A coffee expert will be stationed at the in-store roaster during the Grand Opening celebration to teach guests about roasting, help them select coffee beans, and answer questions about the coffees that will be offered. Committed to freshness and flavor, Dunn Bros Coffee provides guests with exceptional coffee --from coffee farm to coffee cup. "The most unique aspect of our store is the in-house coffee roaster where all of our beans will be roasted fresh every day," says Heidi Olivares, co-owner of the North Aurora Dunn Bros Coffee.

About the North Aurora Location

This Dunn Bros Coffee location is the first to open in Illinois. In addition to the signature coffee roaster, the new shop will feature outdoor patio seating, a convenient drive-thru for fresh coffee on the go, free wireless Internet access, and computer terminals for guests to use while they visit. Dunn Bros Coffee of North Aurora offers a warm and inviting atmosphere that provides a convenient place for people to work, meet, relax and enjoy the aroma of fresh-roasted coffee.

About the Owners

Heidi and Armando Olivares met while Heidi was on tour with a ballet company in South America. They decided to move back to the United States and eventually open a Dunn Bros Coffee. "Growing up in Brazil has given me a deep appreciation for quality coffee beans. Dunn Bros Coffee was the best coffee I had tasted since moving to the U.S.," says Armando Olivares.

Dunn Bros Coffee of North Aurora is also owned by Jim Coursolle, founder of Armada Media. "Being entrepreneurs for the last 46 years, it's important to my wife, Diane, and I to see my daughter and son-in-law operate several Dunn Bros Coffee locations," Jim says about Heidi and Armando.

About Dunn Bros Coffee

Founded in 1987, Dunn Bros Coffee has successfully proven to its guests and competitors why fresh-roasted coffee is the ideal. This award-winning coffee franchise has over 90 locations across the nation and was founded on the principle that daily, on-site coffee roasting delivers more flavorful coffee and the freshest coffee beans. Each location has a unique and authentic coffeehouse atmosphere. For more information, visit www.dunnbros.com

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North Aurora Dunn Bros Coffee 
Heidi Olivares, 630-651-0851 
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PLEASE NOTE: For those planning to attend Nordson's Investor Day in person, the event location has been changed due to unforeseen circumstances. Nordson's Investor Day will now take place at The Roosevelt Hotel in the Terrace Room, Madison Avenue at 45th, New York, NY.

Nordson Corporation is one of the world's leading producers of precision dispensing equipment that applies adhesives, sealants and coatings to a broad range of consumer and industrial products during manufacturing operations. The company also manufactures equipment used in the testing and inspection of electronic components as well as technology-based systems for curing and surface treatment processes. Headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, Nordson has more than 4,100 employees worldwide, and direct operations and sales support offices in 34 countries.

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He claimed that it is because of this corruption that many Liberians are beginning to feel that today they are worse off economically than they were three years ago.

Speaking at a well attended press briefing yesterday held at the party's headquarters on Benson Street, the Liberty party head claimed that it now seems that every interaction with the government has become transactional, with personal graft becoming more important than raising the national revenue as well as individual interest superseding the common good.

Cllr. Brumskine lamented that during the last two and a half years, allegations of corruption in the unity party led Government have been enormous and he named some as the issue of the Nigerian oil deal, rewarding a non-Liberian who worked during the President's campaign with an LPRC contract, the unlawful granting of duty/tax free exemption privileges to Buchanan Renewable Energies (BRE) and the awarding of rice importation contracts to political allies of the President without a public bidding process, contrary to the law.

He also pointed to the government's failure to use the rice stabilization fund to offset the high cost of rice or otherwise account for funds from that account, and millions of dollars paid by the finance Ministry to a purported vendor who suddenly disappeared as another high form of corruption existing in the government.

At the same time, the LP standard bearer claimed that because of the lack of action from the government on the alleged cases," corruption now permeates our society like never before."

Cllr. Brumskine who also spoke on a wide range of national issues asserted that the party has learnt of the establishment of a Dunn Commission created to investigate allegations contained in the e-mail.

According to him, the Dunn Commission is certainly a non-starter, stressing that the President must support a serious investigation by an independent, credible and qualified person or persons or rather 'treat these allegations of corruption like she has treated every other case of corruption that has occurred in her government that has done nothing.'

Cllr. Brumskine also questioned the credibility of the Dunn Commission on claims that if they had consisted of jurors or other investigatory experts, they should not have agreed to be amenable to or report to the President.

The Liberty party standard bearer further alleged that the presidency has been weakened in the fight against corruption and therefore called on the President to distance herself from the investigation.

He also said that the President has suspended negotiations with LISCR and voided results of the bidding process for the western cluster, but claimed that those who allegedly extorted or attempted to extort money from the investors remained untouched.

He however noted that the government officials who manipulated the bidding process remain in their positions, 'as this group that bungled the first bidding process now appears to be proceeding with re-bidding; how is that fighting corruption?'

Meanwhile, the LP standard bearer has called on the President to dismiss all government officials linked with the western cluster and the Delta Mining and Tata steel bidding process.

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SUBJECT: B--RFQ-Statistical Technical Support

CLASSIFICATION CODE: B - Special studies and analysis - not R&D

SOLICITATION NUMBER: RFQ-WA-08-00016

CONTACT: Point of contact, Leeanna Wilder, Purchasing Agent, Phone (913) 551-7161 mailto:Wilder.Leeanna@epamail.epa.gov [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]

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NOTICE TEXT: Environmental Protection Agency Office of Acquisition Management Region VII NAICS Code: 541620 Statement of Work for Statistical Technical SupportLower Duwamish Waterway Superfund SiteSolicitation number RFQ-WA-08-00016 is applicabable and is issued as a Reqeust for Quotation. This is a combined snynopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This solicitation is a Request for Quotations and NOT a Request for Proposals or an Invitation for Bid. Provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. PURPOSE - The purpose of this request for quotation is to support the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) at the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund site in Seattle, Washington. The contractor shall help develop new statistical methods for deriving cleanup levels using 95% Upper Confidence Levels (UCLs) that take into account how data associated with sampling locations are spatially distributed, for example, as derived from Inverse Distance Weighting algorithms. The contractor shall assist EPA in providing direction to Potentially Respsonsible Party (PRP_ consultants in deriving these UCLs and creating simulations to test the validity of the UCLs. The contractor shall review and provide recommendations on work products created by PRPs. BACKGROUND - The Lower Duwamish Waterway is a 5.5 mile portion of the Lower Duwamish River which flows into the Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington. EPA added about five miles of the waterway to its list of Superfund cleanup sites in 2001. The contaminants in the waterway sediments include polycholorinated biphenyls (PCBs), plycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), arsenic and other metals, and dioxins/furans. Four potentially responsible parties (PRPs) are conducting a Remedial/Investigation Feasibility Study (RI/FS) under a 2000 Administrative Order on Consent with EPA and the Washington Department of Ecology. The PRP group, known as the Lower Duwamish Waterway Group (LDWG), completed a draft RI Report in November 2007. They are currently revising the draft RI Report and ware working with EPA and Ecology in a series of meetings and informal deliverables to define the scope of the FS. The PRPs have proposed use of 95% UCLs on spatially weighted averages as a means to address spatial bias in sampling in developing areas of potential concern to address cleanup goals developed as part of the human health and ecological risk assessments. The PRPs and their consultants have an interest in developing new statistical methods for deriving UCLs that take into account spatial bias, but lack the necessary expertise. Cleanup goals include both risk-based and background values. TASK 1: STATISTICAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT Expertised Required: The contractor shall have at least two years of experience in various approaches for computing spatially weighted 95% upper confidence limts (UCLs) that are based on Thiessen polygon or inverse distance weighting algorithms, conducting simulations to verify methods for computing spatially weighted 95% UCLs, and applying thse approaches in the context of Superfund risk assessment and/or feasibility study. The contractor shall provide resume(s) of qualified staff showing at least two years of relevant experience, along with examples of statistical analyses completed in the last three years showing examples of simulations that demonstrate the validity of methods applied to specific Supefund sites. The contractors shall assist EPA in providing their expert opinion and guidance to PRPs on the development and use of methods for computing 95% upper UCLs for specific Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) contaminant concentrations that consider the spatial distribution of contaminant concentrations. Method recommendations will consider the probability distribution of contaminant concentrations, the autocorrelations of contaminant concentration in two dimensional space, the area/exposure unit of concern, the sampling design utilized to determine post-remediation compliance, and the degrees of freedom assocated with post-remediation compliance monitoring sampling. The contractor shall provide expert opinion on development and application of simulation testing to verify that the method(s) selected provide true 95% UCLs, and on the development of approaches for comparing spatially weighted 95% UCL concentration values to cleanup levels that may be based on risk or background considerations. In addition, the contractor shall review and make recommendations on PRP deliverables showing calculations of spatially weighted 95% UCLs and simulations showing the validity of these values. Technical review and recommendations will be provided in the form of participation in telephone conferences and written recommendations on PRP deliverables. For pricing purposes, the job will include a total of 120 hours of participation in ten (10) telephone conferences, and review and provide written recommendations on three (3) submitted PRP documents, includig selected sections of the draft Feasibility Study, whiche is due to EPA in March 2009. No travel is anticipated. TASK 2: PROJECT SUBMITTALS Submittals will consist of brief written recommendations on PRP deliverables as well as invoices and Monthly Progress Reports which should be submitted monthly for the months when costs were expended. Period of Performance: September 29, 2008 - September 30, 2009. Although the exact schedule of this work is not known, we anticipate that work in Summer and Fall 2008 will consist of providing recommendatinos to EPA and the PRPs, then in Spring and Summer 2009, the contractor will be asked to review and provide reocmmendations on PRP work products. The selection resulting from this request for quotation will be made on the basis of lowest price technically acceptable and award will be made by unilateral Purchase Order, issued using Optional Form 347. Quotes must include the following:1) Price quote 2) Resume(s) of qualified staff showing at least two years of relevant experience3) Examples of statistical analyses completed in the last three years showing simulations that demonstrate the validity of methods applied to specific Superfund sites. Any quotes received that do not include the proper submittals will be deemed non-responsive. All quotes must include a Dunn and Bradstreet Number and Tax ID Number. 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