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Name of Activity | City Buildings |
Author | Laura Fradin |
Keywords | civil engineering, non-NXT, non-lego, 5th grade, aguayo |
Subject | Non-LEGO |
Grade Level | 5 |
Time | 1 Hour Total |
Brief Description | Students will construct buildings that belong in a city using a variety of different materials. |
Lesson Objectives: | -reinforce the engineering design process -understand what civil engineers do |
Materials Needed: | -tape -glue -paper -popsicle sticks -cardboard -egg cartons -legos (if a younger group of kids) -any other materials that might challenge kids to build a structure |
Preparation and Set Up: | -arrange students in pairs -brainstorm various types of buildings needed in a city -show students examples of non-traditional architecture and encourage them to think outside the box of normal rectangular structures. |
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Extensions: | To make the challenge more difficult, limit students to only using one material to build. |
Umbrella Unit/Curriculum (if applicable) | Intro to Engineering-Let's Build a City! |

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New acute care ventilator delivers advanced breath technology for enhanced patient comfort and clinician ease of use
Covidien plc, a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in patient monitoring and respiratory care devices, today announced its Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance.
The new acute care ventilator from Covidien — designed to be simple, safe and smart—helps enable patients to breathe more naturally† through some of the most innovative breath technology available.
The most critical goal of clinicians is to get patients off mechanical ventilation as soon as possible. The Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator can help with a range of software capabilities, including Proportional Assist* Ventilation Plus (PAV*+) and Leak Sync software. Proportional Assist* Ventilation Plus (PAV*+) has been shown to help reduce asynchrony, 1-3 which studies have shown may reduce days on mechanical ventilation.4-6
"We believe mechanical ventilation should be natural enough to enable patients to breathe on their own more quickly," said James E. Willett, vice president and general manager, Respiratory Solutions, Covidien. "The Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator provides clinicians with a simple, safe and smart way to care for patients."
Patients on mechanical ventilation are often sedated to ease agitation and help them tolerate breath support and other medical interventions.7 The Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator features advanced synchrony tools that help clinicians set the ventilator to adapt to their patients' unique needs and help provide the appropriate level of support throughout the breath.
The Puritan Bennett 980 ventilator system is for patients ranging from neonatal to adult. The ventilator system was also approved for commercial distribution in Japan and Canada and will be available in those countries and the U.S. in the coming months.
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4 Thille AW, Rodriguez P, Cabello B, Lellouche F, Brochard L. Patient-ventilator asynchrony during assisted mechanical ventilation. Intensive Care Med. 2006;32(10):1515-1522.
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6 Epstein SK. Optimizing patient-ventilator synchrony. Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2001;22(2):137-152.
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A Rossford man was hurt seriously yesterday when his car went off State Rt. 65 just south of Hufford Road in Perrysburg Township, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.
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Mr. Cieply was westbound on State Rt. 65 about 2:15 a.m. when his car went off the right side of the road, hit a utility pole and a tree, rolled over, and struck a parked car, troopers at the patrol's Walbridge post said.
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Snapshot for PSN/Vita Announced
Indie developer Retro Affect has found a home for their unique new game called "Snapshot". Snapshot is a 2D puzzle platformer starring a robot named Pic who carries a high-tech camera that takes pictures to remove and add objects from one place to another.
This will be Retro Affects first game that will share cross-platform functionality between the Playstation Vita and the PS3.
Doom 3 BFG Coming to the PS3
Bethesda just announced that id Software's classic Doom will be coming to the PS3. Doom 3 BFG Edition will be released this Fall, and will include Doom 3, the Resurrection of Evil add-on pack, both of which have been completely re-mastered, as well as seven new levels entitled 'The Lost Mission.' Also included will be Doom and Doom 2!! It has also been updated to offer 3D for those that want it.
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Releases for the Week (May 28th-June 3rd)
Posted by EdEN in PLAYSTATION Store, PlayStation Vita, PS2 Classics, PS3, PS3 software, PSN on May 29th, 2012
Things are definitely picking up before the onslaught that is E3, and VITA has decided to show up once again at retail in order to bring us Resistance: Burning Skies. Sure, the game will also be available on PSN, but you look like the kind of person that likes to own a physical copy for most of his games. We also get the winner for "Retail Box with Most Quotes", as well as Atelier Meturu: The Apprentice of Arland, the last game in the trilogy that started with Atelier Rorona and continued with Atelier Totori.
PSN also brings us a new release with Pure Chess, as well as digital releases for two retail games.
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[Giveaway Winners] Jak and Daxter HD Collection
Posted by Isli in Giveaways, Jak & Daxter HD Collection, PS3, QuickNews on May 29th, 2012
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Address | Rua da Madalena, 1100-323 Lisbon, Portugal |
Property type | Apartment |
Property ID | 8428B0WD |
Acceptance rate | 67% |
Response time | A few hours |
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With a cosy and delightufull balcony overlooking the city and the river, where you can enjoy a glass of wine by the Lisbon sunset, and a comfortable and tastefull sleeping area, this studio apartment resumes pleasure and comfort in itself.
Located on the 3rd floor of a charming eighteenth-century building recently recovered it has a sleeping and lounge area with a comfortable double bed, typical portuguese wardrobe, 2 side tables made from traditional restored portuguese chairs (very cute), Cable TV, dinning table and seats.
The kitchen has juicer, toaster, microwaves, fridge, electric kettle, coffee machine, blender and a 2 ring electric stove.
In the bathroom with shower, there are available towels, towels dryer and hair dryer.
Located at 5 minutes walking from Praça do Comércio, Rossio or the Lisbon Cathedral (Sé Catedral), and 10 minutes from Bairro Alto and Chiado, is the the ideal place for walking and seightseeing, as it is in the heart of the hot spot for Lisbon visitors.
For those who want to go furtherthere is also a good transport network nearby; subway, the mythical 28 tram, bus or train (in particular the Sintra line). Also you find nearby electric car, motorcycle and bicycles rentals.
At 5 minutes walking you have a public paid parking, a supermarket and the lift to the hill of the St Jorge`s Castle.
Port Wine welcomes you on your arrival!
Thank you for your preference
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House rules
The rules are:Check-in from 15 PM and check-out until 11 AM. If you need a different check-in and check-out hour let us know and if possible we will try to make it flexible.
Damage deposit of 120 Euro (returned on departure).
The apartment will be clean after one week staying.
Animals are not allowed. Smoking is not permitted. Parties or excessive noise are not allowed.
Thank you for understanding.
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Weekly rate for up to 2 guests | 563 € |
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Check-in after | 3 PM |
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Sara and Euricos place is clean, very cosy and genuine, near Lissabon historic center. Very nice place. Kind regard Susanne
We had a very nice stay here. It was fresh and clean and the location is perfect. We are the kind of people who likes to be able to walk our way to most of attractions which we were able to do from this apartment.
Great location! Nicely decorated! Good shower. Little kitchen, all you need fot two! We had a great time.
We have had four fantastic days in Lisbon: a beautiful and relaxed city, friendly people and delicious food. The apartment of Sara and Eurico is very conveniently located within walking distance of the old town and the stops for the tram and the Aerobus to the airport. The apartment we will definitely recommend to family and friends
Wij hebben vier fantastische dagen gehad in Lissabon: een mooie en relaxte stad, vriendelijke mensen en heerlijk eten.
Het appartement van Sara en Eurico is heel gunstig gelegen op loopafstand van de oude stad en de haltes voor de tram en de aerobus naar het vliegveld.
Het appartement zullen wij zeker aanraden bij familie en vrienden
The apartment was great, it was clean, comfortable and cosy. The artwork is very nice and it is stylishly decorated. I loved having breakfast out on the terrace! The location couldn't be better and is literally central, with alfama behind you and rossio, the main square and shopping areas just down the road! There's also a supermarket at the top of the street which is right across from a bakery. Overall I really enjoyed myself, however, my only problem was that I would have liked to have met Sara & Eurico, initially it was euricos brother that opened up the apartment, which caused a little confusion! we then bumped into eurico on the stairs a few days later. Great apartment, would book again!
We had the best time in this Apartment. Very clean and everything was around . Good kitchen and Bathroom(little but also for tall people like me ok)).Beautiful pictures too in the room. Sara and Eurico are very nice people and also very helpful. We would definitely come back here next time and recommend this apartment to our friends.What is very nice is the place where the apartment is. In the old part of Lisbon(Alfama and mouraria) but also close to Rossio where the train is and busses. Very positive experience.
Sara & Eurico is both sweet and attentive hosts, their studio was a good experience, a great location, very quiet and bright, all in all, we celebrate again.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 25 Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) chief executive officer Neville Nicolau said on Monday the price of the precious metal would average $1,800 an ounce for 2011, in line with a previous forecast.
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Published June 25, 2013 12:00
This week, in celebration of the WTA's 40th anniversary, wtatennis.com will be counting down the top five moments of the last 40 years, as voted for by you, the fans.
In at No.4 is Monica Seles' comeback. Two years after her stabbing in Hamburg, Seles made her eagerly anticipated return to competitive tennis during the 1995 summer hardcourt season.
Ahead of her first event back, in Toronto, many questioned whether, after such a harrowing ordeal, and so long on the sidelines, she would be able to recapture her former dominance. Seles' answer was spectacular, dismantling a draw that contained four of the world's Top 5 to take home the title.
A few weeks later she reached the final at the US Open. And while her great rival, Steffi Graf, had not read the script, denying her in a topsy turvy final, Seles did not have to wait long to taste Grand Slam success, winning the Australian Open at the start of the following season.
Here's what you had to say about it…
When Monica Seles returned to the game, it was her performances that gave me a 'LOVE' for Tennis :) She had mentioned in an interview that there were not too many fans there to walk with her from the clubhouse to center court at the US Open, so I made sure I was there for her next match. I told her, "I'm here for you, Monica!" Then came that famous Monica giggle! What a great memory :)
For me, it is definitely Monica's comeback in 1995.
When Seles returned to the tour in August 1995 after her tragedy, that was a special moment in tennis.
My favorite WTA moment is the return of Monica Seles to tennis in 1995. She inspired so many active tennis players, so she definitely deserves the place in the WTA list of favorite moments.


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Name: Modrey, Joseph, 1916-2005
Historical Note: Joseph Modrey (1916-2005) joined Purdue University's Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1965. He earned a BSME in 1937 and a MSME in 1983 from Columbia University. In 1964, Modrey received his doctorate in engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic. Modrey retired in 1986 with the title of Professor Emeritus.


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A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that outer skin cells are able to unite to form suspended "bridges" during wound healing. The new findings will pave the way for tissue engineering, such as the design of artificial skin, and better wound treatment.
Led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at NUS and Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, and Professor Benoit Ladoux from MBI and Institut Jacques Monod, the scientists discovered how skin cells can migrate over regions devoid of support from the extracellular matrix, which are structural proteins that allow cells to adhere to.
How human outer skin cells form suspended multicellular "bridges"
Using microfabricated technology, the team found that layers of human outer skin cells, known as keratinocytes, are able to form suspended multicellular "bridges" over regions devoid of extracellular matrix support. Migrating keratinocytes are able to move forward as a united and homogenous collection of cells to form a protective barrier over a wounded area. Eventually, these cells come together to form suspended "bridges" over regions which are not conducive for cell adhesion. It was previously not understood how this healing process, known as "re-epithelialization", could occur over a wound bed that did not provide a homogeneous coating of extracellular matrix for cells to migrate on.
The researchers also found out that the suspended cell sheet is created through the build-up of large-scale tension activated by acto-myosin, a kind of motor protein that can cause contraction in cells. They found the cell sheet to be elastic-like in behavior, which partly explained its ability to form multicellular bridges. This is not seen in other cell types which tend to be more fluid-like.
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Commenting on their study, Prof Lim said, "We need to conduct an in-depth study of the various factors regulating wound healing so that we can better understand the process of tissue repair and regeneration. Our study will hopefully pave the way for designing better alternatives that can overcome the current limitations in the field of skin tissue engineering and promote satisfactory skin regeneration. Some potential applications include treating skin burn wounds as well as characterizing the mechanical properties of cell sheets."
Moving forward, the team will continue to push the boundary of tissue mechanobiology research by investigating the physical and mechanical properties of skin cells. This research will enable scientists to have a better understanding of the changes associated with certain skin diseases such as blistering diseases and those that occur during the course of ageing.
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When groups of children generate their own questions to answer and teachers give them space, tools, and encouragement rather pre-packaged solutions, amazing things happen. Mastery of subject matter occurs through discovery of insights and answers that are relevant and meaningful to students. Critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration are all developed naturally as part of the process of solving problems in groups. View this slide show to see examples.
A growing body of research supports what progressive thinkers have understood for more than 100 years: Children learn best through hands-on experience rather than passive memorization. One way we incorporate this concept into our approach is by taking frequent trips to visit the people and places that we are learning about. Los Angeles is one of the greatest cities in the world for providing dynamic experiences, surrounded as we are by a uniquely diverse array of ecology, economy, and culture. From mountains, desserts, forests, and oceans to museums, theaters, international culture, world-class universities, and scientific research, L.A. offers a limitless playground for the adventure of learning. View this slide show to see examples.
Progressive education emphasizes teaching many concepts that are integrated into thematic studies. This encourages children to see the connections between things and understand the context for what they are learning. Social studies, used frequently in the Westland curriculum, acts as an integration framework fusing subjects such as math, art, language arts, and science into a single integrated study of a particular people. These studies often focus on a topic over 8 to 12 weeks. Younger students study topics closer to them in time and space, like the local economy and their immediate family. Older students reach further, looking across oceans and back in time to explore ancient worlds. View this slide show to see examples.
We measure students' success not merely by what they know but by who they are. Children at Westland are expected to become active and responsible citizens in a democratic society. This starts with a strong sense of commitment to the school community, where a warm and supportive environment for emotional growth is the right and responsibility ofevery child. Many activities at Westland are designed to foster these ideals. These include our partnerships, emphasis on group projects, cooperative play, conflict-resolution approach, class jobs, and community service projects. View this slide show to see more.
We honor the idea that each child has a unique learning style and pathway through his or her individual development process. Our school's low student-to-teacher ratio allows us to customize the learning process to the strengths or challenges of each child. We also adjust the class placement of our students every year to optimize the social, emotional, and intellectual journey for every student. Our flexible grouping system has been refined over the years to allow students to change peer groups periodically without stigma, stress, or falling behind.
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Using Video to Grow Your Small Business – Melinda Emerson @SmallBizLady Shares Tips
Melinda Emerson, aka "SmallBizLady" is a veteran entrepreneur; small business expert and social media coach who specializes in helping small businesses thrive. Today hosted a WebEx offering tips for using video to help grow your business.
Watch her on-demand webinar on using video for your business.
Why should you use video?
Here are a few interesting stats about video Melinda shared with us:
- Online video is expected to grow 55% this year and is the top format for content marketing.
- Videos have a 41% higher click-through rate than plain text context.
- 58% of consumers ages 18-34 who follow brands on social media would watch a video posted by that brand.
- 57% of Smartphone users polled say they've streamed video on mobile.
- Videos are integral to the success of any SEO strategy.
- 90% of web traffic is predicted to be video by 2014.
With all that good news, there's one important point Melinda makes about using video: don't waste people's time. To be effective, keep it short. 88% of people say they would watch a video that educated them for at least one minute.
Use video to create a deeper relationship with your customer.
Here are 12 ways you can use video to market your business (be sure to watch the on-demand presentation to learn more).
1. Blog content. | 5. Video training. | 9. Live video streaming. |
2. Customer testimonials. | 6. Interviews. | 10. Webinars. |
3. Product demos. | 7. Commercials. | 11. Viral video. |
4. Email video. | 8. Video news release (VNR). | 12. Product reviews. |
Melinda went on to explain how to create videos that are interesting to customers. Her biggest advice: use her MAGIC formula to create video that makes a lasting impression. Motivate your viewers, include a call to Action, help them attain their Goals, create an incentive to Interact and show Commitment to their success.
She concluded with the anatomy of a strong video and the importance of using social media to share your video; increasing its audience. If you are looking for a way to get started with video, you can get a free WebEx basic account and start experimenting today.
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I do agree with online video metode ... but which is better one, online video or directly metode (face to face)


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The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence Tuesday for Cleveland R. Jackson, who was convicted in 2002 of killing a 3-year-old and 17-year-old girl during a robbery in Lima, Ohio.
The court decision, written by Judge Gilbert S. Merritt, declines to commute the sentence for Jackson, who made multiple arguments regarding jury-selection bias related to the case's pretrial media coverage, as well as bias related to certain jurors' opinions about application of the death penalty.
The decision upholds a 2008 ruling by the U.S. District Court, along with a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2005. Jackson would now have to file with the U.S. Supreme Court to continue his case.
"We plan to exhaust all available legal resources," said James Jenkins, Jackson's attorney.
In 2002, Jackson and his half brother Jeronique Cunningham, who is being tried separately, entered the apartment of Loyshane Liles, to rob him of drugs and money.
They directed Liles and seven other people into the apartment's kitchen, where they robbed the victims and opened fire on them. Two people, 3-year-old Jayla Grant and17-year-old Leneshia Williams, were killed.
In the case before the 6th Circuit Court, a central claim by Jackson was that his initial trial court did not properly screen the jury for bias related to media coverage of the case, which made the judge's denial of his request to change venue a violation of constitutional due process.
Judge Merritt disagreed, citing the 1991 Supreme Court case Mu'Min v. Virginia and the 2010 case Skilling v. United States. Both cases give greater discretion to trial judges in issues of pretrial publicity and jury bias.
"Constrained by the language of these two Supreme Court opinions, we conclude that no due process violation occurred," Judge Merritt wrote.
Mr. Jenkins said he had yet to review the ruling.
"The judges' ruling should comport with the case law. We certainly respect due process," he said.
The court also upheld a previous Ohio Supreme Court decision that commuted Jackson's death sentence for Jayla Grant's killing, in agreement with Jackson's argument that the jury was improperly screened for bias regarding the death penalty's application to child murderers.
Jeronique Cunningham's case is still pending before the 6th Circuit Court. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld his death penalty sentence for both murders in 2004.


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They're renowned for their flair and dazzling skills but Quade Cooper is also bracing for a battle of strength against James O'Connor in their playmaking duel on Friday night.
In his 50th Super Rugby match, O'Connor will both captain the Melbourne Rebels and guide them around AAMI Park in a mouth-watering match-up against Queensland five-eighth Cooper.
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"I've worked really hard at it and I've spent a lot of time in the gym to be strong when I come into contact and it's started to work in my favour," he said.
It will certainly be a key factor when Wallabies coach Robbie Deans weighs up the contenders for the Australian No.10 jersey against the British and Irish Lions.
Ironically, it's the position Cooper, O'Connor and Beale all held in their most recent Test outings.
When all three were last fit - at the 2011 World Cup - Cooper was five-eighth, O'Connor on the right wing and Beale fullback.
Cooper feels they can reunite in the Australian backline against the Lions if their form, and the Wallabies's game style, warrants it.
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Queensland will name their team on Thursday with halfback Ben Lucas set to be cleared of a shoulder injury.
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Get enough people of any profession in one room and the conversation drifts inexorably towards horror stories. Everyone loves a good and then it all went horribly sideways yarn, and we all have more than one.
The IT profession is flush with tales of woe. There are no upper boundaries on ignorance or inability.
From common facepalms through to the failure of the backup plans backup plan, here are the top ten disaster recovery failures I have seen.
About once a quarter someone walks into my office and says: You know how to do data recovery, right?
Inevitably they carry an external USB Raid 0 hard drive upon which rested all the critical data for the entire company.
While I can probably get those images off that SD card you formatted, Raid 0 with a disaster recovery plan of I heard Trevor can do data recovery is doomed to failure.
Losing ones keys is a normal part of life. You keep a spare set at work or with a trusted friend. When dealing with mission-critical computing, however, plans need to be more robust.
My favourite equivalent of losing the keys is firing the sysadmin before realising that only he has the passwords to vital pieces of equipment whose manufacturer has gone out of business.
Disaster recovery plans that rely on the manufacturer will help us reset the password are iffy at best.
Dead tree backups lose their charm when a corrupted financials database is combined with reliance on a data storage medium requiring a meat-based search engine.
Always be prepared for the auditors. They strike without warning and they have no mercy.
Not everybodys definition of mission critical is 24/7/365. For small organisations , a cold spare requiring an on-site visit to power up may be adequate.
The plan, however, should take into consideration that the individual responsible for switching on the backup must be capable of making it through the snowstorm that took out the power lines.
Pay attention to log files. More than once I have seen perfectly planned and executed offsite failovers felled because nobody realised the cleaner at the backup site was liable to unplug the servers, for example to charge an iPod. This is not an urban legend.
The more important the data, the more likely it is to go missing. The older the data, the more likely it is that at least one copy is corrupt.
Inevitably, some bit of data will be missing from both the primary and the backup live servers. It happens to everyone and it is why we have tape.
Tapes are attached to a backup program of some kind, which keeps a catalogue of tapes and the files they contain. Life becomes interesting when the file thats missing belongs to someone making an order of magnitude more money than you, and the file thats corrupted is the backup catalogue.
Thirty-two hours into rebuilding the catalogue one tape at a time, you discover that one of the tapes is unreadable. Murphys Law, of course, stipulates that it is the tape with the necessary information.
The lesson is simple: test your backups and the catalogues too.
Databases are the lifeblood of many applications, which in turn keep companies alive. Redundancy is key, and so we turn to database synchronisation.
Some aspects of database synchronisation are old hat by now: the primary can sync live to the secondary and life is good so long as both are up. The primary server fails and the backup server absorbs the load exactly as planned: so far, so good.
Where it all goes horribly wrong is when the primary is returned to service without being informed that it is no longer the primary database. After being brought online it instantly overwrites all the data on the backup server with stale information.
This niggle in the recovery process really should have been practiced more.
In an ideal world, your primary and backup servers are identical systems supplemented by an identical test system. This exists so you can experiment with new configurations, settings and patches.
A critical lesson that others have learned so you dont have to is never, ever patch the primary and the backup clusters at the same time.
One beautiful illustration of this comes in the form of an unanticipated incompatibility between a software patch and a very specific combination of hardware present in both the primary and backup systems.
The testing system identical except for a motherboard one revision newer did not exhibit the issue. Patch released via automated patch software, the primary and backup servers were felled simultaneously.
An oilfield company is doing some deep field drilling. There are several constraints regarding the amount of equipment it can bring.
The drilling requires real-time analysis of sensor results and the decision is made to farm that out over communications links to a more established camp nearby.
Data connectivity being so critical, there were three redundant links: a satellite hook-up, a (very flaky) 3G repeater and a small prototype UAV comms blimp which served as a WiMax bridge between the drilling team and the camp.
Predictably, the satellite connection failed, and the 3G repeater never really worked at all. The drilling team was forced to use the largely untested UAV, which unfortunately began to stray out of range.
The on-site tech tried to connect to the blimp, only to discover that the firewall configuration prevented access from the network interface facing the drilling site.
The connection was so flaky that the team couldn't bounce a connection off a server located on the other side of the network. Thus the UAV drifted entirely out of range and half a province away before it was recovered. The drilling operation was a bust.
Moral: cloud computing absolutely requires multiple tested redundant network links.
Two companies merge and are in the process of consolidating their two data centres. About 80 per cent of the way through the power-up of the new systems, there is a loud snap and all electrical power is dead.
The electricians post mortem is succinct: the electrical panels were from the 1940s. To get 30-Amp lines for the UPSes, a previous electrician had simply "bridged" two 15-Amp breakers.
When enough systems were powered up, the total cumulative load on the panels blew the panels without tripping more than a handful of frankenbreakers.
When the first panel blew, affected systems switched to backup power supplies, blowing the second panel, until all seven panels in the building were wrecked. Thanks to 70 years of evolutionary wiring, five of those panels were located in parts of the building not leased by either company.
The disaster recovery plan was focused entirely on layers of backup power provisioning: mains, UPSes and a generator. Offsite backups werent a consideration.
With the distribution panels fried, generator power couldn't get to the UPSes and sysadmins had only enough time to shut down the systems cleanly before battery power failed. The downtime cost the company more than it would have spent on building an offsite secondary data centre.
that knowledge can be acquired from an adequate collection of textbooks, but true experience requires walking the minefield.
Please share your IT horror stories either in the comments section or by clicking the mail the author link above. Ill collect the best and publish them as a warning to all: here be monsters. ®
Uh... okay; now, in English, please. ;-)
Trust me—it's pretty funny if you are a sysadmin. :)
Which reminds me of the time I strolled into work at 5:00 AM and found the system adminstrator with her head down in tears on the keyboard and a front office executive standing over her. A system admin might just, possibly, be in at 5:00 AM, but a front office type, never. Seems she installed an update to the Solaris operating system on one unit, and did some "tests", decided that everything worked OK and proceeded to install it on the other. As rosy fingered dawn broke over Ontario, the high bay became crowded with engineers and programmers who were "on the clock" with nothing to do but cheer good old Stella on.
My favorite story, from ten years ago, involves an application program that destroyed the operating system. It was a Solaris 8 env. The first time we ran the program in production, it overwrote the root filesystem, making our powerful Sun box with 28 processors and 28 gigs of memory worthless.
We immediately went into disaster recovery mode, and brought up production on the UAT server. Of course, the first thing they did was run the same program, which wiped out that machine as well.
Trader Joe's has a completely mirrored datacenter in a different geographic location.
I don't know how they handle data replication but they evidently understand the importance of redundancy.
That mirroring stuff is designed with the idea that one data center will lose power or be destroyed by terrorists.
However, if the database becomes corrupt, and you are using physical mirroring, you now have two copies of a corrupt database in two data centers. And we have found that bugs in the software are far more likely to happen than losing a data center.
I don't know if I've told this story before, but at a very large and well known financial company, the testing lab signed off on a new image that was to be pushed out to company desktops.
For whatever reason, the company (which I won't name) pushing out the image added a piece of software to the image that was pushed out.
Blew up 1/3 of the desktops. The only reason all of the desktops weren't blown is that the image was only pushed out to 1/3 of the computers.
1,000 computers were put out of commission.
The company pushing out the image had added a virus protection program to an image that already had a virus protection program. The financial company got the computers back online by disabling all virus protection.
It creeps me out to even be near there. Bad karma, yo.
I company I worked at was expanding their datacenter--not the physical space, because they had/have plenty of room. No, they needed more clusters, so they bought 13 more 70-node clusters from their vendor.
Their cooling system couldn't handle it as I began turning them on. They couldn't get any more big chillers that quickly, so they ended up renting a "portable" chiller for several months, just to keep this (very large) data center semi-cool.
Is it just me or did you leave some sentences out of this story?
Is it just me or did you leave some sentences out of this story?
Dont forget the "Infinite troubleshooting" - customer has a problem. System taken off line to troubleshoot and repair. 12 hrs later, having still not reached a fix ... the executive finally made the call to execute DR for that system. RTO and RPO were both less than 2 hrs.
Not quite as bad as some of these, but one of my clients spent a great deal on "customized software", when comparable (probably better) software was available from a major vendor. They neglected to force the developers to provide documentation of any sort. The software they chose always had problems, and less than a year after the project was completed, the company that developed it went out of business and the developers scatter to the four corners of the earth.
I understood completely .. so, I guess it's official ... I'm a geek.
One of my profs at Carnegie Mellon relayed a story from the space shuttle program (well, several stories, but this one is germane) — all systems on board had to be heavily redundant, so they installed four identical copies of the control software.
Of course, when the first one fails and rolls over to the second identical copy, what do you expect it's going to do with the same bad data? And the third, and the fourth?
An unrelated story had do do with the mechanical folks trying to figure out how much the software weighed...
LOL! That's just awesome.
Was the application running under an account with root privileges, or was the root file system open to accounts with non-root privileges?
We immediately went into disaster recovery mode, and brought up production on the UAT server. Of course, the first thing they did was run the same program, which wiped out that machine as well.
What you didn't get the memo from management? The software testing budget has been cut by 50%, blame the programmers.
..."...what do you mean the acquired company's guys were using their inside knowledge to access our competitor's confidential information??"
(actually, this is now more of a tale of woe for Legal)
A buddy and his programming staff were given two weeks notice after meeting a deadline with code the met the specification. They had been expecting a 'atta boy' or a 'congrats' not a pink slip. Management takes code to customers who love the new software but 'could you make it do X & Z too!?'
Management goes to my buddy with the request and he tells them it would take little effort to make those enhancements but all the new programmers they would have to hire would a few months to get up to speed on the code before they could tackle the changes. 'What about you and your staff?' 'Sorry, but we all have new jobs and all of us leave tomorrow. Why did you get rid of us all?'
They confessed that they wanted to get rid of all those expensive programmers to save money and look smart to their managers.
No, it was a bug in Solaris. It just produced a core dump bigger than 2 gigs when it failed, so Solaris interpreted the size as a negative number and wrote it backwards in the filesystem.
The Sun guys said oh, you should have installed the OS patch for that.
I heard of a case back in the bad old days of removable platter drives where the admin got a call at home in the middle of the night to inform him that the primary copy of their data had failed. Not too concerned, he asked if they had mounted the backup copy, and was told that they had done so, only to find out that the problem was in the drive, when it destroyed the backup. Don't know if they also had tape for a second layer of backup.
That one smells like an urban legend to me!
Electrical company comes in to swing over facility power from an aging UPS to a new 50kW unit, big monster. This is in the middle of June in west central Florida a few years ago, so inevitably, the afternoon thunderstorms start to pop up around 6 PM and last sometimes late into the night, depending on the atmosphere.
Well apparently the electrical company tech didn't want to be working on an indoor UPS, unplugged, at 10 PM during a lightning storm, and one Hell of a lightning storm it was! I lost power at my home, and I'm 25 miles from the DC. My pager starts going off at 11 PM, and I call in to our DR incident command center to find out our entire DC is black.
I rush over in the pouring rain to find out that the electrical "engineer" left the neutral and the ground unconnected on the new UPS and when a lightning strike hit directly to our ground looped rod, millions of volts of electricity streamed through the live wire, blew up 51 batteries in UPSes chained to the new one, and melted every single transformer in the building.
Needless to say we stopped doing business with that company. It took us 28 hours to bring the entire DC back online and found out that not only were our tape backups not functioning due to magnetic interference during the storm, many of the servers deployed for our finance department were on RAID0 and over 8 years old (talking dishwasher Compaq 5500s here); you know the rest of the story.
Good list.
Reminds me of the time our data center overheated at a company I worked for. Everything shut down now. No warning, nothing.
Of course, the datacenter overheated after hours. Yours truly was on call.
The company was too cheap to install temperature sensors and alarms.
After the data center was down for over 24 hours, the company decided to spend a few dollars on appropriate monitoring and alarms.
Not only that, but the company had also fired the company that maintained and monitored our mainframe shortly before the disaster.
$200 million a year company and they wouldn't spend a few thousand to maintain data integrity.
I left as soon as I could. I got tired of dealing with that kind of crap.
Most of these boil down to the software equivalent of a spare tire nobody's checked the air level on since ever. Backup systems are nice, but you need to make sure they actually work. The other 10% are about making sure that whatever killed the primary doesn't daisy chain to the backup, basically don't change tires in the middle of the patch of stuff that popped the first one.
Forgot to add, I warned the company there were issues with various system, but they wouldn't listen.
I got tired of getting blamed for stuff I'd warned them about.
The cleaner unplugged itThen there was the manager of the building containing the mission-critical mainframe processing real time test data. He conducted a tour of his facility for some visitors and at one point in the tour he pointed out the main power switch to the mainframe - and cycled the switch off and back on!!! Scratch one expensive test, and scratch (quite literally) all the big, expensive hard disks supporting the operation.Pay attention to log files. More than once I have seen perfectly planned and executed offsite failovers felled because nobody realised the cleaner at the backup site was liable to unplug the servers, for example to charge an iPod. This is not an urban legend.
Sigh . . .
On a smaller scale, there was the large computer which would go crazy every now and then.Who knew that the steel wool pad on the floor cleaning machine would put iron filings in the air, or that they would randomly short out whatever printed circuit they settled on? Certainly not the janitor!
Hurricane Katrina hit landfall directly over our manufacturing plant along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi. The computer center there was flooded to almost ceiling level. Our Dell storage array network with all the local servers, disk drives, etc. was completely submerged in a stinking, muddy mess.
Come to find out, our fancy 'distributed' document management system is a combination of central and local storage. Whenever someone 'local' would access a blueprint file in edit mode, the system would move the file from 'central' storage to 'local' storage - this to improve the speed of accessing the file.
The 'local' files were in a Raid5 configuration with weekly full and nightly incremental disk-to-disk backup... plus tape backups stored in the datacenter - now all ruined.
The off-site, month-old backup was in a local bank deposit box. But the bank did not open for about a month after Katrina. The bank-located backups recovered just fine to a sister plant located in TN. But within the lost month, some of the company's blueprint files had been moved to local storage. In all, a few dozen critical blueprints from across the company existed only on the muck encrusted data disks.
Luckily, a company specializing in recovering data from damaged disks were able to retrieve all the lost engineering files. But not after several weeks and over $100k spent...
Between stupid users, and self inflicted pain, my horror stories are so numerous, I just don't know where to begin. Lol
It's been a long road, bud, but I made some good friends
That depends on the software and array you are using. The company I work for uses proprietary protocols for several mirroring software systems that prevent that sort of thing. Well, not so much prevent as make it easily recoverable to point-in-time when the corruption happens.
The company I work for has a customer who doesn't care what the cost is to protect the data for their enterprise. Their RTO and RPO are both zero. They demand it. They'll want operational overview but the details aren't relevant nor is the cost. Whatever it takes to accomplish that, do it. Any number above zero costs them millions per minute.
This account has some very stressed but very wealthy Account Sales Reps.
"Every software engineer should have the heart of a code writer.
In a jar on his desk."
I have seen a lot of companies including global banks that claim that they need 5 9's and RTO and RPO of zero. That is till they see the price tag. Then things get trimmed back very quickly.
If you have a client that is truely that demanding, you have both a blessing and a curse. And you will likely see things at that account you will not see ever again. Besides, it makes a good resume builder.
Oracle v. SAP. $1.4B please. Thank you very much.
Back in the day, no, the day before that, the difference between taking a full Friday night backup or conducting a full system restore, was a sleepy operator typing either a "1" or a "2" at 04:00 Saturday morning. You guessed it. That operator mounted tape after tape, blindly following the system prompts until better than half of the production data on our System 370 had been overwritten with the previous week's data. The boss, myself and a couple of my cohorts spent the next 55 hours in the DC straightening out that mess.
Again...a blessing and a curse.
I have nothing to do with that account. But I know people that do.
I don't have to fix their stuff but then again, I don't get to take credit as the Miracle Worker.
it does, but at the same time, you have to remember that they once lost a probe to Mars because they had two different groups working on it, one that used imperial measurements, the other used metrics.
Years ago, I was working in a datacenter that had about 13, HP-3000s with about 120 or so big washtub disk drives strung out the back on the floor. We also had a water-cooled IBM 3090, and a couple of miscellaneous Dec 11/780s. With all these systems up and running, this was a loud room to work in.
One day we had some fine fellows hanging wallpaper in the corridor that connected the computer room from the secure area you had to go through to enter.
There was a Big Red Button on the wall that had the words "EMERGENCY POWER CUT OFF" printed over in it large red letters. This button also had a cover over it that had to be pulled up in order to press the button, so noone could bump it by accident.
You remember those fine fellows hanging wallpaper? Well, they had to take that cover off the BRB so they could hang their wallpaper.
It was about 4:30 or so and we were right in the middle of shift change. A bunch of us were standing around talking and passing on info about what had happened the previous shift and what was coming up. Suddenly, we heard a huge BANG and it went dark as we heard the slow wind-down of all the fans, drives, and computers.
It became really quiet in that room. A kind of quiet you seldom hear, as our ears were so accustomed to the drone of the fans and drives, the lack thereof was even more profound than it might otherwise had been. We all kind of looked at each other and then looked out to the corridor, and saw where one of the fine fellows hanging wallpaper had accidently brushed up against that Big Red Button.
The aftermath was kind of interesting. We went through, hit the individual power switches on all the disk drives and other peripherals, to turn them off, then brought power back on.
Once we were sure power was stable, we started turning on the drives to the HP-3000 boxes. Out of the 12 systems, (that had thousands of users), 9 of them just kinda sat there and waited until each of its drives were fully up and connected, then they started executing the next instruction in their stack. I didn't know it at the time, but apparently they contained their own battery backup in the chassis, and just waited until they could continue right on with their work! To the thousands of users connected to these systems, their terminals just froze for a while, then continued right where they had left off. Total downtime for most of these systems was 15-30 minutes. (This represented thousands of hours of cumulative user downtime.)
The 3090 didn't fare so well. Apparently, they don't particularly like it when someone just yanks power from underneath them. Took about 13 or so hours to get it fully operational again.
I'll never forget what the Sound of Silence is really like.
My source (the prof) was one of the people who worked on the system, so while it might be a tall tale, it doesn't qualify as urban legend. It was being passed on as a "this is what I saw" not "this is what some other guy saw".
Basically, the point was that the guys in charge of calculating weight (for fuel, etc.) literally had no concept of a system component that had no weight. So they're acting like "I don't care how insignificant you think it is, I've got to know exactly!" -- thinking that the software developers were just being stubborn.
Wow. Just wow.
I worked in a company once where they hired a Russian engineer, and he designs this frame weldment, dimensions it all in cm, with no notes to that effect, then is stunned when it comes back built to his dimensions — in inches! He couldn't even figure out what the problem was at first. Not the sharpest tool in the shed. He had this big story of how he quasi-escaped from the USSR, but after I worked with him for a while, I decided his presence was (whether knowingly or not on his part) a plan by the Sovs to destroy US manufacturing.
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Web-site analytics is the study of the web-site visitors
Monitoring allows the measurement of the success or failure of a website. One gets indications about who, when, and how a web server is visited. Examples are ..
- Visitors to your site: duration, Days of the week, their countries
- Phrases used to search for the web-site
- File types/ Operating systems used / Web browser used / Internet Robots movements
- Which search engine is sending trafic to the site.
- School website: Search keyphrases used to access your site
- Job web site: to increase the number of job searches by users.
- Shop web site: which landing pages encourage people to make a purchase.
- Ranking of the web-site on Google
Performance indicators which need to be monitored
- Hit - A request for a file from the web server. The total number of visitors or page views provides a more realistic and accurate assessment of popularity.
- Page View A single page view may generate multiple hits.
- Visit / Session - A series of requests from the same uniquely identified client with a set timeout. A visit is expected to contain multiple hits (in log analysis) and page views.
- First Visit / First Session - A visit from a visitor who has not made any previous visits.
- New Visitor - A visitor that has not made any previous visits.
- Visitor / Unique Visitor / Unique User - The uniquely identified client generating requests on the web server (log analysis) or viewing pages (page tagging) within a defined time period (i.e. day, week or month). A Unique Visitor counts once within the timescale. A visitor can make multiple visits.
- Repeat Visitor - A visitor that has made at least one previous visit.
- Impression - An impression is each time an advertisement loads on a users screen. Anytime you see a banner, that is an impression.
- Singletons - The number of visits where only a single page is viewed.
- Bounce Rate / % Exit - The percentage of visits where the visitor enters and exits at the same page without visiting any other pages on the site in between.
Web Statistics Reports
- Data is recorded for each visit to a website. Software like AW-Stats, and Webaliser create reports from these raw data logs.
- For viewing your statistics ( if you are hosted on edeskonline, then go to Webtop >> Start >> Programs >> Website Statistics ).
- An alternate is to use Google Analytics( go to Google Adwords, log in, click Analytics on the top right hand side).
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- Response to queries sent and suggestions for boosting the number of visitors to your site.
An example interaction with a client went as follows.
- His query was.. Why is there a difference in the statistics of two different softwares..
- Our reply: Awstats uses server logs and google uses data sent to it ' by the code embedded in a page. If someone visits the site and hits the stop button before loading the entire page, google code may not execute and hence google logs are not updated. Whereas server log would have been updated even in such a case. Hence the difference in stats.
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rifampin Side Effects
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
- allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
- breathing problems
- feeling faint or lightheaded, falls
- fever or chills, mouth sores, or sore throat
- pinpoint red spots on the skin
- stomach pain
- trouble passing urine or change in the amount of urine
- unusual bleeding, bruising
- unusually weak or tired
- yellowing of the eyes or skin
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
- diarrhea
- dizziness
- headache
- loss of appetite
- nausea, vomiting
rifampin May Interact with Other Medications
Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications:
- delavirdine
- nevirapine
- sirolimus
- voriconazole
This medicine may also interact with the following medications:
- antibiotics like ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, isoniazid
- antifungal medicines like fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole
- atovaquone
- chloramphenicol
- cyclosporine
- dapsone
- female hormones, including contraceptive or birth control pills
- halothane
- medicines for blood pressure, other heart problems
- medicines for depression, anxiety, or psychotic disturbances
- medicines for diabetes
- medicines for pain
- medicnes for seizures like carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin
- medicines for sleep
- medicines for the thyroid
- medicines that treat or prevent blood clots like warfarin
- probenecid
- steroid medicines like prednisone or cortisone
- vitamin D
How to Use rifampin
Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Take this medicine on an empty stomach, either 1 hour before or 2 hours after food. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. For your therapy to work as well as possible, take each dose exactly as prescribed. Do not skip doses or stop your medicine even if you feel better. Skipping doses may make the TB resistant to this medicine and other medicines. Do not stop taking except on your doctor's advice.
Contact your pediatrician or health care professional regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
- liver disease, including hepatitis
- an unusual or allergic reaction to rifampin, rifabutin, other medicines, foods, dyes or preservatives
- pregnant or trying to get pregnant
- breast-feeding
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. This medicine can cause serious liver problems. Make sure you understand the risks for liver problems and how to identify the symptoms. If you have any questions, talk with your doctor or other health care provider.
Avoid alcoholic drinks while you are taking this medicine. Drinking alcohol during treatment with this medicine increases the risk of serious liver problems.
Birth control pills may not work properly while you are taking this medicine. Talk to your doctor about using an extra method of birth control.
Antacids may reduce the absorption of this medicine. Doses of this medicine should be given at least 1 hour before taking antacids.
This medicine can color your urine, feces (stool), perspiration (sweat), tears, sputum, skin or saliva reddish-orange to reddish-brown. This color can last for as long as you take this medicine and is not a cause for alarm. This color in tears may permanently stain soft contact lenses. It is better not to wear soft contact lenses while you are taking this medicine.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Store at room temperature below 30 degrees C (86 degrees F). Protect from light and moisture. Keep container tightly closed. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
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