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We can all feel it coming. Walmart and K-mart are advertising their layaway plans. One aisle is already decorated for it at half the pharmacies in town, even though there’s another aisle exclusively devoted to Halloween costumes and candy. A friend or two on Facebook has already admitted to pulling out the music and movies.

Christmas is around the corner.

The inside cover of the November Issue of Southern Living has a beautiful close-up picture of a little girl hanging an ornament on an already heavily-laden Christmas tree. The photo is be-decked with the words:

You can never have too much Christmas!

(Christmas is in a ginormous font with a big happy exclamation point, of course.)

And the subscript: “Why stop with the halls? Deck the table, the tree, the bedrooms and everything in between. This Christmas at Belk.”

Call me Cindy Lou Who, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this idea. Because decorations, presents and Christmas are not synonyms that should be used interchangeably.

And I have a little suggestion to make. Well, maybe more than one. Because it seems by the time we’ve passed the 25th of December, we’re full of regret for what we’ve focused on and what we’ve let slide. For how our bank account looks and (sometimes) how our kids are behaving.

We spend a ton of money and then we return a ton of stuff we didn’t want to begin with, because other people have spent a ton of money, too.

So here’s the thing.

It seems like most people agree that the way we’re currently celebrating Christmas is, let’s say… less than ideal.

So before you walk out the door with “Christmas” in your mind or a list in your pocket, I’d like to suggest you do a few simple things.

1. Don’t let advertisers and good marketing call the shots: Decide ahead of time (like now) how you want your family to celebrate Christmas this year. And get specific. How can you make it more about what it’s actually supposed to be about? Want to bake Jesus a birthday cake? Maybe each kid gets three gifts because Baby Jesus got three?

2. Be A Blessing Without Cursing Your Wallet: Rethink relying on store-bought stuff for friends and family. Could you bake cookies with the wee ones or whip up some homemade salsa and put it in Coke bottles? What can you do with what you already have? What budget should you be sticking to? What is the budget per person?

3. How Big Does it Need to Be? If gifts are a must, think about drawing names in every possible scenario. Perhaps among the adult members of your immediate family? Among the brother/brother-in-laws and sisters/sister-in-laws in my family, we draw names and have a maximum spending amount. We ask each person to write down a list of a few things they’d really like to have, and then the person who draws their name can choose from that list, so that it’s still a surprise. But we’re not wasting money on stuff we don’t actually want. {Score!}

4. Change the Way You Spend the Day: Think about doing something special that has nothing to do with gifts or money, and more to do with Jesus this Christmas. Could your family help serve at a local soup kitchen? Could you find a family in need and bring them Christmas dinner?

5. Give the Giving New Purpose: Lots of charitable organizations offer catalogs (like this one at World Vision) so that you can give a tangible gift — an alpaca, a goatâ€¦a sack of rice — to a family in need. You’ll get a card to pass along the person you had in mind when you made the donation, and you can both smile that you’re meeting a special need instead. Some families let their children choose a gift to give on Christmas morning.

6. Bundle It Up, And Pass It Out: How much are you likely to spend on gifts this year? 500 bucks? Maybe more? Ya got no clue you’ll just do yer best? Last year the gallup poll reported that Americans estimated they’d spend $743 on Christmas gifts for the season. For about $450 you could sponsor a child with Compassion International for A YEAR. Which means a kid in poverty would be getting nutritious snacks or meals, educational opportunities, health and hygiene training and medical checkups, all in a caring, faith-based environment. FOR A YEAR. What if we looked around and said, “We got enough hereâ€¦let’s give something away!”?

{And personal note: the more you get to know your child at Compassion, the more perspective you’ll have on how blessed you already are.}

7. Leave the Loot till New Year: Some families wait until after Christmas to give gifts (like waiting until New Year’s Day, for example). This means they save a lot on After-Christmas sales, and the 25th is reserved for doing something special together as a family, with Jesus in mind!

8. Whatever You Do, Make It Manageable: The one thing people seem likely to say about the Christmas season more than anything else? It’s stressful. We’ve got a party every night this week. The kids are in pageants at each of their schools and at church. We want a little tree with lights in every room of the house this year and I need extra lights and ornaments. I need to get a present for my second cousin’s third grade teacher’s wife. I can’t just send Christmas cards to close friendsâ€¦I have to send them to everyone I ever met.

What if we decided for “Less Stuff More Love” to be the theme this Christmas?

In remembrance of the God who chose a peasant girl to bear His Son, in a barn. Who chose a trough horses and cattle eat from for a crib. Domesticated animals were probably the witnesses of the birth of our Savior. God announced the news not to the rich and famous city dwellers, but with angels, to shepherds out in the field.

For the incarnation of His only Son, God continuously invaded the ordinary with remarkable and miraculous. He brought the greatest gift ever to a world in need.

Got any suggestions for loving more with less at Christmas this year?

  1. Great post.
    I think I’ve only once spent loads at Christmas (my first year out of uni…I was so excited to have a flat, a car AND be paid to work full-time that I went a little bit more nuts than usual).

    Here’s some of the things I do.

    1. Christmas Cards – I buy them the year before in the sale. (ok, so you might not be able to do that NOW, but something to think of for 2012!!)

    2. Secret Santa – Something I’ve done with friends. Â£5 limit, pick names out a hat. save a TON of money.

    3. I have a limit on spending for all my friends and family members. My Mum is the only one I go over Â£20 with. My sister (who has a birthday on New Year’s Day) sometimes will ask if I can combine her Christmas & birthday for something she really wants that’s more expensive.

    4. Buying little things throughout the year that I spot that I think people might like (also useful for birthday presents).

    5. Wish lists. My family and I do wish lists every year for birthdays and Christmas. Some people don’t like this because ‘it’s not the same’ but it works for us because we get things we’re really wanting or needing. My pet hate is getting loads of lovely things that I can’t use, won’t use or have nowhere to put. Especially now that cash is much more tight so I can’t feed my american tv drama boxset habit, or replace my squeaky winter boots that I’ve had for 5 years now.

    6. One year my flatmate & I got little Christmas packs of food – apple juice, nuts, a satsuma, chocolate coins and drove around on Christmas morning giving them to people on the streets. I’d love to do something like that again.

  2. Well, we all know that I adore the holiday season–but not so much for the presents, but for the togetherness.

    Some things that we like to do together:

    1. Watch the good ol’ holiday movies together–especially Charlie Brown and Rudolph! Nothing like a fire, cocoa, and “Christmas timmmmeeee is hereeeeeeeeee!” That and sweet Linus asking for the lights so he can recite the Christmas story. Be still my heart!

    2. 3 gifts from Santa–just like the wise men brought baby Jesus.

    3. Our extended family has in years past (in lieu of adult gifts) pooled our money that we would normally spend on each other ($5.00 here and there for relatives who have everything they need and do not need one more trinket adds up after a while!) and instead blessed different families anonymously. We talk about different families who might need an unexpected monetary gift and deliver it right before Christmas. Such a fun blessing for the family and for us!

    4. I put up my decorations very early–Nov. 1-Jan. 2 is the holiday season at my house. I find that I can enjoy the decorating and prepping before the Black Friday crazies hit and work it out of my system to avoid overspending–and I can enjoy my home more during the season. I’m not trying to bake a turkey for Thanksgiving, and shop, and entertain, and decorate all for 3 short weeks!

    5. I have made many a present–salsa, cookies, ornaments, you name it.

    6. I stock up for next year on Dec. 26–there are many cute ornaments that will be just as cute next year for 50-75% off right after Christmas Day.

    7. Christmas is on a Sunday this year–we’ll spend the morning at home and then head to church and then spend more time with family. What a wonderful day to celebrate the Lord’s birth!

  3. Hubby and I have a tradition. Every Christmas we buy each other a Christmas tree ornament. We plan on doing this for our children too. That way, when they leave the nest and have a tree of their own, they will have ornaments to decorate their tree.
    Beyond the ornament, we set a price limit to give a gift(s) to each other. Last year, I think we spent $25 each.
    This year, with the Cricket coming, we plan to only buy each other the ornament and then to buy “each other” things the baby would need.
    It’s not the way to typically celebrate, but it works for our family.

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Ding, dong it's the first of February. I saw Katie's round-up of 2013 and remembered when I used to do a year by pictures as well. Lloyd's Bank asked me to share some of my best moments of 2013 so here is a little momentsgif.

Last year was really all about Arthur, as we did lots of 'firsts' with him. First time in the sea, first time in a plane. I've realised this year will be much the same, because it will be the first time he actually knows what's going on when we take him to the sea and on a plane!

2014 has been a bit of a pain so far, let's hope the year improves! In other news, I'm so glad I wrote my resolutions as it made me focus on what I needed to do, and I can mark up a few triumphs in January.

House – We planned to have some rewiring and restore our original floors in January but as it turned out, we had no floorboards in our house underneath the crappy flooring that was there, probably because the subfloor was damp. So, January has been spent living at my father-in-law's house in Blackheath, talking to builders and tradesmen, and having a ton of work done to the house. We knew it all needed to be done, so it's great to actually get on with it. Plus my father-in-law is away, so it has worked out well. Living in Blackheath for a month is no chore!

We're having a gorgeous oak floor put down, hopefully in the next week, so in a couple of weeks should be back in. Next I just need to choose colours for the living room, which I will paint before we move our furniture back in. I'm thinking something very pale, the colour of eggshells, with a lacquer finish. At last, the fun part!

Fitness – I joined the local gym, started running again, and made it a priority. I notched up 50k in January, plus a couple of 1k swims and a spinning class. I love spinning but one class is enough for me for a while! Running is just as evil torture, and I get to listen to my own music. Plus the way my face goes magenta indicates that good work is being done. I only trust my scales at home so I don't know if I've lost weight, but I think I've lost an inch or so here and there. It's also encouraging me to drink less (coffee and red wine, tsk), and eat healthily.

[I need some new running trainers btw. Nike or New Balance, that is the question?]

Work – With all the above, I haven't had a chance to be proactive in looking for more work. But a really cool project came to me, and I hope to share later this month! Arthur has had some great days with his childminder since we've been in Blackheath; they've been to the Turner and the Sea exhibition at The National Maritime Museum, which I heartily recommend, and on board the Cutty Sark. I will miss Blackheath when we head back to East London - Greenwich Park is really special!

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Camille, I think you're right, but that's their formula for my height/weight aiming to lose weight.
I haven't been tracking food since vacation and I'm not sure if I want to start up again or not. I've enjoyed not having to remember and quantify what I eat; I'm just not sure how much I need to watch how much I eat at this point to maintain where I'm at. I think I'll go a few weeks of eating well but not tracking, at least.
So if you plug your height, weight, and weight goals into a site such as daily plate, what do they give you for daily calorie goal?
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If I put in "very active" and " lose 1 lb per week", it tells me to eat 2,071 calories a day.
If I use the "moderately active" I think it's around 1700 per day.
I used "moderately active" for awhile now, but noticed before I started zoning that I would lose when I ate 1400. I wasn't sure if that was healthy though bc it seemed pretty low.
I sit at a desk all day and don't track my exercise. However, I do swim about 3 times a week during lunch and do the CFE workouts. I really don't know how much I should be eating. 11 blocks has been anywhere from 1400-1700 a day for me, with cheating.
I feel pretty lost and don't want to undereat.
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LP 2010-02-12
I notice that some of the athletes in this video (the young guy, I think Steve is his name? and the smaller woman who was using technique plates at the end) take a very low-hipped starting position.
I think I recall Tommy Kono saying something about how the hips should always be above the knee; it seems like from some angles the lifters here have their hips below parallel, in quite a squat position (especially for the snatch). It makes sense to me that popping the hips up a bit would seem to put the lifter in a stronger position.
Obviously the low hipped position is working though!
I guess I'm just torn as to what to emulate. I'm a very visual learner, and seeing different styles bugs me because I want to imitate the best one!
LP 2010-02-12
I mean the video from yesterday...mis-post, sorry
big d 2010-02-12
im pretty sure that it's highly dependent on your relative proportions...but hopefully greg comments on this :-)
Casey @ CFNA 2010-02-12
LP, everyone's angles are going to be different. What starting position works for one lifter may be quite different than another. Would a lanky 6ft+ lifter have the same starting position as Halil Mutlu? Certainly not.

Concerning the starting position, what placement puts you in the best position for the second pull? Thats all you really need to be thinking about as you play around with you mechanics.

Hopefully Greg will chime in, but i'll say in relation to other lifters, try not to OVER analyze. Study the movements, seek solid coaching whenever possible, and drill the positions on the lifts. That will help you know where you need to be.

Going from point A to point D as efficiently as possible means going from point A, to point B, to point C, to Point D as efficiently as possible.
Greg Everett 2010-02-12
LP - You can read my answer here.
Brian Reckdenwald 2010-02-13
Snatch - Max
185 lbs

Clean & jerk - Max

Back squat - Max

3 sets:
A1. 3 Squat jumps; 20 sec rest
A2. 3-5 Stiff-legged deadlift - 185 lbs; 2010; 90 sec rest
TJ Miller 2010-02-13
Question about substituting some movements. I hurt my IT band a few weeks ago, and I discovered it is because my left hip doesn't open because I have anterior pelvic tilt. I am in the process of correcting this, but I want to get back into training. Thing is, I can't squat. Would I get similar benefits if I did all of the lifts with the split landing? How about switching the front and back squats to split squats or knee squats (kneel on the floor with your butt on your heels, squeeze your glutes to raise up)? I guess if anything it would keep me active and give me some sort of program to follow while I'm in the lengthy process of opening my hip.
Greg Everett 2010-02-13
TJ - Give it a shot. It's a lot better than nothing.
TeddyB_SC 2010-02-14
Did Sunday

Snatch--82, misssed 82
Cl & Jerk--102, missed 107
Back Squat--141

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1 Hannah then prayed as follows: My heart exults in Yahweh, in my God is my strength lifted up, my mouth derides my foes, for I rejoice in your deliverance.

2 There is no Holy One like Yahweh, (indeed, there is none but you) no Rock like our God.

3 Do not keep talking so proudly, let no arrogance come from your mouth, for Yahweh is a wise God, his to weigh up deeds.

4 The bow of the mighty has been broken but those who were tottering are now braced with strength.

5 The full fed are hiring themselves out for bread but the hungry need labour no more; the barren woman bears sevenfold but the mother of many is left desolate.

6 Yahweh gives death and life, brings down to Sheol and draws up;

7 Yahweh makes poor and rich, he humbles and also exalts.

8 He raises the poor from the dust, he lifts the needy from the dunghill to give them a place with princes, to assign them a seat of honour; for to Yahweh belong the pillars of the earth, on these he has poised the world.

9 He safeguards the steps of his faithful but the wicked vanish in darkness (for human strength can win no victories).

10 Yahweh, his enemies are shattered, the Most High thunders in the heavens. Yahweh judges the ends of the earth, he endows his king with power, he raises up the strength of his Anointed.

11 Elkanah then went home to Ramah, but the child stayed in Yahweh's service, in the presence of Eli the priest.

12 Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels; they cared nothing for Yahweh

13 nor for what was due to the priests from the people. Whenever anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being cooked;

14 he would thrust this into cauldron or pan, or dish or pot, and the priest claimed for his own whatever the fork brought up. That was how they behaved with all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.

15 The priest's servant would even come up before the fat had been burnt and say to the person who was making the sacrifice, 'Give the priest some meat for him to roast. He will not accept boiled meat from you, only raw.'

16 Then, if the person replied, 'Let the fat be burnt first, and then take for yourself whatever you choose,' he would retort, 'No! You must give it to me now or I shall take it by force.'

17 The young men's sin was very great in Yahweh's eyes, because they treated with contempt the offering made to Yahweh.

18 Samuel was in Yahweh's service, a child wearing a linen loincloth.

19 His mother used to make him a little coat which she brought him each year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, 'May Yahweh grant you an heir by this woman in exchange for the one which she has made over to Yahweh,' and they would go home.

21 Yahweh visited Hannah; she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the child Samuel grew up in Yahweh's presence.

22 Although very old, Eli heard about everything that his sons were doing to all Israel,

23 and said, 'Why are you behaving as all the people say you are?

24 No, my sons, what I hear reported by the people of Yahweh is not good.

25 If one person sins against another, God will be the arbiter, but if he sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?' But they did not listen to their father's words, for Yahweh was bent on killing them.

26 Meanwhile, the child Samuel went on growing in stature and in favour both with Yahweh and with people.

27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Did I not reveal myself to your father's family when they were in Egypt as slaves in Pharaoh's household?

28 Did I not single him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn the offering, to carry the ephod in my presence; and did I not grant all the burnt offerings made by the Israelites to your father's family?

29 Why do you trample on the offering and on the sacrifice which I have ordered for my Dwelling, and honour your sons more than me, by growing fat on the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

30 Whereas -- this is what Yahweh, God of Israel, declares -- I had promised that your family and your father's family would walk in my presence for ever, now, however -- this is what Yahweh declares -- nothing of the sort! Those who honour me I honour in my turn, and those who despise me will be an object of contempt.

31 Be sure, the days are coming when I shall cut off your strength and the strength of your father's family, so that no one in your family will live to old age.

32 Beside the Dwelling, you will see all the benefits that I shall confer on Israel, but no one in your family will ever live to old age.

33 I shall keep one of you at my altar for his eyes to go blind and his soul to wither, but the bulk of your family will die by the sword.

34 ' "What happens to your two sons Hophni and Phinehas will be a sign for you: on the same day both will die.

35 I shall raise myself a faithful priest, who will do as I intend and as I desire. I shall build him an enduring House and he will walk in the presence of my Anointed for ever.

36 The members of your House who survive will come and beg him on their knees for a silver coin and a loaf of bread and say: Please give me some priestly work, so that I can have a scrap of bread to eat." '

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Cats "say" many things when they stare, so I take pictures of some and translate them for you.

Angie Bailey  |  Feb 4th 2014

Cats communicate in many ways, usually vocally or with body language. My cats are masters in the art of staring. They can express a multitude of emotions and requests simply by boring those laser-eye high-beams straight into me. The pictures below don’t lie.

Just like there are a multitude of words for snow in the Eskimo language, there are many meanings behind feline stares. In these funny cat photos, I’ve decoded six of my cats’ stares for you.

1. Feed me!

Ah, the stare at the top of the stairs! When I’ve arrived home and it’s close to (or past, perish the thought!) dinner time, my cats meet me at the top of the stairs, right in front of the kitchen door. They stare at me while I remove my shoes and perhaps (selfish me) pee because my bladder’s about to pop. Of course they stare while I pee, and then continue to stare until I feed them. They only break the stares to madly race around in circles.

2. Look how cute I am!

“Look at me! Stop what you’re doing — you’re not looking at me!” Certainly, my kitties — especially Phoebe — stares when they want to be noticed for looking adorable. Yes, kitty … you look precious. Although by the time I’ve grabbed my camera, they’ve usually dropped the cute, appear surly and refuse to look at the camera.

3. Your lap, please!

Cosmo is the king of lap-jacking. He would permanently attach himself to my lap 24/7 if I allowed him. That might get awkward, though, because I’d have to create some kind of lap-level sling to carry him around in when I needed to walk somewhere. I’d have way too much explaining to do. But yeah, he gives me the “Mother, may I?” stare when he wants to come aboard the S.S. Lap.

4. I love you!

The sweetest stare by far is the sleepy-eyed “I love you” look. You know what I mean, right? This is when the slow blinks happen and adoration just oozes from those kitty eyes. Wahhhh! I could stare right back at them all day long, except they usually zonk out after a minute or two … but there’s nothing bad about staring at a sleeping kitty either.

5. Really?

I admit it: I sometimes do ridiculous things (who me?) to my cats. I put little “hats” on them and even stack inanimate objects on their bellies while they’re relaxing. The whole time I’m getting my jollies, engaged in this madness, my cats stare at me like I’ve gone off the deep end. “Really, Mom?” Yeah, that’s the look I get every time. After that, they either swat at me or simply fall asleep, knowing it’s sometime easier to appease the weirdo human than to fight her.

6. For me?

Cats think everything is for them. Doesn’t matter if it’s pancakes, an apple or even a box of Rice-A-Roni. I have it, so it must be valuable and delicious. So they stare at us while we hold the food, willing us to give them a bite. Because all cats love uncooked rice pilaf.

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theresa d
11th April 2011, 01:35 PM
Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Is there any such thing as a weight chart for Cavs? Cooper,not a year old 'till june seems to be growing by the day!! I weighed him to worm him last month and I noticed he's getting heavy so I weighed him again yesterday, (18 days after last weigh in) and I thought I was seeing things when he'd put up a full kg in the 18days! He now weighs a stone,just over 6kgs. he's fed on Burns hypoallergenic as he has a history of colitis and I feed him separately from my other Cav so he doesnt steal,he doesnt get treats very often at all,I think he must have a secret stash of goodies somewhere cas I've no idea how he's getttin so tubby!!

11th April 2011, 02:09 PM
Im not sure about the chart but 6 kgs doesnt sound too big to me mimi who will also be a year old in june was weighed for worming at the vets about a month ago and she was 7.3kgs and i have had comments saying she looks quite lean, i think yours sounds on the right track if mine is anything to go by.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5574298146_65fef10e7c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimispage/5574298146/)
2011-03-28 11.06.05 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimispage/5574298146/) by whittakeramy (http://www.flickr.com/people/mimispage/), on Flickr

this picture was taken about 2 weeks after she was weighed but unsure is she has put on more since then.

11th April 2011, 04:12 PM
Is he getting a bit pudgy or just growing like the clappers? 6kg isn't "fat" for a Cavalier, even at 10/11 months - around the 10kg mark is normal for my guys and they are not fat (granted, they are stocky Cavs). Pups can suddenly spurt as if out of nowhere, and other factors can account for a sudden weight gain on the scales (relative time of meal, a lot of water taken that day etc.). If he is looking healthy, acting normally and eating the correct amount for weight and age I wouldn't worry. As long as you cen feel his ribs by putting a small amount of pressure his sides he's fine!

11th April 2011, 04:17 PM
I was also wondering if there was a weight chart for Cavaliers.

Chamberlain is 8 months old and weighs 13lb. I want to make sure he's on track!

11th April 2011, 05:30 PM
There really isn't any such thing as a weight chart–there is a breed standard, which some dogs fit And some dogs do not. Puppies can grow at any range of speeds and males often continue to put on weight and fill out until they are close to two years old. Every individual is different, grows at a different speed, and will end up a different size and builds can also be different so no one can really tell you what is right according to a chart.

However, a dog should not look fat when viewed from above; you will need to press in the coat to make sure that the coat isn't making the dog look heavier than he or she is, but a dog should have a slight indentation at the waist and you should be able to feel their ribs. In a heavy dog, you really have to press in and move your hand around on their ribs to get to barely feel them under the fat.

This webpage from a well known breeder has images of what a healthy dog should look like from above. She also advises on feeding:

6 kg is a very small size for a male Cavalier–at the very bottom of the breed standard–so unless you have a tiny dog, I can't possibly imagine that this is “pudgy”. :thmbsup: At his age, he also should still be gaining weight. If you are concerned that you have a dog that is rapidly gaining weight for no obvious reason, and that you think is overweight, it would be a good idea to make an appointment with your vet to discuss the concerns. A vet will be able to tell you whether you have a dog that is the correct shape and weight for its size. :)

11th April 2011, 05:40 PM
Coco is 8 months old and weighs in at 11lbs. As a younger puppy she grew very slowly and I was worried she would be tiny. I have been surprised as of lately, I wake up and think to myself "gosh she looks bigger than yesterday"

I have been keeping Coco's own personal weight chart, but as Karlin said no dog is going to grow at the same speed so it really cannot be accurate to make one set chart meant for all dogs.

12th April 2011, 12:05 AM
I often worry if Helio is too heavy too. He's going to be 7 months in about two weeks, and he already weighs at least 15 pounds -- and that was the last time I weighed him, about a month ago! He doesn't look big though, in fact, he looks very small, but boy is he heavy! I just don't understand where he puts it away!

theresa d
13th April 2011, 11:27 AM
Thanks for all the replies! Those photos are a great guide Karlin,he looks like he's on his way to the third one to be honest! not quite as tubby but he's not the first or second thats for sure! He doesnt have a waistline but I can feel his ribs,not too worried now,I'll just keep an eye on it. Everyone telling me my other Cav Bella is underweight and to me she's fine and healthy,she looks like the first pic. So i'm happy with her too.
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I added a few slides and cleaned things up a bit. The presentation went well and we had a lot of good questions.

The MySQL and PHP User Group will be taking some time off over the summer. There will be another meetup mid-summer to come up with some ideas for future meetings.

  1. Thanks, I appreciated the presentation you put together. I do have some questions, and I beg your forgiveness as I am not yet MySQL savvy.

    How does DRDB handle an in-flight transaction during a disaster? For instance, if a block is in the process of being written on the primary/active node when the power goes out, is the passive node negatively affected (assuming a different power source)? Is the data block only shipped to the passive node when the write is complete? More details about those “worse case scenarios” would be helpful in my understanding of the limitations of the DRDB approach, if any.

    Without LinuxHA (Heartbeat), what comparisons can be drawn between DRDB and a cronn’ed rsync job? I have a basic understanding that DRDB would be much faster; does it have any other superior qualities that would steer me away from rsync?

    I am also curious if this is the method you would use for a Drupal application. From what I have researched so far, MySQL Replication, as a scale-out solution, is not good for Drupal based on Drupal’s inability to be “replication aware”. Obviously, MySQL Cluster is the high-end, the Cadillac, of High Availability, but we are trying to stay away from those big dollars if we can help it.

    Thanks for your time,

    Comment by Charles Schultz — October 16, 2008 @ 6:52 pm

  2. If data is a top priority, you’re probably best off using InnoDB. So, if you are doing say a bulk insert into a table, then the power goes out, only a few of the blocks get replicated to the other server.

    When Heartbeat detects the primary node is down, the secondary becomes the primary and starts up MySQL. When MySQL loads, it automatically checks the InnoDB database to see if it’s corrupt or if any incomplete transactions need to be rolled back.

    So, can you lose data for DRBD? Yes. Can the InnoDB recovery process take minutes to complete? Yes. It is for these reasons that I don’t use DRBD for anything other than a development environment, email server, or file server.

    DRBD is better than rsync because it’s near real time and can be done while MySQL is running. With rsync, you’d have to flush all the tables to disk, lock them, do the rsync, then unlock the tables. This could be a lengthy process and I’m not sure that rsyncing the raw database files are a good idea. It would probably be better to do a backup and ship the backup file to the other server and that takes time too.

    If you have a Drupal site, DRBD is a great choice because A) Drupal uses MyISAM which is flushed to disk immediately (but can still corrupt: see REPAIR TABLE) and B) you don’t have to mess around with Drupal’s database.

    The best solution, in my opinion, for failover and data integrity is master-master replication with InnoDB tables because failover is near instantaneous and InnoDB protects you from incomplete transactions. With a Drupal site, you’re probably going to have to modify parts of Drupal’s database to get it to work. Replication is also a bit more work to set up and maintain.

    Hope this helps! Just let me know if you have more questions. :)

    Comment by Chris Barber — October 17, 2008 @ 3:52 pm

  3. Hello,

    I really appreciate the work that you have done in your presentation. Here is what I am attempting to do. We are on a limited budget so I am attempting to do it all on a “shoe-string”.

    I would like to know the options of using the drdb technology for just one application – my email server. I would like to set up one email server at our main site and another at an off site connected via our internal campus network. From what I understand looking at your presentation and reading the drdb documentation – I should be able to have it so if one server goes down the other server can step in and take over.

    Is this true? Do you know of any How-to’s to get this running. I kind of need a walk-through as this concept is really new to me.

    thanks again.

    Comment by Joseph Norris — December 3, 2008 @ 6:36 pm

  4. DRBD and Heartbeat would work perfectly for a mail server. You’ll want to use a mail server that stores each message to disk so that it can get replicated.

    Since the other server is off site, you may need to change the “protocol” setting to speed things up, but you may run the risk of data loss. Check out DRBD’s replication protocols for more information.

    Just so you know, when server A goes down, it can take a couple seconds for things to fail over. If you are just using a mail server, then it’ll be quick, but if you are also failing over Apache, MySQL, Samba, FTP, and other services, it can take longer.

    Next you’ll want the connection to be as fast as possible. Ideally gigabit would be great, but things would still work using a slower connection.

    Probably the most important thing is that you have two separate mechanisms that allow each server to talk to each other. This is to prevent split brain, which is bad. You never want 2 masters. Your best bet is to use two network cards so that if one network goes down, they are still talking despite the network that went down is causing a service outage. You need to make sure that neither network card is talking to the other server through a single device at any point along the network.

    To learn more about my setup and how to install DRBD and Heartbeat, read my post on Installing DRBD on Ubuntu. Even if you don’t use Ubuntu, the settings should still work.

    Good luck!

    Comment by Chris Barber — December 3, 2008 @ 11:46 pm

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PHOENIX -- The Arizona Diamondbacks' wildcard chase ended early Friday night but the team battled on.

"What else are we supposed to do?" Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said after his club's 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. "You try to win as many games as you can. That's what you're supposed to do. People are still out here to see you"

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Justin Upton and Cody Ransom homered as the Diamondbacks snapped a two-game losing streak but still were eliminated from the NL wild card midway through the game when the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 12-2.

"Because of your pride you never go out there and give up or roll over," Upton said. "We knew we were done but you still go out there and play the game right."

Arizona starter Ian Kennedy (15-11) was uncharacteristically wild, walking six in 5 1/3 innings but held the Cubs to three runs and four hits. The right-hander struck out five.

Kennedy's six walks were his second-most in 109 career starts, trailing only a nine-walk outing on June 26, 2010 at Tampa Bay. It was also one more walk than he had issued in his four previous September starts combined.

Among Kennedy's walks were three to Alfonso Soriano and another to Darwin Barney with a pinch-hitter for starter Travis Wood standing in the on-deck circle.

"There are good walks and bad walks," Kennedy said. "It's a matter of picking your spots. (Soriano), with one swing of the bat can tie the ball game up so I didn't want to give him anything to hit."

Kennedy became the fourth Diamondbacks pitcher to post consecutive 15-win seasons, joining Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling and Brandon Webb.

"To be in that company means a lot," Kennedy said.

Aaron Hill and A.J. Pollock had RBI doubles, and Adam Eaton added a run-scoring single for Arizona.

Dave Sappelt homered, and Wood (6-13) allowed five runs and five hits over five innings for the Cubs, who have lost six straight and 10 of 11. Wood struck out three and walked two in his second straight loss.

"A solo homer's OK but especially the two-run homer that Upton hit, that one hurt," Wood said. "That kind of put it out of reach and they kept tacking on after theat. If I could take that back, we were right there."

Chicago set a franchise record with its 57th loss away from Wrigley Field and is winless this season in road 17 games against the NL West.

"Our road record has been pretty awful," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "With not very good teams, that's usually what happens. You wish you had the magic potion for that one but even the great teams struggle on the road. They don't struggle as bad but you know the road is going to be difficult."

Eaton doubled to lead off the game and Pollock followed with a double to right-center to give Arizona a 1-0 lead.

Ransom homered to left with one out in the fourth to make it 2-0.

Sappelt hit his second home run in four days, a two-out shot to left-center field, to tie the game 2-2 in the fifth but Hill drove home Kennedy and Upton followed with a towering two-out homer to left to put Arizona back in front 5-2.

Starlin Castro doubled home Soriano in the sixth for the Cubs' final run.

The Diamondbacks added three runs in the eighth against Jaye Chapman the first scoring on a throwing error by Barney - the second baseman's second of the season and first since April 17.

Barney had been three outs from setting the major league record with his 142nd consecutive errorless game at second. He finishes tied with Placido Polanco who went 141 games without an error at second in with Detroit in 2007.

"I felt for the kid," Gibson said. "He's a good kid and plays the game the right way from what I've seen of him."

The Cubs lost 56 of 77 road games in 1956.. Kennedy reached the 200-inning mark to become the fifth pitcher in franchise history with consecutive 200-inning seasons. ... Castro, who entered the game in a 2-for-10 slide, went 3 for 4. ... The Diamondbacks' elimination from the pennant race officially came with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning. ... Arizona 1B Paul Goldschmidt was scratched shortly before the first pitch with a sore back. Mike Jacobs took his place and hit sixth. ... RHP Justin Germano (2-9) will try to snap a seven-game losing streak when he takes the mound Saturday night for the Cubs against Arizona RHP Trevor Cahill (12-12). Cahill, who is one strikeout away from a career high 147, is 2-0 with a 2.77 ERA in his past two starts at home.

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For some time now, regulated vane cell oil pumps have been used when necessary in engines for Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. This new technology requires adjustment to the established simulation methods in order to achieve optimum efficiency and operational reliability.

The kinematics of vane cell pumps is based on a combination of translatory and rotary motion. The challenge for simulations lies in the substantial change in chamber volume in conjunction with a virtually incompressible fluid and complex inflow and outflow geometries. A basic requirement for these simulations is the calculation of an operating point for the pump, consisting of speed and temperature, within a suitable period of time.

The problem is solved by means of systematic modeling in the CATIA CAD system and the semi-automatic creation of control point tables. The simulation is run in JavaScript. Depending on the result of the morphing stage, it may be necessary to conduct remeshing. In addition, a prepared mesh is used in the case of specified angle increments. This procedure ensures high mesh quality during the simulation. The calculation is performed using the segregated flow model and adjusted relaxation parameters. This system allows for rapid modeling, meaning that a new geometry can be calculated within one to two weeks.

Transient flow phenomena are described for an operating point during inflow into the pumping chamber and during the pump’s displacement process. Any cavitation observed can be explained with the aid of the speed and pressure distributions calculated on component surfaces. The calculated pressure pulsation on relevant component surfaces is used as an entry load for kinematics and structural calculations.

This presentation describes the setup of the simulation model for a vane cell pump at a constant speed and the results of the first calculations. It also gives an outlook on further improvements to the method and expansions to the application. The results have been evaluated by means of selected observations and measurements from the test.

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According to the Consumer Electronics Association, a record number of attendees flocked to Vegas for last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, which means there were more than 153,000 individual takeaways as to what it all means going forward.

The big-picture items – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s last keynote, Apple’s continued indifference in having a show presence and Google TV’s sparse announcement that LG Electronics is joining the ranks of the chosen, to name a few – were obvious to the most casual observer on the Strip, but here’s a look at a few trends that are either incubating or fully hatched.

While TV Everywhere has been on cable’s radar since 2009, it really is just now hitting the mainstream with full force. Whether it’s iPads, Android-based tablets, PCs, Macs or smart TVs, consumers want their video content to be digestible in all forms for consumption.

Cisco 9845 HDCBut TV Everywhere is more than just TV shows on a smaller screen. It now includes the ability to use tablets and iPads to find cloud-based user interfaces, search and discovery features, recommendation engines, posters, and more info on actors.

As one Cisco executive pointed out during a demonstration of the company’s Videoscape platform at The Venetian, devices such as iPads are now synchronous to TVs and other video services in a home.

ActiveVideo, which has signed on as part of Cisco’s cloud-based Videoscape platform, showed how the iPhone 4S’ Siri voice control can be used to change channels; search for linear, VOD and public domain Internet content; and search for movies by an actor’s name. According to ActiveVideo’s David McElhatten, senior vice president of studio and services, the Siri app was developed in a few days and is just one example of the power of HTML5 and cloud-based services.

On the MSO front, Time Warner Cable tweaked its TWCable TV app to run on Panasonic’s Viera TVs. The IP-based app on display at CES streamed DVR and on-demand video content and included the use of Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) to access the stored video content from a DVR.

Speaking on an IP&TV World Forum panel, AT&T’s Jeff Weber, vice president of video products, said he expects more deals similar to the 10-year accord reached between Disney and Comcast to be struck because TV Everywhere services are what customers want, and they provide value to all of the parties involved.

Weber said tablet devices “will control the TV experience in U-verse” and deliver video content anywhere in the nation to AT&T customers.

TV Everywhere is architecture and not a “thing,” according to Weber. “There’s no question that pay-TV operators have to deliver to all of the devices to compete well.”

On the same panel, Cox Communications’ Lisa Pickelsimer, executive director of video product development, said TV Everywhere isn’t a question of technology, but of gathering up the video rights.

Pickelsimer said video content needs to be served up to customers in an integrated fashion through similar interfaces across devices, and with tools and mechanisms for seamless searches. She also said metadata is important and that having standards for integrated searches would open up the deployments of TV Everywhere services.

Dish Network made the most of its time in the Vegas spotlight by making a host of product-, content- and broadband-related announcements.

Dish President and CEO Joe Clayton took to the stage at The Venetian with a baby kangaroo, or “Joey,” to announce new EchoStarmade whole-home networking boxes.

Comcast/Intel Multi-Screen DemoHopper is the master HD DVR that has 2 terabytes of hard drive memory, while the Joey thin-client boxes are located around a home and connect to the Hopper drive via Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA). The Joey devices, which are about the length of a dollar bill, are small enough to fit behind TVs.

Hopper can store up to 2,000 hours of HD content and can record up to six HD shows simultaneously. The latter is important because it allows Dish subscribers to record the entire primetime menu – under the Dish moniker of “Prime Time Anytime” – of shows from Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC for up to eight days. The end result is “the industry’s biggest video library, hands down,” according to Clayton.

Dish subscribers can also Sling that Prime Time Anytime content anywhere in the nation, which gives them a powerful library of content – both at home and on the go.

“This is the industry’s smallest, most energy-efficient feature-laden and HD wholehome DVR,” Clayton said.

The three-tuner Hopper whole-home DVR can access both IP and satellite video, including HBO Go and video from Dish’s Blockbuster @Home content. The end result is a one-two punch that challenges Comcast’s Xfinity library and over-the-top threats such as Netflix.

Hopper and Joey also feature a 750 MHz Broadcom processer that makes the new user interface lightning-fast, according to Clayton. Hopper and sidekick Joey were slated to start shipping near the end of January and are included for free as part of a two-year subscription, according to Vivek Khemka, Dish’s vice president of product management.

There’s also Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity and ZigBee RF4CE to help customers find those lost remote controls.

Clayton said that while the Blockbuster name may be undervalued by Wall Street, it resonates with consumers. Dish subscribers can access the Blockbuster @Home content via Internet streaming or by cached content in Hopper that downloads the top 10 most popular video shows or movies each day.

New subscribers to Dish get Blockbuster @Home for free for the first two months, and Dish has also added 6,000 family and kids’ titles to the service. Clayton said music is also undervalued, and on that note, Dish is offering 73 commercial-free music channels from Sirius XM.

Dish is also bundling a data service, which is provisioned by ViaSat, in with its video service for $79.98 a month in order to reach the 8 million to 10 million rural customers who are currently underserved on the data side. ViaSat handles the data plans, which feature up to 12 Mbps on the downstream, while Dish provides the customer with unified billing.

And just to make sure it hit all of the bases, Dish also re-launched its Web portal, redesigned its “Dish” logo, added new personnel to its executive team and announced a content deal with Univision.

“Today is a new dawn for Dish,” Clayton said in his closing remarks. “We are basically re-launching our company, and we are well on our way.”

EchoStar President and CEO Michael Dugan said it “would be an easy decision to make” in regard to making the Hopper and Joey boxes available to its customer base, including cable operators, in order to garner recurring revenue.

While there was no official announcement, EchoStar’s Michael Hawkey, vice president of sales and marketing, said at an EchoStar press conference that Cable One is testing its Aria platform.

Aria made its debut at The Cable Show last year. It’s a hybrid IP/QAM platform that uses existing cable plant and features cloud-based VOD, TV Everywhere and an interactive HD program guide. It also comes with system maintenance and software upgrades.

Prior to the show, Broadcom announced that Sling Media software is integrated into its BCM7425 Dual HD Transcoding MoCA 2.0 Gateway systemon-a-chip. With the integration, set-top box vendors other than EchoStar can start offering SlingLoaded boxes, and EchoStar can also license the service to cable operators for additional reoccurring revenue.

The Digital Living Network Alliance unveiled its Premium Video standard, which enables networking to various DLNA-certified devices in the home, while Comcast and Intel demonstrated it with Comcast’s Parker box on the show floor.

Consumer Electronics AssociationNidhish Parikh, the president and chairman of DLNA, said there are currently 13,000 DLNA-certified devices, which translates into half a billion devices in consumers’ homes. The number of devices is projected to increase to 3 billion by 2016.

DLNA worked with its member partners, including CableLabs, Comcast, Cisco, Intel and AT&T, on the design of Premium Video, as well as on new DLNA interoperability guidelines that will become available later this year.

Premium Video uses DTCP IP to protect the multiple formats of streams. At the sprawling Intel booth, Comcast and Intel’s multi-screen demo sent MPEG-2 streams in 1080p to various devices in a proof of technology demonstration, according to Comcast engineering fellow in the office of the CTO David de Andrade. CES marked the first time that Intel and Comcast had taken the wraps off of the demo that used DLNA guidelines and Premium Video.

The demo featured a box built by Pace, which is known internally at Comcast as the “Parker” box, that Comcast is currently using for its Xcalibur trial in Augusta, Ga. Comcast teamed up with Intel, which provided the Intel Architecture-based CE SoC for the new Pace set-top boxes, to deliver the CPU and graphics performance required for the service's advanced user interface, fast responsive performance and new interactive applications.

With the cloud-based Xcalibur user interface, Comcast subscribers will be able to access their video content across various devices in a home through the Parker box instead of multiple DVRs.

The proof-of-concept demo added in an IP port on the Parker box to securely deliver Premium Video to DLNA devices. De Andrade said the roadmap of the future will include transcoding of the various streams in the box, as well as adaptive bit rates.

The CE devices in the demo, which are based on Intel’s SoCs, included a Samsung tablet and an Acer all-inone PC, both running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9.

For the technology demonstration, Comcast and Intel used wired Ethernet to the Acer PC and 5 GHz Wi-Fi to the tablet. The live programming was provided by the local CBS and Fox channels.

There’s no timeframe for availability of the Xfinity TV guide on the DLNA client, but Comcast will launch Xcalibur in a major market in the first half of this year ahead of a bigger rollout later this year.

With the proliferation of all sorts of new makes and models of TVs, CES served as an appropriate backdrop for a discussion on what the TV of tomorrow will look like.

FCC Chairman Julius GenachowskiThe “Inventing TV 3.0 – Defining the set-top-connected TV, streaming media adapter, downloadable consumer experience” session featured six panelists and one moderator discussing a wide range of topics, but collecting consumer data was highlighted by two panelists.

Jason Forbes, senior vice president of strategy, new products and marketing for Time Warner Cable Media Sales, said Time Warner Cable is collecting anonymous customer data through set-top boxes and its use of switched digital video in 13 markets. The data collection occurs on a macro level, so Time Warner Cable can tell an advertiser what programs a family is watching without crossing privacy boundaries.

The set-top data collection markets include New York, Dallas and Los Angeles.

“Our advertisers are looking to find that right audience, looking to engage that audience, and they’re looking to measure that audience,” Forbes said. “We’ve listened to their needs, and now we can bring a portfolio of capabilities that allows the inventory we represent across 30,000 advertisers to do exactly what they are looking for.”

As an example, Forbes said that last year, Time Warner Cable couldn’t tell advertisers how many subscribers were watching Monday Night Football in New York City, but now it can tell them how many are watching the game in Manhattan.

Flingo co-founder and CEO Ashwin Navin said his software company chose smart TVs as its focus because it was a new field without any established players, rules or paradigms, “and we wanted to kind of define those.”

Flingo is an open-source project that allows users to find video content anywhere on a phone, tablet or on the Web and then pass that content along to a smart TV. The content can be placed in a queue on a set-top box, smart TV or any other device that renders the user interface.

“In doing so, we also figured out the business model for TV is very strong,” Navin said. “The content is generating record levels of revenue through the operations in cable, satellite and other delivery mechanisms. We wanted smart TVs to build on top of that business model. We developed a technology for smart TVs that uses algorithms to figure out what is on a TV and then enable an experience that synchronizes with the linear programming.

“We think that’s going to be the most important thing you can run on a smart TV. It will generate some interesting insights about the programming, what people care about, and hopefully improve the user experience for television over time.”

Navin said there is a fundamental mistake in the approach that Google and Apple have taken with their TV ambitions.

“Their big error was that they treated TV as an app, but broadcast TV is the platform,” he said. “The business model is good, and users don’t want a lot of change. Build on that experience to be successful with over-the-top.”

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