The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) will run a program of 10 lean management workshops June 14-16, 2011, in Pittsburgh, PA, on how to implement lean tools and management methods in manufacturing and service processes. The workshops, which will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport, will cover value-stream mapping, strategy deployment, using A3 management reports, basic lean production principles, and more advanced concepts. For details about course content, instructors, discounts, and how to register call 617- 871-2900 ...

All landscapes are constantly changing through the action of both natural and human influences; landscape therefore continues to offer boundless opportunities for artistic expression. In this exhibition contemporary artists of the landscape re-interpret the fascinating, ever-changing British landscape with artistic responses as diverse as the landscape itself. The exhibition is a completely pleasurable blend of insights into the British landscape, from the coast of Cornwall to the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, from the Dorset coast to the Derbyshire Dales and beyond, ...

It started in concept as a home furnishings store and evolved in execution to become the number one mattress store in the Pacific Northwest. Sleep Country USA (www.sleepcountry.com) today marked the celebration of its 20th year in business, boasting 75 stores and 350 employees. Founded in 1991 by Sunny Kobe Cook and Bob Cook, Sleep Country USA opened with approximately eight stores and 25 employees. Early stores were known for their unique interior design style that replicated the 'pretty' aesthetic found in furniture stores paired with a versatile selection of top name-brand ...

Whoever says, "You can't get anything for free." has not heard of Who's Your Brother (WYB). Members of WYB are receiving laptops, clothing, TV's and groceries just for the asking and with no strings attached. Bloggers can now reap the benefits of this wonderful charitable program too through their new ad program called the WYB Blog Network. Bloggers have expressed many concerns about other ad programs, hence the WYB Blog Network has been designed with many of their concerns in mind. The network gives more control over ad content to the Blogger. This way the Blogger's ...

ComplianceBridge, Inc., a provider of web-based policy and procedure management software announced an online event covering best practices and tips for improving policy and procedure management in organizations. Industry experts, Thomas Kay, CEO of Pinnacle Intertech Inc. and Bill Harrison, CEO of ComplianceBridge, will share best practices to effectively manage policies and procedures to protect your organization and its assets. Our guest speaker, Mr. Kay and his company are the forefront of IT Governance, SOX and IT compliance and they have tremendous experience in designing ...

CarInsuranceRates.com, one of the largest rate comparison sites for car insurance on the web, performed an analysis of auto insurance rates state by state as they relate to the rate of car insurance fraud. The study indicated that as the rate of claims fraud increases, so do car insurance rates. The correlation between the two variables suggests that carriers are passing on the cost of fraud to customers with higher rates. "The analysis we did shows an interesting link between the rates drivers in a state pay and how rampant claims fraud is in that state. States that ...

PersonalCashAdvance.com, one of the largest sources of cash loans on the web, is proud to welcome several new lenders to its affiliate referral network. PCA's network of lenders supplies the site's visitors with free quotes on cash advance loans. The new lenders were selected for their outstanding reputations for customer service and for their ability and willingness to offer entirely electronic payday loans. "The demand for various types of all-electronic cash advances is off the charts. Our visitors constantly inquire about the availability of no fax cash advances, ...

MEZZI, world-renowned aluminum case manufacturer, is offering a glimpse of a forthcoming hot new product before its arrival in early May. The company's new line of iPad cases (http://www.mezzi.com/iPad-Cases) will be available in three colors - black, pink and white. With an estimated 7+ million Apple iPads and iPad 2 sold in the first quarter of 2011 and 6+ million original iPads sold during past Christmas season, MEZZI finds the demand for protecting these devices is on the rise. "When consumers invest between $500 - $800 for a compact mobile device that fits so nicely ...

Founded in 1963, the Boston Ballet has become one of the leading dance companies in the world. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen and Executive Director Barry Hughson, the Company maintains an internationally acclaimed repertoire and the Boston Ballet School, the largest ballet school in North America. The Boston Ballet recently upgraded its audio system, including the installation of a Soundcraft Vi1 digital mixing console. Talamas Broadcast Equipment of Newton, Massachusetts provided the Soundcraft Vi1 console in time for the recent holiday production ...

PPT VISION introduces the IMPACT M500 Series of GigE compatible line scan cameras. The series includes twelve new cameras ranging from a 1024 pixel, 18.7 Khz model to a 2048 pixel, 29.2 Khz model; each with C or F mount lensing options and supporting multiple encoder configurations with direct digital inputs. The new M500 Series of line scan cameras can be used with the IMPACT M-Series Embedded Vision System to simply and reliably perform multiple machine vision inspections simultaneously. "PPT VISION has long offered a broad selection of IMPACT smart cameras and software, ...

BlueLinx Corporation ("BlueLinx") and Lakewood-based HomeSphere, Inc. announced today they have entered into a joint agreement to offer Georgia-Pacific vinyl siding and trim products to HomeSphere's network of builders using HomeSphere's technology-driven solutions. BlueLinx joins more than 75 manufacturing brands currently using HomeSphere's BRI lead generation and marketing program to produce new builder leads through our dealer network and strengthen existing business, thus growing their market share through increased homebuilder sales. "Our relationship with ...

WinADayCasino.com has launched another one-of-a-kind game, the new carnival-themed Fair Tycoon online slot machine with a bonus game where players build their own amusement park. As usual, WinADay is giving players free bonus money to try the new game and they'll give $3000 in special bonuses to the players that play it the most. To encourage feedback, WinADay will pay 5 players $75 each for their reviews. Fair Tycoon is an animated five reel slot machine with 17 pay lines and a Premium Game where players become a mighty tycoon. You can almost smell the hot dogs and ...

BaseKit has raised $6.5m in venture capital from Nauta Capital, Eden Ventures and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) from a second round of funding that takes investment in the British-based company to a combined $10m in the past year. The funding will enable the company to rapidly expand its global reach with new offices in Barcelona, Sao Paolo, Mexico DF, Buenos Aires and San Francisco. BaseKit is an online website builder and hosting service, which enables users to create next generation websites quickly and easily using an on-screen ...

DETROIT – A series of new guidelines for cardiac specialists has been developed to determine when heart failure patients should receive a mechanical heart-pumping device. "The new guidelines will likely affect who is referred for a mechanical circulatory support device, and how early in the process a physician would consider implanting a left ventricular assist device," says Jeffrey A. Morgan, M.D., associate director of Mechanical Circulatory Support at Henry Ford Hospital. "These guidelines have the ability to change clinical practice patterns for patients with advanced ...

Dr. Richer, speaking at his 4th annual Nutrition & The Eye conference, April 16-17, hosted by the College of Optometry at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, says molecular medicine is beginning to provide hope for patients with declining sight when all other therapies have been exhausted. "These nutritional molecules have begun to be rigorously studied around the world in cardiology , cancer research and some human studies", Dr Richer reported. Dr. Richer has now accumulated a growing number of otherwise hopeless cases that retina specialists and other ophthalmologists ...

Palo Alto, CA—Brazilians are world leaders in using biofuels for gasoline. About a quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions that otherwise would be emitted from using gasoline. Now scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology have found that sugarcane has a double benefit. Expansion of the crop in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. It does so by reflecting sunlight back into space and by lowering the temperature of the surrounding ...

Bremerhaven/Geesthacht/Potsdam, 14 April 2011. The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion and retreats by half a metre per year on average. This means substantial changes for Arctic ecosystems near the coast and the population living there. A consortium of more than thirty scientists from ten countries, including researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association and from the Helmholtz Centre in Geesthacht, comes to this conclusion in two studies published in Estuaries and Coasts ...

VIDEO: Cardiologist Dr. Geoffrey Pickering of the University of Western Ontario describes a new strategy for stimulating the formation of highly functional new blood vessels in damaged tissue. Click here for more information. Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have discovered a strategy for stimulating the formation of highly functional new blood vessels in tissues that are starved of oxygen. Dr. Geoffrey Pickering and Matthew Frontini at the Schulich School of ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In two new studies, researchers provide the first detailed view of the elaborate chemical and mechanical interactions that allow the ribosome – the cell's protein-building machinery – to insert a growing protein into the cellular membrane. The first study, in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, gives an atom-by-atom snapshot of a pivotal stage in the insertion process: the moment just after the ribosome docks to a channel in the membrane and the newly forming protein winds its way into the membrane where it will reside. A collaboration between ...

Thorne Vet, a division of Thorne Research, has introduced ImmunoVET for immune and gastrointestinal support. ImmunoVET is an immune globulin concentrate derived from purified bovine serum. It contains at least 45-percent immunoglobulin (IgG) - considerably more than the 20-25 percent typically seen in colostrums. ImmunoVET is purified from bovine serum, rather than bovine milk, hence there is no dairy component. ImmunoVET augments natural gut immunity by improving gut barrier function, activating gut immunity, and decreasing intestinal secretions for better stool consistency. ...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that currently affects about one in every 200 people. Most patients find some relief from their symptoms by treatment with antipsychotics, however they may still suffer from cognitive and negative symptoms. These include poor concentration and memory, apathy, or a reduced ability to cope in social situations. Preliminary research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that patients who received L-lysine alongside their normal medication found some reduction in the severity of their symptoms. In ...

It was previously thought that land plants evolved from stonewort-like algae. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that the closest relatives to land plants are actually conjugating green algae such as Spirogyra. Ancestors of green plants began to colonise the land about 500 million years ago and it is generally accepted that they evolved from streptophyte algae (a group of green, fresh water algae). But this group of algae is very diverse and currently ranges from simple, one cell, flagellates to more ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, but the cells live on to form new tissue. Developing this nanofiber sphere as a cell carrier that simulates the natural growing environment of the cell is a very significant advance in tissue repair, says Peter Ma, professor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and lead author of a paper about the research scheduled for advanced ...

Earlier this year the First Court of Appeals in Houston handed down a historic opinion guaranteeing undocumented workers a fair day in court. Through its ruling, the court set the standard for Texas courts in refusing to allow the immigration status of a plaintiff to prejudice a jury, while simultaneously affirming the relief granted through the original verdict to the family of a man killed on the job. The case, Republic Waste Services, Ltd., et al. v. Martinez, et al., was brought by Benny Agosto, Jr., a partner at the Houston law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, ...

Whether you're talking about genes, or neurons, or the workings of a virus, at the most fundamental level, biology is a matter of proteins. So understanding what protein complexes look like and how they operate is the key to figuring out what makes cells tick. By harnessing the unique properties of polarized light, Rockefeller scientists have now developed a new technique that can help deduce the orientation of specific proteins within the cell. By turning their instruments toward the nuclear pore complex, a huge cluster of proteins that serves as a gateway to a cell's ...