Glenn's Market of Watertown, Wisconsin, a producer of quality bratwurst, is the latest addition to the Wisconsinmade.com artisan group. Gift giving experts carefully select only the finest Wisconsin gifts to be included in the online store which gives customers the opportunity to ship locally made items nationwide. "Bratwurst fans will enjoy award-winning traditional Sheboygan-style bratwurst as well as eclectic bratwurst creations from Glenn's Market," says Linda Remeschatis, owner of Wisconsinmade.com, "Some notable brat flavors include cranberry, pizza, ...

The sixth Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute is scheduled to take place August 7-12 at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory on West Lake Okoboji. Thirty-two students from five of Iowa's colleges and universities will be participating in this opportunity. The students in attendance will be taught an advanced study of entrepreneurship that will include seminars with successful entrepreneurs and business and community leaders, networking, mentoring to enhance their understanding of entrepreneurship opportunities in Iowa, and an entrepreneurial simulation. The Okoboji Entrepreneurial ...

Los Angeles based wholesale clothing distributor ApparelCandy.com has just recently moved to its new location, a bigger office and twice the size of its previous warehouse in Mateo St. The expansion is based on bigger sales and inventory demand from its customers old and new over the previous years. The company widens its selection of wholesale sunglasses anywhere from polarized, vintage, fashion, branded look-alike, aviator, wayfarer and sunglass accessories for all ages, men, women and children. The polarized sunglasses is among the summer's favorite and fast becoming ...

If you are a person who drives a car that doesn't belong to you, i.e. a rental car or a borrowed car, then the auto insurance taken in the name of the non-owners will ensure that the person remain much protected and secured in case of an accident. Insure4USA.com, a leading online insurance service recently released an article entitled "Advantages of Purchasing Non Owner Car Insurance", which deals with the issue of non-owner car insurance. According to David, manager of Insure4USA.com, there are two important things that have to be considered when you drive a ...

Mr Ellison has worked for such companies as; The Empire Group, which owns several Internet office supply companies. Ellison's particular focus, over the last 8 years, has been the K-12 school market. This is an area where Office Supply Hut is experiencing tremendous growth. Mr. Ellison's duties will include managing Office Supply Hut's outside sales force; and in developing new key vendor relationships. He will also initiate and expand the product lines, on the web site. Ellison will focus on opportunities, in the school bids market, with products such as; school furniture, ...

Financial Focus, LLC of Livingston, New Jersey, announced that Antoinette Bergwall has joined the firm as a financial advisor. Prior to joining Financial Focus, Bergwall spent 15 years with Bank of America, where, as a senior vice president, she led a team of 43 financial advisors who served high-net-worth clients. Bergwall, an alumna of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey, has been a financial services professional for over 25 years. "My goal is to create an environment of trust with all of my clients," said Bergwall. "Each client ...

ConceptDraw Office v2 is already well known to Mac users as the premier cross-platform solution for business diagramming, mind mapping, and project management. Now that Apple has elevated Mac computing with Mac OS X Lion, CS Odessa is proud to announce that ConceptDraw users can soar to new heights of productivity with full Lion compatibility. The entire suite of ConceptDraw Office products, including ConceptDraw PRO v9, ConceptDraw MINDMAP v7, and ConceptDraw PROJECT v6, are now updated to run on Lion, providing the full range of functionality and integration users ...

Connecticut's first 22-foot hydrogen-powered bus launched today amid fanfare befitting its importance. Developed by the Greater New Haven Transit District, this HyRide vehicle is the first of its kind to serve the senior population. The GNHTD already provides transportation to seniors and people with disabilities, and now HyRide will enhance this service with minimal environmental impact while taking these passengers throughout Hamden to shopping centers for food, clothing, and bank errands; to pharmacies, and more. This project has been made possible through federal ...

MADISON – Hunters have been credited with being strong conservation advocates for numerous game species in multiple countries. Would initiating a wolf hunt invoke the same advocacy for the carnivores? It's a pressing question as gray wolves were removed from the federal endangered species list in some western states this past May and are poised for delisting in 2012 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and other areas of the Midwest. But newly released public opinion surveys conducted in Wisconsin and the northern Rockies suggest that wolves are in a class by themselves ...

WASHINGTON – Social media present risks and benefits to children but parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' activities online are wasting their time, according to a presentation at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. "While nobody can deny that Facebook has altered the landscape of social interaction, particularly among young people, we are just now starting to see solid psychological research demonstrating both the positives and the negatives," said Larry D. Rosen, PhD, professor of psychology at California State University, ...

WASHINGTON – People who are cyberstalked or harassed online experience higher levels of stress and trauma than people who are stalked or harassed in person, according to a presentation at the American Psychological Association's 119th Annual Convention. "Increasingly, stalkers use modern technology to monitor and torment their victims, and one in four victims report some form of cyberstalking, such as threatening emails or instant messaging," said Elizabeth Carll, PhD, in a talk entitled, "Electronic Harassment and Cyberstalking: Intervention, Prevention and Public Policy." Emotional ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The path of success for Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences isn't a straight shot from obscurity to never-ending scientific superstardom, a new study reveals. Instead, many laureates see their Nobel-winning idea grow in acceptance from their first related scientific article to their most successful publication. But their later work related to the Nobel idea gains less acceptance, and many times is no more accepted by the scientific community than their very first efforts. "In many cases, we found that Nobel laureates' final publication on their ...

SEATTLE, WA—The most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, is associated with a greater risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. This discovery by scientists at Group Health Research Institute and their collaborators was published online in advance of print on August 1 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "Both atrial fibrillation and dementia increase with age," said Sascha Dublin, MD, PhD, a Group Health Research Institute assistant investigator who led the research. "Before our prospective cohort study, ...

WASHINGTON — High schools in Virginia where students reported a high rate of bullying had significantly lower scores on standardized tests that students must pass to graduate, according to research presented at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. "Our study suggests that a bullying climate may play an important role in student test performance," said Dewey Cornell, PhD, a clinical psychologist and professor of education at the University of Virginia. "This research underscores the importance of treating bullying as a schoolwide problem ...

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have shown that new, or "de novo," protein-altering mutations—genetic errors that are present in patients but not in their parents—play a role in more than 50 percent of "sporadic" —i.e., not hereditary—cases of schizophrenia. The findings will be published online on August 7, 2011, in Nature Genetics. A group led by Maria Karayiorgou, MD, and Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD, examined the genomes of patients with schizophrenia and their families, as well as healthy control groups. All were from the genetically isolated, European-descent ...

AMHERST, Mass. – The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their findings reported in the Aug. 7 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology may one day lead to cheaper, nontoxic nanomaterials for biosensors and solid state electronics that interface with biological systems. Lead microbiologist ...

eNlight - Taking the Cloud Computing Industry by Storm ESDS is pleased to announce the launch of its eNlight Cloud Computing Platform - the World's first intelligent cloud that truly does justice to the concept of Cloud Computing. eNlight Cloud is an addition to the company's existing portfolio of other software products and managed hosting services and was designed with small to medium sized companies in mind. In the existing Cloud Hosting market most companies offer the option to pay for fixed use. Companies try to market it as flexible hosting by claiming you can ...

HIA-LI, the recognized voice for business on Long Island, is pleased to announce the finalists for the prestigious HIA-LI 17th Annual Business Achievement Awards competition. Winners will be announced during a gala luncheon event held at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, NY, 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Tuesday, September 13, 2011. More information about the awards event is available at: http://bit.ly/hia-li-baa-event-2011. "HIA-LI is pleased to recognize these finalists who are among the best run and highest performing companies on Long Island for our HIA-LI Business ...

Long before they knew they were doing it – as long ago as the Wright Brother's first airplane engine – metallurgists were incorporating nanoparticles in aluminum to make a strong, hard, heat-resistant alloy. The process is called solid-state precipitation, in which, after the melt has been quickly cooled, atoms of alloying metals migrate through a solid matrix and gather themselves in dispersed particles measured in billionths of a meter, only a few-score atoms wide. Key to the strength of these precipitation-hardened alloys is the size, shape, and uniformity of the ...

A new resource to define the roles of microRNAs is announced today in Nature Biotechnology. The resource, called mirKO, gives researchers access to tools to investigate the biological role and significance for human health of these enigmatic genes. mirKO is a "library" of mutant mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells in which individual, or clustered groups of microRNA genes, have been deleted. Using these tools researchers can create cells or mice lacking specific microRNAs, study expression using fluorescent markers, or inactivate the gene in specific tissues or at specific ...

Chapel Hill, NC – Cells are the building blocks of the human body. They are a focus of scientific study, because when things go wrong at the cellular and molecular level the consequences for human health are often significant. A new finding based on multiple collaborations between UNC and Duke scientists over several years points to new avenues for investigation of cell metabolism that may provide insights into diseases ranging from neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease to certain types of cancers. The finding, published today in the ...

Animal's brains are only roughly aware of how high-up they are in space, meaning that in terms of altitude the brain's 'map' of space is surprisingly flat, according to new research. In a study published online today in Nature Neuroscience, scientists studied cells in or near a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which forms the brain's map of space, to see whether they were activated when rats climbed upwards. The study, supported by the Wellcome Trust, looked at two types of cells known to be involved in the brain's representation of space: grid cells, which ...

European legislation restricts animal testing within the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries and companies are increasingly looking at alternative systems to ensure that their products are safe to use. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Genomics demonstrates that the response of laboratory grown human cells can now be used to classify chemicals as sensitizing, or non-sensitizing, and can even predict the strength of allergic response, so providing an alternative to animal testing. Allergic contact dermatitis can result in itching and eczema ...

August 8th, 2011, Shenzhen, China – BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital and Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, announced today that the study on frequent mutations of chromatin remodeling genes in transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder was published online in Nature Genetics. This study provides a valuable genetic basis for future studies on TCC, suggesting that aberration of chromatin regulation might be one of the features of bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is the ninth most common type of cancer worldwide, which ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (August 7, 2011) – The human genome is peppered with repeated DNA elements that can vary from a few to thousands of consecutive copies of the same sequence. During meiosis—the cell division that produces sperm and eggs—repetitive elements place the genome at risk for dangerous rearrangements from genome reshuffling. This recombination typically does not occur in repetitive DNA, in part because much of it is assembled into specialized heterochromatin. Other mechanisms that restrain recombination in repetitive DNA have remained elusive, until now. In a ...