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Securing Your Prosperity
If you've finally become successful enough to own a property, you're going to have to maintain it. In the modern age, there are quite a few different ways to do this, and some interesting innovations are worth considering. One innovation that is rapidly changing the world pertains to internet-enabled devices.
Such devices are often bound together into a network you can manipulate from your smartphone. This is called IoT, or the Internet of Things. With IoT technology, you can control your refrigerator, freezer, garage door, thermostat—including both heating and air conditioning functions—your lighting, or even the fireplace.
Something else you can control is home security. You can both activate and deactivate security systems with the swipe of an app on your smartphone these days. Which means if you forget to lock up when you leave, as long as you've got your smartphone, you don't have to make an additional trip back to the house!
Here's the thing: there are a lot of home security options available today, and you want to make sure you get the right one. Your property is more than the place where you rest your head at night. Not only is it your home, it represents an investment. While today keeping up with the Joneses, as the saying goes, is out of vogue, it has a purpose.
Some Considerable Reasons To Maintain Your Neighborhood
You shouldn't be keeping up with your neighbors in order to outdo them, or in some way validate yourself through inculcated superiority. Rather, it makes sense to keep up with the standards of a given neighborhood for the simple retention of property value. You've likely seen neighborhoods slowly drift into decline. Why does this happen?
Well somebody litters, and nobody cleans it up. So somebody else litters. And then that littered alleyway is hit by a gang of street toughs who decide a certain wall should be spray-painted. Maybe it's cleaned up once, but the second time it isn't, and eventually the thugs know they can do what they want without being bothered in such-and-such alley.
Neighborhoods that aren't proactively kept up will slowly drift into decline. This is why a neighborhood watch is a good idea. But the best way to maintain your neighborhood is to keep your own house in excellent condition, clean up after yourself, and be a good example. You may be the "Joneses" everybody's keeping up with, you see?
Living in a house and owning a property are both items which can increase or decrease the value of your investment. If your community isn't a gated one, it may make good sense to install a security system. If your community is gated, security systems likewise make sense, as you become a prime target for nighttime sneak thieves.
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According to HomeSecurtySystem.co, the best home security camera system is LiveWatch; as the site says: "We compared 8 of the best home security monitoring systems in various categories. Clearly, LiveWatch offers the best overall package when it comes to home security."
There are going to be ups and downs with any security system, so you want to know what you're getting into before you buy. But with technology today, upgrading and protecting property can transform it in ways that were never possible before.


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Which outlet to install at home?
Which outlet to install at home?
Use a 50 amp, NEMA 14-50R plug. This is commonly used for stoves and, more importantly, RV campgrounds.
By the way... some owners cut off the neutral pin on the 50 amp connector so it can go into either socket; it's not actually used by the Roadster. Then when plugging into a 30 amp socket they manually dial back the power using the touchscreen. Of course if you forget you'll blow the breaker.
Personally I bought both adapters.
I agree. Install a 50 amp, NEMA 14-50R plug. Make sure the electrician looks closely at the install instruction sheet from Tesla. Get the Universal Mobile Connector
Note that the plug is installed upside down from normal so the cord can hang down. You can also get the J1772 adapter so it's easier to travel. Make sure your Roadster has the latest firmware before it leaves (which it should) so you can use the adapter.
I too would install a NEMA 14-50 plug and would run wiring for 70 maps (4 gage 4 wires) and a 70 amp breaker. That way IF you want to upgrade to J1772 you are ready. At a minimum I hear the new MC 240 can pull 40 amps so you want to size for that. You do not need more at home in my humble opinion but at some point you may want another electric car that uses J1772 and the wire is relative inexpensive for a short distance.
Yeah. The round plug is on the top. The Tesla diagram is correct on that sheet. Probably install it maybe 4 or 5 feet off the ground. Have fun!
I installed my NEMA 14-50R right below the breaker box so that I did not need to bend any conduit. I have a few boxes stacked near the wall and the "box" sits nicely on a flat, level surface rather than hanging it's weight down from the receptacle.
You definitely want the 50 A version to minimize your charge time for those occasions when you're in a hurry. The HPC might be worth it if money is no object for you, but usually an overnight charge is all you'll ever need and the 50 A can handle a full charge in less than 7 hours.
The HPC is probably most useful if you'll have other Roadster owners visiting your house for a quick charge often. Most of the owners I've talked to with a HPC say they rarely charge at 70A. I'm sure it's nice to have but probably not necessary. Nice thing about the UMC is that you can take it with you if you want to charge at a campground or something.
Hello everyone. I placed and order for a Roadster Sport (Vin # 1364 - Yellow) and hope to have it by August. I have an HPC that is being installed in the garage and was wondering if any of you put in a power meter? I want to be able to track volts, amps, KWH and KW that I input into the car specifically and I am looking for a great unit to install along with the HPC. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am going nuts waiting for this car. Thanks in advance.
Congrats on on your purchase, jmollen! You're going to be very happy shortly :).
No need to install a power meter - you'll have the option on your touchscreen to review the charge info from the night before & are able to also look back at the last several charges.
Ask your customer service rep for an electronic copy of the user manual (you might be able to see it on your 'My Tesla' log in page, but not sure) - I think that has all the info and then you can decide if a power meter is still required.
By the way, I meant to comment on Douglas' mention that owners are clipping the neutral to allow plugging the NEMA 14-50P into different receptacles. I strongly recommend against this! All of the other receptacles are rated for less than 50A, so it's a bad idea. Yes, you can manually dial down the charge rate, but depending upon human memory when it comes to 12000 Watts of power is probably not the best first choice.
The recommended practice would be to order the correct adaptor from Tesla Motors for your UMC, and then when you connect the adaptor it will automatically your Roadster to charge at the right amperage. Yes, it costs a little more, but you only have to buy it once. Plus, you won't have any ugly-looking stubs on your plug.
That looks great!
I had to install my NEMA 14-50 the other way at first, due to limited space for bending the 4-gauge wire, but I went back and reinstalled it the way you have it. It's way more convenient when the NEMA 14-50 plug wire is oriented towards the bottom rather than the top.
The receptacle cover is a nice touch. The only thing I would suggest is a wooden platform or small table for the "box" - since I assume that is cement on the floor below. I suggest this only to avoid scratching the $1,500 UMC enclosure. Also, there might be less bending in the cable.
This was my first 220 V installation. Because everyone talked about "50 A" charging, I assumed that they meant the charging system actually draws a full 50 A, literally. I was worried that running a 50 A charger with a 50 A amp would just make it trip constantly. Thus, I got a 60 A breaker and 70 A wire (in 4 separate runs). That's the only reason I started with 4 gauge wire. I was quite surprised when my Roadster showed only a mere 40 A on the VMS screen.
Surprisingly enough, the local Lowes hardware store has a certified electrician working the floor, and he informed me that the code specifies that a circuit should not carry more than 80% of its rating. I kinda felt short-changed because people weren't really making it clear that you only get 40 A. But, after understanding all of this, I downgraded to a 50 A breaker and 55 A wire. Not sure what the gauge is, and it's still stiff, but not nearly as challenging as the 4-gauge 70 A wire.
So, no, I don't have a long run. In fact, it's less than 1 foot from my fuse box. It was all a misunderstanding, but thankfully not an unsafe misunderstanding. Someone on the forum did point out that the NEMA 14-50 is not rated for 60 A, and thus my original breaker could have allowed an unsafe condition, but everything is to code now.
... oh, about the box: I just worry that flexing the cable close to the box might cause problems in the long term. My box sits stationary, and the cable does not flex anywhere near it. Instead, the long run of cable is what gets coiled and uncoiled on a daily basis. I suppose it's a little silly to worry about flexing such a ridiculously thick cable, but everything wears out eventually.
Have any of the Tesla owners needed/wanted to upgrade their home electrical service beyond 100 amps? Does anyone know what Tesla's perspective on this is?
Yes, my house panel was 100 amps and I had it upgraded to 200 amps to support the HPC.
In retrospect I probably needn't have bothered. I have no pressing need for 70 amp charging at home, and in fact usually charge at 40A. I use 70 amps once every few months, and even then just for convenience, e.g. topping up to Range mode at the last minute. A NEMA 14-50 plug and the UMC would have been quite sufficient.
Hey all. It's Titus here (producer of Who Killed the Electric Car?) we've settled into our house in San Francisco and I need to get 220 power installed and likely a NEMA 14-50 Plug (and something for the wife's Leaf as well, but that's another story.)
My question is simple:
- Approximately how much should this cost? (there's NO 220 power in the house and only 100 amps in the house from the street - I know it's a rental so no major work wanting done)
- Anyone have a good FAST electrician in the Bay Area?
Good, fast, cheap. Pick two.
Hi Titus -
I live north of you (30 miles past Sac) & paid $400 for a NEMA 14-50 outlet to be put in my garage so that I could charge my Roadster. That included a new breaker switch and installing the line. I'd recommend an electrician, but you're not close enough :).
I saw ROTEC a few weeks ago at a screening in Palo Alto - perfect timing, right in the middle of the Model S weekend. Great job on the film! Amazing moment captured with Elon and Bob Lutz looking at Nissan's offering.
Hope you find a good electrician - will the landlord at least bring 220 into the house? Then maybe you could just pay the extra to have an outlet in the garage.
Best of luck,
I second Douglas3: I also put in an HPC and upgraded the electrical. I haven't really benefited from the HPC and would have been fine with the UMC . I chose the HPC since it wasnt much more than a UMC, which i doubted i'd use on the road. ButI ended up later buying the UMC for work as well. But I have had a few other Roadsters stop by who appreciated the 70 amps at least.
We also upgraded the 100amp house service but this was necessary for the solar system we put in at the same time.
BTW, I'm putting in a NEMA 14-50 at my work's second office. Is it wise and or necessary to put in an on/off switch? Any risk plugging in or unplugging from a live outlet? Of course I'd stop charging first. The electrician at our first office put in such a switch and it is nice to know I'm not going to accidentally zap myself.
Shouldn't be a problem plugging/unplugging a NEMA 14-50. Just don't wrap your fingers around the plug!
Fortunately 240V in North America is two-phase, so each hot pin is only 120V. Unless you manage to get connected to BOTH hots you're not going to get any more of a zap than a 120V plug.
At Douglas3: thank you for the interesting discussion. One small addition: each individual phase in the US is 120 V vs ground.
Three phases combined are 220V vs ground because of the 120 deg interval between each sinus curve. In Europe, this is 220V in each phase, combining to 360 deg overall.
Amperage of course adds straight.
PS: 3 Phase US is 240, sorry. More in depth info on 3 phase with 4 wire, 2 phase phase-to-phase and other possible situations in residential US installations here:
gotta watch out for those hook-nosed sinus curves!
I am quite certain you have 220V to the house as every house I have seen has that as it is needed for a range, hot water heater, hot tub or central AC.
If you have room to install a double breaker it should not be a bid deal. I added a NEMA 14-50 in my garage and had 30' run of wire and I installed it for about $75 for all the parts and while not an electrician it only took me about 2 hours.
A neighbour across the lane mentioned his wife hangs clothes to dry because his (older) place isn't wired for 220. All she's got are small 120V washer and dryer, which can handle only very small loads. This is in the middle of a residential area of a large city.
Because the older houses in sf were plumbed for gas lighting, many applianes are gas. He truly may not have 220. Seen some appartments with only two 15 amp circuts, knob and tube wiring, and even using the old gas lines for conduit. 19th century technology...
Getting the 220 into the house could be very expensive, or it might be quite cheap. You'll have to check with the local electric company (who will have their own rules) as well as with local electricians.... and with the landlord, of course.
Once you've done that, the internal wiring will be in the range others have stated.
Has anyone mounted the outlet in the middle of the garage ceiling (so either side has access to it?) I realize if you are parking on the left side, the wire will go across the back of the car, but I am thinking a bungee cord would keep it clear.
Has anyone run into a poblem getting the 30 amp plug into the garage. our breaker box is on the other side of the house. the only way to run wiring is to trench up the stone driveway, any suggestions?
The other side of the house?

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Hope men's basketball player Grant Neil is among 202 nominees for the 2014 Allstate, Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Good Works Teams®.
The award recognizes a select group of college basketball student-athletes who have made significant contributions to the greater good of their communities through volunteerism and civic service. Neil is a senior forward from West Ottawa High School and the son of Hope men's basketball coach Matt Neil.
"Our program, and Hope College as a whole, is very pleased that our athletes make priority to serve others," Matt Neil said. "Grant has been a helping person his entire life and has demonstrated this characteristic in his several years of being a counselor at Camp Sunshine, his coordination the past two years of our after school work with Holland Heights K-7, volunteering at Zeeland Community Reformed Church's K-LIFE program (Kids Living Faith Everyday), doing work at the CCCD School in Jamaica, and working at several youth soccer and basketball camps.
"Our team mission statement, as drafted by our players, includes ... 'and dedicated to serving others with integrity, discipline, and respect on and off the court', so our hope is for our players to deliver on their mission.' We are honored that Grant is a nominee with the other athletes who give back to their communities."
In its second year, the Allstate WBCA and NABC Good Works Teams® honor players at all levels of college basketball who represent the sport's finest in the areas of leadership and charitable achievements amongst their peers. The student-athletes nominated for this prestigious award embody the true spirit of teamwork and giving back.
Hope guard Colton Overway ('13) was named to the 2013 Allstate Good Works Team.
"Allstate is proud to recognize these two outstanding groups of men and women whose commitment to service and volunteerism demonstrate that 'good works' extend beyond the basketball court," said Pam Hollander, senior director of marketing for Allstate Insurance Company and a member of the 2014 WBCA and NABC Good Works Teams® selection panels. "Each of the nominees serves as a role model and inspiration to future generations seeking ways to give back, and another reason to celebrate the good happening in our communities."
From the 84 WBCA nominees and 118 NABC nominees submitted by coaches and sports information directors across the nation on behalf of their schools, special voting panels will select two 10-member teams comprised of five student-athletes from the NCAA® Division I level and five student-athletes from NCAA® Divisions II, III and the NAIA.
WNBA basketball star Tamika Catchings, who played at the University of Tennessee, will headline the Allstate WBCA Good Works Team® voting panel, while former Duke University student-athlete, two-time NCAA champion and seven-time NBA All-Star Grant Hill will serve on the Allstate NABC Good Works Team® panel. The final roster of 20 award recipients will be unveiled in February.
Members of the Allstate WBCA Good Works Team® will be invited by Allstate, an official corporate partner of the NCAA®, to the 2014 WBCA Convention and 2014 NCAA® Women's Final Four® in Nashville, where they will participate in a community project in the city.
Members of the Allstate NABC Good Works Team® will attend the 2014 NABC Convention and 2014 NCAA® Men's Final Four® in Dallas, where they will also participate in a community project. Allstate is an official corporate partner of the WBCA, NABC and NCAA.
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RTC NBA Draft Profiles: Daniel OrtonPosted by jstevrtc on June 22nd, 2010
Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 24, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 30-35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David Stern in the first round that night. There won't be any particular order to the list, but you can scroll back through all the finished profiles by clicking here.
Player Name: Daniel Orton
School: Kentucky
Height/Weight: 6'10/255
NBA Position: Power Forward/Center
Projected Draft Range: Late First Round
Overview: If you needed any further proof that the NBA Draft selects players on potential and not on actual past performance, look no further than Daniel Orton. That's not to say that Orton didn't produce for Kentucky in his one season there. He certainly did everything that was expected of him, and did it well. But we're talking about a player who averaged 3.4 points, 3.3 rebounds, and just 13.1 minutes a game. That said, Orton was excellent in his role as a backup to DeMarcus Cousins and Patrick Patterson as needed, excelling on defense, specifically shot-blocking, and showing enough raw offensive skills to have the scouts salivating. He only hit double-figures twice all season, but that's just because of the limited minutes. With talent like this, if he'd have gotten the time (or stayed in school longer) his numbers would have probably been about triple what they were.
Will Translate to the NBA: Orton's body was NBA-ready by the time he played his first college game. He frequently uses that size to overpower defenders on his way to the basket and finish with confidence. Though it could stand a little more arch, his jumper is fairly solid at this early stage. He is physically imposing but actually has very nice touch on his shot after a post move and certainly as he gets right up to the rim. On the defensive side, he's way ahead of the curve in terms of shot-blocking ability, and that skill is evident whether he's guarding his man straight up or if he's leaving his man and helping from the weak side.
Needs Work: Orton played so little compared to a lot of prospects, teams just don't have that much to go on. He had surgery on his left knee during his last year of high school, and while he never appeared to be favoring it, there were times when simple post moves or getting up the floor on a break seemed a little harder than one would think. Because he's going to make his living down low, he's going to be getting to the free throw line a lot, and raising his percentage up from the 52% he shot at Ketnucky (to be fair, that was also his field goal percentage) is required. Finally, it was a single incident, but the in-game sideline spat with coach John Calipari in the SEC Tournament was highly publicized, and Orton didn't help his image by actually leaving the bench and going back to the locker room, even if he was under orders. He'll need to convince teams that his head's in the right place and he won't make a habit of openly questioning authority.
Comparison Players: Orton's use of his physique to do things like create space for shots, set screens, and out-muscle opponents for rebounds reminds us of Leon Powe of the Cleveland Cavaliers. If a Kentucky example is needed, his physique brings to mind the Rockets' Chuck Hayes; like Hayes, Orton's greatest value to an NBA team will come on defense. Hayes is a little quicker, but Orton actually has a higher offensive ceiling.
Best Case Scenario: The key to Daniel Orton's success will be patience. He has the body and all the tools to carve out a very nice decade-long NBA career, if not longer. But because he's being drafted largely on potential, the team that drafts him will need to see some of that potential become realized in practice and in limited game time before they'll really unleash him. That's not the easiest thing for young players to accept. If he can show off his defensive abilities enough through hard work in practice, he'll get more minutes in games, and then the offensive chances will come. If he's satisfied with that, after a few seasons his game could be refined enough to where he'll find a niche on a team that needs a tough-nosed, hard-rebounding, "glue-guy" type of player that the fans love, the type of player that embodies the hard work coaches would like to see out of their whole roster.
2013 Projection: The process described above will still be happening after three seasons. We wouldn't be surprised to see him start to get increased minutes late in his third season and thereafter. Up to that point, we'd expect Orton to have made an early living as a rebounding and shot-blocking specialist while the full range of his offensive game continues to grow.
Best NBA Fit: Orton will be taken almost right in the middle of the draft, and while Oklahoma City (21st and 26th pick) needs front line help in a major way — and it's a pick that would land Orton back in his home state — the best fit for him as far as teams in that range is the Boston Celtics (19th pick). Despite their post-season success, Boston was one of the worst rebounding teams in the league (29th of 30) and averaged a -1.5 rebounding margin. If Kendrick Perkins' knee remains suspect and the retirement rumors about Rasheed Wallace are true, the Celtics would be left without a true center, and the third man on the depth chart at PF would be the unimpressive Shelden Williams. Plus, you could do a lot worse than to have Kevin Garnett as a teammate and mentor.


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The Art of Framing the FabricIt was a deliberate decision to make MySQL Fabric extensible, so it is not surprising that it have the feel of a framework. By making MySQL Fabric extensible, we allow community and users to explore ideas or add user-specific support.
In the MySQL Team at Oracle we are strong believers in the open source model and are working hard to keep it that way. There are many reasons to why we believe in this model, but one of the reasons is that we do not believe that one size fit all. For any users, there are always minor variations or tweaks that are required by the users own specific needs. This means that the ability to tweak and adapt the solution to their specific needs is very important. Without MySQL being open-source, this would not be possible. As you can see from WebScaleSQL, this is not just a theoretical exercise, this is how companies really use MySQL.
From the start, we therefore focused on building a framework and created the sharding and high-availability as plugins; granted, they are very important plugins, but they are nevertheless plugins. This took a little more effort, and a little more thinking, but by doing it this way we can ensure that the system is truly extensible for everybody.
Hey! I've got a server in my farm!As noted, many if the issues related to high-availability and sharding require server-side support to get it really solid. This is also something we recognized quite early; the alternative would be to place the logic in the connectors or the Fabric node. We recognized that the right place to solve this is in the server, not in connector layer since that put a lot of complexity at the wrong place. Even if it was possible to handle everything in the connector, there is still a chance that something goes wrong if the constraints are not enforced in the server. This could be because of bugs, because of mistakes in the administration of the server, or any other number of reasons, so to build a solid solution, constraints on the data should be enforced by the servers and not in the connectors or in a proxy.
An example given is that there is no way to check that a row ends up in the right shard, which is very true. A generic solution to this would be to add
CHECK constraint on the server, but unfortunately, this is a very big change in the server code-base. Adding triggers to the tables on the server is probably a good short-term solution, but that require managing and deploying extra code on all servers, which in turn is an additional burden on managing the servers, which is something we would like to avoid (the more "special" things you have to do with the servers, the higher the risk is of something going wrong).
On the proximity of things...One of the central components of MySQL Fabric are the high-availability groups (or just groups, when it is clear from the context) that were discussed in an earlier post. The central idea around a group is that each group manages the same piece of data and MySQL Fabric is designed to handle and coordinate multiple groups into a federation of databases. The feature of being able to manage multiple groups is something that is critical to create a sharded system. On thing that is quite often raised is that it should be possible for a server to belong to multiple groups, but I think this comes from a misunderstanding on what a group represents. It is not a "replica set", which gives information about the topology, that is, how replication is set up, nor does it say anything about how the group is deployed. It is perfectly OK to have members of the group in different data centers (for geographical redundancy), and it is perfectly OK to have replication between groups to support, for example, functional partitioning. If a server belonged to two different groups, it would mean that it manages two different sets of data at the same time.
The fact that group members can be located in different data centers raises another important aspect, something that was often mentioned at Percona Live, that of managing the proximity of components in the system. There is some support for this in Hadoop where you have rack-awareness, but we need a slightly more flexible model. Imagine that you have a group set up with two servers in different data centers and you further have scale-out slaves attached locally. You have connectors deployed in both data centers, but when reading data you do not want to go to the other data center to execute the transaction, it should always be done locally. So, is it sufficient to be able to just have a simple grouping of the components? No, because you can have multiple levels of proximity, for example, data centers, continents, and even rooms or racks within a data center. You can also have different facets that you want to model, such as latency, throughput, or other properties that are interesting for particular uses. For that reason, whatever proximity model we deploy, it need to support a hierarchy and also have a more flexible cost model where you can model different aspects. Given that this problem have been raised several times on Percona Live and also by others, it is likely to be something we need to prioritize.
The crux of the problemAs most of you have already noted, there is a single Fabric node running that everybody talk to. Isn't this a single point of failure? It is indeed, but there is more to the story than just this. A single point of failure is a problem because if it goes down, so does the system... but in this case, it doesn't really go down, it will keep running most of the time.
The Fabric node does a lot of things: it keeps track of the status of all the components of the farm, execute procedures to handle fail-over, and deliver information about the farm on request. However, the connectors are the ones that route the transactions to the correct place, and to avoid having to ask the Fabric node about information each time, the connectors maintain caches. This means that in the event of a Fabric node failure, connectors might not even notice that it is gone unless they had to re-fill their caches. This means that if you restart the Fabric node, it will be able to serve the information again.
Another thing that stops when the Fabric node goes down is that no more fail-overs can be done and ongoing procedures are stopped in their tracks, which could potentially leave the farm in an unknown state. However, the state of the execution of any ongoing procedures are stored in the backing store, so when you bring up the Fabric node again, it will restore the procedures from the backing store and continue executing. This feature alone do not help against a complete loss of the machine where the Fabric node and the backing store are put, but, MySQL Fabric is not relying on specific storage engine features, any transactional engine will do, so by using MySQL Cluster as the storage engine it is possible to ensure safe-keeping of the state.
There are still good reasons to support multi-node Fabric instances:
- If one Fabric node goes down, it should automatically fail over to another and continue execution. This will prevent any downtime in handling executions.
- Detecting and bringing up a secondary Fabric node can become very complicated in the case of network partitions since it require handling split-brain scenarios reliably. It is then better to have this built into MySQL Fabric since it makes deployment and management significantly simpler.
- Management of a farm does not put any significant pressure on the database back-end, but having a single Fabric node can be a bottleneck. In this case, it would be good to be able to execute multiple independent procedures on different Fabric nodes and coordinate the updates.
- If a lot of connectors are required to fill their caches at the same time, we have a risk of a thundering herd. Having a set of Fabric nodes for read scale-out can then be beneficial.
- If a group is deployed in two very remote data centers, it is desirable to have a local Fabric node for read-only purposes instead of having to go to the other data center.
More Fabric-aware ConnectorsCurrently we support connectors for Python, Java, and PHP, but one point that pop up quite often (both at Percona Live and elsewhere) is the lack of a Fabric-aware C connector. It is the basis for implementing both the Perl Database Interface MySQL driver
DBD::mysql and for the Ruby connector, but is also desirable in itself for applications using C or C++ connector. All I can say at this point is that we are aware of the situation and know that it is something desired and important.


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Known for their classically powerful style, Brovia's Barolo always deep and intense; fruit comes from a historical vineyard in Castiglione Falletto, vinified in traditional fashion. The 2010 vintage is powerful yet sophisticated, full of red berry flavors, approachable tannins, and a lingering finish. Lay down for a few more years to really watch the wine unfold.
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We are a family that loves our potatoes. And nothing kicks that love into true lurve territory like Thanksgiving! Over the years, our Thanksgiving table has been graced by the likes of mashed potatoes with roasted garlic, baked potatoes with sharp cheddar, roasted potatoes with root vegetables, and sweet potatoes with streusel topping. And that was just for one year! I am not ashamed to admit there are points in time when I think I might like the potato sides more than the actual Thanksgiving turkey. Blasphemous? Maybe but we're all about honesty 'round these parts. Needless to say, I've been thinking about this Thanksgiving's potato dish(es) since February.
Hasselback potatoes have shown up on every single blog I read, are abundant on Foodgawker and Tastespotting, and have taken over my Pinterest feed. I've been intrigued by these fancy looking taters but just the thought of carefully making all those thin cuts in potatoes makes me tired. I'm more of a rough chop, couple of glugs of olive oil, a generous handful of spices, and pop into the oven kinda girl. Except well, Thanksgiving is a big deal and I wanna wear my fancy shoes to the party. Oh, and bring my fancy potatoes.
So recently, I attempted some Hasselback potatoes. All that thin, not-even-remotely-even slicing was relaxing and fun. Okay, no it wasn't fun. At all. In fact, it was a giant pain. But the finished potatoes with their perfectly crispy exterior and the moist, garlicky interior were so darn good, it was worth all that careful and painstakingly slow slicing.
The good folks at Country Crock want to make your Thanksgiving taterrific (heh!) so they're giving you an adorable set of Pumpkin Taper Holders from Williams Sonoma and a gorgeous ceramic baker and wire rack from Sur La Table. To enter, leave a comment telling me what side you're most excited about for Thanksgiving.
Thank you to Country Crock for being a sponsor. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. All opinions expressed here are my own.
8 medium-sized potatoes of your choice (Russet, White, Red)
4 tbs. Country Crock Spread
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
Heat oven to 425 degrees. Melt Country Crock in microwave for approximately 15 seconds until melted. Add garlic to melted Country Crock. Wash potatoes and dry with a paper towel. Slice a piece of the bottom of the potato so it lays flat. Then thinly slice each potato making sure to not slice all the way through. Remember, the thinner the slices, the more delicious crispy edges. Brush potatoes with melted garlic spread mixture, making sure to get inside the sliced potato crevices. Place potatoes on greased cookie sheet and bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the size of your potatoes, until potatoes are golden brown.
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Joseph Baken, seen here in a movie still from the 2011 film "Judas Kiss."
A 22-year-old man who claimed he was badly beaten outside a downtown Missoula, Mont., bar because he is gay actually sustained his facial injuries trying to do a backflip on a sidewalk, police say.
Joseph Baken of Billings, Mont., was charged with filing a false police report after a video obtained by police and the Missoula Independent newspaper cast doubt on his story.
On Tuesday, Baken pleaded guilty in Missoula Municipal Court to the false report charge. He was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence and fined $300, according to the Independent.
Baken initially reported to police that he was attacked early Sunday morning by three men outside the Missoula Club, where he said he had gone to celebrate his 22nd birthday, after asking patrons about the location of a gay bar, according to local media reports.
Pictures of his badly bruised face quickly circulated on the Internet and were displayed on the Wipe Out Homophobia Facebook page and other sites. Gay-rights activists expressed outrage at what they thought was a gay-bashing hate crime.
But Baken's story began to fall apart after the Independent and the Missoula Police Department obtained what appears to be cellphone video footage that shows Baken trying to do a backflip on a sidewalk in Missoula. He falls short during the landing, smacking his face against the sidewalk.
"Video evidence taken by unidentified sources was examined and demonstrates that Joseph Baken caused injury to himself by attempting a backward somersault and striking his head on the sidewalk at about 2:30 AM on Higgins Avenue," Lt. Scott Brodie said in a statement.
"Joseph Baken was contacted by Missoula police detectives and during a subsequent interview he admitted that the alleged assault against him did not occur as it was reported," Brodie said.
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The decision to charge Baken with filing a false report "was due in part to the sense of fear and anger that quickly developed after Baken had identified a specific business and possible suspects in his allegations," Brodie said.
Baken could not be reached by NBCNews.com for comment on Thursday. A phone call to a listing for Joseph Baken in Billings went unanswered.
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Baken was a featured background player in the 2011 film "Judas Kiss," billed as "an offbeat contemporary drama on a college campus alive with magical realism."
Carlos Pedraza, "Judas Kiss" writer-producer, had posted the picture of Baken's battered face on the movie's website along with news of the alleged attack. In a follow-up blog post on Tuesday, Pedraza said:
"As a journalist, I can now see the initial report raised questions that should have been followed up on before this case rose to the level of national attention that it has (e.g., Towleroad and Huffington Post). As a person who wanted to believe his friend, I admit my bias: I glossed over these questions because I wanted to support my friend. But reporters shouldn't have.
I posted the news based on press reports and on the fact that a friend and cast member had been hurt. I stand by that decision because anti-gay violence is all too common, and whether this report is true doesn't change that. Even though the report was false, it doesn't lessen the value of the offers of support many people had asked me to relay. I am heartened by their stand that such violence is wrong and should be prosecuted."
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1 Young One, 1 Older Young One
Welcome to Ben Revere and Michael Young.
Ben is an exciting, young, fast centerfielder while Young is a proven, veteran hitter with terrific clubhouse presence. Michael's looking forward to a new challenge and is glad to be playing third base, Todd Zolecki reports.
In the history of the Phillies dating back to 1883, 1,912 players have worn their uniform. We've never had a Revere but there have been four players named Young:
**Bobby Young, a second baseman who ended an eight-year big league career playing 32 games with the Phillies in 1958.
**Del Young, second baseman-shortstop whose entire big league career was with the Phillies, 1937-40.
**Dick Young, second baseman with two limited stints with the Phillies, 1951-52, his only major league experience.
**Mike Young, an outfielder who spent eight years in the majors including one with the Phillies, 1988.
Combined, those four have 278 career hits with the Phillies. The newest Michael Young has 2,230, third best among active players and tops in Texas Rangers history.
Scout Stuff
What do the Phillies amateur scouts do at this time of the year?
This past weekend, there were workouts for potential draft prospects in California. This month, scouts are doing in-home visits with high school prospects and their families.
Come next month, the scouts' season of going to baseball games begins. That'll last until the June 6 draft.
Royal Flush
With their big Sunday night trade, the Royals have completely reshaped their starting rotation, two new additions from the Rays (Shields and Davis) to go with two other post-season additions (Santana and Guthrie).
We'll get to see some of those guys when the 10th Citizens Bank Park season opens, the weekend of April 5-6-7. Yep, first time we ever started a home season with the Royals.
10th Citizens Bank Park season? "Hard to believe, Harry."
Alumni Birthdays
This week……. 10—C-CH Doc Edwards (76), 1B Jon Zuber (43) . . . 11—1B Andy Tracy (39) . . . 13—RHP Ferguson Jenkins (69) . . . 14—CH Joe Rigoli (56) . . . 15—RHP Ray Herbert (83), RHP Stan Bahnsen (68), RHP Dan Boitano (59) . . . 16—OF Adolpho Phillips (71).
Best Tweet
Sunday night from Jon Morosi of FOX.com: "Including Ryu Hyun-Jin's posting fee, Dodgers have spent $208.7 million on pitching this weekend. Feel better about your credit card bill?"
Baseball History
December 10, 1919: The NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers. The ban will be formally worked out by the Rules Committee in February.
Cool Photo
Check out the photo on www.phillies.com/alumni, the story about the five Phillies who have won an MVP award.
Lucky Number
Tomorrow is 12/12/12. Just think there will never be a 13/13/13.


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You would expect anticipation to be fairly high when travelling to a place called Hope Island and this destination doesn't disappoint. But rather than being named after the positive emotion, it actually borrowed its name from a colonial aristocrat Captain Louis Hope who was granted land at the mouth of the Coomera River in recognition of his sugar industry contributions.
These days, Hope Island flourishes with its gated community The Hope Island Resort. Nearby, Hope Island's more laid-back neighbour Jacobs Well was actually named after its freshwater waterhole which has been luring thirsty travellers since the mid 1800s. A quiet fishing village which sits near the mouth of the Pimpama River, it is considered the gateway to southern Moreton Bay and is just a short boat ride away from the Gold Coast Broadwater and Southport.
But with waters teeming with flathead, whiting, tailor and bream, and no bridges in this coastal channel, this place is all about the fishing which is enough to bring hope to the heart of any ardent angler.
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Jun 15, 2010
PIANY names LaLonde Professional Agent of the Year
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-The Professional Insurance Agents of New York Inc. presented Mark LaLonde, CIC, CPIA, AAI, with the Professional Agent of the Year award at the PIANY/PIANJ Joint Annual Conference at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City June 14.
"Throughout his career, Mark has demonstrated a deep level of dedication to our industry. He has earned the respect and trust of his colleagues and clients," said Kevin M. Ryan, CIC, president of PIANY. "PIANY is very pleased to recognize Mark with this award."
LaLonde is vice president of Bailey, Haskell and LaLonde with headquarters in Oneida, N.Y. He was honored for his excellence and achievement in insurance marketing and service, his personal commitment to professionalism and his contributions to PIA and the community.
A PIANY member since 1987, LaLonde served as the associations president in 1998-99. Currently, he is chairman of the board of PIA Management Services Inc., the umbrella corporation that manages the Glenmont-based Professional Insurance Agents associations in New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut and New Hampshire. LaLonde also is chairperson of the associations Agents Benefits Trust and is a member and former chairperson of the Glenmont National Alliance Committee.
In 2000, LaLonde was presented with a presidential citation to recognize his tireless work on behalf of PIANY.
In 1996, LaLonde was honored with PIANYs Committee Chair of the Year award. This award recognizes the time and effort that PIANYs volunteers give to help guide the association and implement programs to benefit its members. LaLonde was honored for his work as chair of the PIANY Education Committee.
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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Readers continue to ask how they can invest without a great deal of risk and still obtain reasonable incomes.
Readers continue to ask how they can invest without a great deal of risk and still obtain reasonable incomes.
I have often pointed out that investors who need income cannot expect high incomes from investing in Treasury bills, money market instruments and short-term savings accounts. Such investments preserve capital but do not keep up with inflation. Alternatives that provide more income include real-estate investment trusts, Treasury inflation-protected securities, intermediate-term bonds, master limited partnerships and high dividend common stocks. These provide more income than the most conservative investments, but they are certainly not risk-free.
Another alternative is preferred stocks. These are more like bonds than a common stock. They are hybrid securities with characteristics of both bonds and equities. Preferred stocks pay a fixed interest generally at a higher rate than bonds issued by the same company. The current yield of preferred stocks is about 6 percent. Corporations issuing preferred stock cannot pay dividends on their common stock without paying the interest due on the preferred stock.
Preferred stock prices generally fluctuate based on their dividend yield, credit rating and maturity date (where applicable). Increased interest rates generally will depress the value of preferred stock, since investors could purchase new issues of preferred stock and bonds at higher interest rates. If a corporation's financial condition or prospects deteriorate, the value of its outstanding securities will fall.
Corporations that issue preferred stock are those that require substantial capital. Most issuers are financial institutions, utilities and communications companies. Not all of these companies have stellar credit ratings. There is not a large supply of high-quality preferred. For that reason, in order to minimize risks, investors should consider ETFs rather than individual purchases.
An advantage of preferred stocks is that they have a low correlation to other fixed-price securities such as TIPS, REITs and MLPs. A major disadvantage, according to Josh Peters, an equity strategist of Morningstar, is the risk of recall. Most issues can be recalled within five years. If interest rates go down, the issuer will likely recall the stock.
Another disadvantage is there is no guarantee you will receive the price you paid for the stock. With individual bond purchases, at maturity, you will receive the face value of the bond back. Corporate bonds have maturity dates; most preferred stocks do not.
Another disadvantage is the lack of an active market. When you do decide to sell, there may be a large gap between the bid and ask price for an individual security. That is another reason to buy preferred stocks in an ETF.
The price of preferred stock will generally not increase because the income of the corporation increased. That will benefit common stock holders. You do not purchase preferred stock in order to obtain capital growth.
Abby Woodham, an analyst at Morningstar, recommends ETF iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index, indicating it has the lowest expense ratio of the ETFs at 0.48 percent. Over the past five years, the fund returned an average of 5.5 percent. The return for the past year was 18.2 percent. The current yield is about 6 percent.
If you hold your account outside of a retirement account, you should consider the tax implications. For example, some preferred stock dividends are qualified, which means that they are taxed at no more than 20 percent. If the dividends are not qualified, the marginal tax rate can be as high as 39.6 percent. Woodham points out that the PowerShares Financial Preferred ETF produces 100 percent qualified income. Its expense ratio is 0.66 percent, higher than iShares' EFT; however, if you hold the shares in an non-retirement account, the PowerShares ETF may provide a higher return.
Too many investors still invest too much in money market instruments and savings accounts. You have to accept some risk to get high income. I do not recommend that a significant portion of your fixed-income portfolio should be in preferred stocks. However, if a significant part of your portfolio is earning less than 1 percent, consider adding a preferred stock ETF to your fixed-income portfolio. You should earn close to 6 percent without a great deal of risk.
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What type of information do you search for on the internet?
I search all I need of it.
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A brave shark tank cleaner at an aquarium in the South Pacific gave a leopard shark a hug and a belly scratch in a striking video posted to social media.
While cleaning the tank, the aquarium-keeper in New Caledonia, a French island territory, noticed that the shark was approaching him, so he pulled it in and gave it a hug.
The shark seemed to like the affection; it rolled onto its belly for a rub before swimming off. An aquarium representative said the shark frequently snuggles up with its keepers.


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Green your Mardi Gras!!
Thanks to Care2.com for this great article.
The very nature of Mardi Gras–the last big hurrah before Lent–doesn't really set it up to be the most sustainable celebration.
Many participants are likely to drink a lot, eat a lot, throw lots of plastic beads and toys, maybe travel to a city where a big parade is taking place–all things that don't really earn a sustainability badge.
Fortunately, there are many things party-goers and earth-lovers alike can do to be sustainable and still have a great time.
If you're planning on imbibing, choose beers from a local brewery, or organic wine and cocktails. And while you're at it, eat food made from local sources. If you happen to be in the party-city itself, New Orleans, try the Vintage Garden Kitchen, which offers soups made of local meats and produce.
Will you leave a parade this year with more beads than your neck can carry? Mardi Gras participants throw more than $1 million worth of beads and other trinkets from floats each year in New Orleans, according to Gini Mckain, author of the Public Works Magazine article "Sweeping up after Mardi Gras."
Save your beads for other decorating uses. If you cut the strand and attach it to another by twisting the end of the beads together, you can form a longer strand to whatever length you need.
Use the beads to decorate a Christmas tree or wrap around garland in your house. Use it to cover picture frames or to decorate candles.
Or if you're feeling really inspired, try making a mardi gras floor lamp or a cute necklace, like this one made from Laura Skelon.
If you don't feel like being crafty with the beads, donate them to a school or child care center. Or, if you're in the New Orleans area, the Arc of Greater New Orleans accepts recycled beads.
Be a good Mardi Gras steward and wear a backpack to the parade. Make sure to keep your empty bottles and cans and recycle them. Pick up other people's cans and bottles so the streets don't get too littered.
And have a Happy Mardi Gras!
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Anyone who spent time on the Bowery twenty years ago would barely recognize it today—boutique hotels, luxury condos, and restaurants galore. Peels is the latest edition to 2010's Bowery, occuping a bi-level space on the corner of East 2nd Street, created by William Tigertt and Taavo Somer, the team behind Freeman's. The decor and feel of Peels is a far cry from the dark, taxidermy-filled Freeman's, however; it's light, open, and airy. Yana Volfson, the head bartender, hypothesized that if Freeman's, which is very masculine, were to have a girlfriend, it would be Peels.
Looking closely at Peels' menu, you'll find a nod to the old Bowery. East 2nd Street is now also known as Joey Ramone Place, and one of the offerings on the cocktail list carries his name. Yana spent a great deal of time researching the rocker, revisiting his music and listening to interviews, before ultimately settling on his namesake libation. She learned that Ramone often drank Tanqueray and Tonics—a simple drink—so she wanted to make a simple drink that would appeal to a wide audience. Ramone's given name was Jeffry Ross Hyman, and using the initials JR led her to a variation on a Jack Rose, swapping out the grenadine with an all-American concord grape syrup, dovetailing nicely with Peels' American cuisine, and adding a touch of sweetness and a lovely purple hue. Go sit at the bar, raise a glass in his honor, and remember the days when we were all a bit more punk rock.
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pictures from the northeast corner of 1st and seaton
courtesy of lana labermeier, proprietor of big bear cafe here in bloomingdale, we have some photos of the interior of the commercial space at 1821 first street nw (the northeast corner of 1st street and seaton place in downtown bloomingdale—the link will take you to the listing on redfin.com).
there has been a lot of speculation regarding what could happen with this space. i've heard various stories of local residents or groups of residents wanting to put in a pizza place (which seems to be the standard bloomingdale rumor!), a deli, a bar (another go-to rumor until we finally get a bar), or even a taqueria. of course, someone's going to have to buy the place first, and do some substantial rehabbing before anything happens there.
now, in addition to the interior photographs, i promised exterior shots yesterday, and here they are, courtesy of my roommate nolan:
here's hoping something moves in that can utilize that great, wide space that's screaming for cafe seating on seaton place!


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Being a RA Enriches her JMU Experience
By Samantha Noble
Ask junior Sara Saenz about her JMU experience, and she'll tell you about the friends she has made, the leadership skills she has learned, and the unforgettable experiences she has had- all while getting paid.
Saenz, a Resident Advisor with JMU's Office of Residence Life (ORL) since last February, says that ORL has greatly impacted her time at JMU. Saenz gushes, "When I first came to JMU, I looked for something that would fit my personality, but I couldn't seem to find my place. Then, I became really close with my RA freshman year and she encouraged me to apply as an RA. I've loved every minute of my time with ORL since then."
As an RA in Chesapeake, Saenz advises and guides the paths of 26 freshmen girls, planning dorm programs, mediating roommate conflicts, and enforcing ORL's guidelines. Luckily for Saenz, she hasn't experienced many issues with the students she advises. She speaks about them with pride: "I love my residents! They are great, super-sweet girls. It's just such a rewarding process doing the little things for them and seeing them be so grateful, and just saying, 'Thank you.' They are all also so excited about being at JMU, and that's a really great thing to see."
Along with the positive relationships Saenz formed with her residents, she also found great relationships with fellow RAs in ORL. "I've gotten lifelong friendships and have made my best friends through ORL! Being part of a 13-member staff has helped me recognize that you have to make decisions for the benefit of all, and it's helped me consider different perspectives with a positive and open attitude."
In addition to these personal connections, Saenz has gained valuable skills for her future as an elementary school teacher. She explains, "All of the skills that I've had to learn for my RA position- mediation, learning how to develop programs, time management, organization – all of these will help me in the classroom when I'm working with children." In her remaining time at JMU, Saenz will utilize those skills as a hall director next year. Those same skills, Saenz says, will make her marketable to prospective employers when she begins applying for different jobs in two years.
Work as an RA is time-consuming, but Saenz has managed to balance her RA position with an off-campus job while still maintaining her academic work. "In a way, as an RA, you have to always prepare for the unexpected," Saenz says with a laugh. "If you are staying up late studying for a test the next day and a resident has some issue, you need to help that resident however you can. Because of this I always try to manage my time and study earlier than I normally would."
How does Saenz see her JMU experience now? "If anybody hasn't found their place at JMU yet, they should look to ORL. ORL is a place where they want you to succeed, they give you these opportunities for success, and I just love it. Maybe it's cheesy, but, ORL was that place for me, and I'm just so happy to be a part of it."
You can learn more about ORL and what it takes to be an RA at the Office of Residence Life website, www.jmu.edu/orl.


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Well, now that the dust has settled a bit, now that we've all had time to collect ourselves, rest up, sleep it off and compose ourselves ... we think we're ready to dig back into the Anna Benson divorce story.
Wait. We're not ready. Give us a second.
According to the New York Daily News, Anna caught Kris cheating on her with one of her friends. This, of course, begs the question: Anna Benson has friends? Anyway, Benson's publicist says, "She's completely crushed; she didn't see this coming. She had no choice but to take this action."
Hmm. Far be it from us to cast aspersions on the reputation of a woman with a shitload of guns, but let's look at the facts here. Just after a trade from the largest media market in the country to Baltimore, in the middle of spring training, Kris Benson decided that not only he was going to have sex with a woman who was not his wife, but specify that it be one of her friends? Really? Either Kris Benson is an even bigger moron than any of us could have possibly imagined ... or something's fishy about this tale. Or both, we suppose.
Bensons Kayoed [New York Daily News]
The Day The Music Died [Deadspin]
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The show title beginning with "Once Upon A Time..." was, we believed, an obvious reference to fantasy and a re-imagined reality. The gallery regrets any possible inferrence otherwise made, and we apologize for the confusion.
Coagula Curatorial is pleased to announce the presentation of a solo show of new art by Los Angeles fine art photographer LAURA LONDON. Entitled "Once Upon A Time...", the exhibit explores the fine line between constructed narrative and documentary, private portraiture and celebrity posing, and, most intensely, melodrama juxtapozed with the all out rock and roll lifestyle.
Professional makeup artists, fine artists and hair stylists were hired to apply the transfers, paint on the tattoos, make up the models and style the hair to resemble the characters in the band. The artist did the styling, costumes and set design herself. Line drawings were made for transfers based on the tattoos of the characters.
The exhibit will feature large-scale 40"x40" and 20"x20" photographs shot on 2 ¼ film using natural and tungsten light and a 10-foot wall mural printed on vinyl. There is also a salon style wall of photographs that include behind the scenes, close up details and other media inspired pictures printed in various sizes. The installation of the work tells a story, a visual narrative and the experience of seeing the photographs as an exhibition reads similar to viewing a film.
Ms London explains, "My studio practice explores issues of identity, youth and contemporary culture. Similar to a social anthropologist, I observe people and social situations. My work comes from a combination of personal experience, memory, observation and imagination. 'Once Upon A Time...' is a docudrama based on an interpretation and depiction of actual events."
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There was one Ross's Goose and two Greater White-fronted Geese at the VA Hospital in Lyons at 2:30pm this afternoon. They were best seen from Valley Road, closer to the SW Entrance than Knollcroft Road.
Be careful when identifying Snow Geese in the Great Swamp NWR area. Jim Gilbert has photo-documented three Canada x Greylag hybrids that have been seen in the area. Here is a link to one of them at Jim's Flickr site
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Jonathan – I observed a sub-adult male Northern Harrier ground-hunting at the Florham Park Fields this morning. The bird had adult male underparts but the upperparts still had a brown cast.
One of the light Rough-legged Hawks was observed perched for a few minutes on a snag on the periphery of the (Morristown) airport runway…it disappeared when I looked away…had to fly off low. At Yvette Dr. (Black Meadows), I observed both light Rough-leggeds. Both spent time perched and hover-hunting. The juvenile was favoring the Phragmite/Cattail interface looking straight out. The other bird spent a good amount of time soaring, diving on one of the local Red-tails several times. – Mike


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Chamber to hold awards banquet
Training series offered
Chamber's banquet Jan. 22
Nominations requested
Oil, gas industry is topic of luncheon
The Thibodaux Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet will be held Jan. 17 at the Warren J. Harang Jr. Municipal Auditorium in Thibodaux.
Businesses and individuals will be recognized for their contributions to the community. Kent Gonsoulin, a Cajun comedian, will be the guest speaker.
A cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m., and the program begins at 7 p.m.
Reservations are required and can be made by calling 446-1187 or emailing email@example.com. Tickets are $60 each or $340 for a table of eight. Sponsorships are available.
The South Louisiana Economic Council is introducing the Entrepreneurial Training Series, an intensive 10-week course designed to assist small business owners with skills and concepts needed to operate a successful business.
The classes are scheduled to be held Tuesday evenings at the South Lafourche Library in Galliano beginning Jan. 8 and are open to small businesses in the Bayou Region parishes of Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary and Terrebonne as well as the parishes of Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Vermilion, Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, Rapides and St. Landry.
Registration is required and seating is limited. Those interested can register at bayouregion.com/events or call 448-4485 for information.
The Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce will host its 84th-annual banquet at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center from 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 22.
More than 500 guests are expected for the chamber's largest event of the year. Attendees will enjoy dinner, drinks and entertainment. The evening will commence at 6 p.m. for a social hour, with the presentations beginning at 7 p.m.
The chamber's newly installed and outgoing officers and board members, including our 2012 Chairman of the Board William Foster and 2013 Chairman of the Board Jennifer Armand will be recognized. Awards will be presented to the Diplomat of the Year, a Community Champion and a Chamber STAR. The evening's festivities will also include an award to The Courier's Most Useful Citizen and recognition of the Teenager of the Year.
Elliott Stonecipher will be the keynote speaker for the event. Stonecipher is a public opinion researcher and demographer from Shreveport. He will discuss voter behavior and voting patterns in the fall 2012 elections and what this means for America's next four years.
Tickets are $65 per person and are required in advance. Many highly visible sponsorship opportunities are available. For tickets or sponsorship, call Kay Thibodeaux at 876-5600 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Do you know a woman that deserves being recognized for exemplary achievements and contributions in her everyday life?
The Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2013 Women of Excellence Awards. The awards recognize and honor women who personify excellence in their leadership, profession, academics, community service, character and integrity.
The categories include Business, College Woman of Excellence (ages 18 to 25), Education & Research, Louisiana Hero of Excellence, Military, High School Woman of Excellence (for graduating seniors) and Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics.
The High School Woman of Excellence Award and the College Woman of Excellence Award winners will each receive $1,000 for the Louisiana Legislative Women's Caucus Foundation Scholarship.
Nomination forms can be downloaded from the Women's Caucus website at http://llwc.louisiana.gov. The deadline to receive nomination forms is Feb. 8.
The awards will be given at the sixth-annual Women of Excellence Awards & Scholarship Gala in May in Baton Rouge. Time and location will be announced.
Bayou Industrial Group's first monthly luncheon of the year will feature Chris John, president of LA Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.
John will present an update on the health of the state's energy production industry as well as the economic outlook for local oil and gas support companies in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.
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Does open source matter in the cloud? Are they complimentary or antagonistic?
Marten Mickos builds global disruptive businesses. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB for $1bn, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group.
Previously, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He is a member of the board of RightScale, Mozilla Messaging and Electrosonic. Mickos holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology. In 2006 he received the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006" and the Nokia Foundation Award.
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The key to making beautiful enclosed gardens, which aren't just a jumble of green leaves sweating behind glass, is to have space around the objects and plants and a sympathetic sense of scale.
• Keep it simple. Three plants is probably plenty. Or forget the plants and try just moss and stones.
• Stand a planted terrarium in a light position but not in direct sun.
• Wood, moss, stones or other natural objects are important to give context in among the plants. They can mimic a full-sized landscape but in miniature.
• Marten uses real fossils in his landscapes as they bring something genuinely old, beautiful but affordable into a modern house and won't spoil among damp earth and plants.
• The growing medium, which should be very free-draining at the base, can be layered in textures. Add a little crumbled charcoal to keep the soil sweet.
• Terrarium gardeners soon learn how to adapt tools for working in confined spaces. Long tweezers without too much spring, tiny forks or trowels taped to bamboo canes, chopsticks, a length of hose and a funnel to add composts and grit, all are simple to obtain or make.
• Always keep plants which need special conditions together. Don't try mixing drought-loving succulents with moisture-loving ferns, for example.
• Once plants have established they need little maintenance. In enclosed spaces the moisture should recycle. Trial and error will establish when plants need any extra water.
• Remove any dead or dying foliage immediately to reduce the chance of fungal diseases. Prevent foliage from touching the glass sides. (By Ken Marten,23 Jan 2013)


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Black Friday backlash: Customers, employees petition Target
Over 200,000 people sign Black Friday petition
Target announced it will open on Thanksgiving Day, and now employees and customers are speaking out.
The popular retail giant plans to open its stores at 9 p.m. on the night of Thanksgiving, three hours earlier than last year's midnight opening for Black Friday.
The earlier start time is likely a move to compete with other major retailers. Walmart, Toys-R-Us, K-Mart and Sears will all open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
When Casey St. Clair, a Target employee in California, started her online petition she never dreamed it would gather over 200,000 signatures in just a few days.
St. Clair tapped into a growing sense of outrage that several retailers will open Thanksgiving night.
"I'm sure next year it may be open as early at 4 p.m. because retailers want to be able to say, 'We open first,'" said Britt Beemer.
A nationally known consumer behavior expert and Orlando resident, Beemer said retailers claim that they're just giving shoppers what they want is not entirely true.
"They didn't demand it but they're not going to miss the opportunity to get the deal," said Beemer.
Beemer said it's the retailers who drive consumer behavior and if all the stores held off on opening until the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers would probably be OK with it and even appreciate it, but it's the almighty dollar that rules and as long as a deal is being offered there will be willing customers.
"We already have plans to go Thanksgiving night. We already have mapped out stores that have less crowds to go to based on location," said Christina Koch.
Customers and employees alike are upset by the move, saying the sales will cut into the holiday.
A Target spokesman told NBC News in a statement that the opening time was carefully evaluated with customers and staff in mind. He also said the employees will receive time-and-a-half pay for working the holiday.
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Volstad wins second straight against Giants
Chicago, IL – Alfonso Soriano drove in three runs to support Chris Volstad and help the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants, 6-4, in the opener of a three-game series at Wrigley Field.
Volstad (2-9) limited the National League West leaders to two runs on five hits and three walks over 5 2/3 innings. The Chicago right-hander had snapped a 24-start winless streak in his last outing Sunday.
"Since he's been back, he's done a pretty good job," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said about Volstad. "There haven't been no big blowups. He's been pitching fairly deep into the games and shutting guys down pretty good."
Madison Bumgarner (14-9) pitched only four frames for the Giants, allowing five runs -- four earned -- on six hits and two walks.
"(Bumgarner) was a little bit off today," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy.
Buster Posey finished 3-for-3 with a walk and two RBI for San Francisco, which had won six in a row on the road and was coming off a three-game sweep in Houston.
After capping a three-run ninth-inning rally with a walk-off hit Thursday against the Milwaukee Brewers, Soriano picked up right where he left off in his first two at-bats on Friday.
Soriano opened the scoring in the first with a two-out single that plated Joe Mather, who had walked to begin the inning and later stole second base.
The Cubs pushed four runs across -- all with two outs -- in the third, and Soriano's hot bat came through again. After the first two batters were retired, Soriano followed an Anthony Rizzo single with a home run to left field, his 24th of the season.
Chicago then took a 4-0 lead on Welington Castillo's RBI double. Starlin Castro, who singled, scored on a close play at the plate. Castillo hit a shot off the left-field wall. Gregor Blanco hit cutoff man Joaquin Arias, who threw a strike to the plate. Posey lost the ball after applying a sweep tag to Castro. The ball wound up rolling away from the plate, and by the time Bumgarner retrieved it, Castillo was able to score as well.
The Giants got on the board in the fourth when Pablo Sandoval scored from first on a two-out double by Posey.
After Rizzo clubbed a leadoff home run -- the ball initially was ruled to have been in play, but overturned after a video review -- off George Kontos in the fifth, Sandoval plated Angel Pagan with a sacrifice fly in the next frame.
Volstad was removed after walking Posey and giving up a single to Hunter Pence. Jeff Beliveau retired Brandon Belt on a deep fly ball to right for the final out.
Cubs reliever Shawn Camp, appearing in his 500th career game, gave up singles to three of the first four batters he faced in the eighth. Posey drove in Pagan and Ryan Theriot scored on a Pence groundout, trimming San Francisco's deficit to 6-4.
Carlos Marmol earned his 17th save with a flawless ninth.
Game Notes
The Cubs improved to 11-2 against NL West teams at Wrigley Field this season, but are winless against those clubs on the road (0-13) ... Chicago had lost five straight to the Giants, including a four-game sweep from June 1-4 ... Marmol notched his 112th save to tie Randy Myers for third-most in team history ... Before the game, the Cubs recalled Beliveau from Triple-A Iowa and optioned pitcher Brooks Raley to the minors.


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