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Since there hasn't been anything posted recently I thought I would give an update with no specific small waters mentioned.
Alberta is experiencing a drought this year, maybe the worst in a few decades.
For many of the smaller lakes this is not a good thing, already low levels and high water temperatures are just exacerbated by our recent weather.
Alberta has been no stranger to water loss over the last decade or two and in many cases you will find launching ramps high and dry, many feet back from any nearby water.
Southwestern Alberta is probably one of the better known areas and since it depends largely on snowpack the rivers and streams are doing alright but of course they probably have more pressure on them than most of the northern waters do together when it comes to fly fishing.
Recently a magazine article, naming small rivers and streams and giving directions was written by a person from the south and published in a popular Canadian fly fishing magazine. Because many of the places mentioned are very very small with limited water and fish it did arouse some negative feelings but so far it has not effected the water use any more than is normal.
As the season progresses the fishing is still okay in most places, there is rain today and scheduled for a few days so we are hoping all will be well.
The Bow is fishing as it usually fishes and remains a very popular fishing area. There are moves by the Regional District to let building developers build large complexes on the river banks, displaying a lack of understanding/caring for the value of the river in dollars and cents as well as what is in my opinion a flagrant disregard for the environment.
Recently we were out after Pike on Lake Wabamun and scored a few, nothing too large. I hope to get down to the south again to try some trout fishing before too long.
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I hope things will turn around in your area. Putting more angling pressure on a already stressed fisherie can have a long term impact. I plan to take a trip out west someday to fish a little and visit the sites.
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Hey Marc I agree, I think we are all watching carefully.
When you do come let me know, I may be able to steer you in a few good directions.
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Hi Kerry,
Thanks for the report. I am sorry your fishery is having such bad conditions. I think most of us just figured Alberta would have a bunch of water everywhere. Lets hope it gets better soon.
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It has been grim for farmers and fishers alike. Hey fisherfolks are always optimistic. I will try and update here once in awhile, I hope to get out on a river or two very soon
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Hey kerry.
I haven't been to alberta since i was a little guy, but i remember me and my dad fishing some awesome lakes. I'm from manitoba and i'm hoping to get back out there to do some fly fishing, which has been long overdue. I'v always heard good stuff about the bow. Have you ever fly fished the crowsnest, i might be going throught there in the next month.
Also, i see you guys are getting hit hard with fires again.
Re: Alberta
the foothills along the forestry trunk road have been getting alot of rain.i been out there last month and going again this weekend. from james thompson up to fickle has been fairly wet. i was rained out of my tent.
this confirms it. look for the dates on the last fireban, last bans were in may.
Alberta Firebans
fishing is good. bring a raincoat.
Re: Alberta
A request from the Alberta Government and there has been almost no rain since it was issued.
Re: Alberta
Hi Kerry,
Since Alberta is in such trouble how is BC and NWT doing?
Re: Alberta
I was just down on Vancouver Island. From what I found there I understand there is some worry about water temps and levels for the spawning runs. Campbell River looked a little low, the Oyster was very low.
There is more fresh water there, but I think in some areas at least, water levels are an issue in that they are lower and warmer than in previous years. They have had heat waves there, though I know some areas have had quick harsh rainfalls. B.C. has had a terrible fire season, they are still in trouble, very little rainfal and certainly no extended rains.
I am not sure about the NWT's I can do a check with their department of environment and see what is going on there.
I do not remember such a dry year. While we were in Kamloops it was 44 to 45 Celsius.
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The duo of Gary Hutchins and Perry Page, members of the Yakima Elks Country Club in Selah, emerged as the top golfers in the opening tournament of the 2014 season on the two Lower Yakima Valley courses.
Sunnyside's Black Rock Creek Golf Course was last Saturday's venue for the two-person teams. Sunday, tournament play switched to Toppenish's Mt. Adams Country Club.
The March 22-23 tourney format featured nine holes each of scramble, best ball, Chapman and Scotch play.
Hutchins and Page tallied a tournament best, 9-under-par 135.
Two other teams finished within a single stroke of the winners. Carding 8-under-par rounds of 136 were the duos of Dusty Frontis/Lincoln White, also from the Yakima Elks; and Trini Madrigal/Andrew Schutt, who claim Black Rock Creek as their home course.
The three first flight teams that cashed in the net scoring column (actual score minus handicap) were Ron Eakin and Tony Whitley of Mt. Adams (125); Jason Eberle and Sean Tudor of Black Rock Creek (129.25); and Mike Chambers and Ken Hornstein of Mt. Adams (130).
The low scorers from the tournament's second flight of golfers included Vern Stephenson and Rich Wyer of Mt. Adams (158); Tye Barrett and Ron Harper of Mt. Adams (160); and Clarence Holford and Leonard Rabanal of Mt. Adams (161).
First through third-place net finishers in the second flight were Lucio Aguilar and Stu Williams of Mt. Adams (127.5); Greg Cannon and Ron Storkel of Mt. Adams (129); and Connie Besel and Dennis Besel of Mt. Adams (129.5).
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Universal has bought the Black List script Bethlehem, scripted by Larry Brenner. Joe Roth is producing and Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is directing. Nicolas-Troyan makes his feature directing debut after putting together a presentation and pitching it to the studio in a fashion similar to how Roth set up Universal's Snow White And The Huntsman. Nicholas did second unit work on that film. Brenner is currently working on Angelology at Sony with Overbrook producing and Marc Forster attached to direct. Magnet Management and CAA rep the writer. CAA reps Nicholas.
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RAID Primer: What's in a number?by Dave Robinet on 9/7/2007 12:00 PM EST
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ShadowFlash - Monday, March 02, 2009 - linkRAID 10 not as fault tolerant as RAID 5 ??? unlikely...RAID 5 is used when capacity cannot be sacrificed for the increased data protection of RAID 10. Yes, RAID 0+1 is horrible, and should be avoided as mentioned in other posts. RAID 10 sets will absolutely rebuild faster than a RAID 5 in almost all situations. With the dirt cheap pricing of modern large capacity drives, I can think of almost no situation where RAID 5 is preferable to RAID 10. The flaw is in the way hard drives die, and parity. I was going to type out a long explanation, but this link covers it well.
I strongly urge any home user not to use RAID 5 ( or any other parity form of RAID ). RAID 5 is antiquated and left over from the days when cost vs capacity was a major concern. RAID 10 also dosen't require as expensive of a controller card.
And remember if you do insist on RAID 5 to never use it as a system disk. The parity overhead from the many small writes an OS performs is far too great a penalty.
I'm not trying to start a fight, just trying to educate on the flaws of parity. Reply
Codesmith - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - linkThe drives in my 2 drive RAID 1 array are 100% readable as normal drives by any SATA controller.
With any other RAID configuration you are dependent on both remembering the proper settings, performing the rebuild properly and most importantly, finding a compatible controller.
Until the manufactures decide to standardize, the system you have in place to protect your data could have you waiting days to access your data.
I am planning to add a RAID 5/6 array for home theater usage, but the business documents are staying on the RAID 1 array. Reply
Anonymous Freak - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkThat's my acronym for it. It also describes my desire for it.
RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
AIDS = Array of Independent Disks, Striped.
"RAID" 0 has very few legitimate uses. If you value the data stored at all, and have any care at all about uptime, it's inappropriate. If all you want is an ultra-fast 'scratch' disk, it is appropriate. Before ultra-large drives, I used a RAID-0 of 9 GB, 10k RPM SCSI drives as my capture and edit partition for video editing, and that's about it. Once the editing was done, I wrote the finished file back out to DV tape, and transcoded to something more manageable for computer use, and storage on my main ATA hard drive. Reply
MadAd - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link[quote]"Higher quality RAID 1 controllers can outperform single drive implementations by making both drives active for read operations. This can in theory reduce file access times (requests are sent to whichever drive is closer to the desired data) as well as potentially doubling data throughput on reads"[/quote]
Its not the best place to post here I know, but as a home user with a 1tb 0+1 pata array on a promise fastrack (on a budget) I was thinking of looking on ebay for a reliable replacement controller with the above characteristics, but dont know what series cards are both inexpensive for a second user now and fit an x32 pci.
Thanks a lot Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link> but as a home user with a 1tb 0+1 pata array on a promise fastrack (on a budget) I was thinking of looking on ebay for a reliable replacement controller with the above characteristics, but dont know what series cards are both inexpensive for a second user now and fit an x32 pci.
saying you currently have a 0+1 array i assume you have at least 4 drives, probably 4 500gb drives
since 0+1 provides the speed of raid0 with the mirroring of raid1 i'm not sure what you're looking for. if you went for a straight raid1 solution your system would see 2 500gb volumes instead of 1 1tb volume.
and not sure what you mean by x32 pci, just a regular pci slot? if you're talking about PCIe they only go to x16 and can't say i'm aware of any 'reasonable' card that uses more than x8 Reply
MadAd - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - linkurm....no
4x250 and im wondering what enterprise class controller is cheap on ebay that uses pata drives, an x32 pci slot
(not pcie, see- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_...
and performs as quoted from the article, because my promise controller is good but still a home class controller. Just i dont know the enterprise segment at all and I thought some of these guys would. Reply
tynopik - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - link> 4x250
then you aren't using raid0+1, just raid0
> (not pcie, see- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_...
it's the x32 that is confusing
if you search that page you will see x32 doesn't show up anywhere on it
i'm going to assume you just mean 32-bit PCI which is standard which is what practically every motherboard manufactured today has at least one of
but still i can't answer your question about which PCI (no need to say 32-bit, it's assumed) raid controllers support IDE drives with enhanced read speed, sorry Reply
MadAd - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_... Reply
Zak - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkI gave up on RAID "for protection" a long time ago. I tried everything from software RAID to on-board 1 and 5, and to $300 cards with controllers and on-board RAM and 5 hard drives. It is not worth the hassle for home use or even small business, period. I absolutely agree with that article from Pudget computers. I had more problems due to raid controllers acting up than hard drive failures. RAID will nor protect you against directory corruption, accidental deletion and infections - things that happen A LOT more often than hard drive failures. RAID adds level of complexity that involves extra maintenance and extra cost.
My current solution is two external FW or USB drivers. I run two redundant Retrospect backups every 12 hours, one right after another that backs up my storage drive plus one at night that mirrors the drive to another. It's probably an overkill but I'll take it over any RAID5 any time: three separate drives, three separate file systems - total protection against file deletion, directory corruption and infections (the external drives are dismounted between backups. I do the same on Macs and PCs.
I still may use RAID0 for scratch and system disks for speed, but my files are kept on a separate single drive that gets triple backup love.
Zak Reply
Sudder - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkHi,
can anybody point me in the right direction?
I want to switch from backing up my porn (lets call it data ;-) ) on DVD to saving my data on HDs (since cost/gig arn't that far appart anymore and bue-ray will IMHO not catch up fast enough in regards of cost/gig to be a good alternative for me).
But since loosing 1 HD (which can always happen) puts one back a couple of 100gigs at once I want some redundance.
Going for RAID 5 (I'm not willing to spend the extra money on RAID 6) has the huge disatvantage (for _my_ scenario) that if I loose 2 HDs (which also might happen since I plan to store the discs "offline" most of the time) _all_ my data is gone.
So I'm looking for a solution which stores my data in a "normal" way on the discs + one extra disk with the parity (somewhat like RAID 3 but without the striping).
I don't care about read/write speed too much, I just want the redundance and the cost effectiveness of RAID 5 (RAID 1 would also be too expensive for me) but without the danger of loosing all if more than 1 disc is gone*. Also, if I just want to read some data this way it should be sufficent to plug in just one disc instead of the whole array with RAID 5.
So, does anyone know if such a Sollution is allready implemented somewhere? (it also should be able to calculate the parity "on the fly" so that if I change one single file on one of the discs I don't have to wait until the parity of the whole array is recalculated but just for the corresponding sectors that have actually changed)
* this solution isn't that much better than RAID 5 with small arrays, but the more discs there are in the array, the more data will survive if 2 (or even more) discs die - with RAID 5 all is lost (and going for multiple 3 disc RAID 5 arrays isn't verry cost effective) Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link> So I'm looking for a solution which stores my data in a "normal" way on the discs + one extra disk with the parity (somewhat like RAID 3 but without the striping).
http://www.lime-technology.com/">http://www.lime-technology.com/ Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linki should point out that
1. it does NOT join your drives together into one volume, each drive is separate (this is basically necessary for what you want unless you go the WHS route)
2. it has to be run on a dedicated system that it turns into NAS (you can't run it on your main desktop for instance)
that said, i really like the idea, almost all of the advantages of the WHS mechanism but much more space efficient (in most cases, i assume the largest drive will always be 'lost' to parity data) Reply
Dave Robinet - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkReally, you're looking for something that is several RAID 1 mirrors of single volumes.
I can think of nothing off-the-shelf that fits all those needs, though "rolling your own" may help:
- Buy two drives. Create one large partition (say, D:) on drive 1. Mirror that.
- Buy two more drives. Create another large partition (say, E:) on drive 3. mirror that.
Etc, etc.
It's still the same volume, but if you do it using software, the two drives won't be dependent on each other in any way.
If you tear one of those drives out of your computer and slap it onto another one (USB connector, etc), then it'll come up just fine, with or without the mirror.
It's inelegant, and really not something I'd ever push on someone - but you've come up with a kind of oddball request, there. :) Might I ask what it's for? Maybe your criteria can be adjusted in some way. Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link> but you've come up with a kind of oddball request, there. :) Might I ask what it's for? Maybe your criteria can be adjusted in some way.
i understand what he's getting at
he wants protection from drive failure, so a 'parity drive' that can rebuild any one drive that fails is handy
but he's also concerned about losing more than 1 drive simultaneously
having just a plain filesystem on the disk is far more robust than any sort of striping system as worst comes to worst you can just yank any surviving drives and recover what's on them
- a series of raid 1 arrays (like what you described) works but isn't particularly flexible (need equal sized drives)
- WHS is more flexible and powerful but it still requires double the amount of storage (EXPENSIVE)
- this only requires 1 extra drive and allows it to backup any number of other drives
it comes from a desire for some protection but not being able or willing to spend enough for true duplication plus wanting something that fails gracefully (ie not raid5)
i would actually like something like that for my system, there's a chance of recovering everything, but if it hits the fan i'll be able to at least recover something plus it's not that expensive
don't forget there may be physical limitations. if you have 4 physical drives filled with data, you might have enough room and power connectors for a 5th drive, but not for 4 more Reply
Sudder - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - link
tnx, this goes a big step in the right direction
1. it does NOT join your drives together into one volume, each drive is separate (this is basically necessary for what you want unless you go the WHS route)
since unraid uses slackware there should be (at least in theory) a possibility to do this with the linux "Logical Volume Manager" (allthough one would probably have to do some work so that the TOC is saved on every disc to still being able to access the data if some of the other discs are gone)
But even without, seperate volumes and the option to access them one by one, by mounting the ReiserFS, is good enough for me.
2. it has to be run on a dedicated system that it turns into NAS (you can't run it on your main desktop for instance)
and that's a big downside.
When I have some time I'll probably try to run it in a virtual machine (the "use a physical disc" option in VM should reduce the perfomance-penaltys significantly), but I'm not that optimistic that this will also work with the "bigger", non-free Versions that can handle more than 3 discs (e.g. handling of the registration Key, since I allready ran into some pre-boot USB Issues with VM when I tried to test the bitlocker-feature of Vista in a VM - although it just might have been my old stick or my USB-contoller ..)
i assume the largest drive will always be 'lost' to parity data)
yes (that's kind of a given) - the option to use discs of different sizes is a nice bonus though, since the array can now grow more "organically" over time (you just buy the disc with the best cost/gig ratio at the moment you need it without limmiting yourself to one size like with RAID 5)
don't forget there may be physical limitations. if you have 4 physical drives filled with data, you might have enough room and power connectors for a 5th drive, but not for 4 more
with the port-multiplier Option of SATA II (up to 15 drives per cable) and an external casing I think there are ways to cope (and if you plan in advance to have X bays/connectors avalable, you just have to start a new array if the old one is full - which might be a good idea anyway as soon as you come close to double digit disc-numbers - although, that might take some time with modern disc sizes ;-) )
Again: I don't want nessecarily to being able to access my data all the time, I just want to switch from my current "DVD-storrage" to a "HD-storrage".
So what I'm looking for now is the funktionallity of unRAID (without the limitation of the drive nuber), being able to run in a VM and for free ;-).
I allready checked freeNAS and NASlite but they all seemed to be fixed either on RAID and/or JBOD without parity .. any suggestions? Reply
tynopik - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - link> with the port-multiplier Option of SATA II (up to 15 drives per cable)
and which consumer level products support port-multipliers?
it's an optional part of the spec and most don't implement it
if you're willing to do a lot of extra work and hassle and really want offline storage you can fill a bunch of external drives with a virtual filesystem (like truecrypt for instance) and then with them all connected run par to build a par file across all your virtual disk files
disadvantages are numerous, have to be able to connect all disks at once, if you update one little piece of one drive have to recalculate the par file across all of them, etc Reply
Sudder - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - link
and which consumer level products support port-multipliers?
most e-sata ports support it (although some controllers like the ones using JMB36X just support "Command-based Switching", e.g. all sollutions with Sil 3132 chips (e.g. many notebook S-ata - PCMCIA adapters) even support "FSI-based Switching" which works a little like SCSI (the command is sent to one disc and then the bus is free again, so you can get "close" to the theoretical 300 MB/sec with multiple discs and the bus is not blocked by one working disk (with 4 discs connected, a test showed still 40MB/sec transfer from each of the 4 parallel working discs ..)
so take AFAIKR one of the many new gigabyte mo-boards with 2 ports that can be used as e-sata, put e.g. a "Dawicontrol DC-6510 PM" on the other end of the cable (one is about 100 bucks) add a powersupply and a housing and you are good for 10 extra discs ..
it's an optional part of the spec and most don't implement it
look at more recent motherboards (e-sata slowly shows up on more and more boards) and you'll find that it's supported more and more
if you're willing to do a lot of extra work and hassle and really want offline storage you can fill a bunch of external drives with a virtual filesystem (like truecrypt for instance) and then with them all connected run par to build a par file across all your virtual disk files
well, I'm kind of too lazy to to the par thing each and every time I just change one little file - or to be more practical, I can verry much immagine myself pushing the rebuild further and further into the future as long as I can forsee that I will add more stuff in the verry near future which then again will require a rebuild .. (if I don't find a usable sollution which does it "on the fly" I'll probably end up doing it "by hand" (evetually by adding a small RAID 5 "file-buffer" to my System to strech the write/par Intervalls) but I _really_ would prefer an automatic solution without a most likely multi-hour rebuild process (reading all discs, calculating and writing the hole par-disk) after each little change ..) Reply
Witling - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkSomething I don't usually see in articles on Raid is the complete lack of protection from failure due to a virus or installation of a bad driver. Both disks get corrupted.
I am a home user of Raid 1 through a controller built in to the motherboard using a popular Redmond Washington operating system. Reply
Dave Robinet - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkYep - I touched briefly on this in the last part of the article.
Users need to look closely at if an ARCHIVAL system (tape, etc) is better for their needs than RAID 1.
Let's face it - RAID 1 is for "(almost) always on / critically needed to be working when powered up" configurations ONLY. How many home computers fall into this category... really? Reply
kobymu - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link
RAID 1 - Cons: * Typically no performance benefit over a single hard disk
In certain cases RAID 1 will give you better read performance. Reply
munim - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkI don't understand what the parity portion is in RAID 5, anyone care to explain? Reply
drebo - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkSimply: It's a peice of data that the RAID controller can use to calculate the value of either of the other pieces of data in the chunk in the event of a disk failure.
Example: You have a three disk RAID 5 array. A file gets written in two pieces. Piece A gets written to disk one. Piece B gets written to disk two. The parity between the two is then generated and written to disk three. If disk one dies, the RAID controller can use Piece B and the parity data to generate what would have been Piece A. If disk two dies, the controller can generate Piece B. If disk three dies, the controller still has the original pieces of data. Thus, any single disk can fail before any data loss can occur.
RAID 5 is what is known as a distributed parity system, so the disk that holds parity alternated with each write. If a second file is written in the above example, disk one would get Piece A, disk two would get the parity, and disk three would get Piece B. This ensures that regardless of which disk dies, you always have two of the three pieces of data, which is all you need to get the original. Reply
Zan Lynx - Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - linkThe reason RAID-5 uses distributed parity is to balance the disk accesses.
Most RAID-5 controllers do not read the parity data except during verification operations or when the array is degraded.
By rotating the parity blocks between disks 1-3, read operations can use all three disks instead of having a parity-only disk which is ignored by all reads. Reply
ChronoReverse - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkI understand how the fault tolerance in the best case is half the drives in the 1+0 scenario, but that's still not worse than the RAID 5 scenario where you can't lose more than 1 drive no matter what.
So why was RAID 5 given a "Good" description while RAID 10/01 given a "Minimal" description? Reply
drebo - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkRAID 0+1 (also known as a mirror of stripes) turns into a straight RAID 0 after one disk dies. The only way it will support a two disk failure is if disks on the same leg of the mirror die. If one on each side dies, you lose everything. After one disk failure, you lose all remaining fault tolerance. RAID 10 (or a stripe of mirrors) will sustain two disk failures if the disks are on different legs of the array. If it loses both disks on a single leg, you lose everything. Thus, it is far more likely that you'll lose the wrong two disks.
In a RAID 5 array, any single disk can be lost and you'll not lose anything--its position is irrelevant. Not only that, but a RAID 5 has better disk-to-storage efficiency (nx-1) when compared to RAID 0+1 and RAID 10 (nx/2). It's also less expensive to implement.
Overall, RAID 5 is one of the best fault tolerant features you can put into a system. RAID 6 is better, but it is also much more expensive. Reply
ChronoReverse - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkSo in RAID 5 you can lose any ONE drive.
In RAID 1+0/0+1, you can also lose any ONE drive.
In RAID 5 you CANNOT lose a second drive.
In RAID 1+0/0+1, there's a CHANCE you might survive a second drive failure.
Therefore, RAID 5 is more fault-tolerant. Reply
Brovane - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkYes apparently to some people. Also one of the big bonus to Raid 0+1 is that you lose a drive and you do not suffer any performance degradation unlike RAID5 which until the RAID is rebuilt after a drive failure you take a big performance hit. If you are running a Exchange Cluster you cannot afford to take this performance hit during the middle of a busy work day unless you really do not like your helpdesk people. I think the one argument you could make is that a RAID 0+1 has more drives in a array to offer the same amount of storage as a RAID 5 volume so maybe you could make the statistical argument that the RAID 0+1 could be less fault tolerant. However to me this seems very tenuous. Reply
Dave Robinet - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkGood comments, and thanks for reading.
You are, however, taking things a little out of context. Take a 6 drive configuration, for example. If you do a RAID 5 with four drives and two hotspares, you'll end up with the same usable capacity as a 6 disk RAID 0+1 - but with the "ability" to lose 3 drives.
Your comment about rebuilding is, however, completely backwards. You spend FAR more time rebuilding the mirrored set of a RAID 0+1 after a failed disk, because you need to rebuild the entire mirrored portion of array once again (since data has presumably changed, there's no parity, etc). (Don't believe me? Try it. ;)
Your general observation about being able to lose one disk in one or the other configuration is correct. You do need to compare apples-to-apples - a RAID 5 will offer you far more capacity if you build the same number of drives as in a 0+1, and a 0+1 will give you more performance. Apples-to-apples, though, you're going to get better redundancy OPTIONS out of the additional RAID 5 flexibility than you will with a 0+1.
Again, though, good points, and thanks again for reading.
dave Reply
ChronoReverse - Sunday, September 09, 2007 - linkWhat do you mean by hotspares? Do you mean a drive that you can swap in immediately after a drive fails? If that's the case, while in terms of economics it might be three "spares" in terms of actual data redundancy, it's still just one drive. If a drive fails while the spare is filling, you've still lost data.
In any case, it's quite clear that RAID will certainly give you more capacity, but the question was about the comment about data redundancy. I'll have to specify that it means to me how safe my data is in terms of absolute drive failures. Reply
Brovane - Monday, September 10, 2007 - linkIf you are using a SAN (Storage Area Network) were you might have say over 100+ disks were you build storage groups to assign to your servers that are connected into the SAN. This SAN will usually have various combinations of RAID 0,1,1_0,5. In this SAN you might have various types of disks says 300GB 10K FC and 146GB 15K FC Disks. You will keep a couple of these disks as hot spare. If say at 2AM the SAN detects in one of your RAID 1_0 Storage Groups that a disk has failed it will grab one of the hot spare disks and start re-building the RAID. The SAN will usually also send a alert of the various support teams that this has happened so the bad disk can be replaced. The SAN doesn't care where the hot spare is plugged into the SAN.
The biggest issue that I see as a ding against RAID 5 vs RAID 0+1 is the performance hit when a drive fails in a RAID 5. With a RAID 0+1 you suffer no performance hit when a drive fails because there is no parity rebuilding. With RAID 5 you can take a good performance hit until the RAID is rebuilt because of the parity calculation. Also with a SAN setup you can mirror a RAID 0+1 between physical DAE so the storage group will still stay up in the unlikely event of a complete DAE failure. Also even though in a RAID 0+1 you will have to rebuild the complete disk in the event of a drive failure with 15K RPM and 4GB FC backbone on the SAN this happens faster than you would think even when dealing with 500GB volumes. if you very concerned about losing another disk before the rebuild is complete you could use SnapView on your SAN to take a SnapShot of the disk and copy this data to your backup volume. Reply
Brovane - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkPersonally we use Raid (0+1) at my work for our Exchange Cluster, SQL cluster and the home drives for our F&P cluster. Were Raid 0+1 is great is in a SAN environment. We have the drives mirror between SAN DAE so we could have a entire DAE fail on our SAN and for example Exchange will remain up and running. Also if you have a drive failure in one of our RAID 0+1 drives the SAN automatically just grabs the hot spare and starts rebuilding the array and pages the the lan team and alerts Dell to ship a new drive. Of course no matter what RAID you have setup you should always have daily tape backups with a copy of those tapes going offsite. Reply
Bladen - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkMight be asking a bit too much, especially in the case of RAID 5, 6, 0+1, and 1+0, but some SSD raid performance would be nice. They would need more than 2 drives wouldn't they?
However if we could see some RAID 0 figures from a pair off budget SSD's, and a pair of performance SSD's, that would be awesome. Reply
tynopik - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkin addition to a WHS comparison i hope it covers
1. software raid (like built into windows or linux)
2. motherboard raid solutions (nvraid and intel matrix)
3. low end products (highpoint and promise)
4. high end/enterprise products
5. more exotic raids like raid-z and raid 5ee
6. performance of mixing raids across same disks like you can with matrix raid and some adaptecs
and in addition to features/cost/performance i hope it really tries to test how reliable/bulletproof these solutions are
for instance a ton of people have had problems with nvraid
what happens if you yank the power in the middle of a write?
how easy is it to migrate an array to a different controller?
can disks in raid1 be yanked from the array and read directly or does it put header info on the disk that makes this impossible? Reply
yyrkoon - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link
for instance a ton of people have had problems with nvraid
That would be becasue "a ton of people are idiots'. I have been using nvRAID for a couple of years without issues, and most recently I even swapped motherboards, and the array was picked right up without a hitch once the proper BIOS settings were made. I would suspect that these people who are 'having problems' are the type who expect/believe that having a RAID0 array on their system will give them another 30 frames per second in the latest first person shooter as well . . . Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link> I would suspect that these people who are 'having problems' are the type who expect/believe that having a RAID0 array on their system will give them another 30 frames per second in the latest first person shooter as well . . .
the link is in the very top comment
they were all actually using raid1 and had problems with it constantly splitting the array Reply
tynopik - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkhttp://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/">http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/
great site with lots of potential topics like:
desktop vs raid/enterprise drives - is there a difference
Picking the right stripe size
Different types of RAID6
other features to consider:
handling dissimilar drives
morph online from one RAID level to another
easily add additional drives/capacity to an existing array
can you change which port a drive is connected to without messing up the array?
maybe create a big-honkin features matrix that shows which controllers are missing what?
- cpu hit between software raid, low-end controllers, enterprise controllers (some have reported high cpu usage with highpoint controllers even when using raid-1 which shouldn't cause much load)
- cpu hit with different busses (PCI, PCI-X, PCIe) and different connections (firewire, sata, scsi, sas, usb)
maybe even a corruption test. (write terabytes of data out under demanding situations and read back to ensure there was no corruption)
But most of all I WANT A TORTURE TEST. I want these arrays pushed to their limits and beyond. What does it take to make them fail? How gracefully do they handle it? Reply
tynopik - Friday, September 07, 2007 - linkan article from the anti-raid perspective
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29">http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29 Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkanother semi-anti-raid piece
"Why? From our survey of a sample of our customers here's how it tends to happen:
The first and foremost risk is that the RAID BIOS loses the information it stores to track the allocation of the drives. We've seen this caused by all manner of software particularly anti-virus programs. Caught in time a simple recreation of the array (see last page) resolves the problem in over 90% of the cases.
BIOS changes, flashing the BIOS, resetting the BIOS, updating firmware etc can cause an array to fail. BIOS changes happen not just by hitting delete to enter setup. Software can make changes to the BIOS.
Disk managers, hard disk utilities, imaging and partitioning software etc. can often confuse a RAID array."
. . . . the probability of seeing two drives in the cluster fail within one hour is four times larger under the real data . . . .
Translation: one array drive failure means a much higher likelihood of another drive failure. The longer since the last failure, the longer to the next failure. Magic!
(perhaps intentionally mixing the manufacturers of drives in a raid is a good idea?)
an amusing little page
it would also be cool if you had a failing drive that behaved erratically/intermittently/partially to test these systems
if a drive fails in a raid array and you pull the wrong drive, can you stick it back in and still recover or does the controller wig out?
some parts from the thread at the top that you might have missed
> Someone claims that the nv sata controler (or maybe raid controler) doesn't work properly with the NCQ function of new hard drives (or the tagged queing or whatever WD calls it).
> if the drives are SATA II drives with 3 G/bps speed and NCQ features NVRAID Controller has know problems with this drives.
> the first test trying to copy data from the raid to the external firewire drive resulted in not 1 but 2 drives dropping out.
Luckily the 2 were both 1 half of the mirror meaning i could rebuild the raid. So looks like trying to use the firewire from the raid is the problem. THis may stand to reason as the firewire card is via an add-on card in a PCI slot so maybe there is some weird bottleneck in the bus when doing this causing the nvraid to malfunction.
(so like check high pci bus competition)
> I have read that its best to disable ncq and also read cache from all drives in the raid via the device manager. This may tie in with someone else's post here who says the nvraid has issues with ncq drives.
NF4 + Vista + RAID1 = no NCQ?
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Dave Robinet - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - linkGood posts. A topic you're obviously interested in. :)
Let me try and hit a few of the points in random order:
- Stress/break testing is a GOOD idea, but very highly subjective. You can't GUARANTEE that you'll be writing (or reading) EXACTLY the same data under EXACTLY the same circumstances, so there's always that element of uncertainty. Even opening the same file can't guarantee that the same segments are on the same disk, so... I'll have to give some thought to that. Definitely worthwhile, though, to pursue that angle (especially in terms of looking at how array controllers recover from major issues like that).
- Your other points pretty much all hit on a major argument: Software versus Hardware RAID (and versus proprietary hardware). I actually know an IT Director in a major (Fortune 500) company who uses software RAID exclusively, including in fairly intensive I/O applications. His argument? "I've been burned by "good" hardware too often - it lasts 7 years, I forget to replace it, and when the controller cooks, my array is done." (Make whatever argument you like about him not being on the ball enough to replace his 7 year old equipment, but I digress). I do find the majority of the decent controllers write header information in fairly documented (and retrievable) ways - look at IBM's SmartRAID series as a random example of this - so I don't see that being a hugely big deal anymore.
You're dead on, though. *CONSUMERS* who are looking at RAID need to be very, very sure they know what they're getting themselves into. Reply
tynopik - Saturday, September 08, 2007 - link> You can't GUARANTEE that you'll be writing (or reading) EXACTLY the same data under EXACTLY the same circumstances, so there's always that element of uncertainty
that's true, but i don't think it's that important
have a test where you're copying a thousand small files and yank the power in the middle
run this test 5-10 times and see how they compare
controller 1 never has a problem
controller 2 required a complete rebuild 5 times
maybe you can't exactly duplicate the circumstances, but it's enough to say controller 2 has problems
(actually requiring a complete rebuild even once would be a serious problem)
similarly, have a heavy read/write pattern with random data while simultaneously writing data out a pci firewire card and maybe even a usb drive and have audio playing and high network traffic (as much bus traffic and conflict as you can generate) that runs for 6 hours
controller 1 has 0 bit errors in that 6 hours
controller 2 has 200 bit errors in that 6 hours
controller 2 obviously has problems even if you can't exactly duplicate it
i think it's sufficient to merely show that a controller could corrupt your data Reply
alecweder - Wednesday, February 04, 2015 - linkThe biggest issue with RAID are the unrecoverable read errors.
If you loose the drive, the RAID has to read 100% of the remaining drives even if there is no data on portions of the drive. If you get an error on rebuild, the entire array will die.
A UER on SATA of 1 in 10^14 bits read means a read failure every 12.5 terabytes. A 500
GB drive has 0.04E14 bits, so in the worst case rebuilding that drive in a five-drive
RAID-5 group means transferring 0.20E14 bits. This means there is a 20% probability
of an unrecoverable error during the rebuild. Enterprise class disks are less prone to this problem:
http://www.lucidti.com/zfs-checksums-add-reliabili... Reply


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HEREFORD Couriers grabbed the men's team honours by just a single point when Croft Ambrey organised the second race in the Herefordshire League at Croft Castle.
The challenging course saw Couriers pip arch rivals Wye Valley Runners, while just four points separated the leading four teams in a keenly-fought women's competition.
In the men's race, Couriers' Eliot Taylor and Wye Valley's Luke Mason continued their battle from the previous league race with Wye Valley's 46-year-old John Pullen tracking their every move.
Nothing separated the three contenders at the end of the first of three arduous laps, but Taylor decided to test the resolve of his Wye Valley opponents with a couple of surges on the long grassland climb leading up to Croft Ambrey Iron Age hill fort.
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Pullen maintained his form to overtake Mason and finish second.
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Mike Fawcett (ninth) and Alan Lewis (13th) backed the leading Wye Valley pairing.
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Hereford and County's Clara Evans led from start to finish to dominate the shorter women's race to win by more than two minutes, improving her time over the same course last year by 90 seconds.
Ludlow Runners' Claire Thomas made an impressive winter league debut, after a promising summer league display, finishing a clear second, while Hereford Triathlon Club's Kylie Mansfield continued her improvement by winning a sprint finish to take third place.
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First race winners Wye Valley finished just two points adrift with evergreen Jane Rowlands in fourth place, Becci Ansfield ninth and Nicky Childs 12th.
Croft Ambrey's women were equal on 25 points thanks to Gemma Mallett (fifth) and Irina Dale (sixth), both making encouraging winter league debuts, and another improved run from Sam Harper in 14th.
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The third in the five-race series takes place at Fforest Fields near Hundred House on December 2.
Results: Herefordshire Cross-Country League Croft Castle: Men: 1 Eliot Taylor (Hereford Couriers) 49.30, 2 John Pullen (Wye Valley Runners) 50.10, 3 Luke Mason (WVR) 50.44, 4 Stacey Morgan (Croft Ambrey RC) 51.35, 5 Cliff Berry (Ledbury and District Harriers) 51.55, 6 Mike Pfeiffer (Builth and District RC) 52.02, 7 Matt James (HC) 52.10, 8 Luke James (HC) 52.13, 9 Mike Fawcett (WVR) 52.33, 10 Mike Link (HC) 53.17, 11 Mark Lamonby (CA RC) 53.41, 12 Richie Bamford (HC) 53.54, 13 Alan Lewis (WVR) 54.20, 14 Russell James (HC) 55.01, 15 Scott Kennedy (WVR) 56.14, 16 Max Suff (HC) 56.17, 17 Glyn Williams (CA RC) 56.40, 18 Adrian Taylor (Presteigne Pacers) 56.57, 19 Jonny Williams (Hereford Triathlon Club) 57.04, 20 Simon Norwood (CA RC) 57.10, 21 Dave George (CA RC) 57.27, 22 Neil Lewis (HC) 57.32, 23 Dave White (HTC) 57.46, 24 Dave Williams (HC) 58.06, 25 Dan Phillips (WVR) 58.25.
Team standings: 1 Hereford Couriers 25, 2 Wye Croft Runners 24, 3 Croft Ambrey RC 23, 4 Hereford Couriers 'B' 22, 5 Wye Valley Runners 'B' 21, 6 Hereford Triathlon Club 20, 7 Croft Ambrey RC 'B' 19, 8 Ludlow Runners 18, 9 Hereford Couriers 'C' 17, 10 Wye Valley Runners 'C' 16.
Croft Castle Women: 1 Clara Evans (Hereford and County AC) 32.28, 2 Claire Thomas (Ludlow Runners) 34.45, 3 Kylie Mansfield (Hereford Triathlon Club) 36.20, 4 Jane Rowlands (Wye Valley Runners) 36.22, 5 Gemma Mallett (Croft Ambrey RC) 36.39, 6 Irina Dale (CA RC) 37.26, 7 Celia Speake (Builth and District RC) 37.48, 8 Sarah Holton (HTC) 38.07, 9 Becci Ansfield (WVR) 38.58, 10 Eilish Gilbert (LR) 39.16, 11 Kerry Bason (LR) 39.39, 12 Nicky Childs (WVR) 39.58, 13 Sandrine Gorien (WVR) 40.00, 14 Samantha Harper (CARC) 40.05, 15 Joyce Warburton (HTC) 40.07, 16 Claire Hebblethwaite (HTC) 40.12, 17 Edelstyn (HTC) 40.17, 18 Jo Marriott (CA RC) 40.24, 19 Rita Tomkins (Presteigne Pacers) 40.37, 20 Lyndsay Turner (LR) 40.41, 21 Maria Miles (WVR) 40.49, 22 Gill Bamber (WVR) 40.56, 23 Bev Bishop (Hereford Couriers) 41.07, 24 Liza Austin (CA RC), 25 Heulwen Gilbert (LR) 41.45.
Team standings: 1 Ludlow Runners 20, 2 Wye Valley Runners 20, 3 Croft Ambrey RC 18, 4 Hereford Triathlon Club 'B' 17, 5 Wye Valley Runners 'B' 16, Hereford Triathlon Club 'B' 15, 7 Ludlow Runners 'B' 14, Wye Valley Runners 'C' 13, 9 Hay Hotfooters 12, 10 Presteigne Pacers 11.


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The Ecotourism - Element of the Sustainable Development of the Local Rural Communities in Romania
The local rural communities of Romania have been affected by the evolution of the history in the last decades. To these there have been added the years of centralised economy and afterwards the transition towards the market economy. All of these have put the inhabitants of the villages between the temptations/obligations of leaving for the urban settlings, in many cases this leads to the phenomenon of uprooting. The last fifteen years have put the village back in the centre of many of the politicians, theorists and practicians preoccupations. The enlarged Europe also rises problems and question marks in regards to the economic and social development of the local communities in the Romanian rural environment. These uncertainties appear in a period in which we are more and more convinced of the necessity of the sustainable development, of the perpetuation of the responsible economic development, which would insure the satisfaction of society's needs without endangering the future generations. Those presented are accompanied by a more and more accentuated tendency of the civilised world of living in good terms with the environment, of spending more time in nature, of being closer to all which is clean, alive and quiet. The number of those that ask for holidays in nature, in the rural environment is growing all over the globe. The soft tourism, in the countryside or in the middle of nature is more and more desired by the rich, but stressed people eager to return to the nature, to the life of the rural communities. All these forms of tourism are called ecotourism, and their development in Romania is only beginning. These activities play an important part in the economic development of the rural areas, which will further reflect upon their future evolution. A multidisciplinary research of this problem, combines economic, social objectives and those sustainable development of the Romanian rural communities.
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Aleksey Igudesman and Julian Rachlin perform "Klezmer's Freilach" from Igudesmans book Klezmer & More – the video is from the Igudesman's new TV series "Du Kunst Mich!", which airs for the first time on ORF 2 next Monday, 29 of August, at 23:35.
When listening, one completely forgets that these single movements are in fact interludes and extracts from an opera. The captivating beauty of Berg's absolute music belies the underlying substance of the opera.(Willi Reich on Lulu-Suite)
Tonight conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan will sing with and conduct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in performances of Alban Berg's Lulu-Suite and works by Debussy, Sibelius, Haydn and Gershwin at the KKL Luzern.
Tonight and tomorrow, the Bochumer Symphoniker and ChorWerk Ruhr perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's Carré for 4 orchestras and choirs at the Ruhrtriennale under conductors Rupert Huber, Matilda Hofman, Florian Helgath and Michael Alber.
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Find out more about the performance on the website of the Ruhrtriennale.
When I play the Polyptyque by Frank Martin, I feel the same responsibility, the same exaltation as when I play Bach's Chaconne. (Yehudi Menuhin)
Violinist Renaud Capuçon and the Kammerorchester Basel will perform Frank Martin's Polyptyque today at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of Yehudi Menuhin.
I'd buy a small West End theatre, give it great acoustics and initiate a contemporary music festival curated by composers.
The Guardian asked David Sawer about first record, his favourite piece of music, whether he had ever considered a career outside of music and whether he had any musical guilty pleasures.
Can this be the best British opera in years? (Anne Ozorio, Opera Today, 09.04.2014)
Conductor Klaus Simon sent us this photograph from the first rehearsals of Luke Bedford's opera Through His Teeth. In the picture: Sirin Kilic, Georg Gädker and Siri Karoline Thornhill.
The German première of Luke Bedford's highly acclaimed work will take place on 8 October at the E-Werk in Freiburg.
Three years ago, in June 2013 we conducted a video interview with Bedford about his then upcoming opera. Intrigued by the composer's words, we documented the work's process of creation, providing readers with regular updates regarding the development of Trough His Teeth, ranging from the composing of the score and the writing of David Harrower's libretto to the actual printing of the score and its production.
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The Austrian newspaper Der Standard reviews Zubin Mehta's performance of Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder [Songs on the Death of Infants] with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival: a "'Viennese' and existential event" – read the full review on Der Standard.
For our book "Gustav Mahler: The Conductor's Interviews" we talked to the conductor about Mahler. Find out more on our dedicated page or watch the interview with Mehta on YouTube.
Zubin Mehta and Arvo Pärt preparing for the performances of Swansong on August 6 and 7 at the Salzburg Festival. Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic.
"Auf der bunten Blumenwiese geht ein buntes Tier spazieren ..."
Georg Friedrich Haas' das kleine ICH BIN ICH – after Mira Lobes children's classic of the same title – will be premièred today at Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg. Johannes Kalitzke conducts the Klangforum Wien (speaker: Sabine Muhar).
Conductor Michael Laus, Arvo Pärt and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra during the rehearsals for the Maltese première of Greater Antiphons, which will take place today at the Malta International Arts Festival. The piece for string orchestra will be performed together with other key works by the composer.
Our thanks to Michael Pärt and the Arvo Pärt Centre for the photographs!
Here we can find more than 4000 sound recordings, over 45000 scores, a comprehensive collection of pictures and photographs, many lecture notes and a large body of correspondence between the leading figures of contemporary music, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, Mauricio Kagel, Brian Ferneyhough and Wolfgang Rihm. (Thomas Schäfer, Darmstadt International Institute of Music)
It's been six years since Box 1 of the Darmstadt Aural Documents was released on NEOS, granting access to some rarities from the sound archives of the International Music Institute Darmstadt.
Today, on 11 July 2016, Box 4 is released, which puts a focus on piano pieces – and includes works by UE composers such as Pierre Boulez, Vykintas Baltakas, Wolfgang Rihm, Arnold Schönberg, Béla Bartók, Anton Webern, Hans Erich Apostel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Kurtág and Mauricio Kagel.
Universal Edition mourns the death of Gladys Nordenstrom Krenek.
As Ernst Krenek's ingenious partner, Gladys Nordenstrom Krenek tirelessly broke new ground for an appreciation of Krenek's visions – in his spirit, but with the productive imagination of a strong personality.
Gladys Nordenstrom Krenek, herself a composer, died on 5 July in Palm Springs.
Antje Müller of the Ernst Krenek Institut Privatstiftung on Gladys Nordenstrom Krenek:
"A wonderful personality who actively participated with enormous expertise in the propagation of Ernst Krenek's works, Gladys Nordenstrom Krenek was always friendly and charming up to the end. We will miss her!"
Gustav Mahler was born today in 1860 – happy birthday!
We asked the world's best conductors when they first heard the music of Mahler – this is what they said:
[Mark Wigglesworth] gives an unbearably moving account of the score. (Cara Chanteau, The Independent, 27 June 2016)
This is Janáček done slowly and lyrically, with the emphasis placed on the score's dark poetry and depth of musical and psychological detail. The opera's passion and compassion burn fiercely yet lingeringly: this is an interpretation that seeps under your skin rather than hits you in the solar plexus and is unquestionably all the more powerful for it. (Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 24 June 2016)
Wigglesworth has an extraordinary grasp of this score and the orchestra play their hearts out for him. (Barry Millington, Evening Standard, 27 June 2016)
Right from the searing, bittersweet opening, the music's warmth and humanity speak directly. Even the most flawed characters are given the benefit of musical nuance (John Allison, The Telegraph, 27 June 2016)
On 23 June Mark Wigglesworth and the ENO orchestra premièred David Alden's production of Jenůfa at the English National Opera. American soprano Laura Wilde made her role debut as Jenůfa, with Michaela Martens as her stepmother the Kostelnička.
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3 Ways Partnership Paves the Way to Success
July 1, 2015 | Business and Careers, Focus on Women
Great consultants or advisors all have one thing in common: They approach their work with a service mentality. They listen to their customers. They share common goals and work in partnership to achieve them. They know that when their clients win, they win. Those of us in the corporate world can learn something from this model. In fact, in my department at Northwestern Mutual, we are making it a priority this year to create more of a service culture.
What's that mean, exactly? Here's one example. My team's job is to help grow the business the right way by understanding the regulatory environment that governs our industry. In other words, we're technical experts in rules and regulations. So when we're asked to weigh in on an issue, it would be easy enough for us to say, "Here's the rule; you figure out how to live with it." Instead, we want to be saying, "Here's how I'm going to help you stay within the framework of the rule and still achieve your goal."
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2. Partnerships give rise to trust. In partnership, you'll develop a greater appreciation for the strengths and expertise brought by each member of the team. You'll welcome each other's input—even seek it out—because you trust that everyone has the collective best interest at heart. This is critical for my team. I want our internal clients to proactively come to us for help when they have a question about rules or regulations; we're more effective when we can get ahead of issues rather than clean up problems after the fact.
3. It's more enjoyable to get to "yes." When everyone's on the same page and headed toward the same goal, you'll look forward to problem-solving together. You'll invite collaboration rather than lay down the law. You'll remove obstacles rather than create them. You'll pick up the phone rather than let a client's call go to voice mail. You'll hear your clients say, "Thank you, I couldn't have done this without you." All in all, you'll just have a more enjoyable day. And in those cases when the ultimate answer is "no," your client will know that you made the effort and that it's "no" for a good reason.
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SHERIDAN — Last weekend, Safeway hired someone to take spoiled dairy items to the dump after it was discovered the store's coolers for liquid dairy had stopped working.
However, the person took the dairy items to The Salvation Army instead, potentially putting anyone who received dairy items from The Salvation Army on Saturday, Sunday or Monday at risk of consuming spoiled goods.
Store Manager Steve Ralston urges anyone who received liquid dairy items — such as milk, coffee creamers, whipping cream, cottage cheese and sour cream — from The Salvation Army or other food banks during that time frame to discard them and not consume them.
Salvation Army Capt. Donald Warriner said food is handed out Monday through Friday, so the amount of people who may have received spoiled dairy items is negligible. The Salvation Army was alerted to the problem on Monday and pulled the items immediately.
"In no way are we trying to hand out bad food to people," Warriner said. "As soon as they called us, we got rid of it all. If people had it, we took it back from them."
Warriner said he does not blame Safeway for the incident.
He is concerned, though, that the person who donated the dairy items may have gone to other food charities in town.
"It makes me feel bad that that guy is purposefully giving out bad food to food banks, that he doesn't do what he was paid to do," Warriner said.
Warriner said The Salvation Army doesn't receive a lot of dairy items, so the incident didn't necessarily short them on critical supplies. However, he said it would be nice to hand out more dairy items to people who need help. He also expressed his appreciation to all the grocery stores in town that donate food on a regular basis.
Products were removed immediately from Safeway's coolers on Saturday once the problem was discovered, so Safeway customers should not be in danger, Ralston said.
Solid dairy products such as cheese, butter and yogurt were not impacted.
Ralston said it is likely more than 300 products were out of refrigeration for at least 12 hours.
"It was bad," Ralston said. "For dairy products, every hour they are out of safe temperatures, they lose a day of shelf life. It would have all been bad product."
Ralston also said the person who was hired — who he wished to leave unnamed — also tried to sell some of the dairy items on Sheridan UpCycle, a Facebook page that serves as a forum to buy and sell items locally.
A customer alerted Safeway to the items being for sale on UpCycle, and Safeway had them removed from the page within 15 minutes, Ralston said. He didn't think any items had been sold, but he said if anyone did happen to buy dairy products off of UpCycle that they should discard them immediately.
"It's pretty sad when you hire someone to take something to the dump for you and they give it away instead," Ralston said.
Ralston said Safeway received a new shipment Tuesday, so all dairy products are fresh and safe now.
Dairy that has been out of refrigeration for too long can cause food poisoning, according to the National Institutes of Health. Symptoms of food poisoning often occur within two to six hours after consumption, although onset can be shorter or longer depending on individual reactions and the type of food consumed.
Symptoms can include abdominal cramps, diarrhea (may be bloody), fever and chill, headache, nausea and vomiting and weakness.
Symptoms should pass in a couple days, according to NIH, but the organization recommends drinking plenty of fluids, getting rest and controlling diarrhea and vomiting. If symptoms do not improve, seek medical help.


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In view of the approaching High Holidays, the Jerusalem authorities are making a careful inventory of appurtenances at the Wailing Wall strictly required for religious services, with the intention of not allowing any other objects, such as a screen separating men and women worshippers, matting, stools or benches. The "Kiyor," ritual wash stand, a small Aron Kodesh, Ark containing the Holy Scrolls, and a small table for reading the Torah will be permitted.
It is understood Jewish leaders have agreed to the limitations, pending the settlement of the question as to what constitutes the status quo, making only the condition that all traffic be stopped during the services.


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