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GENERIC NAME: INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINE LIVE - NASAL (IN-floo-EN-za VYE-rus vak-SEEN)
BRAND NAME(S): FluMist
Medication Uses | How To Use | Side Effects | Precautions | Drug Interactions | Overdose | Notes | Missed Dose | Storage
USES: This medication is a vaccine against influenza (flu) virus. It is also called the seasonal flu vaccine. The vaccine works by helping the body produce immunity (protection) that will prevent you from getting the flu or lessen the seriousness of the infection. As with any vaccine, it may not fully protect everyone who receives it. Since different types of flu viruses cause infection every flu season, usually a new vaccine is produced and given for each flu season.This form of the vaccine is given through the nose and is recommended for healthy children and adults. In the U.S., it is approved for use in people aged 2 to 49 years. In Canada, it is approved for use in people aged 2 to 59 years.This form of the vaccine is not recommended for people with a history of severe asthma or active wheezing. Consult your doctor for more details.
HOW TO USE: Read the Vaccine Information Statement available from your health care provider before receiving the vaccine. If you have any questions, consult your health care provider.If this vaccine is the first flu vaccination of a child aged 2 through 8 years, the child should receive a second dose (usually at least 1 month after the first dose). If a child in this age group has received this vaccine in a previous flu season, only one dose is given. Patients aged 9 years and older (including adults) should receive only one dose for each flu season.To receive this vaccine, sit or stand upright with your head tilted back. A health care professional will spray the medication into each nostril, one at a time.
SIDE EFFECTS: Cough, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, fever, headache, chills, or tiredness may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.If your doctor has directed you to receive this vaccine, remember that he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.Contact your doctor for medical advice about side effects. The following numbers do not provide medical advice, but in the US, you may report side effects to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) at 1-800-822-7967. In Canada, you may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
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DRUG INTERACTIONS: See also Precautions section.Your doctor or pharmacist may already be aware of any possible drug interactions and may be monitoring you for them. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with your doctor or pharmacist first.Avoid taking certain drugs that fight flu virus (e.g., amantadine, oseltamivir, rimantadine) when receiving this vaccine. If you are currently taking any of these drugs, you should not receive this vaccine until at least 48 hours after stopping treatment. Do not take any of these drugs until at least 2 weeks after receiving this vaccine.Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all prescription and nonprescription products you may use, especially of: other vaccines, other products applied in the nose, drugs that weaken the immune system (e.g., cyclosporine, tacrolimus, certain anti-cancer drugs, corticosteroids such as prednisone).This document does not contain all possible interactions. Therefore, before using this product, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all the products you use. Keep a list of all your medications with you, and share the list with your doctor and pharmacist.
OVERDOSE: If overdose is suspected, contact a poison control center or emergency room immediately. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center.
NOTES: Keep all medical and laboratory appointments.
MISSED DOSE: This vaccine is usually given once for each flu season. If the doctor prescribes a second dose (for a first vaccination in a child aged 2 through 8 years), and the child misses the second dose, contact the doctor to set up a new appointment.
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InfraStruXure InRow and NetworkAir PA take a more efficient and flexible approach to datacenter cooling
InfoWorld | Jul 16, 2007
The tried and true methods of prepping a datacenter haven't changed much over the years. You find a massive air conditioner or three, bring in lots of juice, and make sure there aren't any sprinkler heads in the ceiling. But although this is the way it's always been done, APC is betting that it's not the way it will be done in the future — except for the sprinkler heads.
Across the globe, network and server administrators tend to keep light jackets or sweaters in their cubicles to provide some warmth when they have to spend time in the server room. This is because those massive air conditioners placed in the ceiling, the floor, or along the walls are pumping out 60-degree air and keeping the whole room frigid. It's a solution that certainly works but is obviously wasteful. Why keep the whole room at 68 degrees when the only place you need air that cold is at the front of the racks?
Enter APC's new in-row cooling solutions. Rather than sitting on the sidelines and blowing cold air everywhere, they're placed between the racks, where they push the cold right where it needs to be: directly into the servers. By going right to the heat source, in-row solutions reduce waste, cut the energy bill, and eliminate the need for the «datacenter parka.»
Testing and evaluating these units is generally difficult to pull off because they're expensive to install. However, I just recently finished building two production datacenters that make use of APC in-row cooling, and I've seen the deployment of these units through from start to finish.
APC's InfraStruXure InRow cooling solutions come in two forms: the ACSC100, which is a stand-alone air conditioner built into a half-width rack form factor, and the ACRC100, which is identical in size but relies on an external water chiller unit rather than an internal compressor to provide cooling. In addition to these in-row models, I also tested APC's NetworkAir PA4000, an R2D2-like portable cooling unit that can be placed just about anywhere for spot-cooling purposes. All three of these products are very capable, but they're designed for different applications and budgets.
InfraStruXure InRow SC
The ACSC100 is APC's compressor-based in-row unit, designed to be used where access to roof-mounted chillers isn't possible or where the heat loads aren't very high. These units incorporate an internal compressor and evaporator, drawing in hot air from the equipment racks and pumping out cold air through three front-mounted fans. The ACSC100's exhaust and intake ducts come right out of the top of the unit, and installation typically involves routing those ducts to the plenum space above the room. Handily, APC provides the flexible ductwork and a prefit panel with mounting hardware to handle this task. In most scenarios, in which the datacenter room has a suspended acoustic-tile ceiling, the panel will fit perfectly above the unit, and the exhaust ducts can be mounted 10 inches above the intake. The finished installation certainly looks interesting, especially when the ducts are vibrating during normal operation.
Installation of the ACSC100 is simple as far as air conditioners go. The tricky part is ensuring there's a drain within reach of the unit's condensate hose; without that piece of the puzzle, the game's over. Assuming you have the necessary drain, just put the unit next to a heat source, fit the ducts to the ceiling panel, run them into the top of the unit, place the temperature sensor in the front of an adjacent rack, and connect the L6-20 plug to a power source — and you're done.
Inside the ACSC100's lower rear panel is a number of data connections as well as the power supplies, the condensate drain, and the power input connections. I found the proximity of the condensate drain to power and data cabling a bit troubling, but that hasn't proven to be a problem in several months of normal operation. Power inputs are located both at the top and the bottom of the unit, so you can run the power from the floor or the ceiling without extension cabling — a nice touch. The cutout in the bottom of the unit, however, is a bit on the small side, so running the power from below can require some cajoling of the cable. Other cutouts in the bottom of the unit can be used to route the temperature sensor cable and a network cable for access to the management interface.
The operation of the ACSC100 and ACRC100 is inextricably tied to the rack temperature sensor, which must be placed in front of a heat source in an adjacent rack. The unit constantly monitors the temperature of intake air into the rack, adjusting the cooling output to maintain a configurable temperature set point, so placement of the sensor is of paramount importance. You'll want to place it in front of the hottest piece of gear in order to ensure that cooling levels are properly maintained. There is only the single sensor, though obviously nearby racks are affected by the cooling. In a typical installation with several ACSC100s, you'll need to do some tweaking of cooling set points and thresholds not only to get the desired cooling level throughout a row of racks, but also to get each unit working at a normal level rather than one unit running at capacity while another runs at 30 percent.
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The nominal cooling output of the ACSC100 is listed at 7kW, but I've seen these units push upward of 8kW when taxed to their limit. The three fans can produce a maximum of 1,200 CFM (cubic feet per minute) of air movement, and the lowest output air temperatures I've seen were 49 degrees Fahrenheit, although 58 to 62 degrees is more typical.
I have been running three ACSC100s in a 500-square-foot datacenter for the better part of three months, and they've been performing admirably. The Web-based management application is easy to use, and it provides a wealth of information on the current status of the unit. The management console is SNMP-enabled, so integration with centralized monitoring platforms is possible. In fact, I wrote several SNMP-based plug-ins for popular network monitoring packages to bring these units into the fold.
On the downside, when an ACSC sends out e-mail notifications, expect to get several per minute during the event. Also, although centralized authentication for the management application supports RADIUS, it does not support LDAP, which is a minor annoyance. This is true not only for APC's air conditioning units, but also for most of its network-enabled products, since they all use the same base management platform. I've posted instructions on integrating APC management cards and Microsoft Active Directory authentication via Microsoft's Internet Authentication Server on my blog.
For the price, the ACSC100s are very capable cooling units that can be easily deployed in hotspots or throughout an entire datacenter, but research into the HVAC systems used in the building are a mandatory step prior to purchase and installation. If the ACSC100s are right for the building and the room, they're definitely a good investment.
InfraStruXure InRow RC
To the casual observer, the ACRC100 looks identical to the ACSC100, but it's a completely different device. Where the ACSC100 is a self-contained air conditioner, the ACRC100 has no compressor, relying on an external chiller unit to deliver cold water through top- or bottom-fed piping. And whereas installing the ACSC100 is a snap, installing the ACRC100 requires skilled mechanical labor.
In addition to the chiller itself, the ACRC100 incorporates an external CDU (cooling distribution unit), essentially a large box containing pipe fittings and valves. Water from the chiller enters the CDU and flows through copper or plastic piping to each ACRC100. Water returning from the ACRC100 flows back into the CDU and on to the chiller unit, completing the circuit. APC recommends using flexible plastic piping, but the mechanical contractor doing the installation took one look at it and recommended more durable copper piping instead, at a minimal cost increase. The downside of copper piping is inflexibility; once piped, the ACRC100 cannot be moved, not even an inch.
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The installation in this case involved four ACRC100 units. The chiller that feeds them is a 21.5-ton roof-mounted unit that consistently delivers 45-degree water to each ACRC100, which then pumps out cold air via eight front-mounted fans. Hot air is pulled from the rear of the unit and dissipated into the return water, which is then passed back to the chiller to be rechilled. The ACRC100 can deliver more than three times the cooling output of the ACSC100 (up to 30kW), and the fans push more than twice the air — up to 2,900 CFM.
Operationally, the ACRC100s are managed much like the ACSC100s, using the same Web-based interface. Unlike the ACSC100s, multiple ACRC100s must be grouped into management realms, where they communicate with one another to dynamically alter cooling levels and output in a given row of racks or even throughout an entire datacenter.
Costs associated with the ACRC100s are significantly higher than with the ACSC100s, but the unit price is roughly the same. Expect chiller costs to run between $30,000 and $40,000, with installation running about the same. Plus, the complexities of an ACRC100 turn-up call for a trained technician will add to the overall cost.
Each ACRC100 is delivered with two L6-20 power whips, although only one is required. The other can be used to provide redundant power to the unit. Also, the ACRC100's power draw is low enough to be reliably administered through a large UPS system, providing cooling even during a power outage. Although the roof-mounted chiller is still subject to power loss, the cold water in the piping and CDU should be enough to maintain a high level of cooling output and heat rejection for quite some time.
Make no mistake, the ACRC100s pump out an amazing amount of cold air. Even a single unit could take care of a small server room all by itself. In the three months I've been running four ACRC100s, they've proven reliable and very cost-effective.
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At the low end of APC's air conditioning line are the NetworkAir PA units. I tested the larger of the two models, the PA4000. This unit is essentially a smaller version of the ACSC100, but in a portable package. Looking like a Shop-Vac on steroids, the PA4000 adheres to the same basic air-handling principles as the ACSC100, requiring that a single intake and exhaust duct be run to the plenum space. The management application (an older version of the software for the SC and RC units), however, is more limited; it allows for simple monitoring and basic configuration of notifications but doesn't permit changes to the unit's set points or other cooling parameters.
The NetworkAir PA can find a home anywhere that needs highly focused cooling or as a stopgap measure during datacenter AC maintenance. Given that the SC and RC units ride the edge of performance and that the failure of a single unit can quickly become a big problem, having the ability to rapidly deploy cooling to specific locations is a great insurance policy.
In my lab tests, it became clear that the NetworkAir PA is best suited for small rooms. With a maximum cooling output of 4kW, the PA just couldn't keep up with the cooling needs of the lab on its own, although it certainly tried. It's also not terribly useful in high-temperature situations. Although it can supply air roughly 20 degrees cooler than the intake air temperature, that doesn't help if the room's already 95 degrees Fahrenheit. For small spaces, the PA might fit the bill, but for anything beyond a single-rack server room, it's not a solution by itself.
The APC InfraStruXure InRow SC, InRow RC, and NetworkAir PA all deliver on the promise of effectively cooling only what needs cooling, while reducing energy costs. The air-cooling SC and water-cooling RC units can be integrated into traditional datacenters or deployed as the only cooling solutions in the room. The portable PA is a viable solution for small spaces and a great unit to have around for emergency backup. In-row cooling solutions have been widely regarded as a curiosity, but as datacenters become denser and energy bills rise, it's becoming clear that the days of traditional datacenter AC are numbered.


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Northland Heating and Cooling founder William J. Tinsky used to come home from his job as a chrome buffer for General Motors and, instead of resting from his labors, would do what he could to support his four children.
Northland Heating and Cooling founder William J. Tinsky used to come home from his job as a chrome buffer for General Motors and, instead of resting from his labors, would do what he could to support his four children.
He worked with a man who had a heating and cooling business while studying the trade in order to obtain a license of his own. Eventually, Tinsky got his license, bought a truck and, in 1966, began operating a heating and cooling business out of the garage of the family home in Forest Park.
"Thus the name, Northland Heating," said William C. Tinsky, the founder's son and now president of the firm.
About 35 years ago, William J. purchased property on Moon Road, just across Interstate 71 from Clintonville, and had a headquarters built for his growing enterprise. This included an iconic sign, identifying it as "Protech Services Northland Heating and Cooling," with a clock that, for decades, was clearly visible to motorists on I-71.
"People use that clock daily," William C. said last week.
Not so much any more.
"This is a freaking nightmare," Tinsky said.
On July 7, 2006, according to Ohio Department of Transportation District 6 communications manager Nancy Burton, "property owners received notification" of a proposed project that would extend a noise wall along I-71 in front of Northland Heating and Cooling. The following March 1, again according to Burton, "notification letters" regarding public meetings on March 14 and 21 were sent out about the extension of the sound wall.
Tinsky claims he never got any of them.
"We're pretty good about business and opening mail and reading it," he said.
"I don't have any knowledge of that," Burton said.
Bill Tinsky's "freaking nightmare" had begun.
Now, drivers on I-71 can catch glimpses of the Northland Heating and Cooling sign through two clear panels in the noise wall, but the busy yard of the business is totally obscured.
Tinsky said he had to pay $48,500 in order to get the clear panels installed and he's being asked to pay an additional $25,000 to go halves on extending the number of transparent panels in the wall by an additional three feet, as is the case at Calvary Temple Lighthouse to the north.
"In an effort to resolve this misunderstanding in what the noise wall was going to look like in front of Protech Northland and to provide additional visibility to the property, the Department of Transportation is willing to add additional clear panels in front of Protech Northland within the same limits of the 180-foot length," project engineer Andrew J. Opsitnik wrote in an April 26 letter to Tinsky. "The department is willing to split the additional cost, 50-percent each party, with Protech Northland to make this change."
"I'm not going to keep having an open checkbook," Tinsky said.
Instead of ODOT spending $25,000 for its portion of more clear panels in the noise wall, Tinsky said he asked for a maximum of $12,000 to increase the height of the sign.
"That was discussed with Mr. Tinsky and it was decided to go with the clear panels," Burton said.
She didn't say who made that decision, but Tinsky says it certainly wasn't him.
In a July 5 letter to ODOT District 6, Tinsky's attorney, Brent L. Baisden, wrote:
"First, Mr. Tinsky was assured that his freeway sign would be completely visible from the freeway. It is not. Approximately two feet of the bottom of Northland's freeway sign is presently blocked. ODOT has refused to compensate Northland for the expense of raising its freeway sign, which would cost approximately $8,000 to $12,000.
"Second, Mr. Tinsky (was) also assured that the Plexiglass wall would look just like the section of Plexiglass in front of the Lighthouse church, just north of Northland along I-71. However, Northland's panels are not as wide, causing the pillars to be closer and reducing visibility from the highway.
"In addition, the solid concrete panels are much taller," Baisden wrote. "Northland's lower panels are approximately 7 feet tall, while the lower panels at the Lighthouse church are approximately 3 feet. ODOT has agreed to split the cost of dividing the lower panel to increase visibility, but this is not acceptable."
"I've been backed into a corner here," Tinsky said. "ODOT, in its arrogance, said, 'Mr. Tinsky, we're ODOT. You're part of the right of way. We're going to do what we want.'
"I'm trying to be calm about this."
Northland Heating and Cooling specials used to be posted on the familiar sign.
"You've hurt my advertising," Tinsky said. "This is my livelihood. I don't know what it's going to do to people doing business with us, but, 'That's not my problem, Mr. Tinsky.' You get a little frustrated trying to get through the chain of command to see who might be sympathetic. It's just frustrating that nobody cares about the small businessman."
Asked to reply to Tinsky's allegations, Burton requested questions in writing, but then declined, in the main, to respond to specifics.
"I think I really want to kind of make two points, which I think is satisfactory," she said. "ODOT and Mr. Tinsky have been working together, communicating for several years, and we have tried to provide quality customer service and work with him on his needs.
"And I think that's sort of what I'm comfortable saying. I guess I and ODOT are respectful of the process. We negotiate and work with property owners, businesses, motorists, companies, the public, every day, and we're respectful that that is done one-on-one between the individual, the business and ODOT, and we had that with Mr. Tinsky, as we strive to have that with anyone or any business that has contact with ODOT."
The March 1, 2007, notification letter to property owners, which Tinsky says he never received, included a questionnaire asking if people wanted a noise wall and providing options for texture and examples of color, according to Burton.
"It's worth noting that of the questionnaires that were sent back to ODOT, nobody indicated that they didn't want a noise wall," she said. "That's pretty standard, actually."
Tinsky wonders why he had to shell out nearly $50,000 to get clear panels in front of his business, but the Calvary Temple Lighthouse got even greater visibility for, he said he was told by ODOT, no charge.
Several messages left with the church were not returned.
"That's something that was negotiated between ODOT and the church," Burton said. "You would have to contact the church. That doesn't have anything to do with Mr. Tinsky. That is another entity. That is a nonprofit worship group. I don't think Mr. Tinsky's business and a church are the same.
"Mr. Tinsky can obviously do and speak what he wants I've shared with you what I think I'm comfortable talking about regarding this process."
Looking glumly out of the window of his office at the sound wall a short distance away, Tinsky said he feels as if he's behind the walls of a prison.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Lessons in Quit
(CHICAGO, IL – January 27, 2011) Chicagoans were treated to a couple lessons in quit this week.
First, there was the phantom knee ligament tear that caused quarterback Jay Cutler to watch on the sidelines as his Bears teammates went down to defeat against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship game. (He was seen browsing the shops of Beverly Hills with his girlfriend Wednesday.)
Then, on the flip side, Chicagoans watched former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the clear front-runner in the city's mayoral race, thrown off the ballot by the court for not being a resident, only to claw his way back into the election like a man possessed with the thought of victory. (He was shaking hands with the electorate at El stops at dawn yesterday despite no indication that the Supreme Court would hear his appeal or vote in his favor that afternoon.)
Quit in terms of the Cutler kind occurs often in horse racing. Nobody calls it "quit," of course. But nobody calls aiming your horse away from the competition to a lesser race that you can win "unsportsmanlike" either. In today's ever-strengthening money-oriented society the man who makes the fiscally-sound choice is admired more than the man who shows daring. It wasn't always that way.
"There's a big difference now in the owners who are prominent and the old owners that you're harkening back to," said horse owner and breeders Jim Squires, the former editor of the Chicago Tribune, in a telephone interview. "These guys are smart enough to know that this is not a business. But, strangely enough, after they get in, they have a big horse and suddenly think that it's a business and they're going to make money in it," the current owner of Two Bucks Farm said.
Squires believes that the new brand of owners applies predictable business principles such as cost cutting and brand management to what is essentially a gamble. Their business approach leads to carefully managed campaigns that are designed to achieve perfection for their stallion and broodmare prospects.
A horse used to be considered a potential sire because he was well-bred, properly-conformed and durable. Proof of such attributes is no longer necessary. Prudence explains also, in part, why the best horses race infrequently, retire early and bankrupt the sport's history.
"Today, horses will come off the track after four races and the trainer will be featured in some article saying, 'This is the fastest two-year-old I ever trained.' It's amazing that people are taken in by that garbage," Squires said. "For the last ten to 15 years, the speculators went nuts over first-year stallions, even when they didn't do anything - they might have run a big Beyer, or they set a track record, or they won a stakes at Saratoga, and that's all you have to do," he said, explaining, in part, what goes on. "Well, most of them are junk," he concluded.
"You want to send a stallion to stud at the height of its popularity and prominence," Squires continued, underscoring that "junk" is introduced into the breed's bloodstream because fiscal considerations overrule the sport of it all. Modern breeding and training practices have forced business-driven owners to operate on borrowed time. A permissible medication policy produces few horses that are able to last long, and even fewer horses able to compete at a peak level over several seasons, which, by the way, make the achievements of Zenyatta more astounding than casual fans of the sport realize.
Horses with Triple Crown potential and graded stakes success – the ones that offer the most commercial upside as sires - are at a much higher risk of catastrophic injury that would jeopardize their value than horses without great ability. They're subjected to harder training, more medications and x-rays, and they most likely have a genetic disposition toward unsoundness that was passed along to them by sires of similar circumstances. The situation has the force of a perfect storm, yet it doesn't seem to be a storm that will pass over soon.
Too often, the news of the day when it comes to horse racing is about which horses didn't run instead of which did. Boys At Tosconova will be walking the sidelines when the gates fly open for the Holy Bull. The unpredictable nature of a two-year-old colt's development is the cause of it – at least that's what the owner says. Wait another 30 days, and the trainer will say, "Fastest two-year-old colt I ever trained."
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
A Cautious Tale of Cloth Diaper "Bargains"
I love eBay and I love a bargain, so that's the first place I looked hoping to find some great deals. I sure did! I ordered 10 new FuzziBunz Perfect Size Pocket diapers for $140, including shipping. The seller had a great rating and I was getting $4 off per diaper. I was so excited to get my first fluffy mail. I laid them out on the bed, admired the colors, and dreamed of using them as soon as we had a baby to use them on! Now, remember me mentioning these were purchased 9 months before I was even pregnant? Well, it wasn't until about 18 months later that I pulled them out to be washed. By then, I had found Kelly's Closet and began purchasing new diapers there as well. I love their sales, free shipping, etc. As soon as I pulled those "eBay Special" diapers out, I realized they were in fact not so special. They were fakes! Sure enough, my deal was too good to be true! The snaps were weak, the colors were "off", and the inserts were thin and cheap. I was in shock because the FuzziBunz tag was impeccably authentic-looking. I had no way of knowing unless I had inspected them again when I started buying from a legitimate retailer like Kelly's Closet.
After lots of research and contacting that seller, it soon became apparent that I would be eating the loss. The window for complaints was closed. The diapers aren't really FuzziBunz so the manufacturer warranty does not apply. I was stuck with 10 crummy diapers for which I more than overpaid. My quest to save a buck just did not pay off. From that point on, eBay was for buying used video games for my husband, not diapers.
It was a hard loss for a master-bargain-finder like myself… and the hit to the budget was felt pretty hard. The lesson was learned… the hard way. I wasted time searching, lots of money, and then more time trying to recover the money. Some things, especially those things that are closest to your baby's bum, just have to be the highest quality, guaranteed!
The peace of mind I have now buying my cloth diapering products guaranteed from Kelly's Closet is very satisfying. One of the best parts though, besides getting cute fluffy goodness in the mail, is that I'm still getting great deals! For example, FuzziBunz had a cyber sale and Kelly's Closet always gives customers a discount on bulk orders, so I saved above and beyond what the cyber sale offered! I also earned diaper dollars rewards to save money on a future order! Can you say sweet?!? It's nice to know that I can in good conscience order the things my daughter needs and still afford to splurge thanks to great deals and free shipping. I love Kelly's Closet. Need I say more?
By Gina W.
10 comments:
- Sara said...
Diapers are the one thing I won't buy on Ebay or Etsy - what you see isn't necessarily what you get in terms of performance and I had a few bad experiences early on that taught me to stick to authorized retailers!
- April 25, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- Alycia said...
I remember the FB knock offs. There was a big post about it on Diaperswappers a long time ago. I can't believe people have nothing better to do than knock off diapers of all things. ugh.
- April 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Ada said...
wow, that's kinda scary! but glad to know you didn't give up.
how does one know whether the bunz are truly Fuzzi or not?
- April 25, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- fancygrlnancy said...
I also bought a couple of diapers on ebay before my guy was born.. they were not fuzzibunz, but I was so excited. Then as I used them the velcro came off some, the elastic was streched out, and not such a good deal...
- April 25, 2010 at 10:48 PM
- Anna said...
What a bummer to end up with knock-offs! Sure glad you found kellyscloset.com! :)
- April 25, 2010 at 11:10 PM
- hosiewosie said...
I was scammed on ebay with a diaper sprayer! It was just poor quality, I didn't know people really tried to fake brands though.
- April 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM
- Sarah_Joy said...
I'm always torn as to whether it's better to buy new or try to find a "deal" used. Most used items labeled as in excellent or good condition are only marked down a few dollars a diaper. And of course, occasionally, they are not in such great condition. With this in mind, I'd rather spend my cash on brand new diapers from sites that offer free shipping. With all the economical "new" options out there (like Flips, Smartipants and the faithful prefold) I think I'm saving myself time and hassle in searching, and trying to deal with other's stains and stinkies.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- Crystal said...
Wow, I didn't know there were people out there selling "fake" diapers under name brands! I will be careful with my cloth diaper purchases from not on.
- April 28, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- Megan said...
Good tips. Thanks
- April 30, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- Mindy said...
I bought a cloth diaper made in China for pretty cheap off of ebay. The insert was pretty cheap but the shell works great. However, after reading this post, I won't be looking for any used cloth diapers on ebay!
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I found it difficult to grasp how changeling societies work, so I thought it must've been very bland for my only changeling player. She bought the book from me soon after, but since she's strictly a player, I still have no idea how this game works in capable hands...
I'm a little disappointed. I knew that standard hardcover isn't premium quality, but still... Pages made of the same paper I have in my printer and glued, shiny cover aren't worth 35$.
This review is of FIRST EDITION CtL, not the upcoming (as of Aug 2016) second edition compatible with the God Machine Chronicles/Chronicles of Darkness.
Changeling is a game about stolen lives and beautiful madness, as the tagline says, but it actually supports a surprisingly broad array of moods. One game might be silly, with clockwork doll-girls and an ogrish professor. Another might be rooted in gore horror, with a cannibal chef on the loose. You could run a modern day retelling of legends of old, wherein a hero must go on an epic quest through desert kingdoms of dream to save the soul of his firstborn, which was stolen by trickery. My year-long chronicle focused more on the arcane nature of the Wyrd, the promise-binding source of fae power with a fickle and unknowable consciousness. All of these are equally valid tales in the CtL framework.
One thing that sets apart CtL from many other Chronicles settings is the uniqueness of its primary antagonists: the True Fae. True Fae are far more powerful than most antagonists in the World of Darkness. They make deals with elements of reality (and nether-reality) which give them superpowers, for crying out loud. They are literally made of the Wyrd, and are one with their domains. As such, the idea that each Changeling somehow "escapes" from his or her Keeper pulls players in from the start: they didn't escape. They were set free. They just don't know why, yet.
That said, I'm not that hyped for second edition. It's reworked the setting and mechanics to de-emphasize "promises" and bring up "the Story" in its place, celebrating fae as manifestations of legend. As someone who really got into CtL from imagining a bunch of good and evil Rumpelstilzkins roaming about, trying to hide their true names and morals such that they couldn't be used against them, I'm just a bit disappointed in those choices.
I have been a long time fan of White Wolf games Vampire: The Masquerade, Changeling: The Dreaming, Werewolf: The Apocalips and Wraith: The Oblivion. I'm very happy that they made Changeling: The Lost.
Changeling was the 5th game launched under the "new" version of the World of Darkness from White Wolf Game Studio. It is partially a re-imagining of Changeling: the Dreaming and a chance for White Wolf to explore myth and legend in new ways. This game deviates much more from its predecessor than Vampire: the Requiem does from Vampire: the Masquerade. Sure, there are a few familiar terms in this version of Changeling, but the game is very, very different from the Dreaming.
In Lost, the characters are victims of the True Fae, having been abducted or seduced into service of these other-worldly beings. The Fae often replace the victim with a Fetch (a Fae creation that effectively assumes the role the character would have had in the mortal world). While in Arcadia the characters fill any number of roles for their masters, servants, lovers, slaves, pawns and decorations in the endless imaginations of The Others.
All of the Lost have managed somehow to escape Arcadia and returned to the world of mortals. They find however, that the world has moved on without them and they no longer really fit into their old lives anymore. Not only have usually not been missed (because of the Fetch that replaced them), but they are now not fully human anymore. Their time in the world of the Fae has altered them with magic and left the mark of the fairy world on them in fundamental ways.
Changeling: the Lost offers up a ton of setting information early on. The first chapter is full of rich detail in regards to the Fae, the life of a Changeling as a servant to these inhuman beings and the lives they attempt to lead now that they have escaped. The balance they attempt to hold between their lives as Lost and the world of the mortals around them is a constant struggle. This is an important element throughout the book, even during the mechanics portion of the game. The Changeling specific mortality Trait called Clarity, for example, is literally the Changeling's ability to perceive the differences between the mundane and the magical (i.e. mortal and fairy). Much of this early setting information is expanded upon later in the book with the Storytelling System mechanics in later chapters.
Creating characters in Changeling takes a little bit of work, but only because there are so many options. Starting out with the Attributes, Skills and Specialties in the core World of Darkness book is the "easy" part, the real fun begins with the Changeling specific elements that are offered.
At first glance the Seasonal Courts, which make up the political aspect of the setting are fairly straightforward. Summer Court are hotheads who have powers over Wrath and the Winter Court are "cold" and sad. This is only at first glance however, as each of the Courts have advantages and disadvantages for membership. There is plenty of information on each of the Courts and I immediately had several story ideas for my next game. Like Vampire: the Requiem, there is an option for characters to strike out on their own and not sign up with one of the courts (or in the case of vampire, not joining a Covenant).
I actually found that it was easier to choose a character's Seeming than deciding which of the Courts to align with. Basically, a Seeming tells you what kind of fae your character has become. Whether you are a creature of the night like the Darklings or a pretty little member of the Fairest or even a big bad Ogre usually depends on just why you were taken to Arcadia to begin with and what type of life your character had while they were serving the Others. While there are six different types of Seeming, each of them has a handful of Kith options to further customize your character.
Contracts are the supernatural powers the Fae and the Lost use to affect the world around them. There are a lot of them offered in this book. There are the General Contracts that all changelings have access to, there are also Contracts based on the character's Seeming and Contracts based on specific Seasonal Courts and last, but certainly not least are the Goblin Contracts. Most Contracts work in a fairly basic World of Darkness fashion, there are five levels of power each with a cost, applicable Dice Pool and Roll Results handily laid out for the Player and Storyteller alike to reference. A great addition to this game is the Catch. Catches are neat options for the character to "get out of" paying the cost (usually Glamour and/or Willpower) of using the power. An example would be to have the token of your enemy given freely to the character.
Between the General, Seeming and Seasonal Contracts there are ton of options for players to arm their characters with and I would have been happy with that big list. The strange little Goblin Contracts are a great extra detail that really adds to the game. They are a twist on the concept of Contracts without breaking the system in any way. Instead of a path of similar powers that get more powerful with experience Goblin Contracts are individual boons that come with a cost, they are ranked depending on how powerful they are. One example is Fair entrance, which allows the character to freely enter any door (disabling alarms and/or locks), but the cost is that their own dwelling will face a similar problem when someone attempts to gain access.
There are a ton of new rules for the Storytelling System in the book, but really, no more than in any of the other core books. These new rules cover the Changeling specific elements of the setting such as Pledges, Tokens, Trifles and how to craft them in your game. There are handy side-bars throughout the book with examples and charts to make understanding the new rules easy for everyone. There are plenty of story hooks throughout these sections of the book and clever little additions to the setting. The Stingseed, for example, is a Trifle which adds extra dice penalties to the victim of bullet wound until the damage from the wound is healed. A character willing to go looking for these seeds just might have an adventure or two during the hunt, is the bonus worth the risk?
There is a lot of information offered to the Storyteller in the form of antagonists, story ideas, helpful information about Fetches and more throughout the end of the book. Types of Lost, mortals and True Fae are some of the varied antagonists offered, each with storytelling hints and stats ready to play. Goblin Markets get their own section with plenty of useful information and even a few optional rules to keep things interesting.
As if Seasonal Court, Seeming and Kith were not enough options for your Changeling character, in the first Appendix of the book are Entitlements. Entitlements are Noble Orders within changeling society offering up various advantages to the character for membership in the order. Some of these advantages are supernatural, some are social and of course, there are a few disadvantages as well. There are nine Orders offered in the appendix and handy rules for creating new Orders should the Storyteller and Players wish to do so.
Appendix two is a guidebook to the Freehold of Miami. This is a ready-to-go setting with a short history of the city from the changeling point-of-view, plenty of politics between the Courts and several prominent characters. This is the same setting as the free Changeling: the Lost Demo and creepy/cool Fear-Maker's Promise which also offer up NPCs and setting details for Storytellers' to use if they like Miami.
Changeling: the Lost is a very different game than Changeling: the Dreaming. Some of the terminology may be similar but each book explores fairy tales in a different way and offer up very different types of games. Some fans will want to compare the two games, others will look at Lost as something new and original. I'm a fan of both games. Changeling: the Lost is an amazing book, full of great writing and tons of story elements.
With Changeling updated now, the book has bookmarks, although they are not organized as plainly as Vampire, Mage, Promethean, or Werewolf, they are easy enough to follow, and there are enough of them to quick reference the book during play, so really, the way it's organized is a small slight, one I can hope they update in the future, but I'd be dishonest if I gave the book any less than five stars now.
I have little to say about the sourcebook itself that hasn't already been, said and a biased lense to view it through. I am already a fan of Faeries in folklore and in fiction, and of stories involving urban fantasy and modern magic. The darkly paranoid but beautiful style of changeling appeals to me more than mage the awakening, and the edgy way the game is presented makes it easy to draw not just intensely creepy, or tragic stories, but really any flavor of roleplaying from the uplifting to the traumatizing could be drawn from it without deviating from the game's canon very much or even at all.
For me this game makes the core of my New World of Darkness experience which all the other game lines supplant.
Changeling the Lost is one of the all time stars of the New World of Darkness.
Changeling the Lost is a book crammed packed with story potential, with some of the creepiest gameplay ever. While other games focus on the horror of what people have become, be it a Vampire, a Werewolf, or a power mad Mage, Changeling looks at the creeping paranoia of a being a Changeling, a person who was taken by the Fae, and who has now return to Earth, some how escaping her captivity.
In the game you play people, taken away by the Fae, for strange reasons, and return to the world changed by their durance. They have new abilities, and have to cope with a world where time has flowed differently to how they have experience it, or worse, where they have been replaced.
A changeling's life then is a struggle to find one's life again, reconciling their strange nature, and dealing with the maddening influence of the Fae on how they now see reality.
The rules themselves are fairly standard for a White Wolf game, with only Pledges being a little tricky. The character options really offer a lot of different ways to play the game, and with so many other rules for exploring dreams, the Hedge, and magical trinkets, you will find it hard to exhaust the book in a single chronicle.
If you want a game where fairytales are real, and very very creepy. This is it.
This source book is just plain amazing. I love what White Wolf has done with their new system and in particular the overhaul of Changeling has just been incredible. The feel of the game and systems in place are interesting without being unwieldy or overly complex. In particular I like their addition of the Hedge which serves as a "umbra"-esque world of madness and dream which the Changelings must counterbalance with the more human lives they nostalgically wish to return to (but alas cannot).
Wow. This is definitely the best of the new World of Darkness "settings". It not only makes sense to portray the Fairies as the dark creatures they are in most of Europe's mythologies ... it also adds so much depth and so many possibilities for storytellers and players. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Still the caveat: this PDF is extremely heavy at _90MB and does stress Acrobat quite a lot.
So the contents gets 6 stars, the PDF gets only 1 ... makes 4 in the end ... ;c)
I'm pleased to report that, having just downloaded the current updated version of the Changeling PDF, I find that not only has it been integrated into a single file, it has also been slimmed down to a more reasonable 92 megabytes.
My only remaining complaint is that the bookmarks in the file are quite sparse. Nevertheless, I now recommend this product.
I purchased this a few hours ago and was initially skeptical based on the negative reviews about the presentation in the digital format. I was extremely turned off by the idea of it being broken into 3 files, but the things I'd read about the actual setting, rules and quality of the material overall won out and I bought it.
And I am glad I did.
The very first (and one of the best) thing I noticed was that there was an option to download the entire book as one file. Awesome. Primary concern null and void.
The rest of it is great. The short fiction that establishes the setting is good and compelling and setting itself is beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. In short, it is what it says it is... and does what it says it does.
Bravo to White Wolf for producing this book - and Bravo to Drivethru for hearing the concerns of the people and providing the product in a form that they wanted.
5 Stars all the way.
The limited run game that has become White Wolf's best selling hit. In Changeling you play one of the Lost, a human abducted and made to serve the Others or Fae. You have escaped and now you have managed to cross the horrors and beauty of the Hedge to discover that something was left behind that looks like you. This "thing" is a construct or fetch that has stolen your life and you soon discover its also the reason why no one missed you, despite the fact that you've spent 25 years slaving for the Lords of Arcadia. When they discover you are missing (unless they have already done so) they are going to want you back and will take you kicking and screaming to the nightmare beauty of Arcadia. You can only hope that other Changelings like you can band together to survive and avoid retribution.
Welcome to a game of beautiful madness. Welcome to Changeling the Lost.
Originally slated to have 5 books to its limited run, this game is now on its 8th book and White Wolf has announced two more (Dusk and Dawn).
This book is a monster! I've gotten used to a PDF from White Wolf weighing in at about 30 meg. That's a reasonable size. This one is 6 times that! And split into 3 chunks to make it "managable". Ouch. Suddenly the 2gig pen drive I carry White Wolf gaming stuff around on doesn't quite look good enough. And it's slow to render in the Acrobat Reader - and that's not a feature of the computer, 3gig of RAM and the fastest OS on the planet and you can still see the individual layers of the page being laid out, slowly) before your very eyes. They've missed out some serious optimisation of the files here. I'd love to get them into Acrobat Pro and see just how small you can actually make this bad boy.
On the plus side, the actual content is fantastic. Liked the old changeling, love the new one. Something about it being a limited-run game is making them really get focussed on what to include and what to miss out. I like knowing that by this time next year, all the official Changeling books that are going to be published will have been, and we're not going to be waiting for that final Kithbook to hit the shelves before the next edition of the game gets published.
Once you've managed to download the files, this is worth every penny, sorry, cent.
But. I'd like to see a print friendly version of this. It'd take too long to go through and screenshot the artwork, even if pdftohtml can get the text (and keep the layout) for me.
Content: Well worth the money, all in all my favorite nWoD line yet, and worlds beyond oWoD changeling in both playability and tone.
PDF: Enormous for no apparent reason, the digital equivalent of a large print addition bound in lead sheets.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The eleventh-ranked Gauchos moved to a 2-0 start after sweeping the University of the Pacific Tigers on Friday night in their MPSF Conference opener.
Game scores for the match were 25-17, 25-19, 25-21.
The Gauchos displayed a strong performance throughout the three sets. Senior Austin Kingi led the UCSB offense, contributing 11 kills. Kingi also took the lead with serving aces, matching a career high with four.
Sophomore setter Jonah Seif had a banner night, putting down a career-best seven kills on seven swings. He also dished out 31 assists in the sweep. On top of that, opposite hitter Evan Licht contributed to the offense with seven kills, and Matt Hanley had six kills of his own.
Without Jake Staahl, who missed the match due to an illness, senior middle blocker Ryan Thompson gave the Gauchos a strong presence at the net, finishing with a match-high five blocks, three of which came in the middle frame.
After taking the first two sets with relative ease, a strong offensive performance by Pacific's Tommy Carmody (five kills) and Thomas Hodges (team-high six kills) allowed Pacific to take their first significant lead at 12-9 in the third. A Kingi kill and a UCSB triple block sandwiched a Tigers hitting error over the next three points to even the score and squad Pacific's momentum.
A few point's later, a Licht service ace put the Gauchos up for good. Kingi's final kill of the night clinched the match.
Pacific fell to 1-3 overall, 0-1 MPSF with the loss. Barring a matchup in the MPSF Tournament, this is the last time the Tigers men's volleyball team will visit UC Santa Barbara, as the program will be cut at the conclusion of the season.
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I'm running Debian in a virtual machine and for convenience I would like to remove the password on root (since it doesn't really matter what happens to this box). Internet hasn't been too helpful on this one, which I suppose is OK because this is not normally something you'd want to do!
I tried passwd -d root, but su won't accept the empty password. I assume there is some sort of PAM policy blocking me, but I haven't been able to find a working solution. Any help appreciated!
(Just to clarify: I don't want to always run as root. I'd like a little bit of accident proofing in case I spaz out and
rm -rf /. Just, when I'm ready to run as root, I don't want to be second guessed.)
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Don't forget to get yourself a coffee and hot roll or Soup and roll or maybe some thing a bit stronger!!
Also sign up to the "Kintyre club" to get yourself some fantastic all year deals for golf on the course.
Keep eyes open for future events at the Dunes this year there are open competitions worthwhile entering with excellent prizes