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FZ35, P100 or Nikon DXXX
First post, looking for a little help. Been reading review after review, thread after thread, just can't make up my mind.
Looking for a Bridge/Entry SLR, for, Jack-of-all-trades type idea. I am not a photographer, nor much of an enthusiast, but I take tons of pictures and like to play with controls. $200-400.
Looking for:
1) Responsiveness - I'm using a Fuji Finepix S1000, and can't go on about how much I hate about, click....(1 second)....shutter.....(2 seconds)......ready. Looking for fast shot to shot.
2) Manual controls - PASM, white balance, ISO, etc. Like to screw around, not a fan of the modern, "Scene" modes and such.
3) Moderate zoom level - 10X equivalent or greater. Don't need pinnochio lenses, but something moderate.
Can't really specify what I like to take pictures of, because I take pictures of everything from the puppy to a bird 200 metres away to sports to landscape.
IQ is not a killer for me. I like a sharp photo, but I am no perfectionist. Most are left in the form they are taken in, not much in the way of cropping or editing after the fact.
Leaning toward the FZ35 for all around capabilities.
Other possiblity is an SLR, Nikon D (Whichever model), likely used. Mrs. has a D60 so lenses can be shared, but would rather try to avoid the complexity of it.
Lastly is the P100 with awesome burst and shot to shot times, but apparently plagued with it's share of problems?
Any thoughts?
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Do you shoot at dawn or dusk when shooting you outdoor stuff. And you also mention sports
If you shoot your outdoor stuff at dusk or dawn. You will want something that has good low light ability shooting at 1600 or 3200 iso. So that will rule out a megazoom. They do not shoot past 800iso with any good results.
Also you mention sports. The shutter lag time and slower contrast base AF will not allow you to track at shoot the moment you want. That is why all sport shooter use a dslr. Fast phase detect AF and no shutter lag.
So if this is important to you, you really need a dslr. The nikon DXXX are their high end APS-c dslr, much more advance then the d60. You might want to look at a D90 for what you want to shoot with sports. Or if you can find a nice used d300 it will be ideal, but they are still pretty expensive.
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Thanks. I think I was expecting that.
Agreed, the responsiveness is the most desirable, just didn't want to lose the zoom flexibility. Would rather have 10X zoom than low-light, but your right, I probably won't be happy until I get a responsive camera which means SLR.
Guess I'm just scared of $400 camera (Used) & $500 lense to get the reach back. I use it often.
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A Pentax Kx two lens kit with the Pentax 18-55mm and Pentax 55-300mm lenses comes within your budget, while giving you the needed zoom, image quality, and the high ISO capability.
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There is a D60 in the family already, makes little sense to go with 2 different systems.
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I agree, as the potential for sharing lenses is excellent. A used Nikon D40 can be found easily for around $250.00, keeping it to the lower end of the budget. The D40 still remains a "very sought after camera."
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It's true that a DSLR, even one from 4 or 5 years back, with a decent lens will give you better image quality, especially in less than ideal lighting. However, I think you would be happy with the FZ35. It's a great all around camera. It has a pretty short shutter lag (much faster than your Fuji). It's better than its replacements, the FZ40 and FZ100, in low light. Go to imaging-resource for a review. Very detailed, very positive. I had the FZ28 and loved it. You don't seem like a perfectionist in your demands for image quality. If you have the FZ35, it's easy to carry around, so you will carry it around. The Nikon D40 is a nice camera but to get a single lens that covers most of the zoom range covered by the FZ35, you would need to spend more, much more than the fZ35. They used to have the Tamron 18-250 for about $280 for Nikon DSLR's. The Tamron 18-270 is much more expensive. Get what you want. If you want a DSLR, good for you. If you want a single super zoom, though, don't abandon the FZ35. It's selling for about $240 with free shipping at a number of reputable etailers.
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The bridge cams' speeds generally depend on whether you are shooting RAW or not. Both the FZ35 and FZ40 are quick enough shooting JPEG but there's a noticeable delay when shooting RAW on both. The FZ100 is blazing fast with both RAW and JPEG but the IQ doesn't sit well with many people.
If you're shooting JPEG, then definitely consider the FZ35 and FZ40. I prefer the FZ40 for its handling, longer reach, and color output but head to head, the FZ35 does have slightly better IQ and does a little better in low light also (though both suck in low light).
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Based on the facts that you already have a Nikon D60 in the family, and your budget is low, I think a used Nikon would be the most logical solution.
KEH.COM has a used Nikon D40X with 18-135mm lens in EX+ condition for 599.00USD
Here's the link:http://www.keh.com/camera/Nikon-Digi...991016420?r=FE
Not sure if you're familiar with KEH but they are a very reputable online dealer of used cameras. Their rating is very conservative.
Good luck in whatever direction you decide, but based on your requirements it is clear that the only camera that will give you the responsivenss you're looking for is a dslr.
So you want to be a better photographer? Open your eyes and take a look at what is all around you.
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IQ is not a killer for you. FZ35 should do well for what you described in what you want and need from a camera. A dSLR body is not an investment. The lenses are. The lumix lens used for the Pana cameras are very good and the zoom is as well.
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I vote for Wonder Woman - in honor of her mom. :)
I like Little Bo Peep, too. And next year, she could be "Mary had a little Lamb"---all you would have to do is add another ruffle at the bottom.
I'm with Cody---believe he would look kinda 'sheepish" as a lamb!!!!!!!!
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I'm saying go with the super hero! Lord knows they have both had the best role model this year. Or what ever you want because next year you won't get to pick!
I like little bo peep, but if you went with Little Red Riding Hood Cody could be the wolf? Love, Mom
I say show her all the pictures and see which one she likes the best.
I'm totally with Evansmom!!!
I like super woman because the kids will match. Porgie wants to be a Bee and I am strongly considering dressing Izzy up as a flower.
My daughter was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz when she was two and she was adorable. Target has the little red slippers every year too. Ella would be an adorable Dorothy & Kyler could be one of the other characters. Good Luck!
They are all so adorable I don't think you could go wrong with any of them. Can't wait to see what you decide!
Bo Peep and have the dog be the sheep!!
I vote Little Bo Pee too! So cute!
I'm having the same problem with figuring out what Alivia should be. I really like the good witch and wonder woman...but they are all really cute ideas. Can't wait to hear what you pick.
Superwoman. How adorable would those boots look on her?
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So a "rally" has been called for September 9, 2015, in Washington, D.C. to "send a message" to the current House and Senate members that "we the people" do not want them to vote to approve President Obama's "nuclear deal" with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That is one way to try to send a message. The lawmakers will look at the rally and think, "Great! They still haven't figured out what really matters, politically!"
There's a way to "rally" that would have a real impact on the current House and Senate members. One that could actually strike fear into the political hears of the current House and Senate members.
Why not, conservatives, "rally" where you live? Instead of a single rally in D.C., why not have thousands and thousands of rallies where conservatives can become politically powerful by uniting, politically, "inside" the best political tool for ousting from office the current House and Senate members who will not follow the will of "we the people?" Why not, instead, show the current House and Senate members that conservatives have figured out the best first step to take in making sure that the best conservative candidates in the upcoming Republican Party primary elections across the country win the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections.
Would it not be wonderful if Mark Levin, and Jenny Beth Martin, and Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz all exhorted their conservative audience members to "rally" along with every other conservative they can find, where they live, at their respective local Republican Party monthly committee meetings? To find out how to fill up the 200,000 or so of the 400,000 Republican Party precinct committeeman slots spread across all the voting precincts of this nation? Imagine if conservatives who went to these committee meetings would shoot cell phone videos of overflowing crowds of conservatives filling the rooms of these local committee meetings. And then put those videos on a YouTube channel. And then sent them to the Malignant Media outlets and to the incumbents in the House and Senate.
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I asked the Breitbart.com readers to go on a "secret and dangerous mission" here.
We conservatives have the numbers to completely transform the Republican Party into the conservative force for good it needs to be.
I am encouraged that others are beginning to catch on.
Conservatives of all stripes need to coalesce in their natural political home and get busy with the nuts and bolts work of winning elections, as I wrote about here. Forget about trying to "change" the incumbents through mere rhetoric. The only way to "change" them is by replacing them. Ted Cruz referred to some of them as "Campaign Conservatives" – they talk like conservatives in the primary and general election, but then revert to something quite different after the election. The first step to "Repeal and Replace" Obamacare is to "repeal and replace" the "Campaign Conservatives." And the first step conservatives must take to make that happen is to unite and organize for real political action not just at a rally in D.C., but at our respective local Republican Party monthly committee meetings.
And for comic relief, leftist Thom Hartmann thought, years ago, that conservatives had already done this.
We conservatives can make it so.
Imagine if our candidates started talking about this.
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Welcome to my "Plan With Me" series! This month was a first since I have featured two versions of my weekly plans. The first was my St. Patrick's Day theme and this week is my Easter theme. The majority of this week's stickers are from Pawspaper and I did use a coffee sticker from Sparkles of Stickers. Keep reading if you would like to see how I planned my week!
This is my plain week ahead view, I am using the Good To Go rose gold Erin Condren LifePlanner in the vertical layout. I'm loving all the personalized products and organizational accessories I've found at Erincondren.com! Check it out for yourself and you'll receive $10 off your first purchase, simply by clicking here.
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This week's layout was made by using Pawspaper's March Easter Set. The coffee cup sticker is from Sparkle of Stickers. I also ended up using a few stickers from a small pack of Easter bunnies from Hobby Lobby.
This is the layout that I started with, as you can see I used the heart boxes to mark the bottom of each day in my To Do list area. I included a weekend banner and some themed pictures that go along with the set. I wasn't 100% done with the decor but wanted to start filling in my week and then see what more I would need or want to add.
The first half of this week's plan contains my weekly goals and the first three days of the week. Each day is broken down into my general Today section, my Work to do list, and my general To Do list. At the bottom is where I keep track of what I am making for dinner each night.
The other half of my weekly plan is the same layout as the first page, my weekend is broken down a bit differently as I use this time for less work and more errand running, as well as quality time with the family and our holiday plans.
Here is my completed Easter theme! I loved working with this sticker set and can not recommend Pawspaper enough for high quality stickers and some of the fastest shipping I have found on Etsy. I continue to enjoy Sparkles of Stickers as well and will be using one of their full layouts in my April Plan With Me so be on the lookout for a more full review then.
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'Little Things' Sneak Peek Featuring Zayn and Niall
That was fast! We finally heard One Direction's new single "Little Things" on Monday, and now we're already getting a sneak peek at the video for the romantic tune that was penned by Ed Sheeran. Echoing the individual covers that were revealed last week, this time around, they're releasing teases featuring each guy by themselves. First up — Nial Horan and Zayn Malik get the spotlight put on them. We're sure it'll be a matter of time before we get to see sneak peeks from the rest of the fellas! And the video itself will premiere in three days, so keep an eye out!
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The Symbio Wildlife Park, a zoo and animal sanctuary located in Helensburgh, Australia, welcomed three new red panda cubs — Raja, Phingu, and Mohan — late last year and they are cute AF.
This Adorable Red Panda Cub Would Like More Belly Tickles, Please
Now that you've had the opportunity to pick your jaw up off the floor, you should know that the siblings are hitting the 6-month mark.
As such, the adorable critters are starting to show a playful side to their personalities, which employees at the zoo say "is abundant with super cute antics and love" (BE STILL MY HEART).
Mohan, in particular, has bonded like an ion with his handler, Beth, who spoils him daily with a steady diet of neck scratchies, nose boops, and belly tickles.
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According to a new video that "has created a frenzy of cuteness across the internet", staff first observed Mohan's behavior last week — and now they say the affectionate cub can't go long without a dose of belly rubs.
"Each day at feeding time when their favourite human rings the dinner bell, they will all come a running, with Mohan proving he loves affection just as much as his belly being full. Zoo keepers first realised Mohan loves a good belly tickle early last week, and now he just can't seem to get enough of them."
And like a cat or dog that wants their pets, Mohan isn't afraid to prompt his humans for mohr attention when he wants it, which is basically 24-7-365.
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Should They Tell Her That Mom Is Dying?
Dear Mike,
My sister is terminally ill. She has a soon-to-be 12-year-old daughter and has spoken with her about the illness. However, she has never told this child what her illness really is and that she is, indeed, dying. The child is under the impression that she is going to get better.
It is not my place to tell my niece what is truly happening, but sooner and not later, she should be told the truth. Am I wrong to feel that this child needs to know and that it should come from her mother? Or should I just keep quiet?
Kids are intuitive. They pick up on everything around them. The daughter has probably put two and two together already. She knows that this is more than just a casual sickness.
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The right way to say it, is to say it boldly. Don't couch it in other terms. Be direct.
If the daughter knows, she will be able to have different conversations with her mother in the coming months. The mom can tell her daughter what she hopes for her future. It will be hard for the daughter to hear this but, in the long run, it will be important for her.
It's important for the daughter to trust the world around her. The more people that deny her mother's illness, the less she will be able to trust herself. The sooner she knows, the sooner she can deal with closure.
The aunt can talk to her sister and say, "I think we need to let your daughter know, and is there any way I can help?" The aunt can offer to talk to the daughter herself. She could talk to the daughter with the mother actually in the room.
The physician could also break the news. The physician and the sister can sit down with the mother and let her know, together, that they think the daughter needs to know the truth.
Being A Part Of My Dughter's Life
Dear Mike,
I have a 13-year-old daughter who lives with her mom, and I see her every other weekend. I am so busy, but I still want to be more a part of her life.
Some people say if I spend more time with her, it would be disruptive to her schoolwork and her life. Is there any way to be more a part of her life without spending more time with her?
When they become teen-agers, you have to blend into their lives, not them blending into yours. Transitions between one household and the other are always the most difficult time.
The parent has to continue to invite his daughter to do things. What she needs more than anything is to see him make time for her in his behavior. This can't always be when it's most convenient for him.
Other ways to stay connected:
- email
- Send her cards and letters
- Think about planning a special trip with her somewhere. Let her have a lot of say in where they are going to go and how to do it. Maybe she should invite a friend. At 13, a lot of kids don't want to hang out with their dads. Bringing a friend gives them more comfort.
- Work on a project together. It's about using your creativity as a parent. Work on a project that interests both of you. This gets at one of the challenges for non-custodial parents. When they pick up the kids, it's like, "Now what? What do we do?" Having a project to work on cuts through a lot of the transitional stuff. It makes things less uncomfortable.
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Ever see videos in your search results and wonder what they're all about, but you don't want to press play and sit through each one? Google's rolling out a new feature to help with that.
Google is launching video previews in search results. When you're using the Google app for Android or Chrome for Android and video results show up in the video carousel, you'll now see GIF-like video previews. These will help show you what a video is about before you tap play.
By default, video previews will only play when you're on Wi-Fi. You can change this to play video previews over cellular or disable video previews altogether by going into the settings menu of the Google app of Chrome for Android.
Video previews will start appearing today, and Google says that they'll roll out more broadly next week.
These video previews in search results seem pretty handy, helping you to get an idea of what's included in a video without forcing you to tap play and sit through each video in your search results. It's also a good move by Google to make them play only over Wi-Fi by default, as that can help to conserve cellular data usage.


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HP Discover 2014 – Las Vegas
I'm going to be attending my first HP Discover in two weeks in Las Vegas. HP has asked me for a while to go but I do not like big trade shows(or anywhere with large crowds of people), so until now have shied away.
I had a really good time at the HP Storage tech day and Nth symposium last year so I decided I wanted to try out Discover this year given that I know at least some folks that will be there and we'll be in a somewhat organized group of "bloggers" led by Calvin Zito the HP Storage blogger.
I've never been to Las Vegas before but I'll be there from June 8th and leaving on the 13th. After that I'm going to Arizona to check out the Grand Canyon and a few other places for a few days and return home the following week some time.
Looking forward to meeting some folks there, should be pretty fun.
Back from Amsterdam
I'm back from Amsterdam - it was about what I expected. I basically stuck to the hotel and the data center - I even skipped out on that little cruise I pre paid for, just didn't feel like going. I knew I disliked traveling and this trip was a massive reminder as to why. About the only thing that was a positive surprise for me was the long haul flights. I was dreading it at first but the nice reclining seats and big screen LCDs allowed me to kick back and stretch my legs without getting the usual cramps and discomfort. My flight to Amsterdam was on a single airline, made a stop in Chicago where the transfer of plans was amazingly short - it was about 150 feet between the gates I was afraid that it was going to be far and maybe I'd miss the flight (I don't have much recent flying experience the last time I had to make a connecting flight was I'd wager 20 years ago).
I got confused as to my flight schedule(wasn't going to be the first time) and I arrived in Amsterdam about eight hours before I thought I was going to arrive. The hotel was alright, I mean for the price at least, it was around $200/night or something which seemed pretty typical for a city room. First thing I noticed is it took me a good 3-5 minutes to figure out how the lights worked (had to put hotel key card in a slot to activate them). Took a shower after the long flight - no washcloth ? Maybe it is not typical in Europe I don't know, I seem to recall washcloths at hotels I was at in Asia growing up. The toilet was a very strange design, it was like this, which had a couple drawbacks. The mini bar in the room was automatic, I didn't notice that until the 2nd day, so you can't even take something out to look at it without being charged. I ended up taking quite a bit of things out. There was a sort of mini mart at a shell station about a half mile away that I walked to to buy drinks and stuff on a couple occasions the selection paled in comparison to similar stores in the U.S. The first time I went I literally saw a line of cars at the pumps. I don't know if gas was cheap or if it was a rush hour or the only gas station in the area but it really reminded me of seeing the pictures of the gas shortages in the 70s in the U.S. There wasn't many pumps - I think 4 or 5, I'd say less than half the typical gas station here.
On the first leg of my flight the passenger next to me said watch out for the bikes - but didn't elaborate. Wow - I had not seen so many bikes since I lived in China in 89-90. They certainly have their bike infrastructure laid out pretty well with dedicated pathways for bikes as well as dedicated street crossing signals etc. On one of my walks around the hotel area I walked through what appeared to be their version of the Park and Ride. Where here the park and rides are filled with cars and parking lots, this one was filled with bikes and was pretty much entirely under a freeway overpass. It seemed like a large number of bikes weren't even locked up. The overall quality of the bikes seemed low I suppose that is at least partly to reduce theft by not having nice fancy bikes I'm not sure. More than anything when I saw the bike stuff it made me think this must be what those hippies in Seattle and SFO want. It was certainly an interesting design, too much of a culture shock for me though.
I found the intersections very confusing and am even more glad I did not try to rent a car while I was there.
Speaking of cars, wow are they small over there, I struggle to think of seeing even a single pickup truck (of any size) while I was there. I saw a bunch of cars like mine, and there was this other really tiny car, which made those tiny Smart cars look big, it was smaller than a golf cart. I missed a few opportunities to take pictures of them, I'm sure I could find them online somewhere. The taxi drivers drove sort of crazy, drifting between lanes and stuff, one of them blew way through a red light(the other lights must've turned green already) which was freaky. I recall on that same trip we were behind some kind of small van that had a radiation warning sign on it.
The data center was -- interesting I guess. Everyone had to wear protective booties around their shoes while on the floor which was a first for me, I think way over kill. Nothing really exciting here, I got everything done that I needed to get done.
I spent hours looking online for places to go but could not find anything that I was interested in. Well there was one thing I just couldn't figure out how to do it. I was really interested in seeing the big water structures they used to hold back the water. The biggest of them appeared to be a 2 hour drive away from the city ( too far). There was a couple tours that hit them but they were minimum 8 hour commitment which was too long. This is my first trip where I did not have a car at the destination and that was a good reason why I didn't do anything or go anywhere, normally I would just roam around but relying on taxis I really had to have a precise destination. I wasn't about to rent a car, I really did not feel anywhere comfortable enough to drive in a foreign country like that. While everyone said "they all speak english!", most people did speak great english, but the destinations for me for the most part were unpronounceable and not understandable (Schepenbergweg was the street the data center was on - I heard it pronounced at least a dozen times and at the end was no closer to beginning to pronounce it myself than hearing it the first time). Because of the $20 per megabyte roaming data fees on my phone I kept the data services on the phone disabled throughout my trip there which of course limited my ability to find stuff while not at the hotel or data center. I was especially worried of getting lost and having to call for a taxi and not be able to pronounce where I was and the taxi not being able to find me. I don't know how it was like in the real down town parts of town but in all the places I visited while growing up in Asia there was taxis everywhere you could just flag down and get one. I did not see this situation in the areas I was at in Amsterdam. The hotel called me a taxi to go to the data center and I asked the security guards at the data center to call me a taxi to get back.
So in the end I ate most of my meals at the hotel, never went to the down town part of town, I walked around a bit around the hotel and took some pictures of the area, nothing special. It really reminded me how much I dislike traveling in general.
The flight back was a little more frustrating, having to stop in London and go through customs and immigration and a pretty long trip to change terminals, it seems like I barely made the flight despite having a 2 hour stop over. I had to ask multiple people for help while there too because while I had a boarding pass it didn't tell me which gate or even which terminal to go to. Even once I knew where to go, getting there wasn't clear either. The whole place was very confusing, and as a result very frustrating.
This is the first trip I've taken in recent memory where I was really excited about going home. I wasn't looking forward to it to begin with and it turned out about the way I expected. Hopefully that's my last trip for a long time to come.
I thought about going somewhere fancy to eat or something, but I really couldn't find anything of interest. Add to that I don't like going out alone, if I'm with a friend things are different. When it comes to things like fancy steak or pasta or whatever I really don't have the sensitivity to tell the difference between most of them so I wouldn't be able to appreciate the good stuff so there really isn't a whole lot of point of me going. There was a BBQ + Grill near the data center (emphasis on was), the sign was still up but the building was empty. I went to two different nice places with a local friend when I was in Atlanta that I really enjoyed, I tried finding something sort of along those lines in Amsterdam but came up with nothing. Most of the places seemed too exotic or too fancy/upper class.
Apparently I left on the day things were going to get crazy, some special soccer game was being played on Saturday afternoon (I left at around noon). I've never been much of a soccer fan at least not since I played it back in 5th grade and earlier years. About the only sport I do enjoy watching is pro football, and even then my interest has been waning over the recent years.
I did all of my shopping at the Airport, picked up a bunch of dutch chocolate going to give most of it away, I tried some of it and it tastes like regular chocolate. I live a mile or so away from a pretty big Sees Candy operation, I bought some of their stuff for Christmas gifts last year, it tastes similar to the Dutch stuff if not better. Picked up a couple picture books of the area, along with some shot glasses for friends and/or family or something.
I got back a full day earlier than I expected. I was absolutely sure yesterday was Monday when I woke up at 5:30AM and turned to CNBC only to see it was Sunday. I got back on Saturday afternoon.
Contrast that with my next trip, which I think will be early July at this point, road trip up to Seattle. I decided to take the coast up north at least to Crescent City, CA. I've been wanting to take my new car along the coast since I bought it over a year ago. I made the coastal trip a couple of times several years ago but not in a car as fun to drive as the one I have at the moment. I'm not sure if I will spend two or three days driving up. I'm really looking forward to that. I think it may of been really cool to go along the coast of the Netherlands but I really didn't have a way to make that happen while I was there.
One of my friends from SEA is in town for a few days I intend to take tomorrow off and go see him down in Morgan Hill, CA (60 miles away), should be good times to catch up and hang out at this nice place he is talking about.
VMware increases core counts in 4.1 licensing
I just came across this mention on AMD's blog. They note that vSphere 4.1 Update 2 included a CPU licensing change -
For the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series (Family 15h) processors, ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2 treats each core within a compute unit as an independent core, except while applying licenses. For the purpose of licensing, ESX/ESXi treats each compute unit as a core. For example, a processor with 8 compute units can provide the processor equivalent of 16 cores on ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2. However, ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2 only requires an 8 core license for each 16-core processor.
I had not heard of that before, so it's news to me! So not only is the physical cost of the Opteron 6200 cheaper than the 6100, the licensing cost is half as much (per core). AMD's blog post above shows some pretty impressive results where a pair of quad socket 6200 blades outperforming a pair of quad socket 10-core Intel blades(2 sockets populated per blade) and at the same time the 6200 solution costs half as much (per VM). Though it's also comparing vSphere 4.1 vs 5.0, since the Opteron 6200 results seem to be the first vSphere 5.0 VMmark results posted. Also the Intel solution has twice the ram as the Opteron but still loses out.
Based on what I see it seems VMmark is more CPU bound than memory(capacity bound), which I suppose I can understand but still in the vast majority of situations the systems are not CPU bound. People tend to load up more on CPUs so they can get more memory capacity. I won't have real numbers for probably two months but I'm expecting CPU usage on this new cluster I am building to be at least half the amount of memory usage.
The change sounds Oracle-esque in licensing where they have fairly complicated decisions they made to determine how many "Oracle cores" you have on your physical processor.
I am traveling tonight to Atlanta to deploy a new vSphere cluster with Opteron 6100s, I was going to go with vSphere 5 because of the license limits on vSphere 4.1 not supporting 16 core processors. Now I see 4.1 does support it so I have about 48 hours to think about whether or not I want to change my mind. I do like vSphere 5's inclusion of LLDP support, more vCPUs per VM. Though really even now after I have been looking through what is in vSphere 5 I don't see anything game changing, nothing remotely, in my opinion like the change to vSphere 4.0 from ESX 3.5.
Weigh the benefits of what's new in vSphere 5 vs having the ability to have unlimited memory(well, up to 1TB, which for me is unlimited from a practical standpoint) in my hosts for no additional licensing cost...
I'm already licensed for vSphere 5 since we bought it after the deadline of the end of September.
Mad props to AMD for getting VMware to tweak their licensing.
Decisions, decisions..
Wired or Wireless?
I'll start out by saying I've never been a fan of Wifi, it's always felt like a nice gimmick-like feature to have but other than that I usually steered clear. Wifi has been deployed at all companies I have worked at in the past 7-8 years though in all cases I was never responsible for that (I haven't done internal IT since 2002, at which time wifi was still in it's early stages(assuming it was out at all yet? I don't remember) and was not deployed widely at all - including at my company). I could probably count on one hand the number of public wifi networks I have used over the years, excluding hotels (of which there was probably ten).
In the early days it was mostly because of paranoia around security/encryption though over the past several years encryption has really picked up and helped that area a lot. There is still a little bit of fear in me that the encryption is not up to snuff, and I would prefer using a VPN on top of wifi to make it even more secure, only really then would I feel comfortable from a security standpoint of using wifi.
From a security standpoint I am less concerned about people intercepting my transmissions over wifi than I am about people breaking into my home network over wifi (which usually happens by intercepting transmissions - my point is more of the content of what I'm transferring, if it is important is always protected by SSL or SSH or in the case of communicating with my colo or cloud hosted server there is a OpenVPN SSL layer under that as well).
Many years ago, I want to say 2005-2006 time frame, there was quite a bit of hype around the Linksys WRT-54G wifi router, for being easy to replace the firmware with custom stuff and get more functionality out of it. So I ordered one at the time, put dd-wrt on it, which is a custom firmware that was talked a lot about back then (is there something better out there? I haven't looked). I never ended up hooking it to my home network, just a crossover cable to my laptop to look at the features.
Then I put it back in it's box and put it in storage.
Until earlier this week, when I decided to break it out again to play with in combination with my new HP Touchpad, which can only talk over Wifi.
My first few days with the Touchpad involved having it use my Sprint 3G/4G Mifi access point. As I mentioned earlier I don't care about people seeing my wifi transmissions I care about protecting my home network. Since the Mifi is not even remotely related to my home network I had no problem using it for extended periods.
The problem with the Mifi, from my apartment is the performance. At best I can get 20% signal strength for 4G, and I can get maybe 80% signal strength for 3G, latency is quite bad in both cases, and throughput isn't the best either, a lot of times it felt like I was on a 56k modem. Other times it was faster. For the most part I used 3G because it was more reliable for my location, however I do have a 5 gig data cap/month for 3G so considering I started using the Touchpad on the 1st of the month I got kind of concerned I may run into that playing with the new toy during the first month. I just checked Sprint's site and I don't see a way to see intra month data usage, only data usage for the month once it's completed. The mifi tracks data usage while it is running but this data is not persisted across reboots, and I think it's also reset if the mifi changes between 3G and 4G services. I have unlimited 4G data, but the signal strength where I'm at just isn't strong enough.
I looked into the possibility of replacing my Mifi with newer technology, but after reading some customer reviews of the newer stuff it seemed unlikely I would get a significant improvement in performance at my location, enough to justify the cost of the upgrade at least so I decided against that for now.
So I broke out the WRT-54G access point and hooked it up. Installed the latest recommended version of firmware, configured the thing and hooked up the touchpad.
I knew there was a pretty high number of personal access points deployed near me, it was not uncommon to see more than 20 SSIDs being broadcast at any given time. So interference was going to be an issue. At one point my laptop showed me that 42 access points were broadcasting SSIDs. And that of course does not even count the ones that are not broadcasting, who knows how many there are there, I haven't tried to get that number.
With my laptop and touchpad being located no more than 5 feet away from the AP, I had signal strengths of roughly 65-75%. To me that seemed really low given the proximity. I suspected significant interference was causing signal loss. Only when I put the touchpad within say 10 inches of the antenna from the AP did the signal strength go above 90%.
Looking into the large number of receive errors told me that those errors are caused almost entirely by interference.
So then I wanted to see what channels were most being used and try to use a channel that has less congestion, the AP defaulted to channel 6.
The last time I mucked with wifi on linux there seemed to be an endless stream of wireless scanning, cracking, hacking tools. Much to my shock and surprise these days most of those tools haven't been maintained in 5-6-7-8+ years. There aren't many left. Sadly enough the default Ubuntu wifi apps do not report channels they just report SSIDs. So I went on a quest to find a tool I could use. I finally came across something called wifi radar, which did the job more or less.
I counted about 25 broadcasting SSIDs using wifi radar, nearly half of them if I recall right were on channel 6. A bunch more on 11 and 1, the other two major channels. My WRT54G had channels going all the way up to 14. I recall reading several years ago about frequency restrictions in different places, but in any case I tried channel 14 (which is banned in the US). Wifi router said it was channel 14, but neither my laptop nor Touchpad would connect. I suspect since they flat out don't support it. No big deal.
Then I went to channel 13. Laptop immediately connected, Touchpad did not. Channel 13 is banned in many areas, but is allowed in the U.S. if the power level is low.
Next I went to channel 12. Laptop immediately connected again, Touchpad did not. This time I got suspicious of the Touchpad. So I fired up my Palm Pre, which uses an older version of the same operating system. It saw my wifi router on channel 12 no problem. But the Touchpad remained unable to connect even if I manually input the SSID. Channel 12 is also allowed in the U.S. if the power level is low enough.
So I ended up on channel 11. Everything could see everything at that point. I enabled WPA2 encryption, enabled MAC address filtering (yes I know you can spoof MACs pretty easily on wifi, but at the same time I have only 2 devices I'll ever connect so blah). I don't have a functional VPN yet mainly because I don't have a way (yet) to access VPN on the Touchpad, it has built in support for two types of Cisco VPNs but that's it. I installed OpenVPN on it but I have no way to launch it on demand without being connected to the USB terminal. I suppose I could just leave it running and in theory it should automatically connect when it finds a network but I haven't tried that.
So on to my last point on wifi - interference. As I mentioned earlier signal quality was not good even being a few feet away from the access point. I decided to try out speedtest.net to run a basic throughput test on both the Touchpad and the Laptop. All tests were using the same Comcast consumer broadband connection
|Connectivity Type
|Download Performance
|Upload Performance
|HP Touchpad
|802.11g Wireless
|18 milliseconds
|5.32 Megabits
|4.78 Megabits
|Toshiba dual core Laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 and Firefox 3.6
|802.11g Wireless
|13 milliseconds
|9.46 Megabits
|4.89 Megabits
|Toshiba dual core Laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 and Firefox 3.6
|1 Gigabit ethernet
|9 milliseconds
|27.48 Megabits
|5.09 Megabits
The test runs in flash, and as you can see of course the Touchpad's browser (or flash) is not nearly as fast as the laptop, not too unexpected.
Comparing LAN transfer speeds was even more of a joke of course, I didn't bother involving the Touchpad in this test just the laptop. I used iperf to test throughput(no special options just default settings).
- Wireless - 7.02 Megabits/second (3.189 milliseconds latency)
- Wired - 930 Megabits/second (0.3 milliseconds latency)
What honestly surprised me though was over the WAN, how much slower wifi was on the laptop vs wired connection, it's almost 1/3rd the performance on the same laptop/browser. I justed measured to be sure - my laptop's screen (where I believe the antenna is at) is 52 inches from the WRT54G router.
It's "fast enough" for the Touchpad's casual browsing, but certainly wouldn't want to run my home network on it, defeats the purpose of paying for the faster connectivity.
I don't know how typical these results out there. One place I recently worked at was plagued with wireless problems, performance was soo terrible and unreliable. They upgraded the network and I wasn't able to maintain a connection for more than two minutes which sucks for SSH. To make matters worse the vast majority of their LAN was in fact wireless, there was very little cable infrastructure in the office. Smart people hooked up switches and stuff for their own tables which made things more usable, though still a far cry from optimal.
In a world where we are getting even more dense populations and technology continues to penetrate driving more deployments of wifi, I suspect interference problems will only get worse.
I'm sure it's great if the only APs within range are your own, if you live or work at a place that is big enough. But small/medium businesses frequently won't be so lucky, and if you live in a condo or apartment like me, ouch...
My AP is not capable of operating in the 5Ghz range 802.11a/n, that very well could be significantly less congested. I don't know if it is accurate or not but wifi radar claims every AP within range of my laptop(47 at the moment) is 802.11g (same as me). My laptop's specs say it supports 802.11b/g/n, so I'd expect if anyone around me was using N then wifi radar would pick it up, assuming the data being reported by wifi radar is accurate.
Since I am moving in about two weeks I'll wait till I'm at my new apartment before I think more about the possibility of going to a 802.11n capable device for reduced interference. On that note does any of my 3-4 readers have AP suggestions?
Hopefully my new place will get better 4G wireless coverage as well, I already checked the coverage maps and there are two towers within one mile of me, so it all depends on the apartment itself, how much interference is caused by the building and stuff around it.
I'm happy I have stuck with ethernet for as long as I have at my home, and will continue to use ethernet at home and at work wherever possible.
Uptime matters
A friend of mine sent me a link to this xkcd comic and said it reminded him of me, I thought it was fitting given the slogan on the site.
Cleaning the VMCC (3.5) Database
Last weekend encountered a problem with our VMware instance where we could no longer reach a few of our VM's via SSH. No big deal I thought I will just connect to VMCC and jump on the console. So I was mildly annoyed when I couldn't connect, but it was Sunday and there was nothing Product impacted so decide to investigate first thing Monday.
By the time I got in Monday a co-work had already begun investigating why we couldn't connect to VMCC and found the error 'VIM_VCDB' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full. in Event log for the machine hosting VMCC. A little googling gave some pointers to the fix, but most seemed to assume you were a MS SQL DBA and knew what you were doing. Since I am not a MS SQL DBA and did not know what I am doing, I thought I would put what I eventually figured out here in case any other non-DBA's had the same problem. (Note you could completely destroy your VMware installation following these instructions, I would highly recommend you hire an expert to do it)
1.) Download the purge old data SQL script from HERE
2.) If you don't already have it (not being a DBA and all) download SSMSE from HERE
3.) Double- Click the VCDB_table_cleanup_MSSQL script and it will Launch SSMSE
4.) Select the VIM_VCDB database from the drop down
5.) Now click the button to perform a trail run. You should see something similar to the screen below showing the output of the test run.
From here I will leave as an exercise for the reader to figure out how to enable the cleanup script to actually clean up the database, Hint: read the script comments.
Most Free Credit score sites are a scam
I'm sure both readers of this blog(including me) know this but I just wanted to write about a couple issues on the topic of sites that claim to give you a free credit report(or free credit score). I see these blasted all over TV all the time, well at least on CNBC and CNN where I watch a lot of stuff(no I'm not an investor I just find the news entertaining, long story ask me later).
Anyway my first question revolves around the sites being advertised, just a few minutes ago I saw an ad for the site freescore.com. Throughout the ad they talk about freescore.com but in the lower left of the ad they show the site freescore11.com. What's with the 11 in the name? Why aren't they consistent with the name? Top right of the screen is freescore.com in fancy letters.
I've seen the same sort of thing with ads for the site freetriplescore.com they too have added numbers to their domain name in the ads while the actors in the ads never mention the numbers, what's with the numbers?
But the scam comes in to play when you find out(hopefully not before you get the credit report) that you only get that free info if you sign up for a service(in both cases). They do disclose this in the fine print on the ads, and I think on the freetriplescore ad one of the actors even mentions it in a somewhat sly(to me at least) way. But their marketing really drives home the fact that you can get this info for free from them when you cannot.
I think it's likely many people don't notice that actor saying they need to sign up for a service, and probably don't have a DVR so they can pause and read the fine print(assuming the quality is good enough to read, I've seen a lot of fine print on TV that is really hard to read when paused.) And it's these fine print and sly disclosure tricks that make me classify these sites as scams.
I recall a law being passed barring car dealers from using fine print in their TV advertising, I think that should be extended, they should set some sort of standard size of TV and say you can't have text that is smaller than X inches or something.
Last point is there is a place where you can get a free credit report(once per year from each of the major credit reporters), I just looked it up again because they don't advertise as far as I can tell(since they don't make money on it they probably don't have the funds to which is understandable), and I hardly ever hear them mentioned. I think this is the right site it is annualcreditreport.com.
You are also of course entitled to receive a copy of a credit report that someone else ran on you say you applied for an apartment or a loan or something, you can write directly to the credit agencies to get a copy of that report. There are probably other times you can get it too, I just remember being told this, and I did it one time about 9 years ago, there was some doctor's office that had something on my credit report that I don't recall having to pay, the doctor was based out of a state I've never been to before, I wrote them asking for more details on why they think I should pay them and a few months later they wrote back saying they removed that item from my report without any explanation, I guess it was a mistake on their end to begin with.
As a Providian..I mean Washington Mutual..I mean now Chase bank customer I did like (note past tense) the ability to check my credit score on their web site for free, never had to request it they just gave it to me and the history over the past 6 months or so. Since Chase acquired them though that feature is gone, oh well. That really was a unique feature among banks that I had relationships with that kept me there.
I'm also a customer with BofA, and the somewhat unique feature I like with them is the ability to generate temporary credit card numbers, I use that feature extensively, whenever possible really. I'm sure lots of banks offer both of these features, but it's not something I was looking for when I signed up for them at the time(many many years ago), and I think both are nice things to have. I should get more for the ~24% interest rates I pay(I don't mind higher interest rates I see it as incentive to pay it off sooner).
Intel doesn't like wget
I noticed a couple of days ago, while testing out a new proxy system at my company that Intel doesn't like wget. Out of habbit, I usually use wget and sites like intel.com or cnn.com or netscape.com etc for testing internet connectivity from the command line. It had me running in circles for a little bit trying to troubleshoot the proxy when I realized it was the client that Intel was rejecting. I verified the results on multiple systems on multiple ISPs.
--2009-09-02 11:13:02-- http://www.intel.com/
Resolving www.intel.com... 18.104.22.168, 188.8.131.52
Connecting to www.intel.com|18.104.22.168|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2009-09-02 11:13:02 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
And from another system, on another ISP(note connecting to a different IP on Intel's side):
--2009-09-02 11:12:27-- http://www.intel.com/
Resolving www.intel.com... 18.104.22.168, 184.108.40.206
Connecting to www.intel.com|126.96.36.199|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2009-09-02 11:12:28 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Don't know what Intel has against little ol wget, it's harmless! I tested curl, lynx and of course other GUI browsers and they were all fine. I haven't gone so far as to change my user agent to see if that is related, I don't know how else they might be able to return a 403 though.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
I must be among a tiny minority of people who have automated database snapshots moving between systems on a SAN.
Earlier this year I setup an automated snapshot process to snapshot a production MySQL database and bring it over to QA. This runs every day, and runs fine as-is. There is another on-demand process to copy byte-for-byte the same production MySQL DB to another QA mysql server(typically run once every month or two, and runs fine too!).
I also setup a job to snapshot all of the production MySQL DBs(3 currently), and bring them to a dedicated "backup" VM which then backs up the data and compresses it onto our NFS cluster. This runs every day, and runs fine as-is.
Apparently they introduced new "intelligence" in vSphere in the storage system that tries to be smarter about what storage devices are present. This totally breaks these automated processes. Because the data on the LUN is different after I remove the LUN, delete the snapshot, create a new one, and re-present the LUN to vSphere it says HEY THERE IS DIFFERENT DATA SO I'LL GIVE IT A UNIQUE UUID (Nevermind the fact that it is the SAME LUN). During that process the guest VM loses connectivity to the original storage(of course) and does not regain connectivity because VSPHERE thinks the LUN is different so doesn't give the VM access to it. The only fix at that point is to power off the VM, delete all of the Raw device maps, re-create all of the raw device maps and then power on the VM again. @#)!#$ No you can't gracefully halt the guest OS because there are missing LUNs and the guest will hang on shutdown.
So I filed a ticket with vmware, the support team worked on it for a couple of weeks, escalating it everywhere, but as far as anyone could tell it's "doing what it's supposed to do". And they can't imagine how this process works in ESX 3.5 except for the fact that ESX 3.5 was more "dumb" when it came to this sort of thing.
With ESX Server 2.5, VMware is encouraging the use of raw device mapping in the following
• When SAN snapshot or other layered applications are run in the virtual machine. Raw
device mapping better enables scalable backup offloading systems using the features
inherent to the SAN.
Anyways there are a few workarounds for these processes going forward:
- Migrate these LUNs to use Software iSCSI instead of Fiber channel, there is a performance hit(not sure how much)
- Keep one/more ESX 3.5 systems around for this type of work
- Use physical servers for things that need automated snapshots
The VMWare support rep sounded about as frustrated with the situation as I was/am. He did appear to try his best, but this behavior by vSphere is just unacceptable. After all it works flawlessly in ESX 3.5!
WAIT! This broken-ness extends to NFS as well!
I filed another support request on a kinda-sorta-similar issue a couple of weeks ago regarding NFS data stores. Our NFS cluster operates with multiple IP addresses. Many(all?) active-active NFS clusters have at least two IPs (one per controller). In vSphere it once again assigns a unique ID based on the IP address rather than the host name to identify the NFS system. As a result if I use the host name on multiple ESX servers there is a very high likelihood(pretty much guaranteed) that I will not be able to do a migration of a VM that is on NFS from one host to another, because vSphere identifies the volumes differently because they are accessing it via a different IP. And if I try to rename the volume to match what is on the other system it tells me there is already a volume named that(when there is not) so I cannot rename it. The only workaround is to hard code the IP to each host, which is not a good solution because you lose multi-node load balancing at that point. Fortunately I have a Fiber channel SAN as well and have migrated all of my VMs off of NFS onto Fiber Channel, so this particular issue doesn't impact me. But I wanted to illustrate this same sort of behavior with UUIDs is not unique to SAN, it can easily affect NAS as well.
You may not be impacted by the NFS stuff if your NFS system is unable to serve out the same file system over multiple controller systems simultaneously. I believe most fall into this category of being limited to 1 file system per controller at any given point in time. Our NFS cluster does not have this limitation.
It is System Administrator Appreciation Day
The Last Friday in July, so don't forgot to shower your favorite System Administrator with praise and caffeine. Otherwise they might be sleepy when the Gremlins attack your Servers.


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Accounting Software built for
eBay Sellers
PayPal Integrated – eBay Ready
A note from Barnaby Dixon, Software Developer
I am a life-long ebay seller.
A few years ago, I spent a long time looking for accounting software and found nothing suitable. Excel is far too slow to use, especially for more than 10 sales a day. And no other accounting software did what I wanted.
So I've developed 10 Minute Accounts!
As far as I am aware, this is the only accounting / bookkeeping software dedicated specifically to eBay and etsy sellers.
Let me know what you think! If you have questions, you can send me a message right here – just click the Chat button below.
Have a great day,
Barnaby Dixon
This is Accounting Software, designed for eBay sellers.
If you sell on eBay, you can use 10 Minute Accounts to track your income and expenses.
You'll see in real-time what's making you money, and what's costing you. It updates almost as soon as you make a sale.
If you need to file taxes, 10 Minute Accounts is HMRC-recognised, and all the information you'll need is right there.
Best of all, 10 Minute Accounts is almost entirely automated. Once you've integrated with PayPal your transactions will flow in instantly – so you can just log in when you need to check up on things, and leave it running.
How 10 Minute Accounts integrates with eBay and PayPal
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First you need to integrate PayPal. This takes around 30 seconds.
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Once your transactions are in place and classified, you'll see just how powerful the system is. Sales and Expense categories mean you can track your best sellers or biggest costs; Profit and Loss calculations will automatically be updated; your charts will show trends and quirky blips.
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My goal is for 10 Minute Accounts to be recognised as the #1 Accounting Software for eBay sellers. So every time I get feedback, I improve the software to better match what YOU need – and that's why I'm absolutely happy to pay you if you're not completely happy.
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I've been selling motorbike parts on eBay for a long time, and always found the accounting and receipts side such a pain. 10MinuteAccounts has completely changed my business, as now all my transactions are automatically imported and categorised, and accounts auto generated. I can see real time charts, graphs and tables of how my business is performing, and quickly print out the numbers required for tax returns. I absolutely couldn't do without this, and it's easily worth 10X the price. Thanks guys, what a fantastic solution!Josh
Before I started using your software, it took me hours to do my books. As a busy mum, I usually didn't get time so was in a mad rush at the end of the year. I get lots of sales through ebay so it took me a long time to put them all into excel. I am so glad I found your software. It's given me my life back!! I also love that my customers automatically get an invoice when they check out now. It's just one less thing I have to do. I've been using 10 Minute Accounts for a few months and it's simply amazing.Melissa
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It was Only Ever You: Review
Title: It Was Only Ever You
Author: Kate Kerrigan
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Pages: 448
Price: Rs 499
Kate Kerrigan's It Was Only Ever You is primarily a story of three women. Yes, their lives intersect because of a man, and yes, there's a tangled love story. However, it is decidedly more than just the complicated romance the cover blurb leads you to assume. It is a story of passion, of dreams, of friendship, and yes, of love.
The blurb introduces the primary characters: Patrick Murphy, with "charm to burn and a singing voice to die for"; Rose, Patrick's first great love who can "never forget him"; Ava, "the heiress with no self-confidence except on the dance floor"; and the feisty Sheila, a Holocaust orphan "hungry for success". "Patrick Murphy's heart belongs to only one of them. Which one will it be?" it asks.
This is the tricky bit.
The novel is a gorgeous trip into Ireland and New York of the 1950s with its vivid portrayal of the era of dance halls, swing bands and the beginning of rock and roll. It is also a portrait into the immigrant experience of the time, whether "settled" (Ava's and Sheila's families) or fresh off the plane (Patrick, for one), and a peep into what it meant to be a woman in the mid-20th century. For instance, the entitled, beautiful and stubborn Rose is faced with something she's rarely encountered: A big fat "No!" from her parents. Ava's mother is constantly plotting to "land" her daughter a husband. And Sheila is trying to build a career in the music industry. A common thread emerges through the narrative. Each of these women, in her own way, is attempting to make sense of — and bend — the "rules" she was given to suit her own needs. Patrick just happens to be in the centre of all this.
This is what I liked best about this book. The women are real, solid characters. You know who they are, what they want, and what they are willing to do to get it. More importantly, you also know the reasons behind their varied choices.
It is easy to sympathise with Sheila, who follows the half-boiled egg- tough-as-nails shell on the outside, gooey on the inside — trope common to the genre. Rose goes from being someone you want to roll your eyes at (at the very least) to her becoming someone you could tolerate, if not actually like. Ava takes the road to end up where you'd hoped she wouldn't but secretly guessed she would, and comes across as a tiny bit manipulative along the way.
One problem is the implication that clothes can change your life. Ava's one suit is offered up as her salvation in her own eyes, those of her mother, and even those around her. However, everyone knows you also need the shoes to go with it. Just ask Cinderella.
Given the strong women in this novel, it is a little surprising that Patrick's character arc — to be generous — moves at a snail's pace. Until the very end, Patrick comes across as someone with stars in his eyes, and very little in his head. He seems to be happy to bounce along, allowing life to throw him in whatever direction it pleases; tumbleweed in the desert, if you will. Until he doesn't.
Patrick's choice of "the one", at the end of the novel, was my least favourite part of the book. I found it is also trite, and reminiscent of a certain kind of Hindi film that was popular in the 1990s. More annoyingly, it was the most logical conclusion, with no space for a workaround.
Overall, though, the writing in this latest offering from the Irish Kerrigan is both immersive and nostalgic, and the story moves along at a comfortable trot. It is a fun read, perfect for a weekend of relaxed reading; especially if you like historical romances.


text: 128: Ataxia-Telangiectasia Susanne A. Schneider; Kailash P. Bhatia View Full Chapter Figures Only Tables Only Videos Only Print Share Email Twitter Facebook Linkedin Reddit Get Citation Citation AMA Citation Schneider SA, Bhatia KP. Schneider S.A., Bhatia K.P. Schneider, Susanne A., and Kailash P. Bhatia.Ataxia-Telangiectasia. In: Murray MF, Babyatsky MW, Giovanni MA, Alkuraya FS, Stewart DR. Murray M.F., Babyatsky M.W., Giovanni M.A., Alkuraya F.S., Stewart D.R. Eds. Michael F. Murray, et al.eds. Clinical Genomics: Practical Applications in Adult Patient Care, 1e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2014. http://accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1094§ionid=61905984. Accessed September 20, 2018. MLA Citation Schneider SA, Bhatia KP. Schneider S.A., Bhatia K.P. Schneider, Susanne A., and Kailash P. Bhatia.. "Ataxia-Telangiectasia." Clinical Genomics: Practical Applications in Adult Patient Care, 1e Murray MF, Babyatsky MW, Giovanni MA, Alkuraya FS, Stewart DR. Murray M.F., Babyatsky M.W., Giovanni M.A., Alkuraya F.S., Stewart D.R. Eds. Michael F. Murray, et al. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2014, http://accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1094§ionid=61905984. Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager Mendeley © Copyright Tools Search Book Top Return Clip Autosuggest Results ++ Key Points ++ Disease summary: Ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) is a recessive hereditary genomic instability disorder occurring in between 1 out of 40,000 and 1 out of 100,000 persons worldwide. AT is clinically characterized by early-onset progressive cerebellar ataxia, telangiectasias of the skin and bulbar conjunctiva, progressive apraxia of eye movements, increased susceptibility to sinopulmonary infections, endocrine deficiencies and lymphoreticular malignancies, and other malignant tumors. Atypical forms including adult-onset AT and AT with early-onset dystonia including levodopa-responsive dystonia may occur. Laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis is based on a combination of increased serum α-fetoprotein level, increased in vitro radiosensitivity, decreased or absent intracellular ATM protein levels on western blotting, and mutations in the ATM gene. Hereditary basis: AT is due to ATM gene mutations, which follow an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. More than 600 mutations of the ATM gene have already been identified, most of which are unique to single families (private mutations). Genetic screening can be extensive and remains unsuccessful in 5% to 15% of cases. Differential diagnosis: AT variants have been recognized which include the Nijmegen breakage syndrome due to mutations in the NBS1 gene on chromosome 8q21, and AT-like disorder (ATLD) due to mutations in the MRE11. Ataxia with ocular motor apraxia types 1 and 2 can clinically mimic AT. Other ataxia disorders including Friedreich ataxia and vitamin E-associated ataxia should also be considered. ++ Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Characteristics ++ Diagnostic Criteria ++ At least one of the following ++ An increased serum α-fetoprotein level (not specific) Increased in vitro radiosensitivity Decreased or absent intracellular ATM protein levels on western blotting Mutations in the ATM gene ++ Supportive Criteria ++ Reduced IgG or IgA levels (reduced in 80% and 60% of AT patients) 7;14 chromosome translocation ++ Clinical Characteristics ++ AT should be considered in the context of progressive cerebellar dysfunction with onset in infancy. This can present as ++ Gait instability or truncal ataxia Dysarthria (slurred speech) Oculomotor apraxia Presence of telangiectasia (which usually appears several years after the onset of neurologic symptoms), present in 97% of a series of 171 AT cases. 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- cbco
- 5 years ago
- Wedding: October 2013
If I got 6 BFPs, it's probably not just a fluke, right? I'm starting to freak out because I can't see this OB until January and I'd really like to know for sure.
If I got 6 BFPs, it's probably not just a fluke, right? I'm starting to freak out because I can't see this OB until January and I'd really like to know for sure.
Ummm a positive is a positive LOL Stop testing! Congratulations!
Ha. You're so like me. I've probably taken 15 in the past week at this point…in a variety of brands. I just don't think "flukes" like that happen. I know I'm not the person you want responding because I'm pretty much your same date and whatnot, but I feel you, sister!
But sometimes I do wonder….here I am contemplating telling family that I'm pregnant on Christmas but I haven't even seen a doctor yet!! What if there IS some kind of fluke?!?!
@MsJ2theZ: I thought so. My husband is being weird about it though. He thinks youre not pregnant until a doctor says so.
@cbco: LOL, stop testing! You are only going to drive yourself nuts. Congrats on the 6 bfp's!
@kate02121: I KNOW! I told my mom just cus I felt bad keeping it from her and she's like are you sure? Like I've taken 6. About ready to go do another one. Lololol.
@MsJ2theZ: yeah, they wouldn't even schedule me before then. I think he's probably just scared and doesn't really believe it yet.
@cbco: Men! haha.
Ah well, when I'm being rational, I really do think we are both definitely okay. I've heard of pregnancy not showing up in urine but showing up in blood tests…but I've never heard of pregnancy showing up in urine and it not actually being true.
@kate02121: haha. I don't like him very much this week. Him being like that has just really got me worried. Plus AF did not show. So I'm assuming that + BFP = actually pregnant. Haha. I really don't like this.
I was the same way I totally didn't believe it. It will sink in eventually, but your husband needs to maybe do some reading up on the subject? lol
After I took 2 I went to the doctor and said 'I want to test for pregnancy'. So the nurse (at my regular doctor) was like -what are you here for. So I told her I wanted a prego test cause I tested postive at home twice. She was like- It's the same test. You are pregnant. But the ran it anyway and it was a pee test and of course positive. I did get a flu shot though. So not a total waste. False postitive are really really really rare (and often are just early miscarriages)
@cbco: I'm almost nine weeks and haven't been to the doctor yet. I'll see a midwife at 11 weeks. I had three positive POAS, I've missed two periods, my boobs are growing, I'm exhausted, hungry, and emotional, plus I'm nauseated off and on. I think I'm pregnant and you are, too!
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