Configure One , a leading provider of web-based product configurator and electronic catalog software, has hired Aleks La Rosa as a Senior Account Executive. In this role, La Rosa will be responsible for managing accounts primarily in the central region. "We are excited to have Aleks join our team," said Ron Mouw, Configure One's vice president of business development. "Aleks has an entrepreneurial spirit, as he has owned two companies during his career. His track record of building and transforming businesses, growing revenue and profitability will prove ...

National Foster Care Month recognizes the significant contributions and dedicated work of foster parents and draws attention to programs and practices that promote stability for children in foster care. Originating in 1988, National Foster Care Month has inspired people nationwide for more than 20 years to support the more than 500,000 children and youth living in foster care. In Washington and Oregon, this represents nearly 20,000 youth who live in foster care. For Sleep Country USA, the Northwest's largest mattress retailer, the plight of foster children and the tremendous ...

Many investors lack the time needed to sort through the massive amount of facts, figures and opinion produced about the precious metals market on a daily basis but a team of seasoned brokers at Pan American Metals of Miami (PAMOM) can do this for them. While all metals have seen unprecedented rises in value recently, market experts understand that there are occasional corrections and fluctuations. Gold, for example, opened this week at $1512 an ounce then dropped to $1495 midweek before closing at $1557 on Friday, April 29, showing a rise over the week as a whole of ...

Pan American Metals of Miami (PAMOM) states that, while gold and silver prices may have stolen headlines, all precious metals are seeing record-breaking prices. When markets closed in New York on Friday, April 29, palladium was at $796 an ounce while platinum closed at $1878, having reached a high of $1885 earlier in the day. "There has been huge publicity about the meteoric rise of gold and silver," says Debbie Bailey of PAMOM, "but the fall of the dollar is pushing up prices for all precious metals. We are seeing record-breaking returns for palladium ...

According to market analysts, gold and silver will continue their current trend during the coming week. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left interest rates unchanged, as predicted. Bill Hionas, CEO of Pan American Metals of Miami (PAMOM), confirms that, "...a weakening dollar, fueling fears of inflation, can only push the price of precious metals even higher." While experts do agree that a correction is bound to happen eventually, it does not appear that this will happen any time soon. Silver leads the way in the rapid rise, almost reaching $50 an ...

Cellulean, a topical cellulite treatment, has been noted as not only being effective at removing cellulite, but also very effective in the reduction of love handles. Body builders, both men and women, have attributed a great amount of their success to Cellulean, since it is not only effective at mobilizing fat deposits on the legs, but also significantly reduces the effort required to trim love handles and other unwanted fat. Currently, the five other leading topical cellulite treatments on the market; Murad, Revitol, CelluliteRx, Cellex-C, and fatgirlslim have been ...

Metro Media Consulting Group (New York, Detroit) has opened its doors for business, offering online private and corporate clients and website owners strategic search engine optimization campaigns through an array of social media, press release, web design, and professional writing services. The firm was the brain child of Suzan Pleva, 27, of Greater Detroit, Michigan. Said Pleva: "I wanted to create a business which would encompass my best skills and serve the online business community". Pleva says she has always had both business and creative leanings, ...

For example, the company you run or work at can improve the way in which files and folders are organised. It is not just your working life, though. Take a look around any shop or even your home; labels are everywhere. With labels playing such an important role in many walks of life, companies will often be on the look out for the best quality and cheapest prices. If this sounds familiar to you, then look no further than South East Labels and their vast range of distinctive label designs, wide variety of equipment and accessories, as well as competitive prices and speed ...

Torrance cosmetic dentist, Dr. Robert Mondavi, DDS, is known for providing the highest quality of dental care for area residents. New treatments and procedures are constantly added to ensure proper oral health for new and existing patients. To help prevent against tooth decay, fluoride treatments are now offered to keep teeth away from the dangers of tooth decay. Achieving a healthy smile is a combination of excellent oral hygiene and regular dental checkups. When a person has infrequent oral hygiene, bacteria and plaque begin to degrade the teeth and gum line. The signs ...

triCerat is excited to announce the language localization of their corporate management desktop software, Simplify Suite. Now available in French, German, Spanish and Japanese, the Simplify Suite can now help even more businesses manage their environment with complete control and ease. The Simplify Suite provides the ability to reliably deploy desktops, control application access, help enforce company policies, reduce logon times, manage personalization for large numbers of virtual desktops, and deliver the correct profile information to the right user at every logon ...

MAYWOOD, Il. -- Competitive young athletes are under increasing pressure to play only one sport year round, but such specialization could increase the risk of injuries, a Loyola University Health System study has found. Preliminary findings of the ongoing study included 154 athletes from all types of sports, with an average age of 13. They came to Loyola for sports physicals or treatment of injuries. The injured athletes had a significantly higher average score on a sports specialization scale than athletes who weren't injured. "Young athletes who were injured tended ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – According to a new study, being overweight or obese during middle age may increase the risk of certain dementias. The research is published in the May 3, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Currently, 1.6 billion adults are overweight or obese worldwide and over 50 percent of adults in the United States and Europe fit into this category," said study author Weili Xu, MD, PhD, with the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. "Our results contribute to the growing evidence that controlling body ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - One of the largest studies of its kind has found that people with coronary artery disease who have even a modest beer belly or muffin top are at higher risk for death than people whose fat collects elsewhere. The effect was observed even in patients with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI). The findings of this Mayo Clinic analysis are published in the May 10 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Researchers analyzed data from 15,923 people with coronary artery disease involved in five studies from around the world. They found that ...

News Release Embargoed until Monday, May 2, 2011, noon EDT Please credit CMAJ, not the Canadian Medical Association. CMAJ is an independent medical journal; views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of its owner, the CMA. Twenty-seven percent of children in Canada awaiting surgery at pediatric hospitals received the procedures past the target date, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj101530.pdf. Prolonged wait times are a pressing issue in health care systems and Canadian ...

International Artist Kenneth Hari is presently releasing the limited edition prints and posters of his portrait of Bluegrass Music Legend, Dr. Ralph Stanley. Proceeds from the sale of the prints and posters will benefit the Dr. Ralph Stanley Museum in Clintwood, Virginia, where the original painting is in the permanent collection. Kenneth Hari shares his thoughts about meeting Dr. Ralph Stanley. "I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Clintwood and working with Dr. Ralph Stanley on his portrait during our sittings in the special guest chamber located in the museum. ...

SALT LAKE CITY, May 2, 2011 –- For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw. But a definitive new University of Utah study shows that Nutcracker Man didn't eat nuts, but instead chewed grasses and possibly sedges –- a discovery that upsets conventional wisdom about early humanity's diet. "It most likely was eating grass, and most definitely was not cracking nuts," says geochemist Thure Cerling, lead author of the study published ...

Canadian researchers may be biased since a half-million dollar research grant to possibly change the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood has not been accessed, states a Salon article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj110262.pdf. "As to why researchers did not proceed in their normal fashion, which is to fiercely compete for any relevant funding opportunity, remains unknown," write Jason Behrmann and Vardit Ravitsky, University of Montreal. "However, a clue may lie in the fact that this grant aims ...

Using museum specimens from Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, a team of researchers from San Francisco State University and University of California at Berkeley has documented evidence of a Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) epidemic wave that wiped out native amphibians, according to research to be published on May 3 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (PNAS). More than 40 percent of all amphibian species are currently in decline, with many species having already disappeared, even in protected areas. The suspected culprit has been the emergence ...

In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species. For the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics in the fossil record, thanks to a mass extinction that decimated ocean life 360 million years ago. What was bad for fish was good for the fish's food, according to a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of Chicago, West Virginia University, and The Ohio State University find that the mass extinction known ...

Doctors should consider using catheterization as a treatment tool in addition to its established role in diagnosing children with heart defects, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. A catheter is a thin flexible tube inserted into a blood vessel and used in procedures such as angiography, in which physicians use the catheter to inject dye into the arteries near the heart to illuminate the vessels via X-ray technology. It can also open a valve, enlarge a narrow blood vessel, close a hole in the heart or close off a blood vessel. The statement, ...

CHICAGO --- People take billions of doses of over-the-counter pain relievers like Tylenol every year, but many do not pay attention to the active ingredients they contain, such as acetaminophen, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. That lack of knowledge about popular pain relievers plus particular ignorance of acetaminophen's presence in more than 600 over-the-counter and prescription medicines could be a key reason acetaminophen overdose has become the leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S. The study reported only 31 percent of participants knew ...

Atopic dermatitis is a form of eczema that is caused by an inappropriate inflammatory response in the skin. Many children with atopic dermatitis also have food allergies, and skin contact with food allergens can make their atopic dermatitis worse. It is unclear why this occurs, but it has been suggested that immune cells known as T cells that are sensitized by exposure to food allergens in the gut are responsible. Raif Geha and colleagues, at Harvard Medical School, Boston, have now generated data in a mouse model of food allergen–induced atopic dermatitis that support ...

Stem cells are considered by many to be promising candidate sources of cells for therapies to regenerate and repair diseased tissues. There are two types of stem cell considered in this context: embryonic stem (ES) cells, which are derived from early embryos; and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are derived by reprogramming cells of the body such that they have the ability to generate any cell type. Recent data indicate that ES and iPS cells are molecularly different, raising the possibility that cells derived from these two sources could be distinct. A team ...

EDITOR'S PICK: Skin sensitivity to food allergens explained Atopic dermatitis is a form of eczema that is caused by an inappropriate inflammatory response in the skin. Many children with atopic dermatitis also have food allergies, and skin contact with food allergens can make their atopic dermatitis worse. It is unclear why this occurs, but it has been suggested that immune cells known as T cells that are sensitized by exposure to food allergens in the gut are responsible. Raif Geha and colleagues, at Harvard Medical School, Boston, have now generated data in a mouse ...

Workers' Compensation Claims in Illinois Workers' compensation laws across the country serve the same basic function: ensuring an adequate safety net for workers who are injured, killed, or develop an occupational disease in the course of employment. But, while all workers' compensation schemes have much in common, each state has its own distinct framework. In Illinois, claims based on work related injury or disease are governed by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act and the Illinois Occupational Diseases Act. If you or a loved has been injured in the course of ...