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From the moment he became Memphis City Schools superintendent, Kriner Cash had competition.
Memphis City Schools superintendent Kriner Cash reads to Gardenview Elementary School students at a Read for the Record program. Cash, who came to Memphis in 2008 from Miami-Dade Schools in Florida, where he was director of accountability, resigned as Memphis City Schools superintendent earlier this month after five years on the job.
(Memphis News File Photo: Lance Murphey)
"I've been fighting since I got here," he said in the early stages of what winds up as a five-year tenure that officially comes to an end July 31.
Cash has been fighting for an education reform agenda whose primary goal has been to quantify – as objectively as possible – what makes an excellent teacher in terms of student achievement. Then hire and offer professional development to as many as possible.
"As far back as you want to go, parents have always known who the good teacher was at a school," Cash said in November 2009. "The students themselves have always known who the best teachers were in a school. But we as educators have found it much like the allegory of the blind men and the elephant."
He laid out the ambitious goal as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation awarded $90 million to Memphis City Schools over seven years to pursue the Teacher Effectiveness Initiative, the central reform measure of Cash's tenure.
"We're studying what … we agree to be the elements of effective teaching. We are going to reach a common definition – for the first time – not depending upon what part of the elephant you touch," Cash added. "It's a first time, common, agreed-on definition with teachers leading the way with input into that definition. That's significant."
His foes in that quest were critics of the specific reform methods. But the more formidable obstacles were historic changes in other areas: local school funding, consolidation of Shelby County's two public school systems and state education reforms other than those based on reform work he brought to Memphis.
Cash came to Memphis from Miami-Dade Schools in Florida, where he was director of accountability, two months after Memphis City Council members cut city funding to the school system, touching off several years of court fights that the school system won at every turn.
At first, he was a mediator between a warring City Council and school board. But later, he played hardball, threatening to delay the start of the school year if the city didn't pay what it had been ordered to pay.
Cash came to a school system whose parents are familiar with the politics of education reform and the experimental nature of that reform.
Gerry House, superintendent from 1992 to 2000, came with multiple reform models that varied from school to school and added complexity to a school system with more than 100,000 students.
And many of the reforms were referred to as experiments, a term guaranteed to add to the skepticism parents already felt about some of the new methods being tried out during their child's only education.
Carol Johnson, superintendent from 2003 to 2007, began dismantling the reform models almost immediately. It never really became clear if she intended to build anything onto the basic school structure that was left.
Johnson's tenure saw a shift to meeting higher student performance standards under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Under Cash, there would be no pilot of test programs for the reforms. The reforms had to be "scaleable" – able to be implemented across the school system or in a set of schools that would affect large numbers of students. Those student groups included thousands of overage students Cash counted in a sort of student population census that was among the first things he did when he got to Memphis.
His reasons were that he and other reformers have come to regard the pilot programs as widening an "achievement gap."
The language of education reform today no longer emphasizes improvements in performance among some students or even most students. The mantra is "every student," and growth or progress for even the highest achieving students is just as important as meeting state or federal achievement standards.
"The achievement gap in America is real," Cash said in August 2009. "It is affecting far too many of our young people and our children. However, it can be closed without sacrificing the performance of our top performers."
Neither House nor Johnson handled well or directly the most volatile element of public education in Memphis – the politics.
Both dealt with school boards that crossed the line that separates what the board is expected to do and what the superintendent is expected to do.
Cash was hired by a Memphis City Schools board that had already drawn a brighter line between those two areas. Cash was also more aggressive in policing that boundary than House or Johnson. As a result, it ultimately made him the most controversial superintendent since Willie Herenton.
Cash was not hesitant to tell the Gates foundation or other local nonprofits that matched the Gates funding where the boundaries were either.
But other boundaries were changing. The night in November 2010 that Cash welcomed Bill and Melinda Gates to a reception at the National Civil Rights Museum, school board member Martavius Jones told Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. that he and others would push for a surrender of the Memphis City Schools charter to consolidate the school system with Shelby County Schools.
The move was based on Republicans becoming the majority party in both chambers of the Tennessee Legislature and what that would mean for a long-held bid by county schools leaders to become a special school district like Memphis City Schools.
Cash viewed the merger as a distraction calling it "junior high street fight nonsense" and "just bad politics."
"You want to be all civil rights all of a sudden," he said in remarks in 2010 directed at school board member Tomeka Hart, among the first to call for the merger. "These are your schools."
He also asked for the first time what became the central concern for the rest of his tenure.
"What will happen to our work?" he asked. "Are you ready to throw it away?"
He rarely attended sessions of the consolidation planning commission that mapped out recommendations for the merger.
And by October 2011, he was presenting city schools business seated next to Shelby County Schools superintendent John Aitken before a consolidated 23-member countywide school board.
Seven of the 23 board members were members of the former Shelby County Schools board where the relationship with the superintendent has been fundamentally different and superintendents were not nearly as outspoken as Cash and past Memphis City Schools superintendents.
The consolidated board later voted not to renew Cash's contract past the August merger date.
Two months into life with the new school board, he and school board chairman Billy Orgel had a verbal confrontation that prompted the first private contract buyout talks.
Meanwhile, Aitken and his staff were already working along similar philosophical lines with statewide reforms like intervention with students based on faster evaluation of testing data before the end of the school year. And TEI is in the process of being expanded to include county schools as well as city schools by the time they merge.
Cash's reforms came just ahead of the environment for statewide education reform changing significantly.
Cash embraced the state legislation allowing student testing data, which Tennessee has more of over a longer period of time than any other state, to be used immediately to begin charting a student's progress and link it to teacher effectiveness.
He wasn't necessarily a fan of the state laws that allowed it to be used in teacher tenure decisions and lengthened the three-year period to earn tenure to five years.
Cash carried the reform banner further than any of his recent predecessors in part because he remained just as wary of education consultants, education foundations and charter school operators as they have been of those running school systems. Yet, he worked with all three groups confident that he had established who was in charge.
"What's happening in a lot of charter schools is they are turning into sweat shops," he told the Midtown Republican Club in September 2011.
With Cash's recommendation, the school board last year rejected the applications of more than a dozen charter schools on the basis that that many new charter schools would pose a financial hardship on the school system. State education officials overruled the school board saying its financial numbers were incomplete and did not support a finding of financial hardship.
Cash, on the other hand, battled the perception from other quarters that he was allowing too many new teachers especially from teacher residency programs into Memphis City Schools in a bid to purge any and all veteran teachers.
Cash's style and the force with which he advocated specific reforms made him an unlikely contender for a fence straddler.
He may not have been in the middle of the road. But the line he walked went through some hazardous territory and took some turns even those on both sides of the line could never have anticipated.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is sending Blackhawk helicopters to check mountainous rural areas for people who may still be cut off by heavy snow from Superstorm Sandy.
State officials say they're concerned about elderly or ill people who may be trapped by snow and fallen trees in the rough terrain of two counties, Barbour and Randolph, in the state's north.
Officials say about 20 percent of the two counties remain cut off from the outside world.
Two Blackhawk helicopters will be flying over the area Friday to better assess the damage and determine how many people remain trapped by downed trees and power lines.
State officials have declared six deaths linked to the storm

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Jaffrey motorcyclist, 65, critical after Dublin motorcycle crashBY MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
August 21. 2013 8:56PM
DUBLIN — A local man was listed in critical, but stable condition Wednesday after being thrown from his motorcycle in a crash on Route 137 on Monday.
Wayne E. Phillips, 65, of Jaffrey was traveling north on Lower Jaffrey Road/Route 137 when he lost control of his 1983 Kawasaki 550 motorcycle coming around a corner near the intersection of Route 137 and Goldmine Road, Police Chief James Letourneau said.
"He was ejected from the motorcycle, and he landed in the center of the northbound lane," Letourneau said.
Phillips was lying in the roadway when police responded around 2:45 p.m.
"Passing motorists had stopped on both sides of the intersection to protect him from being struck by another vehicle," Letourneau said.
Phillips suffered multiple broken bones, he said.
Ambulance workers took him to a field off Route 101 where the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team helicopter picked him up and flew him to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.
The accident remains under investigation, Letourneau said.
Speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors so police are looking into a mechanical issue with the Kawasaki, because it was an older motorcycle, he said.


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1. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controllermark_h_@intel May 11, 2011 2:06 PM (in response to flares78)
Hi Andrew,
I cannot help you with injecting the drivers into your image, but I can tell you which driver is the correct driver for the 82579V. You should be using the e1c5132.sys driver (or e1c51x64.sys if you have 64-bit Windows XP.)
Mark H
2. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
We're having issues with this NIC as well as the Intel 82579LM in the HP 8200 Elite Desktop, the NIC is detected correctly but we can't get an IP address in WinPE. Both work fine once XP is up and running. Using the e1c5132.sys as mentioned.
Also found some people having issues here (expand the threads): http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Latitude+E6420+Windows+7+Driver+CAB/thread#toggle
Look forward to any ideas
3. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
CaseyCo - I am having the same difficulty with the Desktop version of this adapter on a Dell system. SETUPAPI log indicates a driver was found, but no adapters are listed within ipconfig or netsh. I have tried WinPE v2.0 and v3.0, attempting to install 64bit drivers (specified amd64 as the infrastructure).
Will reply back if I find a solution
4. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
My problem is happily resolved (after a few hours wasted):
1. Configured Windows AIK 3.0 in x86 mode (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709665(WS.10).aspx)
2. Built winpe.WIM as instructed.
3. Downloaded INTEL PROSET 16.1 (NOT 16.2) for 32-bit Win7: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/19996/eng/PROWin32.exe&lang=eng&Dwnldid=19996&DownloadType=Drivers+&OSFullname=Windows+7%2c+32-bit*
4. Unpacked this using WinRar - focus on files in PROWin32\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS62 for Win7.
5. At Windows AIK command prompt, used: Dism /image:C:\mounted_winpe /Add-Driver /driver:c:\PROWin32\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS62
(NOTE: exact INF file is e1c6232.inf so you may get away with /driver:c:\PROWin32\PRO1000\Win32\NDIS62\e1c6232.inf)
6. Committed changes to WIM file, built CD as before, now I can set IP addresses with netsh int ip set address local static 192.168.50.2 255.255.255.0
Hope this helps,
5. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
Thanks for the info, will give it a try this morning and report back.
6. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
Hi guys,
Sorry for the delay in replying to all your posts but thanks very much for your information.
I ended up resolving this with a bit of luck more than anything but I though tI'd post my results in case anyone else has the same issue.
We currently deploy an XP image using an old version of Altiris deployment server (version 6.8 SP2) and WinPE version 1.6. A specific driver for this nic card was not installing in the PXE boot image when I injected the drivers provided by Intel and HP. A driver for Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Controller (vender ID 8086, Device ID 1502, Driver version e1c5132.sys) would import but no driver for our nic: 82579V (vender ID 8086, Device ID 1503, Driver version e1c5132.sys). Therefore our build was stalling at Retrying DHCP when PxE booting.
In step 7 of the Altiris Boot Disk Creator there is an section to select the WinPE Boot Model with the following options: Boot WinPE using "factory -minint" (boots faster) or Boot WinPE using "factory -WinPE" (more thorough driver detection). Our default setting has always been factory -minint however we could build successfully as soon as I changed it to factory -winpe.
I hope this helps someone
7. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
We are experiencing the same issues with this drivers in Altiris 6.9. We can import the drivers for the AHCI for ProBook 6360b, but not the nic which is the Intel 82579.
8. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controllerRustySmith Jun 8, 2011 9:12 AM (in response to TimJing )
I just worked through this problem with help from HP for the Elitebook 8560p laptop, which has the Intel 82579LM driver (Dev ID = 1502).
I don't know where I went wrong initially, but using the correct driver download from HP worked perfectly by the book.
We have Altiris 6.9 SP2 in production, WinPE2.1 (which requires Vista drivers)
The download of the Vista Enterprise 32-bit driver from HP for this adapter on this laptop is here.
I extracted this file (SP52209.exe /e), and then pointed the Boot Disk Creator "Have Disk" dialog to the directory \flat\VISTAx32. The file that is there waiting to populate the driver window is E1C6032.inf. This driver covers Dev ID 1502 and 1503.
With the PXE Configuration Utility set up with this updated WinPE image, I was able to PXE boot and image the 8560p with no problem.
The ProBook 6360b seems to have the same driver file - SP52209.exe - located here.
Hope that helps!
9. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controllermark_h_@intel Jun 8, 2011 6:27 PM (in response to Alex Pietruszka )
For those of you who want to try an older software package like Alex suggests, the version 16.1 package is no longer available. However, you can get the version 16.0 release which others have been using successfully at http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20031. Ignore the "Server 2003" in the title. All versions of Windows are covered in the download packages.
Mark H
10. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controller
The supplied HP Windows 7 driver require's a PXE 3.0 capable controller.
The 82579v PXE Controller in the HP 6460b is PXE 2.1 NOT 3.0 hence why it will not work.
With regards to booting to Windows PE use Windows VISTA based drivers that support PXE 2.1
I had this problem when trying to use WDS to deploy Windows 7 on the 6450b
Solutution was;
1. For the Windows PE portion of deployment use 82579 Windows VISTA drivers
1. For the Windows installation setup portion of deployment use 82579 Windows 7 drivers
Hope this helps
11. Re: WinPE driver for Intel 82579v Ethernet controlleradamlundrigan Nov 22, 2011 11:06 AM (in response to flares78)
Thanks all! This helped resolve my issue with using Ghost Solution Suite's WinPE boot disk with the HP ProBook 6560b. The correct driver for that machine is e1c6032.inf (in the NDIS60 folder). For anyone else out there having issues imaging this notebook with GSS or WinPE, see the instructions posted on my blog: http://adam.lundrigan.ca/2011/11/imaging-the-hp-probook-6560b/


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My class is Free Motion Quilting a Sampler and I'm basically teaching you how to quilt fillers over Amy Gibson's Block of the Month quilt! You can check out the class right here and see both pictures and a few short videos of the project.
I really hope to see you in class! I know we have a wonderful interaction here on the blog and on YouTube, but honestly Craftsy has built a platform that is out-of-this-world for learning new techniques for any kind of craft. Interacting with you, from a teachers perspective, is just so much easier, so I know it's going to be a wonderful place to teach even more information about free motion quilting.
If you'd like to learn more about this new class, click here to watch a preview and a get a 50% discount off the regular price!
Now let's get going on a new design for this week. This month we've studied Edge to Edge designs and many variations on the same Flowing Lines theme. Here's a quick review of each design:
It's been wonderfully fun to focus on this group of designs, but this is the last week of October so it's time to finish up with one last variation, this time combining Jagged Lines with Zippling to form Lost Data:
Funny story about the video below - I asked Josh to edit a list of videos the other day. He worked on them for a few hours and said "I got them all done except the one with lost data." Oops! I do believe that's the first time a design name has gotten me in trouble!
Design Family - Edge to Edge.
In this video I'm using Machingers Gloves, Magic Bobbin Washers, and a Queen Supreme Slider to make free motion quilting the big Batik Beauty quilt much easier on my home sewing machine.
Even with as long as I've been quilting, I still rely on these tools to make the quilt easier to move, to keep the bobbin gliding smoothly, and to maintain more control over the movement of the quilt.
Find these three tools in the Queen Supreme Kit right here in our Quilt Shop.
Now this is the last week of October, the last day actually, so I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween. Next month we're going to focus not on a family of designs, but on ways to break up and knock out quilts quickly.
At the end of this particular video, the Batik Beauty quilt was less than 1/2 filled and I was feeling eager to knock it out quickly. After quilting out all of November's designs, the quilt only had a few small places to fill, so the designs we'll learn in the coming weeks will hopefully fill spaces very fast, very simply, but still with amazing texture and design.
Instructions for Linking Up Your Blog:
1. Write your blog post. Publish it on your blog.
2. Copy the link of the specific blog post. This is not just the link to your blog itself (www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com), but the link to the specific post: http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2012/01/quilt-along-2-quilting-in-rows.html
3. Click the blue link up button above and paste your link into the box.
Keep in mind that you're posting your progress from LAST week on THIS week's post. This way you have time to watch the lesson, play with the ideas, then post your progress to the next quilt along. I hope that makes sense!
Also it's not required, but highly appreciated and super cool to link back the Free Motion Quilt Along so everyone you know can come quilt with us too. Grab a button to put in your post or on your blog to share the love!
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Summary: A deep dive into SQL Server parallelism, and a potential performance problem with parallel plans that use TOP.
There was an interesting question asked by Mark Storey-Smith on dba.stackexchange.com back in October 2011. He was looking at the execution plan for a query that counts a million rows from a virtual auxiliary table of numbers. The query below is a slightly-modified version of the one in the original post:
N1 (n) AS
-- 10 rows
N2 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N1 AS L CROSS JOIN N1 AS R), -- 100 rows
N3 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N2 AS L CROSS JOIN N2 AS R), -- 10,000 rows
N4 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N3 AS L CROSS JOIN N3 AS R), -- 100,000,000 rows
N5 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N4 AS L CROSS JOIN N1 AS R), -- 1,000,000,000 rows
SELECT TOP (1000000) n
This particular virtual numbers table is capable of producing up to a (short-scale) billion rows, via a number of cross joins, but the final common table expression N6 limits it to one million with the TOP clause. The query plan is just a sequence of cross joins of the ten in-memory rows defined by the first common table expression, N1 (click to enlarge):
As usual, the Constant Scan operator is used to generate rows in memory without accessing a physical table, but this one has an interesting property: the 'virtual table' contains ten rows, but no columns. The query itself only counts rows, it does nothing at all with any column in those rows, and the optimizer contains logic to only project columns that are needed later in the query plan. If you look at the query plan in SSMS or SQL Sentry Plan Explorer, you will see that the Constant Scans have a blank output columns list; they project no columns at all.
The plan above does illustrate an important concept in plan-reading: execution plans start executing at the left-most node. People are often told to read execution plans from the top-right, and that is fine if you just want to follow the flow of data – so long as you bear in mind that the flow of program control starts at the root (far left).
Rob Farley (blog | twitter) sums this up by saying "execution plans suck"; a reference to the fact that rows are pulled up the tree by parent operators requesting rows, one at a time, from the its child operator(s). Query execution follows a demand-based pipeline model (except in batch mode in parallel 2012 column-store plans, but that is a tangent we will not be pursuing today). I'm not going to labour the point, but if you are interested to understand this better, take a look at my previous post on the topic, or Brad Schulz's entertaining overview.
Let's look at the execution plan (with runtime statistics) changing the TOP specification from one million to one hundred to make it easier to see what's going on:
I'm just showing part of the plan for clarity. There are another four Constant Scans off to the right that all produce one row. If query plans really did start executing at the top right, we would expect one row from the right-most Constant Scan, ten rows from its parent, and one hundred at the next operator up the tree (working right to left). As it is, the expected pattern (one, then ten, then one hundred) appears closest to the Top operator. This only makes sense if a row at a time is sucked up the plan from the root. The pipelined (row-by-row) model also explains why execution stops after 100 rows; the Top operator in the plan simply stops requesting a new row from its immediate child at that point.
Back to the main thrust of today's post. The question arose when Mark ran his query with parallelism enabled:
That produces an actual execution plan like this (click to enlarge):
The question relates to the actual number of rows shown entering and leaving the Gather Streams exchange operator:
As expected, one million rows leave the exchange operator, but the plan shows 1,004,588 rows entering it. So the question is, are the row counts wrong, or if not, where did the rows go?
As you may know, the answer lies in the fact that exchanges contain buffers. For efficiency reasons, rows are not passed across threads one by one as in the normal model discussed above. Instead, producer threads (on the right side of the exchange operator) pack rows one at a time into packets, and push completed packets across the exchange. Consumer thread(s) on the left side of the exchange retrieve rows one at a time from the current packet on demand, re-establishing the demand-based pipeline model. The internal class name for the packets, by the way, is Class eXchange PACKET – which gives us the familiar CXPACKET moniker.
Exploring the detail at little more, we can see from the execution plan that the two independent producer threads to the right of the exchange pack a total of 499,225 + 505,363 = 1,004,588 rows into packets, and the single consumer thread (thread zero) retrieves just the one million rows needed by the Top operator:
So, the actual row counts shown on the execution plan are correct, and the 'missing rows' are accounted for by rows that were added to packets but not ultimately needed by the consumer. After the one millionth row is passed by the Top to the Stream Aggregate (and remember all these things happen one row at a time), the next time the Top gets control, it starts the process of shutting down the pipeline below it, rather than asking the Gather Streams exchange for another row. Glossing over the finer details a little, instead of the Top calling a GetRow() method on the Gather Streams iterator, it calls a Close() method instead.
On SQL Server 2005 that is the end of the story. On SQL Server 2008 and later (including 2012), there is more. Let's run the query one more time, but this time with a degree of parallelism of three, rather than two. Sometimes, we will get a plan that contains this sort of row count arrangement at the Gather Streams:
Much the same as before, a few thousand extra rows are processed by the producer threads than are ultimately needed by the consumer. That's fine, of course, the threads in a parallel plan execute independently, so there are bound to be small timing differences that lead to this sort of effect. Every so often, however, executing this query on SQL Server 2008 or above will produce a result like this:
Whoa. Nearly 335 million rows entering the exchange – and the query now runs for 50 seconds or so, having run consistently for around 200ms previously. Looking at the per-thread actual row counts is revealing:
If everything were perfectly balanced, we might expect each of the three producer threads to process around 333,000 rows. Indeed, thread 1 and thread 2 are in this ballpark area, but thread 3 ground through 334 million rows on its own! I should mention that there is nothing special about thread 3 (you are as likely to find the huge row count on thread 1 or thread 2, the labels are arbitrary). Indeed, the problem can occur on any or all threads, as a second example run at DOP 3 shows below:
This time two threads went rogue, resulting in over 667 million rows being processed in a total execution time of 67 seconds.
There are other parallelism (exchange) operators in the plan, though we have concentrated only on the final Gather Streams operator so far. By the way, Gather Streams is also known as a Start Parallelism operator – a name that might surprise you since it seems to mark the end of parallelism in the plan, rather than the start. Remember that execution plans suck. The 'final' Gather Streams is in fact the first operator to start executing, and it is responsible for starting the parallel workers and attaching them to the threads that were reserved for this plan at the very start of execution. Anyway, I digress. Let's look at the next exchange in the plan – reading left to right of course. This is a Repartition Streams exchange operating in Round Robin distribution mode:
This shows that 1,000 rows arriving on the producer side of the exchange, and a total of 668 on the consumer side. Not shown in the diagram above, the producer side has 340 rows on thread 1, and 330 rows on each of thread 2 and thread 3. Note that these are not the same threads as the ones we saw numbered the same way before. The numbering scheme is restarted for each independent parallel zone in the plan (and zones are bounded by a parallelism operator of one sort or another). Anyway, the point is that the rows are pretty evenly distributed on the producer side of the exchange.
On the consumer side (row counts illustrated above), things are rather different. Thread 1 (in this zone) processes 334 rows, thread 2 gets 333, and thread 3 gets only one. Now these are the same threads as shown in the 667 million row diagram. I mentioned that parallel zones are bordered by parallelism operators; the current zone is bordered by the Repartition Streams on its right side, and by the Gather Streams on its left. The same three threads are consumers at the Repartition Streams, and producers at the Gather Streams operator:
There is a clear relationship between the thread row counts at the consumer side of the Repartition Streams (334, 333, and 1 row) and the row counts at the producer side of the Gather Streams (334 million, 333 million, 338,614 rows). The two problematic threads have multiplied their row counts by a factor of one million – precisely the effect of the six cross joins in this parallelism zone. The Constant Scan virtual tables contain ten rows each, and multiplying by ten, six times over, gives a factor of one million.
Thread 3 in the example above ends up processing 338,614 rows. This number has no special significance, except it shows that this thread did not run this portion of the plan to completion. If it had, the single row it started with would have ended up as one million rows by the time it had been cross-joined six times with the ten-row Constant Scan table.
This is the row goal in action (if you need a details on exactly what a row goal is, please see my previous post). Essentially, though, things like a TOP operator or a FAST n hint set a row goal. Plans normally run to completion, but row goals modify this, producing a plan that tries to optimize for a certain number of rows rather than the full potential set. The TOP operator is even more special. As discussed briefly before, TOP can bring execution to an early end – instead of continuing to ask for rows from its child iterator, it calls the Close() method instead. This call filters down the tree, and execution comes to an early end. (Strictly, row goals affect optimizer choices and plan costing rather than being associated with the early end of execution, but I like the phrase 'rogue row goal').
So, thread 3 did not run to completion – it responded to the early Close() call and only processed 338 thousand of the one million rows it could have produced if left alone. Threads 1 and 2 never received the Close() call, or chose to ignore it. These two rogues went on to process their full potential row set – 667 million rows – despite the fact that the TOP had seen the million rows it needed and was waiting for operations elsewhere in the parallel plan to stop. We can see this by looking at the sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks DMV while the long-running query is executing:
The output is split across two lines for readability, and shows execution context zero blocked on a CXPACKET wait by both execution context 1 and execution context 3. Execution context zero is always thread zero – the so-called coordinator thread that runs the serial part of the execution plan to the left of the left-most Gather Streams operator. Put another way, context zero always runs the part of the plan before (reading left to right) the Start Parallelism operator (and therefore always runs a serial plan).
OK, so CXPACKET means the thread is involved in a parallelism-related wait. The extra detail in the resource_description column tells us that the wait is occurring at the node id 2. Checking the execution plan, we see that node 2 is indeed the Gather Streams exchange:
The wait type of e_waitPortClose means the consumer is waiting for the port to close. If you are wondering what a port is in this context, I will just say the parallelism architecture is more complex than just CXPACKET – the wiring includes a CXPort class, a CXPipe class, a CXTransLocal (local transport) class and a CXTransRemote class (for the Parallel Data Warehouse edition). There is also a linked map structure that shows how the various pipes, ports, and transports connect together. Closing the port is one step in shutting down part of a parallel plan which is running on the other side of an exchange (via a transport, pipe, and port). The stack trace below shows thread zero waiting for the port to close:
The important things are that (a) this problem does not occur in SQL Server 2005; and (b) a number of changes were made to the internal parallelism implementation in SQL Server 2008. These changes seem to have introduced a bug, where the consumer can wait for the port to close, but one or more producers either ignore the request, or fail to check for it, and go on to process the whole potential result set instead of stopping early.
Fellow SQLblogger Joe Chang (blog) suggested in the comments that this problem may only occur with parallel nested loops joins. The script below reproduces the problem with parallel hash joins:
N2 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N1 AS L JOIN N1 AS R ON L.n % 1 = R.n % 1), -- 100 rows
N3 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N2 AS L JOIN N2 AS R ON L.n % 1 = R.n % 1), -- 10,000 rows
N4 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N3 AS L JOIN N3 AS R ON L.n % 1 = R.n % 1), -- 100,000,000 rows
N5 AS (SELECT L.n FROM N4 AS L JOIN N1 AS R ON L.n % 1 = R.n % 1), -- 1,000,000,000 rows
The full execution plan is rather large, but the key part is shown below (click to enlarge):
Yes, that is 700 million rows entering the Gather Streams exchange (click to enlarge):
The bug does not occur in every query plan with Top and parallelism, but the choice of nested loops join is not the cause.
The potential for poor performance and excessive processor usage here is obvious; and the chance of hitting the race condition gets worse at higher DOP. With eight threads per parallel zone (DOP 8), I hit this issue almost every time on SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012. Because this behaviour does not occur on SQL Server 2005, but does on 2008 and later, I have filed this as a bug on Connect:
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Very good catch, and well done dissection of the problem.
I did a test with MAXDOP=16, and it consumed the whole fruit (1,000,000,000 rows). Sadly, I do not have SQL Server 2012 in a big box to do the trsting. I would expect the same if we use the new OFFSET ... FETCH functionality.
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This item got my vote, and thanks for sharing this with us.
Excellent post Paul,
We in fact encountered serious performance issue of potentially similar nature on SQL 2008.
We had an insert..select query that was inserting rows from a join of few tables into a temp table. Everything was fine and the query finished in 20 seconds when there was no PK index on the temp table. When the index was created before insert, the query was running for 20 minutes and execution plan was showing some crazy rowcounts, accompanied by nested loops joins.
The same query worked fine on SQL 2005.
@AMB: Thank you for that. After the post about seeks that use linear interpolation, I am always a little nervous that someone else will find different behaviour on a different version or processor architecture!
@Piotr: That is interesting! It would have been interesting to see an execution plan for that so we could be sure if it was the same issue or not. No doubt too much time has elapsed for that now (though if not, please feel free to drop me a mail). Always fascinating to find instances where an 'upgrade' turns out to be be so much 'up' after all :)
there are 2 elements to the performance problem here. One is that the parallel loop join does not scale. I have complained about this before suggesting that this was because each access to the inner source was latching the root level index page instead of just once per thread or query, but Conor insists that this was absolutely necessary.
Second is that a hash join requires an equality join condition. We could easily replace the CROSS JOIN with an INNER JOIN -- ON L.n = R.n, but with the virtual table, the QO will not consider this to be a join predicate. On the other hand, if we dump N1 into a real table, temp or permanent, the execution plan will show hash joins, which does scale with parallelism.
Hello Joe,
I think it's pretty clear the performance problem is due to processing hundreds of millions of rows on one thread when the final output only requires one million, wouldn't you say? ;c)
On the subject of parallel loops join and scaling, Adam Machanic and I have found the *complete reverse* to be true: parallel hash (and merge) join does not scale at all well, compared with *properly written* parallel nested loops code.
We should probably discuss this point off-line between the three of us, to avoid getting too far off-topic in these comments. (Batch-mode parallel hash joins with column store in SQL Server 2012 is a different story).
I have updated my post to show a *parallel hash join* example that exhibits the same problem, and runs for 101 seconds on my test machine. I should stress that this bug does not occur in *every* parallel plan that includes TOP after a parallel join (of whatever type).
Parallel hash join (outside of Columnstore, as Paul mentioned) does not tend to scale well, due to the overhead of repartitioning exchanges. Parallel nested loop, on the other hand, can be made to scale extremely well if you're careful with it.
Latching of index pages is not a problem in my experience. I don't see any latch contention if I run large workloads using a parallel nested loop pattern.
I have checked your bug report for this issue and I was disappointed. They will not plan to fix it :
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Hi Woodler,
Connect is an imperfect system; being closed as Won't Fix doesn't necessarily mean it will never be fixed, just that there are no immediate plans to do so. There are lots of things that need doing, and this item has only attracted 29 votes so far. I am personally hopeful it will be fixed some day.
The query optimizer does not always choose an optimal strategy when joining partitioned tables. This
I know this is an old thread, but I'm looking into a TOP Sort issue so I'm leaving this comment for others.
SQL 2016 SP1 adds a new option hint, either of which may help in this situation.


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Ha! What a site for sore eyes in Paris when the American gets a little home sick for some processed junk. Actually, funny thing is that I do use Lawry's Seasoned salt still....esp. good on sliced avocado! I also use their garlic salt to season roasted vegetables before placing them in the oven. Happy 4th and Bon Voyage, Carol. xxReplyDelete
This is awesome! Everytime I studied abroad I always got sick of the local food. This would have been a sight for sore eyes! Thanks for sharing and Happy 4th:)ReplyDelete
We have a similar store here in Vienna, Bobby's Foodstore, serving American and British expats. I try not to go there too often, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are way too tempting! ;-)ReplyDelete
Happy Fourth, Carol!
It's a very timely post..this being your July 4th holiday..ReplyDelete
Very cute Carol!
Just love Twinkies, always had them on the many trips to Florida ! Happy 4th, Carol !! Hope you enjoy.....ReplyDelete
Ha! When we lived in England I didn't miss American food at all, isn't that funny? I think what I did miss was southwestern food, though. A couple of larger European cities have these shops and I thought they were pretty interesting. I think it was in Stockholm (although I may be wrong about that city) I found a tiny little one - nothing this size!ReplyDelete
Carol, I prepared a post for you on my Creative Influences blog.
Bon Voyage!
Hard to appreciate Thanksgiving...with all the access I have to that stuff now, I never buy any of it! :-) well, almost never!ReplyDelete
I was a 20 year-old ex-pat in Paris in the Winter of '76 and I got a gift package from my boyfriend back in Philadelphia. It was a box containing three bags of Doritos. I decided then and there that I had to marry him.ReplyDelete
As it turned out, we didn't tie the knot (he said no, thankfully) but I'll never forget the pure joy I had from every bite of those Doritos.
Now I'll have to go see Thanksgiving with my own eyes, just so I can say that I went to Paris to gaze at boxes of Jell-O.
Have a wonderful trip Carol -- bring us back lots of "Carol" stories!
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Though Auburn's deliberative session saw much discussion on some of the more controversial warrants up this year, all proposed warrants will appear on the town ballot as they were originally presented, with no amendments having even been proposed.

Of those warrants discussed, perhaps the most contentious was the petition warrant to abolish the town's Police Commission, producing a roughly 45-minute debate.

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Both arguments enjoyed some applause. There was a roughly even split at the session between supporters of the warrant to abolish and those in the opposition. Roughly 120 people were in attendance.

Other warrants to see discussion were a $34,675 Mosquito Control Program – with questions raised on its environmental safety and effectiveness – and a lease/purchase agreement on a replacement fire truck for the department with questions of the cost and the merits of the lease method.

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Texas Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Rep. Tom Craddick have brought the victims of texting-while-driving accidents to the Capitol to build support for a ban on the practice.
Family members recounted on Tuesday how their loved ones died in traffic accidents because someone was distracted by text messages on their mobile phones.
Craddick, a West Texas Republican, passed a ban in 2011, but Gov. Rick Perry vetoed it, calling it an infringement on personal liberty. Thirty-nine states already ban texting while driving.
Victims' families said a person who is texting while driving is twice as likely to cause an accident as someone who is drinking while driving.
Zaffirini, a Laredo Democrat, called on lawmakers to pass the measure again and for Perry to reconsider his veto.


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Interview with 'California Solo' Writer/Director Marshall Lewy
Writer/Director Marshall Lewy graciously took the time to sit and talk with us here at Movie Room Reviews about his new film California Solo which is being releases December 7th in LA, and stars the great Scottish actor Robert Carlyle who well known for his roles in Trainspotting, The Full Monty, and currently stars on the hit TV show Once Upon a Time. Marshall talks about what inspired him to write a movie about a washed up British musician struggling with his demons.
Movie Room Reviews- I'm here talking with the writer/director of the new film California Solo, Marshall Lewy. Marshall has done several films in the past including 2007's Blue State which he also wrote and directed. Marshall how are you today?
Marshall- I'm doing very well.
MRR- Well we're here to talk about your new film California Solo, can you give our audience a break down of what the movie is all about?
Marshall- Yeah, it's a film starring Robert Carlyle, who you might know from Trainspotting, and The Full Monty, and right now he is on the ABC show Once Upon a Time. He plays a former brit-pop rock star who has settled into a life in southern California working on an organic farm. At the beginning of this film he gets a DUI which leads to a chain of events where he is now facing deportation from the United States, and he has to face something he has been avoiding for quite sometime.
MRR- I just watched the film and I thought it was very well done. I knew you directed it, but until I saw the ending credits I hadn't realized you also wrote it. What inspired you to write this film? The main character Lachlan is from Scotland and is played by Scottish actor Robert Carlyle, is this a coincidence?
Marshall- No I actually wrote it with Robert Carlyle in mind. I didn't have him in the film yet, but I have always been a big fan of his and I thought it would be kind of interesting to put him at the center of an American independent film. I wrote it with his voice in my head, and so it made the character really flow. When he agreed to do the movie there was a lot he was able to bring to the table because he came up at the same time that this character Lachlan was supposed to have hit it big, the early to mid 90's brit-pop era. He knew the Gallagher brothers of Oasis, and he knew Paul Weller of the Jam, and he knew the guys from Massive Attack, so he brought a lot of that experience. The big night club of that movement is called the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester which is sort of like Studio 54 of that time period. That's where Robert Carlyle met his wife, which I didn't know when I wrote the script, but there all kinds of little connections like that which were huge for him bringing the character to life.
MRR- Was the band in the movie that he played in, The Cranks, a real band?
Marshall- Glad you thought so but no they are made up.
MRR- I thought they might be because the name sounds legit.
Marshall- It was drawn from some bands from that time period, but we invented a fictional band. The song that you hear in the movie that he plays off The Cranks big record, Bank Street Waltz, which people are talking about all throughout the film , was written by a Brooklyn based band that's inspired by brit-pop called the Violins. We worked together to make a song that would of sounded like one of the big brit-pop anthems of that period.
MRR- Why a musician for this film? Why not an athlete or actor? What made you want to make your main character a washed up musician?
Marshall- I don't think I thought about it too much and I love music. There's obviously a tradition of movies about washed up musicians that goes back to Tender Mercies, and probably before that. It probably just represents something for people with lost dreams and aspirations. The film actually started with a quote from Neil Young, "It's better to burn out then to fade away", which didn't make it into the final film, but that idea has been there for a long time. There's something about these fantastic flame outs, which is the name of the podcast he does in the movie, or maybe better than the just sort of slowly withering on the vine like Lachlan is doing in the film.
MRR- It was actually a little hard for me to watch personally because I always wanted to become a big musician, and have been playing for 20 years, but I was always too apprehensive to go dedicate my life to it because it is so hard to make it, and what happens when the music's over? Lachlan in this film is what happens.
Marshall- (laughs) Well not always. That was one of the things Carlyle knows, I know musicians as well, and he knows some from that period. The good, the bad, and the ugly; all versions. The one's that are still doing it and the one's that didn't quite make it. One of the cool things about making the movie and getting it out there at places like Sundance, where people see it, and especially the fact that musicians seem to really respond to it when they see it is really gratifying for me.
MRR- Most musicians would also love to have that Gibson Les Paul in the movie. Was that borrowed?
Marshall- Oh yeah it was borrowed and it was definitely the most expensive thing we had on the set. I remember the prop department just constantly warning people saying "This a real Les Paul Reissue Sunburst so be careful".
MRR- You did a good job at making the audience like Lachlan. Honestly, I probably wouldn't like this guy in real life. He's a nice guy under the microscope but he is pretty crazy and selfish. How did you want to portray Lachlan?
Marshall- Well I wanted the audience to make up their own mind. I kind of like trying that as a filmmaker, and I did it a little bit in Blue State, but not quite as much. Taking somebody who might be a little hard to like at times, but you're not always agreeing with what they are doing to him so you want to sympathize with that. I don't know, I think it's an interesting challenge as a filmmaker and it makes for interesting characters, which is why I think in today's day in age a lot of the TV characters you see fit this model because it makes for interesting, and compelling, drama. There's definitely moments in the movie where I want the audience to cringe, or I want the audience to be sitting on their hands saying, "What are you doing?", and hopefully in the end, like you said, you do like this guy despite all that. That's kind of how the people around him have felt. He's the guy who has coasted on his charm for a long time, and in a way the movie is about the moment where that coasting runs out of gas.
MRR- When I was watching it I noticed that you are getting Lachlan's view on everything and the other characters just kind of come in and out of his world. In other movies, you get the mother's view, the father's view, the main character's view, and so forth, but in this one it's pretty much Lachlan's view throughout the movie.
Marshall- Absolutely. There are a couple movies I was inspired by for that. It's definitely Lachlan's view, and that's why you don't delve into the lives of really anybody else. Carlyle was in not just every scene, but literally almost every shot of the movie. It's very much from his perspective. You don't see anything about other characters except for what Lachlan sees.
MRR- How will our audience be able to see the film?
Marshall- The film was released in New York on November 30th and will be in LA on December 7th. Then it will move on to San Diego, Palm Springs, San Francisco, and it's gonna continue rolling out to theaters from there.
MRR- The film has already won a couple of awards right?
Marshall- Yeah that's right. We won best film last month at the Woodstock film festival and Carlyle's won a couple of best acting awards.
MRR- When will it be easily accessed for anyone to watch like on VOD or DVD?
Marshall- Well hopefully it will come to a theater near you in December or January, and will probably be out on DVD a few months after that.
MRR- What other projects can we look forward to seeing from you Marshall?
Marshall- I am making a film called Exodus that we are going to shoot early next year which is a thriller set in the Caribbean. I also wrote the script for a film called Born to Run which is from a great New York best-seller called Born to Run by Chris Mcdougall.
MRR- Well thanks Marshall for taking the time to talk with us here at Movie Room Reviews and I hope the film is a huge success for you.
Marshall- Thanks Nick.


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Bad Day at the Gap
Sharon Day 3/2/2005 9:03:43 AMTerrific image, Pat!!! Great candid! #220556
Cindy Paquette 3/2/2005 10:32:20 AMI love this engineer! My dad worked on trains and I love all things about them, including your image here! #1143244
Kathleen Clemons 3/2/2005 11:22:29 AMExcellent environmental portrait, Pat! Love the touch of red. :) #1143336
Paul Michko 3/2/2005 2:12:09 PMYou can read his expression. "This Sucks" :) Great capture, Patricia. #1143525
Leanne M.E. Boyd 3/2/2005 3:29:55 PMGreat capture of expression, Patricia! #1143701
Terry R. Hatfield 3/2/2005 4:50:08 PMGreat Job On The Coloring Patricia:-) #1143888
cj patterson 3/2/2005 4:53:31 PMExcellent Portrait! #1143895
Bobbie Davis 3/2/2005 6:08:49 PMVery cool...love the coloring and yes the expression says it all....my question is this....is that his real mustache? ;) Love this! #1144008
Carol Brill 3/2/2005 8:48:17 PMTerrific shot, Pat, you really captured his exasperation and style perfectly with your attention to detail here! #1144335
Debra Booth 3/3/2005 5:19:22 AMWow! What timing, Pat! Great capture! #1144905
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Stanley J. Contrades 4/22/2005 1:06:53 AMCONGRATULATIONS on this moving upward, Pat!
Patricia A. Kuniega 4/22/2005 2:31:12 AMThank you all very much! This photo means a lot to me because it was a bit of photo journalism. We just happened to be standing there with a crowd of train buffs waiting for the steam train to come by on an autumn foliage ride. As the train rounded the bend, it suddenly stopped. It quickly became obvious that the train had derailed. Newspaper accounts the next day said that over the years several trains had derailed at the same location but hadn't been as lucky. At least two trains had gone into the river as recently as the 1960's and several people had died. Everyone was very lucky the day this photo was taken! #1279356
Sharon Day 4/22/2005 3:53:35 AMFantastic image, Pat!!! I loved this the first time I saw it! Big congratulations on your win!!! WTG!!! #1279602
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Leonard Pierce 4/24/2005 8:47:55 PMFantastic capture Pat!! Congratulations on your Second Place win!!! #1288316
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The Bryan Fischer award is given to those who show a staggering lack of self-awareness, accusing their opponents of their own worst sins. Rush Limbaugh, believe it or not, actually got it right on Todd Akin, slamming him for his idiotic statements. But listen to his explanation for it:
So they sit around amongst themselves — I'm not being critical of 'em; don't misunderstand my choice of words or tone, and they try to think of ways to persuade other people who agree with them. So Akin goes on TV with Charles Jaco, which is mistake number one, but he goes on with Charles Jaco on local St. Louis TV. And this whole business of a woman's body shuts down in rape, there's no evidence for that. But this is the kind of thing that people who do nothing but talk amongst themselves will conjure up, a belief system like that, and they'll grab on to anything they can to support what their empirical belief is because their ultimate aim is to save life.Their ultimate aim is to protect the baby no matter what circumstance the conception occurs in. And I think that's just who the guy is, but he doesn't know how to explain it. He has no clue how to make his case for it. And so he hangs around people who are like-minded and they've devised this belief. He's not the first guy to say this. I've had people tell me that a woman's body shuts down in rape. There's no evidence for this. I mean it's absolutely absurd. This leads to the second problem. This is absurd. That belief that a woman's body shuts down and the whole notion of "legitimate" "illegitimate" rape, that's the thing that bothers me about it. That's just absurd. It's not intelligent.
For crying out loud, Rush, you practically created that echo chamber where blatantly false and ridiculous statements get passed around as though they were true.


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Take the next step. Join other first-year Psychology students with your interests as they begin exploring human behavior and the mind. Through active LC participation, you will bring your classroom education to life. Examination and identification of career paths, conversations with experts, and research tours are all part of this exciting Learning Community.
Classroom experiences will be enhanced by activities designed to strengthen your knowledge, interpret the behaviors of animals and humans, and explore how personality develops. You will identify the characteristics of sleep, recognize our biological needs and how we meet these, define abnormal behavior(s), discover how and when fear is learned, and possibly even how psychology relates to stoves and doors.
At the end of the fall semester, you will have new friends, first-hand connections to faculty and staff in the Psychological Sciences Department, and a greater understanding of the role psychology plays in your daily life.
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The "lowfat" craze of the 90's didn't stick around long, but one thing from the period that did stick were the Lowfat Corn Muffins I baked up during those lowfat lifestyle days.
Corn muffins are the perfect accompaniment to soups, stews and chili, and they are quick and easily made from scratch. The liquid for these muffins is canned cream-style corn, giving them lots of corn flavor and a wonderful texture. For almost "fat free" muffins, use liquid egg substitute for the eggs.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Stir in the creamed corn, sour cream and eggs or egg substitute. Stir until smooth and then spoon the batter into a 12-cup muffin tin that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Bake for 20 minutes.
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Fortunately, the nation now has a President-elect, and the indecision of this election has come to an end.
Throughout the election season, we -- along with many others -- stressed how important this race was for the fate of unborn children for the next generation, as well as for the preservation of so many other Christian values in our society.
Why did the election take so long to resolve? We can ask this question from many perspectives, and one of the answers certainly is that it was simply so close. But from a theological perspective, perhaps we could say that in this Jubilee Year election, God pressed a "pause" button in order to give us additional time to reflect at the significant crossroads at which we have arrived, and to offer more prayer and sacrifice for the leaders and policies of our nation.
There is a further perspective regarding the manner in which the election was finally resolved, namely, through a Supreme Court decision. The fact that unborn children have no protection from the violence of abortion resulted not from any vote or choice of the American people, but from an unjust Supreme Court decision in 1973 which, as the US Bishops have said, "deserve[s] only to be condemned, repudiated and ultimately reversed" (Abortion and The Supreme Court: Advancing the Culture of Death, November 15, 2000). Certainly, neither this election nor any election in itself resolves the abortion problem. But it is at least curious that in an election during which pro-abortion groups were saying that a George W. Bush presidency poses a tremendous threat to Roe vs. Wade, the process should be brought to a conclusion by the same institution that brought us Roe vs. Wade.
People committed to the cause of life have reason to be grateful that the new president-elect likewise believes that "A truly welcoming society must be a culture of life…We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons ... and look toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcome in life and protected in law"(Remarks to the Catholic Press Association, May 2000).
Naturally, this does not mean and cannot mean that the new president -- or any elected official, no matter how committed to the right to life -- will do our work for us. The defense of the unborn child remains the work, the responsibility, of each and every one of us, in our own communities, Churches, and personal spheres of influence. The biggest mistake the pro-life community could make at this point would be to sit back and expect government to accomplish the pro-life task.
But it certainly makes a difference when those in the highest office of our land recognize that unborn children are not garbage, or "non-persons," and when they will not stand in the way of what the pro-life movement tries to accomplish.
Scripture tells us to pray for those in authority. This is a moment to do that, and to resolve to work in a positive, constructive spirit with our national leaders to advance the protection of life as much as possible. It is a time neither for unrealistic expectations, which can quickly lead to disappointment, nor for cynical rash judgment, which can cause us to lose sight of the new opportunities that we now have.
Some pro-abortion groups will claim that the new president-elect has "no mandate" to restrict "the right to choose." That's a strange line of reasoning for people whose philosophy of abortion-on-demand was never voted on, and had no mandate except the decision of seven unelected judges in 1973. Moreover, repeated surveys of the American people certainly do reveal that they want abortion restricted, and most of the abortions completely banned.
The fundamental American mandate, of course, for restricting and indeed ending abortion comes from the Declaration of Independence itself. Beginning today, may all Americans work with greater determination than ever to restore the teachings of that Declaration to our national policies.


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Community Medical School Spring 2014 Series Ongoing
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- By Jennifer Nachbur
Now entering its 16th year, the Community Medical School Spring 2014 lecture series will conclude with a lecture on July 1 by Bruce Tranmer, M.D., professor of surgery, on "Hitting a Nerve: The Triggers of Sciatica." The lecture takes place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. (including a question-and-answer session) in Carpenter Auditorium in the Given Building at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
The series' first three lectures, held on April 1, May 6 and June 3, included: "More Than a Snore: Causes, Treatment and Risks of Sleep Apnea," by Garrick Applebee, M.D., assistant professor of neurological sciences; "Personality or Mental Illness: Undersanding the Links Between Traits and Disorders," by David Rettew, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry; and "Digestive Detail: The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease," by Peter Moses, M.D., professor of medicine, Rebecca Wilcox, M.D., assistant professor of pathology, and Jessica Wood Crothers, M.D., instructor in pathology.
A joint program between the UVM College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care, Community Medical School features lectures by the top faculty experts who teach and inspire the next generation of physicians and scientists at Vermont's academic medical center. Each presentation reviews a current medical science topic in an easy-to-understand format, including informational handouts and a question-and-answer session following the lecture.
Community Medical School lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is requested. To register or learn more, call (802) 847-2886 or visit Community Medical School online. Visit the Community Medical School Archives to view presentations and materials from previous semesters.


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Stress Management Relieves Unsightly Facial Disorder
BARRINGTON, Illinois (July 30, 2001) -- While emotional stress often plays a major role in triggering unsightly flare-ups of rosacea, an acne-like facial disorder affecting an estimated 14 million Americans, stress management techniques have been found to be highly effective in reducing its impact, according to a new survey by the National Rosacea Society.
"There is no doubt that stress can directly affect our health," said Dr. Ted Grossbart, a clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School. "This survey provides direct evidence that stress management can help control the effects of rosacea on facial appearance."
Rosacea is a chronic disorder of the facial skin characterized by flare-ups and remissions. It typically begins at any time after age 30 as a flushing or redness on the cheeks, nose, chin or forehead that may come and go. As the disease progresses, the redness becomes ruddier and more persistent, and small dilated blood vessels may appear. Without treatment, bumps and pimples often develop, and in advanced cases, the nose may become swollen from excess tissue. In the survey of more than 700 rosacea patients, published in Rosacea Review, 91 percent reported that emotional stress caused or sometimes caused their rosacea to flare up. Stress reportedly led to frequent flare-ups for 45 percent of the survey respondents and occasional flare-ups for 42 percent. Only 10 percent indicated that stress rarely affected their rosacea. Because of the effects of stress, 40 percent of the survey respondents indicated they have incorporated stress reduction techniques into their lifestyles, and another 38 percent said they sometimes practice stress management. The vast majority of those patients who work to avoid stress found it helps control their rosacea. Nearly 83 percent reported that it reduced or sometimes reduced their rosacea flare-ups, and only 13 percent said it had no effect. "The conspicuous redness, blemishes and swelling caused by rosacea can actually add to the patient's emotional pain by making social and professional interactions embarrassing and uncomfortable," said Dr. Grossbart, author of Skin Deep: A Mind/Body Program for Healthy Skin. "This can create a downward spiral where stress triggers flare-ups, which in turn cause further emotional stress." According to 67 percent of respondents, the most difficult kind of emotional stress for their rosacea was anxiety, followed by anger (52 percent), frustration (48 percent), worry (46 percent) and embarrassment (41 percent). Only 27 percent said excitement caused flare-ups, and 17 percent reported that sorrow aggravated their condition. Family was a major source of stress for 50 percent of survey participants, and jobs were a major source for 42 percent. Other causes of stress included finances for 30 percent, health for 28 percent, relationships for 23 percent and social pressure for 16 percent.
Dr. Grossbart suggested the following basic stress management techniques: Caring for the Body. During times of stress, it is particularly important to eat right, exercise moderately and maintain normal sleep patterns. Deep Breathing. Inhale to the count of 10 and exhale to the count of 10. Repeat this exercise several times. Visualization. Sit in a quiet place, close your eyes for several minutes and visualize a favorite vacation spot or pleasurable activity. Relaxation. Relax muscles starting at the top of the head and work down to the toes. Positive Action. To minimize anxiety and worry, identify the things outside your control, and focus on taking positive action on things you can do something about.
"The first step toward managing rosacea is to recognize that you have a medical disorder that can be effectively treated by health professionals, as well as by avoiding lifestyle factors such as stress that can aggravate the condition," Dr. Grossbart said. "People who suspect they may suffer from rosacea should see a dermatologist for diagnosis and appropriate therapy. If stress is contributing to the problem and the stress reduction techniques above are not enough, seek out a mental health practitioner."
Although rosacea cannot be cured, effective treatment is available from physicians that can halt its progression and minimize or reverse its effects. Dermatologists usually prescribe oral and topical antibiotics to bring its signs and symptoms under immediate control, followed by long-term treatment with the topical medication alone to maintain remission. Laser therapy or intense pulsed light sources may also be used to remove visible blood vessels, resculpt an enlarged nose or reduce extensive redness.
For information and educational materials on rosacea, write the National Rosacea Society, 800 S. Northwest Highway, Suite 200, Barrington, Illinois 60010, or call its toll-free number at 1-888-NO-BLUSH. Information and materials are also available on the society's Web site at www.rosacea.org, or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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