The fundamentals of financial planning are the same for men and women, so why do women need custom-tailored financial advice? "Not only do women earn less, live longer, and take an average of 11 years out of the workforce, studies show women are also less confident about financial planning," said Julie Riddell of Riddell Financial, who will present a free financial seminar for women titled "Keeping Your Money Safe in These Turbulent Times." The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, at Riddell Financial in the SunTrust Bank building, 3400 ...

Almost three years ago a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was performing an experiment in which layers of gold mere nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick were being heated on a flat silicon surface and then allowed to cool. They watched in surprise as peculiar features expanded and changed on the screen of their electron microscope, finally settling into circles surrounded by irregular blisters. The circles varied in diameter up to a few millionths of a meter, and in the center of each was a ...

Xena Vallone Realty, a Sarasota, Florida-based residential and commercial real estate firm, has opened a Pinellas County office at 13575 58th Street N., Suite 200, Clearwater, FL 33760. The brokerage that opened three years ago with the belief that boutique firms offering personalized service would be the ones to emerge from the ruins of the housing collapse, is ahead of the curve once again with a solution to the declining inventory of affordable waterfront properties in the Sarasota area. "Buyers who cannot find what they are looking for in Sarasota and Bradenton ...

PULLMAN, Wash.—A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring. The animal's DNA sequence remains unchanged, but the compounds change the way genes turn on and off—the epigenetic effect studied at length by WSU molecular biologist Michael Skinner and expanded on in the current issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. While Skinner's earlier research has shown similar effects from a pesticide and fungicide, this is the ...

Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi, the self-proclaimed Persian princess of Bravo's upcoming "Shah's of Sunset," is excited to be partnering with Hair Solutions by M.E., Inc., to form a new corporation, GMLD LLC, in promoting, GG's Extensions by Effortless Extensions. Born and raised in Los Angeles, , GG has spent most of her 29 years concentrating on beauty and fashion. GG started out in the industry as an assistant to a celebrity stylist. She then worked as a stylist on the set of "The Simple Life" with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and has worked ...

Millions of people suffer from Parkinson's disease, a disorder of the nervous system that affects movement and worsens over time. As the world's population ages, it's estimated that the number of people with the disease will rise sharply. Yet despite several effective therapies that treat Parkinson's symptoms, nothing slows its progression. While it's not known what exactly causes the disease, evidence points to one particular culprit: a protein called α-synuclein. The protein, which has been found to be common to all patients with Parkinson's, is thought to be ...

Rochester, MN, March 1, 2012 – Many health care professionals (HCPs) have easy access to controlled medications and the diversion and abuse of drugs among this group may be as high as 10%. Controversy surrounds the safety of allowing addicted HCPs to return to clinical practice while undergoing medical treatment with opioid substitution therapy such as buprenorphine. In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Heather Hamza, CRNA, MS, of the Department of Anesthesiology, Los Angeles County Medical Center at the University of Southern California, and Ethan O. Bryson, ...

Philadelphia, PA, March 2, 2012 – When making decisions and counseling about risk and management options for deliveries between 22 and 26 weeks (periviable deliveries), obstetricians are heavily influenced by family preferences, particularly by the impression that parents consistently prefer to have everything possible done to prolong a pregnancy or "save the baby" through interventions such as cesarean section. The results of a University of Pennsylvania study are published in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Periviable neonates ...

YipDeals.com announces the extension of its service to the Charlottesville, Virginia community. YipDeals.com is a unique local deal service that offers deep discounts on local goods and services while supporting local schools and charities. YipDeals.com donates 12% of each deal purchased to the organization of the buyer's choice. With its home base in Northern Virginia, YipDeals.com has helped local schools and charities raise thousands of dollars easily by tapping into the popular group discount buying market. Schools, charities, sports teams, and other organizations ...

Philadelphia, PA -- An initiative in St. Louis targeted the homes of pregnant women to receive inspection and remediation of lead hazards before the birth of a child. According to a study just published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology this measure prevented childhood lead poisoning and reduced the overall burden of lead toxicity in children. Historically, the city had used an approach that waited until a child tested positive for lead poisoning, and then addressed home lead hazards to prevent future harm. "Our data provide evidence that a program ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) —The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the body to sense several different temperatures. Now scientists have discovered how just a few of these proteins, called ion channels, distinguish perhaps dozens of discrete temperatures, from mildly warm to very hot. Researchers showed that the building blocks, or subunits, of heat-sensitive ion channels can assemble in many different combinations, yielding new types of channels, each capable of ...

PITTSBURGH -- A powerful new imaging technique called High Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT) will allow doctors to clearly see for the first time neural connections broken by traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other disorders, much like X-rays show a fractured bone, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in a report published online today in the Journal of Neurosurgery. In the report, the researchers describe the case of a 32-year-old man who wasn't wearing a helmet when his all-terrain vehicle crashed. Initially, his CT scans showed bleeding and swelling ...

the University of Zagreb, the biggest Croatian University and the oldest continuously operating university in the South East Europe, has adopted AxSTREAM for teaching and research in the field of Axial Turbine Design. The University and SoftInWay Inc. signed a software license agreement to incorporate the Educational Version of AxSTREAM (AEV) into the university curriculum. The students will have an opportunity to use the Turbomachinery Design Software AxSTREAM for their final year projects to design flow path of small Axial Gas Turbines and get a better and real-life understanding ...

Chimpanzee populations living in relatively close proximity are substantially more different genetically than humans living on different continents, according to a study published today in PLoS Genetics. The study suggests that genomics can provide a valuable new tool for use in chimpanzee conservation, with the potential to identify the population of origin of an individual chimpanzee or the provenance of a sample of bush meat. Common chimpanzees in equatorial Africa have long been recognized as falling into three distinct populations, or sub-species: western, central ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Five years ago, San Francisco State researcher Andisheh Mahdavi and his colleagues observed an unexpected dark core at the center of Abell 520, a cosmic "train wreck" of galaxy clusters. With new space-based telescope observations, they have confirmed that the core really does exist. But they are no closer to explaining why it is there. When galaxy clusters crash into each other, the bright matter of galaxies sticks together with the mysterious substance called dark matter, leaving behind hot gases. Or at least that is what astronomers have observed in ...

Payroll and check printing software provider halfpricesoft.com released the new version of ezPaycheck payroll software, which can simplifies the time-consuming payroll tasks and helps small business do first thing first. This new version is customized for small businesses with less than 20 employees with straight-forward user interface design and form level help buttons. Main updates in the new edition paycheck software include: - the latest tax changes on the federal and state tax tables - the new W2 and W3 forms for Year 2012 tax season - the new Form 940 for ...

Scientists are working to protect living fossil trees in Fiji from the impact of climate change with cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology. Dr Peter Prentis, from QUT's Science and Engineering Faculty, said the findings would enable researchers to understand how biological diversity is generated. "Fiji is a hotspot for biodiversity. Most of the species that occur in Fiji aren't found anywhere else in the world," he said. "My project looks at how island species in these ancient groups of trees originated." Dr Prentis will use $150,000 DNA sequencer technology, called ...

March 1, 2012 Long Beach, NY USA DeskCenter USA, Inc. is presenting the new version 9.4 at CeBIT 2012 DeskCenter USA, Inc., the independent distributor of DeskCenter Solutions AG., announces that it will present the new Version 9.4 for private review at CeBit 2012. This will be the first time that the new version 9.4 of the "DeskCenter Management Suite" will be shown to the public. Due to the success and great market acceptance of this full featured IT Management solution in the last few years, we have chosen to show all the new features during private product ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have figured out how the human body keeps essential genes switched "on" and silences the vast stretches of genetic repeats and "junk" DNA. Frédéric Chédin, associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, describes the research in a paper published today (March 1) in the journal Molecular Cell. The work could lead to treatments for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, by reversing the gene-silencing process known as cytosine methylation. "R-loops" are the key, say graduate student Paul Ginno, ...

March 2, 2012, Shenzhen China – BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, developed single-cell genome sequencing technology and published two research papers for cancer single-cell sequencing in the research journal Cell. In the papers, which were published today in the same issue of Cell, BGI researchers applied their new single-cell sequencing (SCS) method to identify the genetic characteristics of essential thrombocythemia (ET, a kind of blood neoplasm) and clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC, a typical kidney cancer), and demonstrated that single cell analyses ...

3D International debuts VisuZ CLD - its detachable CHROMATIC LIGHT DEFLECTOR filter that delivers glasses free, 3D images to supported LCD/LED screens. VisuZ will also be exhibited at the Developers Gaming Conference 2012 in San Francisco on March 5th, 2012 as well as CeBIT, Hanover Germany on March 6th, 2012. CHROMATIC LIGHT DEFLECTOR is a patent pending Optical element that dramatically improves the brightness, clarity, and improved transitioned viewing angle, of displaying 3D images - glasses free. Using a patent pending way of shaping light across glass, 3D images ...

Teenagers who turn their backs on a healthy lifestyle and turn to drink, cigarettes and junk food are significantly unhappier than their healthier peers. New research also shows that 12-13 is a catalyst age when young people turn away from the healthy habits of their younger years and start to get involved in risky behaviours. The research, which used information from Understanding Society, a long-term study of 40,000 UK households funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looked at the responses of 5,000 young people between the ages of 10-15 to questions ...

Spider flies are a rarely collected group of insects. Adults are considered important pollinators of flowers, while larvae live as internal parasitoids of juvenile spiders. Eight genera are recorded in Australasia, including four genera in the subfamily Panopinae, a group of large, hairy, often metallic coloured adults whose larvae specialize as parasitizing mygalomorph spiders such as tarantulas, trap door and funnel web spiders. In this study, four new species of the genus Panops are described from Australia. These flies typically have large round bodies covered with ...

CorkSport, a leading manufacturer of Mazda aftermarket performance parts, is pleased to announce the release of the Mazdaspeed Protege Intercooler Hose Replacement Kit. Specifically designed and tested for the side mount intercooler, the CorkSport intercooler hoses replace the stock rubber hose with strong, flexible, reinforced silicone that will allow for ideal flow in and out of the intercooler, provide improved throttle response, and smooth out boost pressure. The silicone is custom formed for perfect fitment and has been designed as a direct bolt on replacement ...

A new study has found that women who stay seated for long periods of time every day are more prone to developing type 2 diabetes, but that a similar link wasn't found in men. Researchers from the University of Leicester Departments of Health Sciences and Cardiovascular Sciences revealed that women who are sedentary for most of the day were at a greater risk from exhibiting the early metabolic defects that act as a precursor to developing type 2 diabetes than people who tend to sit less. The team assessed over 500 men and women of the age of 40 or more about the amount ...