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LANCASTER – United Nat-ural Foods Incorporated celebrated their grand opening on Danieldale Road with a customer appreciation day held Wednesday, Aug. 25.
"I am excited to see the business open," said Western Regional President Kurt Luttecke.
UNFI is the leading national distributor of natural, organic and specialty foods and plans to hire at least 200 employees from the area.
"I would say we will have around 225 to 240 employees to start and we are ready to employee at least 200 here," said Luttecke.
The center is currently using 400,000 square foot and can expand another 200,000 when needed for additional space.
According to Luttecke, this is an ideal central location to support retailers throughout the Southwest including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Strategically, the Lancaster distribution center extends UNFI's focus on lowering operating costs in its distribution network; enhancing efficiencies, improving productivity through "best in class" warehousing and inventory control systems as well as reducing Greenhouse gas emissions.
The Lancaster facility will be the company's 21st distribution center in its nationwide distribution network.
Environmental design focuses on resource and energy conservation, use of sustainable and recycled-content building materials and indoor air quality for the building occupants.
During an interview conducted onsite of the new center, Luttecke said UNFI intends to submit an application for LEED ® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification upon completion of the build out.
Additionally, by transferring distribution routes from their Denver facility to Lancaster, the company hopes to be reducing greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions significantly.
"It just makes sense, Albert's Organics Produce, an extension of our company, is also based here and we will be able to take advantage of all the rural organic farmers based in Texas without all the transporting," said Luttecke.
Luctteke has worked with UNFI for the last four years with an additional 20 years in retail background with Whole Foods and Wild Oats companies.


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I had a family at that time and really Birmingham city is a nice city for me. Everything around me was friendly. Also, I am a Muslim and was living near Muslim area and this might be a pro or might be a con. But finding halal food was very easy and I do not face any problems at all in this. About studying, it was a real pleasure to study PhD in a calm and nice place.
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Another group in Washington is raising concerns over whether the state's rail infrastructure can safely support an increase in oil trains. This time it's the state's rail safety regulators.
Gov. Jay Inslee says more needs to be done to prevent and respond to oil spills, as trains increasingly move volatile shipments of crude oil through Washington state.
A regional oil spill task force met in Portland Wednesday to discuss the risks of crude oil traveling by rail.
Four West Coast senators want the federal government to expand a recent order for railroads to notify state emergency responders about crude oil shipments from the Great Plains.
If train shipments of coal and oil keep increasing, many communities across the country could feel the congestion.
Protesters have set up a human-occupied tripod over tracks along a route that follows the Columbia River to a train-to-barge crude oil facility near Clatskanie, Oregon.
As more oil trains travel along the Columbia River and Puget Sound, conservation groups worry that cleanup plans could harm sensitive wildlife, like endangered salmon and shorebirds. that concern is prompting legal action.
The Oregon Transportation Commission has approved nearly $5 million in public subsidies for rail and dock infrastructure tied to a controversial oil-by-rail project. It denied funding for a coal export dock.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality approved a new air quality permit Tuesday for Oregon's only oil train terminal in Clatskanie and received roughly 1,400 comments in the process.
Oregon Senators offered local fire chiefs a chance to share concerns about oil train safety with a high-ranking official from the Department of Transportation on Monday in Eugene.
Oregon congressmen Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are holding a roundtable discussion about oil trains Monday in Eugene.
The Columbia River Gorge Commission has passed a resolution against the transport of coal and crude oil along the river that divides Washington and Oregon.
While many officials are focused on the safety risks of shipping crude oil by rail, a new report raises safety concerns about another shipping method: oil by water.
A new statewide rail safety report identifies gaps in the resources Oregon needs to prevent and respond to an oil train derailment.
Fatigue remains a major cause of railroad accidents and incidents after decades of warnings. Safety advocates say oil by rail has raised the stakes for finding a solution.
It's been a bad week for Tesoro in the press. A KUOW investigation revealed that four years after a deadly blast at the company's plant in Anacortes, no one has been held accountable. Now, the Sightline Institute has issued a scathing report on Tesoro's practices.
In a new DHM Research poll, 56 percent of Northwest residents said they support transportation of oil by rail to reach West Coast refineries, with the refined oil being used for domestic purposes.
Newly released documents show that three trains are hauling oil from North Dakota each week to a Columbia River shipping terminal in northwestern Oregon.
BNSF Railway now hauls nearly 20 trains per week of crude oil through the Pacific Northwest. Railroad workers and industry experts say that while railroads have gotten safer over the years, a culture remains that silences whistleblowers and prioritizes speed over safety.
BNSF Railway moves 15 or more trains per week of crude oil through 10 different counties in Washington, according to railroad notifications made public Tuesday.
BNSF Railway says it's not going to court to block Washington state from releasing oil train notification information under its public records law.
A review board recommends that the state of Oregon spend $4 millions to help expand a controversial crude oil and coal export dock at the Port of St. Helens near Clatskanie, Oregon.
Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to review the sufficiency of the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest emergency order on oil trains.
The Northwest's two main freight rail operators are complying with a federal requirement to inform states about the North Dakota crude oil they're hauling -- but they want the states to keep the public from finding out by signing for non-disclosure agreements.
The Vancouver City Council formally takes a stance in opposition to building the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail shipping facility. Tuesday's early-morning vote on a non-binding resolution follows six hours of citizen testimony.
A Washington state study says the potential risks of an oil spill could spike if three marine terminals are built, bringing increased vessel traffic to Puget Sound.
Reductions in Oregon's state hazardous materials teams have left a gap in Central Oregon, where there was previously little need for hazmat response. Now railroads are carrying more and more crude oil, a classified hazardous material, through the region.
A growing number of oil trains are now moving south along Oregon's Deschutes River, presenting a new risk for oil spills along one of Oregon's most iconic rivers and new safety concerns for communities in the region.
A fuel terminal along the Willamette River is now accepting train shipments of crude oil from Utah, making it Oregon's second oil-by-rail destination, state officials confirmed Thursday.
Northwest emergency responders soon will receive more information about how much Bakken crude oil is moving by rail through their communities.
After the oil train derailment in Lynchburg, Virginia, last week, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation with a list of requests for improving oil train safety.
The Port of Vancouver on Wednesday released an updated version of its lease for the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail transfer terminal, featuring fewer censored details but maintaining redactions of key issues the port considers sensitive.
At a briefing held Tuesday at Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's request, oil train safety officials answered questions about preparing for and responding to derailments and spills.
As more oil trains move through the region, residents of one small city in Washington tell regulators they're concerned about the potential for a spill or explosion that could devastate their community and create an environmental catastrophe.
Environmental regulators in Washington state are expecting a lively crowd Thursday in the coastal city of Hoquiam, where the public gets a chance to weigh in about increased crude oil train traffic.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., visited Vancouver, Wash. this week and spoke against a proposed oil-by-rail terminal in the city, citing train safety concerns.
U.S. Sen Patty Murray, D-Wash., plans hearing on oil train safety while Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Maria Cantwell of Washington push for federal spending to speed up tank car retrofitting and increase rail inspections.
The Washington state board reviewing what would be the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail terminal will undertake a sweeping analysis of the facility's environmental effects — from the extraction of the oil to its ultimate consumption.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality imposes an unusually big fine against a crude oil terminal on the Columbia River that violated its air quality permit.
A majority of the Vancouver City Council now publicly opposes plans to build the Northwest's largest oil-handling facility at the Port of Vancouver.
Federal law allows railroads using industry-standard tank cars to avoid filing comprehensive response plans, and state regulators don't have authority to do so either -- nor are they likely to get it.
At a meeting between the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, local businesses and BNSF Railway, the railroad explained its safety plans and explained why Vancouver is an attractive route for its trains carrying crude oil.
Have you been wondering about the Port of Portland's position on oil by rail? If so, you're not alone. The port responded to inquiries today, saying it might consider the idea one day – but not today.
Rail tank cars being used to ship crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region are an "unacceptable public risk," and even cars voluntarily upgraded by the industry may not be sufficient, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
Several fiery derailments prompt the U.S. Department of Transportation issued an emergency order requiring crude oil from North Dakota and Montana to be tested before being transported by railroads.
A national fuel storage company has leased a former asphalt plant on the Willamette River with plans to use it as a rail and marine terminal for crude oil.
The Navy blames a failed pump for its spill of 2,000 gallons of oily wastewater in Puget Sound's Hood Canal. Containing the spill is like "chasing a ghost," a spokesman said.
In Olympia, state lawmakers are going down divergent tracks in how to respond to the rapid increase of crude oil trains crossing the region.
The Spokane City Council passed a resolution Monday night asking for more studies of oil trains and protections for the city.
Oregon's governor is calling for a review of oil train safety. The move follows a push by Washington's governor to bring greater scrutiny to the increasing volume of oil being transported by train.
Safer practices and better steel could have prevented a deadly explosion at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, Wash., in 2010, according to a new report from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.
Federal officials are recommending tougher state and federal oversight of oil refineries after investigating a 2010 explosion and fire at a Tesoro Corp. refinery in Anacortes that killed seven workers.
The figure often cited by the rail industry and proponents of oil by rail is not inaccurate, but there's more to the story.
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley call on railroad company executives to address mounting concerns about oil train safety along the Columbia River.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is reviewing the spill contingency plan for the export terminal handling crude oil north of Clatskanie and offering the public its first glimpse of the plan.
Environmental groups in Washington are outlining their legislative goals for this 60-day upcoming session. One major focus: oil train safety.
A Clark County judge has given a partial victory to the Port of Vancouver in a lawsuit over a proposed oil terminal.
Only a small percentage of trains carrying hazardous materials are inspected as they move through Oregon and Washington. Safety advocates and legislators are more concerned about what federal regulations allow than the fewer than 1 percent of cars found with safety violations.
Northwesterners are paying attention to the fiery derailments hitting other parts of North America where the oil-by-rail boom is underway. State regulators here say they need more disclosure from railroad and oil companies to prepare for such oil-train mishaps.
Since fracking began in the Midwest in 2012, train cars filled with crude oil now roll right through the city of Pendleton to reach Portland. But the fiery images from three North American oil train derailments since July have sparked concern about the tank cars.
Just before New Years an oil train derailed and exploded in North Dakota. Now a federal agency has just issued a safety alert about the dangers of moving oil by train.
The state agency reviewing a proposed oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver piled up more than 31,000 comments before Wednesday's deadline passed.
A proposal to ship North Dakota crude oil by train to Vancouver mostly drew opponents to a public hearing Wednesday night in Spokane.
Vancouver city officials presented a draft document outlining Vancouver's concerns about a proposed oil terminal. The city will send its concerns to the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council as part of the environmental review scoping process.
Northwest emergency responders gather for some verbal role-playing when it comes to an oil spill -- an increasing possibility under the region's many oil-by-rail proposals. **(Updated Nov. 20)**
A state regulatory board is blocking approval of permits for two crude oil shipping terminals in Grays Harbor, Wash., saying backers have failed to address public safety and environmental issues.
The public has more time to comment on plans for an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver.
Northwest refineries are already accepting oil by rail, more and more of it with each passing month, coming in from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota. Now, as the U.S. faces a domestic glut of oil production, Congress is debating allowing more oil exports.
About 300 people attended the first Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council hearing on the Tesoro-Savage oil terminal Tuesday.
Washington agencies are holding two public meetings Monday and Tuesday on a controversial oil terminal proposed for the Port of Vancouver.
The Port of Vancouver Commission re-voted to approve a lease for the Tesoro-Savage oil terminal Tuesday.
The Port Commission of Vancouver is holding a public meeting on Tuesday to reopen discussion on a controversial oil by rail terminal.
About a hundred people attended a community meeting on the Tesoro-Savage oil terminal in Vancouver Monday night.
The Washington State Auditor's Office will examine the Port of Vancouver's decision to bar the public from a discussion of a controversial oil terminal as part of its next regular review of the port in April 2014.
Three of the Northwest's proposed coal export terminals have been dropped by investors. Now, a train-to-oil project reaches a similar fate.
Representatives with Shell Oil will meet with officials from a county in Washington state to talk about expanding rail capacity to bring oil from North Dakota to the company's refinery on the shore of Puget Sound.
The Coast Guard says a 65-foot, Oregon-based fishing vessel has run aground four miles west of Valdez, Alaska.
An environmental group has filed a lawsuit alleging that hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers are illegally polluting water.
The Port of Vancouver has released copies of the lease agreement Port commissioners approved last week for a controversial oil terminal. The document wasn't available to the public until Monday.
Hundreds of people came to the waterfront in Vancouver, Wash., Saturday for a sun-baked demonstration against the fossil fuel industry, and its projects in the Northwest.
The Port of Vancouver Commission voted unanimously today to approve a lease for a controversial oil terminal proposed by Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies.
The Port of Vancouver Commission is scheduled to hold a workshop and a vote on a controversial oil terminal lease this week. The workshop is scheduled for Monday night, and the vote is on the commission's agenda for Tuesday morning.
A deadly Quebec oil-train explosion has given pause to Port of Vancouver commissioners in southwest Washington. They want to rethink their next move with a proposal for a terminal to move oil from trains onto ships.
The weekend's deadly oil-train derailment and explosion in the Canadian province of Quebec has raised concerns in the Pacific Northwest, where there are several proposals to increase the amount of oil transported into to the region by train.
More Washington state oil refineries are preparing to accept crude oil shipments from North Dakota.
Oil refiner Tesoro and a terminal operating company named Savage detailed plans Thursday for the biggest crude oil shipping terminal to be proposed in the Northwest.
Pacific Northwest refineries have been getting their crude oil for years from tankers and pipelines. Last September, trains began shipping crude oil into the region by rail.
The Port of Vancouver in southwest Washington could start handling crude oil from North Dakota under an agreement announced Monday.
The Port of Grays Harbor is holding a public workshop Wednesday in Aberdeen on proposals for trains to deliver crude oil to an export terminal.
Just as Washington environmental regulators finish up a series of meetings on oil spill readiness, a half-mile sheen appeared on the Columbia River near Longview. Contractors quickly contained the diesel spill this week. It's one of about 1,800 spills in Oregon and Washington each year.
There are more problems for the oil-spill containment barge being built on the Bellingham, Wash, waterfront. Coast Guard officials say Shell Oil's Arctic Challenger has caused several small spills of its own in the past few weeks.
Bret A. Simpson pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to two criminal violations of the Clean Water Act for spilling oil in the Columbia River.
The end is in sight for a derelict vessel that has been moored to a publicly owned dock for the past three months.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire fly over the Columbia and Willamette rivers Friday to get a bird's eye view of the derelict and abandoned vessels languishing in those waters. **UPDATE (Friday p.m.):** Kitzhaber and Gregoire return from flyover with reaction.
We take a look at derelict and abandoned vessels in the waters of the Northwest -- and how states are coping with the environmental hazards associated with them.
The U.S. Coast Guard and its contractors spent 10 months and $22 million removing the Davy Crockett barge from the Columbia River in 2011. Workers prevented a major environmental disaster, but an EarthFix investigation has found that state and federal officials could have prevented an oil spill and the need for a multi-million-dollar cleanup.
Every year more than 300 tons of petroleum ends up in Puget Sound. Much of it gets there in drips and drabs – from small spills or fuel leaks at the local marina to leaky tailpipes on city streets - and it's compromising the ability of fish to survive in the wild. Read part II of our Oil in the Northwest series.
Every year, vessels carry more than [15 billion](http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/studies_reports/ecypspreview-dwhcommissionreport.html "") of gallons of oil and fuel through Pacific Northwest waters, putting Washington and Oregon at constant risk of spills that could cripple parts of their economies and devastate marine life and environmentally sensitive shorelines.


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The studies suggest that most available sunscreens do little, if anything, to protect against skin cancer and skin aging.
Now, the Food and Drug Administration is proposing sweeping new standards for sunscreen.
They want a new four star labeling system that would rate the sunscreen's protection.
They also want to crack down on vague label claims, that they say could make you believe your sunscreen is doing something it can't.
"Fifty percent of products on the market have claims on the bottle that could mean the product is misbranded or that are misleading to consumers," says Jane Houlihan with the Environmental Working Group.
The FDA proposals probably won't take effect until 2009.
For now, they recommends looking for the following products on the ingredients label, that mean the sunscreen is protecting you from UVA and UVB rays:
Titanium dioxide
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We are an IT Company which provides high-end custom software development and consulting services for businesses of all sizes (focusing primarily on Large to Medium).
We continuously strive to utilize the latest software development platforms, tools and techniques in order to provide our clients with solutions that are ahead of the industry standard.
By focusing on business patterns and agile requirement conversion we are able to deliver small packages of results continuously. This guides us toward the perfect product to help you enhance your data storage, communication and reporting.
We approach your needs in two broad categories
- Enterprise Data Applications
- Customer Facing solutions, including marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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Our delivery approach bridges many of the best techniques, processes and tools in the industry. We use a pragmatic Agile approach, which draws from most of the key principles of the industry Agile system, but allows us to focus on the key pieces to fit a light-weight, small sized team. This process allows us to create a road-map for your project and constantly communicate with you and your team to ensure that we are delivering exactly what you need and want. You will never have to wonder what we're creating and/or where it's at. We use Microsoft's Agile tracking tool (Team Foundation Server) to track and report these tasks.
Smart Group Consulting Offers 360° Solutions
Smart's core focus is around the data driven applications, and we have partnered with Campfire Media to work with customers in the customer-centric website and marketing seo arena. Please visit their website to understand more about their offerings (www.campfiremedia.us)
At Smart, we've had the opportunity to work with companies to help them refine applications built around their processes. We've found a very consistent application evolution. Most (if not all) these companies tend to follow this cycle:
- Paper Documents and File Management
- Excel Tracking tools (including reporting and aggregation of business pertinent data)
- Access (or other lightweight database system)
- And, eventually a migration to a fully relational data system with a globally accessible user interface (such as web or mobile devices) - potentially poising you for subscription sales to external customers - This arena is our key focus area.
Data Storage / Retrieval Evolution
It is possible to bridge the paper document to the electronic world by scanning and categorizing the documents in systems like Sharepoint and FileNet.
We've worked with businesses to do this, as well... Soon after the implementation, it becomes an immediate desire/need to update information (thus leading further down the path).
The issue becomes scalability and redundancy. Although you have a system that gets you to the decisions you need, now, the maintenance required tends to be quite cumbersome and often indiviually specialized.
This is hightened when the process is repetitive based on year, quarter, month or sometimes even day.
Unfortunately, after a short period of time, limitations are hit around accessibility (web / external), scalability (growing customer base), reliability (compact/repair as a short term resolution) and extensibility (growing it beyond its original scope).
There really is only one answer from here!
This evolution also allows you to take advantage of the latest technologies around reporting and system integration.
We have created / migrated over a hundered systems and know exactly what to look for within your process to get it right, the first time!
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We Develop Enterprise Data-Driven Solutions
Our team of experienced developers build data systems and websites for most aspects of businesses, ranging in size from small start-ups (1-5 employees), to medium (small franchise restaurants, etc.) to enterprise size corporations (with hundreds of offices and thousands of employees). We have also worked in the arena of government processes (around land management and taxation). The process that we've recognized and refined, is what separates us from other software vendors, consultants and programmers. Simply stated, we've identified the overlapping patterns and technical requirements that allow us to re-use our core framework to deliver scalable, secure, enterprise, data driven applications with a cutting edge user interface and client-side experience. We continue to focus on enhancing the user experience whether it's your team for business administrative applications or your customers for sales and marketing sites. By leaning toward the latest technology to allow device agnostic access to your important company information from anywhere.
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HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery to provide the most user friendly and advanced user experience. Device Independent for ease of access anywhere.
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We use Arvixe, Azure or internal hosting solutions (depending on your security and reliability requirements) – we help you decide what makes the most sense for your business needs, and can scale to any size.
Agile Task Management
Microsoft Team Foundation Server – Using Agile Process Templates for workflow management allows us to utilize our Pragmatic Agile approach to deliver / enhance immediately and communicate with you, real time.
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SQL Server 2012, or others depending on your requirements. We can also integrate with any other data providers (including API and SOA). We know how important protecting your data and proprietary business processes and information are. We utilize Microsoft and other 3rd party tools and techniques to guarantee security on every level.
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We can integrate with your existing data applications in multiple ways - retrieval via SOA, API or other customer interfaces. Exposing via SOA, API, direct access and/or exports.
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Our innovative Smart Framework provides us the ability to drill into your data to assist you in your decision making process, like no other toolset, today. We allow you get to the data you need, then export it into Word, Excel, PDF or printable page, where necessary.
We Develop Enterprise Data-Driven Solutions
At Smart, we have focused very specifically on the overlapping constructs, unique business variants and business specific work-flow/milestones that your business process includes. We can help you/your business avoid any of the steps relevant to this evolution by taking you right to the final stage (independent of what your current processes are). Our unique, highly evolved tool-set allows us to reuse most (if not all) of your existing data and pre-defined/programmed algorithms around your existing systems. We have also built custom overlays over existing enterprise backend systems to allow you a more specific and friendly flow to access and manage your company's backbone data (including SAP, Commerce Server, Kronos and more).
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- Our main objective in the initial phase is to create and provide documentation and wireframes of your solutions overall framework and functionality. Once all the solution requirements are created and approved, we move forward with the actual development.
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Smart Group Consulting has built solid, long-life systems for these arenas:
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CEO of Smart Group Consulting, United StatesWyn is a business consultant from Georgia Tech. He has created many successful business ventures in and outside of the software arena. He owns and manages a mortgage broker business, and helps set direction and focus for Smart.
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CEO of Smart Consulting Group, CanadaDerek has worked with the Canadian First Nations to develop and host end to end solutions to assist them in their taxation and document repositories. Read More about Derek and the Canadian Partner: Smart Group, Inc.
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Co-founder, Senior Developer & Lead Project ManagerRoger holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science, and has 15+ years' experience in both the computer software industry and program management. While working for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, he developed and managed software projects for the C-130J aircraft program, C-27J aircraft program, and the F-22 Team Program Office. In addition, he lead numerous quick turnaround estimates involving gathering a team quickly together, identifying requirements, risk, and creating notional schedules in the range from $2 million to $500 million. Finally, at Lockheed Martin Roger balanced many projects simultaneously ranging various aspects of the F-22 Program (i.e. Travel Pod Development, Stress and Fatigue, Weight and Balance, Electrical Power Management and Thermal, Weapons Systems, etc.). Roger's further experience includes internet and telephone banking, Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions, speech recognition software, and medical dictation solutions while at Equifax E-Banking Solutions and Proficient Inc.
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Co-founder, Senior Enterprise Engineer & Systems DevelopmentBilly is a Computer Engineer from Georgia Tech with 20 years of experience in manufacturing, sales, distribution, e-commerce and enterprise Microsoft System Development. He has worked within every facet of a Fortune 500 company, winning multiple awards and accolades around his innovation and diligent delivery techniques. He has balanced many high-profile systems development in parallel for years: including significant contribution to the tools that Weyerhaeuser uses for OSB Sales, Lumber Sales, Online Order Status, Quality Assurance Testing/Metrics and their Company's intranet and sub-intranets. Additionally, he has managed the growth of a Canadian Taxation System, Ameris Bank's REO Site, Precision Estimating's End to end sales and administrative system, and Process Control's CRM Tool. Billy's talent and specialty is his ability to transfer any range of customer business requirements into technical requirements that can be implemented using our unique toolset.
Greg Bishop
Lead DeveloperGreg holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics, and is the resident expert on development. He, too, has worked for a Fortune 500 company, contributing his expertise in the creation of several business applications essential to day-to-day operations. In addition to taking the lead in new design, his role includes training and working with our team of junior and contracted developers to ensure we are collaboratively creating the right product for our customers. He leverages HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, and ASP.NET to create fluid, dynamic, feature-rich web applications.
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I kicked off the conference Thursday night at BikeMKE, an event that benefits the Midwest BikeShare, and showcased the poster art of Michael Valenti. The Hanson Dodge Creative office space had been transformed into a gallery filled with creatives, cyclists, activists and artists. Valenti's posters are fun, quirky depictions of famous scenes and cyclists. The brightly colored, imaginative prints lined the staircase and office walls, and really captivated and enlivened the crowd.
Valenti is based in Illinois, but his son Maxx works at Hanson Dodge. "Hey, my old man did this," Maxx told Ken Hanson, as he showed him one of his father's posters. Having owned a successful creative agency for 30 years, Hanson knows a thing or two about spotting talent and saw a natural fit between Valenti's cycling images and Hanson Dodge Creative's active lifestyle brand. So he offered to put them on display.
Valenti took it a step further and offered the proceeds from the sales of the limited-edition BikeMKE (pictured at left) poster to support Midwest Bike Share.
Midwest BikeShare is working hard to install 25 kiosks with 250 bikes in Milwaukee. Barry Mainwood reported to the crowd that they are only about one third of the way to their $1.6 million fundraising goal, so he doesn't anticipate that we will have bikes by this summer. They plan to offer memberships and hourly rental rates, with the first 30 minutes free for members to keep the bikes out on the streets. If you support the movement to bring a Bike Share program to Milwaukee, you can sign the petition here.
Friday night, I followed the "Print Crawl" – kind of like a mini-gallery night, cleverly named to sound like one of Milwaukee's favorite pastimes, a pub crawl.
I stopped at Walker's Point Center for the Arts (839 S. 5th St.) to see the exhibition "La Ceiba Grafica," named after a print workshop in Veracruz, Mexico.The democratic facilities are available to the public, regardless of their ability to pay. Though there were only a couple dozen images depicting familiar themes in Mexican art – self-identity, political activism – it blew me away. What's more – the sustainable printmaking studio uses Mexican marble and other local resources for the lithography process. Per Anderson, Martin Vinaver and Rafael Ruiz, the organization's founding members, curated the show.
I stopped at the MARN Salon IV at the Mandel Creative Studios (301 E. Erie St.), but nothing really grabbed me so I moved through to MIAD (273 E. Erie St.) to see the "Makers in Print" exhibit with works from China, Argentina and Poland. Other colorful works were on display by master printers and honorees Margo Humphrey and Judith Solodkin – all very different from the next.
Peltz Gallery (1119 E. Knapp St.) Gallery featured "Top Drawer Prints" curated by Warrington Colescott, the well-known Wisconsin-based artist. I learned I missed a guest appearance by the master himself. "Oh, you'd recognize him right away. He walks with a cane and has a little gray goatee. He must be 90 by now," said one of the gallery employees.
I fell in love with a busy scene, one of Colescott's satirical etchings, but agreed to sleep on it before I made any major art purchases. On the second floor of the whimsical, brightly colored house-turned-gallery, Cheryl Olson-Sklar, a former professor of printmaking at UWM, curated "Top Drawer Small Prints," a collection of small works by Wisconsin artists.
The bottom line: Milwaukee is home to some fascinating, forward-thinking artists and people championing art. It was the city's honor to host the SGCI conference here and I think Milwaukee's distinction as a "Top 12 Art Place" is well deserved.
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Although violence has fallen dramatically, fighters often carry out deadly attacks [AFP]
At least 32 people have been killed and 124 others injured in six car bombings across Baghdad, Iraqi defence ministry officials say.
The deadliest attack on Monday occurred in Sadr City, a predominantly Shia neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the Iraqi capital, where a car bomb killed at least 10 people and injured 60 others.
In the central Allawi district, another explosion killed four people and wounded 15 others.
A car bomb targeting the convoy of a senior interior ministry official killed one civilian and a policeman and injured four policemen in the southeastern neighbourhood of New Baghdad.
"The explosion caused major damage to buildings and they even hurt some children," Abdul-Jabar Saad, a shopkeeper who witnessed that attack, said.
"God damn these people."Two other people were also killed and 12 others wounded when a vehicle exploded near a market in the district of Hussainiya.
Another car bomb exploded near the Doura district, killing four people and injuring 15 more, according to police.Interior ministry officials have declined to comment on whether the bombings were co-ordinated.The attacks came after Iraqi forces last week put down an uprising by members of a so-called Awakening Council group in Baghdad angry over the arrest of their commander.
Although violence has fallen dramatically in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, arious armed groups are still able to strike with deadly results.
At least 250 Iraqis were killed in violence in March.
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Current Exhibitions & Events
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Recent Exhibitions & Events
As the Ink Flows:
|Current, Start: 08/22/2014, End: 12/19/2014
"Let Every Heart Be Filled with Joy"
|Coming, Start: 12/08/2014, End: 12/25/2016
Recent Acquisitions
On exhibit September 3, 2013-December 13, 2013
Goldstein Family Gallery, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
September 3, 2013-January 24, 2013
Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, first floor
Annually, the Penn Libraries acquires thousands of new books, periodicals, and materials in various formats for use by students and researchers. This exhibition will showcase many of these recent acquisitions and honor our donors. Materials on display are drawn from the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the Middle Eastern Collection, and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
|Recent, Start: 09/03/2013, End: 01/24/2014
Audubon's Birds of America
On exhibit beginning Friday, May 10, 2013
First floor (next to the Information Desk), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce a new permanent exhibition case devoted to the display of John James Audubon's spectacular Birds of America (1827-38). Penn's double elephant folio set of the Birds was a gift of Edwin H. Vare, Jr. in 1957-59. The page opening from the volume on display will be changed on a monthly basis.
For more information
|Current, Start: 05/10/2025, End: 12/25/2025
A Legacy Inscribed: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts
On exhibit March 11, 2013-August 16, 2013
Goldstein Family Gallery, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, donated to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by Penn Libraries Board members Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C53, WG56), embodies the great scientific and philosophical traditions of the ancient and medieval world. The manuscripts in this exhibition document the extraordinary achievements of European, Arabic, and Jewish scholars, philosophers, and the practitioners of science, medicine, and law. Often illustrated with complex diagrams and stunning imagery, these manuscripts bring to the present the intellectual legacy of the medieval past.
More information about the exhibition | Virtual exhibition
|Recent, Start: 03/11/2013, End: 08/16/2013
Ormandy in China: The Historic 1973 Tour
On exhibit November 2, 2012 - Late 2014
Eugene Ormandy Gallery, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, 4th floor
The 1973 tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra marked an important milestone in relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Following on the heels of Richard Nixon's trip to visit Mao Zedong in 1972, the tour was a successful attempt at cultural diplomacy--the first visit to China by an American orchestra. In recognition of the fortieth anniversary of this historic tour, "Ormandy in China" reexamines the ten-day visit and places the tour in the context of the political and cultural climate of the time.
|Recent, Start: 11/02/2014, End: 12/13/2014
Cataloging Conflict
Thursday, October 16, 2014, 5:30PM
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
As part of Philly Archives Month, our catalogers will display items from Penn's collections that document, or were inspired by, conflict. Please join us to see propaganda toilet paper, letters to soldiers, 15th-century indulgences sold to raise money for papal armies, soldiers' songs performed by Marian Anderson, sketchbooks from battlefronts, photograph albums, and ... Penn's famous Rocket Cats!
|Recent, Start: 10/14/2014, End: 10/17/2014
Tomorrow Never Knows:
|Recent, Start: 02/24/2014, End: 08/11/2014
Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555 - 1890:
|Recent, Start: 02/18/2014, End: 06/09/2014
Unpublished Titanic Collection Lands at the Penn Libraries
Tuesday, April 29, 2014; 5:30PM
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
Please join the Penn Libraries and members of the Thayer family for a reception to welcome the John B. Thayer Memorial Collection of the Sinking of the Titanic to its permanent home in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. This unique collection, until now in private hands, documents the personal experience of John B. Thayer (Jack), a Penn alumnus who went on to serve the University as the Vice-President of Finance from 1939 to 1945, and his mother, Marian Longstreth Morris Thayer, both of whom survived the fateful shipwreck of 1912.
|Recent, Start: 04/27/2014, End: 04/30/2014
Pataphysics Then and Now: A Conference
Friday, March 21 - Saturday, March 22, 2014
Slought Foundation and Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
Part of Philadelphia a la Pataphysique, this two day conference will explore the life, works, and influence of French modernist Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). Jarry's "science of imaginary solutions--which he termed 'pataphysics--has had a substantial influence on 20th- and 21st-century art, theory, and culture. 'Pataphysics has influenced not only avant-garde practices throughout the past century, but also popular culture, from science fiction to Monty Python and The Beatles. An exhibition of Jarry-related highlights from the rare book and art collection of Linda Klieger Stillman will be on display at the Kislak Center on Saturday.
|Recent, Start: 03/21/2014, End: 03/22/2014
7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium
on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Collecting Histories
Thursday, November 6 through Saturday, November 8, 2014
Free Library of Philadelphia and
the University of Pennsylvania
The 7th Annual Schoenberg Symposium highlights the work of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts by bringing together scholars and digital humanists whose work concerns the study of provenance and the history of collecting pre-modern manuscripts. The study of provenance is the study of the histories of the book.
|Current, Start: 11/6/2014, End: 11/8/2014
The School of Atha:
|Current, Start: 09/08/2014, End: 03/27/2015
Shakespearian Residues:
|Recent, Start: 04/23/2014, End: 06/09/2014
Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Fund for Library Public Events
Creating Children's Books:
|Recent, Start: 10/17/2014, End: 10/18/2014
The A. S. W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe
Ann Blair, Harvard University
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
Intellectual work in early Modern Europe was rarely performed alone, despite literary and iconographical representations to the contrary--scholars worked with others in many ways. In these lectures, Professor Blair focuses on the family members, students, and servants who served as amanuenses by helping an author or scholar in the process of composing and writing.
Hidden Helpers
Monday, March 17, 2014, 5:30 PM
Hands and Minds at Work
Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 5:30 PM
Authors and Amanuenses
Thursday, March 20, 2013, 5:30 PM
|Recent, Start: 03/17/2014, End: 03/21/2014
Curator-Led Tour of Children's Literature Exhibits
Friday, October 31, 2014, 3:00 PM
Tour begins in the Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, first floor
Join us for a special guided tour of of our fall exhibitions: As the Ink Flows: Works from the Pen of William Steig and The School of Atha: Collaboration in the Making of Children's Books. Lynne Farrington, Curator of Printed Books at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, will lead the tour.
The Penn Ghost Project 1884-2014:
|Recent, Start: 10/31/2014, End: 11/04/2014
Robert and Molly Freedman Sound Archive
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Blake's full-time concert ministry started right after Blake graduated college in 2005. The Lord had been tugging on his heart for a long time to start this ministry and although it has always been Blake's dream and goal to sing Christian music, he did not expect to start so soon. Blake says, "I was doing the very best I could to wait on the Lord so I would not jump into something too quickly. But this time I watched as each door I thought the Lord was opening ended up closing, leaving only one way for me: I walked through and went straight into full-time concert ministry."
The first group Blake toured with was The Continental Singers in the summer of 1998. While a part of The Continentals, Blake had the privilege of singing backup for Greg Long at one of his concerts. Blake has also toured with several other groups including the Master's Hand Quartet who were invited to sing on stage at a Robbie Hiner "Old Gospel Hour Quartet" concert. Blake is a studio singer for "Christian World" tracks and has shared the stage with several beloved artists such as The Booth Brothers, The Martins, Greater Vision, the Mark Trammell Quartet, Tribute Quartet, Master's Voice, Soul'd Out Quartet, fourtwelve, and many others. Blake has sung for showcases at the National Quartet Convention and has recorded televised performances for TBN and VTN networks . In 2008 Blake gained national recognition for the presence of his single "Somebody Cares" on top radio charts including "Singing News" magazine.Visit his website
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The unmistakable sound of Veritas brings a fresh approach to the contemporary classical genre. Their style is fashioned from a fusion of artistic excellence, creative pursuit, and a performance that promises to inspire an audience of any distinction.
Under the direction of Roger Breland, Veritas was formed under the name, Shofar. Most recently, Shofar joined the Truth 40th Anniversary Tour as the male vocal line. The group has performed on stages around the world, including a performance for the former President of the United States, George W. Bush. In the Fall of 2012, Jeff Anderson, James Berrian, Andrew Goodwin, Jordan Johnson, and Lucas Scott Lawrence began a concert tour of their own as Veritas.
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KABUL (PAN): The government would send 500 students abroad for higher studies this year, when another 1,500 would benefit from scholarships granted by various countries, an official said on Wednesday.
KABUL (PAN): Some Wolesi Jirga members and a government official on Monday confirmed a meeting between Iranian officials and some MPs on how to block the approval of a strategic agreement with the
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan has been unable over the past 37 years to benefit from joining the International Road Transport Union (IRU) due to decades of conflict.
KABUL (PAN): A moneychanger in Kabul has sneaked out of the country with $5 million (250.4 million afghanis) that belonged to his colleagues, officials said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan on Thursday welcomed German and Australian financial assistances to support Afghan security personnel beyond 2014.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Thursday said no individual except security personnel could carry heavy weapons anywhere in the country.
KABUL (PAN): Prices of gold dipped during the outgoing week in Kabul, while rates of other commodities remained stable, retailers said on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani on Tuesday alleged some neighbouring countries were threatening mega mine projects in order to impede Afghanistan's economic revival.
KABUL (PAN): A Canadian firm would ascertain the level of oil reserves in areas between the Aqina dry port and Andkhoi district in northern Faryab province over the next three months, officials said on Tuesday.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Hurrah for the Red, White & Blue
Don't you just love those fabrics? They would be considered vintage, right? So to my dear sister who is about to turn 30 this month, you are officially 'vintage.' Which makes turning 30 SO much cooler.
In the mean time, I'm glad we still have this baby. And yes, my mom has progressed by leaps and bounds as a quilter since then. When my 10-year old saw this quilt she fell in love and wants to have the big one in her room, if it still exists.
This little rail fence wasn't the first quilt I made, but I made this one in the first official quilting class I ever took. Such a simple little pattern, but I still like how effective it is.
Now, of course, I think it is incredibly boring that I only used three fabrics (I did go out on a limb and use a different one on the back, so I guess there are four). I hand quilted this one too (which I don't do anymore) and I just love how soft it feels.
And this little baby was one of the first things my daughter ever made on the sewing machine with some of my scraps. So I guess this combo is in our blood.
And just because I never post pictures of food (partly because it's rare that I make some thing worth taking a picture of) I will leave you with this lovely image of the grilled Jamaican Jerk chicken salad I made for dinner last night. Along with grilled pineapple. My gourmet friend, Christine gave me the recipe. (She's a Pampered Chef gal so you can probably get one from someone you know too.) Oh wow, talk about good summertime food. I had the leftovers for lunch today. And I think I could eat a whole n'other salad right now.
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Love all the red, white and blue quilts...how wonderful that you have the doll quilt your mom made!ReplyDelete
I'm quite the fan of red..white..and blue... and i love the stories behind your three little quilts...makes them even more special!ReplyDelete
Great stories behind those beautiful quilts! So cute!ReplyDelete
What a fun post! I have some of the red with hearts and flowers in my stash--it was in a bag of fabric a family friend gave me when she was cleaning out. Good to know what time period it's from!ReplyDelete
You can never go wrong with red/white/and blue!....It's great that you are able to keep the stories with the quilts.ReplyDelete
BTW-Your daughter is going to be a natural quilter!
I absolutely love the reds, whites and blues. That is a wonderful find to have those "vintage" quilts and how sweet that your daughter loves them. Your table and salad looks great, too! thanks for sharing this with us!ReplyDelete
The quilts are just lovely -- and the stories you told with them are really wonderful. Three generations -- how really special!ReplyDelete
The 3 generation quilts are great.. and the stories to go along with them!!ReplyDelete
That salad looks so yummy for a warm summer night. Wish I could get my hubby to eat salads for meals. He's a definite meat n potato guy.
Love the idea of the three generation quilts all together. I have always loved red, white, and blue in all there different shades.ReplyDelete
Love the red, white and blue quilts! You can never go wrong with that combo!ReplyDelete
Three generations of quilting loveliness! Red, white, and blue are one of my favorites. That salad looks incredible!ReplyDelete
Your salad turned out beautiful. It is a yummy one for sure! And we now have a Pineapple Wedger that makes it easy to slice up the pineapple.ReplyDelete
OK...now I'm hungry! I need to go to the grocery store today...ugh!:)ReplyDelete
Those quilts are priceless...thanks for the stories!
Thanks for sharing the quilt stories, love the colors, the quilts are cute and the food looks DELICIOUS!! Have a great 4th!ReplyDelete
Love your quilt trilogy! Great history there :) and YUM!ReplyDelete
I remember that quilt! The bigger one at least. It reminds me of ward and family picnics and watching fireworks. I wonder where it is.ReplyDelete
Lovely Red white and blue! Just Lovely.ReplyDelete
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John Hood: New budget repairs balance sheet
RALEIGH — As Democrats and Republicans debated North Carolina's recently approved state budget, they devoted much of their attention to the income statement of state government. They argued about next year's revenues and expenditures. What didn't get nearly as much attention was how the budget affected state government's balance sheet of assets and liabilities.
The new 2013-14 budget put $150 million into the repair and renovation reserve for state facilities and another $233 million into the state's rainy-day reserve, which covers unforeseen fiscal hits from recessions, lawsuits, and weather events. Going into this year, the rainy-day fund had only $419 million in it. A separate but invaluable piece of legislation limits the share of debt that can be issued without voter approval in the form of certificates of participation (COPs).
Historically, North Carolina maintained low debt burdens and prudent fiscal practices. That began to change during the late 1980s as state lawmakers coped with burgeoning population and demand for services by issuing billions of dollars in bonds for schools, roads and other infrastructure. At least they asked voters for approval during the first big round of borrowing. After the passage of a $3.1 billion higher-education bond in 2000, the state stopped holding public referenda altogether and issued COPs. Technically, COPs don't legally obligate taxpayers to pay debt service. In practice, taxpayers are still on the hook.
The combination of inadequate cash reserves and growing debt loads played an underappreciated role in the fiscal crisis North Carolina faced during the Great Recession. By 2008, the amount of state debt per North Carolinian was five times greater than in 1988. In that 2007-08 fiscal year, the state spent nearly $700 million just on General Fund debt service and held only $787 million in its rainy-day reserve, less than 4 percent of spending.
Over the next three years, the Great Recession tore huge holes in the budget. Investors holding state bonds still got paid. But public employees and vendors got pay freezes or laid off, and all North Carolinians got pay cuts in the form of tax hikes.
We may not have another Great Recession lurking around the corner, but the business cycle hasn't been repealed. State lawmakers should take precautions. The new budget bill is a start, nothing more. By the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year, it will have rebuilt state cash reserves (rainy-day fund plus other fund balances) to about $1 billion, or 5 percent of General Fund spending. Lawmakers should push that proportion up to at least 8 percent as soon as possible.
I know it's not exactly flashy for politicians to save money or reduce debt loads. You get more attention by creating new programs. Still, fiscal restraint is the smarter course. Think of it as a hedge against future public employees, retirees and taxpayers coming after you with the political equivalent of pitchforks. As former Gov. Bev Perdue can tell you, that's no fun.
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation and author of "Our Best Foot Forward," a book on North Carolina's economy. It is available at JohnLockeStore.com. Representations of fact and opinions are solely those of the author.