GoSmart Technologies announced today that it has finished installation of electric vehicle charging equipment under an agreement with a confidential Fortune 500 company. These charging solutions are for a new data center being constructed in North Carolina. This project is being designed and built to receive an unprecedented Platinum LEED Certification. ChargeSPOT is a networked electric vehicle charging unit that complies with all industry standards for electric vehicle charging. The heart of ChargeSPOT is a Linux-based single board computer (SBC). This processing unit ...

River Logic, Inc., a leading provider of corporate performance management and predictive modeling software, today announced that Wausau Paper, with concentrations in specialty technical and premium printing papers and away-from-home towel and tissue products, has selected Network Design & Optimization (NDO) Planner to better configure their network to meet strategic objectives. NDO Planner will enable supply chain planners to design more efficient supply chain networks through advanced analytics, what-ifs, and optimization, which consider constraints and objective functions. ...

PuckProspect.com's (www.puckprospect.com) premier hockey scouting and hockey recruiting service has been in operations now for six months. The goal of PuckProspect.com is to get hockey players noticed via its hockey scouting and hockey recruiting service. It is a daunting task for any new online start-up to move up the search engine ranks of thousands of related companies. PuckProspect.com has steadily climbed to top exposure and is consistently found on the first page and top ten listings when googled with the most popular hockey keywords. Unlike other scouting websites ...

Movie fans have a chance to be a Hollywood insider on MovieHatch.com. Like an "American Idol" for filmmaking, MovieHatch lets fans help Hollywood producers decide which movies to make. Rising filmmakers have entered pitches of original film ideas to be considered. Just like professional film critics, fans watch trailers and rate pitches by giving a certain number of stars and can rate as many pitches as they would like at www.MovieHatch.com. Voting ends December 5th. "For Hollywood, MovieHatch takes the guesswork out of selecting the next great original film to make ...

Any insurance agent curious about how marketing has changed with recent the explosion of social media can gain a wealth of knowledge from the new guide from InsuranceAgents.com, Mastering Insurance Marketing: How to Move Your Agency Forward in the New Media Age. This new book is a valuable resource for agents who are just getting started or who have been working in their communities for years. Compiled by company founders Seth Kravitz and Lev Barinskiy, Mastering Insurance Marketing: How to Move Your Agency Forward in the New Media Age includes all of Barinskiy's knowledge ...

The UK's largest credit card provider, MBNA, has teamed up with newspaper The Manchester Evening News in a search for the North West's biggest footie fan. The MBNA North West Super Fan 2010 title and prize will be awarded to the most thoroughly devoted football fan who travels the length and breadth of the country with their team, come rain or shine. Officials from both the M.E.N. and the Chester-based credit card company are leading the search for the region's top fan and have strict guidelines to follow. The judges of the competition will look for someone who follows ...

Xplore Software Consulting Inc recognizes all-round performance and multiple talents in the areas of both software and the entertainment industry. Sushant Singh Rajput has been chosen by Xplore Software Consulting Inc as the winner of the Xplore Talent Award from the Indian TV entertainment industry as he possesses immense talent in the areas of acting, dancing, drama and he wants to venture into filmmaking, including scriptwriting and direction. Sushant Rajput, born as Sushant Singh Rajput in New Delhi, India, is an Indian television actor best known for playing ...

Regency Affiliates, Inc. (the "Company"), a company with investments in a power generation facility and a single tenant office building occupied by the United States Social Security Administration, announced that the Company has filed to deregister its Common Shares under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The directors of the Company determined that any beneficial effect to the Company of being registered is substantially outweighed by the current and increasing regulatory burdens and costs of such registration. These include costs that would be involved ...

The glue, called Kryptonite™, is being used to enhance the closure of the breastbone after surgery. "It has properties like natural bone and allows for new bone growth" says Dr. Fedak, a cardiac surgeon at Foothills Hospital Medical Centre. Up to this point, the breastbone has been closed only with steel wire that stays in the chest. "One of the most common complaints among patients is sternal pain following heart surgery," he says "With this alternative procedure, significant healing occurs in hours rather than in weeks." By accelerating and improving bone stability, ...

Taste receptors in the lungs? Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have discovered that bitter taste receptors are not just located in the mouth but also in human lungs. What they learned about the role of the receptors could revolutionize the treatment of asthma and other obstructive lung diseases. "The detection of functioning taste receptors on smooth muscle of the bronchus in the lungs was so unexpected that we were at first quite skeptical ourselves," says the study's senior author, Stephen B. Liggett, M.D., professor of medicine ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As anyone who as ever picked up a guitar or a tennis racket knows, precise timing is often an essential part of performing complex tasks. Now, by studying the brain circuits that control bird song, MIT researchers have identified a "chain reaction" of brain activity that appears to control the timing of song. The song of the zebra finch is very stereotypic; each song lasts about 1 second, and consists of multiple syllables whose timing is almost precisely the same from one performance to the next. "It's a great model system for studying how the brain ...

Producing tightly focused beams of high energy X-rays, to examine everything from molecular structures to the integrity of aircraft wings, could become simpler and cheaper according to new research. Today, in Nature Physics, researchers from Imperial College London, the University of Michigan and Instituto Superior Téchnico Lisbon describe a tabletop instrument that produces synchrotron X-rays, whose energy and quality rivals that produced by some of the largest X-ray facilities in the world. Scientific and medical advances often depend on the development of better ...

The manuscripts associated with these summary presentations are in press and will be published in the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) journal in 2011. Guidelines are one of the highest priorities for the CCS. "Feedback and surveys from the CCS membership and the broader cardiovascular community tell us that CCS guidelines are among our most important functions," says CCS president Dr. Charles Kerr. "As we embark on each new guideline project, we endeavor to identify strong co-chairs and expert panels so we can continue to support Canadian cardiovascular health ...

A team of researchers and runners from the Heart and Stroke Foundation have come up with a practical way of answering the question. They used data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to find out what is really going on in the marathoner's heart as the kilometers pile up. "Marathon runners can be a lot less fit than they think," Dr. Eric Larose today told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Lack of real aerobic fitness may directly impact the ways the heart organizes itself ...

Montreal – The blood vessels of obese children have stiffness normally seen in much older adults with cardiovascular disease, Dr. Kevin Harris today told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The clock is ticking and the shape of the 13 year-old-heart is changing – for the worse. "We were surprised to find that these obese children already have stiff blood vessels," says Dr. Harris from B.C. Children's Hospital. "Aortic stiffness is an early indicator of cardiovascular disease in ...

"These two high-risk but universally undertreated groups are less likely attend cardiac rehab than their younger, male counterparts even when they are referred," says Dr. Martin, PhD(c) and surgical trainee at University Calgary/Libin Cardiovascular Institute, speaking on behalf of her co-authors at the Cardiac Wellness institute of Calgary and APPROACH. "And when women do attend cardiac rehab, they tend to present later and at a more serious stage of the disease." The study of 6,000 people living with cardiovascular disease found that participation in cardiac rehab was ...

FOR EMBARGOED RELEASE: October 25, 2010 12:01AM ET New Way of Expanding Cancer Screening for Minority Women New York, October 25, 2010 — Minority patients have a significantly decreased survival from colon cancer compared to white patients, most often as a result of a late diagnosis. To help address this problem, a team of healthcare professionals at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has identified an efficient way to increase minority access to lifesaving colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) in communities where multiple barriers ...

Offering colorectal cancer screening to poor minority women during mammography visits can effectively expand screening in this otherwise underserved population, although lack of medical insurance remains a significant barrier. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The results highlight the need to find alternative funding sources for colorectal cancer screening from the government or private institutions. Colorectal cancer screening is inadequate in minority communities in the United ...

Montreal − Levels of anxiety sensitivity may be important in choosing medical treatment for patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF), Montreal Heart Institute researchers today told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher and lead author Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD explained that anxiety sensitivity is the degree to which a person is frightened by bodily sensations and symptoms, particularly those associated with anxiety. ...

For Immediate Release – October 25, 2010 – (Toronto) –A new study from The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found that contraband tobacco accounts for 43% of all cigarettes consumed by Ontario high school daily smokers in grades 9 to 12. The study, published in the current edition of Tobacco Control, looked at the smoking habits of Ontario students and found that of high school daily smokers, 50% smoked at least one contraband cigarette per day over the last year. Contraband cigarettes are manufactured on and smuggled from US and Canadian native reserves ...

PERI Software, based in Newark, NJ plans to show its latest smart grid technology software and hardware products at the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Conference. The four-day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair — the nation's benchmark forum on minority supplier development - takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center beginning Sunday, October 24th and runs through Wed., Oct. 27, 2010. "As the nation's leading Asian-owned global business solutions company, we're delighted to display our smart grid technology and electric, gas and ...

A full copy of the Agenda is available at: http://www.oxfordstrategicconsulting.com/qatar2010 Day One of the Summit will explore in depth the latest strategic approaches to Nationalization, including Qatarization, and recommend approaches to developing the crucial Differentiating Capabilities (DiSCs) and talents needed to meet key strategic objectives and achieve competitive advantage in the region. National Talent Summit partners SRg, specialists in engineering innovation, will present Blue Ocean Strategy, a range of advanced approaches to developing forward thinking ...

Renowned new Homes Builder Houston Whitestone Builders has a new listing of a beautiful new house being built at 3702 Woodhead. It is described by David Gordon, one of the principals, as a "traditional brick home with meticulously laid hardwood floors and beautifully detailed trim reflective of classic periodical styles." The main features of the home include an elegant staircase, detailed custom hand-crafted cabinetry and alley accessible garages for privacy and security that won't detract from the classic architectural style. Whitestone Builders specializes in modern, ...

Florida residents and visitors can enjoy beauty on the cheap with special fall savings now through Oct. 31 at Hair Benders Academy, School of Hair, 851 E. State Road, 434, Suite 164 in Longwood, Florida. Specials include: $5 haircuts, $8 for a plain pedicure, $10 for nail tips with overlays, 20% off all Peter Hantz liters and 20% of all Madrid's hair care products. "We try to provide the greatest value for both our students and our clients," said Jessica Wolman, one of the owners of the schools. "This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the season with affordable ...

Cypress dentist's to give "Dentistry from the Heart" on November 20, 2010. As a way of thanking the Cypress community for their support over the past 27 years, Dr's Ty and Susan Caldwell have decided to open their practice for a day of free dentistry. On a first come, first served basis, the dental team will care for as many patients as they can from 7:00 AM until 5:00 PM. The practice anticipates seeing over a hundred patients and has enlisted the help of ten additional dentists to help make the day a great success. They will also have six dental hygienists, and a dozen ...