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Science 2012-07-04

DASCOM Americas Clarifies Products Referenced in Its May 22nd 2012 Press Release

DASCOM Americas, a recognized leader in complete business printing solutions and marketer of Tally(R) and TallyDascom(R) serial matrix printers hereby announces clarification to its press release from May 22nd 2012 (paragraph 5). The May 22nd release included a potentially ambiguous reference to "TallyGenicom products." To be clear, DASCOM Americas does not sell or market, has never sold or marketed, and did not intend to suggest that it will sell or market, whether in Brazil or elsewhere, any products under the "TallyGenicom" mark, which is proprietary ...
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Medicine 2012-07-04

WinADay Casino Celebrates American Independence Day with Slots Tournaments and Casino Bonuses

With barely time to tidy up after its 4th birthday party, WinADay Casino's Independence Day celebrations begin today. There will be daily slots tournaments at the instant play casino as well as random draws for cash prizes up to $400 and Fourth of July Casino Bonuses up to 44%. Independence Day slots tournaments begin today on the America-themed Grand Liberty slots game. Every day until Sunday, the top five players will each win prizes up to $200. Players are automatically entered in the tournament when they play Grand Liberty during the slots tournament period. "OK, ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Rising Point Solutions, LLC Announces Special Military Program & Essay Contest

The staff at Rising Point has offered a special military discount on their credit restoration program for some time, but when Director of Marketing, Carolyn Clark, was scrolling through Facebook recently, she saw a re-post from a military veteran that struck a chord. It was a photo of spray-painted lettering on a garage door: "Foreclosed! 3 tours in Iraq but no bailout for people like me." One of the Dallas-Fort Worth Account Executives, Kelly Stone, saw the re-post as well, and they both agreed that something could be done by the company for military service ...
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Science 2012-07-04

English Poker Open 2012 Qualifiers Start Today

The English Poker Open, being held from 18-21 September at the Fox Poker Club, London, is delighted to announce that its online qualifiers programme starts today. Registration for the tournament is also now open. Sponsored by RakeTheRake this esteemed live tournament is offering players GBP250,000 guaranteed. The EPO qualifier schedule commences today with online satellites from Genting Poker. The series continues with further online qualifiers from Cake Poker, Colt Poker, Euro Club Poker, Intertops Poker, Lock Poker and Power Poker. There will also be live EPO qualifiers ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Danbury Law Firm to Represent City of St. Pete Beach, Florida in BP Disaster

The City Commission of St. Pete Beach, Florida voted to retain the Danbury, CT-based law firm of Ventura, Ribeiro & Smith to pursue recovery of the economic losses sustained by the City as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including lost tax revenues and tourist-related income. Agostinho J. Ribeiro, Managing Partner of Ventura, Ribeiro & Smith, comments, "the evidence we have obtained over the past year and a half will show the nature and extent of BP's irresponsible behavior in this matter. Our team is prepared to go to trial, and we believe we ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Florida Supreme Court to Decide Issue with Fraudulent Foreclosure Documents

Florida Supreme Court to Decide Issue with Fraudulent Foreclosure Documents Five years later, the scourge of the foreclosure crisis still affects thousands of homeowners across the state of Florida. Illegal foreclosures have been especially problematic, as banks raced through the legal process and ejected people from their homes. After reports surfaced of thousands of foreclosure affidavits being signed by people who did not have actual knowledge of what they were signing, many foreclosure suits were withdrawn or dismissed. Ultimately, homeowners were able to avoid foreclosure ...
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Medicine 2012-07-04

Missouri Supreme Court Reviews Constitutionality of Medical Malpractice Caps

Missouri Supreme Court Reviews Constitutionality of Medical Malpractice Caps The Missouri Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of the state's tough statutory limits on medical malpractice awards. Many believe that the caps deny crucial compensation to victims of medical negligence. Current Missouri Medical Malpractice Cap In 2005, the state of Missouri adopted a law that limits medical malpractice awards to $350,000 for non-economic damages, regardless of the number of defendants involved in the case. Non-economic damages are those which are awarded ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Paying Child Support After a Child Turns 18

Paying Child Support After a Child Turns 18 Many people who are subject to a child support order wonder if they can automatically stop making payments once the child reaches the age of 18. Parents who receive support payments have this question as well, because they often pay many of their children's expenses as they attend college. The answer is not always simple and depends on a number of factors. Generally, court-ordered child support must be paid until a child reaches the age of 18, is legally emancipated or becomes married. The support obligation may also terminate ...
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Technology 2012-07-04

Actos Litigation Streamlined To Aid Victims

Actos Litigation Streamlined To Aid Victims A recent order issued by a judicial panel will likely streamline the filing process for those who were injured by the diabetes drug Actos. Use of the medication - which is designed to treat type 2 diabetes - for more than one year allegedly increases the risk of heart failure and bladder cancer, along with other potentially severe side effects. Cases against the manufacturer of Actos, Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., are being filed throughout the country. In an attempt to expedite relief for victims of the medication, the ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Creditors Still Try to Collect During Bankruptcy

Creditors Still Try to Collect During Bankruptcy The automatic stay is a fundamental part of the bankruptcy process. It is essentially a grace period granted to debtors who have filed for bankruptcy protection that prevents creditors contacting them or collecting on any debts listed in the petition. The stay goes into effect immediately upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition, and generally continues until the court orders a discharge. Once a discharge is granted, a debtor's legal obligation to pay most debt is extinguished. Unfortunately, this does not stop some ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Bank of America May Reduce Mortgages For Some New Jersey Residents

Bank of America May Reduce Mortgages For Some New Jersey Residents As part of an $11.8 billion dollar settlement, Bank of America is mailing letters to many of its mortgage customers offering loan modifications. Approximately 200,000 customers, including some in New Jersey, could be impacted by these loan modifications. Some Bank of America loans will be reduced by as much as $100,000. To qualify, borrowers must be at least 60 days behind on payments and owe more than the house is worth, among other criteria. More than 11 million American households owe more than ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Seaman Fatigue: A Hidden Problem with Serious Consequences

Seaman Fatigue: A Hidden Problem with Serious Consequences Most Americans have experienced fatigue in the course of their work lives, such as trudging into work after a sleepless night or carrying life's worries into the workplace. Unfortunately, working while fatigued can be particularly dangerous for those who are in charge of the nation's most complex machinery like airplanes, trains and ships. What is Fatigue? According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), fatigue is caused by poor quality sleep or insufficient sleep due primarily to a worker's ...
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Science 2012-07-04

Hampton Inn Spartanburg Hotel North Offers Special Rates to Choral Festival 2012 Participants

Hampton Inn Spartanburg Hotel North offers nearby lodging and special rates to attendees at the 2012 Choral Festival for Christian music supply. The event will take place at First Baptist Church of Spartanburg on August 2-4, 2012, with a bonus night, open to the community, on August 1. Participants can book special hotel rates of $74 per night at the Hampton Inn Spartanburg North. The special rate is subject to availability; some restrictions may apply. The Choral Festival 2012 will include offering over 45 specialized workshops covering virtually every aspect of church ...
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Technology 2012-07-04

Attend National Black Arts Festival and Stay at Hampton Inn & Ste Atlanta Airport Hotel on North I-85

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers nearby lodging to guests attending the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF ), a celebration of the art, music, and culture of people of African descent. The summer festival takes place July 6-15, 2012, with a few exhibits running longer. The main weekend of the festival is July 12-15, with events taking place at Centennial Olympic Park and other venues in Atlanta, GA. NBAF 2012 events include: - "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", performance (July 10 - 29) - Coretta Scott King Awards Book ...
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Environment 2012-07-04

National Trust Heritage Gardens Benefit From Major New Plant Conservation Centre

Rare plants from National Trust gardens across the country will be propagated at a new Plant Conservation Centre that will improve the way one of the most important plant collections in the UK is cared for. Opened by international plantsman Roy Lancaster, the new 2.5 acre facility at a secret East Devon location will bring together plant propagation facilities, plant collection management expertise and facilities for training National Trust staff on all aspects of caring for the important plants in the gardens they look after. The opening of the new facilities comes ...
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Technology 2012-07-04

British Airways and One Direction to Host High Flying Dinner Date

British Airways has announced that One Direction, one of the world's biggest bands, is to host the ultimate high-flying dinner date on BA jet. The fab five, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik, will take to the skies to help raise funds for Comic Relief. The charter flight will be given the original flight number BA1D. They will be joined on the exclusive sky-high date by eight lucky fans who will have the chance to win tickets in a competition which has been launched on social media sites including the British Airways Facebook ...
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Science 2012-07-04

$130k Raised for Variety's Culinary Night of Nights

Amongst the stand out performances, was rising star, Melanie Dyer, who had impressed Joel Madden with her encore performance during The Voice's blind auditions. Melanie was amongst celebrities, radio star Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli, past and present MasterChef contestants Alvin Quah, Audra Morrice and Kylie Millar as well as personalities, Steve Willis, 'Commando' from The Biggest Loser, Karen Ledbury, Lizzy Lovett, Glenn Wheeler, who all frocked up for a night of culinary indulgence. The event raised an enormous $130k NET for Variety - the Children's Charity. Guests ...
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Science 2012-07-04

During Winter Months AAMI See Surge in Animal Collision Claims

The shorter days of winter see a 40% jump in animal collisions on Australian roads compared to the summer months, according to claims data from leading national insurer, AAMI. With twilight coinciding more closely with peak hour on rural roads, and city drivers taking to the country for a winter break, animals and cars are more likely to cross paths. "Through the winter months, daylight is shorter and we are on the roads more at the very time of day when animals, such as kangaroos, tend to be more active and invade our roadways," said Reuben Aitchison, AAMI ...
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Medicine 2012-07-03

Secrets of lung cancer drug resistance revealed at UCSF

People with lung cancer who are treated with the drug Tarceva face a daunting uncertainty: although their tumors may initially shrink, it's not a question of whether their cancer will return—it's a question of when. And for far too many, it happens far too soon. Now, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center has discovered that a human protein called AXL drives resistance to Tarceva, which suggests that blocking the protein may prevent resistance to the cancer drug. The discovery, described ...
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Medicine 2012-07-03

Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for July 3, 2012, issue

1. After First Heart Attack, Patients Likely to Return to the Hospital for Unrelated Issues Comorbid Conditions and Treatment Complications Contribute to High Rehospitalization Rate Each year nearly 785,000 people are hospitalized for a first heart attack. Treatment advances have contributed to improved survival rates, but rehospitalization in the first 30 days after discharge remains a common and costly problem. Researchers studied 3,010 patients in one health system who were hospitalized with a first-time heart attack between 1987 and 2010 to determine the rate of rehospitalization, ...
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Science 2012-07-03

Are brown widows displacing black widow spiders around southern California homes?

Brown widow spiders are relatively new to North America, where they were first documented in Florida in 1935, and even newer to southern California, where they were only recently discovered in 2003. However, in the last decade they have been so successful that they may be displacing native black widow spiders. If so, the overall danger to homeowners may decrease because brown widow spider bites are less toxic than those of native western black widow spiders. In "The Prevalence of Brown Widow and Black Widow Spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Urban Southern California," ...
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Science 2012-07-03

Do the world's smallest flies decapitate tiny ants?

A new species of phorid fly from Thailand is the smallest fly ever discovered. At just 0.40 millimeters in length, it is 15 times smaller than a house fly and five times smaller than a fruit fly. The tiny fly, Euryplatea nanaknihali, is also the first of its genus to be discovered in Asia, and it belongs to a fly family (Phoridae) that is known for "decapitating" ants. Some species in the Phoridae fly family lay eggs in the bodies of ants, and the resulting larvae feed in the ants' heads, eventually causing decapitation. In fact, some of these phorid flies are being ...
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Science 2012-07-03

Study: Botulinum toxin a shot in the arm for preventing MS tremor

MINNEAPOLIS – Botulinum toxin may help prevent shaking or tremor in the arms and hands of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research published in the July 3, 2012, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Treatments in use for tremor in MS are not sufficiently effective and new alternatives are needed," said study author Anneke van der Walt, MD, consultant neurologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and research fellow with the University of Melbourne in Australia. For the study 23 people with MS were ...
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Medicine 2012-07-03

Physical activity needed in order to reap benefits of dietary restriction

Fruit flies on dietary restriction (DR) need to be physically active in order to get the lifespan extending benefits that come from their Spartan diet. If the same axiom holds true in humans, those practicing caloric restriction in hopes of living longer need to make sure they eat enough to avoid fatigue. According to research at the Buck Institute, flies on DR shift their metabolism toward increasing fatty acid synthesis and breakdown, specifically in muscle tissue. "Dietary restriction is known to enhance spontaneous movement in a variety of species including primates, ...
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Environment 2012-07-03

Multiple proxy datasets can clarify ancient climate regimes

Tree ring and oxygen isotope data from the U.S. Pacific Northwest do not provide the same information on past precipitation, but rather than causing a problem, the differing results are a good thing, according to a team of geologists. The researchers are trying to understand the larger spatial patterns and timing of drought in the arid and semiarid areas of the American West. "We generally understand that the Medieval Climate Anomaly, a warm period in much of the northern hemisphere that occurred about 950 to 1250 was a dry period in the American West," said Byron ...
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