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A user on the Verge forums going by the name ryan_socio, who has correctly leaked information on Google products in the past, is back again with some new information on an upcoming update to the YouTube app and details on how Google plans to further sever its core apps from Android.
The new YouTube app's big feature is going to be enhanced multitasking. The app will look the same, save for a small arrow that will allow users to shrink the currently playing video and continue using the app to search and browse other videos. As of right now, the feature is only available within the YouTube app itself, but by release, it should be available system wide. In other words, you should be able to keep a small video window playing in the bottom corner of your device while you reply to email or check Facebook.
Ryan shared other details on how Google plans to continue severing core apps, like the People and camera app. He wouldn't go into specifics, only saying that, "they (Google) plan to do it with pretty much every app." For most of you, this should come as no surprise. We've talked about how Google is enabling users to not only enjoy the stock Android experience on any device by downloading every piece of software separately, but how severing core apps from Android allows Google to keep all Android users, despite the actual Android version they're using, up-to-date with the latest and greatest Google has to offer.
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Such an operation typically involves two cars driven by suspects who box in a victim's car on a freeway, causing a collision. The scam participants then file fraudulent insurance claims for alleged injuries.
The Insurance Commissioner on Wednesday announced the arrest of the suspected ringleader of a major operation that has allegedly staged more than 60 swoop and squats over the past 18 months, bilking insurers and consumers out of $2 million to $3 million.
by Majik Fox August 12, 2006
A tactic used in gang stalking that generally uses two cars and/or distraction to try to create a car accident for insurance fraud. When driving, a car cuts you off to close the gap between you and the car in front. Then an accomplice in another car will abruptly cut the car in front of you off to make them stop abruptly. This fake situation is created with the intention of trying to make you rear end the car in front of you and make it look like you are at fault. Sometimes there may be a distraction to the side to try to make it more likely that you make hit the car in front. Insurance fraud.
Those stalkers tried to create an accident using the "swoop and squat" method to create a car accident to for insurance fraud.
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When someone tries to steal someone else's girlfriend/boyfriend. Its called a swoop and squat and it can cost your insurance company thousands of dollars in damages.
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Japan has already suffered through a quarter century's worth of an economic malaise because they have refused to allow the free market to work its reconciliation magic. Their reliance on government borrowing and spending to rescue the economy has proven to be a miserable failure. Because of this fact, Japanese politicians have succeeded to increase the debt to GDP ratio to 237%, which should have already caused a collapse in Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) and the Yen.
However, JGBs have held their value for two reasons: The Japanese own 92% of their sovereign debt; And, up until now, deflation has reigned over the island.
Since foreigners do not own a large portion of Japanese bonds, there isn't a big concern about a mass exit from JGBs due to the fear of a weakening Yen. If foreign ownership of sovereign debt was more in the area of 50% (like it is in the U.S.), there would be a palpable fear on the part of those creditors that their wealth could be wiped out upon currency repatriation--especially in light of the new administration's love affair with inflation and a falling currency. More importantly, since aggregate prices have dropped in 10 of the last 15 years and inflation has averaged a negative 0.6% in the last 4 years, holders of JGBs weren't so concerned about yields being so close to zero percent. Falling prices allowed the government of Japan to issue debt with very little cost.
Both those conditions needed to stay in place in order for JGBs and the Yen to hold their values. Thankfully for Japan, foreign creditors still hold a very small proportion of sovereign paper. However, deflation is soon to become a thing of the past. If Shinzo Abe achieves his goal of at least a 2% inflation target, it will remove the most important support pillar for Japanese debt. In effect, the Japanese government has pulled the pin on a debt grenade that will explode in the very near future.
As of now, the Japanese 10-year note yields just 0.75%. That's a very poor yield; but since holders of Yen are currently experiencing deflation, they still are provided with a real return on their investment. But if inflation does indeed rise to 2%, the yield on the 10-year note would have to rise above 3.3% in order to offer the same real yield seen today.
However, the problem is that Japan is already spending nearly 25% of all national revenue on debt service payments--despite the fact that interest rates are close to nothing. If the average interest rate on outstanding debt were to increase over 2%--or anywhere close to offering a real yield on JGBs--Japan would be paying well over 50% of all government revenue on debt service payments alone. Of course, some will say that yields won't go that high even if inflation creeps higher. But these investors should be reminded that the Japanese 10-year note was 1.8% back in May of 2008. That was not too long ago and it occurred during a time when inflation was just rising at a one percent annual rate.
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For some time now, I have been facing the fragmentation of my "Bulk Storage" among 3 PCs due to a number of factors - using different PCs at different times to run downloads, lack of space forcing me to split things up among the PCs, and lack of space forcing me to burn things to DVDs, where it is less accessible.
I have also recently moved to California, where electricity is expensive, and even my underclocked X2 box with the gfx card slowed wayyy down for 2D pulls a good 150W at idle.
So, my thinking has recently turned to building a NAS box - something in the 50-60W range, probably headless, that can sit in my closet next to my router and hold all my files and run all the larger downloads, etc. Size around 1.5-2TB for now.
I intend to use ZFS as the primary file system for this box. with RAIDZ providing the raid support.
I see a lot of questions around here about NAS in general, and a few about ZFS in particular, so I was hoping we could have a good discussion.
Then whatever box I end up building, I will provide photos of the build, a cheat sheet for getting the software up and running, and whatever benchmarks (within reason...I have to go to work after all) the Hive Mind desires.
So... thoughts on ZFS, while I dig out the hardware config I was thinking of?
A few things you should consider:
How many physical drives do you want to start out with, how quickly will you need to expand, and what kind of IO are you expecting?
Your main decisions up front will be RAIDZ/RAIDZ2 vs mirrored stripes. They have very different performance characteristics, storage overhead, and expansion characteristics. For instance, you currently cannot expand a RAIDZ device by simply adding another drive - you can either add another RAIDZ vdev to a pool, or you can replace all of the drives in the RAIDZ vdev with larger ones. Mirrored configurations have fewer limitations, plus they are potentially bootable.
Once you have an idea of your pool configuration, you will know the number of drives you'll need right away and the number of drives you'll need in the future. The next trick is figuring out how to fit them all in a single case and/or connecting external storage with a controller / enclosure combo supported by Solaris / OpenSolaris / FreeBSD (eventually). This can be quite difficult, especially if you are on a budget.
Finally, you need to work out a strategy to replicate / back up all of this data.
ZFS Best Practices Guide is an excellent resource, I expect what would be valuable is digging through it and picking out the information that is relevant to smaller / budget configurations.
Well, initially I was thinking of 4x500GB in RAIDZ, which would let me stay within the onboard SATA controller capability of most modern motherboards, as long as I use an IDE boot drive (already have one to re-use for that).
At some point I might want to add another 4x(whatever) (4x1TB? ) when the price of drives comes down, so I was looking at cases with enough 3.5" + 5.25" bays to handle about 9-10 drives, perhaps with the addition of some 5-in-3 racks and a controller card in the future.
At this point I am learning towards the enterprise Solaris 10 distribution for stability reasons. I've done a practice install in VMWare and was able to get it up and running pretty quickly.
Max load might be a few downloads and a single read operation over the network from one of my other PCs. I was planning on using Samba.
I was looking at this bad boy, not for its form factor, but for the fact that it's cheap, has lots of on-board SATA connectors, and has on-board video. (There are other motherboards with more SATA connectors, but they lack on-board video, which is a requirement for me given the case I've got for it.) I'll slap in the cheapest C2D I can find and 2GB of memory (ZFS is greedy that way). For disks, I'm thinking 5x500GB, plus a 250G boot drive (already got it, otherwise I'd go smaller), and possibly a SATA DVD burner. Like F16PJ, I'm going to run it headless, but eventually I'll hook it up to a KVM in case it needs console attention.
[ One concern I have here is that on-board SATA probably won't do sequential spin-up, but I'm hoping that won't be too much of an issue. Thoughts? ]
I'm leaning towards FreeBSD because I'm more familiar with it, and I think it's more mature for running random applications like BT clients and whatnot.
I plan to serve home directories via both NFS and Samba, each from their own partition, thus using ZFS nifty quota and reservation magic. I'll have other, general shares for things like music, movies, books, uploads, etc, but I haven't yet decided whether those will get separate partitions or not. I'm leaning towards probably; that way I can segment administration privs more conveniently. (Not because it's practical, of course, but because it's fun.)
Mostly I'm waiting for some retail giant to have a sale on hard drives, I think. That, and for FreeBSD-7.0 to be released.
Well here goes, this is what I am thinking of for my build (money permitting):
Case - Raidmax Katana - $70
Power Supply - FSP AX400 - $40
Motherboard - Gagabyte GA-M61P-S3 - $77
Video - Onboard
Gigabit Ethernet - Onboard
SATA - 4x Onboard + PCI-e Expansion As Needed
RAM - 1 GB Patriot DDR2-800 - $45
Boot Drive - 160GB Seagate 7200.7 - Re-used
Array Drive - 4x Seagate 7200.10 500GB - $476
Total: $791
Hot Swap Bay (optional) - StarTech 5-in-3 SATA - $130 @ Buy.com
Total with Hot Swap Bay - $920
I wish they had a 'plain sided' Katana, it's a nice stacker-style case, but I don't know about that huge LED fan
The hot swap bay is tempting, but probably not required.... But if I'm going to do this I should do it right, right? :P
I have only ever seen staggered spinup discussed in the context of dedicated storage subsystems. I don't think it is an issue with a reliable PSU though.
Why ZFS over ext3? Why RAIDZ over RAID5 or RAID6?
I went with Linux and the /dev/md device in RAID6, formatted using ext3, on Fedora Core 6 for my new NAS. I can grow the array, add spare devices, and hotswap in new disks with relatively little effort or downtime. What benefit would ZFS/RAIDZ provide over ext3/RAID6?
The layering involved in a normal RAID setup scares me. You have a hardware or software raid solution, LVM for large drives on top of that, and file systems on top of that.
ZFS collapses all of that down into one system. You essential tell it "hey, use these drives, in this mirroing/striping/raid setup, and give me filesystems with these names" and that's it. Literally 6 or 7 commands from blank drive to working system.
It's also transactional, and the checksum for each piece of data is stored in the parent node, so it can detect bit-rot where a normal file system wouldnt.
I'd suggest checking out this page for the quick summary version:
You can't really make an apples-to-apples comparison between any current file system or RAID technology and what ZFS does.
If energy usage is really a concern, wouldn't you be better off NOT RAID-ing your drives together? I mean - I only run a lowly FreeNAS box (2 drives) and a SimpleShare (1 drive) device, but when I access such networked files I'm only going to spin up a single drive, whereas a RAID-5 configuration is going to spin up at least three drives.
It's only a concern to where I know from experience that an nForce430/GF6100/Brisbane @ 1.9 combination will idle at 50-80W with a single drive, which is less then 1/2 what any of my other desktops idle at.
Even with 4 drives at idle it should still be less.
Besides, having 4x500GB drives storing a bunch of hard-to-replace (not irreplacable, that stuff gets backed up) media files with no redundency is just asking for trouble.
That's only if you want to. Linux supports large volumes in the kernel now, so you don't need to go with an LVM middleman. On my system it's just the /dev/md0 device and the ext3 filesystem.
Creating a RAID volume with Linux is two commands. The first is to have mdadm put a bunch of disk together into a RAID device, the second is to format the array.
For a single large volume, the only additional functionality that appears to be added is scrubbing/resilvering, but the ability to grow a RAID array is lost.
I guess it makes sense if you're building a box that you won't add disks to and expect your filesystem to corrupt itself.
"the only additional functionality . . . is scrubbing/resilvering" (a.k.a. end-to-end data integrity). IceStorm, this is not a minor detail. this is in fact, imo, THE reason to use ZFS.
*end-to-end data integrity*, think about it. it's not about your filesystem corrupting itself--there are many other reasons data corruption occurs.
read this:
and wrt growing the array, i'm pretty sure this is in development. but even if it never happened, building a second zfs array for greater capacity is a _small_ price to pay for end-to-end data integrity. i personally tend to completely rebuild arrays far more often than i expand them due to the ongoing rapid price drop in higher capacity hard drives. it almost always makes more sense to replace older hard drives due to the benefits gained by increasing storage density.
I'm planning a similar setup as yours over the next few weeks i.e.
ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 (I work as a FreeBSD admin)
AMD A64 x2 Brisbane 4000+
Abit AN-M2HD
Elecy is not my prime concern, here in the North West of England, but is becoming more of an issue these days.
Check out the Abit board, it's pretty new. Based on the new Nvidia 7050PV+630a chipset. Has built-in Geforce 7 video with support for an analog *and* a digital display at same time. It largely supercedes those gf6150 boards. It's micro ATX and should thus consume less elecy.
One thing I noticed was that you have no boot drive protection? Lose that and you lose access to your data until the drive is replaced and you have restored the data to it. that's not a good solution
You don't have to use whole drives for ZFS, you can use slices i.e. a small slice 1 on every drive can contain the small ufs /boot needed to have root on ZFS under FreeBSD and also block device swap. In your config you could have a 1GB slice 1 on each drive and 499GB as slice 2. Make your ZFS pool from the 4x499GB slice 2 i.e. "zpool create tank raidz ad0s2 ad1s2 ad2s2 ad3s2".
Make 2 gmirrors (that's GEOM mirrors not zfs) from the 4x 1GB slice 1; i.e. gm0=ad0s1+ad1s1, gm1=ad2s1+ad3s1. On 1st mirror put a ufs /boot filesystem just to enable booting into the root which is on zfs. On 2nd mirror put swap. Thus you can still boot after single drive failure and you save the power consumption of your boot drive.
You can grow a zfs zpool. What you cannot do is increase the number of drives in a zfs raidz. What you can do is increase the number of vdevs in a pool. Also you can increase the drive size in a raidz.
i.e. you have a raidz made of 4x500gb which is the only vdev in your zpool giving effective storage of 1500GB. You could increase this zpool size by:
1) buying more drives, creating another raidz or mirror and adding that new vdev to the zpool. The new space is automatically used by all filesystems in the zpool. i.e. buy 2x500GB drives, make a zfs mirror, giving 500GB effective storage, add this mirror to the zpool, giving the zpool a new total effective stoarge of 2000GB.
2) replace all the drives in the raidz, 1 by 1 (waiting for zfs to reconstruct the data on the new drive), and when you have replaced the final drive the zpool will "magically" increase in size. i.e replace the 500GB drives, 1 by 1, with 750GB drives, and when you finish the zpool effective storage will jump to 2250GB.
I just saw that Infrant was bought by Netgear. Oh well. I was going to recommend he just get an Infrant unit, but with Netgear now owning the company, I don't know. Also, no ZFS, but it does support ext 2 and 3
This led to me to think how many people actually add drives to their RAID array as opposed to those who just build a new array, which further led me to think about the potential difficulty of finding matching drives after the initial purchase, which led me still further (and back to the this thread): I know hardware RAID generally likes all drives to be as similar as possible (size, manufacturer, firmware, etc), but does ZFS care? I would venture that it doesn't so much, but I haven't found anything definitive either way.
Jumpy, if 'lectricity is an issue, I'd consider a PSU with a greater efficiency than the one you list. Active PFC would be nice, too.
A SeaSonic S12 SS-430GB ATX12V/EPS12V, 80Plus, Active PFC, 430W Power Supply might be a better choice in the long run.
Did you consider the 35W X2 3800+?
Oh, did I ever post the story about the client that 'cooked' two PC's (consecutively) because they put them in the closet? It was a pantry closet and the boxen were used in the kitchen. The client wanted the computer 'out of the way'. (This was so only an LCD, keyboard, and mouse would be visible on the cute little receipe desk.) The heat from the PC was making the chocolate chips in the cookies soft.
Hope your closet is well ventilated.
I currently run ZFS on a Xen domU and pass it five 180GB drives which it runs in RAIDZ. My only complaint is that RAIDZ is not expandable right now. I can't add a 6th drive without backing up all the data and re-creating the pool.
Beyond that, I absolutely LOVE ZFS and find it a joy to work with since all the commands are simple and powerful.
That limitation is entirely arbitrary. There is no problem from a software point of view, so long as the replacement drive has at least the same number of sectors as the one it replaces. Any more just get ignored. It really is poorly programmed RAID software which insists on the drives to perfectly match.
Indeed ZFS does not care. It does not function at the drive level per se, unlike hardware RAID controllers. Software RAID (at least that in FreeBSD) does also not care about drives. They are all GEOM based and as such are just given some device which to store data on. That may be a complete disk e.g. ad0, a slice of a disk e.g. ad0s1, a partition within a slice e.g. ad0s1a, a GEOM stripe of disks e.g. /dev/stripe/gs0, a GEOM raid5 array /dev/raid5/data, etc., etc.. The interface with the data is entirely abstracted.
e.g. if a device within a zfs pool fails, and that device was previously a GEOM stripe, say /dev/stripe/data on two small old disks, you are not required to replace that device with another of the same type. You could buy a large single unit and use that to replace the old device:
zpool replace tank /dev/stripe/data /dev/ad6
This is great for recycling old drives when initially constructing your zfs raidz, but later replacing them with large modern drives.
No. Like Linux software RAID, it will simply use the lowest common denomenator. So if you have one 80GB drive, and two 120GB drives, your RAIDZ will have 160GB of storage space. (n-1)*80 = 160.
I buy your answer, but not so much the justification. I was under the impression that some hardware RAID controllers could get their panties in a bunch if you fed them drives of the same size but with different eg, firmware.
Good to see those SCSI drives are still chugging along for ya.
I sure hope that closet is air conditioned. But other than that I think the concept is a good one. This is essentially what is being done more and more at the enterprise level, architecture wise.
- AndrewZ
One scenario that I've heard goes like this:
Buy N identical drives with the same firmware. Build a RAID array using every sector of each drive.
Months or years later, a drive in the array fails. Buy another drive with a later version of the firmware. Attempt to replace failed drive with new drive, but find out that the new drive is slightly smaller than the old drives by a few sectors. RAID array refuses to rebuild using your new drive.
Of course you can probably rebuild with a larger drive, if you have one around. Or you can avoid the problem by telling the RAID controller to leave a little bit of free space when doing the initial setup.
I think ZFS has the same issue with RAIDZ and Mirrored vdevs.
Door is open w/ceiling fan running in main room.
This is pretty cool:
From http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/10/31/another-reason-to-love-zfs/
I'd say you're crazy to spend that much on a mobo and CPU for a "cheap" solution. You don't need a lot of CPU power for this project. Buy yourself an MSI socket AM2 nForce motherboard and the slowest Sempron available. The money you save on hardware will go a long way towards the very slightly higher power bill.
On second though, I don't know about the Sempron drawing more power. At idle, the Sempron might draw less power being single core. Maybe someone who knows more than me might chime in.
ZFS runs best on a 64-bit CPUs and 64-bit Solaris due to address space issues. I may go with 2GB of RAM to let it cache more too. I suppose I could go with a Sempron64, or at the very least the 'standard' 65W TDP X2. I kind of wanted to play around with the 45W part a little bit though, considering my luck undervolting my family's Brisbane core 3600 (which has been happily humming along at 50W idle, 80W full CPU + IGP load for the whole system for 3 months now with no issues). No in-OS undervolting on Solaris, so I was hoping that spending the extra coin would get me the same power envelope.
I thought of re-using my Barton 2500 box (currently on ghetto-MediaPC-duty and awaitng a new 1:1 pixel mapping LCD HDTV to drive over DVI) and adding a SATA controller card, but when I ran the numbers it only came out to $200 cheaper and that old box runs hot, hungry, and loud.
Really 'cheap' is not the primary constraint here. This will be my file server for the lifecycle of the machine, probably about 3-4 years. I may delay the build for 2-3 months so I can save up the cash to do it right, get the Seasonic PSU and 2GB of RAM, instead of skimping.
I find myself gaming less and less so I am probably going to go with a just-videocard upgrade of my 2-year-old primary gaming machine, and spend what would be spent on a new gaming machine on the fileserver instead, since having a central repository of media will improve my experience with *all* of my machines.
It seems we are planning the same kind of project.
I've been doing some testing recently. The Barton 2500 is not up to the ZFS job. It becomes a bottleneck. I'd also recommend a minimum of 2GB RAM. ZFS is pretty memory hungry and it's design depends upon plenty of RAM to get reasonable performance.
Again same here. There's cheap quality stuff and there's just plain cheap. The latter is just false economy. I consider MSI to be one of the poorer manufacturers which pretty crappy support.
From what I've researched the Abit board seems to be the better mATX available at the mo for this kind of project:
It looks like it is going to be the board of choice for media centre PCs, but lends itself perfectly well to our needs too. Not got much in the room for expansion, but there are a couple of pci express sockets. You can get PCI express x1 SATA cards with 2 ports for next to nothing if you need more SATA ports.
Some hardware RAID controllers might. I'm really unsure and it likely varies greatly from chipset to chipset. I've only done hardware RAID once with a pair of matched drives. I know from experience exactly what Linux software RAID and ZFS RAIDZ do however, and that was our topic.
They are large, and I was lucky to find a good server to put them in that can handle their height, but they chug along unnoticed and uncomplaining year after year. They are one of the few hardware components I almost never worry about.
What kind of performance do you really need? Your bottleneck is likely to be your network anyway. Mine is even moreso because my OpenSolaris install is running as a domU under Xen an apparently there are issues with the software NIC emulator for any domU that isn't Linux based. So my network connection is even slower than a normal 100Mbps. Even so, I never find myself getting impatient for files to move faster.
My server is a 6-way P3-Xeon 700Mhz system with 3GB ECC PC100, so Opensolaris/Xen does get its own CPU. But its only 700Mhz and it runs fine IMO.
I have Intel gigabit NICs using 16KByte jumbo frames and the disk subsystem is definitely the bottleneck.
It has no problem maxing out a 100Mbit/s connection. However, it averages around 18MByte/s with an Athlon XP 2500 Barton and ZFS.
Before experimenting with ZFS I had a GEOM RAID5 software array on the same hardware which could get about 40MByte/s burst over samba onto an XP box, but more like 25MByte/s normally.
So I have some idea what the same hardware can do. It should do more too. The current system shares the PCI bus between the gigabit adapters and hard drives. With the Abit AN-M2, all the drives will be on the PCI Express bus and just the NIC will be on PCI. Hopefully it should manage 60-70MByte/s.
So the network is not your bottleneck. However, you didn't answer why you NEED that performance. Are you really going to notice on a day to day basis? I'm only asking because I know my performance is closer to 10MBytes/s or less and I never notice myself waiting for files to move unless I'm copying 13GB DV files, and I do that rarely and the transfer is still the fast part since after I transfer I'm going to be transcoding which takes hours.
Huge throughput makes sense in a business situation where you have tons of users. On a home network it is often of negligible benefit and secure storage is much more important.
Not sure I like the looks of the early reviews of that abit board on the 'egg, and Solaris support for the NF6xx/GF7xxx chipsets is probably minimal at best...
I have to apologize to anyone watching this thread, but my NAS build is going to have to be shelved for the foreseeable future, primarily due to unforseen issues with vehicular transportation and CA smog checks.
Also, I re Kill-a-Watted my current X2 system and it only draws 122W at idle w/downloads running. I swear it was 190W before, but it is possible I didn't re-measure after setting up RMClock CPU scaling and using RiveTuner to underclock my 6800GT to the minimum possible speed in 2D mode. At any rate, I currently see little power cost savings in building a new box.
Also, the 7200.11's in sizes below 1TB should be coming out soon, so I see little sense in buying 4x500GB of 7200.10s when there are newer drives with higher densities just over the horizon.
Give me two or three months and I may revisit this, and of course feel free to continue the discussion. I still don't think that adding more and more non-redundant storage to my main box is a good answer. Someday a HDD failure will get me and I will have to replace a bunch of hard to find music or movies. While these items are technically non-critical and replaceable, with tools like ZFS around I see no sense in taking a chance.
I'd like the server's storage to be just as fast as disks connected to the local machine. Burning a 16x DVD requires ~22MByte/s. I do that pretty much every day. So yes, I would notice it day to day if it couldn't provide at least 22Mbytes/s.
But I'm not saying I need the even higher speeds I mentioned. I'm was talking about max speed. Tweak to get the max as high as possible and you help keep up the average, which is generally what you'll be seeing.
Gigabit cards are cheap now, so I don't see why they shouldn't be used.
How does having fast storage make it less secure, in my case? Would you think my storage more secure if I replaced my gigabit cards with 100MBit/s? Afterall we are talking about moving storage onto ZFS here, so data security *is* paramount
With a gigabit switch $70 or less, Cat6 cable the standard, and high quality Intel Pro/1000 NICs $25, there is no reason to have the network be a bottleneck unless you can't physically run cable (like at the last place I lived).
Actually, I was confusing your posts with someone elses (or merging them in my head anyway) and though you were recommending against ZFS for performance reasons. ZFS IS slower than ext3, but worth the extra slowness.
I've never burnt a DVD over the network, and you are right, with my setup I wouldn't want to try. It would be coaster city. I do all that locally.
No worries
The checksumming of data is something I'd not really thought much about before ZFS. I've now been playing with a test FreeBSD ZFS setup for a couple of weeks now. I tried turning off checksumming to provide some extra speed on an Athlon XP, but it made little difference and of course that's a bad idea. I thought I'd try a zpool scrub yesterday to recheck all data on the drives. It turned up 2 checksum errors! Both automatically fixed by ZFS, of course.
That's after only a couple of weeks. All drives are reporting no SMART errors using the wonderful smartd (which monitors all drive SMART attributes and can configurably perform a SMART short test everyday and a SMART long test every week). (Smartd can email you when any attribute changes , giving excellent pre-warning of impending drive problems. That extra level of protection is a really great feature.)
So it's not the drives. This error came from somewhere else. When I think about it, drives that have failed in the past always end up with bad sectors on them where those files are effectively lost. Using ZFS for media storage really is the only way to do it.
With BURNproof, coasters are not a problem. It's just that the burn would take much longer. They take long enough as it is A proper media storage server should just appear to be as good as local storage i.e. you should just forget it's there. Previously that was not possible, but now with decent gigabit it is becoming a reality. I initially tried it out with the Realtek gigabit NICs built into two motherboards. However, those things are awful. They just don't work as they are supposed to with any real load. I spent days changing this and that trying to get them to simply work properly. I ended up buying two Intel gigabit cards, simply slotted them in and all problems just vanished. Great hardware, great drivers.
I have my whole house wired to a 24-port managed switch and most of my machines have Intel Pro-100 cards. I just can't afford to upgrade to gigabit. Though at times it would be nice.
Good thread, a good read.
Just one point - for all those arguing that RAID expansion isn't critical. For my needs, unfortunately it is... I'm in the process of migrating my "file server" from an OS X server box, running a raid 0+1 config (4x160gb drives), over to an ubuntu box with raid 5.
I'm doing this "on the cheap" as I'm closing on a house in 3 weeks, so here is my strategy:
Break the raid 0+1, remove one of the stripes. Data is intact on the other, albeit only in a raid0 config.
Purchase 1 additional 160gb drive, create a 3 disk raid 5 array on the new box. (usable size will match the raid 0 on the old machine).
Copy data from the stripe to the new raid 5 array.
Verify data.
Break the stripe on the old machine, add the two drives one by one to the raid 5, expanding it.
I'll end up with a 5 disk raid 5, with 2x the capacity I had on the old machine.
Now... having said all of that... for 640gb, I'd almost be better off spending the $220 or so and buying 2 500gb drives and just mirroring them. If cash were not so tight right now, I'd just give in and do that.
To note:
If you use Samba ACLs for a multi-user environment, you won't be able to do that with ZFS. Which is why I'm waiting for them to implement Samba -> NFSv4 ACL mapping, sometime in the fornever from now.
FYI ZFS supports NFSv4 ACLs now, and I think that covers what you're looking for?


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For fans of "Twilight," it was the end of an era. "Breaking Dawn Pt. 2," the final installment in the blockbuster movie saga opened Comic-Con International's Hall H presentations Thursday, with new footage, a few funny quips and the official debut of 11-year-old Mackenzie Foy, who plays Renesmee, the "half-vamp kid" of protagonists Edward Cullen and his human-cum-vampire wife Bella Swan.
Stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner still enjoyed the bulk of the spotlight — the only principal missing from the festivities was director Bill Condon, who is currently in London scoring the movie with his longtime collaborator, Carter Burwell; even series author Stephenie Meyer, who returned to Comic-Con for the first time since "Twilight" was released in 2008, joined in on the fun, participating with her long-time collaborators. (She also brought footage from the "The Host," Andrew Niccol's upcoming film adaptation of her novel, following the Twilight presentation.)
But never one to disappoint his fans, Condon, in a video message, introduced the squealing Hall H crowd to the opening seven minutes of the movie, though the effects were incomplete. The footage marked the first introduction to Bella as a newly turned vampire, all blood-thirsty and wicked strong. (She even squeezes her beau, Edward, too hard when she first embraces him.)
The footage gave audiences a clear sense that this film, unlike the first part of "Breaking Dawn," will be much bigger in scope with sweeping shots of Edward and Bella hunting in the Canadian forest. Fans seemed really pleased when the previously delicate Bella takes down a mountain lion in an attempt to sate her hunger.
Even Stewart's co-star was impressed. "I haven't seen the movie yet," said Elizabeth Reaser, who plays Edward's "mother" Esme. "I didn't think you could pull it off, you eating a mountain lion. But you were so great."
Stewart, for one, was thrilled with her transformation. "It felt so good to break her in. To see how fast the car goes," she said during the panel. "I loved the running. That was so much fun."
The presentation opened on a serious note, however, with Comic-Con head of marketing and PR David Glanzer, expressing his condolences to the family and friends of Gisela Gagliardi, a 53-year-old woman from New York, a "Twilight" fan who was killed Tuesday when she was struck by a motorist while crossing the street in front of the convention center. Moderator Eric Moro also took a moment to comment on her death.
Mostly, though, the "Twilight" panelists and fans kept things light and celebratory. In her debut trip to Comic-Con, Foy, in a separate interview, mentioned that she'd been taking in the sights, admiring the group of Star Trek characters that lurked on the patio below her hotel room. She also was intrigued by the number of adults in "Avengers" costumes.
"I think it's really fun and cool to dress up as anyone you like," said Foy. "I like dressing up. I do it at home. I think you are never too old to dress up."
But the biggest thrill so far for the Palm Springs area local was the visit with all the fans Wednesday night, where she and the rest of the supporting cast handed out "Twilight" swag and visited with the hordes of loyalists camped out in line on the sidewalk.
Even "50 Shades of Grey" author E.L. James, who began her bestselling trilogy as a piece of "Twilight" fan fiction, got into the action, spending a few hours in line Wednesday with her fellow Twihards.
"I'm a Twihard," James said Thursday morning before the "Twilight" panel, speaking with enthusiasm. "I was down in camp 'Twilight' yesterday and it was really nice. I was there with a bunch of friends. It was great fun. This is the last go."
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2" is due out Nov. 16.
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27 comments:
Awwww. :)
- February 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Rhianna said...
Wow! Sounds like you have a great guy! You are blessed!
- February 14, 2010 at 11:49 AM
- Tira J said...
That was beautiful!!! Happy Valentine's Day B!
- February 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- Diandra Ann said...
you just made me cry. Beautiful. I'm so happy for you guys :) xoxo
- February 14, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- Christy said...
wow! Tha is awesome:)
- February 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Dionna said...
Beautiful. I'm sure each one of us could fill in those blanks to our own husbands...
- February 14, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- jamiedelaine said...
SO. Somehow I've been under a rock. Just the last few posts I've been wondering if you've started dating somebody in the past year or so... and you did. YES. Pumped. That's exciting! :)
- February 14, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Laurel said...
Soooo ....
did you intend to say ...
"because you think I'm beautiful without makeout ..."
"because you think I'm beautiful without makeup" ?
it's good to know that he thinks you're beautiful even when you're not "making out" ???
homeschooling mama with the "red pen" for spelling errors :)
- February 14, 2010 at 5:48 PM
that's so sweet.. is that really without makeout though? i think i'm getting some hints there. :P happy <3s day!;)
- February 14, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Cora said...
Beautiful. Honest. Sweet. Authentic. Thank you!
- February 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM
So sweet, and so important that he loves you for you. Wish my husband would take a little from him...washing dishes!!! Awesome :)
- February 14, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- ruthie said...
Oh. My. Goodness. This is too beautiful! Made my day. You deserve it!
- February 14, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Bi, I loved your words, so beautiful! He is such a great guy and handsome too, but not as handsome as my hubby! He is blessed to have you and you are blessed too! :)
- February 14, 2010 at 9:13 PM
hey i wanna hear you speak Spanish!! :)
- February 14, 2010 at 9:15 PM
- Nina49a said...
Ok, hello!...so I guess we are so behind on your life! We'll stop telling all the hot single guys about you...haha j/k...kinda.
- February 15, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Annie said...
i {big puffy heart} you, Matt, for making our BB so happy! and for taking care of her. and for loving her without either makeup or makeout. you're a good guy either way.
BB: is it wildly inappropriate for me to say thay your man is a hottie!? ;0) hahahahaaaa
- February 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Dana said...
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- February 15, 2010 at 11:57 AM
- Carol said...
So happy for you girl! And your words were simply awesome! you are smitten and its great! Love to be in LOVE!! Seriously, thank you for keeping the singleness still on your blog. Just because your not anymore you still got Love for the singles! Cuz we RULE!!
- February 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Harmony Loves said...
way too cute and perfectly said! I love it!!
- February 15, 2010 at 1:57 PM
- jacquelinefigueroa said...
Wow! I almost cried.Love it :)
- February 15, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Jen said...
"thank you for not trying to make me happy, but to make me holy."
- February 15, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- His Jewel said...
B, thank God words are all you have (NOT! Don't make me list all you have! lol) because your words are worth MILLIONS! Well said, I LOVE it!
P.S. You ARE beautiful without make up!!! (I saw your pic with the mud mask).
- February 15, 2010 at 5:03 PM
- Bianca said...
Ok people, get your minds out of the gutter! I SWEAR I meant to say, "beautiful without makeUP."
Hmmm... maybe it WAS a Freudian slip ;P
Thanks for the spelling error :)
- February 16, 2010 at 10:53 AM
- just because said...
awww...B, I almost cried! I'm sooo happy for you!
love you,
- February 16, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Susan said...
this is really a touching post. i particularly loved the last paragraph.
- February 17, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Pancho said...
Your in love that is sooo gross!!
BAH!! Just Kidding(:
I guess thats kinna cute lol<33
Love you BB:D
- February 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Happy for you Bianca can't wait for you to cross over to the other side!
- February 22, 2010 at 12:07 PM


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POLL: Should VW unionize in Chattanooga?
If Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant lands a new product and hundreds more jobs, locals won't stand in line behind United Auto Workers members from other factories to find work if the union gets in, a UAW official said Friday.
Meanwhile, a group of VW workers trying to keep the UAW from organizing the plant said they have raised their anti-union petition count to more than 600 signatures of hourly employees.
The activity engulfing the factory comes as top VW officials in Germany weigh whether to recognize the UAW using authorization cards purportedly signed by a majority of plant workers or require an election by secret ballot.
The Chattanooga plant's front-runner status to land the assembly of a new sport utility vehicle has prompted questions about whether UAW members from elsewhere might receive preferential hiring for added jobs if the union gains recognition here.
Gary Casteel, a UAW regional director based in Lebanon, Tenn., said union members cannot just transfer from one automaker to another.
"There's no multiemployer contract," he said. "The contracts we have are with individual companies."
Casteel said transferring from one plant to another within a company does happen, such as occurred in the case of General Motors' factory in Spring Hill, Tenn.
"There's no provision to transfer from company to company. The intent is to keep existing employees employed," he said, adding that unions don't hire or fire people.
The UAW has contracts with all of the Detroit Three automakers -- GM, Ford and Chrysler. However, the union is trying to organize plants run by the so-called transplant car companies such as VW, Nissan, Toyota and Mercedes.
In Chattanooga, the UAW is talking with VW about a German-style works council, a panel of blue- and white-collar employees that typically discuss issues such as training and work schedules. The UAW reported last month that it has a majority of the hourly workforce at the factory on cards authorizing the union to represent them.
Union officials want the automaker to recognize the UAW using the cards in what it calls a less divisive way than holding a secret election.
Anti-union group
However, a group of workers in Chattanooga has countered, setting up a "No2UAW" website and asking employees to sign its anti-union petition.
VW employee Mike Burton said Friday they've garnered 602 signatures in about three weeks. The figure is up from 563 about a week ago, he said. Burton said if the group gathers about 20 added names a day, it can get close to half of the estimated 1,500 to 1,600 production and skilled maintenance workers at the plant.
"We're still going to win," he said. Burton questioned whether the UAW still has a majority. He said a worker's signature on the petition voids a signed UAW card.
Burton, a paint shop employee, said the effort began after some workers were unhappy with what they saw the UAW doing.
Eight workers represented by the National Right to Work Legal Foundation brought charges against the UAW with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers said UAW coerced and misled them. The UAW has denied the charges.
Bo Poteet, another anti-UAW petitioner, said he's not necessarily against a union, but doesn't like the UAW. He cited the money the union has given to Democratic political candidates who support entities such as Planned Parenthood, the nation's single biggest abortion provider.
"The UAW is not the answer," Poteet said. "They're not the best thing for our plant. Look at Detroit."
However, the UAW has said the auto companies with which it has contracts and their employees represented by the union are prospering.
At Spring Hill, for example, GM in August unveiled a new $167 million infusion that, coupled with an earlier plan to invest $187 million, could lead to production of a pair of new SUVs there. GM also said the investment will create or retain 1,800 jobs at the Middle Tennessee factory that now employs about 2,000 people.
"We're doing fine," Casteel said.
Also, on the timing of a decision by VW regarding card-check representation, Casteel said Friday there's no timetable, but added that "I can't see this process going for an extended period of time."
Volkswagen Group of America officials in Herndon, Va., have maintained that the automaker's Chattanooga workforce will decide on a works council through "a formal vote."
At the same time, however, a top VW labor leader who serves on the powerful supervisory board and other key officials from Germany are expected to travel to Tennessee within weeks to talk with employees about a works council and address concerns about the UAW expressed by some state political leaders including Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.
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Special equipment: two dish mats, absolutely clean and free of dirt or grease any plastic or metal object you'd like to mold, such as a soap holder, a slotted spatula, a potato masher, dish mat with holes, absolutely clean and free of dirt or grease
For the Support Stand: Using an offset spatula, spread a 1/4-inch-thick layer of bittersweet chocolate over the textured side of a dish mat, being sure to spread it all the way to the edges. Roll the mat into a tube and let the chocolate set. When it has set, carefully peel the mat away from the chocolate. Using a sharp, hot chef's knife, trim the edges so they are even. Set aside
For the Base: You will need to two bases for the centerpiece. Place an acetate or parchment sheet on your work surface with the long side facing you. Using an offset spatula, spread about a 1/4-inch-thick layer of white chocolate onto the acetate sheet. Wait until the chocolate sets. Place another dish mat on top of the white chocolate. Using an offset spatula, spread a layer of bittersweet chocolate over the mat. Allow the chocolate to set. Carefully peel the mat away from the chocolate, creating a white base with dark dots. Repeat to make another base. Use a sharp chef's knife to cut a circle from one of the bases, 2 inches larger than the diameter of whatever you will be placing on the pedestal.
Set the large base on a flat tray. Use a generous amount of chocolate to glue the circular base to one end of the support stand tube. Use more chocolate to glue the other end of the support stand tube to the other, larger base. Be sure the chocolate has set completely and the stand is sturdy before you set anything on top of it.
If you would like to use a potato masher or a slotted spatula, first place an acetate or parchment sheet on the work surface, then place the utensil on top of the paper. Using an offset spatula, spread a layer of white chocolate over the utensil (filling the holes) and onto the acetate sheet. Carefully, lift off the utensil. Allow the chocolate to set then use an offset spatula to carefully spread a layer of dark chocolate over the white chocolate texture. Allow the chocolate to set. Use a sharp knife or cutter to cut the chocolate into interesting shapes.
Use these same techniques for any other textured mat and create more interesting pieces for the centerpiece.
To assemble the centerpiece, use the chocolate to glue the various shapes into place. Use your eye as a guide to create an interesting design. A nice thing to do is to place a cake on the stand and distribute petit fours around the base of the centerpiece. You can also decorate with fresh fruit to add color.
How to Temper Chocolate(From Dessert Circus, Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make At Home by Jacques Torres):
Chocolate is tempered so that after it has been melted, it retains its gloss and hardens again without becoming chalky and white (that happens when the molecules of fat separate and form on top of the chocolate). There are a variety of ways to temper.
One of the easiest ways to temper chocolate is to chop it into small pieces and then place it in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time on high power until most of the chocolate is melted. Be very careful not to overheat it. (The temperature of dark chocolate should be between 88 and 90 degrees F, slightly warmer than your bottom lip. It will retain its shape even when mostly melted. White and milk chocolates melt at a temperature approximately 2 degrees F less because of the amount of lactose they contain.) Any remaining lumps will melt in the chocolate's residual heat. Use an immersion blender or whisk to break up the lumps. Usually, chocolate begins to set, or crystallize, along the side of the bowl. As it sets, mix those crystals into the melted chocolate to temper it. A glass bowl retains heat well and keeps the chocolate tempered longer.
Another way to temper chocolate is called seeding. In this method, add small pieces of unmelted chocolate to melted chocolate. The amount of unmelted chocolate to be added depends on the temperature of the melted chocolate, but is usually 1/4 of the total amount. It is easiest to use an immersion blender for this, or a whisk.
The classic way to temper chocolate is called tabliering. Two thirds of the melted chocolate is poured onto a marble or another cold work surface. The chocolate is spread out and worked with a spatula until its temperature is approximately 81 degrees F. At this stage, it is thick and begins to set. This tempered chocolate is then added to the remaining non-tempered chocolate and mixed thoroughly until the mass has a completely uniform temperature. If the temperature is still too high, part of the chocolate is worked further on the cold surface until the correct temperature is reached. This is a lot of work, requires a lot of room, and makes a big mess.
A simple method of checking tempering, is to apply a small quantity of chocolate to a piece of paper or to the point of a knife. If the chocolate has been correctly tempered, it will harden evenly and show a good gloss within a few minutes.
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Troopers: Teen killed in motorcycle crash
Troopers: Teen killed in motorcycle crash
An Upstate teen was killed in a motorcycle wreck Monday afternoon, according to South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers.
Troopers said the teen was driving north on Highway 133 in Pickens County at 4:01 p.m. when he went through an intersection at Lakeside Drive and crossed the center line.
Troopers said the bike then sideswiped a truck.
Picken County coroner Kandy Kelley identified the victim as 18-year-old James William Keith Horn of Six Mile.
Kelley said Horn was traveling at a high rate of speed and lost control.
Horn was thrown from the bike and taken to the hospital where he died, troopers said.
Troopers said Horn was wearing a helmet.
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Although all my recent Kit Kat experiences have come from Japan, Dean-German-Grocery this week reminded me that they indeed have a few exclusive Kit Kat products of their own over in Germany. One of these comes in the form of the Kit Kat Chunky White - a bar that replaces the traditional milk chocolate coating with a healthy dose of white chocolate. As well as sending me this exclusive White variant Dean-German-Grocery so kindly also sent across some 'Peanut Butter' Kit Kat Chunkys. Although I reviewed this bar way back in February last year (See HERE for amateurish review!), I thought it would be rude not to do a comparative review between our UK manufactured bar and the German one.
Below are my thoughts on each of the two bars:
Kit Kat Chunky White:
This bar came in a 48.0g size that certainly didn't hold back in terms of its calorie and fat content - its lucky that this was one very fulfilling snack.
The packaging was all rather neat with the traditional 'Chunky' style foil wrapper replicated with just a white theme incorporated. Although a pain to get a decent picture of (sorry!!), the bar itself looked mightily impressive and I liked the way the milk chocolate interspersed in the wafer contrasted with the pale coloured coating.
The smell had a very enticing sweet dairy focus which followed through into the taste. The white chocolate reminded me very much so of the Nestle Die Weisse bar in that its flavours were very sweet, but had a very moreish milky mellowness about them. The white chocolate melted a lovely rate and with a nice smoothness to reveal the crisp wafer that lay below. The creme sandwiched in between the wafer brought some very pleasant stronger milk chocolate elements to the taste, which delivered a very nice additional chocolate hit to the standard wheat flavours.
Overall I am really quite bemused why this bar is not available in the UK as it certainly maintains the same level of quality exemplified by the rest of the Kit Kat Chunky range. The white chocolate standard is pretty good and if you are familiar with the Nestle Die Weisse or Milkybar brands you will largely know what to expect. This is a bar that I would definitely have again and on this basis I would very much recommend it.
8.5 out of 10
Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter:
The Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter that we get here in the UK is a bar that I often frequent if I have an urge for a chocolate and peanut butter combination. Due to this I thought it only fair that I compare the bar we get here, and the bar available in Germany ... any excuse eh!? :)
I will be honest with you now ... I noticed very little differences between the two products ... if any! The bar came in the same 50.0g form and contained exactly the same nutritional information. One difference that I am guessing you guys have all spotted already was with the packaging - as you can see above the German product was colored in a darker shade of yellow which was quite the contrast compared to the more vivid yellow on the UK bar. Personally I didn't have any preference and thought they both looked good in their own unique ways.
As soon as I opened the wrapper things got all rather familiar. Some very familiar and tempting roasted peanut scents emerged from the German bar filling me with a great anticipation. In regards to taste the differences were virtually non existent. The milk chocolate was of the same quality in that it wasn't the greatest ever but still did the job of delivering the all important chocolate hit to proceedings. This bar was of course all about the peanut butter and although I thought the German bar was slightly saltier the overall variance was very little. The same creamy, sweet flavour influences from the chocolate and wafer elements were wonderfully complimented by the salty, buttery flavours of the smooth filling, culminating in a taste that as rich as it was tasty.
Overall I still stand by my review of a year ago in that the peanut butter in this bar is very good, but just isn't as good as the one found in Reese's products. Admittedly this is somewhat made up for by the better quality chocolate - which still makes this a firm favourite of mine. As I have described here I wouldn't get too caught up in trying yourself to see if there is any variation in our UK bar or the German one ... in truth there are minimal differences. If your after a readily available dose of chocolate and peanut butter though you can do very little wrong here.
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Eight letter winners returning for ECC tennis
Eight letter winners will anchor the Elk County Catholic Crusaders tennis team as they open the 2011 boys' tennis season this afternoon when they host the Johnsonburg Area Rams at Benzinger and Memorial parks.Three-year senior letter winner Jarid DeCarli will be leading the Crusaders this season as Kyler Breakey and Kevin Detsch, two-year senior letter winners, along with one-year senior letter winner Nate Dattoli and newcomers Darren Simons and Tyler Herzing, will be counted on by Coach Nick Caggiano to provide the senior leadership.Three juniors, Jon Leuschel, Shane Mancuso and Ben Wortman, all two-year letter winners, while sophomore Scott Reichard is the other returning letter winners for the Crusaders.The remainder of the squad consists of juniors Shaun Chiesa, Scott Krellner, Brian Nguyen and Brent Polaski, along with sophomore Peter Pontzer."We have quite a few guys coming back from last year with a lot of singles and doubles experience, having a good amount of positive results," said Coach Caggiano. "They know what it's like to go through tough matches as well as the straightforward ones, all different situations. They also have a lot of court familiarity, which will definitely work for them."One significant positive we have going for the team this year (much like last year) is that the camaraderie coming from the team is excellent. There is such a good feeling of solidarity, from the upperclassmen down to the youngest on the team, which can bode well for success on any team. You know you have a good combination when every player can joke around with each other and likes playing together, no matter the age or grade level.""Consistency will be the key for us this season. One factor that will be intriguing to see is how well we step up, and translate our practice play into match play. So far they've been hitting well, been very impressive. However it's quite another story when you play in an actual match," Caggiano continued. "Another capacity where they will have to step up is taking over the spots vacated by the seniors who have graduated last year, not just playing positions, but in leadership roles as well. Dave Kopp, Robby Wortman and Kyle Detsch were great role models for the team last year and we'll miss having them around. You can already see the older members starting to take on leadership roles of their own and guiding the rest of the team. We have some great guys for that."Caggiano's squad has set a goal of making the finals of at least two of the three district competitions - singles, doubles and team. "We want to win at least half of our matches and most importantly, to continue to have fun while we play," added Caggiano. "You can't take things too seriously out there to the point that you're not enjoying the game or yourself."The ECCHS coach noted that the squad will focus equally on each team they play, not overestimating or underestimating any team or individual by any means."We're all very excited for this season, and looking forward to having much success, both as a team as well as individually, and also learning from the experiences tennis can teach," said Caggiano. "We are going to try and make the most of every opportunity that presents itself to us."


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I love a good proposal story. Something about a well-planned surprise and the element of pure astonishment makes me a little giddy. Traditional proposals are sweet, but this hopeless romantic prefers an original and outrageous idea for putting a ring on it, especially a personal gesture that reflects the interests of the couple. With Valentine's Day coming I have spent an embarrassing amount of time on YouTube perusing proposal videos. These are my favorite most uncommon proposal ideas.
Matt got really high-tech for his proposal and created a movie trailer about asking Ginny's dad for his blessing. It aired at a local theater that Ginny and her brother were attending. The best part is getting to see her reaction throughout the viewing of the trailer.
Now this is a proposal that made my Gleek heart sing. A Canadian couple was touring Philadelphia when the UPenn Glee Club broke into song with The Beatles' All You Need is Love. I don't think it took too long for her to realize that the song was just for her.
Jeff made his proposal to Caitlin with a mural in Lower Manhattan. What citizen would complain about graffiti as sweet as that?
This guy incorporated some children's arts and crafts to surprise his school teacher girlfriend. He even made her think she was in trouble by having her sent to the principal's office so he could get the room ready.
This flashmob proposal stole my heart, he is so adorable, dancing awkwardly while his girlfriend watches. The proposal seems to take her by surprise, I wonder if she knew her boyfriend would be taking part in public dance in the first place.
So you think you wanna marry me? These footloose contestants on Canada's So You Think You Can Dance got engaged on air!
These romantic dudes incorporated their talent and love for the arts- singing, dancing, film-making and painting- into their proposals. Here are some ideas for a romantic, artistic Valentine's Date.
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(KMOV.com) - A former fire chief in St. Clair, MO is now facing an indictment over misusing over half a million dollars in department money.
Eric Hinson is accused of taking $593,236 from January 2006 to September 2011. The indictment says Hinson used the money for a variety of things including vacations in Hawaii and Florida, tickets to Six Flags, payments for a pick-up truck, and furniture at Macy's.
"He took it for family vacations, luxury goods, credit card charges," said U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan. "Basically each year between $100,000 and $130,000 was taken from the fire district."
Prosecutors say the amount of money stolen was enough to buy the St. Clair Volunteer Fire Department a brand new fire truck.
Hinson was also fire chief in Ladue, but prosecutors say the charges are not connected to the Ladue department.
"In the more rural areas where volunteer departments are the backbone of the community, I think this hurts more," Callahan said. "I don't want to judge human motivations but I know a lot of volunteer fire people and I think they would take this hard."
Hinson's attorney says the indictment contradicts Hinson's decades of service.
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One-pot chicken chasseur
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal439
- fat28g
- saturates10g
- carbs7g
- sugars6g
- fibre2g
- protein35g
- salt1.11g
- 1 tsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 25g butter
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 4 chicken legs
- 1 onion, chopped
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- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 200g pack small button or chestnut mushroom
The mushroom is a fungus which comes in a wide range of varieties that belong to two distinct…
- 225ml red wine
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 2 thyme sprigs
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 500ml chicken stock
Heat the oil and half the butter in a large lidded casserole. Season the chicken, then fry for about 5 mins on each side until golden brown. Remove and set aside.
Melt the rest of the butter in the pan. Add the onion, then fry for about 5 mins until soft. Add garlic, cook for about 1 min, add the mushrooms, cook for 2 mins, then add the wine. Stir in the tomato purée, let the liquid bubble and reduce for about 5 mins, then stir in the thyme and pour over the stock. Slip the chicken back into the pan, then cover and simmer on a low heat for about 1 hr until the chicken is very tender.
Remove the chicken from the pan and keep warm. Rapidly boil down the sauce for 10 mins or so until it is syrupy and the flavour has concentrated. Put the chicken legs back into the sauce and serve.
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We're almost constantly connected today, which makes it very easy to coordinate social activity. But our constant connection also forces us to lie sometimes:
This is an example of what we call a butler lie, a linguistic strategy used to manage your availability. We've documented butler lies in our prior work, but there are still open questions:
- Do people consider these to be actual lies, or are they part of the normal course of business in modern social interaction?
- How good are people at detecting lies in text messages?
To find out, we collected a total of 2,341 text messages exchanged by 82 pairs of friends, and asked both the sender and receiver to judge how deceptive each message was. We found that:
- Senders lied more often in butler messages (about starting, stopping, or arranging social interactions). 21.7% of butler messages were intended to deceive. Only 6.2% of non-butler messages were.
- Receivers missed many of the lies. Only 10.4% of butler messages were perceived as deceptive, while 8.0% of non-butler messages were perceived that way. Evidently people expect others to lie to them, particularly about availability, but not as frequently as they actually are being deceived.
- When people tell lies, they feel worse about it than the receiver of the lie. Deception is commonplace. We need a more nuanced approach to deception in availability management.
What are the implications?
- Discovering a deception may not always threaten a relationship. People expect to be deceived sometimes within the context of a relationship.
- Ambiguity about time and location lets us lie in socially useful ways. These results question the recent moves to greater transparency about when messages were seen (in iMessage and Facebook) and user location (in foursquare, Twist, Glympse).
Want to learn more? Check out our full paper (Butler Lies From Both Sides: Actions and Perceptions of Unavailability Management in Texting) and lab websites (Northwestern & Cornell).
Lindsay Reynolds, Cornell University
Madeline E. Smith, Northwestern University
Jeremy Birnholtz, Northwestern University
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Too big for new home, debris chunk to be trimmed
NEWPORT (AP) — If it does not fit, you must trim it.
That's what Oregon authorities learned to their chagrin as they tried to move a huge section of Japanese tsunami debris to a marine science center in Newport on Wednesday.
A 105,000-pound chunk of the boxcar-sized concrete dock that floated across the Pacific to reach an Oregon beach last summer was to be part of an interactive display at the Hatfield Marine Science Center. The display highlights tsunami dangers and honors those who died in the March 2011 disaster in Japan.
The Oregonian reports that a company hired to move the dock section asked highway officials to close a nearby bridge while the giant load crossed. Before that could happen, those involved realized that the chunk was not only too big to fit its new home but a crane wouldn't be able to reach the site to put it in place.
Now former Newport Mayor Mark McConnell says the dock section will be cut into a smaller piece to fit its new home.
Most of the 66-foot-long dock was dismantled and hauled away for salvage.
Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com


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