MechanicIcon updates Windows Metro Style Studio, a popular free icon editor. The update targets software developers by adding support for more development environments than ever, including all Microsoft native and .NET development tools, Embarcadero Delphi, Java with Swing or SWT, as well as popular Android and Web development toolkits. The updated Windows Metro Style Studio makes producing icons for popular development environments a one-step process. The new version implements the ability to export icons into a wide range of file formats, color resolutions and pixel ...

Timeless tradition reigns supreme when Le Jaquard Francais cover's your table this fall. Born from the French mountain side the Le Jaquard Francais technique has been perfected over decades of practice. The brilliance of color paired with the quality of cotton and linen makes Le Jaquard Francais Table Linens truly spectacular. Since 1888 the Damask fabric has graced dining room tables and kitchens throughout the world with its stately elegance. "A touch of Le Jaquard Francais brings an element of sophistication to the table. Every table deserves to know the ...

A new study by the Perceptual Development Corporation (PDC) revealed that perceptual processing difficulties, such as dyslexia, can result in difficulties in more than 20 different areas, including reading, attention and concentration, driving, listening, math, music, depth perception and computer use, just to name a few. What does this mean for people with perceptual processing problems? It means that their problem is affecting their life, not just their ability to read. In a study of 689 individuals diagnosed with a perceptual processing problem known as Irlen Syndrome, ...

The Truck Stacker automation is designed to drop sheets directly onto a flat bed truck and prevent damage due to manual handling and or handling packs with forklift trucks and similar material handing devices. The most significant gain of installing the new style stacker was a significant productivity improvement and labor reduction easily justifying the cost of the investment. This new product was key in enabling a lean manufacturing method to streamline and achieve one-piece-flow manufacturing ensuring proper inventory control and on time shipment. "We worked ...

Musik and Film signs Cumbria England's progressive rock duo, Gandalf's Fist to exclusive worldwide distribution with the release of their new album,"From A Point of Existence". "From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." -- J.R.R. Tolkien Across the rolling, Tolkienesque hills of Cumbria, England the bass heavy melodic crawl of progressive rocks, "Gandalf's Fist" carries from its Middle Earth origins to middle America on the ...

Most people are aware that America is in a health crisis. One third of Americans is obese and the other third is overweight. In today's society, most working people are overworked, stressed out and take the fast way to food resulting in excessive caloric intake. It is more convenient most of the time to choose fast verses shopping for healthy alternatives. While working as a registered nurse in the emergency room, StaciJoy realized most people could avoid health issues, by changing their daily choices.She recently authored One Little Thing to educate others on how taking ...

Summer is over and most people have overloaded on calories from barbeques, pool parties, and simply being on the go during the warm weekends. Nutrition by Nancy offers a cutting edge meal planning software program where it makes keeping your diet on track an easy thing to do. The program not only allows you to plug in what you are eating and tracks calories, but allows users to look up fast foods, and monitor their diet plan. In addition, with Nutrition by Nancy you get a personal diet buddy with you at all times. Never before has there been a meal planning program with ...

The media tells both veterinarians and dogs owners to stick to commercial diets like IAMS, Pedigree and Science Diet. Dr. Greg disagrees and has encouraged owners to feed healthy human ingredients to keep their pets out of the veterinary clinic. This may sound strange for a veterinarian ! What is Dr. Greg's point? He has found that there are many ailments that can be helped or cured by a healthier diet. He wants pet owners to keep their pets well and free of common skin, ear, stomach and bowel problems by feeding them differently. Dr. Greg's new book, Feed Your Pet to Avoid ...

Celebrities have action figures, so do GI Joe, Ken, and Barbie. Haven't the heroes in your life earned the right to be immortalized as action figures too? Chicago doll artist, Cyndi Safstrom, can create that reality for you. Send several photos of your loved one's face to Cyndi, and you are on your way to giving the best gift ever to your family and friends. Maybe you are a hero? It is also perfectly OK to make an action figure of yourself. Cyndi lost her corporate job early in the recession and had to reinvent herself. She made action figures of some You Tube stars, ...

Is there something about Florida that the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) issued 317,936 speeding citations in 2010? According to FHP statistics, that number was a little less than the number in 2009 (which was 321,777). And this doesn't count the number of speeding tickets handed out by other police agencies in Florida. Naturally, a two-year average of more than 300,000 tickets just for speeding makes one wonder whether Florida drivers simply have more of a need for speed than drivers in other states. But is that true? How do other places stack up? And is it truly a ...

The first consumer of microwave popcorn diagnosed with Popcorn Lung (Bronchiolitis Obliterans) received a $7,267,000 verdict today in Federal Court in Denver against Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, Kroger Co and Dillon Companies. Wayne Watson of Centennial Colorado was diagnosed with Popcorn Lung in 2007 by Dr. Cecile Rose of world-renowned National Jewish Hospital in Denver. The disease was first recognized in microwave popcorn workers that worked in a microwave popcorn plant in Missouri. The workers were diagnosed with the rare disease Bronchiolitis Obliterans which ...

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Newberry South Carolina Hotel is offering special rates to guests attending the 4th Annual Newberry County Agricultural Expo. The event will take place at the Newberry County Fairgrounds on September 27-29, 2012. Guests who call and request the "Newberry Agriculture Expo" will receive the event rate of $89 plus tax per night. Promotion is subject to availability; some restrictions may apply. Festivities at the Newberry County Agricultural Expo will include: - Rodeo (September 27 - 28) - Junior Dairy and Beef Shows - ...

Cream Jewelry Best keeps up on the latest trends and if you want your hip hop jewelry to be what everyone else is wearing, they'll be happy to help you out. But sometimes, part of the joy of the look is knowing that your hip hop chains are unique. Sometimes, it's fun to have the crowd follow you. Cream Jewelry Best can help. The wholesale hip hop jewellery company offers everything from disco ball bracelets to iced out watches, but they know that sometimes you need something that reflects your personality. The staff at Cream Jewelry Best can help you design the hip hop ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 17, DFW Elite Toy Museum will hold a Grand Opening party to unveil its latest exhibit, Race Cars, featuring small and large-scale model cars, various racing items and special memorabilia. Visitors will see vintage Indianapolis 500 programs dating back to 1935, including a special 1958 Indy program signed by many drivers in that year's event. The new exhibit fits in well with DFW Elite Toy Museum's collection, which features more than 3,000 vintage models, pedal cars and toys, mostly with an automotive theme. The museum also has antique models and rare ...

PINC Solutions launched today a thought provoking webcast featuring Gartner analyst and VP of supply chain research, Dwight Klappich and Chief Technology Officer and founder of PINC Solutions, Dr. Aleks Gollu. The webcast is called Transportation Myopia and is the second webcast of a series focused on supply chain visibility. According to independent research, an average trailer shipment takes three days to move from one facility to the next with only eight hours on the road. Simply put, for 80% of the shipment time, the trailer is idling at a distribution center or ...

iScen is a software that lets you quickly create interactive scenarios with multimedia content and replay them on a network with multiple players. This tool is specifically intended for management, training and crisis simulation. It is aimed at the education, defense, and security (civil or industrial) sectors. Its simplicity and flexibility make iScen ideal for creating interactive scenarios for short or targeted training sessions, for which traditional computing developments are usually considered too lengthy or expensive. With its immersive and visual scenario ...

Independent filmmaker Michael Torres is turning to the Internet to help raise funds for his feature film project, "Who Is Albizu Campos?" the first feature length documentary that tells the life story of the Puerto Rican revolutionary considered a patriot by some and a terrorist by others. Raising funds for independent film projects has always been a daunting task, especially for controversial subjects such as Latino revolutionaries. Creativity is key to raising all of the money needed and community fundraising sites such as Kickstarter offer filmmakers the opportunity ...

Famous for his cheeky face, well-spoken gags and tubby stature, Michael McIntyre has shot to fame in recent years for appearances on Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You and Live at the Apollo. This autumn, fans of McIntyre can enjoy his laugh-out-loud humour at London's O2 arena as the comic makes a welcome return to the capital! Running from 26 September to 16 October 2012, audiences can expect to be charmed by McIntyre's side-splitting gags and stunned by his remarkable energy as he races around the stage. All ticket details (currently standing at GBP35) can be found ...

LocateBaltimore.com, a small-business start-up, provides a unique way to enhance the group coupon experience. The company offers local discounts to consumers while allowing merchants to advertise using a monthly, pay-as-you-go platform. Company officials say the new approach will help foster repeat business for local communities in Baltimore. "Our goal is provide local deals which are truly local," Trevian Mathis, president and CEO of the Baltimore-based company explains. Gone are the days of having to travel 20 minutes or more to find great deals. Locate ...

The electronic cigarette review site that is making waves across the Internet with reviews that are not as sugar coated as other sites has announced a new review on one of the webs most popular electronic cigarettes. Although the company may not agree with the review, the site cuts to the chase and quickly points out some of the hype, exposing facts based on pricing more than anything else. However, nothing seems to be off limits with Smokers Utopia. With a top 10 lineup that doesn't mix with the mainstream reviews, it is instantly easy to see that this website takes ...

Whoever does not want to spend entire nights cramming and would like to read and learn faster and more effectively will now finally have the opportunity to do so! Endymio.com started its crowd-funding campaign on http://www.indiegogo.com/endymio in order to collect funds to design its website. 75,000 USD is required in order to perfect the speed-reading methods and implement them with a user-friendly design. Endymio would like to attain this goal through the support of GrunderGarage (http://www.entrepreneurship.de/gruender-garage/) which will contribute additional funds ...

The tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea during the pre-monsoon season (May – June) have intensified since 1997 compared to 1979 - 1997. This has been attributed to decreased vertical wind shear due to the dimming effects of increased anthropogenic black carbon and sulfate emissions in the region. The decrease in vertical wind shear, however, is not the result of these emissions, but due to a 15-day on average earlier occurrence of tropical cyclones, according to a study spearheaded by Bin Wang at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa ...

Biologists at UC San Diego have unraveled the anti-viral mechanism of a human gene that may explain why some people infected with HIV have much higher amounts of virus in their bloodstreams than others. Their findings, detailed in a paper in this week's advance online issue of the journal Nature, could also shed light on the mystery of why some people with HIV never develop symptoms of AIDS. The biologists found that a gene called Human Schlafen 11 produces a protein that inhibits the replication of HIV in infected human cells by blocking the ability of the host cell ...

There is evidence that some microbial life had migrated from the Earth's oceans to land by 2.75 billion years ago, though many scientists believe such land-based life was limited because the ozone layer that shields against ultraviolet radiation did not form until hundreds of millions years later. But new research from the University of Washington suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and molybdenum into the oceans. "This shows that life didn't just exist ...

LA JOLLA, CA – September 23, 2012 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown how to synthesize in the laboratory an important set of natural compounds known as terpenes. The largest class of chemicals made by living organisms, terpenes are made within cells by some of the most complex chemical reactions found in biology. The new technique, described in an advance online edition of the journal Nature Chemistry on September 23, 2012, mimics a crucial but obscure biochemical phenomenon that allows cells to make terpenes. The discovery may one day result in ...