Dash passed his Anise ORT

This past Saturday, Feb 16th, I drove an hour and a half to Lakeland, Florida so Dash could test for the K9 NoseWork 2 Anise Odor Recognition Test.  And he passed!  However, not without some shenanigans.  You see, Dash has been giving some "false alerts" when we practice containers set up in an ORT pattern.  When we are practicing containers that are just strewn about with no pattern, he will periodically false alert, but most of the time he is spot on.  Containers in an ORT pattern have been another story with him consistently false alerting, then if I ease him off the incorrect box and get him hunting again he will indicate the correct box.  Luckily for me, his false alert, although adamant, is pretty easy to differentiate from his correct alert.  His false alert (so far!) has been smacking the box with his feet and looking directly at me (with a big doofy dog grin that says Where is my treat???) and he is incredibly insistent, however, he does not really look at the box at all.  When he correctly alerts he will first hit the box with his nose and push it a little bit, then smack it with his feet and look back and forth from me to the box.  I am so glad that we ran into this during practice sessions so I was able to recognize his false alert during the ORT.  I bet he stuck to that wrong box for 5 to 10 seconds (which seemed like ages at the time) until I asked him to work the line of boxes again.  Then he hit on a box in the next row, which I believe was directly across from the one that he'd false alerted on.  I do not necessarily believe his original alert was a "fringe" alert.  I think he knew full well that he was not on the correct box simply due to the fact that his body language and behavior were completely different from when he gives correct alerts.  When he indicated on the correct box it was a definite push with the nose, then paw whack, then look between me and the box.  I called Alert and was correct.  And I got a "great job reading your dog" from the judge!  All that in 53 seconds.  Now onto NW2 trials!

Setting up Foscam FI8910W with Netgear router

These instructions may be inaccurate, incomplete, and out of date.  But these were the steps that I followed to connect my Foscam FI8910W camera to my Netgear wireless router.

1. Connect your camera to your wireless router with an ethernet cable
2. Log into your router
1. open web browser and enter the IP address associated with your wireless router, which is probably something like 192.168.1.1
2. Under the "Maintenance" click on "Attached Devices" and write down the information listed for your camera, particularly the IP address
3. You will also need to look under "Setup" and "Wireless Settings" to get your security settings for your router (ie. SSID, WEP type, Authentication type, Encription Strength & WEP Key, making sure to note the one that is selected).
4. I did not need to make any changes to my router set up.  I did not need to set up port forwarding/triggering.
3. Enter the camera's IP address into your web browser
1. This took me to a Foscam page
2. Click on Wireless LAN settings
3. delete the information in the SSID box
4. click SCAN, then select your SSID from the Wireless Network List
5. this should poplulate the SSID box with the correct SSID
6. verify the other settings for your router settings
7. enter your WEP Key (note, you only need to enter one of the WEP keys - whichever one is selected under your router settings (step 2 above)
8. Click "submit"
4. Now, after I clicked submit, the Foscam page said it wouldn't load
1. I went back to my router settings to verify my camera IP address (step 2 above) and it had changed.  I have no idea why.
2. So I entered the new camera IP address into the web browser and everything worked.
5. You may also want to change your camera password under "User Settings"
6. Somewhere in this process I did resort to using the Foscam installation CD, but I spent so much time trying different things that I don't remember exactly what role that played and am not sure it was necessary.  But I think I did it after step 2
7. NOTE, if the green light on the back of the camera is flashing rapidly, this is GOOD and means that the camera is connected to your wireless network.

UPDATE - in order to view your cameras remotely you do have to set up port forwarding.  Instructions are here http://foscam.us/blog/foscamipcameras/guide-to-port-forwarding-netgear-router/

UPDATE - if for some reason your cameras quit streaming you should check to see if your router changed their IP address and if you so you will have to update your port forwarding address.  If your camera IP address hasn't changed, or it did but you've updated your port forwarding and the cameras still aren't streaming then check to see if your External IP address has changed (type WhatIsMyIP in the search bar of your web browser).  If your External IP address has changed you will have to update the settings on the device where you are remotely viewing your the streaming video from your camera.

UPDATE - if you want to set up sound and motion detection this video is excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz7F7Vyf-EQ

Papa's Coleslaw recipe

Recipe from "The Electric Kitchen", "Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc."

 

 

Oven Kalua Pork

Demonstrated by: Dolly Bright, Pu'uloa Hawaiian Civic Club

Ingredients

4 lb pork butt
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons Hawaiian salt
1 bottle (3.5 oz) liquid smoke
1 lb pork skin
5 1/2 cups water
8 ti leaves

Instructions

Make several deep slashes around pork butt. Rub garlic powder and 1 tablespoon of the Hawaiian salt on pork. Pour liquid smoke over pork. Remove and discard most fat from pork skin. Add 1 1/2 cups of the water to a roasting pan, then line with foil. Lay 4 of the ti leaves on the foil. Place pork and skin on leaves. Cover with the remaining 4 ti leaves. Cover tightly with foil. Roast at 400 F in electric oven for 1 hour. Lower temperature to 375 F; cook for 4 1/2 more hours or until pork is easy to shred. In a large saucepot, bring the remaining 4 cups water to a boil. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon Hawaiian salt. Shred pork and cut skin; add to boiling water. Cover and cook for 15 minutes. Makes 8 servings.

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Hawaiian Recipes 8/1/1996

SCA Computer Professional Exemption Criteria

Consideration of Computer Professional vs Non-Exempt

NOTE - this information and these values were accurate in 2010 and may no longer be valid or applicable in any way.  Obviously, this is a process only as the comparison to job duties / job descriptions is not provided in the below explanation.

 

I compared the job duties outlined in the job descriptions to the duties listed in the FLSA's computer professional exemption test.  I believe that under Federal law all positions would be exempt based on the job duties and the overall nature of the jobs.  As far as California regs, I found that the computer professional exemption would apply as well.  However, the minimum hourly rate for a California Computer professional is much higher than the minimum hourly rate established under the FLSA.  For 2010, Computer professionals must earn a minimum fixed salary of $79,587.50 per year or $37.94 per hour for all hours worked in addition to meeting the duties requirements outlined below.

Update: Additional information can be found at this link http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/dlseWagesAndHours.html under the heading "Exemption for computer software employee (Labor Code Section 515.5)"



vlookup on multiple criteria

This site explains how to perform vlookup on multiple criteria using an array

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/59482

I modified the forumla slightly to provide a "0" response if one of the lookup values is blank, thus preventing a N/A# error

{=IF(R5="",0,(INDEX('Rate Table'!$F$5:$F$63,MATCH(A5&D5&R5,'Rate Table'!$B$5:$B$63&'Rate Table'!$E$5:$E$63&'Rate Table'!$A$5:$A$63,0)))}

The absolute key here is that you cannot just hit ENTER, you must hit ENTER+SHIFT+CTRL in order for excel to recognize this as an array formula.  You do not enter the "squiggly" brakets, excel will do that automatically if the formula is entered correctly.

Recipe for Black Bean Goat Cheese Dip

This is delicious.  Black Bean Goat Cheese Dip