ATLANTA, GA, July 22, 2011 (Press-News.org) A shaky stock market, rising unemployment and fear over an uncertain financial future have thousands of outdoor sportsmen and women looking for answers on how to afford the gear they want to continue enjoying their outdoor activities. OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com offers them a way to get that gear at prices they can afford.
Most people are not familiar with Penny Auctions. The simplest explanation is that they are a hybrid between a traditional auction and eBay. In a penny auction the auctioneer is replaced by a countdown timer and every time a new bid is placed the price increases by a penny and 20 seconds is added to the clock. When the timer reaches zero the highest bidder gets to buy the item at that final price. Often that price is a discount of 95% or more of the suggested retail price.
Robert Ford, the CEO of OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com, today announced a $500 Cabela's Gift Card Giveaway as a way to introduce the outdoor sports enthusiast to the penny auction concept. Anyone 18 years or older can enter the giveaway and there is no cost to register. However, the outdoor sportsman will have an advantage because when someone registers for the $500 Cabela's Gift Card Giveaway they also get 15 free bids that may be used on any auction on their website. And when those bids are used in a live auction (defined as an auction where the countdown timer shows less than 60 seconds) they will get additional entries into the giveaway.
OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com was developed for the outdoor sportsman who is looking for high-quality gear at discounts of as much as 95% off of suggested retail.
Although www.OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com is not the first penny auction site, it is the first penny auction site exclusively for hunters, fishermen and campers.
To enter the $500 Cabela's Gift Card Giveaway visit: www.OSA-Giveaway.com. Entries into the giveaway end August 31, 2011.
OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com: The First Penny Auction Website Catering to Campers, Fishermen and Hunters
Thousands of outdoor sportsmen and women are looking for answers on how to afford the gear they want to continue enjoying their outdoor activities and OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com gives them an answer.
2011-07-22
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
Domestic Violence Charity Debuts Hollywood Sneak Peek for 100 City Tour
2011-07-22
This week, The Boulevard Zen Foundation announced its founder, Rich Tola, and a team of celebrity yoga teachers and film crew, will journey 30,000 miles across America, visiting 100 cities in 100 days. Tola will film trivia-filled, fat burning workouts everyday to be distributed for free over the Internet. "We want to give people a reason to watch us and workout with us, and give them a reason to donate." After all, Rich Tola's FAT BURN AMERICA Tour: 100 Cities in 100 Days is a fundraiser to help the charity grow.
The Boulevard Zen Foundation teaches the physical, ...
When injured muscles mistakenly grow bones
2011-07-22
CHICAGO --- For hundreds of thousands of people, injuring a muscle through an accident like falling off a bike or having surgery can result in a strange and serious complication. Their muscles start growing bones.
No one understood what caused the abnormal bone growth, so there was no treatment. But now, research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that a neuropeptide in the brain called Substance P appears to trigger the formation of the extraskeletal bone. Eliminating ...
Work engagement, job satisfaction, and productivity -- they're a virtuous cycle
2011-07-22
Engaged workers—those who approach their work with energy, dedication, and focus—are more open to new information, more productive, and more willing to go the extra mile. Moreover, engaged workers take the initiative to change their work environments in order to stay engaged.
What do we know about the inner workings of work engagement, and how can employers enhance it to improve job performance? In a new article to be published in the August issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Arnold B. Bakker ...
Caltech researchers create the first artificial neural network out of DNA
2011-07-22
PASADENA, Calif.—Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube. The researchers are the first to have made an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete patterns, just as a brain can.
"The brain is incredible," ...
As new data wave begins, a gene study in one disease discovers mutations in an unrelated disease
2011-07-22
Often enough, in science as in life, unexpected knowledge has a personal impact. Researchers seeking rare gene variants in just a few individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) discovered that one patient had a novel combination of two mutations. Those mutations caused a different disease, unrelated to ADHD—a blood disorder called idiopathic hemolytic anemia.
Although the man had long contended with the blood disease, "idiopathic" meant that physicians were unable to determine the cause of his particular anemia—until now, say authors of a new study.
As ...
Animal model sheds light on rare genetic disorder, signaling pathway
2011-07-22
SALT LAKE CITY – A team of researchers from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University has developed a mouse model of focal dermal hypoplasia, a rare human birth defect that causes serious skin abnormalities and other medical problems. This animal model not only provides insight into studying the cause of focal dermal hypoplasia (FDH), but also offers a novel way to study a signaling pathway that is crucial for embryonic development.
The findings were published July 19, 2011, online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
FDH is an uncommon ...
Genetic map of African-Americans to aid study of diseases, human evolution
2011-07-22
JACKSON, Miss. – A group of researchers from the University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School and the University of Mississippi Medical Center has constructed the world's most detailed genetic map, a tool scientists can use to better understand the roots of disease and how DNA is passed generationally to create diversity in the human species.
About 5,000 Jackson-area volunteers were included in a group of nearly 30,000 African-Americans whose genetic information the scientists used to create the map.
The map pinpoints genome locations where people splice together DNA ...
URMC researchers exploring keys to melanoma progression
2011-07-22
Melanoma is devastating on many fronts: rates are rising dramatically among young people, it is deadly if not caught early, and from a biological standpoint, the disease tends to adapt to even the most modern therapies, known as VEGF inhibitors. University of Rochester researchers, however, made an important discovery about proteins that underlie and stimulate the disease, opening the door for a more targeted treatment in the future.
This month in the journal Cancer Research, Lei Xu, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Genetics at the University of Rochester Medical ...
TGen, Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center studying new breast cancer drug
2011-07-22
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — July 20, 2011 — A new drug targeting the PI3K gene in patients with advanced breast cancer shows promising results in an early phase I investigational study conducted at Virginia G. Piper Cancer at Scottsdale Healthcare, according to a presentation by oncologist Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff at the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
The drug under investigation, GDC-0941, manufactured by Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, Calif., targets the PI3K gene, which is abnormal in about 20-30 percent of patients with advanced ...
Fast prediction of axon behavior
2011-07-22
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a computer modeling method to accurately predict how a peripheral nerve axon responds to electrical stimuli, slashing the complex work from an inhibitory weeks-long process to just a few seconds.
The method, which enables efficient evaluation of a nerve's response to millions of electrode designs, is an integral step toward building more accurate and capable electrodes to stimulate nerves and thereby enable people with paralysis or amputated limbs better control of movement.
To increase the accuracy of the ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
Neanderthals at two nearby caves butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions
Specialty of the house: Neanderthals at two nearby caves butchered the same prey in different ways, suggesting local food traditions
‘Ultimate dinner party guests’: Dispersed communities attending feast in ancient Iran gifted boars sourced from distant lands
Temozolomide and radiation treatment lead to dramatic tumor shrinkage and improvement of hearing in an adult brainstem glioma patient with a rare IDH2 mutation
Unveiling the mystery of electron dynamics in the 'quantum tunneling barrier' for the first time
Do dogs judge you?
Human-AI ‘collaboration’ makes it simpler to solve quantum physics problems
Be Well Texas at UT Health San Antonio to lead major statewide expansion of opioid use disorder and recovery services
Freshwater fish, too, attracted to artificial root structures
In hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis, shorter, gentler therapy shows unequal benefit
Warming oceans a turn-off for female Critically Endangered sharks
University of Surrey launches Space Institute to drive the UK's small satellite boom and tackle urgent global challenges
Look to the data, not the marketing: Turfgrass research shows no differences in ‘penetrant’ and ‘retainer’ wetting agents
New organ recovery technique could make more heart transplants available
NCSA supporting Georgia Tech in new AI venture
Revised, more accurate Baltic ringed seal count – Hunting slows population growth
Eight babies born after Mitochondrial Donation treatment to reduce transmission of mitochondrial DNA disease
Music may reduce distress for dementia patients
The American Ornithological Society announces its 2025 research grantees
Fetal exposure to vape liquids linked to changes in skull shape
Did a meteor impact trigger a landslide in the Grand Canyon?
Study suggests some maternal HIV infections may be missed during pregnancy
Bacterial genomes hold clues for creating personalized probiotics
Rice University scientists discover way to engineer stronger soft devices through smarter silicone bonding
Innovation Crossroads welcomes six entrepreneurs for Cohort 2025
Researchers explore ways to better safeguard romaine supply
Spider’s visual trickery can fool AI
During pregnancy, are newer antiseizure medications safer than older drugs?
Do race and ethnicity play a role in a person’s risk of peripheral neuropathy?
Older adults who increased their regular walking pace by just 14 steps per minute were more likely to experience clinically significant improvements in a test of aerobic capacity and walking endurance
[Press-News.org] OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com: The First Penny Auction Website Catering to Campers, Fishermen and HuntersThousands of outdoor sportsmen and women are looking for answers on how to afford the gear they want to continue enjoying their outdoor activities and OutdoorSportsmanAuctions.com gives them an answer.