," she said. Her beaming dad offered his take: "I think she's awesome, very talented, and I'm very proud of her," he said. Sarah's mom says she doesn't quilt – "I can barely sew socks" — yet she stayed up two nights to read Sarah's book. "I found the stories interesting, and was so impressed with the research. Sarah is shy and would rather hide under the bed than interview somebody, so I was surprised and very proud," Mom said. Saint Mike's, she said, "has been a great experience – the smaller classes were the best thing for her, since in a big class, as a really quiet person, she'd get lost." Sarah wants to stay in the area after graduating and continue to write, possibly for a job.
Leah Valletta of Clinton, CT, always has been interested in spiritual matters, since her childhood attending a UCC church with her family; so she directed that interest into her project exploring alternative spiritual communities in a book. Former Dean and present Religious Studies Professor Jeff Trumbower stopped to ask her about it. She told him how those she met with included "a Mountain Druid order" that builds stone circles. Like other groups from her study, she said, they seemed to be "trying to reclaim a past that people feel has been taken from them, often borrowing from Celtic, Native American or Eastern religions." She learned a lot about symbols and rituals, she said, and was influenced by reading a book recommended by a high school teacher. The experience made her think more seriously of writing or reporting as a career.
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DAVIS, Helen 1914-2004
Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 3/22/2017 at 22:18:10
Helen Davis, 90
Helen Davis, 90, of Eldora, died August 19 at Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Grundy Center. Funeral services were August 23 at Holland Christian Reformed Church in Holland. Burial followed at the Holland Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established.
Helen was born January 11, 1914, the daughter of Anton and Anna (Olthoff) Venenga. She attended Colfax #4 rural country school. On September 27, 1934, Helen was united in marriage to Cornelius Hinders. Cornelius died in 1936. Helen began working as a waitress in various restaurants in 1937 in Wellsburg, Eldora, Union and New Providence.
On April 7, 1941, Helen was united in marriage to Lyle Davis.
She is survived by two sons; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Arvilla Gerloff of New Hartford and Margie Ann Jurchen and her husband Art of Wellsburg; and one sister-in-law.
She was preceded in death by her husbands; her parents; two brothers; and one brother in infancy.
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 26 August 2004, pg 3
Grundy Obituaries maintained by Tammy D. Mount.
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The three-year-old girl shot in South Sacramento last week has been pronounced brain dead, according to the UC Davis Medical Center.
In a statement released by the hospital, doctors said Azalya was examined by two doctors, first on Friday at 11:50 a.m. and second after midnight on Saturday to confirm brain death. The official declaration came at 1:02 a.m. Saturday.
"Like everyone, we have been terribly saddened about what happened to this young child. Our caregivers send their thoughts to Azalya's family following this tragedy," the UC Davis Medical Center said in a statement.
RELATED: Three-Year-Old Girl Shot, Severely Injured Inside South Sacramento Home
The shooting happened Tuesday off of Power Inn Road and 68th Avenue.
Sacramento County Sheriff's detectives believe the little girl was inside during the shooting when shots were fired from the outside near the street. According to officials, witnesses reported hearing a vehicle leave the scene at a high rate of speed.
"The call initially came in as a drive-by shooting, we are not 100-percent not going with that yet we are looking at all aspects, making sure we get all information," said Sgt. Shaun Hampton.
This actually happened?! Omg!! When will it end? Like seriously!!! Mother to Mother, it's about the choices and decisions made to make the environment safe for our children, no matter how lonely life may get. Too close to home, seriously protect the children please. Let there be justice and hope for this innocence. I'm in tears ….
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Minister Burton Misleads to Cut Welfare
"Now that the recession has bitten hard and deep we have a scale of expenditure that is completely out of step with our ability to fund it. We do not have the means or revenue as a country to support our level of spending."Burton Seanad, Nov 17
This is completely wrong. The truth is that the government has decided that the poor and middle income earners will bear the brunt of the fiscal adjustment (3.8m) . Net Financial assets(shares etc) of irish households increased by 45 billion over the last two years as private sector investment fell by 30 billion. The government should take 10 billion of the 45 billion in a wealth tax instead of spending cuts. The spending cuts will continue to destroy jobs (315,000 since 2007 and 3000 net fulltime jobs in the first 3 months of this government)
Dr Nat O'Connor, Director of TASC, the progressive research group last Thursday told a conference that the "Troika" had informed him that if money could be raised in alternative ways, they would have no problem with that.
So cuts in welfare are purely a Labour/Fine Gael decision
EU Comparison
Contrary to claims that welfare in Ireland is high and a 'disincentive' to work, welfare payments in Ireland are among the lowest in the original EU fifteen states. A report by the EAPN from Sept 2009, based on figures for 2006 comparing social protection spending in the EU 15, found that while there was an average spend of 27% of GDP, Ireland came 13t out of 15 with 18.2%.
The net replacement rate, welfare compared to previous income was only 34.5% in Ireland, again the lowest in the EU 15. Social protection in Ireland is even below the average of the EU 27 which contains many countries much poorer tan Ireland
It is appalling that social welfare should top the cuts league according to the leaked German draft.
"The (leaked) EU documents appear to suggest that the savings will be achieved by welfare fraud elimination, cuts to other entitlements and a reduction in the number of people eligible for benefit payments." (Journal.ie)
Earlier this month the Government stated its intentions:
They(GOV) stress that instead of "pursuing across-the-board reductions in primary social welfare rates", the Government will take a "selective approach" to "reforming entitlements", and state:
"The Department of Social Protection will build on their recent studies on working age payments, child income support and disability allowance with a view to producing, after consultation with stakeholders, a comprehensive programme of reforms that can help better target social support to those on lower incomes, and ensure that work pays for welfare recipients." (Jounal.ie)
Already people with perfectly legitimate welfare claims are being cut off like flies through use of new arbitrary criteria and in a savage Scrooge operation heating support has being reduced to the poor and the old this Christmas leading to more unnecessary deaths this winter.
Now Burton wants to cut Child Benefit even to the needy. Brnardos has described this measure as "crossing moral boundaries"
How Low can she Go?
Public Sector
It may not be widely known that the proposed transfer of illness benefit payment to employers includes public sector employers and state companies- This means that these cuts will end up in hospital wards, schools and local authority services and on bin charges, electricity and gas bills.
Private Sector
This reduction in demand by people who spend all their money every week will lead to further job destruction by government as shops and small businesses continue to close
I would be not as neutral or "agnostic" as David Begg on the transfer of the first four weeks of sickness benefit to employers. There are serious concerns arising from Burtons Seanad Speech on Thursday night.
Small Businesses
Firstly, many businesses including small shops, cafes and hairdressers have less than ten employees. To trade they must replace sick employees. Now they must pay benefit to the sick employee as well. Many are hanging on by their finger nails and will close, adding to the dole queues.
In relation to large profit-making Irish and multinational companies, my concern is not for such companies but for their employees. Trade unions are not permitted in these companies. Burton said in the Seanad that the transfer of the first 4 weeks sick leave to employers would enable employers to "manage absenteeism". Does this mean that a sick cert from an employee's GP will no longer guarantee payment of sickness benefit.?
Will people who have not fully recovered be forced to go back to work too soon?
There are also predatory employers in some parts of the public sector with whom the health of employees would not be safe.
I have no confidence that a Minister who has cut winter fuel allowances to the old will give first priority to the health of employees in the new legislation she will introduce to implement the changes.
Paddy Healy 087-4183732 firstname.lastname@example.com
Austerity is not Working-Michael Burke at TASC Conference
Austerity is not Working
Michael Burke At TASC Conference 2011
'Investing in Recovery' session, FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference, October 15th
*Throughout the Nation Income & Expenditure Accounts for 2010 are used unless otherwise stated http://www.cso.ielrefeasespublications/documentv/Aron®my0current/nie.pdf
It is customary for the government, Dept of Finance, and its supporters in academia and the media in Ireland to look at the situation from the wrong end of the telescope- to begin with a symptom of the crisis – the deficit – and not the crisis itself. But because it is familiar, for now the same process of working backwards is adopted.
The Deficit
In the National Income and Expenditure Accounts 2010, Total Borrowing of the public sector in 2010 was €51.9bn (Table 21, line 236)*. This arose primarily because total receipts of€48.8bn were exceeded by total outlays of €103bn (other items excluded). However, of that deficit €32.2bn was grants to enterprises (Line 244, the bank bailout). Therefore the borrowing requirement excluding the bailouts was €19.7bn. These fiscal deficits, excluding bailouts have been rising, not falling, even though there have been cuts in spending and tax increases.
We can arrive at the ex-bailout deficit by adding 'Grants to enterprises' (line 244) to net lending/borrowing (line 253). So net borrowing/lending was as follows:
2005 €3.5bn 2006 €5.7bn 2007 €0.9bn 2008 -€11.3bn 2009 -€17.8bn 2010 -€17.4bn (other items account for the reduction below €19.7bn).
The government has attempted to close this deficit by reducing its own spending and increase taxes on the general population, which also reduces their spending power and the incentive for businesses to invest. As those deficit numbers demonstrate, 'austerity' to reduce the deficit has been a complete failure.
Failure of Policy
In terms of current transfer payments, the government has cut €1.76bn in social welfare payments between 2008 and 2010 (Table 24). The effective cuts are much greater than this due to rising demand from increased population and increased impoverishment. Yet the total level of current spending has risen by €4.2bn, from €29.6bn to €33.8bn. The single biggest rise is in debt interest payments, from €2bn to €4.9bn. Unemployment assistance has risen by €1.6bn, redundancy payments by €300mn, unemployment benefit by €350mn, welfare allowances by €200mn. Employment support services fell by €100mn, pension contributions from employees have fallen by €380mn.
In terms of investment government gross fixed capital formation fell by €1.8bn in the two years to 2008 (Table 25). So, the €1.8bn decline in investment more than accounts for the decline in the deficit in 2010 from 2009 (€0.4bn).
Taking all categories of government spending (Table 26), both current and capital spending, we see the following declines from 2008 to 2010: Defence €100mn, 'other government services' €2.9bn, education €400m, health €900mn, housing €500mn, other community services €500mn, agriculture €1.4bn, mining €400mn and transport €1.5bn. In addition local government cut spending (Table 27) on housing by €900mn on transport by €800mn and on all types of economic and community services by a combined €1.7bn. Altogether these amount to spending cuts of €12bn.
Again the real effects of the cuts are greater, given both higher prices and increased demand. Yet the deficit has risen as spending has risen, up €26bn, central and local government combined. Apart from the bailouts (€4bn in 2009, €32bn in 2010), social security welfare payments have risen by €2.Sbn, of which unemployment assistance and unemployment benefits account for €2bn.
Government supporters continue to suggest that it is a bloated public sector which is responsible for the fiscal crisis, despite all evidence showing that this economy has one of the lowest levels of government spending in the Euro Area. Achieving deficit-reduction by these means has proved impossible, the deficit has widened. Even if all the cuts equalled savings (which is clearly not the case) the entire public sector would have to be sacked in order to achieve deficit-reduction as the wage, salary and pension bill of central and local government combined is €18.2bn (Table 24, line ) is lower than the €19.7bn deficit.
The other track the government has pursued has been increased taxation. The monthly and annual exchequer returns were always a very poor guide to the actual state of government finances in particular as they exclude social security payments. They are even less useful now after the introduction of the USC, which is not included. But the NEE does list tax revenues more comprehensively, even if detail is absent (Table 22).
Taxation revenues have fallen for 3 consecutive years as key categories of activity started to contract in 2008. Despite a series of tax hikes taxation revenues have fallen from €59.2bn in 2007 to €43.3bn in 2010. This loss of €15.9bn effectively accounts for over 90% of the deficit, not increased spending. Only welfare payments have risen.
In total, the government has aimed at 'fiscal consolidation' of €14.6bn (not including the November 2010 Budget). This was split €9bn in spending cuts and €5.6bn in tax increases. The tax increases were focused on incomes and on consumption (VAT). Taxes on capital and on profits were untouched.
To see the effect of these lopsided tax measures, we can note that taxes paid by individuals incomes or consumption comprise income tax, motor tax, customs and excise, VRT, while taxes paid on capital or
capital transactions comprise CGT, CAT and stamps. Leaving aside social insurance contributions, taxes on corporations comprise corporation tax, the employment levy and a portion of motor tax (Table 22).
From 2007 (the last year of the boom) to 2010 the total amount of taxation paid from these sectors under those heads was as follows (€bn):
2007 2010
Individuals 34.2 26.3
Capital 6.7 1.5
Corporations 8.5 6.1
Social Insurance 9.1 8.7
Total (incl. misc. items) 59.2 43.3
In fact businesses contribution to social insurance was €5.7 in 2007 falling to €5bn in 2010 (Table 1, lines 3&10). Therefore it is possible to rewrite the table above distributing the different contributions of employers and employees to SI (€bn).
2007 2010
Individuals 37.6 30.0
Capital 6.7 1.5
Corporations 14.8 11.1
Total (incl. misc. items) 59.2 43.3
Individuals formerly provided 63% of total tax revenues. Despite a fall in their incomes, their tax contribution has risen to over 69% of the total.
So far, we have dealt with the deficit and the failure of government policy. But these are only symptomatic of the crisis, which is an economic crisis. In nominal terms (excluding the effects of price changes) GDP has fallen by 17.9% between 2007 and 2010 (Table A). But investment (gross fixed capital formation) has fallen by 66%. It also accounts for the bulk of the decline in GDP, €32.3bn of a total loss in output of €34bn. By contrast, while households have been very badly hit, the decline in household consumption is €11.3bn and a fall of 12%.
We can also locate the source of the decline. While both central and local government investment has fallen by €2.9bn between 2007 and 2010 (Table 21, line 249) the remaining €29.4bn is the decline in the investment of the private sector. In effect, a private sector investment strike accounts for 86% of the total loss of output.
How To Address the Investment Strike?
In 2010 the total level of private sector investment was €11.4bn. Yet the private sector's share of value added in 2010 was €54.8bn (Table l, line 13, minus lines, 2, 3, 9 & 10). For comparison, in 2007 the private sectors' level of investment was €41.3bn of a net income of €68.2bn. In 2007 the private sector was willing to invest over 60% of its net income whereas in 2010 it invested less than 20% of its net income.
All private investment is made for a profitable return. Public investment is also made for a return, but usually the direct return accrues to the private sector (a new road, or educating a student) and only indirectly to the public sector via increased tax revenues. The investment strike arises because the private sector does not expect profitable returns on investment.
In fact the corporations in the Irish economy have been making savings over a prolonged period (Table 11, line 141) when the normal functioning of a market economy is that the household sector saves and ° the corporate sector borrows in order to invest, via the medium of the banks. But because the Irish corporate sector's income as a proportion of total value added has been so high (exceeded only by Greece) it has felt no need to borrow to invest. Now that its income has fallen it has responded by maintaining savings (at a reduced level of income) and cutting investment.
As we have shown, there was a €43.4bn discrepancy between the income and investment of the private sector in 2010, which is greater than the entire shortfall in output since the recession began. In Keynes's phrase, 'the level of investment determines the level of employment and output'. We also know that businesses will invest once more when they foresee a profitable return on investment, which in turn depends on a resumption of growth.
Therefore, what is proposed is a series of temporary measures (windfall taxes, levies, charges, commissions, licenses, the labels are less important) by the government to channel a large portion of
that €43.4bn towards the needed investment in rail, ports and other infrastructure, superfast broadband, housing and education. The shortfall is in the order of €30bn. To engineer a recovery a fraction of that would be necessary. But once a strong recovery is underway, businesses will be induced to invest the remainder themselves simply from the profits available and may even begin to borrow for productive investment from the banks. However, this will only occur if the upturn in investment is orchestrated by the public sector.


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In our first shipment of archival material from offsite storage (see earlier blog entries for photographs), we processed eight boxes of material from Joseph Willen's tenure as Executive Vice President and Executive Consultant at the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
So far, the material processed has been mostly material from 1938-1945 (including material from before his time as Vice President) and 1967-1975 (material from his work as an FJP consultant). This last Thursday, along with many other boxes, we have received another 32 boxes of archival material related to Joseph Willen from offsite storage. With the new shipment, we hope to expand our collection to include the rest of his tenure as Executive Vice President, roughly from 1945-1967.
To account for some of our great anticipation associated with receiving and processing additional Willen material, here is a portion of a draft of our historical/biographical note for Willen (which will be further augmented after the new shipment of material has been processed):
Alongside Dr. Maurice Hexter, Joseph Willen was appointed executive vice-president of the organization in 1942. During his time as Executive Vice President, Willen actively participated in the merger with the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities (1943), the successful Building Fund for Expansion, Modernization, and Research (1945-1947), the significant expansion of services and assistance to veterans, families, and the elderly, and aided in the City of Life Campaign and Building Fund (1962-1967).
Even before his tenure as Executive Vice President, Joseph Willen was relied upon as an exceptional and innovative fund-raiser. In the article by Jack Wertheimer, "Current Trends in American Jewish Philanthropy," the author cited Carl Bakal (author of Charity U.S.A.) as suggesting that Joseph Willen invented the practice of publicly calling on a donor to announce how much the donor will be giving, often known as "card-calling," at fund-raising dinners. Willen enlisted the aid of Felix Warburg to begin the practice of "card-calling" in the 1930s at Federation dinners or events. In the Wertheimer article, Willen offers "that for a person to show off his wealth by conspicuous spending …was considered good form, whereas conspicuous giving was considered bad form…Why couldn't more modest givers also give conspicuously, simply by announcing their gifts?" (Page 11). Willen distinguished himself with fund-raising practices like "card-calling" or the successful 1944 Campaign without a Fixed Quota, where "[o]ur quota will be the conscience, the foresight, and the courage of the Jewish community…its readiness to prepare for the returning soldier and the needs of the post-war world…its will to build a finer community" (Golden Heritage, 72). Throughout his career, Willen brought a level of professionalism to the business of fund-raising for a philanthropic organization. Together, Willen and Hexter "organized fund-raising campaigns that brought in more than $1 billion" dollars (New York Times, July 10, 1985).
In 1967, Joseph Willen retired from his position as Executive Vice President to become an Executive Consultant and remained a consultant until the 1980s. He passed away on July 6, 1988 at Mount Sinai Medical Center, an institution that Joseph Willen helped raise funds for and expand the mission of as Executive Vice President of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
In the coming weeks, we look forward to completing the processing of the Willen boxes and adding to the draft of the note you (hopefully) just read above.


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Pushing the Envelope in Messaging and Office 365 Development
Monday, November 22, 2004
Setting the Appointment Label Text Programmatically
Before I start though I must give the following warning, the following piece of code and method is completely unsupported and completely untested. Playing around with binary properties is very unwise unless you really have a good enough grasp to be able to undo any damage you may do trying to set them. The third and last bit is that this will only work if your using the ASCII character set. If you're using other types of character sets (eg a lot of Asian character sets) this wont work.
Because this property is stored in a binary format to work with this in VBS we need something that can read binary and convert it to a hex string which makes it usable. For this I've used Arrayconvert out of this KB article. This library works well and it free and easy to use, the only thing it doesn't do is convert directly a string to hex but you can do this indirectly by first converting the sting to binary and then to hex.
So when no customizations have been made to the labels this property is set to a hex value of 44 Zero's (I know this is not a proper explanation of binary). Or as I'm going to deal with it in the script its 11 groups of "0000". As we have 10 labels then 10 of these groups represent a spacer for each label and the lasts group represents the padding to begin. These groups of 0's are constants in this property they only change in location in relation to the text that's being inserted into the labels.
So the major task that this script does is builds the hex string to be inserted into the property. The first thing it does is sets up a 10 element array to hold all the spacer values for each label. (We already know that this property is going to start with "0000"). The next thing it does is setups up a 10 element array to hold the values for all the customized label texts.
The next part of code then loops through the spacer array and checks to see if any text is going to be inserted from the corresponding label array. If text has been set in that label array element it then first converts the text to a hex string (by way of converting it to binary then back to hex). Then because each character is given 4 digits for storage and USASCII only uses the first 2 digits the hex string is split apart and each hex character representation is padded with "00".
So what we end up with is a hex string representing all the values and spacers that need to be set. Some Exoledb/ADO code is then used to set the x36DC0102 property using the arrayconvert library to convert this hex string into the octent Variant Array of bytes needed for this property.
Thats it as I said you should view this code as experimental and highly suspect. I've posted a downloadable copy of the code here. In my example I'm only setting the two values for blue and green to Internal and External. Eg.
dim objspcarray(9)
dim objlabelarray(9)
set rec = createobject("ADODB.Record")
Set cnvt = CreateObject("ADs.ArrayConvert")
objspcarray(0) = "0000"
objspcarray(1) = "0000"
objspcarray(2) = "0000"
objspcarray(3) = "0000"
objspcarray(4) = "0000"
objspcarray(5) = "0000"
objspcarray(6) = "0000"
objspcarray(7) = "0000"
objspcarray(8) = "0000"
objspcarray(9) = "0000"
objlabelarray(0) = ""
objlabelarray(1) = "External"
objlabelarray(2) = "Internal"
objlabelarray(3) = ""
objlabelarray(4) = ""
objlabelarray(5) = ""
objlabelarray(6) = ""
objlabelarray(7) = ""
objlabelarray(8) = ""
objlabelarray(9) = ""
dstring = "0000"
for i = lbound(objspcarray) to ubound(objspcarray)
if objlabelarray(i) <> "" then
objtooct = cnvt.CvStr2vOctetStr(objlabelarray(i))
objtohex = cnvt.CvOctetStr2vHexStr(objtooct)
for h = 1 to len(objtohex)/2
dstring = dstring & mid(objtohex,((h*2)-1),2) & "00"
end if
dstring = dstring & objspcarray(i)
wscript.echo dstring
rec.open "file://./backofficestorage/domain/mbx/mailbox/calendar",,3
rec.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/x36DC0102").Value = cnvt.CvHexStr2vOctetStr(dstring)
Monday, November 15, 2004
Appointment label Colour Changing Event Sink
One of the cool features that was implemented in Outlook 2002 was the ability to change the colour of appointment labels to help distinguish between different types of appointments. (see http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/colorcal.htm for a good description of this feature). But because of the laziness factor I find that I rarely use this feature because I usually forget to set it. One of the things that I really wanted this to do also was be able to show me at a glace which meetings in my calendar where internal meeting (only contained internal attendees) and which meeting contained external attendees (this can be usefull in the morning). Putting this into an event sink turned out to be a really easy solution. All I needed was some code that would go though the attendees collection of a appointment object when the appointment was created and check each of the address's of the attendees to see if they where local address's or external. I leaned on the side of low tech and just decided to go for a match against one local domain. The property that controls the appointment colour is http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8214 and there are 10 integers (data type needs to be long) you can pass to it representing the different colours available in Outlook. I decided to go for blue for external meeting and green for internal meeting. The other check the code performs is to check the number of attendees in the appointment this is because I only wanted it to work on meeting or appointments where someone else other then me was attending. NOTE: I've restricted this sink so it only takes action on newly created appointments this is because a sink that updates properties on an existing message can be pretty dangerous. If you look at the logic when the sink fires it updates properties on the message and saves that message which then causes the sink to fire again and again and before you know it your transaction logs are full and the store is dismounted (Doh!)
The appointment label text provides a bit more of a challenge its located in the http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x36DC0102 property in an undocumented binary form, although on first look it doesn't appear that daunting it looks like its just in byte format padded with a few zeros but this is a challenge for another day.
The code for the sink looks like this, Ive posted a copy up here
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
Sub ExStoreEvents_OnSave(pEventInfo, bstrURLItem, lFlags)
Const EVT_NEW_ITEM = 1
Const EVT_IS_DELIVERED = 8
If (lFlags And EVT_IS_DELIVERED) Or (lFlags And EVT_NEW_ITEM) Then
chgappt = 0
LocalSearchdomain = "@yourdomain.com"
set apptobj = createobject("CDO.Appointment")
apptobj.datasource.open bstrURLItem,,3
cval = apptobj.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8214")
if apptobj.Attendees.count > 1 then
for each attend in apptobj.Attendees
if instr(lcase(attend.address),LocalSearchdomain) = 0 then
chgappt = 1
end if
if chgappt = 1 then
if cavl <> 2 then
apptobj.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8214") = clng(2)
end if
if cavl <> 3 then
apptobj.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062002-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8214") = clng(3)
end if
end if
end if
apptobj = nothing
end if
End Sub
Monday, November 08, 2004
Deleting old email with a Exoledb Script
mailboxurl = "file://./backofficestorage/yourdomain/MBX/mailbox/inbox"
set Rec = CreateObject("ADODB.Record")
set Rs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Set Conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Conn.Provider = "ExOLEDB.DataSource"
Rec.Open mailboxurl, ,3
SSql = "SELECT ""DAV:href"", ""DAV:contentclass"" FROM scope('shallow traversal of """ & mailboxurl & """') "
SSql = SSql & " WHERE (""urn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived"" < CAST(""" & isodateit(now()-31) & """ as 'dateTime')) AND ""DAV:isfolder"" = false"
SSql = SSql & " AND ""DAV:contentclass"" = 'urn:content-classes:message'"
Rs.CursorLocation = 2 'adUseServer = 2, adUseClient = 3
rs.open SSql, rec.ActiveConnection, 3
while not rs.eof
rs.delete 1
function isodateit(datetocon)
strDateTime = year(datetocon) & "-"
if (Month(datetocon) < 10) then strDateTime = strDateTime & "0"
strDateTime = strDateTime & Month(datetocon) & "-"
if (Day(datetocon) < 10) then strDateTime = strDateTime & "0"
strDateTime = strDateTime & Day(datetocon) & "T" & formatdatetime(datetocon,4) & ":00Z"
isodateit = strDateTime
end function
If you want to go a step further with the script and crawl each folder in a mailbox to delete old content then you can combine this with one of the scripts from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320071 which gives you a method of enumerating every folder in a mailbox. Then you just call out an archive sub for each folder. This script gets a bit lengthy I've put an example of this as well as the other script from the article up here. As these scripts delete things great care should be always taken when using and testing scripts of this nature. Make sure you have adequately configured Deleted item retention rates and working backups, if you're not sure what either of these things are don't use the scripts (and seek help).
Monday, November 01, 2004
Finding what Resources are being used from a Meeting Request
Here are a couple of methods that may help
The Mapi property 0x8167001E lists all the displaynames of attendees of a meeting and this seems to include all the resources as well. So what you can do is grab this property do a split on it to get the entries into an array. Loop though the array and check if each address is in the To or CC field of the appointment and if its not then its a resource. eg
Set iCalMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
iCalMsg.datasource.open "itemurl"
recplist =
recparray = split(recplist,";",-1,1)
for i = lbound(recparray) to ubound(recparray)
if instr(iCalMsg.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x0E04001E"),recparray(I)) then
if instr(iCalMsg.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x0E03001E"),recparray(I)) then
wscript.echo recparray(I)
end if
end if
Another method you can use is if you loop though the attendees collection of the appointment associated with the calendar request you can find the organizer of the appointment. Once you know the organizer of the appointment you can then use this along with the urn:schemas:calendar:uid field which uniquely identifies each appointment to call the GetAssociatedItem method of the calendar item. This will (if you have the rights to) connect to the organizers mailbox and then retrieve the master appointment object which will contain resources in the attendees collection . This all uses CDOEX and CDOEXM and the file URL scheme so for this to work the resource mailbox and organizers mailbox has have be on the same server.
Set iCalMsg = CreateObject("CDO.CalendarMessage")
iCalMsg.datasource.open "itemurl"
For Each iCalPart In iCalMsg.CalendarParts
Set iAppt = iCalPart.GetUpdatedItem
cuid1 = iAppt.fields("urn:schemas:calendar:uid")
for each attend in iAppt.Attendees
if attend.IsOrganizer <> 0 then
Set Person = CreateObject("CDO.Person")
strURL = attend.address
Person.DataSource.Open strURL
Set Mailbox = Person.GetInterface("IMailbox")
set iAppt1 = iCalPart.GetAssociatedItem(Mailbox.calendar)
for each attend1 in iAppt1.Attendees
wscript.echo attend1.address
wscript.echo attend1.role
wscript.echo attend1.status
wscript.echo attend1.type
end if
If you wanted to use the second method but the mailboxes are on separate servers then something similar can be done using three webDAV queries and some ADSI. The following example first grabs the calendar message using a WebDAV GET and parses the organizer of the meeting out of the vCalendar body part and also the calendar UID. An ADSI query is then performed using the SMTP address of the organizer to retrieve the msExchHomeServerName property which tells you which server the mailbox is on. A second WebDAV search is then done of the organizers calendar based on the Calender UID of the appointment. This should then locate the original appointment which is then retrieved using a WebDAV GET. The resource mailbox (or mailbox's) SMTP address's are then parsed out of the vCalendar body part.
I've posted a copy of all the scripts from this post here
set Req = createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
Req.open "GET","http://server/exchange/mailbox/inbox/calandermessage.EML",false
Req.setRequestHeader "Translate","f"
attendeearry = split(req.responsetext,"ORGANIZER;",-1,1)
for i = 1 to ubound(attendeearry)
string1 = vbcrlf & " "
stparse = replace(attendeearry(i),string1,"")
attaddress = mid(stparse,(instr(stparse,"MAILTO:")+7),instr(stparse,chr(13)))
attaddress = mid(attaddress,1,(instr(attaddress,vbcrlf)-1))
uidarry = mid(req.responsetext,instr(req.responsetext,"UID:")+3,len(req.responsetext))
string1 = vbcrlf & " "
stparse = replace(uidarry,string1,"")
uidprop = mid(stparse,2,instr(stparse,vbcrlf))
uidprop = replace(uidprop,vbcrlf,"")
CUserID = replace(attaddress," ","")
Set objDNS = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
DomainName = LCase(objDNS.DomainDNSName)
Set oRoot = GetObject("LDAP://" & DomainName & "/rootDSE")
strDefaultNamingContext = oRoot.get("defaultNamingContext")
GALQueryFilter = "(&(&(&(& (mailnickname=*) (|
)))(objectCategory=user)(mail=" & CUserID & ")))"
strQuery = "<LDAP://" & DomainName & "/" & strDefaultNamingContext & ">;" &
GALQueryFilter &
Set oConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") 'Create an ADO Connection
oConn.Provider = "ADsDSOOBJECT" ' ADSI OLE-DB provider
oConn.Open "ADs Provider"
Set oComm = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") ' Create an ADO Command
oComm.ActiveConnection = oConn
oComm.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
oComm.CommandText = strQuery
Set rs = oComm.Execute
server =
mailbox = attaddress
strURL = "http://" & server & "/exchange/" & mailbox & "/calendar/"
strQuery = "<?xml version=""1.0""?><D:searchrequest xmlns:D = ""DAV:"" >"
strQuery = strQuery & "<D:sql>SELECT ""DAV:href"" FROM scope('shallow traversal
of """
strQuery = strQuery & strURL & """') Where ""urn:schemas:calendar:uid"" = '" &
uidprop & "'</D:sql></D:searchrequest>"
set req = createobject("microsoft.xmlhttp")
req.open "SEARCH", strURL, false
req.setrequestheader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
req.setRequestHeader "Translate","f"
req.send strQuery
If req.status >= 500 Then
wscript.echo "Status: " & req.status
wscript.echo "Status text: An error occurred on the server."
ElseIf req.status = 207 Then
set oResponseDoc = req.responseXML
set oNodeList = oResponseDoc.getElementsByTagName("a:href")
For i = 0 To (oNodeList.length -2)
set oNode = oNodeList.nextNode
wscript.echo "Status: " & req.status
wscript.echo "Status text: " & req.statustext
wscript.echo "Response text: " & req.responsetext
End If
sub proccalmess(objhref)
Req.open "GET", objhref, false
Req.setRequestHeader "Translate","f"
attendeearry = split(req.responsetext,"ATTENDEE;",-1,1)
for i = 1 to ubound(attendeearry)
string1 = vbcrlf & " "
stparse = replace(attendeearry(i),string1,"")
attaddress = mid(stparse,(instr(stparse,"MAILTO:")+7),instr(stparse,chr(13)))
attaddress = mid(attaddress,1,instr(attaddress,vbcrlf))
if instr(stparse,"=RESOURCE") then
wscript.echo attaddress
end if
end sub


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The family that marches together, stays together! Pink, 37, proudly brought her family along when she joined women around the world to march in the women's march on Jan. 22. Taking to the streets of Los Angeles with her hubby Carey Hart, 41, her daughter Willow Sage, 5, and her baby son Jameson Moon, 4 weeks, Pink proved to her fans that you're never too young to stand up for what you believe in — and we can not applaud her enough!
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It has likely made you want to become invisible at one time or another: the dreaded elevator conversation. We've all been there before. Your boss or a senior executive steps onto the elevator. Now you're both standing side-by-side. Uncomfortable head nods are exchanged and then icy silence extends for what seems like hours as you inch toward your destination. How can you make a good impression in such a short amount of time? If you're in the elevator with your supervisor or a senior manager, you'll want to steer clear of anything personal.
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2. The bathroom
Do not have an important work conversation in the bathroom. It will only make an already awkward situation even more awkward. Wait until your teammate is finished answering nature's call. And don't follow your co-worker to his or her desk. Allow some space, and then wait a few minutes and ask your question once he or she has settled in. Michael Sykes, president of International Center for Bathroom Etiquette, says the bathroom is for doing your business, not talking business. "Do not, under any circumstances, be you man or woman, conduct any business in the bathroom. At best, participants will be distracted. More likely, they will be so busy trying to ignore you and focus on the task at hand that it's an awkward waste of time. At worst, you are going to offend some client and blow that multi-million-dollar deal. So leave the business to the boardroom and/or golf course," said Sykes. In short, you don't have to worry about awkward conversations in the work bathroom, because you shouldn't be having business conversations here at all. If you get cornered, simply say you'd rather speak at your desk or office (after you've thoroughly washed your hands, of course).
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Keep office party talk light and fun. Even though you're at work, you can lighten up a bit and talk about hobbies or family. Again, just don't get too personal. Author Gretchen Rubin says one key to small talk is asking open-ended questions. Raise topics that can help you learn more about the person you're speaking with. "Ask a question that people can answer as they please. My favorite question is: 'What's keeping you busy these days?' It's useful because it allows people to choose their focus (work, volunteer, family, hobby). Also, it's helpful if you ought to remember what the person does for a living, but can't remember… Ask getting-to-know-you questions. 'What Internet sites do you visit regularly?' 'What vacation spot would you recommend?' These questions often reveal a hidden passion, which can make for great conversation," said Rubin.
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The cafeteria can be a great place to catch up with work friends and relax. However, it can also be a stressful place if your boss sees you enjoying your sandwich and then proceeds to corner you to ask about the status of a project. Be polite, keep your answers short, and then remind your questioner that you're trying to eat, check email, or finish watching cat videos. This is your time, so don't be shy about sending a gentle reminder. If you're the one who seeks answers to a question, just wait for a better time. If it really can't wait, one of the big things to remember is that it's important to read body language. If you see one of your co-workers or your boss sitting at the far end of the cafeteria, hunched over a book and a bowl of something yummy, it's best to stay put. Walk away if it's obvious that some serious "me time" is taking place.
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One of the trickiest office conversations you'll have isn't even face-to-face. Email can be a wonderful convenience or your worst enemy. If you don't know proper email etiquette, your message could land you in hot water and become a permanent part of your employee file. Pay attention to not only content but also tone. All it takes is one strongly worded email or a misunderstanding, and you'll be in the human resource manager's office faster than you can blink.
If you feel an email communication is taking a wrong turn, get up and walk over to your teammate's desk or pick up the phone and call. It's best to clear up any issues as soon as possible before you have a big problem on your hands. Scott H. Young recommends keeping emails task-oriented.
I think best way to describe a conversational email is to look at its opposite, a task-oriented email. Task emails:
- Get to the point quickly. More importantly, they actually have a point.
- Separate out key ideas in bullet points or separate lines.
- Add value to the dialog. They were written with the purpose of transferring information, not just as a knee-jerk click on the Reply button.
- Avoid sarcasm, attempts at humor and emoticons. Some jokes stay funny after being reduced to text, most don't.
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I do think it was a worthy investment, but I would do things a bit differently.
1) I would pick a book in a series. If this had been a series, I believe I would have had better across the board results.
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3) Cross-promotion. While it is helpful to know exactly what a site is doing in terms of number returns, the all-important thing is to get that coveted Amazon rank. I feel that if I had done some more marketing in the days leading up to the sponsorship, I would have had a better chance with ranking.
I'm still learning and while disappointed in the results, I will keep on going.