In late 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report compiling all the latest data on occupational injuries and illnesses. The report paints a picture of injury rates that have been relatively stable over the last few years, without any significant gains in workplace safety. Unsurprisingly, those working in certain occupations were far more likely to suffer from a workplace injury. Injury rates largely unchanged For every 10,000 full time employees working in 2011, 117 suffered a nonfatal occupational injury or illness that required days away from work ...

The Minnesota Sex Offender Program confines and treats high-risk offenders after they have completed their prison sentences. Politics in Minnesota reports that the state has the highest per-capita rate of civil commitments in the country, with more than 650 men currently enrolled in the program. Only two individuals have been discharged from the program over the past two decades. According to The Mankato Free Press, sex offenders are confined to high-security treatment facilities at an annual cost of approximately $120,000 per offender. However, in December 2012, a federal ...

Texting while driving is a serious concern on the roadways of Texas and across the nation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has cited distracted driving as a greater risk than driving under the influence, injuring more than half a million young adults each year. Distracted driving includes texting, making Facebook status updates and checking email. It also includes more mundane behaviors, like fiddling with the radio and eating. Doing these things divide your attention, leaving you vulnerable to accidents caused by unexpected changes in traffic ...

During the holidays, celebrations with family and friends often involves getting in the car and going places - or multiple places if you are visiting more than one side of the family this year. Express Oil Change & Service Center, who often offers Atlanta oil change coupons, wants drivers to remember how important having your car properly maintained is. Do not hit the highways with an unknown car issue, and always have your car's oil changed and your engine inspected before leaving for that long drive to grandma's house. "It's never fun -- or safe -- to ...

Landscaping supplies and professionals can turn your yard around during the mild winter months and make it look great even as it faces the dip in temperature. The local wall stone experts at Bulks Landscape Supply offer the following tips for business and home owners: Know the Importance of Watering Your Plants The most overlooked and yet one of the most obvious things any landscaping needs is water - and just the right amount of it. During the fall, the leaves dried up, and during this time, many people thought that their plants did not need water. However, this is ...

How Much Pump is Needed If your swimming pool capacity is 14,000 gallons, your turnover should be equivalent to 14,000 gallons. Every twelve hours, a turnover is necessary. Alternatively, pool pumps use a mildly dissimilar account of gallons-per-minute or GPM. Some of this may seem straight forward, but it is often misunderstood. An Atlanta pool service expert can assist you in understanding all of these details. It has become highly acceptable to advertise on horsepower, or how strong a swimming pool water pump is, but not how proficiently it functions. Unfortunately, ...

A.C. White Relocations began its business known as A.C. White Transfer Company and was only operating out of a small Atlanta suburb. With rapid growth within the first year, A.C. White Sr., Owner and Founder, longed to make his business one of the top moving companies in Atlanta, so he relocated into the city to gain more facilities. From there, they only continued to expand, eventually getting to the four main hubs they have today throughout the state of Georgia, covering multiple regions. As their business continued to grow and advance, so did their marketing initiatives. ...

Having the entire family follow each other in their respective cars doesn't always work out as planned. Uncle Frank gets caught by a red light and loses the group. Aunt Leslie and the kids have to pull over for a bathroom break because Jack realizes he's just squeezed a 16oz soda into a 10oz bladder. Gas stops, lunch breaks and wrong turns add hours to the journey, and by the time you finally pull into your destination, everyone is thoroughly frazzled from the trip. Why not avoid all that hassle with an Atlanta bus charter this season? Whether you're heading across ...

With more and more car accidents occurring at the hand of mother nature, it is becoming more common that people seek the services of Atlanta auto accident attorneys. What Makes Driving in Winter Difficult Winter brings its own problems that make driving difficult, even for experienced drivers. - Snow, sleet and ice on the roads create slippery conditions. There is an increased risk of skidding and losing control. - Breakdowns are common if the vehicle is not prepared for winter conditions. - Fog causes low visibility. You can make your trips safer by doing the ...

OrthoAtlanta would like to discuss some of the most common injuries that can result from a football game, whether you are a professional or tossing the ball around with friends. Wrist tendonitis is a painful condition that can develop either from an arm injury or simply overusing your arm. If you feel a swelling and pain in your wrist, it may be the result of an irritation of the tissues around the tendons of your thumb. Treatments, in addition to plenty of rest, can include physical therapy and anti-inflammatory medication. Injuries of the posterior and anterior ...

Marc Jacobson, PC was awarded the prestigious 2013 New York Entertainment Law Firm of the Year Award, in recognition of the leadership role it plays in the fields of digital media and entertainment law. The firm was selected for this honor by Global Law Experts from more than 27,000 nominations from business directors, in-house counsel, independent law firms, high-net-worth individuals and bar associations. Global Law Experts is the premier online resource to leading attorneys throughout the world, ranking just one legal expert in each key practice area and country. Selected ...

The Green Smoke review is a compiled analysis that showcases the findings gathered by review experts on board. The analysis was carried out through an extended period of four months. Experts conducting the analysis have revealed that Green Smoke e-cigarettes could in fact be the ideal alternative for traditional smoking. The highlighted positives of the product include its rich flavors, long lasting and triple seal cartridges, sturdy designing, unique two piece customizer, long battery life, availability of multiple options for nicotine levels, ample vapor and excellent ...

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Rip Media Group President donates the company's 100th video project to charity, in recognition of the charitable work the Alliance For Education delivers to children's education. Brands of all kinds need powerful and relevant content to explain the complex work they do. One Los Angeles based marketing agency has specialized on understanding a brand's complex message, condensing it into a compelling video, and driving views to the video and website. "As attention spans and news feeds from many sources are sent every minute, companies need a new and interesting ...

Brick Marketing, a Boston-based SEO firm will host a series of full-day SEO workshops in 10 major cities across the United States. For the past five years, Brick Marketing has hosted full-day SEO workshops in Boston, Massachusetts and will launch nationally in 2013. Attendees will discover how to increase website traffic and boost their online presence through an SEO program tailored to fit their business or organization. Brick Marketing is a SEMPO recommended training provider and all SEMPO members are eligible to receive $50 off workshop registration. Nick Stamoulis, ...

The New Year has arrived and Smokers Utopia has been busy re-evaluating the electronic cigarettes that are readily available to the smoking public and have adjusted their top 10 list. The website is known for its extreme e cigarette reviews, revealing the good, the bad and the ugly on products and the companies that sell them. Some companies that had top positions barley made the first page to kick off 2013 and are replaced with little known brands. Some of the old school e cigarette companies finally made it to the first page like the Volcano electronic cigarette ...

Clarity Services, Inc., the leading real-time credit bureau providing fraud detection and credit risk management solutions for Middle America announces its newest product, Clear PC Fraud. Clear PC Fraud was created in collaboration with iovation Inc., the leader in device-based fraud and abuse management tools. It combines information from both iovation and Clarity Services to help lenders mitigate fraud related to online transactions. "Clear PC Fraud is unlike any other Clarity product because it looks beyond a consumer's application information to assess the ...

Clarity Services, Inc., the leading real-time credit bureau providing fraud detection and credit risk management solutions for Middle America announces its partnership with iovation Inc., the leader in device-based fraud and abuse management tools with intelligence on more than one billion devices worldwide. iovation's service, ReputationManager 360, protects online businesses and end users against fraud and abuse by combining real-time IP geolocation, device identification, and device reputation to help determine if an online transaction is risky. "We're excited ...

Studies have shown that ten to fifteen percent of physicians and airline pilots will have a problem with addiction during their lifetime. Alcohol is prominent among these populations, and can affect many other professionals as well. Professionals Treatment Programs offer specific treatment elements for attorneys, doctors, airline pilots, and other licensed specialists. A key element for these treatment programs involves intensive monitoring to decrease the risks associated with relapse. SOBERLINK, Inc., a technology company based in Southern California, has developed a ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- University of Florida researchers and colleagues have identified a protein that, when absent, helps the body burn fat and prevents insulin resistance and obesity. The findings from the National Institutes of Health-funded study were published online ahead of print Sunday, Jan. 6, in the journal Nature Medicine. The discovery could aid development of drugs that not only prevent obesity, but also spur weight loss in people who are already overweight, said Stephen Hsu, M.D., Ph.D., one of the study's corresponding authors and a principal investigator ...

Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published today in Nature Materials. Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have shown that animal cells behave according to the theory of 'poroelasticity' when mechanically stimulated in a way similar to that experienced in organs within the body. The results indicate that the rate of cell deformation in response to mechanical stress is limited by how quickly water can redistribute within the cell interior. Poroelasticity was ...

Jerusalem, January 6, 2013 – Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with researchers at the Salk Institute in California, have found for the first time that a specific protein is essential not only for maintaining a healthy retina in the eye, but also may have implications for understanding and possibly treating other conditions in the immune, reproductive, vascular and nervous systems, as well as in various cancers. Their work, reported online in the journal Neuron, highlights the role of Protein S in the maintenance of a healthy retina ...

New research led by the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and the University of Glasgow, Scotland, has identified a link between a human gene and the composition of human gastrointestinal bacteria. In a study published as a letter to the journal Gut, the team outline new evidence suggesting that the human genome may play a role in determining the makeup of the billions of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract collectively known as the gut microbiota. Mauro D'Amato, Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at Karolinska Institutet, said: ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Even as policy makers and health experts point to an increased need for exercise, more than half of four-year colleges and universities in the United States have dropped physical education requirements compared to historic levels. Almost every U.S. college student was required to take physical education and exercise requirements in the 1920s; today, that number is at an all-time low of 39 percent, according to a new study. Oregon State University researcher Brad Cardinal, lead author of the study, examined data from 354 randomly selected four-year ...

A woman's exposure to high pollen levels in late pregnancy increases the risk of early asthma in the child, according to a group of researchers at Sweden's Umeå University in a recent study. A number of studies have previously shown that there is an association with being born during a pollen season and an increased risk of allergies. Although the pollen season is a regular annual event, there are large variations between years in pollen levels. Few studies have closely examined the significance of actual pollen content in different time periods before and after birth, ...