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Pilar Ossorio
Professor of Law and Bioethics
Ph.D., Stanford University (Microbiology and Immunology)
J.D., University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
Dr. Ossorio is Professor of Law and Bioethics where she is on the faculties of the Law School and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the Medical School. In 2011 she became the inaugural Ethics Scholar-in-Residence at the Morgridge Institute for Research, the private, nonprofit research institute that is part of the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. She also serves as the co-director of UW's Law and Neuroscience Program, as a faculty member in the UW Masters in Biotechnology Studies program, and as Program Faculty in the Graduate Program in Population Health. Prior to taking her position at UW, she was Director of the Genetics Section of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association, and taught as adjunct faculty at the University of Chicago Law School.
Dr. Ossorio received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 1990 from Stanford University. She went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in cell biology at Yale University School of Medicine. Throughout the 1990's Dr. Ossorio also worked as a consultant for the federal program on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project, and in 1994 she took a full time position with the Department of Energy's ELSI program. In 1993 she served on the Ethics Working Group for President Clinton's Health Care Reform Task Force.
She received her JD from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 1997. While at Berkeley she was elected to the legal honor society Order of the Coif and received several awards for outstanding legal scholarship.
Throughout her career Dr. Ossorio has participated in numerous advisory committees and boards that aid governments in setting science policy. She has advised the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the FDA, Genome Canada, and Health Canada. In 2012 she was appointed to a four year term on the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Health Research Protections, a committee to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services on how to improve protections for people who participate in biomedical and behavioral research. She recently completed a term on the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, and she has served on or chaired numerous committees and working groups that advise large-scale genome research initiatives, such as the 1000 Genomes Project and the Human Microbiome project. She has also served as a member of, or liaison to, several Boards and Committees for the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (both part of the National Academies of Science), including the National Cancer Policy Board, the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Advisory Committee, and the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Since 2005, Dr. Ossorio has worked helping American Indian communities to develop research governance and oversight processes. For five years she consulted on the Havasupai tribe's research-related litigation, which settled in 2010.
Dr. Ossorio's research interests revolve around research ethics and the protection of research participants, including: governance of large bioscience projects; data sharing in scientific research; the use of race in biomedical and social science research; ethical and regulatory issues in human subjects research; and the regulation and ethics of online research. She is also quite interested in novel ethical, regulatory, and policy issues raised by research aimed at moving scientific and engineering findings from the laboratory to the product development and medical/therapeutic applications (translational research).
Selected Recent Publications
- R. Benjamin Shapiro and Pilar N. Ossorio, Regulation of Online Social Network Research, 339 SCIENCE 144 (2013).
- Ossorio, P.N., Taking Aims Seriously: Repository Research and Limits on the Duty to Return Individual Research Findings, 14 GENETICS IN MEDICINE 461 (2012).
- Ossorio, P.N., Bodies of Data: Genomic Data and Bioscience Data Sharing, 78 JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH 907 (2011).
- Ossorio, P.N., Myth and Mystification: The Science of Race and IQ, in RACE AND THE GENETIC REVOLUTION (Sheldon Krimsky ed., Columbia University Press, 2011).
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Activities & Scholarship
In August, Pilar Ossorio was an invited speaker at Machine Learning for Health Care, an annual meeting that brings clinicians and medical researchers together with computer scientists who have artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data expertise. She presented "Justice in Machine Learning for Health Care."
News & Media
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2019Pilar Ossorio raises concerns over China's use of DNA facial mapping
The New York Times
Thursday, Dec 6, 2018Did a top cancer center's business dealings cross ethical lines? Pilar Ossorio weighs in
Monday, Dec 3, 2018Pilar Ossorio: There's been very broad consensus that we shouldn't be doing CRISPR on embryos yet
Ars Technica
Thursday, Jul 9, 2015Alzheimer's data lawsuit raises questions over research ownership; Pilar Ossorio comments
Thursday, May 28, 2015Room for Debate: Alta Charo and Pilar Ossorio on the ethical use of science
The New York Times
Monday, Feb 9, 2015Potential medical benefits of '3-parent baby' technology outweigh most concerns, says Pilar Ossorio
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Monday, Nov 25, 2013Pilar Ossorio named co-director of new Research Ethics Consultation Service
Wisconsin State Journal
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2013Pilar Ossorio to co-direct UW's new ethics consulting service
Morgridge Institute for Research News
Friday, Jun 14, 2013Pilar Ossorio comments on Supreme Court's DNA patent decision
Wisconsin Public Radio
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013Pilar Ossorio discusses legal and ethical issues involved in whole genome sequencing
Milwaukee Public Television
Monday, Aug 1, 2011Pilar Ossario Discusses Race in Debate Over "Personalized Medicine"
Washington Post
Monday, Apr 26, 2010Pilar Ossorio part of team in Havasupai case brought against Arizona State University
Teaching Areas
- Intellectual Property
- Law & Medicine
- Patent Law
- Torts


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GREENSBORO � Miami guard Shane Larkin is the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches� choice as player of the year.
The coaches� individual award winners were announced Tuesday by the league. Their ballots were received prior to last week's ACC tournament and they weren't allowed to vote for their own players.
Larkin received six votes to three for Virginia's Joe Harris, two for Virginia Tech's Erick Green and one for Duke's Mason Plumlee.
Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association members last week voted Green as their player of the year.
The coaches and players agreed on the other winners: Boston College's Olivier Hanlan as rookie of the year, Miami's Durand Scott as defensive player of the year and the Hurricanes� Jim Larranaga as coach of the year.
Larkin led the Hurricanes to their first ACC regular-season and tournament championships, and was selected as the MVP of the league tournament.
Green led the nation with a 25-point scoring average for the last-place Hokies.
Hanlan received 10 votes for the rookie award, while Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon and North Carolina State's T.J. Warren received one vote apiece.
Scott won the defensive award with three votes. Virginia's Jontel Evans had two and seven players received one vote apiece.
Larranaga had nine votes for the coaching award. Three coaches � Virginia's Tony Bennett, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina's Roy Williams � had one vote each.


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*Remixed by Girl Talk to use Daft Punk's production on "Get Lucky" as the backing track:
Loved this when I first heard it and immediately ran to grab the speakers out of my car. When I got back I looped it on-repeat, even though I knew the neighbors would hate me. I played the one minute clip for about 5-6 minutes, on loop. Then I realized I needed to listen to it louder, so I grabbed my Senns and looped it for about half an hour.
I was absolutely in love with the song, then realized how beautiful it was to hear Michael Jackson in what sounded like brand-new material. Daft Punk's new "Get Lucky", which is itself an attempt to preserve the spirit of MJ-era (and earlier) music, seems meant for Micheal Jackson's SUBLIME vocal talent.
I thought how he had passed, but more importantly how hard of a life he had despite unconditional love for the world. "Do you remember when we fell in love?" Do you remember how bright the radio shined when you first heard Michael Jackson? Do you remember how perfect his songwriting was and the colossal amount of talent he had? Even if you don't, here's a chance to hear it again.
I started tearing up in my right eye, very naturally, until I caught myself. I didn't want to stop though, because I was crying from sheer inspiration; hearing an otherworldly, godlike presence sounding so beautifully and in accord with Daft Punk's immaculate production.
It had been a long time since music had really hit me in this way. I remember how this used to happen all the time, even just last year. I missed this. The lyrics continued: "We were young and innocent then." I missed music. I wanted to fall in love again, but all new music I heard wasn't resonating with me. I wanted to fall in love with music again, and there, while listening, it was finally happening.
This, of course, just brought on a full-blown stream of tears under each eye. As if achieving lucidity in a dream-state, I realized this was happening: "See? Love is real. All is infinite, overwhelming love. You're listening to it. This is it; it can happen again and again."
Fate is merciful and sounds like Michael Jackson, singing in a voice that is post-gender; post-identity: embodying perfection in a state which transcends physicality and description. "Do you remember the time when we fell in love?" Yes, now I do. Thank you for reminding me, Michael.


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Legion Hold [23, 38] is the main settlement of the Burning Legion in Outland. It is ruled by Deathbringer Jovaan, a man'ari eredar, who receives his orders from a superior eredar commander through a hologram device. The Hold is a giant factory for fel reavers and infernals that boost the ranks of the Legion in Outland. In the Hold, there are few fel orcs loyal to the Legion, doomguards, mo'arg engineers, shivan, and lots of fel reavers and infernals. The pit lords Makazradon and Morgroron also reside here, as well as the shivarra Prophetess Cavrylin.
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It is also debated upon that Legion Hold in Shadowmoon Valley is one of the best spots to grind for Aldor reputation.
Common drops consist of an average of 10 silver, Marks of Sargeras, random green items, and Fel Armaments.
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No horsing around for the world's latest viral sensation. "Gangnam Style," the mega-catchy pop tune by South Korean rapper Psy, has set a new Guinness World Record for "Most Likes On YouTube" with a whopping 2,141,758 likes and counting, reports Mashable. Time to break out the horse riding dance in celebration?
The YouTube hit first appeared on the site on July 15, blew up over the summer, and truly took America by a storm when Psy made an appearance in the states — showing up on Ellen DeGeneres' self-titled talk show, performing on The Today Show, and making a cameo on last week's Saturday Night Live skit. Audience members can be seen attempting to sing along to the tune, despite the fact that 90 percent of the song is in a foreign language. Of course, each appearance did not go without the crowd reenacting the infamous dance that's quirky, silly, but strangely fun to move along.
"Having been the 'Have you seen this?!' video of the last two months across the web, it's great to be able to award a record for this tremendously popular video," says Dan Barrett, Guinness World Records Community Manager. "In years past it was unthinkable that something would be viewed a hundred million times, and now "Gangnam Style" has achieved more than twice this figure in just three months on YouTube."
Previous records belonged to pop artists LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" (1,574,963), Justin's Bieber's "Baby" (1,327,147), and Adele's "Rolling in The Deep" (1,245,641). Exceeding two million likes blew these tunes out of the water by far, and the popularity is still on the rise. At more than 227,450,628 views, Gangnam Style is closely trailing the top 30 most viewed videos of all time on YouTube, following the likes of Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Carly Rae Jepsen.
So, in celebration, or in case you haven't been on the Internet to witness the craze that is Gangnam Style, enjoy the video in all its glory.
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Why do you have to go
Why do you have to go
Why do you have to go I pray.
Even though I know what you'll say.
For the people who died on 9/11.
Taken out of evil and brought up to heaven.
To get the bad guys my daughter would tell you.
Then be strong despite the pain she goes through.
To fight for our country and for our freedom.
Take the war to them and then beat em.
Although the pain is great inside.
I choke tears back and the feelings I must hide.
As you walk away I must wonder.
If you could possibly know the pain I am under.
As a single tear falls down my cheek.
How can I be strong when I feel so week.
We walk away and wave goodbye.
I hold the girls close and start to cry.
I know I will have to answer one day.
Why did my Daddy have to go away?
To fight for freedom for you and for me.
So all of the world can live happily.
Your Daddy is special in that way.
But I promise he will be back one day.
I will stand proud and let them know.
That is why your Daddy had to go.


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Ever played the video game Plants Vs. Zombies? If so, then these zombies need no introduction. The man in the middle is John Vechey, co-founder of PopCap Games, one of the most successful casual game companies in the world. The first game they created is Bejeweled, which has sold more than 50 million copies. Plants Vs. Zombies is a really addictive game where you grow plants to prevent zombies from reaching your house and eating your brains. It is surprisingly kid friendly, and one of those games you just have to see to understand. I won't say too much about this image because I think it is enjoyed best without explination.
I will say this was my favorite outtake from a recent shoot I did for Inc at the PopCap headquarters. Nothing like catching a couple of zombies on break at corporate.
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MT. HERMON � The Southern Alamance girls� basketball team remained undefeated with a 65-18 thrashing of visiting Western Alamance.
Hollie Boggs scored a game-high 15 points for the Patriots (8-0).
Southern Alamance led 46-2 at halftime and stretched the lead to 50 points early in the third quarter. With an impressive start to the game, coach Chris Miller said his team is rounding into form for Metro Conference action, which begins Friday.
�We started the game off very well,� Miller said. �You couldn�t ask for better defense and the offense moved the ball and played well. We�ve played very good defense all year. � The offense is starting to catch up to it.�
Kierra James led Western Alamance (0-6) with 11 points.
-- RIVER MILL 73, CARRBORO 50: At Carrboro, Daijah Faucette scored 20 points and visiting River Mill remained undefeated as the Jaguars raced past Carrboro in a Carolina 12 Conference game.
Lenaira Ruffin added a double-double with 14 points and 17 rebounds while Marla Crawford chipped in 14 points and had a team-high eight assists for River Mill (4-0, 3-0).
Diamond Tyson scored a game-high 24 for Carrboro (3-2, 1-2).
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At Winston-Salem, Matt McGee scored 14 points and Jordan Hill added 12 as Salem Baptist handed visiting The Elon School a 63-45 non-conference loss.
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Although the revenues from service contracts are growing in importance everywhere with an expanding fleet of installed turbines, the US stands apart from other national markets due to its sheer scale. There are currently 45,000 installed machines and the market for O&M is anticipated to reach $6 billion a year by 2025.
It is not only the size of the O&M market that stands out. As is widely accepted in many other industries, providing after-sales services can be seriously good business. For manufacturers of products such as automobiles and medical equipment, after-sales activity accounts for a disproportionate share of profits. A study by Deloitte of 120 manufacturers from a range of industries found that after-sales services accounted for 26% of revenues, but 46% of profits.
Unlike in many European countries where turbine manufacturers are pre-eminent, O&M in the US is provided by a diverse mix of firms.
In the heat of the wind-farm construction boom of the last decade, turbine makers neglected the service market in favour of meeting the hunger for hardware. But recent weaker demand and a global oversupply of turbines has seen them reappraise the value of O&M as a steady source of revenue. Returning to the market, they are finding that things have changed in their absence.
While the manufacturers' backs were turned, a crop of new firms emerged offering service contracts to US project owners. Now, these independent service providers (ISPs) - many of which are regional or local - are experienced and diverse enough to offer a degree of choice that global manufacturers may struggle to match. At the same time, frustrated by manufacturers' apparent unwillingness to support their products outside of the warranty period, some wind-farm owners have taken ontheir own O&M. This has yielded valuable experience in controlling operational costs. Some have even gone as far as to extend their service to other owners.
Alongside external competition from ISPs and hands-on owners, manufacturers face some daunting internal challenges. Re-tooling a company geared up to build and sell new turbines for the tricky task of fixing broken ones is no mean feat, and is probably among the reasons they fell out of love with O&M in the first place.
But, in a sector where knowledge is (quite literally) power, the manufacturers hold the technology cards. ISPs are already finding that they are increasingly cagey about sharing information with new-found competitors.
The jet engine business provides a prime example of the value of intellectual property. Rolls Royce monitors the performance of its global fleet of aero engines 24/7, allowing them to respond quickly and avoid failures as well as giving the company a huge data resource to draw on when designing new products or updating old ones. This vast knowledge base, growing daily, serves to dissuade ISPs from entering the maintenance market. Aero-engine companies also blur the boundary between product and service by retaining ownership of the engines attached to their customers' aircraft and selling "power by the hour" rather than equipment.
Wind-turbine makers, while stopping short of this business model, are offering new turbines with longer warranties than ever before. Backing up a warranty lasting ten years or more demands serious financial heft, something that small-scale ISPs simply do not have.
Long-term service contracts
Wind turbine O&M costs in the US may have risen in recent years, but the fact that long-term service contracts are available hints at growing confidence in Scada analysis and other data-driven preventative maintenance techniques to accurately predict turbine behaviour. Better understanding of what is happening inside a turbine promises to improve reliability and drive down cost, to everyone's benefit.
For wind-farm owners, however, long-term fixed-price service contracts present something of a dilemma. Fixing costs, for a fee, reduces risk but may hand the manufacturer any future benefit from improved O&M techniques. A do-it-yourself approach or a flexible contract with an ISP is riskier but allows owners to share in savings if costs fall. The future landscape of the US wind industry will be determined by wind-farm owners' response to this dilemma. The scope for nimble firms of all types to innovate and bring forward new ways of doing things is clear - but in the impending battle of wits, the stakes could not be higher.
Oscar Fitch-Roy is a senior policy consultant at renewables consultancy GL Garrad Hassan's strategy and policy unit


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Conformity of finished forming sieves for paper industry
The sieves' manufacturers that want to be competitive at the market must have the implemented quality control system. Different methods, based on taking the sample, which is a representative of the total quantity of the forming sieves production, are applied for evaluation of the sieve's conformity. The basic characteristics of this type of the quality function are control, measuring and testing of the forming sieves' properties at the end of the manufacturing process. The objective is to detect and separate the products that deviate from the set criteria, to remain in the factory, then to be repaired if possible or discarded in the opposite case and thus to prevent delivery of the defective sieves to the paper manufacturers.
The effect of changing injection temperature on some mechanical and morphological properties for polypropylene material (PP)
This is a study of a medical injection factory-Babylon carried out in order to achieve proper mechanical and morphological properties, PP has been injection molded by using cold runner injection molding machine with temperature variation (198, 200, 203……220°C) for ten samples. The physical and mechanical properties of PP product were examined. It has been found that the Shore hardness decreases linearly with injection molding temperature increasing. The tensile strength has a similar behavior to the hardness. However, it has been found that the MIF (Melt Index Flow) rates increases with the increase of injection molding temperature. The density of PP has been found for both virgin PP and the samples, it has been found that the density decreases with increasing operation temperature. FTIR (Fourier Transmission Infrared) spectra were taken for both samples with high and low operation temperature. Besides the SEM (Scanning Electronic Microscopy) test shows the difference in the morphology of the product surface and the PP product at high and low operation temperature. Moreover, for all these properties, the PP product exhibits good mechanical properties (hardness, tensile strength, density) for the samples produced at temperature lower than 207°C. While the physical properties such as MIF improved with injection temperature increasing, additionally, the SEM images show that the sample produced in low temperature have surface damage.
An effective selection process is the key to quality job positions occupation conditional for long-term competitiveness
The need for adaptation to rapid changes in the business environment, both on the part of employees and employers, implies dealing with new challenges, acquisition of new knowledge and skills and assumption of new roles and responsibilities. The base for companies is the availability of qualified human resources, which is ensured by the human resource management department mainly through an effective process of employee selection. The paper is oriented at the analysis of the current state of focus of organizations operating in Slovakia on systematicity and complexity of the selection process, the existence of an effective internal labor market and the regularity of development of used selection tools in the context of technological progress and changes in labor market requirements in regions of Slovakia. Results of the survey on (n = 343) enterprises show a positive trend, an increase of more than 10 percent in the orientation towards improvement of the process of employee selection, but on the other side it also confirm an increase in disparities between individual regions of Slovakia, some regions (Eastern Slovakia) progress much slower than the developed ones (Bratislava).
Elimination of constraints in the production process of power equipment components and the analysis of the resulting benefits
The article presents the results regarding the elimination of constraints in the production process of a power equipment subassembly, a boiler chamber, together with an analysis of the benefits resulting from this, both financial and non-financial. The significance of bottlenecks in the production process, ways of its identification and limitations - in general - are presented. The article is a case-study of an attempt to eliminate the bottleneck in the production process of the boiler chamber, which turned out to be the process of drilling and marking-off, and work stations representing these processes. In order to eliminate the limitation, it was decided to replace the existing tracing and drilling work with a numerically controlled device - a boring machine moved from the liquidated department.. As a result, labor-intensive, manual chambers marking-off and the process of drilling holes with a smaller diameter drill have been eliminated. A number of benefits has been demonstrated resulting from the elimination of the bottleneck in the process, first of all, it was possible to reduce the duration of the marking-off and drilling operations and reduce the costs of the boiler chamber production process.
Improving Quality Management - the Way Toward Economic Prosperity and Quality of Life
The National Quality Programme of the Slovak Republic for 2017-2021 strongly emphasises the primary objectives and priorities of the Quality Improvement Strategy. This should be one of the main priorities of the Slovak Government in the upcoming period. The Quality Improvement Strategy should, in general, lead to an improvement in the quality of life. The aim of the paper is to point out the opportunities for improvement by applying indicators aimed at defining the excellence of organisations within the national economy of the Slovak Republic.
The influence of a goal programming approach for safety management practices on the performance of a selected Indian construction organization
The construction industry in India is the second most important contributor to its gross domestic product. However, high rate of accidents and fatalities have tarnished the image of industry in India. Although the industry contributes significantly to the Indian economy, safety management is the primary concern alongside with frequent workplace accidents. The role of safety management is vital to improve safety performance of an organization. The functions of safety management include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and coordinating safety activities with an aim to minimize accidents/injuries. Safety trainings, employee participation, compliance of safety procedures and motivational schemes are part of safety management which influences the overall safety performance. Several metrics were developed to measure the safety performance of an organization but not a single measure will reflect the overall performance. The present study considered parameters pertaining to the safety management which have influence on the safety performance of a construction organization in India. The parameters are analyzed by formulating a goal programming model. The results of the study suggests that much improvement is needed in the area of safety trainings and the revised targets were established.
Operation manager and its role in the enterprise
Presented paper concentrate on problems connected with the role of operation manager within industrial company. Operation management concentrate many activities in today's industrial corporation and because of that the role of it's manager is very important. He should to have many skills described in this paper. We analysed responsibilities of the operation manager, his basic operational skills and also give some examples of duties and responsibilities of good operation manager on the example of food industry. This example can give some remarks about practical skills needed in operation management in particular enterprise.
Present state and future application of smart technologies in manufacturing processes
The paper concentrates on the issues of applying smart technologies in the manufacturing processes. The author includes in it brief descriptions of the smart technologies that contributed to the emergence of Industry 4.0 concept. Additionally, based on reports and surveys conducted on a global scale regarding the application of intelligent technologies, the author analyses the current state of implementing these technologies in manufacturing processes and provides forecasts regarding the adoption of the solutions based on Artificial Intelligence in global enterprises in the near future.
Safe choice of structural steels in a region of ultra-high number of load cycles
In this paper the authors introduce their own selected experimental results in the field of the investigation of fatigue resistance of structural steels. The experiments were carried out on the nine structural steels including high strength steels, DOMEX 700MC, HARDOX 400, HARDOX 450, 100Cr6 (UTS from 446 MPa to 2462 MPa) at high-frequency cyclic loading (f = 20 kHz, T = 20 ± 5 °C, R = -1) in the region of number cycles ranged from N ≈ 2×106 to N ≈ 2×109 cycles of loading. The continuous decrease of fatigue strength in dependence on the number of loading cycles was observed with the average value of ratio σa2×109/σa2×106 = 0.69.
The use of quality management techniques to analyse the cluster of porosities on the turbine outlet nozzle
As part of continuous quality improvement in well-managed enterprises, identifying unconformity should initiate actions to find their causes. Therefore, it was proposed to the enterprise located in Podkarpacie to use in the sequential way the Ishikawa diagram and 5Why method. The aim was to analyse of unconformity (porosity cluster) on the turbine outlet nozzle and identify the root of its creation. In the enterprise, the quality analysis of the products with a fluorescent method was carried out, but after identifying the unconformity, non-analysis of their reason for their occurrence was not practiced. Therefore, it was intentional to propose the use of sequence i.e. Ishikawa diagram and 5Why method to identify the root of unconformity. The subject of study was the turbine outlet nozzle, on which the fluorescent method the porosity cluster was identified. With the use of the Ishikawa diagram, the main cause of the problem was pointed (unconformity during production), and by the 5Why method the root cause of the problem, i.e. unconformity material from the supplier, was identified. The proposed method sequence is a simple and effective way to make analyses of unconformities and it can be used in different products and service enterprises.


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The Rainbow Dust range of Metallic paints is FULLY EDIBLE and comes in a wide range of fabulous colours. They are ready-to-use and so no mixing is required, and because they are completely water soluble it is very easy to clean your paintbrushes and other equipment after use.
Although water soluble this paint is completely sealed once dry so you get no smudges or loose dust! What a breakthrough!
The food colour paints come in Metallic, Pearlised and Paint It! food colour paint ranges.


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Waterford Lismore Toasting Flutes, Set of 2
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Perfect for the bride and groom on their wedding day, these toasting flutes feature one of Waterford's most treasured patterns. Lismore stemware was inspired by Ireland's spectacular Lismore Castle, once home to Sir Walter Raleigh. Waterford's master artisans hand blow each piece, then cut the bowls with elaborate diamond and wedge cuts. Introduced in 1952, the toasting flutes look sleek and contemporary thanks to tapered, faceted stems and straight-sided bowls.
- 24% leaded glass crystal is carefully blown and cut.
- Made in Europe by Waterford, producers of fine crystal since 1783.
- Each glass is etched with Waterford's sea horse logo, adapted from the Waterford City coat of arms.
- Set of two.
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- 7-oz. cap., 9 1/4" high.
- Use & Care
- Hand-wash.
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There are perhaps many methods people use when foiling their pigments or mineral eyeshadows; there really is no right or wrong way, just whichever method works for you. Why apply them wet? Applying your pigments or mineral eyeshadows wet intensifies the color, making it look so much more vibrant as well as lasting longer as oppose to it dry, giving you a look that lasts all day!
I know some gals are super sanitary so there are many ways to avoid "contaminating" the rest of the group, by just putting a small amount of your pigment on a cap or a container to mix them in.
Here is my method, I bought a travel-sized PILL jar really used to store medication, and transformed it into my mixing medium container. I like it because it has 2-sides with a flip top, easy to open, yet stays closed and secured. You can use one side to store some of your mixing medium (to make your homemade mixing medium, click here), and the other side to either mix or store your pigment. In case you are wondering, I stored my homemade mixing medium in an old Maybelline Makeup Remover bottle...
Pour a few drops of your mixing medium, you can also use eye drops such as Visine, eyeliner sealant (available in online mineral stores such as madminerals.org), or good 'ol water. (I personally don't like using water because the pigment doesn't last as long as oppose to using something for it to really adhere to like glycerin)
If you want, you can just add a drop or two directly onto the brush as seen here (using the MAC 239 brush):
See the small puddle of my homemade mixing medium?
Then dip your brush into the puddle, most brushes will do, however I like using brushes that are either really soft or made with Taklon (similar texture to concealer brushes):
IF you get TOO much of the medium on your brush (which most likely will happen), simply just rub it back and forth on the back of your hand to get rid of any excess medium as well as applying the medium EVENLY on your brush. Remember, you don't want it soaking wet, just a damp brush.
For this demonstration, I am using MAC Pigment in "Your Ladyship", I will use more vivid colors in another post to show the difference but this was the only pigment I had on me!
Comparison of DRY vs. WET, although 'dry' looks more intense here, it's really not (it was a sparkly white in person), as you can see when applied 'wet' you can see more of the goldish cream undertones as well as shimmer....
Take some pigment off from the cap, this should be a good amount (or put some on the other side of the storage container):
Apply to your eyelid in pat and dab motions to prevent streaks, let it dry, add more if necessary to intensify color and coverage:
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Foiling Mineral Eyeshadows & Pigments (applying them wet)
There are perhaps many methods people use when foiling their pigments or mineral eyeshadows; there really is no right or wrong way, just whichever method works for you. Why apply them wet? Applying your pigments or mineral eyeshadows wet intensifies the color, making it look so much more vibrant as well as lasting longer as oppose to it dry, giving you a look that lasts all day!
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- Janelle said...
Yay thanks for the info, Vanessa! I'm def going to try this out with the new sample pigments I got in the mail.... from you! Woot! :)
- February 18, 2008 at 4:31 PM
- psychoexgirlfriend said...
Hey Vanessa, I love using pigments wet - never knew the technique was called "foiling". I use my contact lens solution. I figured, if it's good enough to sanitize my contact lenses that are going on my eye, it's good enough for my eye makeup. Ever experience a bit change to your pigment when it's applied wet vs dry? Like colour-wise or texture-wise?
- February 18, 2008 at 7:08 PM
- nilla cookie said...
Great tutorial Vanessa! I usually just use water, but I think I'll try an actual solution to see if it makes a difference for me :)
- February 18, 2008 at 7:57 PM
- Julie said...
Thanks for this, Nessa!
The difference in intensity is so dramatic!
- February 18, 2008 at 8:56 PM
- yummy411 said...
great post!
- February 18, 2008 at 9:03 PM
- missjaclynrose said...
hey nessa, i think i'm going to try this out. this works for the NYX loose pearl shadows too, right? because i have so many different colors I want to try out, they're just sitting there collecting dust. thx girl.
- February 18, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- christianadivine said...
great tut sis. :] sis ren ren asked me to do a tut on using more than one shadow wet and how to blend them! i've done the vid but i gotta edit it and i'm not sure if i'm happy with it. :P hehe. and i love foiling all of my mineral eyeshadows. :] hehe.
- February 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- Vanessa said...
Janelle- Haha glad you received it! Can't wait to see the looks you come up with!
Row- Yeah I know a lot of girls who use Visine or other form of eye drops and I have used it myself and works pretty well! I haven't noticed a huge difference, when a pigment is dry it's a bit more gritty and lighter in color, when wet it's a lot more vibrant, shiny, and smoother in texture.
Nilla- Yeah a lot of gals use water and eyedrops, I say whichever works! I tried them all and they all do the job, but for some reason with water it becomes sorta runny at the end of the day. :(
Julie- No problem, glad you found this post helpful!
Thanks Kia!
Jacklyn- Yes this should work with almost all pigments! :)
- February 18, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Mrs. Lynne said...
I never realized it was called foiling until recently. Am I behind or what? Lol.
Oh, and I think you will have boys. My mom had 3 girls and me and my sis' all have boys. My older sis is the only one that had a girl, but I'm hoping that I can score one in the next run.
So you better get on the baby making little lady. My kids need some cyber friends of their own to blog comments with! Lol.
Love ya sis!
- February 18, 2008 at 11:22 PM
- Nic Nic said...
Thanks for the tut, very useful :D like others, i was ignorant what foiling was hehe - so thank you!
- February 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM
- Lydia said...
Thanks for the info!
- September 8, 2008 at 4:34 PM
- Liz said...
ah i need help! um so i dont know where i can get small containers to put my pigments in. i cannot order them. do you know if i can get them at drugstores or something?
- March 15, 2010 at 7:36 PM


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Changes came quickly to California with so many post-war Boomers flowing into the state. While agriculture is still strong in the state today, acres and acres of fruit trees and other growth was replaced with urban sprawl. Once dominant cities like Hollywood spread into neighborhoods like Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, Trousdale Estates Bel Air, West Hollywood, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades. These new neighborhoods showed a new lifestyle of amazing luxury perhaps only found in the most grand estates in Europe. Additionally, the modernist architecture movement had started with designers like Richard Neutra, Wallace Neff, A. Quincy Jones and Frank Lloyd Wright building important homes in the new money neighborhoods of Southern California.
While some of the most monied people in the world were coming to Beverly Hills to live a life of sun and fun, others were heading to the sand in the recently developed Malibu. This 28 mile stretch of sand was build out in the 1920s but really started booming in the 1950s with the development of the very famous Pacific Coast Highway. Boasting some of the most beautiful drives in the world, PCH as it is known, became a tourist destination as well as a place for the rich and famous to call home or often "second home" as those with the most money kept a city house somewhere near Hollywood like Beverly Hills, Hancock Park or Bel Air and then ran to the beach via Sunset Boulevard on the weekends for a little play time. They build homes right on the beach sandwiched between "California incline" cliffs and the raging Pacific ocean with some of the best designers in the world. Carbon Beach, Zuma Beach, Broad Beach and County Line only describe a few of the dozens of beaches that the well to do have built up. Serra Retreat is another inland Malibu, California neighborhood that hosts some of the most amazing homes one could ever hope to see. More modern neighborhoods like Malibu Colony brought in Beverly Hills like estates to the beach community. Today Billionaire's Beach (near Carbon Beach) hosts homes for the likes of Larry Ellison of Oracle and media mogul, David Geffen yet the masses still make their way down to the same sand that Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff patrolled in Baywatch.
No matter how you look at it, moving to California has been an American tradition for those looking to make a fast fortune, enjoy the amazingly gorgeous weather or for those looking to be a star. Beyond the pie in the sky dreams, California delivers with the seventh largest economy in the world (that's a state versus countries) that produces some of the finest wine in the world, all of the best movies in the world, tech companies like Facebook, Google and Apple. California is a wonderful place for people to end up living. It's the gateway to the Pacific and offers so much in terms of lifestyle, design, access and more. You will love it here.


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Arlington, VA, February 1, 2010 - CACI International Inc (NYSE:CACI) announced today that it has completed its transaction to acquire SystemWare, Inc. SystemWare designs, manufactures, and provides state-of-the-art signals acquisition and analysis systems that enable users to monitor and detect cybersecurity and physical security vulnerabilities and enhance operational security.
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The Kickstarter is being run by Stewart Wieck, who is the former owner of White Wolf.Tales of the Savage Land, a post-apocalyptic fantasy comic
This story of Severus, a living relic who may be the last of a legendary race, is set in the dark past of the classic RPG, Talislanta.
The fantasy world Talislanta debuted in a paper roleplaying game in 1986. The game was known for its non-traditional fantasy setting, which featured hundreds of unusual races, creatures, and archetypes, and for a series of print ads that ran under the headline, "No Elves".
Now Talislanta creator Stephan Michael Sechi is back with a new vision of an earlier world of Talislanta — Talislanta: The Savage Land.
What is Talislanta?
Where the original Talislanta was set many centuries after a cataclysm known as The Great Disaster, TSL takes place just a few years after this catastrophe, which the inhabitants of this era refer to as The Fall. The great civilization of the Archaens is no more. The last kingdoms have fallen, and the sorcerer-kings have fled or been killed by their own creations. With them went all knowledge of spell-casting, leaving only primitive rituals and superstitions. In this milieu, Talislanta is truly a savage and dangerous land, ruled by wild tribes and beast-folk consumed by the constant struggle to survive.
The Web Comic and Graphic Novel
We want to introduce this exciting, post-apocalyptic fantasy world to you in a webcomic that will premiere in December 2015.
We plan to release new pages at the rate of about six per month (1-2 per week) throughout 2016 until we deliver the entire 80-page story. Illustrator Ben Dennett has already completed half of the story and as the finished pages are released, he'll be illustrating the remainder of the story.
After the web serialization, we'd like to compile the complete story in a graphic novel. If possible, if we can get enough support in this Kickstarter project, then the b&w webcomic will become a full-color graphic novel!
Our Project Rewards
We have an escalating variety of pledge rewards described for this project. Here's a brief overview of all the options:
Stretch Goals
- Webcomic: The primary product we're delivering! This is an 80+ page comic story that we'll deliver ever week by means of a subscription at DriveThruComics.
+Plus Subscription: In addition to the new webcomic pages, you'll receive access to various new design materials, including sketches, character designs, roleplaying material like characters stats, and more. If you're a fan of the process, want to see behind the scenes, or don't want to miss any detail about Talislanta, then this is the choice for you.
Graphic Novel: After the pages are released by webcomic subscription, we'll compile the story and print this as a graphic novel. If we can meet a stretch goal then the graphic novel will be in full-color.
All-Access RPG: If you're a fan of the Talislanta RPG and want all the details about what's going on, then become part of the conversation! We'll add you as an "bcc" email recipient to game design emails between Stephan Michael Sechi and Stewart Wieck and emails with the RPG artists, editors, etc. This "all-access" lasts from the end of this project until TSL RPG is sent to press.
Art Print: A high-quality digital reproduction of a color version of the page 2 splash page of the graphic novel (seen above). The print will be approximately 8x11 inches.
If we continue to raise funds well past our funding goal, then we'd like to add additional content and quality to the comic we're creating. This story will exist without these extras, but we'd really like to be able to include them and deliver them to you to make your experience with Tales of Talislanta: The Savage Land truly great!
At $6000 of funding we'll add a 6-page Prologue to the graphic novel and release that on Christmas Day instead of the first two pages of the story itself. These pages will show how Severus is discovered.. and captured.
At $12,000 of funding the graphic novel that otherwise will collect the b&w pages of the webcomic will be printed in full-color. Yes, that means all 80+ pages of the comic (and Prologue) will be colored and then included in the graphic novel.
If we manage to meet these goals then we'll talk to you about more great stuff we could add to this project!
Add-ons are additional items that you'd like to have in addition to the rewards you receive as part of your pledge level. As of now we can only offer the printed graphic novel as an add-on to any pledge level of $40 or more (i.e. any pledge that already includes a copy of the graphic novel). If you would like an extra copy of the collected story, then please add $20 to your pledge amount. Select your pledge level and then just add $20 to your pledge amount. So if you choose the $40 reward, enter $60 as your pledge amount. We'll know this is for an extra copy, and there's no additional shipping charge!
The Creators
Meet the writer and illustrator of this webcomic/graphic novel:
Stephan Michael Sechi
About Stephan: Though for the past 15+ years I've made my living as a composer and music producer, back in the 1980's I was president of a small company known as Bard Games. While with Bard, I wrote a number of RPG supplements such as Complete Alchemist, and also created two RPG systems: The Atlantean Trilogy (The Arcanum, The Lexicon, and The Bestiary) and the Talislanta RPG. Talislanta evolved into a set of core books and supplements that would eventually extend across five different editions, one of which as published by Wizards of the Coast. A few years ago I decided to give away PDF versions of all of the many Talislanta books online. Thanks to the hard work of a bunch of Talislanta-fans (led by Marques Jordan), all the old titles can now be downloaded for free from Talislanta.com. Two years ago, I found I still had the gaming bug in me, and decided to create a new RPG based on the Talislanta milieu. I'm excited to say that this game, called Talislanta: the Savage Land, will be released by Nocturnal Media in 2016, along with a webcomic, graphic novel and soundtrack album based on the game.
Ben Dennett
About Ben: Storytelling has always been at the heart of my artistic endeavours. My experience so far has included creating concepts, layouts, and storyboards for animation and films. I left the big smoke of London several years ago and I am now blessed to live and work in West Cornwall, UK surrounded by ancient ruins, burial mounds and the big blue sea — inspiration enough for visualising many tales of adventure. I am currently working with Steve Sechi and Stewart Wieck at Nocturnal Media to illustrate the first Talislanta webcomic — "Tales of the Savage Land".
I'm still looking into exactly what the RPG side of the Kickstarter will give fans. If I find out, I'll post it here.


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Sometimes when we least expect it is when some of the doors open for us and others.
I have not been spending very much time with family history as late. I took a breather for a while and I had some other things in my life I wanted to focus on a bit more. However, I have kept my thumb in the water to see if it was hot.
On the 4th of August is the Andra Reunion scheduled in Lava Hot Springs. A number of the family were each asking me if I knew more details so I took it upon myself to find out the details. I then took all the information and assembled it into an e-mail and sent it out to the 40 or so individuals whose e-mails I have who are linked to the Andra family. As a sneaky little family history person, I placed a chart with all the descendents I have for the Andra family. I asked that if I was missing any or needed an update, to please let me know. I also encouraged people to pass on the notice about the reunion to those who did not or may not have received it.
Within a week I received about a dozen e-mails with updates on those directly related. But then the more exciting e-mails started to appear.
As I have written about earlier, the only real family I have had difficulty in obtaining their information is that of the eldest son, William. He passed away in the early 90's and Edith continues to live in Missouri. She has moved in recently with her son, Marc, and has slowed in her age. In about 2001 she insisted I would not have their records for privacy and legal reasons. I met with her son, Kent, the same day and they pretty much insisted on the same. I left it behind but continued to foster friendship.
Kent passed away in 2003 and my communication with his family opened up. His wife Mary gave me group sheets with all the information on all of Kent's family and opened up e-mail communication. Ever since, I have been updated with every new addition. But she has insisted she doesn't have contact with the rest of the family. In sending out the family reunion e-mail, I don't know how, but I received an e-mail from 2 of Kent's brothers inquiring about the family reunion. It opened communication with those families. Already, I have added one of those two brother's information to the family records. The other one is openly willing to share.
What added to it more is that I was able to ask about the other two brother's families for whom I did not have any information. They openly gave me their e-mail addresses and I look forward to e-mailing them. This was pretty well the final major hole in any of the descendents of the Andra family. I am very thrilled to have had it fall together so well. Even if it has been 6 years in banging my head against the wall.
The next bit I would like to add relates to another Andra door. This is through Donald's line though. As I have related before in 2006, I have pursued another line which had been lost to the Andra family. It was Don's daughter Lori Kaye. I finally was able to track her mother's family down and then her. It fit nicely that at the time we lived only a few miles away. At that time they welcomed me in, we became friends, but there was no option of expanding that door to allow Don back in to her life.
Friendship and continued communication with Lori Kaye kept things good. Then the change came. Her daughter, Sunny, was getting married. I received an invitation and invited some of the rest of the family to go in on a gift. Don also sent Lori Kaye a birthday card, the first one in over 50 years of her life. Add to that her husband's call as a Bishop, Don & Lolane's call for a mission, and everything just came. Don so earnestly wanted to make some mends in this case and I seem to think the Gleim's wanted to resolve the difference as well. Completely unknown to me until after the fact, they met and enjoyed dinner together one night. In visiting with Don and Lolane later, it was absolutely amazing. All animosity, if any, was not present. They enjoyed each other's company and the night was wonderful. I really wish every story of estrangement could work out so well.
I look forward to those other doors which I knocked on to open up completely. I wonder what the next one will be…


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Winter returns to Colorado, but some garden plants remain undaunted
A garden is never as quiet as when winter returns to give us a stern backward glance.
As of Tuesday evening, I'm not ready to call this storm a total fizzle, though as I write this, Loveland has a paltry few inches compared to reports of nine in Boulder. I definitely wanted a big, sloppy, wet, tree-feeding, bulb-perking, bird-wallow-inducing upslop. I was ready.