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I am a full time seller on eBay with a large cross stitch and fine needlework store along with treasures found during my travels. I closed a brick and mortar store after a drastic rent increase. I am able to be at home raising my little boy. Friends kept bugging me to make videos on different techniques of cross stitch and to talk about my travels, I decided to make this my "One Stop" site instead of having four or five different ones. I am a member of Voices, an eBay focus group and PayPal Ambassadors. Come in with a cup of coffee and enjoy!
I am a buyer and seller on eBay. My store is mostly a cross stitch and fine needlework store. I have also added hundreds of items I pick up in my travels from unique coffee cups to Hawaiian shirts. Go to www.BubbaCanDance.com to find us on eBay. Soon we will have www.stitcheryxpress.com up and running for cross stitch closeouts
Jim and Steven are pilots and it was only logical to purchase the rights to 41 cross stitch patterns dealing with aviation. We will have them all packaged and ready to go after we update photos and stitching information and get a new Logo. Watch for them in Mid 2013
I have met some of the best people through eBay and PayPal. This has been a career change I made reluctantly twelve years ago and I have never looked back. I love what I do! Thanks eBay sellers, buyers and employees, you are the best. Also kudos to PayPal employees and customer service. Wow just wow.
Here we will share who Cindy Sorley is and how she clicks… as an avid traveler, genealogist and stay at home mom, you will get to see some insight as to how she functions…. Married almost 32 years to a Marine Corps Pilot, Retired Delta Airline Captain and now my helper at Stitchery X-Press. We have two boys, Steven, age 25 and Thomas, age 11.
Skills // Cross Stitch, Needlework, eBay, PayPal, Genealogy, Travel, VW Beetles... where do I start? You can learn all about me or talk about the things that interest you. Everyone is welcome!
About this Blog // Cross Stitch is my love though I don't have time to pick up a needle anymore. I am called diverse by my friends since I also love country music, Volkswagen Beetles, Genealogy and traveling. I am also an avid eBay and PayPal fan. You will find me rambling about it all here.
When I found this shirt and asked my son to wear it for a #barnesandnoble ugly Christmas Sweater contest I never thought it would be this popular.
I was able to find 20 more and sell them….. The stories are hilarious and I think this shirt is the hit of the 2014 year
from #fauxreal shirts
Ugly Poinsettia Hairy chest shirt.
We had Steven model it for our eBay listings. If we would have had 100 I know we would have sold every one of them. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mens-Hairy-Chest-XL-Belly-Button-Poinsettia-Ugly-Christmas-Sweater-Printed-Tee-/291320715937?rd=1
We have sold these shirts to Australia… Remember it is hot down there in December so the shirt is perfect for the summer months there. Denmark, Mexico and all over the USA. We have one shirt on it's way to a US Navy Ship for one of its' officers fighting for our freedom.
From Guest Writer Marcia Glenn
Sunday Morning Musing with Coffee: One Drop of Rain of Water at a Time Fills the Lake
Some of you are brand new to selling on Ebay and some are old pros. All of us need to keep up with new technology and new ideas that work, whether we like it or not. If you want to grow and be successful.
You can continue to do it the same way you have always done it (if you have done it in the past) and that is fine with me as long as it is fine with you. But I do ask you, please, don't complain that you are not getting any sales, that your sales THIS year are not as good as LAST year.
I know mine are not. As are most people's. However mine are improving week by week and I look forward to 2015 as a great year to be an online seller. What am I doing different than those who are not doing as well as I am?
1. I have a business Facebook page that talks about my business. My goal is to post at least once a week, twice or 3 times would be better if I can do it. I have a note on my computer telling me to do this. I have notes in front of me, screaming at me to do this.
What do I post? Things that relate to getting a sale but in a disguised way. I talk about the history of Haviland Limoges dinnerware and make it interesting but short. Then I refer the readers to my Haviland Limoge that I have for sale. Same for smoking jackets, coffee mugs, jewelry, ANYTHING that I am selling that I have more than 1 of.
Cannot write? Yes you can. Everyone can write. You just have to start and practice. Use Wikipedia, other research places. Take no more than 15 minutes to research and write it. Think of it as a blog.
2. I own Oceanbeachtreasures.com. www.oceanbeachtreasures.com. Cost me $15 a YEAR. What is there? Absolutely nothing!! It is a link to get people to ebay. Try it. Why do I have it? Because every single time I use it (in my thank you letters, on my Facebook page, on my Twitter page, it goes out into the universe and the search engines pick it up and remember it.
It is a clickable link in my email correspondence no matter what kind it is. People click links.
It is easy to do, easy to buy and well worth the 1.3 dollars a MONTH that I pay to have it.
I own Glassconfusion.com. There is nothing there right now (again as I rework my ideas about what that business will be in the future) but soon there will be a new website that will point people to not only me on Ebay but me on Amazon, Etsy and Alibris book site. It is part of my 2015 future.
Don't think you have to build a website. You do not. All you have to do is buy the domain name which would be the name of your store. Then you just easily change where the link (your domain name) goes to. You just change it to stores.ebay.com/yourstorefrontpage, whatever that is.
For this to work you must have a store. To have a store on Ebay you must pay Ebay more money each month to "own" a store. Think of it as rent.
3. I have a store on ebay. Premium Store for me, you can start with Basic store. The store lets me build my business MY WAY. I can link people to it, I can link listings to store pages, I can Facebook, Twitter and blog about my store. MY STORE.
Let me tell you this loud and clear, without a store you will not succeed. It is the number 1 on my list of must haves to be successful. Number 1. No matter how well you shop, how well you sell, how well you list, take pictures, anything. Without a store to showcase your items, well…just get it. The page on Ebay that explains the stores, what they cost per month, how many listings you can have "free" of listing fees is:http://pages.ebay.com/storefronts/subscriptions.html
Stop giving yourself reasons NOT to have a $16 a month store. Just stop it. Stop arguing with me that you do not need it and in the next breathe tell me that your sales suck. One of the reasons they suck is you do not have a store. This way of selling is a business. You have costs as a business. This is one of them. When I had a brick and mortar store my rent was NOT $16 a month.
4. Do you have business cards made up for your business? I do. They go into every package I send out. It is a cheap and pretty way for people to remember me. This year I will get some that are magnets. Everyone likes magnets for the fridge. They will like mine as well. I also have a nice thank you paper written and printed 2 to a page on pretty colored paper. It goes with the business card attached into each box of things I sell. It matters.
I also send out a Thank YOU letter by email using the real email address found normally either on the email given to me by ebay or at paypal. Some have commented it is a waste of time to do this. Some are feverantly against doing this. Not me. I think of it as a handshake after the deal, a way to honestly THANK THEM for buying from me.
Maybe it goes into spam folder on their end, maybe not. I don't really care. I send it out anyway. It is not only a heartfelt thanks but it once again gets my name into their minds so maybe, just maybe they will remember me in the future.
I also give the feedback immediately. I do not play the feedback game, the "I won't leave feedback until THEY leave Feedback". I leave it because they have done exactly what I want them to do, they bought from me and paid me money in a timely manner. What else do I want them to do??? Handstands? Bake me a cake? Introduce me to Mark Harmon?
5. Networking. When I was a real store I had groups and meetings I attended where I spoke to people and they always knew my name and my business. I do this online as well. How many times in COST have I said I am Marcia Glenn, Glass Confusion and Ocean Beach Treasures? Is it because I like to hear myself type? Hell no, the more I can cram that down your throats (gently) the more you will remember it, the more you will remember the types of things I sell. The more you will check out my store and maybe spend some money on my sites.
Many of you at COST have purchased from me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, truly. But first before you could buy from me, you had to know where to go to purchase my items and you had to have Glass Confusion and Ocean Beach Treasures stick into your mind.
Who are you? Why are you not shouting it to me? I cannot find you if you don't tell me who you are and what your store name is…..shy just does not cut it if you want to be successful. Get over shyness. Be proud of who you are, what you do.
I network in a very few Facebook groups. I do not have the time to go and chat but I do my best to help in the 2 groups I belong to and I know if I help I will reap. I stay away from Social Groups on Facebook, I stay away from groups that are negative and poorly run. Again my time online is for work not play. I value it and I schedule it out and I work the hours that I need to work online.
When (if) you had an office job or any job that took you away from your home and family to somewhere else, you had certain rules to work by. Working on personal things was not to be done at work. While you were friendly to those around you, you did not hang out by the coffee pot watching football games, you did not spend hour shopping online, reading books, knitting or the million of other things that do in your own social time at home.
The same goes for this type of job. YOU are home now. So is the television, the books, the knitting, all the things that you do for fun. I have to plan out my days/week each week. There are times I schedule for walking, with friends, appointments that need to be made, volunteer work that I have signed up for.
I must also schedule in work time. During work time I work. List, pictures, paperwork, research, sell, box, ship, source, organize, store. I can do this NOW in my bunny slippers with "Staying Alive" blasting on the computer, this could be frowned upon at the city water desk or anywhere else "out there" that I could work at instead of here.
You have trade offs. The successful selling people on Ebay never forgot that while this can be fun it is also a job. Act like it is a job. More people come online to try and make a living selling on Ebay every single day. More competition. But I feel that more and more people drop out of Ebay every single day as they never understood that this is a JOB and they did not teach themselves how to do it correctly, thus they failed. It all evens out in the end.
Don't fail. Do the work needed. Do the learning needed. Get better at everything you do. Understand how to write a title, do the research, pictures that sell your item. Customer Service that is the best it can be. Do this right.
One drop at a time fills the lakes and the rivers and the oceans. Your business is the same. Every single thing you do to enhance it, every single time you talk about it, every single time you promote it on Twitter and Facebook and your own website, every single time you showcase your business it is like a new drop of water entering YOUR pond, stream, lake and ocean.
It all fills you up. Your business plans from last year or 2 years ago needs to be revised. Start doing different things that will fill up your business.
It works.
Now that your are full of turkey, football, waiting in line to buy something in a big box store that you really did not need or did not need to waste the hours to save a bit of money, NOW that all that frenzy is over it is time to buckle down and start building some frenzy of your own!!
Have a great week, stay warm and dry and keep listing and promoting and shipping. Christmas is 25 days away, remember that January will be good as well with the Ebay gift cards as well as the Amazon gift cards if you sell on that site too.
I ordered a large number of scissor fobs from a company in California over a year ago. I sold a few on eBay and after 18 months of selling them I get a cease and desist order for the designer to quit selling them after she sold them to me. I have her Invoices of her selling me these items. The emails and messages are very threatening and hateful. I pointed other that I bought these from HER, not a third party, not a distributor. HER. She would not have it. Well my customers will never get another of her scissor fobs as I have now trashed them. It is Part of the daily hassle of selling online sometimes. The rewards truly outweigh the cons. I have asked her to not contact me again and I have had three messages from her since I started writing this. Sometimes being nice is not enough. I will have to get tough and state. I bought these from you to sell. YOU Lois. YOU.
I have some of the most amazing designers and wholesalers I. The world that ha get made being in the business a joy for 32 years. You get a bad one every once in a while. Shake it off and move on. Three more messages just came In. Let it go lady.
When you are out searching for kits to resale at yard sales or thrift stores there are two types that might just say "cross stitch". They are stamped and counted. Counted is more common today. Both make x shaped stitches on the fabric. To make the stitches in both counted and stamped you have two opposing diagonal stitches to form an X. Step One of a single stitch: /. Step 2 of the same stitch: \. End result: X. Always make sure that your bottom / is always going the same direction. Then your top \ will go in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter which way you start but just make sure that each stitch has all the bottom threads laying one way and the top threads lay the other way.
This is a huge hint in buying completed Cross Stitch whether it be stamped or counted. If all the top threads are laying in one direction not including half stitches and quarter stitches that you see in faces and hands then this is possibly a consideration to buy but if you see the top stitches going in every direction walk away and don't buy.
Stamped cross stitch kits have the pattern printed onto the fabric. You stitch with embroidery thread the colors shown on a chart. Counted cross-stitch has the pattern printed on a separate sheet of paper. You will have a blank piece of fabric in front of you. This means that you have to count the squares yourself to see where each stitch goes. This the term counted. Many stitcher's start stitching in the center of the pattern to make sure there's equal room on both sides to frame the design. I like to have three inches on each side and tip and bottom and I always start at the top and never the center so that all my new stitches come up in an empty hole and go down in a hole with stitching in it. It makes for a more even stitch in my opinion.
Stamped cross stitch is easier and easier and in my opinion (my opinion only) not as easy to make look consistent with stitching. It is also more popular for beginners. You can start anywhere you want because you don't have to count squares. Stamped cross stitch does not have as much detail as counted cross stitch. Squares have to be bigger for the x's to be visible on the printed fabric so you don't get as many half or 1/4 stitches or color variations usually. Counted cross stitch kits come in many higher count fabrics (more stitches per square inch) so you can work small details and use more colors. Counted cross stitch has become more popular due to many reasons. 1. Overall appearance with consistency of stitches 2. More patterns and kits are made in counted.
A finished counted cross stitch project can have enough detail to look like a painting and they can be framed to be a focal point in a home or office. Stamped cross stitch are usually seen tablecloth and tablecloth borders, pillow cases, and place mats.
Stamped cross stitch is usually done on a tight fabric such as broadcloth or muslin. Counted cross stitch can be done on a fabric called aida (little squares), linen or other specialty type fabrics with different names. Aida cloth comes in several different counts, or stitches per inch. For example, 11-count aida cloth will measure eleven stitches to each inch. Other common counts are 14 and 18 – the higher the number, the finer the weave.
Most people start of with stamped cross stitch and then move up to counted patterns as they get more experience. I started out on counted cross stitch when I was in college and never did stamped Cross Stitch because I never liked embroidery as a child and it reminded me too much of embroidery. If you are listing kits on eBay stamped Cross Stitch will go under hand embroidery kits and counted cross stitch will go under Cross stitch.
I will add photos tomorrow.
In my Facebook group "Cindy's online selling tips" (CO$T) I get it asked quite often "what is a Cross Stitch sampler and how do you define one or recognize one?"
Many believe that the samplers were made in the home when in reality they were made in schools.
Samplers are often inscribed with the name of their maker the date and many times the age of the child. Many times you will also see the school in which they were embroidered.
Many believe that these embroideries were the only exposure to formal education received by young women in the early 1700s in America.
The format of the sampler was entirely up to the teacher. She developed a pattern for these creations and then supervised the stitchers.
As education for girls in America became more widespread samplers increased in popularity.
Teachers were inclined to pick recognizable motifs and regional patterns began to emerge.
Samplers are oblong pieces of linen embellished with patterns of embroidery stitches or crosses worked in silk threads.
Samplers were first brought from England and northern Europe where they had been a form of schoolgirl Art for centuries.
Many scholars believe that the first samplers were made by young women during the middle ages as a way of recording patterns for future reference.
Through the years the definition of a sampler changed from that of a learning exercise and embroidery technique signed and dated to the finished work intended for framing and display.
Many samplers made today are not signed or dated but they are still considered samplers.
English samplers from the 16th and 17th centuries were long and narrow and always worked on linen that was cut in a thin strip across the width of the woven fabric from selvage to selvage.
The earliest settlers brought this technique with them to the new land.
Most colonial samplers that you will find will have the alphabet, numbers, the stitchers name and date and like I said before sometimes the school.
I had the opportunity a number of years ago to view a sampler stitched by my husband's great great great great grandmother. His aunt was the owner of it at the time and it now has been passed down to her granddaughter in Texas. Someday I would love to be able to look at it and copy it and make one of my own and maybe even publish the pattern.
If you look in my eBay store at Bubbacandance.com you will find a number of samplers in our store category.
Many times samplers will have a poem or a saying along with motifs and not necessarily the alphabet or numbers but they are usually Long and narrow or just long and rectangular.
I will post a few photos below to show you ideas of different samplers.
You can see the family tree which was done and in many ways it still considered a sampler because it has names and dates.
Counted cross stitch has the design either on a piece of paper and you count to the fabric or you do it freehand like these young girls did in schools where their teacher taught them how to design. She may have written it on a form of board or designed herself one on linen and then they copied it.
I will continue this series about needlework in the next few weeks. I hope you enjoy
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In less than a month my son Steven will get married to a girl he has known since first grade and has dated for over four years. We are so happy and excited for both of them. We love her family and adore her. The coolest.. She is an engineer and is ALL for selling online and wants to do it with Steven part time. They love the thrill of the hunt for the treasures to turn around and make some money on. I am super excited to be growing their eBay business. Steven has a few items now in his store on eBay
Today I sell on eBay mostly because I can get worldwide sales. I also have a few things on etsy but the traffic is just not there.
You can find me on eBay at www.bubbacandance.com
I can also be found on Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/stitcheryxpress/
We carry a full line of counted cross stitch items from current to long out of print patterns and kits. We also carry linens, aidas and other specialty fabric items. We have a warehouse full of four closed needlework stores. We carry hand dyed threads, Needles from John James and very unique stitching accessories including unique scissors.
We are also the the automatic mailings from designers such as Mirabilia, Lizzie Kate, Needle's Notions, Ink Circles, Barbara Ana. etc.
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Sunday Morning Musing with Coffee: Money (again).
I talked about MONEY (not the root of all evil) in a previous Sunday Musing however I want to come back to this very basic thought for not only the new peeps who did not originally read the other Musing but as a reminder for those who did.
Money. The reason we do this selling on Ebay and everywhere online. To support our families, to pay extra bills, to buy extra things for extra special people including ourselves. Some of us live on this money and some of us play on this money. All of us need this money or we would not put ourselves through this on a daily basis.
So after you have purchased the item for the perfect price and have listed and sold this item for another perfect price and now that you actually have the money in your hands (insert bank account, Paypal account) what do you DO with the money?
Spend it, duh…..well maybe not.
Each of us has their own agenda with this money. But all of us have some basic costs associated with this money and it is those costs and the final change left over after these costs that I want to remind you in this musing.
IMHO, you should have a budget, hell you should have many budgets but for this demonstration you should have an Ebay budget that you build and tally out of the sales, a budget that you stay on in your weekly/monthly/quarterly shopping excursions.
Lets talk about what happens to that money you have holding in your hands from your sale.
In our fantasy sale, we bought something for $10 and we sold it for $100. We shipped it for $9 (it was heavy) and we paid shipping. Now this is what happens.
Ebay wants their share. This is going to be 9% most of the time. Check Ebay for the fees chart but 9% is pretty standard for the categories that we all sell in normally. Ok gang that amount is $9.00 on our sale.
Leaving us $91.00.
Now Paypal wants their share which is 2.9% and .30 each transaction. On our original $100 that is $2.90 plus .30 or $3.20.
Leaving us $87.80.
Now we still have to pay for that shipping. Either it was taken out of our Paypal account with Ebay shipping or we prepaid at Stamps.com and all the other mailing sites. Either way that cost was $9.00. (If you charge for shipping you would have received more money. However you still have to buy the shipping somewhere each time.)
Now we have $78.80 left out of our original $100.00.
These are our fixed costs. There are also Ebay store costs from the basic store to the most expensive store. Take your store costs and divide it by the number of items in your store and this is the cost for that 1 item each month to sit and wait for a buyer. For me right now that cost is .03 a month. Piffle amount. But it is still a fee, buried in the way back of my mind.
Some of us have more items than allowed for free and for me that means I have an additional .10 per item per month for some of my items. While this is a minor cost (really minor, do you know how many .10 it takes to buy a decent coffee in this town??) this cost is always in the back of my mind adminst the other trivia I cannot seem to forget). For now we will just assume you do not pay any additional costs.
So we have spent $21.20 of our $100 to get this transaction completed.
Not including the original cost of the item.
Did you know this? Do you think of this when you sell the item? When you BOUGHT the item? Do you have 20% wrapped around your mind each time you pick something up, research it on your smart phone and make a decision whether to put it in your shopping cart or put it back on the shelf?
Cause you better.
In our fantasy sale at this moment we are not going to set aside any money for replacement costs, meaning you are eventually going to need to put aside money to start buying inventory to sell again. Some of you are so over extended in inventory it might be a year or more before you SHOULD buy again, a few people will need to go shopping within the month to replenish the inventory.
Either way, in the future or now, you will need to set aside money to buy again. For todays example, we are too heavily inventoried to even think of stepping into a thrift store so NO we are not going shopping and NO we are not putting any money aside from THIS sale to shop.
Ok, back to our sale. We now have $78 bucks to spend. Not $100. $78.
This is the amount we can spend on our bills we need this money for. Tuition, food, shelter, electricity, all the reasons we are doing this is the reason we need to spend this money right now.
But WAIT. (hehehe)
What about paper for the printer? What about ink for the printer? What about a new printer? Batteries for the camera? A new camera? Boxes, Packing Material, Tape. Pieces parts including mannequins, display hands, rings displays, bust displays? Magic Eraser? Paper Towels? Computer Monitor? New computer?
Look at YOUR life. Did you buy those batteries on sale at Costco along with the tape when it was on sale? Did you have the money to do this? Are you scrounging for packing supplies like I do? Do you have to buy them?
Look at your life. Are you going to need a computer/printer/camera/storage solutions in the future whether near or far? If you answer yes or even Maybe, then start putting away just a little bit from each sale, say 5%.
Into what I call a "tucked envelope". When I was in college oh so many decades ago and I dealt in cash, I would "tuck" a bit of each salary from my 2 jobs into envelopes labeled "rent", "utilities", "gas for the car", "food". Then when the bills were due I would pay the bill out of the "tucked envelope".
Get a tucked envelope system started even if it is just on paper and in your bank account. Call it savings, call it Fred, your choice.
Back to our story. Now our $78 and change is $73 and change after our 5% tuck. But when the printer finally gasps its last breath you just might have enough to buy a new one. Without crying.
Last point. You will be expected to pay taxes on this income no matter how small it is. The days are gone where the IRS does not know you are making money online. Old Ebay sellers, new Ebay sellers, we all have to pay taxes on this new income.
It would behoove you to know how much taxes, what to do to make your expenses help cover your income and how much you need to save each week/month to be able to pay the piper in April (extended until October 15th if you have to?.
Get a professional. Seriously. Get a professional tax person to help you. Don't use your sister in law who took a course, don't use your father who has "done your taxes for decades", get a PROFESSIONAL.
Preferably a CPA. Preferably a tax CPA. Preferably a TAX CPA who specializes in Businesses. Preferably a tax CPA business dude or duddette who knows the online selling business.
They will save you money.
The biggest reason that businesses fail whether they are virtual like ours or brick and mortar is that the owner did not realize the money aspect of the business. They did not realize how to spend their money when they received their money.
If YOU do not know the financial side you will not succeed. If YOU are looking at the pile of bills at the end of the month and comparing it to the pile of money in your hands, well the lack of money in your hands and wondering where the heck it all went to….well…you are in trouble.
We do not want you in trouble. We want you to be richer than you were last month. More successful than you were last month. This is why we are all here in this room. To improve ourselves. To learn. To teach. All here will learn, all here will teach.
My spreadsheet that I do, entering every single sale every single time shows me the GROSS which is my income including shipping if it was International and the NET which is what money is left after all the fixed expenses of: 1. Cost of the item, Ebay Fees front and back, Paypal fees and Shipping. Insert Amazon/Etsy Fees if you sell on those sites.
Those numbers are added up automatically by the spreadsheet and I can see that the Gross and the Net differ by 38% on my sheet, different from the 21% earlier talked about because of the cost of the item.
I still think about 21% when I go shopping. When I do my research. I also think about the TIME that it will take me to list 10 items that will net me $5.00 each or 10 items that will net me $25 each. Which will cost more normally but if I save the little bit I would have spent on the cheaper item that will only give me $5 then I can afford to buy the item that will give me $25.
Basic final thought. When you see that $100, did you think "YEAH I have $100 to spend now on XX or did you think Yeah I now have $78 to spend?"
It is the difference from making it as a business or shutting down and going back to work for "others".
Manage your money. I don't care if you don't like this idea, you MUST know what the amount of money is coming in, what the amount is going out and what you really have to spend from each sale.
Deal with this. Do not trust others to have your best interest as their interest or you just might meet any number of Hollywood celebrities who did this as your jail mate.
Remember you can sell their autograph on ebay when the time served is over.
Great week all, enjoy the weather, get ready for Christmas. Football anything online? I am selling tee shirts from the sports teams lately and a Reyn Spooner shirt for $67 that I bought on Ebay 3 weeks prior for $13. Dallas Cowboys flip.
Key things to list this week: Halloween, Costumes, Party Supplies, Decorating items for the FALL, football, college football stuff. Coats. Jackets. Fall clothing. Golf shirts (cooler weather in the hot states means people will be out golfing all winter long and they will not be allowed on the course naked.
Flatware, Dinnerware for the holiday season. Just think of what you are going to be looking for in the next 90 days. That is your target market now.
Watch the cover of the "womens" magazines when you stand in the checkout line. If good ol' Martha is pimping Pumpkins and decorating your fall holiday table, millions are listening. And Googling Ebay for "fall holiday table decorations".
Enjoy your week!
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2 candidates vie to succeed Boston Mayor Menino
State Rep. Martin Walsh and City Councilor John Connolly, the two candidates hoping to succeed long-term Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, are urging their supporters to show up at the polls in force Tuesday.
Walsh and Connolly, both Democrats, finished first and second in the September preliminary election, setting up the head-to-head Election Day matchup.
The 46-year-old Walsh is relying in part on support from labor organizations to help his get-out-the-vote drive. Walsh was a union official before being elected to the Massachusetts House in 1997. He remained active in union affairs as a lawmaker.
Walsh also survived cancer as a 7-year-old boy and overcame alcoholism as a young adult - two struggles he's made a point of mentioning in campaign appearances and commercials.
Connolly has tried to make education his core issue and is hoping an army of moms will help propel him into the top office in New England's largest city.
The 40-year-old father of three, and son of former Massachusetts Secretary of State Michael Connolly, was also the only candidate to enter the race before Menino announced that he would not run again.
While both Connolly and Walsh have raised similar amounts of money - just over $1.8 million for Walsh compared to nearly $1.9 million for Connolly as of Oct. 15 - Walsh has benefited from outside spending on television ads.
Connolly picked up on the outside money in the closing days of the campaign.
"This is a decision about whether outside money, outside volunteers and secret PACs are going to win this campaign or it's going to be won by the people of Boston," Connolly said.
Walsh has rejected the criticism saying his base of support goes well beyond labor and outside groups.
"We have all kinds of people in our campaign," he said. "We have senior citizens. We have everybody helping."
Both candidates also have made a push in the city's traditional minority communities, although Walsh has won the backing of some of the city's more prominent black and Latino leaders. They include former state Rep. Charlotte Golar Richie, one of the black candidates in the preliminary election for mayor, where she finished third, and City Councilor Felix Arroyo, the only Latino candidate who sought to replace Menino.
Polls in Boston are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Boston contest is one of dozens of municipal elections across Massachusetts on Tuesday.
In Lawrence, voters will decide whether to return beleaguered Mayor William Lantigua to office or choose city councilor Daniel Rivera. In Holyoke, Mayor Alex Morse, the state's youngest mayor who was first elected at age 22, faces accountant Jeffrey Stanek.
Also Tuesday, voters in the 2nd Hampden-Hampshire District will choose between Republican state Rep. David Humason Jr. and Democratic City Councilor David Bartley of Holyoke to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of long-term GOP state Sen. Michael Knapik.


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Art Tour at Harpa in collaboration with the Reykjavik Art Museum.
Art historian Heiðar Kári Rannversson leads a guided tour through the art works at Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center. The works seen around the building are all from the collection of Reykjavik Art Museum by various Icelandic artists.
The tours start at 1:30and 3:00 pm.
Limited guests are 30 people.
Register at Harpa ticket sale, ground floor.
Open from 10:00 - 23:00
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MUSEUM BELT: Guided Tour for the family
15:00 - 18:00
"Home" – chat and knitting workshop
Held in relation to the Knitting House at Hafnarhúsið in collaboration with The Women Story Circle.
Destroyed Word
Performance by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra.
Destroyed Word is a live action by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra and involves the destruction of a 3.6 meters tall, letter (L) made of aliminium. The event is a part of a series of actions, as he will carry out a total of ten similar actions at different locations around the world, each offering the destruction of a new letter. The artist's use of aliminium in Destroyed Word resonates particularly within the context of Iceland.
Destruction and its paradoxical relationship to production play a pivotal role in the work of Sierra. At the centre of his practice lies the notion of wage labour as the main destructive component in relation to the human body and mind under capitalist production. See: www.santiago-sierra.com
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Video screening event with works by artists Björk Viggósdóttir, Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Jan Schumann, Katrín Agnes Klar, Klængur Gunnarsson, Kristjan Zaklynsky, Lina Bjorn Larsen, Lukas Kindermann,María Dalberg, Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson.
(I)ndependent People: Collaborations and Artist Initiatives
(I)ndependent People asks if and how collaboration can operate in negotiation between contesting ideas and desires, and yet allow for unplanned action. This large-scale collaborative is organized as a part of the Reykjavik Arts Festival and takes place in a cluster of museums, galleries, artist-run spaces and institutions in the capital area. Hafnarhus presents works by: Anonymous, Elin Strand Ruin + The New Beauty Council, Goksøyr & Martens, Institutt for Degeneret Kunst, Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir & Hlynur Hallsson, Kling & Bang, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas + MIT 4.333, The Icelandic Love Corporations and The Leyline Project: Steingrímur Eyfjörð & Ulrika Sparre.
Erró - Drawings
Erró might not be as well known for his drawings as for his paintings, but this exhibition presents around 200 of his works. The oldest are from 1944, the latest quite recent, and the artist has utilized a multitude of techniques and methods in creating them.
Erró and Seven Teapots
Set up as as a part of DesignMarch 2012 Reykjavik Art Museum exhibits seven impressive Chinese porcelain teapots decorated by Erró in 2009, as the initiative of the French publisher Stéphane Klein. The teapots are exhibited alongside the paintings by Erró, which were partly used as models for the design.
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Concrete Jazz
New and classic jazz music performed by musicians Magnús Rannver Rafnsson, Leifur Gunnarsson and Andrés Þór Gunnlaugsson.
Workshop for the Family
Open workshop for the family set up in relation to the exhibition Hangman's Rock - The Delirium of Vision and focuses on vision and imagination.
Hangman's Rock - The Delirium of Vision
The exhibition showcases many paintings by Jóhannes Kjarval from a secluded place in the Garðahraun lava field south of Hafnarfjörður called Hangman's Rock. Curator Ólafur Gíslason explores Kjarval´s subject as well as over 20 other Icelandic artists through the phenomenology of vision.
Kjarval – Key Works
Keyworks by Icelandic painter Jóhannes S. Kjarval from the collection of Reykjavik Art Museum.
Open from 10:00 – 17:00
The Fire Within
Many of Ásmundur Sveinsson's sculptures disclose his agile feelings and reflect his painful loss and heartache. This exhibition in Ásmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum builds on material from the artist's emotional quick; a new approach to his body of work.
Thoughts in forms
In the pyramid Ásmundur's studio has been recreated, to give an idea of his working environment in Sigtún.
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Episode PremiereOctober 29, 2006
DistributorCBS, WBTV, TNT
Show Period2002 - 2009
Production CompanyJerry Bruckheimer TV, CBS, WBTV, Jumbolaya Prod.
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DirectorPeter Markle
ScreenwriterJan Nash
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- Anthony LaPaglia as Jack Malone
- Poppy Montgomery as Samantha Spade
- Enrique Murciano
- Eric Close
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Vivian Johnson
- Roselyn Sanchez as Elena Delgado
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By Alison A. Nieder | June 25, 2015
Buyers from department stores, resorts, boutique stores and yoga studios turned out early for the June 23–24 run of Active Collective at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Business Journals Steps Up Partnerships With Co-Location Plans With ENK for April Shows
Business Journals Inc.—the New York–based organizer of the Moda, Accessories The Show and Fame trade shows—announced plans to shift its May show dates and co-locate with ENK's Intermezzo and Accessorie Circuit at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.
CMC to Launch 'Athleisure' Lifestyle Show in March
The California Market Center will launch Shape, a new trade show focused on the "athleisure" trend, during the March 16–18 run of Los Angeles Fashion Market.
Hong Kong Fashion Week Takes a Look at the Fall/Winter 2015 Season
The 46th semiannual Hong Kong Fashion Week will be held Jan. 19–22 at the Hong Kong Convention Centre with a number of fashion shows, seminars, exhibitors and trend forecasts tailor-made for buyers and other attendees.
Visual Display: A Look at Project's New Booths
Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Convention Center hosts sprawling fashion trade shows Project, ENK Vegas,the eclectic Pooltradeshow and the higher-end Men's trade show as well as The Tents.
Visual Display: Agenda's Award Winning Booths
Most trade show booths are plain 10-by-10 affairs, and they give a clear message: Trade shows are just about business.
New Sourcing Trade Show to Bow in L.A. in March
Apparel manufacturers and retailers looking to scout factories will have a new venue when the Factory Direct trade show bows March 2–4 at The New Mart in downtown Los Angeles.
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Trade shows can be fun, but they can zap your energy with endless hours on your feet or days bogged down at a booth. Here are a few suggestions on new restaurants and boutiques that might make life a little easier when traveling to those trade shows.
Fashion Navigation: Helping Attendees Make the Most of Their Trade Show Visit
Whether attending a stand-alone trade show or heading into the multi-venue shows in Las Vegas, Los Angeles or New York, buyers and other trade-show attendees have a lot to see in a limited time. California Apparel News spoke to several trade-show organizers about the resources they have to help attendees navigate the shows.
New Lines and Established Collections
Buyers at the Oct. 19–22 run of Fashion Market Northern California at the San Mateo Event Center shopped more than 250 exhibitors displaying everything from high-end formalwear to moderate styles and accessories.
Crowded LA Market Schedule Draws Major Retailers and Specialty Stores
Buyers ranging from major retailers such as Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom to key specialty stores and e-tailers such as ShopBop, Ron Herman, Fred Segal and Beckley turned out for the recent run of Los Angeles Fashion Market, which was spread across multiple showroom buildings and several returning and new trade shows.
Apparel Retailers—and Manufacturers—Offer Some Advice for the New Owners of MAGIC, Project and Pool
New ownership usually means change for any company. Following the recent announcement that U.K. company UBM PLC will acquire Advanstar for $972 million, many in the industry wondered what changes were in store for the trade show giant, whose shows include MAGIC, Project and Coterie.
Department Stores and Chains Turn Out
Business for the juniors and department store–focused LA Majors Market, which ran Oct. 6-8 at the California Market Center, was brisk, according to the market's vendors.
Drawing a Mix of Established Brands, New Designers
Traffic steadily picked up at the Sept. 29–Oct. 1 run of the Los Angeles International Textile Show at the California Market Center in Los Angeles, where exhibitors said they met with both well-known brands as well as new designers.
Advanstar Sold for $972 Million
Advanstar Communications Inc., producer of the biannual MAGIC Marketplace trade shows in Las Vegas, the biggest apparel trade show in North America, announced on Oct. 1 that it will be acquired for $972 million, by London-based media company and events producer UBM PLC.
Designers and Agents Suspends Paris Show
Designers and Agents, which organizes curated trade shows for contemporary fashions, has decided to suspend its Paris show, which took place for several years in the Marias district of the French capital.


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Illegal Deer Hunting ► Closed3540 Devon Drive Falls Church, Virginia
Tomorrow morning, 9-6-14, there will begin an illegal deer "hunt" with bows and arrows in White Gardens Park. The neighbors around the park whose property abuts the park were given assurances on Wednesday, 9-3-14, by both the Mason County Supervisor, Penny Gross, and the Lieutenant of the Mason DIstrict Police, Lieutenant Anthony Matos, that there would be no hunting in White Park this year. Our concerns are safety and the fact that the Park Bylaws specifically state no hunting, no fishing, no weapons. We have been harassed by the hunters, our property has been trespassed on. The police department and the Supervisor's Office have not been truthful with the residents and the hunt begins early tomorrow morning. Calls to the Magistrate, the Police Department, the Supervisor's Office, are being met by confusion as to who is in charge, who ordered the hunt, and who might have any answers for the residents directly involved. Please help!· Reported by Denise Landon (Guest) · Share · Flag Flagged
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This issue was solved last September with the help of Mason Supervisor, Penny Gross. No hunting ever in White Horticultural Park.
Pothole. ► Open1000 East Broad Street Falls Church, VA 22042, USA
Center lane eastbound.· Reported by OneBiiigPothole · Share · Flag Flagged
Massive pot hole ► Open6666-6680 South Street Falls Church, VA 22042, USA
Huge pothole near speedbump.· Reported by Brian D · Share · Flag Flagged
STOP sign concerns ► OpenHickory Hill Road And Slade Run Drive Falls Church, VA
There seems to be a real issue with drivers continually ignoring, or not understanding, the clearly displayed STOP signs at the corners of Hickory Hill Road and Slade Run Drive. As an avid runner (and walker with my toddler son) through the neighborhood I have personally seen drivers not even hesitate at the STOP sign and even fly through it at about 40 MPH (my estimate). I'm sure this is not the only neighborhood in Fairfax County that deals with this issue. But is has become a major concern for me, not only for the safety of my family, but also for the safety of the frequent walkers, runners, bikers, and children that venture around the neighborhood in this area on a daily basis.· Reported by STOP sign concerns (Guest) · Share · Flag Flagged
pothole ► OpenCorner Of Mildred Drive And Ted Drive Falls Church, VA
pothole repair no longer needed; it's fixed· Reported by Anonymous (Guest) · Share · Flag Flagged
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Power substation often fails ► Open2917 Annandale Rd Falls Church, VA 22042, USA
The Dominion Power substation at the corner of Annandale Road and Clearview drive serving 900 customers (several thousand nearby people) has suffered multiple-hour failures once or twice a year for the past decade. It isn't as if Dominion doesn't know the storms are coming, so for crying out loud install some resilience in the system.· Reported by Bill (Guest) · Share · Flag Flagged
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view of traffic blocked ► Open6800 Westmoreland Rd West Falls Church, VA
Folks trying to enter US 50 from Westmoreland Rd face an obstructed view of oncoming traffic on US 50 due to a large advertising billboard attached to the metrobus shelter.· Reported by herrin · Share · Flag Flagged
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This intersection is routinely blocked by motorists on the service road that deem it necessary to block traffic. These motorists are typically turning onto or trying to cross route 50 but become a hindrance to other motorists trying to use the service road by blocking intersections or just not moving at all at stop signs.· Reported by Anonymous (Guest) · Share · Flag Flagged
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Gary Waddock was at a loss to explain Wycombe's slow start at Southend, something which has dogged them this season. The Shrimpers scored the only goal in the seventh minute when Kevan Hurst's corner from the left was headed goalwards by Ryan Cresswell and although Matt Spring cleared off the line, Britt Assombalonga nodded the ball in from eight yards for his second goal of the season. "The first five minutes cost us when we started slowly again," said Waddock. "Southend scored and we were chasing the game for the remainder of the half. "We changed things around to try and get the ball into the forwards' feet because their centre-halves were winning everything in the air. "We've just had a discussion about it. Everyone was up for it but they just didn't perform. I can't put my finger on it. "We tried to change things around but it didn't happen for us. We had more possession in the second half but we didn't work their goalkeeper enough."
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A system and method are disclosed to organize computer software operating in a distributed sytem of computers, so that its recovery from a failure of either the software or the hardware occurs before the failure becomes operationally visible. The software is made to recover from the failure and reprocess or reject the stimulus such that the result is available to the user of the system within the specified response time for that type of stimulus.
1. A method for increasing the operational availability of a system of computer programs operating in a distributed system of computers, comprising:
dividing a computer program into a plurality of functional modules;
loading a first copy of a functional module into a first processor's address space and locating a second copy of said functional module into a second processor's address space;
said first processor executing said first functional module to send application dependent state data to said second processor where it is received by said second functional module executing on said second processor;
said first processor executing said module, maintaining a normal application processing state and said second processor executing said second module, maintaining a secondary state knowledge sufficient to enable it to become a primary functioning module;
said first processor executing said first module maintaining open sessions with a plurality of servers connected therewith in a network and said second processor executing said second module maintaining a plurality of open sessions with all of said servers in said network;
said second functional module, in response to a stimulus requiring it to assume the role of said first functional module, checking that its current state is consistent with the current state of said first functional module, followed by said second module then communicating with said servers in said network to establish synchronization with the state of said servers;
all clients and servers connected in said network responding to said second module assuming the role of said first module, by directing all new or queued service requests to said second module instead of to said first module;
whereby said second module assumes the role of said first module in performing primary address space operations.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said first module and said second module communicate synchronously.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said first module and said second module communicate asynchronously.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said second module retains a complete copy of the state of said first module.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said second module retains a trailing copy of the state of said first module.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein said second module retains knowledge of the stimuli currently in process by said first module.
1. Technical Field
The invention disclosed broadly relates to data processing systems and more particularly relates to systems and methods for enhancing fault tolerance in data processing systems.
2. Background Art
Operational availability is defined as follows: "If a stimulus to the system is processed by the system and the system produces a correct result within an allocated response time for that stimulus, and if this is true for all stimuli, then the system's availability is 1.0."
It is recognized that there are many contributors to high operational availability: (1) failures in both the hardware system and the software system must be detected with sufficiently high coverage to meet requirements; (2) the inherent availability of the hardware (in terms of simple numerical availability of its redundancy network), including internal and external redundancy must be higher than the system's required operational availability; and (3) failures in the software must not be visible to or adversely affect operational use of the system. This invention addresses the third of these contributors with the important assumption that software failures due to design errors and to hardware failures, will be frequent and hideous.
The prior art has attempted to solve this type of problem by providing duplicate copies of the entire software component on two or more individual processors, and providing a means for communicating the health of the active processor to the standby processor. When the standby processor determines, through monitoring the health of the active processor, that the standby processor must take over operations, the standby processor initializes the entire software component stored therein and the active processor effectively terminates its operations. The problem with this approach is that the entire system is involved in each recovery action. As a result, recovery times tend to be long, and failures in the recovery process normally render the system inoperable. In addition, if the redundant copies of the software systems are both normally operating (one as a shadow to the other), then the effect of common-mode failures is extreme and also affects the whole system.
It is therefore an object of the invention to increase the operational availability of a system of computer programs operating in a distributed system of computers.
It is another object of the invention to provide fault tolerance in a system of computer programs operating in a distributed system of computers, having a high availability and fast recovery time.
It is still a further object of the invention to provide improved operational availability in a system of computer programs operating in a distributed system of computers, with less software complexity, than was required in the prior art.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the invention are accomplished as follows. This invention provides a mechanism to organize the computer software in such a way that its recovery from a failure (of either itself or the hardware) occurs before the failure becomes operationally visible. In other words, the software is made to recover from the failure and reprocess or reject the stimulus so that the result is available to the user of the system within the specified response time for that type of stimulus.
A software structure that will be referred to as an operational unit (OU), and a related availability management function (AMF) are the key components of the invention. The OU and portions of the AMF are now described. The OU concept is implemented by partitioning as much of the system's software as possible into independent self-contained modules whose interactions with one another is via a network server. A stimulus enters the system and is routed to the first module in its thread, and from there traverses all required modules until an appropriate response is produced and made available to the system's user.
Each module is in fact two copies of the code and data-space of the OU. One of the copies, called the Primary Address Space (PAS), maintains actual state data. The other copy, called the Standby Address Space (SAS), runs in a separate processor, and may, or may not maintain actual state data, as described later.
The Availability Management Function (AMF) controls the allocation of PAS and SAS components to the processors. When the AMF detects an error, a SAS becomes PAS and the original PAS is terminated. Data servers in the network are also informed of the change so that all communication will be redirected to the new PAS. In this fashion, system availability can be maintained.
These and other object, features and advantages of the invention will be more fully appreciated with reference to the accompanying figures.
FIG. 1 is a timing diagram illustrating response time allocation.
FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram of several operational units in a network.
FIG. 2B is an alternate diagram of the operational unit architecture illustrating the use of a data server OU by several applications.
FIG. 2C is an illustration of the operational unit architecture.
FIG. 2D is an illustration of the operational unit architecture showing an example of the allocation of general operational units across three groups.
FIG. 3A-F shows of the operational unit at various stages during the initialization and operation, reconfiguration and recovery functions.
FIG. 1 shows a timing diagram illustrating response time allocation. The required response time (Tmax) between a stimulus input and its required output suballocated so that a portion of it is available for normal production of the response (Tnormal), a portion is available for unpredicted resource contention (Tcontention), and a portion is available for recovery from failures (Trecovery). The first of these, Tnormal, is divided among the software and hardware elements of the system in accordance with their processing requirements. This allocation will determine the performance needed by each hardware and software component of the system. The second portion, Tcontention, is never allocated. The last portion, Trecovery, is made sufficiently long that it includes time for error detection (including omission failures), hardware reconfiguration, software reconfiguration, and reproduction of required response A rule of thumb is to divide the required response time Tmax in half and subdivide the first half so that one quarter of the required response time is available for normal response production Tnormal, and the second quarter is available for unpredicted resource contention, Tcontention. The second half of the response time, Trecovery, is then available for failure detection and response reproduction.
The specific problem addressed by this invention is how to reduce the time required for hardware and software reconfiguration, Trecovery, of a complex system to a small fraction of Tmax. This problem is solved by a software structure that will be referred to as an operational unit (OU), and a related availability management function (AMF). The OU and portions of the AMF are now described.
Referring to FIG. 2A, the OU concept is implemented by partitioning as much of the system's software as possible into independent self-contained modules or OU's 10 whose interactions with one another is via a network server 12. None of these modules shares data files with any other module, and none of them assumes that any other is (or is not) in the same machine as itself. A stimulus 14 enters the system and is routed to the first module until an appropriate response is produced and made available to the system's user 16.
Each module maintains all necessary state data for its own operation. If two or more modules require access to the same state knowledge then: (1) each must maintain the knowledge; (2) updates to that knowledge must be transmitted among them as normal processing transactions; or (3) each must be tolerant of possible difference between its knowledge of the state, and the knowledge of the others. This tolerance may take on several forms depending on the application, and may include mechanisms for detecting and compensating (or correcting) for differences in state. If two modules 10 absolutely must share a common data base for performance or other reason, then they are not "independent" and are combined into a single module for the purpose of this invention.
It is acceptable for one module 10' to perform data server functions for multiple other modules (as shown in FIG. 2B) providing those other modules 10 can operationally compensate for failure and loss of the server function. Compensate means that they continue to provide their essential services to their clients, and that the inability to access the common state does not result in queuing or interruption of service. Clearly this constrains the possible uses of such common servers.
Finally, a module 10 must provide predefined degraded or alternative modes of operation for any case where another module's services are used, but where that other module is known to be indefinitely unavailable. An exception to this rule is that if a server is part of a processor (if it deals with the allocation or use of processor resources), then the module may have unconditional dependencies on the server. In this case, failure of the server is treated by the availability management function as failure of the processor. If a module conforms to all of the above conditions, then it becomes an OU through the application of the following novel structuring of its data, its logic and its role within the system. This structure is shown in FIG. 2C.
Two complete copies of the modules are loaded into independent address spaces 20, 20' in two separate computers 22, 22'. One of these modules is known by the network server as the Primary Address Space (PAS) and is the one to which all other module's service requests are directed. The other of these modules is called the Standby Address Space (SAS), and is known only by the PAS. It is invisible to all other modules. The PAS sends application dependent state data to the SAS so that the SAS is aware of the state of the PAS. Whether the interface between the PAS and the SAS of an OU is a synchronous commit or is an unsynchronized interface is not limited by this invention, and is a trade-off between the steady-state response time, and the time required for a newly promoted PAS to synchronize with its servers and clients. This trade-off is discussed in strategy #1 below.
The PAS maintains the state necessary for normal application processing by the module. The SAS maintains sufficient state knowledge so that it can transition itself to become the PAS when and if the need should arise. The amount of knowledge this requires is application dependent, and is beyond the scope of this invention.
Both the PAS and the SAS of an OU maintain open sessions with all servers of the OU. The SAS sessions are unused until/unless the SAS is promoted to PAS. When the SAS is directed by the AMF to assume the role of PAS, it assures that its current state is self-consistent (a failure may have resulted from the PAS sending only part of a related series of update messages), and then communicates with clients and servers of the PAS to establish state agreement with them. This may result in advancing the SAS's state knowledge or in rolling back the state knowledge of the clients and servers. Any rolling back must be recovered by reprocessing any affected stimuli, and/or by informing users that the stimuli have been ignored. Simultaneous with this process, the network server is updated so that it directs all new or queued service requests to the SAS instead of the PAS. This last action constitutes promotion of the SAS to the position of PAS, and is followed by starting up a new SAS in a processor other than the one occupied by the new PAS.
Several strategies for maintenance of standby data by the PAS are relevant to the invention. They are summarized as follows.
Strategy #1. The SAS may retain a complete copy of the state of the PAS. If the copy is committed to the SAS before the PAS responds to its stimulus, then the restart recovery will be very fast, but the response time for all stimuli will be the longest. This approach is superior if response time requirements allow it.
Strategy #2. The SAS may retain a "trailing" copy of the state of the PAS. Here, the PAS sends state updates as they occur, at the end of processing for a stimulus, or batches them for several stimuli. The SAS trails the PAS state in time and must therefore be concerned with state consistency within its data and between itself and its servers and clients. This yields very fast steady-state response time but requires moderate processing during failure recovery.
Strategy #3. The SAS may retain knowledge of the stimuli currently in process by the PAS so that at failure, the exact state of the relationships between the PAS and its clients and servers is known by the SAS. This requires commitment of beginning and end of transactions between the PAS and the SAS, but reduces the inter-OU synchronization required during failure recovery.
These mechanisms may be used alone or in various combinations by an OU. The determination of which to use is a function of the kinds of stimuli, the response time requirements, and the nature of the state retained by the application.
The characteristics just described comprise an OU, but do not by themselves achieve availability goals. Availability goals are achieved by combining this OU architecture with an AMF that controls the state of all OU's in the system. The AMF has three components, each with its own roles in the maintenance of high availability of the system's OU's. The relationship between an OU and the AMF is illustrated in FIGS. 3A through 3F and is described below.
The most important AMF function is that of group manager. A group is a collection of similarly configured processors that have been placed into the network for the purpose of housing a predesignated set of one or more OU's. Each group in the system (if there are more than one) is managed independently of all other groups. In FIG. 2D, three groups are shown. Here, the OU's residing in each group (rather than the processors) are shown.
The number of processors in each group, and the allocation of OU PAS and SAS components to those processors may be widely varied in accordance with the availability requirement, the power of each processor, and the processing needs of each PAS and SAS component. The only constraint imposed by the invention is that the PAS and the SAS of any single OU must be in two different processors if processor failures are to be guarded against.
Group Management: Referring to FIG. 3A, the group manager resides in one of the processors of a group (the processor is determined by a protocol not included in this invention). It initializes the group for cold starts, and reconfigures the group when necessary for failure recovery. Within the group, each OU's PAS and SAS exist on separate processors, and sufficient processors exist to meet inherent availability requirements. The group manager monitors performance of the group as a unit and coordinates the detection and recovery of all failures within the group that do not require attention at a system level. This coordination includes the following:
1. Commanding the takeover of an OU's functional responsibilities by the SAS when it has been determined that a failure has occurred in either the PAS, or in the processor or related resource necessary to the operation of the PAS.
2. Initiating the start-up of a new address space to house a new SAS after a prior SAS has been promoted to PAS.
3. Updating the network server's image of the location of each OU as its PAS moves among the processors of a group in response to failures or scheduled shutdown of individual group processors.
Errors detected by the group manager include processor failure (by heartbeat protocols between group members), and failures of an OU that affect both its PAS and SAS, for example, those caused by design errors in the communication between them or the common processing of standby/backup state data. The mechanisms for error detection are beyond the scope of the invention.
Local Management: Group level support of the OU architecture relies on the presence of certain functions within each processor of the group. These functions are referred to as the AMF's local manager 32. The local manager is implemented within each processor as an extension of the processor's control program and is responsible for detecting and correcting failures that can be handled without intervention from a higher (group or above) level. The local manager maintains heartbeat protocol communications with each OU PAS or SAS in its processor to watch for abnormalities in their performance. It also receives notification from the operating system of any detected machine level hardware or software problem. Any problem that cannot be handled locally is forwarded to the group manager for resolution.
Global Management: The isolation and correction of system level problems and problems associated with the network fall with the AMF's global manager 34. The global manager 34 correlates failures and states at the lower levels to detect and isolate errors in network behavior, group behavior, and response times of threads involving multiple processors. It also interacts with human operators of the system to deal with failures that the automation cannot handle. The global manager is designed to operate at any station in the network, and is itself an OU. The movement of the global manager 34 OU from one group to another, if necessary, is initiated and monitored by the human operator using capabilities contained in the local manager at each processor station.
Network Management: The network manager is a part of the AMF global manager 34. Its functionality and design is configuration dependent, and is beyond the scope of this invention.
FIGS. 3A-F show the functionality for the AMF during initialization, operation, reconfiguration and recovery of the system. In FIG. 3A, PAS and SAS are loaded and initialized. OU locations are entered in the network server. FIG. 3B shows the synchronization of the PAS and SAS with clients and servers to establish consistency of states. FIG. 3C shows steady state operation with PAS responding to a stimulus and outputting a response. The SAS is kept updated by the PAS.
FIG. 3D shows what happens when the PAS fails. The old SAS is promoted to new PAS and a new SAS is loaded and initialized. The network servers are also updated with the new location of the OU. FIG. 3E shows re-synchronization of the new PAS with the clients and servers. At steady state (FIG. 3E), the new PAS is responding to stimuli as normal.
It is the combination of the OU structure and the recovery functions of the AMF that constitute this invention. By comparison, the contemporary strategy and mechanisms of software failover/switchover deal with units of entire processors rather than with smaller units of software as in this invention. Because the unit of failure and recovery achieved by this invention is small by comparison, the time for recovery is also small. Furthermore, the recovery from processor level failures can be accomplished in small steps spread across several processors (as many as are used to contain SAS's for the PAS's contained in the failed processor). This is crucial to maintaining continuous high availability operation in large real time systems.
Although a specific embodiment of the invention has been disclosed, it will be understood by those having skill in the art that changes can be made to the specific embodiment without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention.
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There was a time not long ago that Todd Bertuzzi didn't think he'd get to where he is today. His career was in disarray. His body was battered. Then he landed in Detroit and found out how much fun hockey still is. That has led him to this afternoon, when he's poised to play in his 1,000th career game when the Red Wings face the Wild in St. Paul, Minn.
Recognizing the significance, the Wings invited his wife, Julie, their daughter, Jaden, and son, Tag, along for the trip.
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When I posted my blog last week and mentioned the devastation in Japan, it was still very early in the aftermath. Now, with more than a week past, the one word that comes to mind is "incomprehensible." It is seriously mindblowing what that country and its people are going through now and will go through for many years to come. And this is surely not something that we, as a continent, can watch and assume we are far enough away for it to not affect us. Japan--with its technology, goods, and services--is a bigger part of the fabric of North America than you might think. As the New York Times called it: This is a crisis the markets just can't grasp. It's like nothing we've ever seen before. From an industry standpoint, this could affect glass supply (even though some reports are saying all is fine; we'll hope that's right) that was due to be tight to begin with (it's already insanely tight on the auto glass end) and will surely affect gas and cost of living indexes. There's no doubt that this horrible and tragic event will be yet another hurdle for our world to get over. Here's again hoping and wishing for our friends in Japan to see some light and good sooner than later.
- There was a regional glass event last week, and the rumor mill was working overtime. All I can say is about 99 percent of the things that were spread are pretty far-fetched. But that's what happens when you get a bunch of people in a room, with too much time and not enough business on their hands.
- The New York Times reported on a takedown of the good 'ole Department of Energy by the Inspector General. Evidently, poor recordkeeping that leads people to wonder where their tax money is really going was the subject. Count me as absolutely unsurprised. In watching the DOE and the members I came in contact with, their desire to be led by the nose by special interests while ignoring any other viewpoint was a major turnoff and red flag. This is not the first time the DOE has been ripped by a governmental report, and I just wish for all of our sakes it would lead to some actual change there. But instead, excuses are made and the same tired bureaucrats keep pumping out the same dreck.
- If and when we get the whole true blue Glass Hall of Fame going, I will nominate the designers of the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport Rental Car Complex for an achievement award in the usage of glass. The complex used glass absolutely everywhere possible, and it was exciting for a glass geek like me. They didn't go crazy on colors and decorative, but the fact that glass was all over was cool enough for me.
- The folks at Glasslam announced a new spacer manufacturing system this past week. Basically, this system would allow their users to make their own warm-edge spacer and control the game. With everyone looking for an edge, this could be a player.
- Glass Week and BEC are kicking off later this week. Next week's post will cover the highlights, so it won't be up on my normal site until late Monday night and will still appear in e-glass weekly (as long as the fine people at Glass Magazine still want me) on Tuesday.
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Meek Mill has "made it" in the music world. Dion Waiters has "made it" in the basketball world. And both are coming back to where they came from, Philadelphia, to show others how to make it too.
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