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Bachelor of Media and Communication
Swinburne University of Technology
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Producing career-ready graduates informs what we teach and how we teach it. Our commitment to high-quality teaching over our 100-year history is what makes us educational leaders in science, technology, innovation, business and design.
Bachelor Degree (Pass)
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|Full-time internal, Part-time internal
Year 12 or equivalent; VCE prerequisites: Units 3 and 4: a minimum study score of 25 in English (or equivalent) or 30 in English (EAL). A minimum IELTS overall band of 6.0 (Academic Module) with no individual band below 6.0; OR, a TOEFL iBT (internet-based) minimum score of 75 with a reading band no less than 18 and writing band no less than 20; OR, Pearson (PTE) 50 (no communicative skills less than 50); OR, equivalent. Additional performance criteria and prerequisite requirements may also apply.
Course Description
The Bachelor of Media and Communication is designed to provide students with the latest skills and knowledge that will prepare them for a variety of roles in the dynamic and ever changing industries associated with media and communication. The degree takes a strategic approach to media and communication and links theoretical and practical knowledge and skills needed to operate effectively in diverse settings within industry. Students are required to undertake core units coupled with a major which is then combined with other studies of their choice. Graduates will be well qualified for positions in professional roles in settings such as agencies, not-for-profits, government departments, small business and large corporate organisations.
Subjects you can Study
Advertising; Cinema and screen studies; Creative writing and literature; Digital advertising technology; Games and interactivity; Journalism; Media industries; Professional writing and editing; Public relations; Social media
^ Shows the minimum tertiary entrance ranking needed by Australian school leavers to get into each CSP-based course. Cut-offs are not determined in advance. Course data and cut-off scores published on Good Universities Guide are indicative of the 2016 academic year.
Bachelor Degree (Pass)
Higher Education Hawthorn
- Full-time internal = 3 years
- Part-time internal
300 credit points comprising: 4 Core units (50 credit points); 8 units for Major (100 credit points); 12 units for Other studies (150 credit points).
Entry Requirements
Year 12 or equivalent; VCE prerequisites: Units 3 and 4: a minimum study score of 25 in English (or equivalent) or 30 in English (EAL). A minimum IELTS overall band of 6.0 (Academic Module) with no individual band below 6.0; OR, a TOEFL iBT (internet-based) minimum score of 75 with a reading band no less than 18 and writing band no less than 20; OR, Pearson (PTE) 50 (no communicative skills less than 50); OR, equivalent. Additional performance criteria and prerequisite requirements may also apply.
Study Pathways
Pathways allow students to progress from one qualification to another where the first course is recognised as an entry requirement and/or provides advanced standing to the second. Credit is granted in recognition of previous study and/or experience and allows students to gain advanced standing towards their course. Applicants are assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Swinburne's Work Integrated Learning program provides students with opportunities to gain invaluable skills and confidence in knowing that they have what it takes to land a job in their field by graduation. Students can also earn credit towards their degree. Choose from 6- or 12-month professional placements, professional internships, industry-linked projects, industry study tours and accreditation placements. Note: Some Work Integrated Learning opportunities are not available to international students due to visa restrictions.
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Advertising Account Executive
Advertising account executives devise and coordinate advertising campaigns, which are created to encourage consumers to purchase particular products or services.
Editors read and correct written material for publication, draft and implement editorial policy, decide on the content of publications or news items and manage the production of publications and the staff involved, depending on the position they hold.
Games Developer
Games developers design, create and produce computer or video games. They work in games development teams with artists, programmers, producers and marketing staff. Games developers usually specialise in a particular game platform (PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo, for example) and a particular aspect of game development, such as programming artificial intelligence or gameplay.
Journalists write and edit news reports, commentaries, feature articles and blogs for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and websites, including online publications.
Media Presenter
Media presenters deliver a variety of radio, television and live programmes, including all music formats, music and chat programmes, interview and talkback programmes, news bulletins and sports programmes. They may also present rock and classical music concerts that are broadcast live to air, and pre-recorded programmes such as documentary and music specials.
Public Relations Officer
Public relations officers plan, develop, put into place and evaluate information and communication strategies that present an organisation to the public, clients and other stakeholders. They also promote good information flow within their organisation.
Writers plan and write literary or other written work for publication or performance. Writers may create original pieces of written work, which can take the form of poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, blogs, plays or film, radio and television scripts. They may also write for multimedia distribution.
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At Swinburne you'll benefit from opportunities to connect with industry and engage in interdisciplinary projects in any course you undertake. Our students gain exclusive access to our huge range of industry partners. Our Industry-Based Learning program has been operating for more than 50 years. Every bachelor degree student is able to access either an industry-based placement or industry-based project.
Swinburne offers courses across a range of study levels and disciplines, from engineering, arts and business to science, design and law. You can combine learning on campus with studying part time or online, ensuring flexibility in your course.
Our teaching staff are talented individuals who bring industry experience to their teaching. They ensure your classroom experience has an applied focus rather than just offering theory-based learning.
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At Swinburne you'll have access to facilities and technology that are used in industry and get hands-on experience that is not available to students at other universities.
Our physics students make groundbreaking discoveries; our engineering students showcase their work at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix; our film and television students win more awards at international film festivals than other university; and our design graduates are recognised as some of the nation's best designers.
Depending on your chosen course you could:
- access our state-of-the-art film, television and animation production facilities in their new home at our Hawthorn campus
- create live network systems in our three state-of-the-art Cisco networking labs
- work with students from universities in Finland, China and Chile on projects in the Swinburne Design Factory.
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Our business, engineering and ICT degrees are professionally accredited by leading industry organisations.
Our campuses
Life at Swinburne is about more than going to classes and studying for exams. Our campuses are vibrant communities that offer a lively and varied social experience.
Just 10 minutes from the centre of Melbourne, our main campus in Hawthorn is the hub of our teaching, research and development activities. Located in one of the city's most attractive inner suburbs, and with a train station on campus, our Hawthorn campus offers a desirable student lifestyle. Students who wish to live on campus can choose from a residential college or independent apartment options.
Swinburne also maintains two campuses in Melbourne's outer-eastern suburbs and established a campus in Sarawak, Malaysia, in 2000.
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Emre Deniz
Shedding some light on Earthlight
In an office just around the corner from Swinburne sits a team of game designers who have just returned from NASA.
Opaque Media are the creative minds behind Australia's new virtual reality game, Earthlight .
Emre Deniz, a swinburne Bachelor of Arts (Games and Interactivity) graduate has been keeping busy as the game's designer creative lead.
Earthlight is a virtual reality game that takes players through the training of a NASA astronaut, and then sends them out on missions at the International Space Station (ISS).
"Earthlight puts the player through the journey of what it takes to be an astronaut. We want to create modules that have a perfect balance between game play and experience," says Emre.
"A lot of the skills you learn are translated skills from astronauts, because NASA actually uses virtual reality to train their astronauts."
Visiting NASA
The game has had so much hype the team were personally contacted by NASA and invited to tour the Johnson Space Center — a first for any Australian game designers.
"It was weird seeing private messages on my Reddit from NASA. We were invited to basically do a production tour and speak to staff. We learnt about missions and protocols, spoke with astronauts and got very intricate details such as the jingling sound of tools on a space suit," says Emre.
Although the visit allowed the team to get to the nitty gritty for the game, Emre believes the experience was something profound on a personal level.
"It's a form of validation for my work. As a game developer, seeing a simple idea send you walking through the ISS mock up at the Johnson Space Centre, makes your feel like your work ash value. No amount of money can get you that experience."
Changes of virtual reality
Virtual reality has some risks and the guys are doing all they can to combat these.
"Things like motion sickness can be controlled by frame rates, at 60 frames per second (fps) or lower, this is where motion sickness kicks in. We keep all our games at around 90 fps," says Emre.
Emre understand this is a make or break time for games that involve virtual reality.
"Virtual reality is essentially either at risk of becoming an industry bubble or it's going to be a substantial shift int he way we view and play games. It can go either way, but virtual reality is definitely here to stay."


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Dirty Looking Hygiene
With the recent release of Arc, there has been some discussion over hygienic macros. Yes, hygienic macros are usually very convenient, but they can become messy in some 'corner' cases. People who learn about macros in Scheme usually start with
syntax-rules, and being the limited tool that it is, they often get the impression that for advanced uses (like a macro that captures an identifier) you need to use
syntax-case which is this "really obscure thing".
For example, say that we want to implement an
if form that is similar to Arc's
if. This is pretty easy using
(define-syntax if* (syntax-rules () [(if*) (void)] [(if* X) X] [(if* C X more ...) (if C X (if* more ...))]))But more important than being easy to write: it is also easy to read. In fact, the nice thing about
syntax-rules is that you write more or less the specification of your transformation. Compare this to the specification of Arc's
if, which appears in a comment before the definition of
ac-if in "ac.scm":
; (if) -> nil ; (if x) -> x ; (if t a ...) -> a ; (if nil a b) -> b ; (if nil a b c) -> (if b c)(Except that the comment mixes up the syntactic specification and the semantic evaluation.) As a side note, now that we have this definition, it is easy to construct a new language that is just like MzScheme, except for its
if that behaves like the above:
(module arc-like mzscheme (define-syntax if* ...the above definition...) (provide (all-from-except mzscheme if) (rename if* if)))You can now write code that uses
"arc-like.scm" as its language, using the new
if. There is no problem in accommodating two languages with two different
if's: the new form is compiled to the old one, and there is no confusion in which version you use in any module.
Back to the macro issue: as I said above, you run into problems if you want to capture names, right? For example, if you want to implement Arc's
aif. The usual
syntax-case solution is to construct an identifier that has the lexical context of the input syntax. It's easy to abstract over all this — I posted a message on the Arc forum showing how to define a defmac macro that has the simplicity of
syntax-rules with the added convenience of specifying keywords and captured names. This works for some cases, but there are still some subtle corner cases.
But there's a better solution in PLT Scheme, one that follows Paul Graham's intuition when he says:
"captured symbols are kind of freaky"The basic idea is a change of perspective: instead of (unhygienically) binding individual occurrences of
it whenever
aif is used, you define
it once as a thing in its own right — a special context-dependant piece of syntax. Outside of an
aif form,
it has no meaning: we simply make it throw a syntax error. Uses of
aif provide a meaning for
it by locally changing its meaning (its expansion) to something useful: the binding that holds the result of evaluating the condition expression. ("Locally" means within a piece of syntax, so the new meaning is valid in a lexical-scope.)
In PLT Scheme, the "special context-dependant piece of syntax" are syntax parameters, and you change them locally with
To continue the above example, here's how we make our
if* anaphoric:
- require the
(lib "stxparam.ss" "mzlib")library,
- define
itas a syntax using
define-syntax-parameter, and have it raise an error by default,
- bind a temporary variable to the result of evaluating the condition,
- wrap the positive branch with
syntax-parameterize, using
make-rename-transformer, which is a convenient way to make a macro that behaves like the new variable.
(require (lib "stxparam.ss" "mzlib")) (define-syntax-parameter it (lambda (stx) (raise-syntax-error #f "can only be used inside `if'" stx))) (define-syntax if* (syntax-rules () [(if*) (void)] [(if* X) X] [(if* C X more ...) (let ([b C]) (if b (syntax-parameterize ([it (make-rename-transformer #'b)]) X) (if* more ...)))]))The resulting macro does not break hygiene. For example,
(let ([it 3]) (if #t it)) evaluates to
3, because it shadows the global
it that
if changes. This is a change from a real unhygienic macro — but that's the whole point: we (the macro author) do not interfere with scopes in the user code.
Note that
(if 1 (if 2 it)) still evaluates to
2, because the outer
if does not really bind
it — it is not captured, just changed locally — so the inner
if changes it again. Also,
(if #f it it) raises the usual context error, since our macro changes
it only in the positive branch.

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NEWBURGH, NY — For the first time in Section 9 history, an all-star game, featuring exceptional seniors from schools across the region, gave gridiron elder statesmen one last chance to play the game they love. The game, which was played at Newburgh High School on November 18, was the last hurrah for these outstanding players, and gave them an opportunity to join forces with stars from other teams and to learn from the incredibly talented coaching staff that mentored them during the week as they practiced for the iconic event. The two teams, the National and American, included senior standouts from Sullivan County.
The American squad included Sawyer Erlwein, Brad Hemmer and Scott Erdman from Sullivan West. Scott Herbert was also selected to play but an injured shoulder prevented his inclusion. Also on the American squad were Atwoun Ackerley, Andy Martinez and Tony Saravia from Liberty, as well as Mistah Ali and Jake McLachlan from Monticello. The American Squad was also comprised of players from FDR, Kingston, Burke, Washingtonville, Minisink Valley, Ellenville, Pine Plains, Pine Bush, New Paltz, Saugerties and Dover. Aric Boyes from Tri-Valley played for the National squad, which won the game by the score of 24-11. Teammate Brendan Tierney injured his knee last week and was unable to compete. Eldred's Anthony Margarum, RJ Thiele and Rob Weber represented the Yellow Jackets, who were joined by Fallsburg's Matthew Straus on the victorious squad. The National team also featured players from Monroe-Woodbury, Newburgh Free Academy, Spackenkill, Onteora, Wallkill, Warwick, Millbrook, Goshen, Red Hook and Valley Central. Since James I. O'Neill, Marlboro and Cornwall had all played (and lost) in regional games earlier in the weekend, the seniors from those schools could not participate. And since Middletown and Port Jervis will play on Thanksgiving Day for the annual Erie Bell bragging rights, those two schools were also not included.
The Exceptional Senior All-Star game has been something that has been in the planning stage for years, and now that it has been staged, it will become an annual event. Seniors raved about the experience, the camaraderie and the incredible learning curve that afforded them new insights into the game they have played for years and that they cherish dearly.
Fall's closure was also marked by Tri-Valley's Autumn Sports Award's night, as well as the Federation Race at Bowdoin Park in Wappinger's Falls. Tri-Valley Fall winners included the following:
Football: Aric Boyes, MVP; Cody Exner, Outstanding Offensive Player, Brendan Tierney; Outstanding Defensive Player; Shatik Smith, Coaches Award. Boys Varsity Soccer: Daniel Shortt, MVP; Zach Nilsen, Offensive MVP; and Nathan Bender, Defensive MVP. Girls Varsity Soccer: Mareena DiMilia, Offensive MVP; Caroline Martin, Defensive MVP; Sara Dertinger, Most Improved Player; and Vicky Tingley, Coaches Award. Cheerleading: Lauren Carlsen, Most Improved; Schuyler Kraus, Most Valuable Cheerleader; Dorothy Monforte, Coaches Award. Girls Cross-Country: Autumn Bender, MVP; Danielle Graham and Sabrena Smith, Most Improved Players. Boys Cross-Country: Justin Weintraub, Most Valuable Player, Ian Kurzrock, Most Improved Player.
The Federation Race, featuring the elite runners from the NYSPHSAA Championships, as well as those from NYC's Public School Athletic League (PSAL), the Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) and the Association of Independent Schools (AIS), served as a forerunner to this coming week's Nike New York Regional Championships. Eldred's Alex Campanella passed up the Federation race to train for the NXN Regionals. Sullivan West's Reed Scott finished 119 out of 255 runners in the race with a time of 17:31.3.
Visit www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com [1] for an album of photos from the visit. Visit www.sportsinsightsny.com [2] for pictures of the Tri-Valley fall sports award winners.


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Like many free software geeks, I run a one-person Web hosting shop, a combination business, hobby, and community service. I've become accustomed to doing complex tasks not only easily, but also as cheaply as possible. Since most of the time my modest Web hosting is more hobby than business, I can't really afford to buy expensive -- or setup and manage -- complex software and hardware monitoring solutions.
I also, like many free software geeks, have a perverse, somewhat mysterious need for uptimes to be as long as possible. Even if it doesn't cost me money, I am bothered by unnecessary service interruption. There is a certain virtue that comes in doing a job excellently, even or especially if one is not doing it as one's primary vocation.
I suppose for many free software users, uptime mania is something of an occupational hazard. There is a kind of Zen-like sysadmin virtue which comes from implementing a clever, efficient, and inexpensive hack, but especially if that hack increases uptime and service quality.
But sometimes things go wrong, whether from being too tired to type the proper command at the proper time, or from the rare application or system bug, or from causes entirely outside of your control. And it's not always possible or practical to sit down at the console of a remotely colocated server in order to fix the problem.
For example, my main server is colocated 75 miles from where I live in Dallas, Texas, and I can't easily drive 150 miles roundtrip to fix a problem. In fact, I've never visited the NOC where my servers are colocated, so I couldn't even find it without navigation help.
And I can't always rely on the techs who work at my colocation host; sometimes they aren't available, or are too busy, or don't know exactly what needs to be done. And some colocation facilities charge additional fees for ad hoc system work like this.
One part of the answer to this common dilemma is to install a daemon-monitoring daemon (hereafter, DMD) and to invest in a wireless sysadmin device. But the real trick is doing that within the confines of a limited budget. If you've got one or a few servers running Linux remotely colocated, especially if they're halfway across the country, where you got a great deal on bandwidth, then this two-part article series is for you.
In this first part, I describe some of the available DMDs, and I
explain how to install and configure
monit, the DMD I'm
using. In the next part of the series, I explain how to use a
Palm-enabled cell phone to do remote, wireless sysadmin work from
anywhere you can make or receive cell calls. I'll also show you how to write a
very simple DMD-message routing mailbot, using a few lines of Python,
to make sure messages from your DMD get to you when and where you need
them. (Note: the system I've used to implement and test these
solutions is a Red Hat Linux box, but as far as I know, all of these
tools would work just as well on any Linux or BSD system.)
The single most indispensable tool of remote Linux or BSD server administration is undoubtedly SSH; actually, SSH is less a tool than it is the tool which makes remote public server admin practical in the first place. As long as I can get an SSH login to my remote machine, I can usually fix most problems fairly quickly.
Recently, though, when some security problems cropped up in SSH itself, I had to spend a few hours one Friday afternoon upgrading it. Which was not a big deal until I accidentally killed the wrong process -- the SSH daemon -- effectively locking myself out of my remote box.
Suffice to say, I convinced a sysadmin to drive to the NOC and
restart the SSH daemon on my box, after which I quickly changed the
root password. It was only then that I realized if I'd had a DMD
running, I would simply have had to wait a few minutes until it
sshd for me.
Soon after that realization I started googling for "daemon
monitoring daemon"; I readily found several solutions, and I finally
chose to implement
monit because it fit my situation the
The first tool I evaluated,
supervise, is part of Dan
Bernstein's daemontools
package. Bernstein has earned an impressive reputation for writing high quality tools, including qmail;
daemontools is no exception.
supervise to monitor Apache, for example, is as
simple as running:
[root@chomsky]# supervise /service/apache
supervise changes to the
/service/apache directory and
/service/apache/run, which it will re-invoke if
/service/apache/run dies.
daemontools includes
svstat, which reads status information about services it is
monitoring, which it stores in a binary format. That's a nice feature
since, as we'll see, DMDs can fill up log files quickly. Finally, you
can use
svscan in order to more easily direct
supervise to monitor a collection of services.
I had two, mostly non-technical problems with
daemontools. First, compared to some of the other DMDs I
found, it isn't very customizable. It does what it does well, but
that's about all that it does. I couldn't figure out, for example, how
to get
supervise to send me email easily -- it's possible,
but more trouble than I wanted to take on -- if it had to restart
Apache, for example. Apache is normally very stable, and I want to
know if it's being restarted often by a DMD.
Second, and this is the
more serious problem,
daemontools has very specific ideas
about how services should be managed, ideas which don't jibe well with
Red Hat's approach. I'm not entirely sure Red Hat's approach is
better, but I'm stuck with it for now. If I were building a new Linux
server from scratch, I would likely use Bernstein's
daemontools, especially for
supervise and
multilog. As things stand, however, I had to look elsewhere
for a solution easier to integrate with my existing system.
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Using SANs and NAS
Jim Trocki's mon, a DMD written in Perl, is very feature-rich and takes a slightly different approach than the other DMDs I review here. It rigorously separates service monitoring into programs which test conditions according to a schedule, called monitors, and programs which invoke actions, called alerts, depending on the outcome of a monitor.
One of the nice things about
mon is that, despite being
written in Perl, you can write monitors and alerts in any programming
language you prefer, plop the script or binary into the write place,
mon will do the rest. That's nice, especially if you
prefer Python to Perl, or Java to Python, or GNU Smalltalk to anything
else. It also allows for a more active user community to contribute
alerts and monitors to
mon, which is also a very useful, free
software, Unix kind of thing.
A very long list of monitors
and alerts are
available for use with
mon; so long, in fact, that it's very unlikely you'd have to write any monitors or alerts at all.
Another advantage is
mon's very well-done Web interface, a
live demo of which you can play with at http://mon.lycos.com/. If only the
Web interface of more free software tools were half as well done as
mon's. Web interfaces, though, are less risky for use over
intranets than the public Web.
mon is too customizable, too extensible for my
use. I have rather modest expectations of a DMD, and while
mon could certainly fill the bill, its real sweet spot is
service monitoring on a large scale: dozens or hundreds of services
across dozens or hundreds of machines, including servers, routers,
network-accessible peripherals, and so on. I would not hesitate to use
mon in a large LAN or WAN context, especially given its
parallelization, asynchronous event, interservice dependency, and SNMP trap features.
Dms is a client-server DMD, like
mon, and
includes a Visual Basic client front-end for use on Windows
machines. The server part appears to be Perl, and it should run on
most, if not all, free Unix variants. Even though it costs about $50
(US), which is more than I'm willing to spend, I would have evaluated
Dms in order to make some recommendation in this article. But
Dms appears to be neither free software nor open source.
I can recommend use of
Dms only if you need to monitor a
free Unix variant, and you need to do so from a Windows box but cannot
use a browser as the monitor client. In that unlikely situation,
Dms may be worth the $50.
Finally, I found Jan-Henrik Haukeland's
monit on
freshmeat.net. (I installed version 2.2.1 for this article; the newest
version is 2.3, the most significant change of which is the addition
of service grouping.) I chose to implement it because, unlike
supervise, it integrated easily into my existing server, and,
mon, its feature set mapped very neatly onto my
requirement set.
monit does just about exactly what I need a
DMD to do, and it doesn't do much else besides, which made it easier
to install, configure, and forget about.
monit lacks some of the features of
the features missing are ones I decided I could do very nicely
without. Because it is too often overlooked and undervalued, let me
say that chief among
monit's virtues is its excellent
documentation, which the author conveniently provides in man form.
As for its feature set,
monit runs as a daemon; can start, stop,
and restart the service daemons it monitors; can manage services
individually or in groups; logs either to its own logfile or to
syslog; has a very comfortable configuration and control syntax; can
do runtime and TCP/IP port checking and knows about the protocol of
most common service types, including HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP;
can be configured to take actions depending on the stability of a
service over some time slice; will compute and monitor MD5 checksums
of service binaries; and does alert notification via
email. (
monit also has a built-in Web server for remote
control, but the author does not recommend using it over the public
Web; I enthusiastically endorse that recommendation, at the very least
monit gets Digest Authentication, as opposed to
Written in C, installing
monit on my Linux box was as
simple as invoking the standard:
[root@chomsky monit-2.2.1]# ./configure; make
[root@chomsky monit-2.2.1]# make install
Once installed, you have two main tasks before you: first, you must gather the information
monit needs in order to manage the
services you want it to manage; and, second, you have to configure
I decided I wanted it to monitor the daemons
which provide SSH, HTTP, and DNS on my remote box. (I also have
monit watching over my RDBMS and SMTP daemons, too, but for
the purposes of this article, I'll only show configuration examples
for the first three.) I subsequently started using
monit to
monitor a misbehaving Zope server, which I describe below.
As for the information you need to gather about each service,
that's basic stuff and you shouldn't have any trouble; you need start
and stop scripts and the fully qualified path name of the service PID
file. The basic runtime setup of
monit is to create a
/root/.monitrc, which contains configuration information for
each daemon to be monitored, plus general configuration directives in
the prologue.
monit is then invoked thus (you can change some
configuration directives via command-line switches, but I like to put
that kind of stuff into the control file, whenever possible):
[root@chomsky monit-2.2.1]# monit -c /path/to/.monitrc
A working
monitrc file looks something like this:
(1) #
(2) #$Id: monit.html,v 1.1 2002/04/30 16:52:36 kclark Exp $
(3) #
(5) set daemon 300
(6) set logfile /var/log/monit
(8) check apache with pidfile /var/log/httpd/httpd.pid
(9) start = "/root/apache-start"
(10) stop = "/root/apache-stop"
(11) checksum /usr/local/bin/httpd
(12) timeout(3, 3) and alert email@example.com
(13) host foo.com port 80 protocol http
(14) host bar.org port 80 protocol http
(16) check sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
(17) start = "/root/sshd-start"
(18) stop = "/root/sshd-stop"
(19) timeout(3, 3) and alert email@example.com
(20) checksum /usr/local/sbin/sshd
(22) check named with pidfile /var/run/named.pid
(23) start = "/root/named-start"
(24) stop = "/root/named-stop"
(25) checksum /usr/local/sbin/named
(26) timeout(3, 3) and alert email@example.com
(27) port 53 use type udp
The first few lines are obvious. I use RCS to manage important
config files, especially since I share sysadmin duties with a fellow
geek. That way we don't step on each other's toes. Lines 5 and 6
contain general
monit configuration directives; the first
monit how often I want it to poll each service, and the
second tells it where to write its logfile.
The other directives that
are legal anywhere in the control file include setting an SMTP server
monit alerts, setting the port number of its built-in HTTP
server, and specifying host names allowed to use the HTTP
server, including username-password pairs. One important note:
monit uses "localhost" as the SMTP server by default; it may
make sense in some cases to set it to a secondary SMTP server, if you
have one, in case your SMTP daemon is misbehaving.
has been amazingly reliable for me, so I haven't specified another
SMTP server.
The configuration of daemons for
monit to monitor is
fairly straightforward, but there are some features covered in the man page I don't
discuss here, so it's worth a look. Lines 16 through 20 tell
monit how to monitor my SSH daemon, which was my original
reason for installing a DMD.
The format of service-monitoring
statements in the control file is flexible, but
monit expects
the first line to be of the form: check [service name] with pidfile
[fully qualified path name of PID file]. The start and stop
declarations are not mandatory, but
monit is less useful if
it has no way to restart a daemon when it has died.
I ask
monit to checksum the binary, because it's free and it would
be nice to know if it is tampered with. The timeout(foo,bar) and alert
statement is very useful; it instructs
monit that if the
service has to be restarted foo times within bar cycles (in my case, 3
times in 3 cycles, or 900 seconds), I want to be alerted, since that's
usually an indication something needs explicit sysadmin attention.
Lines 13 and 14 are worth mentioning. They tell
monit to
not only check the Apache binary but also to check Apache at the HTTP
protocol level, for which port and which virtual host. In the case
that Apache stops being able to answer requests -- because, say, one
of my users has published an article everyone suddenly wants to read
-- but is still running,
monit may be able to alert me more
quickly than I would otherwise be alerted.
One of
monit's most valuable bits, which wasn't
immediately apparent to me when I installed and configured it, is that
it can be run by any user on my system, which means users can use it
to monitor daemons which they are running, whether short or long
I run the Zope Web application server under a special user
account, and lately it's been falling down more often than I'd like,
sometimes in the middle of the night, which means its sites are
unreachable until the next day. So I created another control file,
installed it in the Zope user account, and spawned another
monit instance to monitor Zope:
(1) set daemon 240
(2) set logfile /home/k/monit.log
(4) check Zope with pidfile /home/k/Zope-2.4.0-linux2-x86/var/zProcessManager.pid
(5) start = "/home/k/Zope-2.4.0-linux2-x86/start"
(6) stop = "/home/k/Zope-2.4.0-linux2-x86/stop"
(7) alert restart
(8) timeout(3, 3) and alert firstname.lastname@example.com
(9) host foobarbaz.com port 8080 protocol http
In this case, I want a separate logfile, and I want
to check on Zope every 4 minutes, rather than every 5. This capability is useful in more than
production-service monitoring cases. For example, I'm starting work on
a WebDAV server in Python, and I expect it will be very unstable
at first. I will likely use a
monit daemon to keep my
prototype WebDAV server running continuously while I iterate through
develop-debug cycles. I can set the daemon polling time very low, to
say 60 seconds, so that I never have to wait more than a minute to
retest the server, and I don't have to continually restart it by
Installing a DMD made me a better sysadmin and improved the quality
of the services I offer my users. It's also reduced the likelihood
that I'll have to drive 150 miles to restart the SSH daemon of my
remote box, which is worth the installation and configuration efforts
alone. And so far
monit has fit nicely within my limited
Using a DMD also extends the range of services you may be able to offer since you can use it to provide high-quality service from software which might crash more often than you'd otherwise be able to accommodate. Finally, I've found some unexpected uses for a DMD, including easing some of the overhead of remote development work.
In the next article of this series, I will discuss the other part
of the story: how to fix problems that arise when you aren't in front
of your workstation. I'll show you how to write a very simple message
routing mailbot, which I use to make sure that, no matter where I am,
monit alerts can find me. I'll also show you how to use the
Kyocera Palm phone with the
GEORDI Palm utilities to remotely
administer a misbehaving free Unix box, wirelessly, from anywhere you
can make or receive a cell phone call.
The only thing that's more geeky-cool than using SSH to fix a problem server, remotely and wirelessly, while you're watching Attack of the Clones in your favorite movie house, is doing it without breaking a poor sysadmin's limited budget.
Kendall Clark is the Managing Editor of XML.com.
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Not even the return of Chase Utley could save the Phillies tonight, as the team fell to the Pirates 11-7 behind a hapless effort from the bullpen–a unit which has been the Achilles heel all season.
-Two out, nobody on, 2-2 count. Chase Utley stands in the box for his first at-bat of the 2012 season. Moments before, he came to the plate to a loud ovation. James McDonald stares in for the sign. The battery mates agree on a curve ball. McDonald unleashes the hook, and it loops towards the plate. Off his shoulder, Utley's bat moves effortlessly through the zone with the swiftness of a mongoose. Like a pendulum on its upswing, the barrel of the bat strikes the quickly dropping curve, launching it deep into the Philadelphia night. The ball would land on the other side of the right field fence, and the crowd would erupt in exultation. In one fell swoop, Utley had announced his return to the Phillies lineup. Screen writers dream of plots with this much electricity.
– Utley finished up the night going 3-for-5. His three hits included the homer and an infield single. He also put a two good charges into balls, lining both deep to center for outs. These were all encouraging signs. Utley showed power and speed, which suggests his legs feel just fine. At least for now.
– Not to be outdone by the first inning heroics of his teammate playing second, Carlos Ruiz would follow up Utley's home run with a bomb of his own to give the Phillies a 2-0 lead. The solo shot was a good reminder to everyone of just what Ruiz has been doing all season long. The fact that he likely won't start in the All Star game is a crime.
– Following the back-to-back home runs, the Bank was buzzing, and it briefly felt like the Phillies of the last five years could be on their way back. That feeling was fleeting.
-The euphoria of Utley and Ruiz's back-to-back home runs was powerful, but short-lived. In desperate need for a shutdown inning to capitalize on a ton of momentum, Raul Valdes did just the opposite, allowing a go-ahead, three-run home run to Mike McKenry with two outs and the pitcher on deck. With a base open, there's no way you want to make a mistake in that spot. It would be downhill from there. As quickly as the Phils had taken the lead, the Pirates had taken it back, and the realization that the bullpen would likely make this game difficult to win set in.
– Here the breakdown:
- Raul Valdes, 2.0 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
- Joe Savery, 2.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 2 K
- Michael Schwimer, 1.3 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 ER, o BB, 3 K
- Jake Diekman, 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2K
- Chad Qualls, 1.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
- Antonio Bastardo, 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
– You look at those stats, and you can't help but question just what Phillies management was thinking allowing the bullpen to take this game. This is a unit that came into the night with a 4.46 ERA. That's 24th in baseball. They've been that bad, and they've thrown the second fewest innings in baseball (189.2). They stink when they're not even overworked. How can you justify trusting them with nine innings? The answer is simple: You can't. The effort also magnified the Phillies' need to add an arm out there if they're going to compete.
– Down 8-2 with a bullpen rapidly leaking oil, the Phillies looked cooked. Earlier in the season, when the Phillies got down in a game, they seemed certain to lose. But tonight took on a different feel. There has been discussion about the intangibles Utley brings to the lineup–the leadership and presence he exudes are qualities that are second to none. For the first time in a long time, the Phils had some fight in them. The offense seemed calm and collected as they slowly chipped away, getting the Pirates' lead down to 8-7 with two on and nobody out in the seventh. Consecutive strikeouts by Pence, Victorino, and Thome would end the threat. The comeback fell short, but I found myself believing it was possible. That's something that hasn't happened much this season. It wouldn't matter because Qualls gave up three runs in the eighth.
– Sure, the bullpen got roughed up, but the offense showed tenacity and moxie in Utley's first game back. They showed fight for the first time this season. If the Phillies have a starting pitcher for this game, they probably win it and are looking at a potential sweep of the second place Pirates.
-The good news keeps rolling in for the Phillies as the team announced Ryan Howard will begin a rehab assignment in Lakewood tomorrow. He'll DH.
-The Phils go for the series victory tomorrow when Kyle Kendrick takes the mound. Hey, at least it's a starter.
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Qualls is a worthless P.O.S. The biggest goat of them all.
Q!ualls has no balls He stinks.
Joe Savery has been optioned, corresponding move?
i didn'y hear that lefty . what was the option, hitter or pitcher? if that's true thats good news. now schimmer needs to go, along with qualls! all three have been totally enept!
All I can think of is reliever JC Ramirez the guy we got for Cliff Lee from Seattle. BJ Rosenberg is no help.
Really a new line up? LOL
Utley may yet be salvagable. Although I see some serious hard times coming up.
I dont get Manuel.
In 25 years if he is still managing the Phillies and Utley is playing he hits 3rd?
No matter if he hasnt had a hit in 12 years.
He hit .159 in the minors and then he hits 3rd in the majors a day later?
I know tonight it worked out as far as Utley goes. But its the whole mentality.
Charlie cant have "guys" anymore. He needs to manage to win games by any means necessary and with any available player.
The dysfunction is orginazational.
I bet Chase would like to ease back in the line up but he wont be able to.
It wont be Howards fault when he comes back. And cant even run at all. Hypotheticly he could hit .159 in his rehab stint and be penciled in 4th. His contrat also is 0% his fault. Its the orginazations.
Its not Halladays fault Charlie will throw his arm out when he comes back from his injury.
The orginazation needs to change.
I do still think there is a chance this year.
Do need the changes.
But you need to win games like tonights if they were ever going to mount some type of run.
But he wont be able to. And Howard can hit .
Bullpen guys not available tomorrow: Better pray for a CG from KK
Not available-
Valdes – 43 pitches tonight
Savery – 53 pitches tonight – optioned
Qualls – 35 pitches tonight
Doubtful, but maybe be available tomorrow:
Diekman – 13 pitches tonight, pitched in 3 out of last 4 games.
Schwimer 26 pitches tonight and 5 pitches Tues., 31 pitches last 2 games.
Bastardo – 10 pitches Tues., 14 tonight, 24 last 2 games
Available tomorrow:
Papelbon – 20 pitches Tues.
the good news lefty is KK pitching tomorrow! he'll get 45 pitches before he's toast! then it's back to the pen. ruin the rest of them for the next series! i can't believe they didn't try cloyd! their reasoning was from what i read was he pitced on sat or sun and would be on short rest! duhhhh! i would have tried him and told HIM gimme 4-5 innings or 60 pitches then go to the pen! valdez is a decent pitcher but not more than an inning or two. they could have used him for an inning then bastardo, diekman then pap. but nooo we get savory, schwimmer and qualls. whew
Also no Utley tomorrow.
Maybe the old man should have saved his debut.
When the adrenaline would be pumping for a winnable game?
Paplebomb can go 2 or 3 innings.
Sutter and Fingers and Goaasage did it all the time.
I dont think Papelbon will go 3 innings Andrew. Im not sure what they will do with the bullpen. Maybe one will emerge but these are the growing pains of putting up minor leaguers in the MLB. Most will suck some will suck but be a work in progress and eventually make the adjustments need to pitch to a MLB hitters. Defratus was probably one of those guys but unfortunately he is still trying to rehab. Ramirez has been mediocre in the minors.
I know he wont go 3. I hope to god ( Donald M. Wheeler) the old man wont put him in more than 1 inning.
No matter what.
If anyone would ever use a closer 3 innnings in 2012 it would be Charlie though.
They need to win games. Regardless of what it takes and regardless of a top 3 MVP standing in the middle of the last decade.
AFW you know what will follow the next game after a good offensive game…The bats usually get cold…Hoping thats not the case, but for the past 2-3 years it seems thats usually the case..
Bottom line they need to start winning some games.
Dig up Babe Ruth or Mike Schmidt or Ryan howard.
What does it matter?
Good teams win games.
Bad teams lose them.
Now reading Smchenk and Pat and Donald say how great it is?
reading us say how great what is?
Too many to go over all the personnel mistakes. However, 4 BP arms down Contreras, Stutes, Herndon and Defratus you have to get help if you expect to win, period.
I love the bench signings if they were on the bench. Pierre, Fontenot, .. However, trading Valdez for a BP arm you don't use when 4 guys are out for the season is absolutely stupid. Martinez can't hit, we know it, RAJ knows it and ever Manager in MLB knows it
WTF. One of the worst BPs in the majors who cn't close out 2 innings are expected to pitch 9? Fire whoever made that decision, they're incompetant.
Quales blows. I know it, you know it and every major league manager knows it. However, so does the rest of the BP.
How do the Phillies let Dave Duncan go to the Nats. Doobs is good, but Duncan is a master,
Not giving up, but starting Valdez indicates to me that RAJ/Mnuel did.
OK I take back what I posted earlier here. The first person they should sell or trade is not Blanton but Qualls !
It almost seems like they decided winning this game was not a priority when they went with this trainwreck of a bullpen. They should have brought someone up to pitch. Now our bull pen, in addition to not being good when rested will really be tattered and torn for the next several days, unless Kyle comes up with a complete game shut out.
I think there's still hope in the wild card chase, but I'd like to see a little urgency from Charlie in who gets to pitch, and in not going to Qualls in tight situations, or sending Qualls down for anyone. If we had Wilson Valdez, I'd prefer starting him than what we had last night!
I've mentioned before that I think Manuel is extremely limited in pitching choices. Qualls almost has to pitch because there's nobody else, particularly last night, when nearly the entire pen had already been used. Also, some of the pitching choices are influenced by Dubee, who really doesn't have any choices, either.
As far as who starts, the only other options were in the minors, and the only real options there would have been pitching on short rest. Last night's game was clearly out of Manuel's hands; he's not the one in charge of who pitched the past few days at Lehigh Valley.
It will be interesting to see who replaces Savery. With the tired bullpen, maybe today will be the day Cloyd gets his shot, with Kendrick as a reliever. Cloyd would be on normal rest.
It's probably not going to happen, though. I expect some disaster like Rosenberg.
Andrew your an a s s hole. You really are. Thank god I stopped with
This site and the phillies. Let's bat the aweful pence third.
No maybe mike f. No the terrible Vic. Shut up you loser.
It was everything you could hope for when Utley came to bat for the first time, the crowd was frenzied and it could not have been scripted better (OK, Pierre not getting thrown out would have helped). Choochie following up with his solo shot seemed to send a message that was quickly drowned out by the starting pitcher. The next messages were a pleasant and welcome surprise as the Phils scored 2 in the bottom of the 6th and 3 in the bottom of the 7th – taking the bat out of Diekmans hands was necessary even though he tossed one of the few 1-2-3 innings vs the Bucs – a come back! Holy moly an honest to goodness bunch of runs after the 5th inning that made it a ballgame! Men on 2nd and 1rst with nobody out, 3 runs already in and the middle of the lineup coming to bat only to go 1-2-3 after that.. meh – the point is there was some juice in the crowd while the Phils were behind and they looked serious. Short lived, not even enough time to enjoy the lead as no-balls Qualls giving up 3 in the top of the 8th – that is when we left.
Exciting game, great time but still, a loss.
I was at the game and the crowd was juices. But unless Howard and Utley pitch it will not save the season.. injuries to BP plus bad signing of Qualls are not managers decision.
Here's Charlie's comments following last night's loss. "We felt like going in with what we have starting for us in the minor leagues, this might give us more flexibility, if that makes sense, in what we wanted to achieve," said Phillies manager Charlie Manuel. "It kind of backfired. We got lit up."
Now we have Kendrick losing tonight's game and we're back to the same deficit. Pathetic!
I know this season has been injury city, but this is the kind of thinking that has helped us to a pitiful start. Fix the bullpen Rube! Bring up Cloyd, and give him a chance as a starter, or long reliever, until Doc Halladay returns. God, I'm still fired up from last night's poor planning that killed a Phil's win, Chase's awesome return, and our first real old school rally.
That is so true. Poor planning hurt us last night… hopefully the new-found momentum is still there.
The Phils have called up Sanches. Even though I expected Rosenberg, it's pretty much as I figured: another terrible arm for the bullpen. It's about time for a bullpen upgrade, instead of a bullpen upchuck.
Amaro needs to do something immediately, instead of waiting to make a trade. Even some of the pitchers recently released by other teams would probably be better than what the Phils have now.
You have an experienced MLB starter like Elarton in Lehigh Valley, why dont you bring up and see if he can give you some quality innings, the bullpen by committee last night was ridiculous.
Phillies Designate Chad Qualls for Assignment, Promote LHP Jeremy Horst from Triple-A
Here's hoping that Horst can prove RAJ right by making that trade for Wilson Valdez.
Not holding my breath.. his WHIP is a whopping 1.59, 4.23 BB/9… and even though his ERA is 2.11, his FIP is 4.11…
The one guy I really wanna see at some point this season is De Fratus.. now THAT would help our pen.
Qualls DFA'd?
There is a god.
I thought the same thing when I read the news. The baseball gods must have read my earlier post to get rid of Qualls asap! I'm not sure of what to plead the gods next, take out Blanton or Kendrick or Bastardo…
The major issue with promoting a starter from the minors for last night's game is the 40 man roster. It seems like a lot of posters don't understand how it works, but to put it simply, if a pitcher wasn't on the 40 man roster, they would need to expose someone to waivers (or possibly 60 day DL). Had they made the decision to DFA Qualls a day earlier, this may have been a realistic possibility, but they probably won't drop any of the young arms so quickly.
They could still get creative… for example, moving Stutes or Herndon to the 60 day DL or something. Expose Martinez to waivers… honestly, who's gonna grab him? And if they do, so what?
Agreed, and once they knew that Friday's game was rained out, rescheduled for Sunday, they should have made sure Elarton and/or Cloyd skipped their starts and threw BP's instead. Very poor planning, I'm disappointed in the F.O. and Charlie about this.
Agreed Lefty. There's never only ONE option.
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New programs launch at Stourbridge
HONESDALE, PA — Lucky students at Stourbridge Primary Center in Honesdale are having real-life learning experiences that allow them to explore the natural world and their relationship to it, thanks to new programming developed by John José of Otter Creek Environmental Education Services.
José has begun offering "Schoolyard Habitat Evaluations," which are followed by the establishment of on-site environmental education programs based on his findings.
First to try the new offerings were the enthusiastic Kindergarteners who participated in José's wildlife tracking and sign interpretation program last month. Stourbridge principal Paula Brennan, a former science teacher, was aware of José's environmental education work with local camps and other organizations and invited him to prepare a proposal for several programs at the school.
"What I was hoping to achieve with these programs was to enrich our curriculum, provide the students with a positive, meaningful, hands-on learning experience and create an excitement for learning and an appreciation for the fact that learning takes place everywhere, not just in the classroom," said Brennan.
The programs offer many benefits by providing an immersive, experiential educational opportunity on-site, thereby eliminating transportations costs and connecting students more intimately with their own schoolyard or backyard. In addition, students learn skills such as gardening and gain knowledge of local flora and fauna.
José began with an introductory lesson on wildlife tracking for the Kindergarten classes and provided books for the teachers to read to students prior to their walk in a forested area of the school property. He also made age-appropriate field guides for the students to use on their tracking day and a copy to take home and share with their families.
"The feedback from the Kindergarten teachers was very positive," said Brennan. "The experience achieved its objective and beyond. Our students absolutely loved it. The word "awesome" was used a lot in their feedback. I also had many parents tell me how much their children enjoyed it. And more importantly, how what they learned carried over into their homes. The experience not only created rich conversation between child and parent, but the children wanted to take their parents for a walk in the woods to share what they had learned."


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NFL star Lawrence Taylor's son has been arrested on rape and sodomy charges in Georgia in connection with the alleged sexual assaults of two girls.
Lawrence Taylor, Jr., 31, was taken into custody on Sunday, according to Cobb County Sheriff's Office records.
Taylor made his first court appearance Monday and remained held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, Atlanta TV station WGCL reported.
He is charged with statutory rape, aggravated child molestation and aggravated sodomy.
One of the girls told Powder Springs police she was assaulted at Taylor's home over the weekend.
An incident involving another girl occurred in 2012, according to police.
In January 2011, Taylor's father was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender after pleading guilty to sexual misconduct and patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, USA Today reported.
Lawrence Taylor was arrested in May 2010 for allegedly paying $300 to have sex with the girl at a hotel in suburban New York City.


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We used to talk mostly about mitigation – using policy, technology and other actions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. But increasingly we also have started talking about resilience – making sure our public and private infrastructure can withstand the changes in the climate that we can't avoid.
That's because climate change is no longer a far-in-the-future possibility; it's a right-now reality. Sea level is rising [1] and global temperatures are higher [2]. Climate scientists tell us to expect more frequent and intense heat waves, more severe droughts in some regions, more expansive wildfires, and more intense downpours.
Many of these changes can exacerbate the types of extreme weather that can cause costly impacts. So all of us -- individuals, communities, governments and businesses -- need to figure out how to deal with the impacts we're already experiencing, and the ones to come.
After releasing our report, Weathering the Storm: Building Business Resilience to Climate Change [3], we have been talking about resilience at several forums, including Climate Week NYC [4] and most recently at the annual conference of the National Association of Corporate Directors [5] (NACD).
NACD convened more than 1,000 corporate board directors and C-suite executives at its conference and I was pleased to join NACD Managing Director and Senior Advisor Jeffrey Cunningham and American Water CEO Jeff Sterba for a discussion on "The New Face of Global Risk." [6]
In our discussions at NACD and other business forums, the questions generally fall into two broad categories: What climate risks do I face? And what steps should I take to address them?
Each company's risk is different. But what companies tell us they worry about is having more frequent and intense extreme weather close facilities, delay production, disrupt supply and distribution chains, raise operational and capital costs, and reduce demand.
Companies also worry about risks they can't directly manage – those that are outside "their fenceline" but that can significantly affect the bottom line. Extreme weather can keep employees from getting to work, disrupt transportation and communication systems, and threaten power and water supplies.
Jeff told our NACD audience to focus on the supply chain, production facilities, and distribution, and also something every company uses: electricity. A recent Department of Energy report warns about the risks extreme weather poses to our energy system [7], but the risk could be as close to home as having electrical equipment in a flood-prone basement.
Companies are also learning first-hand that even when their own risk assessments take climate change into account, their operations can still be disrupted if their suppliers haven't taken the same steps. For example, devastating floods in Thailand in 2011 shut down auto assembly plants and electronics suppliers for major international companies.
At the NACD conference, I was repeatedly asked not whether climate risks exist, but what companies should do about them. It's encouraging that more of our business leaders are acknowledging these risks, and we hope more join them.
Jeff and I told the audience the first step is to get educated about climate change; start asking questions and understanding the risks.
Our recent report outlines three more steps to assess and manage potential risks [8] to supplies, operations, facilities, employees, customers, and costs and offers case studies [9] of companies taking these steps. For example, American Water systematically assesses the water supply's vulnerability to climate variability -- along with estimates of population growth, urbanization rates, and other factors -- to determine how much investment is needed to meet future infrastructure needs. Many of these companies are also sharing what they've learned through our free C2ES webinars [10].
Jeff concluded with what I'd call Step Five of the process. After companies assess the risks to their supply chain, production facilities, water and energy sources, and distribution, they should ask themselves: Does this rise to the level where we want to become active in promoting stronger climate action?
Businesses are being affected by this problem and they can also be part of the solution, by becoming more energy efficient, developing new technologies, investing in a low-carbon future, and supporting common-sense policies to help us both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to climate impacts.
[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/10/sea-level-in-the-5th-ipcc-report/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/earth/global-temperatures-highest-in-4000-years-study-says.html?_r=0
[3] http://www.c2es.org/initiatives/business-resilience
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZqxFn5cQaI
[5] http://www.nacdonline.org/conference/index.cfm
[6] http://blog.nacdonline.org/2013/10/eye-of-the-storm-the-new-face-of-global-risk/
[7] http://energy.gov/articles/department-energy-releases-new-report-energy-sector-vulnerablities
[8] http://www.c2es.org/publications/weathering-storm-building-business-resilience-climate-change#iv_framework
[9] http://www.c2es.org/publications/weathering-storm-building-business-resilience-climate-change#case-studies
[10] http://www.c2es.org/initiatives/business-resilience/webinars


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Back-to-back Iowa Conference champions (2012, 2013)
PELLA—For the third consecutive year, the Central College women's cross country squad has received the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association team academic award while the men honored three individuals.
Central's women hold a collective 3.35 GPA. It's the fifth time overall the Dutch women have captured the academic honor.
To receive the distinction, a team must have compiled a score at their respective NCAA regional championship and have a cumulative grade point average be 3.1 or better.
Meanwhile, the trio of Cole Decker (freshman, Des Moines, West Des Moines Dowling HS), Brent Ewing (junior, Cincinnati, Centerville HS), and Drew Jackson (sophomore, Johnston) earned USTFCCCA individual academic recognition. Decker is an economics major with a 3.48 GPA. Ewing sports a 3.66 GPA as an exercise science major and Jackson is an environmental science major with a 3.6 GPA.
To receive the distinction, an individual must have placed in the top 35 at his respective NCAA regional championship and have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or better.


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Democrat Mitchell wins Wisconsin Lt. Governor primary
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Madison firefighter Mahlon Mitchell has defeated two opponents to win the Democratic primary for Wisconsin lieutenant governor.
With the win Tuesday, the leader of the statewide firefighters' union will now challenge Republican incumbent Rebecca Kleefisch next month.
According to unofficial results, Mitchell defeated Milwaukee private detective Ira Robins and fake Democrat Isaac Weix. Kleefisch didn't have a primary opponent.
The lieutenant governor's job carries no official duties. However, the lieutenant governor would take over if the governor dies, leaves office early or is incapacitated.
Kleefisch and Republican Gov. Scott Walker are facing recall elections sparked by Walker's law that eliminated collective-bargaining rights for most public employees. The general election will be June 5.
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Take a long, hard look at the violence around us
Complaints that the younger generation is going to the dogs are nothing new. Nearly all of the time they involve silly things like long hair covering ears or allegedly short skirts not covering ankles.
But when they are matters of life and death, it may be that we as a society should stop and think about such observations.
Only about half of the first month of this year has passed and already during 2013, West Virginia law enforcement officers have shot and killed four men, in Greenbrier, Kanawha, Logan and Mercer counties. In all four situations, officers either had been fired upon or had other reasons to believe they were in danger.
Whenever law enforcement officers use deadly force, investigations are conducted. Part of the reason is to ensure the officers had no choice. Investigators also want to learn more about why such confrontations occur and what can be done to head off similar tragedies in the future.
A veteran spokesman for the State Police, Sgt. Michael Baylous, offered a theory. It is that various factors have made – and are making – many people less respectful of authority and more aggressive in confrontations.
"We have a whole generation of kids that grew up exposed to violence, be it video games or movies. There's also a lack of respect for authority. We see it in classrooms," Baylous commented.
Some researchers say violent video games are harmless. And violence in movies has been around a long, long time, they point out. Finally, critics of observations such as Baylous' insist questioning authority and refraining from moral judgments are longstanding American traditions.
All of that may be true enough. But what about the mix of societal factors present today? For example, violent movies are merely observed, while violent video games involve participation. Decisions about what types of behavior are acceptable are affected by a fuzzier line than in the past.
Meanwhile, those who, like Baylous, wonder aloud about the effects of our culture are derided as being too judgmental. It is much easier to blame inanimate objects such as firearms when violence occurs.
It also is much easier to demand that Congress and/or state legislators do something than to question whether we as parents and as a society could do more to prevent violence.
In truth, ours is a more peaceful world than at many times in the past – when moral teachings were firm and there were no violent movies or video games. That should not be an excuse for failing to take a truly objective look at whether societal factors are to blame for the violence that does plague us, however.