Greetings!
September
was
another exciting month for LuckyDuck:
New services; New clients; New friends; New
stories! It's been a pleasure through and through
and we
hope you enjoy the results!
Please visit our October website
- check out our new links and this month's autumn
photos!
best regards,
Jodie Turner
LuckyDuck presents Janet Mason marine artist!
paintings of the sea, the country, the flora
Janet Mason marine artist does Lunenburg
artworks
in oil, acrylic and watercolors. Since 1976, she's
dedicated herself to painting Nova Scotia.
Her Nova Scotia roots run deeply in Lunenburg
and nearby Stonehurst - she paints their rugged
coastlines, tranquil inlets and beautiful flora.
Janet's had several solo exhibitions and
has been part of many group shows during her
career. Her
work can be found in private collections throughout
Canada, United States and Europe.
She greatly appreciates her loyal following. Near the
front of
the line is Mike Zinck:
"I feel very
privileged to
own several
paintings by Janet Mason. I have followed her work
from her earlier days of painting and admire her style
as an artist . . . Her paintings reflect the heart of a
wonderful artist."
Close up . . .
Lucky's photo corner: the Hong Kong Connection
It's been a pleasure designing and maintaining
the
Iyengar Yoga Hong Kong Centre website!
The school is the yoga-hungry city's first and only
BKS Iyengar accredited facility. It was founded and
is directed by Linda Shevloff, a highly educated,
certified teacher.
Teachers and teachers-in-training, maintain a
current, vital connection with the
Master. Students benefit as they
learn from some of the world's finest Iyengar yoga
teachers.
The photos on her website, including the three
women chatting before class, are done by Ulana
Switucha.
The quality of the school And the photos make it a
pleasure to be its web builder and maintainer.
The icing on this cake is that the three of us women
are all from Canada. Thousands of miles apart, yet
linked and linkable through the world wide
web.
I think you'd enjoy visiting the yoga site - if you've
been there before, there's lots that's new. It's colour
scheme alone is unusual for the web. While you're at
it, check out Ulana's website - the images may take
some time to load, but it's worth the wait.
Fabulous fall colours & new links
The
October edition
of our website photo
collection
says "Hurrah!" for Fall colours.
This month's additions to Lucky's growing links make
note of:
- Photographer
Lisette Model (1901-83): street life
in Paris, Nice, San Francisco and New York at
Dalhousie University Art Gallery until October
8;
- 7th Annual Maritime Fall Fair October
6-15;
- Octoberfest presented by the Lake Charlotte Area
Heritage Society;
For more details, please click on the October
link.
Beware of that hard drive - it can let you down hard
Back up Back up Back up Back up Back up Back up !
The other morning while reading e-mail my
whole world came to a stop. That is, my
entire computer world. Very scary.
Turns out my hard drive died. Happily ? very happily
? Allan backs up my stuff regularly and I only lost
part of a day's work.
While delivering my machine to Intelligent Choice
Computers in Bridgewater, Allan
had a quick chat with Michael Greek, their
service manager. Later that week, I asked Mike to
tell our subscribers more ? and he does:
?Besides viruses & spyware," Mike writes,
" . . . the
hard drive is the weakest point in a system. I
have
seen new
ones bad right out of the box & some fail a
little bit down the road (like yours).
?There are a couple recommendations to
avoiding disasters with your data. The first one is
to do backups, backups,
backups. Even if it just means burning photos,
documents etc. to CDs or DVDs. If you are
going to back your pictures up on CD, make 2
copies & keep one off site.
"You don't need to
backup your programs
- if there is a catastrophic failure you can
reinstall them from the manufacturer's CDs you
(hopefully) have somewhere handy.
"CDs & DVDs are
fairly durable & can store data for a long
time. Rewritable CDs & DVDs (CDRW &
DVDRW) are
good for regular backups where
your data is changing on a regular basis & you can
erase & reuse the CD or DVD. They are not
recommended for long term storage. These
disks are meant for
storage of up to 5 years before needing to
be re burnt, after which they are good
for up to another 5 years.
"Many newer motherboards have built-in
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
The most popular is RAID 1, also
called mirroring. Two identical hard drives
write the same data to both at the same time in real
time. If one of the drives fail, the other is ready to
go. Some people think if they mistakenly
delete something, they can retrieve it off of the
2nd drive. Sorry, but no.
"The biggest problems with backups is no one does
them! Especially home users. Most, as in 70%, don't
know how to do a backup of their
data, period.
"Some services can recover data off of
bad hard drives, but they are not cheap. Hard
drives are completely sealed units, no dust can get
in or out of them. We have a customer who had two
hard drive failures over 10 years. It cost her
$2,000
the first time to get all her data back. The second
time it was $1,500 because there was less data to
recover. (I guess she didn't learn the first
time!!)
We had a customer whose hard drive
crashed. He was running his business on it for the 3
or 4 years & he lost it all, no backups."
Thanks Mike - you'll be glad to hear Allan is
backing up every 24 hours!
Shriners say "Thanks!"
But really, the pleasure was all mine!
I was a delighted youngster when I first saw the
Shriners doing intricate, fast formations on their tiny
motorcycles during a
Grey Cup Parade.
Today, my connection with the Shriners is as an
adult, but it still brings me much happiness.
My friends Sharon and Harry Rhyno have been involved
with the organization for quite some time. Since
'04, I've considered it a privilege to turn out
press releases and publicity photos for a remarkable
- and popular -
parade of
fundraising variety shows organized by
Sharon.
They've raised thousands of dollars from
admission, auctions and draws and it all goes
straight to a Shriner hospital. There are 22 such
state-of-the-art
facilities where patients under 18 receive
orthopedic, burn and spinal cord injury care ? all
without charge regardless of race, religion or
relationship to a Shriner.
Last week, I was honoured to be welcomed into
the Shriners 100 Million Dollar Club. "Give
$100 and
feel like a million," explained Harry, Nova Scotia's
South
Shore Shriner Noble. Turns out $100 had been donated
in my name in support of the "World's Greatest
Philanthropy." That
donation, earmarked for equipment, went directly to
Montreal's Shriner Hospital for Children. And Harry
was right, I did feel like a million!
The Shriners of North America has close to 500,000
members in Canada, the United States, Mexico and
Panama. If you know of a child who might be helped
by the organization, please call
1-800-361-7256.
Click
to learn more about Having fun &
Helping Kids!
Spread the word - Please!
If you look just
below this e-newsletter, you'll
see, on the left hand side,
a small blue invitation to forward email.
We'd
really appreciate it if you took up the invite!
We won't save your recipients' e-addresses or
anything else about them - and that's a promise!
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ps: Pleased to report, the mystery of
those missing images has been cracked!
Thanks to all who sent us their suggestions!
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