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Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
New construction: Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine; exp
Project name: Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
Location: La Jolla, Calif.
Firm name: exp
Project type, building type: New construction, research/lab/high-tech
Project duration: 3 years
Project completion date: March 30, 2007
Project budget for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection engineering only: $1.2 million
Engineering challenges
This project was run by a collaboration of four not-for-profit research entities: The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). This created challenges to meet varying program requirements. exp's extensive experience with the lab environment was brought into play as we were asked to help develop mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and low-voltage infrastructure systems that designed flexible laboratory spaces that are adaptable to specific user group's needs based on which one brings in the latest grant funding. exp provided input for design of overhead carriers for gases and electrical power to support the flexible lab spaces and worked closely with the architect on the specialty lighting design to deliver required lighting levels while being energy efficient and helping to articulate the high-end design features into this campus.
exp was the LEED consultant for this project and as the project is targeting U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification, we spent significant effort modeling the building and evaluating alternate air circulation and cooling methodologies. Some of the systems evaluated via IES modeling software were natural ventilation via automatically operated windows, displacement ventilation, variable refrigerant flow systems, and chilled beam cooling. Through extensive modeling, we were able to present various scenarios complete with initial system costs, anticipate annual energy savings, and predict payback periods for the various energy saving solutions. This resulted in the team's decision to implement these energy-saving features into various areas of this research campus. We were also utilized to provide commissioning services for systems not required to be commissioned by others for third-party LEED commissioning point. On the plumbing scope we integrated the use of reclaimed water for makeup water at the cooling tower system, irrigation, and for water closets/urinals/drain trap priming inside the building. This proved to be exceptionally challenging, as this was one of the first projects in San Diego County that implemented the use of reclaimed water inside a building. We spent significant time developing the design and documentation for this system to meet the City of San Diego water requirements and the State of California regulatory commission requirements. This solution was ultimately implemented and is up and running with no issues after approximately 1 year of occupancy.
For exterior lighting, one of our challenges was to meet IES recommended foot-candle levels for outdoor lighting while also conforming to the local Dark Skies initiative in the greater San Diego area, LEED requirements for light pollution reduction point, and adjacent Glider Port flight pattern/landing requirements, while also having limitations respecting pole base areas on the site due to catch basin and bioswail requirements relayed by the civil engineers. Our solution, which required many iterations of modeling, implemented the use of 180 W low-pressure pole-mounted fixtures at 18 ft and 25 ft height along with pedestrian scale 14 metal halide pole-mounted fixtures and bollards strategically arranged to provide recommended foot candle levels with no spill light outside the project boundaries while also helping to create a safe and organized feel to the outdoor components of this research campus.
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We were going to have this up tomorrow, but surprise, it's up today!
Q: Obviously New Moon is a really emotional journey for Bella. How did you prepare yourself for shooting the scenes in which she was really depressed and distraught?
Kristen: Right. I wish that there was a more solid way, prep for an actor, I mean just in terms of being sure that you're ready to do what everybody expects you to do, but there's just not. I was so completely intimidated by that scene. I mean in the book there's nothing there's literally nothing like it that I can think of in the real world that I could relate to. You know what I mean? Like I've been broken up with, I've had my heart broken whatever, like I think. But it was still higher than that. Like "oh, oh you think you know what it feels like to hurt? Have you ever died? You don't know what you're talking about." You know what I mean? Yeah, so it was about being really comfortable with Chris and knowing I could say anything to him, ever. Chris is great and he is the most, like, I just feel very comfortable around him and he made us feel really safe and considering those parts of the book I actually don't have any of the other actors to play off of so I was very much alone and terrified, absolutely intimidated by the material and he made it so much easier.
Q: We have heard so much about the physical activities that the guys had to go through, and the way they had to build up their muscles and just prepare for all their stunt work; but we haven't really heard much about you. You've been cliff diving and under the water, and I was just wondering what sort of preparation you got to go through and then what stunts did you get to do yourself.
Kristen: I didn't do any preparation for any of the stuff. I did have to go into like the scuba tank at some point to basically make everybody feel comfortable with me being in the water that I wasn't like a total you know, stupid who's going to drown as soon as they get put in – it was a ridiculous session that I was like "I don't need this, I hate water, I'm supposed to look scared". But I did all that stuff in the water myself. There was like a semi truck of water that was released like onto my actual- there's one shot right after I jump off the cliff, it's supposed to be this moment of elation like I get what I wanted for a split second. I turn around and I'm smiling and BOOM, another wave comes. That was like a semi truck full of water that was released onto me. It was really scary. And other than that I don't really have any. I probably should have been in better shape, the amount of running, the amount of desperate ravaging through crowds and falling down that I had to do. By the end of the movie I was completely bruised, like all over my arms and legs I was covered in bruises because I'd just gotten back from Italy and I had to go do the MTV awards. I looked like I was a battered housewife and I was wearing Chucks because I couldn't walk because I had sprained my ankle running in Italy. The only reason I wore flats was because of that and people like freaked out. And that's it, so like if I had prepared maybe I would have been more able to, but I'm just not like an action hero. But I think that's kind of the cool thing about Bella is that she's so sort of incapable until she needs to be and then she's like "alright, I will do anything". And I feel like it sort of comes across in the physicality maybe.
Q: I want to know what your favorite scene is from the movie since you've seen it, and what you think the fans will most enjoy from the movie.
Kristen: What's my favorite scene. I think I have to pick one with Jacob and one with Edward. My favorite scene with Jacob is when he comes through her window and they have the talk about the fact that she doesn't know what's going on, but she does know already and it's right after this big sort of blow-out fight that they have and somehow they're able to just not say anything – instead of actually talking about the fact that they were just so mean to each other and like they had this big fight, they don't even say anything about it just instantly becomes – the second she sees him, just okay. And he's totally like it's so clear that he's in a different place, it's just sad. That's my favorite scene in New Moon between Jacob and Bella. Then I think between Edward and Bella oddly enough sort of like the same sort of, the same but completely different. When I go to Italy and I push him back, well I mean when Bella pushes him into, out of the light I mean and they're able to reconcile their relationship without even saying anything. And they just look at each other and it's done. And it's like so you left me for a year and I have a million things to say to you but not right now. Those are my two favorites. I like it when people know can each other without having to talk. Words sort of fail me consistently so those are my two favorites. What was the second part of the question?
Q: What scene do you think the fans will be most surprised by?
Kristen: I'm not sure.
Q: Or enjoy the most?
Kristen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always try to answer the question way too specifically. F***! I don't know. I think maybe what's most important to them; because this was definitely the most important thing to me, was the breakup scene – period. I mean like that was what I was the most scared of and hopefully if we did it justice enough, what they'll be most excited about. And then probably when we get back together. Those are the highest points of the movie.
Q: We talked earlier about getting into character and having all that grief from your character; I'm wondering how did you let it go at the end of the work day? How were you able to just separate yourself from all that pain that the character is in?
Kristen: Right. Sometimes you just don't. Sometimes …it's funny, when I was at Comic Con I said – one of the questions was what was the best point, what was the best moment of New Moon and I said without explanation which was stupid, that it was when we were finished. But that wasn't, I totally understand how that could come across as like 'oh I couldn't wait to be done', but it wasn't like that. I can't alleviate the pressure until I'm done, like literally. Because you shoot out of sequence and you can't just take the normal like emotional ride that you think you'd have to as an actor portraying a character who has to go through whatever she does. I have to know the story every aspect of it at all times and be able to split back and forth from being with Jacob and happy and alive to with Edward and questioning our relationship to without him and dead. I'm a crazy person when I'm working literally, and especially on these movies. It's just there's like a lot of tension. So at that moment once we were all in Italy together the last shot we did… Sorry this is a stupid long winded answer, I hope this is ok.
(No it's great)
Okay cool. So it was, I'm running around the corner, it was just like one of those little shots in the montage where I'm going through Volterra and they don't, it's like you're not sure if I'm going to get to him or whatever. And so it wasn't that big of a shot but I could feel the end coming and I knew. I'm not allowed to be off until I'm literally done so it's like all of a sudden throw me into the middle of space, like I'm nowhere suddenly. But it was the coolest sense of like united accomplishment. Basically I cannot alleviate that pressure at the end of the day. But that's what keeps me going, that's why I can go to work the next day, because it's like I haven't gotten it off my chest yet. So that moment came at the end and it was so cool, so amazing. I literally like broke down and I couldn't – yeah it was great.
Q: Last year's premiere you said you really liked the fact that Bella is like a strong-willed person, and that she's confident in her decision making. I was just wondering with the events of New Moon did you play her that way or was there more give in her resolve for this film?
Kristen: Yeah, the only way that I can play Bella is if I could justify every decision that she made and stand behind it as well as, as much as she did. And the cool thing about New Moon is it is literally taking that and saying "No, sorry! Do you think you know something little girl? You know nothing!" And that's the story, that's why she – I mean people call Bella fickle all the time to me; people are always saying like "Oh, you know you're playing a really immature girl that doesn't know what she wants and she's sort of in love with this mythical creature". It's like who are you talking to? This girl is willing to put herself through the most asinine – and so not selfish, with a really great perspective. You have to be a pretty strong natured person to do that. And then to, I think in New Moon she becomes sort of hardened and cynical because she's been told that her whole world that she was willing to spend eternity in was just wrong. And the fact that she can from there, even in the same movie you believe that she's of the mind to make a decision to go back from that. You have to believe that she's lived enough and that she's mature enough and knows herself well enough to make decisions like that. And I feel like in Twilight she doesn't have that and in New Moon she gains that. Like she's been through it so it's like okay actually now it takes a strong person to say I was wrong and that I'm willing to forgive you and hopefully if you can forgive me, we can be together now. That's why I really love her.
Q: I'm not going to ask a question, but I just wanted to thank you so much for joining us tonight. I know you obviously had a very busy day.
Kristen: Oh no, this is the most important interview. I can't believe they set this in the twenty minutes in-between the time that it takes for me to get touched up and go over to Jimmy Kimmel or whatever. It's like wow; I wish I had more time because this is actually like a much more fun interview.
(Thank you!)
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Photos: Meg Chambers Steedle of 'Boardwalk Empire'
Meg Chambers Steedle has danced her way into the hearts of "Boardwalk Empire" viewers with her role as Broadway chorine Billie Kent, the flirty flapper who cast a spell over Steve Buscemi's mobster Nucky Thompson. The Northwestern grad recently visited Chicago to chat about her first big TV role and going to school in Evanston. She also posed for photos in Tribune founder Colonel McCormick's office in historic Tribune Tower, which was completed in 1925, just two years after the events in Season 3 of "Boardwalk Empire." Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol Watch Meg's video and read the interview. Want more? Discuss this article and others on Show Patrol's Facebook page.
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Lexus U.S. Women's Open Party - 7/6/10
Lexus of North Hills and Rohrich Lexus welcomed pro golfers Natalie Gulbis, Anna Rawson, and Janice Moodie to PNC Park for the Lexus U.S. Women's Open Party. The celebration for the Oakmont golf tournament was a smashing hit featuring hors d'oeuvres, carving stations, cocktails, and more than 400 guests ready for autographs from the golfers. Bob Ford, Head Professional at the Oakmont country club, teed off the evening with a brilliant speech and emcee Jack Sheehan continued the event with a full question and answer session starring the three LPGA Professionals.Read More
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Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, working with colleagues in Sweden, the Netherlands and Puerto Rico, have validated a radiosensitivity molecular signature that can lead to better radiation therapy decisions for treating patients with breast cancer.
The results appeared in a recent issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The study examined patients with breast cancer who had been treated with radiation therapy and demonstrated that a radiosensitivity molecular signature (RSI) could predict clinical outcomes exclusively in patients treated with radiation therapy. The radiosensitivity molecular signature (RSI) used by the research team had previously been tested and validated for rectal, esophageal, and head and neck cancers. The technology, which identifies radiosensitivity and radioresistance, opens the door to biologically guided radiation therapy and offers the potential for better outcomes.
"Developing a radiosensitivity predictive assay has been a goal of radiation biology for decades," said Javier F. Torres-Roca, M.D., member of the Experimental Therapeutics program at Moffitt. "This effort supports the emphasis on personalized medicine, where the goal is to use molecular signatures to guide therapeutic decisions."
According to Torres-Roca, approximately 60 percent of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy during their treatment. Yet until now, no molecular diagnostic or biomarker of radiosensitivity had been developed to predict its benefit.
The radiosensitivity molecular signature was developed based on gene expression for 10 specific genes and a linear regression algorithm. RSI was developed in 48 cancer cell lines using a systems-biology strategy focused on identifying biomarkers for cellular radiosensitivity.
This study validated RSI's benefit when researchers found that radiosensitive breast cancer patients had an improved five-year, relapse-free survival when compared to radioresistant patients.
"This study validated RSI in 503 patients in two independent data sets," Torres-Roca said. "We have validated RSI in five independent cohorts totaling 621 patients, so this latest validation study, to the best of our knowledge, makes this technology the most extensively validated molecular signature in radiation oncology."
The successful transition from applying the technology to cell lines to patient application also suggests that the biological basis of cellular radiosensitivity is conserved between cell lines and patients and also across epithelial tumors, Torres-Roca said.
"We propose that RSI is a predictive biomarker of radiation therapy therapeutic benefit for patients with breast cancer," Torres-Roca said. "This novel biomarker provides an opportunity to integrate individual tumor biology with clinical decision-making in radiation oncology."
Torres-Roca's research was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, through the grant number R21 CA101355 and R21 CA135620; the National Functional Genomics Center; and the State of Florida Bankhead-Coley Foundation (09BB-22).
The RSI technology is owned by Moffitt and licensed to Cvergenx, Inc., an advanced cancer molecular diagnostics company committed to delivering personalized radiation therapy to cancer patients.
About Moffitt Cancer Center
Located in Tampa, Moffitt is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a distinction that recognizes Moffitt's excellence in research, its contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Since 1999, Moffitt has been listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of "America's Best Hospitals" for cancer. With more than 4,200 employees, Moffitt has an economic impact on the state of nearly $2 billion. For more information, visit MOFFITT.org, and follow the Moffitt momentum on Facebook, twitter and YouTube.


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Pete Souza, the official White House photographer, comments on some of 2012's most memorable photos of the US President.
January 1, 2012: "A nice way to celebrate the New Year for the President was to jump in the ocean in his native state of Hawaii. He was on his annual Christmas holiday with family and friends, and went swimming at Pyramid Rock Beach in Kaneohe Bay."Picture: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza


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Black-footed Ferret
(Mustela nigripes)
Facts about this animal
Did you know?
That the black-footed ferret is the most endangered mammal in North America? Loss of habitat due to conversion of grasslands to agricultural uses and prairie dog eradication prgrammes are the primary reason black-footed ferrets remain near the brink of extinction. Remaining habitat is less than 2 percent of what once existed and is heavily fragmented.
|Name (Scientific)
|Mustela nigripes
|Name (English)
|Black-footed Ferret
|Name (French)
|Putois à pieds noirs
|Name (German)
|Name (Spanish)
|Turón de patas negras
|CITES Status
|Appendix I
|CMS Status
|Not listed
Photo Copyright by
Jessica De Smet
|This species was extinct in the wild. Reintroduced in Arizona, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Colorado, and Chihuahua (Mexico), formerly found in Canada, the United States and Mexico
|Arid, shortgrass prairies
|Wild population
|Unknown, since 1991 over 200 ferrets have been released back into the wild (Red List IUCN 2011)
|Zoo population
|208 reported to ISIS
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How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 79 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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Why do zoos keep this animal
With the loss of 98 percent of prairie dog habitat, which black-footed ferrets depend upon, they neared total extinction in the 1980s. In 1985, only 18 ferrets remained. These were captured and brought into an ex situ conservation breeding programme in which wildlife authorities and zoos participated (AZA Species Survival Plan). Ferrets bred under this programme are returned to the wild where the conditions permit. The size of the current wild population is not exactly known, but probably there are now more than 600.
If well presented, black-footed ferrets, along with some other species like praire dogs and bisons, are good ambassadors for the endangered prairie ecosystem.


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Sometimes I am amazed by the sheer ignorance of some of the comments and letters you receive.
Sometimes I am amazed by the sheer ignorance of some of the comments and letters you receive.
Your newspaper does an excellent job of explaining things happening in the Crestview area in simple, easy to understand articles. Do your letter writers just not read them all the way through? Did they sleep through civics class?
"Krystal, mall hold-ups part of a pattern" (June 1, Page A4) is typical of this ignorance.
Does the writer not understand that Austin has 820,000 people while our area has about 30,000?
Does he really expect that restaurant chains and chain stores will flock to an area less than 4 percent the size of the city he visited?
If he wants the services of a big city, he needs to move to a big city.
In one of the many new phone books dumped at the end of my driveway this month, not counting fast food places like McDonald's and KFC, I counted more than 40 places at which to sit down and have a great meal without having to cross Shoal River.
While we're at it, what is this bizarre demand for chain restaurants?
Who wants boring old frozen lobsters when places like Earl's, Wayne's, the Fish Net and Country Chicken and Fish serve local seafood fresh?
Have those chronic complainers even bothered to try a sensational meal at the Wild Olive, Mia's or Christopher's Uncorked Bistro? Are their tastes so limited they need an out of town company cook to create the only food they'll eat?
Do they really think eating in a junk shop atmosphere with bargain decorations from Goodwill littering the walls is the epitome of fine dining?
The writer said that "impact fees and the tax rate" keep away the chains he craves.
Didn't he read in those same pages that our City Council has repealed impact fees to the tune of more than $1 million for the mall planned by Lowe's?
He and fellow commenters love to toss the word "corruption" around when things don't go his way. Could he at least go by the library to look up the actual meaning of the word in a dictionary?
I have not read of any official allegations of corruption in your newspaper.
If the writer understood how city government worked, he would know there is already a management plan for Crestview called the comprehensive plan, which was recently updated.
But I guess your writer doesn't understand that Highway 85 is a state road, not a city road, and city government cannot do anything to widen it, pave it, time the stop lights better or build a bypass on a state or county road.
One thing I do know is that people like your reader love complaining, but hate supporting their city � even just to learn how it works.
I have been here just over 10 years, and after years of living in a city with all the malls and chain restaurants your writer desires, I would rather be nowhere else.
This is the warmest, friendliest place I've ever lived, even if the mayor and city council won't put on their hardhats to go build an Olive Garden � after they have dug new lanes for Highway 85, of course.
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Mercedes-Benz has begun accepting applications for about 1,000 new jobs it will be adding with the start of C-Class sedans at its Vance auto assembly plant.
Mercedes-Benz has begun accepting applications for about 1,000 new jobs it will be adding with the start of C-Class sedans at its Vance auto assembly plant.
The company expects to begin training workers on the sedan production later this year and will begin making the vehicles for delivery to dealer showrooms sometime next year, said Mercedes spokeswoman Felyicia Jerald.
Mercedes plans to add a new sport utility vehicle to its Vance production in 2015. About 400 more workers will be hired for that work. The current hiring, however, is only for the C-Class expansion.
Screening and processing of all applications are being done by AIDT, a state agency that is part of the Alabama Department of Commerce.
Job applications are only being accepted online at www.aidt.edu/jobs, Jerald said. No applications are being accepted at the Mercedes plant.
Job applicants should go to the AIDT website and scroll down to Mercedes Benz U.S. International. There are two listings, one for production jobs and one for maintenance jobs. Clicking on the respective box will bring up information on what the job entails, required qualifications and an application to be filled out online. Applications are being accepted through Monday, April 15.
Jerald said MBUSI administrative jobs are not in the AIDT listing. She said the company uses Monster.com to accept resumes from people interested in those jobs, which would include engineers and other office workers.
Mercedes has advertised the C-Class production and maintenance jobs in advertisements in The Tuscaloosa News and other daily and weekly newspapers in the state.
An advertisement in The Tuscaloosa News classified section states:
"If contacted for employment, you will be employed by our on-site contract provider as part of a temporary labor pool. Contract team members work hand in hand with Mercedes-Benz team members building our world-class products. Contract team members who have successfully met our expectations will have the potential to be hired on full time."
The ad also said job applicants must have a high school diploma or GED and two years of job experience without unexplainable gaps. It says applicants who have been an Alabama resident for at least two years are preferred and that applicants should be willing to work rotating shifts, overtime and weekends.
It said the selection process will include a skills assessment, pre-employment training and interviews.


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The order Embioptera, commonly known as webspinners, are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects, classified under the subclass Pterygota. The order has also been referred to as Embiodea or Embiidina (Borror et al. 1989). The name Embioptera ("lively wings") comes from Greek, embios meaning "lively" and pteron meaning "wing", a name that has not been considered to be particularly descriptive for this group of fliers (Engel & Grimaldi 2006), perhaps instead referring to their remarkable speed of movement both forward and backward (Wallace 2009). The group probably first appeared during the Jurassic and is well represented in Cretaceous amber. The common name webspinner comes from the insects' unique ability to spin silk from structures on their front legs. They use the silk to make a web-like pouch or gallery in which they live.
Over 360 embiopteran species have been described (Engel & Grimaldi 2006, Szumik 2008), along with estimates of around 2000 species being in existence today (Ross 2000). There is some debate as to the exact phylogenetic classification of Embioptera, with the order having been classed as a sister group to both orders Zoraptera, (Engel & Grimaldi 2006, Yoshizawa 2007) and Phasmatodea (Terry & Whiting 2005), and there is continuing dispute today concerning the accuracy of these classifications (Dallai et al. 2007).
The order is distributed all over the world, being found on every continent except Antarctica, with the highest density and diversity of species being located in tropical regions (Ross 2009).


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Visiting Hongkou in Shanghai was fun. The gift shopkeeper, the guards, and the administrative officers were all so knowledgeable about Chinese Jewish history. I am writing an opinion article on HongKou. (coming soon!)
In the meantime, intensive Mandarin classes finished and I finally booked train tickets to Zhengzhou (郑州), capital of Henan* (河南) province. Henan is notable for its historical importance; namely Kaifeng* (开封) was China's capital during the Song Dynasty (宋朝). It will be a six-hour train ride from Shanghai to Zhengzhou. I am going headquarter myself in Zhengzhou and take daytrips to Kaifeng, Shaolin Si, and Luoyang. This should be a good trip. I will be blogging in realtime so hope you will follow me next week! 😉 Until next time!
*Random Factoids/Chinese Lesson:
- 开封 or Kaifeng means Open and Close literally. To break open a seal…
- 河南 or Henan means South of the River literally. A province south of the River (Yellow River)


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U.S. Equal Employment
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Meeting of March 20, 2013 - Development of a Quality Control Plan for Private Sector Investigations and Conciliations
Travis G. Hicks joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the San Antonio, Texas, office as an Investigator in 1989. He was selected to and conducted systemic investigative work from 2006 through 2000, at which time he was promoted to Enforcement Supervisor and responsible for an enforcement unit and the San Antonio office systemic effort. Mr. Hicks was subsequently promoted to Enforcement Manager in 2006; Acting Field Director in 2011; and his current position as San Antonio Field Director in 2012. He currently also serves as the EEOC Dallas District Systemic Coordinator.
Mr. Hicks obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American Area Studies from Texas Tech University, and a Master of Business Administration degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Following completion of his formal education, Mr. Hicks volunteered and served in the Peace Corps/Ecuador as a Small Business Consultant, followed by employment in the private sector in marketing/sales and business administration for approximately eighteen years.


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it's been ages since i've posted here but i'm still lurking!
in case it interests anyone, i've recently published a book about hans moravec, ray kurzweil, and the rest of the community of folks who believe we'll soon be uploading our minds into robots/virtual reality and becoming immortal.
the book, _apocalypti ai: visions of heaven in robotics, artificial intelligence, & virtual reality_ is available here: http://www.amazon.com/Apocalyptic-AI-Robotics-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0195393023/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1
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We're only as good as our data. So having accurate information from retailers themselves is ideal. Just a few minutes of time each week gets retailers exposure to thousands of local customers in search of good beer selection and prices.
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Two years ago, a consumer would be hard-pressed to find any beer price data online. Shoppers were at the mercy of their nearest retailer and paid whatever price was asked. That is, until SaveOnBrew.com was launched as the world's first – and only – beer price search engine.
Founders say they envisioned the site to be like Google – only for beer. Consumers simply enter their zip codes into the database at http://www.SaveOnBrew.com to find a current listing of local beer prices, sales and retailers.
While the idea of aggregating prices is nothing new, the challenge lies in compiling large amounts of data accurately. To accomplish this monumental task, SaveOnBrew founders formed relationships with over 50,000 retailers across the country. Store owners agree to provide updated sales ads and information to the site in exchange for free publicity. New beer brands, retailers and sales are being added to the site every single day.
"It's really a win-win situation," explains company founder Mark Davidson. "At SaveOnBrew, we're only as good as our data. So having accurate information from retailers themselves is ideal. Just a few minutes of time each week gets retailers exposure to thousands of local customers in search of good beer selection and prices."
According to Davidson, they had originally planned to use crowd-sourced information, but they quickly ran into problems. "You just can't have timely, accurate information with crowd-sourcing," he explains. "There have been attempts to crowd-source data like this, and it always seems to deteriorate into a complete mess," he explains, pointing to the seemingly defunct BeerPriceList.com as an example of the sort of problems that can arise when you try to rely on the crowd for data.
SaveOnBrew avoided these issues by appealing directly to retailers and tracking weekly sale ads via RSS feeds. Since the website's founding, a mobile website has been launched so smartphone users can search for the nearest cheap beer in real-time, wherever they may be. They can also retrieve a map and directions to the nearest beer sales.
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This is addressed to the children that were on Grant County School Bus #062 on Jan. 17, 2007. It is also addressed to your families, my own loved ones and everyone else whose life was touched by the morning's fateful accident.
As the five year anniversary passes, I can not let this go another day. I have always been advised not to contact the victims, but my own heart compels me to do so. There were so many victims affected by the accident, including my own daughters.
Congress will be considering Medicare physician payment in legislation that could determine whether many family physicians can remain in business. The debate begins with the conference committee on the payroll tax extension, which will decide whether to temporarily prevent a 27.4 percent reduction in Medicare physician payment set for March 1.
One thing I have learned after 20 years in government service is that real change happens only if citizens get involved. People can become involved by contacting their elected officials and letting them know of their concerns. If enough people voice their opinion elected officials will listen. If you take the time to vote someone into public office, you should take the time to let them know they are public servants. They are working for you.
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While bigger has been equated with better in the white-hot big data movement, size matters little if data cannot be processed and quickly utilized by business stakeholders. Performance issues result in revenue losses for many firms and highlight the need to improve on-premises and cloud infrastructures to meet the performance needs for "fast data"– practices and technology that accelerate an organization's ability to turn data into real-time business insights.
In July 2014, SanDisk commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the impact of performance latency on businesses. To further explore this trend, Forrester developed a hypothesis that tested the assertion that system performance is a gating factor to business success. In the study, we found that inadequate performance affects key areas such as customer experience, support, and strategic decision-making, which ultimately all have an impact on revenue to some degree.
In conducting an online survey of 162 business and IT professionals and in-depth interviews with three companies, Forrester found that businesses generally understand the importance of system performance but face a number of challenges in making sure that system performance is optimal for both internal IT systems and external-facing systems.
Key Findings
Forrester's study yielded five key findings:
Although many companies with big data initiatives have made investments to harvest and gather as much data as possible for their businesses, a company can still miss out on major revenue-generating opportunities without efficient system performance. It makes little sense to find the proverbial needle in a haystack within your data if an opportunity to use that data disappears during the search. For example, a fraud detection system is less useful if it cannot flag a questionable transaction, or a series of transactions, before money has already changed hands.
Patience is no longer a virtue in the age of the customer, which Forrester defines as a time in which the power has shifted to digitally empowered consumers who demand access to information where and when they need it. Patience is a luxury that most businesses cannot afford, and the need for fast data will increase the need for low latency performance.
Speed is the new differentiator for businesses across all industries.1 It will be the only way companies will be able to cope with the massive data surges that will come from the 1 trillion connected objects and devices that will exist in 2015 via the Internet of Things (IoT).
Today and in the future, firms will be evaluating themselves based on a concept Forrester has called "the speed of the customer," which is defined as:
The speed at which business must operate to satisfy the customers' need for immediate information, product, or service delivery. This speed will vary by industry and by engagement but must be as near to real-time as possible, as timing becomes increasingly critical to an enhanced customer experience.
Organizations today have two major types of infrastructure in their environments, which will both be benchmarked against the new requirements of the speed of the customer in regards to system performance (see Figure 1):
To succeed, businesses must operate at the speed of the customer (i.e., have low latency performance) for both systems of engagement (SOE) and systems of record (SOR). Our survey results showed that 65% of respondents feel that high-performance SOE are extremely important for their business, with 60% reporting that SOR are extremely important (see Figure 2). As well, 60% of respondents monitor performance for both systems and have performance service-level agreements (SLAs) in place for both systems.
Survey respondents also identified a number of positive business impacts beyond increased revenue that could be derived by accelerating performance of these systems, including (see Figure 3):
The real costs of latency are not fully understood by today's businesses. By steering focus toward performance acceleration and modern "fast data" architecture, businesses will be able to reach positive business outcomes quicker, which is critical to winning, serving, and retaining customers.
When asked if they felt their company was losing revenue opportunities based on the performance of their computing systems, a surprising 38% of respondents said yes. Further probing revealed that these businesses are losing revenue based on system performance due to the following factors (see Figure 4):
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While not all companies feel they are losing revenue based on the current performance of their system, they are very aware of the impact that poor system performance could have on their business.
Systems of engagement are the most directly tied to company revenue, as they provide the interface through which the majority of customer interactions take place. As such, loss of revenue, loss of new customer opportunities, and lack of data for business intelligence were listed as the most significant areas of potential impact resulting from poor SOE performance. Systems of engagement serve as the public face for companies. Outages, sluggish performance, or inaccurate information reflect poorly on a company and can damage its brand.
Likewise, while not customer-facing per se, systems of record performance issues can also damage a company, as SOR often handle the back end of customer requests.
Survey respondents indicated that loss of new customer opportunities, order inaccuracies, and loss of revenue and employee productivity are the most significant areas of potential impact for poor SOR performance. SOE and SOR work side by side and are constantly exchanging data, and as more investments pour into SOE to match client expectations, SOR performance must continue to improve to keep pace.
Though there is universal acceptance of the importance of performance, there is a distinct perception gap related to the confidence in which IT and business professionals have in their systems. Only 13% of business respondents felt that their SOR were exceeding expectations for SLAs and 15% felt that way for SOE, compared with 45% and 37% of IT respondents, respectively.
While neither group feels that the systems are performing below standards, this gap in the results hints that these two groups have different views and expected outcomes for each system, which could help explain the gap. Reasons include:
The discrepancy between the perceptions of IT and business professionals highlights the changing relationship between the providers of IT services and their customers.
With the speed of the customer changing customer expectations, the need for rapid performance and provisioning is accelerating to a point where real-time or near-real-time delivery is becoming the only acceptable outcome. Ultimately, this has made business stakeholders less confident about the infrastructure resources at their disposal, whereby simply meeting an SLA is not enough to inspire long-term confidence.
Businesses are already monitoring and setting up SLAs for their systems, and the majority reported that they feel satisfied with their ability to handle both existing data and incoming data efficiently in real time. For those businesses that feel confident about their current capabilities, 39% attribute it to previous investments in infrastructure systems and software, and 30% attribute it to expanded internal computing capacity. Expanded computing capacity through outsourcing/cloud was also listed as an option, but the overall percentage of respondents choosing this option was less than the first two options, at 24%.
This focus on internal improvements was further supported by another question, which asked what companies have done or are doing to prepare for events such as a data surge (see Figure 6).We asked what steps they have taken around:
Flash-based SSDs can provider high performance with a much smaller footprint since a single SSD has the performance of dozens of conventional hard drives. When businesses are looking at overall costs, SSDs can provide high transaction level performance at a lower cost relative to hard drives (see Figure 8).
Businesses understand the value of their internal- and external-facing systems and the commitment to improving the performance for both. Survey respondents indicated that current spending between SOR and SOE is 53% and 47%, respectively, which demonstrates balanced priorities.
As well, companies place an equal importance on performance and reliability. Raw performance on its own is not sufficient since customers must have reliable services to avoid business disruptions. They must also have storage consistency to ensure data is not lost or corrupted in active and dynamic data center environments.
To meet the current and future performance demands of business stakeholders, partners, and customers, organizations should take the following steps:
From June 2014 to July 2014, Forrester fielded an online survey to 162 respondents, with 51% of respondents representing marketing and business roles (customer experience, customer service, and business analyst) and 49% coming from traditional IT (application development, enterprise architecture, and business process design). The respondents represented organizations with over 500 employees, and the survey had 20% representation from the healthcare, financial services, and retail vertical markets, respectively. Forrester also interviewed three business technology executives with knowledge of their firm's systems of record and engagement.
1 Source: "In The Age Of The Customer, Insight Isn't Enough," Forrester Research, Inc., June 4, 2014.
2 Source: "Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact," Forrester Research, Inc., May 7, 2013.


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Artists are in the business of simultaneously de-familiarizing and re-familiarizing us with the world around us. "Habit is a great deadener," Samuel Beckett explained, and art lends us a new pair of spectacles with which to view reality anew.
Reading writer and actor Wallace Shawn's "Essays," a hodgepodge of short pieces on war, theater, sex, art and privileged guilt, with interviews of Noam Chomsky and poet Mark Strand thrown into the mix, I was reminded of this essential function of creative dreamers, be they playwrights, composers or painters. All, ultimately, are anthropologists of alien lands, which just so happen to be the ones we daily inhabit. Yes, imaginations have ZIP Codes, even as they transcend them.
Shawn's signature tone, familiar to those who know his one-of-a-kind dramatic works, such as "Aunt Dan and Lemon," "The Fever" and "The Designated Mourner," or his movie colloquy with Andre Gregory, "My Dinner With Andre," is a kind of canny naïveté, in which complicated questions are approached with a simplicity that strips the conventional barnacles from the search for truth. There's something bracing about this when it works. But when it doesn't -- which is about one-third of the time in this collection (granted, a batting average Major League Baseball players would kill for) -- it can seem as though reductive clichés are being replaced with tendentious caricatures.
The first part of the book is centered on politics and war, and Shawn's prose meditations on the murderous misguidedness of the Iraq war and the Bush administration's stoking of 9/11 paranoia, aided by a supine media, are fearlessly blunt. "Why are we being so ridiculously polite," he asks in "The Invasion of Iraq Is Moments Away." "It's as if there were some sort of gentlemen's agreement that prevents people from stating the obvious truth that Bush and his colleagues are exhilarated and thrilled by the thought of war . . . by the scale, the massiveness of the bombing they're planning, the violence, the killing, the blood, the deaths, the horror." Shawn's argument employs stick figures, but this is a useful corrective when details commonly serve as camouflage.
Dismayed by the coverage of the war's lead-up, Shawn doesn't understand why his local paper, the New York Times, is so damn calm. "The people who write in its pages seem to have a need to believe that their government, while sometimes somewhat wrong, of course, can't be entirely wrong, and must at least be trusted to raise the right questions. These writers just can't bear the thought of being completely alienated from the center of their society, their own government."
Shawn subjects himself to this same rough scrutiny, noting that he's firing off his polemics from the cushiness of his New York apartment. The scion of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn, he makes no bones about his enviable birthright. What distinguishes him from others equally well-born is the degree of guilt he experiences in the contradictions between the radical positions he holds and the divan he occupies on the social hierarchy.
As fingernail-paring as the act can get, the neurotic, self-incriminating Shawn is preferable to the Pollyannaish one, who soothingly tells us that "People can make a life, it seems, out of love -- out of gardening, out of sex, friendship, the company of animals, the search for enlightenment, the enjoyment of beauty." Yes, especially when they have enough money to stop worrying about the rent and medical bills. For all his flamboyant self-flagellation, Shawn isn't as brutally straightforward when it comes to personal economics -- he evades the brass tacks of budgets even as he sermonizes on higher principles.
He's actually quite a bit better on sex, observing in the deliciously candid and existentially resonant "Writing About Sex" that this is where "reality and dream" as well as the "meaningful and meaningless" meet. The pursuit of eros for Shawn is preferable to the pursuit of power, insofar as lust for bodies is a whole lot less conformist than a lust for institutional control. In his estimation, the world would be a much better place "if people saw themselves as a part of nature, connected to the environment in which they live."
On theater, Shawn is perhaps too idiosyncratic to make much sense. He says that he was attracted to the stage in part because it was an area beyond his father's editorial purview. But then he makes it seem that plays occupy a realm devoid of shared traditions or aesthetic values. "And that all felt rather agreeable to me," he writes, "because it meant that no one in theatre would be held to account; if a person wrote a play, as opposed to a poem, for example, there was not going to be any way to prove, or even plausibly to argue, that what he wrote was not good, that what he wrote was in fact a 'mistake.' "
An odd statement from someone who acknowledges having received his share of bad reviews. The only way to derive anything worthwhile from this is to bear in mind that "mistake" was a word his father used to describe New Yorker assignments that didn't pan out.
In other words, the best approach to Shawn's "Essays" is to think of them as roving monologues whose deepest insights are gleaned from the author's provocative wrestling with his singular self. The erratic misfires, pesky as they can be, are a small price to pay for his brand of tonic truth-telling.


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2009 Process Automation Hall of Fame
Meet the Process Automation Hall of Fame Inductees of 2009
By Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief
Every year, the members of the Process Automation Hall of Fame vote into the Hall just a few of their peers. This year's class includes Hans D. Baumann, Renzo Dallimonti, J. Patrick Kennedy, Carroll Ryskamp and Cecil L. Smith.
In 1997, this magazine profiled Renzo Dallimonti with the headline, "The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It." That headline could easily fit any of these five men. Each has made an enormous contribution to the field of automation.
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Hans Baumann, Renaissance Man
In his career, Hans D. Baumann has done many things and done them all well. Starting out as an industrial engineer in his native Germany, Baumann worked in Germany and France. He studied in the United States, acquiring a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Columbia Pacific University. Baumann has personally designed or directed the development of over 30 valve lines, including the famous "CAMFLEX" valve. He is credited with numerous patents and papers in addition to co-authoring seven handbooks on valves, instrumentation and noise.
"My first involvement in automation was in 1955, designing control valves for Siemens," he says. "Over the past fifty-plus years, I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of the international community of control experts and being able to disseminate U.S. technology throughout my involvement on the international standards committees."
Baumann has worked for many different control valve manufacturers, including Emerson Process Management's Fisher Controls—from which he retired in 2000.
But control valves aren't Baumann's only passions. In 2002, he published The Ideal Enterprise, a book on business efficiency. Baumann's latest book is Building Lean Companies: How to Keep Companies Profitable as they Grow. Versatile, Baumann has also written a history of the last days of WWII entitled, Hitler's Fate: The Final Story.
Baumann serves as an advisor to the dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Business, is the treasurer of the Palm Beach Round Table and a director of the Palm Beach Opera.
"Automation is still a challenging area of technology," he says, after fifty years in the field. "I look for wireless to be a game changer, even acknowledging the security risk involved."
Baumann continues to lecture internationally. "I like to pass on my experience and knowledge to the younger generation," he says.
Renzo Dallimonti, Futurist
Dallimonti's repeated phrase, "The best way to predict the future is to create it," defines his career at Honeywell. In many ways, the way we do automation in 2009 is because that's the way Renzo Dallimonti said we should.
In 1969, Dallimonti says, "I said to my manager, 'Do you want us to really push the level of technology and keep an open mind to anything?'"
From 1969 to 1975, Dallimonti led what was then called Honeywell's Project 72. "The name Project 72," Dallimonti recalls, "came from the hope that by 1972 we could begin showing some of these products."
It was 1975 before he unveiled the TDC2000—a product with little competition for years.
Dallimonti has been involved in instrumentation and control his entire career, from doing instrumentation on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tenn., to instrumentation systems for General Electric, to Brown Instruments, which became Honeywell. He stayed at Honeywell for 38 years.
Even though he's been retired since 1986, Dallimonti is still thinking about the future of automation.
He calls his concept the "Future Horizon Plant."
"The automation technology that already exists today is sufficient to improve plant productivity in the process industries for the next decade," he says. "The most pressing need now is not more scientific breakthroughs, but more perceptive visions of how best to utilize the productivity tools already commercially available."
You can see more of Dallimonti's vision at www.controlglobal.com/0902_HOF.html
Pat Kennedy, Entrepreneur
J. Patrick Kennedy is responsible for the creation of the modern data historian, Pi, which is used by more plants than any other in the world. "We concentrate on this one thing that we know how to do," he says, "and we resist all the opportunities to expand out of our niche."
Kennedy didn't start in software. A graduate of the University of Kansas with a doctorate in chemical engineering, Kennedy worked for Shell Chemical Company before joining what was then Taylor Instruments (now ABB).
"I was hired to work in the Digital Systems Group of Taylor in 1973 and and met people like John Ziegler," he says. As an applications consultant at Taylor, Kennedy wrote prophetically about how the DCS would develop. He also became fascinated with advanced process control.
"When I started my company in 1980," Kennedy says, "it was really to do advanced control, but we discovered that the right tools (software) were missing and built them. Customers wanted to buy our tools rather than our services, so we changed business plans and never looked back."
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The challenge lies in putting together the body kits, alloy wheels, engine and suspension parts in a way that keeps the car a pleasure to look at and a pleasure to drive. To illustrate what's possible, Chevy brought several concepts to Las Vegas this year.
The bow tie badge has an incredible 39 cars on its stand, so that might be one reason why so many of them are subcompacts. The 2013 Chevrolet Sonic, for example, has two Z-Spec builds.
Finished in a rich green with tasteful metallic-gray lowlights, the Sonic Z-Spec 1 Concept brings a body kit (including some rather unusual ridging on the hood) and 18-inch alloy wheels. Changes to the chassis include a lowered suspension and Chevrolet Performance (CP) brakes. For a little extra power and more efficient breathing, a new exhaust system has been installed--although it may be hard to hear it over a 200-watt Kicker audio system. The cabin has a tech-with-taste air to it, with a black/titanium color scheme plus stainless steel kickplates and pedals.
Equally arresting, in its own way, is the Sonic Z-Spec 2.5 Concept. Its 18-in alloy wheels are silver with red highlights. Add the Abalone White paint job and this is a car that takes some confidence to pull off. Especially when there's the black and orange suede interior to consider. Like the Z-Spec 1, this one has a Chevrolet Performance suspension and brake upgrade, as well as stainless-steel pedals and sound system.
Owners of the 2013 Chevrolet Spark city car (even smaller than the Sonic) might like to take some time, put their feet up and leaf through the Chevrolet Accessories and Chevrolet Performance catalogs to get their imagination flickering. One possible look is this, the Chevrolet Spark Z-Spec Concept. It would help to have the hot Salsa Red paint job already, so the matching flashes on the 15-in alloy wheels tie in nicely. The formula follows familiar lines of body kit, graphics, plus red and stainless steel in the cabin. It isn't all cosmetic--a low-riding CP suspension brings some driving fun.
What it means to you: A Chevrolet Z-Spec package could mean less time fretting over what to buy and more time enjoying the car.


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A copycat recipe for the beloved chicken chimichangas from the now closed Chi-Chi's restaurant. This version is baked rather than fried and calls for using shredded rotisserie chicken, a great shortcut that makes this another quick and easy meal.
I used what I had on hand – grilled chicken and sauteed it with onion, garlic and jalapeno along with smoky spices like chile powder and cumin to make the filling. Refried beans go down first on a flour tortilla, adding a delicious creaminess to them. The beans are followed by the chicken mixture and cheese. They go in the oven for a quick bake where the tortilla transforms into this crunchy, flaky wrapper that we all loved, thanks to the vegetable oil and butter mixture that gets brushed over top. The mexi-sauce finishes it off with a little kick of green chile heat. My Mom said these were the best thing she's eaten in a month and that's saying a lot because we've had some pretty decent meals.
Chi Chi's Chicken Chimichangas
(adapted from Food Network)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 jalapeno pepper, diced (remove seeds for less heat)
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
sea or kosher salt
1 small tomato, chopped, plus more for topping
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
2 1/2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken or cooked chicken, cut into bite-size pieces
1/4 cup sour cream, plus more for serving
1 (15-ounce) can refried beans
4 (10-inch) flour tortillas
1 cup shredded Monterrey jack cheese, plus more for topping
Mexi-sauce, for topping (recipe below)
Shredded lettuce, for topping
Mexican rice, for serving
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Melt the butter with 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a skillet; transfer to a bowl. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil in the skillet and add the onion, garlic and jalapeno, cook over medium-low heat until soft. Add the chili powder, cumin, cinnamon and 1 teaspoon salt; toast 30 seconds. Add the tomato and cilantro and cook until slightly dry, about 2 minutes. Stir in the chicken and sour cream and warm through. Remove from the heat.
2. Brush a rimmed baking sheet with some of the butter-oil mixture. Spread 2 tablespoons refried beans down the center of each tortilla, leaving a 2-inch border on both ends. Top with 1 cup chicken mixture and 1/4 cup cheese. Fold in the ends and roll up.
3. Put the chimichangas seam-side down on the baking sheet; brush with the butter-oil mixture. Bake 8 to 10 minutes per side, brushing again after you flip. Top with the sauce, more cheese, lettuce and tomato. Serve with rice and the remaining beans.
Chi-Chi's Mexi-sauce:
1/2 cup onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
pinch of each: chile powder, cumin, sugar and salt
2 (4 ounce) cans green chiles, drained and rinsed
1 cup chicken broth
Saute 1/2 cup chopped onion and 2 chopped garlic cloves in a skillet over medium-low with heat in a tablespoon or two of vegetable/olive oil. Add a pinch each of chili powder, cumin, sugar and salt; cook 30 seconds. Stir in two 4-ounce cans chopped green chiles and cook 2 minutes. Add 1 cup chicken broth and simmer until thickened, then puree. Stir in 1/4 cup chopped cilantro.


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When we tested this site we found links to wigle.net, which we found to be a distributor of downloads some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs.
I would think links to this kind of stuff would be closely monitored on a site like this. I know that being a new member my words don't carry a whole lot of weight, but I'd like to know if this site is entirely safe.


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According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, weak El Niño conditions may develop this fall. How might a full-fledged El Niño event this winter influence weather where you live?
In a place routinely afflicted by drought, water managers in Tampa Bay use climate forecasts to ensure a water supply to people's taps without sucking the region's rivers, wetlands, and groundwater dry. The limits of their innovation might be tested in a future which could pose even more challenges to ensuring the oasis remains green.


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While fragmentation is at the top of most developers and consumers list of top issues with Android, most manufacturers are typically worried about issues on the intellectual property side. Android may be developed and managed by Google, but that has not stopped various companies from suing the companies that manufacture Android powered smartphones.
In order to stay one step ahead of the competition (and the lawsuits), Samsung and HTC have both entered into a strategic partnership with Intellectual Ventures. Samsung and HTC will both receive the rights to use more than 30,000 patents in IV's portfolio in their production of new products, sheltering themselves from potential patent infringement lawsuits from other companies.
This new partnership should allow HTC and Samsung to focus more on producing new hardware and software while mitigating their intellectual property risk. It's always nice to know that manufactures can spend a little less money on their lawyers and hopefully invest a little more into R&D and manufacturing.


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January 8, 1953 - February 5, 2013
Marlboro, NY
Genevieve E. Squilla, age 60, a lifelong area resident, died Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at home in Marlboro. Ms. Squilla was born January 8, 1953 in Newburgh. She is the daughter of the late Carlos and Marion Tomlins Squilla.
She was employed by the Newburgh School District, working in the cafeteria for many years.
She is survived by three sons: Matthew Kracht of Marlboro, Michael Kracht of Oneonta and Justin Kracht of Marlboro; two daughters: Jessica Harris of Illinois and Ashley Kracht of Marlboro; two brothers: Charles Squilla of Nevada and Carlos Squilla of Marlboro; three sisters: Jeanette Farrett of Florida, Karen Coppertino of Montgomery and Sharon Mackey of Marlboro, and six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Genevieve was predeceased by her dad, Carlos Squilla; her mom, Marion Tomlins Squilla, and sister, Debra Ann Squilla.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the DiDonato Funeral Home, 1290 Rte. 9W, Marlboro. Funeral services will be held on Saturday morning at 10: 15 a.m. at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, monetary donations to offset costs can be sent to Justin Kracht, P.O. Box 1203, Newburgh, NY 12551.
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What is Firmware Update Process and Why We Need it:
The Firmware Update process means that your device will get a newer software version or we can say it will run with a newer version of its Operating System, For example if your Samsung Android device is running Android version 4.0.4 and Samsung release Android 4.1.2 version, Then you need to perform a Firmware Update process to install the new version into your device.
Mostly the new Firmware version is released to fix some bugs or to add some new functions, And sometimes it is released to fix some security threats.
What we should do before performing the update:
- First of all you should know your current device firmware version, Write it down so in case something goes wrong it will help you to fix your device.
- Check that you got the suitable firmware package for your device, And make sure to get it from trusted sources only.
- Check your device's battery level to be at least at 90%, Otherwise charge it before starting the update process.
- Make sure to backup any saved data into your device, Like contacts, messages...etc.
Needed Downloads For Updating Samsung GT-I9195 Galaxy S4 Mini LTE Firmware:
- Samsung GT-I9195 Firmware Update Package.
- Odin Flasher.
- Samsung GT-I9195 USB Drivers.
Needed Tools For Updating Samsung GT-I9195 Firmware:
- Suitable USB cable.
- A stable computer running Windows OS.
Important Notice: We provide this guide for help purpose only, And we hold no responsibility at all, So keep in mind that your are doing this at your own RISK.
After downloading the needed files you should extract the zipped ones, And install the USB drivers (Restart your PC after installing).
Samsung Samsung GT-I9195 Galaxy S4 Mini LTE Firmware Update Steps:
- Turn off the device, And take out its battery, SIM and memory cards.
- Run Odin.exe program.
- Check these options: Re-Partition (If you have PIT file only), Auto Reboot, F.Reset Time.
- Click PIT button to select: CSB_signed_SERRANOLTE_ONEPIT_OPEN_130523.pit
- Firmware files selection:
Click Bootloader button to select: BOOTLOADER_I9195xxxxxxx_...MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
Click PDA button to select: CODE_I9195xxxxxxx_...MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
Click Phone button to select: MODEM_I9195xxxxxxx_...MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
Click CSC button to select: CSC_xxx_I9195xxxxxxxx_...MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
- Entering the Download Mode:
Put the battery back into your device, Press and Hold Volume Down key + Home key + Power, After you get the warning message release all keys and press Volume Up key.
- Use the USB cable to connect your device to the computer, Don't use any USB-HUB for connecting, And use only main USB slots.
- Wait until Windows detects the connected device and installs its suitable USB drivers.
- In case everything is OK, Then Odin program will detect your connected device (0:[COMxx]).
- Click on Start button.
- Odin program will start installing the new firmware files into your Samsung GT-I9195, So wait until the device rebooted.
- If the update was successfully done, The you will notice PASS! Word at Odin program.
- Disconnect the USB cable.
- Check your device firmware version *#1234# (You should see the new installed one).
- Turn off the device again, Reinsert the SIM and memory cards and turn it on.
- Now you can customize your device after installing the new firmware version.
- If you made any backup of your device data before the update then you can restore it again.
- Done.
Notice: When you get one big file inside the firmware package, Then it should be selected as a PDA file only, And do not check Re-Partition option or use PIT file at all.


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Dr. Gloria Leckie, to deliver 2nd ASIS&T Annual Lecture from Charles Sturt University
From Facebook to Twitter and Into the Cloud: Where is Library and Information Science in our Googleized World?
Dr. Gloria Leckie, Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
21 March 2012 (5pm) National Library of Australia, Canberra
Refreshments will be served at a reception, following the lecture
What is the meaning of a Googleized world for today's libraries and information centres, and related education and research? This talk explores the three faces of library and information science: as an academic discipline, as an educational space for the modern librarian, and as a profession that cares about the role of information in society. Each aspect is examined through specific topics, including the changing role and worth of the library, the need to be proactive with technology (e.g., digital preservation projects), how we can (and should) interact with other academic disciplines, and the challenges faced by educational institutions in preparing the librarians of the future.
Dr. Gloria Leckie is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in London, Canada. Dr. Leckie holds a Master of Library of Information Science, as well as a Master of Arts and a PhD in Geography. She first took up an academic position at UWO in 1991, and after achieving tenure, became Undergraduate Chair, then Associate Dean for almost 10 years. During her professional career, Dr. Leckie worked in a number of different positions as a research librarian in the Canadian government and also was the Coordinator for the Cataloguing in Publication Program for Eastern Canada. In her current role as Professor Emeritus Dr. Leckie continues to work with her doctoral students and gives lectures and workshops. She has also taken on a Faculty Associate position in UWOs Teaching Support Centre, where her mandate is to examine North American trends in the development and characteristics of professional master's programs across a wide variety of disciplines; she also advises Faculties and Departments at Western who wish to develop such programs.


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Innocent eyes, delicious food, anthropomorphic image. This is a game that will satisfy your palate. Come and enjoy the thrill of heaven with these little things.
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Game center available with achievement and leaderboards.
There are 5 skills. You can make different combinations.
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