Despite current prohibitions on the words 'light' and 'mild', smokers in Western countries continue falsely to believe that some cigarette brands may be less harmful than others. In fact, all conventional brands of cigarette present the same level of risk to smokers, including 'mild' and 'low-tar' brands. A study published today in the journal Addiction polled over 8000 smokers from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the USA. Approximately one-fifth of those smokers incorrectly believed that "some cigarette brands could be less harmful than others." False beliefs ...

Long-distance, high speed communications depend on lasers. But when information is transmitted down fiber optic cables, it's critical that the signal be clear enough to be decoded at the other end. Two factors are important in this respect: the color of the light, otherwise known as the wavelength, and the orientation of the light wave, known as polarization. A team from EPFL and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) has developed a technique that improves control over these two parameters. "All indications are that this technology ...

We all move around in a protective bubble of "near space," more commonly known as "personal space." But not everyone's bubble is the same size. People who project their personal space too far beyond their bodies, or the norm of arm's reach, are more likely to experience claustrophobic fear, a new study finds. The study, to be published in the journal Cognition, is one of the first to focus on the perceptual mechanisms of claustrophobic fear. "We've found that people who are higher in claustrophobic fear have an exaggerated sense of the near space surrounding them," ...

A new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that an estimated 5.25 million football-related injuries among children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments between 1990 and 2007. The annual number of football-related injuries increased 27 percent during the 18-year study period, jumping from 274,094 in 1990 to 346,772 in 2007. "We found that nearly 2,000 pediatric and adolescent football-related injuries were treated ...

Michael Tabman, retired FBI Agent and author of Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People, releases Midnight Sin, a gritty crime novel that follows the journey of rookie cop Gary Hollings as he steps out onto a midnight shift. Hollings soon realizes that being a cop changes everything he thought he knew about life. Every decision he makes has unforeseen consequences. Hollings works hard to build his reputation as a solid cop while he makes arrests and helps his fellow cops out of tough situations. But fighting crime is not just a matter of right and ...

Six billion people are educated by state schools. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese folk religion make up 5.8 billion people (approximately 85% of the world population). Both state schools and religions have failed to avoid the deteriorating state of humanity and the planet. The status quo: 2.3 billion people under-fed and starving, over 500 million living in "absolute poverty", nearly 3 billion without access to sanitation, over 1 billion without housing, 2 billion without electricity, and 1 billion analphabets, pollution, wars, contamination, declining ...

Grauer School students Ben Webster (8th Grade) and Stewart Wirick (10th Grade) competed with over 900 students and won awards in two separate categories at the Greater San Diego County Science & Engineering Fair that was held at the Balboa Park Activity Center on March 22-27, 2011. The fair provides and maintains a continuous process that seeks to encourage and award professional excellence, promote literacy and educational enrichment and provide unique opportunities for independent achievement in science and technology. Stewart Wirick's project, "Can a Smart Phone Battery ...

Jitbit Software has introduced a new version of Macro Recorder 5.0, completely rewritten to the .NET Platform. The company opines that this new adaptation is an incredible technological achievement that employs lots of unique features. According to them the "ClickOnce" technology used to deploy the application will enable users to install and run the application by simply clicking a link on a webpage. Moreover, users can get instant automatic updates and critical fixes. The new version is built on the .NET platform. The .NET framework enables everything from adding new ...

Through interactive case studies attendees of the 2011 Learning and Entertainment Evolution Forum (LEEF) will explore leading edge applications of serious games with industry experts and peers during the event, which is set for is set for June 16-17 at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in PA. LEEF is an interactive professional development event that explores the use of games, simulations and virtual worlds for learning. The program showcases how learning and entertainment technologies have converged and continue to evolve to produce solutions that are ...

http://www.AshburnLawyer.org, a new local area website with listings of Ashburn lawyers and attorneys, is live and ready to assist Ashburn area companies as well as residents find legal providers in Ashburn that can assist them with any legal issues. With Ashburn, Virginia being such a rapidly growing suburb of the Washington DC / Northern Virginia Metro area, the growth of legal service providers has been rapid as well. While this is ideal for Ashburn area companies, organizations, and residents who are searching for legal providers, working through the growing list of ...

The King's Heritage Workshop, a high-end retailer of fine custom cabinets, furniture, millwork and more, announces the addition of a new appointment booking feature on its website. Clients and prospective clients can book consultation appointments through BookFresh on the company site. At the click of a button, visitors can schedule a free 90 minute in-home consultation with The King's Heritage Workshop owner and operator, Don Suess. In addition to this new feature, customers are also able to monitor the progress of their project securely online through a password protected ...

It's a country with a long and rich history of making wine, dating back to the end of the 17th century. Its most famous wine, a Muscat based dessert wine called Vin de Constance, can lay claim to being one of the world's first superstar wines. South Africa is the place to be if you are in the market for world class wines, new-world or old-world. CapeWineAndLeisure a Stellenbosch based registered Tour Operator that specializes in small groups up to 7 people. Will take you on a South African wine experience you will never forget. Where the grapes groove. Much of ...

Smart Peter Lab has published new program - Design GIF pictures for web page. Application produces high-quality images, logos and ads for your Web page. It has convenient design which helps you edit graphics, manipulate with texts, and use special distortions like shadows, flames, transparency as well as deformation and transition. Using this software You can design project from your personal images (JPG, GIF, BMP, AVI, ICO, PNG) and add 3D text and models. The ready-to-use shapes like ads, glyphs and logos, make the product even easier to use. The application ...

Snap Promotions announces the launch of their new website dedicated to promotional beer coasters and gift coasters called http://www.PromotionalBeerCoasters.com. "This is the newest in a series of promotional websites we'll be launching this year," says Harley Johnston, PR Director for Snap Promotions. "We're very pleased with our new site. It's already driving traffic and driving sales." Featuring a variety of promotional coasters from pulpboard to cork, and gift coasters from bamboo to stone, http://www.promotionalbeercoasters.com offers a wide selection of promotional ...

SAMIRA Gmbh reveals Ultra Fantastic Digital Image Recording SAMIRA Gmbh has issued new application - Record and supervise using face detector. The program has pre-event and post-alarm recording. Playing back captured video is pretty easy and does on the security server as well as on remote workstation via Internet interface. The program does simultaneous picture playback for episode analysis from multiple cameras concurrently. Moreover recorded information can be sought by date, time or by face identified. All captured information can be encrypted and secret ...

The physicians at South Shore Skin Center and Spa, one of the most progressive practices for medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology in Massachusetts, weigh in on what it means to patients with melanoma. "The breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb is Yervoy and it is specifically for patients with late-stage or metastatic melanoma. This is an exciting new weapon in the fight against skin cancer. We have two drugs out there that are used in the treatment of stage 3 and stage 4 melanoma - Interferon (which was approved a decade ago) and Dacarbazine. ...

PGM Billing announced that John D. Bowlin has accepted the Company's offer to join its board of directors. The addition of Mr. Bowlin increases the number of directors on PGM's board to 5. Mr. Bowlin brings over 30 years of managerial and operational experience to PGM. Most recently, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of SABMiller PLC. Additionally, he held several senior executive positions at Phillip Morris Companies, Inc., including Chief Executive Officer of Miller Brewing Company, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods International and as ...

Today, Planetary Streams and momprenuer Debbie Cluff announced, her new website Retail Gone, offers a NEW type of Bartering Service calledRandom Acts of Retail, a Mom's only service geared toward helping families gets what they need for their kids without the expense of money at http://www.retailgone.com. According to full time consumer and champion against retail ignorance, Debbie Cluff, she says her "priceless" website service allows women to trade with other moms by posting what they have and what they need. Moms simply log into the site (every mom will have to register ...

The Don Barnhart Comedy Showroom features the top comedians from around the world every Tuesday - Sunday at 8:30PM at The Clarion Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Enjoy the true comedy club experience in our updated showroom that offers full dinner, snacks and bar menus including VIP and bottle service. Each show is unique with different comedians from the recognized name act you've seen on TV and film including Barnhart himself to the hottest up and comers on the comedy scene today. Don has been a favorite headliner at the top comedy clubs for years and now he's making ...

ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and the world's largest channel manufacturer, today introduces the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition - its fastest single-GPU graphics card. The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition is designed to amplify cooling performance and gaming at extreme high-definition resolutions. A custom high-performance heat-pipe heatsink enables the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition to stay cool and whisper-quiet while dual orange 92mm fans add a stylish ZOTAC touch to create an enthusiast-grade graphics card that combines performance and style ...

Companies today are faced with many operational challenges - driving revenue and profits while optimizing existing cash flow, developing quality products and services, and inspiring and motivating employees. They are under more pressure than ever before. "Sparks" is a new book that addresses these issues (release date is April 5, 2011). "Sparks was written to help managers become better leaders, which results in improved productivity, stronger teams, and less turnover. The best leaders help companies to retain their best talent even in the hardest economic times," said ...

Modern technology has indeed advanced that there are intelligent people who do website design, web and software development. All these are important as they simplify complicated tasks through good programming. But any web designer or programmer can do the job easily especially if he is equipped with the necessary skills and experience. What you need are people from Cyberplex Software who can design your specifications at a price you can afford. Cyberplex Software, a company with extensive experience in website design, web and software development, proudly offers its ...

Known for blending river rafting with wilderness adventure and backcountry luxury, Far and Away Adventures (http://www.far-away.com/) announces three American Safaris showcasing wilderness photography workshops for aspiring shutterbugs. These programs with fine art photographer and wilderness specialist James Bourret are July 27-29 and July 29-Aug. 1, 2011 on Yellowstone Lake and Aug. 11-16, 2011 on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, one of the world's most revered wild and scenic waterways. The 2-night Yellowstone Lake photo workshop is priced at $1,040 ...

This weekend, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) unveiled two new cell phone tours, powered by Guide by Cell. The ArtPhone tour will lend insight into five newly commissioned public artworks and 20 works from the airport's collection which are on display at the revamped SFO Terminal 2. A second cell phone tour, the GreenPhone tour, will also be available for airport patrons to learn more about the sustainable design of the new terminal. Both audio tours were recorded and produced by San Francisco-based Earprint ...

Appel Farm Arts & Music Center is pleased to announce the launch of VirtuARTSity.org, a new website that combines social media and the arts. The project was funded through the PNC Arts Alive program, a five-year, $5 million investment from the PNC Foundation that supports visual and performing arts groups with the goal of increasing arts access and engagement. VirtuARTSity.org is a unique website, and was created with the goal of creating a forum for people with artistic interests to post their own work, view other work being done by artists from across the region, ...