The initiative has seen Adam Harries, Project Officer, at Groundwork Derby & Derbyshire, collecting old unclaimed bikes from local police stations and organising collections from the general public, in order to hold bike maintenance courses in local schools. The project also works to reduce landfill in the local area, which has been praised by not only the local community but by the local authorities. Kirsty Youngs, Managing Director at Groundwork Derby & Derbyshire, said: "Our bike recycling project has so far been a great success, but our Lottery funding ...

Small business payroll tax software provider, Halfpricesoft.com, released the updated version of ezW2, the w2 and 1099-misc form printing software, for Year 2011/2012 tax season. ezW2 was designed with the small business owner in mind, delivering an easy-to-use product that meets the needs of small businesses and completing form preparation more efficiently and with less cost. The new version includes: - New Year 2011 W2 and W3 Forms - New Year 2011 1099-misc and 1096 Forms - Enhanced user interface with form level help buttons - New Electronic Filing feature, ...

ScoDate.com is a new free to join online dating community just for Scotland. As soon as members join they can add their photo and create their very own personal Scottish profile page. Sending a cheeky 'wink' to contact other Scottish members straight away is easy too. Using geographical search members are able to find other Scots throughout the whole of Scotland from the northern Isles, Orkney and Shetland to the Lowlands and Scottish Borders. Members can also use more advanced search options to find other Scottish dates by age, interest, post code, whether they have ...

Leading interactive gaming software and services provider, GTECH G2 announces a partnership with digibet. GTECH G2 will provide digibet with its instant casino games including the market leading French Roulette and best selling Fortunes of Egypt. As part of the four year partnership GTECH G2 will work with digibet to continue to develop the site with a range of products and services. William Scott, Vice President of GTECH G2 said, "We are very excited about working with digibet, who are a market leading brand and the opportunity that the partnership represents." Günter ...

Heehaw breaks new ground again with a series of captivating digital images for the University of Stirling. In possibly the first commercial use of cinemagraphs in Scotland, Stirling also believes it is the first UK university to use them. Cinemagraphs are a new technique which add motion to still photographs resulting in photographs that move. They were invented by two US photographers to illustrate fashion and news photographs and the first examples appeared early in 2011. They are created by filming short sequences and editing the moving footage into a still image, ...

Business Improvement specialists, Oliver Wight, have announced the opening of a new office in Hong Kong. The new office is part of the consultancy's wider expansion across Asia. Oliver Wight are presenting at the inaugural S-Council Annual Congress in December and are holding an education academy in Singapore in January. Mike Reed, Managing Partner at the business improvement specialists says: "The Asian region is strong and growing rapidly, and we're increasingly working with organisations in this part of the world. The new Hong Kong office means we will be ...

Kevin Kramer, a certified building analyst from Dr. Energy Saver Yorktown has recently been featured on the local television program, The Hampton Roads Show. The Hampton Roads Show is a local lifestyle TV show that airs on weekday mornings at 11 a.m. on WAVY channel 10, in front of a live studio audience. Leaky houses are big money wasters according to Kramer, who says that such leaks cause a homeowner to continue paying to heat a space over and over again. In other words, the heat from the first time the heater turned on has already been lost, and has to be replenished, ...

Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular machines of the future. More than 50 years later, synthetic molecular switches are a dime a dozen, but synthetically designed molecular machines are few and far between. Northwestern University chemists recently teamed up with a University of Maine physicist to explore the question, "Can artificial molecular machines deliver on their promise?" Their provocative analysis provides a roadmap outlining future challenges ...

Inventory management software provides real time data on sales, stock levels and orders within your business, whether the business trades on the high street, online or both. For example, should an item suddenly become out of stock, all terminals and points of sale for the business, and potentially any websites as well, can be instantly updated with the information, removing the risk that orders can be taken for unavailable goods. Once an item is back in stock, the information can be relayed back to the terminals, points of sale and websites, enabling the item to be displayed ...

How to improve the performance of the plasma actuators is a problem that is of great interest to many scientific researchers in the field of electrohydrodynamics. Professor WANG Lianze and his group from the School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, set out to investigate this problem. They developed novel plasma actuators using various winding-shaped electrodes to create plasma actuators which induce three-dimensional variations in the shear layer, offering significant flexibility in flow control. Their work, entitled "Study of Flow Induced by Sine Wave and Saw Tooth Plasma ...

Precision electric golf trolley reviews are mostly down to word of mouth of their record sales figures this year. Not only is their product being appreciated by golfers all around Europe but especially in the UK. It seems many people are talking about their friendly customer service and easy Internet purchasing and support service. Sales Manager Jim Mathieson believes that having a great product sells itself. He said, "I understand certain people are slightly wary of ordering on the Internet, but customers who do are getting the product at its lowest price and ...

Giving the gift of two wheels or sprucing up a home with new festive decorations can be done without breaking the bank thanks to new savings on top brands on show from DiscountVouchers.co.uk. The retail savings website has this week launched a new choice of money off coupons and deals redeemable at B&Q, Halfords and more. The DiscountVouchers.co.uk website has this week been updated to include new Halfords vouchers designed to help UK shoppers save on bikes for both kids and grownups. Available among the Halfords deals are offers such as 50% Off Selected Apollo Kids ...

A minute a day for healthier skin, Clarisonic skin cleansing system, initially used as treatments by top dermatologists and spas is now made available as a home-use product. With its built in one minute timer, Clarisonic works to unclog pores for deeper cleansing, working with the skin's natural elasticity without stripping it. Proven to reduce appearance of pores, fine lines, wrinkles, and improve skin tone. Refine your daily skincare routine with Clarisonic's line of nourishing skin cleansers and gels. Safe for all skin types, Clarisonic launches in December 2011. Products ...

Radisson Blu Hotel and Spa, Limerick has pledged its support for "Living in a Window", an annual project run by Limerick's Live 95FM which raises funds for two worthwhile Limerick children's charities: CARI (Children at Risk in Ireland) and The Children's Ark Unit at the Midwestern Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle. The staff at the Limerick hotel completed a sponsored treadmill challenge in the lobby area as part of the "Living in a Window" campaign and their own Responsible Business Programme. During this time, the staff, as well as some loyal leisure ...

SABA is proud to announce the launch of the 2011 SABA online Christmas Gift Guide and its Christmas initiative, in conjunction with Inala, a Rudolf Steiner organisation supporting individuals with disabilities. This Christmas, in the spirit of giving, SABA will donate $5 for every $50 spent on gift cards to support the wonderful work of this organisation, http://www.saba.com.au/giftcardinfo. Inala, founded in 1958, provides a range of services to support each person to develop skills, participate in the community and to live as independently as possible. Inala supports ...

ACISCO - a modular office furniture company available online at http://www.ACISCO.com - is now offering a Thanksgiving and Black Friday sale on select models from its collection of office seating. The sale began on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 and will run for one week. As a bonus, the office and reception room furniture provider promises to ship items within 48 hours of receiving payment. ACISCO is currently offering Black Friday deals on four products, beginning with a pair of multi-function mesh chairs. The modular office furniture provider has discounted one $265.49 ...

Author and CEO of Sunray Group, Timothy Hedrick returns with a new anthology of personal essays, A Collection of Thoughts (121 pp., Infinity Publishing, $10.95). The book builds on the success of Hedrick's 2009 release, A Fulfilled Life, with a series of personal essays that both entertain and inspire. Hedrick's style is poetic, yet accessible, using everyday language and observations to explore the deeper questions of life in the 2000s. With a love of nature and a gift for unexpected twists, Hedrick offers no clear-cut answers to the questions he poses. Instead, Tim ...

Navigis, a leading global integrator of ServiceNow software and services and Third Sky, the leading IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions provider, today announced a partnership to provide ITIL-based best practices, education and consulting services with IT services implementation and product training to help organizations improve overall levels of IT service delivery and service support. The exclusive partnership allows the two companies to provide a wide range of complimentary solutions for organizations who have already implemented a ServiceNow solution or those ...

HospitalPortal.NET, a leading provider of secure healthcare-specific intranet sites for electronic information sharing and publishing has teamed up with internationally recognized Policies and Procedures authority Raymond Urgo for a compelling educational webinar. Most healthcare organizations miss the mark in defining their investment in their P&P programs. Join this session to learn the essential components and reasons for having a balanced investment in Policies and Procedures, and the consequences when unbalanced. He will share leading-edge practices for P&P ...

Florida State Legislators Attempt Texting and Driving Ban One More Time Despite being in the Southeast, some may regard the state of Florida as The Wild West of distracted driving. Many states have bans on texting and handheld phone use while behind the wheel, but Florida has no such laws on distracted driving. As a result Florida drivers are free to text and use their cellphones on the road. Some may even say that Florida drivers are also free to endanger themselves and others on the road. As the danger of distracted driving becomes more recognized, Florida's lack ...

Mitigating the Financial Impact of Late-in-Life Divorce According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. divorce rate in 2009 was 3.5 divorces per 1,000 people. Taken by itself, this data reveals that the U.S. divorce rate has slowly decreased in the past few years. However, the data may be skewed by the recent recession -- many would-be divorced couples have remained married for the financial benefits it provides. Financial Challenges for Late-in-Life Divorce Married couples who have been married most of their lives generally settle into retirement ...

Distracted Drivers Remain Threat To Motorcyclists We have all seen other drivers talking on cell phones, eating or looking at maps while behind the wheel. These are the kinds of actions that lead to serious highway accidents; and they're the ones that the officials behind National Distracted Driving Awareness Month hope to promote every April. The hope is that by focusing attention on these driver distractions, the number of accidents on the nation's highways will fall. Distracted driving is a key concern for motorcyclists. After all, they have far less protection ...

Baby Boomers Currently Divorcing More Than Any Other Age Group Once a marriage has survived for 20 years -- through all its difficulties, after raising children and building a career -- one would think the marriage could survive anything. Yet baby boomers are increasingly getting divorced, even if the marriage has lasted 20 years or more. A study by the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University found the rate of divorce for people over 50 has doubled. Also, according to recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, a quarter of ...

Massachusetts Grants Certain Grandparent Visitation Rights Children begin forming meaningful relationships very early in their lives. At a young age children rely on their parents for nearly everything they need, and they also begin to cultivate lifelong bonds with any siblings they may have. As they grow they form friendships with neighborhood children, classmates, as well as kids on their sports teams or any other organization they might be part of. Each one of these relationships is essential to a child's growth and development, but one important relationship is ...

How to Spot When an Aging Loved One Needs Help Asking for help is never easy, especially for an aging loved one used to being self-reliant. Yet as seniors grow further into their golden years, they may need a great deal of help keeping up with day-to-day tasks. But it's not uncommon for seniors to let basic needs go entirely unmet before they tell another person that they're no longer able and need help. How do you help in such a case? It's important to avoid putting an elderly person on the defensive. "Elder Care Made Easier" author Marion Somers advises ...