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Crawfordsville, Ind., October 8, 2011 – No. 12 ranked Wabash College remained undefeated with a 24-3 win over the Washington University in St. Louis football team on Saturday afternoon at the Byron P. Hollett Little Giant Stadium in Crawfordsville, Ind.
Wabash improves to 5-0 with the victory, while Washington University suffered its third-straight defeat and falls to 2-3 overall. The Bears will look to snap their three-game losing skid at home on Saturday, Oct. 15, against the College of Wooster. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at Francis Field.
Wabash took an early 3-0 following a 41-yard field goal by Ian MacDougall with 1:40 remaining in the first quarter. The Little Giants forced a three-and-out on the ensuing Washington U. offensive possession, and then senior Wes Chamblee returned a punt 67 yards for a touchdown on the final play of the quarter to make it 10-0. The punt return for a touchdown was Chamblee's second of the year. Wabash outgained Washington University 100-28 in the opening quarter of play.
The Bears' defense continued to keep the high-scoring Wabash offense in check, and a late drive by Washington U. got the Bears' on the scoreboard just before half. Junior quarterback Dan Burkett got the Bears across midfield for the first time in the contest following a 33-yard scramble.
Burkett found senior tight end Phill Stoecker for a seven-yard reception on a key 3rd-and-6 to push the ball inside the Wabash 20, and then junior kicker Eric Chalifour booted a 33-yard field goal with 3.3 seconds left to make it 10-3 at half. The Bears were 0-for-6 on third down before Stoecker's reception.
Wabash had a 139-124 advantage in total offense in the first half, and the two teams combined for 11 first downs and 11 punts. Senior punterAustin Morman had six punts for a 46.2 average with a long of 56.
Special teams mistakes continued to haunt the Bears in the third quarter. Washington U.'s defense stopped Wabash on the WU 46-yard line early in the third, but sophomore Tate Byers was called for running into the punter on fourth down allowing the Wabash offense to stay on the field. Seven plays later, quarterback Chase Belton connected with John Horn for an 18-yard fade route to make it 17-3 with 8:05 remaining.
Belton scored from one-yard out to push the lead to 24-3 on a 4th-and-1 midway through the fourth quarter to round out the scoring. He finished the contest 18-of-30 for 199 yards and a TD.
Burkett was 18-of-39 for 190 yards through the air and was sacked three times. He also rushed for a team-high 49 yards on eight carries. Morman hauled in three catches for 51 yards, while Stoecker added three catches for 40 yards. The Bears were limited to 249 yards of total offense, and were 4-of-15 on third down and 1-of-4 on fourth down.
Washington U.'s defense allowed 300 yards of total offense (199-passing; 101-rushing), and limited the Little Giants to 3-of-12 on third down. Senior Nick Hillard led the defensive unit with 10 tackles, while senior Marcus Shelby added a career-best nine stops.
Bear Notebook: The two teams met for the 44th time in school history, with Wabash leading the all-time series, 26-16-2 … Senior Joe Rhein made his 35th-consecutive start at center on Saturday … Byers recorded the second interception of his career late in the third quarter … The Bears are 0-2 against ranked teams this season … Wabash entered the contest ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division III allowing 5.2 points per game … Wabash honored the late James E. McLeod, Washington University Vice Chancellor for Students and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, with a moment of silence prior to kickoff.


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Asking questions - making sense of your own understanding
Explaining by telling how and why
Helping others - by responding to their needs
Helping others - to do things for themselves
Sharing knowledge and reasoning
Finding out what others think - asking for, listening to and making sense of their ideas
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Being concise - communicating thinking
Giving reasons for ideas - communicating reasoning
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Pulling ideas together - sharing, listening, valuing all contributions
Finding out if the group is ready to make a decision - consensus making.
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Fraction Match
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Counters in the Middle
, a 'designer' makes an arrangement of counters without the team seeing it. The team has to agree on the final pattern by asking the minimum number of questions, which requires them to listen to each other, give reasons for their opinions and pull ideas together.
, each learner completes a picture themselves, based on the designer's instructions, but with support and advice from other members of the team. This therefore encourages children to respond to the needs of others, help others do things for themselves and explain by telling how.
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The Award was renamed the Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service in 2008 in recognition of Graham Wright's 30 years of service to the Society as the Executive Director and Secretary.
The Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service is a gold etched blue glass award which is presented in a manner that allows full recognition of the individual amongst his/her peers and colleagues. At the preference of the recipient, the presentation will be made either at the recipients' home institution or at a CMS meeting.
Graham Wright served as Executive Director of the CMS from 1979 to 2009. Dr. Wright was a key contributor to virtually all aspects of the Society's operations, including his service as Managing Editor of many of the CMS's scientific publications, his work as an organizer of Math Camps and Mathematics Competitions (notably his work for the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad held in Toronto), and his tireless efforts in support of the Society's committees and scientific meetings. In addition, he helped to build up the Society's Executive Office in Ottawa and to develop its web-based electronic services. The CMS would not have its current impact on the professional mathematical community, nor its current wide range of programs in research, publication, and mathematics education, without the extraordinary contributions of Graham Wright.


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Chet O'Brien, also known as Chester O'Brien, was the original stage manager on Sesame Street. [1] O'Brien also appeared on screen periodically, playing Mr. Macintosh from 1971 until 1992.
A former Broadway dancer in the 1930s, O'Brien transitioned from performer to stage manager, working on productions ranging from Brigadoon to Finnian's Rainbow. O'Brien shifted into television, serving as production stage manager/floor director on Sesame Street and related specials, for over a decade. Like Kermit Love, his behind the scenes work generally limited his on-screen appearances.
His brother Mortimer "Snooks" O'Brien was the floor (stage) manager for Sesame Street during the same time. When they were younger, they had worked together in vaudeville as a dance act. Their vaudeville history was referenced in a Sesame Street News Flash sketch, with "Chet and Snooks," a pair of comedians who casually assist Don Music in writing "The Alphabet Song."
O'Brien's other stage manager credits include the television version of the controversial musical O Calcutta! He was once married to Marilyn Miller, a Ziegfeld girl (1918-1919), who broke from the chorus line to have a decent acting career in Hollywood.
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John Haley
John Haley is the CEO of Willis Towers Watson.
John Haley is currently the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Willis Towers Watson. He has served in these roles since January 4, 2016.
John joined the company in 1977 and throughout his career served in a variety of roles including consulting actuary to several of the company's largest clients, manager of the Washington, D.C. consulting office and leader of the global retirement practice. John was named CEO in 1998. Under his leadership, the company went public in 2000, and completed three historic mergers, in 2005, 2010 and 2016 that formed present-day Willis Towers Watson.
John also serves on the board of directors of the Miami Cancer Institute. Previously, he served on the boards of MAXIMUS, Inc., a provider of health and human services program management, consulting services and system solutions, and Hudson Global, Inc., an executive search, specialty staffing and related consulting services firm. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, and has served as a trustee of The Actuarial Foundation.
John has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Rutgers College and studied under a Fellowship at the Graduate School of Mathematics at Yale University. He is also a co-author of Fundamentals of Private Pensions (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Mike Burwell
Mike Burwell is the Chief Financial Officer of Willis Towers Watson.
Before joining Willis Towers Watson, Mike spent 31 years at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PwC). During his initial time there, he served 11 years in the assurance practice working on numerous audit clients. In 1997, he was admitted to the partnership and started PwC's Detroit based transaction services practice. Following his success in Detroit, Mike was asked to take over leadership of PwC's central region and ultimately served as the overall U.S. Transaction Services Leader. In 2007, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer and in 2008 was additionally named Chief Operating Officer across PwC's U.S. business. In 2012, he became the Vice Chairman Global and U.S. Transformation. Mike created change in his Transformation role to optimize organizational effectiveness in overseeing a diverse group of internal functions including Human Capital, Finance, Technology and Global Strategic Sourcing. Mike also served as the senior relationship partner on several clients during his tenure.
Mike has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Michigan State University and is a certified public accountant. In 2010, he was named Michigan State University's Alumnus of the year.
Nicolas Aubert
Nicolas Aubert leads Great Britain at Willis Towers Watson. He also serves as the CEO of Willis Limited, the Willis Group's principal U.K.-regulated entity.
Previously, Nicolas served as the CEO of Willis Great Britain. Prior to joining Willis, he served as the COO of American International Group (AIG) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and formerly as the managing director of AIG in the U.K. He joined AIG in June 2002 to lead AIG France, and after served in various other senior management positions including managing director of Southern Europe. Prior to AIG, Nicolas held various leadership roles at ACE, CIGNA and GAN, and started his career at GENERALI.
Nicolas serves as the Chairman of the London Market Group, a professional body representing the common interests of the London Insurance Market operators, Lloyd's of London, IUA, LIIBA and LMA. He holds specialized master's degrees in insurance law (DESS Assurances) from Pantheon-Sorbonne University of Paris and Institut des Assurances de Paris (Universite Paris-Dauphine), and an MBA from the French High Insurance Studies Center (CHEA).
Anne Donovan Bodnar
Anne Bodnar is Willis Towers Watson's Chief HR Officer.
Anne previously served as chief administrative officer at Towers Watson, beginning in 2010. During that time, she was a member of the management committee, co-led the company's continuous improvement initiatives, cosponsored the inclusion and diversity agenda, and oversaw the marketing, HR, office services, and internal change and communication functions. From 2001 to 2010, Anne was managing director of HR at Towers Perrin. Earlier in her career, she held various HR and consulting positions at Towers Perrin as well as several operational and strategic planning roles at what is now JPMorgan Chase.
Anne was selected as a 2014 fellow in the On the Board program, jointly sponsored by George Washington University and the International Women's Forum, which prepares women leaders for corporate board service. In 1999, she was elected to the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers. Additionally, she published a chapter entitled "HR as a Strategic Partner" in Human Resources Leadership Strategies: 15 Ways to Enhance HR Value in Your Company. Anne also serves as a board member of the Women's Forum of New York, an independent trustee of a New York-based private family office with significant charitable activities in the arts and education, and is an active alumna of Smith College.
Anne holds a bachelor's degree from Smith College and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Matt Furman
Matt Furman is Willis Towers Watson's General Counsel.
Previously, Matt served as group general counsel at Willis, where he was a member of Willis' Operating Committee. From 2007 to 2015, Matt was senior vice president, group general counsel, Corporate and Governance, and corporate secretary for Travelers.
From 2000 to 2007, Matt was an attorney at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where he was vice president and associate general counsel in the finance and corporate legal group. Prior to that, he was in private practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
Matt holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He also is a director of the Legal Aid Society and a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Investor Advisory Committee, where he serves on the Executive Committee and chairs the Market Structure Subcommittee. In 2013, he was a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Partnership for New York City.
Adam Garrard
Adam Garrard leads the International business at Willis Towers Watson.
Adam spent over 20 years at Willis Group in a variety of senior roles worldwide. Between 2012 and 2015, he served as the regional CEO of Willis Asia, based in Singapore, leading Willis' strategy in high-growth markets in the region. Prior to this, he held regional CEO roles in Continental Europe and Australasia. During his time in Asia, he also spent 18 months in Shanghai setting up Willis' China operation.
Adam has a bachelor's degree in business administration from De Montfort University.
Julie Gebauer
Julie Gebauer leads Human Capital and Benefits at Willis Towers Watson.
Previously, Julie led Towers Watson's Talent and Rewards business segment. Julie has spent over 30 years with the company, during which she has held a number of leadership roles, including head of the global workforce effectiveness and employee survey businesses.
Julie received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska, where she was honored as a Chancellor's Scholar. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. She was inducted into the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers. She is a coauthor of the book, Closing the Engagement Gap: How Great Companies Unlock Employee Potential for Superior Results.
Joe Gunn
Joe Gunn leads North America at Willis Towers Watson.
Previously, Joe was appointed the regional director for the Northeast region of the newly combined Willis Towers Watson, where he had responsibility for leading our combined business in both Metro New York as well as New England. At Willis, Joe was the national partner for the Northeast region operations, and before that, the chief growth officer for Willis North America and regional executive officer for the South Central region of Willis North America.
Before joining Willis in 2004, Joe led the Marsh Client Development team for the North Texas operations based in Dallas. He also served as a senior relationship officer on several large accounts for which he was responsible for overall client satisfaction. He began his Marsh career as a practice leader in the Employee Benefits practice. Joe began his insurance career with Cigna Corp. and also held sales positions in the mortgage origination business.
Joe earned a B.S. in political science at Florida State University. In addition to his professional life, Joe is a member of the board of trustees for Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York.
Carl Hess
Carl Hess leads Investment, Risk and Reinsurance at Willis Towers Watson.
Carl previously served as co-leader of North America at Willis Towers Watson and before that, managing director, the Americas, of Towers Watson. He served as the managing director of Towers Watson's Investment business since January 2010 and also worked in a variety of roles for over 20 years at Watson Wyatt, lastly as global practice director of Watson Wyatt's Investment business.
Carl is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst. He has a B.A. cum laude in logic and language from Yale University.
Todd Jones
Todd Jones leads Corporate Risk and Broking at Willis Towers Watson.
Previously, Todd served as co-leader of North America at Willis Towers Watson and before that, CEO of Willis North America, and a member of the Willis Group Operating Committee. He also served as president and board member of The Willis Foundation, a nonprofit corporation affiliated with Willis Group Holdings. From 2010 to 2013, Todd served as president of Willis North America, and prior to that, he was the national partner for the Northeast U.S. region. Todd originally joined Willis in 2003 as the North America practice leader for Willis' Executive Risks practice, overseeing its professional liability offerings.
Before joining Willis, Todd held various leadership roles in the insurance industry. Before that, he was a financial analyst and corporate banker for a regional bank that is now part of Wells Fargo.
Todd holds a bachelor's degree in business from Wake Forest University and earned his M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Paul Morris
Paul Morris leads Western Europe at Willis Towers Watson.
Previously, Paul served as managing director for Towers Watson Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and before that was director for International Consulting Services. Paul joined The Wyatt Company in 1988. Following the establishment of the global Watson Wyatt Worldwide alliance in 1995, he served as a senior consultant of Watson Wyatt Partners from 1995 through 1999 and became a partner in 1999.
Paul is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the Institute of Actuaries, and has a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard College and an M.S. in applied mathematics from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Anne Pullum
Anne Pullum is Willis Towers Watson's Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Strategy and Innovation.
Previously, Anne was Willis Group's head of strategy, playing a key role in determining the group's strategy, working across all business segments and functional areas. Anne joined Willis in May 2014 from McKinsey & Company, where she served financial services and natural resource clients. Previously, Anne conducted economic research at Greenspan Associates in Washington, D.C., and was an analyst in Goldman Sachs Equities Division in London. She holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and a bachelor's in international economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
David Shalders
David Shalders leads Operations and Technology at Willis Towers Watson.
Previously, David served as the Group Operations and Technology director at Willis. He joined Willis in 2013 and was a member of the Willis Operating Committee.
Prior to joining Willis, David spent 19 years in senior operations and IT roles at Royal Bank of Scotland Group, most recently as global COO for Global Banking and Markets. He also led the division's regulatory response to Basel 3. Prior to that, he led the Group's integration with ABN AMRO and held roles as head of London and Asia Operations, and head of Derivative Operations for NatWest. Before joining Royal Bank of Scotland, David worked at SG Warburg (UBS), J.P. Morgan and Accenture.
David holds a master's degree in geography from Cambridge University and a master's degree in computer science from the London School of Economics.
Gene Wickes
Gene Wickes leads Benefits Delivery and Administration (formerly Exchange Solutions) at Willis Towers Watson.
At the formation of Willis Towers Watson, Gene was the managing director for Towers Watson's Benefits Group. Gene has 37 years of experience consulting on retirement, actuarial, plan administration and other human resource issues. Gene previously served as a senior consultant and actuary with both Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Towers Perrin.
Gene attended Brigham Young University, where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and master's degrees in mathematics and economics. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and an enrolled actuary under ERISA.


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The benefits of solid-state state storage are clear; it's fast, cool and sips power. But the technology is also changing the fundamental ways we use data center storage.
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The benefits of solid-state state storage are clear; it's fast, cool and sips power. But the technology is also changing the fundamental ways we use data center storage.
Solid-state storage has brought a slew of changes to data storage environments and reshuffled the way we approach ongoing storage operations. Solid-state has revived interest in automated tiering, caching applications and data compression, along with providing high-performance persistent storage.
Solid-state storage is not only transforming the storage industry, it's making waves across the entire computing industry. We've seen how flash storage has completely revolutionized the consumer electronics space, replacing spinning disk drives in virtually every category of consumer devices.
This same enthusiasm for flash storage is spreading to the data center. Database administrators, system admins and application owners have become aware of solid-state storage and the benefits it brings. They recognize the performance and power consumption benefits, but still have some concerns about flash endurance supporting enterprise applications. However, the storage industry is addressing flash endurance with newer flash controllers that can extend the life and performance of lower cost flash media so it can be used in enterprise applications in place of more expensive enterprise flash media.
Best fit for SSD
Solid-state drives (SSDs) provide a viable, faster alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs). But the first step in determining the correct storage for a job is defining the application's specific storage performance requirements. Those requirements should determine whether solid-state storage or traditional hard disk storage is the most appropriate and most cost-effective solution.
Key SSD management terms
- Automated tiering software moves hot data to the solid-state drive (SSD) tier using policy set by the administrator to improve performance.
- Caching copies hot data to the SSD to improve performance.
- Compression shrinks data so that it consumes less storage capacity than in its "native" state.
- Latency is the time it takes for a storage device to respond to a request. Lower latency is better.
We'll start with a relatively simple example and then move up to more complex circumstances. One area where SSDs are already creeping into the data center environment is in laptop computers. An SSD in a laptop PC provides very fast boot-ups and overall performance, and will also extend battery life significantly as the internal SSD uses very little electric power. Applications such as word processing, large documents with graphics, spreadsheet macros, database and video will all respond very quickly. Copying files to or from the laptop is also very fast. So the effects of using solid-state storage go beyond just application performance.
The same benefits can also be realized with desktop PCs. Using solid-state storage to boot computers, for example, is a relatively easy and inexpensive way to improve performance. Installing an SSD as the boot drive in a desktop computer can extend the life of an older machine simply because much of the I/O is accelerated. This can also work for older laptop computers, if you get an SSD with the correct interface.
Speeding up database operations
Any application that needs improved performance or lower storage latency is a good candidate for solid-state storage technology. For example, many database operations are actually a sequence of several small requests grouped together as a package, such as table scans and queries, which are executed sequentially where the output of one request becomes the input of the next request and so on. The final answer isn't returned to the application until all the smaller requests comprising the entire transaction have been satisfied. In these cases, the significantly reduced latency (faster turnaround) that solid-state storage delivers can make a huge difference in the overall performance of the application or end-user experience.
The best enterprise hard disk drives have an average seek time latency of approximately 2ms for every request, and not every storage system enables the cache memory on the drives due to data protection concerns. So even if the SSDs in use had the exact same performance as the hard drives, the SSDs would provide better overall latency because they have no seek time. Imagine running a large batch of complex database transactions where every I/O is subject to the seek time latency of good enterprise hard drives; then imagine that same batch of complex database operations without the seek time latency and with faster storage devices, and you'll see why SSDs are so good for database applications.
SSD enables tiering
Performance gains with solid-state storage technology aren't limited to database applications. This is why we see an increased demand for caching and tiering solutions. Most servers -- whether singly or in groups -- are kept busy with a variety of application workloads, each having various busy times and slow times. If you have all your data on solid-state storage, you might not need to consider caching and tiering; but if your data center is like the majority of data centers, most of your current application data is kept on some type of spinning hard disk drives.
With tiering for SSDs, the user decides what data to place on the SSD and when to place it there. Tiering can be performed manually or with automated tiering software on the host or in the storage controller. Tiering is all about moving specific hot data to the SSD tier at the right time and moving it back to the slower disk tiers (again, at the right time). If tiering is performed manually, then the administrator must observe the I/O activity over time and decide when to move certain files or data. You would have to manually track the number of accesses of every file on all your systems and then decide when to move files to and from SSDs based on those accesses. For systems of any size, this would be an impossible task to do manually, so automated tiering software would be required. With automated tiering software, the file and data accesses are tracked automatically and data movement occurs at a scheduled time based on user-defined policies. Tiering only benefits the apps whose data is moved to the faster tier, but the performance boost is immediate and significant. Automated tiering solutions are a good choice if you have several applications you believe need the performance boost but you can't or don't want to decide -- or you don't have the time to prove -- which apps need the performance boost. If you only had one application that could benefit from tiering, you wouldn't need automated tiering software. But most data centers have dozens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of applications that could benefit from higher performance.
Solid-state caching
Another approach is SSD caching. Caching for SSDs is determined by host software or the storage controller, but it places a copy of the data into the SSD cache without moving the data from its original location that's known to users and applications. Caching is relatively simple to manage because nearly all the decisions are made by the caching software or controller. Caching benefits any application whose data is considered "hot" within the scope of data accessible to the cache, but the performance improvement is a bit more gradual, increasing as more data is placed into the cache. This gradual performance improvement is called "warm-up" or "ramp-up," and it can occur over minutes or hours, depending on the implementation and number of I/O operations occurring. Caching can be read-only or for both reads and writes, depending on the implementation. Caching with SSDs follows many of the same caching algorithms used for memory caching or even caches inside of processors. Some SSD caching solutions will not only cache the obvious hot data, but may pre-fetch adjacent data the caching software believes might become hot based on the I/O patterns observed. Most caching solutions let the admin decide which files or volumes are eligible for the cache performance boost, so you can exclude certain data from clogging the cache. If you believe that most or all of your applications would benefit from a performance boost, you should consider SSD caching.
With tiering and caching, SSDs can be added to the configurations to allow more capacity for the performance boost. For either of these solutions, you'll have to figure out how much SSD capacity is need to make a difference. Many environments seem to need as little as 3% or as much as 10% of the total disk storage capacity in SSD technology to get a significant performance boost.
Data compression with SSD
Compression is another topic gaining a fresh look because of solid-state storage technology. Because SSD technology is generally more expensive than hard drive technology, when looking only at price per gigabyte, one way to increase the benefit of SSD technology is to compress the data before placing it on the SSDs, thereby consuming smaller amounts of a more precious resource. These days, with processors gaining in performance, it may make more sense to spend some extra CPU cycles compressing data to place it on significantly faster storage devices, therefore increasing overall performance. This can make sense whether the compression occurs in the host or in the storage system. When compression is enabled on some storage systems, the data is compressed immediately upon entering the storage system, so that any cache, SSD or disk device only sees the compressed data, so less capacity is consumed at every stage.
Another solution, mentioned above, is to have all-flash storage arrays. This will become more common as the big storage vendors take up the trend begun by some startup companies last year. We can fully expect to see flash arrays from the big storage vendors announced this year. It's also very likely that in the near future, all-flash arrays will have the same advanced features that current hard drive-only systems have today, including things like thin provisioning, data deduplication and more.
BIO: Dennis Martin has been working in the IT industry since 1980, and is the founder and president of Demartek, a computer industry analyst organization and testing lab.
Related Resources
- Essential Guide to Solid-State Storage Implementation –SearchStorage.com
- SSD: Features, Functions and FAQ –SearchStorage.com
- Best Practices for Deploying SSD –SearchStorage.com
- Pros and Cons of PCI Express SSD –SearchStorage.com


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Surname Saturday - Hodson
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Isn't it nice to find your ancestors' lives chronicled in books? This is one line we're not related on, I'm afraid (that we know of, ha).ReplyDelete
Hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving, Heather!
- SJ McKayNovember 26, 2011 at 4:42 PM
I wonder if the name Hodson, et al, wasn't already connected to the Quakers before they came here, or at least Quaker-friendly. My greatgrandmother was a Hodson, from a strongly (stridently!) Quaker family and over the years I have found other Hodson lines and the one thing they have in common (not counting variant name spellings) is that they were all either Quaker or involved with Quaker groups.ReplyDelete
SJ, whose Hodsons ended up in Ohio, by way of NC
Aha . . . another connection . . . Nicholas and Esther are my 10th great-grandparents . . . via their son, Benoni . . .ReplyDelete


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As the spring 2011 semester wound to a close, UNC-Chapel Hill football player Erik Highsmith had nothing to show for the blog students were supposed to contribute to for a communications class, his instructor said. The blog accounted for 30 percent of a student's grade.
Highsmith wrote two posts in seven days. The first was about poultry farming, the second about people and pets.
Very little of either post was in his own words.
The first entry was virtually identical to a passage on an education website written by four 11-year-olds for their peers. The second mirrored much of an essay someone posted on Urch.com, a website that helps people prepare for the SAT, GRE and other college entry exams.
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The Bryan Brothers equalled the Open Era doubles record of the Australian Woodies, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodford on Sunday by securing their 61st victory of their careers in the Madrid Masters doubles final. The telepathic twins beat world No. 1 pair, Daniel Nestor and partner Nenad Zimonjic 6-3, 6-4 in a final lasting only 55 minutes. Nestor and his partner were broken twice, with the Americans saving all three break points they faced. The brothers ruthlessly claimed victory on the first match point they gained. Interestingly, all twelve previous meetings between the teams have come in finals, seven of those in Masters events.
Nestor commented, "The Bryans always play us tough…we've had some good wins against them but they've been too tough this season. Obviously, it's all about the Slams for us now, and our next big objective is the French Open. We'll head to Paris now and regroup. We want to be playing our best in a week when the major begins."
Like the Woodies, the brothers are a left-right combination, which they used to great effect in the final. Bob commented, "That is definitely the best combination…the sun out there today was really bad for a leftie, so we decided to put Mike on a different side. We can use winds to our advantage and the leftie serve is always tougher to break, I think. We feel like our game is pretty comfortable if I make first serves and Mike is such a good returner he keeps us in other guys' service games."
The Bryan Brothers have now leapt to the pinnacle of the world doubles rankings overtaking Nestor and Zimonjic as the world No. 1 doubles pair. The impressive brothers began 2010 with their eighth grand slam title at the Australian Open and have already won titles in Delray Beach, Houston and Rome. If they were to become victorious at the French Open in three weeks time, they will break the record held by the Woodies in some style, with a Grand Slam win.
Indeed, they show no sign of relaxing their steely grip on the world doubles tour and will no doubt break the record in impressive style and go on to win even more titles, keeping the doubles tour in the media spotlight for the next generation of tennis players. "We're still having fun. It never gets old or boring to be travelling the world with your brother," Mike said. "We love winning titles and sharing the trophies and memories. We don't want to say, 'Now that we've done this or that, we're going to retire next year.' I don't think we'd find this adrenalin sitting on the couch at home so we might as well soak it up while we can."
The talented twins have also been enjoying the adrenalin rush of playing in their rock band, The Bryan Bros Band at various concert venues around the world with singer David Baron. They even performed with the Counting Crows in front of 30,000 screaming fans. It seems for the twins, success is like a drug they cannot easily give up. You can download their new album 'Let it Rip' on iTunes now. British fans, check out the hilariously awful rap by Andy Murray on one of the tracks, alongside a slighter better Novak Djokovic about signing autographs – it's well worth a listen and the other tracks are actually pretty catchy!
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The Bulls began building a lead early, plating a run in the first inning and again in the second. Kourtney Salvarola came on home on a Kenshyra Jackson single with two outs in the first inning, and USF stretched its lead to two when Laura Fountain scored on an error an inning later.
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Laura Ricciardone absorbed the loss in the circle for Harvard, striking out three Bulls in four innings of work. Rachel Brown pitched two innings of perfect relief, fanning three batters to close the game for the Crimson. Lange finished the day 3-for-4 from the plate with a run scored and both RBI for Harvard.
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• Corp! Magazine "Best of Michigan Business" (Dynamic Advisory Solutions) – 2009
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• Small Business Administration (SBA) "Small Business Journalist of the Year" (Business Realty Network) – 2007
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President's In-Service presentation online now
Dr. Harrison's presentation from yesterday's In-Service is now online for review. Included in the presentation was a call for participants in the Strategic Plan's Community Engagement and Workforce Development focus groups (Slide 57). If you would like to sign up to participate in either of these groups, please go to the Strategic Plan webpage: http://www.cscc.edu/about/strategic-planning and enter your information.
Annual Charitable Campaign kicks off at In-Service
It's that time of year. As we heard at Wednesday's In-Service, this year's Charitable Choice Campaign is up and running and we need your support. Together, we can accomplish more than any of us can do alone. Together we must win the battle against poverty in central Ohio. You can be part of the solution!
Please consider donating as some of our most vulnerable students rely on the services from many of the charitable organizations included in this campaign.
Go onto the Intranet, where you will see the first two links are the Pledge Form and the Charitable Giving Guidebook (Intranet is not available off campus). Print your pledge form and send the completed form to Barb Smith-Allen, in Franklin Hall Room 132. Thank you for your support!
Di Pietro, Tomasacci, and students to perform Oct. 24
Rocco Di Pietro and David Tomasacci, adjunct instructors in the Humanities, will perform a concert Wednesday, October 24 at 8:30 p.m. in Ohio State's Weigel Hall. The concert will also feature Columbus State students performing a Cell Phone Orchestra, and another student will perform a piano duet with Di Pietro called "The Shades." Tomasacci will perform a series of one-minute miniature numbers, and Di Pietro will also be featured performing his own work "Yogic Etudes," in which yoga will be performed by Dr. Linda Chun!
Columbus State student to compete for Miss Black USA title
Ruby Edwards-Thomas
College is just part of the equation this year for Ruby Edwards-Thomas. In addition to pursuing her pre-nursing major at Columbus State, she's also working full time and raising a son. If that's not enough for the 21-year-old single mom, she recently competed for and was crowned Miss Black Ohio USA 2013! The title carries a small scholarship which will help fund her education.
The pageant was held in August in Cincinnati. Ruby will now represent the Buckeye State in the Miss Black USA pageant in Washington, D.C. next year.
Ruby says even though juggling her many roles can be challenging, she's determined to succeed in higher education because she's the first person in her family to attend college.
Workshops offered during Domestic Violence Awareness Week
The week of October 22 -26 is observed as Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Columbus State will observe this week with a variety of workshop activities sponsored by Student Engagement and Leadership, Counseling Services, Public Safety and professionals from community organizations. The week focuses on educating students, faculty and staff about the warning signs of domestic violence and sexual assault, as well as the resources available for help. Professional counselors will be available at the events to answer questions and give more information throughout the week. You can see a calendar of these events online here: http://cscc.edu/services/counseling/events.shtml
Disability Awareness Month guest lecture is October 26
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A special keynote presentation during Disability Awareness Month will be given by Ellen Kaitz, MD on Friday, October 26, at 1:00 p.m. in the Conference Center Ballroom, fourth floor of WD. The presentation is free and open to the public. Dr. Kaitz's presentation is titled "Stop Dis'ing my Ability!"
Dr. Katz is a clinical assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at The Ohio State University Medical Center and a subspecialist in pediatric rehabilitation medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Dr. Kaitz has been recognized on the national Best Doctors Inc.'s "Best Doctors in America" list in 2009, 2010 and 2011. She has published numerous papers and has spoken locally and nationally on a variety of topics in pediatric rehabilitation. She is a strong advocate for people with disabilities.
Come listen to her presentation about disability awareness, tips on succeeding and finding your ability!
Holiday week cost savings measure approved by Board
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Because student service needs are expected to be minimal during the holiday week given the later start in January 2013 compared to a quarter-based calendar, the Columbus State Board of Trustees has approved a cost-savings measure for the period December 22-31, 2012.
To minimize expenses, Columbus State will not offer student services in person or by phone beginning Saturday, December 22, 2012, through January 1, 2013. Students will still be able to register and pay fees online through CougarWeb as well as access other web-based resources via the college's website.
Employees who are not full-time will not be scheduled to work during this period. While no full-time employee is required to take leave during this period, many employees who in a quarter-based calendar were unable to take off during the holidays will have a chance to do so.
Because a majority of the calendar year has passed and many full-time employees may not have sufficient vacation or Personal Business Leave left, the Board of Trustees authorized posting the calendar year 2013 Personal Business Leave accrual of four (4) days one pay period earlier. These four days will be available beginning December 16, 2012, rather than on January 1, 2013. Additionally, the Board authorized expanded use of Personal Business Leave to include vacation for the following days: December 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, and/or 31, 2012.
A Frequently Asked Questions document is available at http://www.cscc.edu/about/faculty-staff/pdf/holiday-faq.pdf and will be updated periodically in the coming weeks as new questions arise. An implementation team of colleagues from across the college is thinking through the logistics of this cost-savings initiative. Achieving maximum cost and energy savings, maintaining a safe work environment for those who do work during this period, and engaging cross-functional support where possible for work that will be going on that week are key objectives of this initiative.


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WORCESTER — Expecting it would put him in the running for a small grant from the city, Lawrence Johnson spent 12 hours attending free weekly business classes taught by retired executives.
After last October's sessions were done, Mr. Johnson, 62, who with his wife, Dawn, co-owns A.J. Robbins Wallcovering on busy Pleasant Street on the city's West Side, drew up a grant proposal for $3,000 to go toward an awning that would give the wallpaper store more visibility.
He got quotes, wrote a narrative, enclosed photos and filled out several forms for the new Retail Business Enhancement Program, which provides about eight federally funded small business micro-grants ranging from $1,500 to $3,000.
However, midway through the process, in January, city officials came up with some new hurdles to overcome.
They asked Mr. Johnson about the ethnicity of his business's three employees and whether the awning project would create any new jobs, data they said was required by the federal government. His answers: white, and no.
Philip J. Niddrie, the city's business retention manager, said ethnicity is not a determining factor in awarding grants. Rather, it is simply "background."
Finally, earlier this month, nearly a year after the program was launched and five months after Mr. Johnson submitted his proposal, he was told his business was ineligible because he did not meet any of the federal criteria, including being of low or moderate income or serving a distressed area.
Mr. Johnson (who had resigned himself to a $1,500 grant instead of his original $3,000 proposal) was incredulous, maintaining that neither job creation nor ethnicity were mentioned anywhere on the initial application paperwork.
It seemed like the rules had changed late in what was a confusing and arbitrary process consumed by bureaucratic bumbling, he said.
"How is anyone going to make a job available for $1,500?" he said. "I'm really angry."
When Mr. Johnson complained to Mr. Niddrie, Mr. Niddrie apologized. He responded that not only was the process taking longer than expected, but also that he and other city officials were at first unaware of the restrictions attached to federal grant money for the grants.
The city administration distributes the money as Community Development Block Grants under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The city official who formerly ran the micro-grant program had been transferred to another city job. Now that he was gone, the program fell to Mr. Niddrie to run, and he said he was still learning what was required.
"The restrictions placed upon us by federal regulations are substantial," Mr. Niddrie wrote in an email to Mr. Johnson.
Also, Mr. Niddrie added, scrutiny from HUD has sharply increased; he was referring to controversy in recent years over the city's allegedly loose oversight of block grant money to community development corporations.
"The CDBG process has gotten a lot of press as of the past year and the oversight is very tight," Mr. Niddrie wrote to Mr. Johnson.
Meanwhile, Mr. Johnson also chafed at the requirement to attend the classes taught by members of the Service Corps of Retired Executives.
While he said the information was good for small business people just starting out, he pointed out that he and his wife have owned the wallpaper concern for nearly two decades. In his written evaluation, though, he noted that he and his wife have only run the retail side of the business for eight years and described how elements of the course were useful for someone relatively new to retail.
For their part, city officials pointed out that Mr. Johnson in his grant request gave a largely positive review of the SCORE classes, and said all of the 26 city small business people who attended the seven-week program wrote that they were satisfied with it.
The final grants have not yet been awarded, but about nine applicants have been declared eligible, the officials said.
Erin Arvizu, owner of Wild Orchid Baby, a baby shop on Shrewsbury Street, the city's bustling restaurant row, has so far been deemed eligible for a grant because she meets the low-to-moderate income HUD limit, according to the city.
Ms. Arvizu, who is looking for $3,000 to spruce up her interior displays and install lighted window signs, said the process took "forever," but gave high marks to the business classes.
"Even if I didn't get a grant they would be useful," she said. "It's all how open you are to learn and improve."
But another grant applicant, who was initially found ineligible because the previous owner of the building in which he rents a small storefront for his arts and crafts shop had defaulted on a $25,000 city loan, expressed a similar frustration to what Mr. Johnson experienced.
"The application was completely different from the criteria," said Adrian Demers, co-owner of the shop, Funky Stuff, in the Webster Square neighborhood. "The criteria were out of left field and it changed up at the last minute. They basically pulled the rug out from everyone."
When asked about the Funky Stuff application, Paul D. Morano Jr., the city's director of business assistance, said grants also go by the property and since the property was in default, no more public money could go to it, even though it is occupied by a different business owner now.
However, Mr. Niddrie said he has since reviewed the application, and Funky Stuff is back in consideration.
Mr. Johnson, meanwhile, also said he was puzzled when told he did not fit the low- to moderate-income guidelines for the awards, because he said he was never asked about his income.
But Mr. Morano said he informed Mr. Johnson of the income rules, though admittedly late in the process, At that point, Mr. Johnson removed his business from consideration, he said.
The officials also said that Mr. Johnson's grant would not lead to the creation of any jobs for low-to-moderate income people, nor would the awning help his business better serve the needs of a distressed area — two more of the HUD rules.
Mr. Johnson said job creation was never mentioned either until after he had put in his application.
A few weeks ago, Mr. Johnson secured a meeting with City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr., Mr. Morano and Mr. Niddrie.
They apologized, but said there was nothing they could do about the HUD rules, he said, an account confirmed by Mr. Morano.
In an interview, Mr. Morano and Mr. Niddrie again apologized for, in essence, poorly managing the grant program.
"I didn't know enough about the program. I admit that," Mr. Niddrie said. "I've been in government for 35 years, and I made some mistakes."
They also said they have realized that for the mountain of paperwork required — which will total many dozens of pages for successful applicants when they move on to legal and financial documents to secure their grants or loans — it really isn't worth it for the small sums of money involved.
Another HUD-backed micro-grant program, which awards small business grants and loans of $5,000 to $50,000, requires the same paperwork, they said.
"There are a lot of good businesses that didn't fit in because they don't fit the block grant requirements," Mr. Morano said.
"We wish there was an easier process," Mr. Niddrie said. "It's obvious that this program is too cumbersome for $1,500."
As for Mr. Johnson, he said he'd like to apply for a different grant under a special federal awning program.
But he doesn't qualify for that because the wallpaper shop is not located in a commercial revitalization district along the Park and Chandler streets corridors, even though it is a block away, the city officials said.
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Mel Gibson is back in a Los Angeles courtroom to resume his custody fight with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
The Academy Award winner sat quietly in a courtroom across from Grigorieva, a Russian musician, before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon began a closed hearing on Monday.
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Gibson and Grigorieva have been sparring for months over custody and financial issues involving their infant daughter.
Investigators are looking into Gibson's allegation that Grigorieva attempted to extort him after their breakup earlier this year. Grigorieva has alleged Gibson struck her during an argument in January.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard softball team held its annual awards banquet where it announced its team award winners and captains for the 2014 season. The squad handed out five team awards and named three players captains for the 2014 campaign.
Junior Kasey Lange took home two awards after another stellar season for Harvard, garnering Best Defensive Player and Best Offensive Player honors. Lange became the all-time program leader in home runs this season, leading the team with 13 long balls and adding a team-high 43 RBI and .756 slugging percentage. She also led the league in RBI and slugging, and ranked within the top five in doubles, runs and total bases. She made just two errors in league play at third base, and made numerous challenging plays at the hot corner.
Most Outstanding Pitcher honors went to freshman Morgan Groom, who emerged as the go-to arm down the stretch for the Crimson. The freshman posted the second-best batting average against of any Ivy League pitcher, and also ranked fourth in earned-run average (2.58) and fifth in the league with 96 strikeouts on the year. The rookie ended the season with a team-high 125 innings pitched, and tied for the team lead with nine wins.
The Becky Pocius Award, given annually to the player or players that embody the qualities of true team players, was awarded to senior Olivia Piccione. The final award of the evening, the Betty Ippolito Legacy Award, went to senior Stephanie Regan. The award is given annually to the player who has done the most to continue the tradition of excellence in Harvard softball.
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