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STOCKTON, CA--(Marketwire) - Viratech Corp. (PINKSHEETS: VIRA), the first open source biotech research social network platform, announced today the launch of Cancer.im,http://cancer.im, a social network resource site for cancer patients, survivors, advocates, and volunteers. Cancer.im harnesses social collaboration utilities to develop what Viratech believes will become the first experience-based search engine powered by social collaboration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz1tHRb3wvU.
Cancer.im, a wholly owned subsidiary of Viratech Corp., is being hailed by journalists as "Facebook for Cancer Patients" and for good reason. In fact, the site has many of the features of social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Internet health resources, like HealthStream. But Cancer.im goes one step further. It is the first social network which has reversed engineered an evidence based medicine study which has shown that by increasing the quality of life of a cancer patient you can directly lower the incidence of morbidity regardless of treatment.
Cancer.im is positioning itself to have the first mover advantage by becoming the primary resource on the Web that people affected by cancer will turn to in order to make a difference in their own lives and the lives of others. Members can use Cancer.im to:
Cancer.im was founded by people who have firsthand experience with cancer. The network continues to grow thanks to individuals who continually donate their time, resources and experience to help cancer patients navigate the obstacles they face. Our driving principles to create an internet-based support system are based on clinical data which has shown that cancer patients who have an active support network live longer than cancer patients who do not and increasing a cancer patient's quality of life directly lowers the incidence of morbidity.
"We believe that the Cancer.im social network has the potential of changing the way in which patients view and manage their disease, thus allowing them to take back control and be more proactive in their treatment decisions," states Dr. Kevin Buckman, CEO of Viratech Corp.
Cancer.im is also seeking new cancer researchers who wish to leverage its intellectual property and social network platform for the purpose of creating new distribution and engagement channels. Its first book, Find and Stop Breast Cancer, by Kevin Buckman, MD has hit the best seller list on Amazon.com for breast cancer.
Through its experience-based search engine and next-generation technology, Cancer.im's goal is to become the primary resource on the web for people affected by cancer, for the purpose of making a difference in their own lives and the lives of others.
About Viratech Corp.Viratech Corp. has created the first open source biotech research social network platform. The purpose of the platform is to make it possible for individuals or smaller companies to compete with larger companies in the race to patent new medicines or technology. This has been made possible by leveraging social collaboration in a way that allows new biotech ventures the ability to protect their intellectual property, then simultaneously allowing those same ventures the ability to promote and crowdsource their development.
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Xmas Friends, designed by Massimo Giacon, is a Christmas tree that can decorate an office desk or the various corners of the house and is perfect, above all, for anyone who doesn't have enough space for a real Christmas tree. For this little tree, the designer has replaced traditional decorations with a specially-created decoration. The green branches of the tree are decorated with the characters of the Christmas figures collection. Natalino, Alce the moose, Orson the bear and snowman Hal Freddo are once again the perfect Christmas time companions. A gold star tops the tree to complete the scene.
Born in Bergamo, Italy, Laura Polinoro graduated in Drama Art and Music Studies in Bologna. Her first job was in the field of contemporary dance as art director and costume and set designer. Later she undertook research at the Domus Academy in Milan. From 1990 to 1998 she was in charge of the Centro Studi Alessi, where she operated as meta-project designer and art director, coordinating workshops both in-house and in association with various universities and design institutes the world over. She was also involved in publishing and communications activities. Items which entered production in that period are identified with the acronym "CSA". Since 2004 products overseen by Ms. Polinoro have been identified with the letters "LPWK"
Born in Padua, Italy, in 1961, comic-strip artist and illustrator, a leading light in the renewal of Italian comic, he divides his time as a graphic artist, designer, musician and artist.

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These patriotic party favors don't just make great gifts for your guests, but are perfect as 4th of July decorations too! Our transparent bud vases will create a beautiful effect on your tables with the sun shining through them, and our crisp white lantern favors look so elegant lining walkways or hanging from trees. Get really crafty by using our decor picnic baskets as table centerpieces - your guests will marvel at your creativity!
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SKF Client Needs Analysis helps plant operators identify improvement opportunities
The challenge
A leading rolling mill in Asia was struggling to improve mill performance. SKF asset management specialists conducted a client needs analysis with personnel from maintenance, operations and purchasing.
SKF Assessment
The mill ranked 7% above the industry average and exhibited a range of positive traits. Yet there were also a number of performance gaps that limited its profitability:
- Unclear rationales for work assignments
- High maintenance costs and inventory levels
- Duplication of work between departments
- Insufficient communication between departments
- Inconsistent root cause analysis programme
- Work history was not being captured or used
The action plan
Following the Client Needs Analysis, SKF worked with the mill to develop an action plan based on its drivers - one that systematically addressed performance gaps with specific solutions:
- Perform a maintenance strategy review
- Implement a condition-based monitoring programme
- Combine the operator and maintenance basic care programmes
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Denver First Lady, Denver International Airport partner to display local student art
This week Denver's First Lady Mary Louise Lee joined around a dozen student artists at the Denver International Airport where their work is featured in an art exhibit that displays the top 26 student art pieces from the first annual "Bringing Back the Arts" visual arts competition.
The art competition for Denver Public School students ages 7-18 was held in early May with more than 100 participants who produced artworks with the theme "We are all Denver."
Last year the First Lady, wife of Mayor Michael Hancock, introduced her new initiative "Bringing Back the Arts" which aims to restore art programs in Denver Public Schools and to expand access to our city's cultural institutions for all residents and to spotlight local performing artists.
This year the visual arts competition was made possible through a partnership between the "Bringing Back the Arts" foundation and the Denver International Airport Art and Culture Program which is a collaboration between the airport, the City of Denver, and arts organizations and creative professionals throughout the region.
The Denver International Airport Art and Culture Program produces and promotes new artworks, exhibitions, cultural events and design projects with the goal of enriching the experience of people using the airport and supporting the region's creative economy.
Speaking to the students at the launch of the exhibit, the First Lady shared that she is "[t]hrilled to be partnering with DIA to uplift some of our city's talented, budding student artists… by seeing their artwork on display at a recognized city landmark, we hope to inspire these young artists to pursue this craft further and begin creating a pathway to continue the Mile High tradition of cultivating renowned, world-class artists."
After being featured at the airport the student art exhibit will travel to the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Biennial of the Americas, the Mayor's office and the Denver Public Schools Administration Building.


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The 45th Annual Mount Rogers Naturalist Rally, held May 10th-12th was a big success!
With all of the wonderful apps available, it is still a good idea to have a shelf of guides to call on. We love paging through them while planning our next exploration, exploring their beautiful illustrations, and carrying our favorites with us for quick reference.
BRDC recently hosted a Primitive Technology course as part of Galax Middle School Enrichment Week. The students were engaged with a variety of hands-on activities that connected them to skills used by early American Indians and materials found in their backyards.
"Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs."
"The technology boom of recent years has given kids numerous reasons to stay inside and play, while parents' increasing safety concerns make it tempting to keep children close to home. But what is being lost as fewer kids spend their free time outdoors? Deprived of meaningful contact with nature, children often fail to develop a significant relationship with the natural world, much less a sense of reverence and respect for the world outside their doors."
"On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch."


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Five members of the department are under consideration
MIDDLEBORO – Today, five candidates for police chief were put through the paces at a day-long assessment by the MMA Consulting Group.
The closed-door session, to be held at Town Hall, tested and evaluated their leadership, supervisory, administrative and management skills.
The candidates are Lt. Peter J. Andrade; Lt. Robert D. Ferreira Jr.; Lt. Joseph M. Perkins; Sgt. David A. Beals Jr. and officer Angelo J. Lapanna III.
Town Manager Charles J. Cristello declined to release the candidates' resumes until evaluators present a list of finalists to selectmen. Tonight, selectmen will schedule public interviews with the finalists. The Enterprise interviewed the five candidates, who are all Middleboro residents, and compiled brief biographies.
Lt. Peter J. Andrade, 51, is a widower and father of two. He was hired in 1985 after a 3-year stint in the Marines. He was the runner-up for chief in 2009 when Gates was hired. Andrade has been a lieutenant for the last 11 years and was a sergeant for 5 years. He holds bachelor of science degree in law enforcement from Western New England College.
Andrade has been second in command, handling scheduling, budgets and training since Bruce D. Gates was promoted to chief.
His goal is to see a "beat officer" back walking the streets downtown. Andrade said an officer walking the beat gives the public confidence in their force with a positive presence and makes the community connections.
Lt. Robert D. Ferreira Jr., 46, is married with two children. He was hired in 2000 after working 10 years as a corrections officer for the Department of Corrections in Bridgewater. Ferreira was promoted to sergeant in 2008 and lieutenant in 2013. He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal law and a master's degree in criminal justice administration from Western New England College.
Ferreira is well-known amongst the youth from his time as a student resource officer at the schools. He is a familiar face at downtown businesses.
Lt. Joseph M. Perkins, 45, is a married father of four. He was first hired in 1989, but was laid off and worked in Mattapoisett and Lakeville. He returned to Middleboro in 2000. Perkins was a sergeant in Lakeville for 2 years, and 5 years in Middleboro. He was promoted to lieutenant this year. He has been a detective for 13 years and chief of the division for the last 5 years. He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Western New England College, a master's degree in criminal justice leadership from Northeastern University and a graduate certificate from the University of Virginia in criminal justice. He's had specialized training at the FBI's academy in Quantico and is certified by the DEA as an investigator.
Sgt. David A. Beals Jr., 43, is married with one child. He was hired in 2000. He was a corrections officer for 51/2 years with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department and a lieutenant for 6 months prior to being hired in Middleboro. He holds a bachelors degree in criminology and Spanish from Marquette University and a masters degree in criminal justice administration from Western New England College. He was promoted to sergeant in 2009.
Gates and Beals launched an initiative to post police logs on the department's website in 2012. "The chief and I not only launched the police logs but I also updated and modernized the website with still more improvements to come," Beals said.
Officer Angelo J. Lapanna III, 39, is a father of one. He was hired in 2001. He has been in the Army National Guard for 21 years and attained the rank of master sergeant. The last 11 years Lapanna has been a Special Forces solider. He deployed to Afghanistan twice and once to both Iraq and South America.
Lapanna is instructor for the Middleboro Police Department in firearms, use of the Taser and use of force. He is also on the regional SWAT team. He has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Westfield State University and a master's degree in the administration of justice from Salve Regina University
Although Lapanna has not been a supervisor in the police department, he says he has the qualifications to be chief through his supervisory roles in the military.


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How to Make Sure You Get Enough Fabric for a Slipcover
One of the most important parts of planning your slipcover project is measuring your furniture correctly. You need to understand the different parts of your slipcover and how they come together to make your slipcover properly, and measuring them is the beginning step in that understanding.
You also need to know how to determine how much fabric you need. Calculating your fabric needs informs your fabric choice in two ways: available quantity and price. Finding the right fabric in the right amount and within a budget you can live with are both crucial steps.
Making correct measurements for slipcovers can be tricky because slipcovers need so much fabric. The following list offers a few general tips to help you:
Always allow for extra yardage, just in case you need it. Cutting off an extra 1/2 or 3/4 yard of fabric is easier than having to go back to the fabric store, locate your bolt, and buy more.
When measuring unusually shaped furniture, measure at the largest dimension both vertically and horizontally. If you have a sofa that is wider on top than at the bottom, measuring along the widest part can ensure you have adequate coverage. Be sure to add in your 1/2-inch seam allowance on each edge (or 1 inch, if you prefer), and for "bottom" pieces of your furniture that will be hemmed, be sure to add a 1- to 1-1/2-inch allowance so you have plenty of fabric to construct your hem.
Always use a soft, cloth tape measure so you can correctly gauge the wraparound sections of your furniture, and to tuck into your sofa's or chair's crevices for tuck-ins, if necessary. A metal tape measure doesn't account for the "give" you need for slipcovers.
When measuring your furniture, follow these easy steps:
Move your piece of furniture to a place in the room where you have total clearance on all sides, which helps get accurate measurements.
To create your future slipcover, get to know your furniture a bit better. Make a sketch of each piece of furniture you plan to cover from different viewpoints. Doing so helps you keep track of measurements and gives you a context that makes understanding how the pieces fit together a whole lot easier. If you're artistically disinclined, use your camera.
Measure your piece of furniture by placing your tape measure at the front on the floor.
Measure from the floor, up and over the seat, up the back, and over and down the back to the floor again. Doing so determines the length. You'll be multiplying this figure by the number of fabric widths you need.
Starting at the widest part of the furniture, measure from the right side on the floor up, over the armrests and down to the seat, then over the seat to the opposite armrest, up and over, then and back down to the floor on the right side, and divide this measurement by the width of fabric you're using.
For example, if your furniture width is 90 inches and you're using 45-inch-wide fabric, then you need two widths.
Multiply the number of widths needed by your length measurement.
Suppose your length is 140 inches, so 140 inches multiplied by 2 is 280.
Divide that figure by 36 (because 1 yard equals 36 inches), and this is your basic yardage.
Add in an extra 2 yards to be on the safe side.
So, 280 divided by 36 is 7.7 (round up to 8) + 2 = 10 yards of 45-inch wide fabric.
Many people push their sofas, loveseats, and chairs against walls. When measuring your piece of furniture, be sure to move it away from the wall and measure the outside back area to take into account the fabric you'll need. This point may seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how many times "out of sight, out of mind" has led to unfortunate trips back (no pun intended) to the fabric store.


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A patch can be installed from the miniroot from which you booted the system. When you perform a custom JumpStart installation, you boot the system from a DVD, CD, or an NFS-based miniroot. The installation software is loaded and run from this miniroot. Therefore, a patch that you stored in the DVD, CD, or NFS-based miniroot is accessible as a local file. Use the following syntax for the patch keyword.
patch patch_id_list | patch_file local_file patch _directory
Specifies the patch ID numbers that are to be installed. The list should be a list of comma-separated Solaris patch IDs. The patches are installed in the order specified in the list. Do not add a space after the comma, for example: 112467-01,112765-02.
A file with a list of patches that is found in the patch_location. The patches are installed in the order specified in the file.
Specifies the location of the patch directory. The patch directory must be accessible to the system as a local file while the system is booted from the Solaris Software - 1 CD or from the Solaris Operating System DVD. The system cannot access /net when it is booted from the Solaris Software - 1 CD or from the Solaris Operating System DVD.
In this example, the patch profile keyword adds all the patches that are listed in the patch_file file from the /Solaris_10/patches directory. The patch file determines the order of patches to be installed.
patch patch_cal_file /Solaris_10/patches
In this example, the patch profile keyword adds the patches 112467–01 and 112765–02 from the patch directory /Solaris_10/patches.
patch 112467-01,112765-02 local_file /Solaris_10/patches


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For a creative everyday user of the hugely popular app known as Vine fifteen minutes of fame equals 150 videos. The six-second increments of time that Vine videos take to watch isn't strenuous on the attention span, nor do the clips overstay their welcome, regardless of what's being shown. But how would watching an entire movie fare in that format?
Production company Oscilloscope Laboratories has released Todd Berger's dark apocalyptic comedy It's a Disaster weeks ahead of its VOD and theatrical dates exclusively on the Twitter-owned Vine app. Starting today at 4:30 pm EST, viewers could log onto the Oscilloscope Twitter account to watch six-second chunks of the film as it updated throughout the day, making the wait for bathroom breaks virtually extinct in the process. With a sly wink towards the changing format of media distribution, the uploaded videos are all recorded on a smartphone. It's a Disaster, which stars David Cross and Julia Stiles as a couple whose friendly get-togethers go sour due to an impending armageddon, shares the same tongue-in-cheek sense of humor that this experiment exhibits.
In a press release about the experiment, Oscilloscope's "Minister of Informative Updates" wryly explains, "From the moment it launched just three short weeks ago, it was so clear to us that six-second loops of video, edited in-phone, and posted in real time was and will be the future of film distribution. While we still endeavor to release films via some other methods, we didn't want to be left out in the cold and we are proud to be an early adopter of tomorrow, early."
Director Todd Berger told The Hollywood Reporter, "Jean-Luc Godard once said that he pities French cinema because it has no money and American cinema because it has no ideas. Well, this is certainly an idea."
The press release ends on another silly note. "Never one to shy away from the unknown, Oscilloscope is currently working on distributing films in all media and by all means and methods now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity. The future is now. We will also be actively acquiring distribution rights for the previously unexploited territory of The Moon." The implications of Vine and other rapidly expanding technologies is no joke, however, and their permanence in the cinematic world will be tested, one second at a time.
It's a Disaster can be seen in its original format digitally and on VOD on March 5th, and can be found in theaters on April 12, 2013.


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The Federal Bureau of Investigation asked the administrator of an Internet game to hand over records of communications by Jared Loughner, following a Wall Street Journal article describing disturbing messages the accused shooter wrote over a three-month period last year. In an interview, David McVittie, the administrator of the Web game Earth Empires, said he was contacted by the FBI, which requested the files, including 131 messages that Mr. Loughner wrote.
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Electrical ladder drawings are still one of the common and reliable tools used to troubleshoot equipment when it fails. As with any good troubleshooting tool, one must be familiar with its basic features to make the most of the diagram in the field. In other words, possessing a basic understanding of how the drawing is laid out — as well as the meaning of numbers and symbols found on the schematic — will make you that much more seasoned as a maintenance professional.
There are typically two distinct parts of a ladder drawing: the power component and the control component. The power portion consists of items such as the motor, motor starter contacts and overloads, disconnect(s), and protective devices (fuses and circuit breakers). The control part encompasses items that make the power components do their work. For this discussion, we'll focus on the control portion of the drawing. Let's take a look at the most common components.
Symbols. The symbols that go into making a ladder drawing are the ABCs of print reading (Fig. 1). For instance, in an air compressor system there will be a symbol for a pressure switch. If the person doing the troubleshooting and repair does not recognize that symbol, it will be difficult to locate the switch to determine whether or not it is working properly.
Many times, the input devices are said to be either normally open (NO) or normally closed (NC). The normally open or closed status refers to the shelf state of the device. If a device is normally open, a resistance check of the device with a digital multimeter will give a reading of O.L. If the device is normally closed, a resistance check will give a reading of 0.0.
The normally open and normally closed state of the devices is not labeled on the ladder drawing. Rather, you must recognize the symbol. A helpful hint in trying to determine whether the contacts are open or closed is to think of them in terms of gravity. If gravity is acting on the device, its normal state is as shown in the drawing. An exception to this concept is found in devices that contain springs. For instance, in the drawing of a normally open pushbutton, it appears that the pushbutton should be falling down and closing. However, there is a spring in the pushbutton that holds the contacts in the open (up) position.
Control voltage and safety. The control voltage (AC or DC) for the system may come from a control transformer that is fed from the power portion of the drawing or a different source. For safety reasons, it's important to determine the source of the control voltage prior to working on the system because the power disconnect switch may not turn off the control voltage. Therefore, an electrically safe condition would not be established. The ladder drawing should clearly show the source of the control voltage, but always check for the absence/presence of voltage before making any off-line resistance checks.
Rails. The drawing is called a ladder drawing because it resembles a ladder in the way it is constructed and presented on the paper. The two vertical lines (wires) that serve as a boundary for the control system and deliver the control voltage to the devices are called the rails. The rails may have overcurrent devices in them (fuses and/or circuit breakers) and may have contacts from control devices. These control lines may be thicker than the others to help better identify them. Like a real ladder, the rails are the supports for the rungs.
If the ladder drawing runs across several pages, the control voltage is carried from one page to the next along the rails. There are a number of ways that this may be represented on the drawing. One way this is done is with the use of continuation arrows at the bottom of the first page, which indicates that the rails continue on to another page. The page number on which the rails continue should be noted. On the page where the rails continue, there are also continuation arrows with the page number notation from which the control voltage lines originated.
Rungs. The rungs of the ladder are made up of wires and input devices that either allow current flow or interrupt current flow to the output devices. These lines may be thin lines when compared to the lines of the rails. From the placement of the input and output devices, you can determine the sequence of events that either energize or de-energize the outputs. The key to good troubleshooting is determining this sequence of events. Input devices are typically placed on the left side of the rungs, while the output devices are placed on the right (Fig. 2).
Placement of input devices. The input devices are placed on the rungs in a way that indicates the current flow through the rung when there is a complete path to the outputs. There are several ways in which these input devices can be placed on the rungs, although as stated earlier, they are typically placed on the left side.
The STOP input devices are typically normally closed and are placed in series on the rung. This means that they are placed end to end in the drawing. In order for the current to flow through them, they must be in the closed position. Typical STOP input devices include components such as normally closed pushbuttons and mushroom head buttons, limit switches, and contacts for light curtains, photocells, and proximity switches.
The START input devices are typically normally open and are usually placed in series with and after the STOP devices. If there is more than one START device, it is usually placed in parallel with the others.
When the STOP and START devices are placed in order on the rung, the flow of current to the output devices can be seen. Understanding this flow is a great aide in troubleshooting. A key question to always ask yourself is: "What does it take to energize the output?"
Here's a simple example to analyze. In Fig. 3, what does it take to energize the output CR1? When either start pushbutton is depressed, the path is complete, and the coil of CR1 is energized. In following the path for the current, you can see the logic of the placement of the input devices. This logic determines the decision making process of the input devices and the path for current as it travels to energize the outputs.
Logic statements. There are several logic statements that can be used in placing the input devices in the rungs. The most common of these are the AND, the OR, and the combination AND/OR function. In Fig. 3, all three are present.
The end-to-end placement of the stop and start pushbuttons makes an AND logic statement. In other words, both the stop AND the start buttons must be used to energize the coil.
The parallel placements of the start buttons makes an OR logic statement. Either start pushbutton will complete the path and energize the coil.
Placing the stop pushbutton in series with the parallel start pushbuttons supports the AND/OR logic statement.
Placement of the output devices. As noted earlier, the output devices are placed on the right side of the ladder drawing. Unlike input devices, it's important that the output devices only be placed in parallel. If they are placed in series, electrical theory says that the voltage will drop across the resistance of each output. If this happens, they will not operate properly.
Outputs include items such as lights, coils, solenoids, and heating elements. In addition to the commonly accepted symbols shown in Fig. 1, letters and numbers also help to identify the output devices.
Coils will typically have contacts associated with them. These contacts will change state when the coil is energized. The changing contacts will either complete or open the path for current.
As noted in Fig. 4, when the pushbutton is pressed down, the path is completed, and current will flow to energize the coil. When the coil is energized, the contacts associated with the coil will change state. The red light will go on, and the green light will go off.
Locating the contacts. In the ladder drawing, the contacts associated with the coil can be located using a cross-reference system. The rungs are usually numbered on the left side of the rail. A number on the right side of the rail references the contacts associated with the coil (Fig. 4). These numbers are the rungs in which the contacts can be found. A number without a line under it references an open contact. Drawing a line under the number on the right rail references a closed contact.
Zieg is a licensed electrical contractor and instructor for Lewellyn Technology in Linton, Ind.


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The Farrington Inn
The Farrington is a small guest house with air conditioned private rooms and dorm beds (in season). Located right on the Green Train of the Boston Subway system, the Farrington is an economical choice in one of the most expensive cities in the world. - all sheets and towels included
- telephones and televisions in all private rooms
- unlimited local phone service
- free luggage storage
- some private rooms have kitchenettes
Prices include unlimited local phone service and parking subject to availability. Please note- prices do NOT include tax.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Air Conditioning
- Bicycle hire
- Cable TV
- Child Friendly
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Linen Included
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Parking
- Towels Included
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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From the west: Follow interstate #90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) from the west, get off at Exit #18 (Brighton-Cambridge)
From the North or South: Follow interstate #93 into Boston, and right in the center of the city you will see signs for the Massachusetts Turnpike or Mass Pike (I-90). Get on I-90, and then get off at the first exit (Brighton-Cambridge).
Follow the Brighton Cambridge exit until you see signs for ALLSTON, go this way to the fourth traffic light, and then turn left. Go down this street, and the very first street on the left is FARRINGTON AVENUE. It does have a sign. Turn left onto Farrington, and we are the fifth building on the right, number 23. Our parking lot is just BEFORE the building, so don't miss it.
From the Bus Station (South Station): Walk over to the section of the station where the trains are, to the main concourse, (where all the food vendors are) and then follow the directions below for the AMTRAK trains from South Station.
From AMTRAK trains arriving at South Station: Walk to the main concourse (where all the food vendors are); you will see a clock. Under the clock there is a stairs, go down the stairs to the subway. Take the train to the Park Street Station, get off there, go up one flight of stairs, and take the GREEN TRAIN
From AMTRAK trains arriving at Back Bay Station: Walk out the station exiting the doors on Dartmouth Street. Turn right on Dartmouth St., and walk two blocks until you see a green sign for the Subway. Go underground, on the OUTBOUND side, and take the GREEN TRAIN
Take the GREEN TRAIN, and be careful, there are five different GREEN trains, (A,B,C,D,E). Take the GREEN TRAIN B, it also says BOSTON COLLEGE. Get off at Harvard Avenue.
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Harvard University
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The GOP candidates aren't the only ones wishing the primary race were over already. Jon Stewart is ready to kick back with his brandy snifter and his pipe — but not so fast.
The Super Tuesday races, touted as the deciding factor in the still-undecided Republican primary race, didn't yield a clear-cut winner.
"Tell us finally, once and for all, where Carmen Sandiego is. Seriously, it is like the Republican nominee for president at this point is being selected by erosion," the "Daily Show" host remarked Wednesday.
"Super Tuesday was supposed to be decisive, the shot heard 'round the world. Now it's the shot that was mathematically inconclusive," he added — with some doctored footage of the '51 New York Giants' pennant thrown in to prove his point.
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Do you know a college student? Chances are, that person is going to graduate with an alarming amount of debt: Students in the class of 2008 graduated owing an average of $23,200 in student loans. It's now a given that you "need" a college degree to achieve middle-class status in the United States. But we also know that the middle class isn't what it used to be. So, is a college education worth the money?
The question plagues many Common Security Club members, whether we are students, graduates, parents, or grandparents. How can we save (or borrow) enough to pay for top level schooling, when private college tuition—plus room and board—now runs about $45,000 year? Parents wonder whether they should compromise their retirement savings; grandparents are shocked at the cost; teens have little to compare it to, and may be quite unprepared to make use of such an expensive investment.
In her new book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, Anya Kamenetz ambitiously dismantles much of our cultural mythology around higher education:
Looking at the history of American colleges and universities convinces me that many aspects of the current so-called crisis in higher education are actually just characteristics of the institution. It has always been socially exclusionary. It has always been of highly variable quality educationally. It has always had a tendency to expand. It may be because we keep asking more of education at all levels that its failures appear so tremendous.
Kamenetz analysis is both rational and radical. She questions whether college is "nothing more than an elaborate and expensive mechanism for employers to identify the people who … had all the social advantages in the first place, and those people then get the higher paying jobs."
Her point is ultimately practical, which is what makes this book such a good resource for folks questioning and contemplating higher education. While stating flatly that, since the 1970s, there has been no increase in return to match the increasing cost of a college education, Kamenetz also makes it clear that the penalty of not going to college has increased in that time. This penalty is a steep decline in income for those with no college degree. The decision, then, of getting a degree, or not, can't be taken lightly.
Kamenetz also covers the student loan industry that saddles young people with debt, critiques both the popular and real histories of higher education in this country, and examines the difficulties faced by community colleges.
A $67 Billion Victory for Students
New legislation lets students skip corporate student loan middlemen.
But perhaps the most useful section of the book is the last one, in which Kamenetz examines a large variety of alternatives to traditional 4-year colleges. Some of them come out of digital age technology that makes information highly accessible, while others are more hands-on. There are opportunities for self-education through Internet-accessible course syllabi (MIT, for example, makes all of its syllabi available online). There are also free colleges, where students work to run the campus in exchange for their education. She describes "edupunk" as "an evolution from expensive institutions to expansive networks" of teachers and learners—largely connected through the Internet. For those who learn best with their hands, or at least in person, there are more directly experiential colleges built on a foundation of internships and apprenticeships.
Kamenetz concludes with a 30-page resource guide of all sorts of educational possibilities—from the highly virtual to the totally experiential. It made thrilling reading for me, as the parent of a couple of "non-traditional" learners (and no budget for Harvard, anyhow). I would recommend it highly to stoke discussion of the future of higher education … and particularly to all the high-school seniors out there.
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Radical homemaker Shannon Hayes taught her daughter that their family doesn't buy things they can make or grow at home. She then had to wonder: Does that include higher education?
If we are to build a sustainable economy and an Earth community, our educational goals and structures will have to change. David Korten asks what it will take to retool and reskill our society.
More and more people are waking up to the mismatch between what is taught in schools and what we need to know. John Taylor Gatto on what you can do about it.


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Men?s Golfer of the Week ? No. 5
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Brady Klotz of Bethel (Ind.) has been named the NAIA National Men's Golfer of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Klotz was selected based on his performances from April 8 – 14 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated group golfer of the week selections.
Klotz, a native of Nappanee, Ind., led Bethel to back-to-back tournament victories for the week with a second-place finish at the BC Spring Sprint in Granger, Ind., April 8 and an individual crown at the Pilot Invitational in South Bend, Ind., April 13. At the BC Spring Sprint, which is a 36-hole tournament played in one day, Klotz carded a 74-75—149 to finish three strokes off the lead and second out of 38 golfers. He continued his stellar play at the Pilot Invitation, recording a second round 2-under par 70 to help the Pilots overcome a three-hole deficit and win the team and his first individual title of the season. He finished with a score of 73-70—143 for the event.
The next Men's Golfer of the Week will be announced on April 24. For the complete 2013 Golfer of the Week schedule, click here.
Nominees: Jose Vega, Bellevue (Neb.); Daniel Jansen, Faulkner (Ala.); Kevin Ritzenhaler, Lourdes (Ohio); Jared Lambert, Corban (Ore.); Aaron Flores, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Nate Kolmerten, Indiana Tech; Alastair Tidcombe, Cumberlands (Ky.); Julian Taylor , William Woods (Mo.); Shawn Rodehorst, Concordia (Neb.); Benjamin Gawronski, Madonna (Mich.); Seb Stobart, William Penn (Iowa); Mike Slavin, Grand View (Iowa); Thailer Carlson, AIB (Iowa); Anthony Marchesani, Oklahoma City; Michael Fitzgerald, Holy Cross (Ind.); Trey Stoll, Grace (Ind.); Josh Coletti, Missouri Valley; Parker Ross, Siena Heights (Mich.); Neil Malenke, Northwestern (Iowa); Garrett Bradley, Union (Ky.); Josh Gass, St. Francis (Ill.); Andrew Johnson, Warner Pacific (Ore.); Neil DuPreez, Lubbock Christian (Texas).
2013 Composite Award Winners
Week 1 (March 20): Nathan Anderson, Texas Wesleyan
Week 2 (March 27): Julian Taylor, William Woods (Mo.)
Week 3 (April 3): Anthony Marchesani, Oklahoma City
Week 4 (April 10): Julian Taylor, William Woods (Mo.)
Week 5 (April 17): Brady Klotz, Bethel (Ind.)


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text: People reject science such as that about climate change and vaccines, but readily believe scientists about solar eclipses, like this one reflected on the sunglasses of a man dangerously watching in Nicosia, Cyprus, in a 2015 file photo. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) August 13, 2017 Eclipse of reason: Why do people disbelieve scientists? Bryan Gaensler, University of Toronto People universally believe scientists' solar eclipse calendars, but vaccine warnings or climate predictions are forms of science that strangely do not enjoy equivalent acceptance.


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Jason Schwartzman and Michael Cera Deliver the Weather to Atlanta
Georgia residents were in for a treat if they tuned into Fox's Good Day, Atlanta this morning. Jason Schwartzman and Michael Cera dropped by the studio in order to promote Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, but more importantly, the weather.
It's nice to see that Jason took the opportunity to heart and delivered the hell out of the news. Michael Cera, obviously, just kind of hung around awkwardly. Pretty par for the course—but very entertaining, either way.


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text: blog postsMBA Student Creates Video Game to Teach Business FundamentalsMay 11, 2011 1:15 pm by Kristen Lisa; MBA Class of 2011Share on FacebookTweetEmailCristian Mitreanu, creator of the TEDxUIUC event, had put his expertise to work and created a new video game to teach us the fundamentals of making decisions at work. His game, OFMOS, is an innovative casual video game that mimics the basic actions taken by a CEO when deciding what the company should offer, when, and to whom. Rather than dealing with two separate portfolios, one of offerings and one of customers, this new theory allows us to analyze a company as a single portfolio of business entities. These entities are virtual business spaces defined by an offering and a set of customers, who have the same behavior relative to that offering. They are called "ofmos," a term derived from the combination of words offering-market-cosmos.In a beta-test of the game, 4 MBA students played and provided feedback and comments about their experience. Keep reading to hear from Srini, Koichi and Brett... One Second-Year MBA student, says: "The game is innovatively designed, easy to learn yet challenging to play. The game moves quickly and requires you to stay on your toes. Business students can use it to understand how businesses need to constantly create new growth opportunities while their existing products move through the product lifecycle. Students would also understand that businesses need to diversify their offerings across premium to value goods." Koichi Sato, Second-Year MBA: "OFMOS is interesting but challenging because we need to determine what combinations of business units work the best in a short time. As I proceeded to harder levels, I failed many times and analyzed all the information available quickly to execute my plan. If you are engaged in business, managers have to make decisions in many cases in terms of financial strategy, marketing strategy or organizational strategy. In any of these cases, one of the most important things is learning how to organize the information available in a short time and determine which strategy the company should take as soon as possible to capture the market or maximize profits. This experience helps to enhance the ability to analyze the information appropriately in a short time. Since we are supposed to be future business leaders as business students, this basic ability definitely helps us to acquire the sense of business. As I mentioned, this game requires to make my decision in a short time. It reminds me of my experience as a project leader in new service development section. Almost all the decision should be made at appropriate moment. So this game absolutely helps me to enhance my skills as a decision maker. Moreover, this game contains some funs as well. I can say that the game will give us useful experiences with well-developed essence of business." Srini Venugopal, Second-Year MBA "I immensely enjoyed playing the game. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in business or anyone looking to get sensitized to the general dynamics in business. While the game is entertaining to play, there seems to be more to it than just entertainment value. It enables visualization of the general dynamics in the marketplace and the process of running a business. This leads to enhanced comprehension of the dynamism in the market and consequently, better understanding of strategic business decisions required for marketplace success. I wish to congratulate Cristian and team for this stupendous effort in distilling the essence of business and capturing it in a manner that makes it easily accessible and enjoyable, simultaneously. Indeed, an impressive feat. For those whose curiosity is piqued, I recommend reading the article by Mitreanu titled "A Fundamental Theory of Business". I wish Cristian and team success in this endeavor of making mundane concepts in business come alive." Brett Miller, Second-Year MBA "I enjoyed playing the Ofmos game. It made me think about the life of different types of products and how they perform in an evolving market. In Cristian's game the market for products is constantly maturing and that has an impact on the value of each product that you have out there. The evolving products in the game reminds me of the philosophy of continuous improvement, which is more related to operations management, but I think it also applies here also. To win the game the player needs to be continually planning and designing new products while checking on and actively killing off old ones. I know Cristian says strategy might be a bad word, but I think there is a strategy to this game, and it's one of continuous product development and improvement." **OFMOS is intended to be enjoyed by most adults, with various levels of involvement -- from superficial immersion, where the player manages a system of moving objects, to deep immersion, where the player acts as a CEO running a large corporation over extended periods of time. The prototype, which can be downloaded at www.ofmos.com, is primarily intended to test the appeal of the game mechanics. stats700 Views 0 Comments additional actions Add commentShare on FacebookTweetEmail


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2006 Hummer H3Posted in Features on September 20, 2006
We like Hummers. The H1 has proven itself for decades in the backcountry and on the battlefield. The H2 is popular on Rodeo Drive and at the rodeo. With the H1 becoming so expensive that it's disappeared from civvy streets, and with the H2's thirstiness at the gas pump, something else was needed. The H3, a smaller Hummer, was just what the doctor ordered.
Jeep's XJ Cherokee held the all-around SUV crown for years before it was cruelly axed from the Jeep lineup in favor of the Liberty. The Cherokee's midsize design allowed it to get into the backcountry yet still be useful on the street. Its off-road ability will be remembered forever. The H3 may be the SUV that carries the XJ's crown through the first part of the 21st century. While it looks fairly large, the midsize H3 is really quite compact, especially by Hummer standards, allowing it to fit in surprising places, whether in the parking lot or in a rocky canyon.
Our H3 came from Jerry Seiner Hummer in South Jordan, Utah, with the Luxury package that includes heated leather seating, a six-CD changer, XM satellite radio, and the optional giant moonroof that uncovers both front passengers when open. It also came with the Off-Road package (which is called the Adventure package on non-Lux models) that includes a 4.03:1 Low range in the full-time Borg-Warner transfer case, 46mm gas-charged shocks (the same as on the H2), 285/75R16C (33-inch) Bridgestone Dueler A/T tires, and an E-Locker in back. All H3s come standard with 4.56 gears, independent front and leaf-spring rear suspension, and beefier tie rods than the breakage-prone ones on the H2.
The H3 weighs a tad over 4,000 pounds, which is about the same as a modified Jeep TJ and much less than the H2 or the H1. There's been talk that the H3 has a real lack of power and, frankly, we thought that would be the case. It isn't. While any vehicle is better with more horsepower and torque, the H3's Vortec 3500 I-5 engine moves it around quite well. It feels much more nimble on the pavement than a Jeep TJ Rubicon, which was feeling pretty anemic in its final year. The 4L60E automatic works as it always does - flawlessly. The H3 has a Traction Control System (TCS) that monitors wheelspin and applies brakes to single wheels if needed. It also has Stabiltrak, which helps control skids and prevent rollovers. We've been getting 16 mpg flogging the H3 as hard as we can and have even seen 20 mpg on a freeway run. Not bad for a midsize SUV!
The H3 works very well off-road. The turning radius is tight, making the H3 very maneuverable. The 4.03:1 Low range makes for great crawling, and the E-Locker works great like all locking differentials do. The Stabiltrak is automatically turned off in Low range, but the flashing "STAB OFF" on the dash could be dispensed with. The H3's ride off road is surprisingly supple and comfortable at relatively high speeds. With a 23-gallon fuel capacity and 16-20 mpg fuel economy, the H3 has a huge range for exploring. It truly deserves the name Hummer as its smaller size makes it big in off-road performance.


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Landscape architecture students bring new eyes, ideas to Pittsburgh neighborhood
Landscape architecture students bring new eyes, ideas to Pittsburgh neighborhood
Aaron Ramos, a fourth year landscape architecture student, has a vision for a patch of grass and asphalt in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Hazelwood. It's near the building that will soon house the Hazelwood branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He's designed an interactive landscape that he hopes will serve as more than just a library but also as a gathering place for the community.
And instead of parking spaces along Hazelwood's Second Avenue, Ramos would love to create a network of parklets. After hearing from community members, he developed a plan to make the main drag in this community along the Monongahela River more walkable, more accessible to pedestrians.
"It's not just planting trees or plants, it's creating an environment that puts someone in a certain mood. We're taking consideration of how someone feels in their space."
— Aaron Ramos, landscape architecture student
Ramos and 11 other fourth- and fifth-year Penn State landscape architecture students are wrapping up their experiences in the Pittsburgh Studio, a five-credit class that puts them in target communities in the city and surrounding urban areas, and charges them to create conceptual designs that can help people imagine what their hometowns could become.
Ramos has worked all semester on conceptual landscape plans for the Hazelwood Library and surrounding spaces. He's had to interact with residents, local government officials and representatives of nonprofits for the past several months. He said he's motivated by the Pittsburgh Studio's practice of "co-design," a style of engaged learning based on active community participation.
"Once you meet these people, you connect and grow relationships with them and you feel responsible for what you design," Ramos said. "I take more ownership with what I present to them and they take ownership, too."
The class presented their projects on Nov. 19 to members of the Hazelwood community at an open house inside a chilly church hall along Second Avenue. Almost everyone there kept their jackets on and zipped up. The students used a wireless microphone that was buzzing intermittently with feedback. The old building's heating system repeatedly interrupted them as clanging radiator pipes startled the speakers and the audience. These distractions, which often happen in a real world setting like a community meeting, are not always found in a classroom.
Leah Grosso (fourth year/landscape architecture) said the Pittsburgh Studio has given her valuable person-to-person experiences that she would not have necessarily received in a traditional classroom setting at University Park.
"In my other classes, our clients have either been our professors or imaginary, but in the Pittsburgh Studio, we're designing for actual community members: people with hopes, quirks and aspirations," Grosso said. "This studio is based on practical problems and real-world experience. If we didn't have community members talking to us, we wouldn't have a class. Hazelwood is literally our classroom."
Ken Tamminga, professor of landscape architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture, has been encouraging students for the past six years to help stressed neighborhoods recapture "pride of place" by using design, art and landscape as the catalysts for their vision.
Tamminga's studio, in partnership with The Penn State Center: Engaging Pittsburgh, works with community partners in various Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Under the leadership of Tamminga and Deno De Ciantis, director of The Penn State Center, the students create regenerative designs that aim to meet the vision of community leaders, residents and other stakeholders to improve the landscape of each neighborhood.
"The students get to tap into that energy. They bring professional expertise, precedent and theory but what they soon realize is they don't know the place. They don't know the neighborhood's backstory or its nuances so when they get together with local folks, there's this interesting process of reciprocal learning."
— Ken Tamminga, professor of landscape architecture
Once the students' conceptual projects are completed, neighborhood leaders often work with The Penn State Center to establish strategies to move the plans toward reality.
"This is a great opportunity for the students to meet the actual stakeholders of areas they plan on designing," said Lisa Kunst Vavro, manager of sustainable landscapes for The Penn State Center. "Without the vision and engagement of the community, there could be no studio and no design."


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Larry Dominick declared victory Tuesday for a third term as town president of Cicero, following a bitter campaign in a suburb rarely lacking in political controversy.
According to unofficial results, with 30 of 33 precincts reporting, Dominick had 5,287 votes, just over 60 percent. Former McPier chief executive Juan Ochoa had 2,655 votes, and former Cicero senior services director Joe Pontarelli had 788. By finishing with more than 50 percent of the vote, Dominick avoid a runoff in April.
The mood was upbeat at Dominick's headquarters at Al's Restaurant on Cermak Road. Hundreds of supporters ate pizza and watched the returns before Dominick spoke to them.
"We had a lot of good people behind us," he said. "I was looking for 70 percent of the vote, but 60 percent isn't bad."
The campaign was marred in recent weeks by accusations of voter intimidation and fraud, including the alleged mishandling of mail-in ballots. The Cook County clerk's office called for county and federal law authorities to investigate.
Dominick, who was first elected in 2005, contended the town is better off than it was before he became president. He said he has focused on reducing crime. He also noted that new parks, an ice rink and a community center were built under his administration, and he added that the town recently bought land for an aquatic center.
Dominick said that he was confident that residents would re-elect him because of his job performance. His stiffest challenge came from Ochoa, who accused Dominick of using his position to benefit himself and his family financially.
In 2009, the Tribune reported that relatives of Dominick sat on town boards that provide a salary and health insurance. Among them were Dominick's son, mother, sister and nephew. In 2010, the town cut back on some benefits for new board members, only offering them either money or health insurance.
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Ochoa vowed not to hire family members if elected. He also promised to examine spending and to make changes in town government. He also said he would focus on working with the school districts to improve education, design a comprehensive plan that would benefit residents and businesses, and hire more police officers to combat crime.
Pontarelli called for curbing nepotism, reforming government and saving tax dollars. He also wanted to redevelop the Cermak Road commercial district, enhance senior and youth programs and strengthen police presence.
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The MET Laboratories product safety certification mark on a product is recognized by federal and local authorities having jurisdiction, the retail community, project managers, and the consumer as a product meeting the mandated requirement of compliance to applicable national safety standards.
MET Laboratories' NRTL status is the culmination of MET's determined effort to have the federal government create a fair and open market for product safety certification laboratories.


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alisonneish necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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Kremmer Management Group, are a professional consultancy group in Melbourne, Australia. We do large, complex projects for government and corporate associations – anything from airport expansion planning, mining consulting, major building construction, lawyer expertise, all the way to major event management. We want to be a point of difference to our fairly "boring" industry. So we want a quality design that is engaging and user friendly.
The founders understand the power of a beautiful website design, especially in an industry that is normally behind in Internet marketing. We want to be cutting edge, vibrant yet professional.
The company has just expanded and has a younger more energetic feel to it. The website will be the first step in defining the company's image and culture. We also specialise in cloud based solutions for business and have a range of products coming out to the market shortly.
Mostly business people. CFO's of businesses, Project Managers, Government bodies, Construction developers, young professional looking for employment/wanting to transfer from their current jobs (we want to draw them in with the website design)
We want a colorful and energetic website that maintains a crisp and professional feel. We want the website to be unique and engaging-- it should catch your eye immediately. We like sites with a square core and tabs at the top with an excellent color scheme in the background, but I want to see many different design types.
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http://www.skmconsulting.com/ - I love how they have their recent projects scrolling below with each image expanded above with a description. I also like how they have the news below and options to put promotins or product panels below under insights. Their tabs are quite clear and layout is easy to read.
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Our new logo designs are attached below.


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University Health System Breaks Down the Language Barrier
By Julie Wiley, Corporate Communications Coordinator, University Health System
One way Raul Correa, a registered nurse on the general medicine unit at University Hospital, provides his patients with high-quality care and ensures they will go home understanding what they need to do to prevent readmission, is to communicate important information in the language they understand.
Since many of his patients speak Spanish, being fluent in both English and Spanish makes it that much easier for Correa to effectively communicate with the vast majority of his patients. Understanding that his competency in Spanish could benefit other patients on his unit, Correa decided to be one of the first staff members to join the Medical Interpreter Program at University Health System. He's not only improving the patient experience, he's also reducing the need for expensive outside interpretation services and helping assure University Health System is in compliance with The Joint Commission's patient-centered care communication standards.
"Our bilingual staff has embraced becoming more effective communicators by receiving this advanced training in medical interpreting," explains Jacqueline Burandt, senior director of University Health System's Center for Learning Excellence. They see first-hand every day the positive impact it can make on our patients' safety and quality outcomes."
Reduce Rehospitalizations and Cut Costs
According to a study released by Harvard University in 2011, providing patients with important information about their health, medications, and treatment options can reduce rehospitalizations by about 20 percent. University Health System's internal interpreter program is successfully improving timely and effective communication with patients and it also has stemmed the tide of interpreter expense, which had been experiencing significant year-over-year increases for the last three years.
University Health System's contracted cost for an onsite English-Spanish medical interpreter is $70 per hour, with a two-hour minimum charge. In 2011, onsite interpreters were called to a University Health System location 661 times at a cost of $92,540. This was a 51 percent increase over 2010, and directly led to the establishment of the internal medical interpretation program in 2011.
Organizers for the program looked at on-site interpretation expense by department to ensure staff members from high utilization areas were heavily recruited for the program. In its first year, 48 University Health System employees signed up for the program and passed the first step—a test to determine Spanish proficiency.
All 48 staff members completed a 40-hour English-Spanish medical interpretation course offered through contracts with International Language Center of San Antonio (ILCSA) and Spanish English Foreign Languages for America (SEFLA). In 2012, 31 staff members graduated from the course, and by mid-year another 10 were actively enrolled.
According to Carlos Castaneda, director of Patient Relations at University Health System, by mid-2012, 25 employees had submitted documentation showing they had completed 10 English-Spanish interpretations. "These encounters saved the Health System more than $36,000," he says.
In the first quarter of 2012, on-site English-Spanish interpreters were called to University Health System 55 times, at a cost of $7,700, almost a 66 percent reduction from the $23,100 average interpreter cost per quarter in 2011.
If University Health System continues to utilize the internal Medical Interpreter Program at the same rate for the remainder of 2012, the savings would amount to $61,600, which is a great start. "As we continue to train and utilize trained employees, we can expect the savings to go even higher and perhaps get close to zero dollars spent in the future for contract English-Spanish interpreters," Castaneda explains.
Medical Interpreter Criteria
The criteria for serving as a medical interpreter at University Health System include:
- Earning an acceptable score on the Spanish proficiency exam administered before admission to the course
- Committing to attend 40 hours of training in medical interpreting
- Successfully completing the end-of-course competency assessment
- Agreeing to serve as an interpreter on designated units
The 68 staff members who had met these requirements as of June 2012 work at University Hospital and throughout University Health System's network of ambulatory clinics throughout Bexar County.
"Training bilingual staff to serve as medical interpreters is the ultimate win-win," Burandt concludes. "The patients love it. It improves communication and patient safety, as well."
Julie Wiley is the Corporate Communications coordinator at University Health System in San Antonio, TX. University Health System is an academic medical center and network of outpatient health centers. In partnership with The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine, University Health System went paperless with electronic medical records. It is the first public health system in Texas to be designated as Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. University Hospital, its 498-bed acute care hospital, was named Best Regional Hospital U.S. News & World Report in 2011-2012 and is one of just 15 Level I trauma centers in Texas. University Health System's Community First Health Plans is the region's only locally owned, nonprofit HMO. For more information, visit UniversityHealthSystem.com.


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Peace and Conflict Transformation - master
The Master's programme offers in-depth understanding of the key issues informing the field of peace and conflict studies. It provides interdisciplinary insights into the nature and causes of conflicts, as well as efforts at building peace and restoring confidence in institutions in conflict-affected societies. It actively recruits students from Nordic and non-Nordic countries to create and promote cross-cultural teaching and learning experiences.
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|Credits (ECTS):
|Master of Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Transformation
|Admission requirements:
|Students with a BA or equivalent qualification in social sciences, health sciences, humanities, law or education
|Application deadline:
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The Master's degree programme in Peace and Conflict Transformation (MPCT) offers interdisciplinary insights into the nature and causes of conflicts, and analytical skills for handling conflicts by peaceful means.
The programme draws upon the history and geography of the city of Tromsø in the relatively peaceful High North to bring innovation to peace and conflict studies. With a long history of working towards peaceful co-existence among local ethnic and cultural groups, the region provides a unique setting for the study of ways of transforming relationships between individuals, groups and institutions from destructive to constructive bonds.
Teaching is intensive the first year, as core debates and perspectives are addressed through compulsory courses.
The second year focuses mainly on Master's Thesis projects. These thesis projects are designed by the students themselves, depending on their diverse interests and experiences. It is possible to collect data from any part of the world to support such self-selected Master's Thesis projects.
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|2. semester (spring)
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Elective courses: see CPS homepage
Elective courses: see CPS homepage
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Upon completion of the programme, the candidate should have the following learning outcomes:
Advanced knowledge of:
- the history and evolution of peace and conflict studies as a distinct field of study
- the key theories, debates and issues informing peace and conflict studies
- the nature and causes of violent conflict at all levels of human interaction - interpersonal, intergroup, community, national and global
- the diverse mechanisms for transforming conflictual relationships between individuals, groups and institutions into constructive bonds
- the diverse mechanisms for handling the consequences of violent conflict
- the existing state of knowledge in closely related fields of study in an overall multi-disciplinary perspective
Capacity to:
- identify and review relevant literature on specific issues
- formulate research questions and select appropriate theoretical and methodological frameworks
- design and carry out an independent research project, which involves the use of diverse data sources, under supervision
- collect, collate and interpret large amounts of data and communicate results effectively
- assess the quality of theoretical and methodological perspectives underlying other scholarly works
Ability to:
- present and discuss aspects of one's own work effectively at academic and public arenas
- read and obtain a nuanced understanding of texts, and provide critical and constructive feedback
- analyze relevant academic and research ethical problems
- apply knowledge and skills in new areas in order to carry out advanced assignments and projects
- contribute to new thinking and innovation processes
Admission to the Master's Programme in Peace and Conflict Transformation:
- Applicants who hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent issued in Europe, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand: An average grade C as a minimum requirement,
- Applicants who hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent issued in countries other than the above mentioned region/countries: An average grade B as a minimum requirement : https://en.uit.no/education/art?p_document_id=352162&dim=179015
Applicants must enclose a statement of purpose (maximum of two pages). This statement must include the purpose for and interest in pursuing the Master's degree programme (i.e. relating prior academic achievements and professional experiences to the core concerns of the programme). There is no need for recommendation letters.
The programme is English-taught, requiring applicants to document adequate proficiency in English.
Entry into the programme is competitive, based on academic qualifications (educational background) and a statement of purpose.
Set curriculum makes a fulltime study for 2 years, approximately 1500-1800 workhours per year.
Activities are lectures, seminars, student presentations and peer reviews, individual supervision, excursions, and guest lectures.
The teaching and learning methods are problem-based, i.e. using problems and issues informing everyday life as teaching materials. The teaching involves lectures, seminars and self-readings. The multiple teaching methods are designed to facilitate the stuents' problem-solving capabilities. Every student will be assigned a thesis supervisor in the first year of study. Supervision is given through seminars and individual tutorials.
Students are encouraged to go abroad to do fieldwork, and the programme offers financial support to that end.
Electives may be taken at our partner universities. Updated information on relevant courses available is offered by the programme administration. Exchange requires a sojourn of at least three months.
Partner institutions are:
- Hamburg University, ISFH, Germany
- American School Central Asia, Division of Social Sciences, Kyrgyzstan
- Petrozavodsk State University, Institute of History, Political and Social Studies, Russia
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
- Umeå University, Department of Political Science, Sweden
|2 Years
|Credits (ECTS):
|Master of Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Transformation
|Admission requirements:
|Students with a BA or equivalent qualification in social sciences, health sciences, humanities, law or education
|Application deadline:
|1 December
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Contact information
Please, contact us by e-mail
Additional information is on the CPS webpage www.uit.no/peace


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Description: Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote his wife a short letter to let her know he arrived at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and would be leaving for La Grange, Pennsylvania, soon. He said he would write more later.
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Matt Andersen Asks…What Can Be Changed On A Strip-Prepped '65 Impala 396 To Make It A Cruiser Without Unbalancing The Combo?
Q. I recently purchased my first classic car. It's a '65 Impala hardtop. The car is set up for the strip with the following parts:
- 0.040-inch-over 396 big-block
- LS6 heads
- Forged domed pistons
- Comp Cams 305H Magnum hydraulic flat-tappet cam
- Roller rockers
- Heavy-duty pushrods and valvesprings
- 850-cfm Holley carburetor
- Edelbrock Performer intake manifold
- MSD competition ignition system
- Pro headers with 3-inch exhaust and competition mufflers
- TH400 automatic trans with 3,200-rpm-stall and shift-improvement kit
- 12-bolt rearend with 4.11:1 gears
- Fuel cell with external electric fuel pump
The car is extremely loud and high-revving at speed. I want to make the car a cruiser. I plan on changing the mufflers, but what else can I change without upsetting the applecart of the current powertrain setup?
A. Matt, from the sound of it, you have a well-balanced combination for the car's original intent. The only part that seemingly doesn't match up with the rest of the parts is your apparent use of an Edelbrock Performer 2-O intake (PN 7161). I assume that's a typo on your end because that manifold is only made for oval-port heads, and you say you have LS6 heads, which have rectangular ports. The Performer 2-O physically bolts on to rectangular-port heads, but there's a significant port mismatch. It's a fine street intake when used with the right heads from off-idle to 5,500 rpm, but the powerband on your 305H cam—one of Comp's largest flat-tappet hydraulic grinds—is 3,000 to 6,800 rpm. I'm sure you really meant to list a Performer RPM 2-R (PN 7163) or RPM Air-Gap 2-R (PN 7562). Both intakes have at least a 1,500- to 6,500-rpm powerband, but we've seen them run higher and feel that series is the best all-around intake for a street big-block running a healthy cam.
In fact, your entire combination is basically built around the cam. Comp recommends at least 10.5:1 compression, a four-speed trans or 3,500-plus-rpm-stall-speed converter with an automatic, and 4.10:1 or numerically steeper gears. You're basically right that if you change one thing it could indeed unbalance the combination. There are no easy answers here.
I'd start off by first trying your quieter muffler suggestion, and then maybe add some floorpan sound insulation. Search for "sound deadener" at Summit Racing, and you'll get a whole range of options. If that's not sufficient, then it's time to bite the bullet and consider some drivetrain changes.
The traditional approach is milder rearend gears, but that in turn may require changing other stuff to bring the total combination back into harmony. How picky are you as far as your driveability envelope goes? Are we talking cruising at sustained highway speeds or in-town cruising? How many miles will you actually put on the car? You need to decide what is an acceptable engine rpm for the speeds at which you want to cruise. You can juggle cruise rpm, cruise-speed in mph, tire size, trans ratios, and rearend gear ratios using the following equation to come up with a possible rearend gear-ratio solution (algebraically transposing it as necessary to solve for any missing element).
Cruise rpm should not be so low that the car feels lazy with the big 305H cam. If your present cruise speed is about 3,200–3,500 rpm, you can take about 500 rpm off that amount and slide by with no major changes to other drivetrain parts besides rearend gearing.
Let's say you can live with a 3,000-rpm cruise speed at 65 mph with the TH400's 1.00:1 Third gear, and you have 26-inch tires. What available rear axle ratio will get you close?
The result yields a 3.57:1 rear-gear ratio. The closest real-world ratio available for a 12-bolt Chevy is 3.55:1 (such as Richmond PN 49-0095-1; $224.95 at Summit Racing). With the same combination, 3.42:1 gears (Richmond PN 49-0113-1; $203.95 at Summit) net you around a 2,873-rpm cruise speed. Traditionally, the 12-bolt Chevy car rearend differential case break is between 3.73:1 and 4.10:1. Anything 4.10:1 and numerically higher originally required a four-series differential case; 2.76:1 to 3.73:1 used a three-series case. If the new gears fell outside the range of your existing case, then a case swap was also needed.
However, today there are special aftermarket 3.73:1 and 4.10:1 Chevy car 12-bolt gears for the three-series case available from vendors like Richmond (3.73:1 gears for four-series case, PN 49-0096-1; $224.95 at Summit). But this also means there's a chance you could have a three-series differential case with the special 4.10:1 aftermarket gears—if that's the case (pun intended), be sure to get the right matching parts. And, yes, normal three-series, 3.73:1 gears continue to be widely available (such as Richmond PN 49-00390-1); there's also three-series 390:1 gears (such as Richmond PN 49-0040-1). Anything under 3.73:1 still mandates a three-series case.
But I wouldn't recommend cruising under 2,800 or the combo will indeed fall off the applecart. Yes, you can drop down one to two steps on the cam, choosing one whose operating range comes in around 2,300 to 2,500 rpm, but actually cruising at that rpm requires really mild gears. The problem is that although these cams should still perform OK at (depending on the exact grind) a 2,300- to 2,500-rpm highway cruise, the rearend gear ratio needed to generate that rpm at cruise is so mild (numerically low) that the car will be really lazy below that point or on initial acceleration until you get up on the cam. For example, the equation tells us that to cruise at 65 mph with a 26-inch-od tire at 2,500 rpm requires a 2.98:1 rear-gear ratio. The closest available new 12-bolt gearset is a 3.08:1 (such as Richmond PN 49-0094-1, $214.95 at Summit), which will put you in around 2,587 rpm.
Besides laziness getting into even the two-step-milder cam's operating range, there are other potential issues. First, there's the torque converter. Some maintain you can't run that high-stall converter at all: The theory is that the converter at cruise speeds will now be operating below its rated stall speed, generating slippage that heats up the trans fluid. On the other hand, at the same steady-state cruise speed, if rpm is lower and throttle-opening is smaller, the engine obviously makes less power. If the engine makes less power, the effective converter stall speeds also drop. The problem then becomes how quickly the converter transitions when you step into the throttle and accelerate, sometimes called "converter flash." Maybe you could slide by without a tighter converter, but it will be really dicey. You could try installing the largest external trans cooler you have room for and maybe a deep transmission pan. Drive the car and keep an eye on the trans temp—I'd like to see it between 175 and 200 degrees, but you can slide by up to around 240 degrees if you change the trans fluid frequently.
Yet another consideration is: What's the engine's true compression ratio? Big-blocks with both iron blocks and heads are detonation prone. Over-10:1 true static compression ratios may induce detonation on pump premium-unleaded gas as the cam gets smaller (and as the gears get milder, because there's more time for detonation to occur in the low- and midrange since the engine takes longer to wind up). Another way to look at it is that as the cam gets smaller, the cranking compression (as read on a cylinder compression tester) goes up. Anything higher than 180 psi on a cranking compression check with these beasts, and you will most likely have a detonation problem on pump premium-unleaded gas. Anything you can do to reduce underhood temps would help crutch things; consider a hoodscoop or ram-air system. Air Inlet Systems is one vendor.
Now if you went down three to four steps on the cam to try to bring it into harmony with 3.08:1 gears, it's probably not going to help either the detonation or the torque-converter-slippage issues .Wow, this is getting complicated. Is there a better way that allows you to keep the present cam, converter, and rearend gears? Yes, if you have the bucks: Install a Gear Vendors add-on Overdrive unit that attaches to the back of your existing transmission in place of its extension housing. As an add-on unit, it lets you split any gear, so your three-speed TH400 effectively becomes a six-speed—the three standard gears, plus an overdrive ratio for each of the gears (see table on the next page). In high gear with the existing 4.10:1 ring-and-pinion, your effective final-drive ratio would be 3.20:1 (2,688 rpm in our hypothetical cruise scenario). Torque converter slippage won't be a problem, Gear Vendors claims, because the rpm at cruise and the engine output to maintain a given steady-state speed will be lowered even more, which of course lowers effective stall speed at steady-state, part-throttle cruising conditions. On the other hand, "lazy revving" getting up to cruise won't be a problem because with six forward speeds, there's minimal rpm drop between each gear.
Available for most classic automatic and manual transmissions and weighing only about 28–32 pounds with a diameter roughly equal to a 3-pound coffee can, full-race Gear Vendors ODs can handle over 2,000 hp (many are used in Bonneville LSR cars). Even standard street units are rated to 1,200 hp. Gear Vendors President Rick Johnson says, "20-year-old units sell for more than when they were new." The downside is the cost: $2,695.00 factory-direct for PN 3DFS400A, the model that replaces a typical TH400 trans with a 4-inch extension housing. You'll also have to shorten the driveshaft. But at least on the big Impala tunnel mods probably won't be needed.
4.6L DOHC For SOHC In '96 Cougar
Q. I have a '96 Cougar XR7 with a 4.6L, single-overhead-cam, two-valve motor. I have access to a very low-mileage, 4.6L twin-cam, four-valve, engine in a '94 Mark VIII Lincoln, as well as the rest of its drivetrain and wiring. If I put the DOHC engine into my Cougar, will I need to change any of the wiring or electronics? If so, where can I get the parts? There are no emissions inspections in my area.
Allen Haynes
Amarillo, TX
A. The '96-and-later Fords have a 104-pin, OBD-II–compliant ECU (engine control unit, aka the computer). The '95-and-earlier cars use a non–OBD-II ECU with 60 pins (i.e., 60 terminals on the master connector going into the computer). OBD-II compliance is required in California and states that conform to California emissions; I'll take you at your word that this isn't a concern in Texas.
Because the early and late computers are so different, Ford tuner and engine swapper Mark Sanchez at AEW recommends not only transferring the engine from the Lincoln donor to the Cougar receiver but also the engine harness, computer harness, and computer. Even if you don't have the donor engine's harness and computer, you'll get best results with those components from the same-year car.
The '96-and-later cars also had built-in vehicle anti-theft; the earlier cars did not. As you are installing the earlier engine into a later car, this won't be a problem (but there will no longer be built-in anti-theft provisions).
On a Ford, the engine as well as the transmission must be compatible with the ECU. There were two different computer-controlled transmissions in this era: the AODE and EAOD. The transmission oil pan should be stamped with the trans model. The computer can't be reprogrammed to account for a transmission change, and using the wrong trans for the computer will result in the trans not shifting. If you are wealthy, you might consider stand-alone trans computers (Baumann is one source). In this scenario, delete the transmission control functions from the engine computer and run it off the stand-alone unit. As you have access to the entire donor car, the simplest (and least expensive) solution is to grab the Lincoln trans along with the engine.
As for engine hard parts, grab everything. The Mark VIII oil pan will fit the Cougar chassis. Use the DOHC front drives and accessories—some are different than your existing parts. The Lincoln exhaust system may not clear the Cougar chassis, and the two-valve exhaust manifolds won't fit the four-valve heads. Custom exhaust fabrication may therefore be required.
Due to the different connector designs, some wire splicing and cutting is needed. At the instrument-panel end of the harness, replace the Lincoln connectors with the Cougar connectors on the Cougar water temp (red-with-white-stripe wire) and oil pressure (white-with-red-stripe wire) gauges. Also at the instrument-panel end, patch or tie in the power key-on (red with green stripe) and power-cranking (red with blue stripe) circuits.
Gear Ratios With GM TH375/400/475 and Gear Vendors Overdrive
The Gear Vendors Overdrive (OD) units can supply OD for every gear, not just high. Its 0.78:1 ratio yields a 22 percent gear-ratio reduction. This table lists the effective final-drive ratios on a GM TH400 three-speed automatic trans with the add-on Gear Vendors unit. Play around with the ratios and the gear-ratio equation to determine a satisfactory rpm operating range for your application.


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Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary undertaking devoted to scholarship on the histories, political and cultural movements, institutions, economies and identities of Africans and the African diaspora across the globe. Africa's own overlapping maternities and the transnational migrations of its peoples–whether forced or voluntary--have complicated the meanings of "black" and "African" identities and experiences, prompting us to rethink the geographical boundaries and conceptual paradigms surrounding the production of knowledge about Africa and its diasporic communities.
Courses taught at NYU Accra focus on various aspects of Ghanaian society and culture, with courses ranging from literature and music to the African liberation movement.
Students in Accra explore Africa through the voices of the African people and their personal Ghanaian experiences to further inform their creative voices. With the unique opportunity to engage with this exciting culture, students are inspired to create original work discussing issues such as class, gender, and ethnic and national identities. Courses use mediums such as creative writing, photography, journalism, literature, and documentary film, to encourage students to discover and refine their artistic voice in a new context.
Metropolitan Studies focuses on the study of cities and metropolitan regions in historical and contemporary perspective. Students in Accra use this metropolitan center as their laboratory for understanding processes of urban and regional development, the major institutions of urban life, urban social movements, urban cultural dynamics and the socio-environmental consequences of worldwide urbanization. With courses such as Global Connections: Accra, students learn first-hand what factors define the spatial geography and political economy of urban Africa.
Widely recognized as one of the top institutions of higher education in West Africa, the University of Ghana-Legon, based on the Oxbridge model (reflecting Ghana's former status as a British colony), is the country's flagship university. Home to some of West Africa's foremost scholars, it offers hundreds of courses and a full range of academic programs with particular strengths in African studies, the social sciences, and the performing arts. NYU Accra enjoys a strong multicultural exchange with scholars and students at the University of Ghana-Legon. Many students compliment their studies at the NYU academic center by enrolling directly in one or two courses at the University of Ghana-Legon.
Many NYU schools and departments offer special global track degree programs. These programs are designed to give students unique global experience in their field of study and often involve studying abroad at multiple locations. Students in the programs listed below spend one or more semesters in Shanghai.