Underground Elephant announced that Vice President of Products, Keola Malone and Director of Information Technologies, Mark Bays have been named as finalists in the San Diego Business Journal's Information Technology Executive of the Year Award. This award honors some of the most talented information technology executives in San Diego for their outstanding achievements and contributions. Malone has been with Underground Elephant since it was founded in 2008. He is responsible for developing and implementing the company's core proprietary software and effectively manages ...

Boker's, Inc. announces that tab washers, offered in a wide variety of sizes and materials, are now available as part of their washer manufacturing capability. Tab washer sizes include outside diameters ranging from .080 inches to 6.000 inches, in addition to multiple inside diameter and thickness options, allowing tab washer compatibility with all types of nuts, bolts and other fastening systems. Boker's manufactures numerous configurations of tab washers including: internal tab, external tab, internal/external tab, multiple internal/external tab, and locking tab washers. Tab ...

WinADayCasino.com is known for its innovative, unusual, sometimes outlandish game designs but for their latest new release they've gone back to basics. The new Fruitful 7s online slot machine that launched today is a traditional pub-style fruit machine with classic fruit symbols, up to 500x payouts (or even incredible 2500x payouts in the bonus round) and lots of free spins with variable multipliers. No genies. No mummies. No built in sim game. Just good old cherries, lemons, sevens and bars. The "Free Spin" symbol is the scatter in this game and three or more ...

Spread betting website Online-Spread-Betting has launched a brand new range of spread betting guides that cover a variety of stock market indices. Over 25 guides have been published by the site on a range of index markets, from the ever popular FTSE 100 and Dow Jones, to the less traded indices such as the Hang Seng and the India Nifty 50. Emma Franklin, editor at Online-Spread-Betting.com, says that the guides will complement the existing services which the site offers. "Online Spread Betting already has information on the latest offers and financial spread betting ...

According to the latest data released this March, U.S. birth rates fell for all women except those 40 and older. For a variety of reasons, including postponing marriage and parenthood to concentrate on education and careers, increasing numbers of women in their 40s and early 50s don't want to miss out on the joys of motherhood. Many who have given birth to their first child in their fifth decade are finding they are better prepared financially and emotionally for parenting. But though they may look and feel decades younger, middle-aged women who wish to become mothers still ...

Seeing a need to increase ways for small businesses to boost efficiency during the prolonged recession, Halpricesoft.com (http://www.halfpricesoft.com) recently released the new edition of ezPaycheck payroll software version 3.1.7 for small businesses and non-profit organizations. This affordable, super-simple, custom streamlined payroll and tax software - available at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/payroll_software_download.asp - was designed with direct input and guidance from those who use it "in the trenches" every day. The newly upgraded version of the already ...

Ungerboeck Software, the only truly global supplier of end-to-end event management software, announces the release of Ungerboeck software version 20.3. Clients worldwide have been eagerly awaiting this release of Ungerboeck's first fully web-based version. Three years in the making, version 20.3 is the result of over $10 million in research and development, and is the largest single commercial software development project ever attempted in the events industry. More than 7 million lines of code and 3,000 web pages were created to make version 20.3 our fastest, easiest-to-use, ...

Energetix Corporation, a homeopathic and dietary supplement company, congratulates one of its clients, a wellness clinic and day spa located in Gainesville, GA, for winning the 2011 LNE & Spa award. Les Nouvelles Esthetiques and Spa magazine recently announced the grand winners in the categories of luxury day spas, day spas, medical spas, and green/wellness spas. The Spa on Green Street, which emphasizes preventative care, lifestyle changes, ongoing fitness programs, and environmental responsibility, was elected the grand winner of the green/wellness category on ...

This is an opportunity to learn about emerging new displacement and disruptive technology, how it comes to market, how to recognize emerging companies and how to identify the next great stocks that will lead the Great Bull Market that is already stirring beneath the placid surface of the stock market and economy. Big changes and huge industries that revolutionize and change the economy and society do not come along often. The Cloud Training for Traders Program is a unique blend of many different learning formats and is a great for people who enjoy the live training sessions ...

There once was a Rabbit called Touch, Who wasn't a real bunny, as such, Pussy moaned: "My goodness me, It's completely hands-free, I've never been pleasured so much!" Introducing Pussy and Rabbit, the stars of a brand new digital campaign from the UK's foremost purveyors of pleasure, Ann Summers. This witty and clever creative concept brings to life the launch of Ann Summers' most innovative Rampant Rabbit to date, the Rampant Rabbit Touch. Designed to enable users to understand the unique, hands-free, touch-activated technology behind the product, ...

Alpha Mechanical Service, Inc. (formerly A & A Mechanical Service, Inc.) recently launched a new website on May 1, 2011 to coincide with their name change. The new site gives the public an easy way to learn more about the wide range of mechanical services Alpha provides to commercial, industrial and residential customers. The new name, Alpha Mechanical Service, Inc., is a result of the recent expansion of Alpha's product lines and merger with Key Mechanical Service, LLC. Alpha Mechanical Service, Inc. now provides mechanical services to six states: Kentucky, West ...

PHILADELPHIA — Neuroeconomic research at the University of Pennsylvania has conclusively identified a part of the brain that is necessary for making everyday decisions about value. Previous functional magnetic imaging studies, during which researchers use a powerful magnet to determine which parts of a subjects brain are most active while doing a task, have suggested that the ventromedial frontal cortex, or VMF, plays an evaluative role during decision making. Now, Joseph Kable, an assistant professor of psychology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences, has demonstrated ...

LA JOLLA, CA—The seeds sprouting in your spring garden may still be struggling to reach the sun. If so, they are consuming a finite energy pack contained within each seed. Once those resources are depleted, the plant cell nucleus must be ready to switch on a "green" photosynthetic program. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies recently showed a new way that those signals are relayed. In a study published in the May 24, 2011, issue of the journal Current Biology, a team led by Joanne Chory, Ph.D., professor and director of the Plant Molecular and Cellular ...

A team of scientists from Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have shown how proteins involved in controlling genes work together to carry out their functions in stem cells and demonstrated for the very first time, how they can change interaction partners to make other types of cells. The work highlighted the collaborative nature of modern biology in which techniques and knowledge from bioinformatics analysis, structural biology, biochemistry and stem cell molecular biology were used together to find the specific ...

Washington, DC – Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood is a "powerful predictor" to help physicians more reliably assess treatment benefit for patients with metastatic breast cancer. The findings from a large analysis using pooled data from international cancer centers will be presented during a poster session on Monday, June 6th, at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. "The current standard of care for monitoring patients with metastatic ...

Washington, D.C. -- A new treatment regimen for patients with metastatic colon cancer appears to offer clinical benefit even when used after multiple other treatments have failed, say research physicians at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center. The research team found that combining a PARP inhibitor with chemotherapy (temozolomide) offers significant benefit in patients who had no further treatment options. However, the study is small, and does not include a comparison arm, so further investigation is needed, ...

ATS 2011, DENVER – Despite their beneficial effects in treating heart disease, neither aspirin nor simvastatin appear to offer benefit to patients suffering from pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study conducted at four U.S. medical centers. This was the first NIH-funded randomized clinical trial (RCT) in PAH. The results of the study will be presented at the ATS 2011 International Conference in Denver. PAH is a progressive, incurable disease characterized by increased blood pressure in the arteries of the ...

ATS 2011, DENVER - Children whose mothers or grandmothers smoked during pregnancy are at increased risk of asthma in childhood, but the underlying causes of this are not well understood. Now a new study indicates changes in a process called DNA methylation that occurs before birth may be a root cause. The study will be presented at the ATS 2011 International Conference. DNA methylation is a process that can alter a gene's usual function. These altered genes can be passed along from parent to child. In this case, researchers observed DNA methylation-related changes ...

SALT LAKE CITY, May 18, 2011 – A University of Utah study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when hitting downward rather than upward, giving tall, upright males a fighting advantage. This may help explain why our ape-like human ancestors began walking upright and why women tend to prefer tall men. "The results of this study are consistent with the hypothesis that our ancestors adopted bipedal posture so that males would be better at beating and killing each other when competing for females," says David Carrier, ...

Doctors who treat children with the most common form of childhood cancer – acute lymphoblastic leukemia – are often baffled at how sometimes the cancer cells survive their best efforts and the most powerful modern cancer drugs. Now a team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have uncovered the basis for this drug resistance: BCL6, a protein that leukemia cells use to stay alive. Targeting this protein may be the key to fighting drug-resistant leukemia, a discovery that may make cancer drugs more powerful and help doctors formulate ...

Today, the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to retract its November, 2010 Guidance Memorandum that encourages state permitting authorities to measure industrial stormwater discharges through numeric effluent limits rather than use the traditional and effective best management practices (BMP) approach. "This Memorandum goes well beyond simply updating a policy as EPA suggests," says ARA's CEO Michael E. Wilson. "Rather, it appears to represent a major shift in how best to measure stormwater discharges - ...

The inner core of the Earth is simultaneously melting and freezing due to circulation of heat in the overlying rocky mantle, according to new research from the University of Leeds, UC San Diego and the Indian Institute of Technology. The findings, published tomorrow in Nature, could help us understand how the inner core formed and how the outer core acts as a 'geodynamo', which generates the planet's magnetic field. "The origins of Earth's magnetic field remain a mystery to scientists," said study co-author Dr Jon Mound from the University of Leeds. "We can't go and ...

A new gene expression technique adapted for single molecule sequencing has enabled researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) to accurately and quantitatively measure gene expression levels using only 100 nanograms of total RNA. The technique, which pairs RIKEN's Cap Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE) protocol with the Helicos® Genetic Analysis System developed by Helicos BioSciences Corporation, opens the door to the detailed analysis of gene expression networks and rare cell populations. In recent years, next-generation DNA sequencers have produced an increasingly ...

Penile enlargement is one of the most controversial topics today. Many physicians claim that there is no medical proof that the non-surgical methods for increasing the penile size actually work. In addition to that, there are many people online abusing this topic, which is one of the main reasons why everyone is so skeptic about it. With the growing popularity of the penile extenders, one of the most reputable medical journals BJUI (British Journal of Urology International), which is issued as the official journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, have ...

Many of the prescriptions issued by GPs for paracetamol either give less than recommended doses to older children or exceed recommended doses in young children. Under-dosing may result in insufficient pain relief and over-dosing can damage a person's liver. "Getting the dose right can become even more complicated when parents also give their children additional paracetamol that they have bought over the counter," says James McLay, a senior member of the research team who studied this issue. The findings are published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Paracetamol ...