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Per Second Measurements Don't Cut It
Kyle Brandt
Transfer rates and the number of packets you send are measured in units of a certain quantity of data per units of time. The unit of time that everyone is used to is the second. The standard quantity of data that is used in the networking field is bits and the standard time unit is seconds. So for example, the standard network interface these days is 1 Gigabit per second. So the quantity of data is a Gigabit, and the unit of time is a second. We call this the transfer rate. The key thing to remember is that this is a fixed ratio of data over time. Because of this, you can divide the ratio by any number you want to (Ignoring the complexities of the discrete properties of Ethernet frequencies, system clocking, etc). So, 500 Mbit over a half second is the same fixed ratio as 1 Gigabit per second.
The thing is though, in computing, a second is a really, really, really long time. This is important, because when we choose what unit of time to express this in, what we are doing is graph smoothing (It is sort of, although not really, like taking an average).
For example, we could transfer 900 Mbit in half of a second and another 100 Mbit for the other half of that second. How much data was transferred during that second? The answer is 1 Gbit. If we transfer 500 Mbit per half second and another 500 Mbit per the other half second — this is also 1 Gbit per second:. This effect is illustrated in these Megabits per half second graphs:
These two are clearly not the same thing, but when you express them as the amount of data transfered over a second they are. This is important because a 1 Gbit per second interface is also a 500 Mbit per half second interface — and a 500 Mbit per half second interface can't transfer 900 Mbits per half second (I am ignoring any buffering effects, but in practice we have found this to be essentially true).
This effect is made even worse by most monitoring tools because most take samples every 5 minutes. So what you are really seeing is the transfer rate per 5 minutes converted to a per second rate. This sort of thing is why people say data can lie.
Why Should you Care?
We discovered that we were discarding packets pretty frequently on 1 Gbit/s interfaces at rates of only 10-30 MBit/s which hurts our performance. This is because that 10-30 MBit/s rate is really the number of bits transfered per 5 minutes converted to a one second rate. When we dug in closer with Wireshark and used one millisecond IO graphing, we saw we would frequently burst the 1 Mbit per millisecond rate of the so called 1 Gbit/s interfaces.
We have bonded these interfaces using Intel Load Balancing (ALB/RLB) and for the most part our discards have gone away. We did this on all but one of our web servers for a while and found that the one that didn't have the bonded interface had discards climbing while the others did not.
A second is a long time — be wary of trusting it too much to measure things.
Rob Golding says:
June 27th, 2011 at 8:53 pmWow. I never considered a situation where the 1 second time period causes problems like this. Nice troubleshooting effort! Thanks for sharing these tiny details of running a high traffic network
Warren says:
June 28th, 2011 at 3:20 pmAnd that is why logging levels etc have varying granularities: DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, etc.
I've run into issues like this a couple times myself, and being able to explore deeper has been a lifesaver every time!
Dave Fiddes says:
June 28th, 2011 at 9:42 pmHave you guys looked into turning on Ethernet flow-control? If you have a uniform speed of 1Gbps everywhere then flow-control would allow your switches to smooth out these short impulse loads. If you have a mixed speed network beware though…traffic to a slow port can bring the rest of the network to a grinding halt with RX/TX flow-control enabled everywhere.
Kyle Brandt says:
June 29th, 2011 at 12:12 pmHi Dave,
According to the Cisco docs for our switches, the 2960S can not send PAUSE frames but only receive them. Since it seems to be the switches that are discarding — this would be the feature I would need I think. The fancy Nexus line does support this. This combined with bigger caches I believe is called "Delayed Drop".
I have a call scheduled with some Cisco engineers next week to discuss just this.
Thank you, Kyle
Cd MaN says:
June 29th, 2011 at 1:22 pmThere is something that I'm not getting. Lets suppose that I have the following setup:
Computer Switch
Where link is of 1Gbps. Now, given this setup, the computer can not physically receive more that 1Gb per second or whatever that works out to in milliseconds. Physically the link can't deliver more.
In the other direction (from the computer to the switch) again I'm not able to send more that 1Gbps physically.
I only see two possibilities for packet loss here: - if the NIC driver is stupid and doesn't block the sending application when the internal buffers are full (ie. it lets the application send more than the link speed) - if the computer is getting data from more than one source, in which case the packet dropping should be occurring in the switch
What am I missing?
zippy says:
June 29th, 2011 at 7:57 pmWhy use ALB/RLB instead of 802.3ad?
D J says:
June 29th, 2011 at 7:58 pmIt's not the links but the bit in between.
Switches store and forward packets generally. Packets are held in fast memory attached to the switch fabric. If you have a lot of things going on within your switch then this intermediate buffer memory gets used up resulting in packet loss.
You're probably thinking: but I bought a wire speed switch! In my experience that is somewhat a variable term. If you have streams going from one port to another port and all streams are independent (i.e. port 1 talks to port 2, port 3 to port 4, etc) then you can achieve wire speed switching with cheap switches. If you have multiple network flows into a port then you get a small but significant delay that crosses the whole switch and causes buffer memory to be used up for a tiny period of time. For big enough bursts of 1Gbps traffic you can blow through a 8Mbit buffer pretty fast… Cheaper switches have a slower clocked switch fabric, slower buffer memory and less of it. It all makes it more likely to run out.
Ethernet flow control smooths things out somewhat but essentially pushes stuff back up to the NIC that's injecting the packet into the network. You can then use the buffering on the host (or router) to paper over the problem… Pushing that sort of network to the extreme can get some weird and wonderful effects including crazy latencies. Not all packet loss is bad which is why flow control is generally turned off on enterprise switches.
Some excellent resources on the subject if you're interested: - Network Algorithmics by George Varghese (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/704109/description#description) - Jim Gettys Bufferbloat crusade (http://www.bufferbloat.net/)
Richard says:
June 30th, 2011 at 6:28 pmThis is a dumb argument. You're asking people who have been measuring this for their entire career to change everything they know and hold to be true. It's not a strong enough argument.
Telanis says:
June 30th, 2011 at 6:37 pmActually, this is basic math coupled with what any good engineer should be aware of: the importance of accurate measurements. If you don't understand or care about either, then your entire career has been a joke. No one else's world has been radically shaken by this insightful, but hardly surprising, blog post. "Better measurement gives better results" is virtually a tautology.
Kyle Brandt says:
June 30th, 2011 at 9:24 pmHi Richard,
Well the title was aimed to be a little catchy — being a blog post. Really what I am saying is understand what your measurement really is. In most cases Bandwidth per 5 minutes, converted a per second measurement is fine. However, in higher performance transactional workloads it can be problematic.
The import thing is to understand the data and not take it for granted.
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July 10th, 2011 at 8:25 pmWow. Your sarcasm really adds a lot to the comment thread @robgolding63:disqus Thanks for sharing your content-free thoughts. [NOT]
Some readers (me) are visiting from English Language & Usage http://english.stackexchange.com
I like @openid-28206:disqus blog posts. Actually, I'm wondering if fixing that micro-burst problem from the prior post helped your network. Also wanted to mention that StackOverflow has THE BEST "We are offline" static page. Very descriptive. (Not 404, just down for maintenance).
P.S. Sorry Rob, my ire really should be targeted at Richard, but he is commenting as a guest so I couldn't fine tune. After all, you did caveat with a Peace?
Rob Golding says:
July 10th, 2011 at 8:48 pmActually, Ellie, no sarcasm was intended whatsoever. Re-reading my comment, I can't even see how you came to the conclusion that I was ridiculing Kyle's post. Please, reconsider your response.
Michael S. FIscher says:
July 11th, 2011 at 1:27 amDoes your equipment let you monitor the transmit/receive queue depths? They are there specifically to queue up packets that are currently being received or transmitted too fast for the hardware to process. If so, a high discard rate is a sure sign that bursts like this are resulting in discarded packets.
gjvc says:
July 11th, 2011 at 3:50 amNo shit.
Ellie K says:
July 11th, 2011 at 11:28 amWell, I totally misinterpreted that.
My apologies. I am so embarrassed. The burden of poor social skills. I'm so sorry.
Ian Ringrose says:
July 11th, 2011 at 12:11 pmI may be missing something here, but
The NIC output buffer should never otherflow, as the driver can tell the OS to stop sending packets.
If the switch is unable to process a packet, why does the switch not just fake a collision so the NIC resends the packet?
Willy Tarreau says:
July 11th, 2011 at 8:18 pmHi Kyle,
I didn't know that cisco did not support flow-control everywhere. Sometimes the workaround can be as simple as setting up a cheap switch in between, though it's dirty !
Cheers, Willy
Matt Simmons says:
July 14th, 2011 at 1:38 pmYou're really arguing that "we've always done it that way" is a valid reason?
Liam N says:
July 14th, 2011 at 1:55 pmSo, what does one do to monitor this in the long-term? (Short of running wireshark on every one of our servers..)
Kyle Brandt says:
July 14th, 2011 at 3:00 pmLiam: I am planning on scheduling TCP samples. See todays post on high resolution monitoring: http://blog.serverfault.com/post/the-three-monitoring-perspectives-part-1-ground-level/
Basically you have to find what you think is a Representative sample.
Also, with micro bursts you should see drops on the switch interfaces
Liam N says:
July 14th, 2011 at 3:29 pmAh! Cool, i'll start watching my switchports more closely then Though i dont think it will effect us too much… Anyway, i was thinking: a daemon of some sort that extends SNMP, and returns the highest recorded burst over X milliseconds in the last Y minutes..?
You could tune it for your monitoring system, and it should be easy(ish) to write the daemon.. But as usual i'm sure i'm out of my depth now…
Sfrancis says:
July 15th, 2011 at 10:38 pmOf course, take this to extreme – at any point in time an interface is either 100% busy (transmitting) or 100% idle (not transmitting.) (Just talking about one direction of the full duplex channel.)
So hitting 1Mbit per millisecond just means you were running at line rate for about 90 packets in a row. (Assuming 1500 byte packets.) i.e. you sent 90 packets without much pause in between. But get to further granularity, and you'll hit the 1Kbit per microsecond "limit" by sending a single packet.
Doesn't mean anything is wrong.
The fact you are getting discards just means you are exceeding the switches buffer capacity for that port. But the only way to know if the discards will affect performance is to measure them as a percentage of packets over a longer period (at Logicmonitor.com, we use 1 minute sampling for interfaces, not 5 minute. 5 minutes misses too many short lived peaks.) But seeing discards over a short period – even a "long" short period like a second – doesn't matter. TCP is designed for discards. Systems like RED and WRED (weighted random early discard) increase line utilization by discarding (in some cases.) Discards that are "pretty frequent" may not matter, either – dropping 10 packets per second over a minute is not great – but if you are sending 1 million packets per second, its not a problem.
So given you are exceeding the switches buffering for a port short term, IF you decide its a problem (which should be determined by the percentage of discards over a longer period) you can either add more buffering (by adding bonding, as you did) or tune the QoS on the switches. You can easily add more output buffers to the queue on ciscos.
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Decoupaged Canister Set
By: Debbie Saenz for Plaid Mod Podge
These canisters were purchased at the thrift store for $3 and given a new life by decoupaging them with fabulous paper. Spray paint completes the trash into treasure redo.
- Wooden canisters
- Mod Podge Matte
- Scrapbook paper, 3 to 4 sheets – I used the Basic Grey Ambrosia Collection
- Orange spray paint
- Ceramic knobs, 3
- Gray ink pad
- Cosmetic wedge
- Epoxy
- Sandpaper
- Mod Podge Clear Acrylic Sealer – Gloss (optional)
- Remove any original embellishments from canisters. Sand smooth.
- Trace your containers onto the backs of the scrapbook paper and cut out. Set these pieces aside.
- Spray the top of each canister with orange spray paint.
- Use scrapbook paper to cover the entire base of each canister, adhering with Mod Podge while smoothing out any air bubbles with your hands. Allow to dry.
- Use sandpaper to sand off excess paper until smooth; sand downward in one direction to prevent the paper from lifting or tearing.
- Use the cosmetic wedge and dab onto the gray ink pad, then distress the edges of each canister until desired look is achieved.
- Apply two coats of Mod Podge to each canister. When applying the coats, go in one direction then the other and let dry 15 – 20 minutes between coats. Allow to dry between coats.
- Attach knobs to each canister lid with epoxy.
- If desired, seal canisters with Mod Podge Clear Acrylic Sealer.
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By Karen Schwartz
No wonder people fall for fake car insurance scams.
When everyone else asks for thousands of dollars to provide a little piece of paper that allows you to drive legally, the guy who asks for only hundreds seems like a saint.
Until you have to file a claim. Or get stopped by a cop.
Actual statistics are hard to come by, but these bogus auto insurance agents and companies scam drivers across the U.S. and in other countries every day. They fleece the public by collecting premiums for coverage from a company that doesn't exist and will never pay out after a claim.
"Fake auto insurance is probably more prevalent today than in the past," says CarInsurance.com consumer analyst Penny Gusner. "Individuals now have the means to Photoshop fake insurance cards, and the Internet allows scammers to reach desperate people more easily."
In January, the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR) warned Michigan drivers that they may have purchased fraudulent auto insurance certificates from an unlicensed insurance agent. OFIR ordered Mervin Graber to stop conducting unlicensed and fraudulent insurance through his company, Tennessee Christian Motorist Aid.
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The Detroit motorists who fell for the scam face car insurance rates that are among the nation's highest. Even good drivers in some ZIP codes could face bills that top $4,000 a year.
"Any driver who purchased this fake auto insurance through Mr. Graber needs to purchase legitimate coverage immediately," OFIR Commissioner Kevin Clinton told Michigan drivers. "Right now they're driving without insurance."
The U.S. isn't the only place these auto insurance scams are taking place.
In Great Britain, fake car insurance brokers known as "ghost brokers" -- operating through websites and taking out small newspaper ads -- defrauded British drivers by offering cheap car insurance, and the result was that 20,000 motorists in Britain ended up driving around uninsured.
An insurance card can be faked, either on paper or electronically. Many folks try it. But you can't outrun the Internet. States are rapidly adopting real-time electronic verification systems that check for a current policy in seconds. (See "Proof of insurance: Paper or plastic?")
Even in states without a real-time verification program, occasional sting operations will check every driver stopped during the course of a day, for example. Insurance companies stand by to verify information by phone.
Don't expect a warning.
"It's not a question of 'please don't take me'," Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Robert Boris told NBC 6 in Miami last fall. "If you're fraudulently changing your insurance card, you're going to jail."
Instead of a ticket or a license suspension, you could face prison time for a fraud conviction. In Nebraska, for example, fabricating an insurance card is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
The difference in price between legitimate insurance companies can be thousands of dollars, especially for high-risk drivers. A price that's dramatically lower than the rest -- especially from a company you might never have heard of -- warrants a little checking.
First of all, says Gusner, "if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. No one will write a policy for $500 a year if every other quote you've heard is for $5,000."
She also offers these other red flags:
If you are in any way uncertain, get the license number of the agent and make certain that the license is real. You can look up the license records at your state department of insurance. (You can find a link on your state's insurance profile page.)
Also, check out the insurance company's rating online with A.M. Best to make sure it has the financial strength to pay out any claims -- or if it exists at all.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Titans have released kicker Rob Bironas, the second-leading scorer in franchise history.
Bironas had spent his entire nine-year career with Tennessee and had 1,032 career points to rank behind only Al Del Greco in the history of the Houston Oilers and Tennessee Titans organization. He has made 85.7 percent of his career field-goal attempts and ranks fourth in NFL history in career accuracy. The 36-year-old Bironas went 25 of 29 on field goals last season.
In a statement announcing the move Wednesday, Titans general manager Ruston Webster said, ''We want to thank Rob for his nine years of service to the Titans. He has been an outstanding kicker and we appreciate him both for his contributions on the field and in our community. ''
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Title: | Nutrient dynamics in a headwater stream : use of continuous water quality sensors to examine seasonal, event, and diurnal processes in the East Fork Jemez River, NM |
Author: | Sherson, Lauren R |
Advisor(s): | Crossey, Laura |
Committee Member(s): | Dahm, Cliff Asmerom, Yemane |
Department: | University of New Mexico. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
Subject: | nutrients, water quality, diurnal, wildfire, continuous monitoring, Jemez River |
LC Subject(s): | Nutrient cycles--New Mexico--Jemez River, East Fork. Biogeochemical cycles--New Mexico--Jemez River, East Fork. Water quality--New Mexico--Jemez River, East Fork--Measurement. |
Degree Level: | Masters |
Abstract: | Stream water quality can change substantively over seasonal, event, and diurnal scales. Multiple biogeochemical processes operate on a 24-hour timescale, and also may be influenced by local weather and precipitation events. Increased sampling frequency, made possible by recent developments in continuous water quality monitors, allows us to better understand biogeochemical responses to these events. Continuous water quality sensors were deployed in the East Fork Jemez River (located in northern New Mexico) from 2010 – 2011 to investigate the temporal variability of nutrient concentrations and biogeochemical parameters and the controls on this variation. This thesis is split into two chapters representing two separate manuscripts intended for publication with L. Sherson as the first author. Chapter 1 reports on seasonal and diurnal variation observed in nutrient concentrations and biogeochemical parameters, and the biological and hydrological controls on these processes. Additional co-authors will be Van Horn, D.J., Gomez, J.D., Shafer, B.M., Bixby, R.J., Crossey, L.J., and Dahm, C.N. Chapter 2 summarizes nutrient and biogeochemical responses observed during event periods in the East Fork Jemez watershed. These events include spring snowmelt and precipitation, fall precipitation, and summer monsoons occurring after wildfire. Additional co-authors will be Van Horn, D.J., Gomez, J.D., Crossey, L.J., and Dahm, C.N. |
Graduation Date: | July 2012 |
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A woman gave birth to a 13 Lb, 12 oz. baby boy without medication at Mercy Medical Center on Thursday.
When asked about the birth experience Kendall Stewardson, 24, of St. Charles, said she couldn't talk about it. "It wouldn't be TV appropriate," Stewardson joked.
Baby Asher was born healthy and 9 days late. He was 23.5 inches long.
His family has a history of big babies.
Asher's big brother Judah weighed 12 lbs., 1 oz. when he was born.
Both Stewardson and her husband Joshua were born weighing more than 10 Lbs.
Kendall said she had no relevant medical conditions during her pregnancy.
Often large babies can be traced back to gestational diabetes.
Asher sets a record at Mercy, but falls about a pound short of the state record.
The largest Iowa baby on record was born in Johnson County in 1980 weighing in at 14 Lbs., 13 oz..
Staff at Mercy's two hospitals delivered more than 5,000 babies last year.
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Do you feel guilty (or irritated) when you're negotiating a starting salary, a raise, or benefits? The problem might be an over-reliance on intuition and emotion, instead of logic and rational thought.
When we want business advice, we don't generally think to ask a writer. But when the writer is Flannery O'Connor, maybe we should.
Thankfully, most of us never have to worry about saving lives when we go into a negotiation. At most, we're hoping to score a little bit more money, and maybe some paid vacation.
Sometimes, what you don't say can be more important than what you do say. This is especially true when it comes to salary negotiations, where blurting out a lower number can cost you over the long run.
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What can one book do to improve the lives of working women? If the book in question is Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," the answer is "a lot." And it starts by getting women to ask for the money they deserve.
"Rapper" is perhaps the only job title we don't track in our Research Center. (Yet.) While we can't tell you whether hip-hop pays better on the east coast or the west, thanks to an interactive feature from Businessweek, we can definitively say that most are lying about what they make.
Why do women earn less than men? Our recent examination of the gender wage gap showed that it might have more to do with job choice than discrimination. The reasons behind women's tendency to choose lower paying jobs are complex, but fear -- of negotiating, of bucking societal expectations, even of success -- is probably part of the equation.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Last week Gregg Moore, representing Americans for Prosperity Foundation-N.H., attempted a broadside hit on the financial credibility of the University System of New Hampshire. Moore's community commentary appeared April 4 under the headline, "Sabbaticals inflating USNH costs." In it he argued system officials have been paying professors to not show up for work at a cost of $65 million over the past decade.
In constructing her argument for sabbaticals, Blake offered a golden example of why many think USNH wastes money. It's about living in the real world. And too often, it is not a world in which some educational professionals live.
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The Best Kept Secret: Kerrits New Tattoo LJs Riding Apparel
What's between you and your riding clothes on cold, wintry days is a secret you share with Kerrits new Tattoo LJs. Highly engineered, the perfect equestrian base layer top and bottom are designed for articulation and ease of movement.
"We designed our long johns to be ultra soft, next-to-skin base layers to keep you comfortable on the coldest days," said Kerri Kent, President and Designer of Kerrits. "Our Tattoo LJs are constructed from a lightweight yarn that draws humidity and perspiration away from the skin, keeping you warm and dry when the temperature drops."
Both top and bottom feature flat contrast seams and Kerrits exclusive Horse and Carrot tattoo. The Tattoo LJ bottom is designed in a knicker length to eliminate the doubling up of sock and tight layers in your boots. Sold separately, the new Kerrits Tattoo LJs can second as PJs or exercise wear.
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The Alaska Pioneer Homes celebrate the holidays each year. Family and friends are invited to enjoy festivities with the residents. Click on the graphic and take a moment to view some of the smiling faces.If you are unable to view the powerpoint slideshow, you may go here to view the images.
Two Alaska Pioneer Home teams were honored at the 2014 Governor's Denali Peak Performance Awards ceremony, Thursday, May 8.
The Customer Service Excellence Team Award went to the Juneau Pioneer Home CNAs. Pictured left to right below: Maria De Guzman, Gina Del Rosario, DHSS Commissioner Bill Streur, Arsenia Sales, Mary Ellen Yadao, Freddie Abad, Vhie Hermano, and Alaska Pioneer Homes Director Ken Truitt.
The Alaska Veterans and Pioneers Home Food Service group with Commissioner Curtis Thayer – Erika Hunt, Norma Cook, Elizabeth Jasper, Valentina Monica (not pictured) – received the Exceptional Performance Team Award, Honorable Mention.
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Washington, D.C.
MICHAEL P. GAUS, State University of New York, Buffalo
STEPHEN W. JONES, American Building Co., Atlantic, Iowa
RICHARD D. MARSHALL, Building and Fire Research Laboratory,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
JOSEPH J. MESSERSMITH, Portland Cement Association, Rockville,
JACK ROEHM, National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
RILEY M. CHUNG, Panel Director
SUSAN R. MCCUTCHEN, Administrative Assistant
GREGORY A. MOCK, Editor
SHIRLEY J. WHITLEY, Project Assistant
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Committee on Natural Disasters
DENNIS S. MILETI, Chairman', Colorado State University, Fort Collins
NORBERT S. BAER, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New
York University, New York, New York
EARL J. BAKER, Florida State University, Tallahassee
ARTHUR N. L. CHIU, University of Hawaii at Manna, Honolulu
MANNA J. CORTNER, University of Arizona, Tucson
PETER GERGELY, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
JOSEPH H. GOLDEN, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Silver Spring, Maryland
WILFRED D. TWAN, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
AHSAN KAREEM, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
DALE C. PERRY, Texas A&M University, College Station
WILLIAM J. PETAK, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
ROBERT L. SCHUSTER, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
Liaison Representatives
WILLIAM A. ANDERSON, Division of Biological and Critical Systems,
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
BRUCE A. BAUGHMAN, Public Assistance Division, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Washington, D.C.
FRED COLE, Agency for International Development, Office of U.S. Foreign
Disaster Assistance, Washington, D.C.
EDWARD M. GROSS, Constituent Affairs and Inclustria] Meteorology Staff,
National Weather Service, Silver Spring, Maryland
PAUL KRUMPE, Agency for International Development, Office of U.S.
Foreign Disaster Assistance, Washington, D.C.
J. E. SABADELL, Division of Biological and Critical Systems, National
Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
~ As of May I, 1992, the National Research Council created the Board
on Natural Disasters to provide a focal point for planning, coordination, and
representation of the NRC's disaster reduction efforts, and in so doing,
enhance its abilities to serge and advise the federal government and others
in this critical area. The BOND encompasses and replaces the activities that
were formerly those of the Committee on Natural Disasters, the Committee
on Earthquake Engineering, and the U.S. National Committee for the Decade
for Natural Disaster Reduction. A roster for the BOND follows the
committee's staff listing.
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GERALD F. WlECZOREK, Office of Earthquakes,
Engineenng, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia
ARTHUR J. ZEIZEL, Office of Natural and Technological Hazards
Programs, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C.
RILEY M. CHUNG, Committee Director
SUSAN R. MCCUTCHEN, Administrative Assistant
SHIRLEY J. WHITLEY, Project Assistant
Board on Natural Disasters (BOND)
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WALTER LYNN, Chairman, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
MARY B. ANDERSON, Collaborative for Develoument Action. Cambridge
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ALAN G. DAVENPORT, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
RICHARD FISKE, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
ROBERT D. HANSON, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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E.L. QUARANTELLI, University of Delaware, Newark
LACY E. SU1TER, Tennessee Emergency Management
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The Panel on the Assessment of Wind Engineering Issues in the United
States wishes to acknowledge the valuable support of the active participants
who provided input during the preparation and revision of this report: Hugh
Angleton of the National Association of Home Builders; Chris Barry of
Libby-Owens-Ford Co.; R. Michael Caldwell of the National Forest Products
Association; Michael Gaus of the Department of Civil Engineering at SUNY,
Buffalo; Stephen Jones of the American Building Co.; Richard Marshall of
the National Institute of Standards and Technology; Joseph Messersmith of
the Portland Cement Association; and Jack Roehm of the National
Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers Association.
In particular, the pane! wishes to thank J. Eleonora Sabadell, Program
Director of the Natural and Man-Made Hazards Program in the National
Science Foundation, which sponsored this report, for her continued interest
and encouragement.
The panel extends special commendation to Gregory Mock, editor of
the report, and to the National Research Cour~ciT staff members who were
instrumental in completing this study: Riley Chung, Director of the Division
of Natural Hazard Mitigation and its Committee on Natural Disasters, under
whose auspices the panel was formed, and Susan McCutchen and Shirley
Whitley, the division's administrative assistant and project assistant,
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Wind is air that is moving fast
Wind may be helpful.
It can turn windmills.
It can dry clothes on a line.
It can push a sailboat.
l:t can fly kites and balloons.
It can help seeds grow.
It can help frisbees fly.
Wind may be harmful.
It can blow off your hat.
It can blow your hair.
It can blow a house or car.
It can also blow trees.
Words and ideas for this class "experience story" were contributed by the
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Winds swirl about our planet driven primarily by solar radiation and the
rotational effects of the earth. Perhaps more than any other aspect of nature,
wind is both friend and foe. It grants us quiet joys as well as many practical
benefits�from crop pollination to energy production. Yet these life-giv~ng
aspects are counterbalanced by fierce assaults on our lives and property in the
form of extreme wind events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, severe
thunderstorms, and downsiope winds.
Wind-caused disasters affect every sector of society and every inhabited
region of the earth. This report examines the need for fundamental research
in wind engineering, meteorologic, emergency planning, and disaster response
in light of these catastrophic wind events. It treats also the need for better
education and training in winch engineering and related disciplines, and
considers the opportunities that exist for cooperative research with other
nations facing similar wind threats.
Responding to a request by the National Science Foundation for
direction in addressing the nation's vulnerability to windstorms, the National
Research Council's Committee on Natural Disasters assembled a pane]
consisting of some of the foremost experts associated with wind engineering
in both industry and academia-a group drawn from a wide geographic base
and possessing broad experience. Their task was to provide a framework of
background information, analysis, and recommendations so that the many
hard decisions now facing policy makers regarding the wind hazard can be
made with confidence and understanding.
The panel set out to make this a readable document, accessible to
readers from a wide variety of backgrounds. While the report will likely find
its way most frequently onto the desks of administrators of disaster relief and
mitigation programs and into the libraries of researchers in the field, it will
be useful also to those in the media and to practicing engineers,
meteorologists, and scientists from related fields. Political decision makers,
too, will find a wealth of knowledge here as well as solid recommendations
of importance to their constituencies.
Certainly, the most critical and far-reaching of the recommendations
contained in this report is that Congress should act quickly to establish a
National Wind Science and Engineering Program, backed by a sustained
budgetary commitment, to coordinate and revitalize wind-hazard research.
Chapter ~ sets forth the rationale and general outlines of this proposed
program. Here the pane! details the magnitude of potential wind-related
losses, outlines the inadequacies of the current national response to this
substantial risk, and proposes a measured program of mitigation research and
local outreach. This program should allow advances in wind science and
engineering to translate quickly into improved designs for wind-resistant
structures and should encourage better disaster planning and response to the
wind hazard.
In subsequent chapters, the panel has evaluated the various facets of the
wind hazard, from the difficulties of measuring and predicting extreme winds
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to the challenge of updating local building codes and standards. These
focused discussions are meant to provide the grist from which a National
Wind Science and Engineering Program can be refined. Each of these
chapters concludes with a discussion of specific research needs and
recommendations aimed at meeting these needs. In Chapter 7, the pane!
recapitulates for easy reference the most critical of these conclusions and
Year by year, the nation's wind vulnerability rises as the built
environment expands. Yet, as this report demonstrates, wind research in the
United States has dwindled over time to a level wholly inadequate to meet
this challenge. A direct consequence of this neglect is an increased risk to
personal safety as well as to the inventory of structures that provide us with
both shelter and livelihood.
To reduce this risk, we must breathe new life into the nation's wind
research program. This can only be done by constructing a coherent plan that
enlists both industry and academia in an interdisciplinary effort to understand
and mitigate the ill effects of the wind. This report outlines the essential first
steps in formulating that plan.
Leslie E. Robertson, Chairman
Arthur N. L. Chin, Vice Chairman
Pane] on the Assessment of Wind Engineering Issues in the
United States
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The Power of Wind, 6
Wind Engineering, 7
The Critical Role of Structures, ~
Wind-Induced Losses: Victims and Costs, 9
What Does the Future Hold?, 12
The Critical Role of Design Standards, Codes, Code Enforcement,
and Planning Regulations, 14
Strategies and Incentives, 16
A Wind Primer, 19
Improving the Wind Climatology of the United States, 48
Expanding the Wind-Engineering Data Base, 49
Recommendations, 51
Introduction, 55
Research Methodology, 56
Severe Wind Forces, 64
Codes and Standards, 71
Retrofit Reroofing, 72
Additional Research Topics, 73
Recommendations, 76
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Mitigation Measures, 79
Emergency Planning and Response for Disasters, 83
Planning for Recovery and Future Mitigation, 89
Recommendations, 90
Education and Training, 95
Technology Transfer, 96
Potential Impacts of Computers, 98
Recommendations, 101
Introduction, 102
Industry-Academia Cooperation, 102
Dissemination of Research Findings, 103
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International Cooperative Efforts, 104
Recommendations, 106
Wind Hazards and Related Issues, 108
Nature of Wind, 109
Wind Engineering, Il0
Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and RecoveIy, 111
Education and Technology Transfer, Il2
Cooperative Efforts, 113
U.S. Conferences/Symposia/Workshops, 129
Joint Seminars/Symposia/Workshops, 129
International Conferences on Wind Engineering, 130
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Acronym List
ABL atmospheric boundary layer
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ASOS Automated Surface Observing System
CLASS Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
EMS Emergency Medical Services
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
ICS Incident Command System
IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
KBES knowledge-based expert system
NAWSEP National Wind Science and Engineering Program
NEXRAD Next-Generation Radar
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
SLOSH Sea, Lake and Overland Surge Heights
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CHICAGO -- Tsuyoshi Wada was disappointed he didn't pitch better when he was in the Baltimore Orioles organization.
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CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 24: Starting pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada #67 of the Chicago Cubs delivers the ball against the...
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5th | A Alcantara homered to right center (410 feet). | 0 | 1 | |
6th | A Rizzo doubled to deep left, C Coghlan scored. | 0 | 2 | |
7th | S Pearce homered to left (423 feet). | 1 | 2 | |
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Attendance | 32,774 (79.9% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:37 |
Weather | 81 degrees, sunny |
Wind | 8 mph |
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I buy it in three-packs at Costco - a great deal. A tube does not last too long though - maybe a month or two at most if you use it daily.
This mascara gives wonderful length and close to no clumps. Doesn't give great volume though. The packaging is okay and easy to use. I would buy it again but it's not my favorite.
this was my go to mascara for about 6 months before switching to falsies by maybelline. I really liked it. It does a good job of seperating and lengthing my lashes. Doesnt clump much and i really like the brush. Its not amazing and the look is kinda natural. There are definately better mascaras but this ones pretty good. Love the purple tube.
Eh....so this mascara is good. But, it leaves something to be desired. It's good, but not really good enough. Everything about it is pretty average. It doesn't clump, and that's good. It separates lashes pretty nicely and doesn't smudge through the day....but, it doesn't lengthen much and doesn't really volumize at all. It could be darker, too. Overall, I wouldn't buy it again, but it's an OKAY product.
Product does not clump up easily, nor does it smell bad. It rubs off quite easily which can be both good and bad. I am Asian and my eyelashes are quite thin. Like all mascaras, it defines them but it takes me at least 5 layers for it to be defined. It also does not add much length.
Price was not a problem to me as I bought it on sale (buy one get one free) but if I were to purchase it w full price ($17.95) I would not be satisfied.
However, because it was free, I use it on casual occasions as it looks quite natural.
Would not buy again. (If it were free though, I'd gladly take it)
I decided to try this mascara since I haven't used Cover Girl since middle school. As a college student, I was very happy with the price ($6.99).
- Cheap
- Pretty packaging
- Zero clumps
- Added length
- Separates lashes nicely
- Doesn't smell gross
- Doesn't flake or smudge
- Although the applicator is large, it is easy to handle
- Easy to achieve 'natural' look
- Had to apply many times to surpass the 'natural' look and get 'volume'
- Time consuming, taking at least 3 minutes of application (due to layering)
- Requires Q-Tips to remove excess mascara off of eyelids
- Wears off within an hour of weary
Bottom line: would not purchase again, honestly a waste of $6.99! I actively avoid it in my vanity and I should just throw it out...