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Cognos Partners with Suncorp to Develop Performance Solution to Help Insurance Companies Optimize Product Profitability: New Cognos Insurance Pr
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today launched a new performance management solution designed to help insurance companies optimize forecasting and reporting of business segment and insurance product profitability.

Tony Litster's 'The Conversation' Free to Public
Tony Litster's "The Conversation" is a wonderful free tool to help individuals create and maintain lasting positive life change.

Contactify Launches Free Service to Reduce Spam and Guard Privacy
A simple and free service, Contactify creates a unique link to a personal contact form, allowing visitors to send messages straight to your inbox, whilst never revealing your email address.

Testosterone Can Cure/Treat Diabetes in Men; The U.S. Can Save $50 Billion and Men Can Reverse Diabetes (www.usdoctor.com)
Testosterone: A simple, inexpensive, and bio-identical pharmaceutical drug created 70 years ago will gain universal popularity now that it as been proven to improve, arrest and potentially reverse adult onset diabetes in men. Ten years of experience and scientific research are referenced in Dr. Lichten's 'Textbook of Bio-Identical Hormones' published in 2007. As Dr. Lichten states, "Most of my patients have thrown away their expensive oral medications and reduced their insulin usage by 50%." (http://www.usdoctor.com)

The Equitium Group Acquires Luca Luca : Renowned Women's Luxury Clothing Company on Growth Path
The Equitium Group, an investment firm focused on the consumer and luxury industries, announced today that it has acquired Luca Luca. The acquisition will bolster the women?s clothing company?s expansion plans. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Lice Control - The Bay Area's Only Head Lice Removal Clinic Offers Free Head Lice Screenings for One Day Only
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Feedable.com Introduces 1-Click Linkblogs: A Quick, Free Way to Publish Custom RSS Mashups
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Nutrition as Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD Alternative Treatment: Help is as Close as the Kitchen
The quality of food we eat (or lack thereof) has a profound affect on Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD. For many people, nutrition alone can effectively work as an ADHD alternative treatment.

Marketing Maps Can Help Change the World
Marketing agency, Sweet Talk (http://www.sweettalkpr.com), introduces new service to help nonprofit organizations reach more people in need and raise additional funds for their work. How? Through creative, customizable and strategic one- year marketing plans that will easily guide them in reaching their organization's financial and social goals.

Google Trends Allows Internet Marketers to Play "Keywords Stock Market"
Big-ticket marketing firms are using Internet Marketing hired-guns to leverage Google's sophisticated web-data tools and gain insight into consumer habits, Internet marketing potentials, search engine positioning opportunities, and super-converting high-volume web-traffic.

Free Online Mind Games - What Are the Advantages of Free Online Mind Games?
Ever since free online games have bombarded the virtual world, everyone has been going gaga over these freebies Free downloads, free trials, free memberships and et cetera

Basic Information about Public Records
Public record is everywhere. Since almost everything is put into record, you can have ways to track down someones history.

ShowMyPC.com, a Silicon Valley Startup Launches Free Service for Scheduling Web Meetings
ShowMyPC has launched a new software service for Scheduling and Conducting Web Meetings. The service lets users instantly start a web meeting and invite participants by email. The service is absolutely free and no registration is required.

10 Perfect Places to Meet Women
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Flipping Houses for Gold: Three Tips to Help You Find the Perfect Fixer
Many real estate investors enjoy "flipping houses," or buying and selling houses quickly for profit. Not all flips are fixers.

Information On Casting Patterns And The Creation Of Metal Casting Patterns

A casting pattern is basically a shaped form of either metal or wood where sand is packed around it in the mold. When this pattern is removed, the resulting cavity would be exactly the shape of the pattern object that was to be cast. The casting pattern should however be designed in order to be easily removed without any damage done to the mold. The pattern should be also be perfectly dimensioned and should be very durable for the intended use. The patterns that are used in sand casting can be made of plastic, metal, wood or any other material. The casting patterns are made to the right standards of construction this is basically because they can last for a reasonable time. The durability of the pattern would however depend according to the quality of grade in the casting pattern. If the pattern is made of right quality then they would be constantly providing dimensionally perfect casting patterns.

The process: The process of making casting patterns is actually called as pattern making which is in fact a skilled trade which is related to the trades of die and tool making and mold making. However this also sometimes incorporates the elements of fine wood making. The makers of casting patterns basically learn their pattern making skills through trade schools and apprenticeships over a number of years of experience. There is also an engineer who a few times helps in making the casting patterns but in fact it is the pattern maker who carries out the design.

Design: The casting patterns incorporate proper allowances for the shrinkage and this process is called as contraction allowance. Their accurate values however depend on the alloys that are being used and the accurate sand casting methods that is used. There are a few alloys that have the overall linear shrinkage of nearly 2.5 percent as other alloys might actually experience 0 percent shrinkage or even a light positive shrinkage or it might also increase the size in the casting process. The amount of the shrinkage is also Dependant on the sand casting process that is employed for instance chemical bonded sands, clay bonded sands or other bonding materials.

The casting patterns should also include proper allowance for the draft. This means that the sides would be tapered so that when it would be taken out from the sand it will not tend to drag out sand of place along with it. This process is also called as taper that is normally done in the range of one to three degrees. The foundry engineers or the pattern maker of the casting patterns actually decide where the gating systems, risers and the sprues are places in terms of casting patterns. In this pattern a hole is desired in the casting pattern that uses a core which defines the location and volume of in the casting where the metal would not flow into. Chills are also used sometimes located on the casting patterns surface and these are then formed into sand molds. These casting patterns however continue to be a vital requirement for sand casting of metal.

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