Fantasy Postseason, LLC announced today that it has opened league registration for the 2011 Pro Basketball and Hockey playoffs. Fantasy Postseason pro basketball and hockey leagues enhance the fun of the post-season, by allowing managers to draft individual players from playoff rosters. Fantasy players score points based upon in-game performance such as points scored, rebounds, and assists for basketball, or goals, assists, and saves for hockey. Points accumulate for team managers as their players advance through the playoffs. The manager with the most points at the ...

Exlar's roller screw actuator technology aids MEAF machinery in providing higher possible mould forces and a smoother motion profile along with long service life. Application Challenge: Providing higher possible mould forces and a smoother motion profile along with long service life was the goal for MEAF Machinery while designing their new KSM600 high capacity thermoforming machine. This machine, utilizing air and plug-assisted forming, enables very accurate control of the wall thickness of the plastic to form ribs and contours, resulting in a final stableplastic product. Exlar ...

Advance announces it social media presence with the recently introduced Advance Smart Cleaning blog and Twitter and Facebook pages--all designed to provide the latest information on efficient, environmentally friendly floor and surface cleaning. Delivering unlimited resources to meet green cleaning requirements, Advance is setting the industry standard in customer interactivity. "Advance continually strives to be the leader in the floor cleaning equipment market, and has expanded our communication platform in social media," said Steve Dick, Director of Marketing for ...

Within just 3 weeks of its launch, Wix' free Facebook app has soared to # 3 on All Facebook's application leaderboard for weekly growth, and ranks # 27 on Facebook's Top Business Apps. With over 186,000 monthly active users, WixYourPage includes customizable Facebook page templates and an easy web editor. Everything in a Wix Facebook template can be adjusted to fit a brand's unique look with original content and interactive design. Users can customize their pages with Wix' free website builder, a web-top publishing tool used by millions of site owners worldwide to ...

OzeVision Web Hosting has been awarded 19th position amongst the "Top 25 Most Poplar" web hosting companies in the category "Australian Web Hosting Directory" by WebHostDir.com and 24th position in the category "Australian Dedicated Servers Directory" by DedicatedServerDir.com for the month of March 2011. The awards pages can be viewed at: http://ozevision.com/web_hosting/top-25-most-popular-webhosting-awards.html http://ozevision.com/web_hosting/top-25-most-popular-dedicated-awards.html Every month WebHostDir.com and DedicatedServerDir.com rates the 25 most favorite ...

Many Ohio homeowners who are facing home foreclosure or sheriff's sale do not know where to start when it comes to saving their home. Ohio attorney, John Sherrod, of Jump Legal Group in Columbus is one of just a few attorneys who successfully stops home foreclosure. Attorney Sherrod has even been able to keep homeowners in their homes while getting mortgage companies to lower the homeowners' payments. According to Mr. Sherrod, many homeowners, when faced with foreclosure, follow their banks' instructions and apply for a loan modification through their banks. "Sadly, ...

Los Angeles cosmetic dentist, Dr. Kevin Sands, is one of an increasing number of California dentists using nitrous oxide to make his patients' dental visits more comfortable. Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, has been safely used since the nineteenth century as a needle-free anesthetic. Dr. Sands now implements this technique to provide a more comfortable experience for the patients at his office. Nitrous Oxide is Perfect for Nervous Patients There are individuals who know they should seek out a dentist in Los Angeles but are just too afraid of the dentist's ...

Sabrient Systems, LLC President Scott Brown has announced Rick Hoselton as Sabrient's Director of Information Technology (IT). Hoselton assumed his new position in January. "With the ongoing expansion of our core business units comes development and testing imperatives for the accuracy, speed and security our partners and customers require in products and strategies," said Brown. "Rick Hoselton's expertise with all aspects of these objectives is exceptionally strong, and we are delighted to have that expertise at Sabrient." Sabrient is an independent equity research ...

WASHINGTON, DC – When muscles and organs are deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen--a condition called hypoxia--the body's usual responses include increased circulation and a slight drop in blood pressure in the blood vessels serving the affected tissue. However, the blood vessels in the lungs react differently: blood pressure in the lungs rises, often with deleterious effects on the lungs' tissue and the heart. Larissa A. Shimoda, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., has dedicated her research to ...

Churches will continue to attract older congregations as increasing life expectancy encourages people to put off involvement in religion, according to new research. The study, by Dr Elissaios Papyrakis at the University of East Anglia and Dr Geethanjali Selvaretnam from the University of St Andrews in the UK, suggests that religious organisations need to do more to highlight the social and spiritual benefits of participation in religion in present day life if they are to increase congregation sizes and attract people of all ages, particularly young people. Published ...

Bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis are only able to spread when individuals are infected with flu, says a scientist reporting at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Harrogate. The work could have implications for the management of influenza pandemics and could help reduce incidence of pneumococcal infections in very young children, who are more susceptible to disease. Streptococcus pneumoniae normally lives harmlessly in the nasal passage. Up to 80% of young children carry the bacterium in their nose. It is already known that if a colonized ...

Fresh out of the Cobra Sultan shipyard this year the S/Y INFINITY & 46.00m (150'00") is a stunning luxury yacht with impeccable internal fittings and furnishings. With construction overseen by David Legrand of Fraser Yachts, Monaco, she can accommodate 12 guests, 7 crew members and has a cruising speed of 11 knots. Asking Price: $13,299,000 The luxury mega yacht for sale ROB ROY & 41.15m (135'00") was built by the Horizon Yachts shipyard in 2009 with the joint central agent Thorsten Giesbert of Fraser Yachts, Spain. Her entire bridge has been reserved for her owner's ...

Storing fruits and vegetables in ozone-enriched environments reduces spoilage explains a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Harrogate. Dr Ian Singleton explains how ozone treatment could be a safe, effective replacement for pesticides as it leaves no residue on foods. It is estimated that up to 30% of fresh produce can be lost due to microbial spoilage. Dr Singleton from Newcastle University explains that low levels of gaseous ozone are able to prevent fungal spoilage in a wide range of stored fresh produce, including strawberries, ...

Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to develop a computer model of the brain after developing a technique to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time. A new area of research is emerging in the neuroscience known as 'connectomics'. With parallels to genomics, which maps the our genetic make-up, connectomics aims to map the brain's connections (known as 'synapses'). By mapping these connections – and hence how information flows through the circuits of the brain – scientists hope to understand how perceptions, ...

The benefits of blueberry consumption have been demonstrated in several nutrition studies, more specifically the cardio-protective benefits derived from their high polyphenol content. Blueberries have shown potential to have a positive effect on everything from aging to metabolic syndrome. Recently, a researcher from Texas Woman's University (TWU) in Denton, TX, examined whether blueberries could play a role in reducing one of the world's greatest health challenges: obesity. Shiwani Moghe, MS, a graduate student at TWU, decided to evaluate whether blueberry polyphenols ...

C.S. Lewis, the famous author and Oxford academic, once proclaimed "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." We sip it with toast in the morning, enjoy it with sweets and biscuits in the afternoon, and relax with it at the end of the day. Tea has for generations been an integral infusion worldwide, carrying both epicurean and economic significance. But, does it impart honest-to-goodness health benefits? In other words, is its persistence in the human diet perhaps coincident with enhanced quality (or quantity) of life? Dr. Chwan-Li (Leslie) ...

Jenny Wan-chen Lee, a graduate student in Cornell University's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, has been fascinated with a phenomenon known as "the halo effect" for some time. Psychologists have long recognized that how we perceive a particular trait of a person can be influenced by how we perceive other traits of the same individual. In other words, the fact that a person has a positive attribute can radiate a "halo", resulting in the perception that other characteristics associated with that person are also positive. An example of this would be judging ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scientists at Harvard University have harnessed the prowess of fast-replicating bacterial viruses, also known as phages, to accelerate the evolution of biomolecules in the laboratory. The work, reported this week in the journal Nature, could ultimately allow the tailoring of custom pharmaceuticals and research tools from lab-grown proteins, nucleic acids, and other such compounds. The researchers, led by Professor David R. Liu, say their approach -- dubbed phage-assisted continuous evolution, or PACE -- is roughly 100 times faster than conventional ...

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, premature birth, and low birth weight. But there are conflicting reports about how much alcohol, if any, it is safe for a pregnant woman to drink. New research published in Biomed Central's open access journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth looked at the amounts of alcohol women drank during their early pregnancy and showed the effect this had on their babies. Researchers in Dublin questioned more than 60,000 pregnant women during their hospital booking interview, which usually occurred ...

Robert Lauri, an eclectic international musician, controls a wide variety of musical genres and the extent of his musical creativity truly characterizes him as an artist. He knows how to build a melody into a unique musical work of art, a true canvas of harmonies and color variations that, upon hearing, will remain etched in the listener's memory. He always operates with the same mastery in terms of harmonies and musical arrangements. He is a melodic visionary, a unique creator within his genre in all musical styles that he offers his listeners. He literally puts ...

JUPITER, FL, April 10, 2010 – For years, scientists have thought of DNA as a passive blueprint capable only of producing specific proteins through RNA transcription. Now, research led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has shown DNA can also act to fine-tune the activity of certain proteins known as nuclear receptors. These new findings may make it possible to design therapies that could activate specific genes in a highly targeted manner in a number of important diseases including osteoporosis, obesity, autoimmune disease, and cancer. ...

The evolution and diversification of the more than 300,000 living species of flowering plants may have been "jump started" much earlier than previously calculated, a new study indicates. According to Claude dePamphilis, a professor of biology at Penn State University and the lead author of the study, which includes scientists at six universities, two major upheavals in the plant genome occurred hundreds of millions of years ago -- nearly 200 million years earlier than the events that other research groups had described. The research also indicates that these upheavals produced ...

DURHAM, N.C.— An investigational combination of drugs already approved to treat obesity, migraine and epilepsy produced up to a 10 percent weight loss in obese individuals participating in a one-year clinical trial, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Appearing online in The Lancet today, the study found that treatment with the controlled-release combination therapy consisting of phentermine and topiramate also achieved significant reductions in blood pressure and hemoglobin A1C. Study participants also experienced improvements in cholesterol, ...

The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly for the last half-century or more, and recent studies have shown that an adjacent area, continental West Antarctica, has steadily warmed for at least 30 years, but scientists haven't been sure why. New University of Washington research shows that rising sea surface temperatures in the area of the Pacific Ocean along the equator and near the International Date Line drive atmospheric circulation that has caused some of the largest shifts in Antarctic climate in recent decades. The warmer water generates rising air that creates ...

When viruses attack, one molecule more than any other fights back. Interferon triggers the activation of more than 350 genes, and despite the obvious connection, the vast majority have never been tested for antiviral properties. A team of researchers, led by scientists from Rockefeller University, for the first time has carried out a comprehensive, systematic evaluation of the antiviral activity of interferon-induced factors. The findings, published online today in the journal Nature, are a first step toward unraveling how these naturally occurring molecules work to inhibit ...