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Desktop Icon Spacing
First off let me state that this is over 2 different accounts on the same computer. The Icon Spacing for Vertical and Horizontal are the same. Although the icon size on the 2nd account is set to medium instead of small that doesn't seem to change where it goes(it is there when set to small icons as well). I can make the icon go lower on the screen if I turn off 'Align to Grid' but I like it that way more.
My problem is I can't make my icons go lower on the screen than shown in the 2nd picture.
This is my main account, how I want the 2nd one to look.
This is the 2nd account, compare to the 1st picture
I've done a few searches and fiddled around with it and can't seem to get it down there. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Is the Last.fm icon the only other icon on the desktop and, if so, does it need to be there? My guess is that the two icons are being aligned so wherever the Last.fm icon (or any other icon in isolation) is, the Bin will be in line with it (or vice versa if you moved the Last.fm icon).
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Is the Last.fm icon the only other icon on the desktop and, if so, does it need to be there? My guess is that the two icons are being aligned so wherever the Last.fm icon (or any other icon in isolation) is, the Bin will be in line with it (or vice versa if you moved the Last.fm icon).
I just noticed this is only a problem when I have my 2nd monitor activated, it lines up fine with just the primary monitor.
My secondary is to my left and not to the right as well. [2nd] [1st]
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|22 Jun 2010
Then you have me equally baffled I'm afraid! Looks like a job for the graphics card boys rather than us customization guys.
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Ah oh well, It's under my moms profile and she hardly ever uses both monitors. Thanks for your help anyway.
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Kim D.,Kunsan National University |
Chaudhary S.,Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
Nuclear Engineering and Design | Year: 2011
An analytical model is required when the analysis method or the combined analysis and modal testing method is used as an aid to the seismic qualification (SQ) of equipment cabinets within nuclear power industry. This study proposes a simplified and computationally efficient model to represent the nonlinear dynamic behavior of the cabinet during earthquake. The presented model accounts for the softening behavior of the cabinets by incorporating the Duffing's type of restoring force. The characteristic of nonlinear restoring force for the finite element model (FEM) is based on the relationship of stress-strain of the element. Experiments have also been performed on an actual cabinet of nuclear power plant (NPP) to validate the model. The softening or reduction in dynamic stiffness of cabinets with increase in the excitation levels is observed in the experiments. It is also found that material yielding is not a significant source of the nonlinear behavior of the cabinet. The results obtained from the analysis using the proposed model are found to be in good agreement with the experimental results. The proposed model is expected to be useful for the prediction of seismic behavior of cabinets, particularly during the operation, owing to less computational effort required, accurate prediction of softening and no requirement of tests. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Nuclear Technology | Year: 2013
The application of base isolation to nuclear systems has been limited to date for some important reasons, including the deprivation of sufficient data for the longterm operation of such isolation devices and the lack of specific standards. Moreover, it is difficult to provide seismic protection in the vertical direction and to qualify the large-scale isolators up to experimentally large deformations in real dynamic conditions. The effect of aging on isolators is therefore one of the issues to be considered for the safety and reliability of base-isolated nuclear power plants (NPPs). Accounting for the variations of the postaging parameters of the isolators on the structural performance of the plant, this study proposes a simplified and efficient method to update the analytical model of baseisolated structures based on mean-iterative neural networks (MINNs). A bilinear model with a zero length element was built to represent the characteristics of lead-rubber bearings for their numerical analysis. Analytical model updating by MINNs has been successfully performed, and the observed results are found to be in good agreement with those obtained from experiments. Additionally, it is observed that the stiffening or hardening with time in the shear properties of isolation devices affects the seismic performance of the base-isolated structure. Seismic design over the service life span of NPP structures should take these aging effects of the isolators into account.
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Kim D.,Kunsan National University |
Cho S.G.,JACE KOREA Company
Nuclear Engineering and Technology | Year: 2014
The probabilistic seismic performance of a standard Korean nuclear power plant (NPP) with an idealized isolation is investigated in the present work. A probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) of the Wolsong site on the Korean peninsula is performed by considering peak ground acceleration (PGA) as an earthquake intensity measure. A procedure is reported on the categorization and selection of two sets of ground motions of the Tohoku earthquake, i.e. long-period and common as Set A and Set B respectively, for the nonlinear time history response analysis of the base-isolated NPP. Limit state values as multiples of the displacement responses of the NPP base isolation are considered for the fragility estimation. The seismic risk of the NPP is further assessed by incorporation of the rate of frequency exceedance and conditional failure probability curves. Furthermore, this framework attempts to show the unacceptable performance of the isolated NPP in terms of the probabilistic distribution and annual probability of limit states. The comparative results for long and common ground motions are discussed to contribute to the future safety of nuclear facilities against drastic events like Tohoku. © 2014, Korean Nuclear Society. All rights reserved.


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Unanswered: Optimizing database
I've been asked to assist with the optimization of a new project that has been built with Silverlight/C# and SQL Server. As somebody who's experience lies mainly in the Java/MySQL realm I'm hoping somebody here can help with some suggestions.
The first problem lies with a table used to store notifications from an ecommerce application. There can be hundred of thousands of records posted to this table every day 24 x 7. Hence, over time performance starts to suffer and there's no window to purge old data from the table. Are there any special SQL-Server faciltiies to handle this problem? Or would it be better to have a separate physical table for each day of the month? (e.g. use 'table1' for all entries posted on the 1st, 'table2' for asll data frorm the 2nd etc)
Another problem area with this project is where it takes in real time pricing feeds and has to store the incoming data. There are enormous volume spikes with this activity, and the underlying database can't handle the volume and this ends up being a huge bottleneck. One solution would be to introduce a messaging tier between the incoming price and the database to make the process asynchronous, but are there any specific SQl Server capabilities available to address this type of problem?
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Do not make multiple tables - you're asking for trouble there!
Have you got any indexes on the date? Are you returning all rows in the table rather than a smaller date range?
You may wish to consider Partitioned Tables and Indexes as well.
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Different tables for every day would be a horrible idea, but perhaps a table for today's data and a table that holds all of the history would not be such a bad idea and a partitioned view to tie them together.
Is the legacy data relevant if this is all "real-time" data? Is there a business reason for keeping it or is onlly the current data relevant. Do you need the detail level of previous day's data or only rolled up reports on that data?If one brings so much courage to this world the world has to kill them or break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Earnest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms.
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Are you talking about performance related to INSERT statements, or INSERT and UPDATE? But if you're talking about SELECTs as well, - partitioning is the way to go. Be carefull though, make sure to thoroughly analyze your SELECTs to ensure that partitioned indexes fully reflect every SELECT issued, and fully utilize the partitioned index."The data in a record depends on the Key to the record, the Whole Key, and
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Northern Ireland charity shops may have to lose rates-free status
Northern Ireland businesses and the 11 recently restructured local authorities have an opportunity to push for changes to reform the way in which non-domestic properties are levied for business rates. They have until January 25, 2016 to respond.
This consultation is not about a reduction or increase in the money to be raised. Stormont is considering what rule changes might be introduced if they were to raise at least the same revenue from rates as at present: £592m in 2014-15.
There are several important possible changes and other important distinctions that could affect the policies and budgeting of each of the local authorities as well as changing the impact on some businesses.
Northern Ireland already has an extensive list of categories of ratepayer that are partially or wholly exempt from business rates. Also, with the reform of local government, there are aspects of business rates where wider discretionary decisions might be passed to each local authority in the discharge of their newly defined remit.
This review of business rates is taking place in the shadow of a major change in the way businesses are affected by corporation tax. The reduction in corporation tax will affect Government revenue so that, if appropriate, there could be some set-off from tighter business rates.
Ten different concessions and exemptions reduce income from business rates by £221m each year. Each of them merits reconsideration.
The biggest concession, costing £87m each year, is the exemption from rates liability for charities. This needs to be reconsidered both in terms of the definition of an eligible charity and also in terms of some of the commercial relationships of charities with normal businesses. There is a strong case that charities which are trading commercially on the high street have an undue advantage compared to other rate-paying traders.
In England, the exemption from rates for charities is constrained to only 80% of liability for rates. Northern Ireland might make some changes. Charities might be wholly or partially levied for rates on premises used to engage in high street commercial activity and shops.
The 80% exemption might be applied to the non-commercial uses of property but with a change to give discretion to the local council on the final 20%. This would be part of a shift of several initiatives to the local authorities.
In addition, because vacant retail premises attract partial 50% rates charges while charity shops are rate-free, the retail market is distorted with an incentive to shop owners to lend/lease vacant shops to charities to avoid paying rates.
Charities which trade commercially might be levied for 50% of the commercial rates.
The second largest special rates reduction is the 70% concession on rates bills for qualifying manufacturing businesses. This costs £58m each year. Since these manufacturing businesses, like other commercial businesses, will benefit from the large reduction in corporation tax, there is a case to offset some of the cost of the tax concession by changing this concession which, in today's terms would be in breach of the State Aid rules.
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Company report: Schrader Electronics Ltd
Schrader Electronics continues to expand its output and profitability. In the last five years turnover has grown by over 80%. In the most recent year the rate of expansion has accelerated.
The company has manufacturing facilities in Antrim and Carrickfergus. Until September 2010, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of Tomkins plc, registered in England.
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Following graduation from the intensive outpatient program the patient is prescribed naltrexone. The patient is monitored weekly over the next two months. If the patient experiences 2 or more heavy drinking days during this period and is nonadherent then the patient's medication is augmented by CBI. If the patient experiences 2 or more heavy drinking days during this period and is adherent then the patient's medication is switched to acamprosate.If the patient is able to make the entire 2 months with 1 or no heavy drinking days then the patient is continued on naltrexone and the patient is provided telephone disease management.
What is a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART)?
These are multi-stage trials; conceptually a randomization takes place at each stage.
Goal is to inform the construction of a dynamic treatment regime.
Negative synergies: An initial treatment may produce a higher proportion of responders but also result in side effects that reduce the effectiveness of subsequent treatments for those that do not respond. Or the burden imposed by this initial treatment may be sufficiently high so that nonresponders are less likely to adhere to subsequent treatments.
Positive synergies: A treatment may not appear best initially but may have enhanced long term effectiveness when followed by a particular maintenance treatment. Or the initial treatment may lay the foundation for an enhanced effect of subsequent treatments.
When evaluating and comparing initial treatments we need to take into account the effects of the secondary treatments thus SMART
Subjects who will enroll in, who remain in or who are adherent in the trial of the initial treatments may be quite different from the subjects in SMART.
Why not use theory, clinical experience and expert opinion to construct the dynamic treatment regime and then compare this regime against an appropriate alternative in a confirmatory randomized trial?
The alternative may be the same regime but with one component altered.
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Every once in awhile, you stumble across something quite significant left behind by the passing of a loved one. is a collection of historically significant Newspapers and magazines kept by a lifelong Dallas resident who had the presence of mind to keep these for future generations. Included in this auction are the original Dallas Morning Newspapers which covered that fateful period in late November 1963, when our great leader, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The papers are complete, though a bit tattered and yellowed with age, and include the Saturday edition of 11/23/63 (the day after the assassination, and the first issue to proclaim the dread act), the Sunday edition of 11/24/63 (inaugural day for LBJ, with many photos, articles and speculations and allegations-the root of the conspiracy theories still being investigated to this day) and the Monday edition of 11/25/63 (front page filled with photo of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination at the hands of Jack Ruby, with full coverage of that event). Thumb through these pages and you will find a wealth of information from this monumental episode of American History, and you will get some idea of the enormity of the event in world view.Also included in this auction are the issues of both Life magazine (12/6/63) and Look magazine (12/3/63) from the period, ... read more


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Preventing Disagreements with Intelligent Estate Planning
The estate planning process is not intended to be cruel and unusual punishment, even if sometimes it might feel that way. Individuals must grapple with difficult-to-face issues, such as their own deaths, how to fairly distribute their assets among heirs and a whole host of other perplexing issues.
At the end of the day though, one might argue that the most important aspect of estate planning is the fact that a well-planned estate can preserve the cohesive and loving bond that one has helped to maintain among children and relatives during the course of one's life.
How to Give One Child More Money Than the Other
When looking at estate planning through the lens of preventing future conflict among siblings and other heirs and beneficiaries, estate planners may wish to take into account some important factors.
First, should funds be distributed equally to children or would an unequal distribution be more appropriate? Some parents might feel, for example, that a daughter with three children who is struggling to make financial ends meet could use the money more than a wealthy bachelor son with no children to his name.
Nevertheless, it could spurn resentment, even legal battles and family rivalries that can never be resolved after one is no longer available to keep the peace.
Before dividing one's assets in an unequal manner, estate planners may therefore wish to broach the subject with their children. If resistance is encountered, then a different tactic may be more advisable. For example, a parent could gift money to the needy child in advance of the parent's death, which would be helpful to him or her now and allow for an equal split of assets in wills and estate paperwork.
How Loans Given to Children Can Cause Future Problems
Another common but important issue relates to loans -- particularly if they were sizable loans made to one particular child that were never paid back.
If the other children are aware of these loans, they may feel like the loan recipient should receive less money in the will. Children might even try to engage in legal battles as a result. One way to resolve a problem like this would be to announce to all the children that the loans of that child will be forgiven, and to gift all other children the same amount that was given to the first child. Still, this strategy may not be financially feasible for everyone, so estate planners may wish to account for that loan in the process of deciding how one's estate shall be divided among heirs.
Estate planning can be a complicated process, but with an intelligent eye for future possibility and an expert understanding of the law, most future problems can be circumvented and resolved in order to preserve the future cohesiveness and love bonds among one's relatives.
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Kindhearted Dr. Julie Farr (Susan Sullivan) goes above and beyond in providing emotional counsel to three pregnant patients on the eve of their deliveries. The expectant mothers -- the doctor's best friend, Leslie Wexler (Patty Duke Astin), who is also undergoing cancer treatments; the wife of a philanderer, Marnie Bridges (Jamie Smith-Jackson) ; and a single mother of two, Gloria Miles (Rue McClanahan) -- share their hopes and fears with Dr. Farr as the big day approaches.
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Personality Type FIVE: The Investigator
The Intense, Cerebral Type:
Perceptive, Innovative, Secretive, and Isolated
Generally, Fives are focused, observant, curious, insightful, expert, studious, complex, perceptive, whimsical, profound, unsentimental, exploratory, and independent.
Fives get into conflicts by being detached, preoccupied, high-strung, isolated, impractical, unconventional, uncompromising, extreme, and provocative.
At their best, Fives are visionary, pioneering, innovative, objective, understanding, playful, compassionate, and non-attached.
Excerpt from Type Five ITAR (5:06 minutes)
Recognizing Fives
Type Five exemplifies the human desire to understand, to look beneath the surface of things, and to arrive at deeper insights about reality. Fives prefer the life of the mind, both as a way of understanding the world and—given the unlimited power of imagination—as a way of escaping from aspects of reality. It would not be farfetched to say that for many Fives, the inner world of the mind and the imagination is more real and vivid than the external world. Fives tend to have an experience and then spend many hours, days—even years—understanding it and its broader context. Fives are also highly innovative and inventive. They love "tinkering around," playing with concepts and overturning the accepted ways of doing things. This can produce extremely valuable, practical, and original works and discoveries or simply entertain them for many hours with no practical results.
Fives are truly the most independent and idiosyncratic of the personality types, the people who could most appropriately be called "loners" and "misfits." They are people who truly march to a different drummer, pursuing their interests and curiosity wherever their investigations may take them. Some Fives can seem downright odd to people while others keep their "weirdness" more below the surface. In either case, Fives are intensely determined to pursue the questions and ideas that fascinate them: so much so that relationships and financial considerations can become unimportant to them.
These qualities result from an extraordinary ability to focus their attention. Fives will stay with a problem or a question that fascinates them until it is solved, or until they discover that it is unsolvable. Boredom is unimaginable to them because there are so many fascinating things to explore, understand, and imagine. The downside is that their capacity for concentration enables them to get deeply engrossed in their complex inner worlds, sometimes to the extent that they forget their surroundings or even to take care of themselves.
Thus, Fives can get involved in work, reading, or in their own thoughts in such depth that they are often late for meetings and don't hear phone calls. They forget to eat or to take adequate care of themselves physically. They will live on soda and candy bars, or stay up all night writing a story or trying to solve an interesting problem. They will pour over the computer terminal for hours, or disappear into the stacks of the local library, only to emerge five minutes before closing with an armload of books as they head to the nearest coffee shop to continue reading.
But this doesn't mean that Fives always want to be alone or that they can't be excellent company when they are with others. When Fives find someone whose intelligence and interest they respect, they are invariably talkative and sociable. Fives love to share their insights and expertise with just about anyone who appreciates what they have to say. They also enjoy sharing their findings with others, and their observations of life's contradictions and absurdities are often served up with a whimsical sense of humor. Fives can be the most enriching of friends since they are a treasure trove of information, speculation, opinions, and intensely felt ideas. But they can also be the most impenetrable of enigmas, a mind bristling with energy and intelligence that signals "Stay away! Leave me alone to follow my thoughts wherever they may lead!" Fives are the kind of people others usually find strange, quirky, and intriguing—they always have more going on than meets the eye.
In brief, Fives want to understand reality, to possess knowledge, to find a niche for themselves that others have not explored, to be free to explore their own inner worlds, to have sufficient solitude and time for their projects, to feel confident and capable, and to unsettle the unquestioned certainties of others. Fives do not want to feel uninformed or incapable, to have their competency questioned, to accept easy answers, to be intruded on (or "managed"), to be forced to respond before they feel ready, to suffer the ignorance of others, or to ask for help.
Their Hidden Side
Day for day, socially adept Fives probably spend more time by themselves than any other type. Nonetheless, Fives need companionship and connection as so all human beings. The problem is that Fives fear needing the affection and warmth of others. It as if they feel that to ask for anything from others is to risk a greater imposition on their own freedom and independence. They also believe that their own needs are so intense that if they were ever expressed or even acknowledged, they would be too much for others. In some cases, they may even believe that their needs would actually harm others. Deep down, all Fives really want to find someone safe to connect with, but they fear that doing so will cost them whatever degree of competency and self-reliance they have attained. If troubled Fives feel that their area of mastery or their independence is at risk, they may retreat from a relationship—even if they truly love the person they are leaving.
Relationship Issues
Of all the types, Fives seem most able to live without significant relationships. But that doesn't mean that they do not want one, only that they are generally unwilling to compromise their focused approach to life too much for the sake of a relationship. When they find someone who understands their world, who appreciates their interests, and whom they respect, Fives are loyal and passionate friends, partners, and lovers. They can make fascinating companions who are constantly introducing new ideas to their friends and partners. They can be funny, affectionate, and highly sexual, but they do not come to relationships easily. They remain in an uneasy balance between the desire for solitude and the desire for meaningful connection. Fives' relationship issues include the following:
- Frequently feeling intruded on, and therefore a great deal of privacy and time alone.
- Often feeling rejected and retreating from people.
- Being overwhelmed by others' emotional needs.
- Not expressing their feelings or giving few verbal or nonverbal cues, thus seeming overly "secretive" to others.
- Antagonizing or undermining the calm or beliefs of others.
- Cutting off contact with people, withdrawing into deep isolation, feeling that they are "poisonous" or bad for people.
To learn more about the compatibility issues of Type Five and their interactions with other types, click below on the Enneagram type of the other person in the relationship. This will open in a new window.
Type 5 and type:
The Investigator 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The Passion: Avarice (or Hoarding)
Beneath the surface image of intellectual competency that Fives present to the world, this type feels small and helpless. They feel as if there is not enough of themselves to go around and that other people's needs could easily deplete them. Thus, Fives seek to minimize their interactions with others and with the environment and to hold on to whatever basic resources they think they will need to "go it alone." Avarice is not the grasping of gluttonous Sevens; rather, it is the lack of ability to be open and generous with one's self because of fears of not being enough. Another way avarice is expressed in Fives is in the desire to memorize experiences and knowledge. Fives attempt to hold every potentially significant piece of information they have encountered in their heads, believing that eventually they will know enough to feel confident and able to handle any possible situation.
Healthy Fives observe everything with extraordinary perceptiveness and insight. Possessing a searching intelligence, they are highly mentally alert and curious: little escapes their notice. Healthy Fives are able to concentrate deeply and often notice things that other people would likely overlook or take for granted. They explore reality with a child's sense of wonder, and enjoy finding new ways of perceiving and doing things. They like to ask questions, and with healthy Fives, they are often the right questions. They enjoy learning and are excited by knowledge, which frequently leads them to becoming expert in some field. Because of their focus and attentiveness, healthy Fives attain mastery in whatever interests them.
At Their Best
Very high-functioning Fives become visionaries and discoverers, broadly comprehending the world while penetrating it profoundly. They are remarkably open-minded, understanding things precisely and as a whole. They begin to feel a deep connection with their fellow human beings and with the universe, and they often dedicate themselves to using their skill and knowledge to relieve human suffering and ignorance. They may contribute pioneering discoveries of something entirely new for the enrichment of humanity. At their best, Fives combine the wisdom and perceptiveness of their minds with heart and courage in ways that truly bring something new and valuable into the world.
An explanation of the Directions of Integration (Security) and Disintegration (Stress) can be found here, which opens in a new window.
Under Stress (Five Goes to Average Seven)
Fives usually cope with difficulties by retreating into their minds where they feel more confident and in control. But Fives cannot retreat indefinitely, and eventually they need stimulation and interaction. Fives also tend to be nervous and high-strung, so when there is no outlet for their nervous energy, it builds up, eventually expressing itself in restlessness and hyperactivity. (Fives can become literally "restless"—and often develop insomnia.) Anxiety causes their minds to overheat, and to jump from one thought to the next. Much of their characteristic focus gets scattered. After being alone and concentrating for so long, they begin to overcompensate by overdoing their activities and lurching from one promising idea or experience to another. They become like a starving person at a banquet, and their scattered, hyperactive behavior can look like that of an average Seven. At such times, usually quiet Fives may become very talkative, impulsive, and flighty. Their underlying anxiety gets acted out in compulsive, even manic, behavior in ways that resemble lower-functioning Sevens.
Security (Five Goes to Average Eight)
Most often, if Fives feel that others are intruding on them or imposing their wills, they will simply leave quietly if they can or shut down into a detached, disdainful silence. With people or situations in which they have more confidence, however, Fives may suddenly risk behaving like average Eights, forcefully asserting their boundaries and confronting anyone or anything that displeases them. They become feisty, argumentative, and relentlessly provocative. In this mode, they take a tough stance, putting everyone on notice that they cannot be trifled with, but in ways that often cause people to react against them. They may become domineering, even aggressive, while questioning others' competency.
Integration (Five Goes to Healthy Eight)
As Fives begin to understand the emotional cost of their self-imposed isolation, they begin to risk deeper, more complete, contact with themselves and with the world. They become more grounded, more in touch with their bodies and their life energy, giving them more confidence and solidity. As this process deepens, integrating Fives naturally begin to express many qualities of the healthy Eight: they demonstrate leadership, courage, practical wisdom, and the willingness to take responsibility. They move from feeling small and powerless to feeling grounded and capable. Their knowledge and insight are then in service to objective needs in their world, and they are sought by others as sources of wisdom, compassion, and quiet strength.
An explanation of the three Instincts can be found here, which opens in a new window.
Self-Preservation Fives: Isolation (Ichazo's "Castle")
Self-Preservation Fives are the most introverted Fives—the Fives most likely to seek long periods of privacy and solitude. The hoarding of the Five is focused in the areas of practical resources, living quarters, and personal space. Self-Pres Fives attempt to find out how few self-preservation needs they can subsist on, likely agreeing with Thoreau's statement that "A man is rich in proportion to what he can do without." They are intensely private people who seem to require few comforts, even if they have substantial personal wealth. To some degree, they enjoy the company of trusted others and enjoy sharing their knowledge with people. They can also be counted on for their sense of whimsy and oddball humor. Nonetheless, Self-Pres Fives need lots of time by themselves to regenerate their energy. Many choose to live alone, or if they are in a partnership, they require personal space (such as a study or a nook in the basement) into which others, even loved ones, will not intrude. They also tend to hoard personal effects, stockpiling their homes like castles preparing for a siege. As much as they may like and admire others, they attempt to keep their relationships few and simple, so that they can focus on what holds interest for them.
Sexual Fives: This Is My World (Ichazo's "Confidence")
Sexual Fives focus their hoarding in the area of intimate relationships. The combination of instinct and type are at odds here: the Five defense is to withdraw, while the sexual instinct demands intimacy and connection. Most Sexual Fives live in an uneasy truce between these polar influences, but they seek to resolve this tension by slowly inviting prospective intimates into their own secret world. Sexual Fives are primarily focused in their imaginations, but they believe that most others would find their thoughts and preoccupations dark and even frightening. At the very least, they are certain that others will find them odd or eccentric. Nonetheless, they want to share their perceptions and hidden worlds and secretly hope to have a deep connection with a single soul, a mate for life, who can understand them and their sometimes bizarre views of reality. Intimacy for them entails finding someone else who will explore the surreal vistas of their inner world. They also look to their partner for some degree of help in dealing with people and the practical affairs of life. They hope that their partner will run interference for them and give them confidence to navigate the external world. If Sexual Fives are disappointed in love, they may retreat and remain unattached for long periods of time, even years.
Social Fives: The Specialist (Ichazo's "Totems")
Social Fives focus their avarice and hoarding in the social realm, meaning that they socialize through their particular areas of expertise. Fives endeavor to master some skill or body of knowledge, and they relate to others primarily through that area of their mastery. As social types, Social Fives are more comfortable interacting with people, but their comfort is largely dependent on having a context for being in a social situation. They need a particular task or function that gives them the confidence to interact with people (for example, being the DJ at a party, or having a specific topic of discussion at a social event).They enjoy talking intensely with other people who share their (sometimes esoteric) interests—either in person or through the Internet. Social Fives feel that their expertise is what they can "bring to the table" since they make it their business to learn things that others may need. While generally quiet, Social Fives can become quite talkative if their area of knowledge becomes the topic of conversation—anything from computer expertise to trivia about movies or comic books is fair game. Less healthy Social Fives can become elitist, feeling others are too unintelligent to understand their thoughts or conversation. They can also be fiercely argumentative, losing social connections by reactively proving others' ideas inadequate.
An explanation of the nine Levels of Development can be found here, which opens in a new window.
Below is the complete Levels of Development diagram for Type Five. The levels range from most healthy, Level 1, to least healthy, Level 9. To understand these charts, start with the Basic Fear, at the top right of the chart. This fear gives rise to the Basic Desire, which is the Desire at the second level of health, the Level of Psychological Capacity.
The Desire of each level gives rise to the internal Attitudes (the A-Terms) of each level, which create the external Behaviors (the B-Terms). Over time, due to internal conflicts, these behaviors and attitudes create another layer of Fear at that level.
Each new Fear generates yet another desire at the next lower level, which gives rise to a new set of attitudes and behaviors, creating a spiral structure in which a person becomes increasingly enmeshed in self-destructive reactions and increasingly terrifying fears. The process of growth is to become aware of each of the cluster of attitudes and behaviors as they occur, bringing conscious awareness into the moment. As we do this, the underlying fears and desires also begin to emerge into consciousness, and the person begins to shift up the levels.
For more about this process see Wisdom of the Enneagram, and Personality Types.
|PERSONALITY TYPE FIVE: The Investigator
|Basic Fear:
|1. Level of Liberation
|Lets go of their identification with a particular self-image, that they are separate from the environment (an outside observer)
Of being helpless, useless, incapable, overwhelmed
|Basic Desire:
|Secondary Fears:
2. Level of Psychological Capacity
sensory acuity
|To be capable and competent (to have something to contribute)
|That they are not smart enough: their perceptions
are insufficient to give them confidence
|Secondary Desires:
|3. Level of Social Value
|To master something to gain confidence (to create a niche for themselves)
|That they have nothing valuable to contribute
|Social Role: The Expert
|4. Level of Imbalance
acquiring technique
delaying closure
model building
"fine tuning"
|To feel safer and more confident by retreating into their mind and imagination ("tinker toy")
|That others will demand too much from them, their
inner world will be threatened
5. Level of Interpersonal Control
creating worlds
high strung
|To shut out intrusions (by intensifying their mental activity)
|That others are attacking their niche/ competency
|6. Level of Overcompensation
jumping to
|To scare off anyone who threatens their niche/ inner world
|That they are never going to find a place in the
world or with people
|7. Level of Violation
burn bridges
dark fantasies
feel besieged
no expectations
|To cut off all connections with the world and people ("to hell with everything")
|That the world is closing in on them
|8. Level of Delusion & Compulsion
chronic insomnia
highly schizoid
resisting all help
|To endure their terrors (staring into the abyss)
That they can no longer defend themselves (from outside or
inside influences)
|9. Level of Pathological Destructiveness
psychotic breaks
|Seeking Oblivion
split off
inner chaos
feel damned
panic stricken
|To leave "reality," to cease all sensory input, to break away from their own consciousness
|Basic Fear comes true: they are helpless, useless, and incapable
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Fives grow by recognizing that real confidence lies not simply in intellectual mastery but in putting themselves out into the world. Fives usually derive their confidence through the development of their minds, but they really need to bring balance to their psyches by developing a deeper relationship with their bodies and feelings. Growth for a Five requires allowing themselves to see how estranged they are from their actual living selves and acknowledging all of the deep needs that they have denied since early childhood. Fives actually feel things deeply, but they are extremely restrained in their ability to express their feelings. Developing trust of others, sharing what they are experiencing, and identifying with their feelings are all crucial for them to blossom fully as human beings. All of this becomes much easier when Fives are grounded in their bodies.
- Learn to notice when your thinking and speculating takes you out of the immediacy of your experience. Your mental capacities can be an extraordinary gift, but only can also be a trap when you use them to retreat from contact with yourself and others. Stay connected with your physicality.
- You tend to be extremely intense and so high-strung that you find it difficult to relax and unwind. Make an effort to learn to calm down in a healthy way, without drugs or alcohol. Exercising or using biofeedback techniques will help channel some of your tremendous nervous energy. Meditation, jogging, yoga, and dancing are especially helpful for your type.
- You see many possibilities but often do not know how to choose among them or judge which is more or less important. When you are caught in your fixation, a sense of perspective can be missing, and with it the ability to make accurate assessments. At such time, it can be helpful to get the advice of someone whose judgment you trust while you are gaining perspective on your situation. Doing this can also help you trust someone else, a difficulty for your type.
- Notice when you are getting intensely involved in projects that do not necessarily support your self-esteem, confidence, or life situation. It is possible to follow many different fascinating subjects, games, and pastimes, but they can become huge distractions from what you know really need to do. Decisive action will bring more confidence than learning more facts or acquiring more unrelated skills.
- Fives tend to find it difficult to trust people, to open up to them emotionally, or to make themselves accessible in various ways. Their awareness of potential problems in relationships may tend to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is important to remember that having conflicts with others is not unusual and that the healthy thing is to work them out rather than reject attachments with people by withdrawing into isolation. Having one or two intimate friends whom you trust enough to have conflicts with will enrich your life greatly.
See also Personality Types, 173-215, Understanding the Enneagram, 49-52, 92-8; and 339-41, and The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 206-32.
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A gunman shouting 'Allahu Akbar' has opened fire in a Spanish supermarket, according to reports.The man was allegedly carrying gasoline and gunpowder during the attackPolice sources have claimed that the unnamed man suffers from psychological problems and lives next door to the shop.Fortunately there were no injuries from the incident, which occurred at 2pm this afternoon, but did leave witnesses in a state of shockThe attack has now been reportedly detained
Thank "god" for that... I hope that man gets life in jail for this crime
Unfortunately, "Allahu Ackbar" means "my motives are a mystery!" In Arabic.
I thought it meant "Im not a Muslim! Stop calling me that!"
Damn it.
That pisses me off they are a smaller extreme group of Islam... I do RS gcse in school and I asked my teacher once (as a serious question) can I use ISIS as an example of Islam views ( as Christianity has sects of protestants and Catholics) can Muslims have ISIS and liberal Muslims and I was told no because they are not classed of Muslims... however I know form being taught that to a Muslim fighting for the safety of Islam is allowed (which is what the claim they are doing) so technically they are following their teachings they are just a sect of the wider religion
The shit that gets taught in our schools makes me physically ill.
I agree but we are fine to talk about Christian violence in Ireland etc all religion does is cause war and problems (hd a history exam today and it was on medicine and all I did for one question was say that without religion medicine would of been hindered much less) religion=problems
We get taught the rights things about the views of different religious people but sadly ISIS don't class as Muslims even though I can quote many thing's ive been taught about Islam proving there is teachings backing ISIS belief
It's great that we in the west get to pick and choose what is and isn't Islamic in order to reinforce our PC beliefs about Islam being inherently peaceful.
Wahhabism is, by definition, a branch of Islam, so your teacher saying that ISIS aren't Islamic is bullshit. All religions have bad sects, Islamic is in no way exempt from this, regardless of how PC liberals want to paint it.
Its not my teacher its the exam board we would most likely get refused marks if we said Muslims such as the ones is Isis believe that... we would most likely not get the marks for it that's why she tells us this stuff
what does PC stand for ?
Even worse.
Politically correct.
You and presumably your teachers are not muslims. How can you people possibly claim to know more about islam than a man (The Caliph of ISIS) who has a PHD and has devoted his life to Islam?
No idea m8... as I said I'm against and it pisses me off big time when people don't call ISIS islam when they clearly are
We were advised to be careful if we ever used isis as an example
Once again there are communist economists just because you know a lot about something and have a PhD doesn't mean you're right.


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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved
Priority: Blocker
Resolution: Won't Fix
Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-RC1
Fix Version/s: 2.0.8
Component/s: None
We can kill a server in just a few seconds using the stress test found in
If we inject messages with no delay, using 50 threads to do that, the ProtocolCodecFilter$MessageWriteRequest is stuffed with hundred of thousands messages waiting to be written back to the client, with no success.
On the client side, we receive almost no messages :
0 messages/sec (total messages received 1)
2 messages/sec (total messages received 11)
8 messages/sec (total messages received 55)
8 messages/sec (total messages received 95)
9 messages/sec (total messages received 144)
3 messages/sec (total messages received 162)
1 messages/sec (total messages received 169)
On the server side, the memory is totally swamped in 20 seconds, with no way to recover :
Exception in thread "pool-1-thread-1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
(see graph attached)
On the server, ConcurrentLinkedQueue contain the messages to be written (in my case, 724 499 Node are present). There are also 361629 DefaultWriteRequests, 361628 DefaultWriteFutures, 361625 SimpleBuffer, 361 618 ProtocolCodecFilter$MessageWriteRequest and 361 614 ProtocolCodecFilter$EncodedWriteRequests.
That mean we don't flush them to the client at all.
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Emmanuel, are you clients in this test fast enough to read at the speed proposed by the server? Also, is the network between the server and the client fast enough?
Maybe "read buffer" is too small in the client? I do not see it configured in the stress client.
I would say that it is typical - when some server is writing too quickly into a socket, so that some client can not read at this speed, the server will die in OutOfMemory
You need to throttle/limit the write speed somehow. As I know, in mina, writeRequestQueue is unlimited in IoSession
The read is blocking, so I guess it reads as soon as something returns...
The network is fast enough, hopefully, as I ran the test locally !
Also the messages are 9 bytes long. No need of extra large buffers here :/
I think there is a huge problem in the way the server handles the channel ready for write : it seems to send just one single message. I have to check that though.
I am not 100% sure but IMHO when you run stress clients and the server on the same host, so the CPU and I/O activity are high, there may be troubles in testing.
I would propose to run the same test in LAN environment - all clients on a separate machine or even multiple machines.
As for TCP buffers, they do not depend on how you use your socket - via blocking or non-blocking I/O, locally or remotely. If your client works slowly (under high load on your computer), it will read slowly; in addition, if it has a small TCP buffer for reading - the whole process of TCP transmission is stalled, the server will not send to socket anymore (remember how the congestion control algorithm in TCP works?)
Of course, maybe this is not the case in your test, so it would be useful to compare with another mina build before you start digging into the code
Ok, there is some slight problem in the client : we don't wait for the response, we immediately send another message. The server does not have the time to send the response, as it is pounded with new requests.
I have slightly modified the client code to wait until some bytes are available, instead of immediately sending a new message.
The server is now stable, dealing with around 12 000 message per second. No OOM, but a very high CPU consumption.
Sadly, I can tell if the System CPU is caused by the server at this point. I have to run the test on different machines.
However, I keep this issue open, because a malevolent client can kill a mina server in a matter of seconds. This has to be fixed.
Victor, you are perfectly right.
My intention is to build a test environnement, as I have a 4-way CPU with 16Gb ram, and 5 injectors, and a Gb ethernet network. On my local machine, I'm most certainly bounded by the clients which are sucking 2/3 of the CPU.
Right now, I'm just worrying about the server crash I get.
looks like a minor client bug indeed which would manifest itself if the server is slow.
I don't think running on the same machine is really the issue here: when I run the same stress client against a Netty test server which does exactly the same (also attached to 762) I get throughput of 200k-300k messages/sec.
>> a malevolent client can kill a mina server in a matter of seconds. This has to be fixed. <<
In fact, this is not mina-specific problem, this is more common in network world. But I agree, we should propose some solutions, ex.:
1) writeRequestQueue may be bounded - somewhere we could configure its size and a policy "what to do when the queue is full" (like in Executors)
2) some kind of write throttling (optionally) - as I remember, mina already has IoEventQueueThrottle class, but I never used it and I do not know if it is up-to-date
If some client (an IoSession) is slow, that is there are many events waiting for socket write, it is server application's responsibility to decide what to do - ignore new events, send some kind of warning to client ("hay, mister, you network is too slow, you risk to be disconnected!"), maybe event client disconnection after some time, etc. If client and server can negotiate in this situation, everything will work well. We did something like this for Flash clients using Red5 server (based on mina) - we checked writeRequestQueue (or calculated the number or pending write request, maybe) and tuned frame rate of video stream; sometimes we sent a warning to client
Of course, there may be"bad clients" trying to do DDOS - this way we can also handle such situations.
Netty deal with messages in a completely different way : it has 2 chains, one for incoming messages, one for outgoing messages (something MINA should have had since day one ...). It allows for a much better throughput.
I haven't read Netty's code, but I suspect also that no copy is done, and that it does not uses queues to transfert messages from one filter to another. That could help a lot.
I did some tests with Netty and I don't get at all the 200 Kmsg/s you get.
Running the exact same client, with a 2 ms delay waiting for incoming messages to be there, 100 threads, I top at 15 000 msg/s, 3 000 more than MINA. Now, if I set the delay to 0, I top at 6 000 msg/s, but the good news is that NETTY does not stale.
It seems that NETTY does have a way to throttle the throughput, someting we have to implement in MINA.
I found on Netty's documentation page:
- No more OutOfMemoryError due to fast, slow or overloaded connection.
- No more unfair read / write ratio often found in a NIO application under high speed network
This is what we should implement in mina 2.0 - protect ourselves from clients writing too quickly or reading too slowly.
Emmanuel, seems that "unfair read / write" ratio is what you have seen in your test!
As I suspected, the way MINA handle writes to the client is buggy.
Messages stored in the WriteQueue waiting to be sent are processed one by one, with a loop done on the select() process between each of them. The queue will be emptied very slowly if clients never stop injecting new messages asynchronously...
It has to be understood that for every message to be written, an empty message is added in the queue to be able to generate a messageSent event. Not optimal ...
I have fixed the bug : the request buffer was reset just because we need it for the messageSent() event, but never set back to its initial position, leading to a double call (even if the message wasn't sent again).
There is a net 5% gain in performance when repositioning the buffer to its initial position. I go up to 13900 mesg/s against 13200 before. We are still slower than NETTY 3 but the margin is thinner (it was 18% slower before, and now only 12%: netty reaches 15640 msg/s)
The last one. But take those tests with extra care : I run everything on my laptop, thus the client (plain BIO) kills the CPU. Should the server turn on its own box, the results would be very different.
checked with latest from trunk, and the problem still exists (although performance is slightly better).
We have done some extra tests yesterday, running the same client against Netty 3, and we are also "successfully" killing it in a matter of seconds. The only difference is that it does not die from an OOM.
The JVM and the OS might also be a part of the problem (MacOSX, snow leopard with a crappy JVM)
I now know why we process read way much that write, and never have time to write data. The way the code is written in the core make it likely that we call twice more time the read() method than the write() method.
The way it 'works' is that for each read message that produces a response, we enqueue two messages to be flushed :
- the real response
- an empty marker to be able to process correctly the messageSent() event.
Sadly, we keep the selectionKey to OP_WRITE until the second message is written, so we do two select() for each message to write. If the clients write to the server not waiting for the response to come back, then we enqueue a hell lot of messages we won't never be able to send to the client. After a while, all the queus will be full of crap, and the JVM will die with an OOM.
This is bad design from day one, with pile of hacks added to try to make the code to work. Ugly. Not sure this can be fixed easily, but will try. Puke. Puke, puke, puke !
One more fix : there were a useless loop done in the writeRequest processing. I removed it with :
The gain is again around 3.5%, or 500 msg/s. NETTY 3 is only 8.7% faster than MINA now.
Keep going ...
If you were using 3.2.0.ALPHA4, it has a known performance regression and freeze. Try this one instead:
If you were using 3.1.5.GA, then I would wonder about the death without OOME.
I have used the latest stable version, as the user did the comparison with a stable version, I guess. Anyway, I may have been wrong about NETTY crashing, but I was able to reproduce it 3 or 4 times yesterday with Julien as a witness. And as I said, it may perfectly be a problem with the OS and JVM i'm using on my mac.
If the test can be used to demonstrate the problem with NETTY, then fine, but I'm not really interested in the fact that NETTY works or not with this test, I'm just using NETTY because the user has created a test for it.
What is important to me is to get MINA working, and as I already said, the performances I get are totally irrelevant but for this very test, as I'm running the clients and the server on one single machine. The initial test I run gave me a baseline and I'm using this baseline (ie, 13200 msg/s with MINA) to see if the fixes I'm introducing in MINA have a real impact on the code.
This is really an issue that needs a fix, but I won't have time to deal with it for 2.0.2. Postponed to 2.0.3
I am implementing a TCP server with 2.0.4 and runs into the same problem (a lot of reads, very few writes, OutOfMemoryError eventually). I am running Java 1.6.0_29 on OS X Lion. Will this be fixed in 2.0.5?
If I want to throttle reads manually, what is the recommended approach? I would like to suspend all reads when memory usage exceed a threshold, forcing TCP flow control to kick in and stop the client from sending more data. Can IoEventQueueThrottle be used for this purpose? What does the threshold parameter in its constructor mean?
There are two things here, in normal operation where the client is actually receiving data the read/write should be balanced. However the danger of DOS by overloading the write buffer (by a client which does not read and is able to trigger more answeres) is a question of application design. Besides a capacity limited write queue the future/sent callbacks can be used to monitor outstanding writes. And another note: the write queue objects are much too heavy in terms of overhead. It would be good if a simple application can only enqeue iobuffers, and maybe have a simple integer sequence for tracking/callbacks/futures.
4 years ahead, this is not much a MINA pb than an application implementation issue. If the application is not able to process the incoming messages fast enough, then either a firewall should be installed (malevolent client prevention) or the application has to be redesigned.
If the client cannot read the message fast enough, teh application should wait for the current message to be sent before writing the next one.