Traditional plantation shutters are easy to install and a breeze to clean and maintain. Add to this the fact that they can last for decades with only minimal care and it becomes clear why installing them for your place of business is an inspired choice. Long-lasting Beauty Eclipse Shutters guarantees their plantation shutters for 25 years, which means substantial savings for your business over time. Plantation shutters are elegant without being showy, they protect the privacy of your clients and they easily enhance and complement any office or professional setting ...

The innovative three-motor system in the 2014 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD is in the running for Green Car Journal's 2014 Green Car Technology Award, which goes to automotive technologies that significantly improve environmental performance. (1) This is the first Acura to use this new system, which you can experience at Ferman Acura in Tampa. (1) The basis for the system is a V6 engine that has been designed to achieve the power and sporty feel of a larger V8 engine while delivering the fuel economy of a smaller, four-cylinder engine. The V6 is lighter and has lower ...

The Tampa pool builders at All Seasons Pools are pleased to announce that they will be a featured exhibitor at the Spring Tampa Home & Garden Show, taking place between March 28th and 30th at the Tampa Convention center. As a featured exhibitor, All Seasons Pools will have several of its Tampa swimming pool designers and builders on site for the Home & Garden Show, as well as a booth displaying a selection of its stunning creations and available pool products. Convention guests are encouraged to come and ask questions and discuss ideas with the knowledgeable ...

CIC, the nation's premiere tenant screening firm, is pleased to announce that Ready2Apply, a convenient online rental application and lease generation solution, has been updated to improve overall usability. With the new changes taking effect this week, Ready2Apply helps property managers quickly and efficiently process qualified tenants by eliminating data entry redundancies. The same information provided by potential renters in the online application, is used to conduct a comprehensive background check, from the nation's most reliable tenant screening firm. Additionally, ...

Precision Nutrition (PN) is pleased to announce today the commencement of registrations to its world renowned PN Certification Presale List. As a premier health and nutritional program, the Precision Nutrition Certification Program is a unique offering that delivers all the essential tools that participants require to help their clients reach their individual weight-loss and body transformation goals in record time. Due to excessive demand for this sought-after program, the organizers offer the program twice each year, during which attendees are taught incredible body ...

If you're the fabulously wealthy Beatles pop rock singing group you open a trendy boutique on London's Baker Street and hire an in-house astrologer to advise on both personal and business-related timing issues. The Beatles opened their first Apple Corp. business enterprise, the Apple Boutique, in December 1967. By this time, the rock group's coming-out party on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City was in the rear view mirror, as was John Lennon's infamous "we're more famous than Jesus" remark, which incited denunciation and Beatles record bonfires in the U.S. ...

Digital Learning Now!, a national initiative of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), has released its 2013 Digital Learning Report Card. The Report Card measures and grades K-12 education policies in each of the nation's 50 states against the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning. "It's encouraging to see the number of states that are working toward breaking down policy barriers that prevent students from being the center of our education system," said Jeb Bush, former Florida Governor and Chairman of ExcelinEd. "As this Digital ...

With the American economy just recovering from the Great Recession, some people are struggling for money. Now a company allows people to work from home and make money in a legitimate business setting and work with big companies to accomplish this. Instant Rewards Network is now open for business and allows students, stay at home parents and other people to work from home. With Instant Rewards Network, people can make money online by simply signing up and promoting trial offers from Fortune 500 companies without doing any selling or cold calling. Instant Rewards Network ...

Olive Software announces the immediate availability of OLIVads, their digital advertising and server network, enabling advertising placement across electronic editions (e-editions) of newspapers produced through the Olive Software platform. Olive Software enables the network and also handles the production and ad server activities required to bring national advertisers to hundreds of newspapers and millions of readers. "This is the first industry-wide initiative which gives advertisers and publishers easy access to this new and exciting advertising network," ...

Nicaragua participated in the 2014 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention, the world's leading mining event, with a delegation that showcased the country's mining sector development and investment opportunities. The event was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Canada from March 2nd-5th, and was attended by 25,122 people. Nicaragua's delegation included Carlos Zarruk, General Director of Mines at the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM, for its acronym in Spanish); and Denis Lanzas, Vice President of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Mines ...

In an effort to provide improved education for her patients, dermatologist Dr. Michele S. Green recently updated her website. The refreshed site, http://www.michelegreenmd.com, provides complete information on the cosmetic and medical skin care options provided at the practice. "We are fortunate to live at a time when there are hundreds and hundreds of treatments repair the skin, maintain a fresh look, and fight aging," says Dr. Green, a dermatologist certified by the American Board of Dermatology who is listed in Castle Connolly Top Cosmetic Doctors for the ...

Host Natalie Morales from the Today Show wiped Al Roker's weather wall, as well as a camera and teleprompter with a cotton swab back in October. But just what did she and her co-host Willie Geist expect to find? They were citizen scientists looking for microbes--the tiny invisible, bacteria, viruses and fungi that may live on the sampled surfaces. Once captured, these televised swabs joined the Project MERCCURI collection that includes samples from museums, historical monuments and sporting venues. This massive "crowdsourced" gathering effort's full name is Microbial ...

NEW ORLEANS─A new study presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found no link between neurocognitive function and years of football play in adolescent athletes. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), between 1.6 and 3.8 million sports and recreation-related concussions occur each year in the U.S., most of which go untreated by medical professionals. Concussions and sub-concussive hits (repeated head blows without immediate, visible signs or symptoms of neurological damage) are especially ...

NEW ORLEANS—A new study presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that the thrill of extreme sports comes at a price: a higher risk for severe neck and head injuries. Extreme sports are gaining in popularity: skateboarding has surged 49 percent to 14 million U.S. participants, and snowboarding now claims 7.2 million enthusiasts, up 51 percent since 1999. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers reviewed 2000-2011 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data for seven popular sports featured ...

NEW ORLEANS─As youth participation in high-demand sports such as football, basketball and soccer has increased over the past decade, so has the number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in teens and young adults. New research presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that universal neuromuscular training for adolescent athletes─which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee—is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tears. The ACL is a critical ...

NEW ORLEANS – More than 7 million Americans are living with an artificial (prosthetic) knee (4.7 million) or hip (2.5 million), which may have significant future implications in terms of the need for ongoing patient care, according to new research presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Two related studies also found a growing incidence of adults younger than age 65 undergoing total knee replacement (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR) surgeries, and a potential underutilization of these procedures in some segments of ...

NEW ORLEANS─In a new study presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers sought to evaluate the clinical, radiographic and functional outcomes of a Charnley total hip replacement (THR)─ a traditional hip prosthesis consisting of a polyethylene acetabular (plastic) cup and a metal femoral head─in patients under age 50 at a minimum of 35 years after the initial surgery. Out of 69 THR patients (93 hip replacements) who participated in a 25-year follow up assessment, 32 were alive (44 percent) ...

NEW ORLEANS─Children considered obese are more likely to suffer a distal radius fracture, a bone break near the wrist, and more likely to experience complications related to the healing of the fracture, according to research presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). In the study, "Childhood Obesity Increases the Risk of Failure in the Treatment of Distal Forearm Fracture," the records and outcomes of 157 patients with distal radius fractures who received emergency department and/or surgical treatment were ...

NEW ORLEANS--Approximately one-third of the American population is obese and the number is rising, as is the number of obese individuals involved in high-energy accidents with multiple injuries. In the new study, "The Relationship of Obesity to Increasing Health Care Burden in the Setting of Orthopedic Polytrauma," presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers identified 301 patients with multiple traumatic injuries (polytrauma) who had orthopaedic injuries requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission ...

NEW ORLEANS─There is a known link between elevated body mass index (BMI) and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). While patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GBS)—a procedure that closes off much of the stomach and causes food to bypass a portion of the small intestine─typically lose weight, the comparative impact of this weight loss on knee pain and function has not been measured. The new study, "The Impact of Gastric Bypass Surgery Compared to Total Knee Arthroplasty on Knee Symptoms," presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American ...

NEW ORLEANS─Chronic hip bursitis is a common yet difficult condition to treat successfully. A recent study, presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), compared the results of PRP and cortisone injections in patients with severe chronic hip (greater trochanteric) bursitis. In "Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) More Effective than Cortisone for Severe Chronic Hip Bursitis," 40 patients were selected for the study and randomly divided into two groups: one group was treated with a single injection of 40 milligrams (mg) ...

NEW ORLEANS─Sleep disturbance is an extremely common complaint following orthopaedic trauma. In a new study presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers assessed the functional status of 1,095 patients following acute fractures to the proximal humerus (shoulder), distal radius (wrist), ankle and tibial plateau (shinbone), using standard orthopaedic tests and assessments. In "Sleep Disturbance Following Fracture is Related to Emotional Well Being Rather than Functional Results," patient sleep difficulty ...

"Very low-energy radiation also damages DNA: how safe are "eye-safe" lasers?" Damage to DNA by high energy radiation constitutes the most lethal damage occurring at the cellular level. Surprisingly, very low-energy interactions - with OH radicals, for instance - can also induce DNA damage, including double strand breaks. It is known that single strand breaks in the DNA backbone are amenable to repair but most double strand breaks are irreparable. The propensity with which slow OH radicals damage DNA depends on their rotational energy: rotationally "hot" OH is more proficient ...

VIDEO: As the conductor drives, the device captures one the seven universal emotions: fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, surprise, or suspicion. Click here for more information. Technology now allows us to read facial expressions and identify which of the seven universal emotions a person is feeling: fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, surprise, or suspicion. This is very useful in video game development, medicine, marketing, and, perhaps less obviously, in driver safety. We ...

CLEVELAND – Despite the benefits of surgery for early stage pancreatic cancer, it remains under-utilized for patients with this deadly disease, according to a new national analysis of trends and outcomes. Physician-scientists at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented their findings and strategies to increase rates at the Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium in Phoenix. In an abstract titled "Factors Associated with Failure to Operate for Localized Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma," the research team ...