Each state has the authority to write and enforce its own criminal laws; however, this does not mean that the Federal government cannot make recommendations and push states to make changes. In May, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states should lower the legal blood-alcohol limit from .08 to .05. A change in Massachusetts DUI/OUI law would require state action and the issue is not currently on the Massachusetts legislature's agenda. State senators and local law enforcement have stated that the idea needs further review. Any change will take time, ...

Fantasy Football Starters announced today it has released the Version 8 of its award-winning fantasy football rankings software suite. The tool -- the industry's original Power Analyzer -- helps users create custom fantasy football projections based on individual scoring systems and real-time data analysis. "Since 2004, our Power Analyzer product line has annually set the industry standard for the best fantasy football recommendations," say Russ Bliss, the company's NFL analyst. "The custom fantasy football cheat sheets and fantasy football draft predictions ...

Summer's middle month calls for celebrating one of America's favorite foods: Ice cream. July is National Ice Cream Month, marked throughout July at Velvet Ice Cream's Ye Olde Mill by a host of ice cream specials and events. The first weekend kicks off Saturday, July 6 on National Ice Cream Cone Day with The Olde Mill Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor offering $.99 single-dip sugar cones; a nod to Velvet Ice Cream's 99th birthday. Then, on July 7 the Olde Mill Clowns, a live barbershop quartet and a magician welcome visitors. Different live musical artists perform every ...

Michael Douglas' media-grabbing comments blaming his throat cancer on Human Papillomavirus (HPV) contracted during oral sex brought some much-needed attention to the epidemic of HPV infection in the United States. Men's Health Network (MHN) hopes that Douglas' statements will also get parents, healthcare practitioners, and legislators to recommend that boys and young men get the HPV vaccine. Although the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved the HPV vaccine for males, the vast majority of them have not been vaccinated--and that leaves them and those they ...

An alliance between environmental groups, private sector companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have decided to take advantage of the 2,080 tons of daily waste that Nicaragua produces for recycling raw material, with the aim of selling the recycled products to other countries. The Alliance for Inclusive Recycling Development in Nicaragua, seeks to attract foreign investors to install a recycling plant. This initiative was developed due to the fact that the country only recycles a fraction of its waste. According to the Avina Foundation, a Latin American ...

The "2013 Bringing Out The Best You Beauty, Health And Wellness Conference/Expo" will be held September 28th, 2013 at the Villa Marcello Catering Hall 96-27 Rockaway Boulevard Ozone Park, NY. This event starts from 10 A.M and is scheduled to end at 3:30 P.M. At the maiden event last year, the organizer, Best Leaders' Consulting attracted a broad base of beauty businesses including Health and Wellness organizations throughout New York City and New Jersey, Web and Graphic Designers in addition and a multitude of fashion designers and consultants. This year, ...

Every customer of 3 in Denmark has always been able to use the entire 3 network in Sweden, as if he is at home in Denmark. This all occurs at no extra cost, as it was included as part of the subscription. For example, if you have 1 GB of subscription, you can freely surf in Sweden, for as long as you do not exceed that 1 GB. In case the customer exceeds his subscription, it will be topped up as per the general top-up packages. Until just recently, the Danish customers of 3 only had access to the 3's Sweden 3G network. Now, they have access to the super-fast 4G/LTE network ...

People who live in the San Antonio area know that summers can be downright brutal. With temperatures soaring, many rely on their air conditioners to supply the cooling relief they need. Unfortunately, when you need it the most is often exactly when your air conditioner stops working. Whether it is the constant drain and push to keep up with the rising temperatures or the air conditioner simply stops working because it is getting old, getting it back up and running properly is crucial to your comfort. Fortunately, your solution in situations such as this would be to simply ...

The development of a standardized killer-whale necropsy system has boosted the complete data from killer-whale strandings from 2 percent to about 33 percent, according to a recent study from a team of scientists, including a University of California, Davis wildlife veterinarian. The study, published recently in the journal Marine Mammal Science, suggests that the data can help scientists better understand the life history of the orca species. The killer-whale necropsy system was co-developed by Joe Gaydos, director of the SeaDoc Society -- a program of the UC Davis ...

Scientists at USC have unlocked the mystery of why new cases of the genetic disease Noonan Syndrome are so common: a mutation that causes the disease disproportionately increases a normal father's production of sperm carrying the disease trait. When this Noonan syndrome mutation arises in a normal sperm stem cell it makes that cell more likely to reproduce itself than stem cells lacking the mutation. The father then is more likely to have an affected child because more mutant stem cells result in more mutant sperm. The longer the man waits to have children the greater ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by 7 billion – and you'll have a sense of what Court Corley wakes up to every morning. Corley, a data scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has created a powerful digital system capable of analyzing billions of tweets and other social media messages in just seconds, in an effort to discover patterns and make sense of all the information. His social media analysis tool, dubbed ...

Researchers from the Seoul National University found that wild birds appear to "think faster" when humans, and possibly predators in general, are directly looking at them. "We started this study from our experience" says Dr. Sang-im Lee, the leader of magpie research team and the first author of the paper. "For a long time we had this impression that somehow magpies know that we are watching them because they often fly away from us when we observe them. But when we don't observe them, we can pass them pretty close-by but they don't fly away!" The finding that animals ...

Ever been to a whispering gallery—a quiet, circular space underneath an old cathedral dome that captures and amplifies sounds as quiet as a whisper? Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are applying similar principles in the development optomechanical sensors that will help unlock vibrational secrets of chemical and biological samples at the nanoscale. "Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high-frequency ...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 7, 2013 - Three out of 20 flexible gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopes used for screening were found to harbor unacceptable levels of "bio dirt" – cells and matter from a patient's body that could pose potential infection risk -- according to a study of endoscopes used at five hospitals across the U.S. In an abstract to be presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), researchers in the 3M Infection Prevention Division analyzed 275 flexible duodenoscopes, gastroscopes, ...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 7, 2013 – Mandatory influenza (flu) vaccination, as a condition of employment, did not lead to excessive voluntary termination, according to a four-year analysis of vaccination rates at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL. Flu infections result in approximately 150,000 hospital admissions and 24,000 deaths annually.1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all healthcare personnel (HCP) receive the annual flu vaccine, yet the national average for HCP vaccination is only 64 percent. Infection control ...

The results indicate that level of familiarity does not affect the stickleback's ability to recognize kin. Recognition based on phenotype matching or innate recognition thus seems to be the overruling mechanism when it comes to choosing members of a peer group. Numerous species, from microbes to humans and even plants, are able to distinguish relatives from others of their kind. However, it has proven remarkably difficult to uncover the underlying mechanisms. When family members remain together for life, it is likely that recognition of relatives is based on familiarity. ...

Uterine leiomyomata, or fibroids, are benign tumours that nevertheless affect the health of millions of women. They may cause, for instance, pain, bleeding and infertility. Fibroids are also the most common reason for a hysterectomy; for example, some 8,000 hysterectomies are made in Finland each year. Scientists at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Cancer Genetics Research have identified the molecular mechanisms underlying the onset of common leiomyomata. The results of their research were published in the top medical journal New England Journal of Medicine ...

A German-French research team has constructed a new model that explains how the so-called pseudogap state forms in high-temperature superconductors. The calculations predict two coexisting electron orders. Below a certain temperature, superconductors lose their electrical resistance and can conduct electricity without loss. "It is not to be excluded that the new pseudogap theory also provides the long-awaited explanation for why, in contrast to conventional metallic superconductors, certain ceramic copper oxide bonds lose their electrical resistance at such unusually high ...

VIDEO: This video discusses the detection of excessive levels of mycotoxins in apple juices and cereals. Click here for more information. Researchers from the University of Granada (Spain) have analysed the presence of patulin, a type of toxin produced by fungi, in several commercial apple juices. The results show that more than 50% of the samples analysed exceed the maximum limits laid down by law. They have also discovered a sample of rice with more mycotoxins than permitted. ...

By applying light stimulation to highly specific neurons in the brain, the researchers managed to re-establish normal behaviour in mice that had beforehand presented pathological repetitive behaviour similar to that observed in human patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorders. These results are published in the journal Science of June 7th 2013. Repetitive behaviour is characterised by a certain number of neuro-psychiatric disorders, in particular obsessive-compulsive disorders, that develop to such an extent that they become a real handicap to daily life ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a report detailing that the amount companies spent on U.S. research and development (R&D) during 2010 was essentially unchanged from the amount spent in 2009. In 2009, businesses spent $282 billion on R&D performed in the United States, compared with $279 billion in 2010. Of the $279 billion, the U.S. federal government provided $34 billion of funding for company-performed domestic R&D. In 2010, businesses in manufacturing industries performed $197 billion of domestic R&D; those in nonmanufacturing industries ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- A Kansas State University researcher is discovering that the North American drought has caused dramatic changes in native fish communities. "A couple of key species that we have been studying have virtually disappeared where they historically were abundant," said Keith Gido, professor of biology who researches fish ecology and conservation of aquatic systems. Gido and his team study state and federal endangered and threatened fish species in river ecosystems, including the Arkansas, Kansas, Gila, San Juan, Red and Platte rivers. He travels to these ...

PHILADELPHIA — Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene, called FGFR fusions, were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with these cancers may benefit from treatment with FGFR inhibitor drugs, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. FGFR genes are receptors that bind to members of the fibroblast growth factor family of proteins and play a role in key biological processes of a human cell. Because of a chromosomal ...

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a computational model of 1,366 genes in E. coli that includes 3D protein structures and has enabled them to compute the temperature sensitivity of the bacterium's proteins. The study, published June 7 in the journal Science, opens the door for engineers to create heat-tolerant microbial strains for production of commodity chemicals, therapeutic proteins and other industrial applications. Students of microbiology learn early that bacterial growth is temperature sensitive. For most pathogens, the optimum ...

A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to abrupt climate change events. The 100,000-year climate record adds to data on past climate events, and may help scientists assess models designed to predict how the Earth's climate will respond in the future. The new record resulted from oxygen isotope analysis of more than 1,700 calcium carbonate samples taken from four stalagmites found in three different northern Borneo ...