Body armor... it's the one item in a police officer's job that they take for granted. The problem with this is that it's helpful in saving their lives. However, if more law enforcement knew a little more about body armor, they wouldn't be so gun-shy about using it in the line of duty. 25 Things People Didn't Know About Bulletproof Vests 1 - It's Not Actually Bulletproof The reality about bulletproof vests is that they're not bulletproof, they're actually bullet resistant. The reality is that bullet resistant vests don't protect the wearer from every threat. Nothing ...

The Solid Anatomy Series was designed for medical students, but is also beneficial for nurse practitioner students, physician assistant students, dental students, podiatry students, kinesiology, biology or other health science majors, physical therapists, chiropractors, radiology technicians, and medical sales representatives. There are 28 subject-specific videos available now, with additional videos to be released soon. Each video includes stunning illustrations taken from the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Atlas of Anatomy to clearly highlight key anatomical structures. ...

West Palm Beach-based Addison Development, an award-winning design and building firm, has been commissioned by a German family to build a 30,000-square-foot, custom oceanfront estate residence on the island of Palm Beach. Master Builder Dan E. Swanson, the company's owner and president, said "This French Chateau-inspired estate, with 270 feet of ocean and lake frontage, will feature an abundance of architectural details and design elements in order to reflect the grand French manors of times gone by." Swanson and his Addison Development are no strangers ...

Career Step, an online school offering career-focused education, will donate $50 for every student referred to Career Step who enrolls in November to the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple initiative in celebration of National Military Family Appreciation Month. Operation Purple helps children of military families cope with the worry and absence of a deployed parent and focuses on supporting family togetherness after long separations or injury. "Career Step's support of the military community has traditionally focused on service members and ...

On the evening of Thursday, October 18, 2012, 150 of Chicago's most active and involved young professionals joined the City Year Chicago Associate Board to celebrate the hard work and dedication of City Year Chicago's red-jacketed corps members at the annual Wine & Stein fundraising event. The event took place from 6:00pm to 9:00pm at Mars Gallery, located at 1139 W. Fulton Market in Chicago, IL. The event was catered by the Duck n' Roll Food Truck and Chicago Cupcake Food Truck. City Year is an education-focused nonprofit organization that partners with public ...

The MapAlerter.com system is a free service for people who want to receive important service alerts from their local authority by text message, email, landline and social media, including Facebook and Twitter. The service has already been rolled out successfully in Counties Wexford, Carlow and Roscommon, as well as Waterford City. "MapAlerter.com is a free multi-channel alert service that allows people to receive alerts from Limerick County Council when important events take place in their locality," explained Eugene Griffin, County Secretary, Limerick County ...

Hurricane Grill & Wings is excited to announce a new development agreement, adding five new restaurants to the Houston area. Currently, the island-inspired restaurant has over 48 locations in eight different states. Hurricane Grill & Wings has one other Texas location in San Antonio that has achieved enormous success since its opening in July. This Houston development will continue Hurricane Grill & Wings national expansion, which also includes multiple commitments in the Lone Star State including Dallas, El Paso, further expansion in San Antonio and pending ...

Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, provides a unique and coastal backdrop to celebrate this year's holiday season. Kick off the festivities by doing something a little different and invite the entire family to celebrate Thanksgiving at your island "home away from home." Shop 'til you drop on Black Friday at Wrightsville Beach's many boutiques and nearby shopping villages, then spend the weekend enjoying the North Carolina Holiday Flotilla at Wrightsville Beach to get in the holiday spirit. It's the perfect opportunity to blend family time and vacation time! As ...

As the fast-paced, national growth of the fast-casual Asian segment continues to sizzle, Mama Fu's is feeding the demand for freshly prepared Asian cuisine with a new area development and multi-unit franchise agreement calling for 14 Mama Fu's restaurant locations to open in Dallas and Collin counties. The newly signed deal is part of a nationwide development plan for the brand to open 10-12 new stores in the next 15 months, and increases the number of Mama Fu's restaurants in various stages of development to 63. "This year has turned out to be a tremendous ...

On Nov. 8, Green Garage, an eco-friendly full car care center, will hold their Women, Wine and Wrenches educational seminar in Boulder and will showcase their new location at 55th and Pearl Street (right next to the post office). This free hands-on event will run from 6-9 p.m. and is open to anyone interested in learning more about eco-driving, regular auto maintenance and small fixes that you can do yourself. The event will also showcase the new modern Green Garage facility, which combines Tire Source, Green Eyed Motors and an in-store Laughing Goat coffee house ...

Pure Fix Cycles, the inventive line of quality-built fixed gear bicycles, kicks off their collaboration with renowned DJ group Super Mash Bros. by releasing the first ever Pure Fix Mix on Halloween, October 31st to benefit Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. To download the free frightful mixtape, music lovers can visit http://www.supermashbros.com and with every download, each user will receive a coupon code for 10% off any desired bike model from the Pure Fix Cycles site. For every bike sold, Pure Fix Cycles and Super Mash Bros. ...

It is the year of the spoiled pet, and by the end of this month, South Lyon animals will be lining up to celebrate the grand opening of Pet Supplies Plus, the nation's most trusted network of community pet retailers for food, equipment, toys and more. Located at 22381 Pontiac Trail in South Lyon, Pet Supplies Plus will hold a grand opening celebration on Saturday, October 27, and Sunday, October 28, 2012. The new Pet Supplies Plus will offer South Lyon residents a wide variety of pet toys, equipment and a broad range of food from premium items to basic grocery products, ...

Speech Interface Design, a leading voice-based solution developer based here, today announced the appointment of Jim Donahue as territory account manager and J. Michael Smith as reseller channel manager. The appointments are part of a planned strategic initiative to increase growth and customer support. "Jim and Mike bring solid sales and business development skills, and proven track records in driving market expansion for supply chain solution providers such as Speech Interface Design. This is a dynamic time for us. We are well-positioned to take advantage of a strengthening ...

Chris Hendricks (http://www.chrishendricksmusic.com), a musician based in Raleigh, N.C., has announced that he will present to Saint Mary's School in Raleigh on Sunday, Nov. 11, as part of his "Breaking Down Barriers" anti-bullying program. Hendricks will kick off the event at the all-girls school with a short concert followed by a presentation educating students on the dangers of bullying and the importance of being true to one's self. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at an early age, he was bullied throughout his childhood and teen years because of his disability. ...

Sam's Club and General Mills have announced that they will host a Member Appreciation event at the new Wentzville Sam's Club on Friday, Nov. 2, from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. As part of the day's celebration, St. Louis Cardinals' Legendary Manager Whitey Herzog will meet with fans and sign free autographs at Sam's Club, 3055 Bear Creek Dr. Herzog's style of play, based on the strategy of attrition, was nicknamed "Whiteyball" and concentrated on pitching, speed, and defense to win games rather than on home runs. As the manager in St. Louis, he won the 1982 World Series ...

The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) will host two free Virginia Insurance Funding for Autism Seminars on Thursday, November 29 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. for practitioners and from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for parents at the CARD Virginia office, located at 5400 Shawnee Road, Suite 208 in Alexandria, Va. The free seminars will teach parents and practitioners how to access insurance coverage and understand the insurance changes that began earlier this year. The Virginia Autism Insurance Mandate (S 1062 / H 2467) requires that most health plans cover treatment for children ...

The Rainmaker Group, the leading provider of revenue management and profit optimization solutions to the multifamily housing and gaming/hospitality industries, announced today that it has received a $33.8 million equity investment from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), a leading multi-stage investment firm. Rainmaker will use the capital infusion to bolster its sales force, enhance its product portfolio and further develop new analytics and big data solutions to meet the needs of its growing customer base. With this minority investment, NVP's Jon Kossow and David Su have ...

The Requirement: CR UK required a complex on-line survey that would gather information on the approach to diagnosis and treatment. Participants were also presented with randomly selected sets of clinical scenarios. Developing the survey: Development of the survey required working closely with the CR UK research team to implement the complex logic of the questionnaire. In order to allow additional questions to be presented for individual jurisdictions, the structure of the questionnaire was made flexible to allow the inclusion of jurisdictional elements. A number ...

After dominating the 2011 Exemplar Awards, users of the Aligned Assets gazetteer management system have received countless accolades at the 2012 Awards. At a ceremony in London to recognise outstanding achievement in the use of local authority address and street gazetteer data, Aligned Assets customers won four out of the six major awards, including London Borough of Harrow being announced the winner of the Overall Exemplar Award. The London Borough of Harrow had earlier in the day won the Integration Award for their innovative project that saw the use of gazetteer ...

GreatMomentsinParenting.com (GMP) has created a unique "judgment-free" parenting website dedicated to the humorous and heartfelt exploration of modern parenting. According to founder Virginia Woodruff, GMP offers a unique online opportunity to create camaraderie amidst the "agony and ecstasy of life with kids." The site is now open to submissions by any parent with an engaging story. The site is already populated with content that is easy to share. "This site is different because it's not promoting or celebrating any one style of parenting, nor ...

Jerry Jackness, President of Craftsman Construction has just completed an extensive training course by BPI Institute. The course consisted of about 40 hours of online training and testing to prepare for the actual classroom exam. After the exam prep, I attended a week long training and testing class said Jerry Jackness. This class consisted of 4 days of classroom training and 1 day of field training. "We were constantly tested during the classroom training and any bad score would eliminate you from receiving your professional designation said Mr. Jackness". On ...

Packington Free Range has teamed up with Seasoned Cookery School in an exclusive relationship, which will see the Barton-Under-Needwood pork and poultry producer, providing a range of their award-winning meats to the Derbyshire-based business. Fourth generation farmers, Packington Free Range (http://www.packingtonfreerange.co.uk/) will be joining forces with Seasoned; (http://www.seasonedcourses.com/) an establishment based in a beautiful courtyard property at Catton Hall. The school was opened in 2010 by Clare Tetley, with the aim of providing fun food education and ...

Novosoft, the acclaimed provider of data backup solutions, presented the hard disk imaging backup software functionality for Handy Backup, version 7.3.0, oriented toward migration from Windows 7 (and older editions of the OS) to Windows 8. The new version of the Handy Backup software helps make a snapshot of the entire system before installing Windows 8, being a tool also supporting backup of other platforms recently released, Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, and others. "There are common sense backup suggestions for anyone considering migration to the new ...

The Austrian music & video producer ViennaCC uploaded a music video titled "Why" on YouTube, a song from the latest album "Going Out For Summer." The song is about love saying "I don't know why you gave me no reply". The music video "Why" is made of photos compiled to a video. ViennaCC: "I wanted to make something different, not a musician standing anywhere and singing the song. That would be too simple. I am just looking at roll film stripes with photos from the last years." The music of the song "Why" ...

Canadian author Diane Mae Robinson has released her latest children's book, 'Sir Princess Petra'. 'Sir Princess Petra', the first book in the Pen Pieyu adventures, features surprising plot twists and turns, brilliant flashes of humor, zany characters and is rooted in timeless values that shine through the charismatic main character. The book has received a number of high-level book awards including second place in Purple Dragonfly Book Awards for Children's Chapter Book, and was awarded 5 stars by Readers Favorite. Robinson was awarded the Lieutenant Governor Of Alberta ...