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In this white paper, IDC lays out the huge gap between the performance and cost capabilities provided by HDDs and that provided by SSDs. This gap can be served by a new storage category, which IDC calls Big Data Flash. IDC assesses InfiniFlash, the first storage system in the category.
Over the next five years, more than 95% of all expenditure on information technology (IT) will go toward 3rd Platform computing infrastructure. These environments pose significant challenges to the legacy hard disk drive (HDD)-based storage solutions of the past, demanding significantly more performance, scalability, and agility for both primary and secondary storage applications. The market for flash-based arrays, which includes both all-flash arrays (AFAs) and hybrid flash arrays (HFAs), is on fire; the combined market was worth over $11.3 billion in size in 2014 and will exhibit strong double- digit growth rates over the next five years. These solutions offer storage performance that is easily 10x that of HDD-based systems, and IDC expects that these flash-based arrays will dominate primary storage environments within the next five to seven years.
The flash-based systems have targeted performance-intensive primary storage environments and are leveraging complementary storage efficiency technologies like thin provisioning, compression, deduplication, and space-efficient snapshots, clones, and replication to provide effective dollar-per-gigabyte costs that are only slightly higher than those of HDD-based systems and total cost of ownership (TCO) that is as much as 80% lower than that of HDD-based systems. Conventional flash, even with all of these cost-reducing technologies, has just not been inexpensive enough to consider for use in secondary storage environments.
While secondary storage environments do not generally require the sub-millisecond latencies that conventional flash delivers, it is clear that content repositories, media and other streaming services, big data and analytics, and Web infrastructure could benefit from solutions that provide better performance, consume less energy, and require less floor space than current HDD-based systems. The prospects for improving the performance, density, and energy consumption of HDDs are very limited, however.
A cursory mapping of the performance and cost characteristics of conventional flash and spinning disk reveals a large gap that presents a clear market opportunity for a new storage medium. SanDisk®, a major player in the flash storage space on both the consumer side and the enterprise side, has introduced a new product, called InfiniFlash, that fits into this identified market gap. IDC believes that this product establishes a new storage category, which we are calling "Big Data Flash." Big Data Flash costs roughly the same as spinning disk, delivers performance consistently better than that of HDDs, and allows the secondary economic benefits of flash deployment at scale to be brought to bear in the secondary storage markets. This new category promises to transform conventional thinking about the most effective and efficient ways to build secondary storage platforms targeted for use with 3rd Platform computing.
This IDC White Paper assesses the technology implementation and market opportunity for InfiniFlash, a flash-based array platform from SanDisk that establishes a new category of external flash-based storage that IDC calls Big Data Flash. IDC describes "big data" technologies as a new generation of technologies and architectures designed to economically extract value from very large volumes of a wide variety of data types by enabling high-velocity data capture, discovery, and/or analysis.
IDC expects that over the next five years, more than 95% of all IT spending will be for the 3rd Platform computing infrastructure. The 3rd Platform buildout is being driven by the requirements of an increasingly mobile workforce, social media, big data and analytics, and cloud computing and is based around technologies that for the most part weren't used in the 2nd Platform era (formerly the client/server computing era): virtualization, flash, and cloud. Workloads are also evolving and demanding massive scalability, extremely high levels of availability, and an agility in how IT resources are allocated and used that requires new architectures and new ways of thinking to meet increasingly stringent service levels in this new environment.
One of the biggest high-level differences between 3rd Platform computing and 2nd Platform computing is in managing data growth. In addition to the amount of data generated, collected, and stored from mobile devices and social media, the Internet of Things (IoT) has extended data collection to many types of devices that had never before been on networks. Online businesses such as Netflix, eBay, and other vendors maintain massive content repositories, generating revenue from their ability to deliver fast, easy access over high-speed networks to extensive catalogs of products and services. More and more businesses depend on real-time analytics of massive data sets to help them make operational decisions on a daily basis. In the 2nd Platform era, digital assets were primarily made up of structured data, and individual databases were rarely larger than tens of terabytes in size. In the 3rd Platform era, storage administrators must store structured, unstructured, and semistructured data types; provide rapid access to many of these data types across a variety of different endpoint device types and access methods; and deal with data stores that can potentially be hundreds of petabytes in size.
The architectures and technologies of the past in the storage arena are not well suited to handle today's data management tasks cost effectively at this scale. HDDs are a case in point and present issues in terms of performance, reliability, and power and floor space consumption when trying to service 3rd Platform computing workloads that can easily be hundreds of terabytes in size or larger. 3rd Platform computing environments are by their very nature extremely performance intensive, routinely demanding hundreds of thousands of IOPS or more from their associated storage infrastructures. HDDs are much better suited for capacity-intensive environments that not only require a low dollar-per-gigabyte cost for capacity but also need relatively few IOPS per gigabyte. Even in 2nd Platform computing environments, storage overprovisioning was a major problem, driving most companies to deploy 20–40% more capacity than they needed just to meet performance requirements. With the level of performance required in 3rd Platform environments, trying to build the storage infrastructure using just HDDs is not cost effective at all. Far too many devices are needed to do so, and all that overprovisioned storage capacity drives higher power, cooling, and floor space costs.
The data movement requirements in 3rd Platform computing are easily one to two magnitudes greater than they were in 2nd Platform computing. In virtual environments, storage for virtual machines (VMs) can be and often is moved around online to meet performance optimization and high-availability requirements. Large data sets need to be moved for backup, disaster recovery, upgrade, and datacenter migration requirements. For HDDs larger than 1TB, disk rebuilds with conventional RAID take too much time because of the amount of data that has to be moved, putting enterprises at risk for data loss in the event of a second failure during these periods. Devices of this size are in wide use because it is too expensive to create the very large data stores needed with smaller-capacity HDDs. Many of the newer storage platforms targeted at 3rd Platform computing environments have introduced newer, more efficient data protection algorithms, such as erasure coding or replication, to resolve these RAID issues.
HDDs are a mechanical device, and current enterprise drives exhibit annual failure rates (AFRs) of <1%. In 2nd Platform environments where tens of drives were in use, this often translated to a drive failure every couple of months and was not much of a concern. But in large-scale environments where a customer may have thousands of HDDs deployed, this easily translates to several drive failures a week. These types of failure rates are clearly a problem in very large-scale environments that have hundreds or thousands of high-capacity HDDs.
Is Conventional Flash a Viable Alternative in These Environments?
Flash storage has penetrated datacenters at an extremely rapid rate over the past five years. IDC survey data from 2013 indicated that more than 50% of enterprises had already deployed flash in some manner in production environments, and a high percentage of enterprises that had not yet deployed flash had it running in pilot. By fall 2013, the number of enterprises planning to purchase flash in the next 12 months crested 70%. In the enterprise, flash can be deployed either in servers or in network-based arrays.
Flash provides performance that is, at a minimum, 10x that of spinning disk, but flash also offers other significant benefits with 3rd Platform computing workloads. Flash devices on average consume about half the power of a spinning disk device. Performance-intensive applications need far fewer flash devices to meet IOPS requirements, cutting down on energy and floor space costs by, generally, at least 40% and sometimes as much as 80%, depending on application environments. AFA vendors regularly report that performance-rich flash allows their customers to deploy up to 30% fewer servers to drive storage performance, saving on not only server costs but also, more importantly, expensive software licensing costs for applications like Oracle, SQL, and Microsoft Exchange. The significantly higher performance of flash allows storage efficiency technologies like inline data reduction, space-efficient snapshots, zero copy clones, and thin provisioning to be used to decrease effective dollar-per-gigabyte cost even in high-performance application environments, driving even more savings. And flash is a more reliable medium than spinning disk, providing 3x–4x better reliability than even the best HDDs.
The previously mentioned features all make flash potentially very attractive for hyperscale data stores that need high performance to handle not only application I/O but also the timely movement of large data sets. Lower failure rates simplify ongoing management issues, while the high performance minimizes rebuild and other data movement concerns. The problem with conventional flash is simple though: cost. Although flash prices are coming down, IDC expects that by 2018, the cost of conventional flash will be about 20x the cost of capacity-optimized HDDs ($0.692 versus $0.034). The large gap in performance and cost between HDD and conventional flash points up a large market opportunity (see Figure 1) for a storage medium that would offer flash-like performance with spinning disk–like cost.
Figure 1: The Market Opportunity for a New Storage Medium
Pure HDD-based systems typically deliver storage latencies in the 5–20ms range, whereas the best arrays that leverage conventional flash can consistently deliver sub-millisecond or better latencies. There are certainly environments, like very large-scale financial services and retail or big data and analytics applications, that can fully benefit from this performance, but the performance bar is not that high for many tier 2 and 3 applications. For content repositories, media and other streaming services, many big data and analytics applications, Web serving, and many other secondary storage environments, the ability to consistently deliver sub-5ms latencies would result in very noticeable improvements in application performance. A storage medium that in general offered flash-like characteristics, but gave a little on performance to lower the dollar-per-gigabyte acquisition costs, could be very attractive for these types of workloads. It may not be appropriate for many performance- intensive tier 1 application environments that can cost-justify AFAs, but it would be a much better fit for hyperscale environments that demand massive capacities, a high ingest rate, a low change rate, and a high read rate that is intermixed with some measure of random write I/O as well.
Moving Toward a New Storage Category
Figure 1 indicates the market opportunity for a storage medium that would slot in between high- performance, high-cost conventional flash and lower-performance, lower-cost spinning disk options. IDC has spoken at length about the opportunity for conventional flash to eventually dominate spinning disk in performance-intensive primary storage environments, but the dollar-per–gigabyte cost of this type of flash will clearly limit its ability to penetrate secondary storage markets. Those applications can't justify flash costs because they can't take advantage of conventional flash performance to fully leverage its secondary economic benefits (much lower device count, lower energy consumption and reduced floor space requirements, and lower server and server licensing costs).
To understand the price point at which flash would become interesting to these markets, one must understand how the secondary economic benefits would apply in secondary storage environments. Applications like content repositories, media and other streaming services, big data and analytics, and Web serving in general would benefit much less from deduplication, making compression a more important data reduction technology. In primary storage environments, compression can often achieve data reduction ratios of 2:1 to 4:1, depending on the application environment. For a "back of the envelope" analysis, it is probably safe to assume a conservative average secondary storage compression ratio of 2:1 in these environments.
As a more reliable medium, flash requires less redundancy than spinning disk. This, combined with needing fewer flash devices to meet data movement requirements, will likely contribute to needing fewer devices overall, although the savings here will not be as high as it is in performance-intensive primary storage environments. However, this will vary based on whether the alternative spinning disk– based solution is built from performance-optimized HDDs or from capacity-optimized HDDs. Capacity- optimized HDDs tend to deliver roughly one-fourth of the IOPS that performance-optimized HDDs deliver, so more capacity-optimized HDDs would be needed to meet the same IOPS requirements. Flash devices on average also consume roughly half the power of spinning disks, so TCO savings accrue from much lower power consumption.
Given these considerations, we can assume a very conservative data reduction ratio of 2:1 for secondary storage workloads and a conservative 20% lower device count. We will also assume that the medium consistently delivers sub-5ms latencies even as configurations scale. If a flash-based medium was available at roughly $0.40 per gigabyte for raw capacity by 2018, a flash-based configuration would cost roughly the same as a storage solution built out of performance-optimized HDDs priced at $0.183 per gigabyte and would have a 40–80% lower TCO. To compare a flash-based configuration with a storage solution built entirely out of capacity-optimized HDDs, we would have to assume that we'd need 4x the number of devices to meet the IOPS requirements, a number that significantly raises not only the acquisition cost but also the TCO of that solution.
Based on this quick analysis, we can start to formulate what a viable storage product that could meet the previously defined market opportunity might look like. The storage product would have the secondary economic benefits of flash and cost $0.40 per gigabyte by 2018. It would have to deliver performance (latencies, IOPS, and throughput) that is consistently better than the best case that performance-optimized HDDs can offer today. And since this would be targeted at secondary storage environments, it should be built for scalability into the tens or hundreds of petabytes for application workloads that require high ingest rates, exhibit low change rates, and need high read rates with some level of intermixed random writes. It should be delivered in a package that meets enterprise requirements for availability, reliability, and manageability; should be able to support multiple data types (block, file, and object as well as structured, unstructured, and semistructured); and should mesh well with preexisting datacenter workflows for operations like access, monitoring, and break/fix. Targeted as it would be at massively scalable environments, an appropriate name for this new category would be "Big Data Flash."
Assessing the First "Big Data Flash" Entry: SanDisk InfiniFlash
SanDisk is a $7 billion global company based in Milpitas, California, that delivers storage solutions for both the consumer market and the enterprise market in many areas, including datacenter, computing, mobile, and consumer electronics. Founded in 1988, SanDisk has grown into a global brand with over 8,500 employees worldwide, a market cap of over $20 billion, and one of the strongest storage technology portfolios in the industry with over 5,000 patents. In March 2015, SanDisk introduced InfiniFlash, establishing a new product category that IDC refers to as Big Data Flash, which offers compelling performance and cost metrics for the enterprise market. This is a major event in the storage industry that will enable the use of flash technology for a whole range of application environments that until now have not been able to cost justify flash use, effectively delivering not only better performance but also the secondary economic benefits of flash to hyperscale environments.
SanDisk's close relationships with hyperscale, 3rd Platform computing customers have contributed significantly to the InfiniFlash project. Requirements from end users were clear: Hyperscale computing needed performance on demand, delivered consistently where needed regardless of the requirements of other workloads; high capacity and density in a scale-out architecture; low acquisition and operating costs at scale; simplicity of deployment and administration; and enterprise-class availability, reliability, and manageability. All parties involved, including both end users and SanDisk engineers, knew that a product that met this definition would be unique in the storage industry.
Figure 2 shows InfiniFlash's placement and key differentiators with respect to the identified market opportunity.
Figure 2: InfiniFlash Market Opportunity
At InfiniFlash's core is an operating system, the InfiniFlash OS, that is optimized for scale-out, flash- based media; inherently supports block-, file- (future), and object-based access; and offers enterprise- class data services including self-healing automatic failover, snapshots, clones, encryption, and replication. Data protection options include erasure coding and replication. Stripe sizes are granularly customizable at the container level to optimize access performance for the type of data being stored. Storage efficiency technologies include thin provisioning, compression, space-efficient implementations of snapshots and clones, and snapshot replication based on delta differentials.
At initial release, SanDisk is introducing three InfiniFlash systems: the IF100, the IF500, and the IF700. The IF100 is the hardware platform itself and provides the maximum opportunity for customers to incorporate their own custom value-add software stack. The IF500 is SanDisk's flash-optimized Ceph distribution, which includes the IF100 hardware platform along with a flash-optimized software stack. The software stack for this platform includes a software development kit (SDK) for platform management and enclosure tuning services as well as an SDK for data path optimization services. With the IF500, data is automatically rebalanced when resources are added, removed, or reconfigured. The IF700 includes the SanDisk ION Accelerator to provide a high-performance block shared storage platform (128TB scalable to 512TB) for use cases such as NoSQL databases, HPC workloads, and custom enterprise block applications. Figure 3 shows the InfiniFlash offerings include the base platform (the IF100) as well as additional flash-optimized software included in two other platforms (the IF500 and the IF700).
Figure 3: The InfiniFlash Base Platform and Software Stack
Designed for use with Web-scale applications, InfiniFlash also includes development libraries for direct application integration, enabling advanced functions like triggers, message passing, and in situ data transformations. Although InfiniFlash can be used off-the-shelf at first release with block- or object-based applications, an included SDK enables customers to optimize their applications for use with InfiniFlash to obtain even better performance, efficiency, and TCO benefits if so desired. S3/Swift access is supported for object storage and iSCSI for block storage at first release, with CIFS/NFS support scheduled for a follow-on release. InfiniFlash also includes a command line interface and a RESTful API for monitoring and managing InfiniFlash enclosures, giving customers a path to easily integrate it with existing datacenter monitoring, management, and automation solutions.
InfiniFlash is targeted at a distinct set of tier 2 and 3 workloads running on virtual infrastructure, including content repositories, media and other streaming services, big data analytics, and Web serving. These environments all require massive capacities and exhibit low change rate of data, where consistently low-latency, high-bandwidth read access during high ingest rate with intermixed random writes is required. There are two types of customer targets here as well. End users can buy InfiniFlash and use it as they would use any other enterprise storage solution, reaping the performance, efficiency, and TCO benefits of this new class of cost-effective, massively scalable flash. Developers, including not only vendors but also in-house developers at customer sites, can take advantage of APIs that SanDisk is providing to directly control access to and manage the low-level flash itself to obtain additional benefits. IDC has long maintained that, with the advent of flash, application developers will eventually start to enhance their applications to work better with flash just as they did with disk (e.g., developing transaction logs for databases running on HDDs), and SanDisk is the first enterprise storage vendor to directly enable this with APIs.
The performance and cost economics of Big Data Flash have the real potential to relegate HDD-based solutions that today dominate secondary storage environments to a niche role within the next five years. If successful, this revolutionary product is very likely to encourage other introductions of this type from SanDisk competitors such as HGST, a wholly owned but independently operated subsidiary of Western Digital, and Seagate.
The SanDisk Value-Add
Although customers are not required to use Ceph with InfiniFlash, if they choose to do so, they will find that SanDisk has added some interesting enhancements. On its face, Ceph is media agnostic, but SanDisk has made specific changes to this technology to further optimize it for use specifically with the InfiniFlash implementation. Changes include performance optimizations for all-flash environments (which have been contributed back to the open source community), improvements to enhance parallelism, back-end optimizations to XFS, and messenger performance enhancements. Taken together, these enhancements improve block read performance by 10x and object read performance by 5x, as well as improving the endurance and reliability of the storage solution as a whole.
As a flash manufacturer, SanDisk is able to produce this massively scalable flash-based solution at a price point below $1.00 per gigabyte at scale at introduction. On a dollar-per-gigabyte basis, that is roughly 2x the cost of 15,000rpm HDDs on an acquisition cost basis today, but when the other efficiencies of InfiniFlash are taken into account – smaller device counts, lower energy consumption and reduced floor space requirements, and compression – it is no exaggeration to say that it is lower in cost with 5x–10x better performance. From a TCO point of view, when the secondary economic benefits of flash are taken into account across a multiyear enterprise life cycle, there is no comparison: InfiniFlash is the hands-down winner by a wide margin.
Business and Technical Benefits of InfiniFlash
From a technical point of view, InfiniFlash is clearly a better solution for the hyperscale tier 2 and 3 workloads than HDDs. It offers 50x the IOPS, 5x–10x the throughput, consistently lower latencies than even the best HDD response times even as configurations scale, 5x better power efficiency, 5x better density, and 4x better reliability – all at roughly the same acquisition cost on a solution basis (assumes 2:1 average data reduction ratio) and a significantly lower TCO (as much as 80% lower).
From a business point of view, InfiniFlash performance will provide faster access to large content repositories and a better user experience for media and other streaming services, speed time to insight for big data and analytics applications, enable higher-density datacenters that make much more efficient use of available power and floor space, and, in general, provide competitive advantage against competitors still relying on HDD-based storage solutions for their tier 2 and 3 applications. InfiniFlash's ability to move data at up to 7GBps (for a maximally configured system) or 400MBps per flash card addresses the concerns hyperscale environments have today around operations that require massive data movement, providing additional degrees of freedom for administrators in the areas of data protection and migration. With its better reliability, InfiniFlash will require less operator intervention to address issues like failed module replacement, thereby helping increase the span of control a single administrator can handle. Its scale-out architecture allows much more granular and better balanced expansion, and with its ability to support tens to hundreds of petabytes, it will provide a longer useful life even in today's high-growth data environments. And InfiniFlash will do all this without requiring a storage budget any larger than the storage budget enterprises are using today for HDD-based solutions. In fact, with the TCO advantages that InfiniFlash brings to the table, those storage budgets can decrease time.
A massively scalable storage solution with Big Data Flash characteristics is certain to enable new types of secondary storage applications. This new media type encourages the use of flash in ways never before possible.
There has been no argument that flash is a better storage technology in many ways than HDDs for performance-intensive 3rd Platform computing environments. IDC encourages customers whose HDD-based arrays are approaching a refresh cycle to absolutely look at flash-based arrays and compare not just dollar-per-gigabyte acquisition cost but also the better performance and secondary economic benefits of flash that result in smaller storage infrastructures and a significantly better TCO even when raw flash capacity is 5x–6x the cost of HDD capacity. But until SanDisk's InfiniFlash announcement, these same arguments could not be made for secondary storage environments because the cost of raw flash capacity was still too expensive for capacity-intensive applications. Now, that is no longer true.
3rd Platform computing workloads like content repositories, media and other streaming services, big data and analytics, and Web serving are the future, and cost has been the single most important reason why HDD rather than flash was still being used for companies' storage solutions. Outside of cost, there is no argument about whether or not these applications would benefit from the better performance and reliability of flash. There have been questions about HDD scalability and density, but scale-out architectures have helped kick those considerations down the proverbial road for now. Custom flash modules today already provide the best density for primary storage applications (e.g., the HGST-Skyera AFA's ability to house 136TB of flash capacity in 1U), and the opportunity to create ever larger HDDs is limited by access and rebuild time considerations. InfiniFlash is coming to market with a density that at the outset is already better than Skyera's industry-leading density.
IDC has already forecast that flash-based arrays – with their better performance, reliability, and TCO – will dominate primary storage environments over the next five to seven years, effectively replacing pure HDD-based arrays. The cost of raw flash capacity, however, has limited the use of this technology in secondary storage environments. If InfiniFlash can prove out the claims it is making with respect to performance, scalability, density, reliability, and cost, it will clearly put HDD-based solutions in these areas under pressure as well. This new category of storage could easily become the storage foundation of choice for these types of hyperscale secondary storage environments.
With conventional flash sure to dominate primary storage in the foreseeable future, and this new category of Big Data Flash competing in the secondary storage markets, it is now realistic to think about an "all-flash datacenter."
The creation of the new category of Big Data Flash will be a welcome development in an industry that is struggling with legacy HDD technologies for secondary storage applications in the 3rd Platform computing era. As a flash memory storage manufacturer and supplier, along with its supplier relationships (both upstream and downstream), storage technology patent portfolio, and general expertise in the flash arena, SanDisk is in an excellent position to introduce this new category and make it successful. SanDisk management should be thinking not only about its first product entry in this new market but also about the most effective way to promote the development of the market.
For such a compelling technology, there should be a significant marketing budget to generate widespread awareness. The first focus should be on generating several extremely high-profile, extremely compelling success story references that underline the criticality of this new storage medium. Developer and channel partner programs should be put in place to develop a rich ecosystem of InfiniFlash-based solutions as quickly as possible, with an emphasis on the ease of working with SanDisk as a partner. Significant strategic consideration should be given to determining which InfiniFlash elements are made available to the open source community to help develop the right standards and which should be retained as sustainable differentiators against inevitable future market entrants.
On the product side, SanDisk needs to ensure a bulletproof enterprise-class product offering that is easy to integrate into relevant preexisting datacenter workflows. The addition of NFS/CIFS support in the near term will be important, and as the market develops, SanDisk may consider other software- based technologies, like data deduplication, that may allow it to expand to other secondary storage markets like backup, disaster recovery, and archive. In that case, other data protection APIs will need to be supported as well. And of course, continuing to work to lower the effective cost dollar-per– gigabyte cost of InfiniFlash will be important. At $1.00 per gigabyte, InfiniFlash is already a compelling alternative to HDDs for the targeted secondary storage application environments, but lower effective dollar-per-gigabyte cost will only make this offering that much more compelling.
The performance and cost characteristics of Big Data Flash will enable not only new types of secondary storage applications but possibly also new types of primary storage applications that meet its performance profile. The availability of the application development API is sure to engender some custom development in the 2015–2016 time frame, but if the technology takes off, other vendors selling more general-purpose applications related to content repositories, media and other streaming services, big data and analytics, and Web serving will be sure to take advantage of it as well. SanDisk would do well to take steps to make this API a standard as this new category develops.
Given evolving I/O requirements in 3rd Platform computing environments, there is a significant opportunity for products in the "Big Data Flash" category. We have seen secondary storage environments evolve over the past 15 years, from tape to scale-out secondary storage architectures based around disk. IDC views flash as a technology that will transform storage in the datacenter, and if Big Data Flash is able to deliver on the category definition we've outlined in this white paper, there is a good chance that we'll see a future evolution of secondary storage architectures from disk to flash. Big Data Flash addresses key 3rd Platform computing requirements for access and data movement performance while promising to lower TCO and improve secondary storage platform reliability.
SanDisk's flash technology expertise gives the company advantages in introducing this technology, and the enterprise expertise it has developed over the past 12–18 months is augmenting that advantage. In introducing the first product entry in this category, SanDisk has demonstrated its capability for innovation, but there are other functional and go-to-market considerations to firmly establish its product with customers that must be addressed in the near term as this market develops. Still, at this point, SanDisk is clearly a big step ahead of the competition with this introduction with a compelling technology that end users need.
End users are encouraged to evaluate InfiniFlash against its target application environments: content repositories, media and other streaming services, big data and analytics, and Web infrastructure. Its performance, feature set, and cost profile represent a better way to address the needs of these environments than scale-out architectures based on HDDs.
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BEAUFORT - Ashton Mullins and Autumn Smith of Bluffton were among seven students at the Beaufort-Jasper Academy of Career Excellence (ACE) to earn statewide recognition at the recent SC Skills State Competition in Greenville.
During the three-day event, competitors took written tests and completed hands-on demonstrations of their skills that were judged by educators and working professionals, said Rebecca Long, a graphics communications teacher at ACE who also serves as the school's Skills Coordinator. The judging criteria varied according to the particular skill being demonstrated.
ACE's seven award-winning students were:
Ashley Shoemaker - First place, Food and Beverage Service (restaurant customer service)
Ashton Mullins - First place, Esthetics (make-up application and skin care)
Autumn Smith - First place, Nail Tech (nail care)
Aaron Holmes - First place, Haircutting
Amori Pringle - Second place, Haircutting
Lewis Morgan - Third place, Haircutting
Dyllon Grimm - Second place, Welding Sculpture
Shoemaker, Mullins and Smith are eligible to attend the national SkillsUSA competition in Kansas City. That June 23-27 showcase for the nation's best career and technical students will feature more than 5,700 contestants in 94 events. Nearly 1,500 judges will be involved.
ACE is working to raise the funds and sponsorships needed to allow the three local students to make the trip. Long said national winners can take home college scholarships.
The competition rewards students for excellence, involves industry in directly evaluating student performance and keeps training relevant to employers' needs.
Sponsors of the South Carolina skills competition included Lowe's, Irwin Tools, Great Clips, the American Red Cross and Clemson University.


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Clarkson University Student Leaders Present at National AAUW Conference
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Four Clarkson undergraduate students attended and presented at the 2008 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders June 5-7 at Georgetown University.
Kimberly Cook, a May 2008 Clarkson computer science graduate from Utica, N.Y., was another student leader on the project, but was unable to attend due to work commitments.
The Clarkson student presentation was the culmination of a $5,000 grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to conduct salary negotiations training and a negotiations contest for students during the spring 2008 semester. The Clarkson student leaders researched the literature on gender and negotiations, and designed and presented a three-hour training program to their student peers in February. This was followed by a negotiations contest in which 10 students were awarded $2,500 in cash prizes.
The student leaders did an outstanding job presenting their project and responding to questions from conference attendees, said Associate Professor of Organizational Studies Mary E. Graham, who accompanied the students to the conference. "They have become experts on negotiations. The students took full advantage of the networking and educational opportunities at the conference. All of us are grateful for AAUW's and Clarkson's generous support of the students."
Graham and Student Support Services Director Catherine Clark were the project advisors. The St. Lawrence County AAUW liaison for the project is Laura E. Ettinger, associate professor of history.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.
Photo caption: Four Clarkson University students recently attended and presented at the 2008 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders at Georgetown University. Left to right: Cara Claflin, Ashley Williamsen, Benjamin DeMuth; and Story Elliott (right). Kimberly Cook '08 (second from right) was unable to attend.


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jim Brown has come back to the team he helped lead to its last NFL championship.
Brown will return in an unspecified role with the Cleveland Browns, who formally reunited with the Hall of Fame standout at a news conference on Wednesday. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam was present.
"We're excited to have him back a part of us," Browns CEO Joe Banner said. "It's important to me because he's clearly in the top couple, if not the single most important part of the history of the franchise, and it's the right thing to do."
Brown previously worked as a senior adviser with the Browns.
However, his role was eliminated by former team president Mike Holmgren and Brown had been estranged from the team for a few years. He returned to play in an alumni golf outing and was introduced on the field at halftime at a game in September, when he met with Haslam, who had just bought the team from Randy Lerner.
At the time, the outspoken Brown talked about his desire to work again with the team.
"I would love to have a role with the Browns," he said. "I think that's what every ex-player would like to do most of all, to be a contributor to the success of an organization. I'm stuck with being No. 32 of the Cleveland Browns and I can't do anything about it. I don't want to do anything about it. If you didn't like the ball, that's one thing. You're not going to always like my politics, but we are married because of that history. If I can be a part of the development of a new winning attitude and help get some victories, man that would be fantastic.
"Imagine us having a championship team here again?"
The Browns last won a title in 1964.
Brown is the team's career rushing leader with 12,312 yards and 106 touchdowns.
Haslam's arrival seemed to help the Browns patch up any differences with arguably the greatest player in their franchise's history. Haslam said at the NFL owner's meetings in March that he anticipated Brown coming back to work for the team.
Browns linebacker D'Qwell Jackson is thrilled to learn Brown will be back with the team.
"With everything that is moving in the right direction, it's only right to bring Jim Brown back," Jackson said. "It's the perfect time for it because he did a lot when he was here, just his presence alone for a young guy, to be able to have a conversation with him, I was in awe after being around him for three years.
"I want him back."
Brown was at the Browns' stadium on Tuesday to film a scene from the upcoming movie "Draft Day" starring Kevin Costner. Brown acted in a scene with former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, who said the return of the famed No. 32 was overdue.
"It's exciting," Kosar said. "It's great. I think the influence he can have on some of the younger kids and some of the younger players is great."


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I'm not yet persuaded that it is, but this piece by Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post provides some grounds for optimism. They report that House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) says a strongly positive statement progress in Iraq by General Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party's efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.
According to Clyburn, Petraeus carries significant weight among the 47 members of the Blue Dog caucus in the House (i.e., the less than liberal Democrats). Sadly, it's not clear that Petraeus carries as much weight with moderate and liberal Republicans.
As significant as what Clyburn said is the way he said it. According to Clyburn, a strongly positive report by Petraeus would be "a real big problem for us." Clyburn's candor may be commendable, but it's unfortunate that the Dems regard strongly positive news from Iraq as a problem.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A prosecutor says no decision will be made on the death penalty until at least next month in the case against an Ohio man charged with killing three women whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags.
Cuyahoga (KY-uh-HOH'-guh) County prosecutor Tim McGinty made the comment during a pretrial hearing Tuesday for 35-year-old Michael Madison. McGinty says a committee in his office is reviewing whether the death penalty is appropriate.
Madison responded briefly to questions from the judge, who scheduled another hearing for Aug. 20.
Defense attorney David Grant said afterward that his client's mental state would be evaluated, but he did not elaborate.
Madison was arrested last month after the bodies were found in a dilapidated neighborhood in East Cleveland. He is being held on $6 million bond.


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Chelsea have ruled out the possibility of Avram Grant returning to Stamford Bridge to assist new manager Rafa Benitez.
The former Blues boss, who guided the club to a Champions League final defeat to Manchester United in 2008, was rumoured to be lined up to aid the Spaniard in a consultative role.
But despite having gone three games without a victory under Benitez, the Champions League holders have denied reports linking Grant with a return.
"There is no truth in reports that Avram Grant will be returning to the club," a spokesman for the club said.
Grant, who previously had difficult spells in charge of Portsmouth and West Ham, has been out of management since resigning from his role at Partizan Belgrade earlier this year.


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So, I have always had troubles with let-down. Maybe it is because I have hypothyroid (though it is under control with Synthroid), or maybe it is related to anxiety, I do not know. I have managed to muddle through with my 10 month old up until now. I cannot describe how difficult it has been for me... trying to convince baby to stick around and suckle for 10-15 minutes to try for a let-down. Or sometimes just giving up and coming back 1 hour later.
I have instituted almost everything I know to improve chances for let-down: nursing in the same place, no stimuli, dim lights, rescue remedy, fennel, meditation and stretching beforehand, breast compressions, humming, thinking about how much I love my baby, not thinking about my baby at all. Sometimes I get the let down. Sometimes not.
OK, so currently I am having this problem where the side that baby starts suckling on will let down, but when we switch to the "off" side, my milk will not let down. This has put me in a 2 hour nursing cycle, where baby only gets half feed every time, but eats very frequently. Any suggestions for me?
Sometimes I think I am the only person in the world who has had this problem consistently. I literally have struggled with this since my baby was a newborn. My doctor said I could try oxytocin nasal spray, but I'm not sure. Have anyone heard of anxiety meds actually fixing this problem? Though I would prefer not to go that route. I figure we can make it 2 more months going like this, but it is stressful and frustrating for me and baby (at times).
Any advice would be so appreciated!


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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 02:41 PM
Lawmakers are divided over how to update the nation's immigration laws while also dealing with the 11 million undocumented foreigners living in the United States. Also complicating the passage of legislation this year is both parties' efforts to woo Hispanic votes in the 2014 congressional elections.
In a State of the Union address the Democratic president delivered to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Obama declared, "Send me a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the next few months, and I will sign it right away."
Obama's top immigration official, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to reinforce the administration's position.
"Our immigration system is not just broken, it is hurting our country.... and the way to fix it is with comprehensive immigration reform," Napolitano said.
But conservative Republicans, who mainly questioned Napolitano on what they see as inadequate border security measures, made their case for more limited legislation.
"We might be better dealing with discrete problems" that have bipartisan support rather than "massive immigration reform," Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama told Napolitano.
Sessions' comment echoed several Republicans in the House of Representatives suggested last week at an immigration hearing before that chamber's Judiciary panel.
Republicans note that there is bipartisan support for luring more high-tech workers - mathematicians, engineers, computer specialists and others - from places like India and China. They also see broad backing in Congress for toughening verification of the legal status of workers employed by U.S. companies and improving the overall visa system that controls the number of immigrants.
But most divisive is the emotional question of what to do about the millions of people who entered the United States illegally since 1986, when Congress last reformed immigration laws, and have been otherwise law-abiding residents.
Republicans have urged Obama first to improve border security and deal with people overstaying their visas before addressing the question of providing a path to citizenship for undocumented residents.
"I do not believe that the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go," said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate.
Nonetheless, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont vowed to advance an immigration reform bill through his panel and leading Democrats have vowed to oppose narrow bills that do not help the 11 million undocumented.
Two of the committee's Republican members, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona, are part of a bipartisan group that has unveiled a comprehensive plan.
Democrats are hoping that a strong, bipartisan vote in the Judiciary panel would propel passage in the full Senate of a comprehensive bill and improve chances for action this year in the Republican-controlled House.
Trying to soothe Republican fears that legalizing the undocumented merely would encourage a flood of new illegal immigrants, Napolitano said: "Immigration enforcement now is light years away from what it was in 1986. You can see it by the numbers." She said the previously 3,000-member border patrol force is now at 21,000 and a few miles of chain-link fence has grown to 655 miles (1,055 km) of "fence infrastructure."
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text: Low sodium, low salt, sodium free, salt free, no added salt, restricted sodium. What do all these terms really mean? The media has bombarded us with warnings about the hazards of consuming too much salt. An entire industry to produce low and reduced sodium products has been created.Sodium is a naturally occurring mineral that is present in most foods and is often used as an additive in food processing and preparation. It is an essential mineral that has many important functions within the body. Sodium plays a vital role in fluid balance and maintenance of blood pressure.Sodium in the diet, mainly in the form of salt, is also known as sodium chloride. Salt is a mixture of 40% sodium and 60% chloride; therefore, the words "sodium" and "salt" are not the same. It is estimated that the human body requires 500 mg of sodium per day.The sodium controlled diet is used to treat many medical conditions including hypertension, congestive heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, kidney disease, and other fluid- or sodium-retaining conditions.The average American diet contains up to 6500 mg of sodium per day. The American Heart Association recommends consumption of no more than 3000 mg per day. Most Americans are consuming much greater amounts of sodium than required by the body. The term "low sodium diet" is quite non-specific and often causes confusion for a lot of people. Many people ask, "How low is low?"Sodium restrictions cover a wide range and can be mild, moderate, or severe. A mild restriction is approximately 3000 – 4000 mg per day. In healthcare facilities, this type of restriction is referred to as a "No Added Salt" or "NAS" diet. A moderate restriction is approximately 2000 mg per day and a severe restriction is approximately 500 mg per day. Physicians prescribe sodium levels dependant on medical conditions.The most important part of following a sodium restricted diet is to read food labels. Table 1 defines terminology used on food labels. It is important to become familiar with the many different sources of sodium in food besides salt. Some of the common sources of sodium include monosodium glutamate (MSG), baking powder, baking soda, brine, sodium nitrate, sodium citrate, and di-sodium phosphate. It is also important to be aware that some medications contain sodium. Table 2 lists some common medications and their sodium content.There are many tips for following a sodium controlled diet. The first step is to eliminate the salt shaker and develop a taste for other seasonings. The use of the salt shaker is often just a learned habit; many people do not even taste their food before adding salt. Commercially available salt substitutes are widely used to replace the salt shaker. However, caution should be used because salt substitutes often contain large amounts of potassium which may also be restricted in some medical conditions such as renal disease. More desirable replacements for salt include herb mixtures, lemon wedges, lime wedges and fresh seasonings such as garlic and onions. A typical herb blend contains a mixture of basil, thyme, parsley, cloves, ground mace, black pepper, dried savory, cayenne pepper, and ground nutmeg. Many people have never even tasted these flavors so experimenting with them is encouraged.Certain foods are known to be high in sodium and should be avoided. Canned foods often contain large amounts of sodium as a preservative. Fresh and frozen foods are preferred over canned foods for this reason. If canned foods are to be used, look for low sodium products. Read the labels. Condiments are another group of foods that contain large amounts of sodium. Traditional Ketchup, BBQ sauce, soy sauce, salad dressings, and steak sauce are all high in sodium. Cured and salted meats should be avoided. This includes ham, bologna, hot dogs, bacon, sausages, herring, anchovies, and sardines. Milk contains approximately 120 mg of sodium per eight ounce glass and may be limited to one glass per day on very restrictive physician prescribed diets.Using fresh foods instead of canned and processed foods, reading food labels, learning to enjoy the natural taste of food rather than using the salt shaker, and developing an awareness of how much sodium is consumed daily are all recommended. The sodium controlled diet is an important part of therapy for many medical conditions. Most people will agree that it is easier and more cost-effective to follow a sensible sodium controlled meal plan rather than to take additional medications and undergo additional costly medical procedures.


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Judge refuses to accept guilty plea in Manchester assault case
— Circuit Court-Manchester District Division Judge Gregory Michael Wednesday refused to accept a guilty plea from a homeless 19-year-old charged with simple assault, possession of a controlled drug and resisting arrest, all in connection with an incident at a Belmont Street address.
Gedeon Karasi, 19, was arrested after the owner of the Belmont Street building called police to say his tenants had complained about someone sneaking into the building at night and defecating in the hall.
Court documents show that police officers reported Karasi initially provided a false name. A check of his real name showed an electronic bench warrant for his failure to appear in Circuit Court June 27 on a marijuana possession charge from Feb. 22 at Manchester High School Central.
Officer Kevin Gelinas reported Karasi struggled with him and another officer seeking to handcuff Karasi, pushed the officers, continued struggling after being warned he would be tased, and, after trying to break free and flee, was first tased (with the darts not contacting skin), then drive stunned, with the charge applied directly to the neck. Court documents show Gelinas reported that a cell phone, change and a baggie containing 4.4 grams of marijuana fell from Karasi's clothing during the attempt to handcuff Karasi.
The two officers reported they sustained abrasions, redness and bleeding as a result of the struggle, but said Karasi appeared unhurt.
Karasi told the judge he wanted to plead guilty, but Michael refused to accept the pleas. He said because the new drug charge would be a second offense, and could result in jail time, Karasi should speak with an attorney before entering a guilty plea.
Bail was set at $5,000 cash/surety, with conditions barring contact with the owner of the Belmont Street building and from the building. Trial was set for Aug. 13.
Has alternate explanation
Jon Orme, 25, pleaded innocent Wednesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to charges of simple assault, criminal mischief, resisting arrest and violation of a domestic violence protective order. Trial was set for Aug. 13.
Orme is accused of hitting a woman in the head several times and of hitting a mirror that fell and broke July 2 in an apartment at 151 Ray St.
Court documents show the woman told police Orme hit her because he said she was taking too long in the bathroom. He claimed she has mental health issues and he was trying to shift her focus.
The woman obtained a domestic violence protective order, barring Orme from the residence and from being within 100 yards of the woman and he was served.
She told police Orme was in the residence Tuesday, in violation of the order. Court documents show police reported Orme could be seen in the residence, but refused to respond to requests to open the door. Another key was obtained, access was gained and Orme was arrested.
Bail was set at $5,000 cash/surety, with conditions that mirror those of the protective order. Trial was set for Aug. 13.
Offers excuse for missing court
Patricia Lanier, 44, who lists the homeless shelter as her address, told Circuit Court-Manchester District Division Judge Gregory Michael on Wednesday that she missed her scheduled May 13 court date on a simple assault charge because she had a broken wrist.
Lanier said she told her public defender and thought that was enough. Lanier's initial $1,000 personal recognizance bail had been changed to cash/surety on the electronic bench warrant issued following her failure to appear in court.
Michael changed the bail back to personal recognizance, cautioning Lanier that telling a lawyer isn't sufficient, and that she needs to contact the court directly. Trial was set for Aug. 13.
Lanier also faces charges in Hillsborough County Superior Court North. She was indicted by the May Hillsborough County North Grand Jury for second-degree assault of a man in 2011 and by the March grand jury for aggravated felonious sexual assault of a young teen boy in 2012.
Friends were being arrested
Police prosecutor Lt. Peter Favreau Wednesday sought $500 cash/surety bail for a Concord woman being arraigned on a disorderly conduct charge in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division. Favreau also requested a bail condition requiring the woman complete the booking process at the Manchester Police Department before being released.
Favreau told Judge Gregory Michael that Kristina Figueroa, 30, of 50 Longmeadow Drive, was arrested outside Social 24, at 24 Depot St., about 1 a.m. Wednesday after she tried to intervene when several of her friends were being arrested.
Police said Figueroa got out of a vehicle twice and approached, shouting obscenities, as her friends were being escorted to a transport vehicle. Police said when she refused to stop, she was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Michael set bail for Figueroa at $1,000 personal recognizance, with trial set for Aug. 13.


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Iowa man, sister reunite thanks to boy, Facebook
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man and his sister have reunited 65 years after being separated in foster care thanks to a 7-year-old friend's Facebook search.
Clifford Boyson of Davenport met his sibling, Betty Billadeau, in person Saturday. Billadeau drove up from her home in Florissant, Mo., with her daughter and granddaughter for the reunion at a hotel in Davenport.
Boyson, 66, and Billadeau, 70, both tried to find each other for years without success. They were placed in different foster homes in Chicago when they were children.
Then 7-year-old Eddie Hanzelin, who is the son of Boyson's landlord, got involved.
Eddie managed to find Billadeau by searching his mom's Facebook account with Billadeau's maiden name. He recognized the family resemblance when he saw her picture.
"Oh, my God," Boyson said when he saw and hugged Billadeau.
"You do have a sister," Billadeau said.
"You're about the same height Mom was," Boyson said.
Billadeau's daughter, Sarah Billadeau, 42, and granddaughter, Megan Billadeau, 27, both wiped away tears and smiled during the reunion.
"He didn't have any women in his life," Sarah said. "We're going to get that straightened out real fast."
Boyson said he's looking forward to visiting Billadeau near St. Louis and meeting more family.
"I'm hoping I can go and spend a week or two," he said. "I want to meet the whole congregation. I never knew I had a big family."
Eddie, who enjoys messing around with his family's iPad, said he's glad he was able to assist in making the reunion happen and that he learned about helping others at school.
"Clifford did not have any family, and family's important," the boy said.
Near the end of their tearful reunion Boyson and Billadeau presented Eddie with a $125 check in appreciation of his detective work.


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Ventas buying ARC Capital Healthcare in $2.6B deal
NEW YORK (AP) — Real estate investment trust Ventas is purchasing American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal that the companies valued at about $2.6 billion.
The companies each own medical care offices as well as other real estate properties.
Ventas Inc. will pay $11.33 per ARC Healthcare share, a 14 percent premium to its Friday closing price of $9.95.
ARC Healthcare shareholders can choose to receive 0.1688 Ventas common shares or $11.33 in cash for each common share of ARC Healthcare they own. The cash portion of the deal is subject to a cap of 10 percent of ARC Healthcare's outstanding shares.
ARC Healthcare stockholders are expected to own approximately 8 percent of Ventas' 321 million outstanding shares once the acquisition is complete.
Both companies unanimously approved the transaction, which is targeted to close in the fourth quarter. It still needs approval from ARC Healthcare stockholders.
ARC Healthcare's stock surged $1.10, or 11.1 percent to $11.05 in morning trading Monday. Ventas shares fell $1.45, or 2.2 percent, to $65.35.
Ventas also announced that it is buying 29 independent living seniors housing communities in Canada from Holiday Retirement for $980 million Canadian dollars (approximately $900 million) in cash. That deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
The transactions are expected to be immediately add to Ventas's 2015 normalized funds from operations by at least 10 cents per share. Funds from operations, or FFO, are considered key to measuring the financial performance of real estate investment trusts. FFO adds items such as amortization and depreciation back to net income.


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IIT Joint Entrance Examination
IIT-JEE has become the vision of any studious person, who is in turn aspiring to get into the IITs to pursue his/her engineering dreams!
It is been conducted as an entrance examination and considered, as the sole criteria for the undergraduate admissions to all the IITs in India. Moreover, it is also accepted, as an entrance examination by other renowned institutions such as Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Kerala, etc… The examination is conducted by the IITs, based on the policy of rotation, i.e. the senior most would be getting the first chance of conducting the examination.
Preparation Tips
It is wise to use the holidays, or free times, as such, opportunities would not be available in the later stages. One could do research about the exam preparations and also can collect the sample question papers from previous years examinations, could even create a network of seniors, friends, successful winners of this examination, as it would help the person to discuss about the exam and the modes to win the same! As the IIT-JEE question paper comprises of objective type questions from the subjects mathematics, chemistry and physics, it is vivid that time is the major constraint to solve the question paper. Some significant tips on the exam preparations are listed here:
- Planning a schedule and totally adhering to it, in the preparation phase, would definitely guide one in the right direction.
- The question pattern consists of objective type questions from the subjects, mathematics, physics and chemistry. Hence, preparing to answer the aptitude type questions is important.
- Practicing to allot time to each question, would help too at the time of examination. Time is important, even in most of the coaching centers/institutions, a greater value would be given to the time. Say, for example, if you have to allot a minute to one question, but you could not complete it within the time and taking more than 2 minutes would become an issue, as the time to other questions would be affected. Hence, practicing these issues, while preparing for the examination would be useful on the day of the examination.
- One can do group discussions, or can also practice a 'Knowledge Sharing' procedures with his friends in order to enhance his knowledge in the subject.
- It is a best practice to work on the previous year question papers, as it would train a candidate to the exam mode and could also get trained on the issues like, time, speed and accuracy, etc…
The most significant thing required to pursue this preparation is 'attitude' and 'capability'. The attitude frames the basic quality, which means, if you have a positive and energetic attitude, then that would in turn frame your capability to manage lot of things at a time.
The academics part also play a significant role, as more than 50% of the 12th board examination is the minimum aggregate expected from the general category students. Thus, the effective management of both the academics and the entrance examinations (IIT-JEE) would definitely lead one to the direction of successful stories in IIT-JEE exams!
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1/5th scale Buggy Excitement!
Looking for desert buggy excitement? The Maverick Blackout XB is going to be exactly what you're looking for! With the same hardware as the ST and MT versions, but with a weight-saving single 30kg steering servo, the Blackout XB has the looks and performance of buggies half its size, PLUS the speed and power of its larger brothers! The aerodynamic bodyshell and high-downforce rear wing let the Blackout XB slip through the air while the chunky beadlock buggy tyres let you tear up grass, dirt and mud surfaces with ease!
The range of Maverick large-scale vehicles gets even BIGGER for 2013, with the addition of a huge buggy and truggy along with the venerable Blackout MT monster truck! Awesome 4WD power, a 30cc petrol engine and a bright new look make the Maverick 1/5th scale vehicle family bigger and better than ever! These awesome vehicles are completely Ready-To-Run: all you need to do is add your premixed fuel and drop in the batteries! All three feature a 2.4GHz radio system for glitch-free driving with any number of other RC vehicles - you'll be able to drive all day long with your friends or other racers! The powerful 30cc engine starts with a simple pullstarter cord, and gives you extreme top speeds and jaw-dropping acceleration that will absolutely astound you as the tyres kick up gravel, dirt and mud! The high-RPM, strengthened clutch fitted to the engine will have an extra-long life with fantastic durability.
Huge tyres and durable beadlock wheels give you the traction you'll want on loose surfaces, and the if you're used to 1/10th scale kits you'll be absolutely blown away by the suspension pieces fitted to the Maverick Blackout range. Extra-thick suspension arms and shock towers, extra-long shocks, extra-strong bumpers and other chassis parts all help ensure you won't miss any action out on the track!
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CHICAGO — Children enrolled in YMCA programs not only have positive attitudes about physical activity, but they also are more physically active than the average U.S. child, according to a national poll targeting 6- to 12-year-old children conducted by YMCA of the USA.
Among the YMCA children surveyed, half said they exercise, dance or actively play six or seven days a week. Another one-third of the kids said they are active four or five days a week. Eighty-one percent of the kids said they "very much" like play that "helps me move my body." Only 1 percent said they do "not at all" like physical play.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 77 percent of U.S. children are active at least one day a week.
"These survey results are encouraging," says Neil Nicoll, president and CEO of YMCA of the USA. "With all of the negative statistics about kids, obesity and inactivity, we were really pleased to find that kids engaged with a YMCA have positive attitudes about physical activity, and many are meeting or exceeding federal recommendations for exercise and active play."


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Travel Guide of Buenos Aires, Argentina for: Eurobuilding Hotel Boutique Buenos AiresMontserrat, Buenos Aires, Province of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Summary
- Beautiful parks and architecture
- Lively nightlife
- Many museums, including a handful that are kid-friendly
- The streets' grid system makes it easy to get around
- The metro system is easy to use, and stops at many tourist attractions
- Top-notch dining (especially the steak) and shopping (especially the leather)
- Significant pick-pocketing
- Many hotels are expensive
- Lots of traffic (and the metro system closes early)
- Can be hot and humid during the summer (North America's winter) and chilly during the winter
What It's Like
The capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires is home to many Argentine traditions and trademarks: The streets are lined by parrillas, or steakhouses, that serve up Argentina's famous beef; luxury boutiques sell leather clothing and pieces by high-end designers; the nightlife is dominated by the tango; and Evita's "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" balcony overlooks the central square, Plaza de Mayo.
Though there are plenty of museums to visit in the city, Buenos Aires is a great place to explore by foot and simply wander around (the streets' grid system makes it easy to explore). Known for its stunning architecture (gorgeous marble and bronze buildings line Avenida 9 de Julio, the widest boulevard in the world), Buenos Aires also boasts beautiful parks; the parks in Palermo are particularly noteworty and include a museum, a planetarium, and rose gardens. Outdoor markets are frequent occurences during the weekends and the cafe culture is a popular pastime -- Portenos (as locals call themselves) can be seen sipping coffee with friends until the wee hours of the morning. So if you're heading to Buenos Aires, be prepared to not get much sleep. Often referred to as the "Paris of South America," the city has a lively nightlife that doesn't get started until midnight, after locals and tourists have finished their late-night dinners.
Like in many big cities, there is significant crime in Buenos Aires, but most of it consists of pick-pocketing and other non-violent crimes. Tourists are simply encouraged to keep a close watch on their belongings and to travel in groups after dark. And it is clear that this petty crime has not discouraged visitors, as the city has experienced a recent tourist boom. Though their summer (North America's winter) can be hot and humid, it is the city's peak tourist season, and hotels can be particularly expensive at this time. Fortunately, tourists can save on transportation, as the metro system is easy to use and goes directly to many tourist attractions.
Where To Stay
Though there are many hostels in Beunos Aires, the city does not have as many mid-range options as some would like. Boutique hotels are becoming all the rage, although international brand hotels are also available. Palermo is a popular area to stay in, as it boasts some of the city's best restaurants, shops, and parks. Staying near Plaza de Mayo puts visitors in the center of the action, while Recoleta is a beautiful historic area. La Boca can be dangerous at night, so staying near that area is often discouraged.


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Niagara County Sheriff James R. Voutour is urging everyone to buckle up heading into the busy summer driving season.
Sheriff's deputies are out in full force, partnering with the New York State Police and other local law enforcement agencies, taking part in the 2013 National Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign.
The primary goal of this campaign is to increase seat belt usage and to reduce fatalities and the severity of injuries in crashes.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than half of the passengers killed in 2011 were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. It also states crashes were more prevalent at night than during the day.
Automobile crashes are the No. 1 killer of children between the ages 1 to 12, and 85 to 90 percent of all child restraints are installed incorrectly. Children must be rear facing until they are at least 1 year old and 20 pounds. The new recommendations are to keep them rear facing as close to 2 years old as possible. Children must use a child restraint until their eighth birthday and should be kept in a restraint until the seat belts fit them properly.
The Niagara County Sheriff's Office offers a permanent fitting station. The hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Seat checks are done by appointment only. Call Grace Destino at 438-3190 to schedule an appointment.
Checkpoints are also done throughout the county, mainly in the warmer months, with no appointment necessary. Go to niagarasheriff.com and find the next location on the calendar of events.
"It's important that everyone buckles up every time they go out, both day and night - and there is no good excuse not to have your children properly buckled. Seat belts save thousands of lives every year, but still far too many motorists are senselessly killed or seriously injured by not wearing them, especially at night when the risk of getting in a crash is even greater," Voutour said. "We want everyone to have a safe summer, but it requires an important step that everyone buckles up prior to heading out on our roadways."


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It's been a bad week for JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. On May 5, Institutional Shareholder Services urged the company's stockholders to reject three candidates for the company's board, ratcheting up an earlier demand that Dimon divide the jobs of chairman and CEO. On Tuesday, a competing advisory firm, Glass Lewis & Co., went even further than ISS by urging rejection of a majority of management's proposed board members. Advisory firms made noise about the board a year ago, but this time may be different. Black Rock, Vanguard, and Fidelity Investments all supported Dimon in 2012, but the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that those firms are pointedly undecided in advance of voting that will begin on May 21.
If Dimon's candidates lose the election, he would likely lose one (or possibly even both of his jobs). It will have been a remarkably swift fall for an executive who was recently the toast of the American elite. Even if he wins, the struggle has been a huge blow to Dimon's reputation. Either way, we will see that the formal tools of corporate governance are laughably inadequate to the task of disciplining a gigantic financial institution.
Back before the financial crisis of 2008, people liked to suck up to the CEOs of major banks. These are very rich men, after all, and they deal in matters that seem simultaneously more arcane and more sophisticated than oil extraction, consumer products, or retailing. But then came a major collapse that suggested many of them were immoral, dangerously incompetent, or both. Enter Dimon. Under his leadership, JPMorgan actually pioneered many of the financial instruments that led to so much mischief. In her excellent account of the era, Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe, Gillian Tett reveals that their BISTRO product, officially "broad index secured trust offering," was such a clever way of exploiting regulatory loopholes "that some bankers started to joke that 'BISTRO' really stood for 'BIS Total Rip Off.'" But Morgan understood these products better than most competitors and didn't go as crazy during the boom as its imitators, and Dimon reduced the company's exposure before the market collapsed.
Consequently, JPMorgan Chase emerged from the crisis stronger than its peers, and Dimon was the toast of both Wall Street and Washington.
Then came the London Whale. Bruno Iksil, a trader at the bank's chief investment office in London, lost billions of dollars on a terrible bet. That was bad. Even worse is that he did it while ostensibly trying to "hedge" risk rather than speculate profitably. Conveniently, such risk-hedging trades are supposed to be exempted from Volcker Rule prohibitions on big banks speculating with their clients' money. The scale of the losses revealed that banks were ready and willing to drive trucks full of money through the loophole.
That took the sheen of Dimon, and now regulators are swarming. By March, eight separate agencies were looking into different aspects of JPMorgan. Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission got into the game, recommending sanctions against the bank for "manipulative schemes" that turned "money-losing power plants into powerful profit centers."
It's easy to see how these troubles have weakened Dimon's standing in the eyes of shareholders and advisory firms. What's less clear is how cutting Dimon's role in the company would actually solve anything. Lots of companies separate the chairman and CEO role or have more independent directors. The fact is that the CEO is still the one calling all the shots. A board spot is a plum position—a highly compensated part-time job in which all your incentives are to not rock the boat. The real way corporate governance works in America is that if your share price falls too much, you might be taken over by some corporate raider who buys up such a large swath of the company that he has real influence. Alternatively, if your business does too poorly, you might just end up in bankruptcy.
And this is the whole problem with big banks. Regulators worry that putting them through a liquidation process risks economy-wide panics and bank runs. When small banks fail, the FDIC normally handles it through the takeover process: The small bank gets merged with a larger institution. But this doesn't work for supergiants: They're too big to merge. That leaves us with the need for prophylactic regulation to avoid excessive risk-taking. The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill contains lots of useful measures to do that, but implementation has been badly delayed and bank lobbyists are having a lot of success at poking holes in it as rules are finalized.
Even as the industry and the Obama administration fight over these details, one thing they can agree on is that they'd like to consider the entire issue of "too big to fail" as having been put to rest. But Dimon's woes are a reminder that we still don't have the biggest banks under control. CEOs don't know what their traders are doing, boards can't supervise CEOs effectively, and regulators are busy tracking down failures after the fact. The more JPMorgan's various stakeholders fight over governance, the more people are going to look again at measures like the Brown-Vitter that aim to simply shrink these firms to a more manageable size. The speed with which Dimon's reputation has turned emphasizes the extent to which this is a business where it's very hard to separate luck from skill, and even savvy firms are prone to massive unexpected stumbles. The next megabank failure may not come this year or next, but it'll happen one of these days and the system's still not ready for it.


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Alice's recent roles include project architect of Hub Kings Cross and the development and operational delivery of Hub Westminster. Her previous experiences include an institutional development strategy for Somerset House, affordable housing schemes, innovative workspace environments and urban regeneration projects.
Alice was the lead designer on the Compendium for the Civic Economy, a collection of 25 civic enterprises showcasing more sustainable routes to a different economy in our cities, towns and neighbourhoods, commissioned by CABE and NESTA. She is a Future 100 Award winner for entrepreneurial flair and innovation in progressing a responsible business venture. Alice is a fellow of the RSA, has tutored at the University of Bath and served as a member of the RIBA Validation Panel visiting architecture schools in the UK.


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New Version of Sourcery CodeBench Delivers Improved Build, Debug and Optimization Capabilities
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its new version of the Mentor® Embedded Sourcery™ CodeBench embedded software development tools, integrated with the award-winning graphical debugging and analysis Sourcery™ Analyzer technology, with the latest feature-rich open source components. The new version provides embedded developers with access to updated and validated open source software (OSS) components. The latest updates deliver fast compilation, superior debugging, and improved runtime performance. In addition, embedded Linux developers can now create powerful customized trace and performance analysis routines using the updated Sourcery Analyzer technology.
"Sourcery CodeBench is our flagship embedded development platform, and providing our customers access to the latest open source technologies enables them to create innovative embedded systems with ease and greater reliability," stated Guy Moshe, general manager of open source tools, Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. "The development and debug features of Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery Analyzer focus on enabling our customers to produce optimized embedded systems."
Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery Analyzer Product Features
Key updates and features in the new release of the Sourcery CodeBench tools include:
- Update of the compiler to GCC 4.8.1, providing access to a new general optimization level (-Og) for fast compilation and superior debugging with improved runtime performance
- Update to Eclipse CDT 8.2
- An enhanced GDB (7.6.50) console that enables breakpoints, watchpoints and tracepoints to be set and shown in the breakpoints view; all breakpoints related to GDB commands are now supported and synchronized with the user interface (UI)
- Support for the Subversion revision control system
- Improved C++11 support
- The ability to create both GNU/Linux and bare-metal applications with a single installation (Professional Edition only)
- Windows 8 host support, including extended compile caching for faster compile times
- A dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Vista™ Virtual Prototype that provides greater visibility into execution including performance and power consumption (Professional Edition only)
New features in this release of the Sourcery Analyzer tool include:
- Support for importing Diagnostic Logging and Trace (DLT) file format, enabling users of GENIVI-compliant Linux to analyze infotainment application trace data
- Quicker integration with Linux platforms
- Collect data from remote systems using the standalone data collection script generation tool
- Extended documentation and improved code template creation of custom analysis agents
Expanded Hardware Support
The new Sourcery CodeBench release provides additional hardware support for Altera Cyclone V, Freescale i.MX6Q SABRE Lite, Texas Instruments OMAP5432 (ARM Cortex-A15) and Texas Instruments Tiva TM3C123 and TM4C129 devices.
Sourcery CodeBench Product Availability
The new Sourcery CodeBench toolchain is available now and a free trial version can be downloaded here: http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/evaluations/. The starting price for the Personal Edition is $399 USD per seat and $3,000 USD for the Professional Edition, which includes the advanced debugging and performance analysis capabilities of the Sourcery Analyzer tool listed above.
To learn more about this new release of the Sourcery CodeBench product, please attend an upcoming webinar on the newest GNU toolchain components including the new GCC 4.8.1 compiler by visiting: http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/events/improve-your-embedded-software-development-flow
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Garrett County in Western MarylandBig Run State Parkc/o New Germany State Park349 Headquarters LaneGrantsville, MD 21536
GPS Address:Big Run State Park10368 Savage River RoadSwanton MD 21561
From Interstate 68, take Exit 22. Follow Chestnut Ridge Road south 2 miles to the end, and turn left on New Germany Road. Follow New Germany Road south 5 miles, and make a left on Big Run Road. Follow Big Run Road east 5 miles to the end. The park is located at the intersection of Big Run Road and Savage River Road. Campsites - numbered 60 through 90 - are located at the intersection and along Big Run Road.
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Pets are welcome at Big Run State Park, but must be leashed and accompanied by owners at all times.
Situated at the mouth of the Savage River Reservoir, Big Run State Park is the perfect base camp from which to enjoy the surrounding Savage River State Forest. Campers at Big Run have easy access to fishing, boating, hiking or hunting opportunities. Autumn visitors have a spectacular view of the changing colors on the surrounding mountain ridges.
There is no cell phone service at Big Run State Park. The nearest pay phone is located approximately 8 miles away, at 474 McAndrews Hill Road, Grantsville, Maryland (across the road from New Germany Lake).
Family CampingBig Run has 29 primitive campsites available year-round. Sites 60-75 are wooded, with stone dust camping pads. Sites 78-90 are in an open grassy field. Each campsite has a picnic bench and fire ring. Campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. A self registration station is located in the lower camping area, along Savage River Road. Pets are permitted in any of the campsites, on a leash.
Group Campsite/ShelterThe Monroe Run Pavilion is available for rental year-round. The shelter and three adjoining campsites can accommodate up to 25 people. The shelter has a fireplace and electricity. To reserve the Monroe Run Group campsite please contact the Reservation Call Center at 1-888-432-2267 or make a reservation online
Youth Group CampsiteThe Youth Group campsite is available by reservation. It has a central camping pad, with a fire ring and picnic table, and a parking area along the road. Tents may be set up on durable surfaces in the site. The site can accommodate up to 40 youth and adults. To make reservations please contact the Reservation Call Center at 1-888-432-2267 or make a reservation online.
Check in for campsite guests is 3 p.m. and check out is 1 p.m.
Big Run State Park sits at the northern end of the Savage River Reservoir, a popular spot for fishing and non-motorized boating.
BoatingThere is a boat ramp between campsites 83 and 84 at Big Run State Park. Lake levels vary throughout the year, so be aware that you may have to carry your boat several feet. Only electric motors or non-motorized boats are permitted. Gasoline motors must be removed before launching your boat.
FishingFishing is permitted year-round with a non-tidal fishing license. Fishermen may find walleye, large mouth bass, crappie, yellow perch, bluegill, catfish, suckers, and trout. There is a brief lake closure each spring when trout stocking begins. A trout stamp is required to possess trout.
SwimmingSwimming is not permitted anywhere in the Savage River Reservoir.
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