Teen sensation Austin Powell has tons of fans worldwide. The world and all that it has to offer is his. The multi-talented teenager can sing, act and has a smile that won't quit. His newest single, "Hey Beautiful" has drawn critical acclaim not only from his legion of followers but from critics, as well. And with good reason. Not only does Powell have a great personality, but he's a terrific performer. Unlike other fabricated pop idols, Powell's talent is for real. And give Powell credit. He had a dream, pursued it and has never given up. From his starring ...

CorkSport is pleased to announce today, the release the new CorkSport 1999-2003 Mazda/Mazdaspeed Protege Skid Tray. This comes on the heels of a release early this month to add to the growing list of product offerings designed to enhance and improve Mazdaspeed 6 performance, with the Mazdaspeed 6 Rear Sway Bar. The CorkSport Mazda/Mazdaspeed Protege Skid Tray will provide solid protection against rocks and road debris and is designed to prevent damage to key components of the 1999-2003 Protege undercarriage. Made from 0.090" precision machined aluminum, the CorkSport ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 6, 2011) – According to Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., program leader in cancer epidemiology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues in the Netherlands, earlier circumcision of males in South Africa may be a positive step in slowing the spread of both HIV and the human papillomavirus (HPV). Their commentary and data were published in a recent issue of the British medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases (Vol. 11) 581-582. "Countries with high incidences of HIV also have high incidences of cancer-related HPV," said Giuliano. "This is especially ...

Andrew Fuligni and his colleagues want to understand the secret life of the American teenager. Their research has examined whether stress in the teen years affects kids' health as adults (it does), whether teens maintain their religious ties and beliefs as adults (they do) and if ethnic minority–based stigmatization affects how they perform in school (it does). Now the researchers are looking at another big-ticket item for teens: arguments. Specifically, they're examining how arguments with friends at school may spill over and cause arguments at home, along with the ...

Kroger Pharmacy, the fifth largest national pharmacy chain, has chosen the Eyecon as the tabletop automation solution approved for use within Kroger pharmacies. The Eyecon, by Avery Weigh-Tronix, improves overall process efficiency, accuracy and safety. The Eyecon is an automated prescription validation, counting and filling system, which not only enhances inventory management by improving filling accuracy, but also increases customer satisfaction. Kroger, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, offers over 1900 locations and operates under many different banners nationwide, ...

Continued participation in the Harrisburg Preschool Program (HPP) has led 5th-grade students to score higher on Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) literacy and math tests than peers who have not participated in the HPP program, according to the final evaluation of the HPP initiative by the Prevention Research Center at Penn State. HPP is a collaborative program involving the Harrisburg School District and Capital Area Head Start, which provides comprehensive, high-quality preschool services to at-risk children in the Harrisburg area. "This evaluation has ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Medical researchers are demonstrating that Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded software developed for finding and recognizing undersea mines can help doctors identify and classify cancer-related cells. "The results are spectacular," said Dr. Larry Carin, professor at Duke University and developer of the technology. "This could be a game changer for medical research." The problem that physicians encounter in analyzing images of human cells is surprisingly similar to the Navy's challenge of finding undersea mines. When examining tissue samples, doctors ...

Exlar announces its Defense Industry Brochure is now available in print form or by download from their website. Manufacturing high performance electromechanical actuators and brushless servo motors, Exlar provides the ideal motion control solutions for the industry's defense vehicles, vessels and machinery. This brochure details how Exlar's actuators and servo motors provide the performance capabilities and application compatibility necessary for demanding defense applications. Designed for durability and longevity, compact electromechanical actuators with innovative ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- Nature creates countless stunning optical phenomena. Some of the most familiar are rainbows, fog bows, coronas, sprites, and mirages, but other, more complex and often more compelling phenomena are also witnessed and imaged, though far less frequently and often under challenging conditions that require great patience. When captured as images, these phenomena also reveal important scientific insights into the properties of light under normal and extreme natural conditions. To highlight research in this area, the editors of the Optical Society's (OSA) ...

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University astrophysicists are part of an international team that unexpectedly discovered very-high-energy gamma rays from the already well-known Crab pulsar star. The team's findings are published in the Oct. 7 issue of the journal Science. "This is the first time very-high-energy gamma rays have been detected from a pulsar - a rapidly spinning neutron star about the size of the city of Ames but with a mass greater than that of the sun," said Frank Krennrich, an Iowa State professor of physics and astronomy and a co-author of the paper. The ...

After several months waiting for a top prize win, the massive SuperEnalotto jackpot was finally won by an anonymous player from the Italian town of Gubbio. This being said, let's discuss the multi-million Euro jackpot, along with the winning numbers from last week's SuperEnalotto drawings: The winning lottery numbers were 4, 6, 27, 37, 45, and 58. The "jolly" bonus number was 84. SuperEnalotto lottery draws take place in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. The odd of winning the SuperEnalotto jackpot is 1:622,614,630. The previous ...

Ancient structures uncovered in Turkey and thought to be the world's oldest temples may not have been strictly religious buildings after all, according to an article in the October issue of Current Anthropology. Archaeologist Ted Banning of the University of Toronto argues that the buildings found at Göbekli Tepe may have been houses for people, not the gods. The buildings at Göbekli, a hilltop just outside of the Turkish city of Urfa, were found in 1995 by Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute and colleagues from the Şanlıurfa Museum in Turkey. ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An Illinois research team has succeeded in overcoming one major obstacle to a promising technology that simultaneously reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide and produces fuel. University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group joined forces with researchers at Dioxide Materials, a startup company, to produce a catalyst that improves artificial photosynthesis. The company, in the university Research Park, was founded by retired chemical engineering professor Richard Masel. The team reported their results ...

Somoto, a company providing monetization solutions to the software developers community, has officially release today its 2nd generation of monetization tools directed at software developers and publisher. Company prepares for extended growth during the next twelve months with new product launches and dozens of new partners joining its network. Somoto was founded by two entrepreneurs who recognize software developers constant need to improve software functionality, increase revenues and boost distribution. The founders, Ben Garrun and Eyal Yaakov bring a combined 25 ...

Joy Musacchio and Cynthia Brownley, owners of Stillpoint Aromatics, have launched a new business featuring pure essential oils imported from all over the world, hydrosols, carrier oils, NCBTMB approved aromatherapy workshops, and supplies. Stillpoint Aromatics offers over 170 essential oils that are either certified organic, wild harvested, or unsprayed. The essential oils are imported from international small farmers and are shipped directly from the distillation. There is no middle person, hence there is no chance of adulteration or "adjustments" to the oils. ...

ATLANTA -- October 6, 2011 -- A new study finds liver cancer incidence rates continue to increase in some low-risk parts of the world such as North America, and are decreasing in some of the highest risk countries of Asia. Despite this, the incidence rates in Asian countries remain twice as high as those in Africa and more than four times as high as rates in North America. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention and appears early online. Using data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, American ...

October 6, 2011 -- Over 10 million people age 12 or older are estimated to have driven under the influence of illicit drugs in the prior year, according to a 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. While marijuana is the most commonly detected non-alcohol drug in drivers, its role in causing crashes has remained in question. To examine the link between marijuana use by drivers and risk of a car accident, researchers at Columbia University did a meta-analysis of nine epidemiologic studies and found that drivers who test positive for marijuana or report driving within ...

Be it at school, office, the neighborhood or the community people live in, conflicting situations amongst various groups might arise on an almost day to day basis. Today, the prevalence of these intergroup conflicts is on the rise and has resulted in minor disagreements amongst friends to waging full scale wars between countries. Social psychology research has always maintained that individuals often identify themselves with the social group they belong to and will bond together to defend their identity at all cost. Now, a new study published in the latest issue of Psychological ...

In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then. Finding these hidden gems in the Hubble archive gives astronomers an invaluable time machine for comparing much earlier planet orbital motion data to more recent observations. It also demonstrates a novel approach for planet hunting in archival Hubble data. Four giant planets are known to orbit the young, massive star HR 8799, which is130 light-years away. In 2007 and 2008 the first three planets were ...

AMHERST, Mass. -- New research based on post-hospital arrival data from U.S. trauma centers finds that even after adjusting for differences in injury severity, gun use, and other likely causes of race difference in death from assault, African-Americans have a significantly higher overall post-scene of injury mortality rate than whites. The study was conducted by Anthony R. Harris, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues and published in August by the Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care. The study, ...

A study published this week in the American Journal of Sociology finds that people who lack personal wealth in the form of a car or financial assets are significantly less likely to enter into a first marriage. The results, according to study author Daniel Schneider of Princeton University, shed light on recent changes in marriage patterns in the U.S. For the past few decades, Americans have been getting married later in life and are becoming more likely forego marriage altogether. Between 1970 and 2000, the median age of first marriage in the U.S. rose by about four ...

The tropics in the eastern Pacific were quiet for a couple of days after Hurricane Hilary dissipated, and today gave birth to Tropical Depression 10 and Tropical Storm Irwin. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of both storms and saw the powerful convection in the center of Irwin that enabled the storm to go from a depression to a tropical storm in a short time. The eleventh tropical depression quickly grew into Tropical Storm Irwin this morning, as strong convection surged around its center of circulation. That convection (rising air that creates the thunderstorms ...

Tropical Storm Philippe took its time to strengthen into a hurricane because of wind shear problems. The wind shear lessened, and Philippe became a hurricane today, after 12 days of moving across the Atlantic Ocean. NASA's TRMM satellite saw towering thunderstorms and intense rainfall within Philippe yesterday, which provided forecasters with a clue that the storm was strengthening. Philippe reached hurricane status this morning, Oct. 6, 2011. Over two days, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite provided forecasters with cloud heights and rainfall rates ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists, including a group from the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has detected pulsed gamma rays from the neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula with energies far higher than the common theoretical models can explain. The pulsed gamma rays had energies between 100 and 400 billion electronvolts (Gigaelectronvolts, or GeV), far higher than 25 GeV, the highest energy radiation from the neubla previously detected. A 400 GeV photon is 11 orders of magnitude – almost a trillion ...

An international team of scientists has detected the highest energy gamma rays ever observed from a pulsar, a highly magnetized and rapidly spinning neutron star. The VERITAS experiment measured gamma rays coming from the Crab Pulsar at such large energies that they cannot be explained by current scientific models of how pulsars behave, the researchers said. The results, published today in the journal Science, outline the first observation of photons from a pulsar system with energies greater than 100 billion electron volts -- more than 50 billion times higher than ...