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The following editorial appeared in The Telegraph, Alton, Ill., on Oct. 15:
(MCT) — Few issues in Illinois are as perplexing as the dilemma involving the state's efforts to close the Tamms "supermax" prison in Southern Illinois, the women's prison at Dwight and five other corrections facilities.
And a judge's ruling last week threatens to throw the whole process into confusion again. On Wednesday, Associate Circuit Judge Charles Cavaness of Alexander County issued an order halting Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to save money by closing the seven facilities and requiring the governor to negotiate terms with the union representing prison workers. The order also bars the state from laying off any corrections employees.
Not coincidentally, Alexander County is the home of the Tamms prison, which houses gang leaders and other extraordinarily violent inmates. That's where the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees went to court and obtained the preliminary injunction granted by Cavaness.
Of course, it's easy to feel sympathy for the corrections employees who face the loss of their jobs. Their duties are unpleasant and often dangerous, especially those who have to deal with the violent inmates housed at Tamms. Just as police officers do, these corrections employees are helping to keep everyday Illinoisans safe by maintaining control over these dangerous criminals.
And it's also easy to sympathize with the plight of the people of Tamms, Dwight and the other communities that face having facilities closed. Often, these are the best jobs in those communities and counties, with entire regions facing a huge economic loss if the prisons, halfway houses and juvenile detention centers are shut down.
On the other hand, there's huge pressure on Quinn to bring the state's ballooning deficit under control. Everyone wants to see the state cut spending, but wherever the governor tries to make cuts, someone's ox is being gored. As taxpayers, we want to see our money spent wisely, but we also wish the state could learn to live with less of it.
Unfortunately, the situation with the prison closure controversy catches taxpayers right in the middle. A Quinn spokesman says delaying the closures, most of which were scheduled for Aug. 31, is costing the state $7 million a month that it doesn't have. That's disheartening for taxpayers. But now the state plans to appeal Judge Cavaness' ruling to the Illinois Supreme Court. That means more legal costs for the state — i.e., for taxpayers.
And the big problem that still hangs over the state is the fact that its prison system, designed to house 33,700 inmates, now is holding more than 49,000. Such overcrowding creates dangerous conditions for inmates and employees alike. It also increases the likelihood that dangerous criminals could be released early because there simply isn't enough room to house them, which in turn threatens the safety of our communities and our families.
We don't envy anyone in this process. Quinn, his administration and our state lawmakers are in what could be viewed as a no-win situation. The prison employees, their families and their communities stand to lose their livelihoods.
And no matter what happens, the long-suffering taxpayers probably will wind up footing the bill.


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It has been confirmed that Barcelona paid €57m for Brazil star Neymar.
It is reported that the fee of €40m had been agreed upon, until other clubs such as Real Madrid also attempted to sign the Santos forward.
Neymar's price eventually rose €17m for Barcelona to still be in the running for the versatile forward.
Real Madrid are believed to have offered Neymar more money, but the player cited that it was happiness that he wanted and it was never about money when he and his family discussed a move to Europe.
Neymar's largest factor was playing alongside world-class footballers - and, in particular, the player he again called the best player in the world: Lionel Messi.
The €57m fee will be split between the four parties that own the Brazil international, including his former club Santos.
It remains to be seen how Messi and Neymar will be played together - although Barcelona's latest signing said that he was keen to help Messi remain the best player in the world.
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Burlington Bike Path
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I read this when it first came out. ****ing awesome, thanks for posting.
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Moffitt is amazing. That guy is just too nice, it's so ****ing scary.
I also love how Rob always quickly shout outs "Russel Wilson sighting" when he sees him, you could tell people really like Russ.
In one of the earlier ones from this year Sherman talks about the NCAA and how they need a union for the players. Can't remember what specifically he said, but it cracked me up.
"King Felix has hurled more mega quality starts since 2010 than 14 entire MLB teams."
Living in calgary I got to watch Browner lots. He was good in the CFL. He is AWESOME in the NFL and only getting better.
Great read.
Funny because I was just saying this to my wife during the last game. Kinda annoying he doesn't get the attention that even some sub par (but big personality) DCs get. Like Rob Ryan getting face time for being Rex's brother, not for being any better than most DCs.The cameras don't often cut to Bradley on the sidelines,
So true. In Philly they have the talent, but not for a wide nine system. They tried mashing guys into roles they shouldn't play. Seattle line has the right skillset for that approach.Seahawks' line looks like the "wide nine" everyone talked about with the Eagles last year, except it actually works.
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Alright, so I've been in a pool all year. The way it work is, every person puts in $20 to start with 10,000 points. Every week you must put at least 100 on four different teams. That's the only guideline... So for example, I'd have to put at the very least 100 points on for seperate teams four a total of 400 points that week.
So, out of the 80+ people there are only 20-30 or so left... I'm in 6th with 30,000 plus. It's getting pretty right now, and I want to get as much help as I can get, with $1000 or so on the line.
The tricky part is that it's against the spread. This week I wanted to put everything I have on one team to double up and possibly take the lead, but I'm not sure which team to put it all on. So, any help?
I'm leaning towards possibly the Saints or the Packers to cover.
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Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, and Colin Kaepernick walk into a bar... To watch Russell Wilson win the Super Bowl.
If you lose, you're done?
I like the Browns +1 but I couldn't see putting $1000 on the line for it.
I think you're safest with Atlanta -1.
The one spot on this entire defense we could use IMO is a pass rushing linebacker, but I'm not dissatisfied with this group either.
I think the big thing is most of us remember a couple years ago when Red got injured and our run defense went from 5th to 20th or something. He's integral. His job is to blow up the edge of the offense. Any time you see that outside lane blocked, that's all Red. It's a big reason you don't see a lot of guys run to the outside on the Hawks. That 49ers game where we got stomped on, I felt that was most Mebane/Branch's fault, but sometimes you're going to get beat. The 49ers have a beast *** O-line. Top 5 in the NFL IMO.
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Linebackers are one of the least important positions in our defense though. I'd like to see Alec Ogletree or a LB added, but if they go after a receiver or defensive lineman I know why.
I agree. A linebacker would be a perk, but come draft day we got to be looking offense. Mainly a more consistent right tackle, a good TE, and a WR with speed.
Steelers -1 all day. Coming off a tough loss and Vegas overreacting to Batch starting. Bears at home appeals to me as well. Again coming off a loss, at home, they'll be focused. Ponder is a deadman. Colts probably crush the Bills at home.
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I spent yesterday morning recording Pine Siskins in Whitnall Park, Hales Corner, WI. They were extremely vocal and I managed to make some good recordings of group singing. Recording an isolated individual singing, so that you could really hear the song components, proved to be tricky, but eventually I did find one off by itself who briefly sang into my microphone.
Two summers ago David Sibley posted an article on his excellent blog about Vocal copying in Pine Siskins. He writes about the under reported phenomenon of Pine Siskin mimicry, and one of the species mentioned as being imitated is Dark-eyed Junco, specifically the "tew-tew-tew" call. Having read the article, I was keeping an eye and ear open for examples of mimicry when I replayed my recordings, and as luck would have it, I did capture an imitation of the Dark-eyed Junco "tew-tew-tew" at the very end of this brief song. There may be other imitations in here as well, so please leave a comment if you think you can detect any.


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This is purely a question and not a proposal, as I know how Microsoft is so very thrilled every time I have a suggestion. Could the Parallel Data Warehouse concept work on a single NUMA system?
Technically all multi-socket systems today are NUMA because the processors now have integrated memory controllers. The path to memory is different between local access and memory attached to a differentanother processor socket. But I am more interested in 8-socket, and potential 16+ socket systems. The single system definition here is that of a single operating system image. Some large systems allow partitioning to support multiple OS images to be running, but that configuration is not discussed here.
Both Windows Server and SQL Server are NUMA aware in that there are distinct memory nodes (that are closer to the local processor cores than remote processor cores). But there is no workable mechanism to fully benefit from knowledge of the underlying hardware organization. Say for example we have a large table resident in the buffer cache evenly distributed across the nodes. We would like for a connection to SQL Server issue a query to this table to be farmed out to one thread on each node with that thread accessing only rows stored locally.
But this is not what happens. More likely, starting from an empty buffer cache, a query accesses the table. The table is initially loaded into memory on the same node as the connection, then switching to other nodes? I have no idea what actually happens so it would be nice if someone would like to investigate this. Now another connection that happens to be assigned to a thread on the different node would have to cross nodes to remote memory for this same query? So the expectation is that there would be apparent inconsistent variations in query time depending on both the node distribution of the participating buffer cache pages and the node affinity of the execution thread.
In the PDW environment, there are multiple compute nodes, each a 2-socket system running its own Windows operating system, and (modified?) SQL Server instance\process with fact tables partitioned by node and dimension tables replicated to all nodes. A front-end sends a query to each node which processes data on its node. The purpose of this architecture is to allow scaling the computational resources (CPU, memory and IO) beyond the limits of a single system. But it also happens to achieve a degree of locality optimization.
The limitation of the PDW concept is that any single query is a more involved process. Furthermore, the query execution plan elements cannot cross nodes without a remote server mechanism. Even with the InfiniBand protocol, communications between nodes are expensive and long latency relative to the processor cycle time scale. This is why PDW is Parallel Data Warehouse and not Parallel Database.
So now what? My question is can we apply the PDW concept to a NUMA system, one big 8-socket NUMA system running a single Windows operating system. Instead of PDW with a SQL Server instance on each system (PDW compute node), there is now a SQL Server instance localized to each node of the NUMA system. Communications between processes on a system is lower latency than across systems over InfiniBand.
Can we go further than this? How about bringing the Parallel concept inside to a single process? Now each "node" is a collection of threads affinitized to a node on the NUMA system. Communication between threads is even faster than between processes. And now, potentially execution plan elements can cross "nodes"?
We might ask why bother. The nature of server system is that the 8-socket system is more than twice as expensive as four 2-socket system. In addition, the 8-socket system may have processors one generation behind the 2-socket system. The fact is that by the time we assemble a collection of systems or one big system, the full costs of hardware are irrelevant to a really important mission. The real question is which meets the objectives better.
Below is a completely separate discussion but is on the topic of NUMA systems.
As far as I know, Windows or SQL OS creates 2 memory nodes from processor node 0, then 1 additional memory node on each of the other nodes. One of the memory nodes on node 0 is for generally allocations. All other memory nodes, including the second one on node 0, are for NUMA aware allocations? The immediate problem is that the memory nodes are asymmetric in size.
There is one possibility to consider for system not at maximum memory. This is to put maximum memory in node 0 (good luck figuring out which one this is) and the normal memory in the other nodes. But of course, the nature of component pricing today is that is makes more sense to fill the DIMM sockets with the second largest capacity memory module, today 16GB. Today, Crucial shows 16GB ECC DIMMs at $200 each and 32GB DIMMs at $800 each. By sometime in the next year or so, expect the 32GB DIMM to trends towards $400 and a new 64GB DIMM to introduce at several thousand dollars initially.
HP-UX on the other hand has a very clever memory strategy, which is to configure both interleaved and node memory, or LORA in their terminology. Say for example that there are 8 nodes and 1TB memory total, 128GB per node. Interleaved memory totaling 128GB is allocated from all nodes at 16GB per node. The remaining 114GB on each node are formed into node local memory. The addressing scheme might be something like this. For interleaved portion in the first 128GB, the memory is interleaved in 256 bytes stripes across the nodes. The first 256 bytes is from node 0, the next 256 bytes is from node 1, and so on before wrapping back to node 0. Above this are separate 114GB contiguous chunks on each node.
This arrangement recognizes the fact that not all consumers want local node memory. Now the NUMA local memory nodes are uniform in size. I happen to think this is an excellent idea. I do not know if there is an institutional bias at MS against ideas not invented in happy valley.
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on further thought, I think it might be better if the OS did not interleave a single memory page (4KB on X86) across NUMA nodes, perhaps even for the 2MB large page mode, but not sure on the 1GB page.
The HP-UX scheme allows the sys admin to adjust the interleaved / LORA ratio, with 1/8:7/8 being recommended. This would allow NUMA to be turned off.
The SQL OS could also override the Windows scheme, simply by choosing how it allocates pages.
For NUMA controls, the default should be off, so people do not encounter anomalies unless they make the decision to go for it.
I am thinking on a transaction server, the scheme should be to prefer allocating buffer cache pages from the local node memory (of the thread making the call). The app server would connect over different port values. SQL Server would have affinity set by port. So each group would be likely to have their data in the local node.
For DW, the strategy should be to round-robin extents (or large pages?) by NUMA node. Even better would be if the clustered index could be on a hash key. Then two tables on the hash key, ORDERS and LINEITEM for example, would have the same node as preferred buffer location.
Taking a step further, if storage were also distribute by node, and the FG has on or more file on each node, then the preferred file location matches. And the index rebuild would reset to match this scheme.
There should be some parallelism options beyond MAXDOP. One would be Local node. So parallel execution should use local node cores up to the socket limit. Another would be Global, so allocate 1 thread per node, then round robin. An independent option would be Hyper-Thread or HT, in which both or all logical processors of 1 core would be allocated before moving to the next core. Default of course would be off, but this could be a powerful tool for investigating HT issues.
Perhaps to local node parallelism option should be default for the OLTP scheme, and the Global be default for the DW scheme
I am thinking something needs to be done about processor affinity bit mask. There should be 3 values, which could be done with 2 sets of bitmasks. One is preferred processor affinity. The other is secondary affinity, and finally excluded.
This might help manage multi-instance, each instance could get separate preferred, but the secondary would allow activity on other nodes as well.
Since you mention CPU per node, I will plug my ExecStats tool,http://www.qdpma.com/ExecStatsZip.html
which is PerfMon mode display individual CPU, annotating the node boundaries. Note the 3rd party tools vendors - learn what a real server is, not the developer's desktop!
The high CPU on node zero might be related to this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813214 FIX: CPU spike when there is no load on a server after you install SQL Server 2012 on the server, sp1 cu3.
Now having thought about it some, I think this should be a request,
we could call it SQL Server Data Center Edition
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For some workloads, people should consider disabling NUMA support in SQL Server in the first place. :) Current task distribution ends up stacking many tasks within a NUMA node in lots of cases. Since that is done to provide affinity between tasks and memory, that means that the buffer pool portion for that NUMA node can churn as well. So in many cases, if you watch per CPU metrics and per-buffer node metrics in SQL Server, you can catch long periods of time where CPU in one node will be stressed and that bpool churns, while the CPUs in other nodes and their bpool loafs.
Its not for nuthin' that Oracle disables their database level NUMA support by default in both Linux and AIX packages.
For computation heavy OLTP databases, maximixing memory affinity makes sense. For data and memory hungry stuff that spans NUMA nodes like most data warehouses, IBMs finding generally holds that trying to prioritize memory affinity can lead to performance degradation, either due to expense in memory allocation or waits for affinitized processor task dispatch.
And, in Windows, unless there's been a change, there is still the hurdle that SQL Server's memory allocations can't specify which node is to satisfy them - rather the allocation is satisfied and then the node it came from can be learned.
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Ahhh - HP-UX. I used to know that, way back when :) IBM Power systems running AIX have all kinds of memory and task affinity knobs to turn also, and that's what I've been watching the last few years. So many details its forced just about everything I knew about HP-UX and Solaris right out of my head :)
But for DW/DSS loads heavy enough to cross the socket/MCM/CEC boundary, its often best to disable the affinity on AIX, too. For one thing, paging to disk becomes less predictable. The other item is one I haven't proven out yet, but with enough data coming into the shared memory segment from disk IO, it seems like disabling many of the AIX affinity features simplifies the instruction set enough to make a noticeable performance difference.
Joe, what you describe is something I have also been lobbying for, especially for DW workloads.
However, I question the value of partitioning the buffer pool in OLTP. In transaction heavy workloads, the L2 cache dirt (specifically on the tlog, locking structures and B-tree root pages is) the largest problem. SQL server already does pretty well here (smarter than Oracle) by partitioning the lock manager, pinning the log writer (typically to node 1) and super latching. There are a few more thing you can do to get the final benefits for OLTP:
1) partitioning the network interfaces/port so each app server always talks to the same CPU/NUMA. If users are affinitized to app servers (as they should be) - you get affinity "all the way through"
2) remove SQL server from the CPU core that runs the log manager (even if this means sacrificing a few cores). This keeps L2 for the tlog clean and ready for the expensive flushes. (One could consider dedicated hardware for this)
Both of above can be achieved today, though 2 is a pain to get right.
hey Thomas, how do you determine the affinity of the log manager? is it different for each db in an instance? Also, I expect to get another bottle of Sazerac soon.
The log thread can be seen in dm_exec_session. You can join to the schedulers to find the core it runs on
Jo, based on your knowledge of big boxes - what would you say the lower limit for latency on a crossbar is once you go above 16 sockets? I would assert that it can be proven that a pre-partitioned system is the only feasible scale strategy.
There is very little information on this topic. My understanding is the connection-transmission delay is on the order of 25ns, and this might be for a chip on the PCB, with a socketed device having higher capacitive (inductive?) delays.
My understanding is that locally attached memory has a latency of 50-60ns, and memory is socketed + there is a latency on DRAM itself, so perhaps 25ns per hop is old (1997?).
It is also my understanding that in a 2-socket+ system, where the memory access is processor-to-processor-memory and back is on the order of 100ns.
This is about the same as old processor-memory-controller-memory access time (100ns was best, some systems were 140ns?).
The HP Proliant DL980 remote node access is processor-node controller-node controller-processor and back. I do not know if the node controllers are socketed to the PCB or not, but the processor unit has a pin-connector to the node controller, and the same with each node controller? this is likely to introduce a more substantial delay?
Remote memory access might be on the order of 280ns?
Also cache coherency related delays, there was an explanation of this on the DL980, perhaps it is in their WP.
Finally, on the Intel Xeon processors, the QPI sub-unit is on the far side of the processor from the memory controller, so traffic must cross the ring.
On the matter of scaling, if the PDW concept does scale, then QPI connections are lower latency than Infini-band. So the difference would be between 1) single OS image, one or more SQL instances, with single process or LPC communication between nodes versus 2) multiple OS images.
I was presuming that each "PDW-NUMA" node restrict itself to local resources as much as possible. So perhaps the scaling limitation is that it is not possible to "turn-off" unnecessary cache coherency protocols?
If the system was intended strictly for PDW-style operation, using QPI only for inter-node communication?
I have noticed that star schema queries with aggregation on a NUMA architecture generally run better when MAXDOP = number of cores per cpu. Obviously this does not take advantage of all the resource available which is probably why MS are taking the PDW path.
If you created an instance of sql per cpu and set affinity to lock in the instance to a single cpu, limited the max RAM allowed to RAM/cpus and used separate disks for each instance then you would be heading towards a PDW like configuration. What is missing is the control node - I guess you could create another instance across all resources but there would be some contention there.
Rumour has it that MS will combine control and compute node functionality to make more efficient use of resources as currently all nodes have the same configuration even though the compute nodes take the bulk of the load. If that is the case I believe it would be feasible to deploy to a single multi-cpu server. The question is whether MS will allow self deployment or will still insist on the appliance approach.
it has been a long time since I have looked at PDW, is it APS now? I lost interest when they went 7.2K HDD only. I think MS has become dominated by marketing types who become enamored with paper specifications, in this case, the size of the database, rather than how it is used. I am of the opinion that there are situations in which we want massive parallel processing, but do not necessarily have a super large multi-PB db, in which case 7.2K is not best. Two years ago, I would have argued for 10K, but now I would look at all flash. I would propose 8 PCI-E x4 gen3 NVMe SSD per compute node, and venture that this should be JBOD - no RAID. We could keep the external 7.2K HDD array for backup/recovery and flat files?
But given that parallel execution plan performance does not scale beyond the cores in a single node, either MS needs to concede the per code licensing is a fraud, or implement some kind of PDW on a single system (not to mention that write ops are single threaded, so why the hell are we paying for 72 cores when we can only use 1?)


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Two New Orleans school districts share their story of agony, pain and, ultimately, hope as they rebuild their foodservice programs following Katrina.
Two and a half years have passed since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in one of the country's deadliest, and most costly, natural disasters. The city is attempting to regain its grandeur, but some things will never be the same. Several parts of the city are still rebuilding, including the city's three school districts. Their foodservice programs are part of that rebuilding process.
"We are basically back," says Pat Farris, director of school foodservices for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. "Not 100%." The district now serves 26,000 lunches each day, down from 36,000 before Katrina, at 83 sites, 25 fewer than before. Enrollment is down 9,000 students to 39,000. "We had so many schools that were completely destroyed by the storm," Farris says. "We have 20 that will probably never reopen."
When the storm hit, many families fled the city, and many areas were closed by law enforcement and government agencies for several weeks after the storm. Many have not returned. That exodus has posed a major problem for those, like Farris, who are trying to get their programs back on track.
"Our biggest challenge is staffing," she says. "Probably 25% of the community has still not returned." Pre-Katrina, the district employed 550 foodservice staff; now, there are 450 employees. Farris says turnover is high because many people are still displaced. "I hate to use the word stress," she says, "but there is a lot of stress."
Rosie Jackson, child nutrition director for the New Orleans Public School District (NOPS), has also seen numbers dwindle, but for different reasons. After Katrina, the 120 schools that made up the district were divided, with about 80% taken over by a new superintendent in a new district. Poor test performance was the deciding factor behind which schools were removed from the NOPS, Jackson says. They also happened to be some of the most damaged schools in the storm. Of 120 schools that were at one time in the NOPS, only 74 have reopened. Today, the New Orleans Public School District has only five regular schools, and 12 district charter schools, which receive funding from the NOPS but have their own governor's board.
For Jackson, everything has been about downsizing. As a result of the redistricting, she now provides 5,200 meals per day to 5,500 students at 11 schools, a far cry from the 50,000 meals she served daily before Katrina. The foodservice staff is down to 44 from 475. Unlike Farris, Jackson has an overabundance of unemployed staff members because those who worked in a school that now falls outside the NOPS domain were often not hired back by the new management. While it might seem logical for those out of a job in the NOPS to look to the Archdiocese foodservices, Jackson says that because the district is not run by the state, the employees would lose the years they had built up to be able to retire with full payment.
Losses: Twenty-five of the kitchens in the Archdiocese of New Orleans were destroyed during Katrina and only seven are being rebuilt. In addition, more than $300,000 worth of food and paper products was lost, because the schools were well stocked with supplies. But that doesn't begin to compare with the cost of lost equipment, which Farris estimates to be around $6 million.
For Farris, rebuilding the seven cafeterias is a $3-million project—$2 million from a Catholic Charities USA grant, plus $1 million from the school foodservice funds. So far, five have been finished. One of the remaining two schools will be rebuilt 45 miles from where the school originally stood because damage to that area was so severe.
One blessing, she says, is the large geographic spread of the district, with schools located 70 miles north and south of New Orleans, which spared the district some damage. "We had 35 schools that weren't affected to any great extent by the storm," she says. "They lost power—and all the food—but we were able to get those schools up and running very quickly." However, clean up was messy. If a school was not damaged and had lost only power, employees, with help from the National Guard, had to clean out freezers and walk-ins full of spoiled food.
In the NOPS, Jackson says, "Fifty percent of the schools I provide foodservice for had severe damage, and the other 50% had mostly water damage." Four of the five schools in the NOPS have been re-equipped and are fully operational. Six of the other district schools she provides foodservice for had severe damage. "It's a work in progress, and we still have renovations," she says. One of her schools will undergo extensive roof and flooring renovations this summer.
Several of Jackson's schools are in leased buildings until repairs are finished. "We have a ways to go to getting these schools up to code. We're just making do and doing patchwork to make it conducive for learning."
One of the frustrating things for Farris is that because the destruction was caused by rising water, only flood insurance covers the damages, which most of the schools in the district did not have. "Had the roof blown off, we would have been covered," Farris says. "Had a tree fallen in, we would have been covered." Farris applied for funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but that was denied. FEMA is, however, helping to rebuild the school buildings, although it is not covering food losses.
Jackson has had different issues with FEMA and insurance monies. "FEMA said spend the money first and then we will reimburse you," she says. "But where do you get the money to even start the process?" The first step was submitting an inventory. For food only, Jackson estimated the loss at about $1 million. Problems arose when FEMA and insurance agencies looked at disbursing refunds. That $1 million covered all 120 schools, of which Jackson has 17 now, but the NOPS paid for all that food before the redistricting. So who is entitled to the money—Jackson or the new school district?
Starting over: Farris served her first meal after Katrina on Sept. 15, just 17 days after the Category 3 hurricane made landfall. Restarting meal service was not easy. First, Farris had to find food. Two of her major suppliers were out of commission—one would eventually relocate to Baton Rouge. "We called distributors and said, "What do you have and what can you have delivered?" and that's what we served," she recalls. Many of the vendors lost trucks and staff as well, so food was delivered to one location and the school managers would travel to pick up their share. That went on for at least the first month with Farris and her staff spread out among four makeshift offices. Farris was in Baton Rouge, the purchasing agent was in Houston, the accountant worked from in her home in a suburb of New Orleans 15 miles away, and another office was set up 60 miles south of New Orleans. In January, they moved into a small conference room in one of the Archdiocese's retirement homes.
At one of the damaged schools, Farris brought in two 18-wheeler trucks to assemble a makeshift kitchen for the 400 students. One truck housed a freezer and cooler, the other had limited cooking equipment and dry storage. The principal poured concrete for a slab and a tent was erected for students to eat in because the cafeteria was damaged.
For Jackson, the process to begin serving again was greatly hindered by the redistricting. Before Katrina, her annual budget was $23 million; now, it is $3 million. "Because we are so small," Jackson says, "it is hard to find vendors who want to do business with us." One of her vendors travels from Baton Rouge to bring goods, because many local vendors either haven't returned to the city or won't do business with her. Consequently, she is paying at least 25% more for certain items, such as milk. At the beginning of the 2006 school year, the foodservice department joined a co-op to help with procurement of USDA items, such as ground beef, turkey, cheese, eggs and tomato products. "We had to refocus and rethink the way we do business," she adds.
Jackson served her first meal post-Katrina on Nov. 23, 2005. "It was such a great day in light of all the devastation we had gone through," she says. "I felt that if we got just one school opened, others would follow, and it would show parents we were serious."
A new normal: Before Katrina, the schools in Farris' district had a traditional hot service line, with an option of a sandwich, salad or potato bar. Now, because of staffing, only the traditional hot lunch is offered at all but 10 of the schools. In the archdioceses, Farris says, schools do not close or combine when the enrollment drops, like it did after Katrina, which means she has many schools with smaller enrollments. Breakfast was temporarily cut after Katrina due to limited staff. By December 2006, Farris says most of the schools' breakfast programs were running again.
In the NOPS, Jackson serves the same number of entrees choices—four—as she did before the storm, but she has increased the number of days she offers fruits and vegetables from three to five, as well as adding greater variety. For Jackson, the time since Katrina has been about adjusting to a new structure and pushing through painful memories. "Realize that what you do today, may also end today," she says.
Farris puts it this way: "We kept thinking, 'well, it's been two years, and we are going to be back to normal.' We now call it the new normal; we will never be back to the old normal. There are those of us who are still running on adrenaline, and that's what it takes."
A look at other operators in New Orleans.
Ochsner Medical Center: Wayne Sciacca, director of food and nutrition services
Beds before Katrina: 550
Beds post Katrina: 1,050 (Ochsner purchased three community hospitals)
Foodservice staff: Two years after Katrina, more than 80% have left
First meal back: Never closed
The hospital sustained structural damage and power loss, but water never crossed the thresholds. Sciacca felt it was the duty of the hospital to continue serving not only the patients, but also the staff, the staff's families and the community. Every day he provided three meals and a gallon of fluids to each of the estimated 4,000 people living in the hospital, in addition to FEMA, police, fire and other personnel in the community. Meals were provided free of charge for employees for nine months. "The facilities that closed had a very difficult time reopening because their employees had scattered," he says.
"There is no way to succeed in these catastrophic events without a plan in advance," Sciacca says. The hospital now has two wells for drinking water-there was one during Katrina-and has placed everything, including the air conditioning units, on emergency backup power. "I know if we had to do this again, we could do a better job," he says.
Tulane University: Lisa Norris, assistant director of dining and vending services (Sodexo)
Students on meal plan before Katrina: 2,300
Students on meal plan now: 2,696
Foodservice staff before Katrina: 200
Foodservice staff now: 130-150
First meal back: Jan. 16, 2006
Most of the residential dining rooms were not greatly affected by the storm, according to Norris, but because the university was without power for five months, she says moss was hanging from the railings "like green icicles." The foodservice department was renovating its retail operation, so it was set up in a temporary facility when Katrina hit. In a stroke of luck, Norris says hurricane glass had just been installed-the wrapping was still on-in the windows during the renovation. "They did their job," she says. "We had very little we had to redo.
"Our toughest nut to crack is labor," she adds, because many people were displaced and home insurance rates are high, which hinders some from returning. Norris says it took about a year and half for the foodservice department to get back up and running completely. "One of the biggest things I learned was to improve communication," she says. "We do text message training now because during the storm we couldn't get phone calls out but we could text message."


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A night after a thrilling victory over UC Davis which put the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team in first place in the Big West, the Gauchos were swept by Pacific on Saturday night, 25-20, 25-15, 25-15.
UCSB is now 20-7 overall and 10-5 in the Big West. Pacific improves to 17-10 overall and 7-8.
Playing without All-America candidate Rebecca Saraceno, who missed the weekend's matches with a knee injury suffered last weekend, the Gauchos didn't have a single player reach double-digit kills on Saturday. It was only the second time this season that UCSB failed to record a double-digit kill performance.
Stacey Schmidt had eight kills while Charlene DeHoog had seven. Chelsey Lowe had 13 digs to lead the team while DeHoog and Leah Sully each had 10. Setter Dana Vargas had only 18 assists, which were a season low.
"We just couldn't get into an offensive rhythm," UCSB head coach Kathy Gregory said.
As a team the Gauchos hit just .105. Pacific swung at a .321 clip. UCSB, which had 13 team blocks vs. UC Davis, managed just two solo blocks and eight block assists on the night.
The Gauchos have two more regular-season matches, as they face Cal State Northridge on Saturday, Nov. 21 and then San Diego State on Tuesday, Nov. 24.
Those matches are at 7 p.m. in the Thunderdome.
To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.
The Intercollegiate Athletics Ticket Office now has two parking spaces adjacent to the building and is now open on Saturdays, making it easier than ever for fans to purchase tickets. The ICA Ticket Office will be open from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturdays. The two parking spots, designated specifically for the ticket office, are already available during weekday hours, which are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
UCSB Athletics has a new weekly radio show called Talk'n Gauchos which airs every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. on AM 1490 KIST. The show is broadcast live from State & A Bar and Grill, located on the corner of State Street and Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara. Fans are encouraged to attend the show for free gear and ticket giveaways or to even e-mail a question in to one of the guests and have it read live over the air. The show also airs live online via audio streaming and fans can click here to check out the entire lineup of live audio streaming online.


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WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WZZM)-- Protesters filled the Whitehall Township planning commission meeting Wednesday night to speak out against Walmart's proposed super store.
"It is the sure death of any main street," says opponent Shirley Draft. "Whitehall-Montague will have a slow, agonizing death, for sure."
To accommodate the especially large audience, Wednesday's meeting was moved to the auditorium in Whitehall High School.
Representatives from Walmart unveiled renderings of the proposed store, which be located at the Holton-Whitehall Road interchange of U.S. 31. The super store would offer general merchandise, automotive services and groceries, and resemble the other 90 Walmarts in Michigan.
"We don't need one," says opponent Debra Lambers. "A small town can't support that. We have businesses that have been here for years. Almost every business in White Lake is locally owned."
"Walmart uses its monopoly power to drain resources and drive out mom and pop stores," adds opponent Oscar Kent. "In the long run, it's not beneficial."
Although Walmart is a big company, members of "Back off Walmart, Not Our Town" say it is not invincible and other communities have successfully blocked new stores.


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Caltrain is the only Bay Area transit system without a dedicated source of revenue.
For the past two years, Caltrain has maintained operations in part through one-time only funds. After Fiscal Year 2013, those funds will be gone, which means that that a year from now, Caltrain could face drastic service cuts and fare increases.
"We have not solved our fiscal crisis," said Caltrain Executive Director Mike Scanlon. "We have only delayed it by one year."
The board will review a $111 million proposed budget; no service cuts or fare increases are expected in the coming year.
The proposed budget includes $375,000 to add six new trains to relieve overcrowding during peak commute times. Caltrain's weekday ridership is at a historic high this year with a 12 percent increase and 20 consecutive months of ridership growth. During peak commute times, many of the system's most popular trains have more passengers than seats.
Expenses continue to be conservative. About 54 percent or $59.6 million will be spent on operating the service; 15 percent or $16.8 million on fuel and 12.5 percent or $13.9 million on administrative costs.
Without a dedicated source of funding, Caltrain relies on contributions from its three partner agencies, the city and county of San Francisco, SamTrans and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency, to make up 30 percent or $33.5 million of the proposed operating budget. Fares account for 55 percent or $60.3 million. The remaining funds needed to balance the balance budget vary from year to year. In previous years, Caltrain used savings, one-time grants and extra fare revenue to balance the operating budget.
As the year moves forward, Caltrain will continue to work with its partners and stakeholders to develop strategies for new sources of revenue.


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Jon Legg doesn't need to be tucked away in a downtown office to get his work done.
There's no need to battle rush hour gridlock in hopes of making his 8: 30 a.m. board meeting.
Everything he needs is with him in his personal paradise at a luxury getaway on the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
Jon and his wife Pam purchased a resort residence at the sun-soaked Hacienda Beach Club and Residences in Cabo San Lucas, which is being developed by Koll Company and Del Mar Development.
The Leggs' primary residence is in B.C. and they also have a home in Calgary.
While many people use their resort home as a place to focus on relaxation, Jon is happy to make use of an office that is only steps away from views including the eye-catching Me-dano Beach, which is known as the most swimmable beach in the region.
"You don't need to be where you are these days to work," says Jon, a financial services executive. He points to the region sharing a time zone with Alberta and daily flights to and from Calgary as benefits when doing business from his beachside office.
"I think the ease of access is an important issue," says Jon. "You don't have to stop in the U.S. You're down there in three and a half hours, door-to-door."
It doesn't hurt that his home office at Hacienda Beach Club and Residences is also fully wired with Internet and Ethernet, making it convenient to maintain communication with the people he works with.
But why work in Cabo San Lucas when you can't take time to enjoy the outdoors? Jon and Pam take time to pull out the clubs.
"We play a lot of golf," says Jon. Many residents of the resort make use of the Palmilla Golf Club, which includes 27 holes and is noted as the first Jack Nicklaus Signature Design course in Latin America.
Another reason the Leggs saw appeal in Cabo is its recent "massive infrastructural spend," says Jon, which he says was a result of G-20 meetings that took place in the region last June. He says the "billions," in infrastructural upgrades include improved highways, sewers and general cleanup.
"There's a world-class four-lane highway from Cabo San Lucas airport to Cabo. It's an easy place to get to compared to other tourist areas," he adds.
Jon says their home at the resort is about 4,700 square feet with four bedrooms, four ensuites and a total of five bathrooms, adding "it has a massive great room that opens on to a big balcony with a dual kitchen."
The home is professionally decorated with much of the furniture coming from Europe and the U.S.
The resort offers 109 homes in three styles along an 8.9 hectare property. These home styles include penthouses that start at $1.995 million and at 3,333 square feet.
They boast private terraces, including outdoor dining areas and a private space. The interiors have natural stone and hardwood finishes.
Other housing types include attached resort residences that start at $499,000 and beachfront villas that start at $3.995 million.
The attached resort residences range in size from 887 to 3,548 square feet, while the beachfront villas start at 3,424 square feet.
The beachfront villas have interior designs meant to reflect Old Mexico, along with modern finishes including wood-beamed ceilings and granite countertops.
Hacienda Beach Club and Residences was built on land that was once the home of the Hacienda Hotel, which was one of the first hotels in Cabo.
Along with its 1,600 lineal foot beach, other outdoor highlights of the resort include a marina, making it ideal for a deepsea fishing.
There are also charters across from the marina that offer sailing and yachting opportunities.
The resort also features a fully staffed beach club with a wine cellar, dining options and a multi-tiered infinity edge swimming pool.
The fitness room comes with weight-training, cardio, spinning and Pilates equipment. There's also a full-service spa with four treatment cottages, including hot and cold plunge pools, a sauna and steam room.
"It's a very friendly place. We know a lot of people there," says Jon, who adds many residents are from west coast locations including California and B.C., but there is also a large contingent of Albertans.
Don Koll and fishing buddy John Wayne were deep-sea fishing thirty years ago near land that is now the home to Hacienda Beach Club and Residences in Cabo San Lucas.
The location caught Koll's eye and The Koll Company purchased the property from longtime owners the Parr Family.
The Koll Company then teamed up with developer Del Mar Development and real estate investment leader Starwood Capital Group when building the luxury resort community. Architects for the resort include Hart Howerton and Grand Vision Arqitectos and the interior design was done by Anderson Miller, Ladco/ Washington Park and Wilson and Associates.
PROJECT: Hacienda Beach Club and Residences is a luxury resort on an 8.9 hectare property.
AREA: Cabo San Lucas in the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
DEVELOPER: Koll Company and Del Mar Development, which are affiliates of Starwood Capital Group and The Koll Co.
PRICES: Beachfront Villas start at $3.995 million, resort residences start at $499,000, and penthouses start at $1.995 million.
INFORMATION: Visit hacienda cabosanlucas.com or phone 1-800670-0310.


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Lotteria is the latest chain to enter Japan's limited-time-only excessively meaty fast food burgers race. They're celebrating their 40th birthday this week and next by offering cheeseburgers and fried shrimp burgers with three to five patties for the discounted price of ¥500 (about $6.35). The "Super Cheeseday" cheeseburger deal is available tomorrow, October 16 (technically today if you're in Japan) and next Tuesday, October 23; the "Super Fryday" fried shrimp burger deal is available this Friday, October 19, and next Friday, October 26. Both deals run from 2 - 8 p.m. on those days.
You could order these burgers on any day, just for higher price prices (which means you probably wouldn't order these burgers): ¥860 to ¥1360 ($11 to $17) for the cheeseburger, or ¥530 to ¥770 ($7 to $10) for the shrimp burger.
Japanese blog RocketNews24 compared a real quintuple cheeseburger from Lotteria to the advertised version, with less than stellar results. The shrimp burger doesn't look so off, though. (RocketNews24 has also made a 30-patty cheeseburger from Lotteria.)
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And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
Going by this logic, i hope clarke had batted on till he was 500 in sydney, just to drive how just how totally ,pathetically ****ing inept our attack is.
I think the thread title relates to how much he weighed when put on the scales during the week.
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She needs to drop the guilt because it will do her NO good, and it will hinder her ability to make good judgements concerning Max. His insistence that his feelings are more important/trump hers means he is no longer safe for her to be around. It's all about him. It's all about his feelings. She's basically a living mannequin upon which he projects all of his sad-pants-feelings. It's no longer about wooing her and now about winning the disagreement over whether he's a viable/worthy partner for her.She does need to contact him ONCE, in reply to his email. "Max, your refusal to hear my "no" means you have forfeited the right to my friendship. Do not reply to this email. Do not contact me again. I do not want to see you anymore." And then she needs to take every step possible to avoid him for the next few months, even if means not going to her favorite bar. Yes, that's unfair, since her behavior isn't the problem. But safety isn't always fair. She should expect him to escalate, maybe even show up to her apartment, so she needs to decide now whether she is willing to call the cops on him. (I think she should.) And have a backup plan in place. Also, she needs to let this guy she likes/is dating what is going on, in case Max lashes out at him, approaches him with his deluded tales.
He said he was feeling such sadness because he knows she is not ready for a relationship now but he is the best for her.He knows what she wants and needs and would treat her better and love her more than any other man she knows.
They have to think you're a lesbian because otherwise they have to admit it's them you don't like. Thinking you just don't like any man that way is less threatening.
Last night she got home from a date with someone she really likes and had a good 30 paragraph email from Max filled with poetry quotes and song lyrics and talking about his melancholy over her not loving him back and how they can bond in their poverty and history of abuse (Jenni is not impoverished and I don't personally know about the abuse...not sure what that is about) and how can they not be together when he loves her so much.
QuoteThey have to think you're a lesbian because otherwise they have to admit it's them you don't like. Thinking you just don't like any man that way is less threatening.And yet I've had several over aggressive guys who when I say "Dude, I'm a lesbian, it ain't gonna happen", seem to think they can "fix me" or my problem is I've "never had real man". At which point I suggest they go find me one, as they clearly aren't one. A real man can respect a woman's boundaries, sexual orientation, and won't get their ego hurt because a woman isn't interested in them.
The second - he's escalating. I think she needs to talk to the non-emergency police line or legal assistance for advice, because he's gone past lonely socially inept guy to scary.
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I assume you are talking about Katy Perry?Did she actually use his name?
Ugggh, I just read that he was actually sitting in the audience when she did this! How awkward for him. Totally classless.
She was clowning around. It wasn't a grudge--there were a whole lot of high school students there and apparently some from her class. She told stories about high school and that was part of it. It wasn't serious--she was just ribbing him.
If he's cool with it, that's one thing. But can I just say I really hate the attitude of 'I'm so successful now, all you people in high school who ignored me, aren't you regretting it NOW?' Uh, why? I'm not going to go out with someone I don't find attractive, or be friends with someone I've got nothing in common with, on the assumption that they might be rich/famous in the future. Same with the whole 'ugly duckling to swan getting revenge on people who weren't falling all over him/her' trope. It's one thing if these people were actively mean, but if they just didn't date/weren't close, I really don't get it.
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Creating connections: an investigation into the first year experience of undergraduate nursing students. (The Robert Gordon University School of Nursing and Midwifery, 2009-03)OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS The aim of the research is to explore the first year experiences of two groups of undergraduate student nurses. The research takes a holistic approach to the investigation of the first year experience. ...