Several old favorites from the Popdose.com firmament are returning to the much lauded pop culture site for their fifth anniversary year, 2013. Among them is perennial favorite Popdose Flashback, which takes a look at other anniversary events throughout the worlds of music, movies, television, and more. Delving into the years 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, and 2003 Popdose.com is able to reflect on seminal events like the creation of Marvel Comics' Sgt. Fury, later Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon; the final episode of M*A*S*H; and the birth ...

Primo Group Flooring introduced their flooring services today in the greater Raleigh area. Primo Group Flooring installs flooring in new residential homes, existing homes and businesses: hardwoods, carpeting, laminated and vinyl flooring. "We do floors," said Carlos Alvarez, Operations Manager for Primo Group Flooring. "Our skilled flooring craftsmen have years of expertise and we are committed to providing you with high-quality flooring at an affordable price. Our goal is to make you happy. We can help you find the flooring you want at the right price." Primo ...

Writer/director Allen Weiss of Raleigh, announced script completion and commencement of pre-production planning for the film "A Reckoning," which takes on one of North Carolina's, and this country's, darkest historic events. On a November day in 1898, a group of White Supremacists, led by Civil War luminary Colonel Alfred Waddell, burned down the offices of local newspaper, The Daily Record, the only black-owned daily in the country, and overthrew the legitimately elected local government of Wilmington, which included many African Americans. As the mob of white ...

The Environmental Hygienists Association now offers Building Care Pro to inspect, check, and repair residences, offices, workplaces, and other commercial buildings, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings in California, Arizona, Las Vegas, USA nationwide, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, and elsewhere in Asia. Environmental Hygienists train and certify qualified companies and individuals as a Building Care Pro to inspect for and repair the following types of maintenance problems and building defects in homes and commercial buildings: 1. ...

Mazelmoments, the New York City-based award-winning website for planning Jewish inspired events, announced today that they will be releasing ground-breaking wedding and party planning reports covering the latest trends in Weddings, Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah celebrations. The reports are titled, "2013 Wedding Trends Report", which focuses on Jewish Weddings, and "2013 Bar & Bat Mitzvah Trends Report." Both will be professionally designed and detailed e-books complete with dazzling images from vendors as well as comprehensive information covering ...

Osborne Industries, Inc. has added farrowing and gestation stalls to its growing line of swine production equipment. The introduction of this new equipment ties into Osborne's "Single Source Swine Solutions," an innovative line of swine management products, equipment and services for the global swine industry. New farrowing stalls by Osborne address the two major economic concerns in farrowing: pre-wean mortality and sow appetite. The layout of Osborne's farrowing stall provides preferred laying areas for piglets to keep warm on Osborne's Stanfield Heat Pads. ...

As the dangers of distracted driving have become clear, states across the country have continued to strengthen the laws targeted at drivers who engage in this risky behavior. Illinois is no exception. As of January 1, 2013, two new laws governing distracted driving were implemented in Illinois. The Illinois Transportation Secretary has stated that she hopes these laws will prevent fatalities on Illinois roadways, as we have learned that distracted driving can be "as dangerous as drinking and driving." The first law enhances the prior prohibition against ...

Drivers put a lot of trust in automakers when they purchase vehicles. People rely on auto manufacturers to design and produce vehicles that are safe and reliable. When car makers fail to meet their duty to make safe vehicles, auto accidents happen and people suffer injuries. As such, auto manufacturers are supposed to let consumers know when a problem exists with their products. In December 2012, a federal agency announced that Toyota Motor Corp. will pay record-high civil fines for failing to report defects in some of its vehicles. Reporting safety defects Federal ...

Few things are more traumatic than losing a home to foreclosure. Many people found themselves in dire financial circumstances after the economy collapsed in 2008 and were unable to make their mortgage payments. They had to deal with the heartbreak of losing their homes to foreclosure. Now in 2013 many homeowners are discovering that banks never completed the foreclosures they filed, and they still own the homes -- and a host of accompanying problems. What makes a zombie title? In many cases, when homeowners receive notice that their lenders intend to foreclose on ...

The 2012 election will go down in history. Not only will it be remembered for the close race between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, it will stand out as the year two states - Colorado and Washington - passed initiatives to "decriminalize" the possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana. In 2006, a similar measure failed to pass in Colorado. But, with support from legal rights advocates and major bill proponents like Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, a 2012 voter referendum resulted in the passage of Amendment 64. What ...

Texas law enforcement officials are proud of their accomplishments in apprehending offenders in the Texas 10 Most Wanted program, including people suspected of sex offenses. The Texas Department of Public Safety recently announced that new records were set for this program during 2012. A record year People who are wanted in Texas for an offense in any of several categories can be included in the Texas 10 Most Wanted. Records were set in 2012 for the total number of suspects who were apprehended, gang members apprehended and suspected sex offenders apprehended. A ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2010 (the most recent year for which data is available), nationwide 10,228 people were killed and approximately 350,000 people injured in alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents. A staggering 31 percent of all motor vehicle accident fatalities in the United States were alcohol related. In Ohio, the story is similar. With 31 percent of fatal motor vehicle accidents in Ohio DUI-related, Ohio ranks 32nd in the nation according to MADD's ranking system. That's a 5.7 percent decrease in alcohol-related car ...

Going through a divorce is one of the most stressful events. Difficult decisions involve where a child will live and when each child will spend time with each parent. For a parent with a mental or physical disability there may be questions or fears surrounding negotiation of child custody. While many would assume that disabilities would not come up during divorce proceedings this is not always the case. As each parent seeks the strongest argument to obtain custody of a child, an impairment never questioned while the couple was together may crop up in a custody request. Unfortunately, ...

Making the decision to divorce is rarely easy. Many people are afraid of how they will make it on their own as a single person after having been part of a couple. Often people worry about what their financial circumstances will be after divorce. People considering divorce can take some steps to help prepare financially for divorce and increase their chances of financial stability after divorce. Gather documents A critical first step to making financial preparations for divorce is to gather copies of important documents, such as: - Income tax returns - Mortgages - ...

On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, after a 2 day trial, a Hennepin County (Minnesota) jury returned an excess verdict in favor of a 22-year old passenger who was injured in a collision in late March 2010. The 22-year old was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Champale Carter on March 28, 2010. The young women were traveling to Willmar to visit friends. On the way there, after dark, the driver went through a t-intersection and into a holding pond. The car hit the water, the front windshield broke and water began rushing in. The young women escaped the vehicle. When they ...

The Government of Nicaragua, private sector representatives and labor unions recently signed a labor agreement that establishes salary increases in the free zones sector through the year 2017 with the purpose of granting further stability to employees and predictability to investors. The agreement, called the Free Zones Minimum Wage Tripartite Agreement, sets annual salary increases of eight percent for the 2014-2017 period for employees working within the country's free zones sector. Furthermore, the agreement calls for the development of mechanisms aimed at increasing ...

The Boomers Guide to Recovering Your Lost Retirement: The Bill Fisher Story by Michael Burns Receives the NABE Pinnacle Award for Best Self Help Book. The book tells the story of Bill Fisher, who at the age of 72, started from scratch investing in high-dividend stocks, municipal bonds and residential real estate and over the next 18 years was able to build a net worth of one million dollars. Bill didn't win the lottery or inherit a large sum of money. What Bill did do was continue to work at his entry level job and invest his pension money, Social Security checks and ...

The new guidance is in response to a super-complaint made to the OFT by The Citizens Advice Bureau last March as a result of it's report Cashing In, which revealed how tens of thousands of consumers have been targeted by unscrupulous brokers and debt management companies and tricked out of large sums of money. It details rising instances of dubious practices from brokers and debt management companies, including cold calling or texting consumers offering to help them get an unsecured loan, and taking up front fees for credit brokering but not providing a service, often resulting ...

Cape Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a consequence of an unexpected synergy between recreational over-fishing and Great Depression-era ditches constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an effort to control mosquitoes. The cascade of ecological cause and effect is described by Tyler Coverdale and colleagues at Brown University in a paper published online this month in ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the ...

(Philadelphia, PA) – Scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine are inching closer to solving a long-standing mystery in sepsis, a complex and often life-threatening condition that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. every year. By blocking the activity of a protein, STIM1, in cells that line the insides of blood vessels in mice, they have halted a cascade of cellular events that culminates in the out-of-control inflammation that marks sepsis, and protected lungs from severe damage. The findings, reported ...

In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Karen Avraham and colleagues at Tel Aviv University identified a genetic mutation in two families with hereditary high frequency hearing loss. The mutated gene, which has not previously been linked to hearing loss, encodes NESP4, a protein that is expressed in the outer nuclear membrane (ONM) of the hair cells of the ear. Avraham and colleagues found that mutated NESP4 was mislocalized, disrupting a cellular complex known as the "linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton" or LINC, which maintains the position of the ...

Prostate cancer patients have increased levels of stress and anxiety; however, several recent studies have found that men who take drugs that interfere with the stress hormone adrenaline have a lower incidence of prostate cancer. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation George Kulik and colleagues at Wake Forest University examined the relationship between stress and cancer progression in a mouse model of prostate cancer. Kulik and colleagues found that mice that had been subjected to stress (exposed to the scent of a predator) exhibited a significantly reduced ...

Prostate cancer cells thrive on stress Prostate cancer patients have increased levels of stress and anxiety; however, several recent studies have found that men who take drugs that interfere with the stress hormone adrenaline have a lower incidence of prostate cancer. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation George Kulik and colleagues at Wake Forest University examined the relationship between stress and cancer progression in a mouse model of prostate cancer. Kulik and colleagues found that mice that had been subjected to stress (exposed to the scent of ...

The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting the evolution of technology could save tech giants millions in research and development or developments of new products—and help analysts and venture capitalists determine which companies are on the right track. The high-tech industry has long used Moore's Law as a method to predict the growth of PC memory. Moore's Law states that the number of chips on a transistor doubles every 18 months (initially every year). A paper by Gareth James and Gerard Tellis, ...

Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a potential new target for drugs to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a protein known as IRHOM2. The finding could provide an effective and potentially less toxic alternative therapy to tumor necrosis factor-alpha blockers (TNF-blockers), the mainstay of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, and could help patients who do not respond to this treatment. Efforts to develop drugs that hone in on this new target are underway. "This study is an elegant example of the capacity of basic science cell biologists ...