While a new breath test product has made following up with convicted DWI offenders easier and more efficient for parole officers, breath tests are rife with issues and produce false positives that may wrongly implicate drivers in a driving while intoxicated charge. The portable breath test device Soberlink texts defendants when they need to take a breath test and then wirelessly sends test data, a photo of the offender and the date and time the test was taken to the offender's parole officer. The data is stored in the cloud. Soberlink's manufacturer believes that its ...

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North I-85) offers nearby accommodations to guests attend the upcoming Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket's home football games. The home games are held at Bobby Dodd Stadium on the Georgia Tech campus located in midtown Atlanta. The Yellow Jackets home opener will take place on Saturday, September 8 at 7:00pm against Presbyterian College. Other upcoming home games include: - September 15, verses Virginia - September 22, verse Miami - September 29, verse Middle Tennessee State - October 20, verse Boston College "We ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg Hotel - North I-85 is currently offering big saving for travelers. AAA Members will receive up to 10% off Best Available Rates for stays when they book this special online now through December 31, 2012. Guests must present a valid and current AAA or CAA card at check-in. Additional restrictions may apply. A leading choice among other hotels Spartanburg South Carolina, The Hampton Inn Spartanburg - North I-85 provides affordable lodging for business travelers and vacationers alike. Features and amenities at this property include: - Free super ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg SC hotel - North I-85, offers nearby accommodations to guests attending the 1st Annual Beach Music Festival (of the Upstate). Benefiting the Senior Center of Spartanburg County, the event will take place on Saturday, September 29 at 7:30PM at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. Entertainers at the Beach Music Festival will include: - Billy Scott & The Party Prophets - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Chairman of the Board - Beach Bob Ross Tickets are required for entry and can be purchased through Ticketmaster or at the Box Office. "Conveniently ...

Mill Brook Industries, a church furnishings supplier, suggests that pot luck dinners are one of the best and most cost efficient ways to gather a congregation together. Organizing a pot luck is one of the easiest ways to bring together the entire congregation. Have every person or family sign up to bring one dish for dinner. The dishes are then set out buffet style, and the congregation then partakes of both food and fellowship. Organization is essential to the success of a pot luck dinner, and having enough church tables and chairs is essential to ensuring that ...

That's it.TM announced the launch of its newest fruit bar flavor, apples+mangoes, which is the fourth flavor in the company's lineup of 100% all-natural fruit bars. That's it.TM is a revolutionary new line of snack bars that contain literally 2 ingredients: fruit and fruit. The company chose to feature mangoes in its newest bar due to the fruit's high Vitamin C, Vitamin A, and fiber content, as well as the fruit's instrumental role in controlling blood sugar and reducing body fat. Mangoes are also known to aid in weight loss. "Mangoes were a natural fit for ...

King Jackpot UK offers an assortment of games and promotions. Players can access bingo, slots and roulette games at the site. King Jackpot UK is running a unique promotion titled Refer a Friend where players can earn free Bonus Bucks or BBs when they recommend the site to their friends. They can play all the slots and bingo games and also participate in all the promotions offered at the site. Players will earn GBP5 every time a friend registers an account at King Jackpot UK. When a friend makes a real money deposit, King Jackpot UK will credit GBP45 to the player account. Players ...

It is no secret that full-time IT support staffers are expensive. NyTech Services LLC Provides a cost efficient solution for small businesses looking to reduce their overhead costs while still retaining quality IT support. After many years of successfully serving the IT management and consulting needs of businesses based in Dutchess and Westchester County, two northern suburbs of New York 'NY Tech Services LLC' has expanded into the New York City market with a new location at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020. This statement of growth, released to ...

Didriks - www.didriks.com - announces new fall collections of bed linen, table linen and other home linens from Belgian linen maker Libeco Home.   The Libeco Home linen collections introduced this Fall include rustic, "cowgirl chic" check patterns and coordinating solids in warm earth tones that are perfect for autumn. Another addition to the Libeco line this Fall are the Cambridge linen area rugs and new linen curtain options, including the elegant Casper linen sheer curtains. Each season Libeco Home innovates with new patterns and color palettes that ...

PawnUp.com recently had a chance to speak with one of their celebrity clients - NFL and CFL star Joffrey Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds spoke about his professional sports career and shared his recent experience with online pawn shops. "I liked that it was discreet and that you only charge 5% a month, not 20 or 30% like street pawn shops do; this impressed me," Mr. Reynolds mentioned during the interview. "After speaking with the people at PawnUp.com online pawn store I was definitely comfortable with sending my item. They also insured my item and arranged ...

Mach III Clutch, Inc. introduces their latest catalog, containing 59 pages of new and updated product information about the industrial power transmission products manufactured by the company. The catalog provides specifications and dimensions for the 247 standard pneumatic clutches, brakes, combination clutch-brakes, tension control clutches and brakes and mechanical torque limiters made by Mach III Clutch. All product pages now include direct links to the corresponding Mach III website page where users can quickly access 3D models and detailed spec sheets. The PDF catalog ...

In order to catch a thief, you have to think like one. UT Dallas computer scientists are trying to stay one step ahead of cyber attackers by creating their own monster. Their monster can cloak itself as it steals and reconfigures information in a computer program. In part because of the potentially destructive nature of their technology, creators have named this software system Frankenstein, after the monster-creating scientist in author Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. "Shelley's story is an example of a horror that can result from science, ...

Philadelphia, PA, August 27, 2012 – About 24,000 people are killed by lightning every year, with about 10 times as many people injured. The Wilderness Medical Society has issued important new practice guidelines for precautions that can lower the likelihood of being killed or injured and recommendations for effective medical treatments post-strike. These guidelines appear in the September issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(12)00180-9/fulltext). Updating the 2006 guidelines, a panel of experts chosen for their clinical ...

By modifying the rate at which chemical reactions take place, nanoparticle catalysts fulfill myriad roles in industry, the biomedical arena and everyday life. They may be used for the production of polymers and biofuels, for improving pollution and emission control devices, to enhance reactions essential for fuel cell technology and for the synthesis of new drugs. Finding new and more effective nanoparticle catalysts to perform these useful functions is therefore vital. Now Nongjian (NJ) Tao — a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute — has found ...

Proteins adorning the surfaces of human cells perform an array of essential functions, including cell signaling, communication and the transport of vital substances into and out of cells. They are critical targets for drug delivery and many proteins are now being identified as disease biomarkers — early warning beacons announcing the pre-symptomatic presence of cancers and other diseases. While study of the binding properties of membrane proteins is essential, detailed analysis of these complex entities is tricky. Now, Nongjian (NJ) Tao, Professor of Electrical Engineering, ...

An ultra-fast, 320-detector computed tomography (CT) scanner can accurately sort out which people with chest pain need – or don't need – an invasive procedure such as cardiac angioplasty or bypass surgery to restore blood flow to the heart, according to an international study. Results of the study, which involved 381 patients at 16 hospitals in eight countries, are scheduled to be presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, Germany, on August 28. "The CORE 320 study is the first prospective, multicenter study to examine the diagnostic accuracy ...

Cases of one of the world's deadliest diseases—tuberculosis—are rising at an alarming rate, despite widespread vaccination. Reasons for the ineffectiveness of the vaccine, especially in regions where this infectious disease is endemic, as well as arguments for replacing the existing vaccine with novel synthetic vaccines, are presented in a review published online August 28th in Trends in Molecular Medicine. "Tuberculosis is a global health threat, and it is a highly communicable disease that may influence practically anyone and everyone," says senior author Javed Agrewala ...

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: Recommendations for the practical management of CRT patients have been set out for the first time in an international consensus statement on cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in heart failure. The 2012 Expert Consensus Statement on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in Heart Failure: Implant and Follow-up Recommendations and Management was developed by the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) in the US, and will be published ...

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: Surgical ablation of the left atrium to restore regular sinus rhythm is widely used in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing cardiac surgery. The restoration of sinus rhythm might decrease the risk of heart failure, stroke and death during long-term follow up.(1) However, despite its promise, this theoretical benefit has never been clearly established - previous randomised studies have been small and performed in a selected group of patients undergoing mitral valve surgery. Now, a multicentre study of surgical ablation (using ...

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: Lifelong anticoagulation is necessary for the prevention of stroke in patients with rhythm disturbances and with mechanical valves. Patients who have a coronary stent implanted also need the antiplatelet drugs aspirin and clopidogrel to prevent the rare but lethal complication of stent thrombosis. For patients taking oral anticoagulant drugs (for atrial fibrillation or mechanical valve) who also have to undergo coronary stenting, the optimal antithrombotic treatment is still unknown, even though the use of all three drugs (oral anticoagulants, ...

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib) is safe and suppresses arrhythmia recurrences in 74% of patients after a single procedure, according to results from the one-year follow-up of the Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Pilot Study, the first European registry to evaluate the real-life epidemiology of catheter ablation for AFib. The survey also showed that arrhythmia-related symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue or dizziness - present in 86% of patients before the ablation - were significantly reduced. The findings ...

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: A non-invasive imaging strategy which integrates non-invasive CT angiography (CTA) and CT myocardial perfusion imaging (CTP) has robust diagnostic accuracy for identifying patients with flow-limiting coronary artery disease in need of myocardial revascularisation, according to results of the CORE320 study presented here today by Dr Joao AC Lima from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA. The CORE320 study is a prospective multicentre international trial which evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of combined non-invasive CTA and CTP as compared ...

August 28, 2012, Shenzhen, China – The international research team led by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and BGI have completed the genome sequence and analysis of a diploid cotton-- Gossypium raimondii. The cotton genome provides an invaluable resource for the study and genetic improvement of cotton quality and output, and sheds new lights on understanding the genetic characteristics and evolutionary mechanism underlying cotton and its close relatives. The study was published online in Nature Genetics. (http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2371.html). Cotton, ...

Munich, Germany – August 28 2012: Patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) had a lower need for urgent revascularisation when receiving fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided PCI plus the best available medical therapy (MT) than when receiving MT alone. The results, from a final analysis of the FAME 2 trial, were presented today during a Hot Line session of ESC Congress 2012 in Munich. Treatment guided by fractional flow reserve assessment helped reduce the risk of urgent revascularisation by a factor of eight. The FAME 2 (FFR-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention ...

Disruptions to the circadian rhythm can affect the growth of blood vessels in the body, thus causing illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer, according to a new study from Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The circadian rhythm is regulated by a "clock" that reacts to both incoming light and genetic factors. In an article now being published in the scientific journal Cell Reports, it is demonstrated for the first time that disruption of the circadian rhythm immediately inhibit blood vessel growth in zebra fish embryos. Professor Yihai Cao ...