Superior Lamp, Inc. released an open letter to America on their blog http://superiorlamp.blogspot.com/ recently, asking: Greener Yet? The letter discussed things under the assumption that most have made the attempt by now to "Go Green" by perhaps no longer using plastic grocery bags, or by purchasing a more fuel-efficient vehicle, many have at least made an attempt to incorporate the "Green" movement into their every day lives. This movement encourages consumers to use things that are good for the environment and additionally saves consumer wallets. Saving money ...

In addition to carefully recycling products that contain mercury, we can reduce mercury pollution by reducing our energy consumption. Because mercury is a byproduct of burning coal, coal-fired power plants are one of the largest sources of mercury pollution. Because incandescent bulbs use several times more electricity over their lifetimes, they require far more power generation and, ultimately, result in more mercury emission than fluorescents. With the coming "maximal achievable technology" clean air standards, it is fully expected that mercury emissions will have to ...

Auto insurance companies go to great lengths in order to assess the levels of risk posed by motorists. The formulas developed by insurers usually end up being so complex and vary so greatly among companies that it might be hard for a consumer to understand what factors could have led to the determination of his or her rates. But, by looking at the provisions of a California state law that has been in place since 1988, consumers can get a better idea of what insurers are looking at when calculating their premiums. Voters in the end of the 1980s passed proposition 103 ...

AD-renaline Marketing is excited about supporting Dugger in its first-ever NASCAR sponsorship. Not only is Russ a promising driver, but he is the only NASCAR driver who is a military veteran. "It's about time we had a real veteran on the race track," says Clay Montgomery, CEO of AD-renaline Marketing. "We look forward to our first race with Russ later this month." "Their excitement and enthusiasm is infectious and I enjoy bringing another Oklahoma based sponsor to the racetrack!" said Dugger. AD-renaline Marketing has created the race team portal website, AD-racing.net, ...

TeamSupport.com (http://www.TeamSupport.com) - the trend setting provider of SaaS-based customer service and help desk tools - today announced a successful integration of the company's Support Desk Edition by Global Systems Integration (GSI). The Canton, Georgia-based consultancy is a leading provider of technology services and end-user resources for mission-critical financial applications. GSI specializes in the implementation, maintenance and upgrading of the complex ERP [enterprise resource planning] environments associated with Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ...

Healthcare technology research firm KLAS today announced its eighth annual clinical market share report, which details the wins and losses of acute care electronic medical record (EMR) vendors at large hospitals with more than 200 beds. The KLAS report, "CIS Purchase Decisions: Riding the ARRA Wave", reflects data collected from more than 1,600 hospitals with more than 200 beds in the United States and Canada. During the challenging economy in 2008 EMR sales reached a seven-year low, but purchases nearly doubled in 2009 reflecting the increased attention EMR systems ...

CarAccessories.com offers customers an easy web site with thousands of accessories for cars, trucks, and SUVs. "Our customers can tell you that we have kept the best selection and customer service since 1991," said John Patrick, President of Car Accessories. "If our web site does not have the item you are looking for, just call us - we are small enough to give you the kind of customer care you deserve." Car Accessories.com has thousands of car and truck accessories for you to search. See the Car Accessory selections below: Car Covers http://www.caraccessories.com/car-covers.asp?source=pr-20100920 Seat ...

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Atlanta Perimeter Hotel North near Dunwoody, GA offers convenient accommodations to college football fans attending the Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic on September 25, 2010 at the Georgia Dome. The game features Florida A&M verses Tennessee State University and kickoff is scheduled for 3:30pm. The event is sponsored by the 100 Black Men of Atlanta is the organization's largest fundraiser. The Bank of America Atlanta Classic is more than just a game. Fans can take advantage of other great events and activities surrounding the game ...

Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group in Bowdon would like to help you get ready for this year's party season with a special VIP evening of pampering. From 6.30pm on Tuesday 28 September, Transform will be open for a night of VIP pampering, demonstrations by cosmetic surgery experts and exclusive offers. Mesotherapy, dermal fillers and BOTOX treatments to plump up your skin, improve your complexion, and smooth your wrinkles will all be demoed at the event. These non-invasive, non-surgical treatments are constantly gaining in popularity among celebrities and this special ...

Shred-it, the world's leading on-site document destruction company and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's Identity Theft Task Force are teaming up to help Los Angeles residents combat identity theft by hosting a free Community Shred Event on Saturday, October 9, 2010 from 9am to 3pm at three locations throughout Los Angeles county: Agoura Hills (City Hall - 30001 Ladyface Ct, Agoura Hills, CA 91301), Los Angeles (Ladera Center - 5315 W. Centinela Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90045) and Norwalk (Target - 12051 Imperial Hwy, Norwalk, CA 90650). Everyone can bring all unwanted ...

The Slogan Shop, a branding boutique based in Miami, has announced new initiatives to better serve the small and medium business market. The Slogan Shop was started in late 2009 by advertising veteran Stephen Conley. Conley and his team built The Slogan Shop with the goal of bringing big agency ideas and quality to smaller businesses on a budget. "We're creating slogans, names and logos for companies, Internet start-ups, products, app designers, real estate agents, politicians, life coaches and even book authors," commented Conley, the firm's Founder and Creative ...

Best Rug Pads, an online store featuring Durahold Plus felt and rubber rug pad, is pleased to announce lower prices on all Durahold rug pads. With strong buying power, Best Rug Pads was able to negotiate a better purchase price on their Durahold rug pad and the savings are being reflected on each product on their website. Until now, Best Rug Pads was already known as having some of the best prices on Durahold Plus rug pad. These prices always include any custom cutting that is required for a customer's rug as well as shipping by FedEx or UPS. "Durahold has come to be ...

To much fanfare, Ryanair re-launched the Ryanair MBNA credit card with the focus squarely on the perks for those who use it. Card holders do indeed have reason to pay attention to the re-launch as all those who use the card for a purchase or a transfer will receive bonus flights on flights throughout the Ryanair network, all they have to cover is taxes, fees and related charges. The Ryanair MBNA card was originally launched in February 2003 and attracted much attention with eager bargain hunters looking to get an even cheaper credit card deal on that short-haul hop ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A new study shows that aspirin, given intravenously (IV), may be a safe and effective option for people hospitalized for severe headache or migraine, undergoing medication withdrawal. The research will be published in the September 21, 2010, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Intravenous aspirin is not readily available in the United States and only on a 'named patient' basis in the United Kingdom, while it is more generally used in other parts of Europe," said study author Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, with ...

A new landmark study, which demonstrated it is possible to recruit large numbers of women into a clinical trial evaluating treatments for HIV infection, found no significant gender-based differences in response to the anti-HIV drugs darunavir and ritonavir — at least among those who remained in the trial to the end. However, women dropped out of the GRACE (Gender, Race and Clinical Experience) study at higher rates than men for reasons other than drug failure, indicating that more must be done to retain women in clinical trials that shed important light on the effectiveness ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Geckos are masters at sticking to surfaces of all kinds and easily unsticking themselves, too. Inspired by these lizards, a team of engineers has developed a reversible adhesion method for printing electronics on a variety of tricky surfaces such as clothes, plastic and leather. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign designed a clever square polymer stamp that allows them to vary its adhesion strength. The stamp can easily pick up an array of electronic devices from a silicon surface and move and ...

Delays of 12 hours or more before surgery do not appear to adversely affect 30-day outcomes among patients undergoing appendectomies for acute appendicitis, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Appendectomy is the most common emergent surgical procedure performed worldwide, with appendicitis accounting for approximately 1 million hospital days annually," the authors write as background information in the article. "Increased time from onset of symptoms to operative intervention is associated with more ...

About half of women who require radiation therapy after they have had a mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction develop complications that necessitate a return to the operating room, but pre- or post-mastectomy chemotherapy does not appear to be associated with the need for additional procedures, according to two reports in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. An increasing number of women are undergoing mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer or as a means to prevent cancer if they have a genetic predisposition, according ...

High blood glucose levels after surgery may be an important risk factor for infection at the surgical site in patients having general surgery, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Surgical site infection accounts for 14 percent to 17 percent of hospital-acquired infections, making it the third most common type of infection acquired at health-care facilities and the most common among patients having surgery, according to background information in the article. "Studies have shown that these infections prolong ...

About one in ten U.S. adolescents uses sunless tanning products, and an intervention promoting these products as an alternative to regular tanning may reduce sunbathing and sunburns among adult women, according to two reports in the September issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Ultraviolet radiation exposure was recently upgraded to the highest cancer risk category and is the most common avoidable cause of skin cancer, according to background information in the articles. Sunless tanning products offer an alternative method of achieving ...

Botulinum toxin treatment appears to offer a temporary, short-term solution to relieve drooling in children diagnosed with certain neurological disorders, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Recent estimates suggest a prevalence of [drooling in] nearly 60 percent in children in special care school, of which 33 percent could be classified as severe," the authors write as background in the article. "Depending on the associated neurological disorder, cognitive abilities and ...

Severe injury to the esophagus can occur after a child swallows a disc battery, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "A disc battery is an increasingly common foreign body ingested by children," the authors write as background information in the article. The American Association of Poison Control Centers reported a total of 2,063 disc battery ingestions in 1998; the number increased 80 percent during the next eight years. When the battery is lodged in the esophagus, its alkaline ...

Patients who seek a second surgery to revise their rhinoplasty often do so because they are dissatisfied with the symmetry of their nasal tip and because they experience nasal obstructions, according to a report in the September/October issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Surgeons who examine revision rhinoplasty candidates cite slightly different findings than patients, suggesting that communication about nasal aesthetics could be improved. Approximately 5 percent to 15 percent of patients who have rhinoplasty [plastic surgery ...

Analysis of seagull droppings has revealed that one in ten carry 'superbug' bacteria, resistant to the last-resort antibiotic Vancomycin. Researchers writing in BioMed central's open access journal Proteome Science investigated 57 migratory seagull samples recovered from an island off the coast of Portugal. Gilberto Igrejas from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal, worked with a team of researchers to carry out the study. He said, "We used a novel technique called proteomics to detect the maximum number of bacterial proteins which are thought to ...

Berkeley — When it comes to conducting complex tasks, it turns out that the brain needs rhythm, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Specifically, cortical rhythms, or oscillations, can effectively rally groups of neurons in widely dispersed regions of the brain to engage in coordinated activity, much like a conductor will summon up various sections of an orchestra in a symphony. Even the simple act of catching a ball necessitates an impressive coordination of multiple groups of neurons to perceive the object, judge its speed and trajectory, ...