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About Tesla:
Palo Alto, California-based, Tesla Motors uses proprietary technology, world-class design, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to create a new generation of highway capable electric vehicles. We utilize an innovative distribution model based on Company-owned sales and service centers. This approach allows us to maintain the highest levels of customer experience and benefit from short customer feedback loops to ensure our customer needs are fulfilled. We believe our operational infrastructure provides us with a competitive advantage compared to traditional automobile manufacturers.
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The Retail Field Support Systems Administrator ensures smooth and consistent Retail IT systems operations at Tesla's Deer Creek headquarters, as well as all field based sales and service centers. This role requires strong technical knowledge at both the desktop and server levels. A successful candidate will seamlessly blend technical experience, exceptional interpersonal communication skills, and a commitment to drive issues to conclusion. Frequent travel to Tesla's field sites is expected.
- Provide onsite and offsite IT support to Tesla's network of Sales and Service Centers as needed.
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North Carolina Horticultural Council
The Horticultural Industries comprise a vast number of producers that together have a farm gate value of over $2 billion. This amount is multiplied many times over in the community, resulting in a major economic impact on other businesses and employment in the state of North Carolina. It's for these reasons and others that it's important for industry leaders and growers work to secure the future of Horticulture in the state of North Carolina.
Horticulturists can take advantage of Extension agents in their area for guidance or advice. Many commodity associations are also available to help both consumers and growers by providing information. Horticulture industries in the state are vital to the job market and a healthy relationship between industry and consumer is necessary for the success of any horticulture program.
Horticulturists should take part in their commodity association and join in with the N.C. Horticultural Council so that legislators can continually be educated on the importance of the Horticulture Industry, how it affects people in and the economy of North Carolina, and help ensure a prosperous future for the industry as a whole.
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What you need to know before you shop your auto policy
Switching Car Insurance
by Mark Strohm
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Can switching car insurance really save you hundreds of dollars? One cannot watch TV, listen to the radio, or drive down a highway without seeing the claims. Everyone wants you to switch and everyone claims they will save you money.
I asked some individuals in the insurance industry to help me sort through all of these claims and give clear direction on how to really get the best car insurance. Here is what they shared.
First, ignore all the claims you read, see, or hear! Anyone can get any figures if they are not comparing apples to apples. If you want to understand who will really save you the most money, you will need to compare apples to apples.
When comparing prices you will want to start with the company you already have. Call them to find out several things. What coverage do you presently have? Is it appropriate for the age of my car and to safeguard my assets? Here is what you should know about car insurance:
Bodily Injury and Personal Property Liability covers you in case someone or something is injured by your car. This generally maxes out for a single person or for a total claim. For instance, 100/300/50 insurance provides $100,000 worth of coverage to an individual, $300,000 worth of coverage to all passengers and $50,000 worth of coverage to all property.
Personal Injury Protection covers the cost of medical and lost wages both to yourself and passengers injured within your car.
Collision and Comprehensive - Collision provides coverage for any time of loss or damage to your car except for theft or natural disaster in which Comprehensive covers those issues.
Uninsured Motorist protects you when other "at fault" drivers are not insured or are under insured.
Now, with your list in hand call a few companies to see what a similar policy will cost you. Remember that you want to compare apples to apples.
Next, go back to your present company and tell them if you found a cheaper rate. See what they can do for you. You may be surprised.
Once you have compared apples to apples make your decision. There are a few important things to keep in mind. First, there are direct writer companies and agent companies. It is possible to save with direct writer companies. Also, staying with the same company over time will generally save you money because of "perks," such as decreased deductibles.
More than traffic tickets and past accidents affect your rate. For instance, your credit rating may affect your rate. So if your credit rating improves, it may be well worth shopping around again.
Combining insurances usually saves money, but not always. Check out combining your house and car insurance. By the way, ask what a small life insurance policy would add. Occasionally the cost of the small life insurance policy is offset by the insurance combination discounts, allowing you to get some life insurance for no added cost.
Know what your state minimum coverage is but understand that it is rarely enough coverage, especially if you are a homeowner or if you have a family.
Are you paying too much for auto insurance?
Make sure you're getting the lowest rate.
Even though your insurance company is national and runs constant commercials, you should always check out how they perform locally. One national insurance may have very competitive rates for car insurance for those living in suburban areas, but may be very high for those living in larger cities. Or one company may have great rates for smaller cars, but high rates for vans, etc.
Also, you may want to "Google" the companies to see if they are paying claims regularly. Some very large companies have been in trouble with consumer organizations for not paying out claims.
If you would like to trim your car insurance, don't be discouraged by all the hype. Remember to understand what you have now and decide what coverage you need. Then compare apples to apples, give your present company the last chance to meet your expectation, and then make a sound decision that will keep you covered for the right price!
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Given the rarity of this cancer, too many local GI doc's, local oncologists, and local GP's simply are not aware of this cancer. But, this vital, initial contact sets the course of treatment for the patient. In order to fix this broken link, CCF is in the process of addressing the local community physicians with educational videos and general outreach via e-mail, conference attendances and other means of communication.
Patients and caregivers can aid this process by informing their treating physicians of this site and the resources available to all i.e. the biliary book (downloadable as well and free of charge in printed version,) the Mayo Research Project, the biliary emergency information card, the CCF International Patient Registry and all other pertinent information listed on our website. (Please know that we are working on refinement of several links.)
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend, PopCrushers! This weekend marks the unofficial kickoff of summer, and we have the perfect mix for you to jam out to, whether you're grillin' at a BBQ or soaking up those rays by the pool. PopCrush Mini-Mix 10 features remixes from artists like Kesha, Calvin Harris, Bastille and more — and you know we're here to set your summer off right!
It's only fitting that the mix kicks off with Calvin Harris' 'Summer,' since it is the first weekend of the season and all. And as the tune plays over a hyped-up, electronic beat, this remixed version loops the lyric "summer" over and over, almost to remind us that warm weather, lazy days and decked out nights are upon us.
The mix then transitions into Avicii's 'Hey Brother,' which is when the PopCrush Mini-Mix really kicks into high gear, with an intense build up of electric piano beats battling against Martin Garrix's party anthem, 'Put Your Hands Up,' until it fades into Naughty Boy's ever-addictive 'La La La' featuring Sam Smith. While the track isn't typically a club tune, when the right beats are incorporated into the song, you can't imagine not dancing to it. This is one jam we will definitely have on repeat this summer.
And no party is complete without Kesha's 'Die Young,' which has been outfitted with a series of handclaps that just make you want to follow suit, putting those hands in the air and clapping them loudly. This is totally the part of the mix that you'd put on at sunset, as the day fades into dusk and the night is really getting started. The song then stretches into a reworked version of Bastille's 'Pompeii.' While the remix offers plenty of club-like beats on this tune, it also switches up the pace, slowing down and softening the background music to really put a lot of emphasis on the melody and frontman Dan Smith's impressive vocals.
Check out the tracklist below, and listen to PopCrush Mini-Mix 10 above.
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Setting the Stage for Rocktober
Not only did the Rockies finish strong, but they virtually ran the table, putting together a 13-1 record that led to a one game playoff with the Padres for the NL West title. All everyone remembers now is the drama of that Game 163, and a questionable call at the plate where Matt Holliday scored and gave the Rockies their second playoff appearance in franchise history, and their first since 1995. Lost in the miracle was the tear Todd Helton went on to help carry his team to the title.
From September 16 until the conclusion of the one-game playoff with the Padres, Helton put up a ridiculous .377/.458/.639 slash line. He hit safely in 14 of 15 games. While it certainly wasn't a one-man wrecking crew (Holliday, Brad Hawpe, and Garrett Atkins were also out of their minds in September), Helton was money down the stretch. I'm not a proponent of Hall of Fame cases based solely on clutch performances but if you are, Helton's huge run down the stretch in 2007 cannot be ignored. —Mike Gianella
The Retirement Annoucement
Dozens of players walk away from the game or retire as an unwanted free agent, including players far better than Kotsay. (Magglio Ordoñez, for one.) But then I looked closer at his career. For 17 years, he stayed with major-league teams right until the very end. After being called up at age 21, other than rehab games, he never saw time in the minors again. He was never optioned back down. Hey, you did it. Even if I can't remember exactly what you did. —Matt Sussman
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But Giambi's often-overlooked contributions were just as important. He took Pedro deep twice, once on a changeup in the fifth and once on a fastball in the seventh. Both were solo shots, and when he hit them it looked like they might both be meaningless. But as it turned out, those homers—as much as Posada's double or Boone's walk-off—represented the margin of victory in a 6-5 game.
All of ALCS Game Seven is viewable on YouTube, but I couldn't find Giambi's bombs alone online, so I've GIF'd them here:
Game Six of the 2003 World Series
As I learned to appreciate the nuances of the game, though, my bond with Pettitte went far beyond sympathy. He taught me the importance of pitching deep into games despite not having your best stuff. Hell, his move to first base inspired some less-than-legal pickoff tinkering of my own. I could never throw very hard, or snap knee-buckling curveballs, and I was never the best player on my team. But I was reliable, and nobody had more to do with my development than Andy Pettitte.
Still, I always wanted to see my major-league doppelganger win the kind of glory heaped on Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. Great as they are, I believed Pettitte had just as much to do with the Yankees late-90s success as they did. When Game Six of the 2003 Series rolled around, I was sure Pettitte's opportunity had arrived. And by some incomprehensible stroke of luck, 10-year-old me would be there to see it in person.
Pettitte pitched as well as I'd ever seen him pitch that night: over seven innings, he scattered six hits—five of them singles—and three walks, allowing only one earned run. The only problem was that Pettitte's opponent, an electrifying Josh Beckett, was even better. The Yankees needed three measly runs to prolong the Series, but they struggled to get on base all night, failing to score the entire game.
Back then, I didn't know what it was like to lose a loved one or face real hardship. Watching the Marlines pile on top of the Yankee Stadium mound was losing that loved one, and the only thing worse than the irony of "New York, New York" blaring over the speakers was knowing that Andy Pettitte was never going to reach superstardom.
Jeter and Mo were those kids who could mash home runs even in Little League, and I was Pettitte, always there and always contributing, but never equally adored. —Nick Bacarella
The Houdini Act in Game Four of the 1996 ALCS
But for me, Rivera's elevation from absolutely great to the level of demigod happened in Game Four of the 1996 ALCS between the Yankees and the Orioles (the one that began with the infamous Jeffrey Maier interference "home run" catch). This was the year the Orioles loaded up and hit 257 home runs, third all time. Pretty much everyone in the lineup was a long-ball threat—it was the famous Brady Anderson 50-homer year.
The Yanks led the series two games to one and took a 5-4 lead into the eighth inning at Camden Yards. They opened it up in the top of the inning with three runs, the big blow a two-run homer by Darryl Strawberry off of Armando Benitez.
Rivera came out for the bottom of the eighth, having already worked a hitless seventh. But the first three batters all reached on singles, and although this is going back a long time, my memory is that none of the three balls were hit hard. One was an infield hit. So the tying run was coming to the plate with no outs. Three batters earlier, New York looked like a cinch to take a commanding 3-1 series lead; now the potent Orioles were a home run away from tying the game and putting the whole series back into doubt.
So what did Rivera do? He treated the Orioles' threat the way Harrison Ford treats the threat posed by the guy with the sword in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He struck out Chris Hoiles. As I recall, one of these pitches was straight cheese up around Hoiles's eyes, and he couldn't lay off. Then he struck out Brady Anderson. Then he got Todd Zeile to pop out. Inning over.
At that moment, I decided Rivera wasn't just a great young reliever. I decided he could probably do just about anything. The Yankees won the game, and the game after that, and went to the World Series and won that, too, their dynasty and Rivera's formally commecing at the same time. The next year, Rivera became the Yankees' closer, and you know the rest. —Adam Sobsey
The Bases-Loaded Walk During Save no. 500
On a Sunday night in Queens, the Yankees needed four outs from Rivera, whose save odometer was on 499. He was due up sixth the next inning, so no big deal if you don't double-switch, right? Not exactly. Rivera, to that date a lifetime 0-for-2 hitter, ended up having to hit with the bases loaded and two outs, and to the delight of all the Yankees fans in the crowd, this was the result.
The Blown Save in Game Seven of the 2001 World Series
And so, in Game Seven of the 2001 World Series, the stars seem to be aligned for the Yankees in the eighth inning, when Alfonso Soriano put the Yankees ahead with a homer. Rivera came in to pitch the eighth, and I knew then—I knew—that the Yankees had won the Series again. I mentioned this at least twice to my mom, who was stopping in periodically as my dad and I watched. (Dad agreed with my deterministic assessment of the game at that stage. He assured my mom, "When he comes in, the game's over.")
Mom isn't much of a baseball fan, but she's absorbed some of baseball's wisdom. She reminded us of the classic Yogi-ism, "It ain't over 'til it's over." Mothers just know.
The experience of watching Superman fail that day changed the way I watched sports forever. It was a rite of passage into sports adulthood—a sports bar mitzvah. And it made me appreciate just how difficult his job was, and how much he meant to the Yankee dynasty that fell apart that November night in Phoenix. Twelve years later, we've seen how resilient he was, and is.
Far from being a dark mark on his record, Rivera's loss in 2001 made me understand his greatness. —Dan Rozenson
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I suspect many of you already know this, but that Raiders of the Lost Ark scene was originally supposed to be an intricate whip-vs-sword fight scene. Only problem was Harrison Ford got food poisoning the night before and just wasn't up for hours of filming of a physically demanding scene.
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In case Paul Konerko retires this offseason, I have to mention his grand slam in G2 of the 2005 WS v. Houston. The previous batter, Jermaine Dye, got "hit" by a pitch that really hit his bat to load the bases. Phil Garner brought in Chad Qualls to face Konerko and on the first pitch he launched it into the stands. I don't think I have ever heard a place as loud as that, despite the cold, rainy night. Konerko had an amazing postseason that year, and has had a great career. He will be missed on the South Side when retires. But that moment will live on for a long time for me & other Sox fans.
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Justified: The Complete Third Season (BLU)
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In the nonstop, gunslinging third season of the highly acclaimed hit series, Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) must wield his brand of renegade justice against modern crime like never before. Surrounded by dirty politicians, drug cartels, murder frames, hidden fortunes and multiple criminal forces warring for control - including archenemies Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins, "The Shield") and Dickie Bennett (Jeremy Davies in his Emmy®-winning role), a mystery man named "Limehouse," a lethal mob enforcer newly arrived from the Motor City and in a final shocking showdown, his own father - Givens finds himself in everyone's cross hairs.
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Child's remains found near Steele Creek Mobile Home Park; identity pending autopsy
EAST BREMERTON — A child's remains were found the morning of Aug. 7 in a heavily wooded area between Highway 303 and Steele Creek Mobile Home Park.
The Kitsap County Coroner was conducting an autopsy to confirm the child's identity, and time and cause of death, Kitsap County Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson said at a 12:15 p.m. news conference at Crosswords Neighborhood Church in East Bremerton.
"We're fairly confident it's her, but we have to go through the process," he said, adding that the investigation has shifted from searching for Jenise Paulette Wright, a 6-year-old girl reported missing by her parents on Aug. 3, to finding evidence that might help determine how she died.
The girl's family was notified Aug. 7, Wilson said.
Members of the search team looking for Jenise found a body in a heavily wooded area north of the mobile home park, where the girl lived with her parents and siblings. Police sealed off the area where the body was found.
Several agencies, including the FBI, were involved in the search. No arrests have been made, Wilson said.
More details were expected to be released at a press conference at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 7.
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What Will Become of Neftali Feliz?
Neftali Feliz enjoyed early big-league success as a reliever, then was moved into the rotation and got hurt. In a recent chat, reader AJ wondered what might become of Feliz, who had Tommy John surgery last August and is on-target for a return in the second half of 2013. My answer waffled, but I mentioned the risk of making such a conversion.
In the chat, I cited Byung-Hyun Kim as a cautionary tale. Have there been others?
After trying several criteria, I settled on all pitchers who had made at least 150 big-league appearances by age 24, with 95 percent of games as a reliever but at least one start. This yields 13 names, which we'll call Group A:
Is this list perfect? No. Kim was a submariner; he and McCullers worked a lot more innings; Williams worked a lot of games; he and four others were southpaws; Bearnarth retired more than 30 years ago and wasn't good.
Still, it's a starting point. There are other ways to examine this question, but given that we already know Feliz is a terrific pitcher, the focus here is on durability rather than quality.
Byung-Hyun Kim
Oscar Villarreal
Lance McCullers
Mike Jackson
Mitch Williams
Willie Hernandez
Shane Rawley
Neil Allen
Felix Heredia
Omar Daal
Larry Bearnarth
Dave Beard
I mentioned trying different criteria to find matches for Feliz. Here's one based on his performance through age 23, before he became a starter. Including Feliz, seven guys had pitched in at least 150 games by that age without making any starts (call this Group B):
Overall, these are better pitchers (average 2.76 ERA, 9.4 K/9 vs. 3.62 ERA, 7.1 K/9) than those in Group A. But the question remains: How did they fare in the future? Most are still active, so we can't reach definitive conclusions, but they're still worth examining.
Chad Cordero
Francisco Rodriguez
Huston Street
Jonathan Broxton
Matt Capps
Victor Cruz
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Where Jackson was the lone bright spot in Group A, there are a few in Group B: Rodriguez pitched well and often throughout his 20s but had his worst season last year at age 30. Street has been effective but fragile. Broxton? The Reds signed him to a three-year extension this winter, so they believe.
We don't know how some of these stories will end, but the conventional wisdom about elbows and shoulders appears to apply. The pitchers with short careers had shoulder problems (Kim, Villarreal, McCullers, Beard, Cordero), weren't very good (Bearnarth), or were Cruz. On average, though, relievers who worked as hard as or harder than Feliz at his age continued to pitch for a while:
If we combine Group A and Group B, Feliz's predecessors have averaged roughly 250 appearances and 430 innings for their careers following the period examined. At the high end, Jackson and Hernandez each worked more than 500 games (Rodriguez should join them this year), while Rawley and Daal each broke 1,000 innings pitched.
If history is any guide (and we don't know that it is), the future doesn't look great for Feliz, but neither does it look terrible. If he had shoulder problems, there might be greater cause for concern. Elbows are a different matter, with a better prognosis. Even if Feliz doesn't pitch much (or well) in 2013, he should be okay after that, although in what capacity and for precisely how long remain to be seen.
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Geoff, I can find your comments about Feliz in the chat you reference, but not any mention of Byung-Hyun Kim. What am I missing? I was curious to see what you said.
Jan 08, 2013 09:38 AM
Geoff Young
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Well, Timber, this is awkward. I was thinking of Kim when I wrote the comment but apparently never committed that thought to electrons. What I would have said isn't much more than what I said here in the introduction, i.e., that Kim provides an obvious cautionary tale worthy of further investigation.
Jan 08, 2013 10:31 AM
None of these guys was Neftali Feliz. Very few were high-end prospects coming up. Kim had developed into a Kimbrell-esque closer, but the circumstances of his becoming a starter were totally different than Feliz. He became a starter because of his post-season implosions - both he and the D-backs were afraid of him being their closer. He was never a full time starter in the minors. Feliz was a full time starter in the minors and his relief career figured to be a brief stop.
Jan 08, 2013 11:09 AM
Brady Childs
I dug deeper to see which became full time starters after relieving for an extended period of time. We have Kim, Rawley, Allen, Daal, and maybe Hernandez. Hernandez was brought up as starter. Moved to pen for 3 years until 1980 where he started 7 games and pitched 108.1 innings. The next year in 1981 he pitched in 12 games. Why did he only pitch in 12 games? Did the Cubs try and convert him to a starter that year only for him to get hurt and come back late in the year and relieve? He stayed in the bullpen after that.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the federal agency that oversees the biggest banks, is leading the money-laundering investigation, according to the Times. The report said the OCC could soon take action against JPMorgan Chase & Co., and that it is also investigating Bank of America Corp. Money laundering allows people to make money -- often obtained illegally -- appear like it came from another source.
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors today appointed Stephen H. Souder as the director of the Fairfax County Department of Public Safety Communications. Selected after a nationwide search, Souder will begin his duties on Nov. 2.
A nationally recognized leader in the field of 9-1-1 and public safety communications, Souder has served as director of the Montgomery County, Md. Department of Police, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Center – one of the 50 largest such centers in the country – since November 2001. Previously, he was administrator of the Arlington County, Va. 9-1-1 Public Safety-Emergency Communications Center for over 16 years, including leading that agency during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
A former member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve and the District of Columbia Fire Department, Souder was involved in placing into operation the first Computer Aided Dispatch system in the United States, and the second 9-1-1 system to serve a major city in the United States during his tenure in Washington.
Active in the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International, Souder was awarded life member status in APCO in 2000. He currently serves as chair of APCO's Project RETAINS, which addresses the staffing and retention of personnel in 9-1-1 public safety communication centers. He also is active in the National Emergency Number (9-1-1) Association, the 9-1-1 Institute of the Congressional Caucus and represents the National Capital Region Council of Government's Police Chiefs on the NCR Executive Interoperability Committee. In 2004, Souder also was recognized as the 9-1-1 Public Safety Communications Center Director of the Year for the state of Maryland.
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A group of sprout growers has formed the Sprout Alliance for Safety & Science in an effort to differentiate themselves from sprout producers responsible for recent food safety incidents.
The alliance of growers, seed suppliers and other related industry stakeholders plans to develop and provide verification for science-based operating standards to grow safe sprouts, invest in scientific research, training and education and communicate about sprouts to the trade and consumers, according to a news release.
The alliance welcomes participation from industry companies willing to join and comply with the alliance's standards program, the release said.
All companies seeking membership in the Sprout Alliance for Safety and Science must undergo a variety of tests to become eligible and are required to follow strict alliance standards, according to the release.
Founding Alliance members include California Sprouts LLC, Sacramento, Hanover Foods Corp., Hanover, Pa., and Pearson Foods Corp., Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Mother-of-three banned from owning animals after leaving Staffie to starve
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A MOTHER-OF-THREE has been banned from owning animals after she let her dog starve to half its body weight.
Zoe Maxwell, aged 40, of Bath Road, in Nailsworth, and Michael Mayo, aged 24, of Stroud Road, in Gloucester, were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a Staffordshire bull terrier.
They were both sentenced to 18 weeks custody suspended for 12 months and disqualified indefinitely from owning animals at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, January 29.
District Judge Lynne Matthews said: "Here we have a dog starved for four weeks.
"This was frankly appauling.
"If you are under any misapprehension as to why you are here it is because society will not put up with people inflicting cruelty on animals."
The Staffie, called Kai was rescued after it escaped from the defendant's previous home in Lawnside, Nailsworth, in December 2012, the court heard.
Nick Sutton, prosecuting on behalf of the RSPCA, said: "Police visited the property on December 12 and saw two cages in the living room with a dog in each.
"The next day animal welfare officers at Stroud District Council were called after a man found a dog.
"She went to his address and saw an emaciated animal."
Kai was taken to Clockhouse Vets and seized by the RSPCA.
The court heard that Kai was 11kg underweight, weighing just 13.9kg.
Vet Paul Mitchell said: "In my opinion this dog had been malnourished for considerable time.
"His nutritional needs had not been met for at least four weeks, he was not given sufficient food."
The court heard that Maxwell could not cope with the dog and gave him to her daughter's partner Mayo.
Mr Sutton said: "They must have seen this animal slowly starving when in their possession.
"Between themselves what ever the situation was it was their duty to do something.
"Luckily the dog escaped and was picked up by a caring person. If that had not happened this dog would not be alive now, without a shadow of a doubt."
Kai has since been re-homed and is living in Italy.
Judge Matthews said: "This dog was starved and would have starved to death had it not escaped.
"I am told by a vet that the poor dog would have suffered the sensation of sever hunger.
"The story has a happy ending for the dog though and I have seen what he looks like now with owners taking care of him."
The pair are also required to undertake 140 hours of unpaid work and Mayo must pay £1,000 costs and a £80 victim surcharge while Maxwell was ordered to pay £400 costs.
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Circulation Supervisor Zelda Patterson received a service award for her work supporting OPAL. She was among only three nominees for the honor in the state. She earned her bachelor's degree from Ohio University and joined the staff of the library in 1998.
In addition to Patterson, the staff of the library includes: Brian Kern, head of technical services; Mary Williams, technical services librarian; Andrew Whitis, head of user services; Kate Wenger, reference librarian; Sheila Ellenberger, director of the library; Elaine Funk, library acquisitions assistant and Elane Day, library periodicals assistant.
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BERKELEY -- The U.S. attorney for the northern district of California defended her lawsuits against landlords of medical marijuana outlets one day after this city's largest provider revealed its landlord is being targeted in a drug asset forfeiture suit.
U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag filed suit May 2 seeking forfeiture of land and buildings owned by Nahla Droubi, of Moraga, who is the landlord of Berkeley Patients Group on San Pablo Avenue.
The suit says the dispensary is illegally distributing drugs and the property can be seized.
Haag defended the suit and others like it on the same day Berkeley politicians held a news conference to complain about it.
In a statement Haag said lawsuits against landlords of medical marijuana dispensaries and letters threatening the landlords have been reasonable and are supported by educators, addiction specialists, police officers, clergy, parents and others who are "negatively affected by marijuana."
"The marijuana industry has caused significant public health and safety problems in rural communities, urban centers and schools in the Northern District of California," Haag said. "Because some believe marijuana has medicinal value, however, we continue to take a measured approach and have only pursued asset forfeiture actions with respect to marijuana retail sales operations very near schools, parks or playgrounds, at the request of local law enforcement, or in one case, because of the sheer size of its distribution operations."
Haag also said that Droubi had fair warning before Berkeley Patients Group reopened at its new location in December. Her office notified Droubi that Berkeley Patients Group would be moving into a neighborhood with two preschools nearby and that the "planned use of the property would violate federal law."
At a news conference on the steps of the City Council chambers, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said the suit and others like it should stop.
"I think it's time for the federal government, the president and the attorney general to wake up and stop these kinds of actions," Bates said. "Here is a group of people who have played by the rules and have had no problems in the city with the way they or their patients conduct themselves."
Councilmen Laurie Capitelli echoed Bates by saying the federal government "needs to find something better to do than harass local law-abiding businesses."
Droubi has remained silent since the suit was filed. She did not return phone calls seeking comment on the suit, did not attend the news conference and has not spoken directly to her tenant, said Sean Luse, chief operating officer of Berkeley Patients Group.
Berkeley Patients Group attorney Henry Wykowski said the dispensary will remain open while it fights the lawsuit against their landlord.
"We are not going to close down, and we are not going to run away," Wykowski said. "Berkeley Patients Group will not abandon its patients or the principles on which it was founded."
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The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food shows food-price inflation has slowed during 2013, including prices for meat and poultry. The CPI for all food increased by 1.3 percent from October 2012 to October 2013, and USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) projects an annual increase of 1.5 to 2.5 percent for all food prices and 1 to 2 percent for food-at-home prices. That would indicate a slightly smaller increase than we saw in 2012, and 2013 food-price inflation would drop below the 20-year historical average of 2.8 percent.
ERS notes that food prices during 2012 remained relatively flat in spite of severe drought over much of the country. Factors such as decreased exports of many U.S. agricultural products, a stronger U.S. dollar, low energy price inflation and decreased prices for commodities unaffected by the drought helped keep overall food-price inflation lower than expected.
Price inflation for meat, and specifically for beef and veal, also has moderated this year. The 12-month increase for beef and veal prices through October was 1.4 percent. ERS projects an annual increase of 2 to 3 percent for 2013, compared with 6.4 percent last year and 10.2 percent during 2011.
Pork prices increased 3.7 percent from October 2012 to October 2013, and ERS projects an annual increase of 0.5 to 1.5 percent for 2013, after increases of 0.3 percent in 2012 and 8.5 percent in 2011.
Poultry prices increased 5.1 percent over the past 12 months, and ERS projects an annual increase of 4 to 5 percent this year.
Dairy prices fell by 0.2 percent over the same 12-month period, and ERS projects an annual increase of 0 to 1 percent for 2013.
For 2014, ERS projects the indices for all food prices, food at home, food away from home and meat prices to increase by 2.5 to 3.5 percent. Of all the food categories listed, ERS projects the biggest 2014 increase in poultry prices, at 3 to 4 percent.
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+0 votes Jason Kirkaldy › November 3, 2014
+0 votes mark young › January 25, 2011
One of my favorite courses. This course turns men into ****es.
+0 votes David Edmondson › November 18, 2010
VP is a nice city park. There's lots of hills and gnarly brush for the front nine. The back nine is a different world of rolling hills and green grass. The park used to be a landfill thus the features and the sparkly glass which is pretty=)
+0 votes Tyler "Shanko" Raemhild › February 18, 2011
Awesome course with a lot of elevation changes. Plays though a nice park and woods.
+0 votes Jeff Flair › November 27, 2010
Great course if you've played before.
+0 votes Bobby Helms › February 20, 2011
Loved this course but way too confusing finding the next T box. Hills and trails are cool..
+0 votes Patrick Plaze › July 8, 2011
Love this course, lots of elevation changes and different shots will test your game a bit
+0 votes Russell Williams › March 25, 2011
Great Course my home park. The Vet has new Tee Signs which are amazing. When all the baskets are in the long this course is a ****. But you still have to love this course.
+0 votes CJ ocampo › July 25, 2011
+0 votes Will Harvey › June 21, 2011
I love VP, it's got a great variety of shots to test your bag. It's got some long holes, great elevation change, some really tough greens, and plenty of trees to deal with. Every time I've played there it's been well maintained and clean, great park. Bring your A game, it's tough
+0 votes Cody Nager › August 1, 2011
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+0 votes Hector Lopez › October 22, 2013
fun course for sure. several new pin positions (3,4,7 and 18)
+0 votes jacob riley › May 8, 2014
Home course. This course offers a variety of challenges requiring you to dig deep into your bag. Great course to learn. If you can play here you can take your game anywhere. Go big or go home! #DiscLife
+0 votes Joe G. › August 12, 2014
I really enjoyed this course, but it can have a lot of hills at times.
+0 votes Michael England › December 20, 2015
+0 votes Ross Pincock › December 14, 2015
+0 votes Orlando Cantu › July 23, 2017
A very challenging course, if you are not a local. A few directional signs, between baskets, would help. Our group had to use GPS to find a few tee pads. I really enjoyed the course!


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In strong language implying that the District Attorney's Office defrauded taxpayers by circumventing a union-negotiated pay cut, Santa Clara County officials demanded Thursday that prosecutors who benefited "inappropriately" from DA Jeff Rosen's controversial distribution of extra time off give the perk back or risk being investigated by the county for wrongdoing themselves.
The explosive directive came as state Attorney General Kamala Harris continues her civil investigation into whether Rosen violated the state government code by rewarding his top deputies paid time off to make up for a 5 percent bonus they lost as part of countywide cutbacks. The investigation was instigated at the request of the county.
In a letter to the Government Attorneys Association, deputy county executive Luke Leung branded the district attorney's unilateral decision to award up to hundreds of hours off in some cases as a "secret action" aimed at circumventing an "important" union-negotiated concession intended to save county taxpayer dollars. Leung uses the phrase "defraud the county" twice to describe the potential impact of the extra time off.
Rosen blasted the county in response, calling the letter "inaccurate" and "misleading."
"I do not appreciate attempts by the County Executive to bully my hardworking prosecutors," Rosen said in a written statement.
Given the ongoing attorney general's investigation, Rosen also said he was "puzzled by the content and timing of the county's letter demanding that Supervising Attorneys return a Fair Labor Standards Act benefit that they lawfully earned."
Rosen's decision to quietly give extra time off in the form of paid administrative leave is controversial because it allows the supervising attorneys — who are among the office's highest-paid lawyers at salaries of about $195,000 each — to preserve vacation time they might otherwise have used and eventually sell it back to the county for cash.
He has said he did nothing wrong by awarding the extra time off, describing the supervising attorneys, including the homicide chief and head of the gang unit, as extremely hardworking, committed prosecutors who are on call 24 hours a day and are essential to the office's operation and to public safety.
The supervising attorneys lost their bonuses under the county's September 2011 contract with the Government Attorneys Association, which represents prosecutors, public defenders and child-support attorneys. Rosen's decision to compensate them with extra time off surfaced via news reports.
The county's top administrator, Jeff Smith, has said the benefit is worth about $280,000. Under the contract, the 5 percent bonus will be restored later this month after nearly two years of savings.
Since the perk surfaced, 10 other county unions, including the largest, have either filed grievances or written letters claiming the county also must award them equivalent perks, under the "me-too" clause contained in every contract with the county. Doing so could cost taxpayers millions, county officials have said. Under the contracts, if any unit doesn't meet its pro-rated share of concessions, then the county must lower other unions' share and cost of the cuts to its members by a proportional amount.
In the county's view, Rosen is authorized to grant up to 40 hours of administrative leave annually, but is not permitted to award the time to make up for a union-negotiated cut.
It was unclear Thursday whether all the supervising attorneys will give back the perk — either by turning in their unused hours or by substituting vacation time or sick days for any hours they've already taken.
The union could file a grievance protesting the demand on their behalf, or they could file individual grievances at their own expense. The union is unlikely to file a grievance though since the group's attorney has called the extra time off a "gift of public funds" in violation of the government code, and a possible felony.
Thursday, the union issued a statement in response to the county's letter, calling the use of administrative leave to "controvert" the union's concessions to the county "wrong." But the group said it will study the demand and eventually respond formally to the county.
"I hope the reputation of the hardworking supervising attorneys in my office is not sullied by DA Rosen's secretive use of unauthorized administrative leave," union president Max Zarzana said.
Zarzana also noted that the county mistakenly included several attorneys who did not get time off to make up for the lost bonus. The list of hours also mistakenly includes legitimately granted leave, he said.
County officials said they are open to working with the union to refine the list.
Two of the attorneys on the list — Jim Sibley and Steve Fein — had already asked Rosen to take the time back, but he turned them down. Sibley said Thursday that he will "absolutely" relinquish the perk. Fein could not be reached.
But supervising attorney Cindy Hendrickson said she and the other top deputies earned the time off by working long hours, including being on call 24 hours a day. The attorneys aren't eligible to earn overtime and thus need extra time off to sustain their commitment to the grueling job of seeking justice and maintaining public safety, she said. However, all 183 of the lawyers in the office, including the supervising attorneys, are salaried and not hourly. Many also work long hours, and Hendrickson said she thinks they are also entitled to time off for doing so.
"I'm tremendously offended by the letter," Hendrickson said. "He is saying that the leaders of the office are all a bunch of felons. But I'm comfortable that I never acted at any time to defraud the county."
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.


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Who's afraid of Kim Jong-un?
While there is a very real possibility that events on the Korean peninsula could spiral out of control, the result, despite the new leader's belligerence, would never be in doubt.
Anyone watching the international news couldn't doubt North Korea's talent for outrageous threats and provocations.
Since the United Nations Security Council imposed new sanctions following the rogue regime's nuclear weapon test in February, Pyongyang has declared an end to the 60-year armistice that ended the Korean War, severed the emergency ''hotline'' with Seoul and ordered frontline troops to be ready to ''cut the windpipes'' of their enemies.
It has also threatened to unleash artillery to ''wipe out'' a South Korean island, and pledged to wage ''all-out war'' including threats of nuclear strikes against the United States.
Declaring that the ''moment of explosion is approaching fast'', North Korea has urged that foreign diplomats leave Pyongyang and foreigners leave South Korea for their own safety.
All this has been accompanied by media appearances of North Korea's still relatively new leader, Kim Jong-un, visiting artillery batteries, watching military exercises, shooting a pistol on a firing range and, bizarrely, sitting in his office against a backdrop of maps showing US cities as nuclear targets.
Much recent commentary suggests North Korea's belligerent posturing is driven by Kim's desire to strengthen his internal position. He has been in power for only 16 months, since the death of his father Kim Jong-il, and it is thought he is working to strengthen his hold over North Korea's powerful military. However, this explanation may be overstated and perhaps mistaken.
The highly respected International Crisis Group argued strongly last year that doubts about Kim Jong-un's authority were ''based on flawed assumptions and misunderstandings of North Korean ideology and political institutions''.
''There are no signs to suggest that Kim Jong-un … is anything but in charge in his own right,'' the ICG concluded. ''North Korea under Kim Jong-un is stable. There is no sign of any opposition to the dynastic succession, and the barriers to change are tremendous.''
Another medium-range ballistic missile test looks like the next provocation. The US, South Korea and Japan are anticipating this. Indeed US officials are suggesting, on the basis of satellite imagery, that a test, perhaps a simultaneous firing of two missiles, is ''imminent''.
Another missile test would no doubt be followed by more international condemnation of North Korea. Pyongyang will expect this and respond with its own belligerent rhetoric. Nothing much will have changed.
North Korea has tested plenty of ballistic missiles before and it will almost certainly do so again.
Derived from 1950s Soviet Scud technology, Pyongyang's missile program has been slowly progressing for three decades. Its handful of longer-range rockets can reach Japan, and even as far as Guam or Alaska. But they are highly vulnerable, inaccurate and by no means reliable.
A successful test might be a boost to North Korea's domestic propaganda machine but it won't do much more than that.
Although there are reportedly no immediate signs of another North Korean nuclear test, that is also a possibility. However, while such an action would also serve the propaganda interests of the regime, it won't change North Korea's international position.
There would again be condemnation from the UN Security Council and most likely more sanctions. However, Pyongyang is already diplomatically and economically isolated. The practical effect could well be to simply reduce North Korea's small nuclear stockpile by one device.
So North Korea may well do something more than another weapons test. But just what that is is difficult to judge. Satellite imagery doesn't necessarily reveal much about the intentions of the secretive regime.
We can at least be reasonably confident that Kim Jong-un isn't going to effectively commit suicide. North Korea's air force is largely armed with antiquated 1960s-era aircraft that wouldn't last long in a confrontation with the US and South Korea. The enormous North Korean army has a great deal of artillery but lacks mobility. Training and equipment are often poor. A major war would be long and bloody, but its result would never be in doubt.
North Korea isn't going to risk extinction by attacking the United States or Japan, or by launching a massive assault across the demilitarised zone into South Korea. The communist leadership in Pyongyang has long shown itself to be calculating and single-mindedly obsessed with its own self-preservation. It doesn't intend to go the way of the former communist regimes of eastern europe and the former Soviet Union or, for that matter, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.
However, North Korea is well aware it has very few friends. Most importantly long-time ally China has backed away and increasingly regards Pyongyang as not merely a troublesome neighbour but a rogue state.
One of the many revelations from the 2010 WikiLeaks release of leaked US diplomatic cables was the news that China and the US have been sharing secret intelligence on North Korea.
US-Chinese defence consultative talks in July 2009 included substantial exchanges about North Korea between senior US defence and intelligence officials and top-ranking Chinese generals, including People's Liberation Army intelligence chief Yang Hui.
Speaking in the aftermath of North Korea's May 2009 nuclear test, General Yang told the Americans that ''survival [has] always been the No. 1 priority'' for Pyongyang.
''North Korea is in an inferior position to South Korea based on all measurements of national strength,'' he argued. ''North Korea had seen 10 years of economic stagnation with only 1 per cent growth in the economy per year … after witnessing the US invasion of Iraq, North Korea concluded it could not give up its nuclear weapons program.''
Other US diplomatic cables showed senior Chinese political figures were privately distancing themselves from North Korea and quietly canvassing the prospect of Korean reunification.
Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister He Yafei told a senior US envoy that Pyongyang was behaving like a ''spoiled child'' to get international attention with ballistic missile tests.
In February 2010 South Korea's then vice-foreign minister, Chun Yung-woo, cited conversations with senior Chinese figures who suggested China could accept a reunified Korea controlled by Seoul and anchored to the US in a ''benign alliance'' - as long as Korea was not hostile towards China.
This is not China's policy now, but combined with Beijing's cautious support for sanctions following North Korea's most recent nuclear test, Pyongyang has good reason to be worried about the trend in Chinese thinking about the future of the Korean peninsula.
It is against this background that Kim Jung-un succeeded his father as North Korea's supreme leader. Although domestic politics may be an element in Pyongyang's posturing, a desire to counteract the regime's declining international position appears much more significant. Kim's ''look at me'' belligerence may be directed as much, if not more, towards Beijing as Seoul or Washington.
By ramping up the prospects of a major conflict on China's doorstep, Kim is probably seeking to force China to re-engage with Pyongyang, and specifically to give a clear reaffirmation and guarantee that China will support North Korea's continuation as an independent state and indeed the continuation of the Kim family dynasty.
To achieve this, Pyongyang may well consider it necessary to do more than bluff with strident rhetoric and weapon tests. There are good grounds for worrying that a measure of military action is likely.
The North Korean military has not fought a big war for 60 years, but it has a well-established track record of small but deadly attacks on South Korea.
In March 2010, a South Korean navy frigate was torpedoed, probably by a North Korean submarine, killing 46 on board. Later that year North Korean artillery fired more than 100 artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, killing two civilians and wounding 19.
With their small nuclear arsenal, ballistic missiles and large if antiquated army, North Korea's generals are probably confident they can deter any big retaliatory attack by South Korea or the US, even if they engage in severe provocation including small attacks.
The North Koreans may believe they are able to choose the time and place of a new attack once the US and South Korea complete their current joint military exercises. South Korean islands in the East China Sea seem the likely targets of a limited military operation, perhaps another artillery barrage from a neighbouring island or renewed naval skirmishing.
The first of Kim Jung-un's recent military photo stops was a highly publicised visit to an offshore artillery battery near the South Korean island of Baengnyeong, which has a civilian population of some 5000. It was that island he suggested could be ''wiped out''.
Unlike in 2010, however, it seems likely South Korea will respond in kind. The US and allies like Australia have already urged restraint, but domestic politics may well demand a robust reply from the new South Korean government.
A South Korean military response may be carefully calibrated and geographically limited. But there could be a series of tit for tat exchanges with a serious risk of escalation, deliberate or accidental.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned: ''If any small incident is caused by miscalculation or misjudgment, it may create an uncontrollable situation.'' The possibility that events may spiral out of control is very real.
Australia and others are all looking to China to exercise influence and restrain Pyongyang. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr urged this while visiting China in the past week. But China's leverage is less than it once was and Pyongyang probably won't listen until it has escalated tensions further.
Moreover, a desire to re-engage Beijing on its own terms is probably a major element driving Pyongyang's brinkmanship.
And, if things get out of hand, Australia is likely to be involved in any military response. Australia's position on the UN Security Council means it is directly involved in diplomatic efforts to avoid conflict albeit, as Senator Carr has conceded, with little real influence.
If the United States is drawn into hostilities, it is more likely than not that the ANZUS alliance would be invoked. Australian Defence Force contingency planning has long contemplated naval and air contributions to hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
The Australian-United States Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, in any case plays a vital role in supporting US ballistic missile early warning and signals intelligence collection satellites. The facility is deeply engaged in direct support for US military operations.
A crisis could be triggered by a skirmish over a small island in the East China Sea that few Australians have heard of. However, our choice of strategic dependence will probably lead us to again show the flag alongside our powerful friend. Where this might leave our relations with the nations of east Asia, especially China, which also has its eye on the future of Taiwan, can only be guessed at.
No doubt Australian policymakers earnestly hope all this will quietly go off the boil. It may well be that China, and the US, will have to offer Pyongyang some concessions to calm things down, as has been done in the past.
That may not be such a bad thing. There is a huge interest in keeping the Korean peninsula from spiralling out of control.
The North Korean regime is unlikely to disappear any time soon, and it won't give up its nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, as every parent knows when trying to manage a child's tantrum, sometimes you do have to negotiate with terrorists.
Philip Dorling is a senior writer and a former Australian diplomat who worked on nuclear and missile proliferation matters.
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You might associate Amazon with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, Saleforce.com with multitenancy, SAP with in-memory databases, and EMC with high-performance disk arrays, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison asserted on Sunday night, in his kickoff keynote at the company's annual Open World event in San Francisco, that Oracle has these and other competitors beat with four new cloud-computing-related offerings.
The four announcements were:
--Oracle Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).
--An Oracle Private Cloud service that runs in the customer's data center, yet is owned and managed by Oracle.
--Oracle Database 12c, a cloud-oriented upgrade of the company's flagship database.
--Oracle Exadata X3, an update of the Exadata Database Machine that will take advantage of 12c while also packing more DRAM and more advanced use of flash cache memory than available in the previous Exadata machines.
The irony of seeing Larry Ellison extol the virtues of cloud computing, in-memory computing, and multitenancy after so many memorable attacks on earlier versions of these technologies offered by rivals was indeed rich. But as InformationWeek predicted, Ellison's message was that Oracle alone is uniquely positioned and has designed innovative technology to deliver cloud computing (and in-memory database, fast storage, and various other technologies) in a superior way.
Oracle announced software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) plans at last year's Open World event. However, in working with Oracle customers on cloud delivery, Ellison said it became clear that they wanted and needed infrastructure-as-a-service.
[ Want more on what's coming from Oracle? Read Oracle Open World: Key Issues On Tap. ]
"Our customers have said they need to run certain custom applications and existing apps into the cloud as well SaaS applications," Ellison said. He noted that the infrastructure services--such as database, operating system, compute capacity, and storage services--will run on Oracle engineered systems including Exadata, Exalogic, and the Oracle Sparc SuperCluster server, which he dubbed "the fastest, most reliable, most secure machines in the world."
A first key question is whether Oracle can competitively deliver cloud infrastructure at the industrial scale that Amazon and fast-growing cloud-capacity rivals IBM (Smart Cloud) and Microsoft (Azure) operate at, using the same products (meaning Exadata, Exalogic, and Supercluster) developed and designed for corporate data centers. At the massive scale of Amazon's operation, the equivalent of an "appliance" is a container-sized data center module.
More details on Oracle's IaaS plans will emerge this week, but Ellison didn't get into basics such as availability dates, pricing, and service details during Sunday's keynote. Will Oracle deliver equivalents to the many individual infrastructure services, availability zones, and service-level-agreements (SLAs) served up by Amazon? And can it compete against Amazon's economy of scale?
The Oracle Private Cloud service that Ellison announced is aimed at companies that want the advantages of cloud computing but that are more comfortable housing compute capacity on premises, for security or compliance reasons. These customers will be able to get the flexibility of turn-it-off, turn-it-on elastic cloud-compute capacity and have hardware on premises, but with the new private cloud service, Oracle will own and manage the hardware and will keep it up to date, Ellison said.
The first question is just how elastic can the service be, given that a certain amount of hardware capacity will have to be installed on premises? And just how prepared is Oracle to manage hardware deployments at hundreds, and one would expect growing to thousands, of remote customer locations? Critically, what are the costs and the SLAs?
The "c" in Oracle Database 12c is for cloud, and Ellison declared it to be the first multitenant database before. In a long explanation of the benefits of multitenancy, Ellison said that Saleforce.com and other cloud competitors to Oracle were forced to implement multitenancy at the application level. But this approach, he said, is insecure and prevents the use of standard database tools for things like auditing, query, and reporting, forcing those vendors to use custom-built (and the suggestion was inferior) tools.
By offering multitenancy at the database level, Ellison said Oracle will be able to offer truly secure cloud computing, with each customer's data "safe in its own private database." Ellison described the 12c architecture as a container capable of plugging multiple databases into a single isolated container.
The architecture also improves performance and minimizes operational cost by reducing hardware requirements, Ellison said.


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Mom's Almond-Filled Coffee Rings Recipe
The recipe for Mom's coffee cake goes back more than 50 years. Perfect for special occasions, the nut-filled ring is so pretty and has such wonderful flavor.—Arlene Murphy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 2/3 cup warm 2% milk (110° to 115°)
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3-1/2 to 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 cups finely chopped almonds
- 1-1/4 cups packed brown sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 tablespoons 2% milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. Add the eggs, sugar, butter, salt and 1 cup flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky).
- 2. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Combine the almonds, brown sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
- 3. Punch dough down; turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide in half. Roll each half into a 12-in. x 9-in. rectangle. Spread butter over rectangles to within 1 in. of edges; sprinkle with almond mixture. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seams to seal.
- 4. Place each portion seam side down on a greased baking sheet; pinch ends together to form a ring. With scissors, cut from outside edge to two-thirds of the way toward center of ring at 1-1/2-in. intervals. Separate strips slightly; twist to allow filling to show. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- 5. Bake at 375° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Combine the confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla; drizzle over rings. Yield: 2 rings (10 slices each).
Nutritional Facts
1 slice: 350 calories, 14g fat (5g saturated fat), 51mg cholesterol, 162mg sodium, 53g carbohydrate (34g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein.
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Toronto -- Target Corp. announced Wednesday it is pursuing Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification for all Canadian stores opening in 2013.
Design plans include conserving energy and water, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and limiting waste sent to landfill, among other features.
Target is among the first organizations in Canada to be part of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Volume Program, which streamlines the certification process for multiple buildings of a similar type. This will make Target a leader among Canadian mass retailers when it comes to LEED buildings.
"Striving for LEED certification at our 124 stores opening in 2013 is important as we seek to use our resources responsibly and maintain the health of our communities," said Tony Fisher, president, Target Canada.
Target sites will be renovated for a period of six to nine months prior to opening. An investment of more than $10 million will be spent remodeling each location, including LEED preparations.


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If you want to know more about Windows Azure, how it works, the components, or more about the entire platform, I've written about that here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2012/06/13/windows-azure-write-run-or-use-software.aspx
Maybe you just want to cut to the chase. Windows Azure. What do I *do* with it? Let's talk about that. One of the quickest, easiest ways to use Azure is in the storage feature, as a backup target. Can Windows Azure backup data, servers, workstations or databases? Yes. Yes it can. Windows Azure storage is replicated three times in one datacenter (on different fault-domains) and then those three are replicated to another geographically separate (but still in the same country region) location, you get six copies of the data automatically. Your data stays in the datacenter you choose, and is replicated within a geo-politically same region. So it's actually a great target for backups.
First, you need a storage account, a container underneath that, and a Blob object to put the backups on. Here's how you do that (for free):
OK, now that you have all that, you're all set. In fact, you're all set for things like Web Sites, VM's, Code Deployment and lots of other things, but let's focus on backups first. What are your options?
The easiest way to send files to Windows Azure is to mount the storage as if it is a local drive. You can use that as regular storage (I'll talk more about this in my next post) but you can also use that as a drive letter where you can send backups. While that's simple to implement, it isn't always the most efficient – you're going through a layer of storage abstraction. Still and all, it's a good choice and quick and easy to implement. Here are some options:
In addition to (and including) the providers mentioned above, some also skip the step of having to mount a drive to use as a backup target, and simply allow you to mount an agent or tool that just backs up straight to Azure.
Data Protection Manager is a feature that is part of the System Center suite. We've updated that in the latest versions that will allow you to incrementally back up Servers and even Workstations and Laptops straight to Windows Azure. The beauty of this feature is that if the user is in a remote office or traveling the data will flow up to Windows Azure from wherever they are.
SQL Server can use the mounted-drive approach described above, and you can back up your databases