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21 Jun
YouVersion app, created by Decatur native Bobby Gruenewald, most popular download
EDMOND – In 2007, Decatur native Bobby Gruenewald created a Bible website for his church, dubbed “YouVersion,” that was designed to allow users to associate online media such as YouTube videos or Flickr photos with Bible verses. The site was moderately successful, but Gruenewald knew it wasn’t reaching its full potential. The next year, Gruenewald and the church developed the YouVersion Bible …
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47th Annual DIA Meeting Exhibitor Profiles A through I
The Drug Information Association’s 47th Annual Meeting takes place June 19, 2011 through June 23, 2011 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Listed below are exhibitor profiles A through I.
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Full Sail University Graduate Brad Czerkies, Wins National Silver ADDY Award
Full Sail University is proud to recognize 2006 Recording Arts graduate Brad Czerkies, on his nomination and win of a National Silver ADDY Award in Sound Design. Czerkies won for his work on a video for the Harris Corporation highlighting the effectiveness of a haptic robot used for explosive ordnance removal, and received the award at the National ADDY Awards gala held in San Diego on Saturday …
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18 Jun
Champion for children
Rebecca Gorton has devoted her career to improving early childhood education Rebecca “Becky” Gorton’s face lights up as she walks through the halls of the Child Care Center at Northampton Community College.
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New sealant gel is effective in closing spinal wounds following surgery, study finds
( University of California – Davis Health System ) A gel that creates a watertight seal to close surgical wounds provides a significant advance in the treatment of patients following spinal procedures, effectively sealing spinal wounds 100 percent of the time, a national multicenter randomized study led by researchers at UC Davis has found.
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Research and Markets: On-Demand Briefing: Free Market Research: Leveraging Solar and Commercial Energy Data
Research and Markets has announced the addition of AltaTerra Research’s new report “On-Demand Briefing: Free Market Research: Leveraging Solar and Commercial Energy Data” to their offering.
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Should All Kids Go to College?
The Nation — On June 8, President Barack Obama visited Northern Virginia Community College. He rolled up his sleeves and tooled around under the hood of a hybrid car that students were learning to repair. Later, he gave a speech on the importance of more Americans gaining access to higher education—not just at four-year universities but at community colleges and occupational training programs …
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12 Jun
KNEXT Sponsors OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Meeting
KNEXT, a college credit advisory service, was pleased to sponsor the OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As an advocate of lifelong learning, KNEXT supports the invaluable learning that OpenCourseWare provides worldwide.
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Army Community Service hopes to inform deployed Families
A deployed spouse activity day is Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Army Community Services building. ACS hosts this event to inform Families with deployed members on post of the resource programs that are available to them.
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Bringing dropouts back ‘home’
When teens drop out of high school, where do they go? Many times they’re sitting on their living room couch, doing nothing at all, Phu Dao has found. Since May 1, Dao — a former probation officer with a degree in social work — has crisscrossed the city, knocking on the doors of …
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Experts Say Summer Camps Improve Parent-Child Relationships
According to the American Camping Association , there are more than 6,000 overnight camps and 12,000 day camps in the U.S and more than eight million children attend camp each summer.
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