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Florida's Republican leaders have fought the Affordable Care Act at every turn, banning navigators from county health departments, offering no state dollars to boost outreach efforts to 3.5 million uninsured and leading the fight to repeal the law. Yet the state has emerged as a tale of what went right with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
MIAMI — Florida's Republican leaders have fought the Affordable Care Act at every turn, banning navigators from county health departments, offering no state dollars to boost outreach efforts to 3.5 million uninsured and leading the fight to repeal the law. Yet the state has emerged as a tale of what went right with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
More than 440,000 Florida residents had been enrolled through the federal marketplace through the end of February, putting Florida on pace to exceed the federal government's initial projections by the time enrollment closes March 31.
The numbers are impressive for a state where Republicans control the governor's mansion and both houses of the Legislature. By comparison, Republican-leaning Texas has enrolled 295,000 through the federal site, even though its population is about a third larger than Florida's.
Florida's success is due partly to infrastructure created in the swing state by Democratic-affiliated groups during the last three presidential elections, along with continued investment by the Obama administration and nonprofit advocacy groups in the diverse state that will likely be competitive in November's midterm election.
Groups helping customers enroll in ACA-related health plans have used many of the same people who ran Obama's presidential campaigns, giving them five years of deeply-entrenched relationships in communities, data to pinpoint the uninsured and veteran volunteers to track them down. The state narrowly went for Obama in 2012.
The successes and failures of the Affordable Care Act also carry more political weight in a battleground state such as Florida where the new law will fuel election campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, said Democratic strategist Screven Watson.
"(The Republicans) are going to use Obamacare as a hammer over the Democratic candidates in November," he said, adding that if Florida's enrollment numbers were dismal, it could have big implications in 2016.
"When you're talking presidential elections, if you have Florida you win," he said.
Florida's Republican leaders chose not to spend any state money marketing the new health plans to millions of uninsured, so the work was supported by $20.5 million in federal grants plus manpower from the nonprofit organization Enroll America.
Florida residents have also been reached by federally funded TV, radio and digital ads. About $52 million has been spent in the last three month on the ads in Florida and the other 28 states relying on the federal marketplace, said Julie Bataille, spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency has repeatedly declined to provide a state-by-state breakdown of how taxpayer dollars are being spent on ads.
Enroll America's Tony Penna began in 2008 as a volunteer neighborhood team leader for Obama's campaign in Jacksonville, manning three phone banks a night. By 2012, he was a paid organizer for the campaign, overseeing neighborhood leaders and volunteers as they canvassed apartment buildings, staffed tables at community events and made nightly cold calls.
Penna is using those same strategies in his role now as field director for Enroll America overseeing Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Gainesville.
"It helped me build those relationships with volunteers and keep them constantly motivated," said Penna, who estimates about half the volunteers have campaign experience. "It's a longer-term goal because it's a longer term process ... they want to know what the effect of their work really is."
Elsewhere, enrollment results have been mixed in other states that were closely contested in the 2012 presidential election and now rely on the federal exchange. North Carolina has already beaten the initial federal projections for enrollment by the end of March, while Virginia and Wisconsin appear on track to meet the projection. Ohio is falling short of projections.
Enroll America is active in 11 states including Texas, Arizona and Georgia. But the group has claimed a stronghold in Florida, with 40 staff and nearly 5,000 volunteers compared to 38 staff and about 3,000 volunteers in Texas.
Florida's largest navigator grant, $4.2 million, went to the University of South Florida, which hired about 100 navigators, many of whom have years of experience enrolling people in Medicaid and a program that provides health insurance to children from low-income families.
"They have the relationships. They're already trusted as credible sources of information about health coverage," said Jodi Ray, who oversees the USF program. "That makes a big difference."
Instead of creating new programs, USF expanded their staff to help with marketplace enrollment, relying on 10 subcontractors, all with a track record of doing health care outreach, including Florida CHAIN, one of the state's largest health advocacy groups.
"This required constant evaluation of whether the strategies were effective and successful and adjustments were made in order to fully maximize resources and improve efficiency," said Leah Barber-Heinz, executive director of Florida CHAIN.
While Texas leaders say they struggled to navigate bureaucratic red tape to move funds or make quick, critical decisions to tailor outreach efforts, Florida's main contractors knew they needed to be flexible if they were going to meet the high demand and target it to various demographics.
If that meant finding a way to hire new navigators instead of having the same people travelling long distances for enrollment events, then USF found a way to make it work.
Coalitions in other states are often local or regional, said Anne Filipic, president of Enroll America.
"In Florida, it's statewide and they've been doing it for years," she added.
Associated Press writer Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston contributed to this report.


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Artificial Intelligence for Society
The Idiap Research Institute is an independent, nonprofit research foundation affiliated with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Its activities encompass basic research, training (graduate and post-graduate level), and technology transfer activities in the area of Artificial Intelligence for Society including, among others, multimedia information management, human-computer interaction, perceptual and cognitive systems, natural language processing and understanding, social media, biometric person recognition, multimodal information interfaces, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and large-scale machine learning.
Idiap at a glance
The Idiap Research Institute is among the most active independent research institutions in information technology. Based in Martigny (Valais/Switzerland), the Idiap Research Institute is a non-profit foundation that conducts basic research and development in the area of multimedia information management. Idiap's activities can be divided into five complementary research themes and ten application areas.
Idiap was founded in 1991 by the Town of Martigny, the State of Valais, EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), the University of Geneva and Swisscom. Since 2008, Idiap has reinforced its connection with Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne through a joint development plan and a strategic alliance with the "ETH Domain". Several of Idiap's scientists hold an EPFL academic title and are teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. They also supervise students who pursue their doctoral thesis research at Idiap.
The director of the Institute is Prof. Hervé Bourlard, also professor at EPFL and Director of the LIDIAP Laboratory.
Idiap's budget, which amounts to more than 11 million Swiss francs, is 53% financed by research projects awarded following competitive processes, and 47% by public funds. There are a little bit more than 100 staff members in residence at Idiap, including senior researchers (principal investigators), researchers, research associates, post-doctoral fellows, PhD students, and visiting researchers. Administrative staff provides unique computational and research support services. Since 2007, all the personnel work at Centre du Parc in Martigny, where it currently occupies 2,500 m2 of premises over four floors.
The Idiap Research Institute is recognized by the Swiss confederation as part of the strategic domain of the Swiss federal institutes of technology and is supported under the Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation (RIPA) article 15). The institute's vision is to promote quality of life through scientific progress made in relation to human and media computing. Idiap's activities are oriented in accordance with three complementary missions:
Research: Conducting fundamental research projects at the highest level in its preferred areas, thus taking its place among the best on a national, European and global scale. Idiap benefits from a wide national and international network of partners and works actively with large universities, public and private research centers, etc. This collaboration is always implemented through formal research projects, including SNSF, EU (and sometime US) research programs.
Technology Transfer: Idiap is currently amongst the most important research center in Valais also putting special emphasis on research software maintenance, to facilitate technology take-up, technology transfer, creation of spin-offs, or attracting startups. As discussed later there is an entire team /currently around 12 people) devoted to these important aspects, and working in close collaboration with CTI/KTI, as well as the IdeArk incubator.
Academic and Training Activities: Through our academic anchoring with EPFL (and the EDEE and EDIC Doctoral Programs), our teaching activities at EPFL, as well as our connections with numerous other academic institutions, we also fund and supervise a large number of PhD students (35 per year on average), while also hosting international master and intern students. Numerous Idiap internal activities towards improving personal research and communication skills are also provided.
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The Idiap Research Institute offers numerous job positions in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and located in Valais (Martigny). These job positions are PhDs, Postdocs or even permanent researchers. Please do not hesitate to visit our job position webpage.
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Perspective is an experimental first person puzzle game developed by students at DigiPen.
In Perspective, the player has two modes of control: a first person camera moving in 3D space, and an avatar that is constrained to the 2D world. In order to get the 2D avatar to the goal at the end of the level, the 3D player needs to move around in 3D space to create paths for the 2D avatar.
Unlike other puzzle games that make use of 2D/3D such as Crush or Fez, Perspective allows the player to move around in 3D space freely. This opens up a lot of new ways to use perception as a puzzle mechanic to create new paths in 2D.


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In a Television First, CBS Invites Instagram Enthusiasts to the Set of New Fall Series, VEGAS, for an Instameet from the Show's Fremont Street and Simultaneously from the Actual Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nev.
In the first official Instameet held on the set of a TV series, Instagramers are invited to the set of the new fall drama VEGAS on Tuesday, Sept. 12 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM, PT. On the photo walk, fans and users of the popular photo-sharing app Instagram will journey into the past to have the opportunity to explore the '60s-inspired Fremont Street sets, including the Golden Nugget, as well as take photos and share their experiences through their personal social accounts. Adding to the fun, all Instagramers are encouraged to wear their best vintage '60s clothing.
Meanwhile, simultaneously on Fremont Street in front of the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nev., participants are invited to bring this event full circle and participate in the photo walk journey highlighting present-day Las Vegas, where they will have the opportunity to meet the real Ralph Lamb, whose stories inspired the CBS drama VEGAS. Photo walk participants and followers will be able to experience vintage VEGAS and modern-day Vegas through each other's photos by using the hashtag #InstameetCBSVegas.
VEGAS premieres Tuesday, Sept. 25 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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It might be easy to grow a killer tomato in St. Louis, or in Georgia, the other two locations where Naturesweet holds its annual Homegrown Tomato Challenge.
But it's not easy in Colorado, especially in a year when it was snowing on May 1 and above 90 for weeks on end in the summer. That makes this year's winners that much more noteworthy for rising to the top of the 170 tomato entries. And $7,500 in first-place prize money – for each winner in the small tomato and large tomato category, plus the winner in the tomato cook-off – is no small tomatoes.
What you're really dying to know, as I was while I was judging, was which varieties the winners grew. What makes for a fantastic, super flavorful, beautiful tomato, with juicy, sweet flavor, bright color and the right textrue – tender, but not mushy?


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Dumbest Idea Ever: Tori Spelling edition
First there was that assf-cked report that Robert Pattinson was lobbying to play Kurt Cobain. Now ABC is apparently developing a talk show featuring Tori Spelling and her "bff", some random gay they're still searching for who will bounce off her bones like Will & Grace styles.
And people would watch this... because why?
According to the LA Times, Tori's potential show could replace a soap opera. See you later actors and writers. You've been ditched in favour of a homewrecking anorexic moron so that she can continue to service Kevin Federline Jr.
Motherhood whitewashing is alive and well. What's up MiniVan Majority? You win again.
By the way – have you seen this photo taken in New York a few weeks ago while she was there with KFed Jr and the kids promoting her reality show? It has not been manipulated. THAT is really how skinny she is. And they just let her sit there, on their couches, without a challenge, fronting like she's some kind of model citizen. I hate people.
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Rather than send her kids off on the yellow bus, Briana LeClaire has school come to her home. Her kids attend a virtual public school, connecting online to teachers and coursework. Everything from books to microscopes to radish seeds arrives via brown trucks.
Mrs. LeClaire describes it as the 21st-century, middle-class version of the private tutor. Her 6th-grader can move quickly through her strong subjects, such as literature, and spend more time on her weaker areas, like math.
Enrollment in online classes last year reached the 1 million mark, growing 22 times the level seen in 2000, according to the North American Council for Online Learning. That's just the start, says a new paper by the Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. Its authors predict that by 2019 half of courses in Grades 9 to 12 will be delivered online.
The efficiency of online learning accounts for this growth. But there's little research assessing the quality of these programs, which some experts say don't have enough official oversight.
Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, "you have to have high standards, tight oversight, scrutiny over what teachers are doing. Yet on the other extreme, also promoted by the federal government, are these loosely accountable approaches to schooling," says Luis Huerta, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has researched virtual schools for more than a decade.
Even some supporters of online learning say education officials need to provide more guidance. Some states allow online Advanced Placement (AP) courses; some don't. Ditto for requiring lab work in science courses. The inconsistencies stunt the online model's growth, says David Reed, a researcher at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Among the oversight questions is how to track attendance. Most states mandate a minimum number of hours of instruction. At Idaho Virtual Academy, the school the LeClaires attend, it falls on parents to submit a weekly log of their child's hours.
What counts as learning time is open to interpretation. A teacher at the academy suggested that a family's Bible reading could count. But Tamara Baysinger, a state official who oversees virtual schools, says parents can't count time spent on curriculum not provided by the school. Computer log-ins provide some objective accounting. "There are monitoring systems in place where they can't just log on and go watch television," says Ms. Baysinger.
Mr. Reed suggests a better way to account for learning: Keep track of course material completed, not number of hours of instruction.
"If I've got a kid who's taken algebra three times and failed it three times, what is the point of putting him in another 90-hour class?" says Reed, who works for a private virtual school. "The Web course allows you to isolate the need and do it quicker, but [schools] don't want to do that because dollars are tied to seat time."
There's also debate over how much public funds go to virtual schools. Dr. Huerta's research revealed school districts that championed new virtual charter schools to collect per-pupil funding for students who cost less to educate.
Huerta identified a virtual school in California that was little more than a shipping warehouse with fewer than 10 teachers for 1,500 students: "There was virtually no overhead, and the district got to keep the rest of the money."
California now gives only a fraction of per-pupil money for virtual school enrollments. Idaho offers the full amount, but requires virtual charter schools to pay for their own facilities.
"We are providing cost savings to the taxpayers because we are running 35 percent cheaper," says Cody Claver, the head of Idaho Virtual Academy. The school enrolls 2,000 students, employs 75 teachers and staff, and maintains an attractive facility where students can come in for testing or weekly special needs help. Its graduates earn diplomas, just as students in traditional schools do.
Online education is set to surge, says the Hoover report, because of these cost savings and the flexibility to tackle unmet needs in the traditional system, such as AP courses.
Teachers in traditional schools "don't have a lot of time to be a tutor, mentor, or motivator because so much of their time is spent delivering one-size-fits-all lectures," says Michael Horn, executive director of education at Innosight Institute and a report coauthor. If computers take over lecturing, teachers can work with those who need help. "It can change our assumption of what teacher-student ratios make sense."
The report's growth projection met with mixed responses from experts.
"They could be on to something there" for subjects like math and spelling, says Gene Glass, an education professor at Arizona State. "Then there's the other half of the curriculum that you're never going to put on a machine: art, literature, a whole bunch of things that depend so much on a quality human relationship."
Huerta worries that the report's authors have confused efficiency with quality. "There has been no valid study showing that children participating in virtual or computer-based learning models are performing any better than in traditional schools," he says.
Reed's research in Arizona, involving 1,200 grades given in online courses, indicates that student performance has little to do with whether the lessons come online or in a classroom. "The method of delivery isn't the issue – it's the student," says Reed.
In Idaho, all four statewide virtual charter schools failed this year to meet annual progress targets on standardized testing. But so did 70 percent of all Idaho schools.
At Idaho Virtual Academy, teachers monitor student progress by tracking their performance on quizzes after new lessons. "It's not overly absurd for a kid to show up in a brick-and-mortar school and do practically nothing," says Mr. Claver. "In our school, it is out of the realm of possibility."


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The shaft of the hook is used to make all your loops the same size. This helps keep your stitches the same size as well.
|Always slide the yarn back to the shaft, you want it to fit around the shaft so that it slides easily back and forth
|The temptation is to start crocheting again while the yarn is wrapped around the hook. This will make your stitches too tight.
|Slide the yarn back to the middle of the shaft, and then it will be the right size and will match the other stitches on your hook
Here' how you do it for single crochet
|Slide both loops back on the shaft to make them even, see how they are the same size?
|You can hold the two loops on the hook down to keep them the same size while you pull through the last loop.
|Slide the loop back on the shaft so you are ready for the next stitch.
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|Do the yarn over on the shaft
|Slide the loops back onto the shaft to make them all the same size.
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Cangas del Narcea
Wine-harvesting festival in Cangas del Narcea
Practical information
- When?: To be confirmed 2020
- Where: Cangas del Narcea
- More information : http://www.ayto-cnarcea.es/
- Autonomous region: Principality of Asturias
- Province/Island: Asturias
- Theme: Oenology, Gastronomy, Popular
The centre of this town in Asturias hosts a celebration of the region's ancient wine-making tradition.
The streets are filled with stalls selling crafts and traditional products. Visitors can participate in several of the main festive events, including a dramatisation of the carrying of the grapes in typical carts, the traditional pressing of the grapes by stamping with the feet, and visits to local vineyards.
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- Date: To be confirmed 2020
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Please help me use up Ingredient X.
Ahoy folks! I thought I'd start a thread where you can ask for recipes and advice on how to use up an ingredient (e.g. a vegetable, fruit, grain, bean, etc.) of which you have lots and lots and lots; or which is new to you and you don't know where to start with it.
I'll go first. :P I have many, many tasty carrots from the farmers' market which I need to use before they go soft.
Recipes, please.
I know, I know, carrots - simple - should be a no-brainer... but I was not fond of them for a long time, simply because I'd never known anything but raw or steamed carrots with very little flavour. I like to do INTERESTING things with them. They're so adaptable! Gimme your adaptations! :D
Hmmm, how about oven roasted onion & balsamic carrots....or carrot juice that you could freeze some in icecube trays as bases for soups or sauces, or just carrot-juice-drinking :)
Carrot Pudding: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=6497.0
Properly seasoned it tastes like pumpkin pie, which is great cuz we can't get decent pumpkins here. I don't thicken it, I just use lots of carrots and refrigerate well and it thickens by itself. And no pie-crust calories to feel guilty over. Though you could put it in baked pie shell if you needed to.
Hi, my fave way of cooking carrots is to slice/quarter them longways and oven roast them in good olive oil, season with salt n pepa; good depth of flavour different from boiled. Other than that, carrot cake/muffins? carrot mash with turnip, parsnip or swede?
Carrot Cake!!!
Add them to casseroles or soups. Nothing is better than a bowl of Tofu Noodle Soup with tons of little carrot slices in it. Or Chickpea Mushroom Noodle Casserole with peas and carrots in the mix.
I also like to dice onion, celery, carrots and bell pepper and saute it up before cooking rice in with it all. Gives an excellent flavor, visual interest and healthy addition to the rice.
tsimmis! http://roundbeans.blogspot.com/2007/04/tsimmis.html
Oh, yes...I'd forgotten about tzimmis. Lovely!
Grated, with some lemon juice and raisins--sounds simple, but is oh so addictive! You can even 'grate' with a food processor, so you don't have to spend 30 mins with a grater.
My ingredient X--kind of gross, too-sweet raspberry vinaigrette dressing. I have tried adding more vinegar, but even small amounts of it aren't my thing. I don't want to throw it...anyone have any suggestions?
Never heard of tzimmis! What a great recipe! I have most of that stuff in my pantry too...and a day off tomorrow....sounds like a plan coming together.
How about carrot spaghetti. Use a vegetable peeler and make long "peel strips". Then saute with tomato sauce and LOTS of garlic. You could add in some zucchini peeled the sameway. Quick easy way to use up big woody carrots. My kids love it when I steam up sliced carrots and add them to a combo of cinnamon, earth balance and agave nectar (or brown sugar) my daughter could eat the whole pan ;D
For the vinaigrette, what about adding it to some boiled red potatoes, and make a warm(or cold) potato salad. You could add lots of other herbs to detract from the sweetness, but potatoes soak up a lot of marinade and could use the extra flavor. Good luck
Potato salad...maybe...raspberry potatoes? maybe if I add some mustard, yum. I'll report if it turns out good. I need something that's the negative of raspberry flavor to cancel out the dressing...
You don't like vinegar, Heliamphora? ACV? Rice vinegar? prepared mustard? aw...
Btw: new (to me) car implies soon I will have the opportunity to find a farmers market around here and then I, too, will have too much produce (hopefully) that I bought because it 'looked good'.
aziz, I'd try using it in a desert....like any of the chocolate cake recipes that call for vinegar, I'd imagine raspberry would be a good compliment to chocolate.
aziz, I'd try using it in a desert....like any of the chocolate cake recipes that call for vinegar, I'd imagine raspberry would be a good compliment to chocolate.
Awesome idea! And an excuse to make a cake! Yum...
aziz- Last week I ate a huge bag of fresh spinach drizzled with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing in about 3 days. The combo of the spinach with red onions, and avocado was so satisfying!! Maybe some walnuts on top for crunch would be fun too. The idea of the chocolate cake with the dressing sounds amazing!!! Anything chocolate and raspberry together is just nummy!!!
Carrots- Blend with tomatoes to sweeten a tomato sauce
Just wanted to say...good thread idea Heli! ;)b
This guy was just telling me about all the amazing health benefits of turmeric. I use it in curries, but any other things I can use it in?


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Several storage system vendors claim their products can detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. Here's how they do it and the low-down on how well they work.
- Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting
Several storage system vendors claim their products can detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. Here's how they do it and the low-down on how well they work.
A fundamental change in the basic building blocks of storage is occurring, one that's as groundbreaking today as RAID was when it was introduced 20 years or so ago. The revolutionary development is commonly referred to as "autonomic self-healing storage," and it promises greater reliability from disk systems than ever before.
Autonomic self-healing storage might sound more like a trumped-up term than a fundamental change. After all hasn't it been around for a while in the form of RAID, redundant array of independent nodes (RAIN), snapshots, continuous data protection (CDP) and mirroring?
If you define self-healing as the ability to restore from a failure situation, you'd be right. All of those familiar technologies are designed to restore data from a failure situation. But to be a bit more precise, those technologies are actually self-healing data, not self-healing storage. They restore data when there's a storage failure and mask storage failures from the apps -- they don't restore the actual storage hardware.
Self-healing storage is more accurately defined as transparently restoring both the data and storage from a failure. That might seem like splitting hairs, but it's not. It's the difference between treating the symptoms and fixing the cause.
What happens when a disk fails
The lowest common denominator in standard storage systems today is the hard disk drive (HDD). The hard disk drive is the only electro-mechanical device in the storage system, and it has the highest probability of failure or lowest mean time between failures (MTBF) (see "MTBF: The odds of failure," below). It's well documented that the HDD component is the Achilles' heel of a storage system.
|MTBF: The odds of failure
A disk manufacturer's hard disk drive (HDD) mean-time between failures (MTBF) rating enables you to forecast the useful operational life of a hard disk drive. When there are a lot of HDDs in the system, the probability of HDD failures increases. The general formula for calculating average time between drive failures within a system is as follows:
Using the manufacturers' MTBF numbers (approximately 1.5 million hours for enterprise-class Fibre Channel and SAS HDDs, and approximately 600,000 hours MTBF for SATA HDDs), a system with 240 enterprise drives should expect a hard disk drive failure every 260 days: 1,500,000/240 = 6,250 hours or about 260 days (roughly two HDDs per year or approximately a 0.8% replacement rate). If the HDDs are SATA, the system should expect a HDD failure every 104 days (roughly four HDDs per year or approximately a 1.67% replacement rate).
Unfortunately, manufacturer MTBF numbers don't reliably reflect real-world MTBFs. The Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh ran stress tests of 100,000 Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA hard disk drives. Their published testing results determined that a typical drive (Fibre Channel, SAS or SATA) has a realistic MTBF of approximately six years or 52,560 hours. Using Carnegie Mellon's MTBF numbers, a storage system with 240 HDDs can expect a drive failure approximately every nine to 10 days (approximately 40 HDDs per year or an annual replacement rate of 16.67%).
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The unprecedented growth of data in most companies has led to an explosion of storage systems and hard disk drives. It's statistically proven that as HDDs proliferate so will the number of hard disk drives failures, which can lead to lost data. Analyzing what happens when a HDD fails illustrates the issue:
1) A hard disk dive fails
2) The drive must be physically replaced, either manually or from an online pool of drives.
3) Depending on the RAID set level, the HDD's data is rebuilt on the spare:
4) The time it takes to rebuild the HDD's data depends on the hard disk drive's capacity, speed and RAID type.
- SATA drives typically have a rated non-recoverable read error rate of 1014: roughly 1 out of 100,000,000,000,000 bits will have a non-recoverable read error. This means that a seven-drive RAID 5 group with 1 TB SATA drives will have approximately a 50% chance of failing during a rebuild resulting in the loss of the data in that RAID group.
- Enterprise-class drives (Fibre Channel or SAS) are rated at 1015 for non-recoverable read errors, which translates into less than a 5% chance of the RAID 5 group having a failure during a rebuild.
- RAID 6 eliminates the risk of data loss should a second HDD fail. You pay for that peace of mind with decreased write performance vs. RAID 5, and an additional parity drive in the RAID group.
Eventually, the hard disk drive is sent back to the factory. Using the MTBF example in "MTBF: The odds of failure," this suggests that there'll be approximately 40 HDD "service events" per year.
Most storage admins might be surprised by what happens when a HDD is sent back to the factory. After being run through the factory's failure analysis process, the results for the vast majority of failed hard disk drives (somewhere between 67% and 90%) will be "no failure found" -- the HDD is fine. But the service event still took place and the RAID data rebuild still had to occur. That's a lot of operational hassle for "no trouble found."
Undetected data corruption
Another problem with HDDs that's rarely mentioned but actually quite prevalent is "silent data corruption." Silent data corruptions are storage errors that go unreported and undetected by most storage systems, resulting in corrupt data being provided to an application with no warning, logging, error messages or notification of any kind.
Most storage systems don't detect these errors, which occur on average with 0.6% of SATA HDDs and .06% of enterprise HDDs over 17 months (from "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack," L.N. Bairavasundaram et al., presented at FAST '08 in San Jose, Calif.). Silent data corruption occurs when the RAID doesn't detect data corruption errors such as misdirected or lost writes. It also occurs with a torn write -- data that's partially written and merges with older data, so the data ends up part original data and part new data. Because the hard disk drive doesn't recognize the errors, the storage system isn't aware of it either so there's no attempt at a fix.@pb
Autonomic self-healing systems
Among this new breed of systems, some tackle end-to-end error detection and correction, including silent data corruption. Other systems take the same approach, but add sophisticated algorithms that attempt to "heal-in-place" failed HDDs before requiring a RAID data rebuild. A final group of systems matches those capabilities and ups the ante with the new concept of "fail-in-place" so that in the rare circumstance when a HDD truly fails (i.e., it's no longer usable), no service event is required to replace the hard disk drive for a RAID data rebuild.
End-to-end error detection and correction
Vendors and products offering end-to-end error detection and correction include DataDirect Networks Inc.'s Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) with its QoS and SATAssure; EMC Corp.'s Symmetrix DMX-4 with its Double Checksum; NEC's D-Series support of the American National Standards Institute's new T10 DIF (Data Integrity Field) standard for enterprise Fibre Channel or SAS HDDs, and their proprietary Extended Data Integrity Feature (EDIF) for SATA hard disk drives; Panasas Inc.'s ActiveStor with Vertical Parity for SATA HDDs; Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Zettabyte File System (ZFS)-based systems when volumes are mirrored; and Xiotech Corp.'s Emprise 5000 (aka Intelligent Storage Element), which is also based on the T10 DIF standard (see "Self-healing storage products," below).
Click here to view the "Self-healing storage products" PDF.
T10 DIF is a relatively new standard and only applies to SCSI protocol HDDs (SAS and Fibre Channel) (see "Inside ANSI's T10 DIF spec," below). The T10 DIF standard is being incorporated into quite a few storage systems scheduled for release in 2009 and 2010. However, there's no standard spec for end-to-end error detection and correction for SATA hard disk drives at this time. That's why DataDirect Networks, EMC and NEC devised their own SATA end-to-end error detection and correction methodologies.
|Inside ANSI's T10 DIF
The American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) T10 DIF (Data Integrity Field) specification calls for data to be written in blocks of 520 bytes instead of the current industry standard 512 bytes. The eight additional bytes or "DIF" provide a super-checksum that's stored on disk with the data. The DIF is checked on every read and/or write of every sector. This makes it possible to detect and identify data corruption or errors, including misdirected, lost or torn writes. ANSI T10 DIF provides three types of data protection:
When errors are detected, they can then be fixed by the storage system's standard correction mechanisms.
DataDirect Networks' S2A SATAssure software does a Reed-Solomon error-correction calculation on every read operation and then compares HDD data to parity to ensure data consistency. SATAssure repairs the data if an inconsistency is detected, then passes it back to the requesting app and rewrites it to the HDD. All of this happens in real-time. EMC DMX-4 uses a double checksum that's very similar to Oracle Corp.'s industry-proven double checksum that minimizes database corruptions.
NEC's D-Series EDIF is modeled on ANSI T10 DIF. The difference is that EDIF is specifically modified for SATA's Integrated Disk Electronics (IDE) protocol.
Panasas' Vertical Parity is designed to maintain individual hard disk drive reliability. Vertical Parity isolates and repairs (using redundant information in the horizontal RAID stripe) torn, lost or misdirected writes on SATA HDDs at the disk level before they're seen by the RAID array.
Sun's ZFS is now used in several unified storage systems (Sun's 4500 and 7000 Series, and the new OnStor Inc. Pantera LS 2100). ZFS utilizes its own end-to-end error-detection algorithms to sniff out silent data corruption. It requires mirrored volumes and corrects the detected silent data corruption by copying the uncorrupted data from the good volume.@pb
Does end-to-end error correction work?
User evidence over the past 18 months suggests that HDD error-correction methods work. Interviews with IT organizations storing petabytes of storage (where silent data corruption is statistically more likely to be noticed) in mission-critical applications such as government labs, high-energy particle research, digital film/video production and delivery, seismic processing and so on, have revealed high levels of satisfaction. Perhaps the most telling remark came from an IT manager who wishes to remain anonymous: "I don't worry about silent data corruption anymore because it's no longer an issue for us."
Sector errors in traditional disk subsystem designs mark the HDD as failed. A failed HDD initiates a RAID data rebuild process that degrades performance and takes a long time. It can also be expensive, as there may still be useful life in the hard disk drive.
A heal-in-place system goes through a series of automated repair sequences designed to eliminate or reduce most of the "no failure found" HDD failures, as well as the subsequent unnecessary and costly RAID data rebuilds. As of now, there are five systems that provide heal-in-place capabilities: Atrato Inc.'s Velocity1000 (V1000), DataDirect Networks' S2A series, NEC's D-Series, Panasas' ActiveStor and Xiotech's Emprise 5000. Each provides a proven, albeit completely different, heal-in-place technology.
Atrato's V1000 uses fault detection, isolation and recovery (FDIR) technology. FDIR continuously monitors component and system health, and couples it with self-diagnostics and autonomic self-healing. Atrato uses FDIR to correlate SATA drive performance with its extensive database of operational reliability testing (ORT) performed on more than 100,000 SATA hard disk drives. FDIR uses decision logic based on that extensive ORT history, stress testing and failure analysis to detect SATA HDD errors. It then leverages Atrato Virtualization Software (AVS) to deal with detected latent sector errors (non-recoverable sectors temporarily or permanently inaccessible). AVS' automated background drive maintenance commonly prevents many of these errors. When it doesn't, it remaps at a sector level using spare capacity on the virtual spare SATA HDDs. This enables many of those SATA HDDs with sector errors to avoid being forced into a full failure mode permanently, and allows those SATA hard disk drives to be restored to full performance.
DataDirect Networks' S2A's heal-in-place approach to disk failure attempts several levels of HDD recovery before a hard disk drive is removed from service. It begins by keeping a journal of all writes to each HDD showing behavior aberrations and then attempts recovery operations. When recovery operations succeed, only a small portion of the HDD requires rebuilding using the journaled information. Having less data to rebuild greatly reduces overall rebuild times and eliminates a service event.
NEC's D-Series Phoenix technology detects sector errors, but allows operation to continue with the other HDDs in the RAID group. If an alternative sector can be assigned, the hard disk drive is allowed to return to operation with the RAID group avoiding a complete rebuild. Phoenix technology maintains performance throughout the detection and repair process.@pb
Panasas' ActiveScan feature continuously monitors data objects, RAID parity, disk media and the disk drive attributes. When it detects a potential problem with HDD blocks, the data is moved to spare blocks on the same disk. Future hard disk drive failure is predicted through the use of HDD SMART attribute statistical analysis, permitting action to be taken that protects data before a failure occurs. When a hard disk drive failure is predicted, user-set policies facilitate preemptively migrating the data to other HDDs. This eliminates or mitigates the need for reconstruction.
Xiotech's Emprise 5000, or ISE, is architected to proactively and re-actively provide autonomic self-healing storage. ISE preventive and remedial component repair takes place within its sealed DataPacs (storage capacity modules). It never requires manual intervention to pull failed drives. ISE provides in-place automatic data migration (when required), power cycling, factory remanufacturing and component re-calibration; only the surfaces of affected heads with allocated space, as opposed to entire disk drives, are rebuilt in very fast parallel processes. The result is the equivalent of a factory-remanufactured HDD, and the only components ever taken out of service are those that are beyond repair. Everything else is restored to full activity and performance.
Does autonomic self-healing work?
Based on interviews with users and on vendors' historical service data, autonomic self-healing works. The numbers show a decrease in RAID data rebuilds and service calls by as much as 30% to 50%. For Atrato and Xiotech, there are never any HDD replacement service calls because of their fail-in-place technologies.
Fail-in-place is a fairly new concept aimed at resolving some prickly side effects of hot-plug or hot-swap HDDs in storage systems. An example of these difficult side effects include pulling the wrong drive and causing inadvertent data loss; delaying the replacement of a failed HDD, which defers rebuild starts and increases data loss risk; or using spare drives that may not have been recently tested, which may result in a second hard disk drive failure.
The basic concept of fail-in-place is to redefine and increase the smallest field-replaceable unit (FRU) from being a HDD to being a storage pack. A storage pack is a collection of hard disk drives operating in concert with a certain percentage of capacity allocated for sparing. HDD failures are automatically rebuilt from the allocated capacity. There are currently only two vendors supplying fail-in-place storage systems: Atrato (with its V1000) and Xiotech (with the Emprise 5000 or ISE). Both systems feature end-to-end error detection and correction, as well as autonomic self-healing.
Both vendors' product architectures are based on the concept of available user capacity being tightly coupled with enclosure lifecycle within a single FRU. An enclosure's lifecycle is the timeframe in which the enclosed raw capacity will be available to an application. The total enclosure capacity also includes an allowance for anticipated sparing requirements over the warranted capacity life of the enclosure (three years for Atrato and five years for Xiotech).@pb
The differences between the two implementations are reflective of each vendor's product philosophies. Atrato makes 2.5-inch SATA drives enterprise-capable with their ORT, end-to-end error correction and detection, autonomic self-healing, high densities per enclosure, and with clever vibration and cooling methods. They improve performance by combining 160 drives for up to 80 TB in a 3U enclosure that provides up to 12,500 IOPS and 1.5 GBps throughput from a single enclosure.
Xiotech's focus is on providing increased reliability and performance from enterprise Fibre Channel and SAS 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives. The baseline FRU is a sealed DataPac of 10 3.5-inch or 20 2.5-inch Fibre Channel or SAS HDDs for up to 16 TB in 3U. Each ISE has dual removable DataPacs, power supplies with cooling, 96-hour battery backup and active-active RAID controllers. Unlike standard storage subsystems, ISE DataPacs feature innovations such as sophisticated vibration reduction and improved cooling; Xiotech exploits the internal structure of all of the components to fully leverage very advanced drive and system telemetry. DataPac drives feature special firmware that relieves the burden of device compatibility required of all other storage subsystems. The result of the tightly knit control within the DataPac is a highly reliable "super disk" that has demonstrated more than a 100-fold increase in reliability vs. a typical storage system drive bay (based on Xiotech's test of 208 ISEs containing 5,900 drives for 15 months with no service events).
Does fail-in-place work?
Atrato and Xiotech have proven that fail-in-place definitely works. Their product testing and customer testimonials indicate these technologies can virtually eliminate HDD replacement service calls. That translates to lower costs, less risk of lost data and fewer application disruptions.
Self-healing storage solves tangible operational problems in the data center. It reduces services events, costs, management, data loss risk and application disruptions. And most importantly, it works. Ten years from now, self-healing storage will be considered a minimum requirement just as RAID is today.
BIO: Marc Staimer is president of Dragon Slayer Consulting.


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One of Venroy July's most vivid recollections from when he was a boy growing up in Jamaica was watching boxing with his father, Venry. The November 1992 bout between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe was especially memorable for the Baltimore lawyer who moonlights as a boxer.
"I remember lying with him and him kind of explaining to me the rules of boxing, the scoring, the 10-9 scoring and how if you get knocked down, you get 8 [points] and just how that worked," recalled the 30-year-old July, who was 9 at the time of the heavyweight fight.
"I remember going through each round and we would talk about it after each round and see how we feel about who won and who was the better fighter and who should get the 10 and who should get the 9. That was really quality time. My mother kind of left us alone and that was our time. That memory served as the reason to try to do something."
What July, a corporate lawyer at the downtown law firm of Hogan Lovells, is doing is trying to recreate for others that father-son time he had with his dad.
With that in mind, July has established the BYB Initiative. BYB is short for Bring Your Boys. July, who founded Hardwork Promotions, which bills itself as "the promotion company built by fighters for fighters," said for each boxing show organized by his company, fathers who bring their sons up to 15 years old will pay just $10 for each child's ticket. The promotion is also open to men who wish to bring brothers, nephews, cousins and mentees who meet the age requirement.
The first event that will feature the BYB Initiative is a boxing match Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Patapsco Arena in Baltimore. July said he hopes to see 50 teens and boys in the 700-seat arena for the event.
"It's been positive," July said of the response from fans. "We've contacted a couple of organizations, and we're still reaching out. We're still a [few weeks] away. But I definitely know that my fraternity [Alpha Phi Alpha] has said that they're definitely going to try to bring some boys. This is something that we're going to do for all of our boxing matches."
Statistical and anecdotal evidence on the importance of male figures in the lives of growing boys abounds, but July said the issue struck close to home when a fraternity brother sought to bring his son to July's last bout, against Rayford Johnson on June 22 at the Frederick Fight Club in Frederick.
"I told him the tickets were $45, and he immediately said, 'I'm not paying $45 for a 10-year-old to come to a match.' That really got to me because people aren't rolling in money," July said. "Things are still kind of tight and you just kind of think, 'How many people are having this kind of reaction? How many people would like to bring their sons to an event, but they're not going to bring them because of the price?' Boys are going to be left at home because fathers are not willing to pay that kind of money. So we just thought that for this, we wanted to create an atmosphere to allow fathers and sons because for me, it was so instrumental."
Rashad Holloway, president of the Baltimore chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, said he plans to bring his 10-year-old son, Rashad Jr., and perhaps his 6-year-old son, Ryland, to the bout at the Patapsco Arena.
"I think it's a very good initiative to bring young boys," said Holloway, a 33-year-old accountant who lives in Baltimore. "I'm also helping with our fraternity to bring our mentoring program there. But I think it's an excellent initiative to get folks engaged in boxing. I'm behind it 100 percent."
July's father, who had attended 15 of his son's 17 professional fights (he is 14-1-2 as a cruiserweight), will not be there. The 61-year-old died Jan. 18, and July said his father's absence is still felt.
"The last conversation I actually had with my father was about boxing," July said. "We had a very deep and long conversation about it. That was interesting to me because, even though boxing had not played a major role in my life for the vast majority of my life, one of the first memories I have of my father is him getting into boxing and certainly the last memory I have of my father is boxing. I just remember the first day after he passed. Going to the boxing ring, it was weird because I was so used to him being ringside at my matches. So with all those things together, I wanted to do something. That was such a good time for us, and I want to provide it for others."
If you go
WHEN: Sept. 28 (first bell 7 p.m.; doors open 6 p.m.)
WHERE: Patapsco Arena, 3301 Annapolis Road, Baltimore, 410-354-1338
TICKETS: $50 VIP, $35 general admission (at the door), $20 for public safety officials, $10 as part of the Bring Your Boys initiative
INFORMATION: Hardwork Promotions (hardworkpromotions.com) Champion Boxing & Fitness (301-255-0011)
Venroy July, 14-1-2 (6 KOs), St. Catherine, Jamaica (cruiserweight/8 rounds)
Jessie Nicklow, 22-3-0 (8 KOs), Baltimore (middleweight/6 rounds)
James Stevenson, 19-0-0 (12 KOs), Baltimore (welterweight/6 rounds)
Mario Flores, 2-1-1 (2 KOs), Washington (cruiserweight/4 rounds)
Edwin Reyes, 1-0-0, Mexico (junior welterweight/4 rounds)


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MARIETTA, Ohio – On a night designed to honor the history of Don Drumm Stadium, as well as launch a new era of Marietta College football, there was plenty to celebrate by the game's final whistle. The official dedication of the new Don Drumm Stadium was held in conjunction with the annual football alumni day.
The $3.6 million construction and renovation project, made possible by a generous $2.6 million donation from the Joe Chalapty family, has resulted in one of the finest small-college facilities in the Midwest. The project donors were treated to VIP tours of the facility, dinner with Marietta College President Dr. Jean Scott and were honored in a halftime ceremony.
In addition to the stadium dedication, numerous former Pioneers were in attendance for alumni day. Former head coach Joe McDaniel, who coached more MC football games (127) and has the most career victories (67), was one of several honored guests.
Under the direction of fourth-year head coach Jeff Filkovski, the Pioneers kicked off the 115th season in school history with an exciting 32-24 victory over visiting Thiel College. The win marked the 16th time in the last 18 years that Marietta has won their season opener.
In a game that saw the Pioneers lead by as many as 19 points in the fourth quarter, the game came down to the final play. Trailing 32-24, the Tomcats took possession on their own 22-yard line with 2:07 remaining in the game.
Thiel sophomore quarterback Jared Soell completed 5-of-7 passes for 47 yards and added 18 yards on a pair of rushes to give the Tomcats a first and goal at the Pioneer three yard line with just three seconds on the clock. Following a time out by Thiel and one by Marietta, junior defensive back Louis DiPaolo broke up Soell's pass intended for Nate Houpt to secure the Pioneer win and cap a near perfect night for Marietta College football.
Finding a replacement for All-Ohio Athletic Conference wide receiver Cory Kriechbaum was one of the bigger questions MC had to answer heading into 2011. With 11 receptions for 116 yards and three touchdowns, sophomore Kirby Harris has staked his claim to that role. Harris scored on catches of 23, 6, and 32 yards.
The Tomcats jumped out to an early 3-0 lead on a 30-yard field goal by freshman Cody McClelland with 4:55 left in the first quarter. The Pioneers quickly responded taking a 6-3 lead on Harris' 23-yard TD pass from senior quarterback Andrew Keller with 1:37 remaining in the first.
Harris and Keller would hook up again, for 6 yards this time, at the 10:38 mark of the second period. A 36-yard field goal by senior Nathan Zarnoski with 31 seconds left in the half gave Marietta a 16-3 lead at the break.
With under seven minutes left in the third, Keller was forced to leave the game after sustaining a shoulder injury. He ended the night 18-of-28 for 165 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Filkovski turned to experienced backup Kyle Shackle to finish the game under center. Shackle didn't miss a beat completing 10-of-17 passes for 137 yards and two touchdowns. He hooked up with Harris on a 32-yard score and hit junior Alex Fountain on a 4-yard TD giving MC its biggest lead, 29-10, with 8:50 left in the game.
Soell brought the Tomcats roaring back with a pair of touchdown passes to Houpt cutting the lead to five, 29-24, at the 5:46 mark.
A 19-yard kick return by junior Chad Walker gave the Pioneers good field position. Shackle connected on his first two pass attempts of the drive, including a 32-yarder to sophomore Tannon Roberts that put the ball on the Thiel 18-yard line. Three straight rushes gained seven yards and Zarnoski connected on the 29-yard field goal to set-up the thrilling finish.
Soell rushed for 128 yards and completed 18-of-34 passes for 149 yards and three scores. Defensively, juniors Marshuan Hainesworth and Ethan Ludwig led the Tomcats with 13 and 11 tackles, respectively.
Junior Tevin Dones was Marietta's leading rusher with 57 yards on 14 carries. Fellow classmate Kadeem Corbin had a team-high eight tackles for the Pioneers including a sack for nine yards.
The Pioneers will take next week off before opening OAC play on Saturday, September 17th at Muskingum University. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m.
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Big Spring Clean: Join the anti-litter army set to sweep across the country
It's spring at last - and it's time to tackle the detritus that has gathered over the winter months.
It's spring at last - and it's time to tackle the detritus that has gathered over the winter months.
We've searched the country far and wide. And we've scoured hundreds of photos, all in search of Northern Ireland's tallest sunflower.
Hold the front page - our Bloomin' Marvellous sunflower-growing competition has a new front runner.
We've been searching far and wide for the tallest entry in our sunflower growing competition – but here's our smallest!
So you think you've seen some big sunflowers in our pages? Well, look again - these magnificent blossoms are outstripping them all.
It's a lofty, windy location overlooking Belfast - yet reader Tom McClean has done the impossible and reared a huge sunflower in his exposed garden.
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Wow! This sunflower has really blown us all away.
A teacher who underwent 10 hours of kidney dialysis a day for four years will today return as one of the stars of the Northern Ireland Transplant team after winning five medals.
Gold, silver and bronze medals will be making their way back to Northern Ireland today after a team of inspirational athletes won more than 50 medals at the UK Transplant Games.
It's the first time Margaret Hanna has experimented with sunflowers – and she's proved herself to be a natural.
So, did our stunning sunflower competition yesterday inspire you?
Belfast Telegraph readers have sown their seeds - and now we want to see the results.
They're the cream of the crop - the beautifully put together gardens that came out on top in our £4,000 Bloomin' Marvellous competition
Dizzying vistas with glorious colours shimmering in the distance – it can only be the Large Country Garden category of our competition.
Wild orchids, camomile lawns and Tibetan prayer flags - every corner of Mike Hartwell's garden near Killyleagh offers a surprise.
It's here at last! For months we've been searching for Northern Ireland's finest gardens as part of our Blooming Marvellous competition.
We've scoured hundreds of photographs of lovingly tended gardens – and now it's Judgement Day.
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Feast your eyes on these scintillating colours and intriguing spaces – the entries into our Blooming Marvellous gardening competition are giving us a severe case of garden envy.
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When it comes to each other's homes and gardens, most people would confess to being a little bit nosey sometimes. As if the popularity of television shows such as Ground Force and Changing Rooms wasn't testimony enough to our desire to create our own ideal personal space, green-fingered enthusiasts in Northern Ireland can often spend a small fortune over a lifetime on sprucing up their lawns and beautifying their begonias.
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TV horticulturalist Alys Fowler has said Northern Ireland's gardeners should take inspiration from 18th century cottage gardens – and try growing perennial crops.
One of Belfast's trendiest new restaurants has signed up to the Belfast Telegraph's 60 jobs in 50 days campaign to drive up the number of apprentices.
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Litter eyesores in the four corners of Ireland have been swept clean of rubbish as the Belfast Telegraph's Big Spring Clean teams rolled up their sleeves alongside their southern counterparts.
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JL his is a fight for maintaining the quality of accounting standards, not for the survival of the accounting profession." Summing up recent developments culminating in the proposals by the staff of the Senate (Metcalf) Subcommittee on Reports, Accounting and Management that the government take over the setting of accounting standards and require other sweeping changes affecting the practice of accounting firms, Ken Stringer, Executive Office partner in charge of Accounting and Auditing Services, admits to optimism. "I think the next twelve to eighteen months will be a critical period for the accounting profession. But I don't think any changes we may see in that period will be so drastic that the future of the profession will be impaired." The very fact that the profession has been more in the public eye in recent years underlines a growing recognition of its key role in the country's economic structure, he contends. "Perhaps even more pertinent is the fact that most of the proposals that have been made are concerned with how to make the profession more effective, not with how to supplant it," Ken said. "No matter who sets the standards, the fact remains that it is the accountant who has to implement those standards. I suppose in the long run the question of just who will set accounting standards — be it the Financial Accounting Standards Board or the government — is more crucial for American business than for CPAs." Kenneth W. Stringer is a man as comfortable in the world of the political realities of accounting's role in the economy as he is in the conceptual areas of accounting and the application of advanced mathematical techniques to accounting and auditing problems. Born in Birmingham, Kentucky, Ken received a BS degree from Western Kentucky University in 1938 before joining the accounting staff of the Kentucky Public Service Commission. He served with the commission for about two years, working on rate regulation affairs. In 1939 Haskins & Sells opened an office in Louisville, Kentucky, and Ken joined the staff there soon after. "I found myself thinking more and more of the challenges offered to a CPA in public accounting, of the career possibilities offered by a national firm," he recalls. While working in the Louisville office, Ken met Catherine Gatten, who was in training to become a registered nurse at a hospital in Murray, Kentucky, where Ken's mother had been hospitalized following an auto accident. Ken and Catherine married two years later. "The medical genes seem predominant in our family," Ken said. Catherine has three sisters, all of whom are nurses, while Kenneth Robert Stringer, Ken and Catherine's elder son, is practicing as a specialist in internal medicine and younger son Warren has just completed his first year at medical school. With the outbreak of World War II, the U.S. Army Ordnance Department issued a call for accountants, who were badly needed for procurement work. Ken resigned from the Louisville office and spent two years as a civilian employee of the Ordnance Department before entering military service. After basic training in Indianapolis, he served an additional two years in uniform with the Ordnance Department in Cincinnati. Following his discharge from the military, Ken went into private practice in Danville, Kentucky. "The six years I spent in private practice gave me good insight into small business and tax work," he said. "I really enjoyed having my own practice— it was interesting and challenging. There was immense satisfaction in watching the practice grow." Every professional has to set his own horizons, his own goals, and for Ken the inherent restrictions of a smalltown practice eventually outweighed the satisfactions of a private practice. As the work became increasingly repetitive, the professional challenge dwindled. Ken found it difficult to recruit a first-rate staff in a city the size of Danville. He chafed at the lack of opportunity to grow professionally. These factors triggered his decision in 1952 to rejoin Haskins & Sells in Cincinnati, where he served for five years before transferring to Executive Office. Ken came to EO in 1957 to work on special assignments with Weldon Powell, who was then the senior technical partner in the Firm. "Executive Office was not quite as departmentalized then as it is today," he said, "and, in addition to Weldon, I worked closely with partners Oscar Gellein, Emmett Harrington and Everett Shifflett." Ken was admitted to the Firm in 1959, appointed partner in charge of Accounting and Auditing Services in 1973, and named to the Policy Committee the following year. In his present position as the senior technical