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Traps await ordinary savers
Published 6:11 pm, Sunday, February 17, 2013
Regulators across the country are confronting a wave of investor fraud that is saddling retirement savers with steep losses on complex products that until a few years ago were pitched only to the most sophisticated investors.
The victims are among the millions of Americans whose mutual funds and stock portfolios plummeted in the wake of the financial crisis, and who started searching for ways to make better returns than the minuscule interest rates being offered by bank deposits and government bonds.
Tens of thousands of them put their money into speculative bets promoted by aggressive financial advisers, including private loans to young companies like television production firms and shares in bundles of commercial real estate properties.
Business Channel
Those alternative investments have now had time to go sour in big numbers, state and federal securities regulators say, and are making up a majority of complaints and prosecutions.
"Since the crisis, we've seen more and more people reaching out into different types of exotic investments that are a big concern to us," said William F. Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of the commonwealth.
Last Wednesday, Galvin's office ordered one of the nation's largest brokerage firms, LPL Financial, to pay $2.5 million for improperly selling the real estate bundles, known as nontraded REITs, or real estate investment trusts, to hundreds of state residents from 2006 to 2009, in some cases overloading clients' accounts with REITs.
LPL said it agreed, as part of the settlement, to reform its process for selling those REITs and other alternative investments.
Because of the piecemeal nature of the cases, there are few good statistics on the extent of the problem nationally. But cases are mounting in the offices of regulators like A. Heath Abshure, the securities commissioner in Arkansas, where a majority of the 66 open securities cases involve complex investments sold to less sophisticated investors looking for a steady return.
J. Bradley Bennett, executive vice president of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, Wall Street's self-regulatory group, said that for the last two years 10 staff members have been dedicated to looking at the "proliferation of these products, to understand how they are being sold."
"It's got our attention," he said. "We recognize the trends."
REITs have been one of the most heavily sold products because there are few rules about who can buy them.
Popular for years, REITs used to come primarily in funds that could be traded on public exchanges. The hot new version of REITs — the type that got LPL Financial in trouble in Massachusetts — can be bought and sold only in private transactions.
The outstanding amount of such nontraded REITs grew to $65 billion last year, from $43 billion in 2009, according to Direct Investments Spectrum. The private nature of these REITs has been advertised as a good thing, because it means the products are less likely to move up and down with the stock market. But it has also made it hard for investors to value their holdings or to get out when they need the money.
In addition to the Massachusetts case, FINRA issued a $14 million fine in October against a big purveyor of nontraded REITs in the New York area, David Lerner Associates.
FINRA put out a warning in January about one of the newest products being sold to retail investors: so-called business development companies, or BDCs, which hold the debt of small companies. The amount of money in outstanding nontraded BDCs grew to $4.5 billion last year from $8 million in 2008, according to MTS Research Advisors.
John Morgan, the securities commissioner in Texas, said that based on the complaints coming into his office, the appeal of alternative products appeared to be undimmed.
"The people that we talk to are just trying to find a stable source of income," Morgan said. "The promoters have found a sweet spot here."

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Soap Opera Digest is reporting this evening that little Max Page, who is seven years old, and who appears on a recurring basis as Victoria's (Amelia Heinle) son, Reed Hellstrom, on the number one soap, The Young and the Restless is scheduled for heart surgery on June 14. Max was born with a congenital heart defect that has already necessitated several operations.
Fans can send cards and messages to: Max Page, c/o The Young and the Restless 7800 Beverly Blvd, Suite 3305, Los Angeles, CA, 90036. Monetary donations can also be made in Max's name at www.chla.org/max.
We wish Max a speedy recovering and to get back to Genoa City soon to give his on-screen mom, Amelia Heinle a great young actor to play off of!


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Anything but colorblind
New facilities for color measurement lab
An experienced team of colorists works out polymer specific color settings. "Customers often send a sample part for readjustment," explains Dorit Krienke, the Quality Assurance Manager. "This, for example, can be a component which must compliment other components. A special requirement is that there should be no visible visual difference between the indi-vidual components." To begin with, the sample part is analyzed colormetrically. Subsequently, a distinction is made between two different measuring geometries: the directional geometry and the spherical geometry.
"In order to make optimal use of the respective strengths, we combine both techniques in our investigations," states Krienke. "It is only by getting exact measurement results that we can create the color formulation such that it corresponds to the exact color requirements of the customer."
The color measurement lab is based on "Colibri" by Konica Minolta, one of the leading color management systems, which allows efficient operation, both pertaining to measurement and formulation. The program had to be supplied in advance with numerous data, measurements and information on the colorants. It is possible to calculate a suitable formulation with just a few mouse clicks. This is then mixed in the pilot plant and extruded. In spite of all the technical assistance, human beings are still indispensable as the last authority for color assessment. Only experienced colorists with a trained eye are able to give the mechanically calculated formulations the final touches. Only then are they presented to the customer for sampling.
ROWA GROUP Holding GmbH
The ROWA GmbH was established in 1958 and is a partner in the ROWA GROUP of companies. The brand ROWA stands for technical competence, modern product design and customer oriented service the world over. Tailored customer solutions are part of the ROWA tradition and are a matter of course! The development of new products, the search for alternative raw materials and the constant and sustained optimization of our processes, coupled with modern technology, motivated employees and economical environment protection enjoy the highest priority in our company. In 2010 the ROWA GmbH has been renamed into the ROWA GROUP Holding GmbH and the departments Lack and Masterbatch were newly formed as ROWA Lack GmbH and ROWA Masterbatch GmbH specialist division: Color and additive masterbatches.
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|Rediff India Abroad Home | All the sections
Prodigal India lose to Argentina
June 28, 2007 23:47 IST
India wasted a dozen penalty-corners before going down 1-2 to Argentina in a crucial match of the Champions Challenge men's hockey tournament in Boom, Belgium, on Thursday.
Jorge Lombi (39th minute) and skipper Mario Nicolas Almada (60th) scored for Argentina, while Sandeep Singh got India's only goal from a penalty-stroke in the 64th minute.
India, thus, remain on six points after four matches while Argentina have nine after three victories and a defeat.
The Indians had more than their share of chances, but were not sharp enough to capitalise on them. To make matters worse, a terrible defensive blunder late in the game presented Argentina their second goal that effectively sealed the match.
Ironically, Sandeep Singh spent more time on the bench and was not on hand for India's first six penalty-corners. When he did return to the field, he failed to score off the next six.
The Indians all but outplayed Argentina in the first-half, though in terms of scoring opportunities, there were very few. However, it was more a tactical game that saw them containing Argentina in their own half.
Consequently, Argentina had to wait for opportunities to even make a move, leave alone penetrate into the Indian circle. The South American outfit did put together a couple of counter-attacks that fetched them penalty-corners, but the Indian goal was not in any danger of falling.
At the other end, the Indians made plenty of moves to keep Argentina under pressure. However, the old failings of faulty trapping and passing inside the 25-yard area and, especially the striking circle, denied them success.
Coach Joaquim Carvalho kept shuffling his forwards while leaving the deep defence and midfield virtually untouched with the exception of substituting Sandeep Singh. Thus, the Indians were able to sustain pace and pressure through the session.
India did force three penalty corners, one of which was changed to a bully-off on the 25-yard line following protests by Argentine players.
Umpire James Pilgrim (England [Images]) first awarded a penalty-corner, but even as the Indians took position, he reversed his decision to a 16-yard hit, leading to chaotic scenes on the field and a time-out. The other umpire, Chen Dekang of China, intervened and signaled a penalty-corner, but Pilgrim stuck to his guns and ordered a bully-off.
Thereafter, India received their third penalty-corner, and again specialist Sandeep Singh was still on the bench. Dilip Tirkey's direct hit was easily saved as was the case with the first.
Then came India's best scoring chance when Roshan Minz intercepted a 16-yard hit and passed to Shivendra Singh on his left. Entering the circle, Shivendra let fly the ball with the rival goalkeeper at his mercy, but he shot wide much to Argentina's relief.
Four minutes into the second-half, Argentina struck from their very first move that led to a penalty-corner. Lombi was on target with a powerful drag-flick to the right of goalkeeper Adrian D'Souza.
The goal triggered a furious Indian onslaught as the pace of the game noticeably picked up. Sardar Singh was brought down inside the 25-yard and India were awarded their fourth penalty-corner in the 45th minute.
Dilip Tirkey took a powerful hit that apparently struck a defender's foot. India appealed for a penalty-stroke, but umpire Dekang after first signaling a long corner, changed the decision to a penalty-corner that proved abortive.
India maintained the pressure, but a sixth penalty-corner was lost even as Sandeep Singh was warming up on the sidelines. But when he did get a chance to execute his drag-flick in the 54th, he was wide off the mark.
With the time ticking by, India's task appeared Herculean as Argentina struck again in the 60th minute through Almada following a lightning counter-attack that began from their own 25-yard area. Matias Rey got past Prabodh Tirkey but lost the ball. Dilip Tirkey failed to clear and Rey recovered to pass the ball to Almada to do the rest.
India forced two more penalty-corners. Off the second, Sandeep's drag-flick struck a defender on the foot leading to a penalty-stroke. He converted it to make the score 2-1 with six minutes left.
Past the 66th minute, India earned two more penalty-corners, but Sandeep failed on both occasions. Soon after, Argentina were reduced to 10 men as Almada left the field on a yellow card suspension for misconduct.
Argentina, however, managed to survive the final moments despite conceding the 12th penalty-corner to pick up three points that took them closer to the final.
The tournament takes yet another break tomorrow. India's next and final league match is against Japan [Images] on Saturday at 1715 IST following the New Zealand-Argentina game.
England beat Japan for first victory
England rallied to beat Japan 4-3 and post their first victory in four matches.
England did well to shake off their first-half lethargy and displayed appreciable fluency to overcome their Asian rivals with goals by Richard Mantell (29th minute), Richard Alexander (50th), Jonty Clarke (61st) and Rob Moore (66th).
The Japanese fought till the end as Takahiko Yamabori (10th, 70th), Yoshihiro Anai (59th) scored.
England have three points, the same as Japan, but neither team is now in contention for top honours.


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ClamWin 0.93
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 and Vista. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:
- High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
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- Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database;
- Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
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Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
1. Scanning speed improvements and significant changes in ClamAV engine
2. ClamAV team fixed a security vulnerability
2. More intelligent database updates with online status checking
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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Versioning software
Yes, I get the impression ER/Studio is a versioning tool for data models, metadata but not necessarily for scripts, DTS and a little cumbersome even for versioning sp's.
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From: Marquez, Chris [mailto:cmarquez_at_collegeboard.org] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 12:52 AM
To: Stankus, Paula G; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Versioning software
I (had to) use Embarcadero ER/Studio on my last gig.
I learned to like it, but sometimes spent time doing things
over...check-in, check-out was little painful and unruly.
It was much more a Data Model tool than a versioning tool (IMHO).
*When* maintained and entered correctly it would generate some nice
complete DDL of the project for the database and save us from manual
script maintenance and put the pressure on everyone to put/keep our
stuff in the tool or else.
Didn't do GRANTS well or at all, but it have once nice feature was a "RUN THIS" option. Anything that it could not generate at least could be included in the model.
Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us
Sent: Fri 7/1/2005 9:25 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: OT: Versioning software
W e are considering Embarcadero, Subversion, VSS and Clear Case for versioning DBA work:
data models
project plans ????
unix scripts
windows scripts
For multiple RDBMS environments.
Any suggestions?
-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Sat Jul 02 2005 - 06:04:57 CDT
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Restructuring Helps Pull in Top Psychology PhD Students
Posted: June 16, 2004 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
As the admissions season for graduate programs concludes, the Psychology Department has assembled its strongest PhD class ever. Psychology traditionally receives the greatest surplus of applicants over the number of slots available. Last year, the department admitted the top 14 percent of its applicants, and it was even more selective this year.
"In prior years, the stipends Mason offers have been so much lower than our competitors that we had many turndowns and had to admit many students from our waitlists," says Bob Smith, department chair. "This year, we restructured our financial aid. By relying heavily on our grants, restructuring our teaching to have more advanced PhD students teaching courses, and adding some much-appreciated fellowship money from the provost to 'top off' offers to the strongest students, we had very few admitted students turn down our offers."
Last year, the department had to go down its priority list to number 28 in order to fill the 9 available slots. This year, with the better financial offers, the department admitted its 9 students by number 11 on its list, says Jerome Short of the clinical program. "The students are great—our average verbal GREs are at the 90th percentile," he says. "We admitted the very best 6 percent of our applicants, and they come from such strong schools as Amherst, Brown, and [the University of North Carolina at] Chapel Hill."
According to Lois Tetrick, director of the PhD in Industrial/
Organizational Psychology program, "Our program is very strong—it's ranked number 8 in the nation, and very strong students want to come here. We have managed to remove some of the strong financial disincentive, and the strength of our program is attracting first-rate students. This year, we were successful in filling our incoming class from our first choices."
"It's both impressive and gratifying that a department can develop strength to attract students this good, especially in view of Mason's limited budget," says Daniele Struppa, College of Arts and Sciences dean.


text: Yep, You can grab MacSword at http://www.heathmoor.plus.com/macsword/. It's a Mac OS X only program. If you have any problems, email me. Will Thimbleby On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 08:56 pm, Mike & Amy wrote: > I noticed the other day someone mentioned something about "MacSword." > Is it available for download or is this something in the works for a > future time? I just discovered the SWORD project a couple weeks ago so > much of this is new to me. Thanks. > > Amy >


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Omaxe launches 115,150 and 250-SYD plots in Omaxe New Chandigarh, Mullanpur.
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Project Details
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Basic Sale Price (BSP) : 28800/- per SYD.
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Proposed Bus Stand Mullanpur is near to Omaxe Plots/Township location
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Name: Krystal
A funny thing I found about the best word ever:
Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word "fuck." Out of all the English words that begin with the letter "F", fuck is the only word that is referred to as the "F" word. It's the one magical word that just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love.
Fuck, as most words in the English language, is derived from German, the word 'flicken' which means "to strike." In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories. As a transital verb for instance, "John fucked Shirley." As an intransitive verb, "Shirley fucks."
Its meaning's not always sexual, it can be used as an adjective such as "John's doing all the fucking work." As part of an adverb, "Shirley talks too fucking much." As an adverb enhancing an adjective, "Shirley is fucking beautiful." As a noun, "I don't give a fuck." As part of a word, "Abso-fucking-lutely" or "In-fucking-credible." And, as almost every word in a sentence, "Fuck the fucking fuckers."
As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of "fuck", as in these examples describing situations such as:
Fraud: "I got fucked at the used car lot."
Dismay: "Aw fuck it."
Trouble: "I guess I'm really fucked now."
Aggression: "Don't fuck with me buddy."
Difficulty: "I don't understand this fucking question!"
Inquiry: "Who the fuck was that?"
Dissatisfaction: "I don't like what the fuck is going on here."
In Confidence: "He's a fuck off."
Dismissal: "Why don't you go outside and play 'hide and go fuck yourself?'"
I'm sure you can think of many more examples. With all of these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word? We say, use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately.
Say it loudly and proudly, "Fuck you!"
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."
2. My mother taught me RELIGION
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
3. My mother taught me TIME TRAVEL
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
4. My mother taught me LOGIC
" Because I said so, that's why."
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident ."
7. My mother taught me IRONY
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
9. My mother taught me CONTORTIONISM
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
11. My mother taught me WEATHER
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."
12. My mother taught me HYPOCRISY "
If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"
13. My mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
"Stop acting like your father!"
15. My mother taught me: ENVY
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION
"Just wait until we get home."
17. My mother taught me: RECEIVING
"You are going to get it when you get home!"
18. My mother taught me: MEDICAL SCIENCE
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."
19. My mother taught me: ESP
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"
20. My mother taught me: HUMOR
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
21. My mother taught me: HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
22.My Mother taught me: Genetics
"I swear you're just like your father."
23. My Mother taught me about my Roots
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
24. My Mother taught me Wisdom
When you get to be my age, you'll understand."
25. My mother taught me about Justice
"When you have kids i hope they turn out just like you"
pick up line comebacks, add to it
Man: Where have you been all my life? Woman: Hiding from you.
Man: Haven't I seen you someplace before? Woman: Yes, that's why I don't go there anymore.
Man: Is this seat empty? Woman: Yes, and this one will be if you sit down.
Man: Your place or mine? Woman: Both. You go to yours, and I'll go to mine.
Man: So, what do you do for a living? Woman: I'm a female impersonator.
Man: Hey baby, what's your sign? Woman: Do not enter.
Man: How do you like your eggs in the morning? Woman: Unfertilized.
Man: Your body is like a temple. Woman: Sorry, there are no services today.
Man: I would go to the end of the world for you. Woman: But would you stay there?
Man: If I could see you naked, I'd die happy. Woman: If I saw you naked, I'd probably die laughing.
Man: If I could rearrange the alphabet I'd put u and i together Woman: Really, I'd put f and u together
Man: Your eyes they're amazing. Woman: Seeing your back would be pretty amazing
FRIENDS: Never ask for anything to eat or drink.
BEST FRIENDS: Helps themselves and are the reason why you have no food.
FRIENDS: Call your parents by Mr. and Mrs. and Grandpa, by Grandpa.
BEST FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD and MOM and Grandpa, GRAMPS!
FRIENDS: Would bail you out of jail.
BEST FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you sayin "That was fun lets do it again!!"
FRIENDS: Asks you to write down your number.
BEST FRIENDS: Has you on speed dial.
FRIENDS: Borrows your stuff for a few days then gives it back.
BEST FRIENDS: Loses your stuff and tells you, "My bad...here's a tissue."
FRIENDS: Only know a few things about you.
BEST FRIENDS: Could write a very embarrassing biography on your life story...
FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
BEST FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds ass that left you
FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door.
BEST FRIENDS: Walk right in and say "I'M HOME."
FRIENDS: You have to tell them not to tell anyone.
BEST FRIENDS: Already know not to tell.
FRIENDS: Are only through high-school /college. (aka: drinking buddies)
BEST FRIENDS: Are for life.
FRIENDS: Will help me find my way when I'm lost.
BEST FRIENDS: Will be the one messing with my compass, stealing my map and giving me bad directions
FRIENDS: Will help me learn to drive.
BEST FRIENDS: Will help me roll the car into the lake so I can collect insurance.
FRIENDS: Will help me up when I fall down.
BEST FRIENDS: Will point and laugh because she tripped me.
FRIENDS: Will go to a concert with me.
BEST FRIENDS: Will kidnap the band with me.
FRIENDS: Hide me from the cops.
BEST FRIENDS: Are probably the reason they're after me in the first place.
FRIENDS: Lets me make an idiot of myself in public.
BEST FRIENDS: Are up there with me making an idiot out of themselves too.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense,who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn't always fair; and Maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6 year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get Parental consent to administer Calpol, sun lotion, or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
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Ayotzinapa: The Fire and the Ashes
Luis Hernández Navarro
La Jornada, 8th September 2015
The official story about the tragedy of Iguala was reduced to ashes. The "historical truth" of ex-attorney general, Jesus Murillo Karam, was engulfed in the flames of the evidence. The report from the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) demolished the foundation of the government's version of events. As one mother said, "We knew that was a lie."
According to the IMIC report, the attacks in Iguala, on normal school students from Ayotzinapa on September 26th of last year, sought to stop the three buses seized by young people in Iguala [rural normal school students have a long-standing practice of seizing commercial buses to use to get to demonstrations], and the two that they had arrived in, from leaving the city. As well as punish the young people.
It is untrue that—as Murillo Karam said—the students tried to sabotage the ceremony of María de los Ángeles Pineda [wife of the mayor, José Luis Abarca] as president of the Iguala Comprehensive Family Development Programme. When they arrived in the city, the event had ended an hour previously.
The aggression against the students was massive, staggered and indiscriminate. It was carried out in nine different places and at different times (over a three-hour span), under direction and coordination.
The magnitude and sophistication of the attacks required complex levels of communication, infrastructure, and coordination, which did not remotely correspond to those that the Warriors United cartel have in the area. In Iguala, there is no record of an operation of this magnitude, nor are there records of murders, disappearances, or concealment of human remains in graves. Someone else, with more resources, knowledge and ability to act in the area, must have been responsible for this.
The operation against the students had two distinct stages: two heads of the same coin. On the first, the attack on the buses and on those who participated in the press conference to denounce the initial attacks, the attackers did not hide their identities nor did they mind the presence of witnesses. On the second, the enforced disappearances of the students, the perpetrators sought to conceal and erase any traces of the crime or their identity. The decision to enforce the students to disappear was a continuation of the violence unleashed against them from the start. Both were part of the same operation.
According to IACHR experts, a qualified and independent expert showed, conclusively, that the government's version, where the 43 students were murdered by a group of hitmen and their remains were incinerated in a Cocula Municipal garbage, is unverifiable. Thus, the centre of the government's account is a total wreck.
The report not only shows that the "historical truth" was a lie, but also raises serious questions about the responsibility of public officials and security institutions in the extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and attacks on the students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School.
State, municipal and federal police, as well as the army, were immediately informed, practically all the time, of the tragic events of September 26, 2014 in Iguala. Security forces were aware through the State Control, Command, Communication and Computing Centre (C-4) of what the Ayotzinapa students did since their departure from the school, missing a moment at 6pm, until they were attacked and arrested.
Despite officers of various security forces or the army knowing that the Ayotzinapa students were being violently attacked by uniformed personnel and armed civilians, they did nothing to prevent it. Although police and soldiers found themselves in the same place as the events, they allowed the young people to be barbarically assaulted.
However, there are two moments when C-4 communications disappeared. Interestingly, this lack of information coincides with the time after the first attack in Juan N. Álvarez Street and the time when they perpetrated the second attack in the same spot. In accordance with an official document of the Civil Protection Coordination of Chilpancingo, the information transmission from C-4 was interrupted at certain periods because the communication was blocked by the Secretariat of National Defence.
That means that, for some unknown reason, the Army blocked C-4 communication at the exact moment when the two key attacks against the students were carried out. Why they did this is a question without an answer.
These are not the only cases where the report highlighted military participation on that night in Iguala. Parts of the 27th infantry battalion were present at various crime scenes, unsuccessfully looked for detained students at police headquarters and interrogated (and threatened) the young people that were found in the Cristina Clinic asking that one of their peers be taken care of.
The Iguala tragedy is today a battle ground between memory and oblivion. The government bet on putting the attacks, extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances of the students behind them. Relatives of the victims have not given up on uncovering the truth and getting justice. The IGIE report is one point in favour of memory; a step forward in the search for truth and justice.
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A Careful Look: Public Health Research and Big Biomedical Databases
Case Western Reserve researchers examine data reliability of electronic medical records used for public health research
CLEVELAND – Medical records kept electronically rather than on paper make it easier for clinicians to share information about diseases and other critical public health matters. But public health researchers need to be increasingly aware of potentially flawed data.
Case Western Reserve University faculty members Sharona Hoffman and Andy Podgurski suggest in a new research paper that big sets of medical data need quality control.
Hoffman, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, is co-director of The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve School of Law. Podgurski is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
With more public health data becoming available, care should be taken to make sure it's consistent and logical, they advise in their report "Big Bad Data: Law, Public Health, and Biomedical Databases" published (Spring 2013) in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, a peer-reviewed health policy journal.
Large electronic databases will greatly help public health research, allowing access to records from millions of patients with diverse backgrounds. For example, big data can be used to study disease progress in a population and which treatments can be most effective.
Hoffman, Podgurski and others have previously written about the privacy risks of electronic health records. This paper focuses on concerns about the risk of inaccurate data or inappropriate data analysis. Because electronic health records are created mainly for clinical and billing purposes rather than to support public health research, those records may not fit the needs of researchers. They may also be erroneous, miscoded, disjointed or incomplete, according to Hoffman and Podgurski.
While electronic records eliminate the problem of trying to decipher a clinician's handwriting, automatic processing can eliminate opportunities for edits and corrections.
Also, patient records are often fragmented. A patient may see multiple doctors in different facilities, and if these practices do not use coordinated systems, pieces of the individual's record will be scattered and not give a clear picture of the patient's medical history.
"Different systems may use different terminology to mean the same thing, or the same terminology to mean different things," Podgurski explains. For example, MS in a record can mean mitral stenosis, multiple sclerosis, morphine sulfate, or magnesium sulfate. Without standardization of terminology, analysts may find it difficult to interpret the contents of electronic health records.
Such concerns are timely, because national healthcare reform, through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, embraces the concept of "comparative effectiveness research" and supports the use of observational studies to evaluate and compare health outcomes.
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The world's largest democracy, and second most populous country, needs to choose a new parliament by June 2. The main fight is between the ruling Congress party and its allies, and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Experts say an outright majority is unlikely for any party and a coalition is expected—but right now it's a game of wait and see.
Following the devastating attacks in Mumbai last November, thousands took to the streets here demanding change and accountability. What was surprising is that the demonstrators included many people from South Mumbai's middle and upper class, who are historically apolitical. Analysts expected this momentum would translate into high voting numbers some five months later in this election. But what actually happened is that Mumbai failed to sustain its momentum—instead voter turnout was only 41 percent, down from 47 percent in 2004, and among the lowest in the nation.
According to the Associated Press, overall turnout was approximately 59 to 60 percent. Meanwhile, New Delhi, the nation's capital and another large metropolitan city, registered a 53 percent turnout, its highest in 20 years.
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Here in Mumbai, there is an email and text message making the rounds that says it all. Asked, why the poor turnout? The joke gives its top reasons, including: voting clashed with salsa class, no valet parking, or says no real issues were on the ballot—like gym membership rates.
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Motorists familiar with South Shaver Road may be seeing significant changes between Interstate 45 and Texas 3 by the end of April.
The Texas Department of Transportation, the city of Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District have partnered on the $13 million project that will include widening South Shaver Road from a four-lane undivided highway to a six-lane divided highway with raised curbs, adding sidewalks, upgrading utilities and improving drainage.
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Those components include, obtaining a 404 permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that outlines wetland and stream mitigation requirements, and the completion of the environmental impact study, which the city said in early September that it expected to be completed within 30 days.
Eighty percent of the project will be funded by the Federal Highway Administration, and 20 percent by the Metropolitan Planning Organization for City of Houston Transportation Projects, Wright said.
TxDOT Spokesman Danny Perez said TxDOT hopes the improvements will help reduce traffic congestion during peak hours and improve safety by reducing the risk associated with left-turning vehicles.
"By turning South Shaver Road into a divided highway, vehicles stopping to make left turns at points other than signalized intersections would no longer cause slowdowns and reduce the risk of rear end collisions that pose a safety risk to traffic, as well as cause congestion," Perez said.
The project has been on the books since 2000 and is in the design phase.
The design of the project, which is being completed by contractors for the city of Houston, could be completed very soon.
"The design is 95 percent complete, and the environmental study is in the final stages," Perez said.
Once the design phase is completed, TxDOT, which is administering the project, will seek bids to award the contract by February 2013.
And with the design nearly completed, city engineers are optimistic, and anxious to get under way.
"We can see the light at the end of the tunnel," Wright said.
Meanwhile, additional improvements included in the plan involve changes to nearby Berry Bayou.
Alan Potok, spokesman for the Harris County Flood Control District, said Harris County had acquired property in the Berry Bayou watershed before the project was announced, with the hope the property could become a useful detention basin in the future.
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With its usage in sweeteners and bioethanol seeing it compete increasingly with, in particular, corn, sugar is looking more and more like an agricultural commodity which should come with a kernel that should spill out of combine harvesters.
That has implications for sugar prices, which look increasingly likely to move in step with grain markets, rather than being so much controlled by weather in top producer Brazil, or export policy in second-ranked India.
"Sugar has traditionally been seen as a soft commodity but today we see much greater similarities with the corn market," Toby Cohen, director at Czarnikow, said.
"Corn and sugar are becoming increasingly linked in the global markets, something that has implications for the prices of both commodities."
The trade-off is evident in markets such as that for ethanol in Brazil, the top sugar producer, which thanks to market signals has turned more of its cane output to sweeteners, rather than biofuels.
This has left the country, historically the top ethanol exporter, on track to become a net importer "as US corn ethanol has been imported to help alleviate supply problems".
Conversely, buoyant Brazilian ethanol exports in 2006-07 and 2008-09, when tight US corn supplies were sent prices of the grain soaring, were "critical in clearing surplus sucrose from the sugar market", clearing the way for higher sugar prices and a stimulus to output.
The degree of substitution in sweeteners markets is more limited, by regulations and differing specifications between sugar and corn products, and amounts to 3m-5m tonnes a year.
Nonetheless, in both sweeteners and energy, substitution is to become "more efficient and potentially constrained by policy", with the US, for instance, expected to reduce trade barriers.
"Though the relationship between corn and sugar is indirect, as it driven by the substitution of corn and sugar cane or beet as feedstocks, we expect to see greater interaction between prices," Czarnikow said.
"The opportunity for arbitrage between corn and sugar will increase.
"With the demand for corn and sugar growing, coupled with rising demand for energy, there is no question that arbitrage opportunities between physical commodities are on the increase."
As for who will be the winner of the corn-sugar dynamic on the production side, Czarnikow stopped short of backing either the corn or sugar industries.
But, on a revenue side at last, the sugar merchant sees sugar as the bigger earner.
The US corn industry receives the equivalent of some $4,400 per hectare of corn industry, assuming the grain is converted into high fructose corn syrup, equivalent to 6.1 tonnes of sugar per hectare, plus extras such as feed, meal and oil
Brazil's cane industry achieved sugar output of 10.5 tonnes of sugar per hectare, with French beet growers producing the equivalent of 12-14 tonnes of sugar per hectare.
"Despite corn processing providing further income from byproducts… sugar crops still generate a greater revenue per hectare for sweeteners or ethanol, from both sugar beet and sugar cane," the London-based group said.
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This is the second such update to tweak the Xbox One controllers. The first tweaks were requested by Respawn because they felt that the thumbsticks were just a bit to "twichy", but the developer says that they are happy with it now. The thumbstick tweaks actually increased the sensitivity of the outer boundaries of the thumbstick which appears to be a very good decision. This update applies automatically to the controller when it syncs with the Xbox One, so there is nothing to do on the console owner's part.
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The opening of Queens County Savings Bank, a division of New York Community Bank, at Queens College could be good news for students hoping to land jobs in a souring economy, bank and college representatives said last week.
The bank kicked off its 150th anniversary by hosting a ribbon−cutting Friday at the branch in the Student Union that opened the previous week, and officials touted it as a place students will be able to work, learn about finances and, of course, save their money.
"Our students will have easy access to banking, the opportunity to learn more about making educated decisions about their finances, and the ability to apply for part−time and full−time banking jobs throughout Queens and Long Island," said Queens College President James Muyskens.
The bank's 178th branch boasts a job recruitment center, at which students may apply for jobs at the Queens College site, as well as at New York Community Bank locations throughout the borough.
NYCB President and CEO Joseph Ficalora said this will make it easier for students to work at sites closer to where they live.
"I once had a part−time job here 44 years ago, so students see where they can go when they begin a job with us," Ficalora said. "Students can work here during college, and they could go on to have a career with us."
New York Community Bank Senior Executive Vice President Robert Wann said the bank will provide a solid career path in a world rocked by the financial crisis.
"We have positions in finance, lending, [information technology]," Wann said. "Students will be happy with that, especially now."
Queens College sophomores Jarell Bannister and Rosa Padilla praised the branch opening, citing its accessibility to students, staff and teachers.
"You walk into the Student Union, and it's right there," said Bannister, who was opening up his first checking account at the bank Friday. "I was telling my friends they've got to get jobs here."
Student Association President at Queens College Adjani Papillon, a senior, said she was pleased the branch creates jobs for students struggling to stay afloat amid tuition raises and fewer available part−time jobs in industries that once used to offer an abundance of part−time jobs, like retail.
"And it will help provide revenue to the Student Union, which we want to make better," Papillon said.
Papillon said the more traffic the bank brings to the union, the better it will be for merchants at the building that is home to 80 college clubs, a cafeteria and student government offices.
Ficalora and Wann said students do not need to worry about entering the financial world at New York Community Bank because the company is on solid economic footing.
"Our bank just had its best year of the last four years," Ficalora said. "We had double−digit growth in lending and earnings."
Wann added that the bank had not involved itself in subprime mortgage lending or any other risky investments.
New York Community Bank announced in mid−January that on Dec. 31 it turned down $596.1 million in capital infusion from the U.S. Treasury Department after the firm's board of directors determined they could remain fiscally solvent without federal help.
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My sorrows are as empty to you
As air is to water,
Our openness towards one another,
As sheer as naked glass.
We lament soundly over our failed loves,
Your love being more severe than mine,
Makes my own feel less relevant.
Open like an empty cave are my kind
Sorrows, yet so full to me as they squeeze
my chest- so painful, 'tis true.
My loving sorrows are empty- too empty to be heard,
They echo back at me like a cry into a cave
My cries into the cave- subservient to the squeeze my love had inflicted upon me- are
as real and just as your own, my selfish friend.
Just as loud as yours…
Just as harsh
Just as tight
Just as greedy as it keenly absorbs
What is left of me-what is left of my heart?
I know there is not much left our hearts, but the pain will pass,
And we both- though kindly conflicted- will bind
Our sorrows unto truths- lament together-
Our sorrows one, embraced tightly in our loving catastrophes.
Our Loving Sorrows
My sorrows are as empty to you


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They're being forced to live on crumbs, so nuns at a Hollywood convent famous for its pumpkin bread are warning that they may have to slice up the place for development.
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Twenty cloistered nuns live at the monastery, at Carmen Avenue and Gower Street. They devote most of their day to prayer but allocate three hours each morning to work.


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The type of performance problem you are experiencing depends on the level of CPU available as described in the following table. The first step in troubleshooting a Directory Server that is still running but no longer responding to client application requests is to identify which of the three types of performance issue it corresponds to.Table 5–1 CPU Level Associated With Performance Problems
CPU Level
Problem Description
Passive hang, the server is completely unresponsive
Performance drop, the server is operating but not at the expected rate
Active hang, the server is completely unresponsive
The remainder of this section describes the following troubleshooting procedures:
If your error log contains errors about not being able to open file descriptors, this is usually a symptom of an unresponsive process. For example, the error log may contain a message such as the following:
[17/APR/2009:01:41:13 +0000] - ERROR<12293> - Connection - conn=-1 op=-1 msgId=-1 - fd limit exceeded Too many open file descriptors - not listening on new connection
Other symptoms of an unresponsive process include LDAP connections that do not answer or that hang, no messages in the error or access logs, or an access log that is never updated.
The prstat -L tool tells you the amount of CPU being used for each thread. If you collect a process stack using the pstack utility at the same time you run the prstat tool, you can then use the pstack output to see what the thread was doing when it had trouble. If you run the prstat and pstack simultaneously several times, then you can see over time if the same thread was causing the problem and if it was encountering the problem during the same function call. If you are experiencing a performance drop, then run the commands simultaneously every 2 seconds. If you are experiencing a passive or active hang, run the commands with a slightly longer delay, for example every 10 seconds or so.
For example, you try running an ldapsearch on your Directory Server as follows:
# ldapsearch -p 5389 -D "cn=Directory Manager" -w secret -b "o=test" description=*
Suppose, this command runs for 40 seconds and does not give any results. To analyze why the process in unresponsive, first get the process ID using the following command:
# ps -aef | grep slapd | grep slapd-server1 mares 15013 24159 0 13:06:20 pts/32 0:00 grep slapd-server1 mares 14993 1 1 13:05:36 ? 0:04 ./ns-slapd -D /local/dsInst -i /local/dsInst
Next, rerun the search and during the search run the prstat and pstack commands simultaneously for the Directory Server process, which in the output above has a process ID of 14993.
prstat -L -p 14993 0 1 > prstat.output ; pstack 14993 > pstack.output
We rerun the commands three times, with an interval of two seconds between each consecutive run.
The output of the first prstat command appears as follows:
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/LWPID 14993 mares 128M 110M cpu0 59 0 0:00.02 3.0% ns-slapd/51 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.49 1.3% ns-slapd/32 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/16 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/15 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/14 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/13 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/12 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/11 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/10 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/9 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/8 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/6 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/5 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/4 14993 mares 128M 110M sleep 59 0 0:00.00 0.0% ns-slapd/3 Total: 1 processes, 51 lwps, load averages: 0.36, 0.29, 0.17
The problem appears to be occurring in thread 51. Next, we look for thread 51 in the output of the first pstack command and it appears as follows:
----------------- lwp# 51 / thread# 51 -------------------- ffffffff7eb55a78 ???????? (1, 102183a10, ffffffff70c1d340, 1001c5390, 0, ffffffff7ecea248) ffffffff77925fe0 id2entry (1002b7610, 1a09, 0, ffffffff70c1e7f4, 0, ffffffff77a6faa8) + 3e8 ffffffff7795ed20 ldbm_back_next_search_entry_ext (101cfcb90, 10190fd60, 0, 101b877b0, 1a08, 45b4aa34) + 300 ffffffff7ebaf6f8 ???????? (101cfcb90, 1002b7610, 1, ffffffff70c1eaf4, 0, 0) ffffffff7ebafbc4 ???????? (101cfcb90, 1, ffffffff70c1eaf4, 0, 10190fd60, ffffffff70c1e980) ffffffff7ebaf170 op_shared_search (101cfcb90, 0, 1015ad240, 0, ffffffffffffffff, ffffffff7ecea248) + 8c0 ffffffff7e92efcc search_core_pb (101cfcb90, 2, 1000, 4000, ffffffff7ea4c810, ffffffff7ea56088) + 6c4 ffffffff7e93a710 dispatch_operation_core_pb (101cfcb90, 101cfcb90, c00, ffffffff7ea4c810, 0, d10) + cc ffffffff7e926420 ???????? (101f3fe80, 102fd3250, 2, 63, 2, 200000) ffffffff7e92672c ldap_frontend_main_using_core_api (101f3fe80, 102fd3250, 2, 101da1218, 10133db10, 0) + fc ffffffff7e927764 ???????? (220, 101c97310, ffffffffffffffff, 800, 958, 101f3fe80) ffffffff7d036a7c _pt_root (101c97310, ffffffff70b00000, 0, 0, 20000, ffffffff70c1ff48) + d4 ffffffff7c1173bc _lwp_start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
The ends of the lines in this example have been wrapped so that they fit on the page.
The output of the second and third pstack command show the same results, with thread 51 doing the same types of operation.
All three pstack outputs taken at two second intervals show thread 51 doing the same search operations. The first parameter of the op_shared_search function contains the address of the operations taking place, which is 101cfcb90. The same operation occurs in each of the three stacks, meaning that the same search is taking place during the four seconds that elapsed between the first and the last pstack run. Moreover, the prstat output always shows thread 51 as the thread taking the highest amount of CPU.
If you check the access log for the result of the search operations at the time the hang was observed, we find that it is a result of the search on the unindexed description entry. By creating a description index, this hang will be avoided.
This section describes how to begin troubleshooting a drop in performance. It describes possible causes of performance drops, describes the information you need to consult if you experience a performance drop, and how to analyze this information.
Make certain that you have not mistaken an active or passive hang for a performance drop. If you are experiencing a performance drop, it could be for one of the following reasons:
Other processes are affecting CPU or disk access
Network problems
High input/ouput rate
Memory swapping
Unindexed searches, such as when an index is missing or when a "!" filter is used
Complex searches, such as searches on static groups, class of service, and roles
Complex updates, such as to static groups, class of service, and roles
Sub-optimum hardware
Sub-optimum system settings, such as fds or keepalive
Directory Server tuned incorrectly
Collect information about disk, CPU, memory, and process stack use during the period in which performance is dropping.
If your CPU is very low (at or around 10%), try to determine if the problem is network related using the netstat command as follows:
# netstat -an | grep port
A performance drop may be the result of the network if a client is not receiving information despite the fact that access logs show that results work sent immediately. Running the ping andtraceroute commands can help you determine if network latency is responsible for the problem.
Collect swap information to see if you are running out of memory. Memory may be your problem if the output of the swap command is small.
swap -l
Already provided in C:\report.txt
On Solaris, use the output of the prstat command to identify if other processes could be impacting the system performance. On Linux and HP-UX, use the top command.
Collect consecutive pstack and prstat output of the Directory Server during the period when the performance drops as described in Analyzing Data About a Unresponsive Process: an Example. For example, you could use the following script on Solaris to gather pstack and prstat information:
#!/bin/sh i=0 while [ "$i" -lt "10" ] do echo "$i/n" date= `date"+%y%m%d:%H%M%S" prstat -L -p $1 0 1 > /tmp/prstat.$date pstack $1 > /tmp/pstack.$date i=`expr $i + 1` sleep 1 done
In general, look through your data for patterns and commonalities in the errors encountered. For example, if all operation problems are associated with searches to static groups, modifies to static groups, and searches on roles, this indicates that Directory Server is not properly tuned to handle these expensive operations. For example, the nsslapd-search-tune attribute is not configured correctly for static group related searches, or maybe the uniqueMember attribute indexed in a substring affects the group related updates. If you notice that problems are associated with unrelated operations but all at a particular time, this might indicate a memory access problem or a disk access problem.
You can take information culled from you pstacks to SunSolve and search for them along with the phrase unresponsive events to see if anything similar to your problem has already been encountered and solved. SunSolve is located at http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=tous
The remainder of this section provides additional tips to help you analyze the data you collected in the previous steps.
You can use the logconv command to analyze the Directory Server access logs. This command extracts usage statistics and counts the occurrences of significant events. For more information about this tool, see logconv(1).
For example, run the logconv command as follows:
# logconv -s 50 -efcibaltnxgju access > analysis.access
Check the output file for the following:
Unindexed searches (notes=U)
If unindexed searches are present, search for the associated indexes using the dsconf list-indexes command. If the index exists, then you may be reaching the limit of your all-ids-threshold property. This property defines the maximum number of values per index key in an index list. Increase the all-ids-threshold and reindex.
If the index does not exist, then you need to create the index and then reindex. For information about creating an index, see To Create Indexes in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Administration Guide.
High file descriptor consumption
To manage a problem with file descriptor consumption you may need to request to increase the file descriptors available at the system level. You may want to reduce the number of persistent searches (notes=persistent), modify the client applications that do not disconnect, or reduce the idle timeout value set by the nsslapd-idletimeout property.
Searches with long etimes or that return many entries
For example. if the etime is 344, grep the access log for etime 344. The access log tells you the connection and operation. You can use this information to see what the operation was doing when the performance drop occurred, when the connection was opened, and who was the binding user. If all of the same operations have long etimes, that points to a problem with a particular operation. If the same binding user is always associated with a long etime, this suggests an ACI issue.
If you suspect an ACI problem with the binding user, prove it by running the same operation with the Directory Manager user, who is not subject to ACIs.
Searches on the uniquemember attribute or on the wrong filters.
Look on SunSolve for static group performance hot patches. Run your search by specifying the nsslapd-search-tune attribute.
Long ADDand MOD operations
Often a capacity limitation manifests itself as a performance issue. To differentiate between performance and capacity, performance might be defined as "How fast the system is going" while capacity is "the maximum performance of the system or an individual component."
If your CPU is very low (at or around 10%), try to determine if the disk controllers are fully loaded and if input/output is the cause. To determine if your problem is disk related, use the iostat tool as follows:
# iostat -xnMCz -T d 10
For example, a directory is available on the internet. Their customers submit searches from multiple sites and the Service Level Agreement (SLA) was no more than 5% of requests with response times of over 3 seconds. Currently 15% of request take more than 3 seconds, which puts the business in a penalty situation. The system is a 6800 with 12x900MHz CPUs.
The vmstat output looks as follows:
procs memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m1 m1 in sy cs us sy id 0 2 0 8948920 5015176 374 642 10 12 13 0 2 1 2 1 2 132 2694 1315 14 3 83 0 19 0 4089432 188224 466 474 50 276 278 0 55 5 5 4 3 7033 6191 2198 19 4 77 0 19 0 4089232 188304 430 529 91 211 211 0 34 8 6 5 4 6956 9611 2377 16 5 79 0 18 0 4085680 188168 556 758 96 218 217 0 40 12 4 6 4 6979 7659 2354 18 6 77 0 18 0 4077656 188128 520 501 75 217 216 0 46 9 3 5 2 7044 8044 2188 17 5 78
We look at the right 3 columns, us=user, sy=system and id=idle, which show that over 50% of the CPU is idle and available for the performance problem. One way to detect a memory problem is to look at the sr, or scan rate, column of the vmstat output. If the page scanner ever starts running, or the scan rate gets over 0, then we need to look more closely at the memory system. The odd part of this display is that the blocked queue on the left of the display has 18 or 19 processes in it but there are no processes in the run queue. This suggests that the process is blocking somewhere in Solaris without using all of the available CPU.
Next, we look at the I/O subsystem. The iostat command has a switch, -C, which will aggregate I/Os at the controller level. We run the iostat command as follows:
# iostat -xnMCz -T d extended device statistics r/s w/s Mr/s Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 396.4 10.7 6.6 0.1 0.0 20.3 0.0 49.9 0 199 c1 400.2 8.8 6.7 0.0 0.0 20.2 0.0 49.4 0 199 c3 199.3 6.0 3.3 0.0 0.0 10.1 0.0 49.4 0 99 c1t0d0 197.1 4.7 3.3 0.0 0.0 10.2 0.0 50.4 0 100 c1t1d0 198.2 3.7 3.4 0.0 0.0 9.4 0.0 46.3 0 99 c3t0d0 202.0 5.1 3.3 0.0 0.0 10.8 0.0 52.4 0 100 c3t1d0
On controller 1 we are doing 396 reads per second and on controller 3 we are doing 400 reads per second. On the right side of the data, we see that the output shows the controller is almost 200% busy. So the individual disks are doing almost 200 reads per second and the output shows the disks as 100% busy. That leads us to a rule of thumb that individual disks perform at approximately 150 I/Os per second. This does not apply to LUNs or LDEVs from the big disk arrays. So our examination of the numbers leads us to suggest adding 2 disks to each controller and relaying out the data.
In this exercise we looked at all the numbers and attempted to locate the precise nature of the problem. Do not assume adding CPUs and memory will fix all performance problems. In this case, the search programs were exceeding the capacity of the disk drives which manifested itself as a performance problem of transactions with extreme response times. All those CPUs were waiting on the disk drives.
This section describes how to troubleshoot a totally unresponsive Directory Server process. A totally unresponsive process is called a hang, and there are two types of hang you might experience:
Active hang, when the CPU level is at 100%. For example, the process encounters an infinite loop meaning it waits forever waiting for and servicing a request.
Passive hang, when the CPU level is at 0%. For example, the process encounters a deadlock where two or more threads of a process are waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does.
The remainder of this section describes how to troubleshoot each of these types of process hang.
A hang is active if the top or vmstat 1 output show CPU levels of over 95%.
This section describes the causes of an active hang, how to collect information about an active hang, and out to analyze this data.
Possible causes of an active hang include the following:
An infinite loop
Retry of an unsuccessful operation, such as a replication operation or a bad commit
On a Solaris system, collect several traces of the Directory Server process stack that is hanging, using the Solaris pstack utility. You should also collect statistics about the active process using the Solaris prstat -L utility. You must collect this information while the server is hanging.
The consecutive pstack and prstat data should be collected every second.
A hang is passive if the top or vmstat 1 output show low CPU levels.
Possible causes of a passive hang include the following:
A deadlock resulting from locks or conditional variables
A defunct thread
On a Solaris system, collect several traces of the Directory Server process stack that is hanging, using the Solaris pstack utility. You must collect this information while the server is hanging. The consecutive pstack data should be collected every three seconds.
Collect several core files that show the state of the server threads while the server is hanging. Do this by generating a core file using the gcore command, changing the name of the core file, waiting 30 seconds, and generating another core file. Repeat the process as least once to get a minimum of three sets of core files and related data.
For more information about generating a core file, see Generating a Core File.


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| Ageswe chapter 1 . 6/21/2011
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THREE of Doncaster's markets now look set to share £1.37 million for a major facelift, after Doncaster Council finally agreed to a package of improvements.
Under the proposals agreed by the full council last night, Mexborough, and Rossington markets will be transformed in addition to the main Doncaster outdoor market in the town centre.
But a question mark now hangs over whether Thorne will get any cash after a Labour amendment at last night's Doncaster Council meeting decided to set specific amounts of cash to each of the markets earmarked for help.
Thorne was not included in the figures that were agreed.
The plans were first put forward by mayor Peter Davies earlier this year, with proposals to revamp the outdoor market. The main Doncaster Market revamp can now go ahead immediately using up to £900,000 approved by full council last night.
The plans for the town centre will see the stalls re-arranged to make the wool market more accessible. All the existing 138 stalls, described by officials as dilapidated and functionally obsolete, will be removed and replaced with 100 more modern ones, with space for another 50 removable stalls.
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The aim is to increase footfall by up 10 per cent at the outdoor market, and 15 per cent in the wool market.
The plans had also been looking to spend £150,000 to £170,000 on Mexborough market, where councillors were told the take up of stalls on the outer market on York Square was in decline. But last night, councillors voted to provide it with up to £350,000.
Cash would be used to remove some of the current stalls and re-roof the market with a new lighter structure. The current roof leaks. The plans could also see the current stalls removed and replaced with removable ones, arranged in a way to open up the square according to officers.
Officers also believe the scheme will allow stalls to spill out onto Mexborough High Street, which they expect to attract more people into the market.
The report describes the current outer market there as dark and gloomy, and says the market is seen as an important contributor to maintaining the vitality of Mexborough town centre.
Rossington market, which is open one day a week had been due to get £30,000 to £50,000 through the scheme. But councillors voted to hand it up to £70,000. The proposals approved by councillors may see the layout of stalls altered and the structures replaced of refurbished.
There are proposals for a changed layout which may mean events could be held in the market area, and surrounded buildings spruced up. Bosses say it may help bring in a second market day at the site.
Thorne, which is owned by Thorne and Moorends Town Council, would receive nothing under the plans agreed last night.
The plans would originally have seen £150,000 ploughed into Thorne market.
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Mayor Peter Davies said he would try to find a way find money to be put into improving Thorne market, as he saw improvements there as as important as those in Mexborough.
He said: "They have cut Thorne out of the plans, which I think is divisive. My plan had been what Mexborough gets, Thorne gets. They are two of the main towns in the borough that need regeneration."
Doncaster Market Traders Federation committee member Nigel Berry said he was delighted the scheme had finally been given the go ahead for the main town centre market.
He said: "It is great for the market. The old market has been crying out for a revamp. There should be enough room to move traders around while the work is being done to that it's not too disruptive."