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Salem garden store to reopen with new name, family tie
Salem -In the greenhouses located just off Route 85, workers are putting the finishing touches on tables that will soon hold a broad selection of plants for sale.
The landscaping business that has operated here for nearly three decades will be opening again on March 23 under the name Burnett's Country Gardens.
The buildings and logo will look familiar to returning customers, but the owner is new. Todd Burnett, whose parents David and Cheryl first opened the garden center as Salem Country Gardens in 1983, bought the property in a foreclosure auction last year.
The Burnetts sold the company in 1998, and it went through a series of owners before it was foreclosed upon for non-payment of real estate taxes.
Working with the Burnett family "was and is the best time of my life," said Heather Thibeault, Todd Burnett's marketing coordinator. She was one of a "dream team" of David and Cheryl's employees that came back to work with their son.
"The Burnett family � when someone wants to work and is willing to learn, they encourage it," said Thibeault.
The younger Burnett, who remembers clearing the garden lot of rocks with his friends as a kid, doesn't plan to make any radical changes. But he does hope to put a "more modern spin" on the business.
The marketing strategy showcases the more contemporary feel: Burnett's Country Gardens is getting out the word about its opening through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest.
The company is also in the process of developing new features, such as a Saturday farmers' market and a customer loyalty program called Bloomy Bucks.
One of Burnett's priorities is to stock Burnett's Country Gardens with as many locally grown plants as possible. He will grow some on site and will carry perennials from Franklin and shrubs and trees from Lebanon.
One major supplier will be his own 85-acre farm in Canterbury, which distributes to wholesale customers in New England and New York.
Burnett, who earned a degree in ornamental horticulture from the University of Connecticut after learning hands-on from his parents, enjoys operating his wholesale farm but missed the interaction with retail customers.
"I love being outdoors and working with plants and people," he said. He grew up in Salem and purchased Burnett's Country Gardens because his "heritage is here."
There are only two weeks left until the opening day and Burnett still has a number of things to do before the site will be ready.
The blizzard in February almost caused the greenhouses to collapse, he said. He and his employees were able to save the structures, but they must replace the plastic they cut down in the process.
They will also need to finish setting up the new fixtures and computers systems, as well as bring in the inventory. Burnett said that he is still waiting for some deliveries.
Burnett will also need to decide what to do with the Habitat for Humanity ReStore area. That company, which sells used furniture and other items to benefit Habitat for Humanity, will be moving to a new location in May.
Thibeault recalls that the Burnetts always had something going on at Salem Country Gardens - in addition to inviting famous garden speakers, they held hay rides and brought in real reindeer one winter.
Their son is headed in the same direction. Burnett's Country Gardens has a full calendar of events, starting just a week after the store's soft opening.
The theme of the March 30 event is "A spring of new beginnings," and it will feature a scavenger hunt for children in lieu of the familiar Easter egg hunt.
The garden center will also play host to a number of baby animals for the day: goats, alpacas, bunnies, chicks and ducks will be visiting from local farms.
A grand opening is scheduled for just over a month later, the weekend of May 4 and 5. 97.7 FM WCTY, a Norwich-based country music station, will be doing a live radio show, and the garden center's vendors will be displaying their products throughout the property.
The Salem Fire Department will hold demonstrations of their fire trucks and will be sponsoring a lunch fundraiser for a local girl with leukemia. The Salem Cub Scouts will also be holding a lunch to raise money for their pack.
The garden center is "big on promoting other small businesses" and developing a relationship with them, said Thibeault, and their events were designed with this in mind.
On Mother's Day, a busy day for the garden center, they will partner with the Jewett City company Extreme Cakes by Heather to offer mini-cupcakes alongside their flowers.
Thibeault described Extreme Cakes by Heather's products as "beautiful, beautiful stuff," and hopes to offer one-stop Mother's Day shopping to "make people more comfortable."
The day before Father's Day, a representative from Maple Brook Forge in Coventry will be on hand to sharpen knives and tools.
Events, workshops and seminars will be announced on Burnett's Country Gardens' website, burnettscg.com, which will launch soon.
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i love getting fucked by 2 black men at the same time the last time i done it they fucked this white pussy all night it was great
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I want a big cock like that too :)
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I lold at 3:50
Shane's cock is a monster but the other guy is so long! And hard. Amazing.
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Chelsie Rae ate those BBC's up !
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His name is Shane Diesel
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Nice looking cunt.
nice ass
This bitch doing all that screamin before the dick is even in... Ugh so corny
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dude she makes the most unattractive sounds i've ever heard. how do they stay hard?
That bitch aint no goo anymore
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one would scream for less with such a cock up the ass... but big cocks are always a disappointment when it comes to shooting cum: only some lousy drops...
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is it like her first time cause she actin like it
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She has no tits ^^
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she really took it hard
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how about my thick cock in your vagina
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@penis; that`s because ya mama drank `em all....
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why black people don't have much sperm? and have a huge cock?
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Oh my God she is so annoying! -.-
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after that, she will never back on white cocks... she's converted to black cock :D
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huge cocks..but not super hard as mine..cums should come out like a hurricane..
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she sounds like sarah palin
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Wow was fuer ein Schwanz ...
the problem with porn nowadays is the constant over screaming.. this guy is very long.. but she not taking half of it before she screams :(
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I would never want a dick that big, the feeling of putting it in all the way is the best, plus i like to have cum that i can shoot and not just drip out.
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Detroit bankruptcy challenged on constitutional grounds
Public labor unions took aim at Detroit's historic bankruptcy filing on Monday, asking a U.S. court to toss the city's bid for protection from its creditors because it is constitutionally flawed on both the state and federal levels.
A union that represents public-sector workers even took the unusual step of arguing that Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy code, under which municipalities seek protection from their creditors, violates the U.S. Constitution.
But as a midnight deadline for filing objections to the bankruptcy passed, Detroit's bondholders were conspicuously absent from the long list of unions, pension funds and individual creditors lining up to argue against bankruptcy.
Unions representing the city's firefighters and police alleged that state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr had failed to negotiate in good faith, stating "there were no negotiations."
Under U.S. bankruptcy code, Detroit must prove it is insolvent and has negotiated with creditors in good faith, or there were too many creditors to make negotiations feasible, in order to be certified by a federal judge for a bankruptcy proceeding.
For his part, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a filing that even if the bankruptcy case continues, the city cannot be allowed to ignore state constitutional protections for retirement benefits earned by its employees.
Schuette's filing does not ask the judge to prevent Detroit's bankruptcy from proceeding.
Unions and the city's two public pension funds made similar arguments in their filings, claiming a bankruptcy filing will lead to an unconstitutional reduction in retirement benefits.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25, in its filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit, argued that Chapter 9 encroaches on states' rights.
The union made more conventional legal arguments as well.
It argued that Detroit, which last month filed for what would rank as the largest-ever U.S. municipal bankruptcy, has not proven it is insolvent and has not negotiated in good faith with its creditors.
AFSCME also said Michigan's emergency manager law, which enabled Detroit to file for bankruptcy on July 18, violates the state constitution because the law does not explicitly protect retirement benefits for public workers.
The United Auto Workers, whose members work for the city, also filed an objection early Monday evening, claiming that Gov. Rick Snyder violated Michigan's constitution when he permitted Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr to file for bankruptcy.
A June 14 "Proposal to Creditors" made roughly a month before the bankruptcy filing "serves as the vehicle of Governor Snyder and EM Orr to use federal bankruptcy law to impair pensions protected from impairment" by the Michigan constitution, the UAW said in its objection.
AFSCME's arguments were adopted by two other city unions -SEIU Local 517 and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 324 - in separate filings.
Municipal bankruptcy experts said the U.S. Supreme Court settled Chapter 9's constitutionality in 1938.
Jim Spiotto, an attorney at Chapman and Cutler, said as long as a state allows a local government to file for bankruptcy, as in Detroit's case, states' rights are not at issue.
"I'm sure somebody at the bankruptcy court level brought it up before, but I don't think (the argument) lasted very long," he said.
An AFSCME spokesman did not return messages seeking comment on the federal constitutional argument.
Schuette, the Michigan attorney general, said in his filing that Detroit is bankrupt, and the governor was authorized to allow the city's bankruptcy petition.
"However, throughout this bankruptcy process, protections enshrined in the Michigan Constitution by the citizens of our state must be honored, respected and followed," Schuette said, pointing to a constitutional prohibition against diminishing or impairing accrued retirement benefits for public workers.
He added unaccrued benefits can still be part of proceedings.
Clock Ticking
Prior to the 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time deadline set for Monday night by U.S. Judge Steven Rhodes, who is overseeing Detroit's case, objections had been expected by bondholders and bond insurers.
Members of both groups have challenged an agreement the city reached with counter parties to interest-rate swaps that would enable the city to unwind its swaps contracts at a discounted rate.
No explanation was immediately available for why no objection was filed by bondholders and bond insurers. Bond insurers, which step in and make debt payments on the city's behalf when it cannot meet its obligations, are particularly at risk after Orr in June announced plans to default on Detroit debt he considers unsecured.
In a court filing earlier this month, Detroit released a list of creditors, including current, former and retired workers, that filled 3,504 pages. An initial filing in the case by Orr said that "further negotiations with all of the city's various stakeholders is impracticable."
Orr's filing included a litany of Detroit's financial woes, including more than $18 billion in debt and other obligations, with nearly $12 billion of that amount considered unsecured.
Detroit, a former manufacturing powerhouse and cradle of the U.S. automotive industry and Motown music, has struggled for decades as companies moved or closed, crime surged and its population fell from a peak of 1.8 million in the 1950s to around 700,000 currently. The city's revenue fell short of spending, while its budgets and borrowing ballooned.
Orr will respond "specifically and completely" to the objections in court, said his spokesman, Bill Nowling.
"Mr. Orr believes he has surpassed the legal standard of negotiating in good faith with creditors and stakeholders," Nowling said. "He submitted a proposed restructuring plan to creditors on June 14."
About 50 individuals filed objections at the federal court in Detroit on Monday morning. The group was organized by the Detroit chapter of the National Action Network, a national civil rights organization founded by Rev. Al Sharpton.
The group's objection cites potential constitutional problems with a Michigan law that allowed for the bankruptcy filing and claims that the judge did not allow enough time for objection filings.
Rev. Charles Williams II, the chapter's president, said many residents, himself included, received notice only last week that they were parties of interest who could object to the filing.
"The process hasn't been as clear and transparent as it should have," Williams said. "Many Detroit residents received letters giving them the opportunity to file for an objection and they didn't even know they received it. They weren't properly notified."
Rhodes has scheduled October 23 for the start of a hearing to determine if Detroit is eligible to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9. If Detroit is deemed eligible for municipal bankruptcy, it would be the biggest such case in U.S. history.
Detroit's largest unsecured creditors are its two pension funds, which have claims totaling $3.74 billion in estimated unfunded liabilities, according to a court filing by the city.
The remainder of the city's top 20 creditors include bondholders of $1.47 billion of certificates of participation that Detroit sold for its pension funds and hundreds of million dollars of general obligation bonds.
The Detroit Institute of Arts said on Monday it will not file an objection to the bankruptcy. The DIA has become embroiled in the city's case because its assets, which include works by Van Gogh and Matisse, could be sold to pay Detroit's debt. However, Orr has said he hopes he does not have to sell DIA assets.
Rhodes on Monday appointed Chicago attorney Robert Fishman as the fee examiner in the case.
[Source: By Joseph Lichterman and Bernie Woodall, Reuters, Detroit, 20Aug13]
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1. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologyPeterUK Dec 21, 2010 4:14 PM (in response to zorax9b)
There is no 2TB limit on your H57 chipset if this is the storage array (non-bootable) for you to use GPT.
Your Initializing is not done yet and yes its normal for a big array to take hours if not days..., having Write-back cache enabled from the start may speed that up.
Once done enable Write-back cache in rapid storage-technology (RST) and see how it performs then.
2. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologyzorax9b Dec 25, 2010 3:19 AM (in response to PeterUK)
It took 4 days to initialize and the write back cache is switched on now.
The result is better now but still not as expected. Read performance is fine but write performance goes down to 19 Mb/sec depending on the transfer size. This does not happen, when I used the single discs without array configuration. So I still believe that something is wrong with the RST driver.
Or is there anything else which must be tuned?
3. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologyPeterUK Dec 25, 2010 1:14 PM (in response to zorax9b)
These 2.5" Toshiba disks are only spinning at 5400rpm which doesn't help.
There is a check box to turn off windows write-cache buffer flushing in Device manager > disk drives > your Array name > properties > policies tab that may improve things.
What strip and NTFS format cluster size (Allocation unit size) did you use? You can try reformatting to 8K (8192) size and see if that helps or try another strip size.
Note: if you used MBR and not GPT (from disk management) you can not add another drive to the array to increase beyond 2TB.
4. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technology
I can second that the performance of the intel RST software Raid5 seems really slow on writes.
I have a p67 asus board with 16GB of memory and a i7 2600K. Have a 6*2TB Hitachi 7K3000 in a RAID5 array using win7 64bit and the latest RST drivers.
Installation was a breeze compared to some other implementations and the RST interface works really great however the performance was a disappointment.
The write cache is enabled in RST for my volume. I am seeing readspeeds of around 350-400 MB/s but write speed is showing as 60MB/s?!
That is incredibly low, even less than the rated write speed of a single drive?!
In my application I am dependant on both write and read performance.
Is Intel throttling this software solution? Why is it this slow? I have previously had hardware XOR-accelerated raidcards and they were a lot faster. However a modern CPU should easily handle the parity calculations especially compared to a 5 year old RAID-card with 256MB of memory on it?
I feel dissappointed and cheated at the moment What is it that is slowing down the RAID?
Maybe someone at Intel could give some hints and pointers to improve performance? Maybe a setting to increase the write cache?
5. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologysMaestr0 Apr 6, 2011 9:32 PM (in response to Michael Gotberg )
I want to chime in too. I've have a nice stable build with a Asus P67 Sabertooth (B3),Intel 2600k with 8GB ram, Crucial C300 main drive and three Hitachi 5k3000 drives in raid 5 default settings. All hard drives are on the Intel controller with SATA III cables. In IOmeter I am seeing horrible results for sequential 256K writes. I am seeing 7.4MB/sec writes and 205 MB/sec reads(about what I would expect). These results were with the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver software V10.1.0.1008. I didn't save the results with the older CD drivers but they were more on the order of 110MB/sec read and 60MB/sec write, radically different before the update/reboot. Something is definately not correct with the write speeds. My array is a bulk media store and boy does it take forever to move files to it! I am using 661GB of 3.63TB and growing every day! I do want to say that the Crucial C300 is cooking though! 329MB/sec read and 143MB/sec writes on FW006. With a GTX560 and CUDA's help 2hr DVD H.264 transcodes in 6min! I plan to test the drives further but I have no disk/array errors. Is this in any way related to the recalled chipsets? Are the drivers really concervative now?
6. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologySunfox Apr 8, 2011 2:32 AM (in response to sMaestr0)
This is probably not a particularly useful replay since I'm not using RAID 5 on my system, but I wanted to point out that I've always avoided RAID 5 on Intel controllers specifically due to dismal write performance. "FakeRAID"such as this is OK for striping and mirroring, but you really still need dedicated cards for parity-based RAID (whether it makes sense or not).
On my current system I'm running 4 x 2TB consumer 7200RPM drives as RAID 10 with a small RAID 0 portion at the beginning as a scratch disk, on an ICH10R.
7. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technology
I have yet to see any official response to anything on these forums especially regarding Rapid storage technology.
A lot of the documentation on the rapid storage technology site is outdated and ambigous. I am used to installing and setting up RAID-systems and recently installed a RAID5 system with 6 disks on a brand new p67 motherboard. Installation and the setup was very easy and actually better than many other RAID-competitors (3ware,LSI, Adaptec etc). However you cannot specify the amount of write cache and the policy you want for it just turn it on or off. The more proffesional systems have a lot more settings for optimizing the performance but I am fine with Intel making it a bit more simple.
On the website is says only 4 drives are supported for RAID10 (the reason I went for RAID5) but some users have gotten it to work with 6 drives. I wonder if it is supported and if it is possible to migrate from a 6 drive RAID5 to a 6 drive RAID10? I know it does not state that on their website but that information is generally pretty outdated.
My biggest gripe by far concerning Intel Rapid Storage Technology is the abyssmal write performance on RAID5!
I am aware of the problem with alignment issues affecting performance and hence use 512k sector drives (2TB Hitachi 7k3000). Write cache is enabled etc.
With this setup I am currently getting around 450-490 MB/s read speed which is great, however my write speed is around 30-40 MB/s?!
I have 16GB of RAM, a 2600K running at 4,5 Ghz and I would assume that this could perform the parity calculations needed for writing?
When performing write tests the CPU never goes above 10% so it is not lack of computing power.
This is about a third of the write speed of a single harddrive?! When searching this forum and looking on some other tests on the internet other users seem to be getting between 5-80 MB/s write speed (depending on the number and type of drives).
This is totally subpar and not at all acceptable, how can Intel boasts about all the advantages of Rapid Storage Technology with this beeing the reality of RAID5 performance?!
Nowhere on the site are there any performance figures quoted, the reason for this is quite obvious.
Also apparently the RAID10 implementation is inferior too (due to them not optimizing how they write and read from the striped drives within each set).
Most people respond to these posts that you should get a hardware raidcard. I have however done that several times before but was curious after reading all the marketing stuff on the website here. If Intel can not deliver acceptable RAID5 write performance it should state that on the website so people do not have to waste time installing this crap and beeing dissappointed. This really drags down my impression of Intel as a serious actor in the storage business. Be honest and clear Intel, people will always appreciate that. Look for instance at what OCZ is doing in regards to their SSD-drives. My company will by OCZ SSDs from now on. State on the website that RAID5 write performance will be really low and if that is needed Intel Rapid Storage is not suitable.
Read speed seems to be on par with what I see from my highend controllers so if you are mostly contrained by readspeed Rapid Storage is great.
8. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologymichaelgotberg Apr 8, 2011 2:47 AM (in response to Michael Gotberg )
I have written to several large online magazines regarding this issue (Tomshardware,Anandtech,X-bit labs etc) and and have some replies that they are looking into this.
9. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologysMaestr0 Apr 8, 2011 8:28 PM (in response to michaelgotberg)
Glad to hear the big reviewers are looking into this. I spent a ton of hard earned money on this build and have little time to get to the bottom of this myself.
This RAID 5 array was my biggest concern with this build, but I was expecting more problems with consumer HDDs dropping out of the array, I wasn't expecting severe performance problems. If it wasn't for the well performing SSD main drive, this build would be nearly useless for video editing/transcoding. Anyone seeing any correlation to display drivers? Some other people were seeing problems after adding drivers to both on die and external video cards. This is a bit subjective but with the Windows drag and drop dialog I'm seeing some excellent burst speeds with transfers under 1GB but if I copy one or several GB+ files the transfer rates appear to drop off severely. I know any Second Gen iSeries should be able to compute parity with ease, is there some cache assumption being made by the drivers that are crippleing our arrays? Intel? Is there a human or cyborg looking into this for us somewhere?
10. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technology
I am seeing the same issue as well. I had a 3 disk (Samsung Spinpoint F4) Raid 5 on an H67 chipset and the write was about 80-90mbps, which is ridiculous for Raid 5. I know I do not have a $800 raid card but my Core i3 2100 CPU should easily be able to handle parity calculations. When transferring large files the CPU% is a measley 0-1% so it is not the CPU's fault that it is so slow. I also added another disk to the array same make/model and Intel RST is in the "Migrating Data" stage. It is going at the rate of about .1% ever 2-3 hours, which i do not understand either. Again, my CPU is running at 0% during this. Why can the Intel driving realize you are not doing anything else on the computer and use more CPU cycles to add another drive to the array? Hopefully this is a simple driver issue and can be resolved soon.
Will intel release a statement and let us know they are at least looking into this? If i would have known this was going to be a problem from the beginning i would have just bought a highpoint raid card.
11. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologysMaestr0 Apr 11, 2011 7:49 AM (in response to sMaestr0)
The saga continues... So I upgraded my bios last night and made the unfortunate mistake of letting windows boot before turning RAID back on in the bios. I lost two weeks worth of work and several months worth of digital pictures after two of three disk showed up as non-member disks. However this now afforded me the ability to play with my RAID 5 array a bit.
I started playing with Stripe and allocation sizes and have some interesting news. I decided to use the 128k stripe and 32k allocation unit size and found a huge increase in write performance and a noticeable increase in read performance. I now have reads that are over 260MB/sec and writes that are 205MB/sec. That is a huge increase from 7-9MB/sec writes. Would this suggest severe alignment issues with default 64K stripe and windows default allocation unit size (4K right?)?
12. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologymichaelgotberg Apr 12, 2011 9:05 AM (in response to sMaestr0)
Very interesting results There are some sites that have tested different RAID stripe sizes but for the most part the conclusion seems to be that it will not make that big of a difference as you are seeing. Your is about a 20x increase?! I have read that one of the problems with RAID5 implementations is that the controller needs data that is adjacent to the data to be written in order to calculate parity and if the controller (software or hardware) is not smart it can incur multiple read requests for every write and hence slow down write speed.
What program are you using for testing it?
I have 4kb allocation unit and a stripe size of 128kb. Are your drives advanced format drives (4096 byte sector size)?
Hmm I wonder what happens if you put the allocation size in windows to equal the stripe size?
13. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologysMaestr0 Apr 13, 2011 9:16 AM (in response to michaelgotberg)
I used IOmeter to test my array. I used the following settings:
Maximum Disk Size = 2048000 sectors.
Transfer Request Size = 256 Kilobytes
Percent Random/Sequential Distribution = 100% Sequential
Percent Read/Write Distribution = 100% Write
I can post a CSV of the results if you want.
I didn't happen to test equal stripe and allocation size and after getting the performance I was expecting I copied my data back to the array. The disks I'm using are Hitachi 5k3000 which are still 512 byte sector size. Before my data catastrophe I was using the default 64K stripe and 4K allocation unit. I've normally not had any problem with the default settings but in this case it made all the difference. My array is media storage (pictures, MP3's, H.264 DVD rips) so the larger block sizes are probably useful anyhow. Anyone else have the ability/desire to test equal stripe and allocation sizes?
14. Re: useless RAID5 performance with rapid storage-technologysagsagman Apr 20, 2011 5:24 AM (in response to zorax9b)
I'll chime in as well with my input. I'll prelude my post with a quick bulleted summary before delving into details:
- Small Win. storage server, based on IRST RAID5.
- Optimizing RAID volume parameters can improve write throughput about 10x, but only for relatively small (<0.5GB) writes.
- Even with optimized RAID volume parameters, sustained throughput for large (>0.5GB) sequential writes is horrible (can get as low as 4.5MB/s), with poor multi-I/O performance.
Detailed report
I've set up a few months ago a small server, based on Win2008R2 x64, Gigabyte H57M-USB3 MoBo with Core i3 @ 2.93GHz and 2GB RAM. To keep energy consumption and costs low, I've decided to use Intel's RST with RAID5. Obviously the system's CPU ought to be sufficient for parity calculations, especially since as a storage server there are no other computation-intensive tasks for this system.
Storage is 3 HDDs, each is a 2TB Seagate ST32000542AS (which are not AF, i.e. have 512 bytes sectors) set up as 2 RAID5 volumes -- a small 100GB volume for boot, and the rest of the space allocated to a data storage volume.
When I was initially setting up the system, I've tested its performance with HD Tune Pro 4.6. I've noticed write performance was bad, so I tried various combinations of the RAID volume settings that I can control, which is limited to stripe size and write cache. Enabling write cache had the most perceiveable improvement (about 6x), but stripe size optimization had also a respectable improvement (up to around 54%). My conclusion was that the RAID volume should be set up with 64KB or 128KB stripe size, and have write cache enabled.
So after having found the optimal settings for the array, I went ahead and finalized the installation, and started using the system for storage, as I intended. However, I was frustrated to find out that while write performance was reasonable for relatively small transfers, big transfers (i.e. over 0.5GB) were horrible.
I do get an initial throughput of about 50MB/s, but after several seconds it starts dropping steadily, and can get as low as 4.5MB/s for really big files (of several GBs).
Even worse than this abysmal throughtput, when such a transfer is taking place, the server is pretty much unusable for any other purpose. Simultaneous access by other processes or users is slow and unresponsive while such a big file is being written. You can't even play an MP3 from the server while another user is writing a big file.
I used Windows' Resource Monitor (perfmon) to monitor the system during such transfers. CPU usage is always very low (less than 10%, with perfmon itself using 6-7%). The "Disk activity" tab revelase something interesting: the "disk response time" column shows that response time for the file being written starts at 3sec, then rises steadily and can get as high as 13sec. I feel such a figure, for a local HDD system is an indication of a serious problem.
Some (probably) insignificant information: system was originally installed with RTM release (no service pack), and I've recently upgraded to SP1 - with no preceivable performance difference (neither productive nor counterproductive).


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Link TuesdayJune 15, 2004
Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable, it's time to clear out the backlog of links that usually make it into the Dailies.
VisitorVille is a whole new level of server-side stats; think SimCity for web traffic. Your site is represented as an isometric city, and your visitors are the pedestrians and automobiles that roam its streets. Philipp Lenssen shares his impressions of the service, which are favourable. §
In Exercise in Customer Experience, Mark Hurst compares the customer experience of a theme restaurant, a dentist's office with a Star Trek motif, and a flashy e-commerce site that spent all of its money on image. Strange bedfellows these designers make, but Hurst effectively illustrates that understanding what the customer expects is the key to success. §
User testing? Free beer! Erik Burns advocates café testing as a quick, easy, and cheap way of gaining valuable user feedback. Great idea. §
AIGA symbol signs, free of charge — designed for airports and large international events where there may be more than one common language spoken, AIGA released the original set 30 years ago and have expanded it over time. Now the entire set is downloadable and ready for use in your work. §
The Dangers of Judging Web Designs Superficially — Joshua Porter thinks we're all a little too quick to offer a throwaway opinion. It's difficult, if not impossible to know ahead of time all factors involved in someone else's work when you're not on the team; while constructive criticism can be helpful, perhaps there is a line to be drawn. Joshua believes superficial commentary "lowers expectations and creates a market where looking good is the same as being good." Interesting perspective. §
WCAG and the Myth of Accessibility — in perhaps an inaccurately named (and overly contentious) article on what he sees as an overall dismissal of cognitive disabilities on the web, Kevin Leitch sets out to raise awareness of the issue which he has certainly accomplished. The article is long, and the comments are longer, but it's worth your time to read them all. The more you know… §
:hover emulation for IE5+ — Janos Horvath offers a variation on the popular CSS
:hover menus meme, this one compatible back to IE5 and presumably quicker than other solutions that end up parsing an entire CSS file for
:hover instances. Downside: an extra class is needed in the markup. Not a bad tradeoff though, and worth investigation. §
How to survive creative burnout — former Microsoft program manager Scott Berkun offers advice on pulling yourself out of a creative rut. My advice? Change your scenery. A new route in to the office does wonders for your outlook when you get there. §
Cutaway Technical Illustrations — What 720 hours of illustration gets you. (Besides creative burnout. See above.) Amazing. §
The real reason you should care about web standards. — Design By Fire on the benefits of a competitive market. §
Fireworks and XML — Andy Clarke demonstrates using an XML control file to automatically generate the various headers and graphical text items for your site through Fireworks. Now this is a reason to use Fireworks if I've ever seen one, thanks Andy. (somewhat related — today's A List Apart article, Dynamic Text Replacement) §
Firefox 0.9 is hot off the grill. 1.0 is just around the corner. §
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In Exercise in Customer Experience, Mark Hurst compares the customer experience of a theme restaurant, a dentists office with a Star Trek motif, and a flashy e-commerce sent that spent all of its money on image.
e-commerce…site? :)
That VisitorVille is pretty funny stuff! :D
Thanks Peter, fixed.
my brain cramped imagining myself putting all that detail into the cruise ship cutaway
That cutaway was amazing, and the last design by fire article very interesting. Nice links.
Thanks for the link to the article on surviving creative burnout. Very timely. I've tried some of the things mentioned there, as well as some that aren't (do something in a less familiar medium), and tomorrow I may try the new route to work trick. At some point, something's gotta give: either my creativity comes back or I have to go back to school.
Firefox 0.9 has a lot of improvements, one of which is the better handling of themes and extensions. The related Mozilla Update site could arguably use a little Shea treatment though :)
Regarding the :hover HTC mimic, I'm biased, obviously, but I think the Suckerfish methodology (which was the first to mimic the :hover pseudo-class as far as I know) is far superior.
And how's about this? :hover AND :active AND :focus and even :target (woo!) in IE! - http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/
The :hover mimic page also contains this, which is more interesting, I think:
And Patrick, the suckerfish dropdowns don't work for IE if one is using image replacement for the dropdown links, so I'm probably going to give this new method a whirl.
John - forget about the dropdowns - you can use the Suckerfish methods to mimic pseudo classes and apply them however you want. At the end of the day, the Suckerfish script produces exactly the same results as that HTC method mentioned here, it just does it in a better way.
I've used StuffIt to get into most .SEA archive files. It's kind of hit or miss, I'm assuming depending on the software used to create the .SEA to start with.
Hope that helps.
But I don't want to forget about the dropdowns - it's a problem for me. :)
I can't get IE to work using the Suckerfish method when the pseudo-class is being applied to elements that use have image replacement applied to them. The only way I've found to get dropdown menus at from elements with replaced images at all is with a structure like this:
But this means that even if I apply a class of "over" to the div or the li, it breaks- the div is interfering with JavaScripts application of the temporary class.
That means I have to use text-only menus.
You might be right that this new method won't work either, but I suppose I ought to give it a try. :)
@#7: Too bad about the new default theme… Too mac-ish for a windows-machine, too windows-ish for a mac, and just horrible for gnome/linux. Fits right in there with KDE/linux, though, as it's already horrible to look at ;)
Any recommendations for a good program for Windows or Linux for opening .SEA files? The AIGA signs archive is in that format (instead of zip, gzip, or something more standard for the rest of us) for some unusual reason.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th May 2012 19:10 UTC
The next frontier for Apple - and other technology companies - to conquer: the television market. Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, has confirmed his company will be building a television for Apple in conjunction with Sharp. Since I bought a brand-new top-of-the-line TV late last year, I've been thinking a lot about what could be improved about the state of TV today, and as crazy as it seems, I'm actually not that dissatisfied.
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday said Los Angeles County jails have not been treating Muslim inmates fairly and warned the Sheriff's Department to change its policies within two weeks or face a legal fight.
ACLU attorney Jessica Price said her organization's letter to interim Sheriff John Scott is a last-ditch effort to convince the Sheriff's Department to afford Muslims the same weekly services Jews and Christians receive.
"In the letter, we're giving him two weeks to address it. Otherwise we'll just go to court," Price said.
She said the ACLU, a court-appointed monitor of L.A.'s jails, has met with and written to the department for more than two years in hopes of securing equal rights for Muslims inside Men's Central Jail and Twin Towers.
Department officials, under then-Sheriff Lee Baca, even agreed with the ACLU, Price said. But the problems persist, she said.
"Without a written commitment, I don't think that it's actually going to change," Price said.
Now, the ACLU is finalizing more than 20 declarations from volunteers and inmates, Price said.
Asked for comment, Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida issued a brief statement:
"The Sheriff's Department remains committed to complying with all Federal and State laws that apply to inmates entrusted to our care and custody," the statement said. "This includes their guarantee of religious freedom.
"The Department has been in contact with the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and the ACLU to discuss issues pertaining to Muslim inmates housed within the Los Angeles County Jail system.
"We have, and will continue to meet with all faith based organizations to ensure that inmates of all faiths have access to the religious and spiritual services of their choice.
"The Sheriff's Department has a Religious and Volunteer Services Unit in the jail. Their primary purpose is to coordinate the delivery of religious services to the inmate population. There are currently over 2,000 representatives from the various ministries (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Christian Scientist, Jehovah's Witness, Episcopalian) who volunteer to provide for the spiritual needs of the men and women incarcerated within our jail system."
The ACLU authored a scathing 2011 report on deputy brutality inside L.A.'s jails and filed a 2012 lawsuit accusing Baca and his top brass of failing to stop it.
Jailhouse problems also landed the department at the center of an FBI investigation that led to federal charges against 21 current and former sheriff's officials last year and earlier this year.
While some of the ACLU's previous efforts to secure rights for Muslims have made a difference, inmates are still routinely denied prayer gatherings on their weekly holy day, Friday, volunteer chaplain Shakeel Syed said.
"There are a lot of good individuals who try to help you," Syed said. "But if I don't have those individuals on a certain day, I don't know whether I'm going to be able to hold services."
Syed, who spent much of the last 30 years volunteering his religious guidance at federal and state prisons, first walked into county jail several years ago as part of a religious coalition Baca tapped to quell a war between black and Latino inmates.
Religion, Syed said, helps some inmates change their perspective and refocus their lives.
"In so little time I see so much transformation," Syed said. "That's my sole motivation to keep going back."
The department, Syed said, has made some progress, adding that over the past year halal food — conforming to Islamic dietary laws — was added to jail menus.
For a time, it even seemed like Men's Central Jail was turning around, he noted, as inmates of the facility were permitted to attend services during last year's Ramadan. But those gatherings, Price said, have become fewer and farther between over the past two months.
Twin Towers, meanwhile, has made no progress in the way of services, Syed said, pointing out that when he goes to the facility, jailers limit his volunteer hours to "walking the rows" — meeting with locked-up inmates one by one.
Deputies, Syed said, claim security risks prevent them from letting inmates gather for prayer. But those same inmates, Syed said, can get together for less productive activities.
"The irony is they let them gather to watch TV and play cards," Syed said. "But they're not allowed to simply hold prayers together."
Jailers, he said, also claim there aren't enough volunteers to hold weekly services, Syed said. Deputies fear that if they let inmates run religious gatherings, those leaders may use that authority to unholy ends, Syed said. The simple solution, Syed offered, is to rotate which inmates run the weekly services.


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What kept these startups from joining the club? They met entrenched competitors that proved to be much more nimble than the typical big company ever used to be. Digital Equipment's fatal lack of response to the disruptions created by the PC is a case in point. But this time around, the big established firms have responded much more quickly with products of their own. And that makes it a lot tougher for the little guys to get big.
These days, when an entrepreneur develops a winning technology, it is a sure way of attracting the attention of people like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, who have almost certainly read Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma. In fact, they could have written the book, because that's exactly how Microsoft and Oracle came to power. Each of these companies developed new products, MS-DOS and the relational database, that changed the competitive landscape to their advantage.
Because large software companies are responding faster to new technologies, entrepreneurs are finding the going a lot tougher. Innovation may still originate with the startup, but it is the large company that is often the one to capitalize on it, either by buying up a small firm or developing its own product. And that's a good thing for the CIO, because it provides more choice. The CIO can go with a startup if it is important to deploy the product first, or wait a bit longer and buy a comparable product from one of the established companies, with all of the benefits that provides.
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PEORIA — They come for the tractor displays but some might return for the job.
That's the thinking behind the program held Thursday at the Caterpillar Visitors Center in Downtown Peoria where 57 Chicago-area high school students toured the facility.
Organized by the Family Centered Educational Agency in South Holland, a group that seeks to help young people succeed in school, students from Thornton Township, Thornridge and Thornwood High Schools made the trip to Peoria.
Before taking a tour of the facility, students first heard about job opportunities at Caterpillar Inc. and what they might need to do to get a job with the company.
Molly Steffen, a Caterpillar Inc. employee who addressed the students, pointed out that 1.2 million computing jobs across the country will be available through 2020.
Students heard about jobs available in a wide variety of fields, including manufacturing.
In addition to getting good grades, students should work on their ability to communicate, she said. "We love to see people excited about their career field," said Steffen.
Students such as Samuel Stokes, a sophomore at Thornridge High School, appreciated getting the information that Steffen and others provided. "I have an interest in engineering so the fact that Caterpillar helps with college expenses caught my attention. I also liked hearing about the travel involved. I like to travel," said Stokes.
Ashley Walker, a sophomore from Thornwood High School, said the tractors on display at the center held her interest.
Levetta Parker, the FCEA outreach specialist, said the trip to the Caterpillar center was designed to alert students to the importance of pursuing science and mathematics classes. Another student group was scheduled to visit in April, she said.
Center manager Kathryn Spitznagle said that some 60 school groups have visited the Caterpillar facility since opening in October 2012. "We've got 11 more scheduled for April and May," she said.
"They're coming from everywhere. Teachers are telling teachers," said Spitznagle, referring to field trip opportunities at the center. Caterpillar sends out a monthly newsletter to 650 schools throughout the state, she said.
"Schools like the fact that a field trip here is very affordable. Children under the age of 12 are free and the admission cost per high school student is just $3," she said.
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PEORIA — They come for the tractor displays but some might return for the job.


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A local TEA Party Chapter is planning a meeting this weekend in the wake of the passage of the new healthcare law. Organizer Laddie Oliver says they see measures such as these as fiscally irresponsible. Oliver stresses that while people may feel upset over government spending, it's not an excuse to resort to violence.
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A city in western Newfoundland where the people are very cool, there is a mill and there are lots of potholes in the roads.
by cornerbrooker December 15, 2008
Fat-ass Charles Pender was once the mayor until 2010 when retired Wal-Mart greeter Neville Greeley took his place after a 30000 vote lead. Charles afterwards attacked a nuclear power facility and got a life sentence in the Detroit Women's Penitentiary. Back to Corner Brook, it is a beautiful city in Western Newfoundland, with lots of potholes, and nobody to take the time to fix them. Former celebrity and Canadian Idol contestant Rex Goudie also lives about 650kms away from Corner Brook. The residents of Corner Brook follow a daily routine of getting out of bed, listening to the "news" on the attemped news station CFCB, then go to work complaining about every god-damn thing.
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I n October, I am headed to Portugal to make a presentation at the conference of the European Association of Surfing Doctors.
One of my topics is on "The Declining Competency in the Aging Surfer." In doing my research and compiling data, I came across one of my favorite surfing books, "The Tao of Surfing, Finding Depth at Low Tide," by Michael A. Allen.
Having had a Catholic and Quaker education in my undergraduate and graduate school days, I have opted to lean toward a Surfing Zen Quaker philosophy of life and attend the Church of the Early Morning Surf on a daily basis.
When I found Michael Allen"s book in 1997, it fit right into my beliefs and lifestyle.
The book was written by Allen after his brother died of AIDS. It has four chapters that have a great deal of depth and understanding of the Tao and the East/West comparative philosophies. It also investigates the meaning of life with a surfing identity and the journey one is on in the "ebb and flow" of the life cycle.
So what the heck does this have to do with writing a column in the sports section of the Monterey County Herald? Surfing can be competitive, it can be an artistic challenge, it is an outdoor, all-encompassing sports experience or it can be a very self-spiritual endeavor.
I have read Michael Allen"s book many times and it is dog-eared and underlined throughout. I found many ideas, thoughts and words that make my presentation topic on "The Aging Surfer" have a bit more meaning and understanding for younger surfers.
One of the ideas that comes across clearly is the sensory aspect of being in the water. Divers, surfers and swimmers know the multisensory feeling in the water.
The temperature of the water, the clarity, the saltiness and the flow of the swell movement are sensory. To be able to identify closely with the senses and separate them, give more meaning to that plunge into the ocean.
There is also a lot about adjusting to the changes the ocean brings with it and the attitude one has with these changes. Surfing is an adventure of learning and evolving skills that adjust to locations, surf conditions and aging. With aging and a slow decline of timing and skills, the surfer must adjust to this by compensating with a change in style, equipment and attitude.
Surfing is hard to give up, but if one starts to think about ways to change your approach to a passion or hobby, when it becomes difficult, that is the beginning of the adjustment to aging. I hate to say this, but I would have given up surfing several years ago (I can hear and see local surfers applauding), because it was no fun anymore. Stand up paddling is a gift, because it maintains the thrill of surfing in a new way and keeps you in the water.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, in her articles and books, details the stages one goes through in dealing with death. As surfers and water people, we go through the same stages of anger, denial, bargaining and finally accepting where we are at. Many of us have former surfing buddies who just quit and go cold turkey in regard to surfing.
In prepping for my presentation, it was really a superb moment, when I was able to turn to Michael Allen"s book and find an old friend to help me find the needed words and insight to add meaning to my research. Declining ability to do some of your life"s passions is not fun. But if a bit of reflection and adjustment can be directed to the activity, a workable solution can be reached.
As Al Jardine sings, "Don"t fight the sea, don"t fight the sea. Just let it be."
Or as Saburo, my Hawaiian surging mentor says, "You go till you no mo can go."
Thanks for letting me go on a short philosophical side trip. See you in the water.
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Skip to comments.POLL: Did School Officials Go Too Far?
Posted on 10/13/2009 10:15:13 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
First grader Zachary Christie was recently suspended for bringing a Cub Scout camping utensil with him to school. The utensil combines a fork, spoon and a knife into one tool and Christie wanted to use it at lunchtime. His school has a "zero-tolerance" policy on weapons and the camping tool violates the district's rule. He is facing 45 days in the district's reform school. Did school officials go too far?
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Poll to FReep!
"A" students bring whatever weapons they want.
Let the riffraff be afraid.
Absurdity RULES. Bad Boy! Common reason doesn't exist in most schools.
LOL! Those folding tools with spoon, fork and butter knife have been used by Boy and Girl Scouts for many decades.
If Zach really want to kill someone in school, he'd have brought a peanut butter sandwich
Zero tolerance rules in public schools are not really intended to protect the students. They are intended to protect school administrators from liability. They also are intended to excuse school administrators from exercising any form of judgment or common sense. If the zero tolerance rule dictates an outcome, it can't be the administrator's fault. Of course, a chimpanzee can follow a zero tolerance rule.
Yes the school officials went to far. They should be taken out back and shot. Quickly.
[hed have brought a peanut butter sandwich]
You put in a "sarc," but you would not be that far off. In the last school my kids went to, they instituted a new policy that said if you sent your kids to school with a peanut based product, the bag had to be marked in big letters and your child would eat on the stage, away from all the other kids to avoid allergic reactions.
If you failed to mark the bag, your child could receive "In-School Suspension" due to "assault" on other kids! I am not kidding!!
The policy has since changed, but needless to say, it took came into being because most parents were NOT involved in the school district. Luckily, parents came around. I tell people, if you are sitting by when it happens, then you LET IT HAPPEN!!
Society has went so far left with political correctness that we don't look at the individual to judge anything these days. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
We don't see individuals anymore we only see groups. How sad has this become?
[They are intended to protect school administrators from liability.]
BINGO! We have a winner!
Of course, it was sold to the parents and the public as...wait for it....wait....FOR THE SAFETY OF THE CHILDREN!
Huge, brown BS flag on that one!!! Of course, they now use BS stats to show that "violence is down" on campus so the zero tolerance is obviously working - of course they don't compare apples to apples, they compare weapon-related fights to the overall numbers which is ALWAYS skewed!
Is this what the school districts want? How about confiscating all tire irons from teachers cars in the parking lot. They could use those implements to beat kids you know. Somebody should use them on the administrators to beat common sense back into them.
62% Yes. A 'zero tolerance' policy leaves school officials no room to make decisions on a case-by-case basis.They left out the correct answer: Yes: This is one of the stupidest, most mind numbingly assine decision of the Third Millenium.
34% Yes. Zachary is a young boy who did nothing wrong.
2% No. It seems harmless but what if the knife in the utensil had hurt another student?
2% No. This sends a message to every student in the district including those in high school.
<1% I'm not sure.
Yeah, a coupla months in state custody'll straighten that little snot-nosed punk out. Looks dangerous to me. We'll wipe that smirk off his face.
Agreed, but yes and no are so final, just more than our delicate society can stand these days. And what kind of ditz votes I'm Not Sure? Why do they even waste their time, or is it a joke? Weird!
Another reason for tort reform. School boards are establishing zero tolerance policies so that if little Johnnie brings his cub scout mess kit to show and tell and little Suzie gets a scratch on her finger from it, her parents won't sue the school for 10 million dollars.
Oh I like it, a sharp and on target reply!!!!
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A La Grange man has been arrested and directly indicted for two bank robberies in his hometown.
William Gary Grubbs Jr., 36, was indicted on Monday by an Oldham County Grand Jury on two counts of robbery in the first degree, related to robberies at Farmers Bank of Milton on Highway 53 on April 23 and June 1.
Grubbs was arrested June 25 in Kenton County. Louisville Metro Police charged him with robbery first degree for a bank robbery in Jefferson County.
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The North Oldham Fire District responded to a call around 10:34 p.m. Saturday after lightning struck a Fairway Lane home in Goshen.
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The family who lived in the home was at the scene at the time of the fire but was able to escape the home without injury, he said.
A two-vehicle accident on Interstate 71 last Thursday has claimed the life of a Prospect resident.
Zarifa Malawi, 77, was pronounced dead late Thursday night, after the Chrysler minivan she was a passenger in apparently rear-ended a tractor trailer around mile marker 14 on I-71 southbound.
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A Goshen man pleaded guilty to charges including three counts of first-degree assault and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Donald S. Jefferies, 51, was involved in a motor vehicle accident Feb. 26, that injured a Carroll County family.
A two-vehicle accident on Interstate 71 has left one dead and several others injured, according to Oldham County Police.
Around 9 p.m. Thursday night, OCPD officers responded to an accident between a semi-truck and another vehicle on I-71 Southbound, near the 14 mile marker. According to OCPD, the preliminary investigation shows the vehicle rear-ended the semi-truck.
One person in the vehicle was killed and several others injured, but OCPD said they will not release the names of those killed or injured pending further investigation.
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