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quote:"Performance testing" is a class of tests implemented and executed to characterize and evaluate the performance related characteristics of the target-of-test such as the timing profiles, execution flow, response times, and operational reliability and limits.
Included within this class are :
quote:"Load testing" - Verifies the acceptability of the target-of-test's performance behavior under varying operational conditions (such as number of users, number of transactions, etc.) while the configuration remains constant. "Stress testing" - Verifies the acceptability of the target-of-test's performance behavior when abnormal or extreme conditions are encountered, such as diminished resources or extremely high number of users.
"Stress testing" - Verifies the acceptability of the target-of-test's performance behavior when abnormal or extreme conditions are encountered, such as diminished resources or extremely high number of users.
Basically Performance testing is the overall process, Load testing checks that the system will support the expected conditions, Stress testing tries to break it (which is the best bit of course!)
Posts: 32Registered: May 2002
REad below;
Load and stress testing are subsets of performance testing.
Performance testing means how best something performs under a given benchmark. For example How mucn time you take to run 100 meters without carrying any load (no load is the benchmark) ?
Load testing is also performance testing but under various loads. The previous example if extended would be How much time you took to run the same 100mts but carrying a load of 50 kilos, 100 kilos .... ?
Stress testing is performance under stress conditions. Extending the same example as before How much time you took to run 100 meters with load or no load when a strong wind was blowing in opposite direction ?.
Extending performance, load.. testing to s/w or h/w application.
PERformance : 1000 txns per minute with 1000 users concurrent
Load : How many txns when 2000, 3000, 4000 concurrent users.
Stress : How many txns when 1000, 2000, 3000 concurrent users... under conditions like server memory very low, data transmission line poor, etc...
I hope it is clear now
Posts: 17Registered: Aug 2002
All performance and stress testing require workload definition as part of the test, and they both normally require load generating tools (unless using internal feedback loops to generate load). It may be no load, minimal, normal, above normal or extreme. I define load testing thus:"Any type of testing where realistic (or hyper-realistic) workloads are characterized, simulated and submitted to the system under test."
Extreme loads are used in stress testing. Usually normal loads are used in performance testing. Minimal loads are usually used in benchmark testing. Anyway, load, not performance, is the shared characteristic across all these types of testing.
In stress testing, some people say you should be measuring performance. But no, in stress testing you should be looking to break the application and expose bugs that are likely to appear under stress, such as data corruption, buffer overflows, poor handling of resource depletion, deadlocks, race conditions, etc. The fact that performance metrics such as utilization, throughput and response time can be measured during stress testing is irrelevant to the purpose of stress testing. If you are testing to see that the application does not meet its performance objectives, then you are performance testing, not stress testing. Totally different goals, which make it clear that stress testing is not a species of performance testing.
Another reason for putting performance and stress under load testing is another type of testing known as background testing. In background testing you use workloads (usually normal) to exercise the system under test while you run functional and/or regression tests against the system. The goal of background testing is to test functionality in more realistic conditions, i.e., with a realistic background workload, like it will have in production.
Background, stress, and performance testing are all described wonderfully in Boris Beizer's timeless *Software System Testing and Quality Assurance*.
Another reason for making load testing the more general category is that load testing is the least frequently used or defined term in the QA literature. To be sure, some people use it. Robert Binder's otherwise excellent *Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools* includes load testing as a "variation on" performance testing, but he lists stress testing as a separate category (in a section titled "Performance and Stress Testing"). Note, the load and performance section of his book is nothing more than a cursory overview.
And while I don't much favor John Musa's *Software Reliability Engineering*, (ironically Robert Binder does), I would almost agree with him when he defines "load testing" as:
"executing operations simultaneously, at the same rates and with the same other environmental conditions as those that will occur in the field. Thus the same interactions and impact of environmental conditions will occur as can be expected in the field. Acceptance test and performance test are types of load test."
My only qualm is that his definition only includes normal conditions, and so doesn't take stress testing into account.
Glenford Myers' classic *The Art of Software Testing* doesn't define load testing, but does define performance, stress, and volume testing.
The bible of performance testing and analysis, Raj Jain's, *The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis*, doesn't talk about load testing at all as a separate category.
The more recent *Performance Solutions, a Practical Guide to Creating Responsive Scalable Software*, by by Connie U. Smith and Lloyd G. Williams, talks a lot about performance testing and some about stress testing, but never mentions load testing separately.
The RUP definition for performance testing given above is terrible as it conflates many different testing goals requiring different tools and techniques under one rubric, which loses its true meaning by being applied to too many things. They also have lumped in reliability testing, which is normally considered yet another type of testing, though one could argue that MTTF and MTBF and other reliability metrics are species of performance metrics. In my opinion, the RUP definition is closer to a summary of system testing activities than of performance testing, which is a specific type of system test aimed at showing that a system does or does not meet its objectives for throughput, response time, or utilization.
anamadhey's definitions all sound like variations on performance measurement to me, since they all have to do with measuring response time under various workloads (no load, normal load, and above normal load). Another thing to keep in mind is that while measurement is a necessary part of performance testing, in itself it is not software testing.
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Performance tests - test performance in any combination of ways you can think of.
Load - tests "stuff" under realistic, accurately modeled loads.
Stress - tests "stuff" under un-realistic, i.e. "stressful" conditions.
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Posts: 1Registered: Feb 2002
To study load stresss or performance , you had to study a time transaction.
In first you will load that transaction a large number of time with an injector as loadrunnel or QA load. If the respond time is correct compaRate to the user requierement. You can say that your load test is correct. But perhaps the user direction will ask you to know exactly on which load rate your application will failed. that is the stress test. But on the stress test many time you will need to load fewer representative transaction to simulate your production.
The performance test is completly different. In fact for load and stress test your interest is based on the transaction response time. You always study the transaction in a outside view.
Suppose that, Your load test is failed. You need to understand why. So you will study exactly what happen inside the transaction.
To do it you can program a conversation control product (Winrunner ,QArun) with timeclock and use some data base monitor.
that is my point of view
I tend to call myself a "Performance/Load Tester" and not worry to much. An additional explanation of "I like to break things" takes the stress testing aspect into account.
Posts: 2Registered: Mar 2003
RSBarber, Your definitions are very candid and clear. I want to know what does "stuff" represent in your definitions of Load and Stress testing. Is it the Performance or something else. Can you please clarify on that.
------------------ThanksM.Venu Gopal
Load - tests performance of the applicaiton under realistic, accurately modeled loads.
Stress - tests performance and stability of the applicaiton or application component under un-realistic, i.e. "stressful" conditions with the intent to find both where it ultimately fails and how it fails.
------------------Scott Barber, Sr. Performance email@example.com://www.noblestar.comhttp://www.perftestplus.com
Posts: 6Registered: Feb 2003
As an add on to this, on Stress Testing, your intent is not just to find where, when and how it fails, but ultimately it is so that you can grab some measurements so that you and ultimately your production team can predict when your site is approaching failure. That way you can hopefully install some tripwires, and allow for some proactive measure to be taken. i.e. possible restrict new logins, search and destory possible runaway queries, add more processors' or systems to the mix.... So Stress Testing is not just about breaking the systems (which of course is fun), but in also collecting usable data to predict failure, and allow you to, hopefully, be proactive in alleviating a disaster.
Matthew S. BrownSr Test Engineer
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This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book on performance and load testing.
While there is no universal consistency in how people use terms like performance test and robustness test, I can say that the definitions provided here are as much in the mainstream as any others.
The Definition of Performance Testing
The purpose of performance testing is to measure a system's performance under load. As Humpty Dumpty said, a word can mean whatever one chooses it to mean, so it is worth our time to examine what we mean by the words "measure", "performance" and "load".
Performance testing is a measurement of performance characteristics, although sometimes the use of the word "testing" confuses people. Some performance professionals feel strongly that it is important to not use the term "performance testing", but to call it performance measurement instead. They are concerned that this measurement will get confused with feature testing and debugging, which it is not. They point out that measurement is only testing if the collected measurements are checked against pre-established goals for performance, and that measurement is often done without preconceptions of required performance.
These people have a good point: clarity of terminology is important. But since most people use the term "performance testing" we will go with the majority and use it too.
The term performance can mean response time, throughput, availability, error rate, resource utilization, or another system characteristic (or group of them), which we are interested in measuring. "All promise outruns performance." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Performance testing simulates the typical user experience under normal working conditions. The load is a typical, representative mix of demands on the system. (And, of course, there can be several different representative loads -- the work load at 2 p.m., at 2 a.m., etc.) Another name sometimes used for a performance test is a capacity test, though there is a minor difference in these terms as we will see later.
First, the performance testers need to define what the term performance means in a specific test situation -- that is, what the objectives are and what we need to measure in the test. The answer to this question is that we measure performance usually as a weighted mix of three characteristics of a system: throughput, response time and availability. In real-time systems, for example, the users need a guarantee that a task will always be completed within a fixed time limit. Performing a task correctly but a millisecond too late could literally be fatal.
The term load simply means the mix of demands placed on a system while we measure its performance and robustness characteristics. In practice, most loads vary continually, so later we will address the challenge of determining the most appropriate load(s) for testing. The terms work load and benchmark are sometimes used as synonyms for load. A benchmark usually means a standard load, one used to compare the performance of systems, system versions, or hardware environments, but the benchmark is not necessarily the actual mix of demands at any one user installation. The term work load is a synonym for a load, and you see both of the terms in this book: they are interchangeable.
Definition of Load Testing
In contrast to a performance test, a load test is a measurement of performance under heavy load: the peak or worst-case conditions. Because loads can have various sizes, more precise terms for this type of testing are peak-load testing or worst-case-load testing.
A performance test usually is done with a typical, representative load, but this measurement may not tell us much about the system's behavior under heavy load. For example, let's assume that the peak load on a system is only 15% more than the average load. The system performance may degrade gracefully – the system runs 15% slower at peak load. Often, though, the performance under load is non-linear: as the load increases by a moderate amount (in this case, 15%), the response time does not increase by a comparable percentage but instead becomes infinite because the system fails under the increased load.
Definition of Stress Testing
A stress test is one which deliberately stresses a system by pushing it beyond its specified limits. The idea is to impose an unreasonable load on the system, an overload, without providing the resources which the system needs to process that load.
In a stress test, one or more of the system resources, such as the processor, memory, or database I/O access channel, often "maxes out" and reaches saturation. (Practically, saturation can happen at less than 100% of the theoretical usable amount of the resource, for many reasons.)
This means that the testware (the test environment, test tools, etc.) must be sufficiently robust to support the stress test. We do not want the testware to fail before we have been able to adequately stress the system.
Many bugs found in stress testing are feature bugs which we cannot see with normal loads but are triggered under stress. This can lead to confusion about the difference between a feature bug and a stress bug. We will address this issue in the upcoming section entitled: "Testing Performance and Robustness versus Features".
Some testers prize stress testing because it is so fruitful in finding bugs. Others think it is dangerous because it misdirects projects to fix irrelevant bugs. Stress testing often finds many bugs, and fixing these bugs leads to significant delays in the system delivery, which in turn leads to resistance to fixing the bugs. If we find a bug with a test case or in a test environment which we can't connect to actual use, people are likely to dismiss it with comments like: "The users couldn't do that.", ".. wouldn't do that" or "... shouldn't do that."
Stress, Robustness and Reliability
Although stress, robustness and reliability are similar, the differences among them mean that we test them in related but different ways.
We stress a system when we place a load on it which exceeds its planned capacity. This overload may cause the system to fail, and it is the focus of stress testing.
Systems can fail in many ways, not just from overloading. We define the robustness of a system by its ability to recover from problems; its survivability. Robustness testing tries to make a system fail, so we can observe what happens and whether it recovers. Robustness testing includes stress testing but is broader, since there are many ways in which a system can fail as well as from overloading.
Reliability is most commonly defined as the mean time between failure (MTBF) of a system in operation, and as such it is closely related to availability. Reliability testing measures MTBF in test mode and predicts what the system reliability will be in live operation.
Robustness and reliability testing are discussed in the companion volume to this book, entitled "System Robustness Testing".
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GAHANNA, Ohio, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Heartland Bank is pleased to announce the Android App is now available in The Marketplace for Android users. Online banking customers can access their account information via SMS Texting, Web Browsing, or if you own an Android cell phone, you can visit the Android Market and search for "Heartland" or "Heartland Bank" to locate and install our mobile app. There is no charge for this application which is very similar to the iPhone app that was released a few months ago.
G. Scott McComb, President and CEO, stated, "Heartland launched its Mobile Banking iPhone app in February as well as a complete mobile solution. Today, the Android is now supported due to a large number of users that have moved to that platform. Clients are adopting the technology very quickly and appreciate the ability to manage their relationship from the mobile channel. Once again, it doesn't matter where your bank is, but who is at your bank!"
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I didn't see any thread for Seattle U BSN transfer program fall 2013. Lets see if anybody else applied other than me lol..... Read More
- 0Mar 1, '13 by amsli-renee@Amily-Was that, " I am gettin' in!" ??? Or got in? Or has anyone else heard back? This is so stressful. I have 3.76 gpa 3.9 on prerequisites. No experience except for CNA training. I have lots of community service though. I dunno.... My online status hasn't changed...
- 0Mar 1, '13 by SaraFutureNurse?My online status hasn't changed either. I'm kind of wondering if maybe there is some sort of communication error here......
- 1Mar 2, '13 by csweetWhich will be really, really nice! (to get back to our regular scheduled lives)
It will be nice for me just to have a plan. right now I am waiting to see if I get into BSN programs, before applying to the ASN programs. And each path involves different things! If I get into SU or SPU I have to take 4 more classes for my DTA/SU pre-reqs or 3 more classes for SPU DTA. But if I am going to end up at Shoreline or EvCC I don't have any more classes but I have to take the compass test for Shoreline and the TEAS for Everett!!! Too much stuff to think about! I am tired of the well if not this then that. *sigh*
- 1Mar 5, '13 by Ladybug031302I just called the admissions office at SU and the transfer advisor said they're still finishing up the review of applicants. Their goal is to mail out letters early April. More waiting.........
- 1Mar 6, '13 by OBrienMPUnless SU gives me a full boat ride for 2 years, then I probably can't afford to go there...Plus, financial aid and FAFSA are not going to loan me 20-40k for my BSN. Uhg. I've heard great things, but the price tag is kind of pushing me towards going to a CC instead.
- 0Mar 6, '13 by williminaQuote from OBrienMPI know what you mean. As a postbac student, I am looking at 70k for the two years. It's scary to imagine that much debt. And that's just tuition... not living expenses. Ugh.Unless SU gives me a full boat ride for 2 years, then I probably can't afford to go there...Plus, financial aid and FAFSA are not going to loan me 20-40k for my BSN. Uhg. I've heard great things, but the price tag is kind of pushing me towards going to a CC instead.
- 1Mar 6, '13 by csweetI emailed the transfer admissions people and they said: "Decisions will be mailed late March/early-mid April."
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VERACRUZ, Mexico — Officials say a bus traveling on a mountain road collided with a truck in thick fog and plunged over a cliff, killing 12 people and injuring 14.
The Veracruz state public safety department says the bus was traveling between the cities of Misantla and Xalapa when it hit the truck coming from the opposite direction Saturday night. The bus flipped several times and fell into a canyon about 300 feet (100 meters) deep.
Several deadly bus crashes in Veracruz state have killed dozens of people in recent years. Last year, a truck trailer shook loose and crashed into a bus of farmworkers, killing more than 40.
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WCMF 2013 to be officially launchedDominica News Online - Friday, July 26th, 2013 at 12:39 PM
It is expected that the line up, or at least part of it, for the 17th Annual World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) will be announced when the official launch of the event takes place on Monday 29th July, 2013.
The event is presented by the Government of Dominica alongside Headline Partner, Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) and Gold Partner 'Digicel'.
According to the Dominica Festivals Committee, the launch "will highlight activities surrounding the three nights of pulsating rhythms and most importantly bring closure to the long anticipated questions asked regarding this year's line up."
The World Creole Music Festival will be held from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th October 2013 at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau. World renowned performers hailing from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Trinidad, Paris, Nigeria and Dominica will form part of this year's line up and will be officially presented at the launch.
"This year's Festival plans to be truly bigger and better as we incorporate the 35th celebration of Dominica's Independence into the theme for the Festival. We have a solid team who is already working hard at ensuring that the Festival will be a memorable one for patrons," says Chairman of the Dominica Festivals Committee and Director of Tourism, Colin Piper.
Invitees to the official launch include government officials, sponsors and other key stake holders of the festival.
Minister for tourism , Ian Douglas, DDA Chairman Benoit Bardouille and DFC Chairman Colin Piper and a representative of Gold Partner, Digicel are expected to deliver addresses at the function to be held from 6.00 pm at the Krazy Koconuts.
The Official Launch will be broadcast live via Partners Marpin 2k4, Kairi FM Radio, and SAT Telecommunications. Patrons can also log on to the World Creole Music Festival website – www.wcmfdominica.com for live streaming of the event on July 29th.
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BOWEN July 29, 2013
Absolutely, positively love it!
Why so much jamaican influence? They have their sunplash and not one dominican artist ever invited. Let's stick to our Creole music. I used to travel with a big contingent to Creole fest but we stopped- too much foreign influence. When we come home for Creole fest, we want to see and experience Creole not other things. You mean groovers, exile kassav and others cannot do the job? Common man!
If you all bringing Machel Montano, I'm down for Creole Festival this year!
Hope Justin Bieber and Missy Elliot makes the line up this year, thats the only night i would go.
why will it not be carried live by DBS and Q95. I am in the US and it is very difficult to get Kairi.


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Southern New Hampshire University's C.J. Marriro, left, knocks the ball from Le Moyne's Ryan Romich(24) as SNHU's Elijah Bonsignore, right, defends during the play in the first half of their game hosted at SNHU Saturday. (Mark Bolton/Union Leader)
Elijah Bonsignore and Rodney Sanders - SNHU's two leading scorers - were held to six points in a 78-68 loss to Le Moyne.
Bonsignore began the day averaging a team-high 15.2 points per game, but was limited to two points on four field goal attempts. Sanders was averaging 14.5 points per contest, but missed 11 of his 13 attempts from the floor. Sanders missed all six of his 3-point attempts.
Stys finished the game with 22 points. He has made a team-high 41 3-pointers this season.
Connor Mahoney led Le Moyne with 22 points. The Dolphins received 15 from 6-foot-11 center Jim Janson, 13 from Nate Gause and 12 from Qwadere Lovell. Janson, who also collected a game-high eight rebounds, entered the game leading the NE-10 in field goal percentage (67.9 percent).
Le Moyne's lead peaked at 16 after two Mahoney free throws made it a 51-35 game with 15:24 remaining in the second half. St. Anselm pulled within seven, 66-59, on a Stys 3-pointer with 3:40 to play, but failed to get any closer.
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I've been thinking about point solutions recently because much of the innovation we are seeing in the advertising and marketing technology space starts out this way. It's also not uncommon in the advertising world when agencies are first started: they start out as a point solution servicing a certain trend such as "social media" and because of this, they become well known specialists.
When point solutions emerge, they tend to be the deepest in knowledge in that particular area. It's usually a founding team that recognized the opportunity while working somewhere larger and wanted to create a very specialist company dealing with this new space. We are seeing examples of this today within the spaces around Pinterest, Path, YouTube, and mobile amongst other areas.
There is a problem with point solutions. Once your customers get comfortable on your platform, they will ultimately will want more. They will want service a bit above and below your solution and as a company, you need to make a decision whether or not you want to service this business or someone else (competitor) will come in and service this need.
In the advertising agency world, I see this all the time. It was especially prevalent with the initial social media boutiques which popped up. Their clients are now asking them for paid media, creative, and offline work. Very quickly, these social media boutiques become less "boutique-y" and more like full service agencies. And overnight, the social media agency is no more and it's back to being a fully integrated agency.
Pros of being a point solution:
- You're a specialist and you're genuinely good at what you are doing
- Free from distractions surrounding the areas around your product
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- You might get commoditized quickly by larger entrants who will give away your portion of whatever "stack" you are playing in
It's OK to be a point solution and if you are taking investment dollars from venture-type investors, make sure to keep the capitalization low (and valuation), in order to drive meaningful outcomes for your shareholders. We've been seeing a flurry of acquihires of point solutions and no real big exits.


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In Iran and abroad, the election of President Hassan Rouhani has created an atmosphere of optimism not seen since Mohammad Khatami's presidency, which ended in 2005 in disappointment for Khatami, who was politically emasculated by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his praetorians, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Those who long for a new kind of Iranian leader and a less belligerent Islamic Republic understandably hope that Rouhani will bring a new approach to the nuclear intransigence of his predecessor, check the power of the clerical-military revolutionary elite, and ease the brutal political repression of Iran's long-suffering people.
Washington needs to treat Iran's Syria policy and its nuclear policy as two sides of the same coin and essential to Tehran's drive for regional hegemony.
Yet for all the talk about Rouhani and nukes, there has been much less analysis of his record on Syria. Perhaps even more than Tehran's nuclear program, where Rouhani as a negotiator showed himself to be consistently mendacious, the Islamic Republic's machinations in Syria and Rouhani's Syrian track record are windows into the soul of the Iranian regime and its new president.
Syria may be the real test of whether or not Rouhani has different intentions than his predecessor, as well as his capacity to implement a significant shift in Iranian foreign and national-security policy. If Rouhani is a different kind of leader, he would use his influence to alter Khamenei's full-throttle support to the Assad regime, which probably would not have survived without Tehran's assistance, especially the frontline aid from the Revolutionary Guards, their Lebanese subsidiary, Hezbollah, and Iranian-led Iraqi Shi'a militias.
But if Rouhani's moderation and ability to effect change is only aspirational on our part, Washington risks allowing Tehran to solidify its grip on Syria and to develop an irreversible Iranian nuclear capability.
Washington needs to treat Iran's Syria policy and its nuclear policy as two sides of the same coin and essential to Tehran's drive for regional hegemony,
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Iran's foreign and natural-security policy is set by the Supreme National Security Council, which is dominated by Khamenei and his guards, particularly the Quds Force, the extraterritorial operations branch of the IRGC. Syria policy is, and likely will remain, the exclusive domain of Khamenei, with operational control in the hands of Major General Qassem Suleimani, the Quds Force commander.
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Just this month, data from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, World Bank and UNwere released demonstrating that increased access to lifesaving health interventions, like vaccines, has helped slash the number of global child deaths by more than 35 percent in the last two decades. But despite this considerable pro
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Today the GAVI Alliance's announcement supporting the first-ever widespread rollout of rotavirus vaccines in 16 low-income countries — the majority of which are in Africa where nearly 50 percent of the world's rotavirus burden is found — marks a historic and unprecedented milestone in global efforts to save children's lives.
These vaccines prevent the most common cause of severe diarrhea, a leading killer of children. GAVI will also continue to support the rollout of lifesaving vaccines such as those preventing pneumonia and other infectious threats throughout the developing world. Widespread use of these vaccines will help prevent the deaths of millions of children in years ahead.
GAVI's announcement marks a huge leap forward in protecting children from some of the deadliest threats they face. Rotavirus, in particular, is virulent and contagious. Every child is vulnerable. Unlike other forms of diarrhea, it cannot be stopped with improvements in hygiene, sanitation and drinking water alone. Vaccines are the best way prevent rotavirus and in places where the urgent care needed for treatment is unavailable, these vaccines can make the difference between life and death.
As we celebrate the tremendous progress being made, we also need to set our sights on the next frontier by ensuring the rollout of these vaccines in every high-burden country. This means we need to extend our reach beyond low-income countries into low-middle income countries throughout the world.
The Rotavirus Organization of Technical Allies (ROTA) Council was created to support the work GAVI and other partners are doing and continue to advance progress by expanding access to rotavirus vaccines in high-burden countries throughout the world. We're a dedicated team of scientific and technical experts, representing every region of the world, working to save children's lives and reduce the threat of rotavirus. Through the use of evidence and strategic communications targeting policymakers in high-burden countries, we're working to accelerate the global introduction of rotavirus vaccines.
The fight to save children's lives from preventable causes is a fight that can be won. GAVI is making remarkable progress, but they can't do it alone. We know that success will require the collective efforts of the entire global community.
Together, we can win this fight.
Dr. Ciro A. de Quadros is co-chair of the ROTA Council and the executive vice president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
Dr. Mathuram Santosham is co-chair of the ROTA Council, director of the Center for American Indian Health and professor of international health and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


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Welcome To Visit Worcestershire
Welcome to the official Visit Worcestershire website - full of tourist information for Worcestershire for all the things you need to know to help plan day trips, short breaks or family holidays in Worcestershire - a beautiful West Midlands county.
You can Explore the vast amount of attractions and things to see and do, enjoy The Great Outdoors including the countryside and the many waterways, visit Heritage & Gardens including historic houses and the steam railway as well as having some Family Fun and some unique Shopping experiences. The county is also renowned for its Sports including premiership rugby, first division cricket, basketball and horse-racing fixtures.
Accommodation providers offer a mixture of facilities whatever your budget for holidays in Worcestershire, including country house hotels, B&B's, self catering and camping and caravanning sites.
Worcestershire is famous for its local Food and Drink Produce and it's not just the sauce. Pubs, Restaurants and Cafes across the county serve local food and drink produce ensuring an authentic Worcestershire experience.
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Yosemite bowline
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|Yosemite bowline, Bowline with a Yosemite finish
A Yosemite bowline is loop knot often perceived as having better security[citation needed] than a bowline. However, it has been pointed out that if the knot is not dressed correctly it can potentially collapse into a noose. [1][2]
A Yosemite bowline is made from a bowline with the free end wrapped around one leg of the loop and tucked back through the knot, a final round turn and reeve commonly known as a "Yosemite finish." The knot's security is enhanced by preventing the bowline 'capsizing' to form a highly dangerous slip-knot. Additional safety is achieved by tying with a tail (see below). When finished, the working end forms a figure eight.
The Yosemite finish can be applied to other bowline variants, such as the double bowline.
While the knot's versatility suggests it as a convenient tie-in for attaching a climbing rope to a climber's harness, the figure-of-eight follow through is the most common choice because it is more widely known and perhaps more easily checked. The Mountaineering Handbook is one of the few texts that suggest that the Yosemite bowline is better for this purpose. Suggested benefits include being easier to untie when wet and frozen, being possible to tie-in with only one hand, and the knot is simpler, allegedly making it easier to inspect. Testing found it a strong knot for the purpose. [3]
It is recommended that any knot which is used to attach a rope to a safety harness is always finished with a 'stopper' knot. A stopper knot, while serving to keep the loose end tidy, will not only help to prevent failure of the primary knot, but also act as a secondary safety knot itself. It is sometimes said that if enough of a tail is left to tie a stopper knot, the stopper becomes unnecessary. The tail should be a minimum of 40 - 60 cm depending on the thickness of the rope.
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- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dj5Y3h1AEI
- ^ http://www.forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7818&start=15#p65350
- ^ Connally, Craig (2004). The Mountaineering Handbook. International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. ISBN 978-0-07-143010-4.
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No outs, runner on first, the defense is expecting a bunt. The pitcher comes set while the first baseman is charging. The first baseman then reverses his direction and the pitcher throws to first. The throw is caught by the first baseman before he reaches the bag, and he tags the runner before he can safely return to first.
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Runner on second and one out when the pitcher balks. The pitch is delivered and
the batter hits a grounder to the third baseman, who bluffs the runner back to
second but throws too late to get the batter-runner at first.
What's the call? Does the play stand?
Balk, no play. Each runner, including the batter-runner must advance at least
one base to proceed without reference to the balk. The runner moves to third and
the batter returns to the plate. (8.05-penalty ...unless the batter reaches
first...and all other runners advance at least one base...)
NOTE: In HS baseball, the ball is immediately dead on a balk.
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1865: Overhand pitching legalized
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1932: Leagues adopt common baseballs
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1941: Joe DiMaggio hits safely in 56 consecutive games
1947: Jackie Robinson plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers (NL)
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1971: Cowhide substituted for horsehide on baseball
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Brian Knight captured home plate squats bragging rights in 2013 with 10,950. Knight averaged 304.2 pitches per game in his 36 plate assignments last season.
Of the 199 MLB ejections in 2011, Jerry Layne and crewmates Bob Davidson, Hunter Wendelstedt and Brian Knight accounted for 26, or 13 percent: 8 for Davidson, 8 for Wendelstedt, 6 for Knight and 4 for Layne. With 17 umpire crews, the average crew administered just 11-12 ejections, meaning Layne's crew ejected twice as much as the average crew. By comparison, Joe West's crew barely scratched the 20 ejection mark.
Did you know that prior to 1947, a 4-man (or less in the early days) crew was used for the World Series? In 1947, MLB went to a 6-man crew. However, from 1947-1963, the two outfield umpires stayed in their position for the entire series and did not rotate. Only the four infield umpires rotated for the series. In 1964, MLB went to the current system of rotating all six umpires.
MLB has 30 teams, 17 umpire crews and 2,430 games Umpire scheduling protocol is that an umpire crew does not see the same team sooner than every 18 days and no more than 4 times in a season.
In 1878, the first paid umpires were in the National League, where the home teams were instructed to pay the umpires $5/game
Albert Pujols had won the 2003 NL batting title over Todd Helton by the closest margin in league history, the third tightest in ML history. The final stat was .35871 to .35849 or a .00022 difference. The tightest race ever was in 1945 when the Yankees' Snuffy Stirnweiss beat Tony Cuccinello of the White Sox by .00009. In 1949, Detroit's George Kell edge Boston's Ted Williams by .00016. Check out ML's All-Time Leaders.
Umpire signals were first used in the late 1800's to help a deaf mute player from that time understand what was going on in the game. His name was Dummy Hoy, and he was a ML outfielder from 1888 to 1902. See Umpire Communications for umpire signal information.
The shortest game in ML history was played on September 28, 1919 when the NY Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-1 in a game that took 51 minutes.
The longest 9-inning game in ML history took place on August 18, 2006 between New York (14 runs) & Boston (11 runs) and lasted 4:45. Jim Wolf was the plate umpire and called 437 pitches. It was the second game of a Day-Night DH. The first game lasted 3:55, with NY winning 12-4. Tony Randazzo was behind the plate for game one.
The second longest 9-inning game in ML history took place on October 5, 2001 between Los Angeles & San Francisco and lasted 4:27. Jerry Layne was the plate umpire and called 361 pitches.
The longest game in ML history featured Milwaukee at Chicago in 1984, required 25 innings and took 8:06.
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