Businesses throughout America are currently participating in Drive Safely Work Week. The annual campaign, sponsored by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) and supported by NAFA Fleet Management Association, is offering employers tool kits for free this year. The materials, which aim to reduce distracted driving on the roads with the message "Focus... Safe Driving Is Serious Business", may be downloaded at www.trafficsafety.org. This year's campaign focuses on the role cell phones play in distracted driving. The use of cell phones or text messaging while ...

Payment reimbursements just became more convenient for pet owners with the introduction of the new Pets Best Direct Deposit program. The innovative service allows Pets Best policyholders to quickly and easily file their claim online, and once approved, their reimbursement can be deposited directly into their bank account. Pet owners typically pay their veterinary bill at the time when services are rendered, and then file a claim for insurance reimbursement. The addition of this program makes Pets Best the only pet insurance company to offer a fully automated simple, ...

Fraser Yachts is pleased to announce the addition of several new vessels to their prestigious list of luxury yachts for sale. The largest of these is M/Y Ulysses a luxury expedition yacht, which is being offered at a price of $49,000,000, with Stuart Larsen as central agent. Antoine Larricq, meanwhile, will be handling the sale of M/Y Newvida, a 2001 Delta Luxury Motor Yacht that is being offered at a price of $26,900,000. Also based in Monaco is M/Y El Paradiso, which has been valued at EUR1,600,000 with Jan Jaap Minnema acting as her central agent M/Y Ulysses is a ...

After about a decade of marriage to an "economic contribution" statute, the Texas legislature officially filed for divorce in 2009 and reinstated a "reimbursement" statute. The new reimbursement statute expands the number of situations when reimbursement can be used to recover for monies or talents spent by one marital estate for the benefit of another. The Economic Contribution Statute In a marriage, there are three separate estates: - The community estate - The wife's separate estate - The husband's separate estate If one estate contributed to the benefit ...

As the economy crawls sluggishly toward recovery, individuals and families continue to make difficult financial choices. In an effort to save money, people are increasingly attempting to personally handle tasks that were once reserved for professionals. For some, this includes crafting DIY-wills, relying upon generic documents acquired from the Internet or purchasing books with forms. Unfortunately, this approach can have serious negative repercussions. The biggest problem with a self-created will is that the creator will not understand any potential problems until ...

When it comes to drug abuse, most people think of drugs like marijuana, cocaine or heroin. However, a growing problem is not limited to illegal substances. The Savannah Morning News reports that in the Savannah area, during this year, the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team has had its hands full dealing with prescription medication arrests. The interagency drug enforcement force now works nearly as many prescription drug cases as marijuana or cocaine, CNT Agent Ron Tyran said. While the recent increase has hit Savannah and Chatham County, the problem is not ...

Bankruptcy filings continue to rise in Wisconsin, up 16 percent in the first half of 2010 over 2009. Last year, bankruptcies soared as well, up 30 percent over the previous year. WHBL radio reports that more than 16,000 Wisconsinites filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of this year. In the same period last year, just under 14,000 filed. Wisconsin's bankruptcy rate is now rising faster than the national level, which was up 14 percent from January to June. The vast majority of the filings (82 percent) were filed under Chapter 7, the liquidation form ...

Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel in Dubai was named the Best Business Hotel in the Middle East at the 2010 Business Traveller Awards on 20 September 2010 in London. Jumeirah Emirates Towers has won the prestigious award for eight consecutive years, underscoring its outstanding service and dedication to the business and corporate travel sectors. At the same ceremony Jumeirah, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality company and member of Dubai Holding, was also presented with the 'Best Business Hotel Chain in the Middle East' award for the sixth consecutive year. The award coincides ...

Northern Rock has partnered with Penguin books to offer customers free copies of classic editions available from many of its branches. Some 25 high street branches across the country will be stocked with classic titles from the Penguin range including Moby Dick, The Thirty Nine Steps and Wind in the Willows. Each paperback cover will feature the iconic Penguin logo, alongside the distinctive Northern Rock pink and black brand. Northern Rock hopes that customers visiting participating bank branches will select a book from the specially designed stand, take it ...

Thistle Hotels' London property, The Kingsley is celebrating the 1st birthday of its multi million pound refurbishment and rebrand with the launch of its first ever in-suite library for guests. Drawing on its heritage as the former home of Charles Kingsley and the Bloomsbury set of writers, The Kingsley will offer guests staying in its suites access to an exclusive series of 'lost classics' brought back into print by local publishing company, Bloomsbury Publishing. Guests partial to a book before bedtime will also be treated to a luxurious Thistle reading pillow and ...

Stena Line experienced a significant upsurge in coach travel on its North Sea route to Holland during the first half of 2010. The ferry operator carried 36.6 per cent more coaches on its route between Harwich and the Hook of Holland than during the first half of the previous year. The second quarter of 2010 was particularly strong, with Stena Line transporting 38 per cent more coaches than during the second quarter of 2009. The growth in coach traffic between Harwich and the Hook of Holland has continued into the third quarter, with Stena Line reporting a 55.7 per cent ...

Promethean, a global leader in interactive learning technology, has launched ActivEngage, a new software version of its market leading Learner Response System*. This new application enables laptops or desktop computers to act as personal response devices, meaning schools can provide voting capability in classrooms via individual student computers instead of specific handsets. Computer-per-pupil initiatives are increasingly being promoted by governments as a means of underpinning schools' ICT strategies. That, along with schools focus on developing problem-solving and ...

Superbreak, the Yorkshire based short break provider, has reported a surge in demand for its attraction break product as the October half-term holidays approach. This year, Superbreak hopes to offer its customers even more value and choice by securing great availability with both hotel providers and some of the leading UK theme parks and attractions during the half term week. The tour operator's long-standing relationships with the theme parks, has allowed them to create a range of attraction breaks for families, thrill seekers and group travellers alike. Popular ...

Tavaana: E-learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society is proud to announce the successful completion of two pilot e-courses and the graduation of several dozen students from Iran. Prominent Iranian women's rights activists, student leaders, election campaign volunteers, labor organizers and citizen journalists recently completed Tavaana's live instruction Cybersecurity for Activists and Leadership Development courses. Communicating with their instructors safely and securely from Iran, Tavaana students utilized cutting edge electronic classroom technology to pave the ...

DePuy Orthopedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson, recalled two of its metal-on-metal hip replacement systems - the ASR Hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular System - in August 2010 due to high failure rates. If you're one of the 93,000 Americans who received a DePuy hip replacement, it's important to understand what the recall means to you. Why Did DePuy Recall Its ASR Products? The DePuy hip recall occurred on August 26th 2010 after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) received hundreds of complaints from angry DePuy hip implant patients whose ASR ...

Global Equities Group LLC is seeking an experienced investment banker with institutional experience for in-house management. This is an ideal opportunity for an independently-driven individual with proven communication skills combined with a results-oriented persona. Private equity firm is seeking debt placement experience and syndication person and is offering a comprehensive compensation package. Great deal flow and Manhattan location. Sustainable projects with debt, secured by major European bank for both interest and principal. The projects involve water, ...

The feature film Ashley's Ashes has earned 13 awards, including the recent "Best Narrative Feature Film" at the Landlocked Film Festival and "Best Screenplay" from the Manhattan Film Festival during this year's festival tour. "The response from all of the festival screenings has been amazing. Now, we are extremely honored to wrap up our festival run as an official selection at the Heartland Film Festival," Christopher Hutson, Co-Director and Producer, stated. "In our travels, we somehow missed the submission deadline for the Heartland Festival," Chris Kazmier, Co-Director ...

Jyco Sealing Technologies will soon be expanding its production facility within the Offshore Group's Roca Fuerte Industrial Park located in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. The new 36,480 square foot building that Jyco will occupy represents a doubling the space occupied by their current operations. The company will expand their current employee base of 58 in proportion to its physical expansion. According to Shawn Jyawook, Chief Operating Officer of Jyco, "Guaymas has become our company's showcase facility. Its technology, its superior and dedicated workforce and its professional ...

ifa united i-tech, Inc. announces that the ifa EMR Version 6 software has been tested and certified under Drummond Group's Electronic Health Records ONC-ATCB program (Certification number: ONC-ATCB EHR.09222010-2627-1). "Ophthalmologists and eye care professionals now have a flexible, easy-to-use EMR choice to achieve meaningful use requirements and receive their stimulus funding," says Dale Cook, VP-Sales, ifa united i-tech. "We want to help doctors provide the best care for patients with innovative features and tools to maintain meaningful use. For example, our secure ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) An important step –– one that is essential to the ultimate construction of a quantum computer –– was taken for the first time by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. The discovery is published in the current issue of the journal Nature. The research involves the entanglement of three quantum bits of information, or qubits. Before now, entanglement research in the solid state has only been developed with two qubits. The UCSB finding comes from a collaboration of the research groups of physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis. Graduate student Matthew ...

A study by two Florida State University biochemists makes an important contribution to science's understanding of a serious problem causing concern worldwide: the growing resistance of some harmful bacteria to the drugs that were intended to kill them. Investigating exactly how bacteria learn to fend off antibiotics prescribed to treat infections is the subject of new research by Assistant Professor Brian G. Miller of FSU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and one of his graduate research assistants, Kevin K. Desai. They have found that bacteria are remarkably ...

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA: For many blind people, computers are inaccessible. It can cost upwards of AUD$1000 to purchase "screen reader" software, but two blind computer programmers from Australia have solved this problem. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) graduate James Teh and business partner Michael Curran developed a free, open-source program, called NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access), which provides a synthetic voice to read the words on a computer screen as the cursor moves over them. "A sighted person takes for granted that they can sit down at any computer ...

Diamonds adorning tiaras to anklets are treasures but these gemstones inside the body may prove priceless. Two Case Western Reserve University researchers are building implants made of diamond and flexible polymer that are designed to identify chemical and electrical changes in the brain of patients suffering from neural disease, or to stimulate nerves and restore movement in the paralyzed. The work of Heidi Martin, a professor of chemical engineering, and Christian Zorman, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is years from human trials but their ...

Contrary to current thinking, the group of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae responsible for most invasive pneumococcal disease worldwide is conserved across regions. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading bacterial cause of pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis in children, which together comprise more than 25% of the 10 million deaths estimated to have occurred in 2000 in children under 5 years of age, and preventable by access to appropriate vaccines. The serotypes currently included in existing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine formulations account for 49-88% of deaths ...

This week, in a Health in Action article published in PLoS Medicine, Maria Merritt and colleagues (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) report on a Field Training Guide for Human Subjects Research Ethics that they have developed to help train field workers in research ethics. The Field Training Guide for Human Subjects Research Ethics is freely available to the public. In this article the authors address how to identify field training needs and meet high standards of research ethics at every level of human subject interaction. INFORMATION: Funding: ...