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Budget-Friendly Baby Shower Ideas
Jenae from I Can Teach My Child shared some creative budget-friendly baby shower ideas.
If you have a baby shower to attend, here are some frugal baby shower gift ideas.
Jenae from I Can Teach My Child shared some creative budget-friendly baby shower ideas.
If you have a baby shower to attend, here are some frugal baby shower gift ideas.
With all the Huggies coupons currently available, I thought it was only appropriate to tackle a question on diapers for Q&A Tuesday! Here's Margaret's question:
I am newly pregnant with my first baby and I have a question about diaper stockpiling. I'm trying to stock up now since I know I have months before the baby comes and get the best deals as they come along and not be stuck running out and paying full price because we're desperate. However, I'm not sure how to gauge how many of each size to stockpile. Do you have any advice as to how quickly your kiddos went through different sizes or any other advice on stockpiling diapers (or other baby items!)?
Congratulations on your pregnancy, Margaret, and thanks for asking such a great question! I believe one of the smartest things a mom can do is to plan ahead now for what she'll need those first few months after Baby is born. It will likely be a busy time of adjustment, tiredness and lots of snuggling with a newborn… the last thing you want to spend it doing is making lots of trips to the store for necessities like diapers.
It's hard to gauge exactly how many diapers in each size you'll need since every baby is so different. Some babies are born big and don't even wear Newborn diapers — they just jump right into Size 1 diapers! Other babies, like my first, are small and grow slowly and wear Newborn diapers for six weeks!
My personal rule of thumb is that I'd rather be over-prepared than under-prepared. Namely, I'd rather have a few packages of diapers leftover when my baby moves up to the next size, than to run out of diapers in one size and have to make an extra trip to the store (For some reason, in those first few weeks after having a baby, I never seem to realize we're out of diapers until we're pretty much completely out!). I can always find a home for extra diapers I can't use — either giving them as a shower gift, passing them onto a friend or donating them to a crisis pregnancy center.
When Silas was born last year, I had enough diapers stockpiled to last for the first 3-4 months. I bought seven packages of Newborn diapers, since my babies tend to be smaller and slow growers (Silas has sort of shattered that pattern, though, with his rapid rate of growth — that boy can eat like you wouldn't believe!). And then I had around eight packages of Size 1 diapers and a few packages of Size 2 diapers.
From my experience, babies tend to go through about eight to ten diapers a day for the first two to four weeks. By the time they are around a month old, they usually using somewhere around six to eight diapers per day.
As I said earlier, all babies are different. But for your first baby, here's what I'd suggest you stockpile:
::3-4 week's worth of newborn diapers (around 200 to 250 newborn diapers),
::4-6 week's worth of Size 1 diapers (around 250 to 300 Size 1 diapers)
::A few packages of Size 2 diapers
If you get overly ambitious, you can also stock up on a few packages of Size 3 diapers, as well!
Now, those numbers aren't an exact science, but if you have that many diapers on hand, I guarantee you that you'll at least be in pretty-good shape for the first few months when it comes to diapers.
One thing to keep in mind is that not all brands of diapers work for all babies. I'm very partial to Pampers just because my children seem to break out in rashes with other brands. I've also found that Pampers seem to be the least prone to leaking. However, that's only my opinion; I know some moms who think Huggies or Luvs or Parent's Choice diapers are the best diapers ever created. Since you're a first-time mom, you might consider stocking up on different brands to help you determine what works best for you and Baby.
When looking for good deals, I'd suggest a good target price would be less than $5 per package. Now granted, if you live in an area with only a Walmart, this is going to be harder to accomplish (and it might be good to take advantage of a deal from Diapers.com). But if you live where there are drugstores like CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid, it's pretty easy to often find diapers for less than $5 per package — especially with all the Huggies coupons out right now!
For more suggestions on what to buy for Baby, see my Having a Baby Without Breaking the Bank series.
Have you stockpiled diapers before? If so, how many do you think Margaret should have on hand? What's your diaper stock-up price?
Have a question you'd like me to answer for our Q&A Tuesdays feature? Email it to me and I'll be glad to consider it for a future post.
Guest Post by Carrie Kirby from Shoplifting With Permission
Open any pregnancy magazine, and you'll see that parents-to-be are expected to devote considerable time and money to furnishing and decorating a nursery for the new baby. Upscale publications even depict parents agonizing over how to apply their sophisticated decorating sensibilities to a baby's environment by finding curtains, crib bumpers, and wall appliques that aren't too cutesie.
I have been spared such dilemmas, because I never put together a nursery for either of my girls–nor am I planning one for the baby we're expecting this summer. What I have realized over the course of raising two babies is that the last thing an infant needs is a room of her own. Since moving to a bigger home is one of the most expensive changes families make when they have kids, it's worthwhile to consider whether a move can be postponed or avoided.
With our first baby, we lived in a one-bedroom condo and didn't have a separate room to decorate. At the time, this situation pained me, because I felt like I was sitting out of an all-important nesting activity. I did try my best to decorate and furnish the end of our bedroom that would be the baby's, and this compromise ended up fulfilling both the baby's needs and my need to play out the full expecting mother experience.
I worried, during my pregnancy, that we were terrible parents for not moving to a bigger place–something that would have been impossible for us at the time. I didn't realize that for most families, that lovingly decorated new nursery is superfluous in the early months because babies typically spend their nights in the parent's room. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that newborns sleep in the same room as their parents.
We put the changing table up against one bedroom wall, hung a baby organizer and some baskets on the wall for holding burp clothes and little hats, and put a Pack 'N Play next to the bed as a bassinet. The crib we placed in a spare corner of the living room, so I could keep an eye and an ear on my newborn during her naps.
The only time we ever needed the baby monitor we'd received at the shower was when I went to the basement to throw in a load of laundry. When the baby was older, we put away the Pack 'N Play, got rid of most of our bedroom furniture besides the bed, and managed to squeeze the crib into our room.
When does a baby need a separate room to sleep in? Technically, never, if you think about the fact that in the course of human history, the idea of private bedrooms for each person is a relatively recent innovation. Even today, it's not universal–plenty of cultures worldwide still consider it normal and desirable for the whole family to share a room, or even a bed. But practically speaking, where to keep the children is a decision that should be based on each family's needs and resources.
We began to feel the need to get the baby out of our room when I wanted to stop getting up to nurse her at night. This happened between the ages of 12 and 18 months. If I had it to do over again, I probably would have moved the baby's crib back to the living room at that point. Instead, we kept the baby in our room and when the she cried–when my attempts to soothe her without nursing failed–we'd try to sleep through her yells. One of us would usually end up on the couch, where there was not enough room for two. It was not a fun time.
This does not mean, however, that you need to move to a home with a separate bedroom for the baby by the time you want to night wean or when she hits a certain age. For most babies, the period when there is a lot of crying at night is short (although it feels like eternity at the time). Some families are even successful getting their babies to sleep through the night without any crying.
You can probably find a temporary solution that allows other family members to get their rest if the baby's being noisy. When our second baby was a few months old, we moved to a three-bedroom house. Our plan was for her to transition from our room to sharing the second bedroom with her sister, then 3 years old. The third bedroom we reserved as a guest room/den.Naturally, the second baby went through a time when she was waking her sister with nighttime crying. We experimented with various set-ups, moving the Pack 'N Play to the guest room and the living room at different times. Eventually, we moved her back into the kids' room and her sister learned to sleep right through the crying. And, then, thankfully, the crying mostly stopped.
Probably the most important issue when living in a small home with a new baby is not the baby itself, but all the equipment that often comes with a baby. If you share a small space with a baby, it's essential to keep equipment and toys to a minimum to stay sane!
Here are some other creative ideas for housing the baby in a small home:
1) The baby doesn't have to be changed in the same place she sleeps. In fact, the bathroom is the best place for a changing surface if there is room. If space is really tight, skip the changing table and simply keep a basket of supplies and a changing pad wherever's handy.
2) One family I know put the baby's crib on the landing between the bedrooms. Just make sure that the crib can't roll down the stairs!
3) To make room for a crib in a kid's room, consider bed sharing or bunk beds for older siblings.
4) Check out this breakfast-nook-turned-nursery created by Maggie Mason, who blogs at MightyGirl.net. Their budget was $1,400, most of which went toward having doors custom-made for the formerly open nook.
5) At the website, Apartmenttherapy.com, readers recently weighed in on how long a family of three could live in a 400-square-foot apartment. Read the thoughts and ideas shared here.
6) There's a helpful tutorial on EHow on turning a walk-in closet into a nursery here.
Freelance writer Carrie Kirby blogs about frugal living at Shoplifting With Permission and about parenting at My Funny, Funny Family.
photo by Erik van der Neut
Guest Post by Amy from The Finer Things in Life
Certainly one of the Finer Things in Life is becoming a parent. While one of life's greatest blessings, the thought of all the stuff that's about to consume your home and your budget can be overwhelming. Don't let the cost of having a baby (or two, or five…) overshadow the joy. Bringing home a baby doesn't have to break the bank.
Babies are born with a strong appreciation of the Finer Things. They are very basic creatures with very basic needs. Feed them, clothe them, keep them warm, safe, and clean; love them. And that's about it! In fact, anything you purchase beyond meeting baby's needs could add unneeded stress to an already intense time in your life.
Feed Them. I know it's a personal choice and I don't judge those who don't breastfeed for whatever reason, but the research is tremendously convincing: mama's milk is best for baby. No ifs, and, or buts about it. As a bonus, it's free! If you have a choice, why spend $1,000 (at least, and not including feeding supplies) on formula in the first year of baby's life when the good stuff is readily available, always the right temperature, easily portable, and free?
Breastfeeding a baby deserves its own post, but may I quickly encourage those of you who are preparing for motherhood for the first time to please surround yourself with breastfeeding resources and information and friends? Having support for those first few (very tough for me!) days and weeks will increase the chances of your success and your enjoyment of the experience.
Clothe Them. Sweet little baby clothes are hard to resist, huh? I know the temptation. Fortunately, hand-me-down and garage sale clothes are just as cute as the over-priced garments luring you in the store. Baby needs clothing, yes. Brand new clothing at a premium price? No.
Keep them warm, safe, and clean. When registering for baby showers and browsing garage sales before our first was born, I tried to keep something in mind: If my mom didn't need it, neither do I.When bringing home baby, your day will be full to the brim meeting baby's basic needs. Why clutter your home and your time and your mind managing all that unnecessary baby stuff?
I know that many of you will scream that a baby monitor is an absolute necessity. I thought so, too, so we registered for one and received it at our baby shower. Four and a half years later we finally took it out of the box when our third baby was six months old. She is now 19 months old and I think we've used the monitor twice.Convenient? Yes (if I could ever remember to use it). Necessary? Not really. I'm not trying to discourage you from purchasing a baby monitor; just giving one example of how the "necessary" isn't always so.
Love them. Hold them, read to them, sing to them. Word to the wise: you are not impressing your baby with the frou-frou. There are endless bright, loud, entertaining toys available for baby. A few of them (I like having a bouncy seat and gym mat) are very convenient and give mom a nice reprieve. Don't overdo it, though, because what does baby really want? You. Keep it basic. If you must have the frou-frou, shop at garage sales or online at craigslist because parents of equally unimpressed babies are getting rid of barely used items for cheap!
The marketing of baby stuff continues to be lucrative as parents are convinced that having the newest, brightest items will make their baby happier and smarter and safer. Not so. Stick to the basics. Your baby will thrive, and so will you. Blessings to those of you preparing to bring new life into this world!
A stay-at-home mom, Amy gave up an eight year teaching career at one of the largest schools in her state to move with her husband of nearly 10 years and their three children, ages 5, 3, and 1 to Tiny Town two years ago. Amy takes joy in caring for her family, finding a good deal, volunteering at her local library, and blogging at The Finer Things in Life.
Note from Crystal: Photos are of my second daughter, Kaitlynn, when she was a wee little one. Isn't she precious?!
Guest post by Crystal from The Thrifty Mama
Cloth diapers have come a long way from what our grandmothers used to use. In fact, there are so many great options these days when it comes to cloth diapering, that it can be a bit overwhelming for beginners.
To get started, let's talk about the five basic kinds of cloth diapers which are currently on the market:
All-In-One Diaper (see an example here)—This is a tapered fabric diaper that has an outer layer of Polyurethane Laminate (PUL). This is a water-proof material that works very well at preventing leaks. This type of cloth diaper is the most similar to disposables. It doesn't require a cover, and it usually has velcro or snaps. The only draw-back with this type of cloth diaper is that it can sometimes be harder to clean, and take longer to dry.
Fitted Diaper (see examples here)–This diaper fits snuggly on the baby, is all cloth and it requires a waterproof cover. It usually has velcro or snaps so that it can be easily secured on the baby. This diaper cleans and dries easier than an All-In-One, but it can still take a while for it to dry.
Pocket Diaper (see examples here)—A pocket diaper usually has two layers of fabric and has a pocket for inserts. You can place fabric inserts or prefolds in the pocket for absorbency. Pockets can either have an outer waterproof layer so that they are more like an All-In-One when stuffed, or they can just have two absorbent fabric layers so that they are more like a fitted when stuffed. Pockets are very easy to clean and dry, because you remove the inserts when washing.
Prefolds (see examples here)–These are like what your grandmothers used to use. They work by folding the diaper onto the baby, and attaching it with either pins or a snappi (more on snappis later). These can be more work to fit on the baby, but they are so easy to clean and dry. Prefolds require a cover.
Flats (see examples here)—Flats are a flat piece of fabric that is folded into the shape of a diaper. It is placed on the baby and then secured with a snappi or pins. Flats are nice because they clean and dry the easiest, and they also give a very trim look, even though they do require a cover.
Flats are one of the least-expensive cloth diapering options. Even if you aren't good with a sewing machine, you can make some flats out of old shirts, towels and other materials. Receiving blankets are great to use as flats. They are flannel, and flannel is very absorbent.
Depending upon which cloth diaper type you choose, you'll also likely need a few accessories:
Covers—If you plan on using fitteds, prefolds or flats, then you will want to have covers. There are many types of covers. You can buy covers online or you can make your own.
Fabrics that make great covers are PUL, Fleece, Wool and of course there are the original plastic pants that our mothers and grandmothers used to use. I like using fleece and wool because they allow for breathing of the skin, and they are so cute!
You can easily make your own wool or fleece pants for babies out of your old sweaters and hoodies. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make some recycled wool/fleece pants.
Diaper Sprayer—You are definitely going to want one of these. Also known as a bidet, it hooks up to your toilet and is used to spray soiled diapers. [Note from Crystal: I cloth-diapered exclusively with my first child and never had one of these. I used Fuzzi Bunz diapers and got along fine without this. Just wanted to share an alternate opinion.]
Inserts–If you use pockets or want added layers of absorbency, you will want to buy or make some inserts. Usually I just use prefolds or fold up some receiving blankets. Receiving blankets are flannel, thus making them great for absorbency.
Snappi/Pins–A snappi is a little rubber fastener that has hooks. It is used to hold the diaper on the baby instead of pins. You can of course use pins if you prefer to not use a snappi. Here is a picture of a snappi holding together a prefold:
Wetbag–This is a waterproof bag used to hold soiled diapers. There are many places online that you can buy these, or you can make your own. PUL is a great fabric to make wetbags out of. You can also find the 3 packs of waterproof bags in the camping section at major retail stores. Those are fairly inexpensive, and I've found that they work very well for this purpose.
Cloth diapering is a way our family saves a lot of money each year. However, building up a stash of cloth diapers in the beginning can be costly. To build a good stash, if you do it wisely, you can expect to spend somewhere between $200-$400.
The average person will spend $1,800-$2,000 a year on disposables for one child. Now, if you use coupons combined with sales to purchase disposable diapers, you'll not spend that much, but you still will probably spend at least a few hundred dollars, if not more, on diapers per child. So while the initial investment in purchasing cloth diapers might seem steep, if you plan on using them for more than one child, you will likely recoup your investment–and maybe even many times over!
(My daughter wearing one of the pocket diapers I made for her.)
If you have a knack for sewing, you can sew your own diapers and accessories which will make them much more affordable than purchasing them! I've written a post on a quick and easy way to sew a prefold diaper here. I've also made my own pocket diapers and show you how you can do that here.
Crystal blogs at The Thrifty Mama, where she posts deals, coupon help, and tips for living a more natural and thrifty life. She's a stay-at-home Mom to two small children, and does her best to live more green and natural without breaking the bank.
Note from Crystal: Have you used cloth diapers? If so, which kinds did you use and what did you find worked best for you? How did you build your cloth diaper stash on a budget? I'd love to hear your ideas and input!
Guest Post by Jessica Fisher from LifeasMom.com
When my first son was born, I was teaching high school full-time. Living on two incomes had allowed us to live pretty luxuriously. However, we knew that I was going to stay home for at least the first year, so we began to economize during my pregnancy to pay off my student loan and to create an emergency fund. That was a nice cushion for a time, but things were still tight living on one income.
One year has become twelve and one child has become six. I've been more than blessed to be home with my children. Yet, with each new addition to our family, I have felt a little squeeze of pressure. Or should I say, our budget felt the squeeze? How could we accommodate one more mouth to feed? And though the births of each child has always been surrounded by happy moments, I often became stressed by the vast amount of supplies that were needed, particularly in the early weeks. How was I going to fit diapers, wipes, and extra feminine products in the budget?
Now twelve years and five children later, we still try to economize. But I am pleased to report that with the birth of our sixth child last summer, I did not feel the squeeze. Neither did our budget. Did we have a huge income in comparison to years past? Did we win the lottery?
Quite the contrary. I simply applied what I knew about stockpiling to the purpose of preparing for a new little one. Not only did I spare us some change but I also saved time and energy in not shopping for these items in the busy hormone-induced daze after the baby arrived.
Here are my suggestions to help you ease the squeeze on your budget.
— Put out a call for coupons. Let friends and family know that you are looking to collect coupons for baby and other post-natal products. Keep your eyes open for coupon fliers in all the free stuff you receive from your doctor's office or hospital. Keep these coupons with you at all times in an envelope in your purse or wallet. You never know when you'll find a good deal; coupons will make a good deal great. Don't limit yourself just to baby items. Consider the other needs a new mom has, such as feminine pads, Tucks, Advil, etc. and collect those coupons as well.
— Learn to play the Drugstore Game. I learned almost everything I know about CVS-ing from Money Saving Mom® and following along with other bloggers who report here every Saturday. Drugstores like CVS or Walgreens often feature great prices on baby and feminine products as do Walmart and Target. Choose a drugstore that is close to home and learn how their sale system works.
— Keep track of prices. In order to stockpile effectively, you need to know what a good deal is. You already know that Money Saving Mom® regularly reports on great deals. Baby Cheapskate also keeps track of diaper and formula prices each week. Check to see where the deals are so that you'll know a good one when you see one.
— Buy low even if you don't need it right then. This is key to creating an advance supply before your baby is born. Keep your eyes open for good sales and clearance opportunities. Last Spring I happened to find jumbo diaper packages for $2.25 each because the manufacturer was changing their packaging. I bought all that I had room in the budget for and that kept us in diapers for quite some time.
As long as you will use it in the next few months or so, it is probably worth buying multiples of an item, provided that you can pay cash for it and still meet your other household needs. If you're going the disposable diaper route, you know you will be using them. Buy diapers, wipes, and baby toiletries at low prices and store them up.
— Protect your investment. Your stockpile is not just worth what you paid for it. It also represents time and energy spent to hunt and capture the good deals. Don't leave it where it can be damaged. Paper products should be protected from excessive temperatures and rodents. So, be wise where you store these items. Top closet shelves and under beds and cribs are great places to keep your stock safe.
There is so much joy in welcoming that new little one–live it to its fullest, without being worried about how you'll pay for it all. With a little clever maneuvering, you, too, can have a baby without breaking the bank.
Jessica Fisher, happy wife and joyful mom of 6, regularly writes about fun, frugality and the pursuit of a clean house at
Life as MOM. Join her on "the Road to Joyful Motherhood"–because no one wants a crabby mom.
From Crystal: We have lots of soon-to-be new mommies reading here who have asked me for specifics on diaper stockpiling. If you have some experience in this area, I'd love to have you share your thoughts on how many diapers (and in which sizes) you would recommend stockpiling ahead of time, how long you think it takes to build up a good stash, and where you find the best diaper deals. In the near future, we'll have a counterpart post and discussion on cloth-diapering.


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Suzlon, the world's third largest manufacturer of wind turbines, has more to be proud of than just supplying the world with renewable energy. At the end of April, Suzlon's headquarters in Pune, India were awarded LEED Platinum Certification. Designed by by India-based Christopher Charles Benninger Architects and dubbed "One Earth", Suzlon's headquarters is the largest building in India to achieve Platinum status and it also acts as a living laboratory of sustainable technologies.
One Earth sits on a 10-acre complex, houses around 2,300 employees, and is surrounded by various gardens and courtyards. The headquarters is unlike most glass-covered business complexes in that it features neutral-colored shade screens, large roof overhangs, and thin building profiles that provide more natural light. Landscaped courtyards, reflecting pools and green roofs and terraces also affect the micro climate around the building.
The large corporate headquarters include many sustainable building strategies — and as one might suspect from a wind turbine manufacturer, renewable energy generation plays an important role. Over 150 kW of power is generated on-site, 80% of which comes from micro wind turbines. The other 20% comes from a PV system installed on a shade structure for the main courtyard. Hot water is provided via solar thermal heating, and louvers along with low-e glass help shade the interior. Glass ventilating tubes, invented by Benninger, pull in cool air from the basement and push out hot air. Finally non-toxic materials were used extensively throughout the interior and LED lights provides energy efficient lighting for the complex.
As Benninger says about One Earth, "My ambition was to create a great place to work for a great company with a great mission. We have to take sustainability in our stride, as we do sound structural engineering or competent plumbing. What is outstanding about this building is that it enhances the lives of the people who work here, and all of these factors count into the company's performance."
+ Christopher Charles Benninger Architects
Photo credits: Christopher Charles Benninger Architects and Suzlon
Thanks for the tip ccbarch!

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Titan-vds needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
New Line Technologies, LLC
Startup computer repair and service company. We specialize in Computer repair, data networking, and communications. We need this logo for our sign, business cards, website, uniforms, cars, everything!
General consumer. Specifically small business and residential customers. We will be advertising on cars, newspapers, online, and direct mail.
1. Logo must have the text " Computer Services". However, anything to this effect will be fine.
2. Open to any type of color scheme.
3. Logo should convey a sense of trust and reliability
4. Must be clean and easily seen on a physical sign or embroidered onto a shirt.
Be creative. Open to any ideas.
The winning logo will have the following characteristics
Provide versions for web, printed material and favicon (little icon on web page tab next to name). Needs to be reproducible on shirts, stationary, etc.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Eggrollz, Jan 23, 2013.
im flattered
It's all for you, buddy!
I don't have a wife but I'll let my girlfriend get naked in front of my hom Ies. Sometimes I'll take her bikini top off in front of everyone at pool parties or when out partying on the boat.
Hell, just a few weekends ago my girl and two of boys'girls all strip down to nothing but their panties while the six of us were paying late night.
I'm looking at tit pics of my woman right now
Do you call her saddlebags IRL? Or just keep that to yourself?


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DGogan necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 57 design presentati da 18 designer.
Professional eye-catching logo
Vibrant Expressions
Empowering You To Create A Vibrant Life!
Desired Color Scheme:
vibrant energizing colors - no pastels please
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
I need a clean professional logo that denotes energy, empowerment, vitality, vibrant, inspiration, etc. Colorful and eyecatching.
I would like the company name "Vibrant Expressions" included and if possible the tag line "Empowering You To Create a Vibrant Life!".Â
Background info on my busienss: My energy coaching is designed to empower people with tools and resources they can use to create positive change. My goal is to eventually have my clients be independent of me and use me as a resource when needed, not rely on me to create change for them. I use many modalities - Reiki, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) - all of which can be taught and used by anyone at anytime and in any place. I also teach Energy Profiling (TM) and Carol Tuttle's Dressing Your Truth (TM) which are systems designed to discover your dominant energy type and dress in colors, fabrics, jewelry, etc. that support your natural energy vibration.
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


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Cisco's Latest Networking Innovations: Bringing Intelligent Networks to Industrial Automation
Today, Cisco announced the Industrial Ethernet (IE) 2000 switch series which will help customers build intelligent networks for industrial automation by delivering highly secure, scalable connectivity from plant floor to enterprise network.
Cisco's IE2000 switch series provides:
– consistent network services between industrial networks and enterprise business applications
– integrated security
– better manageability
– highly secure remote access and monitoring of automated systems
– intelligent energy management with visibility into machine performance to help customers better manage costs.
The IE2000 industrial switch also interoperates across corporate and manufacturing floor networks in a cost-effective manner to deliver video and corporate applications to manufacturing plant floor.
The IE2000 switch series is key product from our Connected Industries business unit. According to Maciej Kranz, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Connected Industries business unit, "Major sectors of the economy are undergoing a transformation driven by new requirements around production and factory automation, traffic management, data analytics and machine-to-machine communication. Cisco's Connected Industries business unit was created to help customers realize the benefits of the transition to Ethernet and IP across the operational technology segments including manufacturing plants, transportation infrastructure and vehicles."
Many of you have highlighted machine-to-machine (M2M) communications as a key consideration for organizations over the next few years. Cisco's own Visual Networking Index (VNI) showed that, by 2016, there will be nearly 2 billion machine-to-machine wireless connections. This includes everything from in-car GPS systems to asset tracking systems in manufacturing and other sectors.
The result is a need to more tightly connect and integrate devices, machines and vehicles with traditional enterprise networks. This "Industrialization of the Internet," as Cisco calls it, will accelerate the networking industry beyond the IT and service provider (SP) networks in industries such as manufacturing and transportation.
Any industry analysts interested in more information on Cisco's innovations for industrial automation, please contact me for details of our upcoming session with Maciej Kranz and the Connected Industries team. This will include a more detailed overview of this announcement, more background on the Connected Industries business unit and the opportunity for Q&A.
In an effort to keep conversations fresh, Cisco Blogs closes comments after 60 days. Please visit the Cisco Blogs hub page for the latest content.


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triggerfishcorp necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 70 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Northeast Missouri Health Council
This is one of two contest we are running for a Community Health Center in Missouri. They are trying to decide which brand their health centers will become. BOTH contests will have a winner chosen, so good luck!
Northeast Missouri Health Council is a group of community health centers with the purpose to provide quality health care for every family. They provide complete medical, dental and behavioral services for the communities of Kirksville, Missouri and the surrounding area. The also have a veterans health clinic.
Low income to middle class families.
1) Create a symbol that could stand alone and represent the brand name.
2) Use the brand name beside or below the symbol.
3) Use one of theses two slogans with your submission:
a) Quality health care for every family
b) Partners for a life time of health
4) Please Avoid: Hearts, Crosses, Trees, Stethoscope, Image of Missouri, Anything too specific to gender (women) or children…trying to be comprehensive to all family.
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A Movie Odyssey: Three decades of conversation with Stanley Kubrick
Ioan Allen joined Dolby Laboratories in 1969, and was in large part responsible for the origination and development of the Dolby Stereo film program. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham in the U.K. In 2009 he received the Silver Medal Award from the Audio Engineering Society for services to cinema sound. Mr. Allen has received five Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including an Oscar. This article describes his 28-year association with the renowned film director Stanley Kubrick.
March 7, 1999: Call my 96-year-old mother in England—Sunday, 10 a.m. as usual. Discuss the weather, her health, my travel plans, the usual stuff. Any other news? Oh yes, she says, "That famous film director friend of yours died…" Who do you mean, Mother? "Oh, you know, the man who made A Chocolate Orange." Go to the Internet, look up news services—yes, Stanley Kubrick has died.
The previous evening I had shown some houseguests here in San Francisco my Christmas present from Stanley, but the elegant book of Lartigue photographs had been eclipsed for me by the accompanying card:
"Dear Ioan, I guess this year I will be the last person in the world to switch to stereo. You see, your efforts have paid off. Best wishes, Stanley Kubrick."
But he never did "switch to stereo"—Stanley died before the mix of Eyes Wide Shut. After our 28-year intermittent association, Stanley had evaded the challenge, and got away without doing a single stereo soundtrack (at least, he himself had never created a stereo soundtrack for any of his films). And to add to the plethora of "I knew Stanley Kubrick" stories that came out in the months following his death, here's a different perspective. Not just 28 years of meetings and phone calls with the oft-quoted beginning, "Is this a good time?" What I remember most is the person whose thirst for information led more often than not to the question, "Why is that, Ioan?"
1970: Second year working for Dolby Laboratories, and Ray Dolby is giving me a pretty free hand as to what direction the marketing and applications for his noise-reduction technology should take. Multi-track tape recording technology is catching on (especially eight- and 16-track machines for pop music). As the number of tracks increases, so does the noise level, the hiss endemic with analog recording. Dolby A-type noise reduction was being widely adopted to combat this problem, and led us to think about other areas where generation noise (coming from many tracks, or generation copies) could create noise problems. The most obvious candidate for help was the film soundtrack, where noise was one of the contributing elements leading to the typically appalling fidelity of the mono photographic audio of 40 years ago. We started some investigations into the quality limitations of cinema sound, which I little realized would take us years of effort, shoe leather and grief to fix. Come to think of it, maybe we're still working at it.
One of our earliest supporters/users was Wendy Carlos, whose pioneering electronic music was highlighted by Switched on Bach, still, I believe, the best-selling classical album of all time. Wendy's use of Dolby A301 noise-reduction units helped fight the inherent build-up of generation noise. And Wendy (and her producer, Rachel Elkind) were close friends of the Dolby community—Ray, David Robinson, Marc Aubort and me.
A phone call—Wendy (or possibly Rachel, it's close to 40 years, and the memory gets fogged): "We're working on the music for the next Stanley Kubrick movie—Stanley's interested in using Dolby technology on the film. Can you come up and have a meeting to discuss it?"
Oh yes, I'll come to discuss it. Stanley Kubrick lives in a house called Abbott's Mead in Borehamwood, near Elstree Studios, an hour north of London. Of course, I knew of Stanley Kubrick—I'd seen Dr. Strangelove and 2001, but had never thought about where this American director lived. In England? So, following Rachel's directions, I drive up to Elstree, and on to Abbott's Mead. And, awe-inspired, I go through the huge wooden gates to meet with a name. While names were not totally new to me (I had a music industry background), somehow Kubrick was a name at a different level—and I'm pretty sure that I was shaking with apprehension. And then the meeting… Twenty, thirty minutes, I can't remember. And as I talked to Wendy and Rachel in the driveway before driving out, I hardly realized that this was the beginning of a 28-year intermittent dialogue with Stanley, one that, paradoxically, with Stanley never doing a Dolby Stereo film, could still be the seed at the heart of the Dolby film program.
A Clockwork Orange—1971
Stanley asked questions. Lots of questions. And it wasn't comfortable, because many of the questions forced you to re-evaluate your own conclusions.
1970: Here were these terrible-sounding movies in the cinema, but that was what everybody was used to. Records at home were in stereo in many homes, and the fidelity was clearly better than the movies. There were a few four-track magnetic stereo prints in highlight cinemas, but few film producers and distributors would pay the premium print costs—so all most moviegoers would hear were mono optical soundtracks, with all the frequency response and distortion problems that have been described in technical papers. I was beginning to understand the sequence of events leading to this poor fidelity when first I met Stanley. It was tough explaining my thoughts, as they were embryonic. I dreamt of changing the room-tuning curve in the theatres, all the theatres in the world, but had no idea of how it could be done. We did it, but in fact it would take more than 15 years.
Stanley listened to the ideas—after all, I had been told he was open to the idea of using better technology on the sound of Clockwork (Thank you, Wendy), but it was tough for both of us. Stanley's mind was on Clockwork, and I was unable to express my ideas clearly enough to make it easy for him to accept. First lesson learnt: Get your stuff together—Stanley wants to know and understand everything going on with his movie. John Jordan is the sound recordist on the film, but much as John is trusted to do the sound technical stuff, I begin to realize that Stanley is calling every shot. And there is no way that Stanley will refer new technology decisions to John—and Stanley is too busy finishing his movie to spend the time to share the evaluation of radically new technology.
So, after a couple of meetings at Abbot's Mead, a kind of deal is done. Stanley will use Dolby noise reduction on all the magnetic elements to hold down generation noise on pre-mixes and masters, but we won't play any games with room curves or anything that revolutionary. Additionally, amazingly, Stanley agrees to take part in some subjective experiments on room-tuning issues (now called B-chain characteristics), not for Clockwork, but which could help us in the future.
One of the meetings before the mix began happened in February 1971. I'm talking with Stanley in his cutting room, when he says, "Let's go watch TV." Apollo 14 is about to take off from the Moon's surface. Stanley: "Let's see if they get it right…"
I have to introduce new characters: first, Tony Lumkin, chief engineer at Elstree Studios, and second, Bill Rowe, the senior mixer selected by Stanley to work on Clockwork. Their support and patience over the next few years helped us develop the technical elements of the Dolby film program—but I think they little realized what they were getting into. Technical change in film sound was unbelievably slow at the time—not the speed of new technology development, but the speed of implementation. Stanley and Dolby were putting them on a roller-coaster.
A raft of Dolby noise-reduction equipment is installed in Dubbing Theatre #1 at Elstree. All the people involved are very helpful, but I begin to realize that they are slightly more helpful because Stanley Kubrick said, "We are using Dolby noise reduction" on this film.
So, the scene changes from Abbot's Mead to Elstree Studios, and the mix begins. I put a fair amount of time into attending the mix, probably an insurance policy—even though using A-type noise reduction on magnetic elements doesn't seem that likely to cause problems, I had heard enough of film political practice to learn lesson #2: If you're not there, the problem is of your making.
The role of the Dolby consultant on a mix has changed over the years, but because this was the first film using Dolby technology (albeit Academy mono, with just Dolby noise reduction on elements), there were no rules. Later we learnt that things can get competitive: Do you support the mixer against a grumpy director? Do you support the director against a sloppy section of the mix? Or do you sit quietly in the back of the dubbing theatre, in case of some unexpected technical problem? In this case, the embryonic Dolby movie, I tap-dance my way looking after Bill Rowe (mixer), John Jordan (sound recordist), and Stanley Kubrick (director).
I turn up at the dubbing theatre most mornings, checking the alignment of the Dolby units with John Jordan, Bill Rowe and his crew. Invariably the levels were correct, and the frequency response of the dubbers would be as flat "as a row of doughnuts," as Bill used to say, meaning the errors at each frequency were zero—0dB, 0dB, 0dB etc. The forms filled out in the machine room said 0, 0, 0, etc. Got it?
As the new technology seemed transparent (no noise, no problems), Stanley became more comfortable. And I started noticing what Stanley was calling for in the mix. While I had worked on many a music mix, of my own and supporting other producers, this was the first time I had witnessed someone calling the shots on a film soundtrack.
Stanley had a quirky sense of humor. He had a writing desk set up directly to the left of the console, with an IBM golf-ball typewriter and a stack of 6" by 4" index cards. After each take, he'd type a few words onto a card, and then rapidly cover the typewriter with the black dust-cover, thus ensuring that Bill Rowe couldn't look over and see what was written. It became a report-card game—I seem to remember a smirky little grin. Stanley, not Bill.
Stanley always wanted the soundtrack louder, more penetrating. Again and again Bill Rowe would point at his master PPM (audio meter) and note that anything above a certain mark would overload on the optical soundtrack and distort. This wouldn't be heard during the mix, but only after the magnetic master had been transferred and printed and then listened to. After a few days of this, Stanley takes a copy of the Daily Telegraph, folds it up, props it up in front of the meter. "Now, make it louder…"
As mentioned earlier, we were allowed to do some experiments on room-tuning after each day's mixing was over. On several occasions Stanley stayed to see/hear what we were up to. One night, Eric Edvardsen (a Dolby engineer) and I were using a Leevers-Rich whole-octave graphic equalizer to adjust the loudspeaker monitor characteristic, to get the best match between a distant cinema loudspeaker behind the screen and a close wide-range speaker. Whole-octave because third-octave equalizers were in their infancy—so nine side-by-side slide faders, known for some reason as "fairy fingers."
Next day we're working on the final reel of Clockwork. Stanley asks for our graphic equalizer to be inserted in the music feed for the climax of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Make it louder and brighter. Stanley does—sitting with a graphic equalizer on his lap, with the bottom five bands pulled all the way down (no bass), and the top four bands pushed all the way up (all treble), smiling happily…
Well, the final mix is not quite that hot—but hot enough…
Lots of wait time in movie mixing in those days, while many reels of film were rewound or threaded up. Stanley would bum a Senior Service cigarette from me—Christiane (Stanley's wife) was trying to get him to stop smoking, so he'd been banned from buying smokes, but was allowed to cadge them from others. "See how long your friendships last!"
We work on the text for a title card, intended to be the first thing you see at the head of Clockwork:
"The producers of this motion-picture have taken every step possible to ensure the quality of the picture and sound. If for any reason, things do not come up to your satisfaction, please tell the manager of the cinema, who will be pleased to help you in every way possible." Needless to say, Warner Bros. didn't think much of this idea.
But Stanley (or more likely, WB) did pay for each U.K. first-run projection room to get a pair of binoculars, to help keep the presentation in focus. Clockwork opened just before Christmas, and I'd take a bet that more than one pair of binoculars were taken home by chief projectionists, and given away as presents.
Barry Lyndon—1975
A technical pause: Once again I fail to persuade Stanley to go stereo with Barry Lyndon, or for him to allow a wide-range Dolby-encoded release print. But in an effort to reduce audible distortion, I get agreement that the mix will be done wide-range on all the pre-mixes, and only pre-emphasized on the final master. As the sequential copying of material through the mixing process was responsible for much of the audible distortion with conventional mixes, this should result in a much cleaner-sounding track, albeit still pre-emphasized at the last minute.
Stanley being stubborn:
We're at (as best I can remember) Anvil Studios, recording drummers for the ceremonial showoff parade in Ireland. John Quinn's platoon is brought to a halt. I know enough about marching drumbeats to know the sequence should end Bam-Bam, Bam-Bam, Bam—Bam—Bam. The first two Bam-Bams are doubled up, the last set single Bams. But no, regardless of authenticity, for some reason Stanley insists on Bam-Bam, Bam-Bam, Bam-Bam, Bam-Bam. The lack of a clear-cut end to the drums results in a kind of indefinite coming to a halt of the marching platoon. Still makes me twitch to this day. Lesson learnt: Never take them straight on! (A lesson learnt again with Ray Dolby.) Perhaps if I'd led into the issue more gently with Stanley, he would have gone along with the change. (Incidentally, I realize that in print the drum parts above do look pretty strange…)
Another technical pause: I got to know conductor and music adaptor Leonard Rosenman during music recording and mixing for Barry Lyndon. (He became a good friend, who later introduced me to John Frankenheimer, when Leonard was composer for Prophecy, leading to that being his first Dolby Stereo release.)
The dominant theme throughout Barry Lyndon is Handel's Sarabande, which Leonard had rearranged several times with different versions, once as a full orchestral piece and one arrangement just with timpani. We recorded the latter at a church, with a temporary control room set up in the vestry. As usual, the timpani were tuned up by the musicians at the instruments. But they clearly sounded out-of-tune when listened to on the monitor loudspeakers in the vestry. An oddity—the timpani were exciting resonances in the church, just adjacent to the actual drum frequency. Solution: Tuning was done by someone saying "up-a-bit" or "down-a-bit" on talkback from the vestry!
Stanley (and Margaret) could find you:
My partner Carol and I wanted to get away secretly for the weekend at some point during the Barry Lyndon run-up. We tell no one where we're going, apart from possibly just naming the county of Cornwall, which doesn't narrow things down very much. Margaret Adams was Stanley's brilliant, if take-no-prisoners, secretary. Port Isaac is a fishing village on the North Cornish coast. I recall that at that time the phone numbers only needed two digits—the hotel was Port Isaac 13. This place was seriously remote. During supper on the Friday night, the manager comes over—phone call for you. Margaret Adams: "Got a minute for Stanley?" Stanley: "Is this a good time?" How did she ever find us? Clairvoyance? Did Stanley hire her because she had this skill?
Stanley as scientist:
For years I'd had a background interest in archaeo-astronomy, the study of Neolithic astronomy, stone circles and rows. A leading scientist in the field was Alexander Thom, who beyond carrying out extremely accurate surveys of hundreds of stone circles and ellipses in the U.K. and France, had deduced that 3,000 years ago there could have been a unit of length, and that it was passed so accurately from location to location that there had to be a central location where "megalithic yardsticks" were made. Indeed, data suggested that the measurements were good to two decimal places—2.72 feet. The only alternative hypothesis was that there was some reference length in nature, accessible at every location. But, of course, there was no such reference length in nature available to Neolithic man.
Stanley would have none of the "megalithic yardstick." We go out in the Abbott's Mead car-park. Stanley in his kaftan. He finds a three-foot, straightish piece of twig fallen from a tree, kneels down and using the sun's shadow tries to find a mechanism whereby the shadow is a fixed length. E for effort, but no cigar.
Stanley would like to know a little bit about you for his files:
At the time Stanley had never met or even, as far as I know, ever heard of my partner Carol. I'm working late in the office one evening, and the home phone rings. Stanley: "Hi, this is Stanley Kubrick, is Ioan there?" Carol: "No, I'm sorry he's out." Stanley: "Well [moment's pause], Carol, could you ask him to call me?
Carol thinks the pause was just about the time it would take to go through a stack of index cards…
Stanley and sound effects:
Stanley always believed in a "tight" mix, with a pretty limited dynamic range. As Barry Lyndon goes through the woods towards Captain Feeny, the highwayman, there is the sound of a crow. Make the sound of the crow louder. Make it louder. Ray Merrin, the #2 mixer, is a more than adequate cartoonist and draws the crow sitting in a tree. The crow is wider than the tree is tall. Perhaps 40 feet wide, and that's the way it sounds.
Stanley wants to know what you think:
He would have different versions of the same scene on three or four flat-bed editing machines. And show you each version. Which do you like? Easy enough, let's say "version A." Stanley: "OK, but why?" Now that's where it gets tricky.
Stanley moaning:
Steve Katz was the prototypical Dolby consultant in Hollywood. Not exactly a pleasant job—alone in a vaguely hostile world where new technology was greeted with a degree of skepticism. His only contact was with me in London by phone, and once or twice a week he'd call me late evening in London. He never used to say who he was—just inevitably he'd preface the conversation with "Ooohh…ooohh," and I'd respond with "Now what, Steve?"
But this time, the phone rings and the voice says, "Ooohh…ooohh." "What is it Steve?" "It's not Steve, it's Stanley"
Stanley was at Elstree listening to a test reel of the finished mix, which sounded spitty. Potential doom and despondency. I drove out to Elstree late at night, and we determined that there was just a slight density problem, and after a correction negative was shot, Barry Lyndon is now thought to be one of the best Academy mono soundtracks ever made.
Ioan Allen continues his reminiscences of Stanley Kubrick in our January issue. Our readers in Southern California may also want to check out the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's major exhibition of Kubrick's work, running now through June 30, 2013: www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/stanley-kubrick.


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First order of business for Hinchey in Norwich: avoid layoffs
Norwich — Mayor-Elect Deberey Hinchey spent a busy post-election day retrieving campaign signs, meeting with reporters and the city manager, and announcing one budget priority.
"I don't want any layoffs," Hinchey said, referring to controversial cuts this past spring that eliminated a social worker and a grants accounts clerk from the Human Services office and a fire code clerk from the city fire department.
Hinchey wants budget meetings to start with discussions with city department heads and employees on how to cut spending without eliminating jobs. She will meet with City Manager Alan Bergren and Comptroller Joshua Pothier and city departments to find efficiencies, office consolidations and other potential savings in an effort to avoid layoffs.
Hinchey defeated incumbent Republican Mayor Peter Nystrom 2,203 to 1,931 Tuesday, with Libertarian candidate William Russell finishing a distant third with 386 votes.
She and the six victorious City Council candidates will be sworn in Dec. 3 and, although she is eager to get started, she does not want to interfere with Nystrom's duties during his final month in office.
"Peter Nystrom has always been very respectful of me," Hinchey said. "In these last few weeks, I don't want to interrupt what he is doing and the respect he has from the people of Norwich."
Nystrom visited Hinchey's campaign victory party late Tuesday and offered to help her in the transition, Hinchey said.
She said she looks forward to working with the incoming council, which includes three colleagues from the current council, Republican Alderwoman Sofee Noblick and Democrats Francois, "Pete" Desaulniers and Mark Bettencourt. Former Republican Alderman Bill Nash and newcomer Democrats Bill Eyberse and Terell Wilson also will be sworn in Dec. 3.
Hinchey said Bettencourt is knowledgeable about many issues, while Noblick is adamant that the city must address blight, and Desaulniers has tackled thankless tasks, including straightening out troubles at the city ice rink. Hinchey hopes Desaulniers will be named again by the council as council president pro tempore, effectively the deputy mayor.
Nash, a retired city police officer, provides good perspective on public safety, while Eyberse and Wilson will bring new ideas to the floor, she said.
"We've got a great council," Hinchey added.
The city charter authorizes the mayor to hire an economic development assistant, but like her three predecessors, she doesn't plan to fill the position immediately. She prefers to work with the Norwich Community Development Corp., the city community development office and Planning Director Peter Davis on economic development issues.
Over the next few weeks prior to taking office, Hinchey will concentrate on hiring an administrative assistant, a direct appointment by the mayor. The office secretary coordinates activities in the mayor's office and for the City Council.
While not active on social media herself, Hinchey wants to let residents know the mayor's schedule, planned activities and upcoming events in the most efficient ways, and a computer-savvy administrative assistant could help with that.
Hinchey also supports retaining Bergren as city manager, one of two direct council appointments, the other being city clerk.
"I look forward to working with Alan," Hinchey said.
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SQL Server clusters are widely used, and widely misunderstood, which makes people like our good friend (and clustering MVP) Allan Hirt cry bitter tears. So here are a few notes for you and yours.
Cluster IS NOT Disaster Recovery
A cluster does not protect against disaster. Unless it's a very, very, very limited scope disaster (that scope being, the hardware of the one server running SQL, not including the disks). A cluster is considered a High Availability solution.
Why: A typical cluster lives in a single physical area (typically, the server room). And, a cluster shares disks. Anything that goes wrong with the SAN, the power, the building, or the network, goes wrong for the ENTIRE cluster.
Failover IS NOT Ultimate Solution
Failing over the cluster should not be your first reaction to any given problem. Letting your DBA troubleshoot the issue should be the first reaction.
Why: If there's a problem, you need to know the source of the problem, so that it doesn't happen again. Not to mention, restarting the service and/or failing over the cluster can exacerbate the problem AND wipe out important troubleshooting data. It's lose-lose!
Failover IS NOT A Freebie
A failover is (potentially) quicker than a restart of a single server, sure. But you still lose all your connections, all open transactions are rolled back (and not automatically restarted), and you still have to wait for the SQL Server service to spin up.
Why: SQL Server itself doesn't know the difference between failing over, and simply being restarted on a single instance. It's the same thing, in SQL's eyes.
Second Node IS NOT Magical
This one is a two-fer. First, understand that if your secondary node isn't functional for whatever reason, you don't actually have a failover cluster. Plenty of shops ignore issues on their secondary node for years, just assuming that they'll never need it.
Second, moving the services and disks over to the second node rarely gets you anything that a service restart wouldn't. That second node isn't magically immune to deadlocks, long transactions, nor memory and disk pressure. Even in cases where SQL Server isn't responding, or is deeply broken in some way, a service or server restart is at least as good as a failover.
Why Do We Even Have This Cluster?
I don't know. Maybe someone high up fell in love with the word "cluster", the way they're falling in love with "The Cloud" right now. Maybe you have a legitimate need for, say, rolling upgrades with minimal downtime.
Regardless, you have it. Understand the concepts, and understand the few cases in which failing over is actually beneficial. Here, have an Introduction to Clusters, with diagrams. Need more? Check out Allan's 4-day training classes.
Happy days,
Jen McCown
P.S. I'm on a boat this week, and so I'll be out of touch for a while. The out-of-touchness includes our awesome DBAs@Midnight webshow, which next airs on February 8 at 11pm Central Time. Catch up on back episodes at http://www.MidnightDBA.com
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"I love acting. It gives me the same feeling I used to get years ago when I was in my neighborhood dribbling a basketball."
Most Bucknellians who know Nyambi Nyambi '01 probably remember him hitting the boards for the basketball team, but nowadays the former Bison shooting guard is treading the boards as an actor. Nyambi recently appeared in New York as Caliban in Classic Stage Company's The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin.
Acting "wasn't even on the radar" for Nyambi until his senior year, when he auditioned for a Cap and Dagger play. His basketball commitments prevented him from appearing in a full-fledged theatre production, but the audition piqued his desire.
"That was when it first dawned on me that acting was a possibility," he says.
Later that year, he delivered a Martin Luther King speech at a campus event. "After the speech, one of my professors came up to me and said, 'Nyambi, you're an actor,' and I knew he was right. From that moment on I pursued acting and nothing else."
After graduating with a management degree, Nyambi attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (while working for Richard Humphrey '74 at Arts4All) and earned an M.F.A in acting from NYU.
He had a starring role in the Partial Comfort Production A Matter of Choice. Other theatre credits include the Classical Theatre of Harlem, New York Theatre Workshop and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Nyambi co-starred in the critically acclaimed 2006 independent film Day Night Day Night and is at work on two more films. He also has recorded eight audio books, made several commercials and is currently researching and writing a play about Afro-beat musician and Nigerian political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
"I love acting. It gives me the same feeling I used to get years ago when I was in my neighborhood dribbling a basketball," Nyambi says. "I am so excited. It feels like this is just the beginning of my career."
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There is a new Carnival of Genealogy. The topic for the 93rd COG is:
Write a "how to" series of articles! Choose a topic that you can give helpful advice on and write a series of articles (3+) about it. Series articles require a little more planning and a lot more writing so this next edition will have a deadline of May 1st.
I have decided to write a series of articles about saving money by using genealogy society memberships. Today I will discuss ways that you can save with your memberships. Then I will have two posts with examples and on Friday, I will ask you to submit your own examples to share with everyone.
Everyone wants to save money. But with all the genealogy databases available and society memberships, genealogy can become a very expensive hobby FAST.
But by joining a society you can save money.
Societies offer many education opportunities. From society meetings to workshops to conferences to their newsletter, you can learn a lot by being a member of a society. Those newsletters can often hold the key to your brick wall and give you information you many never find somewhere else.
Some societies offer at home access to genealogy databases. Save your money and join the society where you will get database access as well as the society's premium content.
Many societies give you a discount on their own publications by being a member. Need or want a lot of books on one area of the country? Join the local society and save some money.
Some societies offer discounts on third party genealogy products. Find the coupon codes or links on the society membership pages and save yourself some dough.
Lots of societies offer discounts on their conferences and other events. Sometimes the combined cost of a conference and society membership is less or the same as a non-member conference registration. Even if it costs a little more, you will get the society membership at a discounted rate by saving on the conference fee.
In this series of blog posts, I am going to work on a list of society membership benefits beyond the members only databases and newsletters. Hopefully you can reduce your genealogy budget by just joining the right societies for your needs.
Stay tuned for the next post:
Part Two - National and Regional Societies
Part Three - State Societies
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Good god... a year already!
There is no doubt in my mind that this year's Fair will be interesting, not from a horological point of view, but rather to see how the sector has reacted to these last years of "complicated" sales. From the first view at the pre-Fair news, the Tourbillon as a means of generating hype and fast cash is indeed dead. Thank god for that. All those years lost in developing ultra complicated and expensive tourbillons while not really doing much on the lower end of the watch spectrum has simply resulted in diminishing the worth of the lower-end and mid-range watches on the price list. Many resources spend and time lost making 200k watches and developments that in most cases will never see the light on regular production models despite claims like; "... we will install this revolutionary escapement in over 80% of our watches regardless of their price range by the end of 2011...." Well, the cited escapement is today only available on a watch in the 200K range. Looks like the intention to upgrade all their movements will not be, at least for now.
The second "cancer" that is slowly eating away at the industry are of course senseless Limited Editions. There is nothing wrong with Limited Edition yet all within measure and quantity. By that I mean that very few should be made and very few editions should see the light. If this is not carefully revised the sales or regular production/collection items will be increasingly harder if not impossible. Incidentally several brands are already taking steps towards ending this nonsense, or at least this is what they have been saying for the last six months. We will know next week if this is so.
Well, I hope that this years SIHH and Time Exhibition shows are not as "grim" as last year. In any case I will keep you posted once I return.
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Good point about 'Limited Editions'. I have just been hit by one of these courtesy of Jaeger-LeCoultre. The very brief story: JLC showed me the prototype of the Navy Seals Alarm. It included the JLC logo etched in the sapphire glass. When I came to pick up my watch, the etching had been replaced by a more normal logo on the alarm disc. Explanation: For technical reasons it was not possible to etch. Two to three months later three different limited editions were introduced - one in Madrid, two in Beverly Hills. ALL of them with the logo etched into the sapphire glass. Apparently, it had become technically possible...
Needless to say, I am disappointed. And I can't help but think that the etching switch was planned all the way as they realised that it could help distinguish the 'Limited Editions' - without worrying that their 'promise' to the JLC fans was thus broken. That is - in my eyes - going too far in order to do 'Limited Editions'.
- January 17, 2010
- KronosClub said...
Well the matter of the etched logo on the glass was never a mater of being feasible or not. It was a matter of choice. The choice between having anti-glare coating on the inside of the glass or not. What never was feasible, and still is not feasible, is to have both.
So the choice was to go with the anti-glare on the inside. Who made the choice? I suspect that it was put on the table and "some" people, not necessarily from the factory might have suggested for the anti-glare coating and swayed the vote in that favor.
As to the Madrid edition, this was not an idea of Jaeger to make them like this. It was a request (that your dealer could have made as well...) to forfeit the anti-glare in order to get the brand on the glass. It was also only made for 10 people that later became 30 and was never meant to become public in the first place. The Beverly Hills is indeed I think a letdown since they should have followed the general piece.
In any case the NAVY SEALS ALARM is a very nice piece regardless of where the brand is located.
- January 17, 2010
Thanks for your extra insights. I guess it shows that there are a number of variations of the story. I am trying to tell it based on my experience in ordering and receiving the NSA.
I still feel disappointed - not about the watch itself, which is indeed great - but about the way JLC moved away from the 'promise' made by the protoype and then subsequently were able/willing to produce something very, very much like the prototype for the the limited editions.
And then back to your original point about limited editions. I sincerely hope that these all together four limited editions (the original was a LE as well) are examples of JLC's future approach to LE's. This is almost like AP and their innumerable variations of the Royal Oak.
- January 17, 2010
...and I can see that I forgot a crucial word in my last paragraph...It should read as follows:
'... I sincerely hope that these all together four limited editions (the original was a LE as well) are _NOT_ examples of JLC's future approach to LE's. This is almost like AP and their innumerable variations of the Royal Oak.'
- January 17, 2010
- KronosClub said...
Yes, Limited Editions have to stop or at least be "really" limited. In the case of AP and looking at their yearly production Limited to me would be 50, tops 100 pieces. Not 1.250!!! Limited Editions would be one or two, even three per year. Not nine!!!
In the case of the NSA I reckon the situations has become a headache for Jaeger and you can be certain that it will not happen again. It is because of things like that that generally they are very reluctant to show prototypes to customers. After this I doubt there will be much of these going around.
Personally I hate to see protos. Why? Because two things might happen. One, things can change. Two, prototypes are generally a rough copy and look REALY poor to make a purchasing decision.
- January 17, 2010
I totally agree with respect to limited editions...and I have learned my own lesson with respect to the prototypes and 'limited editions'...
I have written JLC to vent my disappointment, and I know others have, as well. Let's see what happens.
- January 17, 2010
- Velociphile said...
Hi D, really looking forward to your observations from the coal face. Can all those egos really squeeze in that little biddy hall? Let us know. ;-)
Hi Anonymous, great insight. LEs, yep! And for me meaningless co-branding cross-promo nonsense.....
Good trip D,
- January 18, 2010
D, just can't wait to see last SIHH novelties! when will be they posted?
- January 23, 2010
D. just can't wait to see your comments on SIHH novelties!
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The logo needs the name: AxBattles
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