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OGDENSBURG - A bill has been introduced in the state Senate to delay the closure of inpatient psychiatric facilities across the state until the spring of 2015.
A sponsor for a companion bill in the Assembly has not come forward yet, according to a spokesperson from the office of state Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, though attempts are being made to find one. Mrs. Ritchie is a co-sponsor of the bill with Deputy Senate Leader Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton.
The one-house bill delays implementation of plans by the state Office of Mental Health to consolidate inpatient psychiatric services. Under the plan, adult inpatient beds will be moved from the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, Ogdensburg, in state fiscal year 2014-15 to Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse. Childrens inpatient beds at St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center will move to Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center, Utica, in state fiscal year 2015-16.
According to the bill, The office of mental health is authorized, on and after April 1, 2015, to close, consolidate, reduce, transfer or otherwise redesign services of hospitals, other facilities, and programs operated by the office of mental health.
The bill cites the loss of inpatient services for people dealing with severe mental illnesses and the lack of a detailed plan for community support services to fill the gap as the main reasons for the moratorium.
Mrs. Ritchie said she hopes that in the long run the state will recognize the need to retain inpatient services in the north country and that the legislation will provide an opportunity to make our case and continue to fight.
Because the bill seeks to limit the ability of OMH to move inpatient beds until 2015, Mrs. Ritchie said, it will give lawmakers and advocates an additional year to understand more fully the plan to consolidate mental health services.
The plan that OMH unveiled is not really a plan at all, Mrs. Ritchie said. The details are not available and this is too critical of an issue not to have a well thought out plan ahead of time.
Its not fair to those who live in the north country, she said. Access to mental health care should not just go along the Thruway.
Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell, D-Theresa , said she had not been approached to introduce the legislation in the lower house as of Tuesday afternoon but there will be an Assembly version of the Senate bill as soon as logistically possible.
Mrs. Russell said the bill is valuable as a way to delay the rollout of the plan by OMH and provide time to reach a compromise.
It doesnt allow us to abandon our work to keep the psychiatric center open, Mrs. Russell said. OMH has put out a plan and unless an agreement is made to change the plan, all we would do is push off the implementation of the plan for a few years. I find value in having a little bit of time to work with OMH to come up with a better plan.
The St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center Task Force, a community organization made up of volunteers working to keep inpatient beds in Ogdensburg, is going to continue working despite the moratorium.
Were trying to win; were not in for a compromise, Task Force Chairman Charles W. Kelly said. My goal is to convince [OMH] that theyre on the wrong track.
Mrs. Ritchie said she isnt looking for anything less than a new plan that preserves inpatient care in the north country.
Its going to be pretty hard to convince me that any plan they put forward taking inpatient services out of the north country entirely will be acceptable, she said. This pushes it out long enough for us to get the plan changed.
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2010: Freshman at Creighton
• Named to the MVC All-Freshman Team.
• Defensive specialist who started first four matches to open her career.
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• Second in the MVC in digs per set in conference matches (5.50) and eighth in all matches (4.28).
• Also ranked 11th in the MVC in aces per set (0.23).
• Had a Creighton freshman record 11 matches of 20 or more digs.
• Ranked 129th nationally in digs per set, 15th-highest among freshmen.
• Served an ace in 11 straight matches (Oct. 8-Nov. 13), the longest streak in CU history by a freshman and tied for second-longest ever.
• Had double-digit digs in first six matches of her career, including a high of 16 digs vs. Lipscomb.
• Just the second player in school history (Bianca Rivera, 27) to have 10 or more digs in each of the first six matches of her career, a streak snapped when she had just five digs vs. Wake Forest (Sept. 4).
• Finished second on the team with 531 digs and 4.28 digs per set.
• Her 13 digs against San Francisco (Aug. 27) were third-most in school history for a debut and most by a non-libero.
• Donned the libero jersey for first time in college career on Sept. 17 at Southern Illinois, finishing with 23 digs in three-set sweep.
• Had 27 digs against both No. 16 Northern Iowa (Sept. 24) and Bradley (Sept. 25) to earn MVC Freshman of the Week accolades (Sept. 27).
• Dug 29 balls in four-set win at Illinois State (Oct. 1).
• Recorded career-high 33 digs, eight assists and first career kill in win over Missouri State (Oct. 8), followed by 25 digs in win over Wichita State (Oct. 9), to win MVC Freshman of the Week (Oct. 11) honors.
• Had 22 digs in three sets at No. 14 Northern Iowa (Oct. 23).
• Had 32 digs at Wichita State (Nov. 5).
• Had 23 digs in defensive specialist role at No. 11 Northern Iowa in MVC Tournament championship match (Nov. 27).
• Served seven aces in MVC Tournament play, including two vs. both Drake and No. 11 Northern Iowa and three vs. Wichita State.
• Set Creighton freshmen records for single-season digs and digs per set.
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• Was named tournament MVP while team won state tournament in both volleyball (as a libero) and soccer (as a goalie) her senior season.
• Volleyball team went 42-1 and ranked 14th nationally by Maxpreps.com, while soccer team was 17-3 and ranked 43rd nationally by ESPNRise.com.
• Was a PrepVolleyball.com All-American in both 2009 and 2010.
• Named first-team all-state in both volleyball and soccer by the Omaha World-Herald and Lincoln Journal Star.
• Also named first-team all-Metro in both sports.
• Had 549 digs, 55 aces and 45 assists as a senior and career totals of 2,030 digs, 177 aces and 126 assists.
• Had 12 service aces in one match as a senior vs. Omaha South.
• Teamed with former Creighton teammate Lisa Greisch as a freshman and sophomore, including sophomore-year win that handed Papillion-La Vista its only loss of the season.
• Owns Marian High School record for digs in a match (36 vs. Papillion South), season (558) and career (2,030).
• Had 16 shutouts while allowing only three goals (0.15 GAA) as a senior for nationally-ranked soccer team.
• Spent four years on varsity in both soccer and volleyball.
• Coached by Rochelle Rohlfs in high school volleyball, Nick and Corrine Schuster in club volleyball and Ed Dudley in high school soccer.
Career Highs
Kills 1 (3x), last vs. Indiana State 10/29/10
Attempts 2 (8x), last at #11 Northern Iowa 11/27/10
Attack Pct. No matches with 10 attempts
Digs 33 vs. Missouri State 10/8/10
Aces 3 (2x), last vs. Wichita State 11/26/10
Blocks None
Points 3 (2x), last vs. Wichita State 11/26/10
Creighton Awards & Honors
2010 MVC All-Freshman Team
2010 MVC Freshman of the Week, 9/27
2010 MVC Freshman of the Week, 10/11
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Full Name: Julianne Marie Mandolfo
Birthday: Aug. 13, 1991
Birthplace: Papillion, Neb.
Parents: Mario and Yvonne Mandolfo
Siblings: Adam (29), Lisa (28), Amy (22) and Jeffrey (14)
Favorite TV Show: The OC
Favorite Athlete: Kyle Korver
Favorite Quote: "Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her." (Mia Hamm)
Favorite Vacation Spots: South Padre Island, Italy, Hilton Head Island
Why Creighton: Great atmosphere
Team I Wish We Could Play: USC, to play Natalie Hagglund
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ATOMIC athlete Kilian Jornet won the vertical race of the European Championships in Pelvoux (FRA). On this technically challenging terrain, he pulled ahead of his contestants by a large margin.
The European Ski Mountaineering Championships in Pelvoux in France are one of the highlights of the season featuring the world's best ski mountaineers. Today's vertical race followed on the heels of the team race on Sunday, the sprint contest on Monday and the individual race. After yesterday's silver medal in the individual race, Kilian Jornet now clinched the gold medal, too. Jornet took the lead early on, demonstrating his strength during the ascents. Frenchman Yannick Buffet was the only one in close pursuit. Jornet skillfully mastered the technically difficult course, extending his lead mid-way through the race. With a finishing time of 38.44.4 he sealed the victory more than one minute ahead of Buffet. "I am overjoyed about this result and very satisfied with both successes, yesterday and today. This gold medal, in particular, means a lot to me, because it was a very difficult race with steep and technically challenging lags. Mid-way into the race all odds were on my side and I am glad that I was able to pull out such a solid victory", commented Jornet after crossing the finish line. Tomorrow's relay competition marks the final contest of this year's European Championships. Kilian Jornet and his Spanish team members will compete for medals one more time.
ATOMIC athlete Kilian Jornet came in second place in the individual race of the European Championships, currently taking place in Pelvoux (FRA). After a strong race, Frenchman Wiliam Bon Mardion clinched the victory during the final downhill stretch by a tight margin. The European Ski Mountaineering Championships in Pelvoux/France are one of the highlights of the season featuring the world's best ski mountaineers. After the team race on Sunday, the sprint contest on Monday and the youth competition yesterday, things will get more serious today: the individual race is undoubtedly the Premier class of the European Championships. Jornet took the lead early on, demonstrating his strength during the ascents. Frenchman Wiliam Bon Mardion and the Italians Manfred Reichegger and Lorenzo Holzknecht were in close pursuit, all of them downhill specialists. Despite his strong ascent performance, Jornet was unable to break away from his pursuers, with Bon Mardion pulling ahead of him during the final fiercely contested downhill race. The course was shortened before the race, which proved a strategic disadvantage for Jornet; instead of a finishing time of ca. 1:30 hours, only a little over an hour was estimated. He didn't seem too upset though after he had crossed the finish line: "I congratulate Wiliam on his success, his performance during the final downhill stretch was brilliant. It is a pity that the race did not last longer, which might have helped me to defend my lead. But I am very happy with the second place and I will now focus on the vertical race tomorrow."


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Female Crews Race Each Other At The Henley Regatta
Crews return from competing in the time trial discipline of the first... News PhotoAdult,Aquatic Sport,Bestof,Competition,Crew,Day,Dedication,England,Henley-On-Thames,Horizontal,Lifestyles,Regatta,Rowing,Sailing,Sport,Sport Rowing,Thames River,Time Trial,Topics,Topix,UK,Women,Women's RowingPhotographer Oli ScarffCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesHENLEY-ON-THAMES, ENGLAND - JUNE 21: Crews return from competing in the time trial discipline of the first day of the Henley Women's Regatta on June 21, 2013 in Henley-on-Thames, England. The annual 3-day event, which has taken place since 1988, sees female crews from the UK and abroad compete on the Henley Royal Regatta course. In the past, several female rowers who have enjoyed success at the Henley Women's Regatta have gone on to win Olympic medals in the sport. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)


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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Valentine Yogurt Pops with Video Tutorial!
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Cute, healthy, & yummy ~ sounds wonderful! Pinning ;) Thanks for sharing! :o)ReplyDelete
This is so cute! I'm pinning so I can come back later & do this with my boys! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
This is such a fun idea! I love it! Thanks for sharing! Pinned!ReplyDelete
What an adorable idea! My kids would go crazy for these. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
What a nice alternative for a treat on a stick!ReplyDelete
what a cute idea! can't wait to try this!ReplyDelete
What a cute video! A great idea too!!ReplyDelete
What a cute video! A great idea, too!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing Jill! Pinned and shared on Facebook today :)ReplyDelete
The boys are adorable. Really cute! Thanks for sharing this fun idea for Living Creative Thursdays!ReplyDelete
Jill- This is such an awesome idea!!! Seriously love that you used yogurt! I must try these! YUM! You are a 'Featured Favorite' this week on Saturday Show & Tell on Cheerios and Lattes! Thanks for sharing this last week; we can't wait to see what you've been up to this week! Have a great weekend and Happy Early Valentine's Day! :)ReplyDelete
Mackenzie :)
Loved this and made some with my son. Thanks for sharing. I added a link to your blog so others could make.ReplyDelete


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Recap: Henrik Lundqvist on ABC 7/Being Contenders
Henrik Lundqvist spoke with Laura Behnke of WABC 7 and said:
- Lundqvist said that he woke up early, checked his phone and saw that the deal was done. "it was a good feeling. I saw it coming in the last few days but you wanna hear about it and make sure it is 100% done."
- "I thought it may be a couple of weeks and then it turned into a couple of months….and then a couple of more months. Mentally it has been tough. I have been spending time with friends, family and the baby and that is the only positive I can pull from this."
- Lundqvist said that four or five times he started to get excited, work harder in practice and then be let down.
- "we are really excited to be back on the ice. We had a great year last year and I hope we can keep building from that year."
- "we have a mission as a league to show people that this is the best game on the planet and it might take some time. I can't blame [the upset fans]. This took too long"
- On what he has been doing, Lundqvist said that practice has been tough since he didn't know the time frame for how long it would take for the season to start. "I have been on the ice 3-4 times a week. I have been playing tennis and trying to do a bit of everything to stay ready. When you don't have a plan and don't know when to be ready, it's tough. When it comes to hockey I always have a plan."
- On John Tortorella and his yelling, "I miss that too. I like Torts. He is a good coach and when you play so many games it's good to have a coach that is passionate. It's refreshing."
- "I think everyone is anxious to get going. I think it's important to prepare physically and mentally. It's going to be a challenge to get up to 100% right away. This time you get a week and no exhibition games. You don't have any excuses and just need to go out there and give it all."
- On expectations and going further this year, "that is the goal. We had a great year, a lot of fun. I really hope we can keep building from last year. We did so much as a team and guys stepped up and we brought in some more guys. I think we should see ourselves as contenders. The biggest challenge will be handling the pressure both from the outside and the expectations that we put on ourselves."
- "when the playoffs starts it is a totally different season. It's just a fun challenge and I remember a lot of good things from last year. It was so much fun."
- "The whole team is really excited to get back out there. Last year was unbelievable. Winning so many hockey games was fun and the goal is to be better this year."


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Management of Vaginal Complaints: A Pilot Study Within a Practice-Based Research Network (VCAT)
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Many women present in primary care with vaginal complaints. The best way of managing these complaints is unclear. This trial will test two different methods of managing patients with vaginal complaints. This is a pilot trial.
Drug: Terazol or oral fluconazole for candidal vaginitis
Drug: Metronidazole or Clindamycin for Bacterial Vaginosis
Drug: Flagyl for definitively diagnosed vaginal trichomoniasis
Other: Empiric Management
Phase 0
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Management of Vaginal Complaints: A Pilot Study Within a Practice-Based Research Network
- Self-reported improvement in symptoms [ Time Frame: within 2 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Adverse reactions to treatment. [ Time Frame: within two weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Incidence of STD's [ Time Frame: at time of presentation ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Vaginal Complaints Scale [ Time Frame: within 2 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|February 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Intervention
Patients primarily with itching or irritation are treated for candidal vaginitis. Patients primarily with vaginal odor are treated for bacterial vaginosis. Patients who did not fit either of the previous groups are treated for both candidal vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis.
Drug: Terazol or oral fluconazole for candidal vaginitis
Intravaginal terazol qhs x 5 nights; oral fluconazole 150 mg po x 1Drug: Metronidazole or Clindamycin for Bacterial Vaginosis
Metronidazole 500 mg bid x 5 days; Intravaginal metronidazole bid x 5 days; intravaginal clindamycin
Other Names:Drug: Flagyl for definitively diagnosed vaginal trichomoniasis
Metronidazole 2 gms po x 1
Other Name: FlagylOther: Empiric Management
In this arm of the study women are treated for vaginal complaints purely on the basis of their symptoms.
Other Names:
Active Comparator: Control
Patient are examined and a wet mount is prepared. If a definitive diagnosis is made patient is treated for the condition diagnosed. If no diagnosis is made the clinician has the option of either foregoing treatment (watchful waiting) or following the protocol in the experimental group
Drug: Terazol or oral fluconazole for candidal vaginitis
Intravaginal terazol qhs x 5 nights; oral fluconazole 150 mg po x 1Drug: Metronidazole or Clindamycin for Bacterial Vaginosis
Metronidazole 500 mg bid x 5 days; Intravaginal metronidazole bid x 5 days; intravaginal clindamycin
Other Names:Drug: Flagyl for definitively diagnosed vaginal trichomoniasis
Metronidazole 2 gms po x 1
Other Name: Flagyl
Detailed Description:
Setting: The study will be carried out at two sites within the New York City Research and Improvement Network (NYC RING) an urban Practice Based Research Network comprising 21 clinical sites. Problem: Vaginal symptoms are the most common reason for outpatient gynecological consultation, yet the management of these symptoms is not well grounded in evidence from primary care. Purpose: To prepare for a randomized clinical trial (RCT) to test whether the current standard of care for evaluating vaginal symptoms (which involves looking for specific pathogens) produces better clinical outcomes than a simpler approach, which treats patients based on their symptoms. Methods: 55 premenopausal non-pregnant adult women presenting with vaginal complaints will be randomized into two groups. Women in Group A will be managed on the basis of presenting complaint without physical examination or office laboratory work. Women in Group B will receive a physical examination and office evaluation looking for trichomonads, candida and bacterial vaginosis. They will be managed according to the clinical and office laboratory findings. Patients will be contacted by phone two weeks after consultation to assess symptom resolution, adverse reaction to drugs, satisfaction with care and treatment experiences. Patients will be screened for infection with gonorrhea and chlamydia using a urine antigen test and for trichomoniasis using vaginal culture. Patients whose tests demonstrate trichomoniasis, chlamydia or gonorrhea or who remain symptomatic at the two-week follow-up call will be re-evaluated promptly. Outcomes: AIM 1: Feasibility: The pilot will assess 1) ability to recruit and retain patients, 2) acceptability of study protocols to subjects and 3) prevalence and detection of important sexually transmitted diseases (STD's). AIM 2: Initial evidence of effectiveness: The pilot will provide data on key planned RCT outcome measurements including 1) treatment success rates (allowing estimation of future sample size), 2) need for reconsultation 3) adverse reactions, 4) medication usage and 5) patient satisfaction. Benefit to public health: This pilot study will lead to a RCT of the management of vaginal complaints in primary care. This RCT may support current practice, reinforcing the need for physical exam and laboratory testing in all patients. On the other hand, the trial may support a more limited approach that avoids a pelvic examination. This could result in substantial savings of health care dollars with equivalent clinical outcomes.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 52 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Eligible patients will be premenopausal, non-pregnant women presenting with a chief complaint of vaginal itch, malodor, discharge, pain, irritation or rash. We will accept patient history of being pre-menopausal as valid.
Exclusion Criteria:
- We will exclude women over 45 who have undergone hysterectomy. We will exclude patients who cannot be reached by phone for follow-up interviews. We will exclude pregnant women because of concerns that the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial vaginosis plays a role in pre-term labor prevention.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00503542
|United States, New York
|Family Health Center
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10458
|Principal Investigator:
|Matthew R. Anderson, MD, MSc
|Montefiore Medical Center
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Matthew R. Anderson, MD, Montefiore Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00503542 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 17, 2007
|Last Updated:
|January 7, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):
Bacterial Vaginosis
Vaginal trichomoniasis
Vulvovaginal candidiasis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Genital Diseases, Female
Vaginal Diseases
14-alpha Demethylase Inhibitors
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Antifungal Agents
Antiparasitic Agents
Antiprotozoal Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Protein Synthesis Inhibitors
Radiation-Sensitizing Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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Joshua Ealy (center) hugs his cousin Jessica Morgan while celebrating his graduation from Vero Beach High School on Saturday morning at the Citrus Bowl. More than 600 students lined the field during the annual commencement.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Can You Make (real) Money Blogging?
Yes. Yes you can.
WARNING: there isn't a recipe here. I'm sorry. I've been getting lots of questions about making money through blogging, and figure the easiest way to get the info out there is to write a post. We'll be back to your regularly scheduled (well, sporadically scheduled--it's summer, after all--who are we kidding?!) slow cooker recipe in a day or two.
I do make money from my blogs, and I started making this money without spending *any* of my own money. Except for buying the food. I had to buy the food.
In 2007, I wasn't working. I quit my (super low-paying and ridiculously mind-numbing) job because the kids needed me home. I don't regret that decision at all, but there were a few very panic-stricken moments when I didn't know how we were going to make ends meet.
My friend Jenny offered me a job working from home for BlogHerads.com. I knew that in order to understand my job better, I should start a blog of my own. I wasn't interested in spilling too much of our family info out into the Internet, and only wanted to do this thing if it was going to make money for the family (this may be offensive to some, but it was honestly how I viewed it at the time).
{PS: I no longer work for BlogHerads. I worked for them for a little over a year, and quit when I began working on the first cookbook}
I chose to not buy a domain name. The crockpot365.blospot url still has the "oh no, you're using a BLOGGER blog?!?" stamp of disapproval. I also didn't buy a fancy camera or lighting--- at first.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't buy these things. I just didn't. Because I wanted to prove to myself (and my husband) that I could do this blogging thing without spending any of the family's money.
It did not take long to make money from this blog. I was PROMing the files this weekend and found a pay stub from April of 2008. That was only 4 months into the year, and the stub was for $211. I know that there are bloggers out there who have blogged for years who haven't seen that kind of money.
Was I/am I lucky? Yes. Absolutely. I have been tremendously lucky and I am so very grateful for the opportunity to make money at home in my pajamas while caring for my children.
But I also view this site as a job, and as a source of information and inspiration to those who 1) like crockpotting, 2) eat gluten free, 3) need help planning meals for their families.
I like helping people. I truly believe if you find a tightly-focused niche where you are providing quality content that people search for (through google) that is both helpful and interesting, you will do well.
I also have an entrepreneurial side to my personality. I like to create things, and I like thinking of ways to build content/businesses. If you question any of my friends, they'll tell you that I am the happiest when in the midst of a huge project. If I'm not busy, I get frustrated and start making up stuff to do. That's just who I am.
I'm going to link to some posts I wrote on my other blog last year that might be of some help.
The Business of Blogging (part 1)
Figuring Out Your Internet Voice
Writing for Search Engines Doesn't Mean Selling Your Soul
Is Self-Esteem Tied Into Site-Meter?
Social Media and Time-Management (an oxymoron?)
Full listing of my "can you make money blogging?" series (the above links are linked again with others)
I don't know it all. I am not going to even remotely pretend I know it all. This site has led to three book deals in two years, and through the ad revenue and affiliate links (Amazon is the only one I use thus far) I'm pretty confident that I'll no longer need to look for a "real" job once the kids are fully in school.
That said, there's a lot more that I could be doing with my sites to make them more profitable. I need to better organize the food categories, I know. I need to add a gluten free/casein free tag. I need to get the archives on TotallyTogetherJournal.com updated. I need to work on stephanieodea.com and find a way to wade through the mountainous piles of email I get so my buddy Bob doesn't send me icky emails (Hi, Bob! Sorry for the delay in getting back to you!). I'm not a good facebook or twitter person, and am looking into launching a messageboard so you can write back and forth to each other with recipe questions since I'm not able to be on the computer 24/7.
But these things take time, and the kids are only kids once. There is plenty of time to have a career, but there is only a limited amount of time when the kids are still drooly and goofy and like having me around.
41 comments:
- Michelle (What's Cooking Blog) said...
Thanks for sharing this, Steph. I feel that many bloggers keep their gems of info close to their chests. I am one of those bloggers who doesn't earn now what you made even in the beginning. But I need to change that, especially since I have my first book coming out in May (The Whole Family Cookbook). I am pretty sure, like you, that my book deal (along with my recent invitation to the White House!) was because of the brand that I have built through my blog. I think I am ready to do what it takes...Thanks for reminding me :) xox M.
- August 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- DessertForTwo said...
I really like this post. It's great for new bloggers like me. I appreciate the help and insight. You are blessed to be able to stay home, do what you love, and make money from it! Isn't that the American dream?
- August 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- Stephanie O'Dea said...
Hi Michelle! I can NOT wait for your cookbook's release! I'm so proud of you.
you're doing a great job. Who you are as a real person needs to come first. xoxo
DessertForTwo, I'm happy to help. I realize that I was kind of vague in regards to the income coming in now, and that was at Adam's request. His wishes have to come first, too! ;-)
- August 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM
- Debbi Does Dinner Healthy said...
Great information!! I want to focus on my recipes but I do want to make money on it if I am able to. I've been doing okay but I so need to learn more. I've read most of your posts and have used many of the tips. Thanks again!!
- August 9, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- EG said...
Steph, when you first posted about the business of blogging on your other blog I thought it was fascinating!
That's a big part of the reason I'm a PW fan - I think all her "I'm just a dope in the country typing on my computer" is a very good schtick. She is savvy as heck! And I was so impressed to learn that you are, too.
- August 9, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- marilyn said...
Yes, always remember there is a limited time when the kids like having you around. Hang onto that when you feel pulled away from them. One day, they will be gone and you will have so much time to do other things. Hugs.
- August 9, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Sweet and Savory said...
Stephanie, thank you so much for this post. I am still trying to work on a cookbook deal (gotten rejected twice now)...but still plugging away, looking for agents. I also just signed up for Amazon, thanks for the information!!!
- August 9, 2010 at 4:11 PM
- Stephanie O'Dea said...
Debbi, I'm happy to help.
EG, Ree is wonderful, I love her. She is also a very savvy business woman!
absolutely, Marilyn. I'm so lucky to have these kids.
Sweet and Savory, do not give up. At some point I'll post all my rejects. It took dozens (maybe 60? eeps!) rejects to find my agent, and then years of rejects to find the publisher for the Totally Together book. And then that fell through after the contract was signed!
patience, it's quite the virtue! :-)
- August 9, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- Vanessa said...
Thanks for the information! I started a food blog recently of easy recipes and honestly wasn't doing it for the money. I wanted a way to keep track of my recipes and share easy recipes with other busy folks out there! Of course making some extra cash never hurts=) I love your site and you inspired me to start using my crockpot after years of it collecting dust!
- August 9, 2010 at 5:03 PM
- Michele said...
Thanks for being so down to earth, I appreciated your comments and found them very helpful.
- August 9, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Alana, Author of Domestically Challenged said...
Thank you for sharing this - it is VERY helpful info!
- August 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM
- Dina said...
Thank you for sharing this! I'm sure if I even get popular it will be helpful! Right now my blogs are just for fun. But who doesn't dream that someday they'll have a huge and profitable blog?
- August 9, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Mine for the Making said...
I for one, love your blog. I am sure you hear/read that often. I entered blogland in Jan of this year (i am still a newbie) and your blogs are one of the first ive followed.
Thank you so much for sharing that info specifically. It's very helpful to a young working mother who so desperately wants to stay home with her child/future children. dont get me wrong...unlike you did, i LOVE my job (teacher) and i do have great benefits when it comes to time off. but I do miss out on a lot 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, 9 months a year. I have always loved writing, art, creating, working with my hands, teaching...so i think my blog is a creative outlet for me...a sort of therapy that is done when the rest of the house is sleeping :) making money doing it would only be a plus...and something helpful when and if I am able to stay home.
thank you for the tips, inspiration and the hope :)
Kara @ mine for the making
- August 9, 2010 at 7:19 PM
- thegirlwiththeplan said...
I had to read this post after seeing the title. My husband and I make our entire living on blogging, and other internet marketing. We don't live a flashy life, but some how make the same amount of money as when my husband worked full time as an attorney. When he left a legal career to "work in the basement on his computer" people gave us all sort of looks, and asked all sorts of questions.
It is not easy to make real money, but it can be done. I think most people think it is not work and we are just watching daytime television all day, but we put in 50 hour weeks just like a regular job.
The flexibility and time with family though really make it the best life.
- August 9, 2010 at 8:17 PM
- Connie said...
I love to hear people say blogging can wait, the kid's youth can't. It's so true. Enjoy every minute of your children because before long they'll be gone and you'll have more blogging time than you every hoped for.
Enjoy a sloppy kiss for me. Mine are gone and I'm holding out hope for grandkids in the future!
You're wise and wonderful!
- August 9, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Crystal said...
Great tips! Love it!
Three of my kids are still little, two are in school. I too want to make money at my blog... just keepin' it real and honest.
I keep telling myself to be patient... patience can wait for anything.
I realized women really were making money at this whole blogging thing last summer watching Oprah (and eating bon-bons of course). Then I found your site and PW's site... and thought there is money out there- I just need to figure out a way to get it into my pocket as well... finding my voice and telling my story. Surely someone else is the imperfect mommy like me and does not want to feel alone.
And you're right- the kids are only young once... and soon we will no longer be cool playmates to them!
- August 9, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Tomomi said...
Thank you for sharing your experience and insight. You answered many of the questions I have as a new blogger!
- August 10, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Gina @ MoneywiseMoms said...
I am so glad to hear your honesty! There's a lot of bloggers out there who think it's awful to be blogging to provide for your family, and while I actually started my blog to help others (mainly my friends and family), I quickly saw the potential and now make a very good income considering the few hours a week I put into it. I also think I (and you, it sounds like) have been able to create a job so that we don't have to return to the traditional workplace once the kids are older. You can blog on a flexible schedule, still attend the kids' field trips and be there afterschool--it's a win win!
I read you from the beginning of YSW's first year and was thrilled to see you grow and succeed. By staying so focused on a single topic and schedule, you had a clear vision and plan, which helps a lot. I think that if you're going to monetize, you need to have some kind of "plan," at least know what you niche/focus is and stick to it.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- LynnMarie said...
Thank you so much for such great advice. You are so kind to share. Sounds like you are living the American Dream.
- August 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- Melissa said...
I don't blog or have any desire to, but it's nice you are so open and honest about things. I'm thankful for your blog and cookbook. You do provide a service and should be paid for it. There is nothing offensive about doing what you love and providing for your family. It's a dream of most people! Without you I never would have tried fish in the crockpot. For that alone I'm grateful. ;)
- August 10, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- Deanna said...
I'm usually a lurker here - pilfering recipes for the weekend and reading everyone else's comments! I just have to say that I love this post. It's honest and it's also inspiring. And I love that you're not afraid to be real about the fact that your family comes first. Great job!
- August 11, 2010 at 6:49 AM
- Miss M.J. Ma'am said...
I'm in the first stage of wanting to start a food blog......thanks for the info, you make it real!
Don't know if I have what it takes, but I will take all this and see what happens. I've been a lurker for awhile, and love your site!
Good luck to you, I think you have this nailed down!!
- August 11, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Alex said...
This is great information. I am not trying to make $ at this point with my 2 blogs, they are just my creative outlet. I have thought that in the future, when I am no longer homeschooling and my children are grown, I would love to make money from home.
- August 12, 2010 at 6:07 PM
Thank you so much for this blog! I came upon it recently. I cook twice-monthly meals for 25-40 low-income seniors at a community center (using a kitchen that has no oven or stove, but several donated large-volume slow cookers). Your recipes are a godsend because I quickly ran out of ideas! I generally x5 the recipe to feed our hungry folks, and the food usually gets great reviews. Another amazing thing is that several of our seniors are gluten-free, and your recipes mean I don't have to adapt anything! Thank you!!
- August 13, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Nan Sheppard said...
*sigh...* You are my hero!
I use your slowcooking cookbook all the time, by the way. Two thumbs up. I did a review on my site and even sold one or two through Amazon! that's, uh, six cents or something.
I keep thinking I can make my site into a proper money maker. I'm not sure what I want to do.
- August 14, 2010 at 5:20 AM
- Christina Jeanne said...
These are great ideas. I have to check those sites out. I tried Ad sense and a lot of other things but never made any money. But, I really want to because I would love to become a professional blogger.
- August 14, 2010 at 10:11 PM
You have made the absolute right decision.
I had a baby 8 years ago, when my older two children were (cough) 16 and nearly 21!! And we've had a blast reliving parenting, but the "new improved version".
Most people don't get this chance, but I've learned a lot since the first two were little (and are now both finished with grad school).
For starters: All that hogwash about home school parents being control freaks was just that, hogwash.
We are happily homeschooling, and my child is happy, she has a mind of her own, and she is thriving. And I wish I had been brave enough to do this with the older two kids.
Sure they did well, but I practically lived at their schools. I was the room mother, the science fair mother, the garden mother, etc. Now, I get to do all of that, but mostly with just my child.
My husband's high power career is now slowing down, and he's realized how much he missed. He's passed up two big promotions this past year, because he LIKES his days to run our school!! He's a cool dad, and now drives the car pool, is involved in all our extra activities, and people don't ask me if I'm a single mom anymore!! He did have to shave his head so he's not asked if he's the "grandpa"!! Oh, well!!
I would encourage ANY Mom or Dad, you can never spend too much time with your kids, never. And no one gets to heaven and says "I should have spent more time at the office".
In the end, it's our family that are our friends, clear until the end. Make them your priority....and KUDOS to you for finding out how to do that and still be so young and cute!!
I love your web site, I've tried many recipes, and I cook at home nearly every meal (yup.....21 meals per week). We're healthier, happier, thinner, and we like the food! What's not to love!
- August 15, 2010 at 12:17 AM
- pumpkinscales said...
I Love this post...it motivated me to finally start my own blog...yay! Thanks for the information!
- August 18, 2010 at 7:00 AM
- John & Suman said...
I LOVE your blog! Thanks for being here for to help me make delicious meals for my family (I use your recipies 3-4x a week!). Keep it up!! I am here to support you!!
- August 19, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Karen said...
Steph, thanks so much for this post. I started out with a cooking blog, but realized there were so many that it really wasn't the niche I wanted to pursue. But I do private tutoring and have so much to say on THAT subject that I added a blog to my tutoring website. I am still working on getting it fully functional. But it is something I am passionate about. My hubby has been battling cancer for the last couple of years, and has finally made the decision to stop working and go on disability, so it is now up to me to really try to boost my income. And I have decided one way to do that is through my website. He is going to be the "house hubby" and I am going to devote my time to my tutoring and website. I really loved the things you had to say about blogs so thanks so much for that. I am now going to go read the links to your other articles on the the subject.!
- August 21, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Nikki said...
Thank you so much for the information! I am only an occasional reader of your blog, but I always find reading it enjoyable.
I have often thought of starting a blog of some sort, but I have no idea about what! I have so many interests and ideas, but I don't know if I have a tough-enough skin to just do it. Congratulations to you for having the guts, willpower, and tenacity to make a success of it!
- August 22, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Gayleg said...
Hi.. Steph.. I like this post on blogging. This is useful for me as I am struggling with blogging business. This post encourages me to work harder and remain committed. I hope I become successful like you..
- September 13, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- Shari Lynne @ Faithfilledfoodformoms.com said...
Hi Stephanie! I love your blog also!! Thank you for getting me into the rotation of your blogroll. I have so many things that I am passionate about so it's hard for me to pin things down to "a" niche. I also love that you are featuring "Blogging with Amy" It was her blog that I stumbled across and decided to give this whole blog thing a go. I LOVE it!!
Thanks again for a great post!
- October 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Thanks for this post. Its helped encourage me to try again. I've tried blogging before but was unorganized and became discourage. There are so many things I like to do, and so many things I like to share its hard to focus on just one.
- October 19, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Pat LaBarge said...
Thanks, Stephanie, for all the tips, making money with blogging! I am new at blogging, oldie at cooking. I need to use your ideas on making money. As to the slow cooker, I have never used one, but a friend keeps telling me that I should. Your blog has convinced me far more than she did. Thanks!
- October 31, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Tammi said...
Hi Stephanie! I saved your site under my favorites way back when and I've recently started my own blog. mommasmeals.wordpress.com and I've been asked for more crock pot recipes so I went searching through my favorites and here you are! Your view is wonderful. I love being home taking care of my family and I also LOVE cooking and writing, now if I can just make some money from it LOL...we all have to start somewhere right? Thanks again!
- November 16, 2011 at 4:11 AM
- myork said...
Thanks for the great info! I have no problem with people making money from blogs, especially when they are up front about it. I have greatly enjoyed your site and put your cookbooks on my Amazon wishlist. I also recommend your site any time I get a chance because I think it's awesome. Some day, perhaps I will find my niche and become a rich and famous blogger too ;)
- November 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Stephanie O'Dea said...
@myork, thank you for your kind words, support, and vote of confidence. I'm certainly not rich though--- :-)
but thank you. have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
- November 22, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- Stephanie O'Dea said...
or famous...
just content. :-0
- November 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Nancy said...
Just stumbled across your site for a cheese fondue recipe and of course, kept on reading. It's my downfall, reading OPBs (Other People's Blogs)! I write a zillion wedding blogs and got started because I was trying to file ideas for my daughter's wedding. Five years later... I'm in it for the long haul!Of course since I'd divided all my 'blogs' up as though they were files, one diy blog, one flowers, one cakes, etc. I need to pull them all together into a few larger blogs. And maybe someday take it all to wordpress...maybe. But I'm also a 'blogger' person. At my age it's harder to change! LOL Nah, really, am a young 60 this May. So anyone looking for wedding blogs can find mine under a search for WDW(Wedding Day Weekly) although I'm beginning to think I should have done weddings 365 days a year! Since that's how often I blog!
- February 24, 2013 at 8:58 AM
- Lisa Middendorf said...
Thanks for sharing this I just want to say one of the things I love about your blog is that you are real, its not some perfect, super mommy thing.
You rock and help the rest of us to feel like "hey I'm ok, life happens."
- July 1, 2013 at 4:49 PM
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BRASHER FALLS The incoming superintendent of the St. Lawrence Central School District has asked the Board of Education to consider developing a strategic plan that would guide the district.
Stephan J. Vigliotti Sr., who took over leadership of the district July 1, said the effort would involve all stakeholders, including representatives from the district and community.
The idea is its a yearlong process involving all constituents, he told board members this week. Its a road map for what we believe in and where we want our kids to end up at the end of the day.
As someone who is new to the district, Mr. Vigliotti said, the process would help not only the district, but also him as he gets accustomed to his new role. Its really good for a new person to become more familiar with the culture and involvement of the community, he said.
Over the course of the year, the districts mission and vision would be reviewed and discussed, its core values would be discussed and adjustments would be made to the plan.
After the groups go through with a facilitator, the process is presented to the board. Then the work starts on developing strategic goals for the school, Mr. Vigliotti said.
As the board develops goals for students, it would look at not only the educational aspect, but also the social role the school plays in development of students. He said the board would want to address areas such as test scores and the social activities it would want students involved with. The result would be strong recommendations on best practices, he said.
When youre done, you have a plan that can guide the boards decisions and teachers actions in the development of students, what is most important to us, he said.
Administrators and board members then can have a monthly and annual look at where the district stands based on the goals that were set.
It ends up being the groups documents. Its consensus built. Its been very successful in previous instances, the superintendent said.
Mr. Vigliotti said that someone other than a district administrator or Board of Education member should act as the facilitator for the process and that would cost approximately $20,000, which he conceded was a lot of money.
However, the work would be aidable through the St. Lawrence-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services, he said, meaning the cost to the district would be $4,000.
Thats not a lot of money in the big picture of things, he said.
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Since then, Emirates' standing has grown to that of Official Worldwide Partner, giving the airline sponsorship rights to all major ICC tournaments, including the ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, and ICC World Twenty20. Emirates' partnership also extends to the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers, ICC Under-19 World Cup, ICC Intercontinental Cup, and the ICC Women's World Cup.
Most recently, Emirates' sponsorship of the 2012 World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka saw the airline support a number of initiatives in the local market including the Murali Cup, a pioneering, community-focussed schools tournament that brings together youth players from diverse backgrounds across Sri Lanka to share their joy of cricket and help those less fortunate.
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FastMail supports the internet standard XMPP (Jabber) protocol to allow chatting and instant messaging between FastMail users and many other chat services.
To use the chat service, you'll need to install an XMPP client and set it up to access the FastMail servers. There is currently no access to the chat service through our web interface.
There are many free XMPP clients available. A fairly complete list is available on the XMPP website, but we recommend:
Once you install a chat client, you need to set it up to access the FastMail server. This is slightly different for each client, but most will ask you for the following values:
|Your full FastMail username, including the domain, unless you are asked to enter the domain separately.
|Your FastMail password
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If your client only supports old-style SSL/TLS on connection, you can use port 5223 with SSL/TLS (not STARTTLS) enabled.
XMPP supports the concept of a chat roster. That is a list of people you have authorised to be able to chat with you, and these contacts are usually listed by your chat client when you connect.
These contacts can be separated into different groups. This is controlled by default by the client, and any changes made in one client are synchronised to other clients when they connect.
If you have a business or family account, then by default each person in the business/family will be able to see every other person in the business/family as part of their chat roster.
Most clients will keep a history of your chats for you. However, that means you need to be on the same machine, using the same client to read the log.
FastMail has the ability to log chats as emails to your account. We'll automatically create a "Chats" folder in your account, and file any chat logs into that folder. This makes it easy to see and search them from anywhere.
To enable chat logs:
From the "Logging type" drop-down menu, select "Email logs".
If you have a business or family account, and have created users with account names in your own domain, then you must set up the correct SRV records for your domain in order for chat to work.
If you host your DNS with FastMail then we will automatically set up the correct DNS records. We recommend this approach.
If you use an external DNS provider, you will have to manually set up SRV records through their DNS control panel. Unfortunately there are so many providers, we can't give explicit instructions for each one.
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By TERRY WILLISSun Advocate sports reporter
Losing three games put EU men in a position that they had to make every game count the rest of the way. This weekend in front of the home crowd, the team did just that as they beat both Southern and Northern Idaho to maintain their spot in second place in the Scenic West Athletic Conference. Friday night EU downed CSI 82-72. On Saturday it was more of the same with the Eagles coming out on top 78-73.
The Saturday match up was huge for EU. CSI is in first place and ranked 6th in the nation. A win also keeps CSI from owning the tie breaker if the two are even at the end of the season.
Both teams were playing great ball and keeping the game tight. Eastern held a slim four point lead at the end of the half.
Guards James Kinney and Trevor Bamgartner did a lot of damage to the Idaho team with solid shooting. Before the final period was half over CSI was down by only a point, but a pair of free throws by Jonathan Mills and an open jumper by Kinney put the Eagles top for good. Mills put up another double/double with 14 points and 11 rebounds.
The big man in the middle, Bryant Crowder blocked four shots while scoring 11 points. Kinney led the scoring with 19 and Bamgartner added 15. Eastern's inside game won the battle of the paint. They outscored CSI 36 to 20 under the hoop.
"This was a huge win for us," said Coach Brad Barton after the game. "Now we need to take care of business by beating NIC. These wins keep us in a great spot heading into the final round of play."
On Saturday James Kinney continued his hot shooting with 21 points as the Golden Eagles took out NIC. They started out slow, but turned it around midway through the first half as Neveij Walters came off the bench and blocked two shots.
That sparked a scoring run which gave Eastern some separation from North Idaho on the way to their sixth straight win.
A double/double by Brady Hurst helped seal the win as he scored 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Bryant Crowder accounted for all of the bench scoring with 14. Maxim Zakharov added 12.
This week EU begins the final sweep through their SWAC opponents with a weekend game in Rangely.
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Scientists working to help bats survive a devastating disease known as white nose syndrome that has decimated populations in the Northeast and beyond say a number of infected bats spent the winter in an abandoned Maine bunker. In an experiment aimed at finding alternative strategies for saving them, 30 little brown bats were taken from caves in Vermont and New York and transported to the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge in Limestone, Maine. And as Susan Sharon reports, the experiment shows early signs of success.
For more than two years, scientists have been trying to think of ways to save crashing populations of bat species, including decontaminating large caves known as hibernacula, sterilizing them or captively rearing them.
But captive rearing for a migrating mammal with a unique habitat that also hibernates is a challenge. Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge Assistant Manager Steve Agius says the bunkers have ideal conditions that are suitable for bats.
"They hold temperatures between 37 and 39 degrees Fahrenheit, and humidity generally is greater than 95 percent," he says. "So we contacted a number of state agencies - New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine - inquiring if they would be interested in the project. And, unfortunately, because so many states have lost so many bats from natural hibernacula, only Vermont and New York were able to commit to giving us bats for the project."
Of the 30 bats donated for the project, nine survived the winter. They were then transported back to Vermont and New York and released into the wild last week. Agius says scientists hope to improve those odds in the future.


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ScienceLogic is a market-leading Network Monitoring company. Since its founding in 2003, ScienceLogic's appliances have received numerous industry accolades, including being named "2013 Best Network Monitoring System on Earth" by InfoWorld. In addition, it recently received Best Interop for Monitoring and Management, Red Herring's Global Top 100, Deloitte's Fast 500 Technology, and the MSP World Cup awards. ScienceLogic's over 15,000 customers range from Service Providers, to large and small enterprises, and federal agencies. They include organizations such as CloudOps, Opus Interactive, Cisco Systems, Gannett Media, and the Social Security Administration.
ScienceLogic's physical or virtual appliances provide a single, integrated IT operations management solution, which in the words of an InfoWorld reviewer, "bring ultraflexible, ultrascalable, carrier-grade network monitoring to the enterprise." Unlike other solutions with multiple tools and modules that can require months to integrate and add layers of administrative complexity, their solution, EM7, is a single unified system that can be managed easily and deployed in less than one day. They support a broad array of APIs and datatypes, enabling them to monitor and manage virtually any device. ScienceLogic uses solid-state drives (SSDs) to achieve the highest performance and scalability required by the largest enterprises and Cloud providers. In step with its customers' needs, EM7 also offers TrueTM Multi-Tenancy for distributed, Cloud-based monitoring and management. And, ScienceLogic's product relies on MySQL for its ever-growing data storage and management needs.
Figure 1: ScienceLogic Dashboard with SLA Compliance (click image to enlarge)
ScienceLogic requires a database to store its configuration data and all of the data that is collected from EM7's monitoring agents. For ScienceLogic's larger customers, that's two terabytes (2TBs) of data on average. Their smallest customers may put the entire solution onto a single server while the largest can use up to 100 or more servers. When ScienceLogic first developed their product ten years ago, they wanted a database that could deliver on their primary value propositions of easy deployment and administration, coupled with extreme scalability, performance and low cost. They found that in MySQL and have been using it ever since.
Figure 2: Architecture of the ScienceLogic Platform
Ease of use, high performance and scalability, and low cost remain the primary reasons for ScienceLogic's continued reliance on MySQL. "MySQL has provided us with solutions for our growing data needs. We've never found a competitor that can match it," said Matt Luebke, ScienceLogic Chief Software Architect. ScienceLogic has been approached by a number of Big Data / NoSQL vendors, but decided against using a NoSQL-only solution. Said Matt, "There are times when you really need SQL. NoSQL can't show me the top 10 users of CPU, or show me the bottom ten consumer of hard disk. That's why we weren't interested in changing and why we are very interested in MySQL 5.6. It's great that it can do relational and key-value using memcached."
ScienceLogic's product and its MySQL database must scale and perform. Their larger customers use EM7 to monitor and manage up to 20,000 devices and beyond, each of which generates a steady stream of data, and a workload that is 85% write and only 15% read. On a large system, the MySQL database:
Not surprisingly, the product team's primary focus has been on improving scalability. It was obvious to them that MySQL had the same goal with MySQL 5.5 and 5.6. By simply updating MySQL from 5.1 to 5.5, and without making any application-specific tuning adjustments, they saw tremendous performance gains. Because EM7 is so heavily write-intensive, moving log-flushing from a main process to a background process in MySQL 5.5 had a big impact on their performance.
"We told our customers they could add more and more devices with the result that some of the largest use us with over 20,000 devices. With MySQL 5.5, we haven't had any problems. When our customers have problems, we get calls. Not getting calls is a huge benefit, " said Matt.
The ScienceLogic team is very cautious about putting only very stable technology into their product, and according to Matt, MySQL has been very stable: "We've been using MySQL for 10 years and we have never had any reliability problems. Ever."
Key to EM7's ease of use and lower TCO is the fact that MySQL can be "silently" installed, and administered entirely by the embedding application. "We try to provide no-hands administration, or administer through our tuning and coding rather than through a DBA. That MySQL can do this is one of the biggest values it provides to its customers," said Matt.
Due to MySQL's popularity and active community, the ScienceLogic team has found that whatever they've wanted to do with MySQL, there is a high likelihood that someone else has already done it, and that they can simply, for example, reuse the same query. This has been a tremendous cost- and time-savings benefit.
MySQL has and continues to provide the database solution that ScienceLogic and its customers require. Matt summarized as follows: "MySQL is integral to our product. It pushes configuration data from one server to another, providing the glue that keeps everything together. There is a major MySQL release every two years, and frequent patch releases. There's a huge install base and a great support team. And, MySQL scales exactly to what the customer requires. We've never found a competitor that can match it."


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The Carbon County Chamber of Commerce will host a second candidates forum Oct. 20 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the county school district office in Price.
The schedule will include:
â¢Session one will feature Carbon County Board of Education candidates. Election hopefuls are district one, Barry Deeter, unopposed; district two, Debra Blackburn and Maurine Tanner; and district three, Jeffrey Richens, unopposed.
Session two will feature the county commission candidates. Election hopefuls vying for one open commission seat are Democrat John Jones and Republican Gerald Lloyd. In the second race, Republican Jae Potter is challenging incumbent Democrat Mike Milovich's bid for re-election
On Oct. 11, the scouts will be celebrating 100 years of standing for honesty, integrity and high moral conduct as well as outdoor and leadership skills.
The event, which will take place at the old Durrant School property just north of the College of Eastern Utah football field is open to all local scout troops, teams, crew stations and community members.
A $1 donation can be purchased from any cub scout or given at the event for admission.
The exhibit will showcase scouting skill and leadership and introduce prospective scouts to the purpose of scouting. It will also remind the community just what the troops mean to our community and our country.
The College of Easter Utah student government will be hosting a comedy night at the Geary Theatre on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. for the general public.
The event, which is free to the public, will feature an impov group as well as stand up comedians.
Anyone interested in attending can contact the college or simply attend on the night of the event.
Hopefully, residents will come out and see a difficult art form at it's most raw. As Wikipedia aptly put, stand up comedy is difficult to master because the performer is alone on the stage and at the mercy of the audience. The comedian, if successful, is typically required to gauge the mood and taste of his or her audience which can differ from show to show.


text: Katherine, 4, holds a bunch of flowers made from miscellaneous items (tissue, grocery bags, plastic tablecloths, etc.) that will be placed in various cemeteries throughout the area in the Sun Advocate's "No Grave Left Unadorned" campaign for Memorial Day. The goal is to place a flower on every plot in Carbon County - literally thousands. For more information on how individuals, families, schools and other organizations can help, call Jenni, 637-0732.


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Carefully restored, atmospheric 19th-century courtyard of working people's houses
An atmospheric glimpse into the lives of the ordinary people who helped make Birmingham an extraordinary city.
On a fascinating guided tour, step back in time at Birmingham's last surviving court of back to backs; houses built literally back-to-back around a communal courtyard.
Moving from the 1840s through to the 1970s, discover the lives of some of the former residents who crammed into these small houses to live and work. With fires alight in the grates, and sounds and smells from the past, experience an evocative and intimate insight into life at the Back to Backs.
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As well as offering tours and workshops, we offer holiday cottages for anyone after a short stay in the city.
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WARWICK – Upper Deck Post 86/14 skipper Steve Reynolds Sr. admitted before his squad's final regular-season tilt against Senerchia Post 74 early Monday night that he'd be a bit shorthanded, as four or five of his players were home nursing minor injuries.
"It's a long season, and those things are going to happen," he stated. "We're OK."
The club was much better than that after recent Cumberland High grad and southpaw Dylan Boisclair scattered five hits and three walks while mowing down a half-dozen Senerchia batters in a satisfying 3-1 victory at Hendricken High's Ray Pepin Field.
With the decision, Upper Deck not only finished the campaign with a stellar 17-5 record (24-7 overall), but also captured the R.I. American Legion League's North Division championship.
As soon as it ended, Reynolds Sr. and his assistants – among them his son, pitching coach Jay Rainville, etc. – led their troops to the right side of the infield for a little post-game meeting.
It included several rounds of applause from the guys.
"I just told them, 'Hey, we're division champs,' and I congratulated them for what they accomplished," the manager explained. "That's what we played for all year, winning the division and earning a first-round bye. Now, I believe we're automatically in the (state's) Final Eight.
"What was nice about it was the kids went out and won (the crown) themselves; they didn't have to back in to it," he added. "When I took over during the winter, the kids worked very hard, worked well with the coaching staff and responded to what we were teaching. They all take baseball very seriously, and that's what we were preaching from the outset.
"Dylan put forth an outstanding effort. When he gets ahead of the hitters, he's dominant. If he did get himself into a jam, he worked himself out of it. He was a bulldog out there. He was spotting his fastball well, and he's stick in some sliders occasionally. Again, he was just a bulldog."
American Legion games are not won by pitching alone. Brody Santilli paced the offense, going 2-for-4 with a double, a RBI and a run scored, while Dante Baldelli finished 2-for-3 with a RBI; Sam Brito 2-for-3; and Justin Conti 1-for-2 with a run.
In fact, Reynolds Sr.'s final trio in the lineup – including No. 7 Matt Billington, No. 8 Conti and No. 9 Baldelli – combined for four hits, and RBI and two runs scored. Between the three, they went 4-for-8.
Only two starters failed to record a hit, but Pete Travers collected an RBI, and Josh Brodeur reached after being struck by a pitch.
"The bottom of our order was tremendous (Monday)," he noted. "Dante played a helluva game, and Justin was solid, too. As for Matt, he's our captain; he's our leader on and off the field, so I'm really proud of those guys."
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Righty starter Anthony Cofone took the loss after surrendering 10 hits and three earned runs while fanning just one in six frames. Mike Webb hurled a flawless seventh and struck out one for Senerchia, which fell to 14-7 with one game left on its slate.
Post 86-14 didn't need long to grab a 1-0 advantage. In the top of the first, Santilli drove a two-bagger to the right-center gap, then took third on Doug Harrison's bloop, opposite-field hit to short right. Travers plated Santilli with a sacrifice liner to right before Tyler Calabro reached on an infield single. Sam Brito followed with a hit up the middle, but center fielder Rob Henry threw out Harrison attempting to score, catcher Gian Martellini applying the tag.
It looked as if Senerchia (made up entirely of Hendricken varsity and JV players) may knot it in the back half of the second when Martellini whacked a ground hit up the middle, Nick Boland (2-for-3) walked and both moved into scoring position on Brady Chant's sacrifice bunt.
Boisclair then walked Sam Boulanger to fill the bases, but he whiffed John Willette. At that point, Kevin Sutyle lofted a high foul down the third-base line, but Conti made a superlative, over-the-shoulder, sliding catch with his back to the plate to end the frame.
Reynolds Sr.'s crew added two more in the fourth to cushion its lead to 3-0. Brito knocked a one-out single to right-center, but was thrown out at second on Billington's fielder's choice. Conti immediately drove a hit to left-center, taking second on Henry's bobble and pushing Billington to third, and the latter scored on Baldelli's screaming single up the middle.
Cofone then struck Brodeur with an offering to juice the bags once more, and Santilli poked a seeing-eye ground hit just past second base to plate Conti.
Senerchia appeared ready to bite into the deficit when Boland crushed a leadoff double to deep left-center, but Boisclair got Chant looking, forced Boulanger to ground back to the hill and fanned Willette on a called third strike.
Boisclair wasn't as fortunate in the sixth. Martellini started off the Post 74 flurry with a single to left, Boland did the same to center and Chant knocked a hit to right to load the bases – with no one out. Boulanger flew out to right, and Willette reached on a fielder's choice grounder to short to knock in Martellini.
With Boland and Willette at the corners, though, Boisclair got Sutyle to ground to second.
As for the bottom of the seventh, Baldelli made a spectacular driving snag of Henry's sinking liner, Harrison made a superb stop of Matt Murphy's skidding grounder to first and Tyler Calabro kept his balance in grabbing Mike King's bouncer up the middle.
"The guys were great, top to bottom," Reynolds Sr. offered as his players began walking off the diamond.
Just like that, he yelled to the guys out front, "Hey, back here! We're walking off this field as a team."
Seconds later, he issued this demand: "Don't forget. Practice tomorrow at 5 at Lincoln High."
That stated, he turned back, flashing a satisfied grin.
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