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In non-commutative geometry, Gelfand duality is the construction of multiplicative linear functionals of a commutative C*-algebra, which can be viewed as the space of all its irreducible complex representations.
When encountered with a non-commutative C*-algebra, we can speak of the space of pure states, which is the generalization of multiplicative linear functionals in commutative cases. The GNS construction can then be viewed as a map from the space of states to the space of all representations, and also from the space of pure states to the space of all irreducible representations.
My question is, is the "GNS map" surjective, or injective? What should be viewed as the non-commutative topological space, the space of all irreducible representations, or the space of pure states? And why?


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The MIT-Cambridge team hosted two meetings (Apr, Dec 2005) with UK industry and government to discuss which of the many aspects of "Energy Security" the KIC should focus on. These ideas will be distrbuted soon, and tend to focus on regional energy infrastructure dynamics. The topics of facility security (malevolent threat protection), international energy supply-chain risk management (e.g. geopolitical risks) are areas which are well covered by other groups.
The CMI Centre for Energy Security will be hosting several events in the Spring of 2006 to further develop the "structured dialogue" and research needs related to this topic. (TPP Graduate Student: K. Donnelly)
Beginning in the Fall of 2005, AGREA and MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics began looking at some of the energy resource constraints and risks associated with international freight transportation. This represents one of three Supply Chain 2020 Phase II Natural Resource projects. (TPP Graduate Student: D. Cameron)
Past AGREA-related research (Mexico City Project), and that of the
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show that worsening traffic congestion may have a large impact on vehicle fuel consumption and emissions.
New vehicle powertrains—parallel hybrids in particular—have substaintially better fuel economy in stop-and-go traffic (e.g. city vs. highway). How much better will such vehicles be as traffic gets even worse? What level of savings might be expected in hybrids become an even larger component of on road fleets? Given these insights, what policy options would play to these strengths, at both the individual consumer and fleet-wide levels? (TPP Graduate Student: W. Feng)
This project is made possible by generous support of Derry and Charlene Kabcenell, through the LFFE Futute Energy Fellowship Program. Thanks!
Building upon 2004's work on TOTEM (TOTal Energy Management) by Davids Craft and Miller, David Miller is continuing his research on the usablity and acceptablity of integrated, end-user energy management systems.
Under the TOETEM architecture, intelligent agents manage each generator and controllable load, optimizing the short and long-term operation of the entire system based on the available data; the capabilities of the local cogeneration system to generate power; and the load requirements of users. The key idea is that there are synergistic benefits of intelligently managing both generation and usage of electrical power simultaneously. (TMP Graduate Student: D. Miller)
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This article offers general information on legal and financial matters relating to employment. For specific information relating to your situation, please consult an attorney, financial planner or appropriate government agency.
Now that you've lost your job, you need to hurry up and find a new one, right? Wrong. You've got to buck up and tie up loose ends with your ex-employer in order to secure your finances and insure your health. Add these items to your to-do list for your first week out of work.
Salary and Accrued Vacation Time
Hopefully, as you walked out the door with that box full of personal possessions, your boss slipped a check in your pocket that covered your salary through the last day, pay for unused vacation and so on. But what can you do if your former employer can't – or won't – pay you in full?
First, be sure you and your ex are on the same page regarding what you are owed. Contact the human resources director and synchronize your records. Then call your state labor board and make sure you understand what the law mandates. Some states require that the employer pays you in full on your last day of work, others give the employer some slack. Similarly, some states mandate payment for unused vested vacation time, others may not. Here are directories of the 50 state governments and their laws.
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If your ex-employer initially refuses to comply with the law, "you can use state enforcement agencies to sue an employer," according to Paul Gregory, special employment council with the law firm Greenberg Peden in Houston. If instead you hire your own lawyer, those bills could easily exceed the amount of your claim, Gregory says.
What if government agencies are of no help? "Worst-case scenario, you'll have to chase your money in bankruptcy court," Gregory says. Just be aware that this is a long haul, and companies may often have few assets that can be liquidated to pay off creditors.
Your W-2
When your defunct employer disappears from the face of the earth, who creates your W-2 report of wage income? Maybe no one. If you haven't received the form by mid-February, contact the IRS to request a substitute W-2. You will be asked to produce your final paycheck of the tax year.


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With compassion, sensitivity, and scholarly depth, Hays makes the strongest exegetical case I'm aware of that the weight of the biblical witness is against same-sex sexual partnerships.
Creation And Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage
"God made us as male and female," says Roberts, and "living in ways which testify to that is what shall ultimately make us free." If I could recommend only one book for exploring Christianity's sexual ethics, it would be this one.
Sexual Authenticity: An Intimate Reflection on Homosexuality and Catholicism
Selmys tells the story of breaking off a seven-year lesbian relationship and becoming Catholic. It was beauty—or, as she puts it, "Beauty"—that drew her to Christ. "It is for this," she writes, "that I gave up homosexuality."
The Inner Voice Of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
Say you're celibate. Say you fall deeply in love with your dearest friend—only to watch that friend walk away. It's a familiar story to many celibate gay Christians. Nouwen writes about the aftermath, about how you journey on with God.
The Friend
Bray is a historian, and this is his chronicle of non-erotic, same-sex friendships in England from about the year 1000 on through the 19th century. Here are inspiration and instruction for us who want to cultivate chaste same-sex friendships today.1


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TSUBAME2 is a production supercomputer operated by Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), Tokyo Institute of Technology in corporation with our industrial partners, including NEC, HP, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Voltaire among others. Since Fall 2010, it has been one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world, boasting 2.4 PFlops peak performance by aggressive GPU acceleration, which allows scientists to enjoy significantly faster, larger computing than ever. This is the second instantiation of our TSUBAME-series supercomputers with the first being, as you might guess, TSUBAME1. It also employed various cutting-edge HPC acceleration technologies, such as ClearSpeed and NVIDIA GPUs, where we had learned many important technical lessons that eventually played a crucial role in designing and constructing our latest supercomputer. Compared to its predecessor, TSUBAME2, while keeping its power consumption nearly the same as before, achieves 30x performance boost by inheriting and further enhancing the successful architectural designs.
Extended Usage of GPU Accelerators TSUBAME2's 1408 compute nodes are all equipped with three NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPU accelerators, each of which consists of 448 small power-efficient processing cores with 3GB of high-bandwidth GDDR5 memory. Most of TSUBAME2's 2.4 PFlops performance comes from its 4224 GPUs; 512 GFlops per GPU and 2.2 PFlops in total. While historically using GPUs required significant effort in exploiting its higher performance and it still remains so to some extent, it has been made much simpler and easier with the recent technical advancements as well as adoption by major HPC libraries and applications (e.g., Amber, ABAQUS, Mathematica, etc).
Much Improved Intra- and Inter-Node Bandwidths One of the limitations in the previous machine was its cost of data moving. This was especially highlighted with the adoption of NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GPU systems, which were the latest architecture at that time but the rest of the machine was designed and constructed two years ago before the GPU adoption. In TSUBAME2, we paid significant amount of system resources for performance-critical data paths: The peak CPU memory bandwidth is now 32 GB/s per CPU and 64 GB/s per node; the GPU memory, while limited in its capacity compared to CPU memory, features 150GB/s bandwidth; and they are connected by 8GB/s PCI Express lanes. All compute nodes are interconnected by low-latency, high-bandwidth full-bisection Infiniband networks, providing each node 10GB/s inter-node bandwidth.
Peta-Scale High-Bandwidth Shared Storage TSUBAME2 also excels at the support for large-scale data intensive computing for modern-day simulation sciences. Each node shares two file systems: NFS for user home directories, and Lustre for providing higher capacity and performance file I/O in large-scale parallel applications. The 7PB storage system is also carefully designed so that no single-point-of-failure exists, and further orchestrated with a 4PB tape storage system located offsite.
Ultra Fast Local Storage (SSD) In addition to the shared storage, each node has 120GB of fast SSD-backed local storage (some nodes have 240GB). This, along with the large-scale shared storage, makes it possible to do large-scale data-intensive computing in a much more power and performance efficient way than conventional systems.
All the above improvements in hardware aspects are organized so that the software interfaces are kept mostly unchanged from TSUBAME1. As such the majority of applications written for TSUBAME1 should need little changes to be used on TSUBAME2, and often just recompilation would be enough. For example, the new GPUs can be programmed with CUDA as in TSUBAME1, so existing CUDA programs should just run faster thanks to the 7x improved raw performance as well as various architectural improvements.
While basic software interfaces unchaged, some system configurations on TSUBAME1 were not as flexible and user-friendly as they should have been. TSUBAME2 significantly improves its usability by much more flexible resource sharing ways implemented with redesigned batch queue configurations, virtualization technologies, and newly-supported Windows operating system.
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use MY_PN so that all the plugins can be d/l'd in just mythplugins instead of individual tarballs which actually contain them all.
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- I applied Mac 'Vellum' on the inner corner of my lid to highlight.
- I dusted Mac 'Vellum' into the crease and brow bone very lightly.
- I added Mac 'Romp' into the crease blending everything together.
- I used Urban Decays 24/7 pencil in 'Lucky' on my waterline.
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On my cheeks I used Too Faced bronzer from the quickie chronicles naughty neutral palette. Mac 'Moon River' grand duo to highlight. On my lips I am wearing Mac Creme d'nude lipstick and L'oreal Cappuccino lipliner.
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People have a lot of opinions about money. In our "Money Mic" series, we hand over the podium to someone with a strong opinion on a financial topic. These are their views, not ours, but we welcome your responses.
Today, Barbara Morrison, author of "Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare Mother," tells the story of how she went from being a welfare mom to the successful professional she is today.
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It was 1974 when my marriage ended. I was young, only 24 years old. My husband refused to pay child support and I couldn't force him–I couldn't afford a lawyer and he threatened to sue for custody of our son if I went after him. My parents–who hadn't liked my husband in the first place (probably because he had braids and lived in a schoolbus), who didn't approve of my having children so young and who didn't want me to be a bad influence on my younger siblings–refused to let me come home.
I had no job. I had no savings. I had no health insurance. I had a 1-year-old son, and I was pregnant.
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I was stricken. I needed prenatal care, plus I had to pay for the birth itself and then well-baby visits after he was born. Nearly everyone I knew advised me to get an abortion. Some people even advised me to give my son up for adoption so I could get a job.
I grew up in an upper-middle-class family where welfare was considered a refuge for lazy bums who couldn't be bothered to take responsibility for themselves. I had a college degree, so I thought I should be able to find work, though it turns out a BA in English didn't qualify me for much. I worked briefly as a live-in housekeeper, but when they found out I was pregnant, they let me go. I spent every day searching newspaper ads, but I found nothing. There were also no daycare centers in my city, Worcester, Massachusetts, for children under 3, so I had no place to put my son while working an office job, even if I could have afforded it.
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I felt ashamed to be asking for help, but I logically knew that I needed to. I spent weeks scribbling down budgets, trying to make the numbers work, but they wouldn't. I also knew I had been working since I was 16, I would be working soon and would pay taxes again. I told myself that government assistance was similar to unemployment: I had paid into the system, and now I needed it.
Luckily I had a friend named Jill, who I met while a student at Clark University. She was on public assistance and was a founder of the local chapter of the Welfare Rights System. Just knowing someone who was in the system made it a little less scary.
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If I hadn't known what to ask for, I would have been in a lot of trouble. Social workers in Worcester–and really everywhere–weren't consistent or helpful. Two people could go in the welfare office and one could come out and have a check, foodstamps and more, while the other would be denied, and they didn't even know you could appeal the decision. Sometimes the social workers were told to act as though the money was coming out of their own pocket. It was a way to keep the rolls down. But with Jill's advice on what I had a right to, I went into the office, and came out with food stamps and a monthly check.


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Sennelier creates their extraordinarily luscious colors from the finest hand-ground pigments combined with pure, first-press, non-yellowing, safflower oils. They produce an outstanding collection of oils distinguished by a "satin" finish and buttery feel. Some colors may be made with linseed oil.
Color Swatches created using heavy application/medium application/50% tint and were applied on acrylic primed canvas (7 oz) material.
antimony trisulfide
Sb2S3 or Sb2S5 or Sb2S3 + Sb2O3
Depending on conditions, the pigment can range from orange to deep red. It is insoluble in water. Because it is heat resistant, it has been used to color glass.
Lightfast and permanent, although it blackens on contact with lead pigments.
Antimony Vermilion is highly toxic by inhalation and ingestion. Skin contact can cause allergies and ulcers. It reacts explosively with some organic materials.
Antimony trisulfide was synthesized in 1842, and was used in artist pigments during the 19th century. Antimony Vermilion developed a bad reputation in the 19th century because it reacted with lead. Antimony trisulfide pigments have been replaced by cadmiums.
Antimony Orange; Antimony Red
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Perinone Orange is a strong, clean, reddish orange pigment classified as a vat pigment. It has an average drying time.
Perinone Orange has excellent lightfastness and weatherfastness.
Perinone Orange is not considered toxic.
Perinone orange is often used in plastics and vinyls, automotive finishes, and printing inks. Its high cost limits its application to products for which superior lightfastness and weather resistance is essential. In textiles, it is used in synthetic fabrics that must survive in harsh conditions, such as tents and awnings.
Perionone Orange.
polybromopolychlorinated copper(II) phthalocyanine
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Phthalo Green is a transparent, cool, bright, high intensity color used in oil and acrylics. It comes from a Phthalocyanine Blue pigment where most of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced with chlorine, forming highly stable molecules. Pigment PG36 differs from PG7 in that a portion of the chlorine atoms are replaced with bromine atoms, which are reactively similar, but cause a yellow shift that is especially noticeable in mixtures. Phthalo Green has similar pigment properties and permanence to Phthalo Blue. It is slow drying and an excellent base color for mixing a range of bright greens. Phthalo Green is considered a very good alternative to Viridian because it is intense and mixes well and can be used to emphasize mineral colors in various tints. However, its tinting strength is very high, so it can overpower other colors. This pigment most closely resembles the discontinued and toxic Verdigris.
Phthalo Greens are completely lightfast and resistant to alkali, acids, solvents, heat, and ultraviolet radiation. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Phthalo Green has no significant hazards, but it contained PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) until 1982.
This bright blue-green was developed in 1935 and has been in use since 1938.
Bocour Green, Cyan Green, Intense Green, Monastral Green, Phthalocyanine Green, Rembrandt Green, Thalo Green, Winsor Green.
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Tiger hockey—women and men—set national records at season's end
A. Sue Weisler
The RIT women's hockey team enjoyed a dream season, advancing to the 2011 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey National Championship game for the first time in program history. Despite losing to Norwich in the championship, RIT set a program record with a 26-2-2 record and was ranked number one in Division III for 11 weeks. The Tigers set numerous team records and were the top team nationally in several statistical categories.
Sarah Dagg, a fourth-year hospitality and service management major, was named the 2011 Laura Hurd Award winner as Division III's National Player of the Year. Dagg, a native of St. George, Ontario, finished the season fourth nationally with 42 points on 18 goals and 24 assists. She finished her RIT career as the university's all-time leading scorer with 154 points on 63 goals and 91 assists. Dagg became RIT's second three-time American Collegiate Hockey Association RBK All-American.
"Sarah is the heart and soul of this team and has been since her freshman year," says RIT Head Coach Scott McDonald, a finalist for the 2011 Women's College Hockey College Division Coach of the Year. "She brings an energy and work ethic to every practice and workout that is unmatched on this team."
Fellow seniors Traci Galbraith, a marketing major, and Katie Stack, a psychology major, also earned All-American honors. Galbraith, a defenseman, was named to the first team, while Stack, a forward, earned second team honors. Galbraith was named to the NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Championship All-Tournament Team, while Stack finished her RIT career as the university's all-time leader in goals with 81.
"I am proud of what our team accomplished this year," says McDonald. "Their success was a product of hard work from the first day of practice."
On the men's side, RIT won its fourth straight Atlantic Hockey Association regular-season championship and advanced to the AHA Championship game for the second straight season. The Tigers finished 19-11-8, recording their fifth-straight season with at least 19 victories.
Junior forward Tyler Brenner, a business major, was tied for seventh nationally with 26 goals. On March 21, he signed a professional deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
Sophomore goaltender Shane Madolora, a management major, was named the Atlantic Hockey Association Goaltender of the Year. He finished 17-3-7 and led the nation with a .935 save percentage and six shutouts. He was third with a 1.93 goals against average.
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Rethinking Sustainable Development
As the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals approaches, much thought is being devoted to what should succeed that framework for measuring global progress against hunger, disease, and poverty. Any successor framework must reflect global aspirations and arise from a rich consultative process. I believe that the new framework must embrace a broader understanding of development — one that is relevant for all countries, rich as well as poor.
The world today looks very different from a few years ago. Many countries have high levels of debt that could make it difficult to undertake spending initiatives for many years. Financial sector incentives and regulation may have to be rethought, existing growth models refined to deliver sufficient new employment opportunities, and the functioning of the international monetary system revisited.


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3 Simple Ways To Improve Customer Satisfaction Today
As business owners, we'd all like to think of ourselves as providers of great customer service. As small business owners in particular, it's quite possibly your biggest differentiator. After all, how often is it that you walk into a national chain restaurant and are greeted by name, handed your favorite drink and made to feel like part of the family?
But great customer service is also about knowing how to handle problems, responding to and resolving issues—something at which agile small businesses can often excel.
If customer satisfaction is your goal, then great customer service will get you there.
Here are three simple things you can do to embed customer service into your business philosophy and day-to-day operations:
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Listening is key to effective customer service and it can also help boost your profitability. Here are two ways to prove to your customers that you are listening–and tips on how to make it count:
- Everyday Customer Interaction – Show you are listening to your customers by taking notes or repeating back what your customer has said. Listen to their words and tone. Observe their body language. Provide them clear and concise communication. Ask clarifying questions to gain understanding before you provide a response. If you can't respond immediately, be sure to provide a timeline for response and make a note in your calendar to do so. Follow up, confirm the resolution and check for customer satisfaction and completion.
- Facilitating Feedback – If you don't have a reason for face-to-face interaction with a customer, look for ways to stay in touch and show you are listening and eager to keep the lines of communication open. For example, follow up with a customer after a sale to prove to your customers that you want to hear from them. Hand out in-store or post-sale surveys to find out what they'd like to see from your brand—and stay active on social media (more on this below). Customer service is, after all, about meeting the needs and expectations of the customer as defined by the customer. By soliciting feedback and using that information to inform your business you will find new ways to ensure your business is relevant to them and hopefully open new lines of profitable opportunity.
In order to have effective customer service, you must know what your customers want, provide it to them on a consistent basis and ask them how you are doing.
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For example:
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- Ask how to help your customers — Find out what they want. It is important that each customer encounter makes them feel satisfied.
- Don't challenge disgruntled customers — Listen, reassure them that you'll escalate or act on their complaint and follow through until resolution.
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Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner, and the "Radical Middle"
"Capitalism isn't the problem, it's how we've been practicing capitalism." This quote, from Ted Turner, reverberates through Todd Wilkinson portrait of the media mogul's life in Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet. In the book, Wilkinson traces Turner's path, from his days as the outspoken founder of CNN, to his equally controversial and pioneering presence in environmental conservation and philanthropy. As the book explores Turners' ability to disrupt business as usual, it also considers the new possibilities and questions that emerge when then line between environmental conservation and capitalism thins.
Wilkinson sees Turner's journey as a study in "how places can transform people." For Turner, the connection with nature started early. The swamps of North Carolina provided a refuge from a troubled childhood, and bison captured his imagination; he began to think of them as his totem animal. This connection to wildlife and wild places would bubble up throughout Turner's career, from his work pioneering environmental programming at CNN, to his attempted reintroduction of wildlife onto a Florida plantation. Eventually, his love for the outdoors led him to purchase Montana's Flying D ranch. The transaction, which started as a way to fuel Turner's passion for fly-fishing, became a watershed moment for its new owner, the community around him, and the field of re-wilding and environmental conservation.
The quest to restore the Flying D ranch led Turner to an unusual solution, an approach in the "radical middle," between typical land conservation strategies, on one hand, and traditional ranching efforts, on the other. He replaced cattle with bison, and founded a sustainably managed restaurant chain, Ted's Montana Grill, to promote them as an alternative to beef. Many laud Turner's approach as a much-needed integration of economic and environmental principles, that factors people and the planet, as well as profits, into its bottom line. However, his approach also generates controversy. Environmentalists worry about the potential domestication of Turner's bison herds, especially in light of collaborations between state wildlife agencies and Turner Enterprises. Ranchers often object to Turner's reintroduction of bison and prairie dogs to Western landscapes, worrying that these creatures will threaten their livestock through competition or disease.
Wilksinon's profile suggests that, for his part, Turner sees his approach as a way to leverage to environmental efforts as far as possible. Making conservation economically feasible, he argues, is key to making it more widely adopted. By managing bison to mimic their historic role in maintaining healthy grasslands, Turner also improves the land's ability to sustain other kinds of wildlife. In addition to an estimated 55,000 bison, "populations of mule deer, white-tailed deer, Rocky Mountain elk, Rocky Mountain gray wolf, Shiras moose, pronghorn antelope, black bear, mountain lions and badgers, among others," roam his ranches. Wilkinson likens Turner's approach to conservation to a conservationist's Noah's ark; protecting a keystone species creates a refuge for a whole host of other creatures. Similarly, Turner's championing of prairie dogsprotects more that 150,000 of these animals, but also preservesa host of other creatures, including the endangered black-footed ferret and burrowing owl, that rely on them for as a source of prey and habitat creation.
Turner's work promoting peace parks also leverages conversation, but from a different angle; it extends the benefits of conservation as a tool to address global conflict. In his presentation, Wilkinson cites Turner's realization that "deep down, almost everyone cares deeply about wildlife," as a guiding principle in his championing of peace parks. These trans-boundary protected areas focus on the common affinity that animals create, to provide neutral spaces, as well as eco-tourism and revenue-generating opportunities, for both sides of conflict-ridden borders. Turner has promoted the creation of a park to protect the biodiversity in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, and to foster dialogue between the two countries. In this arena, and in his work promoting the role of the United Nations in conflict resolution and global governance, nuclear disarmament, and women's rights, Turner has a knack for seeing new ways for getting things done.
Wilkinson paints this technology-disrupting identity as the common link across Turner's philanthropic work and media background. Whether pioneering the 24-hour news cycle, or re-imaging re-wilding, his greatest successes involve challenges to the status quo. His recent foray into clean energy is no exception: by partnering with one of the largest coal-burners in the U.Sto create asolar energy project, he has formed a renewable energy "odd couple." As the project develops, it's likely he will continue redraw business models that make enterprise work for the planet.
Todd Wilkinson's presentation was co-sponsored by YCELP and YCEI, as part of the Climate and Energy Bookshelf speaker series. The series features new publications by renowned environmental policy thinkers including Brian Keane, Mary Wood, and Tom Kizzia.
A podcast interview with Todd Wilkinson is availble on SoundCloud.
Amy Weinfurter is a first-year Masters of Environmental Management (MEM '15) candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, focusing on the intersection between environmental communication and policy. Before arriving at Yale, she studied English and environmental science at Colby College, and worked with non-profit organizations in Colorado and Washington, D.C., on communication, watershed management, and community outreach and engagement initiatives.
Photo courtesy of Danielle Lehle, Yale F&ES '15.


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It certainly wasn't the first time I had prayed for my friend, Don Hughes, but I was convinced it was my last.
Our friendship was forged by prayer as he fought colon cancer. Several years ago, Gene, one of Don's five sons, told me his dad was sick.
"Would you please pray for him?" he asked.
And so I went to visit Don Hughes.
"I thank you for coming," he said as I left his house. "You're always welcome here."
And I was.
"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
—Franklin P. Jones (American Businessman, 1887-1929)
I've always tended to talk out loud to myself when I'm writing. You know, just to see how things sound and such. As I get older, I tend to do this more and more. You may not know it but they say this is a sign of great "genius."
"Who says that?" you ask.
I couldn't have been more pleased when I found out earlier this month that Bernard Smalley was going to be named Citizen of the Year by the Springfield-Washington County Chamber of Commerce. I've spent a little over two years working in the Washington County community, and I'd be hard-pressed to say I've crossed paths with a more genuine person who cared more about Washington County than Bernard.
"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"
—Billy Graham
Dear Editor,
In last week's edition of The Sun, there was a story about vandalism on the old bridge in Fredericktown. I visited the bridge last weekend and saw the strange scene myself: an unlit pile of wood, a gas can and two chairs. This scene appeared oddly staged.
I question the motives of why someone would set up such a bizarre scene. Kids would be the obvious answer to some. Possibly, but living in the area as long as I have, and knowing most everyone here, I don't buy that theory.
Stevie Lowery
"Is your hair naturally curly?"
I have been asked that question hundreds of times.
"You're so lucky," is the response I often receive after confirming that, yes, my hair is indeed naturally curly.
Apparently, from what I've been told, many women would pay good money to have curls like mine.
How are those New Year's resolutions working for you? If you've already reneged on them, don't panic. You aren't alone.
According to a survey reported in Forbes magazine, 36 percent have broken their resolutions after one month, 54 percent have failed after six months, and only 8 percent actually reach their New Year's goals.
If you don't know the answer to that question then you need to attend the Central Kentucky Community Theatre's presentation of the Frank Wildhorn musical, "Jekyll & Hyde."
If you read my column regularly, then you know that about every third one contains a review of the latest play by our local community theatre.
There's been a changing of the guard over the past few months and it's brought about a renewed vitality along with the new blood running the shows.
On a frigid afternoon this past Tuesday, December 10, some 65 people representing different expressions of faith gathered on the Boone Farm in Nelson County, affirming their belief that God is not pleased with what hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is doing to his creation.
Ashley Spalding, A.P.R.N.
As the winter season begins, individuals will be exposed more often to the germs that cause colds or the flu. It is always better to prevent an illness than to deal with its symptoms and possibly spread it to someone else. The single most effective way to prevent the spread of dangerous germs is by following good hand hygiene.
Individuals should wash their hands often, especially during the winter months, and always at the following times:
· Before, during and after preparing food
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text: Dr. Wu-chen Feng and others from the Supercomputing in Small Spaces group at Los Alamos National Labs presented a paper called "Honey, I Shrunk the Beowulf" which provides answers to many of the questions being asked here. The link is: http://public.lanl.gov/feng/icpp02.pdf --Sam Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Guy Coates wrote: > > >>>Just for the record, how much did this cluster cost? Or at least, how >>>much does a 3U with 24 blades cost? >> >>Can't comment on how much we paid I'm afraid, but list price for a 800Mhz >>PIII blade is $1,249 (you have to figure in the cost of the chassis as >>well, the price of which does not seem to be on rlx's website). >> >>Performance wise, linpack pulls about ~550 Mflops on a single blade. >>(dmesg reports 1592.52 BogoMIPS per CPU). Disk IO isn't great (ide disks) >>but there are two of them per blade so we use RAID-0 which helps. The >>network is only 100BaseT which is not good if you run MPI (we don't) but >>there are 3 interfaces per card which allows us to run a slightly strange >>network topology in order to move large datafiles onto the blades in a >>sensible amount of time. > > > Can one elect to omit one or both disks? Ethernet interface(s)? Disks > and network interfaces can both be passive power consumers and a linux > image for nodes occupies at most a couple of GB and as little as a few > tens of MB. These blades sound like they were born to run diskless in a > compute farm for EP tasks (where one wouldn't really need multiple > network interfaces if the task was scaled to run for times much longer > than startup and data collection), and if one could knock a few hundred > off the price per blade, would come in at order of $1/MHz, very > comparable to lintel. > > One does have to worry a bit about getting off the beaten COTS track -- > single source vendor, price to be negotiated with same, single source of > service -- but Myrinet sets a long precedent and it does sound like a > nifty cluster;-) > > >>>So you don't seem to be getting a lot more MHz/Watt, >> >>Probably not too surprising, as the CPU and disks are going to be the >>major power draw, and they are bog-standard PC parts, same as in every >>other Lintel cluster. > > > Ah, I thought you had the transmeta blade. Well, that simplifies > guestimating and comparing P6-family performance and addresses at least > part of the COTS issue as well:-) One wonders why they can't sell the > blades with 1.4 GHz PIII's? They must be using the low voltage/power > chips, although I find it a bit hard to get full technical specs from > their website. Looks like they really want to sell "standard" blades > without a lot of configuration choices (not unreasonably). > > >>The blades are very easy to manage. There are no user-serviceable parts on >>a blade. So if a disk or CPU dies we pull the whole blade and replace with >>a new one. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on how well you >>get on with your vendor and the T&Cs of your service agreement:). RLX have >>some nifty blade management software which we use to provision OSs, look >>at hardware health, get serial consoles etc. > > > Do the NICs do PXE? Can they run diskless? RLX is clearly selling > webfarms and server farms with beowulfery an important but secondary > sales target, but they might consider selling a stripped blade > engineered as a pure compute node. It would save a bunch of power, too > -- disks and unnecessary NICS draw wattage, probably close to half the > total draw of the boards. At (say) 500-600W per 3U your power/heat > problem is fairly significantly reduced, and the lifetime of the boards > at a lower operating temperature extended. > > BTW, the chassis price from their website was around $3K, making a fully > populated 24 blade unit with ~$1500 boards about $40K, about $2 per > aggregate P6 MHz. A dual Xeon with two 2.4 GHz P4's is about $2000 > (depending on configuration -- probably with a lot more memory) or a bit > less than $1/MHz (although it also underperforms a PIII relative to > clock in a some applications, including mine). > > If RLX could find a way of selling stripped, bigger memory but lower > power compute blades for <$1000 they'd be very cost competitive. Of > course, I suppose that this is a matter of dickering with them;-) > > Thanks, this has been very informative. I was never convinced by the > "power density" argument the last time blade computers were brought up > on the list, as the issue isn't power per chip, it is power per MHz and > given roughly constant switching power requirements at a given VLSI > scale, one doesn't expect a tremendous difference in power consumption > between 3 800 MHz P6's and one 2.4 GHz P6. A fully loaded 40U rack > (allowing 4U of space at the top for patch panels or switches) can hold > 12 3U boxes, or 10+ KW of power. That is, umm, HOT -- a 4 ton A/C with > massive airflow can just be attached to the front of the rack, thank you > very much:-) > > I am a lot more likely to be convinced by ease of installation and > management issues, FLOPS rack densities, and long term reliability. It > looks like your cluster does quite well on the first ones, and the last > one remains to be proven in application. > > rgb > > >>Cheers, >> >>Guy Coates >> >> > >


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In my previous post, I wrote about the 7 Habits of Awesome Clients.
All relationships are give and take. Therefore, a good client is only as good as the consultant.
Here are the 7 Habits of Awesome Consultants:
1. Understand Client Needs - All awesome consultants focus on client needs and existing problems instead of trying to sell 'readymade' solutions. They use emotional intelligence to empathise with clients and understand things from the client's perspective to ask the right questions. They are customer-focussed, speak the client's language and capture both explicit and implicit needs.
2. Demonstrate Competence - All awesome consultants are trained for and competent at their job and use their expertise to meet client needs. They are lifelong learners and build varied experience with each engagement. They demonstrate their competence by educating their clients and providing unique insights to enable clients to make more informed decisions.
3. Communicate Effectively - All awesome consultants communicate with clients and keep the process transparent. They are good listeners and inform and collaborate to get to the desired end result. They are able to explain complex ideas in simple terms. They are not afraid to say 'no' and are able to communicate bad news. They are honest and objective and act as a 'trusted advisor' for their clients.
4. Add Value and Build Trust - All awesome consultants are confident about what they bring to the table and show how they add value to the work. They meet and exceed expectations and are motivated to ensure that their clients succeed. They demonstrate integrity and professionalism and gain the trust of clients. They are passionate about sharing their knowledge and go beyond the scope of work for the current project.
5. Are Proactive and Innovative - All awesome consultants are proactive and anticipate possible problems. They are resourceful and are able to solve challenges. In doing so, they are innovative and are open to ideas and new ways of doing things. They listen to their clients attentively and are willing to take risks, be convinced by good reasoning and want to innovate.
6. Committed to Quality - All awesome consultants are quality conscious and show their commitment to quality by investing the right time and skills required to meet the desired goals including timelines and key deliverables. They use effective and efficient systems and processes and have rigorous quality assurance systems to always deliver the best to their clients.
7. Build Relationships - All awesome consultants value their clients and the work they do. They speak well for their clients and look to build long-term relationships. They have a positive attitude about the relationship and stay engaged and connected with their clients long after the project has been completed.
"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions." - Peter Drucker


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Jeroen Sangers brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 80 Designs von 16 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
"El Canasto" (Spanish for "The Basket") is a popular Spanish personal productivity weblog. Looking for a professional but trendy logo design.
El Canasto
Within a rather short period my weblog has grown into the most popular Spanish site about personal productivity and Getting Things Done. I feel that the content does not fit its amateurish design anymore and want to have a more professional look. I want to start with a completely new logo (the current logo represents more my poor graphical skills than the weblog) and will create a new web design matching the new logo.
The weblog is called "El Canasto" (Spanish for "The Basket") and you can visit it at http://canasto.es/. Optionally you might want to include the tagline "Productividad Personal" in the image (or you can make two versions of the logo). If the logo doesn't have the tagline I will add it at the site.
The site is aimed at a business audience, so I prefer a professional looking logo, however it should not be too traditional.
Currently the site uses a green colour scheme, but you may use any colour for the logo, as I am going to redesign the site anyway.
Ownership of winning entry must be transferred via written contract.
Must be original work and must be free of any potential trademark / use
- Professional but trendy logo
- Optionally include tagline 'Productividad Personal'
- The design must look as good in black and white as in color
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Gabe, how is it looking for tomorrow, I am thinking to come up in the am.
The forecasts I have seen look a bit calm.
You must come to Tahoe this weekend!
Winter snowkiting topics and locations.
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It's a tough call for tomorrow...could be perfect up high. You can usually add 5 - 10 mph wind to the ridges on the Tahoe forcast.
Up in the air though...not sure if I will be able to go tomorrow either.
Looks really good for the ridges this weekend though.
Gabe Brown
sometimes Gary Bronson...
What time is midmorning?
10 or 11.
Gabe Brown
sometimes Gary Bronson...
Details for Saturday:
Well, me, Brian and Heather of Ozone got a good session this afternoon up at Red Lakes Ridge. Looks like tomorrow we may do two groups. One in the flats of the lower elevations and one up high for those who want to hike.
We will meet at 10:00 am at the Chevron in Meyers. Meyers is the town that you first come to at the bottom of the pass on HWY 50. WE will be heading out Hwy 89 south towards Kirkwood.
If you are late, the places to check are:
Grass Lake - off to your right at the top of Luther Pass (89)
Blue Lakes meadow - Go 89 all the way to 88 take a right and go 2 miles...can't miss us if we're there.
Red Lakes Ridge - Continue passed blue lakes to the top of Carson pass. Just over the other side is a parking lot on your right. (Snow Pass required...you can get a day pass at Chevron in Meyers for $5.) You will just have to try to follow the hiking tracks up. As soon as you break through the trees, it will be apparent where you are going.
Hope to see you all up here tomorrow.
From today:
Gabe Brown
sometimes Gary Bronson...
how was it?
I skied Tahoe yesterday on the N side (Alpine Meadows). The snow was spring soft, and a steady 15-20 mph wind on the ridge.
How was it?
what size kites used?
Good wind + waves, Zeev.
Re: how was it?
Winds were light and south all weekend. Some got sessions up high on the ridges, everyone got to know the area and fly some Ozone kites. Those who stuck around till the end got a nice lit up 10m - 12m session at Grass lake yesterday afternoon. It was a nice reward to see 15 or so kites on Grass Lake at the end of the weekend.
I expect to see you up here soon Zeev.
I'm heading to Utah on THrusday to hook up with the Ozone crew and check out their scene.
See you in the snow.
Gabe Brown
sometimes Gary Bronson...
I was having too much fun riding to get the camera out, so when I finally did, the light was gone. This video should still give you an idea of what riding Grass Lake is like. It's an 11mb, windows media file.
Zoom out to full screen and sit back from the monitor, it still looks pretty good.
Waiting for more fresh.
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AC Animals!
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let's do this! [b]Bat [/b] yule fly [b]Manatee[/b] danse [b]Penguin[/b] penguin [b]Dog[/b] doggy & derek [b]Rabbit[/b] who could win a? [b]Tiger[/b] we [b]Bee[/b] z [b]Duck[/b] daffy [b]Human[/b] people [b]Lion[/b] in a coma [b]Seal / Sea Lion[/b] lying & eye-ing [b]Bear [/b] alternate want to walk around with you title [b]Antelope[/b] alt. title for did you see them words/birds? [b]Cat[/b] kitties! [b]Crocadile[/b] auto mine [b]Zebra[/b] autoMIND! [b]Gorilla[/b] T-tones [b]Frog[/b] covered IN [b]Raven[/b] jimmy! and gLOCK [b]Snake[/b] Pumpkin gets uh! [b]Pelican[/b] peach bone [b]Dinosaur[/b] and again! list will be updated with suggestions (from lyrics... this is just to get shit started)
Leafhouse "Good dogs go by" meow, kitties (I think you already have that one) dinosaurs from Peacebone! "I'm like a pelican at red tide," No More Runnin "firefly lit tree"
When you guys hear "dinosaur wing" do you think of a flapping wing or a wing of a building? I always thought of it being a museum.
[quote="Phantom"]When you guys hear "dinosaur wing" do you think of a flapping wing or a wing of a building? I always thought of it being a museum.[/quote] Honestly, I have never thought of it like that, but I think its a great idea there!
[quote="Phantom"]When you guys hear "dinosaur wing" do you think of a flapping wing or a wing of a building? I always thought of it being a museum.[/quote] I never thought of it like that either. I always imagine like a dinosaur fossil in the ground and it has a wing, and one of the bones is the peacebone.
[quote="we tigers"][quote="Phantom"]When you guys hear "dinosaur wing" do you think of a flapping wing or a wing of a building? I always thought of it being a museum.[/quote] I never thought of it like that either. I always imagine like a dinosaur fossil in the ground and it has a wing, and one of the bones is the peacebone.[/quote] Agreed.
That's crazy.
It's always fun when people's brains work in different imaginings. That's got to be one of the intriguing/frustrating bits of writing lyrics: once you release it it's open to interpretation. My fave anecdote is REM's 'To the One I Love' with vastly different reception/intention.
System Of A Down's 'Aerials' is crazy for interpritation.
as is Men Without Hats' hit song THE SAFETY DANSE! darn it this veer'd off topik faster than you could shake a stick at!
[quote="G.O. [!]"]as is Men Without Hats' hit song THE SAFETY DANSE! darn it this veer'd off topik faster than you could shake a stick at![/quote] hahaha
avey loves the crocs! de soto de son - for the croco...DIIIIIILLLE fickle cycle - somethingsomething CROCODILE CAVE safer - LIKE CROCODILES! and I have a purple AC shirt with a crocodile and crocodile children on it and G.O. is referencing something else with crocs in it in the original post? yikes
damn i had no idear about so many crocks (of shit!) ... i have that same purple shirtle too! oh man... i don't wear it enough... the thing in the original post well i don't know how many here even know about AUTO MINE ... http://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/aut ... gton_band/ check it! everyone but noah in it and from 95 and avey sounds like faux-pavement!
I wonder if they still get royalties from those.
nope! i figure it gets mostly ignored ... like panda's first album! we built that robot! icey dubby / danse dance RMX in ze klubby!
I love Panda's first album so very much. I admit, I only have half of it. But the last half. Damn, there are songs that get me all teary eyed.
I think On The Farm is really beautiful. It sounds really clean, like a bleached and shiny kind of sound.
see, I don't have that song. Why am i missing the first 7 tracks?! Unfair.
2 words: beemp3.
You need to get the rest.
this topic is off topic.
what are yr 3 fave. movie moments / scenes of all time!
in the original "wizard of oz" book and in the musical "wicked", the slippers aren't ruby but this metallic color.
in the early 80s they tried to make No. 3 Pencils THE NEXT BIG THING but it failed miserably and they brought back the classic number two!
ok what the heck i posted something about poop and the next 2 posts i read by you AFTER making it had something about poop in it... that's ducked up!
I like the big cavalry charge at the end of LOTR Two Towers.
Gotta be the Samuel L. Jackson "Do I look like a bitch?" scene from Pulp Fiction.
Killing-with-an-axe scene/Hip To Be Square scene in American Psycho. "Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?"
I have no eyes.
The end of fight club. The book was way better though.
I actually haven't read the book, yet i've read most of Palanhuik's other works. Strange.
the book seemed damn similar to me! though some claim "no man it had lots of differences!" but didn't seem that much to me (same with fear & loathing) ... i don't see how anyone could like the book more the movie was just so cool i read choke by the guy too (it was just okay) and still need to see the movie [seemed like it took forever for that to come out and i don't expect much! though sam rockwell is pretty good!] then i read haunted for some reason... which was alright... i don't know man! i don't feel the need to read another and wouldn't know which to read anyways
Read Stranger than Fiction, (not to be confused with the movie, which is unrelated), and it's all non-fiction. I luv it, it's my favorite Palahniuk book.
See, I haven't read that one either. I've read Choke, and I absolutely loved it. And then Diary, Survivor, and Invisible Monsters. I think my favorite was Survivor. Invisible Monsters was crazy, though! What am I talking about?! They are all CRAZY!
damn i recognize the name survivor and invisible monsters ... i guess i should just look up descriptions and just go with whatever one sounds most interesting ... i don't know... the dude gets more and more backlash as times goes on for just using shock writing and gross stuff but each of the 3 i read had good merits... i def. don't like non-fiction though! though it amuses me he calls his non-fiction book STRANGER than friction considering how strange / warped some of his idears have been...
Yeah, I find that even though his stories are incredibly shocking there is more to them than that. Maybe not for Diary, I honestly don't really remember much of that book. Survivor was brilliant though. If I had to pick one for you to read...I don't think I could. Invisible Monsters follows a woman who has half of her face blown off. So, there's that. When I read his stuff those were the only books out. He's put out a lot more since then, and I don't have the money to throw around on books. Stranger than Fiction must be pretty insane. With a title like that coming from him, being non fiction.
well i actually saw him do a book reading around the time of choke coming out (he read from that [which i hadn't read yet] and fight club [which i had read!] and then i guess the invisible monster one! ... ]]] i didn't meet or talk to him and i'm ok with that but i regret not asking a question during a little mini Q&A because anyone who did got a free bar of FIGHT CLUB SOAP! argh! i just couldn't come up with anything on the spot! as for money to throw on books jeez GO TO THE LIBRARY! you must! free books! return 'em when yr done! such fun
that's good advice, man. Also, that is a HUGE bummer that you missed out on the Fight Club soap, that would be so awesome to have (and never use)! I wouldn't have been able to come up with a question either...I fail under pressure.
The book to me was a lot different towards the end..dont get me wrong though, fight club is my hands down favorite movie. Has anyone ever seen the movie momento? crazy ass movie
Thank you for pointing out that the library is a marvelous spot for free materials. Although that isn't what you said, it was the sentiment. And if you have a really cool library, you can check out Animal Collective CDs.
I did not understand that video you linked to. I did not see any animals.
what? they are talking to animals. ridiculous.
I admittedly did not watch it beyond the very beginning where it appeared to be guys reviewing the latest twilight film. I am lame, perhaps.
lol, it does seem like a lame video at first. they do talk to animals eventually.
but I'm underage.
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adorable. I love it, Grizz.


text: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Humans don't live a megahour MTBF. Disks damn sure don't. > > that's an attractive analogy, but I think it misses the fact that > a disk is mostly in a steady-state. yes, there's a modest process > of wear, and even some more exotic things like electromigration. > but humans, by contrast, are always teetering on the edge of failure. > I'm tiping back in my chair right now, courting a broken neck. > I'm about to go out for my 4pm latte, which requires crossing a street. > none of my disks are doing foolish and risky things like this - > most of them are just sitting there, some not even spinning, most > occasionally stirring themselves to glide a head across the disk. > I at least, think of a seek as about as stressful as taking a breath > (which is not to deny that my breaths and a disks seeks are both, > eventually, going to come to an end...) > > one of my clusters has 96 nodes, each with a commodity disk in it. > 10^6/(24*365.2425) = 114.07945862452115147242 years for each disk, > and 1.18832769400542866117 years for the whole cluster. since the > cluster has good cooling, and the disks not much used, I only expect > about 1.2 failures per year. > > we're about to buy a cluster with 1536 nodes; assuming the new machineroom > being built for it works out, we should expect about 1 failure per month. Let's examine your point, and mine, seriously. I was quite serious about sacrificing chickens to 20 year old disks. There aren't any (even in environments where people try to run them this long, which are admittedly quite rare). I ran a 10 MB IBM disk (one of the best money could buy -- IBM built arguably the best/most reliable disks in the world at the time) in my original IBM PC for close to a decade before it died, but die it did. I've run a handful (six or seven) of disks out to maybe eight years out of maybe a hundred that I've tried to keep in service that long. Less than 10%. Those disk do endure a certain amount of wear at a fairly predictable, fairly steady rate, and, like the Deacon's One-Hoss Shay, at some point whether or not they break down, they wear out. So what I was really addressing is that the "rate of failure" measured at some point in the disk's lifetime is a lousy predictor of estimated lifetime. In fact, it is NOT a predictor of a disk's expected lifetime in any sense of the term derived from lifetime statistics. One has to know the distribution of failures, not the rate of failure at some point, to determine the mean lifetime. It's just calculus -- the rate is the slope of the function we are interested in evaluated at some specific point (across some specific delta, given that it is a rate). At best this yields a linear approximation of the function in a Taylor series -- probably one that optimistically omits the number of disks that die "immediately" (the constant term at the beginning of said Taylor series) at that. So let's think again about humans. In the USA, humans have a mean lifetime in the ballpark of 70+ years, a nice human-long time because humans are actually amazing stable, self-repairing dynamical entities. Damn few mechanical constructs in nature retain individual, functional form for this long, including constructs engineered by humans using the best of current technology. However, this datum alone is not that useful to e.g. insurance actuarialists. Instead they look at the distribution. Humans are initially quite likely to die before they are born -- lots of eggs fail to implant, lots of pregnancies terminate in miscarriage. Humans are relatively likely to die in your first two years, when their immune (self-repair) system is weak and any defects in their manufacture process are exposed to a hostile world. Then they enter a stretch where the probability of failure is quite low overall, with modest peaks around the teens followed by a long period where it is very low indeed (death pretty much only by accident -- "failures" are sufficiently rare to be considered tragedies and not at all to be expected) until the internal cellular repair mechanisms themselves start to age and actual failures start to occur more often than accidents, around age 40-something. There is then a gradual ramping up of failure rate until (eventually) nobody gets out alive and damn few humans live to see their 100th year. One human in a hundred million might live to 114 years (a Megahour). Note that even this statistical picture isn't detailed enough to be useful to actuarialists. If you use drugs in your veins, are in a military platoon serving in a little village in the most hostile part of Iraq, are poor, are rich, have access to good health care or not -- all of these change your risk of failure. A human that gets just the right amount of exercise, has the best medical care, doesn't smoke, drinks just the right amount, follows a mediterranean diet, has good genes, and avoids risks can expect (on average) to outlive one that does the opposite of all of the above by a good long time (pass me them french fries to go with my beer:-). Now during their safest years, if you examine the number of humans that fail per year over some nice short baseline you might find that they, too, have a good deal more than "1 million hours MTBF", especially if you specifically exclude accidental death (which is the most likely cause of death after you are perhaps 2 until you are in your 40's). This is comforting -- it is why I don't expect to see ANY failures of the humans in my physics classes, in spite of the fact that there are hundreds of them, where I absolutely expect to see failures among the hundreds of disks in my cluster. In fact, if we saw as many failures among the humans of my acquaintance (who tend to be in the sweet spot of their expected lifetimes) as we all do in disks, we'd be screaming our heads off about epidemics, war, and mayham and would live trembling in fear. The human race would be at risk of not living long enough to perpetuate itself -- how many disks make it to 13 years (age of puberty)? Enough so that two disks could cuddle together and produce a mess of little floppy disklets to replace the hundreds of disks that died well before then? I doubt it, unless they produce litters of them with a short gestational period... So I reiterate -- MTBF for hard disks, as reported by the manufacturer, is a nearly useless number. What matters isn't a rate determined under controlled conditions during a particularly favorable period in a disk's lifetime, one that more or less excludes birth defects, accidental death, and the tremendous variability of load and environmental conditions (where a machine room that has a transient failure of AC can be thought of as being sent to Iraq in the aforementioned infantry platoon). This is especially true when it is perfectly obvious that the MTBF of disks averaged over their ENTIRE lifetime is NOT 1 Mhour, which would imply either that roughly 1/2 the disks make it to 114 years still operating or that the distribution is highly skewed so that some disks last for a millenium or ten while the rest die young. However, manufacturers (for obvious reasons) do not present us with a graph of actual observed failure from all causes (which we could use to do a true risk assessment). They present us with an obviously globally false number that is almost unbearably optimistic and cheery. Almost makes me want to be a disk... I personally think that the more useful statistic is the true actuarial one implicit in the following observation. It used to be that nearly all hard disks on the planet had one of two warranties. "Server" class SCSI disks (this is descriptive, not judgemental or intended to provoke a flame:-) carried five year warranties, presumably because manufacturers subjected them to a more rigorous in-house quality assessment before selling them, effectively removing more of the ones with birth defects from the population before sending them forth. "Consumer" class IDE disks carried three year warranties, because they sold them with less testing and hence there were more DOA's and first six week failures. A year or two ago, consumer disk warranties were dropped to a year by nearly all the disk manufacturers. If you wanted a three year disk you had to pay a premium price for it and select a "special edition" disk. Now I personally think that what has happened is obvious. Disk is one of the only components in a computer that carried a 3 year warranty or better, and it gets harder and harder to engineer a high quality/reliable disk as density etc keeps ramping up. Everything gets smaller, there are more points of failure, the net data load goes up, the average heat generated goes up (not linearly, but up). Even though "MTBF" by their optimistic assessment methodology remains low, the actual probability of failure from all causes is embarrassingly high. Now in >>my<< opinion what this really means is that the probability of current consumer disks getting to 3 years of actual lifetime under load has gone down to the point where they simply cannot make money on the margin they charge per disk if they have to replace all the failures. If you look at the marginal difference in cost of the "special edition" versions (perhaps 10% of retail), compare it to the cost of a warranty replacement to the manufacturer (perhaps 50% of retail) you can guess that they are anticipating that ballpark of one disk in five fails between the end of year one and the end of year three. Some unknown number will also fail in year one -- perhaps enough to bring the total three year failure rate to 1/4. That's a believable number to me, based on my personal anecdotal experience. In my direct experience with consumer disks, I see roughly 50% failures within five to six years. I've already experienced one admittedly anecdotal disk failure out of three put into my household RAID within its first year of operation, and that IS a special edition 3 year warranty disk -- it is sitting boxed downstairs ready to ship back. I've also experienced two failures over three years (out of three disks) in this RAID's predecessor and something like five disk failures (out of ten disks over five years) in the household's various workstations. Anecdotal sure, but I'll bet they are not atypical. These workstation disks are nearly idle -- they do some work when the system spins up, then just sit. My household RAID isn't exactly hammered by its five whole users, either, even with me as one of the users. The disks are exposed to power failures, cosmic rays, etc. So it goes. However, I do experience relatively few failures of disks (that aren't DOA during burn-in) for the first six months or even year of operation -- the recent RAID disk (failed at about eight months) is an exception, not the rule. Maybe it would even average out to 1 million hours MTBF (over the first three months of post burn-in operation) who knows? > another new facility will be 200TB of nearline storage. if we did it > with 1.4e6 hr, 147GB SCSI disks, I'd expect to go 1022 hrs between failures. > I'd prefer to use 500 GB SATA disks, even if they're 1e6 hrs, since that > will let me go 2500 hours between failures (not to mention saving around > 5KW of power!) And >>I'd<< expect that you can go 1022 hours between failures in the first three months of operation, maybe 900 hours between failures in the second three months of operation, maybe 800 hours between failures in the third three months of operation, and downhill from there... Or some other curve -- I don't know what the decay curve is, and I doubt that the manufacturers will tell you (or that it would be real-world accurate if they did tell you). At a guess it is somewhat s-shaped with an initial spike, a relatively flat period and then a more rapid exponential starting in a year or two. We're only seeing "MTBF rates" reported as the most optimistic slope of that initial flat period. The one kind of operation that COULD tell you very accurately indeed what the curve looks like would be somebody like Dell that offers standard three (or more) year onsite service on entire systems, including disks, for a fee. Disk insurance salesmen, in other words. Their databases would let you determine the curve quite precisely, at least for their choice of hardware manufacturer(s). In fact, their databases are doubtless accurate enough that they can very deliberately choose the best manufacturers in the specific sense that they cost the least (for a given storage size) integrated over all warranty and service obligations -- they MUST be accurate enough that they recover costs and make a profit, or they'll fire their actuarial database folks and start over. rgb > > regards, mark hahn. > > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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