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I'm looking for advice on developing a standalone web app for Windows. That is, the server side would be running locally.
So far I've got notes on Perl and necessary modules.
- Strawberry Perl
- DBI and DBD::SQLite
- Plack and Mojolicious or Dancer
- AnyEvent and Twiggy ?
I'm planning to remove MinGW / and the compiler to make the final package smaller.
Here is the list of installation software.
At the moment I'm leaning towards NSIS for no particular reason.
What I'm thinking is that the installation script will check for the existence of C:\Strawberry. Then it will run the Perl it finds there.
- If it can't find the directory, it can install it.
- If the directory exists and the Perl is good, use it.
- If the directory exists and the Perl is not good, abort with an error message.
Any input welcome.


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5 Unusual Animals That Make Great Pets
Cats and dogs, while extremely lovable, are not the only choices out there when it comes to selecting a household pet. There are quite a few unusual animals in existence that actually make good, even great companions for their human owners. We're not talking man-eating tigers or wild boars here—there are some limits to just how exotic you should go.

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Melissa Magsaysay & Sara Riff
November marks the start of the giving season, but giving means many things for multi-tasking women balancing motherhood, entrepreneurship, making a difference, and time to call their own. This month, Co-Founders of The Hive, an online destination for new moms and beyond, share how they balance the demands of the holidays without compromising their style, sanity, or do-good attitudes. Oh, did we mention they also hold roles as Jimmy Choo Dir. of Entertainment Relations & Fashion Journalist, respectively.
What was the inspiration to start The Hive?
At the time, we were new mothers with careers in fashion and seeking an online destination and resource where we saw our lives and creative interests reflected. Women are multi-dimensional, constantly juggling and living full lives with family, career and being active in the community and we always strive to speak to those women and their needs, be they sartorial or addressing modern parenting concerns.We love creating a forum where women can share their experiences as mothers...the good, the bad and the ugly! The Hive is a destination for women who don't want to go it alone through modern motherhood.
Can you give us a little insider scoop on what or who you're profiling for the holidays?
We'll be profiling inspiring and strong women like Erica Chidi Cohen, doula and author, who make it a priority to give back and be dynamic and well rounded.
Describe your style in 3 words or less.
Sara: Feminine with an Edge.
Melissa: Classic, laid back, polished.
What's your fashion mantra?
Sara: Too much of a good thing can be divine.
Melissa: Dress for how you want to feel.
Dressed up or dressed down for Thanksgiving?
Sara: Dressed Up!
Melissa: Dressed Up! We host Thanksgiving and I like to look slightly dressed up but still comfortable, of course.
What are your fail-safe pieces to help make dressing fast and fashionable for anything from holiday fetes to every day occasions?
Sara: Black leather jacket, cashmere sweater, chic black skirt.
Melissa: Lace blouse, black velvet loafers, statement sleeve sweater, high waist classic straight leg jeans.
Do you have any holiday traditions?
"Each year, we work with charities like Baby2Baby and GoodPlus to adopt families in need."
What does that entail and how do you incorporate your own children?
"Typically the charities will organize wish lists for underprivileged families and their kids based on their ages and interests. We love getting our own children involved as a way to shift their focus away from their own wants and towards the many local families in need. We're hoping to build empathy and a sense of responsibility to do your best to support everyone you can."
What does that look like on a practical level?
"It normally involves a big shopping trip to Target to pick up everything from toys to clothing and requires a lot of discipline from our own kids not to pick out everything for themselves.
How do you like to carve out time for yourself to feel centered and recharged?
"We both love to travel as much as possible for a little time away. This can be a bigger trip from time to time, to a weekend get a way near by. Either way, a change of scenery and some time alone with husband or friends is always key. Mediation, exercise and donating our time to our respective charities to help others are all ways that make us feel grounded and grateful.
While alone time is always nice, it's seldom possible with young kids. That's why a place like Au Fudge is amazing. We can let the kids run around in the playroom or tree house while we grab dinner and a drink and talk life and business. It's always a warm and welcoming place with plenty of charm and really good food and delicious cocktails. We don't feel like we're compromising between "our" and "their" time. We're all in once place that we all love."
Do you have a standing night out or is it more spontaneous?
Sara: A standing night date would actually require planning and commitment, so it does tend to be a bit spontaneous so long as childcare is available.
Melissa: What does "spontaneous" mean again? Kidding - I wish we could, but with kids there's always a little more planning involved.
Are there any favorite la spots you like to hit for a night out with friends or your husbands?
Sara: I love Cafe Stella, Sawyer, Marvin and of course The Sunset Tower.
Melissa: Pace in Laurel Canyon, AOC or Little Door some of my favorite spots.
Visit thehivemag.com for expert advice on inspired living for the new mom and beyond. Follow them on Instagram @thehivemag.
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Muse Series
Carly Leahy & Afton Vechery
Founders of Modern Fertility
For this month's Joie Muse Series, we met with Afton Vechery and Carly Leahy – entrepreneurs, modern-day feminists, and game-changers in women's health (not to mention, members of Forbes and Inc's "30 Under 30" list!). Founders of Modern Fertility, an at-home fertility test, Afton and Carly are helping to move the fertility conversation from infertility-resolution to fertility-proactivity to empower women about their bodies and their futures. Read along to learn about their ground-breaking work and shop their favorite #Joie picks.
Angeles Almuna Weil
Artist / Fashion Stylist / Creator
Welcome to the new Joie Muse Series, a simple evolution of the feature which we previously called "Sunday Girl". Each month, we will continue to profile women who inspire us with their stories, and encourage others to approach life's opportunities and challenges with confidence, creativity, hope and positivity – any day of the week. For the month of October, we sat down with artist, fashion stylist, creator and breast cancer survivor, Angeles Almuna Weil. Read along to learn more about Angeles' colorful life journey and how it has not only shaped her style, but motivated her to spread awareness and give back to her community.
Sarah Butler
Fashion Blogger
While based in Seattle, Sarah Butler's notably whimsical and ladylike style has caught the eyes of style lovers everywhere. Her most recent collaboration with renowned street style photographer (and boyfriend) Jose Martinez has transformed her personal style blog into a curated editorial destination, capturing the attention of some of fashions elite. Read along to learn how Sarah has conquered Seattle's style scene…and isn't stopping there.
Alya Mooro
Journalist / Author
Egyptian born and London bred, Alya Mooro has earned her successes as a self-employed journalist, presenting unique approaches to social commentary, fashion and lifestyle. With her first book on the way to shelves, we met with Alya to learn more about the passion and voice she provides for multi-cultural women everywhere.
Sophie Gray
Co-Founder of Sophie James Winery
Set on a stunning Sonoma Mountaintop, surrounded by a magical farm land, Sophie Gray works fiercely to create delicious, distinctive, organically farmed Pinot Noir and Rosé wines. We visited Sophie James Winery to chat with Gray about how she became the best version of herself as a passionate business woman, wife, and mother.
Amanda Luu & Ivanka Matsuba
Owners of destination floral design studio – Studio Mondine
San Francisco-based floral design shop Studio Mondine takes a unique approach to flower arrangements, combining lush, overgrown English garden style with precise, spiritual Japanese ikebana style in their work. We caught up with founders at their studio and chatted about their passion driven careers, and how they do it in style.
Nicole Trunfio
CEO of Erth Jewelry / Model
This Mother's Day, we've partnered with Australian supermodel, jewelry designer, and boss mama Nicole Trunfio to be our Joie Sunday Girl! With two babies, a rockstar husband, and a bustling career, Nicole exemplifies motherhood goals. Read along as she tells us her secrets for mastering the perfect work-life balance in style.
Elizabeth Minett
Founder & Creative Director at Cander Paris
Inspired by candid moments, and on a quest for genuine expression, Elizabeth Minett diverged from the fashion industry to become one of the youngest female entrepreneurs in luxury home scents. This month, we caught up with the Cander Paris founder to chat all things career, family, travel, and of course, style.
Aleksandra Zee
Artist, Woodworker
From her home to her studio and personal style, Oakland based Woodworker Aleksandra Zee lives a lifestyle of beautifully curated simplicity. Pulling inspiration from nature and calming hues, Aleksandra walks us through what stimulates her when it comes to career, style and travel.
Geraldine Boublil
Founder of Erin Off Duty
It's that time of year, where Fall Collections make their runway debut at Fashion Week, and who better to get us prepped than street style muse Geraldine Boublil of @erinoffduty. Geraldine's effortless, timeless Parisian style has caught the attention of industry insiders everywhere and her blog has offered her a seat at some of the top shows in the world. Read along as she talks all things career, style, and Paris!
Maria Dueñas Jacobs
Director of Brand Development at Stitch Fix
Meet Maria Dueñas Jacobs – former ELLE Accessories Editor, current Director of Brand Development at Stitch Fix, and forever mother of three. Maria has conquered the competitive fashion industry head on with elegance and ease. From dream job to motherhood, she tells us how she balances it all.
Stephanie Liu Hjelmeseth
Fashion & Lifestyle Blogger
Stephanie Liu Hjelemeseth started her creative digital journal, Honey & Silk, nearly eight years ago, which has naturally evolved to speak to fashion, travel, beauty, and the most rewarding addition yet: motherhood. We caught up with the new mama to talk all things career, style and how she plans to spend baby's first holiday!
Whitney Leigh Morris
Small Space Lifestyle Blogger & Consultant
Whitney Leigh Morris's less than 400 square foot small-scale home may be limited, however, her life inside is anything but. Tucked away in a charming Tiny Canal Cottage with an adoring husband, beautiful two-year-old son, and two playful rescue beagles, Whitney's days spent on the historic Venice Canals are what dreams of Southern California living are all about.
Inès Mélia
DJ & Painter
DJ, painter and fashion it-girl Inès Mélia is the epitome of Parisienne chic. With an ear for music and an eye for style, Inès has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. Read on to learn more about her musical expertise, fashion inspiration and wanderlust lifestyle.
Amira Khan
Lifestyle Blogger + Content Creator
Introduction: Self-love, authenticity, and empowerment – a few of the many things that attracted us to Amira Khan's lifestyle blog. With a uniquely modest style, in a not-so-modest world, Amira takes us around her hometown of Manchester and chats with us about her career, style, and all of the refreshing traits that make her 'Modest Mira'.
Monica Ainley de La Villardière
Fashion Journalist
Street-style star and fashion tastemaker Monica Ainley de La Villardière juggles keeping traditional media alive while relishing in the new-found convenience of a digital age. We caught up with the Parisian-by-way-of-London Canadian and chatted all things career, style, Paris and podcast 'Fashion: No Filter'.
Kerry Pieri
Fashion Director, HarpersBAZAAR.com
This month's Sunday Girl wears many hats - figuratively and literally. Fashion Director, artist, writer, stylist, and above all wife and new mom, Kerry Pieri celebrates the daily balance of being a mother and businesswoman, with style and grace. Her genuine passion and happiness encourages us to do what we love, and love what we do.
Grasie Mercedes
Actress & Lifestyle Blogger
Actress, writer, producer, blogger - you name it, Grasie Mercedes does it…and she does it in style. As a NY native residing in LA, our June Sunday Girl thrives in all opportunities that Hollywood puts in front of her, both on and off screen. Grasie gives us a behind-the-scenes look at her love for the entertainment industry, fashion, beauty, and travel.
Lauren Gores Ireland
Co-Founder of Summer Fridays and Creator of You & Lu
For the month of May, we are focusing on all things mama's, wellness, and the official kick off to summer. We've tapped into new mom, Summer Friday's co-founder, and You & Lu creator to learn how she tackles motherhood, style, health and summer!
Natalie and Dylana Suarez
Fashion Bloggers & Photographers
Natalie and Dylana Suarez are soul mates when it comes to success and creativity, while shining as individuals through their own unique styles. We caught up with the sisters in their Dumbo pads to get a taste for what the other side of the bridge has to offer, and to talk all things fashion, travel and New York City.
Lindsey Holland
Founder, Ropes of Holland
Physiotherapist-turned-fashion blogger, Lindsey Holland, takes us on a tour of her picturesque neighborhood in her favorite pieces from our Spring Collection, and talks all things style, travel and London.
Sara Escudero (AKA Collage Vintage)
Fashion Blogger + Globe Trotter
It's February (aka "love month"), so we've turned to fashion blogger + globe trotter Sara Escudero of Collage Vintage to share what she's loving right now. Having recently relocated from Madrid to LA with her photographer boyfriend, Diego Anciano, the magic that life in a new city brings is giving them a fresh outlook on all things to love
Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton
Founder of Chillhouse & Taste the Style
The holidays are a busy time of year, and by the time December rolls around we inevitably find ourselves wondering how we're going to survive another month of holiday cheer? Don't you agree? This month, wellness and style expert Cyndi Ramiriz-Fulton shares how she keeps her mind, body and style aligned during this busy time of year. As the founder of Chillhouse Wellness Café and the editorial website Taste the Style, looking and feeling fabulous is part of her daily routine.
Emily Faith
Owner/Designer of EF Collection
Delicate fine jewelry is definitely having a moment in fashion. Whether layered, stacked, or mix and matched, celebrities and fashion "it" girls are flocking to Owner/Designer Emily Faith's EF Collection to help define their jewelry style. We caught up with the Los Angeles native while in Paris showing her new collection to find out how she spends her time in the world's most fashionable city and what she's coveting for fall.
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BPCM PR Team
September marks the official kick-off to fall, and there's no better way to get in the mood for a wardrobe revamp than a healthy dose of New York Fashion Week. For an insiders' perspective on this coveted event, we tagged along with PR maven Vanessa von Bismarck, Partner of BPCM PR, and a few of her PR gurus to find out everything we wanted to know about fashion week and beyond.
Rachelle Hruska MacPherson
Founder of Guest of a Guest & Lingua Franca
As the end of summer nears, an escape to the coast is exactly what we need. Meet Rachelle Hruska MacPherson, founder of Guest of a Guest and Lingua Franca, as we chat motherhood, life in Montauk, and weekend dressing
Emily Hollister
Shop Owner of Milly & Grace Boutique
Off the shores of Cape Cod, we spend a Nantucket afternoon with Milly & Grace shop owner and mother of two, Emily Hollister. With a passion for her clients and bringing the local community together, this kind and humble spirit shares about the beginnings of a successful business, the East Coast lifestyle, and her excitement for Joie's upcoming A La Plage capsule pop-up, available at Milly & Grace from August 4th – 14th.
Kiya Cole & Skai Jackson
Skai Jackson & Kiya Cole Mother-Daughter Goals
Child star, teenage role model and emerging style-icon all define actress Skai Jackson. Her number one fan and stunning mother, Kiya Cole, is with her every step of the way. This mother & daughter duo open up about a budding career, fashion inspiration, and what their close-knit family relationship is like off screen…
Emma Henderson & Victoria Beattie
Emma Henderson & Victoria Beattie: Founders of The Beach People
Clear summer skies are just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited to get whisked away, be carefree and inspired by our bucket-list destination travels. This month, Emma Henderson and Victoria Beattie of The Beach People, take us to the land down under, where they share their best-kept secrets and celebrate our A La Plage summer capsule collection and our exclusive Roundie towel collaboration to accompany our seaside escapes and beyond…
Camille Styles
Founder of CamilleStyles.com
This season we celebrate our store opening at Domain Northside, and enjoy the sunny skies of Austin with Camille Styles, founder of CamilleStyles.com. A creative & energetic spirit, Camille welcomes us into her gorgeous home and shares with us a few of her favorite neighborhood spots while reminding us of the importance of living a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle
Sabina Socol
Social Editor at L'Officiel
As we wind down from the whirlwind that is fashion month, we spend a morning with Sabina Socol, the chic social editor of French fashion magazine, L'Officiel Paris. Always on top of the latest news, this "It Girl" shows us around her dreamy flat and shares her best kept secrets behind personal style, the best cuisine in town, and inspires us with her love of journalism to pick up a pen and start writing.
Andrea Swain
Creative Director & Owner of Blooms by Drea Floral and Event Design
This February, we're celebrating the month of love with Andrea Swain, soon-to-be bride and event and floral designer behind Blooms by Drea. We catch up with Andrea at home as she effortlessly styles our bohemian and vintage-inspired pieces from our exclusive wedding capsule collection before jetting off to her own destination wedding in Cartagena, Colombia.
Caroline Issa
Fashion Director and Editor
For Fashion Director and Editor, Caroline Issa, it may not be all glitz and glam prepping for the fervor of fashion month in between editorial meetings, shoots and brand consulting. Yet this stylish sartorial influencer is as prepared as ever, taking her favorite looks from our exclusive winter capsule collection to the streets of Paris and getting us geared up for fashion month with a few of her tips & tricks of the trade.
Louise Roe
TV Host and Fashion Journalist
It's officially gift giving season and we're celebrating with Louise Roe - author of Front Roe. Join us as we chat Sunday indulgences, unforgettable career moments, and all things holiday. This down-to-earth beauty is no stranger to "front row" experiences and is our go-to girl on cultivating personal style and leading a life filled with confidence.
Mara Carrizo Scalise
Founder of Mara Carrizo Scalise Jewelry
Meet Mara Carrizo Scalise–the Argentinian jewelry designer whose passion for travel, eye for unusual vintage, and love for the simple beauty found in nature has influenced the concept behind her namesake jewelry line, handmade in LA. With a lengthy list of loyal celebrity clientele, Mara's dainty, everyday pieces are the perfect complement to Joie's perennially chic style. Keep scrolling to read more on the inspiration behind her collection and be sure to check out her pieces featured in the Joie Holiday Shop.
Ramya Giangola
Founder and Partner of GOGOLUXE
Keeping up with the trends is no easy feat in an industry that's always on the move. That's why this month, we put the spotlight on in-the-know fashion retail and luxury brand consultant, Ramya Giangola. Named one of New York's most fashionable women time and time again, Ramya has made a name for herself scouting and guiding "it" developments across design, travel, food and, of course, fashion. We catch up with the stylish working mom in her new Hollywood Hills home and get the scoop on all that's new and noteworthy for fall…
Roopal Patel
SVP, Fashion Director at Saks Fifth Avenue
September is officially here and while many are mourning the last bit of summer, the fashion world has eagerly shifted gears in anticipation for the season's long-awaited fall fervor. With the shows in full swing, we've tapped Saks Fifth Avenue's SVP, Fashion Director and trend forecasting expert, Roopal Patel, for a few inside tips on navigating Fashion Week like a pro. Keep scrolling for her insider tips to survive the month-long fête.
Simone LeBlanc
Founder & Creative Director of Simone LeBlanc
Personal stylist turned LA's most trusted gift-giving guru, Simone LeBlanc, created her dream job—traveling to alluring destinations to source and curate her well-adorned, lavish gift-boxes for friends, clients, and celebrities alike. This month, we sat down with the gifting queen in her Hollywood Hills home and talk personal taste, the meaningful touch, and of course, life on Sundays with her adorable daughter Lillian…
Laney Crowell
Founder of Crowell Lane Creative
Following our Malibu visit with Minnie Mortimer Gaghan, we cross coasts during the height of summer and relax oceanside in the Hamptons. Join us as Laney Crowell – founder of digital branding agency Crowell Lane— takes us to her favorite seaside shops and shares her personal fashion and interior style tips. With the quaint aesthetics of summer in the Hamptons and blooming flowers as our backdrop, we promise Crowell's view will make you want to pack a bag and head to the beach.
Minnie Mortimer Gaghan
Co-founder of Vainité
To celebrate the summer collection and Joie's coastal lifestyle, we're taking our summer vacation from the breathtaking shores of Malibu all the way to the pristine sands of Montauk. Join us as we travel coast-to-coast and catch up with Minnie Mortimer, co-founder of the luxury beauty experience Vainité, and the stylish Laney Crowell, founder of Laney Crowell Creative. Get swept away as we explore Minnie's stunning oceanfront refuge and get a taste for her laid-back Los Angeles lifestyle. Then jet-set across the country with us next week for a relaxing stay in the Hamptons as we take a trip to the beach with Laney and talk summer essentials. After all, this season is all about travel and lasting memories, so why not pack your bags with your favorite Joie dress and take a vacation with us?
Parisa Fowles-Pazdro
Founder of Max-Bone Boutique
In laid-back Malibu, California, where day trips to the beach and beautiful summer skies are endless, we tap this month's Sunday Girl, the sophisticated globe trotter and Max-Bone founder & designer, Parisa Fowles-Pazdro. From the pristine sands of Zuma to the iconic Surfrider Beach, Malibu's surfer style and bohemian way of life are the perfect backdrop for the Joie summer collection. This month we visit Parisa in her home away from home, the Max-Bone store in Cross Creek and talk summer getaways, Sundays in Malibu, and her adorable bulldog Mackintosh. We couldn't help but be inspired by her carefree wanderlust, and we are sure you will agree.
Mother's Day Special
Inspired, passionate, and accomplished are all attributes that can be used to describe our May Sunday Girls. We've tapped ten stunning women who are breaking barriers in their respective industries while doing an incredible job as parents. With today's working mothers prioritizing their careers and simultaneously dedicating time to raising their children, work-life balance has become an integral part of the everyday routine and each of our Sunday Girls go above and beyond just that. Even though Mother's Day only comes once a year, we believe that honoring great moms should happen year-round. Happy Mother's Day to our Sunday Girls around the world.
Teresa Wilson
Owner of Camelback Flower Shop
Now that spring has officially arrived and flowers are on all of our minds, we take a moment to chat with Scottsdale's Camelback Flowershop owner Teresa Wilson about her Sunday routine, florals vs. fronds, and the inspiration behind her recently launched candle collection.
Jennifer Zeuner
Founder of Jennifer Zeuner Jewelry
In celebration of the launch of Jennifer Zeuner's delicate jewelry line in Joie stores, we've tapped the Southern-based designer to talk all things Sunday, her secret formula for layering necklaces, and the unexpected muse that inspired her line.
Rosie O'Neill
Sugarfina Co-founder
With Valentine's Day upon us, it would seem only natural to catch up with Rosie O'Neill, the sugar-loving co-founder of luxury candy boutique, Sugarfina—and chat Sundays, champagne gummies, and the love story that started it all…
Kassia Meador
This month, we sit down with Kassia Meador—the free-spirited pro-surfer, wetsuit designer, and photographer from Los Angeles—and talk life growing up in Southern California, inspiration and what's in store for 2016…
The Streicher Sisters
The Trio Behind STRIIIKE
Meet the effortlessly talented Streicher sisters: Kristie, Ashley and Jenn, the trio behind STRIIIKE – a collaborative family business and beauty studio in Los Angeles where hair, makeup and feathered brows are artfully crafted under one roof.
Claire Thomas & Laurel Gallucci
Friends-turned-business partners Claire Thomas and Laurel Gallucci are the duo behind whole foods focused baking company, Sweet Laurel Bakery.
Gretchen Bleiler
We sat down with Gretchen to hear about how she found success in a male dominant sport, and how snowboarding gave rise to her current passion as an environmental activist.


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- FeatureHigh-end storage for small shops
- FeatureWeighing the risks of 1TB drives
- FeatureSnapshot: Ediscovery confidence dips from last year
- FeatureMaking the case for FCIP and FCoE
- FeatureNew book and toolkit preps companies for legal ediscovery
- FeatureNew demands, higher salaries for storage pros
- FeatureDo RAID levels still matter?
- FeatureScalability may be a dedupe dilemma
- FeatureReport: Midmarket storage pros favor single-vendor strategy
- FeatureSurvey Says: Still coping with capacity
- FeatureSolid-state storage finds its niche
- FeatureWhere encryption fits best
- FeatureEditorial: Web services for storage? It's already happening
- FeatureHot Spots: Web 2.0 storage: Challenges and choices
- FeatureBest Practices: Tackling data migration
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Scalability may be a dedupe dilemma
| Craig Wilson, IT director at the Minneapolis law firm of Winthrop & Weinstine, became convinced that a deduplication strategy could benefit him as he watched the recurring costs associated with his tape management system climb. Last year, Wilson invested in a Data Domain Appliance, a product that promises cost-effective, long-term, onsite retention and highly efficient WAN vaulting for disaster recovery.
At that point, Wilson tried to forecast his data growth. But within a month, the law firm exceeded the initial capacity of the Data Domain Appliance Series because of a court case that generated reams of files and required Wilson to back up 1.5TB of data. "I try to anticipate our growth rate but then, Bam!, everything changes," he says.
Wilson now has two choices for scalability: purchase a second appliance or buy a new, larger Data Domain DDX Array. He'll present a case to management for both options, but his vote would be for a larger Data Domain array. "The new Data Domain DDX arrays have expansion cabinets and expansion is a necessity," says Wilson.
He could add a second appliance, but Wilson wouldn't double his capacity because there's no way (yet) to cluster two separate deduplication appliances from Data Domain. Data deduplication can reduce data storage rates by tenfold, shorten backup windows and create new possibilities for offsite data replication. But as administrators hit the upper capacity limits of a deduplication appliance, they need to choose between upgrading to a larger deduplication appliance or buying another one.
Upgrading to a larger deduplication appliance requires data migration. In addition, a unit with 50% more capacity will likely cost more than double the entry-level model. However, adding a deduplication appliance means the new appliance has to repeat the process of deduplicating and compressing the backup data. That's because the new deduplication appliance can't access the deduplication pattern-matching schemes created by the first one.
Brian Garrett, a technical director at ESG Labs in Milford, MA--which provides independent analysis of emerging storage hardware--finds that some capacity limitations of deduplication appliances are minimized by 750GB and 1TB SATA disk drives. Companies with 10TB or less of raw data can now deploy entry-level deduplication appliances that scale to 20TB of deduplicated data which, says Garrett, "allows for companies to deploy a deduplication appliance with twice the capacity the company needs to protect and then [allow them to] grow into it."
| New products from companies like NEC Corp. of America and Sepaton offer a more scalable, clustered and multinode architecture. Clustered architectures allow companies to add new deduplication appliances to their backup environment, which can then access the pattern matches created by the first appliance.
Garrett also warns that backup software such as IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), which may compress data prior to storing it on a deduplication appliance, can potentially negate the effectiveness of a deduplication appliance. Because deduplication appliances do compression as part of the data-reduction process, compressing data prior to sending it to the deduplication appliance impacts the deduplication appliance's ability to recognize and match patterns.
"Users may not receive as much benefit with TSM because it is already doing some of the same magic as the deduplication appliance," says Garrett.
--Jerome M. Wendt
Related Resources
- Containers and storage 101: The fundamentals of container storage –ComputerWeekly.com
- Hybrid Flash: The Essential guide –ComputerWeekly.com
- NVM Express, NAND Flash Energize Storage Vendors –SearchStorage.com
- Demystifying storage performance metrics –ComputerWeekly.com


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For Lance Roenicke, goals include playing for dad
MILWAUKEE -- Lance Roenicke might have more name recognition than most 25th-round Draft picks, but his goal is no different: get to the Major Leagues.
For Roenicke, that could mean joining his dad in a Milwaukee Brewers uniform. While Lance begins his first full professional season, having been drafted by the Brewers last summer out of the University of California-Santa Barbara, Ron Roenicke will start his third season as Milwaukee's manager.
"It's a little more motivation," said the younger Roenicke, 24, who plays the outfield. "Ultimately, if I were able to do that, it'd be an awesome experience for me, and for my dad. So there's always that possibility. I need to take care of my business down here first. He has to keep working up there."
Ron Roenicke played in the Majors for six different teams, so Lance could also add to the list of more than 100 father-son MLB combos. It includes his cousin Josh Roenicke, a pitcher who was claimed off waivers this winter by the Twins, and his uncle Gary, Ron Roenicke's older brother.
The list also includes a number of recent Brewers whose fathers played in the Majors: Tim Dillard, Tony Gwynn Jr., Jerry Hairston Jr. and Bobby Crosby, a non-roster invitee to Milwaukee's upcoming Spring Training camp.
Although they come from a baseball family, Ron hasn't seen many of Lance's games, dating back to high school. Ron Roenicke was busy as an Angels coach before he was Brewers manager, so he made it only to a few games in high school, one in college, and three in 2012 at the home of the Class A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, who play about an hour north of Milwaukee. But the two talk regularly during the baseball season.
"I try to talk to my dad almost every day or every night," Lance Roenicke said. "If I'm ever struggling with something, I'll give him a call. It's nice to have him, when he's able to come out here. He can see little things in my swing, or my jumps in the outfield. It's nice to have him here, because he's been around the game a long time and he knows."
Lance sees that one of the many positives of coming from a baseball-centered family has been the transition from college baseball to the professional level.
"I've been around this lifestyle, I know what it takes," he said. "I know it's a grind every day. I've seen it in action. Mentally it probably helped me more than physically."
Lance has had plenty of support in his transition, which all started last June 8, when the Brewers drafted him. He had briefly stopped watching the Draft when his aunt -- his dad's sister -- was the first to send him a congratulatory text message. After that, his roommates ran upstairs to congratulate him.
"It was a pretty cool feeling," said Lance Roenicke.
Thus began a hectic few months for the younger Roenicke, as he went from college to Helena, Mont., for Rookie ball, and then to Wisconsin. In Helena, Roenicke had great numbers in his very minimal at-bats, going 7-for-13, good for a .538 average. After three games, Roenicke was promoted to Class A Wisconsin, where he batted .245 with two home runs and 14 RBIs in 42 regular-season games for Timber Rattlers, who went on to win the Midwest League championship.
"I'm blessed I have this opportunity to be here," Roenicke said during the Rattlers' run. "It definitely beats going to class, and then go to practice. It's nice to just focus on baseball."
Roenicke described a laid-back clubhouse, not surprising considering the Timber Rattlers clinched their postseason berth by winning the first-half division title.
"Right away, I came in, and I could see these guys have some energy. I was talking to my dad the other day, and this is probably the best group of guys and teammates I've ever been around and played with. Matt Erickson is the perfect manager for this team. He brings energy, has fun, and enjoys it.
"Everything I really hoped for is here. I'd say the one thing that I have to get used to is the travel. We're on the road a long time."
Roenicke hopes one day that long road leads to Milwaukee, where he can play for his father.


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Accommodations in AlmunyecarClose to the Tropical Coast in Granada, the region of Almuñecar enjoys ideal weather all year long; in honor of the name of its coast, the climate is almost tropical, allowing products usually found in those regions to grow.
The beaches are wide, very clean and pleasant; the only setback being that like many beaches of the Granadine coast, they consist of gravel: in the area of Velilla it is finer, while more coarse in the area of San Cristobal. The beaches do not receive much foreign tourism, rather they are filled with Granadinos who have summer residences there.
In Almuñecar we can enjoy the castle, the ruins of the Phoenician fish salting factory, or the Jazz Festival and cinema that take place in the Majuelo Park.
Furthermore one of the attractions of Almuñecar are its nightly parties: the town contains lively festivals at nightfall and there are many places in which to enjoy oneself. Usually the fun begins in Plaza Kelibia, the Paseo del Altillo disco, or the Aqua Tropic that stays open till dawn. The Plaza of Ayuntamiento and the Paseo de los Bajos are also places to see, and we can often find private parties on the beach all summer long.
The town festival of August 15th is not to be missed.
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How to Turn Crochet Work
To turn crochet work around so that you can start a new row of stitches, keep the last loop on your crochet hook and simply take the completed work, which should be positioned under your hook hand, and turn it toward you until the work is positioned under your yarn hand.
By using this technique, you hold the work between the middle finger and thumb of your yarn hand, your yarn is positioned behind your work, and the hook is in place to work the beginning stitches of the next row.
Keep in mind that each time you turn your work to crochet back across the previous row, a different side of the piece will be facing you. If the first row is designated as the right/front side of the piece, then when you turn to work the second row, the wrong/back side is facing you. The third row again has the right/front side facing you, and so on.


text: Thursday, November 07, 2013 Going ALL-In for Newly Discovered Ligament The mystery of a 134-year-old anatomical "enigma" has finally been solved with the announcement of a new knee ligament. Described in 1879 only as a "pearly resistant fibrous band," the newly named anterolateral ligament (ALL) could affect tibial rotation and the pivot shift phenomenon, according to researchers. The presence of the ligament was verified through examination of 41 cadaveric knees, which, with 1 exception, included the ALL. A recounting of the research (abstract only) that led to the discovery was published in the October 2013 issue of the Journal of Anatomy, and word quickly spread to major news organizations such as the Huffington Post and Time. Researchers describe the ALL as a "well defined structure" that is situated "at the prominence of the lateral femoral epicondyle, slightly anterior to the origin of the lateral collateral ligament." It follows an oblique course to the anterolateral aspect of the proximal tibia, with its insertion on the tibia "grossly located between Gerdy's tubercle and the tip of the fibular head, definitely separate from the iliotibial band (ITB)." While the authors cite the need for more research on the ALL, they hypothesize that the ligament plays the role of a stabilizer for internal rotation, and speculate that the ALL could play a part in "rotary knee instability patterns witnessed in many [anterior cruciate ligament] deficient knees."


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Farmer John's is a huge, odiferous slaughterhouse in Vernon, Calif. that is owned by Hormel Foods and supplies much of the pork consumed in the Los Angeles basin. Incongruously, however, the brick wall surrounding the plant is caparisoned with one of the world's largest murals depicting idyllic farms and pigs roaming happily in green pastures. The murals, painted over the course of 11 years by Hollywood set designer Les Grimes, are locally famous and inspire feature articles contrasting the surroundings from which the pigs have presumably been dragooned with the grim fate that awaits them.
When Grimes was creating this curious legacy between 1957 and 1968, most pigs were indeed raised on family farms; some, at least, on pasture. But times have changed; America's family farmers are in extremis; of over 2 million hog farmers in the 1950s, only about 80,000 remain. Today, the only real contrast between the industrial hell from which the pigs have been taken and the hell awaiting them as they are driven off the trucks or deposited dead and dying into rows of overflowing dumpsters (death loss on trucks is enormous in the summer) is the latter's brevity. Farmer John's largest source of pigs is a place as far from the bucolic as one can imagine, a phalanx of gigantic steel sheds rising eerily in the almost lunar landscape of southwestern Utah's high desert called Circle Four.
Circle Four was initially a partnership set up with grandiose expectations by four North Carolina hog barons as the western terminus of their continental conquest. The partnership ended in 1998 with the cannibalization of two partners by the biggest one. Circle Four is now owned by Smithfield Foods. Smithfield's rise and pastoral America's fall, the eclipse of the wall's bright images on real farms, are very much parts of the same phenomenon.
Two decades ago, there were still 670,000 family hog farms, and Smithfield was a small Virginia company—notorious for polluting the Pagan River, but barely noticed amid the jostling of agribusiness behemoths. In 20 years, however, it has metamorphosed from regional piranha to international shark, operating in seven countries and utterly dominating the American hog industry. At least one of three pigs butchered in America is killed in Smithfield slaughterhouses; with its latest acquisitions it will own a fifth of those raised. Smithfield owns 95 percent of the pigs in Virginia. In North Carolina, where there were 27,000 independent hog farmers in the mid-1980s, only a few hundred remain. In Missouri, where there were 22,000, fewer than 2,000 remain.
Smithfield's first quantum leap to dominance came in 1992, when it completed the world's largest slaughterhouse in Bladen County, N.C., bringing on a porcine explosion in that state—from 2.4 million to 10 million animals—and the ecological devastation of its coastal plain. This was followed, as North Carolina became saturated, by a surge of hog factories across the Midwest and by Smithfield's own implacable expansion, crushing labor unions, taking over scores of competing companies. An even more profound transformation occurred in 1998, when Smithfield and another industry giant, Iowa Beef Processors (IBP), took advantage of a meat workers' strike in Canada to shut down three large slaughterhouses, ostensibly for repairs. The processing bottleneck that resulted was so severe that live hog prices crashed to a quarter of the cost of production, plunging hog raisers, large and small, into acute crisis. Within months, tens of thousands of small farmers had been forced from business, and Smithfield had absorbed its erstwhile partners, Murphy Farms and Carroll's Foods, the world's largest and second largest hog production companies, to own 13 million hogs. At that point, Smithfield became 60 percent vertically integrated and insulated from the perturbations of the market.
Since 1999, Smithfield has invaded central Europe, first Poland, then Romania, flouting laws and regulations, stimulating political corruption, polluting, bringing mass abuse of animals, oppressing citizens, disrupting the agricultural economy, and again, as in America, leaving illness and ruin in its train.1
On Jan. 25, 2007, winning in the hard world of death, stench and political control that fills its coffers, but losing in the world of public perceptions, Smithfield made a move that rivals some of its earlier gambits. The company announced, with much fanfare, that it intends to phase out gestation crates in its own installation—such as Circle Four—in 10 years, and to oblige its contractors (who raise most Smithfield pigs) to do the same in 20 years. The gambit worked. The move was widely praised; some opponents not only trumpeted "victory," but also claimed it for themselves, arguing that they had forced the company's hand with anti-gestation crate referendums in Florida and Arizona. Word that Maple Leaf, Canada's largest hog butcher, was following Smithfield's lead brought further triumph.
A victory, but whose? Has Smithfield, long the industry leader in rapacity, now become its leader in animal welfare? Is Maple Leaf, having followed Smithfield's lead before by crushing trade unions, chopping wages, speeding the killing line and adopting vertical integration, similarly "changing its spots?" The Smithfield announcement was a public relations coup that served an economic purpose, to placate its largest purchasers, such as McDonald's, which has become restive over the cruelty issue. It was a mission accomplished at little "upfront" cost. Most retrofitting will—inevitably—be deferred as long as possible, up to two decades in the case of contractors and often past the functioning life of the installations themselves. Few (if any) pigs now living will benefit. Generations of Smithfield sows will live their short lives in the same wretched cages in which they are imprisoned today.
Eliminating gestation crates relieves the worst single aspect of industrial hog raising, but it does not change its overall cruelty and ugliness: crowding, filth, darkness, noise, noxious gasses, bare concrete floors. It is still a hell; every installation is still surrounded by a loathsome garland of dumpsters full of dead pigs. Animals live and die without smelling the earth or seeing the sky or carrying out motor patterns nature has intended for them.
It does nothing to protect the environment. All the disastrous effects of the liquefied manure system—its assault of pig respiratory systems, surface water pollution, air pollution, contamination of aquifers and the spread of resistant pathogens—remain in effect.
It does not relieve the impacts on humans, both those who live near liquefied manure operations and those who work there. Impacts range beyond stench and clouds of flies to eye and skin infections, respiratory infections and dysentery to irreversible pulmonary and brain damage. Lagoons and sprayfields are major emitters of hydrogen sulfide. There is mounting evidence of widespread, often severe or lethal neurological damage from this gas. Recent out-of-court settlements by industry are tacit admissions of what may be the tip of a medical iceberg.2
It does nothing to relieve the corrupt marriage between industrial agribusiness and American officials and politicians. By lessening the opprobrium attached to industrial operations, it may have worsened it.
Finally, foreclosing the use of gestation crates does not inhibit the continuing remorseless expansion of industrial animal raising. Nothing illustrates this fact better than the recent situation in Arizona, where Proposition 204 to ban gestation crates passed by a substantial margin. Nonetheless, beleaguered citizens are struggling against a major hog factory expansion in the state's southwest corner, involving at least 50,000 feeder pigs. The purported owner, Jerry Cullison, is widely regarded as a front for Hormel, the company that owns Farmer John's. In fact, the investor of record calls itself PFFJ, "Pigs for Farmer John's." And we are, thus, where we began: sinister sheds in the desert, a vast and multivorous city, bright images of a bygone America girdling its house of death.
1 Smithfield's inglorious tradition of buying politicians and officials has convulsed Polish and Romanian politics, leading to the distortionand non-enforcement of health and environmental laws. In Poland, towns near Smithfield-owned hog factories (usually sited in former state farms) are full of sick children and people with respiratory, skin and eye infections. Dysentary is at third world levels. Citizens have to endure stench, clouds of flies, bullying by company guards. In Romania, which had rigorously enforced health and sanitation regulations, veterinarians are under pressure to let Smithfield do anything it pleases. There has even been an attempt to dismantle regulations altogether. In both countries, and earlier in the United States, small farmers are confronted by crashing hog prices caused by corporate overproduction and manipulation of the market.
2 University of Southern California professor Dr. Kaye Kilburn, one of the world's leading experts on chemical poisoning, has examined 60 persons (mostly citizens living "downwind") with neurological damage from hydrogen sulfide. This chemical is produced by liquefied manure. He believes anyone—especially children—subjected to chronic exposure will suffer brain damage eventually.


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When Pope Francis visits Washington, New York, and Philadelphia this September, he will become the fourth pope to visit the United States. His will be the 10th time a pontiff has made the apostolic trip, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Francis is the fourth pope to address the United Nations and the third to meet with a U.S. president during a U.S. visit.
Take a look at past papal visits with archival video that spans the historic trips.
Pope Paul VI was the first pope to visit the United States, and the first pope to address the United Nations. He met with with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the Waldorf-Astoria, addressed the United Nations General Assembly, visited the World's Fair in Queens, and celebrated Mass at Yankee Stadium. The pope presented Johnson with a painting, "The Resurrected Christ," an autographed photo of the pope in a silver frame, and a box with the three medallions for the pope's visit to the UN.
Pope John Paul II visited the United States for his first of seven visits in 1979. In several speeches at the United Nations during the apex of the Cold War, the Polish-born pontiff called for a defense of human rights and a reduction in nuclear arms. He also made a landmark tour of New York City's iconic edifices: including a visit to Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and celebrated Mass at Yankees Stadium and Shea Stadium. He was also the first pope to visit the White House, where he reiterated his plea for arms reduction with President Jimmy Carter.
John Paul II's second visit to the United States was notable for its outreach to minority groups. In New Orleans, he hailed the American civil rights movement in its fight against the "economic deprivation" suffered by American blacks. In San Antonio, Phoenix and Los Angeles, he greeted the country's booming Hispanic population and its injection of vitality into the American Catholic church. He also visited Miami, Columbia, S.C., Monterey and San Francisco.
Catholics from the U.S. and across the Western Hemisphere joyously greeted Pope John Paul II upon his arrival in Denver for World Youth Day, at what was nicknamed "Catholic Woodstock." John Paul II praised youth for their desire to strive for a "more just and compassionate world," spoke out against gun violence, and criticized President Bill Clinton for his stance on abortion.
Pope John Paul II met with President Bill Clinton to discuss America's welfare programs and the efforts to find peace in war-torn Bosnia. The two still sharply diverged on the issue of abortion. In a speech to the United Nations on Oct. 5, the pontiff pleaded for an end to ethnic violence. Finally, in Baltimore, he invoked Abraham Lincoln in his sermon at the Orioles' Camden Yards, saying that a nation "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" must embrace "moral truth and moral reasoning."
The aging pontiff met with President Bill Clinton in St. Louis. In his visit, the pope spoke out against the dangers of hard-edged capitalism, condemned capital punishment, reached out to American Jews, and tried to rally young Catholics. "Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the pope believes in you and he expects great things of you!" he told a youth rally at the Kiel Center on Jan. 26.
Benedict XVI met with President George W. Bush on April 16, the pope's 81st birthday, at the White House. This marked the second time a pope had visited the White House. Benedict celebrated his first public Mass in the country at Washington's Nationals Stadium, directly addressing before 50,000 Catholics the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the American church. "No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse," the pope said in his homily. While in New York, the pope also visited Ground Zero and celebrated Mass in Yankee Stadium.


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When the Rockland wind project became operational in the US state of Idaho in December 2011, its developer, Ridgeline Energy, was taking advantage of one of a new generation of wind turbines designed for low and moderate wind resource sites: the Vestas V100-1.8MW. It is partly thanks to this machine, whose rotor span is about the length of a football field, that the project could be financed and built.
As wind energy use grows worldwide, developers are increasingly exploiting sites with a low or moderate wind resource. This trend reflects a multitude of market influences as well as changes in wind-turbine technology. But whatever its causes, developers need to be aware of the challenges they will face.
What can be defined as low wind varies greatly depending on the market context. There are two defining factors that will make a low-wind site viable: the price of competing generation resources and policy support for wind power. Where competing power is cheap, the minimum resource required for viable wind projects is higher. Conversely, policy supports such as feed-in tariffs and renewable portfolio standards can sometimes overcome obstacles to developing even the most resource-challenged sites.
These days, if I had to distinguish between low, moderate and good sites within the low-to-medium-wind category, I would pick the following wind speed ranges at a nominal height of 80 metres above ground: low = 5.5-6.5 m/s; moderate = 6.5-7.5 m/s; good = more than 7.5 m/s.
The "good" category, which corresponds loosely to IEC Class II and I, dominated development through the first decade of the 21st century. Many sites being developed today are "moderate" Class III sites, and some fall in the "low" range. Note that the speed ranges ignore air density, the speed-frequency distribution, and other factors that influence production, but they are a handy guideline for most situations.
The map shows how major areas of these resource categories are distributed around the world. Large stretches of China, south-east Asia, Brazil, and other populous regions with fast growing economies are where much of the low and medium wind-power future lies.
Challenges for developers
Technical and financial hurdles to overcome tend to be more acute for low-wind projects. The main challenge is the higher cost of energy compared with windier sites. All things being equal, the same capital investment must be spread over a smaller amount of energy generated, making it harder for low-wind projects to compete against other generation sources.
The advent of new turbine models designed specifically for low winds has helped to lower this barrier. To improve performance at low-wind sites, manufacturers have raised towers to reach better winds aloft, lengthened blades to capture more energy and kept the generators small to reduce weight and cost. There have also been efficiency gains through improvements in blades and other components, although their impact has been much smaller.
Impressive performance
All of these strategies have raised the production per turbine and per unit of swept rotor area, as well as, in many cases, the average capacity factor (average annual output divided by the maximum possible output).
For example, the Vestas V90 has a 90-metre rotor diameter, hub heights ranging from 80 to 105 metres, and generator ratings of 1.8MW, 2MW, and 3MW. The chart below illustrates how variants of this turbine perform compared with the older, much smaller 660kW V47.
The most productive new model, the V90-3.0, generates almost five times as much energy as the V47-660, yet its gross capacity factor is not much greater than the V47's. The capacity factor is a flexible quantity that depends on how the manufacturer has chosen to configure the turbine for the market segment it is targeting. At the same hub height, simply reducing the generator size for the V90-1.8 raises the capacity factor to 38%. Increasing the hub height to 105 metres boosts the capacity factor to 42.4%.
A developer might have dozens of turbine vendors and models to choose from. It is tempting to pick the option with the highest capacity factor, but it is important to recognise that performance gains come at a cost.
Larger blades tend to be heavier and more costly than smaller blades. The added mass increases the weight and cost of components such as the tower, hub, and yaw and pitch systems. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) calculates that extending the rotor diameter from 90 metres to 100 metres increases the overall capital cost of a multi-megawatt turbine by some $300,000. Similarly, taller towers add cost and require stronger foundations, with NREL calculating a hub raised from 80 metres to 100 metres costing about $100,000. Whether the increased cost is justified depends in part on the wind shear: sites with greater shear generally justify taller towers.
The practical hurdles of developing projects at low-wind sites should not be overlooked when gazing starry-eyed at the impressive capacity factors offered by some of the new turbines. Low-wind machines are enormous, as tall and wide as a jumbo jetliner, and require appropriate roads and equipment for installation. The tower sections and blades must be shipped on special trucks, which require a minimum clearance and turning radius. Access roads must often be reinforced, regraded and recut - the larger the turbine, the more such civil engineering is required.
On site, a wide and flat clearing is needed for rotor assembly, usually requiring more cutting, filling and tree-clearing. And tall cranes are needed to mount the tower sections and rotor. In some remote or developing regions, the nearest cranes of sufficient size must be brought from hundreds of kilometres away, and they may encounter road limitations.
Storm watch
The meteorological conditions in which low-wind turbines often operate must also be considered. While the average speed might be low, these turbines may well experience extreme gusts and storms that could damage them. Low-wind site turbines typically have a lower survival gust threshold - such as a three-second maximum gust of 52.5m/s rather than 59.5m/s, which can be a challenge at semi-tropical sites prone to hurricanes.
Light winds tend to be more variable and turbulent in proportion to the average speed, and with the turbines often operating in the lower part of their power curves, this can mean sudden changes in output are larger and more frequent. Yaw systems may have to work overtime to keep the turbine pointing upwind in light, shifting breezes, causing more wear and higher-than-usual losses.
It is more difficult to estimate power production accurately in such circumstances. In the steepest part of the power curve, where low-wind turbines frequently operate, even small errors in expected speed can mean sizable errors in power output. Also, standard power curves are calibrated to a fairly narrow range of conditions. AWS Truepower is involved in studies to extend power curves to unusual or extreme conditions of both turbulence and shear.
None of these concerns should stop development in low-wind sites. But the savvy developer will be aware of them in advance, and will take appropriate measures to mitigate risk and ensure maximum rewards.
Michael C Brower is chief technical officer at renewable energy consultancy AWS Truepower, which carried out consultancy work on the Rockland wind project in Idaho, US


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- Start your own 23 Things with colleagues, friends, family. The concept is adaptable to any content--23 Books, 23 Movies, 23 Football Games, 23 Anything You Can Think Of. It is a great way to create and strengthen community through learning and discussion. Be sure to let us know how you plan to continue.


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GPE offers different types of grants to support education in partner countries and globally.
When a developing country lacks sufficient financing to develop or implement its education plan, GPE can provide financial support. GPE also gives grants to promote civil society's voice and to generate new knowledge on key issues and solutions for the education sector.


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Welcome to Campus Services
Supports campus services including Mail Services, Food Services, Vending and the partnership with FedEx Office which provides printing services to the campus.
Supports campus services including Mail Services, Food Services, Vending and the partnership with FedEx Office which provides printing services to the campus.
The IU Northwest campus operates two food service locations, the Red Hawk Cafe and the Little Red Hawk Cafe. Our food service is provided by Progressive Dining Group.
The RedHawk Cafe is a full-service cafeteria located in Moraine Center.
The Little RedHawk Cafe is located in Library 1st Floor and
offers coffees, sandwiches, soups, snack, and drinks.
All requests for catering must go through the IU Northwest Office of Special Events. Please call 219-980-6803 or 219-980-7763 and the staff will be happy to help you plan your event. Visit the events page for more information.
Contact Us:
Phone: 219-981-4266
Email: email@example.com
Vending Areas are available throughout the campus. This service is provided by Canteen Vending Services.
Indiana University Northwest Mailroom is located at on the corner of 33rd Avenue and Broadway, across from the main parking lot.
Indiana University Northwest Mail Services performs a number of campus functions including:
If you have questions regarding U.S. mail, overnight shipping services, package delivery, etc., please contact Mail Services at 980-6713.
Please view our policy regarding delivery of heavy equipment.
Log-in and upload your files directly to the FedEx Office Print Online site.
After you have logged-in if you need assistance with the on-line ordering site please contact:
Bridget Beddigs, FedEx
Phone: 219-613-0210
If Bridget does not respond because she is assisting another customer, you may call the Merrillville FedEx Office store at 219-738-1288 and ask for a Project Coordinator.
To find out if your job has been completed use the tracking feature available in the FedEx Office Print Online site.
If you want to send a job to FedEx to be photocopied please complete the order form and place in campus mail using a red and white FedEx Office Print Order label. Labels are available from the Mail Room.
Faculty, staff and students may use the Merrillville FedEx store for their personal use and receive a 10% discount when they show their University ID.
** Discount applies only to walk-in orders.


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Helicopter Crash Victims Buried Together in Arlington Cemetery
By Sgt. Mary Flynn, USA
Special to American Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va. , Oct. 12, 2007 - Hundreds of soldiers, family members and friends gathered at Arlington National Cemetery today to honor 12 soldiers killed in a helicopter crash Iraq earlier this year.
The soldiers, 10 from the Army National Guard and two from the active Army, were killed northeast of Baghdad on Jan. 20 when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was shot down. Their combat deaths were the highest number of National Guard fatalities in a single incident since 2001.
They were Army Guard soldiers: Col. Paul M. Kelly, of Virginia; Lt. Col. David C. Canegata III, of the Virgin Islands; Capt. Michael V. Taylor, of Arkansas; Capt. Sean E. Lyerly, of Texas; Command Sgt. Maj. Marilyn L. Gabbard, of Iowa; Command Sgt. Maj. Roger W. Haller, of Maryland; 1st Sgt. William T. Warren, of Arkansas; Sgt. 1st Class Floyd E. Lake Sr., of the Virgin Islands; Sgt. 1st Class John G. Brown, of Arkansas; and Staff Sgt. Darryl D. Booker, of Virginia. The active-duty Army soldiers killed were Col. Brian D. Allgood, of Oklahoma, and Cpl. Victor M. Langarica, of Georgia.
Mourners gathered in a grassy area at the cemetery near a hillside, where other group interments have been held. Honors included a casket team, a firing party and a bugler who played "Taps." A single casket contained remains of the 12 soldiers, but there were separate flags for each deceased soldier.
Honor guard members ceremoniously touched each flag to the casket before presenting them to the members of the 12 families.
Service leaders including Army Secretary Pete Geren, Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody, Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, director of the Army National Guard, and several state adjutants general stood silently near the families during the ceremony.
"I think it was the right thing to do," Vaughn said. The country owes it to the families to inter these soldiers at Arlington, to let them know that the whole nation is behind them, he said.
Vaughn held a reception for the 12 families at the Army National Guard Readiness Center here following the ceremony.
"There is a healing piece that goes with this," he said. "(There's a) helpful healing between people who have the exact same issue, (who can) wrap their arms around and look at someone who's going through precisely the same thing."
(Army Sgt. Mary Flynn is assigned to the National Guard Bureau.)
Helicopter Crash Victims Buried Together in Arlington Cemetery [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47784 ]


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November Projects
The Buchanan Family Tree Book, for the current year was published electronically on November 7th. This year the number of newly added descendants is fewer than in previous years. But of course, the day after emailing it, I received 4 more names! It is nice to get a start on next years version.
Congratulations to Leonard and Darlene Perrett of Neepawa, Manitoba on becoming grandparents! And to daughter Lindsay and her husband Brian, and baby Ryland who made this possible! Darlene is a genealogy buddy who has contributed endless hours and substantial money in the cause of researching our Buchanan family. Her husband Leonard has been very supportive of her efforts. Judy and I stayed with them during two trips to Manitoba, and we found them to be wonderful people. (Her Death by Chocolate recipe has been a favorite of our family.)
My family website update happened last week. It involves creating a special copy of my main database from which I have stripped the dates and places of events in the lives of living people, to help protect their privacy. Then I do other tweaking as needed. Then I replace the existing online database with the new one, and have the 1000 webpages or so re-indexed. It isn't rocket science, but it is enough work that I have only done it once this past year.
The Americans chose Barack Obama as their president. He seems like a very good man, but I have to wonder whether Romney's financial wizardry wouldn't be handy over the next 4 years. I guess time will tell.
Today I had a phone call from my friend Octave, and he brought over the updates he wanted me to make to his tiny Bales "R" Us website. Updating the price list for hauling bales of hay was a 5-minute job. Resizing the new pictures and adding them took a little longer. The big job was adding the video. I have never done that before. The version he had from the manufacturer was in MP4 format. I know from my work in FamilySearch Support that this format is a problem to the cheaper versions of Windows Media Player. I tried various things, but found the same video on the manufacturer's website and linked to it. The result turned out OK. I was quite relieved to to able to phone him and ask him to try it. He is a good friend and a great neighbor. He and his wife are always giving home-grown and home-canned food, plus help and encouragement to others. I am glad to be able to do something for him that he finds helpful. You can see the results of my efforts at http://balesrus.co.cc/ It is not great but it meets his needs.
The Lidgett Family Book is my big December project, at least I hope to complete it in December.


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In today's Geoquiz, we're looking for a trendy German neighborhood.
It used to be a poor working class spot in West Berlin along the River Spree.
Berlin's gritty punk bands used to rock out in the local bars and nightclubs. Nowadays you're more apt to hear hip hop and rap.
It attracts lots of immigrants and expats especially painters, musicians and designers.
Whatever the beat, this neighborhood is cool.
Young people are flocking here from other countries and the rents are rising.
Can you name this trendy Berlin neighborhood, nicknamed X-Berg?
Berlin has become something of a magnet for artists since the fall of The Wall...especially the neighborhood of Kreuzberg.
But the arrival of outsiders has also created tension. Locals bemoan what they call the "hipster attitude" and most of all the rising rents.
Now as Gerry Hadden reports, a group of expats is trying to prove that not all outsiders are slackers.
After work recently more than a hundred Berliners cram into a dark bar, order some beers and complain some more. One after the other, residents gripe about the plague of outsiders who they say are wrecking the city. Posers, they say, who come here, don't really work, and cause rents to rise. Forcing them out.
One young man, dressed in a tell-tale working-class blue jumpsuit, said, "We need to attack the buildings where these rich tenants live, the building we can't afford."
If these properties are destroyed again and again or damaged, he argued, eventually the outsiders will have had enough. And they'll move out.
And, he said, rents would come back down. This guy is on extreme end of the debate. But the few like him can be highly visible. They poster parts of town with flyers reading, Foreigners Out. Some tag popular expat bars with spray paint.
After the meeting - dubbed HipsterAlarm - another attendee, Susana Gruenewald, grabs her bike to peddle home. I asked her the question nagging me.
"What is a hipster exactly?"
"It's a difficult question to answer," she said. "But I think there is a picture of a hipster, which is more or less common. Of very young people, who come to Berlin from other countries and cities. They come from middle class, mostly students and creative types, with money."
To them, she said, Berlin looks like paradise.
"And (they) say, 'Oh, it's cheap for me'," she said. "'I don't care about the families and poor people in the area, they are not so seen on the street. They are not designers and don't sit with their Apple in the café drinking all day long lemonade and switching to beer after 4 oclock.'"
Armed with this sketch, I set out to try to spot some hipsters myself. It didn't take long.
Mats and Natalie, 20-somethings, are brother and sister. They're half Swedish, half Chilean, and were raised in Vancouver, Canada. They were playing guitar and singing together on a Berlin street. Mats has been here a year. Natalie's just settling in.
"I've heard a lot about Berlin being a musical and artistic hub," Natalie said. I like to play music and sing, but I wouldn't call myself a musician in that I'm doing much with it. Right now I'm just seeing what kind of a life I could start here."
" Yeah," said Mats. "There's a lot of bands and artists here. It's kinda why brought myself here. I play music. Drumming for this band, Mincer Ray*."
The two were sitting with other expat pals at a sidewalk table outside a decidedly un-German joint called Hamburger Heaven. As for their playing guitar and singing - at night - on a street filled with residential buildings?
This?" Mats laughed, "Oh, this is normal!"
For them. But native Berliners might not agree. These guys get that, said another expat, George, a young Australian who also dabbles in music. He said young globe trotters know they're changing Berlin…making it more expensive for everyone.
"It's sad in a way but there's also some great benefits," he said. "I talk to local Berliners and they say when they were in high school they would go out at night and it was so boring. And now I go out and meet hot girls from all over the world and interesting people and they're like, great!"
There's a word for what's going on here, of course: "gentrification." It happens to big cities everywhere. In Berlin it started after the fall of The Wall. But in more than 20 years, no one has come even close to bridging the divide between locals and newcomers.
But now a group of expats is giving it a shot. They've dubbed themselves Give Something Back to Berlin. Basically they try to get expats involved in community projects, like gardening at an old folks home. On a recent day Hanna Cleaver, from the UK, helped plant flowers. She saw Give Something Back's call for volunteers online.
"You see, there are an awful lot of hipster types floating around berlin," she said. "And the idea that some might be awake enough to realize that it might be a good idea to give something back to the city was really attractive to me."
And to the retirement home's events planner, Martin.
"It's very good," he said, "I'm happy about it. Because we need more and more hands for our work here. "
The founder of Give Something Back to Berlin is Anna Maria Olsson. She's originally from Sweden. She said in three months they'd signed up 80 volunteers, doing things from mentoring to offering cooking classes to helping refugees form a music group.
"It was very important for us that we're not just going to sit in groups," she said, "saying Oh, let's talk about the problem, and social injustice, and this and that, but really let's creating opportunities for people from different backgrounds to really meet and interact ."
It's the best you can do, Olsson said. Because gentrification isn't going to stop.
Most Berliners do understand that. And they dislike the anti-foreigner stance some neighbors take. They you can't really blame expats for the transformation of their city. Susana Gruenewald who attended the HipsterAlarm meeting, said foreigners love Berlin just like locals do.
"They don't want it to change," she said. "That's why they're here. It seems to be the enemy, but it is not the enemy."
Local groups have been petitioning the government to introduce rent controls. But so far at least, the city seems uninterested. Berlin has huge debts, and higher rents mean more taxes.
*UPDATE: A previous version of this story incorrectly spelled the band name Mincer Ray. We regret the error.


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text: I quilt for others and seem to hardly ever get a chance to do any projects for myself so this past weekend while my hubby was busy working I made myself some new placemats for fall using materials I had in my stash. I used a leaf pattern that I found in a magazine on my shelf used raw edge applique method. I cut one leaf from a darker fabric and offset the top leaf slightly to give it a shadowed efffect. I decided to leave it at that. You can't really see the quilting but I used an allover fall leaf/acorns design. It was a fun weekend project.


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NAIA Football Players of the Week - No. 3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - James Bryan of Belhaven (Miss.) has been named the NAIA National Football Special Teams Player of the Week, Zach Dolph of Saint Xavier (Ill.) has been tabbed National Football Defensive Player of the Week and Shane Gimzo of Ottawa (Kan.) received National Football Offensive Player of the Week honors, the national office announced Monday. Bryan, Dolph and Gimzo were chosen for their performances during the week of Sept. 10 - 15 and were selected out of a pool of conference and independent award winners.
Bryan, a senior placekicker from Saucier, Miss., connected on three field goals and three PATs, including a career-long 51 yarder, in Belhaven's 36-30 loss to then-No. 25 Cumberland (Tenn.) on Sept. 15. His other two field goal makes were from 41 and 37 yards. In addition to kicking duties, Bryan punted three times for 126 yards (42.0 average), including a game-long 43 yarder.
Bryan ranks amongst the top 10 in the NAIA in punt yards per attempt (46.8), field goals per game (1.3) and total field goals (4).
Dolph, a junior linebacker from Crest Hill, Ill., tallied a season-best 14 total tackles, including eight solo stops, five tackles-for-loss and three sacks in Saint Xavier's 37-7 rout of Langston (Okla.) on Sept. 15. He also added a forced fumble and pass break-up in the effort. Overall, the Cougar defense held Langston to only 139 yards of total offense and forced four turnovers.
Dolph leads the team with 32 tackles and ranks fifth in the NAIA in tackles-for-loss (7.5) and eighth in sacks (3.0).
Gimzo, a senior from Perry, Kan., tied a program record with five rushing touchdowns as Ottawa (Kan.) defeated Saint Mary (Kan.), 50-42, in Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference action. Additionally, Gimzo's 32 points (five touchdowns, one 2-point conversion) snapped an Ottawa football single-game scoring record - previously held by Herb Sutton (27 points) - that had stood for 52 years. Overall, the dual-threat quarterback rushed for a career-high 149 yards on 27 attempts, while completing 9-of-13 passes for 76 yards.
Gimzo leads the NAIA in scoring with 44 points this season, while ranking fifth nationally in rushing (347) and rushing yards per game (115.7).
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
For the complete NAIA Player of the Week calendar, click here. The next NAIA National Football Players of the Week will be announced on Sept. 24.
Offensive Nominees: Iquan Deed, Cumberlands (Ky.); E.J. White, St. Francis (Ill.); Nick Pesek, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Lamont Wims, Robert Morris (Ill.); Lance Johansen, Jamestown (N.D.); Ken Eliacin, Valley City State (N.D.); Joel Nixon, Morningside (Iowa); Bill Noonan, Benedictine (Kan.); Rashad Kelley, Ave Maria (Fla.); Nick Baker, Montana Tech; Kendall Roberson, Wayland Baptist (Texas).
Defensive Nominees: Brock Peery, William Penn (Iowa); Patrick Dougherty, Georgetown (Ky.); Dexter Davis, Friends (Kan.); Kenny Allen, Jamestown (N.D.); Andre Jolly, Baker (Kan.); Tanner Bowling, Ave Maria (Fla.); Willis, Webber International (Fla.); Aaron Jansen, Northwestern (Iowa); Casey Norbeck, Carroll (Mont.).
Special Teams Nominees: Andrew Muzljakovich, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Spencer Nolen, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Ryan Benke, Jamestown (N.D.); Zach Keenan, Benedictine (Kan.); Kenny Anderson, Hastings (Neb.); Nick Falkiewicz, Ave Maria (Fla.); Travis Farewell, Montana Tech.
2012 Football Players of the Week (complete schedule)
Week 1 (Sept. 3):
Offense: Davis Bloemendaal, Northwestern (Iowa)
Defense: Howard McDonald, Eastern Oregon
Special Teams: Jordan Delbaugh, Nebraska Wesleyan
Week 2 (Sept. 10):
Offense: Bryce Baker, Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Defense: Dexter Davis, Friends (Kan.)
Special Teams: Ty Littzen, Morningside (Iowa)
Week 3 (Sept. 17):
Offense: Shane Gimzo, Ottawa (Kan.)
Defense: Zach Dolph, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Special Teams: James Bryan, Belhaven (Miss.)