For those involved in social networking, a day can hardly go by without logging in to keep track of current events -- whether they use Facebook, Google+ or even Twitter. Even for those not involved with social networking, references to the most recent outrageous celebrity "tweet" or updated "status" can be heard almost daily in the media. Since it seems almost impossible to avoid social networking in today's day and age, some lawmakers in New Jersey want to make it a requirement for New Jersey Megan's Law registrants to identify themselves as sex offenders ...

For many families, worries about birth defects and birth injuries start immediately upon learning of a pregnancy. While many parents fret over finding 10 fingers and 10 toes, there are many defects and injuries that have a more traumatic impact on a child's life than missing digits. One such birth injury is shoulder dystocia with brachial plexus injury. A program was recently developed to help identify women whose unborn children are at an increased risk of this injury. If successful, the program could dramatically reduce this form of birth injury. The Impact of Shoulder ...

Last week, a Jackson County jury awarded a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technician $13.6 million in damages for injuries he sustained while working on a commercial grade heat pump -- which, he argued, was defectively designed with insufficient warnings. The award, which was against the manufacturer of the heat pump and included $4.5 million in punitive damages, ends a four year struggle for the victim which began the day of his horrific accident. According to court documents, the victim had been working on the heat pump in the recessed ceiling ...

Eyeglass World warns individuals about the potentially devastating effects the sun can have on unprotected eyes. Proper sunglasses or prescription eyeglasses with added UV protection can help prevent future eye damage and blindness. Prolonged exposure to the harmful sunlight can cause a myriad of eye disorders, including surface damage, cataracts, macular degeneration and possible blindness. The risk of these eye disorders can be decreased by wearing sunglasses when outdoors for long periods of time. "Much of the damage optometrists see can be prevented by continuous ...

Eyeglasses retailer America's Best would like to remind parents of the importance of scheduling back-to-school eye exams for your kids each year. Keeping your child's vision at its best is critical for fostering a learning environment that will help your child thrive. As any parent knows, growing children are changing constantly. For many kids, their vision will be changing right along with their bodies. Regular eye exams are the best way to stay on top of any issues with your child's vision that may develop and to know if any preexisting vision troubles are getting ...

Glover's Flooring America, an Atlanta flooring company, encourages local homeowners to utilize their community flooring specialty stores instead of the big box chain stores. Local flooring specialty stores, like Atlanta hardwood flooring company Glover's Flooring America, can offer greater experiences and customer service to clients because of their connections to the community. "Home owners will find that working with their community neighbors has more benefits," stated Judi Provence, co-owner of Glover's Flooring America, a local Atlanta hardwood flooring ...

Sunday school can help church reach every member of the congregation, states Mill Brooks Industries, a church chairs supplier. Weekly group meetings to discuss religious texts and issues of faith can help increase the sense of community within the congregation. In order to properly be able to organize Sunday school classes, churches should look at their church seating to ensure that there is enough for everyone, and that it is not in need of replacement or repair. Remember that it is best for families to be able to attend Sunday school classes at the same time, so it ...

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Nicaragua and Mexico entered into force this Saturday, September 1st, with the ratification of three of the six Central American countries, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade of Nicaragua (MIFIC, for its acronym in Spanish). The FTA will foster the growth of trade relations through clear regulations and mutual trade benefit, thus contributing to the development of the participating countries' economies. The treaty will simplify commercial operations in goods in services, as well as regulate investments ...

Rocketship Education, a leading non-profit public charter school system, will begin using the non-profit MIND Research Institute's ST Math program with all students in grades 2-5 across its seven schools in San Jose this fall. Rocketship Education started piloting the ST Math instructional software program with third graders in Spring 2010. Rocketship's schools, which serve students who are 90 percent low-income and 75 percent English Language Learners (ELL), saw immediate success with the program. By 2011, the charter network brought JiJi, ST Math's penguin, to grades ...

Don't miss this year's premiere amateur bass fishing tournament, the 2012 Fall Lake of the Ozarks Big Bass Bash, which will be held on October 6th and 7th. Over 200 places will be paid out throughout the weekend, totaling more than $200,000 in cash. Catch the biggest bass of the weekend and walk away with an astounding $61,500 in cash. The Big Bass Bash is for amateurs only. Its unique format allows the weekend angler a chance to win big money like the professionals. Unlike most fishing tournaments which have a team arrangement where prizes are based on total weight, the ...

Anton & Chia, LLP is a full service accounting firm that focuses on auditing financial statements for domestic and international clients to prepare them for listing on a U.S. stock exchange and/or we provide the required audit compliance for those companies already listed in the United States of America. Anton & Chia, LLP announced today that it has appointed Robert A. Aleshire as its Tax Managing Partner and Anton & Chia, LLP and Aleshire Accountancy Corporation has effectuated a merger of its mutual practices as of September 4, 2012. Mr. Aleshire has over ...

With the launch of Trafalgar's (www.trafalgar.com) biggest and best USA & Canada brochure to date comes their new Taste of North America program. Targeted towards those with a passion for the finer tastes in life, the program invites guests to learn about food specific to their destination as well as indulge in some of the continent's most delicious dishes. The new USA & Canada brochure features the 4 gastronomic itineraries - San Francisco & Wine Country Delights, Wonder & Flavors of the Golden State, Tastes & Sounds of the South, New York Zest & ...

A three month public consultation by Gatwick Airport is taking place to implement a system called P-RNAV. The system, which has been trialled on a limited basis at the airport for 6 years, utilises the full navigation capability of modern aircraft and improves the track keeping for departing flights. The proposed implementation is in line with the Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA) policy for the application of performance based navigation in UK airspace, which effectively requires all conventional departure routes from airports to be replaced with a minimum of a P-RNAV ...

With the start of the NFL season comes a bevy of sportsbook promotions and seductive offers created to lure bettors into winning some serious cash. Within the sea of sportsbook offerings, you'll also find that not all offers are created equal and some are just complete scams. It's up to you to use the Sportbookreview.com rating guide to help you do your research and find the soundest offers on the net. Below we have compiled a list of sportsbooks that bettors should stay clear from due to their faulty offerings. This is also an opportunity for players to buzz in and ...

Jose Canseco offers his personal conviction of what actually led to the tragic death of teen baseball player, Taylor Hooton. Settling into his new role as the no holds barred editor for his controversial blog "Canseco on Steroids", hosted by Steroid.com, former baseball All-Star Jose Canseco uses his fourth official video blog to talk about a "touchy", yet highly industry-influenced topic; the death of teenage baseball player, Taylor Hooton. Son to Don Hooton, founder of "The Taylor Hooton Foundation", (dedicated to educating parents ...

"Give sorrow words." —Malcolm in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious? A new UCLA psychology study suggests that labeling your emotions at the precise moment you are confronting what you fear can indeed have that effect. The psychologists asked 88 people with a fear of spiders to approach a large, live tarantula in an open container outdoors. The participants were told to walk closer and closer to the spider and eventually touch it if they could. The subjects were then divided ...

Basic science plays a critical role in the quest to improve global health, but it's only one part of a multi-pronged effort that includes changing the dynamics of global health so that developing nations have a more leading role in fulfilling their health care needs. That was among the conclusions of the 2012 Kavli Prize Science Forum in Oslo, Norway, held this week. The Forum featured four leading international science experts on global health: Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation, US; Alice Dautry, president of the Institut Pasteur, France; ...

New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected. Extremely bright, active galaxies formed and fully illuminated the universe by the time it was 750 million years old, or about 13 billion years ago, according to Oliver Zahn, a postdoctoral fellow at the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP) at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the data analysis. The data provide new constraints on the universe's ...

A new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the spectacular globular star cluster Messier 4. This ball of tens of thousands of ancient stars is one of the closest and most studied of the globular clusters and recent work has revealed that one of its stars has strange and unexpected properties, apparently possessing the secret of eternal youth. The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters that date back to the distant past of the Universe (eso1141). One of the closest to the Earth is the cluster Messier 4 (also known as NGC 6121) ...

London, UK (05 September 2012) – In 'Censors on Campus', Index on Censorship asks whether lives might be saved by making vital research freely available. As malaria expert Bart Knols argues, in some parts of Asia and Africa the fight against malaria is severely hampered because doctors and researchers are denied full access to the 3,000 articles published on the disease each year. At the same time, scientists living and working in developing countries are prevented from becoming global players in the public health arena. In this special issue looking at academic freedom ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have found that eliminating an enzyme from mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease leads to a 90 percent reduction in the compounds responsible for formation of the plaques linked to Alzheimer's disease. That is the most dramatic reduction in this compound reported to date in published research. The compounds are amyloid beta, or A-beta peptides; peptides are proteins, but are shorter in length. When A-beta peptides accumulate in excessive amounts in the brain, they can form plaques, which are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. "These ...

The United Kingdom is preparing to convert the London 2012 Olympics anti-doping center, which conducted more than 6,000 drug tests on athletes during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, into a facility that could help revolutionize 21st century health care. That new facility — the world's first national "phenome center" — is the topic of a story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). C&EN is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Alex Scott, C&EN senior editor in London, explains that a phenome ...

The Canadian government's plans to discontinue in 2013 a unique environmental research project that has yielded insights into water pollution, climate change and other topics for almost 40 years would be a "huge loss not only to science but to the scientific heritage of humanity." That's the focus of a viewpoint article in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology. J. G. Hering, D. L. Swackhamer and W. H. Schlesinger explain that the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) comprises 58 freshwater lakes and their watersheds in remote areas of the province of Ontario, where ...

The great Italian scientist Galileo may have been the first person to use a telescope to observe the heavens, helping spark the scientific revolution of the 16th century, but Galileo definitely did not invent the famous thermometer and captivating curiosity that bears his name. That's the message of an article in ACS' Journal of Chemical Education. Peter Loyson explains that a number of companies sell so-called "Galilean thermometers," sealed tubes of liquid in which glass spheres float and sink with changes in ambient temperature. Modern versions have morphed into elegant ...

Borrowing a technology used to improve the effectiveness of drugs, scientists are reporting discovery of a new explosive more powerful than the current state-of-the-art explosive used by the military, and just as safe for personnel to handle. Their report appears in ACS' journal Crystal Growth & Design. Adam J. Matzger and colleagues explain that a technique for engineering medicines and other materials, termed cocrystallization, is attracting attention as a way to make improved explosives, rocket propellants and fireworks. Most solid materials consist of crystals — with ...