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How to notify DMV when I change my address
Law states that you must notify DMV within 10 days of changing your address. There is no charge to change your address, and you may notify DMV by any of the following ways:
- Complete your Change of Address online.
- Call any DMV office at 1-800-777-0133 and request that a change of address form be mailed to you. It will take 5 days for you to receive the form. Complete the information required on the form, then mail it to the address listed at the top of the form.
- Download the Change of Address (DMV 14), complete the information, and mail it to the address listed at the top of the form.
- Visit any DMV office, complete a change of address form, and give it to a representative to submit for processing. The representative will give you a Change of Address Certificate card (DL 43) to complete and carry with your license.
If you do 2 or 3 above, type or write in ink your new address on a small piece of paper, sign and date it. Carry this piece of paper with your license. Do not tape or staple the change of address information to your driver license.
What methods of payment are acceptable for DMV services?
Payment Options
In Person at Your Local DMV Office
- Cash
- Check
- Credit card (Visa MasterCard, American Express, Discover)
- Debit card (Visa or MasterCard logo)
- Digital wallet (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay)*
- Money order
* DMV is phasing in a pilot program to allow digital wallet payments at field offices starting September 30, 2019, in Davis. Full implementation of the program is expected in all field offices by mid 2020.
By Mail
- Check
- Money Order
Internet Transactions/Over the Telephone
- Credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover)
- Debit card (Visa or MasterCard logo)
- E-check (only one item at a time)
Beginning September 29, 2019, credit and debit card transactions will be charged a 2.1 percent service fee.
DMV Now Kiosks
- Cash (some locations)
- Credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover)
- Debit card (Visa or MasterCard logo)
Beginning September 29, 2019, credit and debit card transactions will be charged a 2.1 percent service fee.
Online Bill Pay
You can pay your DMV fees through online checking. Contact your bank for details. You must provide your bank with the license plate number of your vehicle.
Important: Transactions paid with Online Bill Pay require additional processing time. This may delay receipt of the registration card and sticker.
I need a copy of my DMV record!
You may get a copy of your DMV driver license/identification card or vehicle/vessel registration record by mail, online, or at a DMV NOW kiosk. Driver records show all reportable information, such as convictions for 3, 7, or 10 years, department actions, and accidents as required by CVC §1808. Questions? Click Driver Record Request FAQs.
If you just want to take a look at or print your own record, the online record request is easy!
How to get a copy of my DMV record
You can obtain a copy of your DMV driver license/identification card or vehicle/vessel registration record in the following ways:
|At a DMV Now kiosk:
I need a "certified copy" of my DMV record
Certified records are only issued by DMV Headquarters in Sacramento. If you need a certified copy, complete and mail an INF 1125 form and $5 to the address on the form. Mark the box Certify the record as a true copy of record on file with Department of Motor Vehicles.
By mail:
- Fill out the INF 1125 form. For a certified copy, mark the box provided.
- Include a $5 fee for each record by check or money order.
- Mail the completed form and check or money order to:
Sacramento, CA 94244-2470
How to get a copy of someone else's driver license, ID card, vehicle or vessel record
Vehicle, vessel, driver license and identification (ID) card records are open to public inspection. Confidential information, such as social security numbers and residence addresses, may only be disclosed to a court, law enforcement agency or other individual when they are authorized by a specific federal or state statute.
To request vehicle registration record or driver license/identification card record information, complete a Request for Record Information INF 70 form.
Casual requestors cannot immediately obtain information from his/her spouse, minor child, or registered domestic partner. If you wish to obtain the vehicle registration record or driver license/identification card record information of your spouse, minor child, or registered domestic partner, please complete an INF 70.
Mail your request with the appropriate fees (provided on form) to:
Department of Motor Vehicles
Information Release, Unit-G199
Sacramento, California 94244-2470.
The form must be submitted to DMV headquarters in Sacramento for processing as the law requires DMV send a copy of the request form to the subject of record.
NOTE: You will not receive residence address information unless a state or federal statute is cited and approved by code name and section number that authorizes or requires the release.
How long does DMV keep records on vehicles and vessels?
The department began microfilming all vehicle and vessel documents in 1992. This increased accessibility of these records. There are some records dating back to 2006 that may be accessed. Records with no activity, such as tickets, renewals, transfers, etc., are usually purged from the database after 4 years.
How long does DMV report actions or convictions on driver license records?
- Most convictions of traffic offenses, such as hit and run, reckless driving, and driving under the influence (DUI) will remain on your record for 10 years from the violation date and count as 2 points.
- Most other traffic offense convictions will remain on your record for 3 years from the violation date and count as 1 point.
- Accidents are reported for 3 years from the accident date. If you are found to be at fault, the accident normally counts as 1 point.
- Actions taken against your driving privilege, such as a suspension or revocation due to a DUI or a failure to provide proof of financial responsibility, will be reported for 3 years from the proof termination date or the reinstatement date, whichever is earlier.
- A Failure to Appear for DUI offenses will be reported for 10 years from the violation date. All other Failure to Appears and fines will be reported for 5 years from the violation date.
For further information refer to:
See negligent operator violation point count to find out how violation points affect your driving privilege.
I was in a reportable accident. How do I get information on the other party?
Each driver involved in an accident that caused more than $1,000 ($750 for accidents prior to January 1, 2017) worth of property damage or injured or killed any person must complete a Traffic Accident Report form SR1 (PDF) to DMV within 10 days. You may obtain information about the other driver from the accident report that he or she submitted.
To request this information, complete a Financial Responsibility Document Request (SR 19C) and mail it to:
Department of Motor Vehicles
Financial Responsibility Unit
P.O. Box 942884
Sacramento, California 94284-0884.
Also available are the other driver's insurance information and a photocopy of the accident report and/or certification that the other driver in the accident was not insured (Uninsured Motorist Certificate). A $20 fee is required for each type of information requested.
What is a mature driver course, and can I get an insurance discount?
Mature driver improvement courses are available for drivers who are 50 and over. These courses are sponsored by organizations such as American Association of Retired Persons, National Safety Council, California State Automobile Association, and the Automobile Club of Southern California.
The class is approximately 8 hours long. During the class, the mature driver is instructed about the relationship between age and driving skills. The rules of the road are reviewed, along with specific safe driving practices.
Regarding a discount, check with your insurance company. Some offer insurance discounts for their policy holders who complete the course.
Can I register to vote at DMV?
Yes, if you are a United States' citizen when applying for an original, renewing, or replacing a lost or stolen driver license or identification card at any DMV office, by mail, or online you have the opportunity of registering to vote.
If you move, complete a DMV change of address form, and the Secretary of State (SOS) Elections Division will be notified of your address change. You can download the DMV Change of Address (DMV 14), complete the process online, or you may request a change of address form by calling 1 (800) 777-0133.
You can also register to vote directly with the California Secretary of State at Voter Registration.
How to apply for a refund if I overpaid my fees
If you feel that you have overpaid fees to DMV, you may request a refund by:
- Completing a Refund Application
- Identifying when the payment was made (it must have been made within 3 years of the date you mail the form) and why you feel the amount was incorrect
- Including any supporting documents you may have
- Mailing your request to the Sacramento address on the form
How to order handbooks in large quantities
You may request handbooks in large quantities by:
Submitting a written request to:
Department of Motor Vehicles
Materials Management
4201 Sierra Point Drive, Suite 112
Sacramento, California 95834-1998
Or faxing a request on company letterhead to:
DMV Warehouse at (916) 928-6817
To have an individual handbook mailed to you, call 1-800-777-0133 Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm PST.
How to order DMV forms in large quantities
You may request forms in large quantities by submitting a written request to:
Department of Motor Vehicles
Materials Management
4201 Sierra Point Drive, Suite 112
Sacramento, California 95834
Mail your request on company letterhead and include the form name, the name and telephone number of a contact person, and the address for delivery. Plan to order a 6-month supply of each form.
Bulk form orders are processed daily. Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. Local DMV offices will supply up to 25 copies of a form if they have sufficient copies in stock.
Can I use a recording or electronic device to record my drive test?
No form of recording or electronic device is allowed inside the vehicle during a DMV driving performance evaluation (drive test). The recording device poses a hazard and distraction, both for the driver and the DMV examiner.
How to prevent my DMV information from being released
The laws in the California Vehicle Code are very clear regarding who can receive DMV information. Therefore, the department makes every effort to maintain the confidentiality of its information. However, when directed by state or federal statute, certain confidential information is released to authorized requesters, such as courts, law enforcement agencies, or other government entities. In addition, California Vehicle Code Section 1810.2 allows authorized commercial requester account holders to obtain DMV records. Your DMV record information is released for authorized purposes only.
Can I obtain residence address for process serving purposes and small claim actions?
No. California law does not authorize release of residence address for these purposes.
What to do if a vehicle is abandoned on my property?
You may conduct a lien sale. Lien sale instruction and forms are available by calling the department's Lien Sale Unite at (916) 657-7617 or visiting any DMV field office. See "Definition of a lien sale" for additional information.
How do I file a complaint when I believe someone has illegally accessed my DMV record?
If you believe someone has obtained your DMV record under false pretenses, you should report this to the department. Complete the Complaint Form (INF 1164) and mail it to the address indicated on the form.
I qualify for residence address confidentiality. How do I request confidentiality of my residence address?
If you qualify for confidentiality of your residence address, you must complete a Request for Confidentiality of Home Address (INV 32) form. This form is a two-part carbonized form and is the only form acceptable. Forms are only available from an eligible agency. Please contact your employing agency to determine eligibility. All completed forms must be sent to:
Department of Motor Vehicles
Confidential Records Unit - MS N227
P. O. Box 932391
Sacramento, California 94232-3910


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was a shop on the walk between the Knoxville Convention Center (where
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walked by. Each "string" is made from colorful hand-cut rectangles that
were sewn together with heavy black thread. The strings were long,
ceiling to floor length. At the top the strings were tied to metal rods
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Look at that little angel face. Would you ever suspect he'd run away from his mommy in a store, parking lot, park, anywhere-he-needs-to-stay-close? For Kepler, it seems that "Stay with me" is apparently secret code for "Run, Forrest, Run!! Talk about danger!
Taking him places was becoming a huge problem. I dreaded every trip.
Enter Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. Or at least their book, The ONE Thing, The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results.
Not only did I:
– hear about the book, but I also
– reserved it at the library, and I
– checked it out and brought it home, and amazingly,
– read it from cover to cover, blanketed it with PINK post-it notes, AND
– put it into practice.
I'm particularly adept at those first three steps, but actually getting around to reading the book is more challenging, putting it into practice is as rare as a two-headed unicorn.
Keller examined the research on multi-tasking and writes on page 44, "Multi-taking is a lie." We simply cannot FOCUS on two things at once. Narrowing our focus to ONE thing yields extraordinary results, as he says. Let's see.
With multiple areas in life that simply must be addressed daily, I have tried to do much multi-tasking. Sometimes it works for things that don't need strong focus, but one where it doesn't is parenting. Applying Mr. Keller's thesis I made a list of the essential areas, and then asked myself this question about each area (see The ONE thing, pg. 106). Here's parenting:
Q: What is the ONE thing I can do today in regard to parenting that will make everything else easier or unnecessary?
A: Read and complete the first three chapters of "Without Spanking or Spoiling," a parenting book I have had since 1996 and have not yet read!
Q: What did I discover in those first three chapters?
A: To define the problem specifically and behaviorally. Vague problem definition was "Kepler doesn't obey." Specific is "Kepler runs away when I tell him to come to me."
Q: What else did I discover?
A: To brainstorm solutions. I came up with 10.
- Buy and use a child leash.
- Take a 3 ft rope along to show him maximum distance he should be from me.
- Create a simple rhyme like "Obey means Stay."
- Appeal to his desire to be helpful.
- Find books on the topic to read to him.
- Create a social story.
- Leave him home at all times.
- Carry him everywhere.
- Allow him to lead and explore occasionally on errands.
- Make a leader badge for him to wear where it's his turn to lead.
Q: What happened when I took him next to the store?
A: We got out of the car and he proceeded to dash out into the parking lot while I was getting the cart. (I hadn't made my plan yet!) I grabbed him by the arm and his eyes got wide as we got into the backseat and I gently continued. I looked in his face and said words I guess I never really said before: "Kepler, you MUST stay with me for your safety. There are cars and you could get hit by a car if you run away from mommy. If anything happened to you, I would cry forever." Of COURSE I had told him bits and pieces of this but not like this; not sitting in the car giving HIM my full attention, focusing on just this ONE thing.
My words apparently resonated with his sensitive heart, because when we got out of the car, he specifically stood right by me and looked up at me showing me what he was doing. I ended up allowing him to lead part of the time, gave him huge kudos for the good things he was doing — staying with me, helping me, listening, and I used a previous helpful rhyme: OK means Obey, and added, Obey means Stay.
You probably know Kepler is the youngest of five kids. The other four didn't run away. Ever. Why? I don't know. They probably thought about it, but maybe my face was stiffer and sterner back then. So who needed strategies for this back then?
tl;dr: Gary Keller's book The ONE Thing, The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, has practical applications in parenting and made a huge difference in my experience of taking my child on errands with me.
I'll probably have to review all of this next time, and the time after, and the time after, but he will eventually understand and apply, and so will I. I just have to remember to focus, really focus, on ONE thing.


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Eating together as a family might seem like an insurmountable goal these days in our busy lives of being on the go, but it's something I truly believe in making a priority. It may come as no surprise that I think with a little meal planning, getting dinner on the table can happen more easily. Dinner may not always be at the same time every day, but with a little adjustment, making time to sit down together CAN happen! Still think you're moving in too many directions for dinner time together to happen? Then consider making breakfast your family meal or make a goal for at least one day a week to be your family meal time.
Whether you're cooking from scratch or not, it's the time together, with the electronics tuned off or put aside, that can truly make the difference. (P.S. one bonus of home-cooked meals though is spending more time in the kitchen making it!) What is important is to be together, not who prepares the meal or what is being served.
Some of the biggest problems facing families today are childhood obesity and accompanying disease, teen substance abuse, and the erosion of family connections due to the ever-increasing intrusion of electronic devices.
But recent studies have shown that when families eat meals together more often:
• Kids are at a healthier weight
• Families have healthier eating habits
• Teens are less likely to engage in risky behaviors (like drinking, drugs and sexual activity)
• Kids and teens have closer relationships with their parents
All this from something as simple as eating family meals together, even if it's just one or two times a week!
Still not convinced? Some statistics about Family Dinner/Family Meal Frequency include:
● Only 35% of American families have five or more family meals per week. (Reader's Digest Survey, May 2011)
● According to Pew Research (2010), only about half of families make dinner a daily ritual and another third eat together a few times a week. Roughly one in 5 families eat together only occasionally or never.
● There has been an increase in family meals eaten at home since 2003, but there has also been an increase of children "doing other activities" while eating, such as watching TV or using the computer. (American Dietetic Association Family Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2010.)
Some families find it challenging getting conversations going at the table, especially with a variety of ages. Maybe not everyone is a talker. Or maybe one person IS the talker and talks the whole time. Providing opportunities for everyone to participate in the conversation will make for even deeper connections in your family.
Today, I'm sharing with you Six Games and Ideas to Help Make Dinnertime More Fun! These are games and conversation starters that my own family enjoys. Every day is a little different so mixing things up every so often is ok!
Highs and Lows (or Thorns and Roses)
This is super easy to do! Everyone takes turns sharing one high point of the day and one low point of the day. some people call this game Thorns (the lows) and Roses (the highs) Allow time for questions and extra sharing about what made those moments notable. This is not the time for criticism, rather it's a good way to provide feedback–if wanted–in a helpful or positive way!
Do You Know Me?
This is a super simple game to play—it's just a fun question and answer game to see how well you know each other!
Kids test the adults with fun questions like these:
• What is my favorite class?
• What do I usually play at recess?
• Who are my two favorite friends at school?
• What is my favorite TV show?
Now the Adults get to test the kids too with questions:
• Where was I born?
• What was my favorite subject in school?
• What sports did I play when I was a kid?
• What cities have I lived in?
Thankful Journal
The Thankful Journal is something we started when my kids were both in elementary school. I just purchased a simple journal at the (used to be) dollar section at Michael's but you can use any notebook or journal. The point is for each family member to take a moment and think about something they are thankful for that day. We've not been as regular about using it more recently so I pulled it back out of the drawer to start using again. Remember, no judgement about what someone is thankful for. Maybe a younger member of the family may be thankful for a new toy or game or perhaps another is thankful they got a good grade on a test they were nervous about. Don't forget the adults! They might be thankful for reaching a big goal at work or simply getting all the housework done earlier than usual! It is fun to go back over the months and years to read about what was important to someone at the time and see how things change.
Crunch A Color Game
The Crunch A Color Game is fun to play if you're interested in having your family eat more fruits and vegetables. The concept is simple: earn cards with points for eating healthy foods. Fruits and veggies give you the most points. Bonus points are given for things like trying a new food or helping to set the table or use good manners. The winner is the one who eats foods to earn the most points (and usually the most variety will give you the most points). Being that my children are somewhat competitive, this was right up their alley and actually works most times to get them to eat a greater variety of foods. Designed by a mom for parents, this game hits the mark on encouraging healthy eating habits.
Family Time Fun Dinner Games and Activities
I purchased this Family Time Fun Dinner Games and Activities game several years ago and it's still a favorite! Not that we need conversation starters so much but it is fun and my kids love to pull out the cards and ask the questions. Sometimes the questions encourage taking an extra bite of food while others are just for fun like, A, B, City where the first person starts by naming a geographic location that starts with the letter A, the next starts with B or the Acronym Challenge where the person who's it names their favorite foods to spell out their name. The version I bought is for kids ages 6-12 (and adults of course) while the other version is for kids ages 3-5.
Chat Pack: Fun Questions to Spark Conversations
The Chat Pack: Fun Questions to Spark Conversations set is a little more grown up and might even make a good hostess gift I'd think! Now that my kids are older, we have really enjoyed this set. Normally, we only end up pulling out a couple of the questions because they lead to further conversations and tangents–which is kind of the point don't you think?! Some of the questions include:
"If you were asked to create the ultimate vacation destination, where would it be located and what would it be like?" or "If you could see the front page of a national newspaper dated January 1, 2100, what do you imagine that the main headline might say?" or "If you were completely deaf but were somehow able to hear for one hour each month, what would you most often want to hear for that hour?" There are several different Chat Pack versions that are good for younger ages, adults only and a few in between!
So how do you make dinner time more fun and get the conversations going? Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section!
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This is brush, a small Max/MSP/Jitter patch that I've compiled as a standalone application. I made it in 2005 and have not touched it since — it's in need of an update. If you'd like to check out an updated version, let me know and I'd be happy to update it for you. It's aimed at visualists who are just starting out and looking for software to play with. Programmatically, it's very simple. Video from a live camera (or a movie file) is fed back on itself so that light stays on the canvas (screen). Thus, you can paint with the light in the room you're in. Decay (fade time), tolerance (lower luma threshold) and color inversion are adjustable so you can adapt your performance to any lighting conditions.
- Download brush 0.1.2 and unzip it. Drag the application to your /Applications folder if you so desire and open it. The source files are in the source folder. You can edit them if you have a full or demo copy of Max/MSP/Jitter.
- Read a brief tutorial
- See video and stills of a brush performance
I developed the patch in Keyworx last winter and ported it to M/M/J over the summer with the generous help of vade and other friends. The effect I was looking for turned out to be in one of the Jitter tutorial patches so, again, this is not a complex patch. It's all in the performance — so get out there and use it!
The patch is under the same CC license that's at the bottom of this blog. Of course, that doesn't apply if you just rebuild it from the same tutorial patch I used. 🙂
The application only works on Mac OS X because Max for Windows uses a different camera feed object. Sorry. I'll see if I can get a Windows Max user to port it. Interested in going further? (Get the fully functional Max/MSP/Jiitter demo for Mac and PC).
Future features
- processing on the GPU (and the choice to use CPU or GPU)
- multiple videoplanes in OpenGL
- Windows compatibility
- …


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TOM HUNTER/Here I Go Again: This guy almost looks like a cabaret singer and I wasn't in a cabaret mood when I was opening the mail. Surprise, he's a dripping with soul, blues belting, white boy that can even bring soul to Billy Joel songs. Clearly in the pocket of making music for adults, this is how Steve Tyrell would sound without the budgets and big labels behind him to tweak and sweeten the project relying on little more than real soul to power the proceedings. Pretty interesting outing that comes at you from leftfield but you won't let it go back there.
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Over the past 15 years, keyboard man Tom Hunter has played with or appeared on recordings by Bill Perry, George Davis, Murali Coryell, Little Sammy Davis, Big John Dickerson, and Bernard Allison. Hunter's third solo release, Here I Go Again (FS Music), is a lively disc that mixes blues, pop, jazz, and soul standards with a couple of Hunter originals. Hunter is a talented musician, playing piano, Fender Rhodes, and Hammond Organ, and is a robust singer, able to tackle any of the genres he chooses.
Any song list that includes three covers of Doc Pomus tunes has to be a strong one. Hunter selected wisely from that catalog and shows a real gift for interpreting these songs ("I Underestimated You," "Imitation of Love," and "The Night Is A Hunter"). Hopefully, he will cover more Pomus tunes in future releases. Other solid selections include Tom Waits' "New Coat of Paint," Ray Charles' "Drown In My Own Tears," Spencer Williams' classic "Basin Street Blues," and Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." Hunter also takes an interesting stab at Sonny Rollins' "Tenor Madness."
Two original compositions by Hunter, the title cut and "Nothing's For Free," stand up well with the standards. The band provides exemplary backing, particularly Jon "Gunnar" Gunvaldson's jazzy guitar work.
There just aren't enough blues albums out there these days featuring the piano as the lead instrument, but Here I Go Again is ready and able to buck the trend, with some great music covering a broad range of styles.
Interview with Tom Hunter
Tom Hunter is one of those voices that only comes along once in a blue moon. Honed by years of experience, Hunter brings a passion to his music that started as a child in church. Eventually, Tom Hunter would travel to various destinations in order to find his sound. He settled in Minneapolis, MN, in 1997, and has not looked back.
Here I Go Again features songs covering a musical spetrum that stretches from smoky jazz to gut-bucket Chicago blues. Hunter recently took time to answer some questions via email. Enjoy the conversation.
What type of music was heard in the Hunter household growing up?
There wasn't a lot of music in the house. I'd get most of it from church and school, but two of my sisters took piano lessons, so I'd here that. My parents watched a lot of PBS, so I'd see performances when I was growing up, and had a great appreciation for some of the jazz I would see, i.e. Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie. My parents would play music on our old stereo at Christmas time. Loved Bing, still do. He was the best. My great grandmother, Margaret Cerussi, could play anything, and would play a lot of ragtime and period stuff when she came over.
Did any one musician or band stick out as you were growing up?
In addition to the artists mentioned above, I also listened to my grandfather's Chet Atkins albums, Billy Joel, and anything else coming off of FM radio in New York.
Gospel played an integral in your youth. Elaborate on the influence gospel music had on your life growing up as well as in your fledgling music career.
All of the organized music I participated in was thru the local church in Cornwall, NY. I was taught to play the blues by the preacher's son. He showed me the blues progression on the church he would sing while I played.
Tell me about the first gig you ever played. How vividly do you remember the details?
The first gig I ever played was at The F&J Tavern in Cornwall, NY. It was filled with all our friends and we had a ball. They didn't normally have music there and I don't think they were ready for the crowd. We were all very drunk, so I don't remember if we played well or not. It didn't seem to matter.
What life lessons did you learn in the navy that have transferred over to your music career?
I learned how to show up on time in the navy. They were into that whole prompt, punctual thing!
Why choose to do an album of covers?
I wanted to do an album to record the band. They're a great band, and it's a privilege, and a lot of fun working with them. I didn't have enough original material, so we recorded some of the tunes we perform regularly that truly speak to me.
Let's talk about the songs and artists that you have chosen to cover. The one who stands out the most is Doc Pomus. I'm guessing he is/was a profound influence on your music.
It's not so much Doc Pomus, but Johnny Adams turning me on to Doc Pomus. I met Johnny Adams in Mountain View, CA at a place called JJ's Blue Cafe. He was on a double bill with Nappy Brown and it was great. I would go out there on business trips when I worked for IBM, and check out bands. Johnny was the greatest singer I had ever seen. It blew me away, and I was an instant fan. I went out the next day and bought Room With A View, and kept going back for more. When he did an album of DocÂs work, I heard it. That was probably Johnny's best record, which shows the emotional content of the tunes. I do "The Night is a Hunter" because of one line in particular: "I played the honkytonks, and the upholstered sewers, and all the square sets in between, do up/ Every kind of high, legit, and otherwise, and make every unknown scene…" That one really got me.
Ray Charles – "Drown In My Tears"
I love Ray Charles, that's natural, but I really love this song. We've been doing it for a long time, and it felt right.
Tom Waits – "New Coat of Paint" – I'm guess Waits is not the easiest person to interpret.
I'm a fan of Tom Waits, and this is one of the tunes of his that speaks to me, which made it easy to interpret.
Billy Joel – "New York State of Mind" – I loved how you took his pop song, and turned into more of a jazz number. What makes New York a special place for you?
I'm from a town, about 50 miles north of New York City, called Cornwall, NY. It was also the first actual song I ever learned. So I guess I've been playing it for almost 30 years. It's kind of grown into something after all these years. My ex-wife just told me she liked the way I used to do it…what did she mean?
Sonny Rollinterestingor Madness" – Intersting choice.
I learned this song because Rick O'Dell, a friend who passed away, wanted me to learn it. He played a great tenor sax, and is missed. I'm sorry he's gone from us now. This song swings, and I really like what Gunner does with it.
300 SHOWS A YEAR. That's a massive load. I take it you have a bit of the Energizer Bunny in you. What keeps you going?
Well, I started slowing down, so I had to clean up my life and start working out. It keeps me on top of my game.
Tom, you've had the privilege of playing with, and/or opening for, some amazing musicians. Give me two or three life or musical lessons you've gleaned.
The biggest lesson I've learned is that you have to stay positive. Every great artist I've had the privilege of working with or near taught me that you really have to love your audience. It's really them that you're there for. It doesn't matter if your black or white, it's really what's inside that counts. A man's got to say what's on his mind, and what better way than a song.
Finally, what plans are in store for 2006?
I hope to find an agent, or agents to work with so I can go out and promote this recording. And I'd also like to be in the studio by the year's end to do an album with Jon Gunvaldson.
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Using his big, booming baritone voice, Tom Hunter sings jazz and blues with a convincing delivery. Much of the program on Here I Go Again, his third album, recalls the traditional spirit of Dr. John and like-minded artists from the Big Easy. Coincidentally, he also plays organ and piano, making those keys sparkle alongside each vocal selection. However, Hunter has put so much variety into his program that there's just no way to pigeonhole him.
Never trust a man who hasn't paid his dues. Hunter has been there, done that, and it shows up in each of these twelve selections. After music school, he joined the navy, then moved around a bit, from New York to South Carolina and settling in Minneapolis. While in the South, he worked for three years in a down-home setting at Myrtle Beach. Today, he continues to work more than 300 nights a year.
The Sonny Rollins classic "Tenor Madness" is offered up as an instrumental number. Hunter's piano swings and romps along with acoustic bass, electric guitar, and drums. The quartet drives with plenty of spirit. Hunter's vocals give the rest of the album a soulful element that comes loaded with genuine, deep-down soul. The songs that he's selected represent unique and familiar individuals such as Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Billy Joel, and Doc Pomus.
Two original songs reveal the true blue spirit of Hunter's character. He's just a tad over forty, but he's seen the world through a bluesman's eyes and a jazzman's ears. And he continues to do his thing night after night.
"Basin Street Blues" carries a big load of tradition. As Hunter explains in familiar terms,
Ain't you glad you went with me
Way on down the Mississippi
We took a boat to the land of dreams
Heaven and earth, they call it Basin Street.
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His work has also appeared in Southland Blues, The L.A. Jazz Scene, and Cadence Magazine
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Tom Hunter, "Here I Go Again" (FS Music) ***
Blue-eyed soul-blues singer Tom Hunter infuses his strong baritone with a N'Awlins inflection, but he's actually from a "New York State of Mind," to borrow a phrase from fellow piano man Billy Joel. And why not borrow? Hunter does with the Joel number and nine other tunes out of the dozen on "Here I Go Again," including three from Doc Pomus.
The church-music-trained artist wisely draws on material that suits his talent, including Tom Waits' "New Coat of Paint," Ray Charles' "Drown in My Own Tears" and Sonny Rollins' "Tenor Madness," an instrumental track.
Hunter spent some time in the Navy before settling in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He's currently holding court almost nightly in the clubs of Minneapolis. His road-hardened delivery and tight four-piece band, which features guitarist Jon "Gunner" Gunvaldson, make him a good bet to re-create the studio magic in a live setting.
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But I noticed something odd about this year's author invitation list, and as I investigated further, I felt a need to write about it. Please understand that I am in no way condemning anyone in particular with this post, and that I fully admit to not knowing the reasons behind any decisions and could very easily be wrong. My conclusions are drawn from observation, not from any conversations with any insiders or anything. I'm hardly an investigative reporter.
I'm a children's book author with probably a few too many opinions than is good for her.
I also think it is very important for The Book Lover's Ball to exist, and I understand they need to invite people to their event who will draw in sponsors and donations. I get that. I do.
So. With that caveat.
Out of the 54 invited authors this year, two can be said to be writers of SF/Fantasy, and both of those were for children. Not a single adult genre writer was invited. The closest I suppose to genre it got were a couple thriller authors. But true adult SF/Fantasy authors? Not. A. One.
This really struck a chord with me. And I'll tell you why. There has been in general, a feeling that SF/Fantasy books are somehow considered less worthy writing than other kinds. Here's an excerpt from a very interesting article specifically relating to SF books:
Considered by the literary establishment, and frequently by non SF award-giving institutions, to be trashy, pulpish, commercially driven lightweight gutter fiction (only a slight exaggeration, believe me), it's no surprise that very few works of science fiction have won major literary awards. Recent notable exceptions include Cormac McCarthy winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Road (arguably science fiction), and Ray Bradbury receiving a special citation from the Pulitzer Board in the same year. On the whole though, the accolades are few and far between.
In an article about the death of science fiction author J.G. Ballard in the New York Times (April 21, 2009), Ballard's American editor at Norton, Robert Weil, said "His fabulistic style led people to review his work as science fiction. But that's like calling Brave New World science fiction, or 1984"
Apart from demonstrating that Robert Weil is amazingly silly, this quote highlights the problem: if you're a famous writer in the literary world who writes a science fiction novel - and Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 are clearly science fiction works - then you're not writing science fiction as far as publishers and the literary establishment are concerned. Great literature can never be science fiction. When established "great" authors are writing it, it's something else entirely. No wonder science fiction is always viewed as second rate. Anything good or even above average is simply reclassified.
It isn't just the amorphous "establishment" that makes the above reclassifications, but well known authors themselves, who have dabbled in genre, have also famously denied that their work is such as if that is the ultimate insult.
Anyway. Back to the ball.
I did a very very unscientific test and looked at the lists of author invitees for the last three years that is up on their website. It's pretty clear something odd happened this year.
We begin with exhibit A: Robert J Sawyer. He arguably is THE top SF writer in the country and just this year got probably the biggest demonstration of recognition of his awesomeness - his book FlashForward was turned into a television series (you know you've made it when Hollywood takes notice - and Joseph Fiennes (yum) is your leading man). From what I can see on The Book Lover's Ball website, he was invited the previous two years. But not this year. What's changed exactly? Certainly not a lack of recognition nor a lack of books being published. Guy Gavriel Kay, again, arguably the premiere Fantasy author we have, the exact same thing: two years of invites, not again this year.
Don't tell me the inviting committee was getting bored with these authors and wanted to shake things up. I noted other authors who appeared on those previous years' invites lists, and were invited this year too.
I don't know whether something happened this year, whether this is just a coincidence that isn't worthy of me spending time blogging about it (and I really hope it is), but when you spend your time in a genre that has to fight so consistently to be recognised, you do tend to take note of situations like these.
Side note: I talk about SF/Fantasy as being not very well respected in the literary community. But don't even get me started on the poor maligned Romance category. Which, though I know little about, I do know gets even less respect than SF/Fantasy. What's even more deeply disturbing is that Harlequin has got to be one of the most successful Canadian enterprises internationally, and still evidently the books they produce aren't worthy of being included in a celebration like this.
Now I'm sure there are some of you who are shaking your heads and thinking, "Adrienne, come on, would you have written about this had you been invited? You're probably just bitter is all."
Well yes and no. I'm certainly not bitter. However, I might not have written this post had I been invited (though had I been invited that would have helped with my issue in the first place, my presence would have helped make up for the lack of genre authors). But I would not have written this blog post simply to whine about my lack of invitation. We all know I don't do that sort of thing. Nor am I at all the kind of author who thinks she deserves to be invited to every event (though, I mean, who wouldn't want me at their event, I'd be fabulous darling! ;) ).
My lack of invitation made me curious to see who had been invited. And it was upon investigating this, that I realised something wonky had happened to the genre fiction authors. And that was the reason I wrote this blog. Had something wonky not had happened to the genre fiction authors, I wouldn't have felt a need to say anything. After all, I wasn't invited last year either, did you hear a peep out of me then?
I do realise that such an event is a tricky one to organise, and that not every Canadian author can be invited. I also realise we have some amazing authors who are staples in this country and who really do deserve to have an open invitation. I can appreciate a star system as much as the next person. But this lack of genre writers really does make me cock my head to the side and go, "Huh?"
I guess what I'm trying to say is, for an event called The Book Lover's Ball, it'd be nice to see all books loved and celebrated. As they have been at past galas. Something happened this year, and it should be noted. That's all.


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Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A Replacement for My Olympus SP550UZ
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Ooh this all sounds very advanced... My camera is just a little baby compared to all these ;) Some day I think I'll want one with more zoom... However I have such difficulties carrying and holding heavy things that if I had a bigger one I'd probably end up leaving it at home most of the time anyway...ReplyDelete
Hope you'll soon be having a good time with your new one!
Thank you Monica. It's actually fairly light at just 544g. The size and shape makes it very easy to hold. I have to say that some of my best pictures - especially macro ones - have been taken with my Canon Ixus 60 which is tiny.ReplyDelete
I think mine is under 200g... including two AA batteries.ReplyDelete
Off-camera-topic, I was back-reading some more or less random posts in your NZ blog earlier, and a link from there also happened to take me to another blog of yours... Just thought I'd tell you I read that.
You will probably find that after a week you get used to the ergonomics of any camera.ReplyDelete
I know someone with a Sony, they really rave about it. It's certainly less noisy than my Olympus 560UZ. There's the Olympus Penn, Need to buy a view finder for it making it an awful lot of money.
It's the same old story, too much choice is is almost as bad as no choice.
Oh, how exciting!!! Sounds like you really did your research, and it's always fun to look forward to something new!ReplyDelete
This is now my fourth Sony and I have been happy with each one - this latest one is, of course, the best yet by far. I hope you are as delighted with it as I am. Good shooting.ReplyDelete
I'll add my name to the list of happy Sony Camera owners. The first digital camera we bought was the Sony DSC-F828. It's still our main digital camera although I've now got a much smaller FujiFilm one that I can pack in my hand luggage when I go away without checked baggage.ReplyDelete
I'm annoyed to hear that the new Sony's don't all have mini-USB and standard cards though as that was one of the plus points for me with the DSC-F828. Not only does it have a mini-USB port but it will hold Sony Memory-Stick and Compact Flash at the same time - flick a switch to change which is being used. This makes having a lot of storage space really easy and you don't have to fiddle with opening the camera up when you need to change cards.
As you point out the only downside is the propitiatory batteries. Mind you I'm hoping not to drop mine for a few years yet and so hopefully they might have sorted that out before I need to buy a new camera!


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Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
Bley is an uncompromising composer. She writes with wit and a quirky sense of direction. Could there be problems with that? An unusual trajectory is well worth cocking an ear, or two, to. She offers an odd sense of air and time, meters that do not fall into a predictable groove. With the kind of assimilators, and interpreters, of her music that undertook the journey with her, the results could only be endearing.
As just one example, there is Andy Sheppard on the soprano sax, probing lines that tumble into billowing circular grooves that at first spell "Wink Leak" then extend into "Traps" and "Leonard Feather" and get a slam dunk of a workout. His breathing evolutes, changing the temperament and the pulse, until he blows out for Steve Swallow and Billy Drummond, who open up the space, their conversation unhurried yet punched with eloquence.
Ideas change shape and coalesce into some funky stuff that goes by the name of "Hip Hop," with Bley playing a cativating piano melody that gets a bounce on the bass from Swallow. This is an absolute delight, the final irresistible pull coming from Sheppard and his tenor, riding high on bop and unleashing a veritable pantheon of stimulating ideas. A hip tune, most decidedly!
There is much more that is elating in this noteworthy document, all of which reinforces the significance of Bley as a composer.
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3 Blind Mice: 3 Blind Mice, Wink Leak/Traps/Leonard Feather, The Maze/Blind Mice Redux; Hip Hop; Tropical Depression; Red; Lost Chords: I, II, III.
Carla Bley: piano; Andy Sheppard: soprano and tenor saxophones; Steve Swallow: bass; Billy Drummond: drums.
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This is actually the best thing that you can do because by going directly to these garages that are near you, you're able to save yourself from wasting huge amount of time by searching through online advertisements and publications when in the end, you'll just go right to one of these dealerships anyway. One thing that you'll benefit from doing such thing is that you'll be able to gain access to some new stocks they might have had which are not yet advertised.
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Another option that you may want to try is to go online and search for those that advertises a range of vehicles for sale. Such websites will often provide you a range of vehicles from dealerships as well as private sellers which gives you a really huge range of options. You may also filter the search results you wish to find by specifying your location.
You can enjoy a lot of advantages from filtering results, meaning you can actually narrow down you search for your preferred cars that are available from thousands all over the world to merely hundreds from your specific location.
If you do plan on searching for a used car online, you have to make sure you've read all the small prints you can find as well as all the details in the advertisement so that you can avoid being tricked or conned into looking at it by the vendor. You should always make sure that you give the seller a ring in case you need some more details and ask essential questions so that you can clarify things about the car you've chosen to buy.


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A screen recorder program is a lifesaver when you have to capture a live online video. The virtual video sites hardly offer download facilities which make it tough to catch up with live videos if you can't watch them at their scheduled time. But a screen recorder software will enable you to capture the live videos and save them on your Mac so that you can check them later.
Now, the current tech market is flooded with myriad screen recorder programs but not all will be your cup of tea. If you ask the experts, Movavi Screen Capture Studio for Mac is all that you need to ensure the best screen recording experience on Mac.
The state of the art program is developed by globally acclaimed software developer Movavi and is packed with a great host of advanced features. The post below is a brief on why Movavi Screen Capture Studio is the absolute tool for screen recording on Mac.
Much to the convenience of the users, the Movavi program is able to capture all kinds of online streaming videos. Be it videos guides or Skype calls or a live online webinar- you can capture everything on your Mac with the Movavi software. A great bit about the Movavi software is its ability to capture video at any range up till 60 fps. Thus, you can even capture Ultra-HD quality videos with excellent resolution with it. And yes, you can capture sound from multiple sources along with the video as a Movavi user.
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Interestingly, Movavi Screen capture Studio for Mac is not just about capturing videos. You can even use it to edit the recorded videos and transform them into stylish clips in a jiffy. Yes, the program is able to handle a basic set of video editing functions. You can even insert your choice of music in your video with the Movavi software.
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This tutorial describes how to collect, record, and monitor time-series data on Google Cloud using OpenTSDB running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Bigtable.
Time-series data is a highly valuable asset that you can use for several apps, including trending, monitoring, and machine learning. You can generate time-series data from server infrastructure, app code, and other sources. OpenTSDB can collect and retain large amounts of time-series data with a high degree of granularity.
This tutorial details how to create a scalable data collection layer using GKE and work with the collected data using Bigtable. The following diagram illustrates the high-level architecture of the solution:
- Create a new Bigtable instance.
- Create a new GKE cluster.
- Deploy OpenTSDB to your GKE cluster.
- Send time-series metrics to OpenTSDB.
- Visualize metrics using OpenTSDB and Grafana.
This tutorial uses billable components of Google Cloud, including:
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- Bigtable
- Cloud Storage
Use the Pricing Calculator to generate a cost estimate based on your projected usage.New Google Cloud users might be eligible for a free trial.
Before you begin
Sign in to your Google Account.
If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.
In the Cloud Console, on the project selector page, select or create a Cloud project.
Verifica che la fatturazione sia attivata per il tuo progetto.
- Enable the Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Bigtable Admin, Compute Engine, and Google Kubernetes Engine APIs.
Make note of the Project ID for use in a later step.
Preparing your environment
You will use Cloud Shell to enter commands in this tutorial. Cloud Shell gives you access to the command line in Cloud Console, and includes Cloud SDK and other tools you need for Google Cloud development. Cloud Shell appears as a window at the bottom of Cloud Console. It can take several minutes to initialize, but the window appears immediately.
Activate Cloud Shell.
Set the default Compute Engine zone to the zone where you are going to create your Bigtable cluster, for example
gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-f
Clone the git repository containing the sample code.
git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentsdb-bigtable.git
Navigate to the sample code directory.
cd opentsdb-bigtable
Creating a Bigtable instance
This tutorial uses Bigtable to store the time-series data that you collect. You must create a Bigtable instance to do that work.
Bigtable is a key/wide-column store that works especially well for time-series data, as is explained in Bigtable Schema Design for Time Series Data. Bigtable supports the HBase API, which makes it easy for you to use software designed to work with Apache HBase, such as OpenTSDB. You can learn about the HBase schema used by OpenTSDB in the OpenTSDB documentation.
A key component of OpenTSDB is the AsyncHBase client, which enables it to bulk-write to HBase in a fully asynchronous, non-blocking, thread-safe manner. When you use OpenTSDB with Bigtable, AsyncHBase is implemented as the AsyncBigtable client.
The ability to easily scale to meet your needs is a key feature of Bigtable. This tutorial uses a single-node development cluster, because it is sufficient for the task and is economical. Start your projects in a development cluster and move to a larger production cluster when you are ready to work with production data. The Bigtable documentation includes detailed discussion about performance and scaling to help you pick a cluster size for your own work.
Follow these steps to create your Bigtable instance:
Go to the Create Instance page in the Cloud Console.
Enter a name for your instance in the Instance name box. You can use
OpenTSDB instanceor another name of your choosing. The page automatically sets Instance ID and Cluster ID after you enter your instance name.
In Region, select us-central1 or the region from which you are going to run OpenTSDB.
In Zone, select us-central1-f or the zone from which you are going to run OpenTSDB.
Click Create to create the instance.
Make note of the values of Instance ID and Zone. You will use them in a later step.
Creating a GKE cluster
GKE provides a managed Kubernetes environment. After you create a GKE cluster, you can deploy Kubernetes pods to it. This tutorial uses GKE and Kubernetes pods to run OpenTSDB.
OpenTSDB separates its storage from its application layer, which enables it to be deployed across multiple instances simultaneously. By running in parallel, it can handle a large amount of time-series data. Packaging OpenTSDB into a Docker container enables easy deployment at scale using GKE.
Create a Kubernetes cluster by running the following command. This operation can take a few minutes to complete:
gcloud container clusters create opentsdb-cluster --scopes \
Adding the two extra scopes to your GKE cluster allows your OpenTSDB container to interact with Bigtable. You can pull images from Google Container Registry without adding a scope for Cloud Storage, because the cluster can read from Cloud Storage by default. You might need additional scopes in other deployments.
The rest of this tutorial uses a prebuilt container,
gcr.io/cloud-solutions-images/opentsdb-bigtable:v1 located in
Container Registry.
The Dockerfile
script used to build the container are located in the
build folder of the
tutorial repository.
Creating a ConfigMap with configuration details
Kubernetes provides a mechanism called the
to separate configuration details from the container image to make apps
more portable. The configuration for OpenTSDB is specified in
A ConfigMap containing
opentsdb.conf is included with the sample code. You
must edit it to reflect your instance details.
Create the ConfigMap
Edit the OpenTSDB configuration to use the project name, instance identifier, and zone that you used when creating your instance.
To open the code editor built into Cloud Shell, click the pencil icon in the toolbar at the top of the Cloud Shell window.
opentsdb/configmapsto open it in the editor.
Replace the placeholder text with the project name, instance identifier, and zone you set earlier in the tutorial.
From the Cloud Shell prompt, create a ConfigMap from the updated
kubectl create -f configmaps/opentsdb-config.yaml
Creating OpenTSDB tables in Bigtable
Before you can read or write data using OpenTSDB, you need to create the necessary tables in Bigtable to store that data. Follow these steps to create a Kubernetes job that creates the tables.
Launch the job:
kubectl create -f jobs/opentsdb-init.yaml
The job can take up to a minute or more to complete. Verify the job has completed successfully by periodically running this command:
kubectl describe jobs
The output should indicate that one job has succeeded under the heading
Pods Statuses.
Get the table creation job logs by running the following commands:
pods=$(kubectl get pods --selector=job-name=opentsdb-init \ --output=jsonpath={.items..metadata.name}) kubectl logs $pods
When you get the logs, examine the bottom of the output, which should indicate
each table that was created. This job runs several table creation commands, each
taking the form of
create 'TABLE_NAME'. Look for a line of the form
0 row(s) in 0.0000 seconds, where the actual command duration is listed
instead of
Your output should include a section that looks something like the following:
create 'tsdb-uid',
{NAME => 'id', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW'},
{NAME => 'name', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW'}
0 row(s) in 1.3680 seconds
Hbase::Table - tsdb-uid
create 'tsdb',
{NAME => 't', VERSIONS => 1, COMPRESSION => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW'}
0 row(s) in 0.6570 seconds
Hbase::Table - tsdb
create 'tsdb-tree',
{NAME => 't', VERSIONS => 1, COMPRESSION => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW'}
0 row(s) in 0.2670 seconds
Hbase::Table - tsdb-tree
create 'tsdb-meta',
{NAME => 'name', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW'}
0 row(s) in 0.5850 seconds
Hbase::Table - tsdb-meta
You only need to run this job once. It returns an error message if the tables already exist. You can continue the tutorial using existing tables, if present.
Data Model
The tables you just created will store data points from OpenTSDB. In a later step, you will write time-series data into these tables. Time-series data points are organized and stored as follows:
|Item that is being measured - the default key
|Epoch time of the measurement
|Measurement value
|At least one tag is required
|Qualifies the measurement for querying purposes
Deploying OpenTSDB
The rest of this tutorial provides instructions for making the sample scenario work. The following diagram shows the architecture you will use:
This tutorial uses two Kubernetes
One deployment sends metrics into OpenTSDB and the other reads from it. Using
two deployments prevents long-running reads and writes from blocking each other.
The pods in each deployment use the same container. OpenTSDB provides a daemon
that runs in each container.
A single
tsd process can handle a high throughput of events every second. To
distribute load, each deployment in this tutorial creates 3 replicas of the read
and write pods.
Create a deployment for writing metrics
The configuration information for the writer deployment is in
opentsdb-write.yaml in the
deployments folder of the tutorial repository.
Use the following command to create it:
kubectl create -f deployments/opentsdb-write.yaml
Create a deployment for reading metrics
The configuration information for the reader deployment is in
opentsdb-read.yaml in the
deployments folder of the tutorial repository.
Use the following command to create it:
kubectl create -f deployments/opentsdb-read.yaml
In a production deployment, you can increase the number of
tsd pods running
manually or by using
in Kubernetes. Similarly, you can increase the number of instances in your
GKE cluster manually or by using
Cluster Autoscaler.
Creating OpenTSDB services
In order to provide consistent network connectivity to the deployments, you will create two Kubernetes services. One service writes metrics into OpenTSDB and the other reads.
Create the service for writing metrics
The configuration information for the metrics writing service is contained in
opentsdb-write.yaml in the
services folder of the tutorial repository. Use
the following command to create the service:
kubectl create -f services/opentsdb-write.yaml
This service is created inside your GKE cluster and is accessible to other services running in your cluster. In the next section of this tutorial, you write metrics to this service.
Create the service for reading metrics
The configuration information for the metrics reading service is contained in
opentsdb-read.yaml in the
services folder of the tutorial repository. Use
the following command to create the service:
kubectl create -f services/opentsdb-read.yaml
Writing time-series data to OpenTSDB
There are several mechanisms to write data into OpenTSDB. After you define service endpoints, you can direct processes to begin writing data to them. This tutorial uses Heapster to demonstrate writing data. Your Heapster deployment collects data about GKE and publishes metrics from the GKE cluster on which you are running OpenTSDB.
Use the following command to deploy Heapster to your cluster:
kubectl create -f deployments/heapster.yaml
Examining time-series data with OpenTSDB
You can query time-series metrics by using the
opentsdb-read service endpoint
that you deployed earlier in the tutorial. You can use the data in a variety of
ways. One common option is to visualize it. OpenTSDB includes a basic interface
to visualize metrics that it collects. This tutorial uses
a popular alternative for visualizing metrics that provides additional
Set up Grafana
Running Grafana in your cluster requires a similar process to that you used to set up OpenTSDB. In addition to creating a ConfigMap and a deployment, you need to configure port forwarding so that you can access Grafana while it is running in your GKE cluster.
Use the following steps to set up Grafana
Create the Grafana
ConfigMapusing the configuration information in
grafana.yamlin the
configmapsfolder of the tutorial repository.
kubectl create -f configmaps/grafana.yaml
Create the Grafana deployment using the configuration information in
grafana.yamlin the
deploymentsfolder of the tutorial repository.
kubectl create -f deployments/grafana.yaml
Get the name of the Grafana pod in the cluster and use it to set up port forwarding.
grafana=$(kubectl get pods --selector=app=grafana \ --output=jsonpath={.items..metadata.name}) kubectl port-forward $grafana 8080:3000
Verify that forwarding was successful. The output should match the following:
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8080 -> 3000 Forwarding from [::1]:8080 -> 3000
Connect to the Grafana web interface
In Cloud Shell, click Web Preview and then select Preview on port 8080.
A new browser tab opens and connects to the Grafana web interface. After a few moments, the browser displays graphs like the following:
This deployment of Grafana has been customized for this tutorial. The files
configmaps/grafana.yaml and
deployments/grafana.yaml configure Grafana to
connect to the
opentsdb-read service, allow anonymous authentication, and
display some basic cluster metrics. A deployment of Grafana in production would
implement the proper authentication mechanisms and use richer time-series
Cleaning up
To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud Platform account for the resources used in this tutorial:
Delete the GKE cluster to terminate all the artifacts previously created with the
kubectl createcommand:
gcloud container clusters delete opentsdb-cluster
To delete the GKE cluster, confirm by typing
Yor pressing Enter.
To delete the Bigtable cluster, click Products & services in Google Cloud Console. Click Bigtable, select the cluster that you created earlier, and click Delete.
What's next
To learn how to improve the performance of your uses of OpenTSDB, consult Bigtable Schema Design for Time Series Data.
The video Bigtable in Action from Google Cloud Next 17 describes field promotion and other performance considerations.
The documentation on cluster scopes for GKE clusters describes default scopes, such as Cloud Storage, and scopes you can add for other Google services.
Try out other Google Cloud features for yourself. Have a look at our tutorials.


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IRVINE – The Home Consignment Center is the fifth place we've visited in just two hours and finally, Byron Bacon stops.
He zeroes in on an oval – not round – table and the tape measure comes out. Measurements seem about right. He's serious about this one. He checks the master list on his iPhone, then snaps a picture of the piece. But the oval table is still in tryouts.
It's noon and there's so much more Orange County retail to devour, so we're on to the next store and the next and the next in what is a typical day for Bacon, South Coast Repertory's property shopper.
No, he's not searching for land or homes or even, like those personal shoppers working across the street from the company at South Coast Plaza, fashion. Bacon's job is to help find the perfect set piece, the most authentic furniture, and the best prop for the dozen productions in every South Coast Repertory season.
The average American woman will spend eight years of her life shopping, according to a recent survey. She's a rank amateur compared to Bacon, who has spent more than 20 years in this job, running from place to place in surgical-strike shopping missions designed to not only find the best props, but to support the directors and actors at this Orange County cultural institution.
Up for some retail therapy, I spent a day with Bacon scouring a string of stores for retail theater pieces. We were shopping for props for the final show in South Coast Rep's current season, "Crimes of the Heart," a Southern Gothic play by Beth Henley set in a 100-year-old farmhouse in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. On the list today is a 1950's-era oven, a garage-sale saxophone, a handmade clay pot and the oval dining table. Although the original design called for a rectangular table, and a round one was also considered, they finally settled on an oval table as the perfect piece in the stage puzzle.
Dressed in skate shoes, purple T-shirt and shorts, Bacon runs over to the bank to get some cash and we jump into the company's white Scion XB, as his usual ride, a Ford E-150 van, is in the shop.
My mother needed an "I brake for rummage sales" warning sticker on her car's back bumper, so I thought getting paid to go through junk stores, antique shops, pawn shops and consignment sales looking for treasures might be a fun adventure. What I didn't know is that Bacon's methodical mania of marketing – which he inaccurately describes as "meandering" — requires a near-running pace to keep up with him as we head breakneck across the county. He's kept track with a pedometer, and his shopping expeditions average between five- and 12 miles on foot.
"I kind of have inventories in my head of different places and the particular places that I know I can find what I'm looking for," is how he describes his encyclopedic knowledge of his favorite haunts, as well as the company's huge property storage warehouse in an industrial park in Santa Ana.
Bacon, 47, grew up in Costa Mesa and his mother was a big antique shopper in the 1970s, so he had a leg-up in the business. After graduating from Estancia High School, he spent two years in Iowa working on a theater design degree. He returned to Orange County, began work at a community college, and ended up working on a production of "Peter Pan" at Saddleback College. The stage manager there also worked at South Coast Rep, liked his work, and hired him on as a crew member.
As South Coast's productions grew more sophisticated, Bacon was hired on full-time as a shopper.
"Because I grew up in the area, I knew where stuff was. I had been fairly successful at it, and it allowed me to use the creative parts (of the job)," he said. "As I started to talk to professional designers more, I realized that I didn't particularly want that."
Seems the designer jobs were mostly temporary and they moved around a lot. So Bacon found himself at home in his hometown and 20 years later, still liking the job.
"I'm having fun. I'd much rather have a job that I enjoy, that I have fun at, then pretty much anything else," he said. "That was a promise I made to myself when I started to get into the job market, I'm not going to keep a job that I don't like."
In addition to the shopping, Bacon loves the freedom the non-union shop offers, versus the strict labor rules on film sets. So he often helps the artists and builders with altering the stuff that he finds, making a chair arm wider or building big boxes that double as old books in "The Language Archive," a new play by Julia Cho that had its world premiere here this month.
What's needed for the props is a certain shape and color that can communicate to an audience member even in the most remote seats. That's what Bacon is looking for when he's zooming through the suburban real estate staging stores and the antique shops in Old Towne Orange. Never stopping to look – his motto should be "No dawdling" – Bacon paces the aisles in a kind of Zen zone of focus. Up one aisle, downloading the shape of that table, then down another aisle, uploading the color of that pot. All in his head. And sometimes, his iPhone.
If his usual stops don't pan out, Bacon has to get creative. Craigslist has been fruitful, eBay not so much. And then there are the props that are another kind of treasure hunt. For one production, Bacon needed a gas pump that would have been used at one of the old Route 66 filling stations. He couldn't find any here, so he traveled up to Riverside and San Bernardino counties, retracing Route 66, and found a stash of the old pumps at a junk yard.
Like everywhere else, the recession hit the Repertory, but looks as if it's moved on. The staff, including Bacon, took a five-percent pay cut last year that has since been reinstated. But as a contract employee – he works through the 10 months of each season and has two months off in the summer – he's used to saving up part of his mid-$30,000 salary for that extra cushion.
By mid-afternoon, we were striking out on any good finds and my heart rate was up over acceptable levels. Although the oval table might work, at $799, it was overpriced. We headed back to the company's headquarters, me complaining about my feet and glad my workout was over. Not Bacon. He checked his master list again, ran some searches online, and figured out a route of pawn shops to hit for the bruised saxophone. After all, the play must go on.


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