Hampton Inn Hotel Gaffney offers convenient lodging to guests attending the 4th annual Friday Night Flights bicycle racing events in downtown Gaffney, SC. The event is presented by Two Up Sports, in corporation with the Upstate Carolina Medical Center, The City of Gaffney, and The Freewheelers of Spartanburg. Friday Night Flights harkens to the tradition of the kermis races in Belgium, where the town is an integral part of the festival of speed. Races dates are May 24, 31, and June 21, 2013. Spectators are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and join in the excitement. ...

FindaFacilitator.com, an online database of certified professional facilitators, is pleased to offer its customers a virtual facilitator tool to help determine and accommodate their needs. FindaFacilitator.com's virtual facilitator tool, also known as Virtual Vicki, can be found at http://findafacilitator.com/virtual-vicki-1/. When you begin your search to find the perfect facilitator, there are certain questions you will need to answer to determine what your precise needs are. FindaFacilitator.com's Virtual Vicki walks you through the steps by helping you determine ...

In the U.S., we create about 71.6 million tons of paper waste each year. That's about 40 percent of all the total waste in the U.S. Responsible shredding reduces the amount of waste, and since the paper is recycled, it helps our environment. The professionals of the Dallas shredding company, A Shred Ahead, are proud to provide secure, sustainable document shredding. Why Should I Shred? Besides lessening the impact that paper waste has on our planet, shredding protects the security of your business and your customers. Identity theft is a growing crime, and if sensitive ...

The discount church chairs supply company, Advantage Church Chairs, is proud to announce their recent partnership with the Internet marketing agency, Cardinal Web Solutions. Cardinal Web Solutions is one of the top digital marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) agencies in Atlanta. Cardinal Web Solutions has expanded their operations immensely in the last couple of years and have helped many companies in the Atlanta area, as well as around the country, to increase their sales and client bases. The church chairs provider knew they needed to have a fully functioning ...

Classroom Essentials Online, a retailer of church chairs and school furniture, believes that a good education is the most valuable asset a student can have. Unfortunately, many students are unable to receive the most from their education because they are uncomfortable when they are sitting at their desks or tables. Countless studies have proven that if a student is unable to get comfortable at their classroom table, desk or chair, they will have trouble focusing their attention properly. Uncomfortable students end up fidgeting in their seats instead of paying attention ...

William Fox was a pioneer in the American film industry. Turning a once-bankrupt theater in Brooklyn into a successful venture, he later went into movie distribution and finally opened his own company (Fox Film Corporation) to make his own movies. One of the most powerful and influential men in the movie industry during his time, he was poised to take over Loews and the MGM studios when he lost his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929. He never recovered from this setback. It can sometimes be difficult to imagine how someone who has enjoyed incredible success can ...

An accounting and bookkeeping firm has found an innovative way to leverage Qvinci Software's free version of Qvinci, called Solo, to streamline its operations and deliver value to clients. The firm has become the channel through which clients receive current financial data quickly, easily, and on demand - and in a format they actually use to run their businesses better. It's a double win, because Qvinci Solo has also enabled the firm to "recoup" a significant amount of monthly staff time by eliminating a cumbersome reporting process that the firm's owner ...

miEdge, business intelligence system for Insurance Professionals, today announced a key addition to its leadership team with the hiring of Darin S. Vick as Chief Sales Officer. With over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, Mr. Vick will focus on continued growth of the miEdge system. Mark J. Smith - ACIC, CIC, Founder and CEO of miEdge said, "Darin is a well-respected leader in the Insurance Technology space and brings a wealth of talent to miEdge. Darin will lead the miEdge sales team across the country and help miEdge maintain and grow its industry ...

Signalman Publishing is pleased to announce the release in paperback and as an ebook for the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble nook, and the Apple iBookstore of The Miracle Landing: The true story of how the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers almost perished in an Iowa cornfield during a January blizzard by Harold Gifford of Woodbury, Minnesota. The Miracle Landing is about an incident that happened over fifty years ago - an incident that could have changed U.S. sports history. On the evening of January 17, 1960 after a game in St. Louis, the Minneapolis Lakers boarded their ...

On Monday, June 3rd at 5 pm, Clarke Auction will present what might be one of its best auctions to date. Gernerally, a press release highlights one or two rare and important items. Clarke's June 3rd auction offers rare and wonderful pieces in each and every category. Leading off the art section is a freshly discovered large and important oil on canvas by German surrealist artist, Richard Oelze (est. $60,000 - 80,000). This magnificent painting is well supported by works from other artists including an oil still life by Bernard Buffet (pictured, est. $35,000 - $45,000), ...

The University of Maryland has been chasing the Sikorsky Prize for the last five years. The prize will be presented to the first team to build a human powered helicopter that can climb 10 feet and stay airborne for 60 seconds. The University of Maryland team, also known as Team Gamera, has come within a whisper on several recent attempts. George MacARTHUR has launched a campaign to challenge the University of Maryland. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/godzilla-vs-gamera www.godzillahovers.com Contact: George MacARTHUR 705-878-9878 ...

Amidst of all the decrease in revenue the construction industry is still optimistic and are continuously developing projects that will suits everyone. They are making sure that the development in their field will go pass the current hardships that the industry is experiencing. Jones Lang La Salle was quoted for the drastic drop of the revenue in the classified home sales that is for the first quarter of 2013. The revenue plunge was forecasted already that once the cooling measure takes place the drop in returns will happen. This is due to the surplus from the previous ...

"The next industrial revolution already has a name - 3D printing. 3D printing is affecting how products are created and consumed. In order to work, this technology needs professional-level 3D models, but there is a surprising gap between 3D printing industry and professional 3D designers. CGTrader aims to bridge this gap and help the 3D designer community take a plunge and start modeling for the exciting 3D printing technology. Professional 3D designers have the skills and creativity needed to bring the next big thing in 3D printing, and we aim to encourage them to ...

Despite having installed more than 250,000 feet of bird spikes and a million feet of netting to keep pigeons off residential and commercial buildings in and around Vancouver, pigeon patrol expert Andrew MacBain from www.pigeonpatrol.ca says the pesky birds are winning the war. "It's worse than ever," says the Surrey-based entrepreneur who has installed bird spikes and netting at BC Place, the BC Ferries terminals, BC Transit and other buildings throughout the Lower Mainland. "The pigeon population doubles every year." The mushrooming pigeon population ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In a remote fishing community in Venezuela, a lone fisherman sits on a cliff overlooking the southern Caribbean Sea. This man –– the lookout –– is responsible for directing his comrades on the water, who are too close to their target to detect their next catch. Using abilities honed by years of scanning the water's surface, he can tell by shadows, ripples, and even the behavior of seabirds, where the fish are schooling, and what kind of fish they might be, without actually seeing the fish. This, in turn, changes where the boats go, and how the ...

New York (May 20, 2013) – In two critical reports released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden on May 15th, the scientific expertise of the Wildlife Conservation Society helped inform an international body of senior government officials about changing conditions in the Arctic, and potential responses to those changes. The scientific reports reviewed by the ministers are products of contributions from various experts, representing a range of knowledge and traditions—including indigenous perspectives. The first report, entitled "Arctic Biodiversity ...

Researchers from the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered. They found the order of coral abundance (from highest to lowest) around the main Hawaiian Islands to be Porites lobata, Montipora patula, Pocillopora meandrina, Montipora capitata, Porites compressa, and Montipora flabellata. Environmental factors (wave energy, shape ...

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials. The doughnut-shaped droplets, a shape known as toroidal, are formed from two dissimilar liquids using a simple rotating stage and an injection needle. About a millimeter in overall size, the droplets are produced individually, their shapes maintained by a surrounding springy material made of polymers. Droplets in this toroidal shape made of ...

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA – The surgical management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in U.S. hospitals varies widely depending on the race of the patient, according to a new study. "In most patients, the initial treatment for Stage I and Stage II NSCLC is surgery," said researcher Jayanth Adusumalli, MBBS, of the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. "In our study of more than 1,200,000 patients diagnosed with NSCLC in US hospitals between the years 2000 and 2010, we found statistically significant racial disparities in the surgical management of these ...

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA ─ Delayed transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU) in hospitalized patients significantly increases the risk of dying in the hospital, according to a new study from researchers in Chicago. "Early intervention improves outcomes for many of the conditions that are indications for inpatient transfer to the ICU. This suggests that delaying ICU transfer may increase the risk of death in these patients," said lead author Matthew Churpek, MD, MPH, of the University of Chicago Medical Center. "Using a vital sign-based early warning score, the Cardiac ...

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA ─ Extended use of a common antibiotic may prolong the time between hospitalizations for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a post-hoc analysis of a multicenter study which compared the hospitalization rates of patients treated with a 12-month course of azithromycin to the rates of those treated with placebo. The results of the current analysis will be presented at the ATS 2013 International Conference. "Preventing respiratory-related re-hospitalizations is a key component of COPD therapy, ...

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA ─ The negative effects of poorly controlled asthma symptoms on sleep quality and academic performance in urban schoolchildren has been confirmed in a new study. "While it has been recognized that missed sleep and school absences are important indicators of asthma morbidity in children, our study is the first to explore the associations between asthma, sleep quality, and academic performance in real time, prospectively, using both objective and subjective measures," said principal investigator Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD, Associate Professor ...

Charlottesville, VA (May 21, 2013). Physicians at Monash University and The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia describe the logistic, medical, and societal challenges faced in treating spine trauma in morbidly obese patients. Based on a case series of six patients injured in high-speed motor vehicle accidents, the authors categorize difficulties faced in the care of morbidly obese patients from on-scene immobilization and medical transport through spinal imaging, surgery, and postoperative care. Details of the six cases and a thorough discussion of challenges posed ...

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is primarily associated with the respiratory symptoms that are its hallmark, but in fact, patients who struggle with the disease also experience significant amounts of chronic pain. A new study conducted by researchers in Pennsylvania and New Mexico estimates the degree of pain suffered by these patients to be close to that experienced by patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The research results will be presented at the ATS 2013 International Conference. "Several studies have found ...

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA ─ Depression is common in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has been linked with disease severity and impaired quality of life. Now, for the first time, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have linked the systemic inflammation associated with COPD with depression in these patients. "Systemic inflammation is thought to be an important mediator of comorbidities in COPD, but the relationship between inflammation and depression has not been explored," said researcher Hilary Strollo, M.S., a graduate of the ...