text: Overview of Services S S Setting the Standard in Health Care By continuously responding to the needs of the community, University Health Care System has grown into one of the largest, most comprehensive health care providers in Georgia. University provides compassionate and skilled care through inpatient and outpatient services, two extended care nursing facilities, home health services, prompt care and rehabilitative care programs. � UniversityHealthCareSystemisanchoredonitsmaincampusbyUniversityHospital, a 581-bed acute care hospital. � SatellitemedicalcampusesinMartinez,EvansandSouthAugustadeliverquality outpatient health care closer to peoples' homes. � UniversityHomeHealthprovidesphysician-directed,in-homecare,includingskilled nursing, occupational therapy, physical and speech therapy, social work and home healthaideservicesin14countiesinandaroundtheCentralSavannahRiverArea. � AtKentwoodExtendedCareFacility,thestaffstrivestomakeresidentsfeelathome and part of an extended family during their stay. This facility operated by University ExtendedCareoffers20personalcarebedsand80nursinghomebeds. � UniversitycontinuesitscommitmenttoColumbiaCounty'soutpatientneedswithfour medical office buildings, a state-of-the-art Diagnostic Imaging Center, the Surgery Center of Columbia County, Sleep Center, Speech and Hearing Center, Prompt Care, OccupationalMedicineservicesandmorethan20privatepracticephysiciangroups. AlsofeaturedontheUniversityHealthCareSystemEvansCampusarethefollowing: � WestwoodExtendedCareFacilityoffersresidentsacomfortableenvironment designed to enhance their self-image and preserve their dignity. Westwood alsohasaseparateAlzheimer'sUnittoprovideadditionalcareforpeoplewith Alzheimer'sDisease. � BrandonWilde,University's250-unitretirementcommunityinEvans,offers independent living, personal care and nursing accommodations. Residents are assured of care for life, as they may move from one level of care to another as their conditions warrant. Brandon Wilde has become one of the most respected retirement communities in the nation, having been selected five times by New Choices Magazineasoneofthetop20retirementcommunitiesinthecountry. � Aphysician-hospitalpartnershipisessentialtoanintegrateddeliverysystemof health care, so University and physician leaders formed University Health Link in 1994.ThisPhysician-HospitalOrganization(PHO)isjointlyownedbyUniversity HealthCareSystemandUniversityPhysicianAssociates,P.C.,anindependent practice association owned by its physician stakeholders. University Health Link maintains managed care contracts with area health plans that provide access to a comprehensive system of services for thousands of local employees and dependents. � UniversityHealthCareSystemandUniversityHospitalaregovernedbyvolunteer boards, whose trustees are composed of physicians and respected business leaders within our community. They unselfishly give their time and talents to help University exceed its commitment to the community it serves. 1 Excellence 2 Our medical staff of independent primary care physicians and specialists who practice at University provide everything from routine preventive and diagnostic care to comprehensive cardiovascular and oncology services, and so much more. Since1999,UniversityhasbeennamedtheConsumerChoiceAwardwinner foroverallqualityandimage.TheConsumerChoiceAwardisbasedonan independent survey of consumers conducted by the National Research Corporationtorecognizethemostpreferredhospitalsinmetropolitanareas across the country. This places University in an elite group of hospitals nationwide. University Hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an independent, not-for-profitorganization,establishedmorethan50yearsago.Joint Commission is governed by a board that includes physicians, nurses andconsumersandsetsthestandardsbywhichhealthcarequalityis measured.Thisrecognitionisanationwidesymbolofqualitythatreflectsour commitment to meeting the very highest standards. These standards guide ourcommitmenttoprovidesafe,high-qualitycareandassistinongoing monitoring of our performance. UniversityHospital'snursesarerecognizedamongthebestintheregion.The AmericanNursesCredentialingCenterhasrecognizedUniversityHospital withitsprestigiousMagnetdesignationfornursingexcellence,anational award considered the highest nursing honor. UniversityHospitalhasbeenamedicalpillarintheAugustacommunityfor nearly200years.Inthattime,we'vestayedattheforefrontoftechnology and set the standard for health care in the region. Everything a Hospital Should Be the roots of University Hospital grow deep within our community. Founded in 1818, University is a notfor-profit community hospital that receives no local funding. With 581 licensed beds, this acute care hospital serves a 25-county region in Georgia and South Carolina. Cardiovascular Services AtUniversity,wearecommittedtostayingontheleadingedgeoftechnologyandtreatments.That's whywehavealongtraditionof"firsts."Wedevelopedthearea'sfirstcardiaccatheterizationlabin1974, performedtheregion'sfirstangioplastyin1980,andinearly2003,becamethefirsthospitalinGeorgia to use the drug-eluting stent. Today, generations of cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons that practiceatUniversitycontinuethistradition.Knownthroughouttheregionforitsopen-heartsurgery program,Universityperformsmorecardiaccatheterizationproceduresandopen-heartsurgeriesthan all other area hospitals combined. University's Heart & Vascular Institute, the centerpiece of University's $93 million renovation and expansion project, offers a new generation of cardiac and vascular diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Highlights include: � allcardiovascularservicestogetherundertheroofoftheexpansivefour-story,188,000-square-foot structure � cardiacandvascularinterventionallaboratoriesequippedwithleading-edgedigitaldiagnostics � operatingroomsjustafewfeetawayfromthelabs � 12,000-square-footCardiopulmonaryRehabilitationCenter,thelargestandbestequippedintheregion � integratedDiabetesServicesdepartmentforuseinamulti-disciplinaryapproachtocombatingheart disease This new, state-of-the-art facility allows for a more efficient delivery of care in 72 Universal Patient Rooms. These rooms are large and homelike to accommodate family members, while equipped for clinical care and staffed by nurses trained to care for patients at all levels in their recovery. The rooms include the following: � theabilitytobringcaretopatientsinoneroomratherthanmovingthemfromroom-to-roomastheir medical conditions change � transformableenvironmentsthatappearhomelikebutcontainthetechnologyneededforcriticalcare � familyzones,allowingfamilymemberstotakeanactivepartinthehealingprocess � bedsthattransformintochairsandcanberolledintoothersareas,eventhebathroom � bar-codingtechnologytohelpensuremedicationaccuracyandbedsidecomputerizationtoincrease charting efficiency � technologythatintegratespatientcommunication,educationandentertainment 5 A place where miracles happen daily, our Women's Center is named for obstetrician W.G. Watson, M.D., who delivered more than 15,000 babies. Thiswonderfulcenteroffersafullrangeofobstet rical and gynecological services for women of all agesandfeaturesfullyequipped,all-in-onelabor and delivery suites, traditional birthing rooms, and aLevelIIInurserystaffedandequippedtocare for high-risk and premature infants. Through the center'sGreatExpectationsSociety,thousandsof area families � more than any other area hospital � have prepared for the births of their babies and learned about infant care. W.G.Watson,M.D.,Women'sCenteristhelargestin theareawithmorethan3,000birthseachyear. � Guestshavetheirchoiceoftraditionalbirthing rooms or all-in-one suites that convert for labor, delivery and recovery in the same location � One-on-onenursingcarefordeliveries � Named"MostPreferred"intheareafor obstetrical and gynecological services, according to an independent survey conducted by the National Research Corporation � Surgicaloperatingsuitesdevotedexclusively to women for Cesarean sections and women's surgeries Women's Services Cancer Services University'scancerprogramisaccreditedwithcommendationbytheAmericanCollegeofSurgeons' Commission on Cancer. The multi-disciplinary team of the Cancer Services program at University emphasizespreventionandearlydetectionandoffersstate-of-the-artdiagnostics,treatmentandsupport services.Ourmedicalstaffincludesindependentmedicaloncologists,radiologists,surgeons,pathologists, diagnostic radiologists and radiation oncologists. � ThemanyamenitiesofUniversity's21-bedinpatientcancerunit,namedforHarryW.JerniganJr.,offers comfort and convenience to cancer patients and their family members. � University'scancerprogramhasalonghistoryofinvolvementintheNationalInstitutesofHealthand othermajorresearchorganizations'clinicaltrials. � TheSoutheasternHereditaryColorectalCancerRegistry,foundedatUniversityin1987,providesa mechanism for the systematic identification of individuals at risk for familial polyposis and hereditary colorectal cancers. � AmultidisciplinaryteamofphysiciansandsurgeonsconductsregularCancerConferencesto coordinate individual treatment plans so each patient benefits from multiple specialties involvement. Breast Health Center "Care with dignity" is the guiding philosophy of University's Breast Health Center. Designed especially for women, this center provides a nurturing environment for women to receive breast health education, timely diagnostic testing, emotional support and coordinated care. The center also provides support services for patients, their spouses and children, and even houses theRenewalatSecondtoNatureboutique,whichoffers a full array of image-enhancing services and products for women undergoing cancer treatment. University's40-footmobilemammographyunit,theonly oneofitskindinthearea,isequippedwithstate-of-theart digital mammography and travels throughout the greaterAugustaareaprovidinglifesavingscreeningsand education to thousands of women. AndthroughtheBuddyCheck6SM program, University, Dillard'sandWJBFNewsChannel6continuetofight breast cancer by providing educational materials that stress the importance of early detection of breast cancer through regular breast self-exams, clinical exams and screening mammography. 7 The da Vinci� Surgical System enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision. When Science Meets Skill and Expertise University invests millions of dollars each year to ensure its patients have access to state-of-the art technology. In fact, University has the most-advanced da Vinci� Surgical System in the region. The da Vinci� Surgical System provides surgeons with an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy, putting a surgeon's hands at the controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform. The da Vinci� System enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision. Forthepatient,benefitsmayinclude: � Significantlylesspain � Lessbloodloss � Lessscarring � Shorterrecoverytime � Afasterreturntonormaldailyactivities � Andinmanycases,betterclinicaloutcomes Other Advanced Technology at University Includes: � Enhancedandexpandedall-digitalsurgicalsuites to accommodate all levels of robotics and other emerging technology. � Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanner that allows physicians to pinpoint cancer cells and determine how they respond to treatment, resulting in moretargetedandeffectivecare. � 64-slice Computerized Tomography (CT) Scanner technology that provides images with astonishing clarity and detail in a matter of seconds. � Horizon Physician Portal and Patient Folder. These remote access, real-time decision-making tools allow physicians to view images and test results from wherever they have internet access, saving patients critical treatment time. � Admin Rx Bar Code Medication Administration System. Nurses use hand-held bar code readers to scan the medication and patient arm band to increase medication administration safety through verification of the recipient, medication, amount, manner and time frame. � Digital mammography. Digital mammography provides high contrast so the details of the images are more obvious, helping to identify smaller and less traditional looking cancers. 9 Quality 10 Quality Care is Our Culture Universitytakesprideindeliveringhigh-qualitycare,andmonitorsthe qualityofthatcarebytrackingspecificqualitymeasuresandcomparing them to national benchmarks. University was the first hospital in the region to make this information public on its own Web site so consumers could make informed decisions regarding their health care. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement selected University Hospital as one ofonly27MentorHospitalsacrossthecountrytosupportotherhospitals implementingtheIHI's100,000Livesqualityimprovementinitiative. Intensivist Program. University successfully sought to improve care in its Intensive Care Unit with intensivists, a move instituted by leading hospitals in the nation. Intensivists are internal medicine physicians with additional training and board certification in critical care medicine. These physicians make daily ICU rounds, review and monitor each patient's conditionandarereadilyavailabletothestaffwhenneeded. Medical Emergency Team. This multi-disciplinary clinical team is called for additional expertise and early intervention when patients experience an unexplained worsening of their conditions. Hospitalists. University has a team of hospitalists on duty in the hospital 24hoursaday.Theseboard-certified/eligiblephysiciansarespecifically trainedtocareforhospitalizedpatients.Theyspendextratimelearning about each patient, and work in concert with each patient's primary care physician to provide the best possible care. T When Emergencies Arise Morethan65,000patientsannuallychoosetoseekandreceivecareintheUniversityEmergency Department.All22roomsinthemainEmergencyDepartmentarestaffedandequippedto care for a variety of emergency medical conditions such as chest pain, heart attacks, stroke, respiratory issues or any other acute medical situation. Patients remain here until they are stabilizedandadecisionismadetoadmitthem,sendthemhomeorreferthemtotheirpersonal physicians'offi ces.TheEmergencyDepartmentworksinacoordinatedmannerwithUniversity's fullrangeofdiagnosticandtreatmentdepartmentstoprovidethemostcomprehensivemedical/ surgical care possible. Since children have very special physical and emotional needs, University's PediatricEmergencyDepartmentisdesignedtocomfortourtiniestpatients.Childrenuptoage 17maybeseeninthePediatricEmergencyDepartmentbyboard-certifiedpediatricianswith emergency experience. 12 T Featuresofthecenterinclude: � Agreetertoassistpatientswithdirections The Second Front Door University'sOutpatientCenteroffersanaccessible,coordinatedandoverallpositive outpatient experience. � AnexpansiveflatparkinglotrightoutsidethefrontdoordedicatedtotheOutpatient Center, with wheelchair assistance and security attendants � Adedicatedparkingareaforpatientdrop-offandpick-up � Acall-aheadservicesopatientswithstandinglaboratoryordersdon'thavetowaiton paperwork when they arrive � Mechanicalbedsinthepre-optestingareathatcanbeloweredorraisedtomakeit easier for elderly patients or patients with other physical limitations � Sevenregistrationareasonthesecondfloortohelpexpeditepaperwork 13 Community Benefit In addition to investing excess revenue back into the hospital and its operations, University also delivers millions of dollars in indigent and charity care every year with no local funding. This includes coverage of hospital and physician services, support of community health clinics and funding for Project Access, a program designed to help people who cannot afford insurance but do not qualify for other assistance. UniversitysupportstheLamarMedicalCenter,BelleTerraceHealth & Wellness Center, Christ Community Clinic and St. Vincent DePaul healthclinic.Eachyear,theseprogramsprovideprimarycare, medical screenings and educational programs for thousands of medically underserved residents. University'sdiseasemanagementservices�CongestiveHeartFailure Program,Asthma/COPDClinicandRetroviralDisease(HIV)Program � provide medical care, regular follow-up, medication assistance and qualityoflifecounselinginanefforttoenhancethelivesofpeople with chronic conditions. Asthefifth-largestemployerintheAugustaMetropolitanArea, Universityhasamajorimpactonboththelocalandstateeconomies. Universityemploysmorethan3,000menandwomenandeachofthe 600-plusphysicianswhopracticeatUniversityaresmallemployers whocreatethousandsofadditionaljobswithinthehealthcarefield. Asoneofthecommunity'sleadingcorporatecitizens,Universityalso supportsavarietyoforganizationsthatfosterphysical,emotional and spiritual health. Anextensivecommunityoutreachprogramassistsmembersof our community in caring for themselves and their families through educational programs, health screenings and special events on topics such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, childbirth and wellness. University also fosters community wellness through a spectrum of publications, broadcasts and programs that deliver health information, encourage wellness and stress the importance of regular screenings. University's Web site, www.universityhealth.org, is the region's most robust and most preferred medical site. 14 ASK-A-NURSE through the University HealthService Center, registered nurses talk confidentially 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to members of our community about their health concerns. nurses with experience in various specialties use physician-approved guidelines to assist more than 220,000 calls each year in reaching the most appropriate level of care or finding a physician. V Giving Opportunities 16 Volunteering to Make a Difference Morethan300membersofthecommunitydonatemorethan30,000hours of their time each year to University through the Volunteer Board of University Hospital, improving their own lives and the lives of others. These dedicated men and women operate the hospital's Hair Salon and Sunshine Gift Shop in the hospitalandonline.TheysponsortheFoodCourt,vendingmachines,Women's Centernurseryphotographicservice,uniformshop,theNewMoonCaf�inthe Heart&VascularInstituteandtheRenewalatSecondtoNatureBoutiqueinthe Breast Health Center. TheVolunteerBoardalsosponsorstheBorn-to-ReadPrograminconjunction withtheAugustaStateUniversityLiteracyCenter.Volunteersvisiteachnew family in the Women's Center with items that encourage reading and give parents tips on how to read to babies. Everyyear,UniversityHealthCareFoundationworkswithUniversityHospital to identify and meet the special needs of the hospital and patients through philanthropy.Eachyear,theFoundationdistributesthousandsofdollarstohelp build a healthier community. They sponsor several events each year to benefit patientsandsupportcriticalhospitalservices,includingtheJerniganMemorial GolfTournament,theArtPatchinJr.CelebrationandTreeofLove. Employer of Choice University seeks highly motivated, self-directed, customer service-oriented individuals to work in both patient care and non-patient care areas. Because they care for our patients and other customers, our employeesareourmostvaluableresource.Forthatreason,asanemployerweofferthefollowing: � Competitivesalariescommensuratewith experience � Opportunitiesforgrowthandadvancement � Attractivebenefitpackagethatincludesflexible medical and dental plans, employer-matched retirement savings plan, long-term disability, paid timeoff,accruedleaveandlifeinsurance � Flexibleworkenvironment � Sign-onbonusforselectpositions � Tuitionassistance � Wellnessprogram � Fitnesscenter � Employeereferralbonusprogram � Onsitechildcareinoneofthefirstemployer based child care centers in the nation Educating Tomorrow's Caregivers To combat the growing shortage of health care professionals, University has made significant monetary commitments to local technical schools and colleges to ensure we are educating and training the best candidates to be tomorrow's caregivers. We also work cooperatively with students and graduates through scholarship programs, internships and mentoring. In addition, University trains the region's leading graduates in the fields of radiography, dietetics and cardiovascular technology. 17 Location University Hospital is located in downtown Augusta, the hub of the 18-county Central Savannah River Area, which includes counties in neighboring South Carolina. As the second largest and oldest city in Georgia, Augusta is a city with pride in its past and a well-founded faith in its future. Augusta's metropolitan community offers dozens of shops and restaurants, cultural attractions and entertainment venues. 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Texas Architect March/April 2012: Destinations
Destinations represent different points of arrival, whether a temporary stopping place during a student's busy day on campus or destinations for entertainment and cultural events.Of particular note is the destination for dignitaries from around the world who will travel to Houston in mid-April for the official unveilingof the Asia Society Texas Center, previewedon page 44. Yoshio Taniguchi's design for the$48.4 million building establishes the New York based Asia Society (founded in 1956 by John D.Rockefeller III to educate the public about Asia)with its first branch between the two coasts. Thefour-day celebration culminates with a free openhouse on April 14-15 for the public, featuringtours, food, and performances, as well as theopening of Treasures of Asian Art: A RockefellerLegacy, a temporary exhibition of works from theMr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Collection atAsia Society New York.
Texas Architect 61 3/4 2012 Portfolio: Public Buildings Twin Oaks Library Project twin oaks branch library, austin Client City of austin, austin public library dept. Architect h+uo architects Design Team erik Ulland, aIa; tom hatch, FaIa; dorothy spearman Contractor Jamail & smith Construction Consultants City of austin public works department (project manager); Chan & partners engineering (civil); JQ (structural); encotech engineering Con- sultants (mep); winterowd associates (landscape); laurie smith design associates (interiors); Kwr engineering services (commissioning) Photographer paul bardagjy Twin Oaks Library, designed by h+uo archi- tects , replaces a former branch library located in leased storefronts in south Austin. A modern approach based on a "bookstore model" was adopted for the new 10,000-sf design. The exte- rior reads as a collection of smaller buildings, each with its own unique shape. Exterior materi- als include stone, stucco, brick, and metal siding. The program features an entry vestibule with a 15-foot-tall mobile suspended dramatically from the high ceiling, a large main reading area, and separate reading rooms for youth and children. Boldly patterned furniture and custom- designed display fixtures enliven the interior spaces. Carpet with a typographical pattern is used throughout the library with contrasting circular insets to help define different areas. The project employs a variety of sustainable design strategies, including a 25.2 kW photovoltaic system that is expected to generate approxi- mately 32,000 kilowatt hours annually (power sufficient for about three standard sized homes), large roof overhangs, a daylight-responsive lighting-control system, and rainwater harvest- ing. Additionally, large wood trusses reclaimed from a 100-year-old Mississippi river barge support sound absorptive structural insulated roof panels (and saved the equivalent of about 30 large trees). A neighborhood pocket park, amphi- theater, and rows of shade trees complement the new building. Noelle Heinze FLOOR PLAN 1 maIn entranCe 2 meetInG room 3 ChIldrens' area 4 worK room 5 meChanICal 6 eleCtrICal 7 meChanICal yard 8 Covered porCh 9 teen area 10 readInG Garden 11 CIstern 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 11 Resources MASONRY UNITS : elgin butler brick ; MANUFAC- TURED STONE : arriscraft International ; ROOF DECK : tectum (maniscalco & associates) ; ROOFING : Kidd roofing ; BUILDING INSULATION : Johns manville ; ENTRANCES/STOREFRONTS : Kaw- neer ; GLASS : ppG Industries ; HAND CRANK WINDOW HARDWARE : dayton metal products ; TILE : daltile ; ACOUSTICAL CEILINGS : UsG ; CARPET : millikin Carpet ; WATERPROOFING/STUCCO : sto Corp. ; PLAqUES : takeForm ; SIGNAGE : 3-Form, peter pepper products ; OPERABLE PARTITIONS : modernfold ; TOILET PARTI- TIONS : bobrick ; LIBRARY EqUIPMENT : Kingsley library equip- ment, peerless sales Co. ; BLINDS : mechoshade ; FURNISHINGS : agati (mezzacappa design)


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GURGAON: In an incident reminiscent of American high-school shootings, two Class VIII students of a private school here reportedly shot dead their classmate on Tuesday afternoon. Both the accused have been detained by the police.
The incident took place around 2 p.m. when the accused had an altercation with 14-year-old Abhishek Tyagi and, in a fit of rage, fired five shots from close range in the school corridor after their class got over. Both the accused took turns to fire at the victim, police said.
Abhishek, who sustained four bullet wounds in the temple and chest, was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.
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Answers to your questions on global SEM strategies, hiring honest SEM vendors, and the education you need to work in SEM.
I usually respond to readers' SEM (define) questions individually. But sometimes I get the same questions repeatedly, so I address them here. Today, I'll answer your questions on global SEM strategies, hiring honest SEM vendors, and the education you need to work in SEM.
Note: no individual or company names or email addresses are used to respect correspondents' privacy. Some of the questions have been paraphrased into more general queries.
Q. The company I work for wants to take our SEM strategy global. What should I look for in a global SEM vendor?
A. Executing an SEM program on a global scale isn't easy; SEM combines business goals, technology, and creativity. Yet global SEM campaigns can produce amazing results when geographically divergent branch offices are unified in a global search campaign.
Different vendors will have different approaches to producing a global strategy for your organization. To determine which vendor best suites your needs, organize your Web assets by priority. Know which markets, languages, and places are most important to your business. From there, review each vendor's capabilities in the countries and markets that mean the most to your business.
Ask for local references from organizations operating in the countries that have the greatest effect on your business. The SEM vendor you select must have a working knowledge of local directories and search engine usage in each market on a language-specific basis. Also, be certain the vendor has either a local presence or access to talented translators who speak the languages your business needs.
Q. How can I be certain I don't hire an SEM vendor that will spam the search engines?
A. Once again, references are essential. However, three good references don't necessarily mean the vendor won't leverage questionable SEM tactics. Some vendors will go so far as to put no-spam clauses in their contracts. But this doesn't guarantee the services they provide aren't contrary to what search engines deem best practices.
No reputable vendor will ever guarantee organic search results. Nor will they promise results within a definitive time frame. Such promises usually mean that link farms, doorway pages, or cloaking will be employed to produce temporary top rankings. Your best course is to review the Webmaster guidelines at each of the major search engines:
You can usually spot a link farm or doorway page by doing a few deep searches for the vendor or a few of its clients; simply drill down similar page details in Google or analyze who links to them. Another signal of questionable strategies is if the vendor expects your business to link to it or an off-topic site. If a vendor tells you it can increase search traffic to every page of your site, they're probably building doorway pages for your site.
Spotting a vendor that employs cloaking is no small task. Sometimes the vendor tells you very few site changes need to be made, only some "special code" needs to be added to the site. An easy way to see if a vendor uses cloaking to deliver different search results is to check out the site or its clients in Google's cache. If what you see is different from what Google sees, the vendor's probably using IP cloaking to sway search results.
Q. What educational focus provides the best background for getting into the SEM industry?
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Top marketers in the industry have highly diverse backgrounds. No particular educational background makes one SEM more successful than another. Focus on what you're good at and what you enjoy doing. From there you'll need to practice, practice, and practice. After that, the sky's the limit.
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Congress Passes Continuing Resolution
The Senate and House passed a six-month funding bill to avert a government shutdown when the current continuing resolution expires March 27. The bill does not replace the sequestration, but does provide detailed appropriations for several departments.
Solar in the Spotlight
Most of the attention may be focused on domestic oil and gas production, but it could be solar power that really helps the United States on its path to energy independence.
Ohio lawmakers take up wind, solar energy rule
Battle lines are being drawn over whether Ohio should scrap its renewable energy standard, which requires power companies to generate a portion of their electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind.
Apple now powering its cloud with solar panels, fuel cells
Apple's massive solar panel and fuel cell farm are now live and providing clean power for its huge data center in Maiden, North Carolina. By the end of the year 60 percent of the power for the data center will come from these sources.
Solar Institute in Lauderdale to Train Jobless Veterans
The U.S. Solar Institute, a Fort Lauderdale school, has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to train former military service members without jobs in how to install solar-panel systems.
Solar: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Energy Independence
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PUD's Planet Power Supports 6 New Solar and School Projects
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Georgia Power and Solar Design & Development Form Alliance on Utility-Scale Solar Projects
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Tech stocks pull market out of 3-day slide
NEW YORK The stock market broke a three-day slide Friday as stronger results at two big technology companies bolstered confidence about a comeback in the economy.
Tech stocks pulled the market higher in choppy trading that brought record volume to the New York Stock Exchange. Software company Oracle Corp. and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. each posted earnings that topped expectations.
The Dow Jones industrial average added 21 points but fell for the week.
The better results at Oracle, which makes software for large businesses, suggested that companies are becoming more willing to spend on technology projects. Research In Motion increased profits as it added subscribers and record sales of its smartphones.
Burt White, chief investment officer at LPL Financial in Boston, said the reports raised expectations that improving profits would help an economy still struggling with high unemployment.
"What is going to drive this recovery is an improvement in business spending, not consumer spending," he said.
After a volatile morning, the market settled out in the afternoon as investors looked to close their books for the year. Trading will be shortened next week because of the Christmas holiday on Friday.
The day began with a frenzy of buying and selling as several types of options contracts expired. Volatility was also high as several stocks were added to and dropped from the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a widely used benchmark and the basis for many indexed mutual funds. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange topped 3 billion shares for the first time. The prior record, just short of 3 billion shares, came in September last year.
The frenetic trading was an exception to the market's recent pattern. Many investors have stepped away from the market since November, resulting in unusually thin volume, while they look for evidence that a nine-month advance in stocks is justified.
White and other analysts say investors are happy to stand pat given the massive gains stocks have made this year. The S&P 500 index is up 22.1 percent in 2009, though it's still down 30 percent from its peak in October 2007.
"This has been a humdinger of a year," he said. "The market has probably shut down sooner than most years."
The Dow rose 20.63, or 0.2 percent, to 10,328.89, after dropping 133 points Thursday.
The broader S&P 500 index rose 6.39, or 0.6 percent, to 1,102.47, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 31.64, or 1.5 percent, to 2,211.69.
For the week, the Dow fell 1.4 percent, the S&P 500 index fell 0.4 percent and the Nasdaq rose 1 percent.
Stocks had tumbled on Thursday as the dollar spiked on worries about debt problems in Europe. A higher dollar can cut into profits of U.S. companies that do business overseas.
The market lost ground early in the week after a jump in inflation raised concerns that the Federal Reserve would be forced to raise interest rates. The Fed said Wednesday that it expected to leave interest rates low to help boost the economy.


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Radioligand binding to Drosophila nAChR subunit combinations in cultured cell lines. Cell surface [125I]-α-bungarotoxin binding to cell lines transiently transfected with combinations of Dα5, Dα6 and Dα7 subunits. In all cases, subunit combinations were co-transfected with either CeRIC-3 (filled bars) or DmRIC-3 (open bars). No specific binding was detected for any subunit combination in the absence of RIC-3 (not shown). Data are presented for Drosophila S2 cells (A) and for human tsA201 cells cultured at 25 °C (B). Controls represent mock-transfected cells. Experiments were performed in triplicate and are means ± SEM of 5–8 independent experiments.
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The Rio Grande ran low and dry this year. That was bad news for fish and for farmers. And it's unlikely that relief is in sight: Reservoirs are low and climate change is here.
In the second of this two part series, KUNM takes a look at the Rio Grande—which one advocate worries might someday be a "ghost river."
Janet Jarratt runs a dairy in Valencia County, south of Albuquerque. Farmers work harder than anyone she knows. And making a living is even tougher during dry years, she says, when farmers don't know if they'll get their water.
At the end of October, the Rio Grande in Los Lunas is crunchy.
Except for a few crows and one sandhill crane flying high above, the skies are quiet. There's no water here, and no reason for cranes or ducks to land. Up and down the riverbed, there's only sand.
This time of year, Mike Hatch is still getting out of bed at about two in the morning. Since mid-June, he's been tracking the drying as part of the government's River Eyes program.
A developer is suing Rio Rancho for $5.6 million. At issue are credits it earned for infrastructure it built at a large planned community in the city and a new ordinance that slashes or eliminates impact fees.
It's a sunny Saturday morning at the Randall Davey Audubon Center—way up Canyon Road in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristos. Jays, chickadees, and nuthatches are all keeping a noisy watch on the feeders—and the festivities.
Audubon New Mexico is honoring Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring, was published 50 years ago.
In her book, Carson wrote of how the pesticide DDT was killing wildlife and endangering humans. In particular, birds exposed to DDT were laying eggs with shells so thin they broke before hatching time.
New Mexico has a long history of leading solar development. This continues to be true, despite the closure of Schott Solar earlier this summer. A new company hopes to start manufacturing again at the Schott plant. It faces significant challenges from offshore competitors. But there are many other companies in the solar industry here that are finding success.
Western wildfires have gotten bigger—and the wildfire season is getting longer. That's according to a new report from the nonprofit organization Climate Central.
Since the 1970's the average number of large fires each year has doubled in many western states, including New Mexico.
The bigger fires are due in part to how forests have been managed. For much of the 20th century, forest fires were suppressed—and dry timber and vegetation built up to dangerous levels.
But climate scientists say warmer temperatures are also responsible.
This week, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish announced it's keeping a closer eye on southern New Mexico, where some deer are infected with chronic wasting disease. That disease attacks the brain and spinal column of deer and elk, causing them to become emaciated and eventually die.
Chronic wasting disease isn't widespread in New Mexico, but there are some hot zones near Cloudcroft and Alamogordo.
We're used to putting the blame for climate change on industrial plants and gas-guzzling cars and trucks. But Santa Fe architect Edward Mazria says it's actually the buildings we live in that are the worst offenders.
Mazria is the author of the Passive Solar Energy Book used by builders worldwide. He'll be speaking tonight in Albuquerque. KUNM's Conservation Beat reporter Megan Kamerick caught up with Mazria for a sneak preview of his talk.
Head north of Albuquerque and look over toward the Rio Grande and its forest, or bosque. Within that green ribbon of trees, you'll also spot leaves that are reddish brown. Even from the Interstate, the dying trees are obvious.
Those leaves belong to tamarisk, or salt cedar. More than a century ago, the trees were introduced to control erosion and act as windbreaks. But they have overtaken riverbanks across the southwestern United States, sucking up water and choking out native species like cottonwoods and willows.
Here, where the Alameda Bridge crosses the Rio Grande on the north side of Albuquerque, you can see what New Mexico's weak monsoon season looks like on the ground.
The water is braided around sandbars and islands. It's so shallow that even where the river is flowing, sand is visible just a few inches below the surface. Two Canada Geese honk beneath the bridge, then take off. When they land again, their feet are barely covered by the water.
After more than two weeks, the Fox Mountain Pack alpha female wolf is still on the loose, foiling The Fish and Wildlife Service's best efforts to trap and move her to an Arizona Sanctuary. For wolf advocates this is good news, because it's another day she can spend raising her pups. But for ranchers, it means a habitual livestock killer is still an active threat to their cattle. The Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction program has been controversial since its inception, but a new coexistence plan seeks to fix that...through compromise.
On Tuesday in Las Cruces, New Mexico State University hosted the 57th annual New Mexico Water Conference. This year's conference was titled "Hard Choices" and its participants were trying to figure out how New Mexicans can adapt to water scarcity.
At the conference, there were federal and state water managers, scientists, activists, farmers—anyone with an interest in understanding how New Mexico's water is managed and how it's going to be managed in the future, as water becomes increasingly scarce.
Hearings resume on Aug. 28 on drilling wastes generated by the oil and gas industry. At issue are rules put in place under the previous administration governing thousands of waste pits and underground storage tanks.
A new water treatment facility opened in Las Cruces on Aug. 23 and is supposed to clean up water from a toxic Superfund site. The pollution was detected in the city's water wells years ago, but a specific source for the contaminants remains elusive.
Federal, state and local officials were on hand to open the new facility, which will remove the chemical perchloroethylene from groundwater. PCE is a widely used in dry cleaning fabrics and for metal degreasing operations.
Additional rains have reconnected flows within the stretch of the Pecos River that includes habitat for the Pecos bluntnose shiner. Biologists do not plan to conduct salvage work this week. About 30 miles of the river still remain dry.
This has been a dry year in New Mexico. Statewide, we've received only half the precipitation of average, and most of eastern New Mexico is experiencing what the National Weather Service calls "extreme drought."
In 1979, a dam at a uranium mine collapsed. More than 90 million gallons of radioactive waste shot down the Rio Puerco.
It was the largest release of radioactive material in United States history. And it happened in Church Rock, on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico.
No comprehensive health studies were done to learn how the spill might have affected people living nearby.
Now, Reps. Ben Ray Luján, Edward J. Markey, Henry A. Waxman, and Frank Pallone are asking for a formal update on a study that Congress authorized four years ago.
New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, D, was in Santa Fe today, listening to testimony about the impacts of climate change. During a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the senator heard what's happening on the ground in New Mexico.
In his testimony, Governor Walter Dasheno of Santa Clara Pueblo pointed out that climate change contributed to last year's Las Conchas fire. That fire burned more than 150,000 acres in the Jemez Mountains.
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) — City commissioners in the southeastern New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences have approved a year-long moratorium on well drilling while experts study whether an increase in wells is causing the town's famed hot springs to dry up.
Although the wind energy industry in the United States is below the peak it hit three years ago, 2011 was still a pretty good year.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy's annual market report, last year, wind power accounted for about one-third of the nation's new sources of electricity. And much of the equipment installed at U.S. wind farms last year came from domestic factories.
Almost three-quarters of the wind turbines, towers, blades, and generators were made within the U.S. That number is double what it was in 2005.
The land of enchantment is rich in many natural resources. Water, however, isn't one of them. And while higher prices have a way of persuading people to consume less, would raising water rates cause New Mexicans to turn off their spigots?
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rescinded its lethal removal order for AF1188. The agency has agreed to allow the Arizona-based Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center to provide permanent sanctuary to the female wolf.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in Albuquerque ordered the killing of a Mexican Gray Wolf whose pack is responsible for the killing of four head of cattle within the past year.
The Valles Caldera National Preserve is one of the most iconic sites in New Mexico. It's a sweeping landscape of meadows and forests that sits in the massive crater of a collapsed volcano. Congress bought the former ranch in 2000 and created the preserve with a special mandate: Become financially self-sufficient by 2015.
This week, an American icon celebrates his birthday: Smokey Bear is turning 68.
He's still a spry old guy, kept alive by the Ad Council and the US Forest Service. It's New Mexico's forests that have been taking a hammering. In 2011, the Las Conchas Fire was the largest in state history. Then this year, the Whitewater-Baldy Fire in the Gila National Forest doubled its record. This summer also saw the state's most destructive wildfire, the Little Bear Fire near Ruidoso.
But believe it or not, there's good news.
On Thursday, 33 organizations asked the state's Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to create a new "clean energy standard" to reduce carbon emissions in New Mexico.
The groups include the American Lung Association, Physicians for Social Responsibility and a number of environmental organizations.
Under the standard, utilities could choose to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by three percent each year.
A legal battle over water in the lower Rio Grande has New Mexico accusing the federal government of trying to take control of the state's groundwater.
In a filing in the Third District Court in Las Cruces recently, the Bureau of Reclamation said it should be able to pump groundwater when it needs to deliver water in the Rio Grande to downstream users, such as farmers.
That raised the hackles of New Mexico state legislators, and others, including the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. That office controls the state's groundwater.
This year at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, a federation of silk weavers made thousands from sales of its scarves.
That's good news for the impoverished women of the Sahalandy Federation of Madagascar. But it's also good for the island nation's forests, home to the wild Malagasy silkworm.
The journal Science has just published a new study from scientists at Harvard University showing how a rise in global temperatures is helping to destroy the ozone layer.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the drilling of monitoring wells at Kirtland Air Force Base has been delayed until later this year. The monitoring wells are being drilled in order to determine the extent of contamination from a leak of about 24 million gallons of jet fuel.
One of the two contractors drilling the wells has gone out of business.
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Climate change is a threat to New Mexico's natural environment and a new study argues that makes it a serious economic threat as well.
Tourism, the creative arts, agriculture, ranching, and the dairy industry all stand to lose millions of dollars, according to Demos, the public policy group that published "New Mexico's Rising Economic Risks from Climate Change." The report is authored by Robert Repetto, author of the 2011 book, "America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward." He is a senior fellow in the United Nations Foundation's climate and energy program.
Even after the flames have died down, the impacts of a wildfire persist. Without tree and grass roots to absorb rainfall and hold soil in place, flooding can be a big problem.
In the wake of the Whitewater-Baldy Fire—which burned almost 300,000 acres in southwestern New Mexico—officials in the Gila National Forest have been working to get ahead of the summer rains and next year's snowmelt.


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Sonning in Berkshire is fast becoming Britain's answer to Beverly Hills after George Clooney and Amal become the latest celebrities to settle in the sleepy village.
Ross King caught up with George at the premiere of his new movie, getting all of the news from the man himself on his move to the UK.
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The bank holiday week is here and the weather isn't looking too bad for many of us with a lot of dry weather though not as much sunshine as we'd hoped.
We'll have a slight blip on Wednesday with heavy showers late Wednesday, early Thursday but it will all settle back down by Friday.
Find out more about the weather where you are this week in Laura Tobin's look ahead.
Cloudy sums it up for many of us. The rain and the showers should ease off with brightness in the south later today.
Find out what's in store where you live with Laura Tobin's weather report.
To swing the deal with David he said he wouldn't give me a yes unless I took my shirt off, so I took one for the team!
Ahead of the BGT semi-finals, we're joined by Matt and Joe of The Beat Brothers and Corrin and Rosie from The HoneyBuns.
The Britain's Got Talent semi-finals kick off tonight on ITV1 from 7:30pm.
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It's turned into the most wonderful journey... It's been simply life changing.
Twitter users started a campaign to track down Sean O'Brien after photos of him dancing were posted online with the cruel caption "spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week. He stopped when he saw us laughing."
California-based writer Cassandra Fairbanks embarked on a mission to find the Merseysider, with the aim of throwing him a VIP dance party. She did and the party was this weekend.
Sean joins us this morning, live from LA to discuss the details of his party and these whirlwind few weeks.
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When [Take That] got back together it was the best day of my life... next to my wedding day!
Imagine hiring a Gary Barlow look-a-like for your wedding and having the real Gary Barlow turn up.
That's just the shock that Anita Jayne Morrissey-Booth got on her big day.
Anita had just got married to her new husband Alex in Knowsley when the Take That frontman appeared and sang A Million Love Songs at her reception.
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A police manhunt is underway for 21-year-old Jed Allen after the bodies of his six-year-old sister, his mother and her partner were found stabbed to death.
The bodies of Janet Jordon, 48, Philip Howard, 44, and six-year-old Derin were found with stab wounds at their home in Didcot, Oxfordshire on Saturday night.
Detectives are searching university parks where landscape gardener Allen worked in case he is hiding there. They have urged the public not to approach him but said they did not believe he is a danger.
Jed Allen has a distinctive black widow spider tattoo on his left hand.
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The value of which I speak is individuals maximizing their own utility.
Everyone does it. Everyone always has. Everyone always will. Its just our nature.
This isn't very on-topic for "industry news", I guess, but there's an interesting monograph by David Graeber called _Fragments Of An Anarchist Anthropology_---it's available as a free PDF download, I believe---that includes some analysis of the countervailing anthropological evidence. (He's a polemicist in some ways, of course, but he's also a competent academic anthropologist and a pretty good writer. Whether or not you agree with his thesis, the evidence he adduces for it is interesting.)
It just doesn't work very well to try to explain social-animal behavior in terms of "individuals maximizing their own utility". By the time you get done defining "individuals", "maximizing", "their own", and "utility" in ways that are meaningful in that context, the phrase doesn't mean anything like what it sounds like at first blush, and you might as well have started from a whole different framing.
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Listage Roundup: Here Are Some Rankings Of Texas Things
Greg Abbott's new ad focuses on his jobs plan, depicts the attorney-general rolling across a map of the United States as if he himself is an infographic, and elicited the following reaction from Austin-bas
Elon Musk, the PayPal founder who parlayed his late 90s success in facilitating e-commerce into a science fiction-as-business-model empire that would make Tony Stark nod his head in approval, is considering bringing two of his futuristic enterprises to Texas.
Another week, another polarizing result from the (nonpartisan) Congressional Budget Office. The new one, which was released yesterday, is about how a minimum-wage increase would affect employment and family income around the country. Like the last report, which had some controversial projections about the Affordable Care Act's effects on the labor force, it's given ammunition to both sides in Washington: to Democrats (who have been calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage in recent months) and Republicans (who oppose it). According to the CBO's projections hiking the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from the current $7.25, would indeed increase overall compensation to low-wage workers by some $31 billion. But the number of workers who would benefit would, per CBO, decline, as companies reduce the number of workers to contain labor costs; total employment would decline by about 500,000 people.
I wanted to offer a comment on this because I've repeatedly argued in favor of raising the minimum wage, specifically in Texas (which is one of the states where the minimum wage is, by default, the same as the federal minimum). I made that argument in my book, and elaborated on it here at Texas Monthly, exactly one year ago. I still think raising the minimum wage would be a good idea–especially in Texas. I'll explain why after the jump.
This morning brought some bad news for Obamacare and its supporters, as the Congressional Budget Office put out a new budget and economic outlook for 2014-2014 which projected, among other things, that the Affordable Care Act "will reduce the total number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent during the period from 2017 to 2024."
Or to put it more simply, as many media accounts of the report have done, the nonpartisan number-crunchers at the CBO are saying that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of workers in the country by about 2 million people, or cost the country between 2.0 to 2.5 million jobs between 2017 and 2024. The White House, of course, doesn't like such ways of summarizing the situation, and quickly sent out an irritated statement: "Claims that the Affordable Care Act hurts jobs are simply belied by the facts in the CBO report."
Technically speaking, the White House has a point. The CBO report says that the reduction in total number of hours worked will be "almost entirely because workers will choose to supply less labor". In other words, the ACA will constrain the labor supply, rather than the demand for labor. Nonetheless, Republicans are correct to say that the CBO is projecting that the law will cost the country the equivalent of some 2 million full-time jobs. But I'd like to set aside the political score-keeping, and the general debates over the law, and focus on something I found striking about the report.
If you follow national political and economic news, you'll surely have noticed increasingly frequent references to the country's labor force participation rate. And because the CBO's new outlook projects a further decline in America's labor force participation rate as a result of the Affordable Care Act, you'll be hearing a lot about this metric this week. And if you don't find the CBO's projections about this metric alarming, you should; I'll explain why, after the jump.
Last week, the White House announced that President Barack Obama would undertake a series of "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity" tours around the country. "He will visit these places to learn what has helped them become successful and use these models of growth to encourage Congress to act," a White House spokesman told reporters over the weekend.
On the first Friday of every month, economics journalists around the country get up early in anticipation of the Labor Department's monthly jobs report. It's probably the best single snapshot of how the workforce is faring, and in the post-recession United States, there's often an element of suspense, as Americans want to see whether things are getting better.
U.S. House operations officials were apparently not amused by Rep. Steve Stockman's homemade "Obama Failometer," ordering it to be removed from the wall of the Cannon House Office Building today.
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The California Public Utilities Commission for eight months has ignored its own report imploring it to investigate why the steam generators at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station failed.
What caused the breakdown of the steam generators, which leaked a small amount of radioactive material in January 2012 and caused the plant to be permanently shuttered in June 2013, could impact who pays the billions in costs.
Currently, the CPUC is negotiating between electricity consumers and the owners of San Onofre. But clear evidence could influence an ongoing arbitration dispute between the manufacturer of the faulty parts, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Southern California Edison, which owns the majority of San Onofre.
Without investigation, the report noted, questions remain about why the steam generators failed, who is responsible and what could have been done to prevent the problems.
The December 2012 report by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab researcher Robert Budnitz called for deeper inquiry to understand why the generators failed.
"It would be good for Budnitz to finish his work, because then everyone would know who was responsible, Mitsubishi or Edison," said Glenn Pascall, the Sierra Club's chair of the San Onofre Task Force.
The CPUC kept the report from the public until this week, reversing a decision to withhold it after requests from reporters and activists.
Budnitz's report answered a very specific query from the CPUC: Why did the steam generators at San Onofre fail while the steam generators at Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County did not?
The plants are the only two nuclear power plants in California and both replaced their steam generators around the same time between 2008 and 2011.
The answer, according to Budnitz's report, is simple. The steam generators at the two plants were designed differently and manufactured by different companies. San Onofre's were built by Mitsubishi; Diablo Canyon's were built by Equipos Nucleares SA, a Spanish company. San Onofre's steam generators were also much bigger, producing about the same amount of electricity with two generators as Diablo Canyon produces with four.
"If it sounds obvious – well, it is," Budnitz wrote in his report.
Budnitz declined to comment, but in his report he outlined the questions he thinks need to be asked and offered to address them with further investigation.
"'What error(s) led to the tube failure(s)?' or 'At what stage were those errors made?' or 'Who made those errors?' or 'What might have been done, and by whom, and at what stage, to have averted those errors?'" Budnitz wrote.
The CPUC found no reason to pursue Budnitz's questions further, according to spokesman Andrew Kotch.
"There has not been follow-up to the draft report because it identified no basis to think similar problems existed at the Diablo Canyon facility steam generators," Kotch wrote in an email.


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Ceramics Monthly looking for emerging clay artists for May 2015 issue.
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John Miller, 40, of Liberty, was arrested by personnel with the Point Pleasant Police Department and charged with operate or attempt to operate a clandestine lab. He was arraigned by Magistrate Cheryl Ross with his bond set at $100,000. Miller remained housed at the Western Regional Jail as of Tuesday evening.
According to the official criminal complaint, Point Pleasant Police Chief Joe Veith made a traffic stop after observing an expired motor vehicle sticker on a car Miller was a passenger in near the area of 12th Street in Point Pleasant. Following the stop, the complaint says Miller identified the car as belonging to him with a driver and another passenger also in the vehicle. Everyone was asked to exit the vehicle and upon patting down Miller, the complaint says an empty syringe was found in his front pocket with Miller allegedly telling officers he had "shot up heroin."
At this point the K-9 unit operated by Cpl. Finnicum with the West Virginia State Police was called to sniff the vehicle with the dog hitting on the side door. Eventually, a black duffel bag was removed from the vehicle and inside it, officers reported items consistent with a mobile meth lab — items listed in the complaint were coffee filter, Coleman fuel, sulfuric acid, lithium strips, Gatorade bottle with suspected meth lab components inside, ammonia nitrate (ice pack), rock salt, tubing, measuring device.
At this point, Lt. Steven Greene, meth lab tech, with the Mason County Sheriff's Department, was called to the scene to collect and inventory items for evidence. The complaint says Miller denied ownership of the black duffel bag.
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Spyro - 28 December 2012 05:43 AMLMAO! You is just full of idea's lol - Well the glutes needs some tense and relaxed morphs I guess further idea's need confirmation of how far you intend to go lol
Oh, and both glutes and breasts need morphs to make em flat, eg, when they're sitting/laying on a flat surface. hehe
The basic idea is you can control Up, Down, Left, Right, In & Out on each side of the breast and glute. With these combinations you will have full control of the movement.
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Ironman13 did something like that for Anastasia, V4 and M4. A set of morphs called, appropriately enough, "Squish!" I don't know if those would work via GenX or not -- I don't have those sets -- and I expect it's better to have Genesis-native morphs in any event. (Also, judging from a couple of other products made to support Squish!, those morphs tend to screw up clothing fits, so that might need to be taken into account.)
I'm not sure about the glutes, but doesn't the pectoral bone supply a pretty good amount of that sort of control for the breast in Genesis? It won't squish them flat, but it'll do most of the rest, won't it?
Zev0 - 28 December 2012 05:07 AMI love breasts and glutes.
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Zev0 - 28 December 2012 06:42 AMThe squish morphs from Ironman shows breast/glute against object collision. My morphs simulate gravity. There is a big difference.
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Eggs III
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how to build a proper nest for time…
link, loop like straw, tuck, paper like twine.
foxes and box kites knocking the clime,
Momma's little yoke,
chichi calcium, nature's design…
Momma's baby folk.
Another form, the Burns Stanza found here.
End of a Day
May 18, 2012 § 6 Comments
He kept them up last night till I got home from overtime. It was like heaven.
"Mommy! Mommy! I got all smiley faces!!"
"Mommmmmeeee mommmeeeee potty!"
She with the blackish brown eyes ran at me and hugged my belly.
The LittleOne ran at me and hugged my legs. A blond and brown pony tail met my eyes as I looked down at my babies, my growing, loving babies that I created. I carried. I care for.
"Ok, back here to finish your stories." My Love is beaming from the bed, knowing he did a nice, RIGHT thing, proud of himself for lasting ONE MORE DAY as a single dad while I work the 7 to 7 overtime. More money for our struggling family. The little pony tails bounce back to the bed. They climb up, but still face me, chattering like sparrows.
"Mommy, I have a splinter you need to get out." She with the blackish brown eyes shows me her soft palm, with a tiny sliver of wood in it. My heart soars. I AM the one who deals with splinters. He can't take it, but moms have to do the things that cause pain to create healing.
"Booboo! Booboo!" Not to be outdone, The LittleOne shows me a fresh shin bruise that I simply must kiss immediately.
Off to get the tweezers, my eyes fill a little. Yes, I'm tired (boy there should be a different word for HOW tired), so a little emotion is predictable.
But really, it was honest joy. Look at all my gifts…
The Actress
May 4, 2012 § 5 Comments
Trying to balance
The doing
And the writing
About the doing
Not many
Stories left
That I can
Tell myself
I love being anyone else but me
Maybe I need to change a dose
I pull tides of bitterness
Like an evil moon
If I chance submersion
You chance
Being exposed
To my new form
Demand the moon
Get the cheese
Please God
Please say
I'm like no other
Cracker jack idea
When we're all alone
What's my prize
For digging down deep
No cereal box treasure map
To happy
I'll make something of nothing
And get back to you
All new plans
Point at and laugh
The old new plans
Couldn't I exhale and be better?
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Of the human garden
Its equal opportunity
Short mercy
Swallow and dissolve
Ruby bullets
Capacity to know
Less successful at forgetting.
You want them to be silly hearts
Warm April
May 1, 2012 § 1 Comment
Boats back
On the dock
Rubbing sleepy eyes
To Not Look Back
April 3, 2012 § 6 Comments
The crows, floating
With the wire
Black licorice
Under their claws
Beseeched not to pause
The south, they went
For He Whose I Am
March 28, 2012 § 2 Comments
The bus had been 19 hours and 12 minutes of wasted time.
"What were you thinking?"
"I don't know. I obviously wasn't thinking, judging by your reaction."
"Go home."
She was now seated on the bench at the bus station, under the pretense of waiting for the next bus. In her hands, she held the pocket watch.
"That one."
"This one? Miss, this one is an expensive watch."
"I know."
"Ok. Cash or charge?"
"Is it extra to engrave?"
"No, Miss. It's complimentary. I will get you a sheet of paper."
For he whose I am.
Counting her money again, she hesitated from buying a ticket. Why did she think he would come and stop her? Just because she came so far? Held back this long, her tears were heavy, overripe and finally fell like devastating bombs on the dry skin of her hands.
Feeling better after her cry, she stood up with purpose to buy her ticket and return home. She would write the whole thing off as an experience, an adventure, and fodder for her work. Maybe she would even get a book out of it…
"Violet!" Then, he was there.


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Minor League Update
Games of Monday, June 23
Hitter of the Night: Renato Nunez, 3B, Athletics (Stockton, A+): 4-5, 2 R, 3 2B, HR.
Pitcher of the Night: Ty Blach, LHP, Giants (Richmond, AA): 6 IP, 8 H, R, BB, 9 K.
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Domingo Santana, OF, Astros (Oklahoma City, AAA): 2-4, R, 2B, HR, BB, 2 K. There are questions about how Santana's hit tool will play outside of the most hitter-friendly environments of the minors, but even at .250 with 20 home runs—both reasonable expectations—Santana has a future as a solid corner outfielder.
Jose Peraza, 2B, Braves (Mississippi, AA): 3-5, 3 R, HR. Braves fans have made almost as much noise clamoring for Peraza's inclusion in the Update as the prospect has with his bat this season, but his season is too good to ignore forever (not that it was done on purpose). It usually takes a home run to make the update, which explains Peraza's absence. He simply doesn't hit many because he doesn't have any power. There were thoughts that the hit tool could play above average, but not to the level it did in Lynchburg, where his .342 average was fueled by a .376 BABIP. Still, Peraza offers enough value with his glove and legs that if he can approach anything near a .300 average, he'll be a heck of a player. He's shifted to second base this year because of the presence of Andrelton Simmons in the majors, and that pairing could be one for the ages defensively if they end up alongside one another.
Frederis Parra, RHP, Cardinals (GCL Cardinals, R): 6 IP, 6 H, R, 0 BB, 6 K. It's not often you see a pitcher on a complex league who flashes three potential plus pitches, and it's even less often that you see one who has three that already grade out as presently average or better, but Parra was both on Monday on the back fields at Roger Dean. It's was his first appearance stateside, which explains why he's still facing overmatched GCL hitters, but he won't be there for long. A full scouting report will be coming soon, so I won't spoil anything here, but I think you can tell that I'm excited.
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Kris Bryant homered....but he is hitting around .200 and striking out 40%.
Jun 24, 2014 05:02 AM
Shaun P.
And Peter O'Brien homered - twice! - and is hitting .228/.277/.543 in Trenton, not exactly a hitters' paradise.
Jun 24, 2014 06:00 AM
He has played 5 games at AAA and has a grand total of 20 at bats. Who cares what his average is?
Jun 24, 2014 07:07 AM
Has anyone seen Starling in person lately? He's been on a tear and I've read that he's changed back to his high school mechanics, so I'm just curious if he's turned a corner in his development or if it's just a statistical blip.
Jun 24, 2014 05:49 AM
Anyone who'd try to get snarky about a guy OPSing 1.189, just because his batting average is low over 5 games, probably shouldn't be reading BP. Also he's never averaged less than .330 at any level before this.
Jun 24, 2014 06:56 AM
On a lighter note: Hunter Harvey went 6 innings, 3 hits, ER, 2 BB and had 7 Ks.
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Supporter of longer school years, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and year-round school models say most students tend to lose some of what they have learned during the school year over summer vacation. Now, schools in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee are adding 300 instructional hours to the school year as part of a three-year pilot program. However, critics say students need the mental reprieve of summer break and cite other benefits to the vacation.
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My column last week probably prompted many readers to panic when I asked a simple question: Do you know how much your mutual funds cost? I should have mentioned that this is a two-part quiz. And here's the second question: How much are you paying for your 401(k)?
I've already guessed what the two most common answers will be:
A, I have no idea. Or B, my 401(k) is free.
If I had a red Sharpie in my hand, I'd mark both answers wrong. If you've got a workplace account, your chances of picking up the tab for your 401(k) is as likely as tomorrow's rush hour. What's more, the costs can be far higher than the price of a closet full of office supplies.
Those who read last week's column will already appreciate why so many people remain unaware that their 401(k) is a parking meter that must be fed. When you invest in mutual funds at your workplace or on your own, you never receive a bill - the money is deducted from your accounts. If you did receive an invoice, you'd be more likely to decide whether a fund with platinum expenses and leaden returns should be tossed.
It's understandable that people never ask about 401(k) costs, but what's inexcusable are the thousands of employers who are just as complacent. In fact, even the most well-intentioned companies don't necessarily know the cost of their employees' retirement plans.
I observed this phenomenon firsthand while I was at a corporate Christmas party a few years ago. During a conversation with the human resources director, I asked her about the employees' 401(k) expenses. At first she looked perplexed by the question before she assured me that the workers didn't pay anything. Yikes, I'm thinking to myself, as I tried not to choke on my chardonnay. How would she know if her employees were overpaying when she wasn't even aware that they paid anything at all?
What's alarming about corporate ignorance or indifference is this: With increasing numbers of companies shamefully ditching their pension plans, the 401(k) has become a financial firewall for many workers. If the firewall doesn't hold, millions of employees could be forced to work far into their retirement years, or live on peanut butter crackers.
And, unfortunately, workers can't go out and find a better 401(k) if the investment choices in their corporate plan stink. They can only hope that their superiors will select top-notch mutual funds with low costs for their retirement plans.
Lynn O'Shaughnessy is the author of Retirement Bible.
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