Wildlife artist Debra Otterstein was commissioned by Marie Karlsson to create a unique gift for her friend Wally Hennessey. Otterstein is best known for creating realistic and detailed wildlife art on delicate feathers. "I loved Mr. Hennessey's story and was honored to be included in this very special event, what an amazing accomplishment," Otterstein stated. A painted feather piece was produced showing Hennessey and his Standardbred horse heading for the finish line. The art is framed in a custom handcrafted shadow box created specifically for the piece by Michael ...

According to a recent Pew Center study, more people are visiting the ER for dental complaints. In 2011, 115,000 Floridians visited the ER for dental pain. On the west coast, Californians made 83,000 trips to the ER for dental conditions. Many of these trips could have been evaded with routine dental care. In the emergency room, doctors administer drugs to relieve pain, but the underlying dental problem isn't normally treated. While the medication can alleviate immediate pain, the real problem still exists. Many patients can't pay for a dentist, and their dental ailments ...

Private equity investment company Sullivan Street Partners, along with direct investment business, Oakfield Capital Partners is leading an acquisition of the UK's waste and recycling bin manufacturer, Taylor Continental Group. The family-owned business is said to be the market leader in four-wheeled steel, waste and recycle system designs. The company dates back to 1962 and was formerly known as Egbert H Taylor & Co. Ltd. In 2005, the company was bought by ECI Partners, with Sullivan Street working in tandem with ECI to manage the group just months before the deal took ...

Business Day, hosted by four-time Super Bowl winner and current co-host of Fox NFL Sunday Terry Bradshaw, has featured Access Technology Solutions (ATS) in a recent Fox Business Network segment detailing how online retailers and direct sellers are providing international online shoppers with best of breed shopping experiences. Business Day's profile caps an impressive year for ATS, which saw the international commerce and logistics solutions provider open multiple new proprietary shipping lanes into strategic markets including Australia, Canada and China. ATS serves ...

Recently, the 42nd Annual World Economic Forum took place in Davos, Switzerland, under the theme The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models. The record participation indicated the international community's level of concern for the world today, as one crisis after another emerges. Global business leaders and heads of state, focused on improving the state of the world, acknowledged that our current financial systems need a redesign, and that to survive, companies must constantly reinvent themselves and become socially responsible. At the K.E.Y.S. Los Angeles economic ...

MadCap Software, Inc. (www.madcapsoftware.com), the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has published a new case study on Squire Technologies Limited. By taking advantage of MadCap Flare and MadCap Contributor, the company has been able to convert its print documentation into dynamic Web-based content that is intuitive and easy to search. The full Squire case study is available at: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/casestudy/squire.aspx. A global provider of ...

History Associates, the leading U.S. historical research firm, announces that the history of Blount Fine Foods has been published. From Sea to Soup, written by Dr. Kenneth D. Durr, tells the story of how a World War II-era shellfish processing company evolved to become a producer of gourmet seafood soups. This history comes at a pivotal time at the company, as it has recently begun producing high-end prepared foods exclusively, after a 50-year heritage of processing clams. "I've often said that it is our ability to embrace change in the market that will define our ...

Dydacomp, a leading provider of business technology platforms for small and mid-sized eCommerce and multichannel merchants, announced that buySAFE Guaranteed, the leading provider of third party guarantees for increased online retailer profitability and customer satisfaction, will be included as an integrated feature of SiteLINK 7, the newest release of its eCommerce store software. This integration will allow online merchants on the SiteLINK platform to easily enable buySAFE with one-click activation and try the solution for 30 days at no cost. buySAFE transactional ...

Do you struggle with your health or fitness? Has your body taken on a shape that is not the real you? Are you aware a vegan diet will not only improve your sex life, but your skin as well? Local health expert Ruben Guzman and newly published author of Evolving Health shares the below following sexy benefits of a healthy vegan lifestyle. Coach Ruben's health information is as follows: - Erectile dysfunction is often the first clinical indicator of cardiovascular disease. It is the "canary in the coal mine" and usually an indication of more serious problems. - ...

Business Leader, a multi-media company that offers marketing campaigns for executives and business owners, has named Lucas (Luke) T. Baker as one of the Top 50 Entrepreneurs of 2012. Honorees are entrepreneurs who have created innovative, successful companies that contribute to their industries and business communities. The Top 50 Entrepreneur award showcases forward-thinking business owners. Luke Baker leads a team of dedicated lawyers and support staff. The Baker Law Firm, P.A. provides clients with client-focused, professional and successful representation. The ...

Chicago, IL – March 10, 2012 -- More than two-thirds of human genes have counterparts in the well-studied fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, so although it may seem that humans don't have much in common with flies, the correspondence of our genetic instructions is astonishing. In fact, there are hundreds of inherited diseases in humans that have Drosophila counterparts. At the ongoing Genetics Society of America's 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago, several scientific investigators shared their knowledge of some of these diseases, including ataxia-telangiectasia ...

UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that insulin and nutrition keep blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood cells in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a finding that has implications for studying inflammatory response and blood development in response to dietary changes in humans. Keeping blood stem cells, or progenitor cells, from differentiating into blood cells is important as they are needed to create the blood supply for the adult fruit fly. The study found that the blood stem cells are receiving systemic signals from insulin and nutritional ...

LA JOLLA, CA----The well-being of living cells requires specialized squads of proteins that maintain order. Degraders chew up worn-out proteins, recyclers wrap up damaged organelles, and-most importantly-DNA repair crews restitch anything that resembles a broken chromosome. If repair is impossible, the crew foreman calls in executioners to annihilate a cell. As unsavory as this last bunch sounds, failure to summon them is one aspect of what makes a cancer cell a cancer cell. A recent study from scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies showed exactly how ...

The Hampton Inn Gaffney Hotel is offering a special promotion that lets guests earn more points from Hilton HHonors . Travelers who sign up for the More Points promotion will earn 1,000 Bonus Points per night plus 5,000 Bonus Points for every weekend stay for two nights or more for stays now through March 31, 2012. Special offers and rates are subject to availability; some restrictions may apply. Among other Gaffney South Carolina hotels, the Hampton Inn Gaffney is a leading place to stay in the area. The property's features and amenities include: - Free hot breakfast ...

There's something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the "Man in the Moon" who faithfully accompanies us through life. The synchronous rotation of the Moon taking the same amount of time to spin around its own axis as it does to revolve around Earth is what causes the Moon to "lock eyes" with Earth, resulting in one of its hemispheres constantly facing us. But is there a reason why this particular half of the Moon locked with Earth, or was it pure coincidence that it didn't "turn its back" on us? Through careful analysis and simulations, ...

The fate of nearly half a million immigrants hoping for U.S. citizenship may have been determined randomly, at least in part, according to a new study by a Michigan State University researcher who found the high-stakes civics test isn't a reliable measure of civics knowledge. To be awarded citizenship, immigrants must correctly answer six of 10 questions on the verbally administered civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test, said Paula Winke, assistant professor of second language studies. Questions are randomly selected by an immigration officer from a pool of ...

Super 8 Monroe NC Hotel offers convenient lodging to students and their parents attending upcoming Top Scholars Days at Wingate University. The events will take place on campus March 17, 2012 and April 21, 2012; reservations are required. Top Scholars Day was created for admitted students to have the opportunity to chat with current students and professors at Wingate University. Attending students may compete for free tuition in the Tweet for Tuition Challenge. "Situated only 5 miles from the school, our hotel near Wingate University is looking forward to welcoming ...

Los Angeles, March 12, 2012 – Cedars-Sinai researchers have unlocked the mystery of how an inflammatory molecule is produced in the body, a discovery they say could lead to advances in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Type 2 diabetes and numerous other chronic diseases that affect tens of millions of people. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is published online by the peer-reviewed journal Immunity and will appear in the March print edition. The researchers identified for the first time the mechanism that leads to the production of the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In the beginning – of the ribosome, the cell's protein-building workbench – there were ribonucleic acids, the molecules we call RNA that today perform a host of vital functions in cells. And according to a new analysis, even before the ribosome's many working parts were recruited for protein synthesis, proteins also were on the scene and interacting with RNA. This finding challenges a long-held hypothesis about the early evolution of life. The study appears in the journal PLoS ONE. The "RNA world" hypothesis, first promoted in 1986 in a paper in the ...

AUDIO: This is an audio recording of the distinctive "ribbit " call of the Pacific chorus frog (28 seconds long, MP3 file, WAV file available on request). This noisy frog is a potent... Click here for more information. Known for its distinctive "ribbit" call, the noisy Pacific chorus frog is a potent carrier of a deadly amphibian disease, according to new research published today in the journal PLoS ONE. Just how this common North American frog survives chytridiomycosis ...

Four articles in the current issue draw attention to policy initiatives and implications of the rapidly changing U.S. health care environment. Collectively, they examine some of the challenges and opportunities facing the country following the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Researchers Project Cost of Family Health Insurance Premiums Will Surpass Household Income by 2033 Updating estimates of who will be able to afford health insurance in the future in light of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that reformed health ...

Using injectable diacetylmorphine — the active ingredient in heroin — to treat chronic opioid addiction is cheaper and more effective than methadone, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Methadone is the most common treatment for people who are dependent on opioids such as heroin, although research indicates that most people over time go back to using illicit drugs. The North American Opiate Medication Initiative, a randomized controlled trial, indicated that diacetylmorphine is more effective in keeping opioid-dependent people in treatment. ...

A 21,626-person study published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that the five-year survival rate for children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer, improved from 83.7 percent in those diagnosed during the years 1990-1994, to 90.4 percent for those diagnosed in the years 2000-2005. "The improved survival is due to using existing drugs better, not because of the introduction of new drugs. We're indebted to all the families who choose to join these clinical trials, allowing us to optimize these combinations," ...

PHILADELPHIA (March 12, 2012) – Scientists from the Monell Center report that seven of 12 related mammalian species have lost the sense of sweet taste. As each of the sweet-blind species eats only meat, the findings demonstrate that a liking for sweets is frequently lost during the evolution of diet specialization. Previous research from the Monell team had revealed the remarkable finding that both domestic and wild cats are unable to taste sweet compounds due to defects in a gene that controls structure of the sweet taste receptor. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning ...

Medically prescribed heroin is more cost-effective than methadone for treating long-term street heroin users, according to a new study by researchers at Providence Health Care and the University of British Columbia. The study, published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), attributed most of the economic benefits to the fact that recipients of medically prescribed heroin (diacetylmorphine) stayed in treatment longer and spent less time in relapse than those receiving methadone. Both results are associated with reduced criminal activity and lower health ...