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It s Sunny Side Up in the Cloud for Eggs Bob Gilmore, Director-IT, Cal-Maine Foods
Bob Gilmore, Director-IT, Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine Foods, a producer and marketer of fresh shell eggs in the USA passed the milestone of marketing over one billion dozen eggs in one year for FY 2014. Two years ago, Cal-Maine, faced with an aging IT infrastructure made a bold decision to move 100 percent of its Tier One applications to a virtualized private cloud environment managed by Virtacore, and housed in an Equinix datacenter in Reston, VA.
Before putting its trust in an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model, Cal-Maine looked at public and private cloud offerings from many of the major providers. With Cal-Maine s total annual expenditure for all IT including Telephony and Cellular at less than two-tenths of 1percent of revenue, the company looks at IT expenses based on how many dozen eggs it has to sell to pay for the item or service. The goal was to partner with a compan
Kidney transplant pioneer, a former Grand Forks resident dies in Twin Cities
During Julie Weighter’s eighth-grade year at St. Mary’s in 1962, she became ill and was diagnosed with renal kidney disease, spending four and a half months in Deaconess Hospital in Grand Forks. 7:00 am, Feb. 17, 2021 ×
Julie Weighter
Former Grand Forks resident Julie Weighter, one of the world s first to survive a kidney transplant, continued defying convention until her death at age 72 on Feb. 5, 2021, in St. Louis Park, Minn.
Besides the kidney transplant when she was 15, Weighter, the daughter of the late Edmund Weighter and Evelyn Ronkowski Weighter, was the first female security guard at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. She also earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Minnesota and had a second kidney transplant in 2000.
In the context of recently approved funding for a renovation of a community center to accommodate senior citizens on Killeenâs north side, the issue of funding for youth programs has received renewed attention.
On Jan. 26 the Killeen City Council voted, at a cost not to exceed $543,825, to approve a professional services agreement with Randall Scott Architects, Inc., for the renovation of the Rosa Hereford Community Center, adding a senior center. This would be to replace the now-defunct Bob Gilmore Senior Center, located nearby.
The vote was 5-1, with Councilmember Mellisa Brown casting the sole vote against the agreement.
Prior to the vote at the Jan. 26 meeting, and in fact after it at the councilâs workshop this past Tuesday, concerns about sufficient funding for youth programs were raised, as well as concerns about combining a renovated senior facility with one which also has programs for youth.
How to best meet the needs of Killeenâs senior community, with respect to a city facility, was a topic of spirited discussion at Tuesdayâs Killeen City Council workshop.
City Recreation Services Director Joe Brown gave a presentation at the workshop on the authorization of a professional services contract with Richardson-based Randall Scott Architects Inc., for the amount of $543,825. This would be for the purpose of renovation of the Bob Gilmore Senior Center, located adjacent to the Rosa Hereford Community Center at the intersection of Veterans Memorial Boulevard and W.S. Young Drive.
âItâs a win-win situation,â Councilmember Shirley Fleming said during the meeting about the proposed renovation.