In a report in Manufacturing Digital, CEO and Managing Director Ian Paton explains how Vista Visuals is committed to meeting customers' needs. Vista Visuals Australia has grown to become one of the country's leading visual communications companies and the largest Australian manufacturer of interactive whiteboards and pin boards. In recent years the company has developed new environmentally friendly product lines, and interactive products have become an increasing part of the business. Vista Visuals Australia's brands include: Link Media, featuring the latest interactive ...

In a report in Manufacturing Digital, Managing Director Paul Figliomeni discusses how Unique Metals Laser remains a leader in the Australian manufacturing industry. Offering a full range of welding, fabrication and laser cutting services, repeat customers have been consistently impressed by Unique Metals Laser on-time delivery and affordable pricing. "We offer fast turnaround, on-time delivery," says Managing Director Paul Figliomeni. "A real focus for us at the moment is to make sure that our jobs and projects are delivered on time. We aim to keep costs ...

The grand opening of LivingSmart Homes Hillside in Lake Elsinore and LivingSmart Homes Lakeside in Beaumont is slated for Saturday, May 26. These two new neighborhoods by Pardee Homes offer a collection of one- and two-story floor plans in two distinct master-planned communities. Grand opening activities will take place on May 26th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and include a variety of activities at both locations. In Lake Elsinore, home shoppers can tour the models, enter a prize drawing for an Apple iPad, view a cooking demonstration and sample the cuisine of culinary ...

Driving in extreme weather conditions can cause major accidents, with the need for better insurance protection. Although the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NLSI) states that comprehensive insurance is optional, they do recommend this type of insurance to cover accidents caused by weather conditions. In a recent article published by Insure4USA.com, a leading online insurance service, the website highlights the importance of procuring extra cover for weather related damages and ways to cut down on car insurance costs. Alex Liteev, CEO of Insure4USA.com ...

By way of Board Election on May 15, 2012, Jared Dreyer of VERICO -Dreyer Group Mortgages Inc. readily takes on his newly appointed role of President of the Mortgage Brokers Association of British Columbia (MBABC). "The landscape of the Canadian mortgage industry is facing some of the largest changes in recent years," comments Dreyer. "Lenders, insurers, regulators and government have already made significant changes to many programs and qualifications for lending policies and will continue to do so in the future. Now, more than ever it is imperative that ...

In a world where 9 out of 10 families fail to keep their unity and their assets together beyond a generation or two, delivering what matters most to families is an enormous challenge for advisors. The Heritage Institute (THI), the world's foremost authority on multi-generational planning, has announced their Advanced Training Academies' course dates for the second half of 2012. Heritage Institute academies provide concrete strategies, techniques and tools that professional advisors can put to work in their business immediately. They are based upon original research and ...

It has been a very busy period at one of the premier and most trustworthy trading platforms of binary options, with the addition of four new assets coming from the Asian market. The new additions at Option Range come right on the heels of eight new European assets that were added and announced last week, bringing the total number of assets available for trade to 49. Option Range features 4 commodities, 11 global indices, 13 currencies and 14 stock options from across the globe, giving online investors a wide variety of binary options. The four new Asian assets include ...

Pete Newman, who at just 25 was appointed Found's Partnerships Director late last year, beat an impressive collection of some of the other brightest and most innovative minds in the industry to take this year's coveted award. Tina Judic, Managing Director of Found, says: "Widely recognised as an exceptional talent in the Search and Affiliate industries, Pete really deserved to win this award. Since the moment he joined Found, he has been a dedicated member of the team, driving significant business as well as utilising his entrepreneurial spirit to propose and support ...

A BBC report on 11 May 2012 revealed a study by Obermatt which found that pay packages designed to incentivise FTSE 100 chief executives had little effect on company performance. Live Innovations observed the researchers compared profit growth and total shareholder return against the total realised pay earned by bosses between 2008 and 2010 which found many top earners severely underperformed in relation to pay packages. There is much discussion regarding CEOs and their pay packages, whether it is in banking and finance or other sectors. Multiple investigations into ...

Realcomm Conference Group, LLC, a global leader in providing technology education and networking opportunities for the commercial, corporate, institutional and government real estate industry, announced today that Microsoft will present a case study on its smart campus pilot program at the inaugural IBcon 2012 - the Smart, Connected, High Performance, Intelligent Buildings Conference on June 13-14 at the Las Vegas Hotel. The case study will be presented by Darrell Smith, Sr. Operation & Energy Manager, Microsoft Real Estate & Facilities, who will share the initial ...

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that could pave the way for the development of an inexpensive way to protect billions of people from one of the world's most prevalent and debilitating diseases. Initial proof-of-principle experiments suggest that such a vaccine could prevent malaria transmission. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by infection with protozoan parasites from the ...

Belmont, MA - An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking, according to a new study by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers. "Our study is further evidence that components found in kudzu root can reduce alcohol consumption and do so without adverse side effects," said David Penetar, PhD, of the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the study. "Further research is needed, but this botanical medication ...

We've said farewell to Friendster. Netscape Navigator is nevermore. As an Internet service provider, AOL is AWOL. What happened to these companies that once ruled their individual markets? According to two University of Alberta researchers, their market dominance made them vulnerable. In a research paper recently published in MIT Sloan Management Review, University of Alberta marketing professors Kyle Murray and Gerald Häubl posit that it may only take an upstart competitor to make the mighty fall in the hearts and minds of consumers. What causes consumers to react negatively, ...

NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 — Screening lung cancer tumor samples for cancer-causing, or "driver," genetic mutations can help physicians tailor patients' treatments to target those specific mutations. While scientists have identified cancer-causing mutations for the majority of lung adenocarcinomas — the most common type of non-small cell lung cancer — and have developed drugs that can successfully address them, scientists have not yet identified targeted therapies for another type of non-small cell lung cancer known as squamous cell carcinoma. Now, researchers from Memorial ...

CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2012)––For some patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, treatment may begin before they undergo cystectomy, or surgical removal of the bladder. They may be advised by oncologists to receive chemotherapy before surgery. A large randomized clinical trial published in 2003 demonstrated a survival benefit for neoadjuvant, or pre-surgical, MVAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin and cisplatin) using a standard dose and schedule. However, in an effort to improve toxicity, standard MVAC has been essentially abandoned in favor of other regimens. ...

CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2012)––If racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer exist, they are not due to differences in the use of imaging to assess the extent of tumors before surgery, according to new findings that will be presented by Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Monday, June 4. "It's encouraging that we didn't see any differences between black and white women in the use of imaging before surgery," says lead study author Richard J. Bleicher, M.D., a breast surgeon at Fox Chase. There ...

CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2012)––Nearly half of the research presented at ASCO's annual meeting last year came from researchers with ties to companies, and the amount appears to be increasing every year, according to new findings from Fox Chase Cancer Center. The new findings will be presented this year at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting on Monday, June 4. "The results suggest that there may be an increasing dependence on industry to support cancer research," says study author Angela R. Bradbury, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of ...

Poor Phineas Gage. In 1848, the supervisor for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont was using a 13-pound, 3-foot-7-inch rod to pack blasting powder into a rock when he triggered an explosion that drove the rod through his left cheek and out of the top of his head. As reported at the time, the rod was later found, "smeared with blood and brains." Miraculously, Gage lived, becoming the most famous case in the history of neuroscience — not only because he survived a horrific accident that led to the destruction of much of his left frontal lobe but also because ...

In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists have used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the last 1000 years. The study was led by researchers at the University of Melbourne and used a range of natural indicators including tree rings, corals and ice cores to study Australasian temperatures over the past millennium and compared them to climate model simulations. Lead researcher, Dr Joelle Gergis from the University of Melbourne said the results show that there are no other warm periods ...

Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers will present several landmark studies, including data on treatment trends in late-stage cancer, a promising multiple myeloma vaccine, and predictive models of soft tissue sarcomas, prostate and bladder cancer, at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting June 1-5, 2012 in Chicago. Highlights of Mount Sinai research at ASCO: Age, Race, Lower Income, and Lack of Insurance Are Associated with Non-Treatment of Patients With Late-Stage Cancer (Abstract #6065, Monday, June 4, 2012, 1:15 PM-5:15 PM CT, S Hall A2) Mount ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories' Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced "amaze") is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators. Components are now being used to train Navy personnel to fly H-60 helicopters and a complete system will soon be delivered for training on the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft, said Robert G. Abbott, a Sandia ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Next Mother's Day, say it with an evolved model of logistical efficiency — a flower. A new discovery about how nature's icons of romance manage the distribution of sperm among female gametes with industrial precision helps explain why the delicate beauties have reproduced prolifically enough to dominate the earth. In pollination, hundreds of sperm-carrying pollen grains stick to the stigma suspended in the middle of a flower and quickly grow a tube down a long shaft called a style toward clusters of ovules, which hold two female sex ...

Highlight One type of open heart surgery is safer than the other—in terms of both health and survival—for chronic kidney disease patients. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in individuals with chronic kidney disease. Washington, DC (May 17, 2012) — One type of open heart surgery is likely safer than the other for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). Open heart, or coronary artery bypass, surgery can be done two ways: on-pump or off-pump, ...

Highlights A minimally invasive procedure called renal denervation, which disrupts certain nerves in the kidneys, lowers blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease and hypertension. The procedure may help protect the kidneys and reduce heart risks in patients with chronic kidney disease. 60 million people globally have chronic kidney disease. Washington, DC (May 17, 2012) — Disrupting certain nerves in the kidneys can safely and effectively lower blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension, according to a study appearing ...

Mental distractions make pain easier to take, and those pain-relieving effects aren't just in your head, according to a report published online on May 17 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The findings based on high-resolution spinal fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) as people experienced painful levels of heat show that mental distractions actually inhibit the response to incoming pain signals at the earliest stage of central pain processing. "The results demonstrate that this phenomenon is not just a psychological phenomenon, but an active neuronal ...