Fantasy Football Starters announced today that its Draft Analyzer now includes enhanced scoring capabilities for the 2012 Season. In addition to the system's fantasy football projections for 2012, robust value-based drafting capabilities, you can now set different scoring for each position (i.e. QB, RB, WR, TE, K). In addition, Starters has expanded its predictions on length of field goals, passing/receiving touchdowns and length of rushing touchdowns. "After off-season testing I am really excited to roll out these features," says NFL Fantasy Analyst Russ ...

Pura Vida Resort Palm Springs (http://www.puravidaps.com) co-owner David Reid said, "You can go with the trend or make your own," of opening a luxurious gay men's resort in Warm Sands. In a neighborhood famous for its many clothing-optional gay hotels, Pura Vida stands out as a luxury NON-clothing-optional gay resort for the discriminating traveler. Since opening in July 2011, the unique approach has been working. In April, San Francisco Bay Area Reporter Travel Columnist Ed Walsh called Pura Vida "one of the most upscale and modern gay resorts in the ...

Chambers of Darkness Haunted House and Hayride today announced the launch of the "Build Your Own Nightmare" design competition, which will accept submissions via e-mail until September 10th, 2012. The contest enables five lucky haunted house enthusiasts a chance to design, decorate, and perform in their own room to compete for prizes this Halloween season. "We run this competition at Halloween every year, and we are always excited to see what the fans come up with," said Rick Hall, Fire Chief of the Custer Park Volunteer Fire Department, and the president ...

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Bob Miller will release his book Epilogue on August 5. Based on a true story, Epilogue tells the almost incredible tale of the author's involvement with the mob in Las Vegas as he takes the only flying work he can find after returning from Vietnam, where he had been deployed with the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company. Miller soon realized that the people he was flying for had no respect for human life and that a little knowledge could be a very dangerous thing. When dealing with the mob, "...[p]assing judgment or being nosy could be terminal afflictions...". ...

Sales come and go online and most do not differentiate from the rest, but one company is standing above the crowd with another offer unmatched by any other e cigarette retailer. Firelight Fusion, retailer of the most popular e cigarette starter kit model in the U.S. (Model KR8-8D1) is offering an additional coupon code on their already low priced kits and products site wide. This offer is different in that it's not just one kit, but the entire store that includes every product they sell including e liquid, cartomizers and other products that are compatible with many ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction, and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, will host the webcast, "Innovative Methods to Reduce Readmissions," August 21, at 11:30 a.m. PST. The webcast program features Sound Physicians' CEO, Robert Bessler, M.D., and guest, Charles Saunders, M.D., CEO of Emerging Businesses at Aetna. Dr. Saunders is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He has authored papers and articles in emergency medicine and was the ...

EE Technologies (EET) has added additional equipment to its electronics manufacturing plant in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. EE Technologies Mexico manufacturing now includes nine (9) Surface Mount Technology (SMT) lines with Automated Optical Inspection Systems (AOIs) for each line. "Our multiple shifts along with the additional capacity of this new line allow for more projects and increased flexibility," says Sonny Newman, President of EET. He continues, "It is a privilege to work with long-term customer partners to deliver the quality and service they need ...

The Churchill Hotel, a historic boutique hotel in the heart of Washington, DC's Dupont Circle, today announced a partnership with The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art. Together, the Churchill and The Phillips Collection will provide an enhanced guest experience through easier access and exposure to the arts. The 173-room Beaux Arts historic hotel has always been a leader in the Washington, DC, market and is now connecting with this distinguished private collection to make art more accessible to its guests with on-property education as well as ...

Half Dental, Inc., acting through its Brand Licensing Division, and Midway Dental Center, today announced the signing of a framework agreement to establish a brand licensing venture focused on serving Kent, Washington's rapidly expanding community needs by providing significantly improved access to quality and affordable dentistry. The companies announced the partnership prior to the signing ceremony to take place at Half Dental's corporate headquarters in Las Vegas, NV., with Mr. Brandon D'Haenens, Half Dental chairman and CEO, Mr. Chayse Myers, Vice President, Brand ...

This press release is available in French. Montreal, July 29 2012 – One of the mysteries of blindness has been solved. A team of international scientists in collaboration with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) identified a new gene responsible for Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a devastating genetic form of blindness in newborns. What makes this discovery so exceptional is that this new gene called NMNAT1 – known to be crucial for life – has never been associated with any human disease. This is the first time such a major correlation ...

Plastic electronics hold the promise of cheap, mass-produced devices. But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by "charge traps" in the material. These traps, which have a negative impact on plastic light-emitting diodes and solar cells, are poorly understood. However, a new study by a team of researchers from the University of Groningen and the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals a common mechanism underlying these traps and provides a theoretical framework to design trap-free plastic electronics. The results are presented ...

A training tool that helps physicians involve patients in decision-making can reduce the use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Antibiotics are prescribed too often for acute respiratory infections, even though many are not bacterial infections and therefore will not respond to antibiotic use. Overuse of antibiotics is a health concern and may be contributing to antibiotic resistance. Researchers conducted a cluster randomized trial to determine the impact of a shared decision-making ...

Washington, July 30, 2012 -- Nurse burnout leads to higher healthcare-associated infection rates (HAIs) and costs hospitals millions of additional dollars annually, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Researchers from the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing analyzed data previously collected by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment ...

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business -- A just completed multi-year research project by the Fisher CIO Leadership Program at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business has uncovered the most important, role specific career success factors of chief information officers. The study was initiated by Max Hopper, the iconic author of American Airlines industry-changing SABRE system and conducted by the Fisher CIO Leadership Program. Hopper was concerned that so many companies were failing to achieve much if any benefit from their expensive IT organizations, ...

By studying fruit flies, scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have successfully devised a fast and cost-saving way to uncover genetic changes that have a higher potential to cause cancer. With this new approach, researchers will now be able to rapidly distinguish the range of genetic changes that are causally linked to cancer (i.e. "driver" mutations) versus those with limited impact on cancer progression. This research paves the way for doctors to design more targeted treatment against the different cancer types, based on the specific ...

In order to observe the individual particles in a solution, Prof. Madhavi Krishnan and her co-workers «entice» each particle into an «electrostatic trap». It works like this: between two glass plates the size of a chip, the researchers create thousands of round energy holes. The trick is that these holes have just a weak electrostatic charge. The scientists than add a drop of the solution to the plates, whereupon each particle falls into an energy hole and remains trapped there. But the particles do not remain motionless in their trap. Instead, molecules in the solution ...

Archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have been excavating for the past four years together with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History in the Maya city of Uxul in Campeche, Mexico. The aim of the excavation project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Grube and Dr. Kai Delvendahl is to investigate the process of centralization and collapse of hegemonic state structures in the Maya Lowlands using the example of a mid-sized classic Maya city (Uxul) and its ties to a supra-regional center (Calakmul). ...

A mathematical physicist and her colleague, both from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, are about to publish a study in EPJ B¹ on a family of taxation and wealth redistribution models. The findings could lead to numerical simulations of potential wealth distribution scenarios playing out over the long term and could be used for policy decision making. Maria Letizia Bertotti and Giovanni Modanese propose a mechanism of individual interaction of economic agents involved in wealth redistribution on a one-to-one level as a means of understanding their collective ...

Philadelphia, PA, July 30, 2012 – Is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) due to a delay in brain development or the result of complete deviation from typical development? In the current issue of Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Philip Shaw and colleagues present evidence for delay based on a study by the National Institutes of Health. The cerebral cortex is the folded gray tissue that makes up the outermost portion of the brain, covering the brain's inner structures. This tissue has left and right hemispheres and is divided into lobes. Each lobe performs specific ...

A beautiful and colossal human sculpture is one of the latest cultural treasures unearthed by an international team at the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) excavation site in southeastern Turkey. A large semi-circular column base, ornately decorated on one side, was also discovered. Both pieces are from a monumental gate complex that provided access to the upper citadel of Kunulua, capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (ca. 1000-738 BC). "These newly discovered Tayinat sculptures are the product of a vibrant local Neo-Hittite sculptural tradition," said Professor ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (July 30, 2012) - As the "individual mandate" of the Affordable Care Act moves forward, debate and speculation continue as to whether universal health insurance coverage will lead to significant cost savings for hospitals. The assumption is that providing appropriate primary care will improve the overall health of the population, resulting in less need for hospital services and less severe illness among hospitalized patients. Findings from a recent study published in Health Care Management Review challenge that assumption. Health Care Management Review ...

PHILADELPHIA (July 30, 2012)— When the longest cells in the body are injured at their farthest reaches, coordinating the cells' repair is no easy task. This is in part because these peripheral nerve cells can be extremely long – up to one meter in adult humans – which is a lot of distance for a molecular distress signal to cover in order to reach the "command center" of the cell's nucleus. Scientists have believed this process to be even more challenging because their textbook understanding for many years has been that the axons – the long extensions of nerve cells away ...

On 10th July 2012, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) published the results of a literature search for evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of obesity in type 2 diabetes. The aim of the report was to identify those recommendations from current guidelines of high methodological quality that may be relevant for a possible new obesity module in the disease management programme (DMP) for type 2 diabetes. Diet, exercise and behavioural therapy generally advised IQWiG found that the recommendations of the various guidelines for the ...

(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) – Coaches can help athletes score touchdowns and perfect their golf swing, but can they also influence weight loss? Researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center say health coaches could play an important role in the battle of the bulge, according to the findings of a pilot study published online in the journal Obesity. In the first study of its kind, obese individuals participating in a low-intensity behavioral weight loss program who were supported by either a professional health coach or a peer coach lost clinically ...