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The Premier healthcare alliance today announced new agreements for personal care kits and components have been awarded to Cardinal Health of McGaw Park, Ill.; Care Line Inc. of Greenbrier, Tenn.; and Medline Industries Inc. of Mundelein, Ill.

Effective August 1, 2012, the agreements are available to acute care and continuum of care members of Premier.

About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals and 84,000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals, health systems and other providers, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier has worked with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in Washington. http://www.premierinc.com. Stay connected with Premier on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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For Justin Burrell, his first professional season was not about himself despite his personal success on the court.

The former St. Johns University standout earned Most Valuable Player honors in the Japanese Professional League with the Yokohama B-Corsairs. He led the club to a 31-21 record by averaging a double double of 18 points and 10 rebounds per contest. Yokohama reached the leagues semifinals as an expansion club.

It was more impressive for us as a team, Burrell said. Making the final four, that was better for us.

He described his venture overseas as a humbling and eye-opening experience, a chance to see the rest of the world. When Burrell returned to the states, he received an invite to play with the Golden State Warriors summer league team in Las Vegas. The 6-foot-8, 244-pound forward put forth a strong showing, averaging 6.2 points per game and 4.4 rebounds per contest. His play earned him a training camp invite, but he may not attend if doesnt look like the Warriors have a spot for him on their roster.

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/former St. John's standout Justin Burrell has a training camp invite from the Golden State Warriors.

The summer league is a great experience, said Burrell, the Big Easts Sixth Man of the Year as a senior. Its great competing against pro athletes.

The rest of the summer has been spent back on the New York City streetball circuit playing in leagues like Nike Pro City with defending champion The Franchise. He played in the Malone Mulhall Benefit Game last Saturday and electrified the crowd with a series of slams.

Burrell was also selected to be a member of Team Nike 2, the sports equipment companies second collection of streetball all stars, that competes at Rivington Court on the East Side. The squad completed a doubleheader sweep of Team Harlem and Ooh-Way Monday night, something Burrell felt the team needed.

Justin did all the intangibles for us, Team Nike 2 coach Raheem (Rah) Wiggins said. He did the dirty work."

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.Its difficult to say that this July live recruiting period has been more centrally focused on anyone other than Canadian phenom and No. 1 2014 prospect Andrew Wiggins.

Wiggins not only enjoyed personal success, distinguishing himself as perhaps the best high school player in the country, regardless of class, but also carried his CIA Bounce to the finals at Nike Peach Jam in South Carolina this month.

But behind the long shadow cast by Wiggins are two other prospects, Tyler Ennis and Xavier Rathan-Mays, who have prominent high-major recruitments of their own and are as integral to the success of CIA Bounces success as the standout, Wiggins.

Well, you know, Tyler and I always talk about this is the dream weve had since we were young, Rathan-Mayes told NBCSports.com at the Live in AC tournament. To have Coach Self and all the big-time coaches calling our phones for our services, were just embracing it and taking it day by day.

Wiggins was not in attendance for Live in AC, giving Ennis and Rathan-Mayes a larger share of the spotlight for the week.

Rathan-Mayes, a 6-4 guard from Toronto, Can., is a Top 50 national recruit and a pure scorer, gaining more visibility because of this crossover and game-winning shot from last summer that went viral.

He plays at Huntington Prep (W.V.) alongside Wiggins and has a unique perspective on the team dynamic that exists between himself, Ennis, and the No. 1 overall prospect in the country.

Ive know Andrew since I was about two years old and weve grown up playing together, said Rathan-Mayes. Playing with him, it makes things easier because you have to send double teams at him and it opens up free shots for me and Tyler.

Listed at 205 pounds, Rathan-Mays uses his body well, often backing down guards from the perimeter and creating space to get an open shot. On one sequence at Live in AC, he hit a fallaway jumper from the baseline off a crossover, then came down on the next possession and hit an identical shot with a defenders hand in his face.

Rathan-Mayes works as a complement to the savvy, poised Ennis, who is a Top 25 player in the class and the point guard of this talented CIA Bounce team. Ennis, much like Rathan-Mayes, feels the media spotlight that comes with playing alongside Wiggins, but maintains an impressively mature approach.

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Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) has adjusted the companys capital budget for 2012 and expects to spend an extra billion dollars on the Bakken play in the last half of the year. The company is facing higher costs on drilling and completion services and more infrastructure spending.

Second Quarter of 2012

Hess reported average daily production of 55,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) from the Bakken formation in the second quarter of 2012, up more than 100% from 25,000 BOE per day in the second quarter of 2011. The company expects production in 2012 to average between 54,000 and 58,000 BOE per day, down slightly from the original goal of 60,000 BOE per day set earlier in the year.

Bakken Overview

Hess has more than 800,000 net acres under lease prospective for the Bakken formation and plans to operate an average of 16 rigs here in 2012. The companys goal is to ramp up development and generate net production of 120,000 BOE per day from its properties by 2015.

Capital Spending Increase

The original investment plan that was set by Hess for 2012 called for $1.9 billion of capital spending on the Bakken during the year. This would have represented about 28% of its $6.8 billion exploratory and development spending in 2012.

Hess has now increased capital spending for 2012 to $8.5 billion and will put an extra $1 billion toward development and other spending in the Bakken. The $3 billion in capital spending here represents one of the largest investments in this area.

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01-08-2012 10:00 Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages at Follow TED on Twitter: Like TED on Facebook: If you have questions or comments about this or other TED videos, please go to

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This week the New York City Council approved a massive construction project for New York University, designed to add hundreds of thousands of square feet in classrooms, office space, and dormitories. Opponents of the expansion plan, many of them residents of NYU's Greenwich Village neighborhood, gathered to protest, holding signs that read, "Wrong for the Village. Wrong for NYU." On the latter point, at least, they were almost certainly right.

Over the last decade, a population boom hit universities and their enrollments swelled. Many universities responded with ambitious and costly expansion plans, buying up land and building massive new buildings. In New York City, for instance, Columbia and NYU -- the city's two flagship universities -- have each made plans for multi-billion dollar expansions. But if these universities were wise, they would be selling off real estate, not buying it.

The hot topic among educators today is the potential for online education to transform higher education as we know it. The general sense is that technology has reached a tipping point -- advancements in interactive web technology now make instruction over the Internet increasingly feasible and effective. Leading universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford have channeled this technology into new massive online courses, which they are making available free-of-charge to hundreds of thousands of students around the world.

These new interactive online platforms have made it possible for a single professor at a leading university to reach, in some cases, tens of thousands of students at once. Lectures are accompanied by computer-graded quizzes designed to monitor student learning. Students can post questions and create discussion groups and interact with other enrolled students from around the world.

This new way of distributing knowledge has tremendous economic advantages. Lectures are limitlessly scalable and it costs virtually nothing to stream course materials over the web. This method of education is still in its infancy, and has not yet advanced to the point that they pose a threat to the traditional residential college model. But that time may soon be coming.

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The current model, centered on the residential college experience, has remained largely unchanged for a thousand years. For all its merits, however, traditional college education is increasingly unaffordable. Tuition costs have risen at a rate above inflation for decades. For many students, this spells hard times, high levels of debt, and uncertain financial futures.

All that remains is for more elite universities to begin to offer meaningful credentials through their online platforms -- something MIT has already begun to do. A world of learners, eager for affordable access to high-quality education, awaits these changes.

Other industries that rely on the sale of information -- such as the book publishing industry, which has been transformed by e-books, or the music industry, which has been transformed by the iPod -- have been utterly transformed by technology. It is not hard to see that the education industry is poised to undergo changes every bit as dramatic.

Online education may not be able to duplicate the in-classroom experience in every way. But studies have shown that it can effective. For most mainstream universities, online education remains a mere sideshow. But the potential for online instruction to make high quality education accessible to the masses at very low cost, means that online education is poised to become the main event.

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PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Aug.1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- World Education University today announced itself as the newest player in the free online, global higher education movement. Unique to the space, WEU (pronounced "We You") aims to become acomprehensive, degree-granting institution designed to offer unprecedented access to college diplomas and a better life for the growing millions of underserved, both nationally and around the globe.

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New Hope for the Disenfranchised Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs WEU Chairman and CEO, Curtis Pickering and President and COO, Scott Hines, WEU is committed to a vision of free, global, high-quality education for all, with the core belief that education is a human right and an educated world is a safer, wiser, and more peaceful world. WEU offers a second chance for those to whom a higher education has been economically out of reach. It not only provides new access to historically underserved populations in high-poverty communities and developing nations, but also to the newly disenfranchised middle class who cannot afford the burden of debt associated with a university education.

"Scott and I are both from economically-disadvantaged backgrounds and products of free college education," says Pickering. "It was only because of an athletic scholarship in my case and the Air Force Academy in Scott's that we were both fortunate enough to have access to higher education. We profoundly believe that everyone should have this same opportunity."

Adaptive Learning Model Personalizes Instruction WEU upends the traditional one-size-fits-all instructional model with its proprietary Pinpoint Adaptive Learning System (PALS), designed to meet each student where they are in terms of learning strengths and interests. PALS guides individual student learning paths by continually shifting content in response to ongoing feedback on real time learner data. Self-paced and accessible 24/7, course material and assessments are individualized and the platform is also designed to facilitate online collaboration that promotes communities of learners where students communicate, teach and assist each other. Students begin their individual learning journeys by taking a proprietary Cognitive Learning Assessment, which determines one of sixteen learning styles based on cutting-edge neuroscience. PALS then adapts learning content and modalities based on how each WEU student's brain best processes, stores and recalls information.

It's Not About Paying, But Paying it Forward WEU wants to inspire an entire movement of socially conscious global citizens who will take the gift of a free WEU education and find ways to give back to their communities on both local and global levels. With a "Pay it Forward" button, WEU asks that all students agree to use their education to assist others in improving their life situations and to generally help shape a better, healthier, more just world. This honor system encapsulates the WEU vision and dedication to social entrepreneurship and social equity in today's world of "haves" and "have nots."

WEU plans to launch in Fall 2012 with a range of 21st century course options, including programs and degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, Chemistry, Fine Arts, Paralegal Studies, Mathematics, and much more.

About WEUWorld Education University represents a game-changing paradigm shift in the American and global education model by providing free education to all. Aiming to be a comprehensive education ecosystem with programs from "Pre-K to Gray," WEU first seeks to be an accredited provider of high-quality university degrees and credentials that are offered to anyone, anytime, anywhere . . . free of charge.

With the education system as we know it broken, high schools failing students in masses and post-secondary programs offering varying levels of instructional quality at extraordinarily high cost, the time is ripe for WEU. WEUbrings a completely fresh perspective to the education model from the outside looking in, building content and programs around the needs of learners and the industries that will eventually offer them jobs.

WEU reflects a disruptive and transformative business model that will forever alter the landscape of post-secondary education to embody the next "big idea" that will change the world. We believe that free university programs and degrees will have massive worldwide appeal, breaking down traditional economic, geographic and cultural barriers for students domestically and internationally. WEU aims to meet the growing demand of the current market, and projects millions of consumers clambering to sign up, login and learn.

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ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Law schools are gearing up for the on-campus recruiting season, yet the job market is the worst in a generation.

Once, a law degree ensured stable employment at a respectable salary. But fewer than half of the 40,000+ graduates in the Class of 2011 found permanent, full-time employment as lawyers in law firms. As law students begin the on-campus interviewing process, there is a new resource to help them. Shauna C. Bryce, Esq., a leading career adviser for attorneys, just launched http://www.HowToGetALegalJob.com. "It's all about converting the massive investment in a law degree into a paying legal job and a law career," she says.

How To Get A Legal Job helps law students confront the combination of:

Yet, "so many don't have any idea how to face this perfect storm," Bryce says. "They need help transitioning from student to professional."

The new How To Get A Legal Job website expands on Bryce's book, "How to Get a Legal Job: A Guide for New Attorneys and Law School Students." Together, the website and book are the culmination of her 15+ years of law firm, in-house, hiring committee, and career counseling experience, and her 3 years of research and interviews of 150+ hiring lawyers across the country and across industries.

"I put in so much research because How To Get A Legal Job isn't just about one person's opinion," Bryce says. "It's built on advice from the same people who review resumes, interview, and make hiring decisions." The thoroughness behind How To Get A Legal Job has been noted in numerous endorsements and reviews.

"The more job hunters know about the market conditions, the hiring process, and the real opinions of decision-makers," she continues, "the better they can do in the marketplace." The website and book teach the principles behind the advice, like what hiring attorneys think about various resume-writing strategies and why, as well as and provide step-by-step guides on implementing that advice, "so that students and recent graduates can understand, meet, and exceed expectations."

Bryce is also including a forum on the website. "It's hard to be candid on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook because they aren't anonymous and they're populated by employers, family, and classmates. I want to create a place of freedom for students that only anonymity can give."

About Shauna C. Bryce, Esq.

Shauna C. Bryce, Esq. is a career industry leading expert in coaching and strategic resumes for lawyers. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Shauna served in a major law firm based in Manhattan, a regional law firm, and in-house at a regional company. During this time, she reviewed countless resumes, conducted interviews, worked on a firm's hiring committee, and mentored associates. She then brought her expertise to job hunters, forming Bryce Legal Career Counsel. She is also the author of "How to Get a Legal Job: A Guide for New Attorneys and Law School Students," a project involving 3 years interviewing more than 150 hiring attorneys.

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They have trained most of their lives to get to the London Olympic Games 2012. But if you are like me, your Olympic fever is now growing weary, and you care more about the medals on the wine bottle youve just opened than the official medal tally.

Quite frankly, at some points in recent days Ive thought that if I have to watch anymore sports coverage I may just lose my will to live and God forbid my patriotism.

But then I spied the athletes that did more than steal my attention and reignite my flame for this historic event because Lesliebeans, the Olympics is full of HOT women I never knew existed.

Hockey. Holy moly. Where did these girls come from?! Our Australian team the Hokeyroos, with an average age of 25, are in a league of their own. Midfielder Casey Eastham, 23, and striker Ashleigh Nelson, 25, are definitely worth my time!

The Netherlands. WOW. I dont know what the Dutch are putting in their Gatorade but its working. These girls are hypnotic. Sophie Polkamp , Ellen Hoog oh hell I cant name all of them but this team are extraordinary! Their incredible athletic bodies and flowing blonde locks illuminate the field like elves from Riverdale on Middle Earth.

Volleyball. Brazil. Do I need say any more? Who else but a perfect God could have crafted the beautiful Brazilian volleyball team. Look at the perfection. The miracle taking place is not the result of a random Big Bang! No, it is not! It is the work of a perfect creator. Brazils team is the defending champion at the Olympics and was favoured to win the gold.

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