For those with a casual interest in motorcycles, riding as a passenger can be a perfect opportunity. As a passenger, you can experience the joy of the ride without the commitment of learning how to ride alone. However, whether you are a seasoned rider or a first-time passenger, motorcycles can be dangerous. To protect yourself, take adequate safety precautions before you climb on the back of a motorcycle. If you are injured, please speak with a North Carolina motorcycle accident attorney to determine your legal rights. First, make sure the rider you are joining has enough ...

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Atlanta Perimeter Hotel (North) by Perimeter Mall, provides nearby accommodations to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Atlanta. The three ring circus will be held at Phillips Arena in downtown Atlanta from February 18 -20, 2011. Tagged as "The Greatest Show on Earth," the whole family is sure to enjoy the circus. Phillips Arena will host Barnum's Funundrum, the circus's Blue Tour. Show highlights include: - Motorcycle troupe in the 16-foot Spherical Miracle - High-wire artists performing 40 feet in the air - Performers ...

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North I-85) offers nearby accommodations Advanced Auto Parts Monster Jam. This live motorsport tour includes action packed Monster Truck side-by-side racing and freestyle competitions. Monster Jam will take place in downtown Atlanta at Georgia Dome on February 12, 2011. This date is rescheduled from January 15, due to the Atlanta Falcon's NFL Play-off Game. Every fan attending Monster Jam gets the opportunity to meet stars of the show and get autographs during "Pit Party." The show includes traditional bracket racing and ...

Holiday Inn Express Simpsonville Hotel offers close accommodations to Christian music fans attending Winter Jam 2011 at Bi-Lo Center in downtown Greenville. Winter Jam is Christian music's largest annual tour. The event will take place on February 11, 2011 and costs only $10 at the door to attend. The annual Winter Jam tour features many popular Christian rock, rap, contemporary and pop music bands. This year's artists on the tour include Newsboys, David Crowder Band, Kutless, Francesca Battistelli, Newsong, Sidewalk Prophets, and American Idol's Chris Sligh.The event ...

The Hampton Inn Spartanburg - North I-85, a premier Spartanburg hotel, announces a new package including 4 free tickets to the movie Rango, which opens March 4, 2011. Travelers who book and stay a weekend at this Spartanburg SC hotel will receive a family pack of four tickets to the new computer animated adventure starring Johnny Depp. The package includes admission for two adults and two children and is available now through March 6, 2011. The reservation must be booked online. After the completed stay guests will be emailed a Hollywood Movie Money certificate print at ...

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Newberry South Carolina Hotel offers close lodging to patrons attending Music Man at the historic Newberry Opera House. There will be a 3pm matinee and an evening performance at 8pm on February 10, 2011. Ticket prices are $35 and $40. Music Man is presented as part of the Broadway Series. In this favorite All-American musical, fast talking salesman Harold Hill plans to con the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band. Before he can skip town with the money, Hill falls for Marian, the town librarian. ...

Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter Hotel North, located near Dunwoody, GA, announces a new special promotion for travelers to earn more Starpoints every night. "SPG Great Weeks, Grand Weekends" deal is available now through April 15, 2011. Unlimited bonus Starpoints can be earned two ways: - Earn double Starpoints every night of the week - Plus, earn an additional weekend bonus of 500 Starpoints every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night -- with no limits. "Conveniently situated only 15 miles north of downtown Atlanta and easily accessible from all major Georgia highways, ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Airport Hotel (North) provides nearby lodging to the 7th Annual Atlanta Blues Festival. The event will take place at 8:00pm on Friday, February 11, 2011 at Civic Center. Featured performers will include Mel Waiters, Sir Charles Jones, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Theodis Ealey, Floyd Taylor, Latimore, and Clarence Carter. The blues music genre is a staple of the Deep South; it features bass lines and instruments. The blues music style includes rhymed narrative ballads with jazz and spiritual routes. The Annual Atlanta Blues Festival is a celebration ...

New Hockey Recruiting and Hockey Scouting site Perfect Tool for Hockey Players. The Internet's Newest Hockey Recruiting and Hockey Scouting Service is like no other hockey website available. PuckProspect.com gives hockey players direct control over their own hockey futures and does this in a very simple way. You are a hockey player. You have put in countless hours thinking, practicing, and playing hockey. Your parents, your coaches, even your teammates, think you can get to the next level. You have achieved personal hockey goals you had set for yourself; your family ...

On February 6, 2011, Super Bowl XLV will be held in Arlington, Texas, in the new Cowboys Stadium and one thing is certain: fans will be hungry. Guests can ensure this event is enjoyed on a full stomach by taking time for more than just tailgating. With original creations by co-owner and head chef, Franson Nwaeze,, and one of the most unique restaurant venues, Chef Point Cafe is bound to score points with diners. "Fill-'er-up." That phrase takes on a whole new meaning at Chef Point Cafe, a gas station in the Fort Worth area that fills up plates and bellies with outrageously ...

Women on the move will be honoring several women for their significant contributions to empowering and educating women, as well as for continuing to make their mark in society. These extraordinary women are: Valerie Jackson, former First Lady of Atlanta, who is an Ivy-League trained Business woman, Patricia Russell-McCloud, who is one of the most dynamic speakers in America and current Parliamentarian for the AKA Sorority, Hattie Dorsey, Founder and Former President of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Rashan Ali, celebrated Television and Radio Personality, ...

If you can't trust the Internet or reference books to know famous lines from the great movies, where do you go? For Michael Lee Phillips, author of the first truly noir book of poetry, Nights of Naked Mannequins, published by Austin Hall Press, it was back to the original films. And the actresses who spoke those lines. "They always get their lines right," Phillips said. According to Phillips, the inspiration for the design and narrative development of his book is the genre of hard-boiled detective novels and the films made from them. "My book comes from the dark, ...

ProfitKey International LLC, a leader in providing ERP and MES solutions to discrete manufacturing businesses for over 30 years, is happy to welcome Nanmac Corporation to the growing family of ProfitKey customers. Nanmac, a temperature measurement manufacturing company based in Framingham, Massachusetts, was referred to ProfitKey by an existing customer. Nanmac Corporation CEO, Dan Nanigian explains the choice of ProfitKey's product, Rapid Response Manufacturing, by stating: "With the anticipation of growth in 2011, we realized the need for an integrated system that ...

River Logic, Inc., a leading provider of corporate performance management and predictive modeling software, today announced that Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia's largest coal producer association and the only domestic company among the top ten world coal producers, has selected Integrated Business Planner (IBP), a strategic planning application for fully integrating financials with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). IBP will be instrumental in integrating SUEK's production, transportation, marketing, and financial planning processes. Through advanced analytics, ...

Kent and Beckey are no strangers to entrepreneurship. Kent is the third generation of the family's full-line retail furniture store, Miller Waldrop Furniture, in Hobbs, NM. Beckey, Kent's wife, has also worked in the family business for the last 20 years and knows the ins and outs of working a traditional brick and mortar retail business. Through their leadership the store has won several local awards for "Best Furniture Store" and also the "2009 National Home Furnishing Retailer of the Year". But not wanting to rest on their laurels the couple has turned to non-traditional ...

WHO: The beautiful 168-room AAA Four-Diamond Jupiter Beach Resort & Spa, a 2009 Zagat Top U.S. Hotels, Resorts, and Spas, with direct access to 1,000 feet of secluded Florida coastline WHAT: Jupiter Beach Resort & Spa in Palm Beach, Florida is inviting guests to come play ball this spring season and enjoy Florida's only stadium that hosts two Spring Training teams - the Florida Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals. Making it easier and more affordable for families and fans, Jupiter Beach Resort & Spa has created a Spring Training package with a 10 percent discount on their ...

A recent customer survey by Michaels, North America's largest arts and crafts specialty retailer, shows that 85 percent of respondents think handmade gifts are more sentimental than store-bought. To help customers make unique, heartfelt Valentine's Day gifts and cards for their loved ones, Michaels announces it will host its largest-ever slate of in-store Valentine's Day events. The events begin on Friday, Feb. 4 at all U.S. and Canada Michaels stores, with a Knack Free Family Event from 4 - 6 p.m. where families can make a Valentine's Day candy photo holder, and continue ...

Online lending company, PurposeCashAdvance.com, has implemented an online cash advance system to help ensure applicants get loans deposited in their accounts within two business days after approval. The move is a part of the company's ongoing effort to provide a fast, secure, and confidential process for qualified applicants in need of payday loans. Residents in Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Missouri can access the company's payday loans online application form on the company website. PurposeCashAdvance.com implemented a simple three-phase cash advance ...

LA JOLLA, CA--Among stem cell biologists there are few better-known proteins than nestin, whose very presence in an immature cell identifies it as a "stem cell," such as a neural stem cell. As helpful as this is to researchers, until now no one knew which purpose nestin serves in a cell. In a study published in the Jan. 30, 2011, advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, Salk Institute of Biological Studies investigators led by Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD., show that nestin has reason for being in a completely different cell type--muscle tissue. There, it regulates formation ...

JUPITER, FL – January 25, 2011 – Embargoed by the journal Nature until January 30, 1 PM Eastern time – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a pathway in the brain that regulates an individual's vulnerability to the addictive properties of nicotine. The findings suggest a new target for anti-smoking therapies. The study appeared January 30, 2011, in an advance, online issue of the journal Nature. In the study, the scientists examined the effects of a part of a receptor (a protein molecule to which specific signaling molecules ...

How maternal essential fatty acid deficiency impact on its progeny is poorly understood. Dietary insufficiency in omega-3 fatty acid has been implicated in many disorders. Researchers from Inserm and INRA and their collaborators in Spain collaboration, have studied mice fed on a diet low in omega-3 fatty acid. They discovered that reduced levels of omega-3 had deleterious consequences on synaptic functions and emotional behaviours. Details of this work are available in the online version of the journal Nature neuroscience, which can be accessed at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2736 In ...

Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) publishes a study showing that this material has distinct advantages over traditional silicon or graphene for use in electronics applications. A discovery made at EPFL could play an important role in electronics, allowing us to make transistors that are smaller and more energy efficient. Research carried out in the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics ...

A new study published in the journal Clinical Cardiology reveals that a Super Bowl loss for a home team was associated with increased death rates in both men and women and in older individuals. Sports fans may be emotionally involved in watching their favorite teams. When the team loses, it can cause some degree of emotional stress. Led by Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD, of the Heart Institute, Good Samarian Hospital and Keck School of Medicine at USC in Los Angeles, researchers assessed how often this emotional stress may translate to increases in cardiac death. They ran ...

[EMBARGOED FOR JAN. 31, 2011] A recent 20-year study of injection drug users (IDUs) in Baltimore found a significant decline in new cases of HIV infection but only a slight decline in new cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The findings suggest that efforts to curb blood-borne transmission of these viral infections have had success but must be expanded against the highly transmissible HCV. Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and other centers, led by Shruti H. Mehta, PhD, MPH, report the findings in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious ...

Job placement is 100 percent for graduates of the country's top court reporting schools, according to the National Court Reporting Association (NCRA). The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that court reporting jobs, which range from the courtroom to TV stations, will grow from 9 to 25 percent by 2016. Locally, instructor Debby Ross, CRI, FPI, of Sheridan Technical Center says training for court reporting careers at her school has become even more accessible to students due to their online curriculum. "The court reporting curriculum is rigorous, but the career path offers ...