June 23 is the date, Moscone Center in San Francisco is the place and high noon is the time for celebrating Grand and Merit Award Winners in the 48th annual Gold Nugget Awards. Grand Award Winners will be announced from the circle of Merit Award winners, now posted online. Also online are tickets to the awards luncheon; or call 800-658-2751. All Gold Nugget Awards ticket holders will receive complimentary passes to PCBC's Exhibit Hall. "The Gold Nugget luncheon is always a sellout, so we urge timely purchase, especially for Merit Award winners, whose projects ...

It's that time of year again! HIA-LI, the recognized voice of business on Long Island, is accepting nominations for the HIA-LI 17th Annual Business Achievement Awards (BAA). The awards, in four different categories, are designed to recognize those organizations that meet and exceed criteria establishing them among the best run companies in the world. Nominations will close Friday, July 8, 2011. To nominate your own company or that of a client, download a copy of the nomination form at http://bit.ly/hia-li-baa-2011. The $400 application fee will be waived for HIA-LI members. ...

"A tree fell on a car, powerful winds blew out the windows of car. The storm damage comes in various forms and it damages the vehicles abruptly. Several times people think about an insurance that could cover the damage. They wonder if there is any storm damage coverage insurance policy," said David, spokesperson for Insure4USA.com. The Insure4USA.com provides the facility of car insurance policies to cover the vehicles from strong storms and winds. The strong storms may inflict the considerable damages on cars and other vehicles. If one has left his car outside, ...

Underground Elephant is recognized as one of the top 10 'Best Places to Work ' in San Diego by the San Diego Business Journal. This annual list recognizes local businesses for outstanding corporate culture, company benefits, and employee satisfaction. The San Diego Business Journal, along with sponsors such as Kaiser Permanente and ESEST Internet Security, honored finalists at their annual Awards dinner at Paradise Point Resort on Thursday. A record 75 finalists made this year's list, and Underground Elephant, along with the other top 10 winners, were acknowledged at ...

San Diego Jewelry Buyers has announced an extraordinary new jewelry purchase. The luxury pawn shop has acquired a rare and stunning Van Cleef & Arpels pendant and matching earrings. The hand-crafted platinum set features multi-carat flawless and internally flawless diamonds and pear-shaped mixed-cut emeralds. "The Columbian emeralds in these jewels have undergone no clarity enhancement," says Carl Blackburn, owner of San Diego Jewelry Buyers, and an internationally recognized fine jewelry designer. "It is exceedingly rare to find emeralds of this size ...

Jagged Peak, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class eCommerce solutions and supply chain services, announced today that it is partnering with Daniels Worldwide Management to represent the EDGE eCommerce platform and its end-to-end TotalCommerce solutions throughout China and Asia/Pacific. The EDGE platform is recognized as a best-of-breed eCommerce platform, containing all of the advanced functionality required to conduct multi-channel eCommerce, and is used by many of the world's leading consumer products companies to increase their online sales and profitably. ...

Representatives of the Laskin Energy Park recently deployed a new marketing strategy to promote its strategic assets for business expansion, assets that include access to steam, power, and deionized water. Working with Little Falls-based Golden Shovel Agency, the Laskin team is able to prospect the latest technologies and trends in community development. These Web solutions are the heart of Golden Shovel's expertise in improving Laskin's online presence. Developed through a partnership between Minnesota Power, the East Range Joint Powers Board, Iron Range Resources and ...

Every day, youth receive many conflicting messages about drug use from their friends, movies and music. What is needed to cut through all the noise is clear, precise information about drugs. That's what this new video from Bobby Wiggins, a drug prevention specialist for decades, now provides. When a young teen first steps out on his (or her) own, away from his parents' influence, he is immediately bombarded with confusing and sometimes oppressive influences. She may be influenced about simple things like the proper dress to be fit in with their peers, how much makeup ...

TROY Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in secure on-demand printing solutions, was presented with an Outstanding Partner Award at the recent HP 2011 Imaging and Printing Group's Solutions Business Partner Conference held in Miami, Fla. TROY Group received the award for Outstanding Sales Engagement for its collaboration with HP to engage and support the HP sales force around the world. "This is the fourth year in a row that HP has recognized TROY for outstanding achievement," stated Larry Landtiser, executive vice president and general manager, TROY Group. "Last ...

This press release is available in French.MONTREAL, June 12, 2011 – A team of researchers have discovered that, on average, thirty mutations are transmitted from each parent to their child, revising previous estimations and revolutionizing the timescale we use to calculate the number of generations separating us from other species. "Your genome, or genetic code, is made up of six billion pieces of information, called nucleotides," explained co-lead author Philip Awadalla of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Medicine and Director of CARTaGENE. "Three billion come from ...

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Only 35% of anaesthesiologists are carrying out a simple procedure during high-risk surgery that can make a significant impact on how well patients recover from their operations, according to new research presented today (Sunday 12 June) at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam. A survey of 463 randomly selected European and US anaesthesiologists found that although more than 95% of them knew that it was of major importance that enough oxygen reached all parts of the body during an operation and that this was determined by how ...

Each one of us receives approximately 60 new mutations in our genome from our parents. This striking value is reported in the first-ever direct measure of new mutations coming from mother and father in whole human genomes published today. For the first time, researchers have been able to answer the questions: how many new mutations does a child have and did most of them come from mum or dad? The researchers measured directly the numbers of mutations in two families, using whole genome sequences from the 1000 Genomes Project. The results also reveal that human genomes, ...

A new study of how storms are generated could improve rainfall prediction in dry regions of Africa, where drought and short growing seasons are common. A team of scientists from the UK, France and Australia used satellite observations of the Sahel region of West Africa to demonstrate that brief changes in soil moisture over areas of just tens of kilometres can affect storm generation. The results are published online in Nature Geoscience on 12 June 2011. The monsoon can arrive abruptly in the Sahel and the relative timing of planting and the starts of the wet season ...

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The use of bariatric surgery among older, severely obese patients was not associated with a decreased risk of death, according to a study in the June 15 issue of JAMA. This study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. "Obesity incidence has stabilized after decades of rapid increases, whereas the prevalence of patients with a body mass index [BMI] greater than 35 increased 39 percent between 2000 and 2005, the prevalence of severe obesity (BMI greater than 40) increased 50 percent, and the prevalence ...

Among Medicare patients with heart attack in 4 California counties, diversion of ambulance traffic by the nearest emergency department for 12 hours or more was associated with an increased risk of death for up to one year, according to a study in the June 15 issue of JAMA. This study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Recent reports have described the state of emergency departments (EDs) in the United States as reaching a breaking point, with the ED system experiencing increased utilization but ...

It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed. In a report that will appear in the journal Nature Photonics and is receiving advance online release, Wellman researchers Malte Gather, PhD, and Seok Hyun Yun, PhD, describe how a single cell genetically engineered to express green fluorescent protein (GFP) can be used to amplify the light particles called photons into nanosecond-long pulses of laser ...

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A dramatically better computer tool for finding the genetic missteps that fuel cancer has been developed by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project investigators. Researchers are using the new algorithm to help identify the chromosomal rearrangements and DNA insertions or deletions unique to cancer. The new computational method is known as CREST, short for Clipping Reveals Structure. Using CREST, researchers identified 89 new structural differences in the cancer genomes of five St. Jude patients with a subtype of acute ...

A new study published in the journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy reveals that keeping a dog or cat in the home does not increase children's risk of becoming allergic to the pets. Parents of young children frequently want to know whether keeping a dog or cat in their home will increase the risk of their children becoming allergic to their pets. Led by Ganesa Wegienka, MS, PhD, of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, researchers followed a group of children from birth until they reached adulthood. Periodic contact was made with the parents ...

For the first time, scientists have used large-scale DNA sequencing data to investigate a long-standing evolutionary assumption: DNA mutation rates are influenced by a set of species-specific life-history traits. These traits include metabolic rate and the interval of time between an individual's birth and the birth of its offspring, known as generation time. The team of researchers led by Kateryna Makova, a Penn State University associate professor of biology, and first author Melissa Wilson Sayres, a graduate student, used whole-genome sequence data to test life-history ...

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Hamilton, ON (June 13, 2011) - Proposals recommending routine screening of all children for autism gets a thumbs down from researchers at McMaster University. In a study in the online edition of the journal Pediatrics, the researchers say there is "not enough sound evidence to support the implementation of a routine population-based screening program for autism." Not only are there no good screening tools or effective treatments but there is no evidence yet that routine screening does more good than harm, said Dr. Jan Willem Gorter, a researcher in McMaster's CanChild ...