Magenta Research, a leading manufacturer of AV signal distribution equipment, is pleased to announce their partnership with the Peter E. Schmitt Company of Pompton Plains, NJ and Boston, MA, a manufacturer's representative firm for the professional audio, video, lighting, and OEM markets. Servicing the New York Metro area for over 80 years, the Peter E. Schmitt Company is one of the oldest rep firms in the country. Their success has been due in part to carrying a full complement of fine products, which will now also include Magenta's industry leading AV signal distribution ...

Sainsbury's Finance today launched its revolutionary new credit card, promising to shake-up the current credit card market. The Sainsbury's Gold Credit Card has been designed with a range of attractive benefits for consumers when travelling and staying at home, and is the only one of its kind. The card offers customers a low rate of 9.94% pa (variable)(1) on purchases and includes a number of features such as family travel insurance, no foreign exchange transaction fees, interest-free cash withdrawals (if the whole balance is paid in full and on time each month)(2) ...

Fraser Yachts are delighted to announce special summer charter rates for M/Y Paraffin and M/Y Antinea. Both yachts are currently available for luxury yacht charter in the Western Mediterranean and we are advising our clients to make the most of the very attractive rates at which these two exceptional yachts are being offered during the late summer months. Paraffin is a luxurious 60.10m (164'00") displacement motor yacht with accommodation for 12 overnight guests, housed in 6 Staterooms. She is serviced by a crew of 16 and is currently available for mediterranean yacht ...

With the 2010 football season less than a day away, Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C., is delighted to announce the launch of Touchdowns for Craig 2010 - a fundraiser on behalf of Colorado's world renowned Craig Hospital. Every time Denver or the CU Buffaloes score a touchdown this season, the attorneys at Burg Simpson will make a generous donation to Craig Hospital, helping to fund important research for spinal cord and traumatic brain injury. Touchdowns for Craig 2010 is the brainchild of Peter W. Burg, senior shareholder of Burg Simpson and Chair of the ...

When a couple divorces, it is often their children who suffer most. Children caught up in divorce can experience fear, anxiety, guilt and intense feelings of loss. Parents are frequently angry with each other and grappling with their own stress; feeling too overwhelmed to help their kids cope successfully with the implosion of the family. The Register-Guard reports that new, locally produced online software can help fortify parenting skills in the emotional turmoil of divorce. Sixty-nine participants in an ongoing effort to gauge effectiveness are testing the interactive ...

John Lott, a proponent of concealed and carry laws, takes issue with a recent report from the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center, which characterizes Florida as a hotbed of violence committed by persons with concealed a carry licenses. He notes Florida currently has the most concealed handgun permit holders in the country and is one of the two most populous states with right-to-carry laws. Between Oct. 1, 1987, and May 31 this year, permits had been issued to 1.8 million people. He further makes the claim that on average, the permits holders have had their ...

This past July, a Wisconsin appellate court ruled that the father of an unborn child has a right to bring a lawsuit against the mother for her negligence in causing the death of the fetus. Trial Court Finds No Liability for Insurance Company In February 2003, Alicia Vander Meulen was hit by a pickup truck after pulling out of Culvers in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. At the time, she was 27 weeks pregnant. As a result of the automobile accident, the fetus was stillborn at birth. The father of the child, Shannon Tesar, argued that Meulen and the driver of the pick-up truck, ...

Eight months after Illinois enacted a statewide ban on texting while driving, police across the state report limited results from the program. The law forbids drivers from reading, composing or sending electronic messages. However, enforcing this law has proven difficult. Drivers often keep their phones out of sight, or put them away when in the vicinity of police officers. Some communities have set up targeted undercover operations or found other successfully means of enforcement. In Buffalo Grove, an officer stood at an intersection with a donation can. He wasn't ...

The storm that hit the D.C. metro area on Sunday, July 25 caused widespread damage in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Four people died as a result of the storm; one on a personal watercraft on Chesapeake Bay, two from falling trees, and one from electrocution from a downed power line. The term "acts of God" is sometimes used to describe events such as a tree falling through a house due to a storm, and the term convincingly captures the random, unpredictable nature of these storms. But the destruction these storms cause is not wholly random--often it begins with ...

They're the biggest things on the road: semi-trucks rolling on our nation's highways and interstates at high speeds. Fatigued drivers of the super-sized trucks are disproportionately involved in fatal crashes and accidents involving serious injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board states that "truck driver fatigue may be a contributing factor in as many as 30 to 40 percent of all heavy truck accidents." Fatigue Behind the Wheel of a Big Truck When the driver of an 80,000-pound commercial truck is fatigued or otherwise failing to drive safely, bad things ...

This August, President Obama signed the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-216) into law. The Act is the first piece of major federal legislation aimed at strengthening airline safety standards passed in the last 20 years. Most notably, the Act requires all commercial airline pilots to have completed a minimum of 1500 flight hours in addition to "appropriate" operational experience before they may begin piloting commercial passenger flights. Prior to the law's enactment, pilots needed to complete as little as 250 hours ...

Kuoni has announced the launch of the Kuoni Holiday Hotlist, a collection of top hotels and tours selected to suit a range of travel needs.  Realising that every traveller wants different things from their individual holiday, Kuoni travel experts have searched the world personally checking and hand-picking the best resorts to make it easier for customers to choose between them. The Hotlist includes the Top 10 Holiday destinations for value, romance, wellness, all-inclusive and culture, in worldwide destinations for travel between October 2010 and June 2011. The Kuoni ...

BrainPOP, the award-winning creator of animated, educational resources, is pleased to announce that its curriculum-based quizzes are now fully integrated with Promethean's learner response systems, ActiVote and ActivExpression. The integration of ActiVote and ActivExpression, the industry-leading learner response system, with BrainPOP's quizzes - including all BrainPOP Jr. (K-3) topics - makes it easier than ever for teachers to improve learning outcomes by providing highly individualized instruction and assessment. Linking BrainPOP's content to learner response devices ...

Department store retailer Debenhams turned the convention of the sale on its head by reducing prices at the start of the Autumn/Winter season, rather than the end of it. The innovative move sees tens of thousands of new season lines reduced by up to 25 per cent, across new to store stock including womenswear, accessories, menswear, childrenswear, home, cosmetics, lingerie, sports and leisure and gifting. The move will no doubt be popular with consumers, with many remaining cautious due to the continuing, challenging economic climate following spending cuts and the ...

The Harley Medical Group has reported demand from male patients for laser rejuvenation treatments is up +93% over the last quarter, across its 30 clinics. Laser rejuvenation treatments now account for 11% of all non-surgical treatments carried out during June, July and August at the UK's largest cosmetic surgery group. More unusual requests received this year are for skin regeneration treatments on receding hairlines, including laser treatment and chemical peels to reduce the appearance of aging sun spots. Laura Marshall, specialist nurse counsellor at The Harley ...

MyBritishColumbiaInfo.com, a member of the award-winning MyDestinationInfo.com travel network, continues to grow in popularity since its first few months of launching on the network and is now adding social media tools to further reach travellers and directly interact with visitors of the website. MyBritishColumbiaInfo.com provides a range of options that assist visitors in connecting directly with businesses and services in British Columbia. Promoting the best of Canada's westernmost province, MyBritishColumbiaInfo.com showcases its travel industry sector from popular ...

Hays Senior Finance reports that while multi-millions of pounds are spent on coaching across the UK, 15% of organisations admit they have absolutely no measurements in place to assess the impact of their programmes. A new survey from Hays Senior Finance, working with expert coach/ mentors LeaderShape, shows that coaching is often undertaken without evaluating the return on investment. The survey also shows that 68% of businesses fail to use coaching directly to address corporate objectives and outcomes are often simply referenced at a personal level. According to ...

One of the most popular online poker portals - Pokersignupcodes.net announced free $50 poker money for new players today. Pokersignupcodes.net is founded and maintained by 4 professional poker players. The CEO of Pokersignupcodes.net, Mr. Mark Williams said in an interview "Being a poker player myself, I know how important it is to build and maintain a bankroll. That's why poker bonuses are so important. I'm happy to announce the latest free $50 offer available at Pokersignupcodes.net." This offer is available on most of the poker sites listed at Pokersignupcodes.net. ...

With the approaching peak months of hiring of seasonal employees by retailers and other organizations, Tracker Corp announces special features included with its Tracker I-9 software to speed and streamline the Form I-9 and E-Verify processing for any number employees. By using its secure web services application programming interface (API), Tracker I-9 integrates seamlessly with the employer's onboarding, applicant tracking, payroll or other system of record. This pre-fills most of the fields on the employees' I-9 forms, saving data entry time. With Tracker I-9's ...

After celebrating its 60th birthday in August, Whataburger pays tribute to its founder, Harmon Dobson, by offering free four-ounce samplings of its famous shakes on Sunday, September 19 from 12-4 p.m. for dine-in customers. Dobson opened his first Whataburger in 1950, a small burger stand located at 2609 Ayers Street in Corpus Christi, offering chocolate shakes for 15 cents to accompany the 25 cent burgers. Today, Whataburger offers thick, delicious shakes at 700+ locations in 10 states. "Harmon Dobson opened his first Whataburger in 1950 and creamy, cold shakes ...

The team at Fly Away Simulation has added a whole new dimension to its flight simulator portal following an exciting announcement by Microsoft. Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing the next in its series of flight simulator packages for PC users, with the next release being called Microsoft Flight. Microsoft Flight is set to become the biggest complete flight simulator package available to PC users. With drastic enhancements in technology, and more powerful machines for the software to run on, the graphics will be like nothing yet seen in a simulation ...

Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they're asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that the answer to the ...

Using high-resolution microscopy, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have shown how insulin prompts fat cells to take in glucose in a rat model. The findings were reported in the Sept. 8 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism. By studying the surface of healthy, live fat cells in rats, researchers were able to understand the process by which cells take in glucose. Next, they plan to observe the fat cells of people with varying degrees of insulin sensitivity, including insulin resistance–considered a precursor to type 2 diabetes [http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov]. ...

AMES, Iowa -- A new Iowa State University study has found that corn bred to contain increased levels of beta-carotene is a good source of vitamin A. The discovery gives added support to the promise of biofortified corn being developed through conventional plant breeding as an effective tool to combat vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. Beta-carotene is converted in the body to vitamin A. The researchers found that the beta-carotene in the corn was converted to vitamin A at a higher rate than what's predicted for corn, and higher than the rate for beta-carotene ...

Scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified dendritic antigen-presenting cells in zebrafish, opening the possibility that the tiny fish could become a new model for studying the complexities of the human immune system. The study, reported in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was headed by David Traver, an associate professor in UCSD's Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, with colleagues in UCSD's Division of Biological Sciences and at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. ...