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The most rewarding part of being a Home Instead CAREGiver is personally enhancing the lives of seniors and their families.
What does it take to be a Home Instead CAREGiver?
You don't need a degree, specific qualifications or even previous experience to become a Home Instead CAREGiver.
What you do need is to value and enjoy the company of older people, be extremely reliable and be happy to complete some home help and personal care services.
As a CAREGiver you will assist clients with personal care, light household duties, meal preparation, medication reminders, and transport to appointments, shopping and social outings.
Sometimes you will assist clients with walking, eating or with showering, dressing or personal grooming. On some occasions you may need to assist clients with toileting and continence care.
Other clients may need special care to manage chronic health conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease or Dementia or they may have suffered a stroke.
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You will experience variety in your role as each client is unique and has individual wants and needs.
You will have flexibility to work day, evening, overnight and weekend shifts and the opportunity to work regular shifts with a single client, or with a number of clients.
You will also have 24-7 support from your office team who are always just a phone call away.
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At the Home Instead Senior Care network, we recognise the important role training and education plays in preparing and supporting our CAREGivers.
As a member of the Home Instead Senior Care team you will receive a personalised orientation and undertake our five-phase comprehensive, in-house CAREGiver training program where you will learn everything you need to know about being a Home Instead CAREGiver and our special way of caring for seniors.
On completion of your CAREGiver training, you can go on to obtain a Certificate III in Home and Community Care with Home Instead, which is a formal nationally, accredited training qualification awarded by our registered training partner.
You can also go on to complete further training courses developed by Home Instead Senior Care in palliative care and dementia care.
Your training and development at Home Instead Senior Care will help you to understand and manage any challenges you may face when caring for Home Instead clients.
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You are always welcome in the office, will be invited to attend quarterly CAREGiver team meetings, receive updates in our monthly newsletter and have the opportunity to participate on care teams and attend special events.
Exceptional CAREGivers are recognised locally through our quarterly and annual CAREGiver Awards and may even go on to be honoured nationally through our annual Australian CAREGiver of the Year award.
Above all, the most rewarding part of being a Home Instead CAREGiver is personally enhancing the lives of seniors and their families. It is so much more than a job, it's making a difference.
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Home Instead Senior Care provides 24 hour CAREGiver support, flexible working environment and ongoing opportunities for training and development. We also work to ensure our CAREGivers feel valued, recognised, appreciated and connected to the business and to other CAREGivers.
Home Instead Senior Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value the life experience, maturity and work ethic of older Australians and are proud that more than half our workforce is over the age of 50.
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This week Capcom unleashes Darkstalkers Resurrection on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, bringing fans of the monster-fueled fighting game series both Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge and Darkstalkers 3, updated with online multiplayer, YouTube replay sharing, and a bevy of options to enhance your viewing pleasure. Let me show you my favorite.
It looks a bit silly, but there's just something so perfect about watching the game being played as if you were looking over the shoulder of an invisible person playing an arcade cabinet. It's a simulated out-of-body experience, video game style.
As I mention in the vid, I'd love to see this view fleshed out a bit, not just with fingers and cigarettes, but with ambient crowd noise is different flavors — crowded arcade, the back of the convenience store, pizzeria, back of a speeding pickup truck, being dropped out of an airplane — such possibilities! Why stop at dirty unfinished basement?
Darkstalkers Resurrection is available today on the PlayStation Network for $14.99 and tomorrow on Xbox Live Arcade for 1,200 Microsoft fake-money units.


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The child is not going to remember his/her first birthday. I have not given any formal parties for my kids on their first birthdays. We gathered together as a family, sang happy birthday, and ate cupcakes and took photos as the birthday kid ate his or her cupcake. The child will enjoy any cake/sweets, but any other activities/games/socializing will only be interesting to the older kids and adults there. From what I've seen, the formal parties have been for the benefit of the parents as it is fun for them to decorate and socialize, but the kid doesn't know or care. So it is totally up to you, but there is certainly nothing wrong with not throwing a party.
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I am planning to have the 1st birthday of my son next year, as i was so excited. i am considering all the options and ideas for birthday of my son. I think having a formal party instead of having a kids party is more appropriate because first of all my son cannot join any games or what, i want my son to be the focus of the party and not the other kids. what do you think?
I agree with most parents who have responded to this question that there is no need to throw a huge party since most 1 year old children don't remember it. For my sons first birthday we invited friends and family to dinner at a nice place to show our appreciation for the support we received from them. Our son is an only child and it meant a lot to us to show how grateful we were for the parenting tips and free babysitting they had given us. It was a lovely celebration and the pictures from that afternoon are in his baby album
We just had immediate family over for both of my sons' first birthdays and planning on doing the same for my youngest's first birthday in February. They are not going to remember and I don't feel its necessary to go through the expense for a big party at that age.
We did not give our son his first birthday party. My husband thinks that he is too young to remember it anyway. On top of that, he would not be enjoying most of the food at the party and may not even be able to play a game properly with the rest of the guests.
I think that throwing a 1st birthday party would be more of "parents celebrating the joy of having a child" and that the child has reached 1 year old.
Overall, I think that the meaning of celebrating a birthday is a way to show the child that the parents are glad that he/she was born to them and that they love and treasure him and thus, remembering the day he/she was born.
However, we did celebrate his birthday (just my husband, me and my son). We went to a nice restaurant and later bought a tub of Haagen Das ice cream, light a candle on it and sang Happy Birthday song to him.
for my first daughters 1st birthday we just had family over and had mini cupcakes and we sang happy birthday. we took lots of photos so she can see them when shes older. our second daughter will be having a family birthday as well :) but i dont think its inappropriate to not hold a party, as they wont remember it and its more for the parents then anything else.
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CUDA daddy muses on future GPUs
'G'bye CPU, we hardly knew ye'
GTC If you think of Nvidia as a hardware company, you're only three-quarters correct — at least according to Ian Buck, Nvidia's senior director of GPU computing software, who sees an even greater role for software as his company's products evolve.
"It's important to note that software and hardware really are one," Buck told attendees of Nvidia's GPU Technical Conference in San José, California, Wednesday. "I believe Nvidia at this point is one-quarter software engineers, in term of engineering staff. So it's a big part of what we do."
Buck is one of the prime forces behind Nvidia's CUDA (compute unified device architecture) parallel-processing ecosystem, and his focus — as his title suggests — lies heavily on the "C for CUDA" software side.
At its San José conference, Nvidia heavily emphasized its products' applicability to the HPC market. Games got their moments in the sun, but HPC was where the action was — and, for that matter, where Nvidia's execs are steering the company.
And it was towards the multi-node, clustered, GPU-centric HPC world that Buck aimed his remarks — especially after he first gave an overview of Nvidia's past and then settled into talking about its future.
"There's a couple of places we're innovating," he told his audience of engineers, scientists, and deisgners. "One is within the node."
In a single compute node of a multi-node cluster, Buck explained, "OS integration continually challenges how a GPU is a coprocessor to the CPU. How does that boil down into a basic operating system responsibility, now that there's two kinds of processors in the system?"
Buck had a few ideas about how that node-level CPU/GPU communication might be improved: "Scheduling, preemption, virtual memory — [Nvidia CEO] Jen-Hsun hinted at some of that stuff in his keynote."
Buck also discussed simplification of the CUDA programming model: "If we integrate the GPU and its memory and its scheduling more with the CPU," he said, "we can get simplifiction for optimization for the programming model which will make it easier to move code onto the GPU — and we will be doing that in future releases of CUDA."
Beyond improvements within the node, Buck also discussed plans to extend improvements into the cluster. "When you have a cluster of a hundred nodes, or ten-thousand nodes, or a hundred-thousand nodes, how can the GPU better interface with the rest of the infrastructure?"
He answered himself: "We can be doing better on things like MPI and sharing communications. We've taken some good first steps on allowing high-speed network hardware — InfiniBand — to directly access and communicate with GPUs. I expect more things to be happening there, but clearly more of your data is going to be living on the GPU, and we need to make sure that that data can communicate with other GPUs, within the node or across the network."
Buck — unsurprisingly — wants to move more of an average workload onto GPUs: "Think about enhancing the programming model, both at the software and the hardware level, to just simply move more of the data, more of the problem to the GPU."
One of the goals of tweaking the programming model will be to transition code originally designed for CPUs onto GPUs. Or, as Buck described that goal, to "ease some of the transition pains from legacy, 15-year-old, 30-year-old Fortran code onto the GPU."
When asked about tighter hardware integration of the CPU and GPU — putting a CPU on the GPU die, for example, to help ease memory-bandwidth restraints — Buck deflected the query, saying: "Fundamentally I want to be thinking about what parts of my problems are ... serial computation, and [what parts are] data-parallel computation."
This munging of an essentially serial CPU with an essentially parallel GPU, of course, is how Intel has architected its upcoming Sandy Bridge processors, and is also at the heart of AMD's "right around the corner, we promise" Fusion line of APUs — which is how that company dubs its "accelerated processing units".
But Nvidia's target — at least on the level with which Buck and his CUDA team are involved — looks beyond the Intel's weak-sister integrasted graphics or AMD's gamers' delight eyeball-melting graphics cards. Buck's target is HPC.
And for that market, he raised one interesting bit of futuristic conjecture: "Can a GPU be changing its level of parallelism to go more serial [or] to go more parallel as it needs to by nature of the program?"
When or if that should ever happen, and when or if that development migrates down from the petaflop heights of HPC to consumer desktops, our children may chuckle at the days when their forebears called one type of chip — or even one area of a chip — a CPU and another a GPU.
Except, of course, if all they want to do is play Crysis. ®
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Swim School's Proposal for Indoor Pool Approved by Planning Board
The Planning Board has given the go-ahead for a swim school that caters to infants and children to build a pool in town.
Fire Department Receives Grant for Safety Equipment
The Burlington Fire Department recently received some federal funds to help keep its members safe as they put themselves on the line for public safety.
Your Car Starts to Slide on Snow or Ice, What Do You Do Next?
Now that winter has arrived and brought with it some nasty weather, including some freezing rain, we are likely in for a few months where driving conditions can deteriorate at any time.
Work on Safety-Inspired BHS Entrance Project Continuing (Photos)
Anyone visiting Burlington High School this summer would find one thing upon their arrival: the front entrance is not usable.
Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams Holds Grand Opening at 3rd Ave
The 3rd Ave. development project keeps on growing. One of the newest businesses to open was the Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams home furnishing store. They held a grand opening celebration last week and BNEWS Director Rich Hosford was there.
School Starts at Burlington High School
The start of the school year tends to be a hectic time with students and teachers making the transition back to the classrooms. It is certainly a busy time at Burlington High School, with major construction projects being completed, temperatures soaring in September, and the fall calendar of events kicking...
Child Safety Highlighted With 'Forget-Me-Not' Stamp
The Burlington post office held a special stamp event last week.
Looking for a Job? Big Restaurant Job Fair This Saturday
Looking for a new job?
Long-Time Volunteer Honored at Celebrate Burlington
We here at BCAT are working hard to gather all of our coverage of last weekend's Celebrate Burlington 2015 for a full length special.
Victim of Saturday's Crash in Burlington Identified
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When thinking of the perfect automotive heist, our minds dream about a wild ride like "Gone in 60 seconds." Stealing a Ferrari, Porsche, and the ultra-rare Eleanor Mustang, and then storing them in a warehouse. No where do we imagine stealing Chevrolets, but that's not to say they aren't worth stealing. If anything, they're probably too easy to snag; Chevys have been produced in large quantities for decades, the parts are easy to remove and distribute. That must have been the exact train of thought a couple weekends ago when a thief, likely more than one, stole four Chevrolets in and near the Monterey auctions in Northern California.
The first car reported as stolen was a 1961 Impala. The car is supposedly the only all-correct, matching numbers SS 409 ci convertible known to exist. The car had recently gone through a frame-off, rotisserie restoration and was valued at $220,000. The car was taken around 8:45 pm from a secured lot after crossing the auction stage where it did not meet its undisclosed reserve price.
The next day, Saturday, August 17th, 2013, a 1961 Chevrolet Impala was heisted from the Del Monte golf course. The car was consigned for the Mecum Monterey auction. It sported a modified 383 ci engine, harnessed by a TCI TH400 transmission. The interior and exterior were brand new, valuing the car at more than its highest bid of $50,000 (which didn't meet the reserve price.)
The third Chevy stolen from the Monterey auction was on Sunday morning, the Pale Yellow 1957 Bel Air was a one-owner car worth $65,000. The Bel Air was all original and had been in storage for 42 years before being uncovered for the auction. Another tidbit, the Bel Air was previously part of the Richard Hubbard Collection and was being offered for sale by Sam Pierce Chevrolet in Muncie, Indiana.
The final Chevy stolen on the weekend of August 17-18th was a 1962 Corvette. The owner was eating at a bed and breakfast near the Monterey Auction when the car was lifted 20-feet from patrons of the establishment. The couple, who'd owned the car for 20 years, were in town attending the Rolex Motorsports Re-union.
So far, none of the four cars have been returned. One happy weekend of heritage car festivities has turned into a remarkably devastating loss for four car owners. If you have any information about the cars in this story, please contact the Monterey office of the California Highway Patrol at 831-796-2100. Hopefully, with the help of fellow car enthusiasts, these cars will be cruising again with their rightful owners.


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On Consensus, Consensusing and False ConsensusnessHorst, Maja; Irwin, Alan (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In response to the recent troubled history of risk-related technological development in Europe, one institutional reaction has been to advocate public deliberation as a means of achieving broad societal consensus over socio-scientific futures. We focus on 'consensusing' and the expectation of consensus, and consider both their roots and their performative consequences. We argue that consensus should be seen not simply as the absence of disagreement but as a particular political and ideological formation. We consider and explore the Danish model based on the folkelig concept of the common good, before turning to the wider European movement towards consensus-building. As presented here, consensusing becomes a focus for political contestation but also for nation- and institution-building. Rather than evaluating deliberation solely in terms of its short-term instrumental effects, consensusing should also be understood as performative of national and inter-national identity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8268
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Research Director, Urban Forests, Earthwatch
How are our most important neighbors - our cities' trees - faring? Find out while exploring one charming city.
One of my projects was a planting experiment to see what kinds of tree species would grow best in different types of environmental conditions in the tropical rainforest. To set up the project I spent months growing and coddling about 1,000 seedlings (my babies!). Then I planted them into the field and left them to fend for themselves. When I came back to check on the seedlings after six months, some of seedlings that were only a few inches high when I planted them had grown to be taller than me. I knew that plants in the tropics grew fast, but it was still shocking to see it firsthand. Those individuals represented an extreme case, but overall I found that important species that weren't expected to grow well in fact excelled.
The majority of the world's people live in urban environments, where urban forests not only provide aesthetic enjoyment and recreational opportunities, but they also provide important environmental benefits, including cleaner air and water. By studying the factors that influence urban tree health and survival, we can take even better care of these trees in the future. I also love inspiring volunteers to observe the natural diversity that can be found right in their own backyards!
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Leonardo (ISS module)
The Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) is a module of the International Space Station. It was flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle on STS-133 on 24 February 2011 and installed on 1 March. Leonardo is primarily used for storage of spares, supplies and waste on the ISS, which was until then stored in many different places within the space station. The Leonardo PMM was a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) before 2011, but was modified into its current configuration. It was formerly one of two MPLM used for bringing cargo to and from the ISS with the Space Shuttle. The module was named for Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
Previous proposals[edit]
A European proposal suggested equipping the Donatello MPLM with enhanced micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection and cooling systems and leaving it attached to the ISS after the Space Shuttle fleet is retired. Costs for such MPLM modifications were estimated at $20M to $40M per unit. The MPLM would then be called a Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM), and it would house spare parts and supplies, allowing longer times between resupply missions. The proposal was rejected by NASA because it would require changes to existing plans and would entail additional costs.[1] Internal discussions continued[2] and managers considered the possibility of STS-133, which at that time was planned to be the last Shuttle flight, leaving its MPLM permanently attached.[3] The United Launch Alliance also published a proposal for a system that could allow additional ISS modules to be launched on an EELV even after the retirement of the Shuttle.[4]
On August 5, 2009 it was announced that STS-133 would indeed leave one MPLM permanently attached to the station.[5] In October 2009, it was confirmed that Leonardo would be the MPLM converted to a PMM.[6] It was launched on February 24, 2011. The PMM was transferred to the station using the Shuttle robotic arm and mated to the nadir (Earth) facing port of Unity.
On May 27, 2015, at 13:08 UTC, the PMM was relocated from the nadir port of the Unity module to the forward-facing port of the Tranquility module. This was done in order to allow Unity's nadir port to serve as a berthing port for resupply craft, which in turn frees up Harmony's zenith port for future U.S. Commercial Crew Development spacecraft.[7]
After returning to Earth on April 20, 2010 at the end of the STS-131 mission, the Leonardo MPLM was moved to the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to undergo modifications. To convert the Leonardo MPLM into the PMM, NASA made the following modifications: removal of +Y grapple fixture (Flight Releasable Grapple Fixture, or FRGF), removal of ROFU (Remotely Operated Fluid Umbilical) components, replacement of CBM seal, installation of new forward end cone MMOD shields, feed through seal replacement, and installation of visiting vehicle retro-reflectors.
In addition, the Multi-layer insulation (MLI) blankets from the never-flown Donatello MPLM were cannibalized for use on Leonardo. The blankets were removed and returned to Italy where they were reinforced with Nextel/Kevlar to provide better protection against micro-meteorites. The upgraded blankets were then installed on about two-thirds of Leonardo's surface area.[8]
The Leonardo PMM mass is 21,817 pounds (9,896 kg).[9]
As an MPLM[edit]
Leonardo being prepared for flight on STS-105
|Module statistics
|Part of
|International Space Station
|Launch date
|21:53:24, February 24, 2011 (UTC)
|Launch vehicle
|Space Shuttle/STS-133
|March 1, 2011
|4,082 kg (8,999 lb)[10]
|6.6 m (22 ft)
|4.57 m (15.0 ft)
|Pressurised volume
|31 m3 (1,100 cu ft)
|References: NASA MPLM
The Leonardo MPLM, also known as MPLM-1, was one of three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules which were operated by NASA to transfer supplies and equipment to and from the International Space Station. Leonardo was used for eight of the twelve MPLM flights to the space station, with Raffaello being used for the other four. It was the first MPLM to be launched, making its first flight in March 2001, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-102. Following its last flight as an MPLM, on STS-131 in April 2010, it underwent conversion to become the Permanent Multipurpose Module, and was launched aboard Discovery on STS-133 to become a permanent component of the station.
Like the other Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules, it was constructed by the Italian Space Agency, who chose to name it after Leonardo da Vinci.[10] Construction began in April 1996, and the module was delivered to NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in August 1998 by an Airbus Beluga aircraft.[11]
|Launch (UTC)[12]
|Landing (UTC)
|8 March 2001
|21 March 2001
|10 August 2001
|22 August 2001
|5 June 2002
|19 June 2002
|4 July 2006
|17 July 2006
|15 November 2008
|30 November 2008
|29 August 2009
|11 September 2009
|5 April 2010
|20 April 2010
|24 February 2011
|Leonardo was left on-station to become the PMM.
See also[edit]
- List of human spaceflights
- List of International Space Station spacewalks
- List of Space Shuttle missions
- List of spacewalks 2000–2014
- ^ Coppinger, Rob (2008-04-02). "NASA rejects European ISS logistics project". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 2009-01-24.
- ^ Coppinger, Rob (2008-06-24). "NASA: MPLM may stay on orbit, docking rules to change and launch-on-need re-designated?". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Bergin, Chris (2009-05-05). "ISS considering the permanent attachment MPLM, advancement of STS-134". NASAspaceflight.com.
- ^ Foster, Mark. "System-of-Space Systems Architecture Utilizing Existing Space Assets to Complete and Re-Supply the International Space Station" (PDF).
- ^ Gebhardt, Chris (2009-08-05). "STS-133 refined to a five crew, one EVA mission – will leave MPLM on ISS". NASAspaceflight.com.
- ^ "Shuttle Q&A Part 5". NASASpaceflight.com. September 27, 2009. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
- ^ "Module Relocated Prepping Station for Commercial Crew | Space Station". blogs.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- ^ http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101007payloads/
- ^ "STS-133 Press Kit" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ a b "What is MPLM?". NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
- ^ "Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules". International Space Station. NASA. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
- ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 17 May 2010.


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The Doughty Clamp Slimline Half Coupler is the basis of the range of Doughty slimline clamps. This clamp has a slotted base to captivate an M12 nut or bolt enabling users to create fixings suited to their own individual requirements. Manufactured from high tensile aluminium extrusion. Available in black or polished aluminium.
SWL: 750 kg
Tube Diameters: 48 to 51mm
Width: 30mm
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No city has had as powerful and as enduring an impact on Western civilization as London. But what made the city the perfect environment for so many great developments? How did London endure the sweeping historical revolutions and disasters without crumbling? Find the answers to these questions and more in these 24 fascinating lectures.
Professor Bucholz takes you through the history of this magnificent metropolis, from its birth as an ancient Roman outpost to its current status as a global village. You'll study the many epic chapters in British and world history - including the English Renaissance, the turmoil of the English civil war, and the epic conflicts of World Wars I and II - through the lens of this amazing capital.
What makes the course unique is that it takes you deep into the streets of London during formative periods in its history. Professor Bucholz continuously emphasizes the importance of understanding and experiencing the sights and sounds of London as it was lived by its residents. You'll come to know what daily life was like in historical London, learning the secret histories behind places such as Westminster Abbey, Piccadilly Circus, and London Bridge.
This unforgettable look at an unforgettable city will undoubtedly delight and surprise you. By the final lecture, you'll come to realize just what Samuel Johnson meant when he famously declared, "there is in London, all that life can afford."
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- Amy
- 05-08-2014
Good Starting Place or Refresher
I went to these lectures in order to brush up on my knowledge of London's history (which varies depending on the era from "rather expert" to "rather sketchy") and gain new perspectives on the "Cool Britannia" phenomenon today, and this fit the bill. Robert Bucholz offers an interdisciplinary and broad history of the city drawing from court history, literature, sociology, urban planning, economics, and other approaches. He manages to cover a great deal in a short time, complete with entertaining asides and corny humor. I especially appreciated his guided tours of the city during different stages of its life (Chaucer's time, Shakespeare's time, Samuel Pepys's time, Dickens's time, and "Millennial London"), which provided very useful comparisons and contrasts. A work this brief covering such a time span cannot be all things to all people, but for someone already familiar with the history and wanting a refresher, or someone wholly new to the history and seeking an introduction, this is an ideal resource.
The individual lectures are as follows:
1. There's No Place like London
2. The Rise and Fall of Roman Londinium
3. Medieval London's Thousand-Year Climb
4. Economic Life in Chaucer's London
5. Politics and Religion in Chaucer's London
6. London Embraces the Early Tudors
7. Elizabeth I and London as a Stage
8. Life in Shakespeare's London—East
9. Life in Shakespeare's London—West
10. London Rejects the Early Stuarts
11. Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th-Century London
12. Plague and Fire
13. London Rises Again—As an Imperial Capital
14. Johnson's London—All That Life Can Afford
15. The Underside of 18th-Century London
16. London Confronts Its Problems
17. Life in Dickens's London
18. Two Windows into Victorian London
19. Questions Postponed and the Great War
20. London's Interwar Expansion and Diversions
21. The Blitz—The Greatest Target in the World
22. Postwar London Returns to Life
23. The Varied Winds of Change
24. Millennial London—How Do You Like It?
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- Joel
- 28-04-2015
Well Done
Enjoyed it a lot but missed the maps etc that are not included with Audable download. Fortunately with a little digging you can find it on the Internet.
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- Cynthia
- 23-11-2013
Walking through London/Two Millennia
I have a new Audible routine: every weekday morning before I leave the house, I download the New York Times. If traffic is good, I get there right as the narrators finishing the last section, Opinions. At the end of the day, and now that Great Courses are available, I listen to a 20 to 30 minute lecture; and then I return to whatever book I'm listening to. Well, unless I'm really engaged in the book - I'll put the Great Course lecture aside until I'm done.
I chose Robert Bucholz' "London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the World" (2009) for my first Great Course. I haven't been to London, but I plan to go soon - and I'd like to know what I will see. I feel like I will.
If this were a regular college class, it would be Level 100 - Freshman. Each lecture covers at least 30 years, so it's hard for Bucholz to go into any great detail. The Audible version doesn't come with course materials, which was fine with me - I sure wasn't going to look at them while I was driving. I do wish it had two items, though: maps of London during the eras Bucholz discussed, and a timeline.
I enjoyed learning about London, especially from someone who loves it so dearly. Bucholz describes London as though you are there, which was fun to imagine - well, not that The Great Fire and The Blitz were a good time.
I liked the way the course was parsed into very manageable segments - I never had to stop listening mid-lecture.
Worth the credit, and I hope I get as much out of other Great Courses.
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- Lorrie
- 20-10-2015
The Best King of Travelogue!
I loved, loved, loved this audiobook! I've listened to dozens of these courses and none of them struck me as such a labour of love. Dr. Bucholz not only knows his subject, but understands it in a way only a devoted acolyte can. In his able presentation, London turns from a pile of bricks and mortar into a living, breathing entity, with a humanity which includes and yet outstrips its citizenry. In its two millennia (yes, it's that old!), it has endured and prospered in a spectacular way, but essentially, it's a long story about a place, its corners and backstreets as much as its institutions, where generation after generation have been born, lived their lives and died. We are, all of us, the richer for it's existence. Good Bless London! Long may she endure!
4 people found this helpful
- 02-11-2013
Good, not great.
Where does London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
Trying to condense the whole history of a nation in 24 half hour sessions is quite the challenge. Realistically, spending more time on a lesser number of years (say a couple of centuries or so!) would have been better. Essentially, everything is glossed over because of time constraints and you don't take away as much as you could. That said, the presentation is quite good and narrator/professor delivering the lectures does a very good job. While I found this audiobook interesting, I really wouldn't overly recommend it to anyone.
What about Professor Robert Bucholz's performance did you like?
Very, very good.
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- Matthew
- 18-07-2015
A Nice Panorama
This book covers over a millennia of London's history. History buffs in general and English History buffs in particular may be a bit let down in how it speeds along without delving too deeply into any one time period. It begins with the Romans, speeds through the Medieval period, and then it slows down for the Tudors, Stuarts, and Victorians, and World War II. It provides a nice panorama of London's history and of several trends within that history. As somewhat of an English history buff, I wished it had stayed longer on a few periods, but I came away satisfied and with a few new authors, locations, and events to read about.
The narration by the teacher is very engaging throughout the lecture.
I would recommend this audiobook to people just dipping their toes into English/London history and to history buffs looking for a relaxing romp through the millennia of that city's growth.
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- Michael Byrne
- 09-04-2015
Great preparation for a trip to London
What made the experience of listening to London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World the most enjoyable?
I listened to this course as part of my prep for a vacation to London. It was fantastic. As I walked the streets, visited the sights and sat in the pubs I felt I had a sense of the history and resilience of the place and enjoyed my trip all the more.
What did you like best about this story?
The personal viewpoints in particular the section on Dr. Johnson. I found myself standing outside his house and then sitting in the Ye Old Cheshire Cheese pub with a appreciation of the man and his times that made the experience memorable.
Any additional comments?
I recommend this course and also reading the extraordinary work, "London: A Biography" by Peter Ackroyd. London came alive to me because of the great work of these two scholars.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-07-2013
The Visit
What did you love best about London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World?
If you are planning to visit London, this lecture plus a good guide book will give overview of the city and how it got to the place it is today.
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- BF Palo Alto
- 27-08-2019
Interesting, but Thatcher derangement syndrome
I enjoyed most of the lecturers, until the later episodes. Then, the lecturer suffered a bout of serious Thatcher Derangement Syndrome. OK, he liked the miners and didn't like her. But save that for the pub, mate.
Like many of the historians on Great Courses, he could only keep his liberal sympathies bottled up for so long.
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- David
- 08-07-2015
London is a little England
It's hard to tell the history of London and not make it basically the history of England, but while most of the events narrated, from its early founding as a Roman outpost to its modern status as a global financial center, are basically echoes of British history, Professor Bucholz keeps the focus on the city, including periodic "walkabouts" through the ever-changing terrain of London, from Chaucer's time to Churchill's.
There will be many kings and queens and wars described, as all of them obviously left a mark on London, and of course there is the Black Death, the Great Fire, Cromwell and Shakespeare, Dickens and Jack the Ripper, the Blitz, the IRA bombings, the London tube bombings, and all those other great events we associate with London. But Bucholz treats London itself, or rather its people, like a character in a long historical epic.
There are several points he emphasizes throughout London's history.
London has always been somewhat independent of the rest of England. London has historically had its own privileges and prerogatives. It has acted as kingmaker and kingbreaker. Its people have rioted frequently, and London authorities have even recognized "legitimate" riots as the ancient right of its people to express their grievances.
London's economy has also often acted independently of the rest of the country. When England is doing poorly, London has often prospered.
As in all great cities, London's residents have always been convinced that London is a dangerous city full of violent criminals, going back to at least Chaucer's day, even when the evidence shows that the crime rate was falling, or was no worse in London than anywhere else.
As ancient as London is, it seems that very little of its most ancient parts are still intact. Developers right up to the modern day have had few scruples about replacing centuries-old dwellings and edifices with modern buildings. Not many Victorian mansions are still around, let alone streets or buildings going back to medieval times... though you can still find parts of the wall that was once built around the city!
This is a lively lecture told with a lot of humor by someone who's clearly a fan of the city. You can listen to this course as a proxy for a brief history of England, but just remember the focus is on the city of London and its occupants.
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- Dusty Raven
- 20-08-2015
Enjoyable until..
Would you listen to London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World again? Why?
Yes. I have worked in London for 35 years and was interested to learn more about the places I know.
What did you like best about this story?
Learning about the history of all the familiar places.
What about Professor Robert Bucholz's performance did you like?
His enthusiasm and personal knowledge of London.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
No idea.
Any additional comments?
I enjoyed this until the last couple if episodes when a number of factual errors made me doubt the veracity of the whole thing. So The Dave Clark 5 were from Tottenham not Tooting, the Labour election victory in 1964 was not a landslide, the O2 is not the O squared and so on.
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- Louise Armitage
- 16-09-2014
Wonderful overview of historical London
I enjoy listening to The Great Courses series and was drawn to this one as being a native Londoner, I enjoy learning more about this wonderful city. This gave a very concise and detailed history of London, and included interesting little nuggets of information about certain monuments, buildings and details about the human side of history too. Professor Bucholz presents this course in a very engaging way, although his accent did start to niggle at me after a while. Overall though a very good listen.
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- Brendon
- 01-01-2014
Fascinating & Eductional
What did you like most about London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World?
This book cover a vast period in London's history, yet still manages to go into great detail. A fascinating and educational read / listen if you like history. I will definitely be listening to a lot more in this series.
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- FarmerDave
- 05-08-2017
Great subject, appalling presentation
I believe that London is the greatest city on the planet and was truly looking forward to this course but the prof made me inclined, every few minutes, to turn it off, thinking I couldn't take it anymore. That's harsh but his delivery is appalling and he appears to believe he's the most beguiling presenter ever. Satisfy your love of exploring the history of London elsewhere.
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- Alexander
- 27-08-2017
Wonderful Introduction
Professor Bucholz is a very skilled writer. His course on London manages to orchestrate many of the political, social and cultural narratives that have made the city what it is today. In doing so, he develops themes that run throughout the course. Particularly appreciated were his regular walking tours across the city at particular moments in time. His annunciation is excellent and deserves much credit, for it engages and charms the listener. His decision to conclude on personal experiences and interesting quotations worked very well. Bravo!
Despite all the much deserved praise, having tuned in to so many of The Great Courses, I refrained from awarding a 5* review. I would have appreciated a free speech. It is obvious that Prof. Bucholz read a script, which was fine, but learning more Text by heart would have enabled an even more didactic approach to conveying the complex history of London. I also would have appreciated more of the wider historical narratives, allowing Bucholz to contribute further of his scholarly perspectives, rather than merely retelling what Wikipedia could tell us as well. Finally, I would have welcomed more of the 'why does London look the way it does', i.e. urban development. Too much time went with a retelling of English history. While English history is not easily divorced from London history, I would have preferred a clearer division, especially seeing that Bucholz offers separate courses on English history. Whenever urban development was addressed, for example regarding the influence of the Russell family, one desired more of it. What about the Bedford dynasty and the Dukes of Westminster. More behind-the-scenes kind-of stories that help to understand the fabric of the city would have been wonderful.
These criticisms should not stop those interested in London to tune in. There's much on offer that justifies the purchase.
My compliments.
- Anonymous User
- 02-07-2017
Good, well performance and easy to follow
The performance is very good as well as the story. I recommend it if you would like to have a general idea of London history
- Jennifer
- 24-03-2017
Dense with great information.
Very much enjoyed the spirited performance. Must read for anyone living in or visiting London.
- Drew Shaw
- 26-10-2015
Enthusiastic Delivery
I loved the enthusiastic narration by an American scholar with heartfelt affection for London and its stoic people. Although the analysis covers millennia and is at times sketchy, it is nevertheless a commendable project and interesting.
Slightly romanticised and tending to glorify monarchy, it will appeal less to serious historians (and republicans!) than to travellers and curios newcomers.
- Eduardo
- 20-07-2015
improving my English skills...
Would you consider the audio edition of London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World to be better than the print version?
Because I don't live in the UK and it's more complicated to me to buy books. At the same time, English is not my first language. In fact, my English is not so good. So with an audiobook I can improve my English skills at the same time I learn about the London history.
What other book might you compare London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World to, and why?
Perhaps the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Anyway, it's the first book I read about the English History. But I intend to read the Samuel Pepys diary in the future.
What does Professor Robert Bucholz bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you had only read the book?
Perhaps the Diary of Samuel Pepys. But this book (about London) was the first book that I read about the English History. Anyway I intend to read the Samuel Pepys diary in the future.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
The History of London is a constant report about reinvention and rebuilding of a city by its population.
Any additional comments?
I don't have any additional comments except my apologies for my bad English and my testimony about the quality and the persistence of the extraordinary English radio tradition.
- Chris
- 10-02-2015
A bit thin on content, but some interesting gems
This course covers the entire history of London, right from pre-Roman times up until 2005. The professor speaks well, and has chosen many good themes to cover in this course. However, since this is a history of London, rather than a history of Britain, he leaves many explanations for events to other courses, and just gives a simple overview of how it changed London. This may be forced by the format, but it felt a bit flimsy, like you weren't getting much out of it.
I enjoyed greatly the several "days in the life" which he walks us through. He takes famous Londoners, e.g. Samuel Pepys, and describes the London of their time, how it looked and sounded and smelt etc. This really is fascinating, and gives many places in London a much more interesting history. Place names and areas of London now hold a lot more historical interest to me, which was what I was hoping in listening to this.
Overall I would suggest this for people who intend to spend some time in London wandering around doing touristy stuff, but if you want to learn some history, I think you're better off listening to one of the more detailed series.


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The program, operated by 2-year-old not-for-profit Girls Who Code, is still in its infancy, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is one of only a handful of corporate partners. Twitter Inc., Intel Corp., and eBay Inc. are among the others. The goal of the program is to initiate female high school students into the discipline of information technology and pique their interest in the types of IT careers available to them. But while the program may make a dent with young women, the problem of recruiting more young U.S. citizens into IT careers will require greater societal changes than a single non-profit can accomplish. Such as, for instance, a wider acceptance of computer science credits towards a high school diploma.
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Here we examine the most recent 2-years' worth of data for the Brownsburg, IN real estate market. Statistics include such key indicators as average list price vs. sold price, time on the market, average price per square foot, total pending sales, total closings as well as total homes for sale. You can view market reports for other Central Indiana towns and cities by clicking on any of the navigational links below the last chart on this page.
Homes For Sale, Pending and Sold
This chart shows the the total number of Brownsburg homes for sale each month over the most recent 24 months. Total closings and pending sales for each month are also shown.
Average Price Per Square Foot
This graph displays the average price per square foot by month for homes that have sold in Brownsburg over the last two years.
Average Time On Market
The following chart shows the average number of days homes spent on the Brownsburg real estate market in the most recent 2-year period. Also shown is the final sales price expressed as a percentage of the final asking price.
List Price vs. Sold Price
This 5-year chart compares the average list price of homes on the Brownsburg market to the average 'sold' price.
Nine Year Real Estate Report For Metropolitan Indianapolis, Indiana
Cities: Avon | Brownsburg | Carmel | Danville | Fishers | Franklin | Greenfield | Greenwood | Indianapolis | Martinsville | Mooresville | Noblesville | Plainfield | Westfield | Zionsville
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This is a graduate level course on computer networks and large-scale distributed systems. In this class, we will teach the design and implementation techniques essential for engineering both robust networks and Internet-scale distributed systems.There's no textbook, you need read many research papers (with our guidance) to learn the current challenges and solutions in networking and large-scale systems. If you have been exposed to a networking course in your undergrad (i.e. you know the basics of TCP/IP, socket programming), we highly encourage you to take this class.
The goal of this class is to guide students so that they can:
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We will read about 40-50 research papers on various aspects of networks and distributed systems. Topics include routing protocols, network congestion control, multicast, wireless networking, peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks and applications, distributed storage systems and network security. Students are expected to read papers before the class and participate in the discussion during the class. The lecture will be conducted in an interactive fashion. We will lead the discussion, but we expect everyone to participate. You will be graded for class discussion and paper summaries. Each student will be individually responsible for writing up a short summary of every paper. The summaries are due before 5 PM on the day of the corresponding class. Submission instructions will be posted before class begins. There will be no exams in this class.
The final course project (conducted in a group of 2-3 students) should be a research-oriented project which should be a design/implementation of a new concept in networking or distributed systems. Research projects are a critical aspect of the course. Your goal is to do some quality systems research; that is, to add to our understanding of how to build systems. Research projects must be written up in a term paper, and will be presented in a poster in a departmental mini-conference in the Spring Showcase. Suggested project ideas will be provided by the instructor.
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High Accuracy TOF and Stereo Sensor Fusion at Interactive Rates. submitted to ECCV 2012. Springer. 7584 1-11(2012).
Learning to Count with Regression Forest and Structured Labels. ICPR 2012. Proceedings. 2685-2688 Technical Report (3.66 MB)(2012).
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Data center facilities equipment and design stats from Gartner conference
At this week's Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, research VP John Phelps asked users a series of questions about their data center facilities technologies. Here are some of the stats:
What type of data center fire suppression system do you have?
-Water sprinkler only 21%
-Water plus clean agent 50%
-Clean agent only 21%
-Don't know 8%
"For those of you with water-only systems, if those sprinklers go off you will be in a world of hurt," Phelps said. "The goal of a sprinkler system is to protect your building, a clean agent is supposed to protect your equipment."
If you use a clean agent for data center fire suppression, what type?
-Halon 12%
-CO2 or inert gas 12%
-FM200 or other Fluoride based suppressant 64%
-Powered aerosol 1%
-Don't know 11%
In which budget does data center power reside?
-Facilities 62%
-Facilities but will probably move to IT 16%
-Budget has recently moved to IT 8%
-Always part of IT 12%
-Other 1%
-Don't know 6%
Do you measure PUE and if so, what is it?
-Do not measure PUE 49%
-Measure PUE, but don't know what it is 11%
-Measure PUE and it is greater than 2.5 3%
-Measure PUE and it is between 2.0-2.5 9%
-Measure PUE and it is between 1.75-2 10%
-Measure PUE and it is between 1.5-1.75 12%
– Measure PUE and it is between 1.3-1.5 6%
What computer room cooling system do you use?
-Room cooling 46%
-In-row cooling 4%
-In-rack cooling 1%
-In-row and in-rack cooling 2%
-Room and in-rack cooling 20%
-Room and in-row cooling 15%
-Room, in-rack and in-row cooling10%
-Don't know 2%
Do you use hot or cold aisle containment?
-Yes, cold aisle containment 22%
-Yes, hot aisle containment 15%
-Not currently, but plan to use cold aisle in 2 yeas 22%
-Not currently, but plan to use hot aisle in 2 years 13%
-No plans 23%
-Don't know 5%
Do you make use of free cooling?
-Air side economizers 13%
-Water side economizers 12%
-Both 6%
-Nope and no plans 48%
-No, but plan to install in two years 17%
-Don't know 4%
Would you build a data center in five years without a raised floor?
-No way, you have to have a raised floor? 18%
-Might consider, but not convinced 35%
-Yes, considering it 35%
-Yes, I am going to build a data center without a raised floor 6%
Yes, already built a data center without a raised floor 6%
Phelps said by 2015 more than 50% of new data center builds will not use raised floor.
Uptime Institute accepting nominees for its green IT awards
The Uptime Institute is accepting applications for its 2011 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards for innovative products that improve data center energy efficiency.
Categories include "Audacious Idea," "Innovation in a Smaller Data Center," and "Joint IT and Facilities Innovation." Uptime is increasing this category field to 10 next year versus eight for past awards. 2010 winners included Microsoft, who's "Audacious Idea" was a containerized data center in Chicago that reduced PUE from 1.6 to 1.15, reduced building costs by 33% and reduced time to deployment by 30%.
You've got a bit of time to get the applications in – they're not due until February 18, 2011. You can learn more about the application process and the awards right here.
Top ten data center facilities stories of 2010
Here is a list of the top data center facilities stories and tips from SearchDataCenter.com in 2010:
NFPA drops data center EPO requirement
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) worked with data center industry leaders to come up with an alternative to the data center emergency power off EPO button.
Uptime Institute rolls out data center Operational Sustainability standard
The Uptime Institute unveiled a new data center standard, Data Center Operational Sustainability, which will help data center pros benchmark their team's staffing, processes and more.
Getting started with hot or cold-aisle containment
Is containment right for you? Should you do hot-aisle containment or cold-aisle containment? Should you do it yourself or buy vendor products? What about fire code issues? How do you measure whether containment actually worked as hoped? Find out in this article.
Taking a look at Kyoto Cooling
The Kyoto wheel seems to have solved the challenges of air-side free cooling in the data center. Although it has been well proven since its introduction in 2007, the innovations that make the Kyoto wheel such an energy-efficient cooling device have not been well understood.
California faces data center consolidation challenges
When IT pros talk about California's planned data center consolidation, they often use the word aggressive to describe the timeline. Indeed, some think the timeline is so aggressive that it could render the consolidation project impossible.
Biodiesel causing data center backup problems
Some states require the use of biodiesel over traditional petro-diesel — mandates that are designed to wean states off petrol dependence and move toward more environmentally sustainable fuels. But these alternatives pose risks. Derived from vegetable oils or animal fat instead of petroleum, biofuel blends can increase water and biological contaminants in fuel supplies.
Where to turn for data center design standards?
The Uptime Institute, BICSI and TIA all have produced data center design reference standards, and in this tip our expert parses out how each standard can work for your data center.
Will a transformerless UPS work for your data center?
Over the past five to seven years, the transformerless UPS has come to dominate the smaller three-phase (30 kVA and under) marketplace. These units are much smaller, lighter and lower in cost than the previous generation of transformer-based units. What are the tradeoffs?
Dr. Bob Sullivan on the future of data center cooling
In this Q&A, Dr. Bob, the father of hot-aisle cold-aisle, weighs in on containment, variable frequency drive fans, and other data center cooling issues.
Microsoft vs. Facebook: Data center container smack down
Microsoft data center mastermind Christian Belady debates now Facebook data center manager Chuck Goolsbee over containerized versus brick-and-mortar data center design.
Are we missing any top data center facilities stories? Respond via Twitter @DatacenterTT.
Starlings knock out Jersey cop shop data center
A murmuration of starlings brought down a police and fire department data center in Millville, New Jersey. Public officials suspect a pair of the invasive, gregarious birds were perched on the wires and touched wings, causing a shortage of a transformer in front of City Hall and knocking out power.
This is not the first time starlings have caused problems for U.S. businesses. The birds were introduced to the U.S. in the 1890s and are a costly invasive species, causing air traffic problems and agricultural destruction.
IDC notes data center revenue rebound on CRACs, UPS, PDUs
According to a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) report, sales of data center infrastructure equipment, such as PDUs, UPS and cooling units, jumped in revenue 6.9% and in shipments 3.6% over the prior quarter.
Does this opening of IT admins' wallets mean that data centers are fully out from the throes of the recession? It's more of a cautious optimism at this point, said one analyst.
"IDC is noticing conflicting signals from the market," said Katherine Broderick, Senior Research Analyst, Servers and Data centers at IDC. "We've spoken with many enterprises that are consolidating their many data centers into fewer, larger, state-of-the-art facilities which could mean fewer brick and mortar buildings in the long term. However, data center wholesalers and the IT recovery point to data center growth. In addition, the move to modular-designed builds will mean a smoother future as data centers are built out in pods, containers or rooms rather than the larger, rarer, up-front investments that were made in the past."
Broderick mentioned that the bulk of the investment is going toward traditional data center cooling methods but the research firm is hearing more about in-row and ambient cooling solutions being deployed in advanced data centers.
Winners on the vendor side include:
Emerson Network Power and its Liebert line led the cooling sector, with 47.9% of revenues in Q2 2010.
In the PDU market, APC by Schneider Electric was the leader with a 29.1% market share.
In data center racks, HP led the pack with 22.5% of revenue.
UPS-wise, Eaton was ahead of the competition with 30.2% of revenue.
IDC said a variety of methods were used in the research, including end-user surveys, vendor guidance, earnings statements from the infrastructure players and the IDC Quarterly Server Tracker.
APC cooling offering to compete with the Kyoto wheel
A new data center cooling solution could give the Kyoto heat wheel a run for its money.
APC by Schneider Electric just announced the EcoBreeze, an evaporative and air-to-air heat exchange cooling solution, which has the ability to switch between air-to-air and indirect evaporative heat exchange, or inside mechanical refrigeration. Bob McFarlane, Principal, Shen Milsom & Wilke, mentions that this automatic switching between the two cooling techniques is a breakthrough.
"Designing the control systems to switch between, or to integrate, these two very different systems has been one of the most challenging aspects of air-side free cooling designs," said McFarlane.
The Kyoto wheel, notes McFarlane, balances separating outside and inside air with accomplishing efficient heat exchange, with a low outside-to-inside transfer, but isn't designed to effectively integrate/switch between evaporative and air-to-air – it still needs control systems for the mechanical cooling plant. Enter EcoBreeze.
"This new APC device combines a built-in cooling compressor of the highest available efficiency with a unique air-to-air heat exchanger using evaporative cooling into a total, self-contained package that also incorporates all the necessary control systems and totally separates outside from inside air," said McFarlane. "It would appear to be a well thought-out solution to the air-side free cooling challenge."
Because of this "all-in-one" solutions approach, McFarlane says that EcoBreeze could be a serious contender pitted against the Kyoto wheel, depending on its cost.
APC's EcoBreeze is available modularly, in 50 kw units that can be grouped up to four or eight modules. The product will be available next year, and you can view full specs in the original press release.
More on air-side cooling:
Air-side economizers reduce energy use at NetApp data center
Forrester analyst weighs in on cooling at the server level
Cooling directly at the server level is one of the latest energy-efficient trends being touted for the data center, but whether its chilly benefits will be reaped in the near future is another question.
Emerson Network Power just rolled out its Liebert XDS cooling system, which brings refrigerant-based cooling directly to the server level. The system boasts a standard IT rack with cold plate server cooling technology. Heat produced by the server is shuttled through heat risers to the server housing, through thermal interface material that lines the cover, and finally to a cooling plate, which uses refrigerant-filled tubing that absorbs the heat – air thus doesn't have to be expelled from the rack into the data center.
Doug Washburn, an analyst with Forrester Research, says reducing cooling costs in the data center starts with basic best practices such as raising server inlet air temperature and cleaning up cabling under the raised floor. But when the opportunity arises for higher-impact cooling methods – like direct server cooling – it's worth looking into.
"Direct cooling, or bringing cooling directly to the server where the heat is being created, like that offered by Liebert's XDS, reduces cooling costs by removing server fans and data center facility cooling equipment," Washburn said.
However, while cooling directly at the server level presents a host of benefits, it may not yet be at the top of IT managers' Christmas lists.
"Despite the energy savings opportunity, the high majority of data center managers are primarily goaled on uptime and resiliency – not energy and cooling efficiencies," Washburn was careful to point out. "While this is changing, it will take time for data center managers to get comfortable with modifications that they may perceive to negatively impact availability, such as removing server fans. Likewise, broad-scale removal of facility cooling equipment isn't likely given that data center managers will continue to operate legacy IT systems and racks which can't take advantage of server-level cooling."
Washburn didn't completely discount the merits of improving server cooling efficiency. He pointed out that the cost to power and cool a server over its lifespan may exceed the price tag of the equipment itself, and reducing cooling capacity can also avoid downtime. It's just a matter of acclimation at this point for IT managers who may be hesitant to switch to the radical cooling technology and in the process switch their priorities from uptime to energy efficiency.
If you are considering server cooling efficiencies for your data center, you can check out specs of the XDS, available in 42U and 45U versions, at the Liebert website.
The case for raised floors in the data center
What's new in raised floors for data center applications? I recently spoke with Daniel Kennedy, data center product manager at Jessup, MD-based Tate Access Floors about some of the new products the company rolled out at AFCOM, and the future of raised floors in increasingly dense data center environment.
A lot of large enterprise data centers have made the transition to slab floors, moving away from raised floors and perforated tiles. Overhead air distribution is in vogue, and our columnist Chuck Goolsbee laid out the case for slab floors back in '07: Data center raised floor vs. solid debate.
But Kennedy said companies that are building data centers on slab floors typically have a very specific hardware deployment pattern in place. "They have a set model that will last ten years, and then they build another data center. They stay right on the bleeding edge," Kennedy said. "But raised floor shines from a flexibility standpoint — you're able to reconfigure a site on a long-term basis. You think you know what your data center will look like next year, but if you need it to last longer, you need to be able to make changes.
"If your IT density increases too much for under-floor cooling, the raised floor makes an excellent place to run chilled water. People couldn't have predicted row based cooling systems or chilled water doors, but obviously we've got those in the market now. Who knows what the next 15 years will hold? If you're trying to get the most life out of a building that you can, the raised floor will give you flexibility."
But what about equipment density outweighing the floor rating? Kennedy said it's a myth. The solid tiles are rated to 3,000 pounds, and a typical rack takes up two panels, so a blade chassis would need to go near 6,000 pounds before it stressed the raised floor.
Kennedy said Tate has never run into a user that hasn't been able to put data center equipment on the raised floor because it was too heavy. He said it's difficult to find a rack that weighs 3,000 pounds.
The three new Tate raised floor products include:
-A directional airflow grate that can angle airflow directly into the rack face, instead of blowing air 90-degrees straight up in a vertical column. Kennedy said around 50% of the air in a standard grate bypasses the rack altogether. "You spend a lot of money moving that air around, better to put it into the IT equipment if you can."
-Tate also rolled out a damper system called SmartAire, which helps balance static pressure under the floor. In a heterogeneous data center, racks are going to require varying amounts of airflow, and that demand may shift throughout the day. The dampers can restrict airflow on lower density racks and increase airflow in a higher density spots, using on electronic sensors at the rack.
-PowerAire is the third product, a variable speed fan that throttles up and down based on temperatures at the face of the rack. The product is meant to deal with varying cooling requirements throughout the day, and to make sure that high density deployments, like blade servers, get the airflow they need.
Kennedy said these kinds of products have been commercial office space for thirty years. "Office cooling loads are variable, people go out to lunch and open windows," he said. "You didn't have that much variability on the data center side until more recently. The commercial office space went through this change in the 70s and 80s. The data center is still catching up from a technological standpoint."
Check out our tip on keeping under the raised floor clean.
Are raised floors going away any time soon? Weigh in on Twitter by replying @DataCenterTT.
Facebook shares energy efficiency tips amid coal concerns of its Oregon data center
That kind-of-a-big website Facebook yesterday released some green strategies that it has been implementing in its data centers, and it probably couldn't have come at a better time for the company.
This could be construed as damage control – or clever timing — on the social network giant's part amid Greenpeace jumping down their throats when the company announced early this year the building of a Prineville, Ore., data center in a part of Oregon served by PacifiCorp coal power.
The report, posted on the network yesterday by Jay Park, Director of Data Center Engineering at Facebook, mentions that the company has learned a thing or two about data center energy efficiency with its rapidly expanding footprint, and because of it, its data centers are now reaping the benefits. Facebook claims that one of its data centers saves about 2.5 million kW hours annually, translating to an annual cost savings of $230,000. Environmental concerns taken into consideration, Facebook has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 967 metric tons annually.
To garner the savings, using this particular data center as a model, Facebook said it's improving airflow distribution by rolling out cold-aisle containment. In addition, the company is reducing cooling levels by reducing the unnecessary speeds it server fans were spinning at while still keeping temperatures within the recommended data center range. It also shut down 15 CRAH units as it discovered that they were not needed. Finally, Facebook has increased energy efficiency by raising the set point temperature of CRAH units while maintaining uniform temps in the cold aisles. The company also raised the chilled water temperature from 44 to 52F, which reduced the chilled water system load by 171 tons per hour.
While Facebook mentioned all of these energy efficiency strategies of this particular data center, it wasn't clear if this was in reference to its Prineville data center. A recent interview with two Facebook execs, however, did tackle the coal concerns in its Oregon location, and one exec mentioned that the company would be working with PacifiCorp on becoming more reliant on renewable energy. It certainly is noteworthy, though, that Facebook released its data center energy efficiency strategy yesterday and didn't use it as an opportunity to discuss renewable forms of energy and tackle the Greenpeace concerns head on. So for the moment, the company still seems to be betting on coal with its Oregon data center.
The full report on Facebook's data center energy efficiency can be found here. Facebook has also set up a fan page of its new Prineville data center, which is set to open in the first quarter of 2011. Sound off @datacenterTT on whether you think Facebook is tackling energy efficiency effectively enough.
APC and Eaton roll out UPS solutions
APC/Schneider Electric's PowerChute Business Edition 9.0
APC rolled out new UPS software to provide energy reporting for IT equipment.
PowerChute 9.0 works with the APC Smart-UPS device series and calculates the cost of Smart-UPS' power usage in kWh, enabling the user to see, via the LCD screen of the Smart-UPS, how the energy use of the protected equipment is affecting data center costs. In other words, on the UPS, the admin can see energy being consumed, the cost of the energy and CO2 being produced by the server equipment.
When PowerChute is used with the Smart-UPS, admins can also configure exact sequences of equipment shutdowns and restarts so the critical servers can be online longer, allowing for greater flexibility. IT managers can also power down non-critical equipment to conserve runtime.
PowerChute Business Edition 9.0 currently ships with the Smart-UPS 5kVA and you can also download it.
Eaton's BladeUPS Preassambled System
Eaton Corporation just launched a UPS solution designed for consolidating standalone UPS units.
The BladeUPS Preassembled System combines UPSs to simplify management of the devices and power capacity planning, and can be ordered with two-to-six Eaton BladeUPS units installed. The preassembled system comes with UPS modules and batteries installed in 42U of space, and the necessary internal system wiring and communication cards. The BladeUPS modules within expand power protection from 12 kW to 60 kW in a 19-inch rack. In addition to energy and cooling cost savings it provides, Eaton says that since all UPS modules are preinstalled in the system enclosure, admins can save up to seven percent on installation costs compared to purchasing a bunch of separate components.
The full announcement can be found here, and you can find out more about the product itself on Eaton's website.
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