When a driver is accused of DUI, a breath test is almost always requested. Consent to a breath test is implied but it is not mandatory in Florida. If a driver elects not to take a breath test they will face additional exposure to license suspension and in some cases additional criminal charges. With the factors to consider is it better to blow or refuse? This is not an easy question and the reality is that it depends on several factors. One factor is obviously the amount of alcohol the driver consumed but another consideration is what the driver is trying to avoid. For ...

Tina Forsyth is a professional business development coach and author. Her nominated book: "The Entrepreneur's Trap - How to Stop Working Too Much, Take Back Your Time & Enjoy Life!" is a practical how-to for entrepreneurs and small business owners who feel like their business is taking over their life. Full of ideas on business automation and systems management, "The Entrepreneur's Trap" can help readers identify the right type of business for them, provide insight into effectively hiring and managing a team and presents Forsyth's 10 key systems ...

Symtrax, a world leader in enterprise reporting solutions, today announced a new version release of their output management solution Compleo Suite 5.4 that allows users to monitor their document production remotely using a mobile device or the web. Users can simultaneously monitor multiple document productions with the ability to perform actions including: start document production, stop it, fix errors and restart production. The intuitive interface allows users to address any problems that arise (for example with a printer) instantly and access production documents ...

AAF Tampa Bay, an affiliate of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), held their annual ADDY awards on February 28th at the TECO Plaza and Tampa Theatre. During the competition, which awards excellence in advertising, eNox Media, a Tampa-based digital marketing agency, won a silver ADDY in the newly created "responsive web design" category. Sponsored by the non-profit AAF, the ADDY awards recognize those individuals and agencies who best exemplify "the highest creative standards in the industry." Having received a silver ADDY from the AAF Tampa Bay ...

LMS Thinking credits their commitment to improving the consumers buying experience through their personalised marketing approach for the success. Customer service is the overall activity of identifying and satisfying customer needs. At LMS Thinking, their aim is to continually improve all aspects of the industry in which they operate their outsourced services. One improvement which is at the forefront of the firm's vision is to improve customer service through their new customer care business strategy. Customer service is essential for any business to succeed and ...

FLM.TV, the industry's first indie film Social TV pay-per-view site is announcing its latest showcase of films being self distributed on the FLM.TV site by indie filmmakers. During SXSW, FLM.TV will be demonstrating to filmmakers and distributors how to upload their films and artwork, price, and publish their films. FLM.TV is showcasing these new films during SXSW Film Festival as well as others and is making them available to be viewed on any device, any time, anywhere. FLM.TV's indie films' content ranges from romance, comedies and animation to documentaries and mysteries. ...

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) today announced Prince Harry as Patron of All Schools, and revealed Canterbury as the inaugural Official Partner for its programme to get more secondary state schools playing rugby union. The RFU firmly believes that rugby union is a game for All Schools - all schools and all young people in the school can play, and rugby can have a positive impact on all of the school. Currently around 1,500 state secondary schools play rugby union. As Patron, Prince Harry will support the RFU in its ambition for 750 more to be self-sufficient rugby playing ...

The popular TV show Inside Edition recently aired a heartwarming story of the power of plastic surgery, featuring Orange County rhinoplasty specialist and board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Burr von Maur. Dr. von Maur is one of three board-certified plastic surgeons practicing at CosmetiCare (http://www.cosmeticare.com), a leading cosmetic surgery practice serving Orange County and Long Beach. "I am touched to be able to help Brayden Young, a courageous young woman who simply didn't deserve the bullying, teasing and taunting she experienced in school," says ...

A comprehensive analysis of the differences between the 4th and 5th Editions of the PMBOK Guide published by the Project Management Institute, Inc. and the recent ISO 21500:2012 standard has been compiled by Swiss-based STS Sauter Training & Simulation, Inc. This document is available free of charge as a download from www.sts.ch/pmbok5. On 31st December 2012, the Project Management Institute (PMI ) published the 5th edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ) Guide. A few months earlier, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published ...

The new moniker simplifies the firm's brand to reflect the one name that has consistently appeared on the firm's marquee since 1979. It was selected by the partnership to reflect their unified commitment to a memorable brand rather than a roll call. "All too often, law firm names change because an individual partner joins or leaves," said the equity partners of the firm in a joint statement. "The external focus, then, shifts to the people involved instead of on the firm's work. The vision of George Martin when establishing this firm over three decades ...

Roberts Law Group, PLLC is happy to announce that attorney Andrew Nicholas "Nick" Clifford has recently joined the firm. Nick is a welcome addition to the criminal defense team at Roberts Law Group and brings several years of experience to his new role. Mr. Clifford, a Raleigh native, has returned to North Carolina to continue pursuing his passion - defending those who have been entangled in the criminal justice system. He knew in high school that he wanted to be a North Carolina defense lawyer and began his journey as a clerk at Anderson & Anderson, P.A, ...

Searching for, viewing and downloading adult pornography is not illegal. But, there is a problem when sexually explicit images of children sneak into group of otherwise legal images during a bulk download. No matter how you receive it, even if accidentally, possession of child pornography is illegal. Accidental download of child pornography can happen quickly and may be irreversible. Say, for example, you ran a quick search for pornography on the internet or through file-sharing software. Ten 'hits' come up, you select all to download, walk over the kitchen to grab a ...

"It is very painful to walk and even to sit upright." "I get serious cramps along the walls of the vagina. They wake me from sound sleep." "My bladder has to be flushed every week because I have an ongoing infection." "I'm afraid the mesh has gone into my organs, the pain is so bad." These are the words of real women who are victims of transvaginal mesh (TVM) implants gone horribly wrong. The medical devices were meant to fix pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. Many women who underwent these surgeries hoping ...

Recent events here in the Ohio Valley have reinforced just how important it is to use care and caution on the highways. The Wheeling area was rocked this week by two separate motor vehicle collisions involving fatalities which occurred only about 24 hours apart. Early Sunday, a drunk driver slammed into the rear of a vehicle on McCutchen Road resulting in the death of one passenger and critically injuring another. The next day another collision occurred on I-70 Westbound near The Highlands between a car and a semi-tractor trailer. Both passengers in the car died as a result ...

Launching today, Just Opened London promises the city's trend-setters and opinion leaders a new, simple way to stay ahead of the curve in London. Based on a simple premise, Just Opened London has been set up to showcase the best of London's newly opened offerings across the lifestyle spectrum. Ranging from bars, restaurants and hotels to fashion launches, cultural events and new properties, Just Opened London provides the social currency of 'what's new' that so many people crave. The site features listings and detailed information of the latest openings as chosen ...

One of London's most famous sons will this month blow the bloody candles out on his 80th birthday. Born in Southwark on 14th March 1933 as Maurice Micklewhite, Michael Caine is as much prolific actor as iconic Londoner. Renowned for his distinctive cockney accent, Caine was voted London's favourite Londoner in 2008 and said in his acceptance speech: "If you're born in London you're one of the luckiest people on earth. This is a city that I will love to the day I die and I'm so proud to be a Londoner." Six days before Sir Michael turns 80, the Museum of London ...

A growing body of research demonstrates that contacting individuals after any type of hospital interaction boosts patient satisfaction, mitigates risk and optimizes provider performance. Timely patient surveillance assesses well being, fortifies medication and follow-up compliance, and provides a critical feedback loop for both provider performance and issue resolution. This touch point is essential in order to thrive in today's accountable care environments. Dr. Tom Scaletta, founder of Smart-ER, explains. "My passion for patient contact began fifteen years ago ...

They'll upgrade your laptop. They'll defrag your hard drive. But never ask a geek to dance - unless it's for a good cause. DancingGeeks.com is seeking the dorkiest, most embarrassing displays of rhythmic nerdiness in the country. Viewers will vote on their favorites and Vitaver will donate a total of $10,000 to charity in the name of the top dancers: $5,000 to first place, $3,000 to second place, and $2,000 to third place. Vitaver will also award cash prizes to the top dancers: $500 to first place, $250 to second place, and $100 for third place. "We want ...

DETROIT – A class of medications commonly prescribed to lower blood sugar in diabetic patients appears to protect them from developing heart failure, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. "People with diabetes are at risk for developing heart failure," says Henry Ford researcher and cardiologist David Lanfear, M.D., lead author of the study. "Diabetic adults die of heart disease two to four times more than those without diabetes. "Our study data suggest that diabetic patients taking a particular class of medications are less likely to develop heart ...

A clinical decision support tool helped physicians identify patients at high risk of bleeding complications prior to undergoing a coronary intervention procedure and helped guide the use of bleeding avoidance strategies, leading to less complications and a shorter hospital stay, according to a study being presented March 10 at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions. More than 1.3 million percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) are performed each year in the United States. Bleeding during and after these procedures is a common risk (3 – 6%). "Bleeding ...

The first multicenter study of hybrid revascularization shows that the emerging procedure for treating coronary artery disease has a similar rate of major adverse events in the first year, compared with percutaneous intervention (stenting). Hybrid revascularization is a minimally invasive blend of coronary bypass surgery and stenting. It has been described as a "best of both worlds" strategy for treating multi-vessel coronary artery disease. Surgeons avoid opening the patient's sternum, which facilitates recovery, while keeping the durability of bypass surgery for the ...

Transfusion of donated blood more than three weeks old results in impaired blood vessel function, a new study of hospital patients shows. Blood banks now consider six weeks to be the maximum permitted storage time of blood for use in transfusion, but recent studies have suggested transfusing blood stored for more than a few weeks has adverse effects in patients undergoing cardiac surgery or critical care. The new finding suggests a mechanism explaining why older blood might be detrimental to patient health: a deficiency in nitric oxide, a short-lived chemical messenger ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed an innovative tool designed to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions for heart failure patients and improve the quality of medical care a patient receives in the hospital. The tool, known as the IMRS-HF, was adapted from the Intermountain Risk Score (IMRS) that has been used at Intermountain Medical Center to predict mortality rates in trauma patients. Heart researchers discovered that by using the IMRS-HF, they could more accurately evaluate a patient's ...

The belief among medical professionals in the 1950s that the mortality rate for type A acute aortic dissection during the initial 24 hours was one to two percent per hour appears to hold true in the contemporary era of treatment, based on a review of the large-scale IRAD registry being presented March 9 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions. "In the 1950s, the medical literature suggested that the mortality rate for type A acute aortic dissection was one percent per hour, but we have limited information about the current rate in an era where ...

Even though a newly recognized cardiomyopathy, which mainly impacts women, is typically treatable, Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy can also be deadly when compounded by other co-morbidities, such as heart failure, according to a study being presented March 9 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions. This condition, formally known as Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) and informally known as stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome, has abrupt onset of symptoms and is characterized by a distinctive left ventricular (LV) contraction profile. Ninety ...