Home sales in Charlotte have been dropping sharply since January, accelerating a slump that began in 2006. Interestingly though, as sales have been dropping, prices have been rising. The average price of a home is up 15.3 percent since last year, and the cost per square foot for housing in Charlotte has risen a full 29 percent. Residents of Charlotte clearly are finding it less and less affordable to move into a new home, and are paying higher costs for less space. Times like these are ideal for renovating or redecorating an existing home. Wise homeowners will turn to ...

With the Middle East region's only trade and networking event for the lighting design and technology industries set to open today (Monday, September 12), trade professionals, architects, designers, project managers and developers around the region will be paying close attention to new developments in the rapidly changing world of lighting technology. Light Middlle East 2011, which will run until September 14 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, is reputed to be the platform of choice, where international developers, manufacturers and service ...

"Whether you have a personal blog or a business blog, WordPress Club Membership will be a must-have for those who want a quality product that's unique, professional-looking, and cutting edge," said Yuriy Sorochev, founder of TheThe Fly. At this time, there are three levels of membership of WP Club. Products and services available to club members vary depending on the membership level. WP Club membership levels are as follows: TheThe Fly WordPress Free Club Membership --- Includes access to download only the FREE WP Club themes and plug-ins with GPL License ...

Measuring just 36x13mm, Gamma E1 is a miniature ¼ wave dipole antenna, allowing a direct "plug and play" connection without additional tuning circuitry. Available with UFL, GSC or MXTK connector options, Gamma E1 ensures suitability with quad band GSM/GPRS cellular engines fitted with the corresponding board mounted connector. Designed for use in embedded equipment where space is a constraint, Gamma E1 provides a VSWR ratio of sub 2:1 across the 824 - 960MHz and 1710 - 1990MHz frequencies at a maximum 2dBi gain. Ideally suited for mounting to the inside of ...

DHEx Enterprises, LLC, a Philadelphia-based small business, will host its 2nd Annual Black Family Technology Awareness Showcase on February 18th, 2012 and are seeking sponsors and participants. The Black Family Technology Awareness Showcase is in recognition of the National Black Family Technology Awareness Week which is held during Black History Month. National Black Family Technology Awareness Week is a nationwide program to educate and empower our families through technology and prepare us to become an integral part of the fastest-moving industry of all time. The ...

Greg Martin Auctions / Heritage Auctions is proud to present an exceptional three-part event on September 18, 2011, in Dallas, Texas. Among the more than 1020 lots going up for bid are items sure to interest World War II historians and collectors. Several lots feature exceptional provenance related to Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and his demise in April 1945 in the waning days of World War II. Rare & unique, the lots include the historic clothing ensemble of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, captured during their attempted escape, just prior ...

CUnet (www.cunet.com) announced today that three colleges have selected CUnet's Inquiry Management team to manage their enrollment marketing programs. Northwestern College, National College and Wright College have selected CUnet to help them oversee and advise on their media planning and inquiry vendor management, expand their reach, support their brand, and generate more interest from prospective students. "We were looking for two key things. First, we wanted a team that would work with us closely and act as a partner—CUnet was an obvious choice, given their solid ...

Dentistry has become a relaxing procedure for most patients. If you are one of the patients who is terrified by dentistry or the thought of seeing a dentist, Delany Dental Care (http://www.delanydentalcare.com) has the answers you seek. Patients can chose from a variety of anxiolytic medications that ease the anxiety of dentistry and allow it to become a pleasant experience. The use of Nitrous Oxide in conjunction with anxiolytic medication is an efficient method of easing fear and eliminating discomfort for almost all patients. Many patients actually sleep through their ...

First of its kind benchmark research just completed from Ventana Research shows organizations are adopting cloud computing and cloud-based software at a rapid pace. The research show that nearly 20 percent of organizations are already using it and 40 percent more plan to deploy it in the next 12 months. Using cloud computing allows organizations to rent and access applications easily and then have data created and stored underneath. While easy to get started it is not so easy to access and integrate the data for business purposes. The research shows that while access ...

Christopher Flach releases his new film Olek "bad artists imitate, good artists steal" -- a short film that explores the artists' creative personality. An uplifting, faced paced, not-for-profit, and educationally driven documentary, the film couchettes several of the artists key works during her New York residency, including the Wall Street Bull, the Jonathan Levine and Christopher Henry shows, and her tribute to Yoko Ono in Time Square. About Olek Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in 1978 in Poland. In 2000, she received a Bachelor degree in Cultural Studies ...

At a time when more and more critical data is migrating onto personal and business computers, Mickey Pazienza learned just how vulnerable that data could be. Pazienza, a 16-year veteran of the IT sector was approached by a good friend whose computer had been crashed by a destructive virus. The computer contained the last pictures of the woman's young daughter who had recently died of leukemia. While the photos were recovered, the threat of losing such irreplaceable data inspired Mickey to launch Treasure Backup, a company that provides online data backup services for individuals ...

Visitors to the Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.) in New York City will have the opportunity to experience RealCare hands-on simulations from Realityworks while touring the exhibit. Realityworks became a corporate sponsor of M.O.M. by supplying them with multiple RealCare Baby infant simulators and RealCare Pregnancy Profiles for the exhibit. The first and only facility of its kind, M.O.M., aligned with the Motherhood Foundation, is a museum that offers attendees the opportunity to study and understand the important job of a mother. Its goal is to strengthen the voice of ...

Green Bay, Wisconsin - Dr. Brian Dovorany chair of the CLEAR Institute Education Board, (a non-profit scoliosis research think tank) is challenging the current status quo of prescribing scoliosis brace treatment and standard physical therapy based exercises to patients with idiopathic scoliosis and replacing these with a new scoliosis exercise program. Recent research conducted by individual scoliosis rehabilitation clinics throughout the world have been analyzing data from the treatment of a new "scoliosis cantilever"TM developed by Dr Brian Dovorany. This ...

DERMagic Skin Care for Animals (www.DERMagic.com) today announced it has begun shipping its popular and proven all-natural and organic skin care products for dogs and cats to new global markets, including Denmark, Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom, and Canada. Responding to demand from customers worldwide for an effective solution to skin conditions such as hot spots, black skin disease (Alopecia X), dry skin, and bacterial and fungal infections, DERMagic expanded its all-natural pet product availability through new distribution relationships. The company also demonstrated ...

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A simple function that most of us take for granted – swallowing – is the focus of University of Adelaide research which could help thousands of stroke sufferers around the world. In an Australian first, researchers from the University's Robinson Institute are using magnetic stimulators to jump start the brain after a stroke and repair swallowing functions which break down in more than 50% of stroke patients. Speech pathologist Dr Sebastian Doeltgen, who is part of the University's Neuromotor Plasticity & Development Research Group, has been awarded $300,000 in Federal ...

Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs, it turns out, suppresses melatonin 5 times more than exposure to the light of High Pressure Sodium bulbs that give off an orange-yellow light. "Just as there are regulations and standards for 'classic' pollutants, there should also be regulations and rules for the pollution stemming from artificial light at night," says Prof. Abraham Haim of the University of Haifa. "White" light bulbs that emit light at shorter wavelengths are greater suppressors of the body's production of melatonin than bulbs emitting orange-yellow light, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – People with high cholesterol may have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the September 13, 2011, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "We found that high cholesterol levels were significantly related to brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease," said study author Kensuke Sasaki, MD, PhD, of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. For the study, the cholesterol levels were tested for 2,587 people age 40 to 79 who had no signs of Alzheimer's disease. Then ...

Why Patients Don't Disclose Depression to Their Physicians Many adults subscribe to beliefs that inhibit them from disclosing symptoms of depression to their primary care physician. In a survey of 1,054 adults, 43 percent of patients reported one or more reasons for not talking to a primary care physician about their depression, with the most frequently cited reason being concern the physician would recommend antidepressants (23 percent). Other barriers reported by patients include the belief it is not the primary care physician's job to deal with emotional issues (16 ...

A new analysis has found that women who develop certain hereditary cancers develop them at earlier ages than women in the previous generation. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results point to the importance of tracking younger ages of cancer diagnosis to determine when to provide counseling, screening, and treatment services. Women who have mutations in the BRCA genes have a high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers at young ages. Mutations in these genes are often inherited, so multiple family members ...

Missourians could have an easier time filing damage claims on their inexpensive auto insurance and other policies the next time a natural disaster strikes that state. That's because a new state law prohibits towns and cities from forcing coverage providers to obtain business licenses before they can set up emergency claim-processing centers to serve customers in storm-damaged areas. State officials say that type of bureaucratic holdup happened on multiple occasions this year in Missouri, where residents struggled with several tornadoes, including one in the city ...

SEATTLE – A research team led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered proteins in the blood that are associated with early lung cancer development in mice and humans. The advance brings the reality of a blood test for the early detection and diagnosis of lung cancer a step closer. The findings, by a team led by Samir Hanash, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Hutchinson Center's Molecular Diagnostics Program and member of its Public Health Sciences Division, are published online Sept. 12 ahead of the Sept. 13 print issue of Cancer Cell. "A major feature of this ...

New research shows that febrile seizures in children may be linked to respiratory alkalosis, indicated by elevated blood pH and low carbon dioxide levels caused by hyperventilation, and independent of the underlying infection severity. Febrile seizures were not observed in susceptible children with fevers brought on by gastroenteritis, suggesting that low blood pH levels (acidosis) may have a protective effect. Full findings now appear in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). Febrile seizures ...

Sudden cardiac arrest was higher among people living in poorer neighbourhoods in several US and Canadian cities, and the disparity was particularly evident among people under age 65, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/site/embargo/cmaj101512.pdf. Sudden cardiac arrest accounts for up to 63% of deaths annually from cardiac diseases in the United States. Socioeconomic status is a predictor of many health-related conditions, including death and heart disease. This study examined a potential link between ...

INDIANAPOLIS – A drug now prescribed for cardiovascular problems could become a new tool in physicians' arsenals to attack certain types of leukemia that so far have evaded effective treatments, researchers say. The drug, Fasudil, has been used to treat stroke patients because it is a vasodilator, meaning it dilates blood vessels. However, its potential in leukemia emerged because its method of action is blocking the activity of a protein called Rho kinase, or ROCK. ROCK, which plays a role in a variety of cellular activities, attracted the attention of the national ...