The USTA is pleased to announce that the Tiburon Peninsula Club will host the $100,000 First Republic Bank Tiburon Challenger from October 8-16, 2011. The tournament, a USTA Pro Circuit event, offers $100,000 in prize money this year, thus doubling the prize money from just a year ago. The increase in prize money is sure to attract even more top players from around the world, including several players fresh from the courts of the US Open and Wimbledon. "We are thrilled that our tournament now has $100,000 in prize money," says Scott Potthast, Tennis Director ...

Movie fans have even more reasons to make DVD and Blu-ray website DiscDish.com their one-stop destination for entertainment news and reviews. After extensive reworking, the site has relaunched with a new navigation system, new features and more detailed information on every featured movie and TV show. DiscDish.com's expert editorial team is dedicated to introducing fans to the most notable DVD and Blu-ray releases, whether they're the biggest Hollywood hit movies, such as "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon;" acclaimed independent films, like "Road to ...

Laurie Smaldone, MD has been named President of PharmApprove, a leading strategic regulatory communications firm that helps maximize outcomes during the most critical milestones of the development cycle for drugs, biologics, and devices in the US and abroad. Dr. Smaldone, formerly Senior VP of Global Regulatory Science at Bristol-Myers Squibb, will lead PharmApprove's expert team of regulatory communications and product development specialists in expanding not only the company's services, but its geographical reach as well, said PharmApprove founder and CEO Pete Taft. "Laurie ...

Vivanista announces its first Fundraising Summit November 10 - 12 at the Westin San Francisco Airport. In addition to nonprofit Board members and development staff, this two and a half day Summit arms volunteer leaders and event chairs with the tools and techniques to improve their fundraising success in a competitive and crowded industry that is vying for the same shrinking dollars. Summit speakers will address the most pressing issues facing fundraisers, from how to implement multi-channel fundraising campaigns to integrating social media into pre-event promotion to sell ...

Since our current economical struggles began at the end of 2008, it has been the vision and hard work of entrepreneurs and small business owners across the United States that have helped to create new jobs and new opportunities. On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, students at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (CEBI) at Kent State University heard from a local, award winning business owner and entrepreneur on the value of owning your own business. "I didn't plan to start my own business after I graduated from Kent," said Chris Brown, owner of ...

What if philosophy, religion, art, science, and history can merge in one collective system? Allism gives us the tools to live a creative life and achieve our divinity here on earth. "The Life of Allism," the first volume of full series, "The Perfect Idius," introduces a system that begins with the needs of Man, and ends with the universal All. Learn how to achieve your creative apotheosis. The Life of Allism, the first volume of The Perfect Idius, introduces the worldview of Allism, a complete system of thought designed to fit over any individual ...

Impact Plastics, an industry leader in providing superior quality, environmentally-friendly solutions to the waste industry, announces the debut of a completely green caster wheel, which is 100% manufactured from recycled automobile battery casings. The USA Ultimate Caster Wheel is specifically designed to withstand even the toughest environment. It is injection-molded from blended polymers that provide excellent impact strength and resistance to chemical and solvents. And this dependable wheel is made only in the USA. It is available in 6"x2" and 8"x2" ...

When the season changes, life coach Millie Grenough believes it may be time to change your channels, rewire your brain and reset your personal GPS. Global Positioning Systems commonly known as "that navigation thing in our car" makes it easier for us to get from place to place, piloting our path in the shortest, most direct or even in some cases most scenic courses. Why not take the scenic route for your life as well? The end of Summer brings a lot of mixed emotions and possible new paths to follow. Children return to school. Routines struggle to re-establish. ...

Ever browsed through a shop and had trouble finding the perfect gift? Perhaps you think the style is great, but you're not too fussed about the colour? Or maybe you like some of the charms on the bracelet, but not others? A charm bracelet that has been designed by you, could be the solution to all your gift buying dilemmas. Designing your own charm bracelet enables you to pick and choose the elements of bracelets that are liked and put them together to make your own perfect piece of jewellery. Charm bracelets are incredibly popular and not just because they are really ...

September and October can often be more popular months to travel, especially if you're child-free: if you've not booked anything yet and need some inspiration, here are our top 10 late summer getaways. For cyclists: There's no doubt that visitors can sometimes appear to out-number locals in parts of Provence in high summer, but come out of season, and the feel is very different: it's much more about "real" people going about their "real" lives - buying bread, drinking coffee, playing boules in the village square. Our Secret Provence and Heart of ...

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology is using the Aquarius underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida to study how the diversity of seaweed-eating fish affects endangered coral reefs. The research mission, which began Sept. 13, may provide new information to help scientists protect and even restore damaged coral reefs in the Caribbean. Led by Mark Hay, a Georgia Tech professor of biology, the 10-day mission includes two Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral researcher who are living 50 feet below the surface in the unique underwater lab. Aquarius, ...

Tampa, FL (Sept. 15, 2011) -- Decreasing expression of a protein associated with susceptibility to depression made old mice resistant to depressive-like behavior while improving their hormonal response to stress, a study led by researchers at the University of South Florida found. The lack of this protein, FKBP51, did not adversely affect their memory, learning, or basic motor functions. The study suggests that drug discovery efforts aimed at reducing levels of the protein FKBP51 may yield new antidepressant therapies. The findings appear online today (Sept. 15, 2011) ...

Pardee Homes is an award-winning builder bringing award-winning homes to Southern California homebuyers, most recently with its new LivingSmart Homes at Fair Oaks Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley. Finalist in the 2011 SoCal Awards as Green Community/Suburban, the homes feature a standout level of green measures, including solar power systems as a standard. Prices begin in the $400,000s at LivingSmart Homes, for plan sizes that range from approximately 1,846 to 2,432 square feet of living space. The design series includes 4 floor plans, each with a two-bay garage. "Of ...

A study led by University of Southern California (USC) epidemiologists suggests that a high intake of calcium causes prostate cancer among African-American men who are genetically good absorbers of the mineral. "High dietary intake of calcium has long been linked to prostate cancer and this study suggests that these associations are likely to be causal," said Sue Ann Ingles, Dr.P.H., associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and principal investigator of the study. "At this point, however, we're not in a position to make any public ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — New research in mice indicates that babies born to moms who eat a high-fat diet before and during pregnancy have a higher fat mass and smaller livers than babies whose moms consume low-fat fare, according to scientists at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital. The good news, the researchers report, is that moms who switch to a low-fat diet during pregnancy considerably reduce the risk of these negative effects. Their findings are published online in the American Journal of Physiology and Endocrinology Metabolism, a publication ...

Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and at the Harvard Medical School report that children with autism and gastrointestinal disturbances have altered expression of genes involved in digestion. These variations may contribute to changes in the types of bacteria in their intestines. Full study findings are reported online in the journal PLoS ONE. Autism, which is defined by impairments in verbal and non-verbal communication, social interactions, and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors, affects ...

An expert panel speaking on Capitol Hill today demonstrated that the Great Recession has had a disproportionately negative impact on low-income older workers, although programs such as the federal Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) have managed to provide some valuable benefits to this disadvantaged demographic group. The congressional briefing — held on the eve of National Employ Older Workers Week — was titled, "Older Workers: Multiple Returns on Our Public Investment." It was sponsored by The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the American ...

A team of scientists at the CSIC has shown that temperature can play a critical role in the control of splicing. The team led by Josep Vilardell, ICREA scientist at the CSIC's Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, has demonstrated that temperature, through its effects on RNA structure, can control how the genetic information will be processed. The results of this work are published this week in Molecular Cell. Hiding intronic cues For some time, scientists have been trying to understand how the spliceosome -the molecular 'machine' responsible for splicing- works ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Some of the newest therapies in the war on cancer remove the brakes cancer puts on the immune system, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report. These immunotherapies, such as CTLA4, strengthen the immune system's attack on cancer by keeping apart two proteins that prevent key immune cells called T cells from activating. Research featured on the cover of the Journal of Immunology suggests that these therapies also keep tumors from benefitting from IDO, an enzyme used by fetuses and tumors alike to suppress the immune response. "This is ...

Renewed vigilance over the biosecurity of the Galápagos Islands is needed, based on new research on the risk posed by West Nile virus. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the University of Leeds and the New York State Department of Health, together with the Galápagos National Park Service and University of Guayaquil, have been studying the disease threat posed by Islands' mosquito populations. They have discovered that a species of these biting insects is capable of transmitting West Nile virus, a potentially dangerous disease for the archipelago's ...

This press release is available in German. Just as a camera flash illuminates unseen objects hidden in darkness, a sequence of laser pulses can be used to study the elusive quantum behavior of a large "macroscopic" object. This method provides a novel tool of unprecedented performance for current experiments that push the boundaries of the quantum world to larger and larger scales. A collaboration of scientists led by researchers from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at the University of Vienna report this new scheme in the forthcoming ...

Las Vegas, NV—CONRAD, a leading reproductive health research organization, will announce results of the SILCS Diaphragm contraceptive effectiveness study September 17th at the Reproductive Health 2011 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two-year study of 450 U.S. women implemented at six clinical sites in the U.S. showed that effectiveness rates of the new single size, contoured diaphragm are similar to traditional diaphragms. In addition, SILCS was shown to be easy to use and comfortable to wear. The single-size design eliminates the need for a fitting, which should ...

MANHASSET, NY -- Scientists have identified a surprising new role for a new type of T cell in the immune system: some of them can be activated by nerves to make a neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) that blocks inflammation. The discovery of these T cells is novel and suggests that it may be possible to treat inflammation and autoimmune diseases by targeting the nerves and the T cells. The study was published this week in Science. "The discovery that 2 percent of T cells can make acetylcholine under the control of nerves gives a new insight into how the nervous system regulates ...

Bold Earth Teen Adventures is seeing an increase in international interest for student travel as teens from outside the USA grew to represent 25% of their summer 2011 trips. International students are enrolling at a high rate, and this summer marks the first time that Bold Earth welcomed students from new countries including China, Japan, Korea, Iceland and Nigeria. "Summer 2011 opened up Bold Earth to a new level of diversity that we're so proud of," said Abbott Wallis, President of Bold Earth. "Teens from all over the world are craving these rich experiences. ...

Yang Wang is known for conducting complex research using highly sophisticated equipment. Yet the Florida State University geochemist also has spent days hiking through the remote outback of Tibet and camping in the foothills of the Himalayas — all in the name of scientific discovery. Because of that unique mix of skills, Wang was chosen to take part in a team of researchers that uncovered the oldest prehistoric woolly rhino ever found. A paper describing the team's discovery was just published in Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/), a prestigious journal established ...