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Atlanta Traffic Attorney, Sam McRae, Discusses Georgia's DMV Point System

Atlanta Traffic Attorney, Sam McRae, Discusses Georgias DMV Point System
2014-02-26
In the state of Georgia, bad drivers are tracked through a system of license points, which are put on the driver's license when they violate driving laws and statutes. The Atlanta traffic ticket lawyers at Sam McRae Law believe that you should understand the way this point system works, especially since it can have a major effect on your ability to retain your license. Georgia lawmakers believe that driving is a privilege, not a right, and that you should not be able to keep that privilege if you are a bad, dangerous or otherwise reckless driver. The point system is ...

APM Cool Shares When to Replace Your Commercial Compressor

APM Cool Shares When to Replace Your Commercial Compressor
2014-02-26
The Carrier compressors distributor, APM Cool, explains the ideal time to replace an AC compressor. Like any other machine, your AC system needs routine maintenance to ensure optimal performance and a critical part of that is replacing old or worn out parts when they are due. Is it Time to Buy a New Commercial Compressor? Depending on the age and condition of the machine, it may be in your best interest to buy a new compressor altogether instead of replacing the individual engine parts one at a time. The main reason being that when one component goes bad (especially ...

Deutz Diesel Engine Experts APM Heavy Duty Address the Role of Fuel Additives for Diesel Engines

2014-02-26
The Cummins diesel parts supplier, APM Heavy Duty, talks about the importance of using fuel additives in your diesel truck's fuel tank on a regular basis. These products are a cheap way to improve performance and keep your motor healthy, but for whatever reason many truckers do not buy them. Granted it can be hard to to believe everything you read (manufacturers of automotive products love to hype up the benefits of what they are selling), but spending a few bucks on a fuel additive is one of the best investments you can make. Benefits of Fuel Additives For starters, ...

The Engine Kit Specialists at APM Engine Parts Discuss Synthetic Motor Oil vs. Conventional Oil

2014-02-26
Synthetic vs. conventional motor oil has been a long-disputed question in the automotive industry, which the engine kit pros at APM Engine Parts want to address. You already know the importance of changing your car's oil regularly. Three months or 3,000 miles is the typical manufacturer's stated interval, though in reality you can go much farther than this if using the right material. Does Your Car Need Synthetic Oil? The fact of the matter is, a lot of people simply do not understand the differences between conventional and synthetic oil blends, let alone which ...

Florida Vein Care Specialists Medicus Veincare Discuss Why You Could Be a Good Candidate for Vein Removal

2014-02-26
A vast majority of Americans will experience venous disease at some point in their lives and the odds that you will experience the pain of varicose veins increases with age. Spider vein removal practice Medicus Veincare knows that there are certain symptoms that indicate a patient has begun experiencing venous disease. You could be an excellent candidate for varicose veins laser treatment if you have previously been diagnosed with varicose veins, venous reflux or venous insufficiency. Likewise, if you can see any varicose veins or spider veins on your legs, you are likely ...

Apollo, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Announce Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival

2014-02-26
When the Harlem Renaissance was in vogue at the dawn of the 20th Century, the jazz clubs around Jungle Alley, between Lenox and Seventh Avenue - The Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, Minton's Playhouse, Clark Monroe's Uptown House, The Ubangi Club, Park Palace, Connie's Inn, and others - were the place to be. These immortal nightclubs, concert halls, cabarets, speakeasies and ballrooms, will be channeled and showcased May 4 - 10 at the Fourth Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival. A week-long, multi-venue partnership with the Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, in ...

Atlanta Inbound Marketing Agency & Video Production Company DCD - Complete Marketing Solutions Integrates Inbound & Video to Create Video Content Strategy

Atlanta Inbound Marketing Agency & Video Production Company DCD - Complete Marketing Solutions Integrates Inbound & Video to Create Video Content Strategy
2014-02-26
Inbound marketing agency DCD understands that videos are crucial to the overall success of any business. Prospects are constantly surfing the web and watching videos on a daily basis. Many prospects even make their purchasing decisions based on the content they view in videos. Because of this, businesses will greatly benefit from creating marketing videos that boast their services and products. To do this, it will be of the utmost advantage to partner with an Atlanta inbound marketing agency. Through creativity and experience, the DCD marketing agency team have what it ...

Is the Justin Kalk Orchestra Going to Bonnaroo or Jail?

2014-02-26
Frontman and guitar wunderkind Justin Kalk and his band are faced with the career-making choice of performing at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the four-day, multi-stage festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee or heading to a potential faux jail sentence. The saga of the boys' brush with the law is featured in "JKO's Road to Bonnaroo", a video released on YouTube to alert their fans around the world of their "dire" situation. Leveraging social media to get the word out, the band's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages are all ...

GMiS Discusses New Science Policy Strategies at White House

GMiS Discusses New Science Policy Strategies at White House
2014-02-26
Great Minds in STEM, a national leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM outreach to the underserved and underrepresented communities, will participate in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Minorities in STEM Workshop, on February 26, 2014, from 1:00PM - 5:00PM (EST). The meeting will be held in Washington DC, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Room 430. The workshop, titled Closing the Gap: Opportunities to Expand Minority Achievement and Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), will ...

King Ice Launches Turnt Up Rap Contest

King Ice Launches Turnt Up Rap Contest
2014-02-26
King Ice, an online hip hop jewelry retailer, launched its seventh rap contest. The Turnt Up rap contest will run from February 7 to March 31. The company will be giving away $2,500 in prizes to the top three entries. The first place winner will receive one thousand dollars in cash and promotional placement on the King Ice homepage. Second and third place winners will receive $500 and $250 King Ice gift cards, respectively. To enter the contest, artists must create an original song using one of two beats provided by King Ice. A video is required to accompany the song. ...

Celebrate Authentic and Classic Burlesque Entertainment, 'Burlesque Magnifique' Finally Arrive in South Beach!

2014-02-26
Parisian import Erika Moon has taken her shows and customized them for a sophisticated, yet fun and exciting treat for tourist and locals alike. Her newest show 'Burlesque Magnifique' will let you step into a world of spectacular glamour and tease as we venture through the eras of seduction. A new concept to South Beach fusing the art of the authentic tease with extraordinary entertainment for a truly spectacular Burlesque revue along with our Live jazz Band 'The French Horn'. A talent cast of 8 performers presenting more than a dozen of Acts along with our 5 pieces ...

International Bullion Exchange Makes Precious Metal Investing Easy for New Investors

2014-02-26
If you have been thinking about investing in precious metals, now is the time to get started. Investing in gold, silver, platinum and palladium, whether in bars or in coins, is a great way to protect your financial future. The price of precious metals is constantly changing and experts now believe are on the rise, so waiting may mean you miss out on the investment chance of a lifetime. It does not matter whether you are from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, or anywhere else in the world--we cater to people around the world with coins and bars of ...

Michael Walters Advertising Chosen As A Panelist For The International Franchise Association Convention

2014-02-26
Michael Walters Advertising, was engaged to speak at the 54th Annual International Franchise Association's Convention as a partner of Padgett Business Services on February 24th, 2014 in New Orleans. Jim Lake, Vice President and Managing Director of Michael Walters, joined a panel with Greg Delks, CFE, Vice President, Franchise Development (Firehouse Subs) and Stephen Howell, VP Operations (Sandler Training) to discuss marketing strategies for growth-oriented franchisees. The roundtable discussion at the annual event spoke to innovative and affordable marketing strategies ...

EHC, Inc. Launches New Website and Brand

EHC, Inc. Launches New Website and Brand
2014-02-26
EHC, Inc., a construction company that provides pre-construction, earthwork and infrastructure services, has officially launched a new website and optimized brand. The new website, EHCconstruction.com, showcases EHC's services, projects and talent with a fresh design, innovative features and consistent messaging. Incorporated into the design and message are testimonials from clients, vendors and partners who have worked with EHC. Users are encouraged to visit EHCconstruction.com to find out more information about the company, request a proposal, and browse the variety ...

Space Station SPHERES Run Circles Around Ordinary Satellites

Space Station SPHERES Run Circles Around Ordinary Satellites
2014-02-26
These are, in fact, the droids that NASA and its research partners are looking for. Inspired by a floating droid battling Luke Skywalker in the film Star Wars, the free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) have been flying aboard the International Space Station since Expedition 8 in 2003. Although there have been numerous SPHERES investigations held on the orbiting laboratory, four current and upcoming SPHERES projects are of particular significance to robotics engineers, rocket launch companies, NASA ...

Energy Savings: One Watt LED Light Source Gets You to Bed Faster

Energy Savings: One Watt LED Light Source Gets You to Bed Faster
2014-02-26
As sleep disorders and energy costs rise, Uopia launches a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for a new kind of LED nightlight. What makes their nightlight different is that it feels and looks like a warm incandescent bulb while providing the energy savings and longevity of an LED unit. The warm color temperature of the light is preferable to blue or cool lighting because of the negative effects they have on sleep. The light consumes less than 87% energy than the leading alternative, amounting to just $0.58 a year to operate. Uopia's CEO and co-founder, David Clark, ...

New autism definition may decrease diagnosis by one-third, Columbia University finds

New autism definition may decrease diagnosis by one-third, Columbia University finds
2014-02-26
(NEW YORK, NY, February 26, 2014) – New diagnosis guidelines for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) issued by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) may reduce by almost one third the total number of people being diagnosed, according to new research from Columbia University School of Nursing published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. The guidelines, released in May 2013 and the first major update to psychiatric diagnosis criteria in almost two decades, may leave thousands of developmentally delayed children each year without the ASD diagnosis they ...

Second-most common breast cancer subtype may benefit from personalized treatment approach

Second-most common breast cancer subtype may benefit from personalized treatment approach
2014-02-26
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26, 2014 – The second-most common type of breast cancer is a very different disease than the most common and appears to be a good candidate for a personalized approach to treatment, according to a multidisciplinary team led by University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) scientists. Invasive lobular carcinoma, which is characterized by a unique growth pattern in breast tissue that fails to form a lump, has distinct genetic markers that indicate there may be benefits from drug therapies beyond those typically prescribed for the more common invasive ...

Better nurse staffing and education reduces patient deaths in European hospitals

Better nurse staffing and education reduces patient deaths in European hospitals
2014-02-26
The Lancet reported today the results of a study in 9 European countries documenting that hospital nurse staffing and the proportion of nurses with bachelor’s education are associated with significantly fewer deaths after common surgery. A team of researchers led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in the U.S. and Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, found that every one patient increase in patient to nurse ratios was associated with a 7% increase in deaths, while having a better educated nurse workforce is associated with fewer deaths. Every 10% ...

Phantom limb pain relieved when amputated arm is put back to work

Phantom limb pain relieved when amputated arm is put back to work
2014-02-25
VIDEO: The film shows: 1. The patient in the augmented reality environment, 2. when he is practising specific arm movements with a racing game, 3. when he is executing random motions... Click here for more information. Max Ortiz Catalan, researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, has developed a new method for the treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP) after an amputation. The method is based on a unique combination of several technologies, and has been initially tested on ...

Obesity prevalence remains high in US; no significant change in recent years

2014-02-25
The prevalence of obesity remains high in the U.S., with about one-third of adults and 17 percent of children and teens obese in 2011-2012, according to a national survey study in the February 26 issue of JAMA. Obesity and childhood obesity, in particular, are the focus of many preventive health efforts in the United States, including new regulations implemented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for food packages; funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of state- and community-level interventions; and numerous reports and recommendations issued ...

MMR vaccine linked to lower rate of infection-related hospital admissions

2014-02-25
In a nationwide group of Danish children, receipt of the live measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine on schedule after vaccination for other common infections was associated with a lower rate of hospital admissions for any infections, but particularly for lower respiratory tract infections, according to a study in the February 26 issue of JAMA. Childhood vaccines are recommended worldwide, based on their protective effect against the targeted diseases. However, studies from low-income countries show that vaccines may have nonspecific effects that reduce illness and ...

Patient-centered medical home program results in little improvement in quality

2014-02-25
One of the first, largest, and longest-running multipayer trials of patient-centered medical home medical practices in the United States was associated with limited improvements in quality and was not associated with reductions in use of hospital, emergency department, or ambulatory care services or total costs of care over 3 years, according to a study in the February 26 issue of JAMA. The patient-centered medical home is a team-based model of primary care practice intended to improve the quality, efficiency, and patient experience of care. Professional associations, ...

Blood transfusion for PCI associated with increased risk of cardiac event

2014-02-25
In an analysis that included more than two million patients who underwent a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), there was considerable variation in red blood cell transfusion practices among hospitals across the U.S., and receiving a transfusion was associated with an increased risk of in-hospital heart attack, stroke or death, according to a study in the February 26 issue of JAMA. Red blood cell transfusion among patients with coronary artery disease is controversial. ...

Continuous handling of receipts linked to higher urine BPA levels

2014-02-25
Study participants who handled receipts printed on thermal paper continuously for 2 hours without gloves had an increase in urine bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared to when they wore gloves, according to a study in the February 26 issue of JAMA. Human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) has been associated with adverse health outcomes, including reproductive function in adults and neurodevelopment in children exposed shortly before or after birth. "Exposure to BPA is primarily through dietary ingestion, including consumption of canned foods. A less-studied source of ...
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