The beginning of Spring means many things to many people. For some, it means baseball season and barbecuing. For others, it means walking along the lake and soaking up the rays. For motorcycle riders, it means finally being able to get back out on the roads and enjoy what is for many more of a lifestyle than a hobby. The return of motorcycle friendly weather brings with it a renewed emphasis on keeping riders safe and healthy. The Illinois Department of Transportation is reminding motorcycle riders of the importance of proper training and proper safety equipment. These ...

You are disabled and unable to work - your rent comes due, your gas and electric bills and grocery bills go unpaid - but you are still made to wait for your day in court, because of a "backlog" of Social Security Disability cases and "budget constraints," that limit the number of judges the administration can employ. This is a terrible and unjust situation, and we call on the administration, and our congressmen and women, and our senators, to address this all-important situation as quickly and effectively as possible. Meanwhile, the "Critical ...

Team Pest USA, a premier Atlanta pest control firm, wants to remind residents that pest control services are essential for apartment complexes. Although they are a necessity for single family homes and commercial establishments, apartments are by far the most important. Atlanta pest control experts explain that due to the presence of multiple occupancies, pests can easily spread from unit to unit within the complex. Pests like bed bugs, termites and many other animals spread quickly and can cause significant damage to property. According to Brandon Pelfrey, owner of ...

Young couples trying to get married often find themselves struggling to keep to a tight budget, while they also try to have the wedding of their dreams. They do not want to put off the wedding, but it seems that when you add together the venue, the food, the photographer and the dress, the total is always more than what they had in mind. Once Wed, an online service where couples can sell used wedding dresses, understands this struggle and has a few tips for how to keep your budget in line. The dress is usually one of the biggest costs of the wedding overall, and brides ...

North Fulton Pest Solutions provides pest control in Atlanta and the greater metro-Atlanta area. This includes Alpharetta, just north of Atlanta, where the company's offices are located. Controlling Unwanted Critters In suburban areas like Alpharetta, wildlife control can be an issue in addition to pest control. The most common wildlife issues in Georgia are with squirrels, rats, bats, raccoons and opossums. They can wreak havoc when they find their way into a house via an attic, basement or crawlspace. North Fulton Pest Solutions' experts can remove them and perform ...

Wearing prescription glasses is no longer considered a detriment to personal style. Trendy, bold frames are seen everywhere from runways to classrooms to boardrooms. Eyeglasses of all shapes and colors have become so celebrated that the hipster plastic frame movement is now deemed 'geek chic.' Having a few different frame options available can help elevate your style, allowing you to accessorize with a variety of looks. Eyeglass World wants to help you stock up on plastic, metal and designer eyewear without spending a small fortune. They are currently offering deep discounts ...

As neuroscience includes all the mind sciences we are assuming that our experts will finally also research ways to answer the big questions of philosophy that connect with the psychology, education and well being of the emotional brain. It seems the bulk of the financing will be spent on how billions of brain cells interact. This goal is essential but mostly inadequate to fully understand the physical working of the brain. Understanding the working of the physical brain is far too complex to be understood just by recording and mapping the brain circuits; as the biochemical ...

The 2013 NationaLease Spring Business Meeting held in conjunction with TRALA's Annual Meeting March 12-14 at the Waldorf Astoria in Naples, FL, devoted two full afternoon sessions to its members, both with the goal of promoting the growth and future success of NationaLease, one of the largest full service truck leasing organizations in North America. The first day of the meeting, Tuesday, March 12, began with keynote speaker Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former Lt. Governor of New York and Fox News contributor. Considered an expert on the Affordable Health Care Act, Dr. McCaughey ...

Reflecting on the euphoric London 2012 Olympic Games, the Museum of London has opened a new exhibition exactly 200 days after the Paralympic Closing Ceremony. The free event displays around 70 objects, costumes and personal accounts from last year's Games, including Tom Daley's memorable Union Jack trunks and Bradley Wiggins' yellow jersey. A further new opening this week is the Tower Bridge Exhibition: This is London. Running for an entire year, the family-friendly exhibition displays 29 large scale images from Mirozlav Sasek's classic children's book. On public display ...

Locksmith Local, a nationwide INC locksmith company, has joined forces with Best-Ebuy INC. The corporation will now be providing monthly security maintenance on a contract basis. Locks are an essential security component to protect Best-Ebuy INC confidential data, documents, staff and patients from burglars and hooligans. Signing a deal with professional Locksmith service is expected to go a long way in preventing these things from happening. The deal is going to be signed between Mr. Mike Lee, Owner of Locksmith Local and Best-Ebuy INC. Locksmith Local will provide ...

Ron Rantilla Rowing Systems has been building a revolutionary new rowing system for rowers who want a better way to row their boats. Now the FrontRower has been nominated for the prestigious da Vinci Award for assistive technology and universal design. The annual international da Vinci Awards were created by the MS Society (multiple sclerosis) to recognize the most innovative developments in assistive technology and universal design. "Universal Design" is the concept of designing products that work well for individuals across a broad spectrum of abilities--from ...

Recordsbase.com has announced the addition of an extensive military records collection to help members of the service take their research efforts to the next level. The new collection includes draft, service and enlistment records for men and women that have served in all branches of the U.S. armed forces. Records also include documentation on U.S. wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War, and military cemetery records. Genealogists and family archivists looking for information on military veterans will find veteran pension records helpful in this area. These records ...

Cameleon Software (Paris: CAM), today announced that Pearson, the leading global education company, has selected its Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) solution as part of a business transformation initiative aimed at enhancing the customer experience. Anticipating the growing need for customized services as well as the shift from paper to digital, Pearson adapted its business processes to market changes and, as part of its strategy, implemented a CPQ solution from Cameleon. The tight integration of this solution with Salesforce CRM, as well as its innovative mobile capabilities, ...

Avetti's enterprise e-commerce software used in many high volume online stores now has a Community Edition available under the OSL v3 Open Source License. A key feature is integration with the Open Ice Cat product database, which provides images, descriptions and specifications permitting merchants to create professional stores faster. The Community Edition software is designed for programmers, consultants, and do-it-yourselfers. For the first time the open source community has access to a full featured multi-store e-commerce solution for Java that is optimized for speed ...

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered two new symbionts living in the gut of termites, and taken the unusual step of naming them after fictional monsters created by American horror author HP Lovecraft. The single-cell protists, Cthulhu macrofasciculumque and Cthylla microfasciculumque, help termites digest wood. The researchers decided to name them after monstrous cosmic entities featured in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos as an ode to the sometimes strange and fascinating world of the microbe. "When we first saw them under the microscope they had this ...

Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called "hotspots," according to a research discovery to be published in the print edition of the journal Human Molecular Genetics. The research indicates that these genetic changes come in the form of an excess of duplicated DNA segments in hotspot regions and may affect the chances that a child will develop autism -- a behavioral disorder that affects about 1 of every 88 children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Earlier ...

A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) looked at the vulnerability of 54 breeding bird species to climate change impacts occurring by the year 2050 in Arctic Alaska. The assessment found that two species, the gyrfalcon and common eider are likely to be "highly" vulnerable, while seven other species would be "moderately" vulnerable to anticipated impacts. Five species are likely to increase in number and benefit from a warming climate. Arctic Alaska harbors some of the most important breeding and staging grounds for millions of birds—many from around ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 3, 2013)—Women who have hypertensive diseases during pregnancy seem to be at higher risk of having troublesome hot flashes and night sweats at menopause, report researchers from the Netherlands in an article published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society. This is the first study to look at this association. The investigators examined the relationship between hypertensive diseases in pregnancy, such as preeclampsia, and vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) among 853 women who visited a cardiology ...

SAN FRANCISCO – April 3, 2013 – Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) continues to be the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States for people over age 65, according to a study recently published online in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. AMD is a potentially blinding disease that affects more than 9.1 million Americans. This study, which tracked vision loss in relation to eye disease and treatment response in nearly 5,000 patients over a 20-year period, showed that despite the recent discovery of sight-saving drugs and ...

Chinese fishing boats catch about US$11.5 billion worth of fish from beyond their country's own waters each year – and most of it goes unreported, according to a new study led by fisheries scientists at the University of British Columbia. The paper, recently published in the journal Fish and Fisheries, estimates that China's foreign catch is 12 times larger than the catch it reports to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, an international agency that keeps track of global fisheries catches. Using a new method that analyzes the type of fishing vessels ...

Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have, for the first time, successfully transmitted a secure quantum code through the atmosphere from an aircraft to a ground station. Can worldwide communication ever be fully secure? Quantum physicists believe they can provide secret keys using quantum cryptography via satellite. Unlike communication based on classical bits, quantum cryptography employs the quantum states of single light quanta (photons) for the exchange of data. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle limits the precision with which the position ...

In their latest experiment, Prof. Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Hamburg-based Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and Dr. Michael Gensch from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) investigated together with other colleagues from the HZDR, the United Kingdom, and Japan if and how superconductivity can be systematically controlled. The objective of their research is to improve the usability of superconducting materials for such new technologies as, for example, the processing of information. ...

NEW YORK, NY (April 3, 2013) – A team of New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute scientists led by David Kahler, PhD, NYSCF Director of Laboratory Automation, have developed a new way to generate induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines from human fibroblasts, acquired from both healthy and diseased donors. Reported in PLOS ONE, this cell-sorting method consistently selects the highest quality, standardized iPS cells, representing a major step forward for drug discovery and the development of cell therapies. Employing a breakthrough method developed ...

Humans have used the papyrus sedge for millennia. The Ancient Egyptians wrote on it, it can be made into highly buoyant boats, it is grown for ornamentation and parts can even be eaten. Now, writing in the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, researchers in Uganda have demonstrated that growing papyrus can be used to soak up toxins and other noxious residues from abattoir effluent. Robinson Odong, Frank Kansiime, John Omara and Joseph Kyambadde of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, investigated a range of macrophyte plants grown in so-called ...

A new study of Hong Kong chronic pain patients suggests that targeting feelings of mental defeat could prevent severe depression, anxiety and interference with daily activities. The concept of mental defeat has previously been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, but the new study applies it to the experience of chronic pain. Mental defeat occurs when pain patients view their pain as an 'enemy' which takes over their life and removes their autonomy and identity. The study, published in the Clinical Journal of Pain, analysed three groups of individuals living ...