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That's from the filesystem's perspective.
From the application's perspective, the entire sequence of "atomically replace the content of file A" failed -- file A was left in an indeterminate state. The application has no way of stating that it wants that replacement to occur in the future, but be atomic, except to use open-write-close-rename. The filesystem should ensure that the entire operation happens atomically, which means flushing the file-to-be-renamed's data blocks before the rename record is written.
What the application obviously meant to happen is for the filesystem to commit both the data blocks and the rename as some point in the future, but to always do it in that order. Atomic rename without that guarantee is far less useful, and explicit syncing all the time will kill performance.
These semantics are safe and useful! They don't impact performance much because the applications that need the fastest block allocated -- databases and such -- already turn off as much caching as possible and do that work internally.
Atomic-in-the-future commits may go beyond a narrow reading of POSIX, but that's not a bad thing. Are you saying that we cannot improve on POSIX?
ext4 and data loss
Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:27 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
anything else is guesswork by the OS.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:46 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:49 UTC (Fri) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
Posted Mar 13, 2009 7:58 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
(Memories of the Algol 68 standard, I think it was, going to some lengths to define the behaviour of the system under unspecified circumstances in which the power was cut, which were meant to include things like earthquakes.)
Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:47 UTC (Fri) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
Other filesystems work like ext4 does, yes. Consider XFS, which has a much smaller user base than it should, given its quality. Why is that the case? It has a reputation for data loss --- and for good reason. IMHO, it's ignoring an implied barriers created by atomic renames!
Forcing a commit of data before rename-onto-an-existing-file not only allows applications running today to work correctly, but creating an implied barrier on rename provides a very elegant way to detect the barrier the application developer almost certainly meant to write, but couldn't.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 4:12 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Posted Mar 13, 2009 7:57 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I've never seen anyone do it. Even coreutils 7.1 doesn't do it.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 8:29 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Posted Mar 13, 2009 14:50 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
Is it? If you rename from /A/file to /B/file (both on the same filesystem), what happens if the OS decides to write out the new directory metadata for /A immediately, but delay writing /B until an hour from now? (for performance, don't-cha-know) And then the machine crashes. So now you're left with no file at all.
While I admit not having looked, I'll bet three cookies that's perfectly allowed by POSIX.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 15:06 UTC (Fri) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
Posted Mar 13, 2009 18:05 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
rename must introduce a write barrier with respect to the data blocks for the file involved or we will lose.
Perhaps we're in vociferous agreement, I don't know.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 22:54 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
fsync is not gratuitous. It is the D in ACID. As you mentioned yourself, rename requires only A form ACID - and that is exactly what you get.
But, Ted being a pragmatic man, reverted this to the old behaviour, simply because he knows there is a lot of broken software out there.
The fact that good applications that never lose data are already using the correct behaviour is case in point that this is how all applications should do it.
Performance implications of this approach are different than that of the old approach from ext3. In some cases ext4 will be faster. In others, it won't. But the main performance problem is bad applications that gratuitously write hundreds of small files to the file system. This is what is causing the real performance problem and should be fixed.
XFS received a lot of criticism, for what seem to be application problems. I wonder how many people lost files they were editing in emacs on that file system. I would venture a guess, not many.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 23:10 UTC (Fri) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
It is the D in ACID. As you mentioned yourself, rename requires only A form ACID - and that is exactly what you get.
But the main performance problem is bad applications that gratuitously write hundreds of small files to the file system.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 23:46 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Just because something worked one way in one mode of one file system, doesn't mean it is the only way it can work, nor that applications should rely on it. If you want atomicity without durability, you get it on ext4, even without Ted's most recent patches (i.e. you get the empty file). If you want durability as well, you call fsync.
> And why, pray tell, is writing files to a filesystem a bad thing?
Writing out files that have _not_ changed is a bad thing. Or are you telling me that KDE changes all of its configuration files every few minutes?
BTW, the only reason fsync is slow on ext3, is because it does sync of all files. That's something that must be fixed, because it's nonsense.
Posted Mar 14, 2009 1:58 UTC (Sat) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
Just because something worked one way in one mode of one file system...
...you get it on ext4, even without Ted's most recent patches (i.e. you get the empty file).
Posted Mar 15, 2009 6:01 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Except that rename(s), as specified, never actually guarantees that.
Posted Mar 15, 2009 6:04 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Posted Mar 14, 2009 12:53 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Posted Mar 15, 2009 6:03 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Posted Mar 14, 2009 1:23 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
If you were to write new data to the file and THEN call rename, a crash right afterwards might mean that the updates were not saved. But the only way you could lose the file's original data here is if you opened it with O_TRUNC, which is really stupid if you don't fsync() immediately after closing.
Posted Mar 17, 2009 7:12 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]
That's a bit heavy for a barrier though. A barrier just needs to ensure ordering, not actually ensure the data is on the disk. Those are distinct needs.
For example, if I use mb(), I'm assured that other CPUs will see that every memory access before mb() completed before every memory access after mb(). That's it. The call to mb() doesn't ensure that the data gets written out of the cache to its final endpoint though. So, if I'm caching, say, a portion of the video display buffer, there's no guarantee I'll see the writes I made before the call to mb() appear on the screen. Typically, though, all that's needed and desired is a mechanism to guarantee things happen in a particular order so that you move from one consistent state to the next.
The atomic-replace-by-rename carries this sort of implicit barrier in many peoples' minds, it seems. Delaying the rename until the data actually gets allocated and committed is all this application requires. It doesn't actually require the data to be on the disk.
In other words, fsync() is too big a hammer. It's like flushing the CPU cache to implement mb().
Is there an existing API that just says "keep these things in this order" without actually also spinning up the hard drive? With the move to more battery powered machines and media that wears out the more it's written to, it seems like a bad idea to ask developers to force the filesystem to do more writes.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:32 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
As for performance, I'm not really sure why an implicit fsync that ext3 does would be faster than an explicit one done from the application, if they end up in exactly the same thing (i.e. both data and metadata being written to permanent storage). Unless this implicit fsync in ext3 is not actually the equivalent of fsync, but instead just something that works most of the time (i.e. is done in 5 second intervals, as per Ted's explanation).
Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:58 UTC (Fri) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
Say you're updating a few hundred small files. (And before you tell me that's bad design: I disagree. A file system is meant to manage files.) If you were to fsync before renaming each one, the whole operation would proceed slowly. You'd need to wait for the disk to finish writing each file before moving on to the next, creating a very stop-and-go dynamic and slowing everything down.
On the other hand, if you write and rename all these files without an fsync, when the commit interval expires, the filesystem can pick up all these pending renames and flush all their data blocks at once. Then it can write all the rename records, at once, much improving the overall running time of the operation.
The whole thing is still safe because if the system dies at any point, each of the 200 configuration files will either refer to the complete old file or the complete new file, never some NULL-filled or zero-length strangelet.
Posted Mar 13, 2009 1:16 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
I don't think that's bad design either. It is very useful to build an XML tree from many small files (e.g. gconf), instead of putting everything into one big one, which, if corrupted, will bring everything down.
> The whole thing is still safe because if the system dies at any point, each of the 200 configuration files will either refer to the complete old file or the complete new file, never some NULL-filled or zero-length strangelet.
I think that's the bit Ted was complaining about. It is unusual that changes to hundreds of configuration files would have to be done all at once. Users usually change a few things at a time (which would then be OK with fsync), so this must be some kind of automated thing doing it.
But, yeah, I understand what you're getting at in terms of performance of many fsync calls in a row.
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Make a real distinction between political debates as entertainment and political debates as too-far-reaching politico-media tools. Find a drinking game, enjoy what you watch and recognize those photo stills which dominate the media in the days after. But don't let the presidential debates affect your vote. The concepts of winning and losing are entirely subjective and irrelevant. Read about the candidates and their policies in a more controlled environment, and base your vote on the closest thing to fact that you can find. That way debates can still make the election fun but not help turn it into an unfortunate joke.
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"What are the different types of EJB?"
Entity Beans are deprecated, and are replaced by Java Persistence API. - March 8, 2012 at 7:18 AM
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Google is officially in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business. Its newly-launched utility computing service, Google Compute Engine, lets users run workloads inside big G's massive datacenters, just like Amazon does with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Urs Hölzle, Google's vice president of engineering and longtime employee, revealed the news last Thursday at the company's annual developers conference. The compute service joins Google's App Engine PaaS, which launched in 2008 and now supports over one million active apps and receives 7.5 billion hits per day.
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Taking it a step further, the VP showed that allocating about 600,000 cores to the same genomics app allowed for the discovery of multiple matches every few seconds. In order to take advantage of this many cores, the code was modified ahead of time using Compute Engine's ExaCycle technology. Further details of Google's work with the Institute for System Biology are outlined in this case study.
There's no Google equivalent yet of an Amazon HPC instance type, but it's likely only a matter of time. While Google's offerings are less evolved than the Amazon cloud portfolio, they are not that far apart considering their relative ages.
Google Compute Engine joins the suite of services that comprise the Google Cloud Platform, which also includes Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL and the Prediction API. These roughly mirror Amazon's Web Services. For example, Google Cloud Storage is similar to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).
Google Compute Engine is currently available in "limited preview," accessible here.
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When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Recommendation 7: Oversight and regulatory organizations and payers should use legislation, regulation, accreditation, and payment mechanisms and the media to motivate the adoption of practices and technologies that can reduce medication errors, as well as to ensure that professionals have the competencies required to deliver medications safely.
Payers and purchasers should continue to motivate improvement in the medication-use process through explicit financial incentives.
CMS should evaluate a variety of strategies for delivering medication therapy management.
Regulators, accreditors, and legislators should set minimum functionality standards for error prevention technologies.
States should enact legislation consistent with and complementary to the Medicare Modernization Act's electronic prescribing provisions and remove existing barriers to such prescribing.
All state boards of pharmacy should undertake quality improvement initiatives related to community pharmacy practice.
Medication error reporting should be promoted more aggressively by all stakeholders (with a single national taxonomy used for data storage and analysis).
Accreditation bodies responsible for the oversight of professional education should require more training in improving medication management practices and clinical pharmacology.
The American people expect safe medication care. In this report, the committee proposes an ambitious agenda for making the use of medications safer. This agenda requires that all stakeholders—patients, care providers, payers, industry, and government, working together—commit to preventing medication errors. Given that a large proportion of injurious drug events are preventable, this proposed agenda should deliver early and measurable benefits.
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Thanks everyone for coming to the workshop tonight! We covered the basics of 3D printing, including: Making 3D models in Tinkercad, OpenSCAD, and Blender Editing slicer settings in Skeinforge Understanding raw g-code Printing on the Solidoodle Finding cool projects on Thingiverse Check out the presentation to get links to all the software we discussed: 3DPrinting…
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2-4pm – Help Desk open Get help with your computer problems! learn how to fix stuff! donations encouraged, or donate your time to help others! 5-6pm – Solidoodle Workshop We have a 3-D printer, yo! Learn to design, share, and print on our 3-D Solidoodle printer. Join us for our Spring 2013 workshops, every 4th…
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We are excited to have two exciting workshops happening for the holiday season. One focused on sewing and one focused on glass fusing: Hey HO HO HO! Let's Sew Saturday, December 1, 2012 2:00pm until 5:00pm With the Holidays right around the corner, forget about commercially produced junk and come make a keepsake ornament of your very…
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We got out new Solidoodle 3D printer up and printing. We hope to make a permanent place in the space for it and have it available for any members to use(after training). So come on by and play with it some time!
Solidoodle is go. First thing it did…. play tetris.
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The Solidoodle is here and next Wednesday (Nov. 7) 7pm we'll be having our first Training/Learning/Planning session with it so stop by if you're interested.
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***UPDATE*** One of our sewing experts will be unable to come this Thursday. We'll have help available, it just might be spread a little thin See you there! **** Not done with your halloween costume? How unseamly! But don't fret as Shared Threads and Makerspace Urbana have teamed up to help you. We'll be…
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We have done it! Summer Make-a-tion 2012 is officially over. We met a lot of amazing people over the summer. Words cannot express our gratitude to everyone who came to support us, including all of our awesome instructors. And where words fail, pizza saves the day! I hope all of you will join us in…
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And we have two amazing workshops happening. Arduino Robotics and Sewing Switchcraft, both aimed at artists, tinkerers, makers and people who just like to create. Join us!
Summer Make-ation 2012 is here.
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@maltman23 will be train hacking his way across the US! Hopefully he can stop by #chambana for a workshop at the Makerspace! :-)
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Vision of the Future? Memphis City Council: A second vote is scheduled on the City budget, but passage isn't a sure thing. Also on tap, increasing the hotel-motel occupancy tax and studying a "red light district". The Council agenda. Councilman Ed Ford Jr plans to bring up rehab funding for the Hotel Chisca (see article to right). More from the Commercial Appeal. Mississippi Highway Safety: Police are now looking for a single individual responsible for two lethal highway shootings. He is posing as a police officer. More reports on the murders from WREG, WMC, ABC24 and again, Fox13. How to protect yourself during a traffic stop; similar stories from WMC and the Commercial Appeal. Innovation Zone: Seven schools in the Memphis school system have been chosen for this program, Federally funded and still within the unified school district. These low-performing schools will get new practices and philosophies of operation. Education Reform: The State has now officially left NCLB behind. Statewide, students posted small gains in 8th-grade science. Some 7000 Memphis teachers got their State evaluation scores yesterday. More from the Commercial Appeal. Millington: The town's Chamber of Commerce met with government trade representatives from a number of countries Monday. Overton Park Conservancy: The Assisi Foundation has given them a $500,000 grant to stage "cultural and educational programs, activities and events". The Foundation website. Kent Wunderlich is the newest member of the conservancy's board. Business: The Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was in town filming six local eateries. Governor Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Karla Davis announced a new database for job seekers: Jobs4TN; more from the CA. Memphis will be a test market for new Coca-Cola products. Verso Paper: They reported a sharp downward swing in first-quarter operating income. Delta Air Lines: Tom Jones, president of Smart City Consulting, is using Facebook to fight high air fares from the Memphis hub. Facebook group. More stories from WMC and a Delta-friendly Commercial Appeal. Varco Pruden Buildings: They got the contract to provide seven million pounds of steel to the Electrolux plant. Nashville: Another group, Moving Nashville Forward, comes out in favor of the tax increase proposed by Mayor Karl Dean; more from the Tennessean. Meanwhile, Americans For Prosperity are against the increase; and more on this from the Nashville City Paper. Tell your friends you read it here:
INTERNET EXCLUSIVE! Southpaw: The Tale of Two Covers: Columnist Andria K. Brown notes two very different magazine covers and the articles they represent. One, she thinks, is much more important than the other.
Exclusive: Paul Morris: Hotel Chisca: The effort to save the Hotel Chisca from the wrecking ball is back in the news and we think this column deserves republishing. Exclusive: Conservatives Cannot Afford To Be Silent and Republicans Cannot Afford To Let Them is the message in this month's column from our political/financial contributor Chuck Bates. It's do or die. Memphis Fast Forward: They are sponsoring a luncheon next week, to discuss reassessing and tweaking economic development aims and goals. The Fast Forward website. Maxine Smith: The civil rights activist is being honored for her long devotion to the cause with an oil portrait commissioned by the Metropolitan Baptist Church. Memphis Police Department: The number of speeding tickets issued in April soared. The City has "lost" about $600,000 in ticket revenues since the "ticket strike" began. Overton Square: A status report on the progress of rehabilitation. Loeb Properties website on Overton Square. Memphis in May: This is the 35th year of the landmark event. Shelby County Commission: Attorney Keith C. Kyles has recovered from a brain tumor and is now part of the redistricting debate which he helped shape. They will discuss turning over a building to house an African-American Memphis history museum. Economic Development Growth Engine: New president Reid Dulberger has made his first four hires. Census: US Representative John Duncan Jr thinks the detailed monthly census questionnaire is "Orwellian" and asks intrusive questions that aren't the Federal government's business. Politics: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will "no longer spend resources" on his campaign. He won 10% of primary votes in Tennessee. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn appeared on ABC's This Week on Sunday. With the General Assembly over, legislators are focusing on primaries and elections. Weather: Meteorologist Ben Schott is the new Warning Coordinator for the National Weather Service and he wants to help everyone prepare for bad weather. Arkansas: Supporters are gathering signatures for two constitutional amendments to allow casinos. Details from ABC24 and the CA. West Memphis is considering a new teen curfew for the Summer. Gasoline: Prices continue to move downward. The local average is $3.41/gallon. (via Memphis Gas Prices) American Queen: She returns to her home port today, from her maiden cruise. Real Estate: The Daily News gives a real estate recap. The sale of the Avenue Collierville lifestyle center is proceeding. Mississippi: Governor Phil Bryant signed a number of business growth-friendly laws; more from the CA. North Carolina's governor Beverly Perdue spoke to Governor Bryant about her insulting remarks about MS, but didn't apoligise. Republican State Representative Tommy Woods is retiring after 25 years, for medical reasons. |
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Air Traffic Mike's: What was originally a simple grocery trip for five items became a festival of smoked meats and chili.
Joe Spake's Daily Buzz: The rest of the day's news, from all sorts of eclectic places. Also, interesting social media and tech links. Dr Manoj Jain: He likes the new strategy of "health behavior change" ads. (via the Commercial Appeal) Commercial Appeal: They call the Bass Pro Shops/Pyramid "a game changer for Downtown Memphis". "Alarm" at the state of the Memphis College of Art. Giving Back: The week's spotlight shines on the MCS 2012 Career Internship Program and Samaritan's Feet. (via the Daily News) Bill Troutt: The president of Rhodes College is grateful to Memphis. (via the Daily News) Barbara Sanders: Healing the breach in American politics. (via the Tennessean) The Insiders: Ben Ferguson and Joseph Kyles discuss the issues of the day. (via Fox13) Living Loud in Midtown: There's a new warning sign under the railroad trestle outside Cooper-Young. Using your blog to remember what to do. matters of merrymaking: She's guest-blogging on polka dots. |
Paul Ryburn's Journal: He details the BYO sandwich at Bleu's. It's a little late now but, ladies, if you're a Grizzlies supporter he wants you to wear a tube top.
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✓ Inspect at least twice a year, and after any severe storm.
✓ Create a roofing file for each building; review warranty information.
✓ Clear roof drains of debris (roof warranties don't cover this).
✓ Walk the perimeter to examine sheet metal, copings, and previously repaired sections.
✓ Check roof-to-wall connections, and examine flashings (at curbs and penetrations, etc.) for wrinkles and tearing.
✓ For single-ply roofs, re-caulk the top of face-mounted termination bars (if needed).
✓ For bituminous roofs, check for splits in the stripping plies.
✓ Keep traffic off of the roof to avoid membrane damage.
✓ Plan a moisture survey every 5 years to detect wet insulation or leaks.
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✓ Inspect at least twice a year, with seasonal start-up and run inspections.
✓ Seasonal PM of chillers and boilers is involved; industry practice is to have a qualified mechanical contractor provide services.
✓ For cooling towers, disassemble screens and access panels for inspection; inspect the tower fill, support structure, sump and spray nozzles, fill valve, gear box, drive coupling, fan blades, and motor bearings; clean starter and cabinet; inspect wiring; check motor starter contacts for wear and proper operation; megger test the motor and log readings; and check the condition of the sump heater and contactor, and log observations.
✓ Pumps usually require bearing lubrication at least annually. Inspect couplings and check for leaks. Investigate unusual noises.
✓ Air-handling unit maintenance should include cleaning or replacing air filters at least quarterly, based on condition.
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✓ Inspect at least annually; investigate any leaks or unusual noises.
✓ Domestic water booster and circulation pump systems require bearing lubrication at least annually; inspect couplings and check for any leaks.
✓ Domestic water heaters and boilers should be fire-tested periodically, using flue-gas analysis to adjust the flue draft and combustion air input to optimize efficiency.
✓ Remote drinking water chillers need condenser fan motor bearings lubricated annually. Check all contacts for wear and pitting, and run system control tests. Pump down the system and remove the refrigerant according to manufacturer instructions. Drain and replace oil in the compressor oil reservoir, including filters, strainers, and traps.
✓ Sump and sewage ejection pumps are replaced on an as-needed basis, but should be checked for function. Exposed pumps should be lubricated annually.
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✓ Inspect at regular intervals, with group relamping when lamps begin to fail.
✓ Any luminaires that have transformers, control gear, or accessories, such as spread lenses, glare baffles, or color filters, should be routinely checked.
✓ Check exterior lights to make sure cables aren't torn; all screws and hardware should be in place and working, and gaskets can be replaced to provide a better watertight seal.
✓ Replace any burned-out lamps, and consider group relamping (to create your relamping schedule, calculate lamp life and how often lamps are used).
✓ Ensure that each lamp has the same color temperature.
✓ Re-aim adjustable lighting, if necessary.
✓ Dust lamps and clean lens surfaces to enhance lighting performance.
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✓ Inspect at regular intervals, according to manufacturer specifications.
✓ Though a licensed or manufacturer-authorized professional should inspect fire- and life-safety systems, you can make sure your certification is up to date, and ensure that reports and paperwork are handy. You should also verify that your fire-protection control panel isn't in "alarm" or "trouble" condition, check that the pressure gauges on the fire suppression agent cylinders are in the green/operable range, ensure that system piping or conduit is properly anchored, and verify that system nozzles aren't obstructed and allow adequate flow of the suppression agent into the protected space.
✓ Electrical systems should be inspected by a licensed electrician every 3 to 5 years; PM typically includes checking switchgear, panel boards, and connections, and cleaning and re-torquing electrical-equipment connections. Overcurrent devices should be cleaned and lubricated as required; fusible switch units should be checked to make sure all fuses within the unit are from the same manufacturer and are of the same class and rating. Note that arcing failures occur where connections have been loosened as a result of thermal cycling.
✓ Parking-garage surfaces should be cleaned at least twice a year, with coating replacement every 10 years. Power washing is a cheap, easy way to protect the structure and delay rehabilitation projects.
✓ Pavements should be crack-filled and seal-coated on a regular basis. Mill and overlay pavements should be done every 20 years.
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The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation has brought in a new version of its bill to make it tougher to get initiatives or referenda on the Idaho ballot, this time requiring signatures to come from 6 percent of residents of 18 of Idaho's 35 legislative districts, rather than from 22 of the 35 legislative districts. The new bill is otherwise identical to the group's earlier measure. The Senate State Affairs Committee voted this morning to introduce the new version, but only after Sen. Elliiot Werk, D-Boise, said he's heard from his constituents "a deep-seated anger with these kinds of attempts to lessen the ability of the people to petition us," and Sen. Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, noted that a 9th Circuit court decision cited by the Farm Bureau doesn't indicate the courts would uphold such a restriction, which likely would land the state back in court. "I have some confidence that there'll be a judicial opportunity for review should the Legislature adopt this approach," Davis said.
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This blog post is the first in a series on PR measurement and reporting. It comes from
Rob McMurtrie, Vice President at Porter Novelli Seattle.
Most PR reports are like soap bubbles – pretty to look at but not very strong. The problem is circulations, article counts and tonality of coverage tell business leaders very little about the impact public relations is having on the company's goals. And when they start asking probing questions about the value of these measures – POP! – there goes YOUR reputation.
More PR professionals need to push beyond their comfort zone and start creating strong analysis of their results. Securing good coverage – which is what these traditional measures evaluate – isn't the goal of our profession. It's the prerequisite.
So what to do instead? Index your coverage results and correlate them with other, more meaningful data. The three steps below highlight a simple way to do that.
First, reduce the cost and time spent on collecting prerequisite data. A lot of PR folks and agencies still have a "clip book" mentality – that it is critical to capture every single mention of your brand or product to fatten up that clip book. While there are certainly cases where finding all relevant coverage is important (in times of crisis, for example), getting to 100% coverage capture is very expensive and isn't necessary to get a statistically valid sample that will index your coverage results. There are tools available that can help automate that process and free up tracking dollars for more meaningful projects.
Second, determine what data you can get from inside your organization. Here's a hint: Don't start with sales! While understanding PR's impact on sales is considered the "holy grail" of measurement, it typically requires very expensive ROI analysis that accounts for the influence of all aspects of the marketing mix. Instead, try some simple steps like looking at social media reaction to an announcement as a proxy for how you impacted customer perception and attitudes or evaluating inbound web traffic from publication sites immediately after coverage hits. After a recent new product launch for a small consumer products client, we were able to show that traffic to the website doubled in the week following due to referrals from sites featuring coverage we generated.
Finally, start thinking about measurement as a process, not an end product. Many PR pros consider their job complete when they have a number they can share with management. The number is only part of the story, however. What is critical is the insight derived from that number. Having a consistent and repeatable measurement process makes deriving those insights easier because you can analyze your impact over time – whether it is quarter to quarter or across a particular series of events. That consistency allows you to understand how changes positively or negatively impacted your results and to design better programs, products, etc. It also allows you to iterate as you get access to new and different forms of data.
It's important to note that these same steps can be used not only for traditional media but also for social media measurement which many of us are increasingly being asked to tackle.
Make a commitment this summer to leave the soap bubbles to the kids and start constructing a measurement program that will last long after Labor Day!
Rob McMurtrie is Vice President at Porter Novelli Seattle. He has 15 years of experience developing local, national and international marketing communications programs for clients and has spent 10 years developing Porter Novelli's award-winning measurement programs.
Rob's measurement work was recognized with the 2008 PR News Platinum Award for Measurement and Evaluation and the 2008 Iron Sabre Certificates of Excellence for Evaluation. Rob is active in the Seattle community and frequently speaks on PR-related issues.
You can follow Rob on Twitter (@robmctree) or connect with him via LinkedIn.


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TORONTO — A crisis negotiator at the Grand Valley Institution for Women who attended to Ashley Smith during an emergency weeks before she died was written up by his bosses for not introducing himself to her by name during the incident — even though the two knew each other very well.
Testifying at the Smith inquest in Toronto, Gaetan Desrochers, a correctional officer at the facility, painted a picture of hurdles that were imposed by managers at the facility that Desrochers said made it quite difficult to do his job when dealing with Smith.
During one crisis situation on Sept. 20, 2007, Desrochers and Vince Barone, another correctional officer trained as crisis negotiator, were called to her cell to deal with an emergency in which Ashley had tied a ligature around her neck, was in possession of glass, had cut her arm and was blue in the face.
Desrochers said he negotiated with Smith.
"She needed to express herself, to vent. I needed to calm her down," Desrochers said, adding later that he employed active listening skills so that Ashley, with whom he'd interacted several times before, could feel validated.
A short time later, Barone tapped him on the shoulder saying they had to leave her cell. Desrochers said that given Ashley seemed suicidal and in great need of assistance at the moment, that order seemed to go against everything Desrochers learned, so he ignored the command at first.
"Under no circumstances do you leave a suicidal person and walk away," Desrochers told the inquest.
After two more urgings from Barone that they had to leave, they left Ashley lying on the floor with the ligature still on.
It turned out that a high-risk inmate was being brought into a nearby cell, and the jail wanted the two men clear of the area.
Sometime later, Desrochers returned to Smith's cell, continuing to try to calm her down, talking in French at one point, and discussing subjects she liked.
Eventually Smith got up and undid her ligature. The crisis was soon defused.
But Desrochers later learned the deputy warden for the facility wrote a cautionary letter to Grand Valley's correctional manager saying that after reviewing the video of the incident, it was noted that Desrochers didn't first identify himself to Smith when he entered her cell.
Desrochers said had he done that, given how well they knew each other, Smith would have looked at him like he had some type of problem and said, "Gaetan, you need to go home."
Desrochers, who needed to pause several times Wednesday morning to wipe away tears during his testimony, described how increasingly, managers at the correctional facility were discouraging officers from entering Smith's cell when she tied ligatures around her neck.
The inquest has heard that managers were growing concerned that too many "use of force" reports were being submitted by Grand Valley guards, reports written whenever a guard had to enter a cell and use force on an inmate.
Many of these reports pertained to Ashley Smith.
Desrochers testified that, as a result, there were times when Smith used ligatures and he would enter her cell to remove them — but not fill out a report.
The inquest continues.
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Joseph Halevi graduated from the University La Sapienza in Rome with a thesis on Kalecki's business cycles and fiscal policies. He taught then at the New School for Social Research in New York, at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and from 1979 at the University of Sydney. Since then, he has been Research Professor at the Faculty of Statistics of La Sapienza, Visiting Full Professor in Economics and Political Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Grenoble, Nice, and Amiens. In recent years he has been also invited in Italy by the University of Lecce, Faculty of Philosophy and by the University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Science. Halevi participated in the association of "economia critica" in Spain, and was among the founding group of the Association of Heterodox Economics (UK) where he is still active. He is a member of the editorial committees of Economie appliquée (Paris), Cahiers d'économie politique (Paris), and of International Journal of Political Economy (NY). He has co-edited two books and published single and co-authored essays in several journals and edited volumes. He is a regular contributor to the daily Il manifesto, Rome, where he published so far about 300 articles. His research involves a critical dissection of economic theories, as well as the transformations of the capitalist economies. |
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Saki Bailey is Executive Director & Research Fellow of IPEL. Saki is an IUC Faculty Member and Lecturer in Human Rights & International & Foreign Legal Research. She received her Juris Doctor from UC Hastings with an emphasis in International & Comparative Law. In her last year at Hastings she studied Comparative Latin American legal systems and International Trade Policy at the Universidad Católica de la Santissima Concepción, Chile. Her current areas of research are in International Human Rights & Comparative Law. She is currently conducting a Common Core of European Private Law study on "Access to Commons" and is also a general editor of the book together with Ugo Mattei and Filippo Valguarnera. Between 2004-2006, she assisted a study on Access to Justice on behalf of the Academie Internationale Droit Comparé, Paris and from 2008-2010 she was a Visitor of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Her work experience includes property, immigration and environmental law in the private sector and immigration law and development work in the government and nonprofit sector. |
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Michele Spanò is the seminar series coordinator at IPEL; he is Research Fellow at the Department of Law at the University of Turin. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' and a Ph.D. in European Legal Cultures at the EHESS in Paris. He has been Agent Chercheur at the CENJ-Yan Thomas at the EHESS in Paris, Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York and Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for Historical Studies in Naples. He is member of the Editorial Board of 'Politica & Società' (il Mulino) and he writes for 'il manifesto' and 'L'Indice dei libri del mese'. His research interests include the philosophy of Michel Foucault, governmentality, postcolonial studies and the relationship between legal actions and citizenship. |
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Nick Robinson Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School in New Delhi, India, Visiting researcher in IPEL (Summer, 2011)
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Eliana Augusti Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Salento
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Luwam Dirar J.S.D. Candidate, Cornell Law School | |
Anna V. Dolidze J.S.D. Candidate, Cornell Law School | |
Michael Du Assistant Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
Jonathan G. Ercanbrack Lecturer in the Law of Islamic Finance, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London | |
Dimitra Georgaraki Center of European Governance and Center of Russia, Eurasia and South Eastern Europe in Greece | |
Nisha Mistry Independent consultant and attorney | |
Claire Mumme PhD Candidate in Law, Osgoode Hall Law School at York University | |
Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral Post-Doctoral Max Weber Fellow in Law, European University Institute (EUI) | |
Marybelle Nzegwu IUC Faculty Member | |
Luigi Russi Postgraduate student in Global Political Economy | |
Mai Taha S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law | |
Stephen Young Independent Researcher
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Charlize Theron 'Fell In Love' With 'Agent 13' Concept
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'Snow White' actress tells MTV News how she 'stalked' director Rupert Wyatt after hearing about the sci-fi adaptation.
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Charlize Theron has played more than a few not-so-nice characters. She received critical acclaim for her role in "Young Adult," where she played an unstable woman intent on winning back her married high school sweetheart. Now she's working on a project with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" director Rupert Wyatt called "Agent 13," in which she'll reportedly play another femme fatale.
When MTV News caught up with the "Snow White and the Huntsman" actress, she revealed how the sci-fi project came together.
"It's a pitch that I heard a month or so ago and I fell in love with this pitch," she said. "And ironically, at the same time, I really wanted to have a general [meeting] — 'cause you know how I stalk directors — with Rupert 'cause I really love what he's been doing. I brought up the pitch to him and he said, 'I really love this. I think we should talk about it.' And so it was really just the universe coming together."
"Agent 13" is an adaptation of a 1988 comic book that follows an organization called the Brotherhood, which comprises survivors of the lost civilization of Lemuria. The title character was kidnapped by the Brotherhood as a young boy and trained to be one of their top spies. When Agent 13 realizes the group has been corrupted, though, he sets off to take them down.
Fans are speculating that Theron will play one of the agent's two sidekicks — his seductive lover, China White, or his beautiful, devoted assistant Maggie Darr — but the actress isn't sure which character she'll play. "You know, we're writing it right now so it's a very, very loose pitch," she said, "but it's an alternate world story so it's big and epic and cool."
With the Wyatt project still in its early stages, fans can get their fill of evil Theron as the wicked Queen Ravenna in "Snow White" when it opens on June 1. Her character's cruel nature, she said, gave her license to act like a jerk between takes.
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Bruce Tonkin wrote: The proposal below goes well beyond ICANN's mandate of technical determinations and is old-fashioned censorship. I too would like to see the criteria limited to something within ICANN's scope. "Confusingly similar" does have the benefit of being settled US law, but I don't see the value in building a process that requires dragging US law into the fray as a matter of standard process (i.e. "is this new string confusingly similar to others? dunno - we need to ask a judge."). There is also the argument that introducing this criteria lends credence to the emerging notion that these TLDs are the intellectual property of the proposer. I don't believe that this is the case, and I agree with the assessment that we should avoid fostering that impression through our policies. You've also made the statement that: ""typo" confusion - is more related to the use of particular keyboards where it is easy to make a mistake in typing. E.g mistyping "n" for "m". Ie "tonkim" instead of "tonkin""I also agree that the term "typo confusion" is inappropriately vague. Rather, instead of focusing on confusing similarity (legal basis), or typo-confusion (error based), we should instead use "typographically similar" as the criteria. This would allow the process to execute in an objective typographic context, i.e "that by which something is symbolized or figured..." Typography has very little to do with the meaning, semantics and intentions of words and characters, and everything to do with how they look. Strings that are typographically similar (i.e. TONKIM, TONKIN, T0NKIN, etc) are easily quantified - each of these strings is typographically similar to the other. Strings that are "confusingly similar" are not easily quantified without the involvement of expert legal opinion, which by definition, is simply an opinion and not a statement of fact - each of these strings "may" be confusingly similar, but this is just an opinion, and a judge may be swayed by a superior arguement (which, if he is, would mean that the string could be deemed suitable for implementation, leaving registrants holding the bag over whether or not people are actually being confused or mislead by the string.) Don't we want to implement simple processes that can be predictably repeated with very little overhead? Or are we doomed to a future of specialist committee's that will make subjective determinations about various parts of the application based on what their opinions "as experts"? (re: to the point of whether or not a string is rooted in a typo-confusion, is probably something that should be left for the courts to figure out. i.e. I would expect Verisign to file for an injunction and go through the courts if someone proposed a string that they felt infringed on their trademarks or otherwise violated their intellectual property rights by misleading their customers, etc....) -ross


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Management of aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss in postmenopausal women with breast cancer: practical guidance for prevention and treatment.
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Bone mineral density (BMD)-based guidelines for bone-directed therapy in women with early breast cancer (EBC) appear inadequate for averting fractures, particularly during aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy. Therefore, an algorithm was developed to better assess risk and direct treatment (Hadji P, Body JJ, Aapro MS et al. Practical guidance for the management of aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss. Ann Oncol 2008; 19: 1407-1416). Here, we provide updated guidance on pharmacologic interventions to prevent/treat aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss (AIBL).
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