RALEIGH, NC—Each year, a wide variety of new cut flower cultivars and species are evaluated in trials administered by North Carolina State University and the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. The research, conducted at about 50 locations in the United States and Canada, provides valuable production and marketing information. John M. Dole and a research team from North Carolina State University undertook a multiyear study designed to identify patterns of postharvest responses to commercial hydrator and holding floral preservatives among 121 cultivars from 47 ...

QUEBEC—A new, versatile strawberry has been introduced for home gardeners. 'Roseberry' is predicted to be very popular as an ornamental addition to gardens. The strawberry features attractive pink blooms and produces sweet, aromatic fruit all summer long. Because it produces flowers and fruits on stolons before they root, 'Roseberry' works equally well in hanging baskets and when planted as groundcover. 'Roseberry' premiered in HortScience. According to scientist Shahrokh Khanizadeh, corresponding author of the report, 'Roseberry' (Fragaria xananassa Duch.) plants are ...

CHASE, LA—Sweetpotato is gaining popularity in the United States, where health-conscious consumers have created increased demand for the tasty, versatile food. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, per capita consumption of the crop increased over 24% from 1998-2008 and the value of the U.S. sweetpotato crop in 2009 exceeded $400 million. Production costs for sweetpotato crops are high, requiring that commercial growers optimize their production techniques and quality to keep up with consumer demand. Because sweetpotato is vegetatively propagated, viruses ...

Introducing increasing amounts of foods that contain baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped a majority of them outgrow their allergies, according to a study conducted at Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. The data are reported in the May 23 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers studied 88 children, ages 2 to 17 years old, who were diagnosed with milk allergy, evaluating their tolerance to foods containing baked milk, such as muffins, waffles and cookies. The high temperatures used ...

New research on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests may lead to new developments in robotics and auto-pilots. Scientists from Harvard University trained pigeons to fly through an artificial forest with a tiny camera attached to their heads, literally giving a birds-eye view. "Attaching the camera to the bird as well as filming them from either side means we can reconstruct both what the bird sees and how it moves," says Dr. Huai-Ti Lin, a lead researcher for this work who has special insight into flying as he is a remote control airplane ...

Any number of accidents might end up in a lawsuit against a municipality-perhaps the very city, town or village where you live. BEWARE! Rules that apply to such cases, or lawsuits involving many governmental agencies such as public hospitals and transportation systems, schools and government owned utilities, have strict special requirements that do not apply in other cases. To ignore those rules is very likely to prevent you from bringing a lawsuit no matter how meritorious or serious your case! In New York, as in most jurisdictions, governmental entities are entitled ...

Observation of a scientific rule being broken can sometimes lead to new knowledge and important applications. Such would seem to be the case when scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) created artificial molecules of semiconductor nanocrystals and watched them break a fundamental principle of photoluminescence known as "Kasha's rule." Named for chemist Michael Kasha, who proposed it in 1950, Kasha's rule holds that when light is shined on a molecule, the molecule will only emit light (fluorescence or ...

This year as you are waving your American Flag you should wave down a cab because The Sawaya Law Firm is offering free cab rides. This is the 4th year the Colorado personal injury law firm is offering the "Holiday Free Cab Ride Program" for those who have celebrated a little too much. It's about celebrating the Fourth of July and still being safe according to the Sawaya Law Firm's managing partner, Michael Sawaya. Michael G. Sawaya, the firm's founder, invests in this program as a way to save lives and reduce injuries from drunk drivers. The program works like ...

July 1, 2011 – (Bronx, NY) – A longstanding medical mystery – why so many people with HIV experience memory loss and other cognitive problems despite potent antiretroviral therapy – may have been solved by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings are published in the June 29 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Even though antiretroviral treatment suppresses HIV replication and slows the progress of HIV disease, between 40 and 60 percent of HIV-infected people eventually develop mild-to-moderate neurological deficits, ...

NASA's Aura Satellite has provided a view of nitrogen dioxide levels coming from the fires in New Mexico and Arizona. Detecting nitrogen dioxide is important because it reacts with sunlight to create low-level ozone or smog and poor air quality. The fierce Las Conchas fire threatened the town and National Laboratory in Los Alamos, while smoke from Arizona's immense Wallow Fire and the Donaldson Fire in central New Mexico also created nitrogen dioxides (NO2) detectable by the Ozone Measuring Instrument (OMI) that flies aboard NASA's Aura satellite. An image showing nitrogen ...

The federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program began in March, 2009, and it is expected to help 1.2 homeowners before the program expires at the end of 2012. In April, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a companion program to HAMP: the Second Lien Modification Program, which is also called 2MP. Both of these programs aid homeowners in reducing the amount of their monthly mortgage payments. Government Mortgage Modification Programs Homeowners who are employed but struggling to make ...

The question of why there are so many species in the sea and how new species form remains a central question in marine biology. Below the waterline, about 30% of Hawai'i's marine species are endemic – being found only in Hawai'i and nowhere else on Earth – one of the highest rates of endemism found worldwide. But where did this diversity of species come from? Hawai'i is famous for its adaptive radiations (the formation of many species with specialized lifestyles from a single colonist) above the water line. Still, spectacular examples of adaptive radiations such as Hawaiian ...

Divorce agreements between separating spouses are generally final once entered by a judge. However, some areas of divorce agreements, such as child support, can be modified over time as circumstances and needs change. Courts alone make and modify child support orders; in Illinois, those orders last forever. Parenthood brings with it the responsibility to provide financially for the child(ren). When parents do not live together, child support seeks to balance the financial responsibility by legally requiring regular contributions from the non-custodial parent. According ...

Bankruptcy can be a valuable tool to help Americans alleviate the burden of overwhelming debt. For many, bankruptcy conjures images of forced sales and the forfeiting of personal property. Liquidation, the defining process of Chapter 7 bankruptcy, does involve the sale of valuable assets. However, Chapter 13 bankruptcy is an entirely different animal, and may be a much more desirable option for those with significant equity in their home, a steady income or other property. How It Works In a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding, debts are restructured to make repayment ...

The Florida juvenile justice system is one of the busiest in the nation. Even so, many kids are falling through the cracks of a system designed to spot abuse, abandonment, delinquency and neglect, turning to a life of crime to get by. Florida's current tendency towards incarcerating juveniles and adults alike is slowly giving way to alternative programs that emphasize diversion, distraction and meeting children's needs in lieu of putting them on lockdown. Current Alternative Justice Programs Florida -- particularly Broward County -- is home to several groundbreaking ...

Access Legal from Shoosmiths has announced it has joined the Institute of Customer Service, making it the first top 30 legal services firm to do so. The national law firm believes that becoming a member of the Institute of Customer Service will help support its key strategic aim of delivering the highest levels of client and customer service. Access Legal provides a variety of services including personal injury claims, and considers customer service to be extremely important. The team at Access Legal aim to be friendly, supportive and caring and treat each client ...

Skype has announced an updated version of its Skype for Android app - Skype for Android 2.0, bringing Skype Video Calling to the currently fastest growing mobile OS*. With the new version, users will be able to make and receive free** 1-to-1 video calls over Skype between their Android phone and other Skype contacts on the iPhone, Mac, Windows PCs and even TVs***. The Android video call app works over Wi-Fi or 3G data connections and can be downloaded for free from the Android Market or the Skype website using any phone browser. "We are committed to bring Skype ...

BT Openzone has entered into a strategic agreement with Hilton Worldwide to provide a fully-managed suite of Wi-Fi and Internet services across hotels in the U.K. and Ireland. The new technology will provide a tenfold increase in bandwidth and an even more consistent, high-quality online experience for guests at nearly 100 Hilton Worldwide properties beginning in Autumn 2011. This agreement provides guests with BT Openzone Wi-Fi access, high-speed broadband, conference and event services in more than 17,000 bedrooms, public areas and meeting and conference spaces, including ...

Global digital marketing company bigmouthmedia has announced that it has won the contract to implement an ongoing SEO campaign for online and high street women's fashion retailer Wallis. The contract will see bigmouthmedia build on Wallis's substantial online customer base by significantly growing the firm's search engine performance around its tens of thousands of products, specific product launches, promotions and seasonal sales. The project draws on bigmouthmedia's strong retail expertise, which was recently on display when the agency published its "Innovations ...

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Samrx.com is a trustworthy online pharmacy store that was launched with an understanding of serving customers worldwide with best of generic medications on various ailments from a single platform-Internet. Through the help of this worldwide web, the pharmacy store right from its inception is committed to providing best and high level services. This virtual pharmacy store has opened up the doors for men to buy branded as well as generic medications such as Generic Viagra, as and also other safe, quality and highly effectual medications related to various health concerns. ...

Servcorp Malaysia is gearing up to position itself as a better option for business people looking for workspaces. The company recently launched a new and invigorated campaign to promote its furnished office rentals and serviced offices in key commercial districts. Servcorp Malaysia now offers two new and exciting possibilities in the office arena through their furnished office rentals and serviced offices. The company headlines these two offices as spaces set to inspire and provide key innovations in rented spaces. Furnished offices and serviced offices are now a ...

Golden Spiral Studio a Magento ecommerce development company is glad to announce the release of FREE One-Click Cart Checkout v1.0.5 this is the upgraded version of the extension. This checkout system offers customers features that other extensions do not have the capability of doing. The One-Click Cart Checkout has Configurable Fields, GEO IP Tracking, Template Integration, Ajax Recalculation, Efficient Usability, and Shopping Cart Integration. The checkout steps are reduced from six steps down to only one. Eliminating all the steps in between simplifies the process - and ...

To help law firms enhance their client development capabilities in an increasingly difficult economy, Baseline Data Systems, a leading provider of CRM for law firms, announced the launch of Office Accelerator CRM for Lawyers, a web-accessible customer relationship management (CRM) solution for small to mid-market law firms. The Office Accelerator CRM for Lawyers, offers small mid-sized law firms an opportunity to access hosted CRM services without the need for expensive IT or human resources staffing; hardware purchase and maintenance; management of data centers; database ...

Booker T. Washington Community Service Center (BTWCSC) will host the 1st Annual All Star Charity Basketball Tournament. The proceeds will aid in the rebuilding initiatives of a state-of-the-art facility that will provide housing for youth emancipated from the foster care system as well as a new community center. Sprite NBA Slam Dunk Champion Carlos Smothers is slated to host this momentous event. Many of the Bay Area's most prized celebrities will be in attendance. Special invited guests include: Vernon Davis (SF 49ers), San Quinn (artist), Philthy Rich (artist), Quentin ...