Dan Fields, AIA, principal and CMO at BJAC, pa (http://www.bjac.com), an architectural firm offering professional services for specialized, complex institutional projects, has announced the release of a podcast on Chinese perceptions of U.S. health care design. In the podcast, Managing Principal Lou Jurkowski, FAIA, LEED AP, discusses U.S. and Chinese models of health care building and facility design. Jurkowski, who recently traveled with a delegation from North Carolina to foster trade and exchange between China and the state, reflects on the differences in design practices ...

With publication of a Final Rule in the Federal Register by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on February 17, 2012 amending the 16 CFR 1130 requirements for consumer registration of durable infant or toddler products, to clarify and correct some of the requirements and respond to consumer feedback on registration. The rule becomes effective on February 18, 2013. The amendment addresses Title 16 (commercial practices) of the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Chapter 2B (Consumer Product Safety Act Regulations) Part 1130 (Requirements for ...

Window World of Clarksville proudly announces their participation in the 2012 Rivers and Spires Festival in Clarksville, TN on April 19-21, 2012. The company will be promoting sustainability and energy efficiency gained through their insulated windows and siding products. They will also have the newly-unveiled Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) Bike, designed by Orange County Choppers, on display at the event. The Rivers and Spires Festival is an annual event that takes place in historic downtown Clarksville and is free to the public. The event features five stages of musical ...

The Chef's Academy (http://www.thechefsacademy.com), the Culinary Division of Harrison College, a 110-year-old, nationally accredited institution that offers 40 degree programs in five schools of study, has announced that its first satellite campus in Morrisville was recognized by Triangle Business Journal's SPACE awards in the category of Top Hospitality/Entertainment Development. An annual commercial real estate award, the SPACE awards recognizes the most innovative commercial real estate projects across the Raleigh-Durham market. Capital Associates, a commercial real ...

Imani Rhema is a Native of Nashville Tennessee and has become the city's most prolific poet and spoke word artist. Imani is scheduled to appear on the Dark Mantis talk show to share her views and experience as a poet/spoken word artist and explain the meaning of the name "Imani Rhema". Host of the Dark Mantis Talk, Jeanette Michelle met Imani Rhema over a year ago at "Nashville Social Exchange" and was impressed with this phenomenal woman, poet/spoke word artist. Imani has been a poet for 12 years. Her quest to find a place where she can share the ...

Current of Tampa Bay, Inc. volunteers usually spend the day washing and drying clothes at one local Laundromat but on Saturday, April 7, they will serve at two locations, helping to wash the clothes of deserving families in Tampa. Laundry Love Projects will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Big Wash Coin Laundry located at 908 E. Waters Ave. Tampa, FL 33604 and Big Wash College Hill located at 3610 N. 29th St. Tampa, FL 33605. The Laundry Love Project assists low-income families with meeting a basic need - washing and drying clothes. "Easter is an important holiday ...

Krista Neher (http://kristaneher.com/ ), CEO of Boot Camp Digital, internationally recognized social media keynote speaker is honored to be speaking on how entrepreneurs and business ownders can harness the power of social media and Internet marketing on March 4th 2012 at the WE Inspire Conference in Oklahoma. This will be the third year that Krista has been invited to speak at the conference. During this conference, Krista Neher will share two new presentations: "Getting More Out of Your Website and the Internet" and "Powering Up Your Social Media Strategy", ...

Niiki Pharma Inc. announced the presentation of preclinical data for its novel anti-cancer compound, NKP-2235, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting held in Chicago, Illinois. NKP-2235 is a first-in-class compound, and the first highly orally bioavailable gallium-based anti-cancer agent. This breakthrough in cancer research is significant because, although other companies have tried developing gallium-based anti-cancer compounds before, they could not maintain therapeutic dosages safely and effectively in vivo. "Developing a highly ...

Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (http://www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that its brewery, The Mash House, will be one of the designated brewers on hand at the Brewgaloo beer festival on Saturday, April 28 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. in downtown Raleigh's City Plaza. Bringing together local craft brewers, the Brewgaloo festival encourages consumers to eat, drink, purchase and think with a local mindset. Sponsored by Shop Local Raleigh, an organization in support of locally-owned independent businesses, Brewgaloo will include local breweries as well as local ...

"As the economy moves into recovery, company marketing budgets will begin to open up. Advertising and marketing firms need to position their people and business strategies to take advantage of the resurgence in marketing activity," said Laurie Mikes, COO of Second Wind, a leading content, advice and service provider dedicated to the advertising and marketing industry. "Retaining accounts, picking up new accounts, successful strategic planning and writing winning new business proposals are critical to midsize and small advertising agencies, especially as the ...

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true embedded and mission critical computing technologies for environmentally-demanding military, defense and aerospace applications, now offers the highly-integrated, compact RediBuilt rugged COTS computer that boots and executes your real-time operating system right out of the box. This flexible computer can accommodate either Intel or Freescale processors as well as a CompactPCI or OpenVPX backplane in a condensed package measuring less than 0.22 ft3, comparable in volume to a 1/4 ATR Short enclosure. Designed to TRL 9 (Technical ...

Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Public Relations (http://www.mmipublicrelations.com), a Raleigh-based full-service public relations firm, has announced that the firm has been named the public relations agency of record for Mims Distributing Company (http://www.mimsdist.com), a beer distributor that services a nine-county area in and around the Triangle. MMI will assist Mims Distributing to generate heightened positive visibility for the company, its employees and its community outreach within the Triangle, and eventually the region and nation, through traditional and ...

You Can Protect Assets by Transferring Them to a Trust Among the various estate-planning tools, trusts are perhaps the most effective in protecting assets. Wills provide a method of distributing your assets when you die, while trusts are legal entities that hold them and keep them safe. Credit shelter trusts, generation-skipping trusts and discretionary spendthrift trusts are especially useful because they generally cannot be accessed by creditors or former spouses. Claims by Creditors, Ex-Spouses If you have an ownership interest in a business, for example, it ...

Loftware, the global leader in Enterprise Lifecycle Printing (ELP) software has successfully achieved the highly acclaimed GS1 Certification for the Loftware Print Server v10.0. As a long-time GS1 US Solution Partner, Loftware has worked alongside GS1 for over 10 years supporting the international GS1 standards and guidelines for barcode label printing. Attaining GS1 US Certification of Loftware Print Server 10.0 underscores the ongoing commitment to offer customers support for the latest compliance standards they have grown to expect from Loftware. GS1, an international ...

Scientists searching for genetic clues to vertebrate evolution have long been fascinated by the tiny marine stickleback fish, known for its ability to adapt and thrive in salty oceans or freshwater streams around the world. Now, a team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Stanford University has analyzed the entire genetic sequence of 21 threespine sticklebacks and identified which regions of the genome regulate their ability to adapt to such markedly different environments. The findings appear in the April 5 issue of Nature. "Sticklebacks are essentially the 'Darwin's ...

An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated. The journal Nature has just published the team's findings online in the paper The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple negative breast cancers. The study is the largest genetic analysis of what were thought to be triple negative breast cancer tumours. The 59 scientists involved in this study expected to see similar gene profiles when they mapped on computer the genomes ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how exposure to arsenic can turn normal stem cells into cancer stem cells and spur tumor growth. Inorganic arsenic, which affects the drinking water of millions of people worldwide, has been previously shown to be a human carcinogen. A growing body of evidence suggests that cancer is a stem-cell based disease. Normal stem cells are essential to normal tissue regeneration, and to the stability of organisms and processes. But cancer stem cells are thought to be the driving force for the formation, growth, and ...

Sorghum, or durra, is an important forage crop in many countries, for example the USA, Africa, China and Australia. The plant is grown instead of corn because it produces more biomass and better withstands long periods of drought. However, when exposed to drought, the sorghum plant produces large amounts of dhurrin, which forms toxic cyanide, i.e. Prussic acid. Forced to discard crops Farmers thus face a big dilemma. During a period of drought when they most need food for their animals, they are often forced to discard their sorghum because they do not know how ...

Australian, Korean and US scientists have generated a 65-year record of Southern Hemisphere nitrous oxide measurements establishing a new benchmark against which to compare changes in the long-lived greenhouse gas that is also a major ozone-depleting substance.Published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, the record is drawn from atmospheric sampling at the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Tasmania, and air extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet Its significance, says co-author CSIRO's Dr David Etheridge, will be its contribution to the development of ...

An international team led by the University of Melbourne Australia, has found that increasing a specific protein in muscles could help treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe and progressive muscle wasting disease that affects young boys. Approximately one in every 3,500 boys worldwide is afflicted with DMD. There is no cure for the disease which causes muscle fragility, spinal curvature and premature death. Results from the studies published in Nature today showed that by increasing levels of 'heat shock protein 72' (HSP72) in the muscles of animal models ...

Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy volunteers, a team of scientists led by Adjunct Professor Harry Scheinin, M.D. from the University of Turku, Turku, Finland in collaboration with investigators from the University of California, Irvine, USA, have now imaged the process of returning consciousness after general anesthesia. ...

George Williams College of Aurora University (GWC) has expanded its online education offerings to include two degree programs for working professionals pursuing new and advanced job opportunities. The Master of Science in Recreation Administration and the Doctorate in Social Work are now available in a convenient online format for students seeking an alternative way to continue their education and achieve their career goals. The Master of Science in Recreation Administration is an accelerated degree program focused on advancing a professional's career in the field of ...

This one came out of nowhere but seems to be getting a cult following on YouTube. Check out the video in its tame and not so tame versions... Warning this video contains SWEARING and scenes of scantly clad girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_NtNE2-4Q Dumbpunx is an elusive group of producers who operate through a middle man to deliver their brand of twisted electro anthemic house to their adoring fans. According to the middle men who wish to be nameless, Dumbpunx have a long line of hits under their belts having been involved with projects that have scored over ...

Individuals who suffer from autoimmune diseases also display a tendency to develop atherosclerosis – the condition popularly known as hardening of the arteries. Clinical researchers at LMU, in collaboration with colleagues in Würzburg, have now discovered a mechanism which helps to explain the connection between the two types of disorder. The link is provided by a specific class of immune cells called plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs). pDCs respond to DNA released from damaged and dying cells by secreting interferon proteins which stimulate the immune reactions that underlie ...

A study based on the National Health and Sexuality Survey, involving nearly 2000 people, describes the sexual practices of senior citizens in Spain. The most common are kisses, caresses and vaginal penetration. The main causes of sexual inactivity are physical illness and widowerhood. A new study published in one of the world's biggest sexuality journals the Journal of Sexual Medicine analyses the factors that influence sexual activity amongst elderly people in Spain. "This research lets us know the reality of a social phenomenon which is not tackled enough in Spain: ...