CAL INC, Northern California's leading provider of Asbestos, Lead, and Mold abatement and remediation services, commercial and remodel construction, and the leading provider of EPA and OSHA training and certification courses, is proud to announce the immediate availability of a comprehensive set of Stormwater Consulting services to assist companies in a variety of industries in creating a program that will achieve NPDES compliance (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System). "We are excited to be on the cutting edge of offering solutions to help municipalities, ...

As the NHL champions battle it out for the Stanley Cup, Intertops Casino is continuing its $100,000 spring bonuses program and Intertops Champions Leaderboard contest. At the end of May, three players who have reached the top level of the contest leaderboard will each win a $1000 cash prize and a further nine will receive a grand prize casino bonus of up to $500. In the meantime, every week hundreds of players will get bonuses up to $250. The Intertops Champions contest will award a total of $100,000 in cash prizes and bonuses. Players automatically qualify for bonuses ...

Whenever people start talking about the Internet and someone starts dropping acronyms, initials, and arcane technical topics, people's eyes start glazing over. TCP/IP, DHCP, and FTP and a host of other acronyms scare off many people who are not very technically savvy. This should not be the case because very important online functions are at stake behind such initials. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a very important function for any user of the Internet--FTP governs the upload and download of files stored on servers populating the Internet. That's why it is extremely important ...

The staff of MessageMakers had a great time at the seventh annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business event, held April 28 at the Lansing Center. At the event, MessageMakers was honored as one of the 2011 "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch," an awards program sponsored by the Edward Lowe Foundation and presented by Michigan Celebrates Small Business. MessageMakers is a full-service production company specializing in live events, video production and learning programs - and, ultimately, producing experiences that transform. The company has won over 40 awards for ...

Barcelona will welcome John Mayall for a performance at the Sala Apolo this summer. The pioneering guitarist and songwriter, known as the founder of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, is set to play the last of several Spanish dates in the Catalan capital on Wednesday June 22nd. Now based in the US, the Macclesfield-born performer has been credited with helping to launch the careers of many great blues musicians from the UK. In the Bluesbreakers, he played with the likes of Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and Mick Taylor during a highly productive period ...

CAL Business Solutions Inc, a Connecticut Microsoft Dynamics ERP software partner, announced today that Russ Nugent has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer/Practice Manager. As COO, Nugent will be responsible for managing implementation services and customer support functions for all new clients and over 200 existing Microsoft Dynamics GP clients. With the addition of Nugent, the CAL Business Solutions team now includes 18 professionals focused on finance and technology, making CAL the largest Dynamics GP focused value added reseller (VAR) in the Northeast. "I ...

The Mediterranean yachting season will get underway in style on Tuesday May 24th, when the 2011 Rolex Capri Sailing Week begins. Known for bringing an impressive fleet of boats to the famous waters of the Bay of Naples, the event celebrates its seventh anniversary this year. However, a significant addition has been made to the programme for the latest edition of the regatta - the inaugural Rolex Volcano Race. This 400-mile offshore challenge is open to all maxi yachts upwards of 18 metres and will attract a range of competitors from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy ...

The German capital's annual celebration of multiculturalism and ethnic diversity is due to take place from Friday June 10th to Monday June 13th. With live music, dancing, outlandish costumes and a colourful street parade passing through the bustling Kreuzberg district, the Carnival of Cultures is a truly unmissable event for people spending time in Berlin this summer. Details regarding this year's event are yet to be finalised, but the four-day street festival attracted roughly 700,000 revellers to the city in 2010 and a similar number are expected to join the party ...

Underground Elephant's Taryn Lomas was announced as a recipient of Direct Marketing News' (DMN) 30 Under 30 Award. This list includes some of the most talented young leaders in direct marketing and online advertising. As Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Lomas is an integral part Underground Elephant and is regarded as a key player in the industry. Since Lomas started in 2008, Underground Elephant has become one of San Diego's fastest-growing online marketing companies, showing over 3,000 percent revenue increases in the last three years. She has been a major contributor ...

In celebration and honor of being a mom, this Mother's Day Weekend, May 7 and 8, Fresh Produce is thanking hard-working moms everywhere with a special gift--free online shipping on its effortless and vibrant styles, perfect for active moms on-the-go. WHAT: Fresh Produce Clothing is celebrating the passion and dedication of mothers everywhere on May 7 and 8, 2011. To add a smile to every moms' day, the colorful clothing company is giving shoppers a Mother's Day treat--free shipping on this season's favorites. Styles include modern tunics, flattering dresses, easy-going ...

Healthcare initiatives such as Meaningful Use have diverted resources to focus on hospital-wide applications, such as EMRs. This focus on an electronic culture also is pushing interest toward departmental systems, including anesthesia documentation. In a new research report titled "Anesthesia Study 2011: Part of a Growing Electronic Culture," KLAS investigates the challenges and benefits of an anesthesia information management system (AIMS), as well as the ten most talked about AIMS vendors. "Though historically slow to develop, the AIMS market is experiencing ...

The human eye long ago solved a problem common to both digital and film cameras: how to get good contrast in an image while also capturing faint detail. Nearly 50 years ago, physiologists described the retina's tricks for improving contrast and sharpening edges, but new experiments by University of California, Berkeley, neurobiologists show how the eye achieves this without sacrificing shadow detail. "One of the big success stories, and the first example of information processing by the nervous system, was the discovery that the nerve cells in the eye inhibit their ...

A small Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of children and teens with cystic fibrosis (CF) shows that simple exercise, individually tailored to each patient's preference and lifestyle, can help improve lung function and overall fitness. Frequent lung infections, breathing problems and decreased lung function are the hallmark symptoms of CF, a genetic disorder marked by a disruption in the body's ability to transport chloride in and out of cells that leads to the buildup of thick mucus in the lungs and other organs. Because rigidly structured high-intensity exercise ...

Using simple robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, Swiss scientists provide quantitative proof of kin selection and shed light on one of the most enduring puzzles in biology: Why do most social animals, including humans, go out of their way to help each other? In next week's issue of the online, open access journal PLoS Biology, EPFL robotics professor Dario Floreano teams up with University of Lausanne biologist Laurent Keller to weigh in on the oft-debated question of the evolution of altruism genes. Altruism, the sacrificing of individual ...

Between 2001 and 2008, the annual rate of coronary artery bypass graft surgeries performed in the United States decreased by more than 30 percent, but rates of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) did not change significantly, according to a study in the May 4 issue of JAMA. "Coronary revascularization, comprising coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and PCI, is among the most common major medical procedures provided by the U.S. health care system, with more ...

The number of bacterial cells living in and on our bodies outnumbers our own cells ten to one. But the identity of all those bugs and just what exactly our relationship to all of them really is remains rather fuzzy. Now, researchers reporting in the May issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have new evidence showing the metabolic impact of all those microbes in mice, and on their colons in particular. "We point out one relatively general metabolite in the colon that has profound effects—it does a lot to keep things running smoothly," said Scott Bultman ...

In a study conducted to examine the health outcomes related to salt intake, as gauged by the amount of sodium excreted in the urine, lower sodium excretion was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular death, while higher sodium excretion did not correspond with increased risk of hypertension or cardiovascular disease complications, according to a study in the May 4 issue of JAMA. "Extrapolations from observational studies and short-term intervention trials suggest that population-wide moderation of salt intake might reduce cardiovascular events," according ...

Drugs known as thiazolidinediones, or TZDs for short, are widely used in diabetes treatment, but they come with a downside. The drugs have effects on the kidneys that lead to fluid retention as the volume of plasma in the bloodstream expands. "TZDs usually increase body weight by several kilograms," said George Seki of the University of Tokyo. "However, TZDs sometimes cause massive volume expansion, resulting in heart failure." Now his team reports in the May issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, that those negative consequences arise in more than one ...

Only about half of new drugs approved in the last decade had comparative effectiveness data available at the time of their approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and approximately two-thirds of new drugs had this information available when alternative treatment options existed, according to a study in the May 4 issue of JAMA. In 2009, Congress allocated $1.1 billion to comparative effectiveness research. According to the Institute of Medicine, such research is defined as the "generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative ...

Implementing structured exercise training, including aerobic, resistance or both, was associated with a greater reduction in hemoglobin A1c levels (a marker of glucose control) for patients with diabetes compared to patients in the control group, and longer weekly exercise duration was also associated with a greater decrease in these levels, according to results of an analysis of previous studies, published in the May 4 issue of JAMA. "Exercise is a cornerstone of diabetes management, along with dietary and pharmacological interventions. Current guidelines recommend that ...

By knocking down the expression of a protein in rat brains known to stimulate eating, Johns Hopkins researchers say they not only reduced the animals' calorie intake and weight, but also transformed their fat into a type that burns off more energy. The finding could lead to better obesity treatments for humans, the scientists report. "If we could get the human body to turn 'bad fat' into 'good fat' that burns calories instead of storing them, we could add a serious new tool to tackle the obesity epidemic in the United States," says study leader Sheng Bi, M.D., an associate ...

Breast cancers that are first detectable in the interval between screening mammograms are more likely to be aggressive, fast-growing tumors according to a study published online May 3rd in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Other studies have shown that cancers diagnosed between mammograms, known as interval cancers, tend to have a worse prognosis than those detected during routine screening. This study examined the difference between "true" interval cancers—those not detectable on the previous mammogram—and "missed" interval cancers—those not detected on ...

UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors, harnessing the body's natural defenses to fight disease growth. The vaults, barrel-shaped nanoscale capsules found in the cytoplasm of all mammalian cells, were engineered to slowly release a protein, the chemokine CCL21, into the tumor. Pre-clinical studies in mice with lung cancer showed that the protein stimulated the immune system to recognize and attack the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Its head and body looked like a dog, yet its striped coat was cat-like. It carried its young in a pouch, like a kangaroo. No wonder the thylacine — the enigmatic, iconic creature of Australia and Tasmania — was the object of so much confusion, alternately called the "marsupial wolf" and the "Tasmanian tiger." So what was it? By studying bones of thylacines and 31 other mammals, researchers at Brown University have the answer: The thylacine was a Tasmanian tiger — more cat than dog, although clearly a marsupial. In a paper published ...

Philadelphia – New research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine shows a substantial decrease in one type of revascularization procedure, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, while rates of utilization of the other form, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), has remained unchanged. Coronary revascularization, the process of restoring the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the heart, is among the most common hospital-based major interventional procedures performed in the United States. Over the past decade, the field of coronary revascularization ...