Venue Valet, LLC announces CallConnect(TM), a patent-pending venue management system, now available and being showcased this week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, NV. In collaboration with Entertainment Supply & Technologies, LLC. CallConnect benefits a wide variety of entertainment venues such as sports stadiums and arenas. This week's public launch of CallConnect at CinemaCon is directed at the movie theater industry. "The recent trend of movie theaters focusing their attention to providing a more complete 'dinner and a movie' experience has forced the industry to rethink ...

On April 15th, 2014 registration is open for contestants and sponsors to participate in the new World Ballet Art Competition, to be held at Living Arts Centre in Mississauga On November 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th in late 2014. The event is prepared with the intention to showcase the world's masters of ballet and to give the opportunity for dancers of all ages to learn from the best in the industry and present their talent on the world's stage. This special evening will provide qualified contestants with the chance to learn from the best in the industry, to be introduced ...

EDC Consulting LLC (EDC), a leading Federal government IT services provider and Oracle Platinum partner, today announced a successful "go live" of the U.S. Army's Integrated Personnel Pay System - Army (IPPS-A). As the prime contractor responsible for systems integration, EDC implemented PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1 software along with Oracle 11g database capabilities to develop IPPS-A Increment I. IPPS-A is a web-based resource designed to provide integrated multi-component personnel and pay capabilities and create a comprehensive personnel ...

After eight successful years with The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Executive Director Peter H. Gistelinck will resign his position at the end of the 2013-2014 season, on May 16, 2014. He leaves his role with the Chamber Orchestra to become Executive Director of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia has experienced pivotal growth under the leadership of Mr. Gistelinck. During his tenure, among other highlights, the organization has witnessed the hiring of current Music Director Dirk Brosse, partnerships with the prestigious ...

b2bYellowpages.com, a leading business-to-business (B2B) yellow pages announced today that its free all-inclusive advertising program now surpasses 35,000 listings. In addition to the websites nearly 15 million listings of businesses throughout the US, the program allows businesses the ability to additionally promote their company to millions of annual buyers with an extensive array of features. - Priority Listing in 4 Directory categories. - Priority Listing in Local Search Results - Submission of up to 20 keywords. - Their own web page that allows members to write ...

Dash's of Old Town, a menswear shop located in Alexandria, Virginia, has been honored with a recognition by the Washington Flyer Magazine, a publication produced by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for travelers in Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports, in its selection as one of the "Best Men's Wear Shops in the Washington, DC Area" in the December 2013 issue. The featured section highlights independent, local businesses inside the Capital Beltway that have established themselves as the "best of the best" across a variety of industries. Victor ...

Travel around Europe is set to become less expensive and easier to plan with the integration of ridesharing options into Rome2rio's popular journey planning site, rome2rio.com. "Ridesharing is typically a much more affordable choice than air and rail services, and we've made it easy to compare the cost of a rideshare trip to those more traditional options in our search results," said Rod Cuthbert, Rome2rio CEO. "Take for example a trip from Frankfurt to Munich, Germany. Deutsche Bahn's Inter-City Express train service is an obvious first choice, but at an average ...

Just in time for the release of the latest blockbuster movie starring colourful Jim Henson creations The Muppets, we've created a brand new 'Unusual Suspects' roller blind to pay homage to Kermit and his friends. The movie, which comes out at the end of March, is called 'Most Wanted' and is sure to be a huge hit with the kids. So what better way to celebrate these classic characters than a cool new roller blind design that the little ones will love. The design features funky illustrations of all your favourite Muppets standing with co-star Ricky Gervais in a police ...

In the Western world, bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the eighth most common in women, with many patients experiencing recurrence after treatment. A new study published in BJU International indicates that inheriting certain DNA sequences can affect a patient's prognosis. The findings may help physicians identify sub-groups of bladder cancer patients who should receive intensive treatment and monitoring. Nearly half of patients diagnosed with bladder cancer experience tumor recurrences, but it is difficult to predict which patients are at risk. ...

VIDEO: The video shows how much goats like cognitive challenges and their motivation to access the box. This goat, called Willow, had already learned how to use the box and retrieve... Click here for more information. Goats learn how to solve complicated tasks quickly and can recall how to perform them for at least 10 months, which might explain their remarkable ability to adapt to harsh environments, say researchers at Queen Mary University of London. Writing in the journal ...

Male bears are seemingly always on the prowl, roaming much greater distances than females, particularly for mating. For bear evolution, studying the paternally inherited Y chromosome is therefore a rich source to trace both the geographic dispersal and genetic differences between bear species. This new study is particularly important, because a large part of our current knowledge about range-wide population structuring in mammals relies on data from maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). More extensive male than female movement in bears and many other mammals ...

Influential economic ideas first advanced in 1911 — stressing innovation and entrepreneurialism as the fundamental generators of growth and wealth — were deemed inappropriate for developing countries, stunting progress in many parts of the world throughout the 20th century, says a distinguished Harvard academic. In a newly-published paper, Calestous Juma of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs calls on emerging economy countries and development agencies to revisit and adopt ideas rejected in the 1950s by "pessimistic" architects ...

The Joint British Societies' consensus recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (JBS3), which have been drawn up by *11 UK professional societies and charitable organisations, are based on the latest available scientific evidence. They emphasise the importance of putting patients in the driving seat and starting preventive action early on, using a new method of risk assessment - the JBS3 risk calculator. Heart disease deaths have almost halved over the past 40-50 years, particularly in high income countries, thanks largely to the identification of ...

Doctors routinely record blood pressure levels that are significantly higher than levels recorded by nurses, the first thorough analysis of scientific data has revealed. A systematic review led by the University of Exeter Medical School, and supported by the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care in the South West Peninsula (NIHR PenCLAHRC), has discovered that recordings taken by doctors are significantly higher (by 7/4mmHg) than when the same patients are tested by nurses. Dr Christopher Clark, of the ...

VIDEO: Millions of children in the UK are potentially receiving penicillin prescriptions below the recommended dose for common infections, according to new research led jointly by researchers at King's College London,... Click here for more information. Millions of children in the UK are potentially receiving penicillin prescriptions below the recommended dose for common infections, according to new research led jointly by researchers at King's College London, St George's, ...

Scientists have used one of the brightest lights in the Universe to expose the biochemical structure of a 50 million-year-old fossil plant to stunning visual effect. The team of palaeontologists, geochemists and physicists investigated the chemistry of exceptionally preserved fossil leaves from the Eocene-aged 'Green River Formation' of the western United States by bombarding the fossils with X-rays brighter than a million suns produced by synchrotron particle accelerators. Researchers from Britain's University of Manchester and Diamond Light Source and the Stanford ...

Knowing what another person wants is not a trivial issue, particularly when the other's desires are different from our own. The ability to disengage from our own desire to cater to someone else's wishes is thought to be a unique feature of human cognition. New research challenges this assumption. Despite wanting something different to eat, male Eurasian jays can disengage from their own current desire in order to feed the female what she wants even when her desires are different to his. The study, which was funded by the BBSRC, is published today in the Royal Society ...

A study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) is the first to provide direct evidence that fetal brain response to a dose of sugar given orally to its mother is associated with the mother's insulin sensitivity. This may indicate that the risk of subsequent obesity and diabetes may be pre-programmed in the womb. The study is by Dr Hubert Preissl and Dr Andreas Fritsche, University of Tübingen, Germany and German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany, and colleagues. Diabetes or obesity in the mother ...

Improving cooking fuels and kitchen ventilation is associated with better lung function and reduced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to research published in this week's PLOS Medicine. The study, led by Pixin Ran from the Guanzhou Medical University, China, followed 996 villagers from southern China for 9 years to examine the effects of cleaner fuels and better kitchen ventilation on lung function and disease. An estimated 3 billion people worldwide heat their homes and cook by burning biomass such as wood or animal dung. The resulting indoor air ...

VIDEO: This video shows the insect thorax reconstructed from tomograms and highlights the external movements of the thorax and the location of the indirect power and steering muscles. Click here for more information. Scientists have used a particle accelerator to obtain high-speed 3D X-ray visualizations of the flight muscles of flies. The team from Oxford University, Imperial College, and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed a groundbreaking new CT scanning technique ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—Millions of people worldwide – mostly women – suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) that seriously degrade their health and quality of life. Antibiotics treat individual infections, but preventing recurrent ones largely has been unattainable because of the way bacteria lodge in the inner layers of the bladder and quietly hide from drugs that can kill them. In new studies with mice, however, researchers led by University of Utah microbiologists have shown that when chitosan, an FDA-approved compound for pharmaceutical, agricultural and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In life, many tasks have a context that dictates the right actions, so when people learn to do something new, they'll often infer cues of context and rules. In a new study, Brown University brain scientists took advantage of that tendency to track the emergence of such rule structures in the frontal cortex — even when such structure was not necessary or even helpful to learn — and to predict from EEG readings how people would apply them to learn new tasks speedily. Context and rule structures are everywhere. They allow an iPhone user ...

VIDEO: This is a 3D movie of a blowfly's flight muscles moving created by Oxford University and Imperial scientists using a new X-ray scanning technique. Click here for more information. The flight muscles moving inside flies have been filmed for the first time using a new 3D X-ray scanning technique. 3D movies of the muscles were created by a team from Oxford University, Imperial College London, and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), using the PSI's Swiss Light Source, ...

TORONTO, March 25, 2014--Strictly limiting the number of hours surgical residents can work has not improved patient outcomes but may have increased complications for some patients and led to higher failure rates on certification exams, a research paper concludes. Traditionally, doctors in the residency phase of their training spent very long hours in a hospital –often around-the-clock--so they could see a wide variety and high volume of patients. In the last 10 years, health authorities started limiting those hours in the hopes of improving patient safety and the education ...

LA JOLLA, Calif., March 25, 2014 — A team of scientists, led by Stuart Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director of the Neuroscience and Aging Research Center at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), recently discovered why cerebellar granule cell neurons in patients suffering from ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) were unable to repair DNA damage and thus died. A-T is a hereditary condition that begins early in childhood, and causes a gradual loss of certain nerve cells in the cerebellum of the brain. A-T occurs in about 1 in 40,000 births, with symptoms ...