North Carolina State University has promised by 2012 to double the number of startup companies it launches each year, creating much-needed jobs for workers statewide. NC State's new innovation "hub," called the Springboard Innovation Partnership Portal, will play a key role in achieving this goal by facilitating business partnerships and speeding up the pipeline through which research becomes reality. Springboard is currently located on Centennial Campus. In a recession, the key to economic recovery is job creation. Companies that are less than six years old provide ...

Fly.co.uk, a leading price comparator, has been helping tourists find the best deals around for late summer and early Autumn breaks. Spain continues to be one of the most popular destinations at this time of year and the competitive prices show that. Murcia in Spain is one of the destinations which people are heading to as the British summer ends. Autumn in Spain is still very warm and coupled with beautiful beaches and interesting cities, it remains one of the top countries to visit. Fly.co.uk has some fantastic deals on at the moment, especially flights to Murcia. As ...

Lakeland Dairies, the second largest dairy processing co-operative in Ireland, is known for innovation. With a comprehensive range of high quality dairy products supplied to a global customer base, Lakeland Dairies requires fast, reliable communications. The company turned to Kedington Group to create a network infrastructure that would serve as a platform for continued advances in product development and distribution. Lakeland Dairies operates in a fifteen county catchment area in the northern half of Ireland. The company's 5 locations house manufacturing, product development, ...

Music lovers can combine a trip to the beautiful town of Willunga with a visit to next month's Fleurieu Folk Festival. Acts from throughout South Australia and some interstate artists will be taking to the stage during the event, which runs between October 22nd and 24th 2010. Unlike some festivals, Fleurieu is firmly aimed at families, with a range of activities planned to appeal to both the young and old who make their way to the site from some of the cheap accommodation Adelaide has available. Bush poets, children's entertainers and a variety of stalls will be ...

Next month's Kirchweih Dult could be on the itinerary for holidaymakers spending time in Munich hotels. Taking place between October 16th and 24th, this large street market is one of the three Auer Dult events held in the Bavarian capital each year. The name of the event translates as "church anniversary fair", although the word "dult" comes from an old German term meaning "observance". It was originally a fair based on ecclesiastical celebration, although it is now more associated with the large of number of stalls selling vintage crockery, rare books, beauty products ...

Guests of Lake District accommodation who are keen to explore the area may be interested in a guided walk scheduled for next month. Around Coppermines Valley will take adventurous visitors through an area that is synonymous with the great mining heritage of Cumbria. Starting at the Coniston Tourist Information Centre on October 26th, this mid-level walk is free to attend and follows disused water channels to some of Coniston's most famous features, including Red Dell and the huge Pudding Stone boulder. Organised by the Lake District National Park, the four-mile ...

People staying in Prague hotels will have an opportunity to see Simply Red on their farewell tour later this year. The British band are due to play at the Czech capital's Tesla Arena on their last trip around Europe before they split up at the end of the year. Having sold more than 50 million records since forming in Manchester in 1985, soul vocalist Mick Hucknall's group have amassed a legion of dedicated fans in cities all over the world. Simply Red devotees heading to the Prague concert on Sunday November 14th can expect to hear classic hits from the band's ...

People staying in one of the luxury hotels Cornwall has to offer may like to visit the Roseland Festival next month. Returning for the fifth consecutive year, this celebration of art, literature, music and dance is set to run between October 16th and 30th. The festival takes its named from the Roseland Peninsula, the historic district of west Cornwall that is separated from the rest of the county by the course of the River Fal. Events are held in the town of St Mawes and several of the surrounding villages, with the organisers promising to deliver a diverse programme ...

Theatregoers should prepare themselves for an emotional show if they are going to see Birdsong in London soon. Guests at London hotels have been told by the team behind the show that it is a "beautiful and haunting story" about a love affair around the time of the First World War. Adapted for the stage by Rachel Wagstaff from a Sebastian Faulks novel, the plot sees Stephen Wraysford have a passionate relationship with a French woman named Isabelle, who also happens to be the wife of his host in France. Playing the role of Wraysford is Ben Barnes, who recently appeared ...

CrazyVegas.com has recently established their reputation as the only online casino network to launch the largest Freeroll slots tournament, as well as the first Euro-based Freeroll slots tournament, but now they have upped the stakes even further by allowing their players to vote for the online slots game which will host the tournament event. The votes have been tallied, and this month's EUR25,000 Monthly Guaranteed Freeroll event will be played on Mad Hatters Video Slot. Registrations for the event open on Friday 17 September 2010 at 19H00 GMT, and the nine-day event will ...

Anyone with an interest in Greek mythology should be sure to check out Ulysses Syndrome in Naples this autumn. This display of underwater images is available to view from September 29th until October 18th and is sure to offer food for thought for any art enthusiast, thanks to its innovative method of communicating ideas. It will be housed at the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli (Madre) arts space, with visitors also able to experience the stunning Project Room programme while they are in the museum. Ulysses Syndrome allows attendees to retrace the ...

Thursday 30th September and Friday 1st October, The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead welcomes all to an authentic Austrian Apres Ski party with live Tyrolian music, real ski instructors from the Otztal Region and traditional Austrian food and drink. Both Apres Ski parties are organized by Otztal. This region in the Austrian Alps is one of the main sponsors of the Snow Centre. The team from the Otztal Tourist Board has chosen the indoor slopes in Hemel Hempstead to organize two training days on real snow for members of the travel industry on the last Thursday of September ...

Moneybagslouise, a regular player at Giggle Bingo, an online bingo room, kicked her weekend off with a bang as she won GBP20 000 on 18 September. Giggle Bingo is a leading online bingo room, catering to bingo fans from across the globe. The bingo room also offers a superb range of casino games that players can take advantage of. A case in point is Moneybagslouise's GBP20,000 win from a Video Poker game, Deuces Wild. Winning is something many of the Giggle Bingo players can attest too. This includes great wins on the available bingo promotions such as the unique ...

PaymentOne, a global leader in phone-enabled payments for publishers and digital merchants, today announced AnyPhone, a powerful network of new payment services that provide simple and secure options for online and mobile consumers to pay for their virtual currency, digital subscriptions, mobile applications and other online services from virtually any device. PaymentOne's AnyPhone Network enables over a billion worldwide consumers to simply have their common digital transactions, including their virtual currency on social media and/or subscriptions to their favorites ...

Most software teams struggle with a common set of problems: how to understand what is really needed, how to review results and set expectations, and how to engage with project sponsors and other senior stakeholders. Regardless of the approach they follow in developing the software, mastering these challenges is essential to successful delivery of business results. The first session, on October 6, 2010, is titled: Getting to needs: Seeing beyond wants and wishes to find the real source of business results. Mr. Bittner will review why delivering what the business asks ...

In recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Alec van Gelder, Project Director at the International Policy Network wrote that strong intellectual property rights are critical to strengthening Africa's health care system. He criticized statements by the Head of the World Health Organization Essential Medicines Program, Hans Hogerzeil. Hoberzeil wrote that "Big Pharma" and intellectual property rights are preventing the world's poorest countries from receiving access to healthcare. Contradicting these assertions, van Gelder pointed out that the region's lack of health ...

StraighterLine (http://www.straighterline.com) announced today that The American College of Dubai (www.centamed.com), a privately endowed post-secondary institution based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), has joined StraighterLine's expanding partner college network as their first Middle Eastern partner college. StraighterLine partner colleges are all regionally accredited institutions that award post-secondary credit upon transfer for successfully completing its online college courses. Through this partnership, students who successfully complete StraighterLine courses ...

Torrents may have revolutionized the way Internet users download and share files but they also pose serious security and legal risks. "Nobody wants to get dinged for serious money just because they downloaded 'Hurt Locker'," said Oliver Thompson, Media Manager at ixDownload.Com, the Internet's leading software review and resource site. Besides the ever present threat of lawsuits, penalties, and possible jail time, torrents pose a serious danger to computer security. "There really is no EFFECTIVE quality control or screening for illegal torrents," noted Thompson. "Sure, ...

A recent study conducted at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia seems to show a link between people who are using certain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and cataracts. Both SSRIs and SNRIs are antidepressant drugs, and are used by roughly ten percent of Americans. The study shows that only current users of these drugs are at risk; past users don't seem to have the same elevated risk. This is the first ...

A new study published in the Journal of General Medicine shows that in communities with teaching hospitals there is a significant and annual peak in fatal medication errors during the month of July, the month when new med students take on more active roles in patient care. The study looked at over 244,000 death certificates issued in the US between 1979 and 2006 where the cause of death was linked to medication error. The study found a spike of 10% in medication-error-related deaths during July, the only month where such spikes were seen. Furthermore, the spike in medication-error ...

Judge Jack Weinstein has sat on the bench for 43 years, and has heard thousands of cases. He has authored one of the definitive texts on the law of evidence in federal court. Recently, he has become a champion of a particular type of defendant: Those charged with possession of child pornography. Those involved with child pornography are usually seen as an unsympathetic lot. Congress has certainly seen them in this light. Since 1997, the average sentence for those convicted of receiving child pornography has increased from 21 months to 91 months. A New York Times story ...

San Bruno explosion victims are busy trying to get their lives back in order so they may begin the healing process. Meanwhile, lawmakers, industry leaders and federal officials are discussing what changes need to be made to laws governing gas pipelines. Legislators are trying to answer the calls for stricter regulations, as more California families fear a similar tragedy could await them. The San Bruno pipeline explosion comes in a year where British Petroleum's oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded - killing 11 people and creating an unprecedented ecological disaster. ...

The Wall Street Journal reported in July that one of the stars of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" and her husband had filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009 and were facing accusations from their Chapter 7 Bankruptcy trustee that they had concealed key financial information about their assets while seeking the discharge of debt available to individuals under the Bankruptcy Code. Teresa Giudice and her husband Giuseppe were also accused of providing false statements while under oath about their income, expenses and assets. The trustee identified interests in a pizzeria, ...

One provision under Virginia law that people frequently misunderstand is the measure commonly known as a restraining order, which can be implemented by courts to protect victims of alleged domestic violence. While most people consider these laws to be a part of the criminal justice system like assault or battery charges, they are generally a matter of civil law. This means that they are private remedies that one person can seek against another. However, a person who violates a protective order can be subject to incarceration. Because of the variety of relief that protective ...

When the marriage between Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods and Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren arrived at its legal end in a Bay County, Florida, courthouse in August, the media pounced on every scrap of detail it could find. When sensational circumstances lead to a divorce involving a world famous celebrity, and the parting requires the division of a great deal of wealth, the resulting attention generates more heat than light. But for all the talk over plush New York City apartments, People magazine interviews, prenuptial terms and speculation about a marital estate worth over ...