Steve May, a Republican legislative candidate, recently withdrew from the race to claim a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives following revelations that he had been convicted of drunk driving. May was arrested last year and charged with the most severe DUI offense possible. He was picked up north of Phoenix driving 83 mph in a 55 mph speed zone with a blood-alcohol level above 0.20 percent (in Arizona, like in Florida, a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or higher is considered legally drunk). May was sentenced to 10 days in jail and three years of probation (he was ...

Thistle Hotels is inviting guests to join them for long, leisurely lie-ins with the launch of Lazy Sundays, a brand new package available across its hotels nationwide that allows guests to truly maximise their weekend break away. From just GBP70.50 per person*, guests can check with Thistle on a Saturday and stay right through until Sunday evening with an extra-late check-out of 6pm at no extra charge, helping to avoid the usual Sunday morning rush. Guests will receive a free newspaper to read in bed and can enjoy breakfast as late as 12 noon or choose a full Sunday ...

Villa Plus has announced that at a time when other villa operators are increasing their terms, it will be reducing its booking deposit requirement to 10% for villa only bookings or GBP100 per person for package holiday bookings*. In a fragile economy, where big ticket items like holidays can seem expensive, Villa Plus wanted to make it easier for customers to book their holiday early, yet still get value for money. So, in contrast to other villa operators, the company has decided to decrease the amount customers are required to pay when they book their holiday. "We ...

Premier Inn has announced it will be introducing an innovative Twitter-based 'virtual' concierge service for its guests, shaking up the traditional hotel concierge. Not only is this revolutionary take on the concierge concept a UK first, but Premier Inn is also becoming the first budget hotel chain to offer a concierge style service to its guests. To access Premier Inn's weekend Twitter concierge service, guests must tweet @PremierInn concierge and simply ask for recommendations on anything from local activities for the kids, karaoke bars in the area, directions ...

Hotter Comfort Concept, the leading women's comfort shoe specialist, has launched a new EEE width fitting as part of its mission to bring comfort to the nation's feet. Following research amongst its online, mail order and high street store customers, the UK shoemaker discovered an increased demand for wider-fitting shoes mirroring longstanding trends that show that UK women's feet are getting wider and longer. To cater for this growing market the company has introduced its best selling Dew and Leap styles in EEE fit for the first time and will be monitoring sales to ...

Thistle Hotels has announced the appointment of Steven Devine as General Manager of the County Hotel in Newcastle, the very same hotel he worked at just a couple of years into his career. Devine makes the move back up north after three years overseeing Thistle's Kensington Gardens hotel and Thistle Bloomsbury Park in central London. He started his new role at the County Hotel in September 2010. Born and bred in County Durham and having studied in Newcastle, Devine brings with him a wealth of experience, built up over his 17 years of working for Thistle. After starting ...

Salmonella attorneys from food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen have inspected the Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg facilities, which were at the center of a nationwide Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak late this summer and early fall. The two Iowa egg producers were linked to the August recall of more than 500 million eggs and 1,600 illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pritzker Olsen represents dozens of clients throughout the United States sickened in this outbreak. The firm filed the first egg lawsuit in Minnesota on behalf ...

For some students, balancing a healthy lifestyle with their college schedule can seem like a major hurdle, but author and full-time student Nduka J. Anyanwu's new book FitTionary equips students with the tools to succeed at both. "My purpose for putting this book together is to help change your notion of how hard and boring exercising and proper eating habits are to implement," writes Anyanwu. The author draws on his experience as a certified personal trainer with the National Federation of Professional Trainers and full-time engineering and management student at Clarkson ...

Envision Realty Services, Inc. announced they received notification from the U.S. Green Building Council that their 50th Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance project has become LEED Certified, solidifying their status as the largest full-service LEED Consulting company in the nation. Envision Realty Services, Inc. is in its third year of operation and has experienced incredible growth in the Green Building industry since its inception. Envision Realty Services, Inc. is a progressive full-service real estate company determined to bring sustainability to all aspects ...

The media has discovered what his patients already knew. Dr. Michael Weinberg was one of the first Toronto plastic surgery experts to introduce combination procedures to give post-partum moms back the bodies they once had. He was chosen to be featured in an article on Mommy makeovers for Lifestyles magazine this fall. He has perfected the combination of tummy tuck, liposuction and breast implants. Toronto audiences will also be able to view his surgical results in an upcoming television segment on the hit television show Plastic Makes Perfect. Dr. Weinberg sites several ...

Recently celebrating their 50th Anniversary, the owners of Serta Mattress in Lockhart, Texas are extremely proud of their family business that was started during the depression. Founded in Austin by Milton T. Smith as a custom upholstery shop, Economy Furniture Industries (EFI) expanded their product line to include institutional furniture and later, became a Serta Licensee in 1959. Crucial to this expansion was Milton's wife, Helen, who ran the business and made EFI the largest independent furniture manufacturer west of the Mississippi River for a many years. During ...

The event which took place on October 2nd in Geneva helped raise over CHF22,000 for Children in Need, the Clair Bois Foundation, Association Paidos and Deworm the World. The ball took place at the Mandarin Hotel in Geneva and was attended by 136 people. Paul Dodds, deVere Group's Managing Partner in Switzerland, said, "We are delighted with the outcome of this event. We had over 50 of our clients attend the ball and were pleased to see so many of them donate generously for a good cause. The event seems to get bigger and better each year and we look forward to sponsoring ...

The recent cold weather has prompted some to turn on their furnace and boilers only to find them needing repairs, according to the CEO of a local environmental abatement company, Abatepro, Inc. Nicholas Feco has been performing asbestos inspections since 2004 and has seen a steady influx of HVAC systems needing repairs as fall weather approaches. "When it gets cold, equipment will fail," says Mr. Feco, "and the reputable HVAC guys won't touch asbestos pipes, boilers or duct wrap." This year the number of inspections has dropped. Mr. Feco believes this trend will ...

October 6, 2010 — (BRONX, NY) — The osteoporosis drug raloxifene may be useful in treating kidney disease in women, suggests a new study led by Michal Melamed, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology & population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. According to government statistics, an estimated 23 million American adults over age 20 suffers from chronic kidney disease―more than one out of 10. More than a half-million patients are under treatment for end-stage renal disease. New treatments are urgently ...

Internationally renowned geophysicist Dr Wouter Schellart has developed the first dynamic model to explain the mystery of the largest and most fascinating volcano in Europe, Mount Etna. Dr Schellart's results from fluid dynamic models provide an alternative explanation for the existence of Mount Etna, its geological environment and evolution, as well as volcanism in the surrounding region. His theory suggests that Mount Etna is not directly the result of tectonic plate boundary activity, but that it resulted from decompression melting of upper mantle material flowing ...

Microbes matter -- perhaps more than anyone realizes -- in basic biological development and, maybe, they could be a target for reducing cancer risks, according to University of Oregon researchers. In a study of very basic biology of zebrafish, scientists in the UO Institute of Molecular Biology focused on the developing intestine during its early formation in the sterile environment of its eggshell through the exposure to natural colonizing bacteria after hatching. What they found was eye opening, said Karen Guillemin, professor of biology: Resident microbes in the ...

With bits of DNA extracted from century-old museum specimens, researchers have found a place for the extinct Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in the family tree of pigeons and doves, identifying this unique bird's closest living avian relatives for the first time. The new analysis, which appears this month in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, reveals that the Passenger Pigeon was most closely related to other North and South American pigeons, and not to the Mourning Dove, as was previously suspected. "This research demonstrates the remarkable potential of ...

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 6, 2010) – Cardiac imaging researchers at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute are recommending that physicians not overlook fatty deposits around the heart when evaluating patients for risk of major heart problems. Although abdominal fat is often considered in making these assessments, recent research suggests that measuring fatty tissue around the heart is an even better predictor, and noninvasive CT scanning may provide this important information. The recommendation appeared in an editorial comment published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: ...

There is still time to save the world's ailing coral reefs, if prompt and decisive action can be taken to improve their overall health, leading marine researchers say. Writing in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, eminent marine scientists from Australia and the USA have called for an international effort to improve the resilience of coral reefs, so they can withstand the impacts of climate change and other human activities. "The world's coral reefs are important economic, social and environmental assets, and they are in deep trouble. How much trouble, and ...

New York, NY, October 6, 2010 – In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the October issue of Disability and Health Journal has brought together a series of articles to examine whether the ADA has in fact improved the health of people with disabilities. Areas of progress are identified, most notably acknowledging physical barriers and need for better staff training and communication about and with people with disabilities. However, there continue to be ongoing challenges, including recurrent barriers to health ...

STANFORD, Calif. - An alarming number of adolescents already battling eating disorders are also intentionally cutting themselves, and health-care providers may be failing to diagnose many instances of such self-injury, according to a new study from Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The researchers found that 40.8 percent of patients with eating disorders in their study had documented incidents of intentionally harming themselves, most often by cutting and burning. What's more, the study suggests that inadequate clinical screening ...

Transgenic corn's resistance to pests has benefitted even non-transgenic corn, a new study led by scientists from the University of Minnesota shows. The study, published in the Oct. 8 edition of the journal Science, found that widespread planting of genetically modified Bt corn throughout the Upper Midwest has suppressed populations of the European corn borer, historically one of corn's primary pests. This areawide suppression has dramatically reduced the estimated $1 billion in annual losses caused by the European corn borer, even on non-genetically modified corn. Bt ...

LA JOLLA, CA – October 4, 2010 – Researchers have determined the structure of a protein that helps guide blood-forming stem cells, or hematopoetic stem cells. The protein is also one of the main receptors used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to get inside blood cells. The findings are described in the October 7, 2010 issue of the journal Science. The structure offers a detailed view of how the cell surface receptor, called CXCR4, interacts with molecules outside the cell. The results have implications for developing new drugs for hematopoetic stem cell transplantation, ...

VIDEO: This model shows how HIV, in gray, might latch on to immune cell receptor molecules, allowing the virus to enter and infect the cell. The viral protein, gp120, shown in... Click here for more information. In a technical tour de force, structural biologists funded by the National Institutes of Health have determined the three-dimensional structure of a molecule involved in HIV infection and in many forms of cancer. The high-resolution structure sheds light on how the ...

Washington, DC/Beijing, China (7-8 October 2010)—A new study released today in Washington, DC and Beijing suggests that one of the world's largest and "greenest" paper companies, in concert with local officials and other middlemen, used illegal means to gain control over thousands of hectares of Chinese forestlands, with a goal of acquiring 120 thousand hectares for a eucalyptus plantation in the Guangxi Autonomous Region of southern China. The authors say their research shows that the middlemen, acting on behalf of Finnish paper and pulp manufacturer Stora Enso, often ...